If you're buying second hand computers, there's a good chance they might not be the latest and greatest. You might not have 24 hours to run SETI@Home. Swap meet, for example.
What if you can't connect to the internet to get a SETI data set? What if you don't have the hardware for installing Linux, KDE, etc etc?
So it replaced 32 computer servers, based on the time-tested Unix operating systems, at an average cost of $50,000 each, with 40 Linux servers, at $3,000 a pop
The Unix servers took 17 hours to calculate how much cash the bank needed in reserve to offset its investment risk. The Linux servers made the same calculation in 11 minutes.
What they'd do, upgrade from 20mhz Sun boxes to Pentium III 933's?
These kind of performance comparisons are just SILLY
It makes this annoying, high pitched noise in certain video modes, when I'm trying to play MAME games. I know it makes the dog jump up and get the hell out of the living room.
The 10GB hard drive that came with the system was used to store the OS/etc
I dropped a 3Com nic in it.
Threw 2 120GB drives in it. Install Linux, RAID them out so you've got them mirrored, 120GB of storage.
You could get away with not mirroring the drives, and have 240gb of storage, but I wanted some redundancy!
Did anyone else not find it particulary funny?
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Now, I admit it -- I usually can't stand humor sites, because when they're not funny (to humor-impaired me), they're really not funny. There's no accounting for taste, which goes double for humor. This book, though, has spurred me to finally bookmark SatireWire and forced me to hand the book over temporarily to friends and family members prompted by my maniacal laughter to ask what I was reading. I look forward to the next round.
So why did he post about this site?
It's really not that funny.
But then again, I like Something Awful, Dilbert, and whatever the 'link of the day' happens to be.
We did this once....just to see if it worked. It required 3 PC's on a LAN, and you started each computer up with a different command line option...Doom FAQ or a README.TXT from 1994, anyone?
When ZD published PC Magazine, you could read Machrone and Dvoraks ramblings, read a round up of 50-60 PC's on the market, and there was a real tech section.
Computer Shopper, the 'Hard Edge' with Bill and Alice, PAGES UPON PAGES OF ADS....
So you're about 1 step ahead of 90% of the rest of the world.
Your next step is to blow the disk away and restore.
By the time you get a coherent answer from us, you'd be back up and running.
Alternatively, if you bought the retail version of RedHat you could call them, or there's always the free newsgroups and messageboards. Give them a shot.
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That's like comparing....StarFox to Galaga
Both might be great games, but ONE is a classic.
Actually StarFox is a classic in it's own right, but Crash is simply Crash.
Insightful?
If you're buying second hand computers, there's a good chance they might not be the latest and greatest. You might not have 24 hours to run SETI@Home. Swap meet, for example.
What if you can't connect to the internet to get a SETI data set? What if you don't have the hardware for installing Linux, KDE, etc etc?
Or Nuke simulators
Here's more info on computer export laws
Spin-Rite checks HD's
An older Norton Utilities (mid-90's) should do the trick for other items
Micro-Scope tool kit works great for most anything you can think of
At this rate, commercial production of Cell could come as soon as the end of 2004.
The article states they've merely got the pen and paper design almost complete. No working hardware, and it 'could' end up in the PS3
Toshiba and IBM have had more than their share of flops.
Remember the Toshiba MPACT chipset that was supposed to take over the 3D Graphics/Sound/Video market in the PC world?
The PS3 chip will have near supercomputer capabilities --- including 1 TFLOP.
Wasn't the old PS2 a supercomputer, and there were export rules on it?
Saddam was rumored to buy some to control missles or something?
So it replaced 32 computer servers, based on the time-tested Unix operating systems, at an average cost of $50,000 each, with 40 Linux servers, at $3,000 a pop
Did you bother to read the article?
That computer company called H-P
The Unix servers took 17 hours to calculate how much cash the bank needed in reserve to offset its investment risk. The Linux servers made the same calculation in 11 minutes.
What they'd do, upgrade from 20mhz Sun boxes to Pentium III 933's?
These kind of performance comparisons are just SILLY
Buying software lets RedHat say "We sold $5,000,000 this quarter"
Arcades in general are basically dead.
Games like DDR breathe some life into them, but it's nothing like the Midway/Atari/Namco/Sega days of long ago.
Games are too expensive, they all seem to be 'imitations', and there's no arcade culture anymore.
Why there aren't/never were coin-op iD games.....arcade play against others all over the world.....
I work in an all Apple architecture firm, but we have a Linux box that primarily functions as a DSL router.
First off, ditch all the Macs.
Are you thinking of running your arch. software on Linux?
Or just using the Linux box to serve up plotter jobs?
It makes this annoying, high pitched noise in certain video modes, when I'm trying to play MAME games. I know it makes the dog jump up and get the hell out of the living room.
I put one of these out, runs real good.
Bought a slimline IBM system from TigerDirect.
The 10GB hard drive that came with the system was used to store the OS/etc
I dropped a 3Com nic in it.
Threw 2 120GB drives in it. Install Linux, RAID them out so you've got them mirrored, 120GB of storage.
You could get away with not mirroring the drives, and have 240gb of storage, but I wanted some redundancy!
Now, I admit it -- I usually can't stand humor sites, because when they're not funny (to humor-impaired me), they're really not funny. There's no accounting for taste, which goes double for humor. This book, though, has spurred me to finally bookmark SatireWire and forced me to hand the book over temporarily to friends and family members prompted by my maniacal laughter to ask what I was reading. I look forward to the next round.
So why did he post about this site?
It's really not that funny.
But then again, I like Something Awful, Dilbert, and whatever the 'link of the day' happens to be.
regenerative braking, not sure what technologies are used by it.
We did this once....just to see if it worked. It required 3 PC's on a LAN, and you started each computer up with a different command line option...Doom FAQ or a README.TXT from 1994, anyone?
When ZD published PC Magazine, you could read Machrone and Dvoraks ramblings, read a round up of 50-60 PC's on the market, and there was a real tech section.
Computer Shopper, the 'Hard Edge' with Bill and Alice, PAGES UPON PAGES OF ADS....
The Internet has ruined magazines.
Dilbert
"Did you write that code for me yet?"
"No. I'm one of those people who needs to be threatened every day, or else I won't do anything"
Granted, XP is HUGE....
But Linux is bloated as can be nowadays.
My last Suse came on 8 CDs or 1 DVD, and RedHat recommends like 2.5GB of space.......ugh
Remember when Rational made that?
Opened up a whole world beyond 16 bit DOS apps.
Behold the power of Watcom C!
So you're about 1 step ahead of 90% of the rest of the world.
Your next step is to blow the disk away and restore.
By the time you get a coherent answer from us, you'd be back up and running.
Alternatively, if you bought the retail version of RedHat you could call them, or there's always the free newsgroups and messageboards. Give them a shot.
The hard drive is probably on the way out
Well, he did say it was an IBM Laptop....go figure
C:\COPY CON loop.c
#include
void main ()
{
puts("COPY CON rules");
}
^Z
C:\
What about speeches that Bill Clinton made 20 year ago?
What about the commercials or early sitcoms that today's Hollywood stars made?
What about when you were in the newspaper when you were 22 and got caught drinking and driving, smoking drugs, or picking up hookers?