Note that he talks about 'computer problems', not 'Microsoft software problems'.
> Of the 11 hours and 20 minutes, he includes 30 minutes of a cable blackout.
This is computer related and does therefore count. No, it's not Microsoft's fault either. We're still at 11:20.
> He spent 5 minutes helping a friend with Word problems, 10:45:00.
I'll grant you that one:) 11:15 it is.
> Of the remaining problems, a very small amount of user education can take care of a large chunk of the time. Let's start with Windows updates. 6 clicks automates this whole process...
Personally I wouldn't want updates from Microsoft to happen automagically. They have a well-documented tendency to break things. That means having to do this manually, so we remain at 11:15.
Any third part software causing problems is still 'computer problem time', even if this software failure forces you to console your child. But let's deduct that 10 minutes. We're now at 11:05.
The 'one time event' still counts though. He's not talking about 'expected regular computer maintenance' but 'total time spent keeping systems working'. Per computer this works out to 3:42. Perhaps it's better to put is in this light: if you have a computer, you'd better be prepared to spend at least some hours each month keeping it running. Compare this, if you will, to the amount of time you spent last month keeping your sound/tv equipment running. I bet it's quite a bit lower:)
The author also never claimed this to be an authoritative scientific study.
Ask yourself this: what is the single biggest recurring task you have to do (in terms of time)?
Automate this task, eliminate it altogether or delegate it. Once you decide which course to take on that, stop working on everything else until that task doesn't hog your time.
Even if you only end up saving 15 minutes each day, that's still about 5 hours a month.
I happen to be the admin hosting an Escher related site that was covered almost a year ago on/. (I'm too lazy to bother searching for the article.)
Luckily, we had some time to prepare for the/. effect, so we set up a machine with a gbit card especially for it (only a PII/450/128MB though).
At one point we had over 3500 live connections to the machine, over 300 hits/second and it's loadaverage was over 60 (unfortunately, the pages were generated rather that static. Advice: make your front page as static as possible!)
I can't recall the bandwidth usage, but it was severely limited due to the fact that the CPU on our poor machine couldn't keep up with all the requests. I have a hunch it was only in the 15Mbit/s sustained region, with 60Mbit peaks or something.
Through it all, the pc held up just fine, no problems with stability or anything. The/. effect lasted about 3 days as far as I can remember.
You're right, of course. But even Clinton wouldn't sign Kyoto (I think I remember that, correct me if I'm wrong). Also, the US has a habit of imposing tariffs against imported (European, Japanese) goods en howling foul play if they respond likewise. (Not to mention outright government funding of some industrial sectors, and don't get me started on frequent US vetoes in the UN.)
That doesn't sit well, let me tell ya:)
If anything, the US, internationally, is NOT about fair play at all. They want everyone to play their way.
I'm Dutch and I found the US threat to invade us if ever a US soldier was convicted in the international court that's to be established here outrageous. In fact, it's only _just_ this side of a declaration of war on an ally! Pray tell, what did the Netherlands do to the US? Ever?
AND WE'RE AN ALLY! Imagine what the US would do to an enemy...oh wait.
Kinda makes you think what AMERICA did to deserve that sentiment since 1945, doesn't it? After all, the US was the hero then and during the 50s and early 60s, why oh why would the European attitudes have changed so much?
Might it have anything to do with the increasingly bully-ish behaviour of the US? After all, the US was responsible for many of the dictatorships in South America (Chile, anyone?).
This anti-americanism is *well-deserved* IMO. I myself have changed from being a staunch US supporter in the 90s to *very* critical in the space of 3 years...and it's due to US actions alone.
You can certainly look at it that way, but the main advantages of these thin clients is that they're quiet, have few 'breakable' components and use only small amounts of power. When you're looking at 25 old pc's to replace that's a serious consideration, especially since a lot of people would prefer quiet.
(In my situation, the old pc's have graphics cards that are problematic to support nowadays and have only 4 MB memory. 'Only'... I remember when 256K was quite a lot of graphics memory!)
BTW: I was looking at the linux-based IGEL thin clients. They seem to be worth taking a close look and a test if you're interested (igel.de I think).
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Note that he talks about 'computer problems', not 'Microsoft software problems'.
:) 11:15 it is.
:)
> Of the 11 hours and 20 minutes, he includes 30 minutes of a cable blackout.
This is computer related and does therefore count. No, it's not Microsoft's fault either. We're still at 11:20.
> He spent 5 minutes helping a friend with Word problems, 10:45:00.
I'll grant you that one
> Of the remaining problems, a very small amount of user education can take care of a large chunk of the time. Let's start with Windows updates. 6 clicks automates this whole process...
Personally I wouldn't want updates from Microsoft to happen automagically. They have a well-documented tendency to break things. That means having to do this manually, so we remain at 11:15.
Any third part software causing problems is still 'computer problem time', even if this software failure forces you to console your child. But let's deduct that 10 minutes. We're now at 11:05.
The 'one time event' still counts though. He's not talking about 'expected regular computer maintenance' but 'total time spent keeping systems working'. Per computer this works out to 3:42. Perhaps it's better to put is in this light: if you have a computer, you'd better be prepared to spend at least some hours each month keeping it running. Compare this, if you will, to the amount of time you spent last month keeping your sound/tv equipment running. I bet it's quite a bit lower
The author also never claimed this to be an authoritative scientific study.
Ask yourself this: what is the single biggest recurring task you have to do (in terms of time)?
Automate this task, eliminate it altogether or delegate it. Once you decide which course to take on that, stop working on everything else until that task doesn't hog your time.
Even if you only end up saving 15 minutes each day, that's still about 5 hours a month.
gnome-terminal (and xterm for that matter) use shift-PgUp/Down for that.
Ok, point taken. I made the reply in a hurry, I must admit, because of a busy workday.
I wasn't talking about value. You said there was no such thing as a dual Itanium with AGP support. There is.
Sure, Apple's offering has the better value. But then, I wouldn't dream of buying one of their overpriced offerings either.
See my link just below and feel free to choke on your words :-)
There you go:0 /
http://www.hp.com/workstations/itanium/zx600
Wow, only 6 or 7 people in the world can do this? Who are they, do you know any of them?
I can tell you some of it...
/.
/. effect, so we set up a machine with a gbit card especially for
/. effect lasted about 3 days as
I happen to be the admin hosting an Escher related site that was covered almost a year ago on
(I'm too lazy to bother searching for the article.)
Luckily, we had some time to prepare for the
it (only a PII/450/128MB though).
At one point we had over 3500 live connections to the machine, over 300 hits/second and it's loadaverage was
over 60 (unfortunately, the pages were generated rather that static. Advice: make your front page as static as
possible!)
I can't recall the bandwidth usage, but it was severely limited due to the fact that the CPU on our poor machine
couldn't keep up with all the requests. I have a hunch it was only in the 15Mbit/s sustained region, with 60Mbit
peaks or something.
Through it all, the pc held up just fine, no problems with stability or anything. The
far as I can remember.
Nope, that's Minesweeper Consultant & Solitaire Expert
:)
I'll give you 75% on that one
Heretic! :)
Maybe the smp overhead killed the Solaris performance. There's a point where adding another processor may actually _reduce_ overall performance.
A fair comparison would be to run Solaris 9 on 32 processors also (the same ones, preferably, or equivalent if that's not possible).
Let's mod parent up and have a very quiet evening :)
Suhweet...gimme!
:)
(Although I might beat you to part of that once I get a dual Xeon machine for a thin client server at work
I think the Intel E7505 supports both :-)
Look here
Network System Administrator?
;-)
It adds a sort of ominous ring if you're able to say:"I'm the NSA"
Neumann is definately NOT a Dutch name (more likely of German origin) and as yack0 already answered, he was Hungarian.
Please remember: Dutch != German
Pronunciation is about right though.
Favorite quote:
:-)
"some current supercomputers are rated at in excess of 1000 MIPS"
Soooo 1987
How fast is your supercomputer?
You're right, of course. But even Clinton wouldn't sign Kyoto (I think I remember that, correct me if I'm wrong). Also, the US has a habit of imposing tariffs against imported (European, Japanese) goods en howling foul play if they respond likewise. (Not to mention outright government funding of some industrial sectors, and don't get me started on frequent US vetoes in the UN.)
:)
That doesn't sit well, let me tell ya
If anything, the US, internationally, is NOT about fair play at all. They want everyone to play their way.
I'm Dutch and I found the US threat to invade us if ever a US soldier was convicted in the international court that's to be established here outrageous. In fact, it's only _just_ this side of a declaration of war on an ally! Pray tell, what did the Netherlands do to the US? Ever?
AND WE'RE AN ALLY! Imagine what the US would do to an enemy...oh wait.
Kinda makes you think what AMERICA did to deserve that sentiment since 1945, doesn't it? After all, the US was the hero then and during the 50s and early 60s, why oh why would the European attitudes have changed so much?
Might it have anything to do with the increasingly bully-ish behaviour of the US? After all, the US was responsible for many of the dictatorships in South America (Chile, anyone?).
This anti-americanism is *well-deserved* IMO. I myself have changed from being a staunch US supporter in the 90s to *very* critical in the space of 3 years...and it's due to US actions alone.
What would an oops or panic look like?
...
I just hope it isn't a *cough* blue screen *cough*
Try reading the OP before shooting your mouth off.
He said _IF_ it doesn't listen to _ONLY_ localhost it's a remote root hole. That's true.
I bet it will. Phoebe (the beta) has 4.2.99.90x included (and GNOME 2.2 goodness as well).
I've been watching progress on this game since I can't remember when. It feels like a longer wait that it was for M$ to release a stable os ;-)
I didn't know it ran on linux though. That's a marvellous bonus, I just hope this excellent example is followed more and more often...
You can certainly look at it that way, but the main advantages of these thin clients is that they're quiet, have few 'breakable' components and use only small amounts of power. When you're looking at 25 old pc's to replace that's a serious consideration, especially since a lot of people would prefer quiet.
(In my situation, the old pc's have graphics cards that are problematic to support nowadays and have only 4 MB memory. 'Only'... I remember when 256K was quite a lot of graphics memory!)
BTW: I was looking at the linux-based IGEL thin clients. They seem to be worth taking a close look and a test if you're interested (igel.de I think).