Solving the power issue is pretty easy. I run a 400-person, 4-day LAN for the Tribes crowd called UVALAN. It's held yearly in Chantilly, Virginia, at the Westfields Marriot. (www.uvalan.com).
A computer with a 400-watt power supply and its monitor (call it another 200 watts) use about 600 watts of power. Electricians will as you what kind of amperage capacity you need. Easy math:
So, 522 amps. We host around 400 computers and our LAN has a 2000 amp capacity. As a comparison, most houses use a 100 amp capacity box, and use an average much smaller than that.
We actually had $6K in power work done at the hotel (building boxes, running new mains lines) so the ballroom we use could support that kind of power. But we still have the occasional idiot who thinks it's okay to daisy-chain seven power strips; it's not.
For a network, we have a sponsor who supplies us with a fiber gigbit backbone. We spent a few thousand last year on new switches; we just use cat5 100mb from the switches to the backbone. Each table row has its own branch off the backbone.
Hosting a LAN in a hotel affords you the opportunity to do the LAN in a place which already offers most necessary amenities (food, bathrooms, places to crash, a bar).
He lambastes MS for their "closed architecture" Xbox when Lindows' Click-n-Run is essentially the same thing. That's lame. Sure, you can run other apps, but that's not their business model. They're capitalizing on Linux being hard to use!
It's plainly obvious that Sco wants IBM to buy them out to end the lawsuit. Threatening Redhat, or anyone for that matter, just adds fuel to the fire. Eventually, a large group of angry open source developers will descend upon Sco's offices, burning and pillaging everything in their wake. At least we can hope.
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What the hell is up with Known Space? Why stop writing in that universe? C'mon, we all know that the different universes are just vehicles for storytelling. We love the details and realism about Known Space...why don't you?
In your opinion, is it morally correct to regulate commercial solicitious email, or would that be a violation of their rights to free speech in the U.S.?
...if some nice hardware company, like an HP or a Dell, would produce a low-cost laptop similar to this with *your choice* of distro preconfigured?
No, wait, no one reading/. would want to own one. Instead, wouldn't it be nice if they would sell you a laptop with *no* O/S installed, for $400 less than usual?
It's a VIA 933. An inherently slow chip. And a VIA chipset, which on a laptop is slow, buggy, and power-hungry. This unit won't last more than an hour on batteries, I'd bet.
The general construction of this unit looks pretty cheap. The removable media drive (CD-ROM) is external, and the modem is optional - no wonder it's only $800. It's $800 worth of laptop, and if you want a real laptop that you can get work done on, you'll pay the going rate for one.
Sometimes people forget that the point is to be effective with tools, not simply get the best deal.
Back in the day, bandwidth and servers were all paid for by governmental or educational organizations. Not commercial entities like what we have today with CNN and Ebay and Amazon.
In today's reality, someone has to pay for that information. With payment comes a sense of entitlement; with entitlement comes a lawyer.
I find it stunning that no one has mentioned the excellent-looking Freevo project, which purports MP3, video, and image playback - and soon-to-be-supported DVR capability. Program guide integration is complete and the rest of the project, while slow-moving, seems to be pretty cool.
Now is the time to get a project like this off the ground - before manufacturers and media stamp out this opportunity for the consumer to assume more control and choices.
People keep asking for, and companies keep providing, new features for gaming consoles:
- fast RAM
- powerful processor
- hard drive
- network connection
- DVD drive
- outstanding graphics
Seems to me, incidentally, that the more PC components (like RAMBUS) get thrown into consoles, the closer to being full-fledged computers they become.
And on a related note, it won't be called a PS3. Didn't anyone read the/. story about how Nintendo sued Sony for the Playstation name and won?
I'd like to remind this poster, and the rest of Slashdot, that Mr. Shatner was sent the 10 *highest-moderated* questions from the reader pool.
Not that the pool is very deep, mind you.
Hotmail ran FreeBSD for years, didn't it? We probably don't need a whitepaper to tell us what we already knew.
Wouldn't it be neat if MS put out a fully reliable, configurable, cheap O/S?
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Go ahead, mark this redundant. But I have to say it.
The amount of money going into lawyers' pockets over this could *pay* open-source developers for a year. This is just sick.
Solving the power issue is pretty easy. I run a 400-person, 4-day LAN for the Tribes crowd called UVALAN. It's held yearly in Chantilly, Virginia, at the Westfields Marriot. (www.uvalan.com).
A computer with a 400-watt power supply and its monitor (call it another 200 watts) use about 600 watts of power. Electricians will as you what kind of amperage capacity you need. Easy math:
600W X 100 computers = 600,000W
600KW / 115v = 522 amps
So, 522 amps. We host around 400 computers and our LAN has a 2000 amp capacity. As a comparison, most houses use a 100 amp capacity box, and use an average much smaller than that.
We actually had $6K in power work done at the hotel (building boxes, running new mains lines) so the ballroom we use could support that kind of power. But we still have the occasional idiot who thinks it's okay to daisy-chain seven power strips; it's not.
For a network, we have a sponsor who supplies us with a fiber gigbit backbone. We spent a few thousand last year on new switches; we just use cat5 100mb from the switches to the backbone. Each table row has its own branch off the backbone.
Hosting a LAN in a hotel affords you the opportunity to do the LAN in a place which already offers most necessary amenities (food, bathrooms, places to crash, a bar).
Good luck.
He lambastes MS for their "closed architecture" Xbox when Lindows' Click-n-Run is essentially the same thing. That's lame. Sure, you can run other apps, but that's not their business model. They're capitalizing on Linux being hard to use!
It's plainly obvious that Sco wants IBM to buy them out to end the lawsuit. Threatening Redhat, or anyone for that matter, just adds fuel to the fire. Eventually, a large group of angry open source developers will descend upon Sco's offices, burning and pillaging everything in their wake. At least we can hope.
A friend has a t-shirt that reads:
"No, I will not fix your computer."
It is required attire at all holiday family gatherings.
What the hell is up with Known Space? Why stop writing in that universe? C'mon, we all know that the different universes are just vehicles for storytelling. We love the details and realism about Known Space...why don't you?
And how about a new Smoke Ring book?
In your opinion, is it morally correct to regulate commercial solicitious email, or would that be a violation of their rights to free speech in the U.S.?
...if some nice hardware company, like an HP or a Dell, would produce a low-cost laptop similar to this with *your choice* of distro preconfigured?
/. would want to own one. Instead, wouldn't it be nice if they would sell you a laptop with *no* O/S installed, for $400 less than usual?
No, wait, no one reading
I'd buy one.
It's a VIA 933. An inherently slow chip. And a VIA chipset, which on a laptop is slow, buggy, and power-hungry. This unit won't last more than an hour on batteries, I'd bet.
The general construction of this unit looks pretty cheap. The removable media drive (CD-ROM) is external, and the modem is optional - no wonder it's only $800. It's $800 worth of laptop, and if you want a real laptop that you can get work done on, you'll pay the going rate for one.
Sometimes people forget that the point is to be effective with tools, not simply get the best deal.
Back in the day, bandwidth and servers were all paid for by governmental or educational organizations. Not commercial entities like what we have today with CNN and Ebay and Amazon.
In today's reality, someone has to pay for that information. With payment comes a sense of entitlement; with entitlement comes a lawyer.
TANSTAAFL.
...Let me be the first (or 15th for that matter) to say "hoax". This is about as likely as running a server from a few potatoes.
I find it stunning that no one has mentioned the excellent-looking Freevo project, which purports MP3, video, and image playback - and soon-to-be-supported DVR capability. Program guide integration is complete and the rest of the project, while slow-moving, seems to be pretty cool.
Now is the time to get a project like this off the ground - before manufacturers and media stamp out this opportunity for the consumer to assume more control and choices.
People keep asking for, and companies keep providing, new features for gaming consoles: - fast RAM - powerful processor - hard drive - network connection - DVD drive - outstanding graphics Seems to me, incidentally, that the more PC components (like RAMBUS) get thrown into consoles, the closer to being full-fledged computers they become. And on a related note, it won't be called a PS3. Didn't anyone read the /. story about how Nintendo sued Sony for the Playstation name and won?
I'd like to remind this poster, and the rest of Slashdot, that Mr. Shatner was sent the 10 *highest-moderated* questions from the reader pool. Not that the pool is very deep, mind you.
Hotmail ran FreeBSD for years, didn't it? We probably don't need a whitepaper to tell us what we already knew. Wouldn't it be neat if MS put out a fully reliable, configurable, cheap O/S?