HL sold around 2 million units
The average wholesale price was probably around $25
Valve's royalty was between 20-50% of wholesale. (Probably on the higher side, since I believe valve funded it themselves.)
Just guessing from number of employees and development time, HL's development cost was probably around $4 million.
"First off, does this *look* like a tech support forum to you?"
Like I said, I couldn't find the answer on the samba site, so i figured if there's a bunch of samba pros reading this discussion, they might just know off the top of their heads.
"Second, it serves you damned well right for installing a new system without testing it."
How do you test something without installling it?
"As for your problem, well, it could be anything. It could be Samba, it could be that you dont have your hardware configured properly under linux. Like I said, anything."
Yeah. Could be. Could be obvious too, that's why I asked.
"If your not competent enough to properly configure a linux samba server then you shouldnt have convinced your company to switch to a linux server when your the only one around who has any hope of even guessing why its broken."
Hard to tell if I'm competent to install it until AFTER I try, isn't it? The thing runs, it just runs real slow!
"People like you are the evangilists who give linux a bad name."
Hi, I figure this is a pretty basic question, but I looked around and couldn't find an answer in any of the samba FAQ's.
Whenever my win2k client tries to read() more than 4K at a time from the samba share on my redhat 6.3 linux box, the performace drops by about 20 times!
The same operation works fine reading from another win2k share.
I read the docs, and tried playing around with the xfersize (I forget the exact name) parameters in the smb.conf, but nothing seems to work.
I work for a small software developer, and all the other programmers are 100% windows guys. I had to convince them that using a linux box for our company's server would be a better choice in the long run than using windows. Now everyone is bitching at me about how we should just reformat the linux box and install win2k server. If I can't figure this out quickly, I'm gonna have to!
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Here's some simple math for anyone who's curious:
.2 - $4M = $6M
.5 - $4M = $21M
:)
HL sold around 2 million units
The average wholesale price was probably around $25
Valve's royalty was between 20-50% of wholesale. (Probably on the higher side, since I believe valve funded it themselves.)
Just guessing from number of employees and development time, HL's development cost was probably around $4 million.
At 20% that's 2M * $25 *
At 50% that's 2M * $25 *
Both of those numbers are "FAR more" than 200K
Sorry. Meant 6.2. I don't suppose that's gonna be the magical difference that helps you answer my question though. :)
"First off, does this *look* like a tech support forum to you?"
Like I said, I couldn't find the answer on the samba site, so i figured if there's a bunch of samba pros reading this discussion, they might just know off the top of their heads.
"Second, it serves you damned well right for installing a new system without testing it."
How do you test something without installling it?
"As for your problem, well, it could be anything. It could be Samba, it could be that you dont have your hardware configured properly under linux. Like I said, anything."
Yeah. Could be. Could be obvious too, that's why I asked.
"If your not competent enough to properly configure a linux samba server then you shouldnt have convinced your company to switch to a linux server when your the only one around who has any hope of even guessing why its broken."
Hard to tell if I'm competent to install it until AFTER I try, isn't it? The thing runs, it just runs real slow!
"People like you are the evangilists who give linux a bad name."
Back at ya!
Hi, I figure this is a pretty basic question, but I looked around and couldn't find an answer in any of the samba FAQ's.
Whenever my win2k client tries to read() more than 4K at a time from the samba share on my redhat 6.3 linux box, the performace drops by about 20 times!
The same operation works fine reading from another win2k share.
I read the docs, and tried playing around with the xfersize (I forget the exact name) parameters in the smb.conf, but nothing seems to work.
I work for a small software developer, and all the other programmers are 100% windows guys. I had to convince them that using a linux box for our company's server would be a better choice in the long run than using windows. Now everyone is bitching at me about how we should just reformat the linux box and install win2k server. If I can't figure this out quickly, I'm gonna have to!
thanks!