Artists like Janis (who I happen to have ran into in Maryland), are just what the industry needs. If more artists weren't as concerned with making 11 million that year instead of 10 million, then we would be in alot better shape. You know what artists used to make their money off of? Touring, and making music compelling enough to buy. I am not for stealing of music, I am the industry as a Producer/Engineer, and realize that people need to make money, but the RIAA, and MPAA are just getting out of hand. The only way that this will be solved is either a) a Boycott on buying music, buying movies (or renting them), for a period of time (The NoBuy Winter?) or b) The artists AND record companies and film companies (often the same thing), going against the MPAA and RIAA (most likely only the Arists would do this, as the record companies support the MPAA and RIAA most of the time)...
You are right. What the replaced them with couldn't have been too good of systems for 3K (you can do alot with 3K, but once you get RAID 5, 8 36GB SCSI harddrives, a 4-8 processor board that can hotswap PCI cards, Xeon processors to fill it, 8 GB of memory, and good gigabit NICs it, and redundant powersupplies, etc it goes bye bye fast). They probably were souped up desktops, or cheap 'servers' but either way, they would be faster because they are new.
Actually, I am in the server enviorment a good bit, but not too much. The building I am sitting in has 3 Cisco 12000 routers in it with an OC-12 (soon to be OC-48) up to the net- I understand that stuff can cost alot real quick for professional results. Just our DNS servers were something like 150 grand each. I don't admin those, so I won't really comment, but I can say that I know some./ readers here are running through them. But anyway... You don't think that a good SourceForge project could get Linux running on an RS/6000 with almost 100K of funding... well perhaps not, but look, x86 and alpha support was done with almost no funding...:)
I have no idea why you were Modded down by someone, please mod him back up to be visable, because there is lots of good into there.
Anyway, so the performance boost really should be attributed to Perl vs. Java instead of Unix vs Linux...? Well, I personally like C++ and Assembly together, but that's just me (and a fast combination at that...)
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.
Why in the world did each server cost them anything? They already had 32 servers, and I am sure Linux would have ran on them, so why didn't they save the 96,000 and just use existing hardware..
In addition, they make it sound like "Unix Hardware" is more expernsive than "Linux Hardware", which while Linux works on just about anything, I don't see why they didn't use 3,000 dollar each machines for Unix in the first place. I don't see a 47,000 difference, unless they were stupid and just scrapped important stuff like memory, RAID, good mobos, redundant Power supplies, etc...
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
I don't think that if they had ran the same software on the unix servers, with the same hardware, that they would have had a speed increase really. Perhaps it was that they upgraded to new servers for the Linux, and used 8 year old Unix servers? That would make a good speed difference. I am glad that Toms hardware doesn't measure that way.... ie. "Well, Linux certainly beats Windows 95, we put Windows 95 on an old 386sx, and Linux on a spanking new Dell server, and found that Linux must be the faster of the two..." Retards...
Oh, an yea, I like linux, but this article is backwards.
It's more about can I do it, than whether i should do it. I already have XP Pro (which is pretty good once you turn off the crap), so it's not about saving money.
I disagree. The Digi was fairly cheap for me (700USD), and came with the software (Protools). This was great for me, because if I had gone out and bought a MOTU unit, then I would have spent around 900USD on the unit, and 500 on Logic Platitunm. I didn't get it for Linux support, or even XP support, I got it because I wanted to know Protools. Protools is such a standard today in the audio industry, and I can go into pretty much any studio and have a good feeling for how to get around just knowing protools. I also have a great deal of experience with analogue (I love 8 track 1/2 inch recorders), and other digital solutions, and Protools is one of the best.
To some degree it's like buying Cisco stuff, it doesn't do everything that the competition does, but it's standard, and you will pay for the name, but again, it's standard.
The Barnes and Noble in Greensboro, NC sells 2600, and I think that most B+N's do. Border used to sell them, as well as Blacklist 411, and THUD, but I haven't seen any of them recently there. Yea, and don't show them any ID or anything, don't take any crap from them about it. It's not illegal, and it's not porn, I don't see why they have made an issue about it at some places... but anyway.
Well here's how I see it. OS X support should be out for Macs soon. As we all know, OS X uses a BSD based kernel (Darwin I think). With that software out, I think that reverse engineering it, and the windows wavedriver should be able to reveal what we need to know to write the code. Although this would be much easier if Digi just released some info to the opensource community and let us write a driver, etc...
I am sure that the government has a ton of information about you in their databases and probably is linked in with the social security number database. The newest 2600 issue has some great information about what the government can/is now doing with your information.
A friend of mine used a transparent LCD panel that he got off eBay and an overhead projector together to create a projector for less than $200, you can pick up the LCD projectors at any used office supply store, but you may find that they go through bulbs faster than slower...
Mr Hawking seems to have gotten the handsfree thing down pretty well over the past few years. He probably has the best system ever. I want to get a simalar system for my grandmother, because she had a stoke and can't talk really now, but I can't afford such a thing, unless he made it open source and someone game me the hardware.
Thanks,
I agree that the roaming on sprint phones is a bit odd. I have a single band (all digital) phone, so I guess I don't really need to worry too much about this.
I am hoping that Sprint PCS in Boston will roll out their G3 stuff soon.
Thanks again, I might check out Verizon...
How did Sprint do in Boston? I am moving to Alston soon, and have a sprint phone...
BTW, with sprint after 30 days you can call up their 'customer retention line' and act like you hate the service, and want something more for what you pay. Some people have gotten hundreds of daytime minutes free this way, I got 150 more daytime minutes monthly (which puts me up to 450, which is cool) for FREE. One of those banners here on./ links to a cell phone site, that you can get the number on to call them about it
And now that I think of it... wasn't NWN supposed to be released native under linux? So why do you need WineX for it? An interesting race... WineX emulation, vs the developers at Bioware.. who can make it run first..?
Neverwinter Nights was released... Bioware's NWN's Site... So umm... do you mean support for it under WineX? I hope it will be supported too, but I think it will be before 2004.
Yea, if I could subscribe to more sites, then I would. I agree, that some of these sites will be gone, but others... well, some stick around. The internet didn't make money until the mid/late 90's really, and it survived for the 20 some odd years before that without popups and banners, so why can't it go another 20? I know that people will use banners, but let's at least make them tasteful and well targeted. All the ones on./ that I do see, are for things that I actually want (flat computers, thinkgeek, etc... )
Why did they go after DeCSS then when the DVD-Rs were costing $35? It wasn't about cost (well they knew the cost was going to drop but), it was that you could do it. I still think that I get more out of buying the DVD than copying it. I have a rather Large DVD AND CD libary. I own about 90% of the MP3s on CD somewhere that I have. I like to access them from other people's dorm rooms, so I keep them on a Samba share that i have a password to. Just because you could distribute something, doesn't mean that you will. That assumes that you are guilty before you do it (Minority Report), you can't say, "You will do this with this", because they might not, and even if probablity says that they will, you can't tell them not to, until they do it.
True, but even if you do online advertising like by selling ad like they do, they should do it more sanely- like Google does. It shouldn't be crazy, and when I look up 'Horses' I don't want to see popups of women with them... (like some sites do). They could do more tasteful advertising. I personally leave sites that have popups and all that crap instantly, and find some nice open source place that doesn't resort to guerilla tactics of advertising
Who else things that they should have the Hitchhiker's Trilogy Movies (yea 5 movies in a Trillogy would really screw up most people). I think it would be really sucessful, and alot easier to do than LoTR was. It's not quite as complex, or long, easier to condense too...
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Artists like Janis (who I happen to have ran into in Maryland), are just what the industry needs. If more artists weren't as concerned with making 11 million that year instead of 10 million, then we would be in alot better shape. You know what artists used to make their money off of? Touring, and making music compelling enough to buy.
I am not for stealing of music, I am the industry as a Producer/Engineer, and realize that people need to make money, but the RIAA, and MPAA are just getting out of hand. The only way that this will be solved is either
a) a Boycott on buying music, buying movies (or renting them), for a period of time (The NoBuy Winter?) or
b) The artists AND record companies and film companies (often the same thing), going against the MPAA and RIAA (most likely only the Arists would do this, as the record companies support the MPAA and RIAA most of the time)...
You are right. What the replaced them with couldn't have been too good of systems for 3K (you can do alot with 3K, but once you get RAID 5, 8 36GB SCSI harddrives, a 4-8 processor board that can hotswap PCI cards, Xeon processors to fill it, 8 GB of memory, and good gigabit NICs it, and redundant powersupplies, etc it goes bye bye fast). They probably were souped up desktops, or cheap 'servers' but either way, they would be faster because they are new.
./ readers here are running through them. But anyway... :)
Actually, I am in the server enviorment a good bit, but not too much. The building I am sitting in has 3 Cisco 12000 routers in it with an OC-12 (soon to be OC-48) up to the net- I understand that stuff can cost alot real quick for professional results. Just our DNS servers were something like 150 grand each. I don't admin those, so I won't really comment, but I can say that I know some
You don't think that a good SourceForge project could get Linux running on an RS/6000 with almost 100K of funding... well perhaps not, but look, x86 and alpha support was done with almost no funding...
I have no idea why you were Modded down by someone, please mod him back up to be visable, because there is lots of good into there.
Anyway, so the performance boost really should be attributed to Perl vs. Java instead of Unix vs Linux...? Well, I personally like C++ and Assembly together, but that's just me (and a fast combination at that...)
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.
Why in the world did each server cost them anything? They already had 32 servers, and I am sure Linux would have ran on them, so why didn't they save the 96,000 and just use existing hardware..
In addition, they make it sound like "Unix Hardware" is more expernsive than "Linux Hardware", which while Linux works on just about anything, I don't see why they didn't use 3,000 dollar each machines for Unix in the first place. I don't see a 47,000 difference, unless they were stupid and just scrapped important stuff like memory, RAID, good mobos, redundant Power supplies, etc...
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
I don't think that if they had ran the same software on the unix servers, with the same hardware, that they would have had a speed increase really. Perhaps it was that they upgraded to new servers for the Linux, and used 8 year old Unix servers? That would make a good speed difference. I am glad that Toms hardware doesn't measure that way....
ie. "Well, Linux certainly beats Windows 95, we put Windows 95 on an old 386sx, and Linux on a spanking new Dell server, and found that Linux must be the faster of the two..." Retards...
Oh, an yea, I like linux, but this article is backwards.
It's more about can I do it, than whether i should do it. I already have XP Pro (which is pretty good once you turn off the crap), so it's not about saving money.
I disagree. The Digi was fairly cheap for me (700USD), and came with the software (Protools). This was great for me, because if I had gone out and bought a MOTU unit, then I would have spent around 900USD on the unit, and 500 on Logic Platitunm. I didn't get it for Linux support, or even XP support, I got it because I wanted to know Protools.
Protools is such a standard today in the audio industry, and I can go into pretty much any studio and have a good feeling for how to get around just knowing protools. I also have a great deal of experience with analogue (I love 8 track 1/2 inch recorders), and other digital solutions, and Protools is one of the best.
To some degree it's like buying Cisco stuff, it doesn't do everything that the competition does, but it's standard, and you will pay for the name, but again, it's standard.
The Barnes and Noble in Greensboro, NC sells 2600, and I think that most B+N's do. Border used to sell them, as well as Blacklist 411, and THUD, but I haven't seen any of them recently there.
Yea, and don't show them any ID or anything, don't take any crap from them about it. It's not illegal, and it's not porn, I don't see why they have made an issue about it at some places... but anyway.
Well here's how I see it. OS X support should be out for Macs soon. As we all know, OS X uses a BSD based kernel (Darwin I think). With that software out, I think that reverse engineering it, and the windows wavedriver should be able to reveal what we need to know to write the code.
Although this would be much easier if Digi just released some info to the opensource community and let us write a driver, etc...
I am sure that the government has a ton of information about you in their databases and probably is linked in with the social security number database. The newest 2600 issue has some great information about what the government can/is now doing with your information.
A friend of mine used a transparent LCD panel that he got off eBay and an overhead projector together to create a projector for less than $200, you can pick up the LCD projectors at any used office supply store, but you may find that they go through bulbs faster than slower...
Mr Hawking seems to have gotten the handsfree thing down pretty well over the past few years. He probably has the best system ever. I want to get a simalar system for my grandmother, because she had a stoke and can't talk really now, but I can't afford such a thing, unless he made it open source and someone game me the hardware.
Thanks, I agree that the roaming on sprint phones is a bit odd. I have a single band (all digital) phone, so I guess I don't really need to worry too much about this. I am hoping that Sprint PCS in Boston will roll out their G3 stuff soon. Thanks again, I might check out Verizon...
How did Sprint do in Boston? I am moving to Alston soon, and have a sprint phone...
./ links to a cell phone site, that you can get the number on to call them about it
BTW, with sprint after 30 days you can call up their 'customer retention line' and act like you hate the service, and want something more for what you pay. Some people have gotten hundreds of daytime minutes free this way, I got 150 more daytime minutes monthly (which puts me up to 450, which is cool) for FREE. One of those banners here on
And now that I think of it... wasn't NWN supposed to be released native under linux? So why do you need WineX for it?
An interesting race... WineX emulation, vs the developers at Bioware.. who can make it run first..?
Neverwinter Nights was released...
Bioware's NWN's Site...
So umm... do you mean support for it under WineX? I hope it will be supported too, but I think it will be before 2004.
"Where's the Mountain Dew?"
"If there are girls there I wanna do them"
"I wanna cast a spell"
"I wanna cast Magic Missile"
"I attack the darkness"
Great clip, what's better is the 2nd one in the series...
Or just use a high enough powered laser to shoot him out of the sky... Or just depressurize his bubble...
Seems like nothing in comparision to multi billion dollar screwups by Enron and Worldcom though eh?
Yea, if I could subscribe to more sites, then I would. I agree, that some of these sites will be gone, but others... well, some stick around. ./ that I do see, are for things that I actually want (flat computers, thinkgeek, etc... )
The internet didn't make money until the mid/late 90's really, and it survived for the 20 some odd years before that without popups and banners, so why can't it go another 20? I know that people will use banners, but let's at least make them tasteful and well targeted. All the ones on
C64's weren't built to withstand a ./ing....
But they hold up better than I would have thought, nevermind it's down.. (remember that streaming audio one a while ago..?)
Why did they go after DeCSS then when the DVD-Rs were costing $35?
It wasn't about cost (well they knew the cost was going to drop but), it was that you could do it. I still think that I get more out of buying the DVD than copying it. I have a rather Large DVD AND CD libary. I own about 90% of the MP3s on CD somewhere that I have. I like to access them from other people's dorm rooms, so I keep them on a Samba share that i have a password to.
Just because you could distribute something, doesn't mean that you will. That assumes that you are guilty before you do it (Minority Report), you can't say, "You will do this with this", because they might not, and even if probablity says that they will, you can't tell them not to, until they do it.
And thankfully they have done away with these popups, so props to them.
True, but even if you do online advertising like by selling ad like they do, they should do it more sanely- like Google does. It shouldn't be crazy, and when I look up 'Horses' I don't want to see popups of women with them... (like some sites do).
They could do more tasteful advertising. I personally leave sites that have popups and all that crap instantly, and find some nice open source place that doesn't resort to guerilla tactics of advertising
Who else things that they should have the Hitchhiker's Trilogy Movies (yea 5 movies in a Trillogy would really screw up most people). I think it would be really sucessful, and alot easier to do than LoTR was. It's not quite as complex, or long, easier to condense too...
Perhaps we should all do this...