Well, I have a dual Pentium Pro box, each cpu draws about 70 watts IIRC. The machine has *no* fans, just the original aluminum heatsinks. No heat problems yet, but all the same I'd like to find one of these to fit PPro. Just in case, because they have 1 MB cache on them and it wasn't easy to find this machine. In case anyone is wondering, Linux *ROCKS* on it. Anyone know where to find coolers like that for Pro?
Actually, I *have* skipped bricks on the Niagara river (living a few minutes from the Falls). To answer the previous poster about what the variables might be, just IMHO:
1. Angle of attack
2. area of rock surface
3. rate of spin
4. velocity
5. flatness of surface
Somehow these all interract; for example, its difficult for me to skip a stone below a certain weight/area.
News for you and the AC with 50k: you could be comfortable on that in the Buffalo NY area with a house and cars in the suburbs. It all depends on what part of the country you live in.
'The problem is not a lack of highly educated workers,' said Scott Kirwin [...] a lack of highly educated workers willing to work for the minimum wage or lower in the U.S.
So, scott... I presume you and Carly are highly educated workers. How about my offer of minimum wage?
I could rant here, but won't bother because we've all got the same story I'll bet. Along with thousands of dollars owed to education loans. Memo to Corp. America from an American: Piss off. Go run along and play now. I hope your mother's milk goes sour.
Don't know about video, but I could definitely see having RAM and CPU together. Hopefully at a large fraction of the CPU clock. So maybe if you had a 1 gHz CPU and could access main memory at 733 mHz, you wouldn't need as much RAM in the first place. At least, that's what I'd hope for.
I have no idea how OO compares, but then again I rarely if ever need to deal with password protection, encryption, etc. in a direct way. There may be *no* security at all for OO docs. At least they're not *advertising* any security features. *That* is the difference.
I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to hack something together with gpg if it doesn't exist yet. Stuff that *really* needs to be secure doesn't exist on my machine anyway; if it ever did, it got printed out, filed in a box, and the disk wiped. So, (for example) not only would someone have to physically locate me and my paper copy, but they would also have to verify that it is identical to e.g. a bank copy.
That said, I tend to do the important stuff (e.g. car, house, taxes) in person with cash and a signature; I've never trusted anything important to a given file type or structure.
Heh, thanks for speaking up for me - I'm deaf. Oh, the irony in that last sentence. As to the parent poster regarding implants, I was a canidate for cochlear implants last year. (Denied due to high difficulty surgery/marginal benefits).
More on-topic, it'd be cool to have huge memories from this tech, but it'd make more difference to me if we could access main memory faster. Currently the system bus speed seems to be the bottleneck, so we just throw more memory at it and leave chunks of programs in there. We also use branch-prediction, etc.
Another cool idea: I remember well how the birds sounded in the morning; maybe the memory is sweeter than the drabness of the reality? This all makes me wonder if anyone has tried to map the extent and size of human (organic) memory and its speed. How would one do this? Any way to duplicate similar functionality?
What should Sequent, NUMA, et al have to do with *anything* SCO wants? IBM purchase Sequent *and* its IP lock, stock, and barrel, paid in cash *immediately after ending their partnership in Project Monterey*. Even if SCO can prove that Sequent IP was being used in the project (long shot) it *still* doesn't change the fact that IBM owns that IP now. And yeah, they're in arm-waving flail mode.
News to me - did they say anything about the nature of this change to their board of directors? Could this be something we're overlooking (in the context of the article? Got links for that? I would think a change in the board is a significant indication of *something* anyway.
When you sign up for an account, you choose how much space you want...if you want more after that, you can buy more from inside your account. There's a 15-day free trial.
Umm, they'll give you whatever space you want if you get a real account instead of using the demo. For a fee, of course. IIRC, some of their larger customers include Yahoo, AOL, and General Motors. They can handle home users and small businesses too. So if you want more space, just ask. Last I heard, they have about 15 TB free.
Umm, notice the option for a secure connection in the upper left of your screen? That's hardware accelerated SSL. I really doubt they'd leave their array open (I know they don't but I won't say more).
And like I said, its hosted in premium facilities - triple redundancy, backup power, etc.
Heh, I'm *still* pissed at myself for missing RedHat's IPO. Also Harley-Davidson in 1983, but that's another story. I could have retired by now. For sure Google's gonna be interesting because more people know about it and Wall street is buzzing with it.
"...but is advancement in clock speed and architecture really as important a step as it used to be.
Weird; I thought *I* was the only one who noticed this (using linux here). Up to now, my usual response was to get more RAM, but even that has a diminishing return. Then I started getting CPU's with large cache (>1MB) and praying for good branch prediction. I'm convinced that I've got all the hardware I'll need for a few years, and probably won't upgrade until I can get Xeons on E-Bay like you do with 486's now. This tells me that the bottleneck lies elsewhere, probably getting the system bus up to speed with the CPU clock for both disk and memory I/O. This is regardless of being 32 or 64 bit. IOW, PC-133 memory or 66 mHz utlra-ATA makes little sense at gHz processor speeds.
What good is a huge engine if you can't feed it fuel fast enough?
True, all your points. I just couldn't help but think that this is the kind of thing that Alpha CPU's have been doing for years. Kinda expensive, though. Cray supercomputers come to mind.
Dunno about corporate support, though I'm sure they'd be happy to charge for it. OTOH, my local Linux User Group (LUG) is supporting everything from BSD on a Thinkpad to Linux of all kinds on sparcs, quad Xeons, AMD, and Pentium MMX. I've seen everything from Slackware 3 up to RH9 and SuSE. All for free via the mail-list and monthly meetings. Most of us are corporate admins and ISP's, and there's plenty of discussion about peripherals, drivers, and Windows Samba shares. Let alone all the server setup stuff.
Mods: +1, Informative for this "Knoppix Firewall" AC. The basic idea mentioned is very similar to what I use day-to-day. Also, there's an extra-cool hack here (SysAdmin Magazine) for this kind of thing. I hope this AC or somebody picks up on this - it looks like a good replacement for floppyfw, using some script hacks; nothing fancy, just effective.
Bowie J. Poag? Yeah, I remember using propaganda on RH6.x Gnome/E. Its cool enough, think these could make it into gnome desktops? Especially when they start getting color pics. Sometimes I use Earthrise.jpg from the apollo missions.
True; I was just playing with the idea. For sampling at DC you would have to use direct-coupled inputs, no capacitors in the signal path. I imagine it wouldn't be all that hard to apply some RF techniques and "beat" the signals together beforehand in order to get something useful. Or just use a v->f converter. Anyway, I posted the National Instruments link for those reasons, if you need pro grade stuff that already works.
"Do you people who know car mechanics intimately get the same kind of fixit requests from family? damn that'd shit me. Maybe I should go become an expert in astrophysics or some other shit my family don't do."
Actually, yeah they *do* call. At least the ones that don't have warranties. And now I've got the rep for being a "computer guy" too.
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Well, I have a dual Pentium Pro box, each cpu draws about 70 watts IIRC. The machine has *no* fans, just the original aluminum heatsinks. No heat problems yet, but all the same I'd like to find one of these to fit PPro. Just in case, because they have 1 MB cache on them and it wasn't easy to find this machine. In case anyone is wondering, Linux *ROCKS* on it. Anyone know where to find coolers like that for Pro?
1. Angle of attack
2. area of rock surface
3. rate of spin
4. velocity
5. flatness of surface
Somehow these all interract; for example, its difficult for me to skip a stone below a certain weight/area.
You might want to hop over to groklaw.net and give PJ a hand...
News for you and the AC with 50k: you could be comfortable on that in the Buffalo NY area with a house and cars in the suburbs. It all depends on what part of the country you live in.
HP gets a media player. Gonna need *something* for cheer whilst standing in the unemployment line... oh, wait! I can't afford it!
So, scott... I presume you and Carly are highly educated workers. How about my offer of minimum wage?
I could rant here, but won't bother because we've all got the same story I'll bet. Along with thousands of dollars owed to education loans.
Memo to Corp. America from an American: Piss off. Go run along and play now. I hope your mother's milk goes sour.
for me, s /ringing/silence
I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to hack something together with gpg if it doesn't exist yet. Stuff that *really* needs to be secure doesn't exist on my machine anyway; if it ever did, it got printed out, filed in a box, and the disk wiped. So, (for example) not only would someone have to physically locate me and my paper copy, but they would also have to verify that it is identical to e.g. a bank copy.
That said, I tend to do the important stuff (e.g. car, house, taxes) in person with cash and a signature; I've never trusted anything important to a given file type or structure.
More on-topic, it'd be cool to have huge memories from this tech, but it'd make more difference to me if we could access main memory faster. Currently the system bus speed seems to be the bottleneck, so we just throw more memory at it and leave chunks of programs in there. We also use branch-prediction, etc.
Another cool idea: I remember well how the birds sounded in the morning; maybe the memory is sweeter than the drabness of the reality? This all makes me wonder if anyone has tried to map the extent and size of human (organic) memory and its speed. How would one do this? Any way to duplicate similar functionality?
What should Sequent, NUMA, et al have to do with *anything* SCO wants? IBM purchase Sequent *and* its IP lock, stock, and barrel, paid in cash *immediately after ending their partnership in Project Monterey*. Even if SCO can prove that Sequent IP was being used in the project (long shot) it *still* doesn't change the fact that IBM owns that IP now. And yeah, they're in arm-waving flail mode.
News to me - did they say anything about the nature of this change to their board of directors? Could this be something we're overlooking (in the context of the article? Got links for that? I would think a change in the board is a significant indication of *something* anyway.
When you sign up for an account, you choose how much space you want...if you want more after that, you can buy more from inside your account. There's a 15-day free trial.
see a marketplace where modded X-boxes used to be? Makes me wonder....
Umm, notice the option for a secure connection in the upper left of your screen? That's hardware accelerated SSL. I really doubt they'd leave their array open (I know they don't but I won't say more).
And like I said, its hosted in premium facilities - triple redundancy, backup power, etc.
Heh, I'm *still* pissed at myself for missing RedHat's IPO. Also Harley-Davidson in 1983, but that's another story. I could have retired by now. For sure Google's gonna be interesting because more people know about it and Wall street is buzzing with it.
Weird; I thought *I* was the only one who noticed this (using linux here). Up to now, my usual response was to get more RAM, but even that has a diminishing return. Then I started getting CPU's with large cache (>1MB) and praying for good branch prediction. I'm convinced that I've got all the hardware I'll need for a few years, and probably won't upgrade until I can get Xeons on E-Bay like you do with 486's now. This tells me that the bottleneck lies elsewhere, probably getting the system bus up to speed with the CPU clock for both disk and memory I/O. This is regardless of being 32 or 64 bit. IOW, PC-133 memory or 66 mHz utlra-ATA makes little sense at gHz processor speeds.
What good is a huge engine if you can't feed it fuel fast enough?
True, all your points. I just couldn't help but think that this is the kind of thing that Alpha CPU's have been doing for years. Kinda expensive, though. Cray supercomputers come to mind.
LongHorn. Or is that "lower horn"? If the XP hardware jump was any indicator, they're gonna need it.
Now how much would you pay?"
Mods: +1, Informative for this "Knoppix Firewall" AC. The basic idea mentioned is very similar to what I use day-to-day. Also, there's an extra-cool hack here (SysAdmin Magazine) for this kind of thing. I hope this AC or somebody picks up on this - it looks like a good replacement for floppyfw, using some script hacks; nothing fancy, just effective.
Bowie J. Poag? Yeah, I remember using propaganda on RH6.x Gnome/E. Its cool enough, think these could make it into gnome desktops? Especially when they start getting color pics. Sometimes I use Earthrise.jpg from the apollo missions.
True; I was just playing with the idea. For sampling at DC you would have to use direct-coupled inputs, no capacitors in the signal path. I imagine it wouldn't be all that hard to apply some RF techniques and "beat" the signals together beforehand in order to get something useful. Or just use a v->f converter. Anyway, I posted the National Instruments link for those reasons, if you need pro grade stuff that already works.
Actually, yeah they *do* call. At least the ones that don't have warranties. And now I've got the rep for being a "computer guy" too.
OK, my mistake. So it reduces your ass to a singularity instead.
Never mind the cell phones. What about all the Tylenol and Ibuprofen sold as Motrin? Sometimes some really lo-tech stuff comes out of it all, too.