"American trade negotiators may demand the shutdown of AllofMP3.com as a condition of Russia joining the World Trade Organization"
WHAT THE F**K?!
I think America is getting too big for its boots lately, I won't mention Iraq, but they basically told the Swedes to shut down The Pirate Bay and now they think they can blackmail Russia too - and over such an important thing as the WTO?
OK then America, you shut down Microsoft or we'll kick you out of the UN.
lowering the fsb would be a bad idea anyway, you'd slow down your ram and perhaps more importantly the pci bus - so slower disk and network, not good for a nas!
lowering the multiplier is the better option, as that just slows the cpu which is using the power, of course most athlons are locked, some tbirds weren't and the xp-mobiles aren't (i have both).
i expect a 7200rpm drive would use most of the power in a pc anyway.
Great, now we're going to have adware thrown at us, our searches will be reported to the MPAA/RIAA/Sony and we "mysteriously" won't be able to download any music or video anymore.
Mind you, my ISP is TalkTalk, so I can't even download legal content (like Fedora DVD's) as they throttle it, and it seems have even found a way to block Azureus 2.4.0.2's encrypted streams - actually I think they block the tracker requests.
I'll have to have another go at hacking the encryption into launchmany-curses.py or fire up uTorrent under VMWare (anyone know if it works in WINE?)
I used to block Email from Korea and China to get rid of spam, but most of it these days is coming from the US. The Great Firewall of China is blocking most of the internet (inbound) anyway.
Taiwan is only needed for drivers for that cheap'n'cheerful motherboard.
I only ever shop in the UK.
I email a few people in France, although come to think of it, their servers are in England.
I really hate that it defaults to "HTML Formatted" and not "Plain Old Text" and that "Preview" and "Submit" are a bit backwards IMHO....
Not long ago my main machine was a 1.4GHz/512Mb/80Gb, then I decided to go for an upgrade, mainly because the motherboard didn't really work with Linux too well (USB/1394/IDE RAID).
So I got a 2GHz/1Gb/160Gb Windows machine. With this new power I started playing Quake3 and running Linux under VMWare.
I bought another box as I was given some components, it's a 3GHz/1Gb/400Gb machine with HyperThreading. I really use VMWare a lot on this machine and am considering adding another gig of RAM, that will keep me happy for a couple of years at least until the Intel Duo's with VT are affordable.
The 1.4GHz is now my fileserver, it's 80Gb is now in the XBox and it sports a new 250Gb SATA and it's going to need another one soon as I have pretty much my entire software collection stored on the drive as.ISO images, the 300+ DVD/CD's are in the loft. I backup stuff to an 80Gb Firewire drive which is going to need to get bigger soon.
5 years ago if you'd have told me that the 80Gb drive was going to end up in my games console and I'd have about a terrabyte of storage on my gigabit LAN, I'd have laughed in your face!
That said, I'm currently contracting in a very large company that has us developing serious websites on NT4/256Mb/PII's and Sun Ultra10's, it's sad when your laptop has more power than the office Oracle server!
If you make it, software will grow to use it - look at 512Mb graphics cards! It's called progress people, it's also probably largely due to sloppy code....
Not long ago my main machine was a 1.4GHz/512Mb/80Gb, then I decided to go for an upgrade, mainly because the motherboard didn't really work with Linux too well (USB/1394/IDE RAID).
So I got a 2GHz/1Gb/160Gb Windows machine. With this new power I started playing Quake3 and running Linux under VMWare.
I bought another box as I was given some components, it's a 3GHz/1Gb/400Gb machine with HyperThreading. I really use VMWare a lot on this machine and am considering adding another gig of RAM, that will keep me happy for a couple of years at least until the Intel Duo's with VT are affordable.
The 1.4GHz is now my fileserver, it's 80Gb is now in the XBox and it sports a new 250Gb SATA and it's going to need another one soon as I have pretty much my entire software collection stored on the drive as.ISO images, the 300+ DVD/CD's are in the loft. I backup stuff to an 80Gb Firewire drive which is going to need to get bigger soon.
5 years ago if you'd have told me that the 80Gb drive was going to end up in my games console and I'd have about a terrabyte of storage on my gigabit LAN, I'd have laughed in your face!
That said, I'm currently contracting in a very large company that has us developing serious websites on NT4/256Mb/PII's and Sun Ultra10's, it's sad when your laptop has more power than the office Oracle server!
If you make it, software will grow to use it - look at 512Mb graphics cards! It's called progress people, it's also probably largely due to sloppy code....
I'm so glad I'm moving to France, where free speech actually means something still.
I returned to the UK from the USA nine months ago after getting fed up with the corporations owning the US government.
Soon France is going to be the only place in the world where you can use P2P (I couldn't even download Fedora 5t3 the other day as my UK ISP TalkTalk blocks BitTorrent) and actually listen to your own music!
That Linux box sitting on the end of my ADSL2+ connection in France is going to be really useful when I'm working in the UK;-)
Sony's the one that's going to benefit from this, as they couldn't make a DVD burner to save their lives, NEC however is top of the market (especially with the hacked firmwares) along with BenQ.
Could make life difficult for other vendors who rebadge NEC drives.
Of course, this does mean that we can't buy NEC anymore because it's giving money to Big Bad, so better head off and grab a few ND-4551's before the takeover.
I have a Mobile AthlonXP 2600+ in my desktop machine and that think still overheats with a 40usd heatsink/fan on it.
I very much doubt that the Turion in a desktop is anywhere near as low power as the Pentium-M, certainly doesn't seem to be from the laptop reviews I've seen.
Well as the development versions of Mac OS X86 have already been made to run under VMWare Workstation 5, it seems like your best bet would be to run Linux and have Windows+Mac as virtual machines, you get all the operating systems without the need to buy overpriced Mac hardware.
"...there is currently no support for virtual multiple CPUs in Linux".
actually virtual-smp has been in workstation 5.5.0, insofaras if you have a smp host (like hyperthreading, dual core, or dual processor) you can have 2 (or 1) processors in your guest, in workstation i think it's limited to two processors.
according to the register, this new server product will feature virtual-smp support too, even though gsx currently doesn't. i wonder how many cpu's, hopefully 4-8 (think gsx does that, and esx does up to 16).
Workstation has always had the new features before GSX, like virtual-SMP, VT support, new OS support etc.
I see it as what Fedora is to RHEL. I wonder if it will stay that way, or if "Server" will take that role?
Thing is, The Register article says that "Server" will include those features, so I guess its either a bastardisation of WS 5.5.1 and GSX 3.2.1 or it's just a newer version of GSX than the currently 3.2.1
mainly convincing the windows sysadmins that they need to implement domain security properly and get ldap working, rather than using just a broken mixture of ntlm and ad.
and ldap won't work using just the browser like ntlm will.
not really, you have to replace zserver with apache2 and use a deprecated and unstable mod_ntlm module, and i have never managed it based on the intstructions anyway.
OK, Macs used to have a reputation for having nice hardware, that was probably 50% of the reason for owning one (25% being marketing BS, and 25% for the nice GUI they put on FreeBSD).
So, Apple move to a regular Intel processor, a regular ATI graphics card, and a regular Intel motherboard with some modifications to remove a regular BIOS. That nice Apple hardware that we would have paid a premium for is essentially now a Dell PC.
Soooooo, if we no longer have nice hardware, then why bother trying to run Windows or Linux on this thing, when we can do it for a third of the cost and without hacks, on regular x86 hardware?
You also need to consider that Apple is not going to support anything but MacOSX86 on this hardware, and for that matter, Micro$oft won't support Windows on it either!
Personally I'd see getting official support for it running under VMWare, like Solaris x86 now has, or even under Xen3 would be more exciting.
I'm going through this choice at work at the moment, management wants to replace the in-house mess with an off-the-shelf portal+CMS+forum.
I've written a basic CMS in a previous job, and am patching this one, the hardest part is constantly modifying it to dumb it down further and further for the users whilst still making it useful.
I really don't want to have to re-invent the wheel again, so have been looking at various offerings, both commercial and FOSS.
I'd personally prefer a Perl/Python/Linux/Solaris solution, but there are AD/NTLM requirements, Exchange integration, database portability - currently MySQL will do, but we're going to need to move to Oracle eventually in keeping with company policy; and it's looking like the commercial ASP/Windows solutions are the only choice.
The main problem I'm having at the moment is what do you do if you want to add functionality? The commercial vendors all say 'just develop your own website in a frame of the portal', which is all very well and good unless you need to be able to integrate the search and permissions systems and don't want to have 2-3 servers.
Not many vendors have an API or even Web Services kind of system, it's all some.exe that runs on the 2003 domain server to talk some proprietary crap to Exchange!
With the FOSS model, at least you get the source and have a nice language - they're generally Python/PHP/MySQL, not JavaBeans/ASP/Access rubbish.
What I need is:
Platform: Solaris+Apache Language: Perl/Python/PHP Database: MySQL+Oracle Authentication: NTLM/ActiveDirectory single-signon Extensibility: hack the source/a nice API or wrapper system/web services Integration: RSS syndication, Exchange calendar+addressbook
Zope/Plone, PostNuke, BEA, Drupal etc. do not even come close.
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"American trade negotiators may demand the shutdown of AllofMP3.com as a condition of Russia joining the World Trade Organization"
WHAT THE F**K?!
I think America is getting too big for its boots lately, I won't mention Iraq, but they basically told the Swedes to shut down The Pirate Bay and now they think they can blackmail Russia too - and over such an important thing as the WTO?
OK then America, you shut down Microsoft or we'll kick you out of the UN.
"Naw, that couldn't be it -- I don't make wrong arguments! ; )"
that's earned you a nuturalisation!
Is FASS like "lazy task swapping" that you could turn off with the Intel StrongARM 233T, but not the earlier DEC StrongARM 200K/J?
I remember on RISC OS it was not turned off (on?) by default as it was pretty unstable.
"By the way, what did I do to deserve being "Foe"'d?"
not sure, maybe you disagreed with one of my posts, and with a completely wrong argument?
my athlon xp-m 2600+ and pentium4-3e motherboards have the fsb tied to the pci bus at least.
maybe you're talking about a mac?
lowering the fsb would be a bad idea anyway, you'd slow down your ram and perhaps more importantly the pci bus - so slower disk and network, not good for a nas!
lowering the multiplier is the better option, as that just slows the cpu which is using the power, of course most athlons are locked, some tbirds weren't and the xp-mobiles aren't (i have both).
i expect a 7200rpm drive would use most of the power in a pc anyway.
can't see how they can tax my emails that go through my own server, using TLS or SSL, sometimes i even check them over SSH.
and even webmail would be hard to pull out of standard web traffic.
All of this Microsoft opensource stuff is hollow.
How about they "share the source" to the Xbox 360 filesystem, or publish an SDK or Linux distribution, jees even evil Sony managed that?
How about not trying to patent the FAT filesystem, or opening up the specs to NTFS?
How about giving us the source to WGA, or stop crippling your free Visual Studio Express?
Yeah, make us create stuff to help sell or fix your products, but don't give anything back.
i remember being told by the tour guides at stonehenge that the little hills dotted around are burial mounds.
what they didn't tell us was that they were the tops of pyramids and there's another 720ft under the earth!
Great, now we're going to have adware thrown at us, our searches will be reported to the MPAA/RIAA/Sony and we "mysteriously" won't be able to download any music or video anymore.
Mind you, my ISP is TalkTalk, so I can't even download legal content (like Fedora DVD's) as they throttle it, and it seems have even found a way to block Azureus 2.4.0.2's encrypted streams - actually I think they block the tracker requests.
I'll have to have another go at hacking the encryption into launchmany-curses.py or fire up uTorrent under VMWare (anyone know if it works in WINE?)
I used to block Email from Korea and China to get rid of spam, but most of it these days is coming from the US. The Great Firewall of China is blocking most of the internet (inbound) anyway.
Taiwan is only needed for drivers for that cheap'n'cheerful motherboard.
I only ever shop in the UK.
I email a few people in France, although come to think of it, their servers are in England.
I really hate that it defaults to "HTML Formatted" and not "Plain Old Text" and that "Preview" and "Submit" are a bit backwards IMHO....
.ISO images, the 300+ DVD/CD's are in the loft. I backup stuff to an 80Gb Firewire drive which is going to need to get bigger soon.
Not long ago my main machine was a 1.4GHz/512Mb/80Gb, then I decided to go for an upgrade, mainly because the motherboard didn't really work with Linux too well (USB/1394/IDE RAID).
So I got a 2GHz/1Gb/160Gb Windows machine. With this new power I started playing Quake3 and running Linux under VMWare.
I bought another box as I was given some components, it's a 3GHz/1Gb/400Gb machine with HyperThreading. I really use VMWare a lot on this machine and am considering adding another gig of RAM, that will keep me happy for a couple of years at least until the Intel Duo's with VT are affordable.
The 1.4GHz is now my fileserver, it's 80Gb is now in the XBox and it sports a new 250Gb SATA and it's going to need another one soon as I have pretty much my entire software collection stored on the drive as
5 years ago if you'd have told me that the 80Gb drive was going to end up in my games console and I'd have about a terrabyte of storage on my gigabit LAN, I'd have laughed in your face!
That said, I'm currently contracting in a very large company that has us developing serious websites on NT4/256Mb/PII's and Sun Ultra10's, it's sad when your laptop has more power than the office Oracle server!
If you make it, software will grow to use it - look at 512Mb graphics cards! It's called progress people, it's also probably largely due to sloppy code....
Not long ago my main machine was a 1.4GHz/512Mb/80Gb, then I decided to go for an upgrade, mainly because the motherboard didn't really work with Linux too well (USB/1394/IDE RAID). So I got a 2GHz/1Gb/160Gb Windows machine. With this new power I started playing Quake3 and running Linux under VMWare. I bought another box as I was given some components, it's a 3GHz/1Gb/400Gb machine with HyperThreading. I really use VMWare a lot on this machine and am considering adding another gig of RAM, that will keep me happy for a couple of years at least until the Intel Duo's with VT are affordable. The 1.4GHz is now my fileserver, it's 80Gb is now in the XBox and it sports a new 250Gb SATA and it's going to need another one soon as I have pretty much my entire software collection stored on the drive as .ISO images, the 300+ DVD/CD's are in the loft. I backup stuff to an 80Gb Firewire drive which is going to need to get bigger soon.
5 years ago if you'd have told me that the 80Gb drive was going to end up in my games console and I'd have about a terrabyte of storage on my gigabit LAN, I'd have laughed in your face!
That said, I'm currently contracting in a very large company that has us developing serious websites on NT4/256Mb/PII's and Sun Ultra10's, it's sad when your laptop has more power than the office Oracle server!
If you make it, software will grow to use it - look at 512Mb graphics cards! It's called progress people, it's also probably largely due to sloppy code....
Has Gov.Arnie been involved in this decision - sounds like a likely plot for Terminator 4....
I'm so glad I'm moving to France, where free speech actually means something still.
;-)
I returned to the UK from the USA nine months ago after getting fed up with the corporations owning the US government.
Soon France is going to be the only place in the world where you can use P2P (I couldn't even download Fedora 5t3 the other day as my UK ISP TalkTalk blocks BitTorrent) and actually listen to your own music!
That Linux box sitting on the end of my ADSL2+ connection in France is going to be really useful when I'm working in the UK
Sony's the one that's going to benefit from this, as they couldn't make a DVD burner to save their lives, NEC however is top of the market (especially with the hacked firmwares) along with BenQ.
Could make life difficult for other vendors who rebadge NEC drives.
Of course, this does mean that we can't buy NEC anymore because it's giving money to Big Bad, so better head off and grab a few ND-4551's before the takeover.
"You heard wrong. The taint is as the parent post described it. The space between the genitals and the asshole."
;-)
He didn't hear wrong, he just thought that's where the pussy was, c'mon this is Slashdot
I have a Mobile AthlonXP 2600+ in my desktop machine and that think still overheats with a 40usd heatsink/fan on it.
I very much doubt that the Turion in a desktop is anywhere near as low power as the Pentium-M, certainly doesn't seem to be from the laptop reviews I've seen.
I'd say for a HTPC, you'd have to go VIA.
Well as the development versions of Mac OS X86 have already been made to run under VMWare Workstation 5, it seems like your best bet would be to run Linux and have Windows+Mac as virtual machines, you get all the operating systems without the need to buy overpriced Mac hardware.
"...there is currently no support for virtual multiple CPUs in Linux".
actually virtual-smp has been in workstation 5.5.0, insofaras if you have a smp host (like hyperthreading, dual core, or dual processor) you can have 2 (or 1) processors in your guest, in workstation i think it's limited to two processors.
according to the register, this new server product will feature virtual-smp support too, even though gsx currently doesn't. i wonder how many cpu's, hopefully 4-8 (think gsx does that, and esx does up to 16).
Workstation has always had the new features before GSX, like virtual-SMP, VT support, new OS support etc.
I see it as what Fedora is to RHEL. I wonder if it will stay that way, or if "Server" will take that role?
Thing is, The Register article says that "Server" will include those features, so I guess its either a bastardisation of WS 5.5.1 and GSX 3.2.1 or it's just a newer version of GSX than the currently 3.2.1
I wonder if Google will be nice and make it all free again like the good old days.
Or will they keep the Winamp disk-out hack.
mainly convincing the windows sysadmins that they need to implement domain security properly and get ldap working, rather than using just a broken mixture of ntlm and ad.
and ldap won't work using just the browser like ntlm will.
not really, you have to replace zserver with apache2 and use a deprecated and unstable mod_ntlm module, and i have never managed it based on the intstructions anyway.
OK, Macs used to have a reputation for having nice hardware, that was probably 50% of the reason for owning one (25% being marketing BS, and 25% for the nice GUI they put on FreeBSD).
So, Apple move to a regular Intel processor, a regular ATI graphics card, and a regular Intel motherboard with some modifications to remove a regular BIOS. That nice Apple hardware that we would have paid a premium for is essentially now a Dell PC.
Soooooo, if we no longer have nice hardware, then why bother trying to run Windows or Linux on this thing, when we can do it for a third of the cost and without hacks, on regular x86 hardware?
You also need to consider that Apple is not going to support anything but MacOSX86 on this hardware, and for that matter, Micro$oft won't support Windows on it either!
Personally I'd see getting official support for it running under VMWare, like Solaris x86 now has, or even under Xen3 would be more exciting.
I'm going through this choice at work at the moment, management wants to replace the in-house mess with an off-the-shelf portal+CMS+forum.
.exe that runs on the 2003 domain server to talk some proprietary crap to Exchange!
I've written a basic CMS in a previous job, and am patching this one, the hardest part is constantly modifying it to dumb it down further and further for the users whilst still making it useful.
I really don't want to have to re-invent the wheel again, so have been looking at various offerings, both commercial and FOSS.
I'd personally prefer a Perl/Python/Linux/Solaris solution, but there are AD/NTLM requirements, Exchange integration, database portability - currently MySQL will do, but we're going to need to move to Oracle eventually in keeping with company policy; and it's looking like the commercial ASP/Windows solutions are the only choice.
The main problem I'm having at the moment is what do you do if you want to add functionality? The commercial vendors all say 'just develop your own website in a frame of the portal', which is all very well and good unless you need to be able to integrate the search and permissions systems and don't want to have 2-3 servers.
Not many vendors have an API or even Web Services kind of system, it's all some
With the FOSS model, at least you get the source and have a nice language - they're generally Python/PHP/MySQL, not JavaBeans/ASP/Access rubbish.
What I need is:
Platform: Solaris+Apache
Language: Perl/Python/PHP
Database: MySQL+Oracle
Authentication: NTLM/ActiveDirectory single-signon
Extensibility: hack the source/a nice API or wrapper system/web services
Integration: RSS syndication, Exchange calendar+addressbook
Zope/Plone, PostNuke, BEA, Drupal etc. do not even come close.