One way that I think having less, but larger companies owning more of the backbone could be potentially be a hazard is that large companies are harder to steer, cutting costs and overhead is always on their minds (which means the could be cutting down the quality of the engineers and staff, which could create weak spots in portions of the company), and the fact that the larger the targets are... the more prone they will be to dissidents and people who just plain don't like them (i.e.: Microsoft or AOL/TW).
Just a kludge of thoughts that crossed my mind.
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You don't have to download all four ISO images, but instead, you can download the mini ISO install image for FreeBSD 4.7 and use Ports to download and build the stuff that you need. You can also use CVSup to pull down the sources and enable compression over slower links.
The only problem is that the installer for the more recent FreeBSD versions require more than 8MB of RAM (12MB is the bare minimum I think). For firewall and/or router purposes, try out ClosedBSD which is based on PicoBSD (which in turn is based on an earlier release of FreeBSD). You can download the ISO from there.
For even a smaller install, NetBSD might do the trick, as well as OpenBSD.
I think we should be rooting the Borg and take them down, then we can open source the collective and their code. The Romulans can keep their closedness:)
Oh... you meant rooting *for*... I'd say the Q Continuum!
I forgot to add a reference to the above power usage statements. Accord to Intel's 80200 product page:
Even at 733 MHz the Intel 80200 processor dissipates less than 1.3W! This is accomplished using the Intel® Superpipelined RISC Technology-the 7-stage integer, 8-stage memory superpipelined core achieves high speed with ultra-low power consumption.
Try getting a Pentium 4 to dissipate less than 5W of heat during normal usage. An Ultra Low-Voltage Pentium 3 can probably get that low but only in power-saving mode.
It looks like you still have to add an external controller chip for devices, but it's probably smaller than the ICH2 and ICH4 found in almost all Pentium 4 systems.
An XScale processor will run at very low power, even compared to most ultra-low voltage Pentium II/III processors and much lower than Pentium 4 processors. Also, the XScale processors include a lot of logic built-in so that it doesn't need a full northbridge/southbridge (which adds to the power consumption and board space).
Also, in most cases, you can run an XScale processor without any active cooling... a basic heatsink (or none at all) should do the trick. Again, that shrinks down the overall size of the device.
Also, in those kind of embedded devices, you don't need a processor with an FPU... instead, you just need code that is optimized for the specified purpose.
They also have Outlook 2001 for Mac which is a full-featured (well, it has a lot more features for Exchange users than Entourage) Exchange mail client. Unfortunately, it isn't an OS X native application, thusly requires Classic. I use it at work when I'm working on my OS X machine and it does the job quite well.
Not really... each processor consumes about 17 watts a piece, so at 128 processors, the total power consumption of the processors alone is around 2.2KW. That's not too bad whe compared to a rack of say 42 Itanium2 processors, each requiring about 110W per processor. In processors alone, such a sistem would require 4.62KW, more than double of what the SGI rack would need.
That also doesn't include fans (less power consumption == less heat), logic controllers, memory, etc.
I'm glad that you really like the toolbar. It's great since I can clear the cache, history and location bar in seconds when testing stuff or the auto-complete gets too hairy:)
The other option is to use XUL Planet's Preference Toolbar which gives you the option to change the User Agent string on the fly, like Opera. I personally haven't had to change it from "Real UA" to any other setting so far other than testing purposes. It also allows me to enable/disable JavaScript and Popups on the fly, along with other neat features.
Only problem is that you can't jog with the Nomad Zen players since it's HD based nor is it as portable as the tiny players. Of course, everyone's needs are different and I personally like a HD based jukebox since I rarely run or need to listen to it on the go. For true portability, I'll take my Sony MZ-R909 portable MD player/recorder (proprietary, SCMS, slow record time, blah, blah, blah... I personally don't mind the record time as it gives me a chance to listen to the song).
Maybe not quite what you are looking for, but there is the infamous Linux Compatibility mode for OpenBSD (as well as FreeBSD and NetBSD) that will allow you to run many Linux applications. OpenBSD also supports the Ext2 file system (again, same with FreeBSD and most likely NetBSD).
Avoid anything that is really sugar-rich though, as it'll give you that little boost, then kill ya and make you want to sleep.
Aren't you contradicting yourself there? Mountain Dew, Jolt and a lot of soft drinks have quite a bit of sugar (and caffiene) in them... of course, drinking a lot of those plus inhaling candy bars might make it even worse:)
If you want to enable random IPID under FreeBSD, add the following line to your kernel configuration file and re-compile your kernel:
options RANDOM_IP_ID
I don't know if it's the same as OpenBSD's random IPID nor if NetBSD or Mac OS X have the option or not... but it worth a try for those running FreeBSD servers.
A lot of those pins are dedicated to connect the DDR memory modules to the integrated memory controller. Another set of pins are used not only to provide power but also ground (considering how much power those things will take...).
The rest of the pins are used for the HyperTransport pipes to the AGP I/O controller and other devices that attach to the processor directly.
Ahh... Linux devices might not, but the hard drive guys at IBM/Hitachi use pixie dust. I guess someone at IBM used Portman grits instead of pixie dust, which probably explains why those drives are named "Deathstars";-)
CNet has the domain registration for.com.com and I think they are just trying to flaunt it as much as they can... or they have a sick sense of humo{r,ur}.
Going to http://com.com brings you to http://www.cnet.com/aboutcnet/0-13611.html.
I have an IBM ThinkPad T21 and was able to get Windows 2000 and FreeBSD on the hard drive (either combined or separately). The only thing that I needed to do was to download an updated firmware that fixed the issue with the Thinkpad BIOS and the BSD partition type numbers.
The only two things that I can't get to work under FreeBSD (starting from 4.5-RELEASE through 4.7-RC) is the Intel/Lucent Mini-PCI card (10/100 Eth + modem) and the integrated audio. I don't have any CardBus cards that I need to use with the laptop, so no worries for me there.
A couple of things to try is to update the firmware to the latest version, check to see if there are any hard drive firmware updates, and try to disable anything that you don't really need in the BIOS. Did that with mine and it works great. No if only I can chuck Win2K off of the hard drive permanently (I need to use the Shiva VPN client and other Windows-only tools for work... grr).
Taking a look at the video chipset development cycle... new chips (be it a brand new architecture or an extension to an existing high-end chip) come out every 8-12 months (although nVidia used to be a lot more aggressive with a 6-8 month cycle). With such a fast dev cycle, they think that gamers that like to hot-rod their machines and have the latest and greatest will always upgrade soon after the temporary king of the hill is released. Now, it's the ATI 9700 Pro... in a couple of months, it will be the nVidia NV30, etc.
With that... they probably don't really care of the fans fail after a year since they probably want you to upgrade by then anyway.
But for those without a budget to upgrade every 8-12 months... we may be out of luck since new cards usually mean different cooling solutions (due to die size, heat production, the heatsink mount hole positions, etc.) and some of the aftermarket stuff don't quite cut it.
One solution might be to get one of those large coolers that attach to where the PCI/AGP cards screw holes are and blow right at the video card (and other cards). That way, even if the fan dies, there is still some airflow getting through the heatsink. It's not a pretty solution, but it's more like a cast than a band-aid:)
I'm sure the RIAA will be quite upset at losing that less than 1% of their annual income. Poor sods.
I wonder if the RIAA will try to figure out a way to mark "money spent on lawyers and the price fixing suit" as money lost due to piracy. Maybe they will pull something like, "People would rather pirate than pay for ligitimately priced and purchased CDs"... hiding that the fact that most CDs are too expensive (not all CDs are too expensive, but there are a looot that are).
Another thing is that the big labels are also under the ever-so-lenient-eye of the Feds for their online music download sites (PressPlay and MusicNet). So even though they got away fairly easily with CD price fixing, they have another way to fix distribution methods.
The companies, including Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, Bertelsmann's BMG Music and EMI Group, plus retailers Musicland Stores, Trans World Entertainment and Tower Records, admitted no wrongdoing.
Since they still think that they are in the right and probably still want to fix the prices of CDs somehow.
They are just paying their way and donating CDs to certain organizations just to say drop the suit... that's it.
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One way that I think having less, but larger companies owning more of the backbone could be potentially be a hazard is that large companies are harder to steer, cutting costs and overhead is always on their minds (which means the could be cutting down the quality of the engineers and staff, which could create weak spots in portions of the company), and the fact that the larger the targets are... the more prone they will be to dissidents and people who just plain don't like them (i.e.: Microsoft or AOL/TW).
Just a kludge of thoughts that crossed my mind.
The only problem is that the installer for the more recent FreeBSD versions require more than 8MB of RAM (12MB is the bare minimum I think). For firewall and/or router purposes, try out ClosedBSD which is based on PicoBSD (which in turn is based on an earlier release of FreeBSD). You can download the ISO from there.
For even a smaller install, NetBSD might do the trick, as well as OpenBSD.
I think we should be rooting the Borg and take them down, then we can open source the collective and their code. The Romulans can keep their closedness :)
Oh... you meant rooting *for*... I'd say the Q Continuum!
It looks like you still have to add an external controller chip for devices, but it's probably smaller than the ICH2 and ICH4 found in almost all Pentium 4 systems.
An XScale processor will run at very low power, even compared to most ultra-low voltage Pentium II/III processors and much lower than Pentium 4 processors. Also, the XScale processors include a lot of logic built-in so that it doesn't need a full northbridge/southbridge (which adds to the power consumption and board space).
Also, in most cases, you can run an XScale processor without any active cooling... a basic heatsink (or none at all) should do the trick. Again, that shrinks down the overall size of the device.
Also, in those kind of embedded devices, you don't need a processor with an FPU... instead, you just need code that is optimized for the specified purpose.
I think you meant Sharp instead of Sony :)
They also have Outlook 2001 for Mac which is a full-featured (well, it has a lot more features for Exchange users than Entourage) Exchange mail client. Unfortunately, it isn't an OS X native application, thusly requires Classic. I use it at work when I'm working on my OS X machine and it does the job quite well.
Not really... each processor consumes about 17 watts a piece, so at 128 processors, the total power consumption of the processors alone is around 2.2KW. That's not too bad whe compared to a rack of say 42 Itanium2 processors, each requiring about 110W per processor. In processors alone, such a sistem would require 4.62KW, more than double of what the SGI rack would need.
That also doesn't include fans (less power consumption == less heat), logic controllers, memory, etc.
- Run a single kernel image
- One laptop cannot access another laptop's memory pool directly (or even indirectly)
- CardBus for expansion is quite limited (CardBus is equivalent to a 32-bit/33Mhz PCI bus compared to a 64-bit/100 or 133Mhz PCI-X bus)
- Laptop hard drives are really slow compared to 10 or 15K SCSI/Fibre Channel hard drives in a SAN
- Although the laptop may be faster in some things (compared to one or two of the MIPS processors) it still sucks in raw I/O
- A P4 laptop running at full speed will still consume over 50 watts of power
- Gotta wait until laptops get Gigabit Ethernet (I know the Powerbook G4s have them)
- Laptops have FireWire and/or USB 2.0, but that still maxes out at 400Mbit/sec or 480Mbit/sec respectively
- ... and I doubt the laptops will last as long as the SGI server nor comply with NEBS or other "server" requirements
:)
etc.I'm glad that you really like the toolbar. It's great since I can clear the cache, history and location bar in seconds when testing stuff or the auto-complete gets too hairy :)
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Only problem is that you can't jog with the Nomad Zen players since it's HD based nor is it as portable as the tiny players. Of course, everyone's needs are different and I personally like a HD based jukebox since I rarely run or need to listen to it on the go. For true portability, I'll take my Sony MZ-R909 portable MD player/recorder (proprietary, SCMS, slow record time, blah, blah, blah... I personally don't mind the record time as it gives me a chance to listen to the song).
Just my $0.005 (danged taxes).
Maybe not quite what you are looking for, but there is the infamous Linux Compatibility mode for OpenBSD (as well as FreeBSD and NetBSD) that will allow you to run many Linux applications. OpenBSD also supports the Ext2 file system (again, same with FreeBSD and most likely NetBSD).
If you want to enable random IPID under FreeBSD, add the following line to your kernel configuration file and re-compile your kernel:
options RANDOM_IP_ID
I don't know if it's the same as OpenBSD's random IPID nor if NetBSD or Mac OS X have the option or not... but it worth a try for those running FreeBSD servers.
A lot of those pins are dedicated to connect the DDR memory modules to the integrated memory controller. Another set of pins are used not only to provide power but also ground (considering how much power those things will take...).
The rest of the pins are used for the HyperTransport pipes to the AGP I/O controller and other devices that attach to the processor directly.
Laugh... it's funny... kind of.
One piece at a time, the DOJ (which oversees the FBI) is pulling privacy and our rights out from beneath us.
CNet has the domain registration for .com.com and I think they are just trying to flaunt it as much as they can... or they have a sick sense of humo{r,ur}.
Going to http://com.com brings you to http://www.cnet.com/aboutcnet/0-13611.html.
I have an IBM ThinkPad T21 and was able to get Windows 2000 and FreeBSD on the hard drive (either combined or separately). The only thing that I needed to do was to download an updated firmware that fixed the issue with the Thinkpad BIOS and the BSD partition type numbers.
The only two things that I can't get to work under FreeBSD (starting from 4.5-RELEASE through 4.7-RC) is the Intel/Lucent Mini-PCI card (10/100 Eth + modem) and the integrated audio. I don't have any CardBus cards that I need to use with the laptop, so no worries for me there.
A couple of things to try is to update the firmware to the latest version, check to see if there are any hard drive firmware updates, and try to disable anything that you don't really need in the BIOS. Did that with mine and it works great. No if only I can chuck Win2K off of the hard drive permanently (I need to use the Shiva VPN client and other Windows-only tools for work... grr).
Taking a look at the video chipset development cycle... new chips (be it a brand new architecture or an extension to an existing high-end chip) come out every 8-12 months (although nVidia used to be a lot more aggressive with a 6-8 month cycle). With such a fast dev cycle, they think that gamers that like to hot-rod their machines and have the latest and greatest will always upgrade soon after the temporary king of the hill is released. Now, it's the ATI 9700 Pro... in a couple of months, it will be the nVidia NV30, etc.
:)
With that... they probably don't really care of the fans fail after a year since they probably want you to upgrade by then anyway.
But for those without a budget to upgrade every 8-12 months... we may be out of luck since new cards usually mean different cooling solutions (due to die size, heat production, the heatsink mount hole positions, etc.) and some of the aftermarket stuff don't quite cut it.
One solution might be to get one of those large coolers that attach to where the PCI/AGP cards screw holes are and blow right at the video card (and other cards). That way, even if the fan dies, there is still some airflow getting through the heatsink. It's not a pretty solution, but it's more like a cast than a band-aid
Just my thoughts.
Another thing is that the big labels are also under the ever-so-lenient-eye of the Feds for their online music download sites (PressPlay and MusicNet). So even though they got away fairly easily with CD price fixing, they have another way to fix distribution methods.
They are just paying their way and donating CDs to certain organizations just to say drop the suit... that's it.