And while someone is RTFM'ing, the company is losing money with that particular system down until someone can ATFQ(answer the fsckng question).
If you are providing support for a commercial product, the support call is most likely due to a bug in the program, or a poorly written manual.
I could give a flying rat's ass if the support guy hates me or not. If any commercial support guy ever told me to RTFM, I would fly to his office and kick his fscking teeth in.
This is not to mention that an overworked admin may not have the time to remember an entire 300 page manual, not to mention several doaen 300 page manuals for the variety of systems he maintains, so that the support guy will like him.
IRC chat for support. Gee how smart is that since most intelligent admins will not let their networks anywhere near IRC.
Is anyone even remotely aware of what would have happened if Microsoft would have been forced to open their API's to everyone? Everyone would then be programming with the windows API and ultimately cause windows to be the defacto standard. With windows as a defacto standard, every other OS would die off very quickly. What would be in more demand, an OS which was open source, secure and had binary compatibility with windows or Linux? Forced opening of the Windows API would FURTHER entrench Microsoft's monopoly in the long term
Over time, Microsoft will destroy itslef. It is the nature of the corporation to grow to a point where it is no longer nimble enough to compete with smaller quicker acting companies. Breakign Microsoft up, would create dozens of small nimble companeis all with the Microsoft culture. Nobody would be able to compete. The breakup of Standard Oil and AT&T shoudl serve as a grat lesson to all about corporate breakups; all they do is create companues which treat their customers worse and are more greedy than the original monopoly. Sears, Woolworth and all the othe large companies which grew huge, got arrogant and fell should serve as an indication of where Microsoft will eventually land.
Remember when Intel was forced to open the x86 architecture, because of that clones appeared and further entrnched the x86 architecture into the pc world. Had that not happened, the superior 68k architecture just might have supplanted the inferior x86 architecture.
"before claiming that linux isnt ready for the desktop, maybe you should look into it more so you can at least base your decision on personal experience and not on your impression of some/. article."
I have been using Linux for at least 4 years. Mandrake 9 is getting close, but it still isn't ready for primetime.
If you fully read my post, you would have noticed that my opinion was based on over 100 installs of various linxes and not some stupid slashdot story or slashdot post.
"Amazing the lengths people will go to to not have to think/learn."
Have you taken a moment to think that the location of the configuration files is not learning. It is a waste of time. If you want to learn how computer soundcards work, pick up a book on programming and program the soundcard.
Reading documentation? I work with computers all day long, the last thign I want to waste my time with is reading a howto to find where to add the extra line to a config file to make a sound card work. That shit is tolerable when it comes to configuring a server, but a sound is not critical to a server. It is critical to a multimedia home computer and most IT professionals do not want to have to fiddle with their hoem computer just to make it work. It is a total waste of time.
Automatically detecting hardware IS an exact science. There is a PnP standard and all modern bioses support it. Why create another layer of complexity. The bios will report exactly what hardware you have to the OS. Then it is a matter of checking for a driver. If there is no driver for the specific PnP ID of a device, then check for the generic PnP ID of the device and install that driver.
My C=64 had sound that just worked, so did my Atari ST, Amiga 2000, Atari Falcon, windows 98, win 2k, win xp, Mandrake, and Red Hat. If any OS requires a HowTo to make basic things like pc sound work, then that distro is broken.
Nobody is going to impress anyone because they got sound working on their debian box, scrap the howto and get the sound working without user intervention.
But seriously: no. Given the lack of real virtualization, there are a lot of applications where the thing most needed is as many separate logical systems, with processing power being a secondary consideration (as long as it's up to some usually quite modest measure).
VMware,Linux, Windows 2k/xp. Software is easily and cheaply upgraded, hardware is not.
But even for applications where raw processing power is all-important it isn't as simple as multiplying clock_speed * n_CPUs. You did that and found the blades coming in at about 3/4 the score of the PIV rack. But... isn't that about the same as the ratio of useful work per PIV clock to PIII clock? Of course, it varies, depending on what you're doing. Perhaps the PIV rack would win in a compute farm wher the load is tilted heavily towards floating point work. For applications that involve more integer & conditional branch work - compiling code, running a web server, email, database, etc. - the PIII's clock cycles are worth at least as much more than the PIV's to make up for the difference you have discovered.
I also conservatively used 2.4 ghz p4's and not 2.8's. The p3 does not perform better clock for clock than a p4. The northwood core was a slug compared to the p3, but the williamette core is not, especially when combined with RDRAM or DDR. The new low power p3 is still stuck with pc133 memory and that is a serious drawback on any system.
But if you don't care about any of this, then don't let me deter you. Go right ahead and reward Intel's marketing buffoons for making you focus on a simple but misleading criteria. They'll be laughing all the way to the bank.
$289 for the new 800mhz chips, $194 for a 2.4 ghz p4. So with the new low power chips, you are giving intel $60,112, using the the p4, you are giving them, $8148. How much more electricity is the p4 going to use over the p3 during it's serviceable lifetime. Not to mention that the cpu is not the primary source of power drain, the hdd is. Like I said, do the math, the numbers do not favor the low power chips.
A DDoS attack usually involves unwilling or unknowing participants. This technology will do little more than knock out a few innocent computers and cause havoc at the ISP's when people are demanding to know why their "internet broke"
If this is the case, then why aren't the via c3's incredibly popular. they are cheaper than p3's, offer the same mips performance and do not require a processor fan.
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q2/020605/index. html
For what you described, it is ideal and they cost under $100.
A p3 may be 50% faster than a p4 of the same clock speed on the old Willamette core, but not on the Northwood core with 512k cache and 533mhz (133x4) FSB. the new p3 consumes less power, but you need 3 or 4of them to have the processing power of a 2.4 ghz p4.
The p4's fpu might be weak without using the sse2 extensions, but how many web servers (the target market of blade server) require intense fpu calculations.
42 dual P4 2400 mhz servers or 208 P3 700mhz blades
42 dual P4 2400 mhz servers = 201600mhz
208 p3 700mhz blades = 145600 mhz
Wouldn't the objective be to pack as much power as possible in the rack?
AMD chips with officially supported 166 mhz FSB will be ariving shortly. The revamped thoroughbred "b" core can run at a 166 mhz FSB and the 2100 mhz XP 2600 has a 16x multiplier. That is a 2.6 ghz Athlon or a 3400+ in AMD speak.
Now if these were actually real chips and not paper launches, it woudl all mean something.
ATI's drivers do not suck, they...
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...only show how much you suck.
If you RTFM and uninstall any older drivers and set the video card to plain SVGA, you will have no problems with ATI drivers.
If you try to install them over another card, you can have huge problems, but RTFM and avoid them.
I believe you are referring to Asperger syndrome It is a mild form of Autism which supposedly only affect social interactions but typically comes with the gifts asociated with "classic autism."
I was referring to the Mandrake Control Center (which works on a console also so you can SSH in and use all the tools). Thinks like harddrake, mandrake connection sharing, bastille-interactive, the rescue disk, etc....
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Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives.
There should be nothing else to say.
what is disgusting abotu pr0n?
Ever hear of IDE raid. It makes the whole reliability point of scsi a moot point.
If you are providing support for a commercial product, the support call is most likely due to a bug in the program, or a poorly written manual.
I could give a flying rat's ass if the support guy hates me or not. If any commercial support guy ever told me to RTFM, I would fly to his office and kick his fscking teeth in.
This is not to mention that an overworked admin may not have the time to remember an entire 300 page manual, not to mention several doaen 300 page manuals for the variety of systems he maintains, so that the support guy will like him.
IRC chat for support. Gee how smart is that since most intelligent admins will not let their networks anywhere near IRC.
Over time, Microsoft will destroy itslef. It is the nature of the corporation to grow to a point where it is no longer nimble enough to compete with smaller quicker acting companies. Breakign Microsoft up, would create dozens of small nimble companeis all with the Microsoft culture. Nobody would be able to compete. The breakup of Standard Oil and AT&T shoudl serve as a grat lesson to all about corporate breakups; all they do is create companues which treat their customers worse and are more greedy than the original monopoly. Sears, Woolworth and all the othe large companies which grew huge, got arrogant and fell should serve as an indication of where Microsoft will eventually land.
Remember when Intel was forced to open the x86 architecture, because of that clones appeared and further entrnched the x86 architecture into the pc world. Had that not happened, the superior 68k architecture just might have supplanted the inferior x86 architecture.
At least the government has learned from the past
I have been using Linux for at least 4 years. Mandrake 9 is getting close, but it still isn't ready for primetime.
If you fully read my post, you would have noticed that my opinion was based on over 100 installs of various linxes and not some stupid slashdot story or slashdot post.
Get a better sound card.
Have you taken a moment to think that the location of the configuration files is not learning. It is a waste of time. If you want to learn how computer soundcards work, pick up a book on programming and program the soundcard.
Reading documentation? I work with computers all day long, the last thign I want to waste my time with is reading a howto to find where to add the extra line to a config file to make a sound card work. That shit is tolerable when it comes to configuring a server, but a sound is not critical to a server. It is critical to a multimedia home computer and most IT professionals do not want to have to fiddle with their hoem computer just to make it work. It is a total waste of time.
Automatically detecting hardware IS an exact science. There is a PnP standard and all modern bioses support it. Why create another layer of complexity. The bios will report exactly what hardware you have to the OS. Then it is a matter of checking for a driver. If there is no driver for the specific PnP ID of a device, then check for the generic PnP ID of the device and install that driver.
2,956,782 FPS in nethack. NVidia can't touch that.
My C=64 had sound that just worked, so did my Atari ST, Amiga 2000, Atari Falcon, windows 98, win 2k, win xp, Mandrake, and Red Hat. If any OS requires a HowTo to make basic things like pc sound work, then that distro is broken.
Nobody is going to impress anyone because they got sound working on their debian box, scrap the howto and get the sound working without user intervention.
This is funny, bet nobody has the balls the mod it up.
We had a lynx user once, but then found out is was me testing the company website in Lynx.
But seriously: no. Given the lack of real virtualization, there are a lot of applications where the thing most needed is as many separate logical systems, with processing power being a secondary consideration (as long as it's up to some usually quite modest measure).
VMware,Linux, Windows 2k/xp. Software is easily and cheaply upgraded, hardware is not.
But even for applications where raw processing power is all-important it isn't as simple as multiplying clock_speed * n_CPUs. You did that and found the blades coming in at about 3/4 the score of the PIV rack. But... isn't that about the same as the ratio of useful work per PIV clock to PIII clock? Of course, it varies, depending on what you're doing. Perhaps the PIV rack would win in a compute farm wher the load is tilted heavily towards floating point work. For applications that involve more integer & conditional branch work - compiling code, running a web server, email, database, etc. - the PIII's clock cycles are worth at least as much more than the PIV's to make up for the difference you have discovered.
I also conservatively used 2.4 ghz p4's and not 2.8's. The p3 does not perform better clock for clock than a p4. The northwood core was a slug compared to the p3, but the williamette core is not, especially when combined with RDRAM or DDR. The new low power p3 is still stuck with pc133 memory and that is a serious drawback on any system.
But if you don't care about any of this, then don't let me deter you. Go right ahead and reward Intel's marketing buffoons for making you focus on a simple but misleading criteria. They'll be laughing all the way to the bank.
$289 for the new 800mhz chips, $194 for a 2.4 ghz p4. So with the new low power chips, you are giving intel $60,112, using the the p4, you are giving them, $8148. How much more electricity is the p4 going to use over the p3 during it's serviceable lifetime. Not to mention that the cpu is not the primary source of power drain, the hdd is. Like I said, do the math, the numbers do not favor the low power chips.
I thought rockstar games peaked with the infamous Codemasters "Rockstar Ate my Hampster" http://tacgr.emuunlim.com/downloads/filedetail.php ?recid=755
A DDoS attack usually involves unwilling or unknowing participants. This technology will do little more than knock out a few innocent computers and cause havoc at the ISP's when people are demanding to know why their "internet broke"
If this is the case, then why aren't the via c3's incredibly popular. they are cheaper than p3's, offer the same mips performance and do not require a processor fan. http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q2/020605/index. html
For what you described, it is ideal and they cost under $100.
A p3 may be 50% faster than a p4 of the same clock speed on the old Willamette core, but not on the Northwood core with 512k cache and 533mhz (133x4) FSB. the new p3 consumes less power, but you need 3 or 4of them to have the processing power of a 2.4 ghz p4. The p4's fpu might be weak without using the sse2 extensions, but how many web servers (the target market of blade server) require intense fpu calculations.
42 dual P4 2400 mhz servers or 208 P3 700mhz blades 42 dual P4 2400 mhz servers = 201600mhz 208 p3 700mhz blades = 145600 mhz Wouldn't the objective be to pack as much power as possible in the rack?
AMD chips with officially supported 166 mhz FSB will be ariving shortly. The revamped thoroughbred "b" core can run at a 166 mhz FSB and the 2100 mhz XP 2600 has a 16x multiplier. That is a 2.6 ghz Athlon or a 3400+ in AMD speak.
Now if these were actually real chips and not paper launches, it woudl all mean something.
If you RTFM and uninstall any older drivers and set the video card to plain SVGA, you will have no problems with ATI drivers.
If you try to install them over another card, you can have huge problems, but RTFM and avoid them.
I believe you are referring to Asperger syndrome It is a mild form of Autism which supposedly only affect social interactions but typically comes with the gifts asociated with "classic autism."
"Catastrophic Error"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB; EN-US;Q245500&
When accessing a db from ASP.