For my home server I'm using a old 600mHz iMac G3 - low power (approx 6 watts output I think?), quite nimble, and NO FANS!
As I live in a studio appartment this is ideal. It runs all day and night, and all I ever hear from it is the ide hard drive ticking over every now and then.
I did look at some VIA based machines, but the Mac was cheaper, and, well....it meant no Microsoft. Love it.
Oh well, another wasted mod point for someone (flamebait...really now).
The simple truth is that it does seem to have a huge number of buttons. At first glance I though it was some kind of rubber hand grip...but no...they're buttons!
I really want to like the kit Sony designs, but it really doesn't compare with Apple's gear....no matter what you think of their systems.
This is kind of sad, as Sony is the best of the 'pc' makers when it comes to decent hardware design....what is it that's so difficult about designing a nice looking, easy to figure out, & robust piece of electronic kit?
Even though he/she's an AC, it's probably the most insightful comment on the building so far.
Although personally I don't mind Gehry's buildings (in small amounts), you would have thought that MIT would have been more interested in a building by one of the more engineering-orientated architects...someone that designs buildings by 'hacking' materials, structure, & construction.
From their home page it looks like your PPA is just like your RIAA - vocal supporters of mediocrity. Atleast half the photo's flashing up on PPA homepage are cheesy wedding photo's.
Without trying to sound like flamebait, I suspect they're a body mostly looking after the highly commercial, wealthy, and LARGE photo studios who have, ofcourse, made their money by milking wedding photography for all that can be had.
In other words they seem to have exactly the same respect and commitment towards the art of photography as the RIAA has towards the art of music.
Dual Core is NOT Hyperthreading. What happened to all the tech savvy people this weekend?
Hyperthreading (or simultaneous multithreading - SMT) creates the ability to run 2 virtual threads on a single chip. This can be as simple as running an 'integer' and a 'floating point' thread, as the SIMD/FPU are really still separate units anyways. In a more complicated form, it means multiple threads are split across different pipes/units/stages - making more use of the processor if you like.
Dual Cores are 2 actualy processor 'cores' on the one chip. That's 2 LSU's, 2 FPU', 2 IFU's, etc plus as much L2 cache you can shove on to feed 'em.
It is like having 2 real proc's....it's just more efficient to make dual core chips than 2 separate ones. Ofcourse you still need an OS that is good at handling multiple processors - which windows isn't really (compared to OSX for example). Speaking of Apple - IBM have been making dual core chips for some time now. The POWER4 was dual core, and the POWER5 is dual core and multithreading! Lots of Apple rumor sites are saying that the next Mac chip (G6?) will be IBM's 980 - supposedly based on the POWER5, ie dual cores etc etc.
Here's a link to an IBM presentation with a bit of info on SMT & dual cores (pdf, sorry).
I'm not sure why this is modded as troll - I've noticed exactly the same thing with the cad workstations at work that have Nortons on it. It's so much of a problem that we're testing others now.
AV is essential on a Winbox - but that doesn't mean that it should make the machine run like a dog! And these are pretty damn fast machines we're talking here. The difference (with/without) is pronounced.
...if they sent this letter to themselves, given the amount of code they've contributed:)
From the letter:
Neither you nor your contractors or employees with access to the Software Products have contributed any software code based on the Software Products for use in Linux or any other UNIX-based software product.
Here's another little snippet from the FCC's Order:
Section 227(b)(1)(C) of the Act prohibits any person from using "a telephone facsimile machine, computer, or other device to send an unsolicited advertisement to a telephone facsimile machine."
It's interesting that the act doesn't allow you to send unsolicited ads from a computer to a fax machine, but doesn't go as far as prohibiting sending them from a computer to a computer (even if it was receiving faxes).
It seems like this act could have been used to kill off email spam long ago, if only it was worded slightly differently. What a pity.
The problem with fax.com is regardless of their own self imposed opt-out scheme, their whole business was/is against the law. This slight problem didn't stop fax.com from running their business, nor did the prior warnings from the FCC. Companies like this are always willing to overstep their marks, or 'forget' their boundaries.
It's because of this that self governed schemes always make me nervous - you never really know if they've put an expiry on the block, and will just try again to see if you're still on the same number, or just keep spamming you until they receive an 'official' warning from the governing body.
I personally find most forms of unsolicited promotion really annoying - especially people hawking on the streets! - and think all forms should all be banned by legislation. There is absolutely no reason why any form of spamming should be tolerated by society and our governments.
The Commission also stated that Fax.com's "primary business itself constitutes a massive on-going violation" of the law, and that Fax.com's citation responses, as well as publicly available information contained on its website, suggested that Fax.com apparently intentionally and willfully violated the Act and our rules and orders....As a result, the Commission determined that Fax.com was apparently liable for a proposed forfeiture of $5,379,000, the statutory maximum.
So they've been slow, but thank goodness they haven't minced their words or pulled their (legal) punches.
Now if only we could move onto email spammers who, without a doubt, cause much more nuisance, grief, and cost to network maintainers (and ultimately us).
"Make email addresses portable" - get your own domain name and move it from ISP to ISP as you please.
Obviously this hasn't occured to Paul Boutin (the guy who wrote the article & Wired's senior editor), becuase his very own domain - http://paulboutin.com/ - is no longer hosted! Go figure how he became a senior editor at Wired for yourself....
Personally I think the best way to get email portability is to make personal domain registration affordable and get isp's to unblock port 25 and distribute a dns + mail server package for dummies. Register your domain, run the server on your home machine, and you've got a personal email address for ever.
I almost feel that the results of this test should be more of a tribute to IBM's heavy iron (Power processors...!).
Although it's also nice to note that this is a PPC flavour of Linux - which *some* people view as being inferior to x86 - being tested for enterprise level performance.
Agreed! Just how trustworthy does anyone think AOL is?
From the Reuter's article linked to in the story..
"Scott Richter, a bulk e-mailer who ranks No. 3 on Spamhaus's list, told Reuters he was not worried by the arrest because he said he does not break any laws.
"I'm happy to see law enforcement cracking down on people who use false headers and I wish they could get all of them," Richter said. He added that he sends large amounts of commercial e-mail but does not disguise routing information and takes pains to comply with Internet providers' policies.
"I was just at AOL's office a month ago," Richter said.
AOL officials declined to comment on their relationship with Richter or say whether he had visited their offices. "We are aware that he follows the legal developments (of anti-spam laws) very closely," AOL Assistant General Counsel Charles Curran said."
What do you do when you know you've screwed up, but can't say so?
Ok, before I get flamed to hell, I'll correct that last post....
It does use turobojets, and is supplemented by turboshafts.
My bad. But it's still not ion propulsion technology. The parent poster has been stealing crack from SCO.
This is very interesting, but the plane in question does *not* use ion propulsion.
It's not even a jest engine...it's a rotor!
Or maybe you're talking about the space craft from Plan 9?
The facts are right, but the Americocentric view point is a touch melodramatic, especially when you consider the literary figures you reference.
Any cursory glance through new agency archives will tell stories of large ethnic emigrations to Australia, France, England, Holland, etc etc. Many many more than you might first think, being American and all, and having the 'image' of liberty firmly rooted in your culture (and yes, a powerful one it is).
The fact is you are wrong and this was not the spirit of the post. The post was suggesting that America is the last bastion of all hope for those interested in personal freedom, which I find slightly disturbing. Many countries, even yes, Germany, with all its WW2 and imperialistic baggage, have very strong democratic processes and belief in personal liberty. They may not have the statue, but they do have the resettled peoples and mulit-cultural populations to speak instead. They have the constitutions, the laws and the will, but no - not the image. By your emphasis on the image, you are very close to insinuating that the French hand out Liberty as a prize to those deemed worthy, my friend! And ofcourse, there are only two....;)
The point being that there are other paths to freedom than the American one....
I tried to answer this, but after a few attemps it seems futile. Maybe you're right, and government agencies should keep detailed records of every chemistry student that can be stored and used without their knowledge.
But that's actually another argument, and not really the point.
The point is the little issue of due process. This law can be used in ways that are arbitary and unreasonable, and so violate due process.
Keeping that in mind, you never answered my question - which was do you trust the authorities that have access to these powers not to use them in arbitary and unreasonable ways?
What I found most distressing about this topic is the number of people who agree with measures such as the patriot act.
On the surface, legislation like this is made to reduce the time it takes to gather information to go to prosecution (like not having to wade through pesky notions like due process
(1 : a course of formal proceedings (as legal proceedings) carried out regularly and in accordance with established rules and principles -- called also procedural due process
2 : a judicial requirement that enacted laws may not contain provisions that result in the unfair, arbitrary, or unreasonable treatment of an individual -- called also substantive due process ) www.m-w.com
but is also used very easily to establish things like a list of people who, say, can make illigal drugs (a chemistry student), or explosives (a chemistry student), or biological agents (a chemistry student), or be a terrorist (an ethnic minority chemistry student). It could also be used to make lists of people from particular relious faiths (Jews maybe...?). Think about it.
Reading this simple definition, can you see why laws like this are evil, and of the type you may expect to find in societies like that depicted in 1984?
This legislation provides no guarentee that the people who use them will only act to benifit you and those you love. To condone it, you must have absolute faith in not only the authorities that you elect, but also those you don't.
For your own sake, please tell me this is not the case.
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As I live in a studio appartment this is ideal. It runs all day and night, and all I ever hear from it is the ide hard drive ticking over every now and then.
I did look at some VIA based machines, but the Mac was cheaper, and, well....it meant no Microsoft. Love it.
The simple truth is that it does seem to have a huge number of buttons. At first glance I though it was some kind of rubber hand grip...but no...they're buttons!
I really want to like the kit Sony designs, but it really doesn't compare with Apple's gear....no matter what you think of their systems.
This is kind of sad, as Sony is the best of the 'pc' makers when it comes to decent hardware design....what is it that's so difficult about designing a nice looking, easy to figure out, & robust piece of electronic kit?
Although personally I don't mind Gehry's buildings (in small amounts), you would have thought that MIT would have been more interested in a building by one of the more engineering-orientated architects...someone that designs buildings by 'hacking' materials, structure, & construction.
Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners would have been prefect for the job - designers of the really really cool Eden Project.
Without trying to sound like flamebait, I suspect they're a body mostly looking after the highly commercial, wealthy, and LARGE photo studios who have, ofcourse, made their money by milking wedding photography for all that can be had.
In other words they seem to have exactly the same respect and commitment towards the art of photography as the RIAA has towards the art of music.
Nill.
Hyperthreading (or simultaneous multithreading - SMT) creates the ability to run 2 virtual threads on a single chip. This can be as simple as running an 'integer' and a 'floating point' thread, as the SIMD/FPU are really still separate units anyways. In a more complicated form, it means multiple threads are split across different pipes/units/stages - making more use of the processor if you like.
Dual Cores are 2 actualy processor 'cores' on the one chip. That's 2 LSU's, 2 FPU', 2 IFU's, etc plus as much L2 cache you can shove on to feed 'em.
It is like having 2 real proc's....it's just more efficient to make dual core chips than 2 separate ones. Ofcourse you still need an OS that is good at handling multiple processors - which windows isn't really (compared to OSX for example). Speaking of Apple - IBM have been making dual core chips for some time now. The POWER4 was dual core, and the POWER5 is dual core and multithreading! Lots of Apple rumor sites are saying that the next Mac chip (G6?) will be IBM's 980 - supposedly based on the POWER5, ie dual cores etc etc.
Here's a link to an IBM presentation with a bit of info on SMT & dual cores (pdf, sorry).
AV is essential on a Winbox - but that doesn't mean that it should make the machine run like a dog! And these are pretty damn fast machines we're talking here. The difference (with/without) is pronounced.
From the letter:
Neither you nor your contractors or employees with access to the Software Products have contributed any software code based on the Software Products for use in Linux or any other UNIX-based software product.
Here's another little snippet from the FCC's Order:
Section 227(b)(1)(C) of the Act prohibits any person from using "a telephone facsimile machine, computer, or other device to send an unsolicited advertisement to a telephone facsimile machine."
It's interesting that the act doesn't allow you to send unsolicited ads from a computer to a fax machine, but doesn't go as far as prohibiting sending them from a computer to a computer (even if it was receiving faxes).
It seems like this act could have been used to kill off email spam long ago, if only it was worded slightly differently. What a pity.
It's because of this that self governed schemes always make me nervous - you never really know if they've put an expiry on the block, and will just try again to see if you're still on the same number, or just keep spamming you until they receive an 'official' warning from the governing body.
I personally find most forms of unsolicited promotion really annoying - especially people hawking on the streets! - and think all forms should all be banned by legislation. There is absolutely no reason why any form of spamming should be tolerated by society and our governments.
The Commission also stated that Fax.com's "primary business itself constitutes a massive on-going violation" of the law, and that Fax.com's citation responses, as well as publicly available information contained on its website, suggested that Fax.com apparently intentionally and willfully violated the Act and our rules and orders....As a result, the Commission determined that Fax.com was apparently liable for a proposed forfeiture of $5,379,000, the statutory maximum.
So they've been slow, but thank goodness they haven't minced their words or pulled their (legal) punches.
Now if only we could move onto email spammers who, without a doubt, cause much more nuisance, grief, and cost to network maintainers (and ultimately us).
Obviously this hasn't occured to Paul Boutin (the guy who wrote the article & Wired's senior editor), becuase his very own domain - http://paulboutin.com/ - is no longer hosted! Go figure how he became a senior editor at Wired for yourself....
Personally I think the best way to get email portability is to make personal domain registration affordable and get isp's to unblock port 25 and distribute a dns + mail server package for dummies. Register your domain, run the server on your home machine, and you've got a personal email address for ever.
I almost feel that the results of this test should be more of a tribute to IBM's heavy iron (Power processors...!).
Although it's also nice to note that this is a PPC flavour of Linux - which *some* people view as being inferior to x86 - being tested for enterprise level performance.
It may not be the worlds most insightful post, but it's hardly troll status. Here's to hoping I get to metamod this one.
AOL officials declined to comment on their relationship with Richter or say whether he had visited their offices
Never underestimate the stupidity of corporate greed either. Come on, this guy sends his spam from somewhere .
From the Reuter's article linked to in the story..
"Scott Richter, a bulk e-mailer who ranks No. 3 on Spamhaus's list, told Reuters he was not worried by the arrest because he said he does not break any laws.
"I'm happy to see law enforcement cracking down on people who use false headers and I wish they could get all of them," Richter said. He added that he sends large amounts of commercial e-mail but does not disguise routing information and takes pains to comply with Internet providers' policies.
"I was just at AOL's office a month ago," Richter said.
AOL officials declined to comment on their relationship with Richter or say whether he had visited their offices. "We are aware that he follows the legal developments (of anti-spam laws) very closely," AOL Assistant General Counsel Charles Curran said."
What do you do when you know you've screwed up, but can't say so?
Decline to comment of course!
Ok, before I get flamed to hell, I'll correct that last post.... It does use turobojets, and is supplemented by turboshafts. My bad. But it's still not ion propulsion technology. The parent poster has been stealing crack from SCO.
This is very interesting, but the plane in question does *not* use ion propulsion. It's not even a jest engine...it's a rotor! Or maybe you're talking about the space craft from Plan 9?
My only issue is, that under this law it is unlikely that you'd find out when or where or even who had broken your enviable trust!
cheers,
a.
The facts are right, but the Americocentric view point is a touch melodramatic, especially when you consider the literary figures you reference.
Any cursory glance through new agency archives will tell stories of large ethnic emigrations to Australia, France, England, Holland, etc etc. Many many more than you might first think, being American and all, and having the 'image' of liberty firmly rooted in your culture (and yes, a powerful one it is).
The fact is you are wrong and this was not the spirit of the post. The post was suggesting that America is the last bastion of all hope for those interested in personal freedom, which I find slightly disturbing. Many countries, even yes, Germany, with all its WW2 and imperialistic baggage, have very strong democratic processes and belief in personal liberty. They may not have the statue, but they do have the resettled peoples and mulit-cultural populations to speak instead. They have the constitutions, the laws and the will, but no - not the image. By your emphasis on the image, you are very close to insinuating that the French hand out Liberty as a prize to those deemed worthy, my friend! And ofcourse, there are only two....;)
The point being that there are other paths to freedom than the American one....
But that's actually another argument, and not really the point.
The point is the little issue of due process. This law can be used in ways that are arbitary and unreasonable, and so violate due process.
Keeping that in mind, you never answered my question - which was do you trust the authorities that have access to these powers not to use them in arbitary and unreasonable ways?
maybe they kind of did it to like, celebrate you joining them in democratic bliss.
Or maybe it was to celebrate another nation with great chicks!
Hard to tell with those jokers the french sometimes.
and those english, man, where do they get off inventing things like a parliment!?
p.s. I like finishing every sentance with 'p' tags too!
On the surface, legislation like this is made to reduce the time it takes to gather information to go to prosecution (like not having to wade through pesky notions like due process
but is also used very easily to establish things like a list of people who, say, can make illigal drugs (a chemistry student), or explosives (a chemistry student), or biological agents (a chemistry student), or be a terrorist (an ethnic minority chemistry student). It could also be used to make lists of people from particular relious faiths (Jews maybe...?). Think about it.
Reading this simple definition, can you see why laws like this are evil, and of the type you may expect to find in societies like that depicted in 1984?
This legislation provides no guarentee that the people who use them will only act to benifit you and those you love. To condone it, you must have absolute faith in not only the authorities that you elect, but also those you don't .
For your own sake, please tell me this is not the case.