Re:So... how's the VM these days?
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Linux Kernel 2.4.10
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· Score: 4, Informative
Well, AA contributed an enormous VM patch that basically changes the whole system. Apparently it has good effect for interactive uses like MP3 players and web browsing, but testers at HP labs say that the performance of the 2.4.10 VM is the worst of the (very bad already) 2.4.x series on their 4-8 GB machines with 30+ SCSI devices each. They make this conclusion based on NFS benchmarks.
On my machines, I've had tons of problems, and 2.4.10-preXX didn't make them go away. Until Linux drops the concept of memory overcommit, I'm afraid that the VM is going to continue to suck.
Strategic victory in this war doesn't depend on the outcome of a particular battle. The ideal victory scenario is to occupy problem nations (Afghanistan, Pakistan probably, Iraq for sure, Syria, Sudan, etc.), install in the occupied nation a constitutional representational republic, build or rebuild the economic and social infrastructure of the nation (Marshall Plan 2.0), and ensure that the new regime is trong enough to control and police its territory.
The result is that these problem nations are now allies of the United States with police forces strong enough to ferret out the terrorists operating within their borders, or wise enough to let our CIA do it for them.
Re:Mozilla Project Success; Mozilla Browser Failur
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Mozilla Relicensing
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· Score: 2
Mozilla is more corrent, more stable, and faster than Konqueror and Opera. The constant whining of the KDE sycophant class cannot change this fundamental fact. Mozilla is designed to render HTML and XML documents, and to expose the DOM API to programs, according to W3C specifications. Konqueror is designed to increase the zeal of its sycophants. Both projects appear to be successful.
More people use Mozilla than you may realize. Mozilla is embedded in Galeon, the ascending champion of GNOME web browsers. It is also embedded in GNOME's file and desktop manager Nautilus. Also, it is embedded in the windows client for Bloomberg, the premier financial data and news service. It is not as prolific as Internet Explorer, but that is due less to technical merit than to market reality.
Running I wire to your house is different from providing Internet service. The last mile of physical infrastructure is the part that the gov't should be building out. Then, the person who lives at one of the wire gets to say what is hooked up at the other end. That way, there isn't any room for the govt to get involved with content filtering. After all, the govt doesn't say that you can't use your public water for obscene purposes, do they?
Ah, the DVD player may be "fixed", but the slightest hiccup of the datastream (scratch or dust on the disc) makes the damn thing crash with a "9882" error. Actually, you don't get the error until the player has been stumbling along for 5 minutes trying to paint a frame. Then the OS crashes.
Xine and VideoLAN never have these problems, because they weren't written by the grossly incompetent hacks they employ down there in Cupertino. Problem is, Linux DVD playback turns my powerbook into a space heater. BAH.
I recently bought an Agilent Arcticooler for 1.4 GHz Athlon. It is small, light, and quiet. It also cools the CPU better than the Taisol heatsink AMD ships in their retail package. I paid $44.
You've never been to a Linux or Open Source convetion, have you? 99% of the attendees are obese pigs. They exist on cola and junk food. I wouldn't want their blood anywhere near my circulatory system.
Seems like some OEM will just jump in and do whatever the RC wants. IBM, Compaq, and HP have serious resources and the support infrastructure to back it up.
If you really want to master for reproduction on the cheap, you just want to "burn" your DVD to a DLT tape and send it off to the duplicator. They have all the expensive gear and you don't need to buy it. Used DLT drives are not expensive.
Microsoft spend 6 years so far developing IE, and they bought the initial code from SpyGlass, so you can tack on their development time. That's a lot longer than 3 years.
Whenever I compare the two, I always arrive at the analogy that FireWire is to USB2 as SCSI is to EIDE. FireWire is simply a very elegant and appealing solution that already exists and is already better than USB 2.0. The only way to push USB is by putting a huge marketing force (Intel) behind it. Eventually, I think FireWire will own the high-end while USB owns the random Taiwanese junk market. Compare SCSI and ATA today.
Re:Implications for alpha?
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HP Buys Compaq
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· Score: 3, Informative
Intel purchased non-exclusive intellectual property rights to the Alpha CPU, and Compaq said previously they were killing the product line after EV7, due soon but my guess is we'll never see it. EV8 was supposed to be a realyy killer technology, but we'll definitely never see that except as bits and pieces tuen up in future Intel CPUs.
Mergers of this magnitude take a long time to gestate, so I think it is safe to say that Compaq jettisoned Alpha as a condition of the merger.
WOW you are in for it with that Micrapolis RAID. Those drives are destined to fail! Take a look at the PC board and let me know if there are little green wires running between pins on surface-mount ICs. Every Micrapolis UW drive I bought was missing traces on the PCB, fixed apparently by enslaved child labor with tiny soldering irons. Anyway none of mine lasted more than 1 month.
I see you don't have any SCSI printers. Hah!
Anyway the greatest benefit of SCSI is that you get to put all your peripheral devices right on your desk. Nothing is quite like a stack of disk drives sitting next to your monitor. Handy for CD-Rs as well. At least we can still keep stuff on the desk with ieee-1394!
People buy SCSI drives for their performance. It is true that you can buy a SCSI device and an IDE device with equal performance. But, the highest performance SCSI device is a lot faster than the highest performance IDE device. In fact, a high-end SCSI device from 5 years ago is likely to beat any IDE device you can buy today.
For example, the tired old Seagate Cheetah 4LP, introduced in 1996, is still faster than the fastest IDE disk you can buy today, the WD800BB. The Cheetah delivers 50% more performance in the IOMeter file server benchmark (2.21 MB/s vs. 1.40 MB/s), responding on average 700ms before the WD does.
Re:Too bad it's been broken in apt for ages
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Evolution Bug-Hunt!
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I just checked with apt-cache and evolution depends on libgnomeprint15.
Someone explain to me why this is important, as asserted by this slashdot article. It's a mail user agent, no more, no less. It doesn't allow people to collaborate more efficiently. It isn't groupware. It's just an MUA with LDAP, an RSS viewer, and a calendar. Fun, but why important?
I don't think that is going to work. In the 2.4.9 kernel, inserting the ohci1394 module into the kernel has the effect of shutting down the machine. Apparently there is an adverse interaction between the 1349 code and the power management unit on the PowerBook. Therefore, you are not going to be able to use the FireWire port for anything significant until the 1394 drivers are cleaned up a bit. Give it a month, I'd guess, because there are very smart people actively hacking on this.
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On my machines, I've had tons of problems, and 2.4.10-preXX didn't make them go away. Until Linux drops the concept of memory overcommit, I'm afraid that the VM is going to continue to suck.
There is no such cpu as a 200 MHz Pentium Pro with MMX.
i don't mean to pry, but it looks like you ran the game as root. for the love of mike, don't do that.
The result is that these problem nations are now allies of the United States with police forces strong enough to ferret out the terrorists operating within their borders, or wise enough to let our CIA do it for them.
More people use Mozilla than you may realize. Mozilla is embedded in Galeon, the ascending champion of GNOME web browsers. It is also embedded in GNOME's file and desktop manager Nautilus. Also, it is embedded in the windows client for Bloomberg, the premier financial data and news service. It is not as prolific as Internet Explorer, but that is due less to technical merit than to market reality.
Running I wire to your house is different from providing Internet service. The last mile of physical infrastructure is the part that the gov't should be building out. Then, the person who lives at one of the wire gets to say what is hooked up at the other end. That way, there isn't any room for the govt to get involved with content filtering. After all, the govt doesn't say that you can't use your public water for obscene purposes, do they?
Xine and VideoLAN never have these problems, because they weren't written by the grossly incompetent hacks they employ down there in Cupertino. Problem is, Linux DVD playback turns my powerbook into a space heater. BAH.
I recently bought an Agilent Arcticooler for 1.4 GHz Athlon. It is small, light, and quiet. It also cools the CPU better than the Taisol heatsink AMD ships in their retail package. I paid $44.
You've never been to a Linux or Open Source convetion, have you? 99% of the attendees are obese pigs. They exist on cola and junk food. I wouldn't want their blood anywhere near my circulatory system.
Seems like some OEM will just jump in and do whatever the RC wants. IBM, Compaq, and HP have serious resources and the support infrastructure to back it up.
If you really want to master for reproduction on the cheap, you just want to "burn" your DVD to a DLT tape and send it off to the duplicator. They have all the expensive gear and you don't need to buy it. Used DLT drives are not expensive.
Why isn't is president@us ?
For links between document, use the w3c's XLink Specification
Microsoft spend 6 years so far developing IE, and they bought the initial code from SpyGlass, so you can tack on their development time. That's a lot longer than 3 years.
Whenever I compare the two, I always arrive at the analogy that FireWire is to USB2 as SCSI is to EIDE. FireWire is simply a very elegant and appealing solution that already exists and is already better than USB 2.0. The only way to push USB is by putting a huge marketing force (Intel) behind it. Eventually, I think FireWire will own the high-end while USB owns the random Taiwanese junk market. Compare SCSI and ATA today.
In what way is Houston inland?
Mergers of this magnitude take a long time to gestate, so I think it is safe to say that Compaq jettisoned Alpha as a condition of the merger.
75 dpi was a nice resolution 17 years ago. These days we have from 96 dpi on most flat panels up to 121 dpi on a decent crt.
Matrox. The G400 and G450 are very well supported in XFree86. Also the ATI Radeon is well supported, although video playback features may be a pain.
I see you don't have any SCSI printers. Hah!
Anyway the greatest benefit of SCSI is that you get to put all your peripheral devices right on your desk. Nothing is quite like a stack of disk drives sitting next to your monitor. Handy for CD-Rs as well. At least we can still keep stuff on the desk with ieee-1394!
For example, the tired old Seagate Cheetah 4LP, introduced in 1996, is still faster than the fastest IDE disk you can buy today, the WD800BB. The Cheetah delivers 50% more performance in the IOMeter file server benchmark (2.21 MB/s vs. 1.40 MB/s), responding on average 700ms before the WD does.
I just checked with apt-cache and evolution depends on libgnomeprint15.
Someone explain to me why this is important, as asserted by this slashdot article. It's a mail user agent, no more, no less. It doesn't allow people to collaborate more efficiently. It isn't groupware. It's just an MUA with LDAP, an RSS viewer, and a calendar. Fun, but why important?
I don't think that is going to work. In the 2.4.9 kernel, inserting the ohci1394 module into the kernel has the effect of shutting down the machine. Apparently there is an adverse interaction between the 1349 code and the power management unit on the PowerBook. Therefore, you are not going to be able to use the FireWire port for anything significant until the 1394 drivers are cleaned up a bit. Give it a month, I'd guess, because there are very smart people actively hacking on this.
You need to look into X font servers. You can host your fonts from one machine and serve them to your xterms.