OEM volume pricing for Windows is crazy cheap for Dell. Something like $20 or $30 per unit. RedHat licenses for WS start at $99 -- they don't have an OEM program. They do have volume pricing, but I don't think it matches what MS can afford to give Dell.
I mean... wasn't Postgres unique way back in the day because it was a strongly typed object database? I haven't used it enough to know any better, but I was surprised to hear a claim that it didn't have typed parameters... it seemed completely off base.
And what's the big deal with editing conf files to modify the db bevahior? Any Oracle DB worth his salt is happy to get down and dirty with sqlnet.ora and tnsnames...
The parent isn't trying to hide the fact that he's participating in a pyramid scheme. And he actually had something to say in his post (meta-topical as it were). But Copeland will just post a barely tangental, non-sense reply to any story to blindly plug his software and books.
That's called the law of large numbers. Systems like this bank on the fact that most enterprise backup systems (that is... Veritas) can't tell when a file is changed slightly between backups. They use a coarser-grained whole-file approach (which is very reliable though, and already only stores one copy of each file). But people who know about the magic of rsync understand the speedups that can be obtained by leveraging rolling hashtables and other tricks to get binary deltas of large files, and only transmitting those changes. Given a large enough set of backups and enough time, the potential size savings is enormous.
Veritas should really be implementing this themselves, though.
And I have a feeling this is what's behind the 25x claims of the article. The key is the mention "enterprise"... large data sets... lots of potential redundancy to exploit.
It might be possible to re-write parts of Mozilla/Firefox to remove bloat and increase performance by creating a NSPR-lite (essentially a shim on top of standard POSIX stuff)... and removing parts of Firefox or Mozilla that rely on weird NSPR features.
By being largely compatible with NSPR while not re-inventing the wheel, hopefully one can leverage the improvements that have been made in many platforms' standard libraries over the years.
I mean, it still allows for OS9 and Windows 9x compatibility (and at one point it had support for Win 3.1). I'm sure we can lose any relevant code and renormalize the baseline behaviors to match more modern thread behavior/memory allocation/networking feature-set assumptions...
The ability to read maildirs would be more than just a plugin since it'd need some backend support. A lot of message handling and envelope parsing and stuff happens in the actual binary, and that's all geared for the internal mailbox format/pop/imap.
Dell gets to leverage Alienware's upstream distribution partners (Tyan, Antec, Arima, etc.). This allows them to easily pursue alternate server and workstation designs than the existing Quanta/Foxconn stuff and also get with other memory/HD vendors, etc. They also get their customer portfolio (think: upgrades). It also gets a "high-end" brand to associate with its high-margin products (to compete with Apple).
I imagine for most residential (and even some commercial) broadband users the latency of transferring the 4GB+ of VOB files outweighs the encoding time even on a modest desktop CPU
The web components built into GNOME are only good for rendering simple HTML and XML and do not have any active scripting features/plugins etc. Think of it more as a preview for web documents, like image thumbnailing.
...many companies purchase "perfunctory" RHEL licenses anyway to have the feel-good phone support and to diagnose performance issues, and sometimes just to throw a bone to the company because they are aware of the CentOS lineage.
RedHat knows that people will deploy CentOS and un-backed RHEL internally for non-critical uses while purchasing full licenses for critical systems or reference systems... and it's priced that way.
... and I saw that my product helped make RedHat and other companies make money so people could easily deploy MY software, I'd be pretty goddamn proud!
... Oracle licenses by the seat as well. 20 seat license (unlimited SMP/cluster deployment) is the minimum, and that's only $18-22k depending on options.
And for all intents and purposes, anyone can deploy Oracle anywhere, for free. So long as you're using it for personal or development use (and most Slashdotters would fit that category). There is no built in licensing or limits except for the Express edition. Not even a serial number to type in during the installer (like SQL Server).
So, if you need Oracle. Get it. You can work out the cost issues later with the powers that be when you actually "go production" (if that ever happens).
You need to run two instances of X.
on
Quad PCIe Motherboard
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Make sure that you have two seperate configuration files, and that you start X by specifying the specific one for each screen. You need at least one USB keyboard and mouse. You need to specify precisely which video card you are using, and which USB keyboard/mouse devices (versus the PS2 keyboard and mouse). You can't just use/dev/input/mice or/dev/input/keyboard, because they multiplex PS2 and USB devices (usually used in laptops).
I believe GDM can be set up to do this (one login screen per monitor/keyboard pair) but I'm not sure of the details. I imagine you'd need to make a change or two in your inittab to start it on another vt referencing the alternate GDM config (which in turn holds the custom X command line + differing config files)
Oh. Around that time, I had anonymous posts accusing me of stalking people under different accounts. I was wondering if anyone else cared enought about that sort of thing (dishonesty?) to reply; if not -- then perhaps that one person was just someone who was convinced I was out to get them or something.
In any case, I was trying to be clever too, I guess. As in: there aren't any furries on slashdot, FURRY MUST BE STOPPED. Sort of like there's no girls on the internet, that sort of thing.
The ATI Radeon 7000VE Dual Display will support two DVI-D monitors at 1280x1024 and one DVI-D monitor at 1920x1200. It's the lowest-end ATI kit you can get nowadays except for the Rage line, and that's only embedded in server chipsets.
The hardware isn't different. Just the drivers. You can set the memory/core timings on any GeForce card to match the Quadro offering and get the same bandwidth/fill rate/etc. Certain features on the Quadro are disabled in GeForce mode (hardware line antialias, hardware overlay planes, extended lighting modes), and they are rarely used except in CAD environments. And that certainly doesn't apply here.
No, I think the parent DOES know what he/she is doing.
That might have been true during the NPTL days. Early RPM 4 was buggy. It's better now (really). Frankly most RPM database issues could be solved by removing the lock files and running --rebuilddb.:-/
And as far as the CLI is concerned... is dpkg better where you have ump-teen different commands to do different things? That's why I hate working with LVM, IMHO. Only like 20 different commands to do a related set of things.:-( I can never remember what manpage to look at. Constantly running apropos.
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OEM volume pricing for Windows is crazy cheap for Dell. Something like $20 or $30 per unit.
RedHat licenses for WS start at $99 -- they don't have an OEM program. They do have volume pricing, but I don't think it matches what MS can afford to give Dell.
They have to test the machine... part of that is by installing the model-specfic windows image on the drive and running a test harness.
HAX
Ahhh yes, dbca
... ugh
How I loathe thee...
--which, incidentally, doesn't run on linux-x64 because of its reliance on an ancient java implementation
I mean... wasn't Postgres unique way back in the day because it was a strongly typed object database? I haven't used it enough to know any better, but I was surprised to hear a claim that it didn't have typed parameters... it seemed completely off base.
And what's the big deal with editing conf files to modify the db bevahior? Any Oracle DB worth his salt is happy to get down and dirty with sqlnet.ora and tnsnames...
The parent isn't trying to hide the fact that he's participating in a pyramid scheme. And he actually had something to say in his post (meta-topical as it were). But Copeland will just post a barely tangental, non-sense reply to any story to blindly plug his software and books.
It's bullshit.
That's called the law of large numbers.
Systems like this bank on the fact that most enterprise backup systems (that is... Veritas) can't tell when a file is changed slightly between backups. They use a coarser-grained whole-file approach (which is very reliable though, and already only stores one copy of each file). But people who know about the magic of rsync understand the speedups that can be obtained by leveraging rolling hashtables and other tricks to get binary deltas of large files, and only transmitting those changes.
Given a large enough set of backups and enough time, the potential size savings is enormous.
Veritas should really be implementing this themselves, though.
And I have a feeling this is what's behind the 25x claims of the article. The key is the mention "enterprise"... large data sets... lots of potential redundancy to exploit.
It might be possible to re-write parts of Mozilla/Firefox to remove bloat and increase performance by creating a NSPR-lite (essentially a shim on top of standard POSIX stuff)... and removing parts of Firefox or Mozilla that rely on weird NSPR features.
By being largely compatible with NSPR while not re-inventing the wheel, hopefully one can leverage the improvements that have been made in many platforms' standard libraries over the years.
I mean, it still allows for OS9 and Windows 9x compatibility (and at one point it had support for Win 3.1). I'm sure we can lose any relevant code and renormalize the baseline behaviors to match more modern thread behavior/memory allocation/networking feature-set assumptions...
The ability to read maildirs would be more than just a plugin since it'd need some backend support. A lot of message handling and envelope parsing and stuff happens in the actual binary, and that's all geared for the internal mailbox format/pop/imap.
nt
Dell gets to leverage Alienware's upstream distribution partners (Tyan, Antec, Arima, etc.). This allows them to easily pursue alternate server and workstation designs than the existing Quanta/Foxconn stuff and also get with other memory/HD vendors, etc.
They also get their customer portfolio (think: upgrades). It also gets a "high-end" brand to associate with its high-margin products (to compete with Apple).
I imagine for most residential (and even some commercial) broadband users the latency of transferring the 4GB+ of VOB files outweighs the encoding time even on a modest desktop CPU
The web components built into GNOME are only good for rendering simple HTML and XML and do not have any active scripting features/plugins etc. Think of it more as a preview for web documents, like image thumbnailing.
...many companies purchase "perfunctory" RHEL licenses anyway to have the feel-good phone support and to diagnose performance issues, and sometimes just to throw a bone to the company because they are aware of the CentOS lineage.
RedHat knows that people will deploy CentOS and un-backed RHEL internally for non-critical uses while purchasing full licenses for critical systems or reference systems... and it's priced that way.
... and I saw that my product helped make RedHat and other companies make money so people could easily deploy MY software, I'd be pretty goddamn proud!
Start with Fedora Core 4.
Browse to: http://nvidia.com/drivers
Select linux IA32/AMD64 as your platform.
Download, make executable, run. Should automagically set up everything for you.
It worked fine for me...
For naming USB mice, use
For keyboards, use the
See this document:
http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br/multiterminal/howtos/howt
You can use up to 4 SiS video cards, or a combination of Matrox cards, or even 4 NVidia GeForce 2MXs if you use the NVidia-supplied driver.
Cool, eh?
... Oracle licenses by the seat as well. 20 seat license (unlimited SMP/cluster deployment) is the minimum, and that's only $18-22k depending on options.
And for all intents and purposes, anyone can deploy Oracle anywhere, for free. So long as you're using it for personal or development use (and most Slashdotters would fit that category). There is no built in licensing or limits except for the Express edition. Not even a serial number to type in during the installer (like SQL Server).
So, if you need Oracle. Get it. You can work out the cost issues later with the powers that be when you actually "go production" (if that ever happens).
Make sure that you have two seperate configuration files, and that you start X by specifying the specific one for each screen. You need at least one USB keyboard and mouse. You need to specify precisely which video card you are using, and which USB keyboard/mouse devices (versus the PS2 keyboard and mouse). You can't just use /dev/input/mice or /dev/input/keyboard, because they multiplex PS2 and USB devices (usually used in laptops).
I believe GDM can be set up to do this (one login screen per monitor/keyboard pair) but I'm not sure of the details. I imagine you'd need to make a change or two in your inittab to start it on another vt referencing the alternate GDM config (which in turn holds the custom X command line + differing config files)
Oh.
Around that time, I had anonymous posts accusing me of stalking people under different accounts. I was wondering if anyone else cared enought about that sort of thing (dishonesty?) to reply; if not -- then perhaps that one person was just someone who was convinced I was out to get them or something.
In any case, I was trying to be clever too, I guess. As in: there aren't any furries on slashdot, FURRY MUST BE STOPPED. Sort of like there's no girls on the internet, that sort of thing.
Yeah, so, they were unrelated remarks.
At was _that_ supposed to mean?
The ATI Radeon 7000VE Dual Display will support two DVI-D monitors at 1280x1024 and one DVI-D monitor at 1920x1200.
It's the lowest-end ATI kit you can get nowadays except for the Rage line, and that's only embedded in server chipsets.
The hardware isn't different.
Just the drivers.
You can set the memory/core timings on any GeForce card to match the Quadro offering and get the same bandwidth/fill rate/etc.
Certain features on the Quadro are disabled in GeForce mode (hardware line antialias, hardware overlay planes, extended lighting modes), and they are rarely used except in CAD environments. And that certainly doesn't apply here.
No, I think the parent DOES know what he/she is doing.
... with 25 (sorry 26) slashdot accounts.
That might have been true during the NPTL days. Early RPM 4 was buggy. It's better now (really). :-/
:-( I can never remember what manpage to look at. Constantly running apropos.
Frankly most RPM database issues could be solved by removing the lock files and running --rebuilddb.
And as far as the CLI is concerned... is dpkg better where you have ump-teen different commands to do different things? That's why I hate working with LVM, IMHO. Only like 20 different commands to do a related set of things.