Safari is KHTML. Which is free. Safari just adds some extra features that provide integration into OSX and promote a consistent iLook-and-iFeel... it sort of doesn't mean much unless you _already_ have OSX.
Logistically, supporting multiple CPU vendors affects their business plan drastically.
Heh. No it doesn't. Dell doesn't manufacture jack. Taiwanese companies make the custom components they need, OEMs supply the rest, and UPS puts it all together. It'd just be an extra input to their supply chain.
Does it mean that when Intel releases a decent 64bit product that Dell won't support them?
Just yesterday evening, I just wanted to talk to someone in the Servers/Storge division about the racks they resell (naturally none of that information is available on their website). Of course, the whole federal sales team had left for the day. So I was stuck trying the Small Business/Healthcare guys, and they kept (1) trying to kick me off to federal (2) not wanting to work with me because they didn't believe that I was "starting a business".
They had _no one_ available for presales help. I was livid.
On the other hand, if you do talk to the federal sales team, they are wonderful and helpful. When they're there.
Dell is possibly _not_ considering selling AMD machines because Sun already makes the best Opteron-based workstations and servers for a decent price. It'd be hard to beat that. Only if they feel the demand is there with respect to their existing partners and big contract customers.
They might be able to swing the Semperon/AMD64 chips in the high-end desktop and laptop market, however.
it is better to stick a controller on each bus. This reduces contention across the controllers. That is, it is better to have two 2 channel controllers than one 4 channel controller, provided they aren't on the same bus.
Microsoft tells us what we want based on what informed users wanted (and got) 10 years ago, filtered through focus groups and studies by "think tanks" 4 years ago, before kicking their development team in the ass to produce something in 18 months time.
What'd be nice is if (we, someone) could use the "remote control" mode of mplayer along with a local website that let you queue songs/query a database and control it from wherever.
1) a fine-grained (sub second) seek-to feature. At least, for the media types that support it. 2) A better way to handle the sourcing and sinking of data. Right now, you've got command line options and a config file. It needs to support call-backs that the xmms plug-in provides instead of internal routines.
I think a better way would be to perhaps roll a libmplayer and have an instance configuration API... maybe to use
I found that gigabit NFS was usually much faster with files smaller than 1MB. I guess because either way, you still had to go through one server to set up each FS operation. NFS had been around longer; the Sun implementation was hard to beat.
Has the meta-data server been speed up at all, or made distributed with some kind of coherency-syncro backend?
See the Ultra-Low-Voltage K7s, the DTR mobile K8s (especially since the 90nm shrink), dual-core opterons, and especially the Dothan Pentium-Ms...::droool::
And where is Sun? Will Fujitsu provide an UltraSPARC that will make us all say wow again?
Consider: 420SC w/ 3.4GHz PIV on 925X chipset. Say, 2GB of DDR2 RAM. $1900, but quite probably less depending on quantity. Has one PCI 8x slot open. Fill that with a Infinihost III card.
Or do 1GB 533 w/celeron for 1K. Or do 512MB w/celeron for $320.
It's not a pretty server. But it does the job. You won't even bother with racks. Just buy el-cheapo garage shelving units from Home Depot. You can get 19" rackmount boxes to put on the top shelves (for the switching/monitoring equipment).
The i875P chipset-based system was too easy to upgrade into a decent system.:p
However, the 420SC is a _really_ good alternative for a super-compute cluster component. It's got a built-in Broadcom 5703, and you can add an intel Pro-1000 PCI-express dohickey for $100 more. Free upgrade to 512MB DDR2 RAM, an upgrade to 800FSB 2.8GHz PIV and you're looking at like $500 or $600 shipped. Not bad! And you get disks for free, although you probably don't need 'em. And I could see you ripping the guts out of these guys and stacking them with hex spacers to save space. This would be a great node component for clusters that solve both embarrasingly parallel, and even not-quite-parallel problems too.
your cable provider will give you a digital cable box with firewire outputs... for use with an external PVR-type device. These cable boxes are rental-only usually, and pretty expensive.:-( But it's nice being able to pull full MPEG2-TS.
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The plugins/extensions architecture in gecko is really wicked, you must admit. ^o^
Safari is KHTML. Which is free.
Safari just adds some extra features that provide integration into OSX and promote a consistent iLook-and-iFeel... it sort of doesn't mean much unless you _already_ have OSX.
Logistically, supporting multiple CPU vendors affects their business plan drastically.
Heh. No it doesn't. Dell doesn't manufacture jack. Taiwanese companies make the custom components they need, OEMs supply the rest, and UPS puts it all together.
It'd just be an extra input to their supply chain.
Does it mean that when Intel releases a decent 64bit product that Dell won't support them?
Not unless those chips are also dual core.
And for the most part (excluding laptops and printers), Dell tries not to use any hardware that would be difficult to support under linux.
Just yesterday evening, I just wanted to talk to someone in the Servers/Storge division about the racks they resell (naturally none of that information is available on their website).
Of course, the whole federal sales team had left for the day. So I was stuck trying the Small Business/Healthcare guys, and they kept (1) trying to kick me off to federal (2) not wanting to work with me because they didn't believe that I was "starting a business".
They had _no one_ available for presales help. I was livid.
On the other hand, if you do talk to the federal sales team, they are wonderful and helpful. When they're there.
ARRRGH.
Dell is possibly _not_ considering selling AMD machines because Sun already makes the best Opteron-based workstations and servers for a decent price.
It'd be hard to beat that.
Only if they feel the demand is there with respect to their existing partners and big contract customers.
They might be able to swing the Semperon/AMD64 chips in the high-end desktop and laptop market, however.
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Works with ftp and http(s) WebDAV. Toodles.
it is better to stick a controller on each bus. This reduces contention across the controllers. That is, it is better to have two 2 channel controllers than one 4 channel controller, provided they aren't on the same bus.
Microsoft tells us what we want based on what informed users wanted (and got) 10 years ago, filtered through focus groups and studies by "think tanks" 4 years ago, before kicking their development team in the ass to produce something in 18 months time.
Click here to submit a poll, sucka!
Here is the current protocol implementation.
You start it up with -slave, and it's headless... connected via a pipe to your application.
What'd be nice is if (we, someone) could use the "remote control" mode of mplayer along with a local website that let you queue songs/query a database and control it from wherever.
This is basically the truth.
1) a fine-grained (sub second) seek-to feature. At least, for the media types that support it.
2) A better way to handle the sourcing and sinking of data. Right now, you've got command line options and a config file. It needs to support call-backs that the xmms plug-in provides instead of internal routines.
I think a better way would be to perhaps roll a libmplayer and have an instance configuration API... maybe to use
Never mind that Ingres and Postgres have never shared a bit of code (says so in the Postgres wiki article).
Sorry.
I found that gigabit NFS was usually much faster with files smaller than 1MB. I guess because either way, you still had to go through one server to set up each FS operation. NFS had been around longer; the Sun implementation was hard to beat.
Has the meta-data server been speed up at all, or made distributed with some kind of coherency-syncro backend?
Winamp -> Nullsoft
Also, don't forget some interesting partial stakes/alliances:
American Express
AT&T (through TCI)
N'est pas?
See the Ultra-Low-Voltage K7s, the DTR mobile K8s (especially since the 90nm shrink), dual-core opterons, and especially the Dothan Pentium-Ms... ::droool::
And where is Sun? Will Fujitsu provide an UltraSPARC that will make us all say wow again?
Consider:
420SC w/ 3.4GHz PIV on 925X chipset. Say, 2GB of DDR2 RAM.
$1900, but quite probably less depending on quantity.
Has one PCI 8x slot open. Fill that with a Infinihost III card.
Or do 1GB 533 w/celeron for 1K.
Or do 512MB w/celeron for $320.
It's not a pretty server. But it does the job.
You won't even bother with racks. Just buy el-cheapo garage shelving units from Home Depot. You can get 19" rackmount boxes to put on the top shelves (for the switching/monitoring equipment).
The i875P chipset-based system was too easy to upgrade into a decent system. :p
However, the 420SC is a _really_ good alternative for a super-compute cluster component. It's got a built-in Broadcom 5703, and you can add an intel Pro-1000 PCI-express dohickey for $100 more. Free upgrade to 512MB DDR2 RAM, an upgrade to 800FSB 2.8GHz PIV and you're looking at like $500 or $600 shipped.
Not bad!
And you get disks for free, although you probably don't need 'em.
And I could see you ripping the guts out of these guys and stacking them with hex spacers to save space.
This would be a great node component for clusters that solve both embarrasingly parallel, and even not-quite-parallel problems too.
your cable provider will give you a digital cable box with firewire outputs... for use with an external PVR-type device. :-(
These cable boxes are rental-only usually, and pretty expensive.
But it's nice being able to pull full MPEG2-TS.