One of largest retailers in Russia (and maybe in Europe - more than 300 terminals for orders in person at ex-factory building, busy 24/7) "Pro Sunrise" released information on failure rates of major components (CPU, Videocards, motherboards, IDE/SATA, etc) of PC they sold for Q1-Q2 of 2005.
All the test methods are logged and described. Every topic is pedanticly researched and verified.
I'm still interested in good reports about 2D signal quality (from the videocard to the monitor), then about video quality playback, and THEN 3d quality and performance.
So I still rely on my own eyes: Matrox still in the game. ATI is next. Nvidia out of my yard.
Don't you saw an artifacts on LCD monitor (analog way, don't speak BNC-style on CRT, pleeease) after changes in refresh rate? 60 hz is "native" to LCD, and changes to 75Hz may result terrible effects like text jagginess and contrast corruption like in worst times.
News reports say President Bush is being briefed. It is expected he could soon make a statement to the nation.
1500 GMT (10:00 a.m. EST)
There have been no further announcements from Mission Control.
1440 GMT (9:40 a.m. EST)
During a mission status news conference yesterday, Entry Flight Director Leroy Cain was asked about any possible damage to the shuttle's thermal tiles during launch. The tiles are what protect the shuttle during the fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere.
Tracking video of launch shows what appears to be a piece of foam insulation from the shuttle's external tank falling away during ascent and hitting the shuttle's left wing near its leading edge.
But Cain said engineers "took a very thorough look at the situation with the tile on the left wing and we have no concerns whatsoever. We haven't changed anything with respect to our trajectory design. It will be a nominal, standard trajectory."
1436 GMT (9:36 a.m. EST)
NASA is asking that any persons finding debris should stay clear given the hazardous nature of the materials and alert local authorities....
FYI, there is a spin-off from Kasparovchess project (RU) (has a english-mirror @ Kasparovchess COM; don't understood yet who is a mirror of whom).
Now, Kasparovchess.ru moved toward more open chess than politics. www.WorldChessRating.ru is opened for betatesting (cyrillic stuff there). There are plans to open english-version of this site.
It's possible to say that Kasparov have a strong computational resources at his home so he have not only prepared well against the hardware competitors (does he had such an oppurtunity with DeepBlue?) but the devolopers have close ties with Kasparov by ownself.
(Don't think that DF/DJ have a 'kasparov backdoor':)
Imagine, that YOU have on hands an offer to join a working force for a product that allow to run MS products on *NIX platforms. Do you accept the job offer?
I doubt you all, en masse, deny to take such a job position.
I doubt you won't to defend with all your heart what you do. Not only because you get paid for it.
Heh, this shows very well how linux (not said - UNIX!) community like to notice one point and immediately drop the rest.
Microsoft, Real and others pour a lot of money into marketing their products. That means that linux community didn't any research (true research!) on WHAT you want, what you expect and what ready to do to improve this situation. You rely on 'visionaries' but the rest of you just grey masses who want to rely noone else.
Do you like to using others ideas and bucks FOR FREE?
GNU leads to situation when noone can steal from you bucks... because you have no any for your products.
I'd rather look at your when you listen from your goverment that it want to protect you from 'the inappropriate information'. Err, not want but will do.
Putin can do it. It's the guy who knows KGB practices well. And russian traditions - too.
You may not know but the smartest persons with MBA diplomas can't do anything here at Russia because it's just right another system than the democracy.
1. GOOD THING: There is a prognosis this day that this day is a startline for pouring inflated money from USA into Russia (Marshall plan, you know). Else the USA economy (that almost overheated, the Internet stuff?) will blow your smart heads and your fat money pouches.
2. GOOD THING: Two or three days ago the most active internet community leaders meet with Putin and the Ministers talking about growth of the Internet. It's ok. But...
3. BAD THING: Before taking presidential rights Putin has some plans to 'regulate russian segment of the Internet'. You know almost nothing about the Duma Elections? Hah, the Internet was used widely as a black propoganda a lot. So, Putin has a plan to licenze domain registration and put under the control the persons, content and have a right to shutdown everything he (or his administration) may think is non-appropriate. You think about having russian servers at.com registeries? You are wrong - you are prohibited to do it. You must be a company with licenzed website (why? just because you could be fined a lot of $$ for not placing a firedistinguisher at the toilet!) and can't have the site registered nowhere else than at.RU domain. Total control.
Good luck!
Anyone who want to read (and can read on russian!) can visit respectable russian newssource LENTA.Ru and read the rest. Maybe it's a story for Slashdotting?
http://www.lenta.ru/internet/1999/12/31/ripn/
(That's the project I've mentioned) http://www.lenta.ru/internet/1999/12/28/domains/ proect.htm
Anyone care about 0.5% of the Internet (I'm talking about Russia?)
I do like to find the things goes on about the internet and computer industries. From the point of view of a casual user of MS products (aye!) I don't care about Microsoft financial perfomance a lot(I'm not a citizen of the USA, huh).
I wonder about the future without a behemoth like Microsoft after me. Would we live in the world of green-screened terminals? Or unix communities got boomed in their advacement? (I don't think so, look about Kasparov vs the rest of us; who won? The rest of us are weaker than the DeepBlue, hah!)
I must respect the great ability of Bill Gates to handle the situation on his OWN way. I suppose he is a greatest hacker of the world, covered by a suit and lawmakers. He is cute and nice. Really, he is much greater than thousand of mitnicks gathered together. Think about it.
Okay. Seems like/. comminity likes to make fight rather INSIDE their own. I think it's better to unite and do struggle not against the principles of Microsoft (who cares about you?) but for the 'better future'.
Generally I won't to live in the world of computers. I need in people. Do you?
If you want to see an agenda here, just answer the question: "an agenda for what positions"? Does Dr. Bezroukov sticked to M$ market? I can't claim so. Does he likes Linux a lot? Heh, it's just an object of dissection (as well as any linux fanatics; yet another froggy)
If you are smart you can use force of your mind to get better out of it and USE it. It's not things TALKING about; there are THINGS to do.
All those abbreviated creatures (ex., ESR:) not all humans any more -- they are the voice of the principle. Maybe, this principle is yours. Maybe -- not. But WHAT for you are fighting/dying? Your time is most favoured spicy after your personal blood.
The lesson I learned from this story - if you are a programmer, just go and code. You needn't be a phylosphopher (arhg!) but should have good typing skills. Let's Linus become a demiurg, that's all. HE will show YOUR code, guys. Not YOU:)
Hey, I look at your offers but nothing yet impressive. Here is one fact I got while trying to solve one problem we had here.
My expirience began when one of our clients got shut down because his setup doesn't allow to pass some kind of spam: it is a local MTV office here running vote for favourite music and a funny fan just mailed them one message with Cc: full of duplicates of the same address! (Heh, how about 15k Cc: lines?)
So, those good linux box got swaped out by 15k of request at/var/spool/mqueue. An administrator got a shot at his head and switched out his connection to repair his crashed linux box. Guess, what happened then? All the mail passed and stored at our side so we begin to expirience the same problem.
And now the salt of my story: #grep MTV *
no luck, no response, Control-C doesn't work (Control-Z;kill %1 works fine)
(the last attempt and a lot of time of waiting gives us 'Arguments list is too long!'
#ls -la
same the thing
#tar zcvf shittymail.tar *
same the thing
#tar zcvf shittymail.tar .
Did what we asked for! Take about 15 minutes to perform.
(some of stuff done here - shutting down sendmail and firing it up at another port just to deliver the mail, and so on... standard sysadmin mess)
So, we just moved this chunk of tarred files into Sun Ultra 2 workstation and tryed to examine the problem. Here is the result:
1. untarring works _fast_, reverse works without a flaw (~5 mins)
2. grep doesn't said there is a problem
3. 'ls -la' begin to work immediately
My conclusion: try your system to simulate the problem like a such stress test. I can't say about *BSD systems but Solaris UltraSPARC-box impressed us despite the fact that this Solaris box can crunch d.net code not enough well vs the same MHz of Pentim-processor system.
Ah, yes: this linux mailserver run latest sendmail and qpopper. Just think is it too hard to write a standard basic application for MTA, POP3, IMAP and so on and then give it a run for a community? May to say that after some facts in my life I'll sooner migrate from Sun to FreeBSD then to Linux box.:)
Slashdot Mirror
One of largest retailers in Russia (and maybe in Europe - more than 300 terminals for orders in person at ex-factory building, busy 24/7) "Pro Sunrise" released information on failure rates of major components (CPU, Videocards, motherboards, IDE/SATA, etc) of PC they sold for Q1-Q2 of 2005.
8 3 - the article (in russian, but diagrams are self-explanatory).
http://pro.sunrise.ru/articletext.asp?reg=30&id=2
http://pro.sunrise.ru/docs/30/image001.gif - IDE/SATA (3.5" formfactor)
http://pro.sunrise.ru/docs/30/image002.gif - HDD (2.5" notebook formfactor)
In short, most returns are for Maxtor brand. Lowest - IBM/Hitachi.
Toshiba is worst in 2.5", and Seagate is best.
The chance to be blown are between 1/20 (Maxtor) to 1/70 (Hitachi).
Tryed to do in MySQL nested queries with LIMIT in inner circle?
Why MySQL up to 9x times slowers in trivial tasks (selects) compared to SQLite?
I have 400k rows of heavily crunched data (telecom CDRs) and SQLite just works, faster and painless.
I had a lot of conversation and disputs with iXBT video-guru Mr. Andrey Vorobieff about testing methods on 2D quality.
e id=401558
Since then they have a little caption: "On our equipment (noone seen yet) everything looks fine!"
Compare to German review dated 2003: http://www.tecchannel.de/tecdaten/show.php?articl
All the test methods are logged and described. Every topic is pedanticly researched and verified.
I'm still interested in good reports about 2D signal quality (from the videocard to the monitor), then about video quality playback, and THEN 3d quality and performance.
So I still rely on my own eyes: Matrox still in the game. ATI is next. Nvidia out of my yard.
Don't you saw an artifacts on LCD monitor (analog way, don't speak BNC-style on CRT, pleeease) after changes in refresh rate? 60 hz is "native" to LCD, and changes to 75Hz may result terrible effects like text jagginess and contrast corruption like in worst times.
Long vive CRT!
Check this: [latest is at the top]
1502 GMT (10:02 a.m. EST)
News reports say President Bush is being briefed. It is expected he could soon make a statement to the nation.
1500 GMT (10:00 a.m. EST)
There have been no further announcements from Mission Control.
1440 GMT (9:40 a.m. EST)
During a mission status news conference yesterday, Entry Flight Director Leroy Cain was asked about any possible damage to the shuttle's thermal tiles during launch. The tiles are what protect the shuttle during the fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere.
Tracking video of launch shows what appears to be a piece of foam insulation from the shuttle's external tank falling away during ascent and hitting the shuttle's left wing near its leading edge.
But Cain said engineers "took a very thorough look at the situation with the tile on the left wing and we have no concerns whatsoever. We haven't changed anything with respect to our trajectory design. It will be a nominal, standard trajectory."
1436 GMT (9:36 a.m. EST)
NASA is asking that any persons finding debris should stay clear given the hazardous nature of the materials and alert local authorities. ...
It's possible to say that Kasparov have a strong computational resources at his home so he have not only prepared well against the hardware competitors (does he had such an oppurtunity with DeepBlue?) but the devolopers have close ties with Kasparov by ownself.
(Don't think that DF/DJ have a 'kasparov backdoor' :)
A nuclear nuke of the flag spot on the Moon would be enough to please you?
Anyone have read Fomenko's books about Chronology?
His books a bit costly, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN: 0792326040
Imagine, that YOU have on hands an offer to join a working force for a product that allow to run MS products on *NIX platforms. Do you accept the job offer?
I doubt you all, en masse, deny to take such a job position.
I doubt you won't to defend with all your heart what you do. Not only because you get paid for it.
So no matters what you talking here about. Do it.
-augur
Hail,
... because you have no any for your products.
Heh, this shows very well how linux (not said - UNIX!) community like to notice one point and immediately drop the rest.
Microsoft, Real and others pour a lot of money into marketing their products. That means that linux community didn't any research (true research!) on WHAT you want, what you expect and what ready to do to improve this situation. You rely on 'visionaries' but the rest of you just grey masses who want to rely noone else.
Do you like to using others ideas and bucks FOR FREE?
GNU leads to situation when noone can steal from you bucks
Free the linux community from GNU ideas!
I'd rather look at your when you listen from your goverment that it want to protect you from 'the inappropriate information'. Err, not want but will do.
Putin can do it. It's the guy who knows KGB practices well. And russian traditions - too.
You may not know but the smartest persons with MBA diplomas can't do anything here at Russia because it's just right another system than the democracy.
:)
-/augur
1. GOOD THING: There is a prognosis this day that this day is a startline for pouring inflated money from USA into Russia (Marshall plan, you know). Else the USA economy (that almost overheated, the Internet stuff?) will blow your smart heads and your fat money pouches.
.com registeries? You are wrong - you are prohibited to do it. You must be a company with licenzed website (why? just because you could be fined a lot of $$ for not placing a firedistinguisher at the toilet!) and can't have the site registered nowhere else than at .RU domain. Total control.
/ proect.htm
2. GOOD THING: Two or three days ago the most active internet community leaders meet with Putin and the Ministers talking about growth of the Internet. It's ok. But...
3. BAD THING: Before taking presidential rights Putin has some plans to 'regulate russian segment of the Internet'. You know almost nothing about the Duma Elections? Hah, the Internet was used widely as a black propoganda a lot. So, Putin has a plan to licenze domain registration and put under the control the persons, content and have a right to shutdown everything he (or his administration) may think is non-appropriate. You think about having russian servers at
Good luck!
Anyone who want to read (and can read on russian!) can visit respectable russian newssource LENTA.Ru and read the rest. Maybe it's a story for Slashdotting?
http://www.lenta.ru/internet/1999/12/31/ripn/
(That's the project I've mentioned)
http://www.lenta.ru/internet/1999/12/28/domains
Anyone care about 0.5% of the Internet (I'm talking about Russia?)
-/augur
I do like to find the things goes on about the internet and computer industries. From the point of view of a casual user of MS products (aye!) I don't care about Microsoft financial perfomance a lot(I'm not a citizen of the USA, huh).
/. comminity likes to make fight rather INSIDE their own. I think it's better to unite and do struggle not against the principles of Microsoft (who cares about you?) but for the 'better future'.
I wonder about the future without a behemoth like Microsoft after me. Would we live in the world of green-screened terminals? Or unix communities got boomed in their advacement? (I don't think so, look about Kasparov vs the rest of us; who won? The rest of us are weaker than the DeepBlue, hah!)
I must respect the great ability of Bill Gates to handle the situation on his OWN way. I suppose he is a greatest hacker of the world, covered by a suit and lawmakers. He is cute and nice. Really, he is much greater than thousand of mitnicks gathered together. Think about it.
Okay. Seems like
Generally I won't to live in the world of computers. I need in people. Do you?
If you are smart you can use force of your mind to get better out of it and USE it. It's not things TALKING about; there are THINGS to do.
All those abbreviated creatures (ex., ESR :) not all humans any more -- they are the voice of the principle. Maybe, this principle is yours. Maybe -- not. But WHAT for you are fighting/dying? Your time is most favoured spicy after your personal blood.
The lesson I learned from this story - if you are a programmer, just go and code. You needn't be a phylosphopher (arhg!) but should have good typing skills. Let's Linus become a demiurg, that's all. HE will show YOUR code, guys. Not YOU
Hey, I look at your offers but nothing yet impressive. Here is one fact I got while trying to solve one problem we had here.
/var/spool/mqueue. An administrator got a shot at his head and switched out his connection to repair his crashed linux box. Guess, what happened then? All the mail passed and stored at our side so we begin to expirience the same problem.
:)
My expirience began when one of our clients got shut down because his setup doesn't allow to pass some kind of spam: it is a local MTV office here running vote for favourite music and a funny fan just mailed them one message with Cc: full of duplicates of the same address! (Heh, how about 15k Cc: lines?)
So, those good linux box got swaped out by 15k of request at
And now the salt of my story:
#grep MTV *
no luck, no response, Control-C doesn't work (Control-Z;kill %1 works fine)
(the last attempt and a lot of time of waiting gives us 'Arguments list is too long!'
#ls -la
same the thing
#tar zcvf shittymail.tar *
same the thing
#tar zcvf shittymail.tar .
Did what we asked for! Take about 15 minutes to perform.
(some of stuff done here - shutting down sendmail and firing it up at another port just to deliver the mail, and so on... standard sysadmin mess)
So, we just moved this chunk of tarred files into Sun Ultra 2 workstation and tryed to examine the problem. Here is the result:
1. untarring works _fast_, reverse works without a flaw (~5 mins)
2. grep doesn't said there is a problem
3. 'ls -la' begin to work immediately
My conclusion: try your system to simulate the problem like a such stress test. I can't say about *BSD systems but Solaris UltraSPARC-box impressed us despite the fact that this Solaris box can crunch d.net code not enough well vs the same MHz of Pentim-processor system.
Ah, yes: this linux mailserver run latest sendmail and qpopper. Just think is it too hard to write a standard basic application for MTA, POP3, IMAP and so on and then give it a run for a community? May to say that after some facts in my life I'll sooner migrate from Sun to FreeBSD then to Linux box.