This is old news, not new news. I'm writing characters so that Slashdot allows me to post this commend immediately. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah....
I don't pretend to be an authorative source for meteorology or global climates....
First off, I don't believe we have the power to change the ocean temp by that much over such a large area.
Second, if we did, I think it would have some major effects on the ocean currents we RELY on (100%) for our climates around the world... (quick google link)
Why do we keep trying to stifle nature? It's been making hurricanes for YEARS. People have been try ing to control nature for the longest time. Might it occur to people that this is just the way the world works?
If we succeed in stopping hurricanes, it's possible that we would bring upon ourselves an early Ice Age. And that seems like a bigger problem to "fix".
Just thought I'd toss that in there. It claims to be able to handle something like 0 deg F non-condensing -- it didn't make it past 40 deg F in our field test.
BUT! The good news is I think people have recognized it and have started "breaking the cycle". Here's the situation:
"No one wants to develop games on Linux because of lack of hardware support, and no one develops good gaming hardware support, because there is no* games support in Linux"
That being said, I was excited as hell to see UT and UT2003 among others being released on the Penguin Platform.
Better yet, if companies continue to release Linux ports/builds despite mediocre hardware support, it's only going to drive hardware support.
It's a good situation, with the innate potential to be bad.
What do you all think?
Hell yeah! I've been waiting
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Solaris 10 Released
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I've got a bunch of nice V240's and some of the new dual-core V490's to deploy. I'll beta 10 for a little while. Not because I don't think it's ready for prime time. Lot's of vendors beta test on their users (COUGH Micros~1, COUGH IBM), but there are a lot of really cool additions to the Solaris OE this time around, and I want to get used to everything.
Specifically ZFS (Bad ass journaling FS, capable of multiple TB's), Grid Containers (think quasi-VMWare for resource partitioning), and of course the nice TCP/IP enhancements.
IF YOU'VE DOWNLOADED "SOLARIS 10" before late late last night, you got a RELEASE CANDIDATE, and not the full RELEASE. Go download the release.
I'm downloading the dtrace source from OpenSolaris and havin fun today.
Obviously BSD "can't run on" Solaris. But BSD *can* run on either x86 or SPARC. Two years ago, none of the BSD's supported SMP on SPARC, but there were at least 2 projects at the time focusing on this support. Dunno what the current state of affairs is.
You're a funny guy. When I say superior, everyone things BogoMIPS! Are you kidding me? Think quality of engineering, uptime, things like ALOM, number of sensors, and service from a great company!
Solaris x86 is still around, and was/is released the same time SPARC is. Furthermore has all the features (ZFS, etc) that SPARC has.
They acknowledge commodity computing -- in fact I'm running on a SunBlade 150 right now purchased for under $1000.
Hey guys? Hello! I can't stand all these posters saying things like:
1.) Solaris sucks anyway
Solaris predates Linux by a year and it's roots SunOS 4.X date back to 1984. What's more is that Sun Solaris has always run on superior hardware. The SPARC line they are on now is clearly superior hardware than anything x86 you can throw around, except *MAYBE* (but I doubt it) the latest offerings from IBM. And I do mean the machines IBM has put out in the last 6 months! But, I digress, this is not about hardware, it's about the OS. Solaris is a bullet-proof "old pro" that will just keep going and going and going. It's got great manageability, pretty good GNU support, and superior support.
Plus it has SMP support for UltraSparc III!
2.) Why is Sun open-sourcing Solaris??? They won't make any more profit out of it, seeing as though they wouldn't be paid anything for Solaris???
Why the hell does anyone open-source anything? To gain mindshare, to gain more users, to sell more (superior) hardware, to make Sun successful. Of course they're not going to make money by making Solaris open-source!
Personally, I'm really happy Sun will be doing this. I think it's a great move, and will help everyone using SPARC hardware. I think Linux will benefit greatly by people looking at Solaris and deciding to make a few tweaks here and there.
Honestly I don't know if they'll be able to open-source it all just because I think some of the lower level functionality of their hardware could be given away (think E10k extensions) if they release that code.
I don't know that. All I know is that all you Linux evangelists out there should be welcoming a new "brother" into the open source community.
I love it. Slackware has always been my favorite
distro, despite the fact that I'm not a Linux guy.
Seeing the ISO is just over 300MB definitely catch-
es my eye. I'm thinking, "this is exactly what I'm
looking for."
Don't give me the "increased electric bill
paid by the taxpayers" argument.
That's crap. If you've ever visited a govt
establishment, you KNOW they waste power ALL
THE TIME. All hall/office lights on all
night.
That's ridiculous. Take your "I'm paying
for that electricity" argument and shove it.
does not -- what about animals/animal waste -- humans/human waste -- wild plant growth taken out as a fire prevention measure (currently burned, but could be "harvested"). There are literally TONS and TONS of fuel for the "fire".
Tell that to people who live above 9,000 feet -- in the dead of winter. These people ROUTINELY let their cars idle ALL NIGHT. Keeping the engine warm, and allowing most to escape starting a cold engine at -20 - -30 deg F, lest the tank runs dry.
A lot of universities have their CS dept. in the Liberal Arts/Arts and Sciences college, while some have it in the engineering school. Undoubtedly the Engineers make a higher wage out of college. It also depends on the city you work in (standard of living).
Nintendo is really pissing everyone off. It'll only be a matter of time before Sony says, "Sure we'll take the Zelda namesake... How much? 10 million? I don't think so, how about a million?... Yeah? I know you guys have bills you need to pay... Alright thank you! buh BYE!"
I wish stupidity hurt. As most understand it, revenue is the best indicator as to how "big" a company is. Let's take a look at Microsoft vs. Georgia Pacific, and Boeing:
Revenue:
Boeing(BA): 50.48B
Georgia Pacific(GP): 20.26B
Microsoft Corp(MSFT): 25.91B
Do I need to add for you, or, can you see that Boeing + Georgia Pacific sees and deals with a lot more money than Microsoft does?
It's called APWU (Another Pathetic Windows User). The pandemic is winding down. Slowly, but surely. We believe it will eventually die, and Windows itself will no longer be offered.
Assembly is the ONLY way to get a full appreciation of how computers work. The University of Colorado doesn't start with Assembly, but it definitely gets you there eventually. If you've never coded Assembly you might as well be a mindless.NET spewer-of-white-paper power words...
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This is old news, not new news. I'm writing characters so that Slashdot allows me to post this commend immediately. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ....
swap Linux for Solaris, doesn't have ANYTHING to do with whether Google would or not. Check your ego fo' you wreck yourself
I don't pretend to be an authorative source for meteorology or global climates....
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First off, I don't believe we have the power to change the ocean temp by that much over such a large area.
Second, if we did, I think it would have some major effects on the ocean currents we RELY on (100%) for our climates around the world... (quick google link)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0
Why do we keep trying to stifle nature? It's been making hurricanes for YEARS. People have been try ing to control nature for the longest time. Might it occur to people that this is just the way the world works?
If we succeed in stopping hurricanes, it's possible that we would bring upon ourselves an early Ice Age. And that seems like a bigger problem to "fix".
Just thought I'd toss that in there. It claims to be able to handle something like 0 deg F non-condensing -- it didn't make it past 40 deg F in our field test.
No security, etc. etc.
Thanks for straightening me out on this... The comment stands -- if not stressed EVEN MORE.
Wow --
"It's a pretty scary scenario painted, but one can hardly take a speech from 2001 as serious evidence these days."
That's horrible.
BUT! The good news is I think people have recognized it and have started "breaking the cycle". Here's the situation:
"No one wants to develop games on Linux because of lack of hardware support, and no one develops good gaming hardware support, because there is no* games support in Linux"
That being said, I was excited as hell to see UT and UT2003 among others being released on the Penguin Platform.
Better yet, if companies continue to release Linux ports/builds despite mediocre hardware support, it's only going to drive hardware support.
It's a good situation, with the innate potential to be bad.
What do you all think?
I've got a bunch of nice V240's and some of the new dual-core V490's to deploy. I'll beta 10 for a little while. Not because I don't think it's ready for prime time. Lot's of vendors beta test on their users (COUGH Micros~1, COUGH IBM), but there are a lot of really cool additions to the Solaris OE this time around, and I want to get used to everything.
Specifically ZFS (Bad ass journaling FS, capable of multiple TB's), Grid Containers (think quasi-VMWare for resource partitioning), and of course the nice TCP/IP enhancements.
IF YOU'VE DOWNLOADED "SOLARIS 10" before late late last night, you got a RELEASE CANDIDATE, and not the full RELEASE. Go download the release.
I'm downloading the dtrace source from OpenSolaris and havin fun today.
E450 is Ultra2 - 64bit, it will be fine. Got a 4x400mhz & 16GB RAM to upgrade!
Or perhaps you really don't know!
Obviously BSD "can't run on" Solaris. But BSD *can* run on either x86 or SPARC. Two years ago, none of the BSD's supported SMP on SPARC, but there were at least 2 projects at the time focusing on this support. Dunno what the current state of affairs is.
Gotta love open CPU architecture.
You're a funny guy. When I say superior, everyone things BogoMIPS! Are you kidding me? Think quality of engineering, uptime, things like ALOM, number of sensors, and service from a great company!
Solaris x86 is still around, and was/is released the same time SPARC is. Furthermore has all the features (ZFS, etc) that SPARC has.
They acknowledge commodity computing -- in fact I'm running on a SunBlade 150 right now purchased for under $1000.
Java has been *VERY* successful for Sun!
1.) Solaris sucks anyway
Solaris predates Linux by a year and it's roots SunOS 4.X date back to 1984. What's more is that Sun Solaris has always run on superior hardware. The SPARC line they are on now is clearly superior hardware than anything x86 you can throw around, except *MAYBE* (but I doubt it) the latest offerings from IBM. And I do mean the machines IBM has put out in the last 6 months! But, I digress, this is not about hardware, it's about the OS. Solaris is a bullet-proof "old pro" that will just keep going and going and going. It's got great manageability, pretty good GNU support, and superior support.
Plus it has SMP support for UltraSparc III!
2.) Why is Sun open-sourcing Solaris??? They won't make any more profit out of it, seeing as though they wouldn't be paid anything for Solaris???
Why the hell does anyone open-source anything? To gain mindshare, to gain more users, to sell more (superior) hardware, to make Sun successful. Of course they're not going to make money by making Solaris open-source!
Personally, I'm really happy Sun will be doing this. I think it's a great move, and will help everyone using SPARC hardware. I think Linux will benefit greatly by people looking at Solaris and deciding to make a few tweaks here and there.
Honestly I don't know if they'll be able to open-source it all just because I think some of the lower level functionality of their hardware could be given away (think E10k extensions) if they release that code.
I don't know that. All I know is that all you Linux evangelists out there should be welcoming a new "brother" into the open source community.
-SteveYes it has X, and yes it has GNOME *standard* (as of Sol 9)
I love it. Slackware has always been my favorite distro, despite the fact that I'm not a Linux guy. Seeing the ISO is just over 300MB definitely catch- es my eye. I'm thinking, "this is exactly what I'm looking for."
Downloading the ISO right now -- I'm optimistic.
-SteveDon't give me the "increased electric bill paid by the taxpayers" argument. That's crap. If you've ever visited a govt establishment, you KNOW they waste power ALL THE TIME. All hall/office lights on all night. That's ridiculous. Take your "I'm paying for that electricity" argument and shove it.
Don't kid yourself. The great-american "commute" accounts for a small percentage of oil used on a daily basis.
ughh -- slashdot -- the paramount minds meet here.
does not -- what about animals/animal waste -- humans/human waste -- wild plant growth taken out as a fire prevention measure (currently burned, but could be "harvested"). There are literally TONS and TONS of fuel for the "fire".
Tell that to people who live above 9,000 feet -- in the dead of winter. These people ROUTINELY let their cars idle ALL NIGHT. Keeping the engine warm, and allowing most to escape starting a cold engine at -20 - -30 deg F, lest the tank runs dry.
A lot of universities have their CS dept. in the Liberal Arts/Arts and Sciences college, while some have it in the engineering school. Undoubtedly the Engineers make a higher wage out of college. It also depends on the city you work in (standard of living).
Work hard play harder
Oh hell yeah
Nintendo is really pissing everyone off. It'll only be a matter of time before Sony says, "Sure we'll take the Zelda namesake... How much? 10 million? I don't think so, how about a million?... Yeah? I know you guys have bills you need to pay... Alright thank you! buh BYE!"
I wish stupidity hurt. As most understand it, revenue is the best indicator as to how "big" a company is. Let's take a look at Microsoft vs. Georgia Pacific, and Boeing:
Revenue:
Boeing(BA): 50.48B
Georgia Pacific(GP): 20.26B
Microsoft Corp(MSFT): 25.91B
Do I need to add for you, or, can you see that Boeing + Georgia Pacific sees and deals with a lot more money than Microsoft does?
It's called APWU (Another Pathetic Windows User). The pandemic is winding down. Slowly, but surely. We believe it will eventually die, and Windows itself will no longer be offered.
(n/t) yes I really mean empty body...
Assembly is the ONLY way to get a full appreciation of how computers work. The University of Colorado doesn't start with Assembly, but it definitely gets you there eventually. If you've never coded Assembly you might as well be a mindless .NET spewer-of-white-paper power words...
5 minutes of my time telling my users to watch out, which they knew to do anyway.....