You buy much IBM gear when IBM had that perceived advantage? You betcha. When you find yourself stuck with a system developed by a team who think that 8000-line EJBs are perfectly acceptable, you better pack on the horsepower. So you send back the pair of 520s that were originally specced with the system and lay in a couple of fat 595s. Sure, the bean counters scream, but when you trot out the charts that show system performance tanking around 55-60 requests/second and you need to deliver 200+, it's easy to convince them to spend the money rather than scrap a $13M+ 2-year project that's already in its third year... (Textbook example of the "It's cheaper to buy bigger hardware than to pay to optimize the code" ploy.)
IMO the difference between Slayer on CD and tape is more immediately obvious than the difference between a classical track on CD and tape For me, the difference is immediately obvious on classical tracks due to the noise floor being so low. When the music gets quiet, or there's a solo part, you can hear all of it, instead of missing parts of it because of tape hiss.
Of course, it's likely there's more distortion on a Slayer track than quiet parts on a classical track...;)
Um, I think your wish has been granted. I just checked the HP site, and they don't list any Integrity series products with Alphas. It's all dual-core Itaniums (or MIPS in the Non-Stop series).
I'd rather hear a rumor that IBM will soon be dropping AIX (ack! pthhhht!) and only offering Solaris and Linux going forward. Up until recently, IBM's big advantage over Sun was that their boxes scaled to more processors (the Power-based ones, anyway). Now that Sun's finally shipping the Niagara-based stuff, IBM's advantage has shrunk, if not evaporated.
Hmmmm, let's just check something...well, whaddya know — there's a version of WebSphere for Solaris. I guess the Global Solutions guys won't have to learn Glassfish after all....
I still haven't found an IDE as polished as MS's Visual Studio Yeah, when you have complete control of the widgets, libraries, languages, run-time environments and the OS they run on, you can crank out some pretty slick stuff. I get a kick out of Windows asking me if I want to debug stuff like Acrobat Reader or Lotus Notes because they've gotten an access violation or some such. Visual Studio isn't the best IDE I've used, but it's definitely the best integrated. And the fastest — if you single-step through some of the.NET stuff and have some non-trivial variables in the watch window, it's fairly speedy. The amazing thing is, if you drill down into some of the collection classes or system objects, they've got literally hundreds of attributes. And VS manages to keep the window updated as I step, no matter how deep I've gone.
At least, it seems to...I'm not sure I'd be able to tell if it didn't...
the industrial electrostatic cleaners that have been around for decades You mean the ones they put into the HVAC ducts to filter out dirt? Those go into the ducts because they can't move air (at least not efficiently). The last house I bought had one of these, it was plumbed right into the cold air return just before it entered the furnace. It definitely wasn't moving moving any air around by itself.
Linux is not an operating system. Ever googled for information? Ever xerox a flyer? Ever blown your nose on a kleenex? Drink a coke? Face it, "Linux" has become the common collective noun (or "genericized trademark", if you like) for any and all distros. Tell your average office worker that you don't use Windows, you use Gentoo and collect a blank stare. Tell them you use Linux and you'll be more likely to get a "oh, one of those computer geeks" look. Point being, people have heard of Linux, but aren't too likely to be able to identify individual distros. Like it or not, that's the way the world sees it, if you want to change things you'll need to get a new term out there to replace it. And it'll have to be snappier than "Debian GNU/X.org/Linux".
Personally, I'd be much more willing to use the term "GNU/Linux" if the GNU software was actually shipped with some other kernel, so there'd be a need to differentiate between GNU/Linux and GNU/BSD or GNU/HP-UX. And don't even bother throwing GNU/Hurd out there, the window closed on that project long ago...
just because there is an option to change atime settings doesn't mean that it is a requirement to do so just to 'use linux on the desktop' The OP's claim was that knowing mount arcana was one of the first things that needed to be known to use Linux. Personally, I've used various distros over the last ten years and mount options were one of the few things I didn't have to mess with. My point was that claiming that you had to know serious low-level details in order to use Linux will put people off from trying it. I personally know several people who gave Linux a try several years ago, but were turned off by the amount of configuration that needed to be done. It's still got the aura of a hobbyist system, and comments like that just perpetuate that impression.
If insurance companies refuse to cover it, very few Doctors & hospitals will buy it. If it can eliminate the need for sending patients out for chest X-rays[0], the HMOs will mandate it. Hell, I can see them refusing to pay for a chest X-ray or MRI if you haven't been checked out on one of these first. If all it takes is the electricity to run it, some saline gel for the electrodes/transponder/whatever and an annual maintenance contract, this thing will save money hand over fist in some areas.
[0] Obviously not all patients, but (say) 30-50% of those who come in complaining of shortness of breath or extended bouts of coughing. Or patients with known emphysema or asthma, who just need to be monitored.
Mount options are not the first thing to know about Linux, but they are about the first. And as long as this is true, Linux will not be ready for the desktop. I don't want to have to dick around with how my filesystems are mounted any more than I want to dick around with how the wheel camber on my car is set up. People don't want to give their car a four-wheel alignment before they can drive it home, nor do they want to have to deal with the intricacies of file system mounting.
You just add them. Uh, no. You're missing the whole point. Not adding more people to a project won't get it done earlier, but adding more people at the midway point will actually make it later. Instead of the original developers spending 100% of their time making progress, they'll have to spend 30-50% of their time bringing the new guys up to speed. And the new guys won't be productive for at least a month, maybe three (depending on the size of the project and the competence of the new developers). Especially when you consider what kind of developers are going to be available on short notice (hint: it won't be the experienced veterans, they're too busy leading other projects).
Except for the N-word being used, this post is very informative Excuse me? "IPv6 needs work because Cisco routers don't handle it well"? It's just a troll, get over it. Cisco's probably wringing their hands with glee, because this will help them push their next-generation made-for-IPv6 routers. And if they don't have a next-generation router that handles IPv6 well, then Juniper will (deservedly) eat their lunch.
The rest of the points in that post were similarly bogus. NAT sucks because it breaks the end-to-end IP model (which also breaks IPSec). It also requires the network to handle connections and maintain state. IPv6 also uses multicast for ARP resolution instead of broadcast, which means your NIC doesn't have to deal with a packet every time someone else on your subnet wants to contact a machine that isn't in their cache.
Really? I've visited that site two or three times, and each time I got the impression that the site designer was a cranky ten-year-old that needed a nap. Sure, there are some seriously hurting web sites out there, but he's got so many little nitpicks that virtually no site with any content to speak of could pass as a "not sucky" site. And then he just throws out "Oh, this site doesn't pass the test either", like I should pay attention to somebody who points out other sites' flaws but can't be bothered to make his own site conform? Why not just admit that you don't know what makes a good site, can't design a good site yourself, and stop being an attention whore? Oh, right -- ad revenues. Never mind...
I'd unplug an IBM from one of our computers, put it on the floor (tossing it tends to pop the overcaps on the keys), and then proceed to step on it, bounce up and down on it, etc..
A number of years later, at a different job, after doing something similar with coworkers Man, I'm glad I don't work with you...
Seriously, though, I can vouch for the Unicomp (http://www.pckeyboard.com/) keyboards. I'm using one to type this on, and it's traveled with me from site to site for the last 4-5 years and will, I'm sure, continue to do so for many more. I've got their Linux 1 model, which puts the Control key where it's supposed to be.
To keep this on-topic, I used a Logitech Trackman Marble for many years (still do at home), and had a wireless one that traveled with me. However, when my office moved the last time, there was some kind of interference that caused spurious movement and (worse) clicking. I went to get a wired one, but they didn't have any in stock, so I picked up a Marble Mouse. It's got two main buttons, and two smaller inset buttons for scroll up/down. I don't like them nearly as much as a scroll wheel, but they get the job done. I also notice I don't get twinges in my thumb by the end of the week, like I used to with the Trackman Marble.
YMMV, but my Linksys needed resetting (before I put on the dd-wrt firmware) about every week. MMDV. I've had a WRT-54G for a couple of years now, and I've power-cycled it twice. Once because I moved, and once because I accidentally dropped a book on the power-strip switch. It always Just Works, no muss, no fuss. However, I am a little annoyed that it won't permit me to use VPN to my office if I'm connected via wireless. If I go up to my office and plug into it, then everything's fine.
I wonder if it has something to do with latency. Maybe the 40Gb connections are faster because they have a simpler routing protocol or they use smaller packet sizes with no CRC. I haven't been able to get through to the actual proposed spec yet, so it's hard to say...
can you imagine them charging you for a "loading Windows sound" the way telecoms charge you for ringtones? If they thought the market was there, absolutely. I haven't counted, but my phone has several many ringtones built in, just like Windows includes sounds. There's no reason to buy separate ringtones (even though my phone allows separate rings for like six different events [WTF, there's a "FAX calls" tone?]), but if you want one I'm sure you can buy one. Likewise, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see MS offer "boutique" sounds (or more likely a sounds theme), if they could figure out a way to tie them to the purchaser's computer.
What about Stacker? They created the market for on-the-fly disk compression. First just in software, but eventually they even produced a hardware accelerator board. Then MS announced the they would be including on-the-fly compression in DOS 6 ("DoubleSpace"). Bye-bye Stac Electronics....
PCs, for sure. Wasn't it their Rainbow that required you to buy pre-formatted DEC floppies? And cost considerably more than a comparable Compaq? At least they finally got one out, at first they tried pushing the DECmate-II (a PDP-8 in a PC case), talk about bonehead moves...
Having just bought a shiny new 60gig PS3, this release makes me wonder just how easy it could be to take fairly good advantage of all the cores. That should be interesting, since the Cell is a non-orthagonal multi-core CPU (sort of like a PPC core with multiple AltiVec units). Opcodes for the main core (the PPE) are Power/PowerPC, while the satellite processors (the SPEs) run a vector (similar to the AltiVec or VMX) instruction set. I believe the PPE can also execute the vector instructions, so maybe it would be possible to just target that. I'm not sure how general-purpose those opcodes are, though, and since I don't believe the PPE has the SPE's complement of 128 registers, you might wind up to just supporting whatever register set the PPE has.
c++ abstracts away from ASM, so is it bad too? Um, I wasn't saying it was bad, I just meant that referring to something as "transparent" usually implies that it makes it easier to see the implementation beneath. I thought "opaque" was more appropriate, because TBB obscures the details normally associated with writing multi-threaded code. I'm all in favor of abstracting away any details that tend to be tedious or error-prone. Especially when it comes to multi-threading, since AFAIK there haven't been any real breakthroughs in parallel algorithms, so there aren't too many proven techniques to apply.
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Of course, it's likely there's more distortion on a Slayer track than quiet parts on a classical track...;)
Um, I think your wish has been granted. I just checked the HP site, and they don't list any Integrity series products with Alphas. It's all dual-core Itaniums (or MIPS in the Non-Stop series).
I'd rather hear a rumor that IBM will soon be dropping AIX (ack! pthhhht!) and only offering Solaris and Linux going forward. Up until recently, IBM's big advantage over Sun was that their boxes scaled to more processors (the Power-based ones, anyway). Now that Sun's finally shipping the Niagara-based stuff, IBM's advantage has shrunk, if not evaporated.
Hmmmm, let's just check something...well, whaddya know — there's a version of WebSphere for Solaris. I guess the Global Solutions guys won't have to learn Glassfish after all....
At least, it seems to...I'm not sure I'd be able to tell if it didn't...
But! It! Works! For! Yahoo! !!
It's not even "these days" — the last press release with information about the lawsuit is from August of 2005...
Personally, I'd be much more willing to use the term "GNU/Linux" if the GNU software was actually shipped with some other kernel, so there'd be a need to differentiate between GNU/Linux and GNU/BSD or GNU/HP-UX. And don't even bother throwing GNU/Hurd out there, the window closed on that project long ago...
[0] Obviously not all patients, but (say) 30-50% of those who come in complaining of shortness of breath or extended bouts of coughing. Or patients with known emphysema or asthma, who just need to be monitored.
The rest of the points in that post were similarly bogus. NAT sucks because it breaks the end-to-end IP model (which also breaks IPSec). It also requires the network to handle connections and maintain state. IPv6 also uses multicast for ARP resolution instead of broadcast, which means your NIC doesn't have to deal with a packet every time someone else on your subnet wants to contact a machine that isn't in their cache.
Really? I've visited that site two or three times, and each time I got the impression that the site designer was a cranky ten-year-old that needed a nap. Sure, there are some seriously hurting web sites out there, but he's got so many little nitpicks that virtually no site with any content to speak of could pass as a "not sucky" site. And then he just throws out "Oh, this site doesn't pass the test either", like I should pay attention to somebody who points out other sites' flaws but can't be bothered to make his own site conform? Why not just admit that you don't know what makes a good site, can't design a good site yourself, and stop being an attention whore? Oh, right -- ad revenues. Never mind...
Seriously, though, I can vouch for the Unicomp (http://www.pckeyboard.com/) keyboards. I'm using one to type this on, and it's traveled with me from site to site for the last 4-5 years and will, I'm sure, continue to do so for many more. I've got their Linux 1 model, which puts the Control key where it's supposed to be.
To keep this on-topic, I used a Logitech Trackman Marble for many years (still do at home), and had a wireless one that traveled with me. However, when my office moved the last time, there was some kind of interference that caused spurious movement and (worse) clicking. I went to get a wired one, but they didn't have any in stock, so I picked up a Marble Mouse. It's got two main buttons, and two smaller inset buttons for scroll up/down. I don't like them nearly as much as a scroll wheel, but they get the job done. I also notice I don't get twinges in my thumb by the end of the week, like I used to with the Trackman Marble.
For those times when the internal security system is working, but not according to spec...
I wonder if it has something to do with latency. Maybe the 40Gb connections are faster because they have a simpler routing protocol or they use smaller packet sizes with no CRC. I haven't been able to get through to the actual proposed spec yet, so it's hard to say...
What about Stacker? They created the market for on-the-fly disk compression. First just in software, but eventually they even produced a hardware accelerator board. Then MS announced the they would be including on-the-fly compression in DOS 6 ("DoubleSpace"). Bye-bye Stac Electronics....
PCs, for sure. Wasn't it their Rainbow that required you to buy pre-formatted DEC floppies? And cost considerably more than a comparable Compaq? At least they finally got one out, at first they tried pushing the DECmate-II (a PDP-8 in a PC case), talk about bonehead moves...