The big advantage is not so much that the cache is larger, it's that the cache runs at full processor speed. In all non-Xeon Pentia (II/III), the L2 cache runs at half clock speed. The original P-IIs actually offered very little speed advantage over the PPro (which has a full-speed cache), even though they had higher clock speeds.
the attitude "I know Oracle can do the job, so we'll use that"
Well, duh. Dunno where you work, but where I work we have plenty enough to do without evaluating which is the "perfect" database for our applications. Oracle works: fine, use that. Now, how are we going to get this all done in two months? How are we going to get the FR list approved? Is there a third-party toolkit available that handles both DOM and XML?
Informix? UPDATE TableA SET FieldA = (SELECT FieldB * 1.05 FROM TableA) won't work -- can't update the same table you're selecting from. Bit of a problem, that...
Re:OK...anyone from Slashdot want to take this up?
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Why Not MySQL?
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??? There is no "LOCK" command in SQL. Is this an MS Access thing?
I am (thankfully) not an expert, but doesn't RTF address this? I mean, I understand you won't be able to embed "live" spreadsheets and graphs (a la OLE), but won't it at least properly handle fonts, paragraph spacing and page breaks? The downside, of course, being that your file is considerably larger, and can take some time to convert.
Actually, what you want is SGML, but I don't know of any SGML-compliant word processors. Both XML and HTML are facets of SGML. Maybe what you really need is a HTML->Word translator (since Word will [allegedly] already output in HTML format).
I thought the problem was it was too diverse! Web page design OR application programming OR systems administration. Three pretty different areas.
My advice is to focus on one area (my suggestion: application development using Java). I'd also drop the web page from your resume. Personal pages are, by definition, not professional.
I remember an article mentioning that DEC had a "cooling tower" prototyped for the Alpha. A short tower filled with a non-water fluid. I don't think it ever made it past the prototype stage, at least I never heard about it again.
Keep in mind that some computations (e.g., solving systems of large matrices) are inherently single-threaded (since the results of one computation provide the inputs for the next). In this case, SMP will not help.
Check out the new toys at Microway -- 750MHz 21264s, 48-node Beowolf clusters, woo hoo!
For instance, if i modified your GPLed program and sold it to "JIM", would I then be required to send the source code, on floppy, to 10,000 people who then request it from me?
I believe this is so. You would be allowed to charge them for the media and postage (and possible some reasonable amount for the time & effort to create the floppies & mail them out, not sure about that though). But once you distribute it, you are obligated to make the source available to *anyone* who asks for it. Obviously, the most reasonable method would be to e-mail the appropriate files, or post them on a web site. I don't believe you are obligated to provide them in any specific format (e.g., you don't have to produce them on paper tape if someone asks), but you are obligated to make a reasonable effort.
Stored properly, writable CD's last 100 years or more
Evidence? I have several (audio) CDs from the early 80s which are no longer readable. OTOH, I have 9-tracks made at the same time which are still OK (presumably; I don't have access to a 9-track drive currently, but they were fine five years ago).
Personally, I think that microfiche is the way to go. Plastic lasts quite a while, and OCR software is already good enough to read in straight text in a standard typeface. And even if civilization collapses, all you'll need is a decent lens and a mirror to review your pre-cataclysm tax records...
You can stuff huge organisations with "professionals" following "best practice engineering" and they'll still get trampled into the dust by a couple of smart kids working in a garage somewhere.
*snort!* What a crock of bullshit. I'd like to see "a couple of smart kids" crank out a few million lines of code to compete with something like SAP R3, the SABRE airline reservation system, or any other significant piece of software. Give them an impossible deadline and a bunch of conflicting user requirements (none of which are any fun to write solutions for) and tell me what you think they'll come up with. Sure, you can find dozens (if not hundreds) of small start-up companies who serve vertical markets (e.g. web page design) that could easily be run by a couple of smart kids, but don't "kid" yourself that you're going to find one of those companies producing a monster ERP system.
Still, this could be a big pain in the ass for people who aren't comfortable rooting around inside their computers.
IMHO, people who aren't comfortable "rooting around inside their computers" probably won't be writing their own code morphers. This isn't script kiddie stuff...
I also wonder whether it can multitask between different instruction sets. I guess the task switching overhead would be pretty brutal if there isn't room onchip for multiple instruction sets.
I would guess not, since there is only a single TLB, configured at boot time. Unless you wanted to flush it every time you changed instruction sets (!)
Somebody with a big home! I looked into picking up a Cray-I at a Los Alamos garage sale, and found out that it would take some US$800/mo worth of 440 3-phase to feed it. Not to mention the pair of VAX-11/785s to run I/O for it...
I order Dells for my business, but I am building a new machine for myself.
That's interesting, as my former company was a big Micron shop, until I pointed out that all we really wanted was the fastest machine with 128M of memory, a NIC, and at least a 6G HD. All the machines matching those specs from the retailers were gamers machines with 3D graphics cards, stereo sound cards and speakers, Winmodems, monitors and no NICs. So I pointed out that I could take our old machines, replace the MBs and throw in another HD for under $800. Of course, the new MBs used DIMMs, so we had to get some of those, and they had AGP slots, so we got new video cards too, so it wound up costing a lot less under $800 than I thought, but we got some kickass boxes, and we ordered a spare of each component, so downtime would be however long it took me to drive from home to my boss' house!
you're talking about a few hundred gigabytes a day of data.
Does anyone have a reliable figure for how much traffic is actually generated? "A few hundred gigabytes a day" is obviously way too high, but what is it really?
I spoke with someone who runs an ISP and they said that if it weren't for the binaries newsgroups, a year's worth of net news was about 2G. This was a couple of years ago, so I'm sure that number has tripled, but I can get a 20G drive for $200...
Is there any way to actually do an end run around the news servers and simply create my own private slow nntp server?
Let's say you did. You get a news feed from a local ISP and have complete control over what groups you get and how long posts are retained (after all, they're on *your* machine). And you can set it up so that your friends can dial in and get their news from you (maybe even using the news from your machine to set up their own news server on their box). You could set up your own local newsgroups, have your own news network going.
Then one of your friends becomes a big (say) Rolling Stones fan, and decides to rip every album they've ever made and stick them out on the net. You start missing posts you really *want* because he's eaten all the spool space. And as soon as spool becomes available, he eats it again. What would you do? Just keep buying more disks (and more machines to house them), or tell your friend to cool it? And if he refuses to cool it, what then? Do you have some sort of responsibility to provide disk space for him? Sure, he's a friend and all, but you're missing parts 2 and 5 of a 7-part bootleg you really wanted, because he just got a copy of _Exile on Main Street_. And then you find out he's giving a feed to his friend, who's into world music and starts posting 500K a day of Guatemalan accordian tunes...
What would YOU do?
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The way I see it, the majority of AOL use is people having sex in chat rooms. Now that they (AOL) have access to media distribution (not that shipping AOL disks doesn't count as "media distribution"...), I think it'll only be a short time before we start seeing a lot more pr0n on cable!
Amen to that, brother! My question is, how are action games going to work under a PMT scheduler? Just boost their priority? Or maybe tweek the scheduler to give a guaranteed X% of the processor to a particular class of app (see the Bach book for an explanation of this)? Or all most of the new games multithreaded?
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The big advantage is not so much that the cache is larger, it's that the cache runs at full processor speed. In all non-Xeon Pentia (II/III), the L2 cache runs at half clock speed. The original P-IIs actually offered very little speed advantage over the PPro (which has a full-speed cache), even though they had higher clock speeds.
the attitude "I know Oracle can do the job, so we'll use that"
Well, duh. Dunno where you work, but where I work we have plenty enough to do without evaluating which is the "perfect" database for our applications. Oracle works: fine, use that. Now, how are we going to get this all done in two months? How are we going to get the FR list approved? Is there a third-party toolkit available that handles both DOM and XML?
Informix? UPDATE TableA SET FieldA = (SELECT FieldB * 1.05 FROM TableA) won't work -- can't update the same table you're selecting from. Bit of a problem, that...
??? There is no "LOCK" command in SQL. Is this an MS Access thing?
I am (thankfully) not an expert, but doesn't RTF address this? I mean, I understand you won't be able to embed "live" spreadsheets and graphs (a la OLE), but won't it at least properly handle fonts, paragraph spacing and page breaks? The downside, of course, being that your file is considerably larger, and can take some time to convert.
Actually, what you want is SGML, but I don't know of any SGML-compliant word processors. Both XML and HTML are facets of SGML. Maybe what you really need is a HTML->Word translator (since Word will [allegedly] already output in HTML format).
that this site is run by the same folks who bring you Orange Alley -- "the site that pays you to bootleg"?
takes self-confidence but relies on a) the lack of testing at interview and b) employers not taking references
You forgot c) a total lack of ethics
I thought the problem was it was too diverse! Web page design OR application programming OR systems administration. Three pretty different areas.
My advice is to focus on one area (my suggestion: application development using Java). I'd also drop the web page from your resume. Personal pages are, by definition, not professional.
All IMHO, of course...
I remember an article mentioning that DEC had a "cooling tower" prototyped for the Alpha. A short tower filled with a non-water fluid. I don't think it ever made it past the prototype stage, at least I never heard about it again.
Keep in mind that some computations (e.g., solving systems of large matrices) are inherently single-threaded (since the results of one computation provide the inputs for the next). In this case, SMP will not help.
Check out the new toys at Microway -- 750MHz 21264s, 48-node Beowolf clusters, woo hoo!
Hey, it's the Magic 8-Ball interface!
would it be terribly difficult to create a C/C++ implementation of JACAL, or would it be best to start from scratch?
Might be most practical to just grab a copy of SIOD and wrap your C code around that.
For instance, if i modified your GPLed program and sold it to "JIM", would I then be required to send the source code, on floppy, to 10,000 people who then request it from me?
I believe this is so. You would be allowed to charge them for the media and postage (and possible some reasonable amount for the time & effort to create the floppies & mail them out, not sure about that though). But once you distribute it, you are obligated to make the source available to *anyone* who asks for it. Obviously, the most reasonable method would be to e-mail the appropriate files, or post them on a web site. I don't believe you are obligated to provide them in any specific format (e.g., you don't have to produce them on paper tape if someone asks), but you are obligated to make a reasonable effort.
Does JFS support file attributes
Hey, if it doesn't -- add 'em!
A number is even if it can be divided evenly by 2
A number is even if its LSB is zero...
Stored properly, writable CD's last 100 years or more
Evidence? I have several (audio) CDs from the early 80s which are no longer readable. OTOH, I have 9-tracks made at the same time which are still OK (presumably; I don't have access to a 9-track drive currently, but they were fine five years ago).
Personally, I think that microfiche is the way to go. Plastic lasts quite a while, and OCR software is already good enough to read in straight text in a standard typeface. And even if civilization collapses, all you'll need is a decent lens and a mirror to review your pre-cataclysm tax records...
If you bake a cake, are you not a baker?
If you sell your car to a friend, are you not a car salesman?
As always, the answer is "it depends"...
You can stuff huge organisations with "professionals" following "best practice engineering" and they'll still get trampled into the dust by a couple of smart kids working in a garage somewhere.
*snort!* What a crock of bullshit. I'd like to see "a couple of smart kids" crank out a few million lines of code to compete with something like SAP R3, the SABRE airline reservation system, or any other significant piece of software. Give them an impossible deadline and a bunch of conflicting user requirements (none of which are any fun to write solutions for) and tell me what you think they'll come up with. Sure, you can find dozens (if not hundreds) of small start-up companies who serve vertical markets (e.g. web page design) that could easily be run by a couple of smart kids, but don't "kid" yourself that you're going to find one of those companies producing a monster ERP system.
Still, this could be a big pain in the ass for people who aren't comfortable rooting around inside their computers.
IMHO, people who aren't comfortable "rooting around inside their computers" probably won't be writing their own code morphers. This isn't script kiddie stuff...
I also wonder whether it can multitask between different instruction sets. I guess the task switching overhead would be pretty brutal if there isn't room onchip for multiple instruction sets.
I would guess not, since there is only a single TLB, configured at boot time. Unless you wanted to flush it every time you changed instruction sets (!)
Somebody with a big home! I looked into picking up a Cray-I at a Los Alamos garage sale, and found out that it would take some US$800/mo worth of 440 3-phase to feed it. Not to mention the pair of VAX-11/785s to run I/O for it...
I order Dells for my business, but I am building a new machine for myself.
That's interesting, as my former company was a big Micron shop, until I pointed out that all we really wanted was the fastest machine with 128M of memory, a NIC, and at least a 6G HD. All the machines matching those specs from the retailers were gamers machines with 3D graphics cards, stereo sound cards and speakers, Winmodems, monitors and no NICs. So I pointed out that I could take our old machines, replace the MBs and throw in another HD for under $800. Of course, the new MBs used DIMMs, so we had to get some of those, and they had AGP slots, so we got new video cards too, so it wound up costing a lot less under $800 than I thought, but we got some kickass boxes, and we ordered a spare of each component, so downtime would be however long it took me to drive from home to my boss' house!
you're talking about a few hundred gigabytes a day of data.
Does anyone have a reliable figure for how much traffic is actually generated? "A few hundred gigabytes a day" is obviously way too high, but what is it really?
I spoke with someone who runs an ISP and they said that if it weren't for the binaries newsgroups, a year's worth of net news was about 2G. This was a couple of years ago, so I'm sure that number has tripled, but I can get a 20G drive for $200...
Is there any way to actually do an end run around the news servers and simply create my own private slow nntp server?
Let's say you did. You get a news feed from a local ISP and have complete control over what groups you get and how long posts are retained (after all, they're on *your* machine). And you can set it up so that your friends can dial in and get their news from you (maybe even using the news from your machine to set up their own news server on their box). You could set up your own local newsgroups, have your own news network going.
Then one of your friends becomes a big (say) Rolling Stones fan, and decides to rip every album they've ever made and stick them out on the net. You start missing posts you really *want* because he's eaten all the spool space. And as soon as spool becomes available, he eats it again. What would you do? Just keep buying more disks (and more machines to house them), or tell your friend to cool it? And if he refuses to cool it, what then? Do you have some sort of responsibility to provide disk space for him? Sure, he's a friend and all, but you're missing parts 2 and 5 of a 7-part bootleg you really wanted, because he just got a copy of _Exile on Main Street_. And then you find out he's giving a feed to his friend, who's into world music and starts posting 500K a day of Guatemalan accordian tunes...
What would YOU do?
The way I see it, the majority of AOL use is people having sex in chat rooms. Now that they (AOL) have access to media distribution (not that shipping AOL disks doesn't count as "media distribution"...), I think it'll only be a short time before we start seeing a lot more pr0n on cable!
Amen to that, brother! My question is, how are action games going to work under a PMT scheduler? Just boost their priority? Or maybe tweek the scheduler to give a guaranteed X% of the processor to a particular class of app (see the Bach book for an explanation of this)? Or all most of the new games multithreaded?