FreeBSD 10.0 will boot on ZFS, after an easy installation where you do shit on the command line but it's very easy due to the documentation. No idea about doing it on a Macintosh though. That was just a quick try in a vbox VM.
Wow, you're just too ignorant. The Pentium Pro started doing this, came out in 1995 and was one of the fastest CPU on par with high end RISC. With that and the SMP support, it was an important step in the replacement of RISC workstations and servers by x86 PCs. A good Pentium III at 700MHz to 1GHz, with an architecture close to the Pentium Pro, still has performance comparable to a low end ARM (though it lacks multicore, H264 decoder etc.)
One option left is to defect to North Korea and learn the language, where they still use KDE 3! The young and intrepid dear leader made a Mac OS clone out of it, using his outstanding mind and will. So you'll have to like it. On the plus side there is really no option of not liking it. There's an actual benevolent dictator for life. If Red Star OS 4.0 doesn't switch to systemd, it will really be time to pack and leave.
I remember reading that the ship was made with the option of using eight boilers powered with the combustion of classical fuels. That's perhaps the best explanation for the madness of the design. Seems much simpler to have two reactors.
There aren't that many options for browsers, in particular major non crashy ones. Without Mozilla I would probably have to run Windows NT 6.x and Internet Explorer.
Maybe running the proprietary graphics driver would make it work, but it has or had just one particular little bug meaning graphics card or monitor would have to be changed. Well, no. The graphics card is only 8 year old but with lots of gigaflops and few watts, and monitor only 10 year old.
A little idea to determine safe voltage : see what is used in electrical trains. There is 3000V DC, but often phased out in the past, present or future in favor of 25kV AC. 1500V DC is more common and is used by the French railways, so I guess it is more realistic. And half that is used by trams, which would be even more realistic but that's getting boringly low.
It's working well for CPUs! one hundred amps in that little square, even more than than for high end GPUs. You even have the main PSU supplying the power through a much lower number of connectors to the power circuitry surrounding CPU and GPU, at about 10x the voltage.
For a car yes we'd have a combination of high voltage, active cooling of shit and not charging as fast as that. For stationary use by electric utilities the battery would probably be very useful even with huge power connector.
That hacked jet printer is interesting. Maybe a print server will be useful, with the function of printing a page of random interesting text once in a week so that the printing head don't get clogged from stale unused ink. Inkjet is evil for that (and after an Epson one that refused to print black when it was out of yellow, how can they be trusted?, which one can be trusted?)
The web server serves as a non graphical front-end too. You can ssh into the piece of crap computer with parallel port laser printer attached, and run elinks from there. That's the power of web 1.0 for you.
And if you can't copy-paste or scp it or whatever.. time to carry a pen or pencil at all times, write the password for further entry on a little piece of paper and then eat the piece of paper when done.
European Union is a Goldman Sachs franchise. You US slashdot readers are always overestimating it. The continent does have traditions of consumer protection.. so that people consume as much as possible, and healthcare so that workers get back to work ASAP. Not a bad thing in itself but as time passes things are always drifting more right-wing and pro-corporate. The upcoming transatlantic treaty will make things worse (more americanized)
I believe you exaggerate it a bit. Lower cost, thinner panels must use less energy to make than older ones. Still, it ain't exactly great. Best used by poor off-grid people (such as white trailer trash, if you excuse me these words) with an overall low power use.
Measuring vertical resolution was an artifact of CRTs. Good old TVs, including late ones that were in HD had a fixed number of lines as the screen's area is scanned that way ; horizontal defintion is undefined, it's left to the analog signal's whims. Now that the cathode ray tubes and analog signals both went away (except maybe VGA, which is a vastly superior analog signal able to transmit individual pixels anyway) there is no need for vertical resolution to prevail anymore.
True but you're well under $180 if you use a cheapie ITX case w/ 65W PSU, one stick of 2GB (new or bought from someone who upgrades a laptop) and an 8GB USB flash drive or no local storage at all (boot from the network)
I had a simple gut feeling seeing a "study" ordered by the European Commission, which I absolutely don't trust for anything. The study is more like a school report and its authors are blatantly partial.
Ecofys is an energy company, part of Eneco group which among things has an interest in a huge wind farm off-shore south of UK called Navitus Bay.
Intel Quark, Xcore86 (a variant of Vortex86DX with integrated VGA), Vortex86EX, Geode LX (too old) The performance may be around rpi but you get ethernet that's not on USB, a real COM port sometimes.
ARMv8 servers are coming soon and will simply use UEFI. That solves booting the bootloader ; for hardware discovery, even that right on the SoC instead of behind PCIe or USB, will the UEFI help and be enough? It will certainly make things more PC-like at least (then it will be up to Pi-like boards to implement UEFI)
Quark board rev 2 (Intel Galileo) gives you PoE with an additional module, they say. 256MB RAM. It's my understanding PoE works at 100Mb/s. Half the cable is used for DC power afterall.
A bit bigger and the RAM is not included, but takes up to 16GB. I guess the parellel port will do some basic GPIO duties. I'll even call it a single board computer.
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Can the 5K Mac be used as a display with the use of two Thunderbolt 2?, perhaps they didn't bother but having the option would have been useful.
FreeBSD 10.0 will boot on ZFS, after an easy installation where you do shit on the command line but it's very easy due to the documentation. No idea about doing it on a Macintosh though. That was just a quick try in a vbox VM.
More explicitly Pentium III perhaps has performance around Cortex A5 or A7..
Wow, you're just too ignorant. The Pentium Pro started doing this, came out in 1995 and was one of the fastest CPU on par with high end RISC. With that and the SMP support, it was an important step in the replacement of RISC workstations and servers by x86 PCs. A good Pentium III at 700MHz to 1GHz, with an architecture close to the Pentium Pro, still has performance comparable to a low end ARM (though it lacks multicore, H264 decoder etc.)
One option left is to defect to North Korea and learn the language, where they still use KDE 3!
The young and intrepid dear leader made a Mac OS clone out of it, using his outstanding mind and will. So you'll have to like it. On the plus side there is really no option of not liking it. There's an actual benevolent dictator for life.
If Red Star OS 4.0 doesn't switch to systemd, it will really be time to pack and leave.
I remember reading that the ship was made with the option of using eight boilers powered with the combustion of classical fuels.
That's perhaps the best explanation for the madness of the design. Seems much simpler to have two reactors.
Nokia 130.
There aren't that many options for browsers, in particular major non crashy ones. Without Mozilla I would probably have to run Windows NT 6.x and Internet Explorer.
Sadly on a particular computer all WebGL looks like this, even though OpenGL works in other apps.
http://i.imgur.com/Aoj38Ra.png
Maybe running the proprietary graphics driver would make it work, but it has or had just one particular little bug meaning graphics card or monitor would have to be changed. Well, no. The graphics card is only 8 year old but with lots of gigaflops and few watts, and monitor only 10 year old.
A little idea to determine safe voltage : see what is used in electrical trains.
There is 3000V DC, but often phased out in the past, present or future in favor of 25kV AC.
1500V DC is more common and is used by the French railways, so I guess it is more realistic. And half that is used by trams, which would be even more realistic but that's getting boringly low.
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It's working well for CPUs! one hundred amps in that little square, even more than than for high end GPUs.
You even have the main PSU supplying the power through a much lower number of connectors to the power circuitry surrounding CPU and GPU, at about 10x the voltage.
For a car yes we'd have a combination of high voltage, active cooling of shit and not charging as fast as that.
For stationary use by electric utilities the battery would probably be very useful even with huge power connector.
That hacked jet printer is interesting. Maybe a print server will be useful, with the function of printing a page of random interesting text once in a week so that the printing head don't get clogged from stale unused ink.
Inkjet is evil for that (and after an Epson one that refused to print black when it was out of yellow, how can they be trusted?, which one can be trusted?)
The web server serves as a non graphical front-end too.
You can ssh into the piece of crap computer with parallel port laser printer attached, and run elinks from there.
That's the power of web 1.0 for you.
indeed my bank uses a "keyboard" popup with randomized keys. It's only digits though and not many of them.
And if you can't copy-paste or scp it or whatever.. time to carry a pen or pencil at all times, write the password for further entry on a little piece of paper and then eat the piece of paper when done.
European Union is a Goldman Sachs franchise. You US slashdot readers are always overestimating it.
The continent does have traditions of consumer protection.. so that people consume as much as possible, and healthcare so that workers get back to work ASAP. Not a bad thing in itself but as time passes things are always drifting more right-wing and pro-corporate. The upcoming transatlantic treaty will make things worse (more americanized)
I believe you exaggerate it a bit. Lower cost, thinner panels must use less energy to make than older ones. Still, it ain't exactly great.
Best used by poor off-grid people (such as white trailer trash, if you excuse me these words) with an overall low power use.
Measuring vertical resolution was an artifact of CRTs. Good old TVs, including late ones that were in HD had a fixed number of lines as the screen's area is scanned that way ; horizontal defintion is undefined, it's left to the analog signal's whims.
Now that the cathode ray tubes and analog signals both went away (except maybe VGA, which is a vastly superior analog signal able to transmit individual pixels anyway) there is no need for vertical resolution to prevail anymore.
True but you're well under $180 if you use a cheapie ITX case w/ 65W PSU, one stick of 2GB (new or bought from someone who upgrades a laptop) and an 8GB USB flash drive or no local storage at all (boot from the network)
I had a simple gut feeling seeing a "study" ordered by the European Commission, which I absolutely don't trust for anything. The study is more like a school report and its authors are blatantly partial.
Ecofys is an energy company, part of Eneco group which among things has an interest in a huge wind farm off-shore south of UK called Navitus Bay.
So you want anything that's not Pi.
Need something available and supported, maybe VIA APC but I don't really know.
Intel Quark, Xcore86 (a variant of Vortex86DX with integrated VGA), Vortex86EX, Geode LX (too old)
The performance may be around rpi but you get ethernet that's not on USB, a real COM port sometimes.
ARMv8 servers are coming soon and will simply use UEFI. That solves booting the bootloader ; for hardware discovery, even that right on the SoC instead of behind PCIe or USB, will the UEFI help and be enough?
It will certainly make things more PC-like at least (then it will be up to Pi-like boards to implement UEFI)
Quark board rev 2 (Intel Galileo) gives you PoE with an additional module, they say. 256MB RAM.
It's my understanding PoE works at 100Mb/s. Half the cable is used for DC power afterall.
ASRock D1800B-ITX
A bit bigger and the RAM is not included, but takes up to 16GB.
I guess the parellel port will do some basic GPIO duties. I'll even call it a single board computer.