You can play it on up to three computers. To use it on another one all you have to do is install iTunes on it and authorize it (setting in iTunes menu) as an additional computer licensed to play that music. After that it will work fine, no need to login or anything.
It should be noted that the final result doesn't need to be anywhere near 80% efficiency to assure it second place on the list. The third place machine is only around 7 TFlops, meaning Big Mac could operate at as low as 40 to 45 percent efficiency and still take second.
Wouldn't each additional node have to be 100% efficient for this to happen
No. They would only have to be the same 80%. What this test is saying is that 128 nodes together are producing 80% of their theoretical peak (around 1.6 of 2 TFlops). If this efficiency is replicated through the rest of the nodes the final output would be around 80% of its peak (around 14 of 17.6 TFlops).
"It's been said that bringing a Macintosh into a corporate environment dominated by Windows-based PCs is not an easy task. Once you cut through the corporate red tape, then get through ignorant IT staff you still have to connect and gain access to all the services on the network. osViews editorial contributor Kevin Ledgister took on this challenge and passed the test with flying colors."
For the last two years, I have had to use a Dell laptop at work running Windows 2000 in a mid size company with 300-400 employees. After suffering through several complete rebuilds, blue screens, as well as dealing with patches and security upgrades, I decided that enough is enough.
I ordered the brand new 12" PowerBook on my own and decided that this would be my daily computer to replace my Dell. Quite a few people were curious at this silver beauty compared to the generic charcoal laptops on their desks -- and some even said that their next system will be a Mac too.
As I've come to learn however, integrating a Mac into an all PC world is not without its challenges.
IT Ignorance
The first challenge was dealing with an IT department that was completely ignorant of the Mac platform. Although they were helpful and curious about the Macintosh, they really couldn't offer much help so I was on my own. At my place of employment, they use Active Directory and after doing a lot of reading on the subject, I realized that it was not going to be the easiest transition.
When my PowerBook arrived, I immediately plugged a network cable into it, but for some reason, it was not being assigned an IP address. I checked all the settings and they were correct. I even plugged my laptop into a router outside of our network and it worked fine. But inside our corporate network, I would only get a 169... number which meant that I wasn't getting one from the network server.
I downloaded ADmitMac from Thursby hoping that it would help connect me to the laptop but that required a valid IP address as well so I still was left out in the cold.
Frustrated, I connected my PowerBook using the phone line by my desk and dialed into our corporate network, which was slow, but at least I could browse the Internet and check email to our Exchange servers running Outlook for Windows under Citrix. No one was able to help explain why this was happening. Not Apple, nor our IT department.
Ups and Downs
After two days of this, I got disconnected again from the phone connection but iChat stayed active and I was still getting messages! I opened up the System Preferences and suddenly I had an assigned IP address. I ran to the IT department asking for an explanation for what they did, to which they replied, "Nothing."
So now I had high-speed access to the network but not all was solved.
I still couldn't browse network shares and I tried joining our Active Directory domain using Admit Mac but it wouldn't let me join. So, I fired up Virtual PC, installed Windows 2000, and asked an IT person to join Win2k to the domain and it worked. I was also able to browse the network using a Citrix client but this was still hokey.
Little did I know that ADmit Mac didn't work because I didn't have rights to join a computer to the domain. But a week after I got all this up and running, I accidentally chose the Connect to Server function when I meant to go to a folder and Voila! I could see network shares!
I don't know when this happened but I could now browse through the servers and mount them on my desktop. I ran back to IT again asking if they had turned on Services for Mac, which I had asked them to consider. Again they said that no changes were made to the network at all.
Another unsolved mystery perhaps but I didn't care. No longer would I need to go through a Windows interface for network share
From the CNet article: "Jacobs refused to divulge the reasons for his change of heart, saying only that "when the original firestorm cleared and we had a chance to poll the different organizations (including customers, advisers and shareholders) I started to have a different picture on how to resolve the issue."
In other words, everyone told you how completely insane you were and you figured it would be better not to make a total ass of yourself for your supporters.
will it be optimized for SIMD and the other new major processor enhancements like folding and distributed.net have done?
A lot of people I know moved on to other projects where they felt their CPU time would be put to better use because of lack of support for this.
or has anyone else noticed that the Apple section has started to turn into Ask Slashdot for anything related to Macs?
If you have a hardware problem with your machine, chances are no one here is going to be able to help you.
I am not advocating that space travel be stopped or slowed down. But that is not an excuse to be any less vigilant. When it's people's lives you are talking about, your attitude can't just be "oh well, its necessary and going to happen occasionally."
I'll also guarantee you that we're getting an awful lot smarter about this and we're going to come back stronger and safer as a result.
The same kind of stuff was said after Challenger. Then over the years everyone got complacent again and reverted to the old attitude. Maybe they've learned that lesson now and won't make the same mistake three times. It remains to be seen though.
I have used my Powerbook as a recording studio and it has worked very well for me. They only thing I would caution others about is do NOT burn a master cd on it. All laptop cd burners have relatively weak lasers compared to their desktop counterparts and will not produce you as reliable of a disc.
Exactly. Which means of those that switched to Server 2003 from something else, only a very small number decided to give up Linux. Not hard to guess why.
The heading should read "Only 5% of Windows Server 2003 users switched from Linux."
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You can play it on up to three computers. To use it on another one all you have to do is install iTunes on it and authorize it (setting in iTunes menu) as an additional computer licensed to play that music. After that it will work fine, no need to login or anything.
Look at all the Windows using slashdotters coming out of the woodwork now that it sucks one notch less. ;)
Oops, yeah I meant 3rd place. Even if they don't get second they are still going to be up there. My bad.
It should be noted that the final result doesn't need to be anywhere near 80% efficiency to assure it second place on the list. The third place machine is only around 7 TFlops, meaning Big Mac could operate at as low as 40 to 45 percent efficiency and still take second.
The submitter stated 128 nodes. This is wrong. The article states 128 processors which would be 64 nodes.
Wouldn't each additional node have to be 100% efficient for this to happen
No. They would only have to be the same 80%. What this test is saying is that 128 nodes together are producing 80% of their theoretical peak (around 1.6 of 2 TFlops). If this efficiency is replicated through the rest of the nodes the final output would be around 80% of its peak (around 14 of 17.6 TFlops).
No, you are not the only one. I'm glad this is fixed.
I have no need to whore, I've been at the top a good while now.
"I would do more on the Mac if Dreamveawer was not such a dog on MacOS X..."
2004 is definitely an improvement.
Ha, too late. ;)
Contributor: Kevin Ledgister
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"It's been said that bringing a Macintosh into a corporate environment dominated by Windows-based PCs is not an easy task. Once you cut through the corporate red tape, then get through ignorant IT staff you still have to connect and gain access to all the services on the network. osViews editorial contributor Kevin Ledgister took on this challenge and passed the test with flying colors."
For the last two years, I have had to use a Dell laptop at work running Windows 2000 in a mid size company with 300-400 employees. After suffering through several complete rebuilds, blue screens, as well as dealing with patches and security upgrades, I decided that enough is enough.
I ordered the brand new 12" PowerBook on my own and decided that this would be my daily computer to replace my Dell. Quite a few people were curious at this silver beauty compared to the generic charcoal laptops on their desks -- and some even said that their next system will be a Mac too.
As I've come to learn however, integrating a Mac into an all PC world is not without its challenges.
IT Ignorance
The first challenge was dealing with an IT department that was completely ignorant of the Mac platform. Although they were helpful and curious about the Macintosh, they really couldn't offer much help so I was on my own. At my place of employment, they use Active Directory and after doing a lot of reading on the subject, I realized that it was not going to be the easiest transition.
When my PowerBook arrived, I immediately plugged a network cable into it, but for some reason, it was not being assigned an IP address. I checked all the settings and they were correct. I even plugged my laptop into a router outside of our network and it worked fine. But inside our corporate network, I would only get a 169... number which meant that I wasn't getting one from the network server.
I downloaded ADmitMac from Thursby hoping that it would help connect me to the laptop but that required a valid IP address as well so I still was left out in the cold.
Frustrated, I connected my PowerBook using the phone line by my desk and dialed into our corporate network, which was slow, but at least I could browse the Internet and check email to our Exchange servers running Outlook for Windows under Citrix. No one was able to help explain why this was happening. Not Apple, nor our IT department.
Ups and Downs
After two days of this, I got disconnected again from the phone connection but iChat stayed active and I was still getting messages! I opened up the System Preferences and suddenly I had an assigned IP address. I ran to the IT department asking for an explanation for what they did, to which they replied, "Nothing."
So now I had high-speed access to the network but not all was solved.
I still couldn't browse network shares and I tried joining our Active Directory domain using Admit Mac but it wouldn't let me join. So, I fired up Virtual PC, installed Windows 2000, and asked an IT person to join Win2k to the domain and it worked. I was also able to browse the network using a Citrix client but this was still hokey.
Little did I know that ADmit Mac didn't work because I didn't have rights to join a computer to the domain. But a week after I got all this up and running, I accidentally chose the Connect to Server function when I meant to go to a folder and Voila! I could see network shares!
I don't know when this happened but I could now browse through the servers and mount them on my desktop. I ran back to IT again asking if they had turned on Services for Mac, which I had asked them to consider. Again they said that no changes were made to the network at all.
Another unsolved mystery perhaps but I didn't care. No longer would I need to go through a Windows interface for network share
From the CNet article:
"Jacobs refused to divulge the reasons for his change of heart, saying only that "when the original firestorm cleared and we had a chance to poll the different organizations (including customers, advisers and shareholders) I started to have a different picture on how to resolve the issue."
In other words, everyone told you how completely insane you were and you figured it would be better not to make a total ass of yourself for your supporters.
will it be optimized for SIMD and the other new major processor enhancements like folding and distributed.net have done? A lot of people I know moved on to other projects where they felt their CPU time would be put to better use because of lack of support for this.
It's once per year for Premier ADC members ($500/yr). It's once per lifetime for student ADC members ($99/yr).
or has anyone else noticed that the Apple section has started to turn into Ask Slashdot for anything related to Macs? If you have a hardware problem with your machine, chances are no one here is going to be able to help you.
It's not once a year. It's once per lifetime.
what is the draw for the average consumer?
I mean at least have a decent sideshow or something.
Like, Hilary Rosen juggling piggy banks of 12 year olds.
then again...
What XP Set out to Fix
XP set out to fix a lot of things.
How XP Fixes it
Unfortunately it fixed few of them.
Newcomer huh. Trust me its not worth it. (I just finished the internet.)
I am not advocating that space travel be stopped or slowed down. But that is not an excuse to be any less vigilant. When it's people's lives you are talking about, your attitude can't just be "oh well, its necessary and going to happen occasionally."
I'll also guarantee you that we're getting an awful lot smarter about this and we're going to come back stronger and safer as a result.
The same kind of stuff was said after Challenger. Then over the years everyone got complacent again and reverted to the old attitude. Maybe they've learned that lesson now and won't make the same mistake three times. It remains to be seen though.
Global Thermonuclear War!
Die Zedminos!
Murderers continue to get 5 to 10 in some states.
I have used my Powerbook as a recording studio and it has worked very well for me. They only thing I would caution others about is do NOT burn a master cd on it. All laptop cd burners have relatively weak lasers compared to their desktop counterparts and will not produce you as reliable of a disc.
Exactly. Which means of those that switched to Server 2003 from something else, only a very small number decided to give up Linux. Not hard to guess why.
The heading should read "Only 5% of Windows Server 2003 users switched from Linux."