When the server costs $1m (as the Linux cluster does), the cost of the Microsoft licences starts to become somewhat insignificant. It only makes a difference when the cost comes down, as other posters have already mentioned.
The SGI box is described as being clustered. So presumably that means a 4-way cluster with 4 CPUs each, versus the Compaq's single-node 8 CPUs. Which means the Linux option still costs way more to implement. Back to square one!
Also that the SGI system is a cluster with a total of 16 processors, compared with the Compaq's single-node 8 processors. Talk about not comparing like with like...
We had Netware 3.12 servers that just ran and ran - easily up to 2 years each. The only thing that affected their uptime was the hardware failures caused by them running for so long!
Compare that with the since-replaced-by-Linux NT servers that were rebooted every six months, and the replaced-the-NT-and-Novell Linux servers that were rebooted once every other month (on average).
Netware 3.1x might not be as pretty as NT or as clever as Linux, but for authenticating users and sharing out files/printers, there's still nothing better!
Actually, you didn't read it here first... this story was posted on the 30th March on The Register
Although you seem to have researched (or reproduced someone else's) material a little more in depth, this is not new news... I notice even the AYB reference was already used their as well.
Well, given that you are asked as part of the installation process what sort of function your box will provide (workstation, development, or server), I would say that your question is easily answered.
I installed the server version in high-security mode (are you listening, RedHat), and it has made a great proxy server for my home network. No un-necessary services running (in fact, by default, next to no services are running at all, they must be turned on by the sysadmin).
I would imagine that they are nice environmentalists and recycle their waste products; lots of water to be reclaimed, and I'm sure they can use the, er, solid stuff for fertilised in the local grow-your-own hydroponics lab...
According to the BBC News website, the asteroid contains minerals worth approximately £2000bn. Given that it is one of millions of asteroids, and not a particularly big one at that, it's only a question of time before robotic mining of asteroids is a fact. No more strip mining the Earth (good for our environment), and removes asteroids from potential Earth collision courses (good for our survival as a species); someone just needs to develop the tech. Of course, all those minerals being dumped onto the world metal exchanges would totally crash the market, but I'm sure someone will work a way round that.
Perhaps they have a Linux laptop with a copy of DeCSS on it - I can just see a lawyer trying to book a seat on the Shuttle so he can go up and slap a writ on them:-) I know what my response would be, and it would involve the lawyer, an airlock, and no spacesuit...
If we were a little more technologically advanced, maybe some hacker could pop up and graffiti the DeCSS source code on to the Earth-facing side of the space station, so that anyone with a telescope can read it!
So much for Torvalds saying "We will only release it when it's ready". Looks like Microsoft aren't the only ones who can rush a buggy product into release.
From what I understand, the Sahara was caused by (of course) human activity, and (not so of course) goat activity. The people who inhabited these areas ere so many years ago, kept goats. The land was green and fertile, with lots of grass. Since the number of goats (or other domestic herbivores) was a sign of status, people aimed to have a *lot* of them. And they ate the good grass. As the grass was cropped away, it exposed the soil beneath, which would get blown away in the wind, turning to scrubland, and eventually desert.
So slowly over the years, the desert has spread across a flippin' great wodge of Northern Africa.
If you follow my line of reasoning, the only way to make sure that the newly-reterraformed Sahara is to kill the goats/cows/ox/camels of all the local tribes, taking away one of their prime sources of food/money.
Face it - humans have truly fscked up this planet. If we go to Mars, we'll only fsck it up as well.
(Oh, and as an argument against releasing microbes and stuff to create a greenhouse environment and all that crap, what happened to the search for Martian life? Scientists could come across something, and never be 100% certain that it wasn't just some evolved Terran lifeform that some irresponsible types sent over years previously. Read Stanley Kim Robinson's Mars series (Red/Green/Blue Mars) - really gives good perspectives on both sides of the argument)
If you're running on Windows, try using Omni - that supports AIM, Gnutella, ICQ, MSN, Napster and Yahoo... yup, 6 different IM serviecs in one handy app.
I got fed up with ICQ because it is turning into serious bloatware - 8Mb in RAM and growing. Even MS's offering was smaller than that! Miranda ICQ weighs in at only 450Kb, but lacks too much functionality yet to be a real replacement.
My site (URL above *plug plug*!) passes W3Cs XHTML Transitional compliance tests and CSS-1 compliance, and guess what? It renders perfectly on: IE (4+), Netscape (4.7+), Opera (4+), Neoplanet (Lynx obviously is a different kettle of fish), and on different platforms too (PC/Mac/Linux - I'd test it on more if I had access to them). It would render fine on WebTV without modification if the browser behaved itself and ignored non-recognised tags (it chokes on the tag).
The problem really is sloppy coding and poor testing. More companies should provide tools like CSE HTML Validator (which is what I've used, along with W3C's own tools, to verify Dreamweaver's output).
As a final word, I am a professional ASP developer, and I go to the same lengths to make sure that my ASP output is as valid as my HTML. I'm wondering just how valid ASP.NETs output will be...
Really *knowing* that We Are Not Alone would have a major impact on the collective human psyche (as well as drive a huge increase in the sales of weaponry to mid-West USA survivalists *grin*). We don't have to be able to travel a couple of hundred light years to meet them.
One big problem is that we've only been emitting radio signals ourselves for the past 100 years. An alien civilisation would have to be at a *very* similar stage to ours to pick us up (or vice versa). How many are we missing because they don't use those old-fashioned radio waves, or haven't invented them yet?
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It could be worse... people made good money to see the pure historical revisionism that was U-571 (or whichever number it was).
That's why people were so upset when Intel came up with that winning idea - simply because everyone could see this one coming. Kudos to AMD to not even going down that route.
Personally, I think we should all be jolly grateful that MS is magnaminous enough to accept our unworthy money, us being the contemptible crackers and pirates that we all are:-)
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Imagine all the llamas who will make almost every word point to http://goatse.cx
And SourceForge/Apache.org/OSDN all use IIS. No wonder they get hacked :-)
When the server costs $1m (as the Linux cluster does), the cost of the Microsoft licences starts to become somewhat insignificant. It only makes a difference when the cost comes down, as other posters have already mentioned.
The SGI box is described as being clustered. So presumably that means a 4-way cluster with 4 CPUs each, versus the Compaq's single-node 8 CPUs. Which means the Linux option still costs way more to implement. Back to square one!
Also that the SGI system is a cluster with a total of 16 processors, compared with the Compaq's single-node 8 processors. Talk about not comparing like with like...
We had Netware 3.12 servers that just ran and ran - easily up to 2 years each. The only thing that affected their uptime was the hardware failures caused by them running for so long!
Compare that with the since-replaced-by-Linux NT servers that were rebooted every six months, and the replaced-the-NT-and-Novell Linux servers that were rebooted once every other month (on average).
Netware 3.1x might not be as pretty as NT or as clever as Linux, but for authenticating users and sharing out files/printers, there's still nothing better!
Actually, you didn't read it here first... this story was posted on the 30th March on The Register
Although you seem to have researched (or reproduced someone else's) material a little more in depth, this is not new news... I notice even the AYB reference was already used their as well.
Try installing ReiserFS. Say goodbye to those long waits while fsck, er, fscks. That'll cut back time on your reboot...
So in other words, rather like the proprietary extensions that Microsoft got slapped down for, and that Slashdot got all upset about.
Either the pot is calling the kettle black, or am I missing something?
Well, given that you are asked as part of the installation process what sort of function your box will provide (workstation, development, or server), I would say that your question is easily answered.
I installed the server version in high-security mode (are you listening, RedHat), and it has made a great proxy server for my home network. No un-necessary services running (in fact, by default, next to no services are running at all, they must be turned on by the sysadmin).
Not that old... I'm (only) 27, and I well remember building 900bps modems out of 555 timers and op-amps on nice blue breadboards at uni.
:-)
Or are you a 13 year old pipsqueak?
Someone set us up the bomb!
I would imagine that they are nice environmentalists and recycle their waste products; lots of water to be reclaimed, and I'm sure they can use the, er, solid stuff for fertilised in the local grow-your-own hydroponics lab...
According to the BBC News website, the asteroid contains minerals worth approximately £2000bn. Given that it is one of millions of asteroids, and not a particularly big one at that, it's only a question of time before robotic mining of asteroids is a fact. No more strip mining the Earth (good for our environment), and removes asteroids from potential Earth collision courses (good for our survival as a species); someone just needs to develop the tech. Of course, all those minerals being dumped onto the world metal exchanges would totally crash the market, but I'm sure someone will work a way round that.
Perhaps they have a Linux laptop with a copy of DeCSS on it - I can just see a lawyer trying to book a seat on the Shuttle so he can go up and slap a writ on them :-) I know what my response would be, and it would involve the lawyer, an airlock, and no spacesuit...
If we were a little more technologically advanced, maybe some hacker could pop up and graffiti the DeCSS source code on to the Earth-facing side of the space station, so that anyone with a telescope can read it!
So much for Torvalds saying "We will only release it when it's ready". Looks like Microsoft aren't the only ones who can rush a buggy product into release.
4 *weeks* for a point update?
From what I understand, the Sahara was caused by (of course) human activity, and (not so of course) goat activity. The people who inhabited these areas ere so many years ago, kept goats. The land was green and fertile, with lots of grass. Since the number of goats (or other domestic herbivores) was a sign of status, people aimed to have a *lot* of them. And they ate the good grass. As the grass was cropped away, it exposed the soil beneath, which would get blown away in the wind, turning to scrubland, and eventually desert.
So slowly over the years, the desert has spread across a flippin' great wodge of Northern Africa.
If you follow my line of reasoning, the only way to make sure that the newly-reterraformed Sahara is to kill the goats/cows/ox/camels of all the local tribes, taking away one of their prime sources of food/money.
Face it - humans have truly fscked up this planet. If we go to Mars, we'll only fsck it up as well.
(Oh, and as an argument against releasing microbes and stuff to create a greenhouse environment and all that crap, what happened to the search for Martian life? Scientists could come across something, and never be 100% certain that it wasn't just some evolved Terran lifeform that some irresponsible types sent over years previously. Read Stanley Kim Robinson's Mars series (Red/Green/Blue Mars) - really gives good perspectives on both sides of the argument)
If you're running on Windows, try using Omni - that supports AIM, Gnutella, ICQ, MSN, Napster and Yahoo... yup, 6 different IM serviecs in one handy app.
I got fed up with ICQ because it is turning into serious bloatware - 8Mb in RAM and growing. Even MS's offering was smaller than that! Miranda ICQ weighs in at only 450Kb, but lacks too much functionality yet to be a real replacement.
She used to be a silicone woman. Sheesh...
I would have called Linux distros shovelware more than bloatware...
My site (URL above *plug plug*!) passes W3Cs XHTML Transitional compliance tests and CSS-1 compliance, and guess what? It renders perfectly on: IE (4+), Netscape (4.7+), Opera (4+), Neoplanet (Lynx obviously is a different kettle of fish), and on different platforms too (PC/Mac/Linux - I'd test it on more if I had access to them). It would render fine on WebTV without modification if the browser behaved itself and ignored non-recognised tags (it chokes on the tag).
The problem really is sloppy coding and poor testing. More companies should provide tools like CSE HTML Validator (which is what I've used, along with W3C's own tools, to verify Dreamweaver's output).
As a final word, I am a professional ASP developer, and I go to the same lengths to make sure that my ASP output is as valid as my HTML. I'm wondering just how valid ASP.NETs output will be...
Really *knowing* that We Are Not Alone would have a major impact on the collective human psyche (as well as drive a huge increase in the sales of weaponry to mid-West USA survivalists *grin*). We don't have to be able to travel a couple of hundred light years to meet them.
One big problem is that we've only been emitting radio signals ourselves for the past 100 years. An alien civilisation would have to be at a *very* similar stage to ours to pick us up (or vice versa). How many are we missing because they don't use those old-fashioned radio waves, or haven't invented them yet?
It could be worse... people made good money to see the pure historical revisionism that was U-571 (or whichever number it was).
Just as well that Linux distros don't ship on multiple CDs, otherwise we could call the Holiest of OS's bloat- or shovel-ware.
So that's alright then...
That's why people were so upset when Intel came up with that winning idea - simply because everyone could see this one coming. Kudos to AMD to not even going down that route.
:-)
Personally, I think we should all be jolly grateful that MS is magnaminous enough to accept our unworthy money, us being the contemptible crackers and pirates that we all are