Wow, immediately after the post went up, the members started going up. Now at 240 members and #4 rank. Its like some eery geek herding instinct. Gotta go get the client now.... Bye.
The Pentium and compatible processor series' likewise don't use all of their address bits efficiently, and for the same reason. When it was designed they didn't believe the need for that much RAM would come up. They were wrong.
While incremental optimizations are exciting to the geek crowd, they don't compare to the potential to have large datasets in RAM. Having large RAM enables you to do things like edit high quality video interactively, build complex relationships on huge datasets and still serve the data in real time, use huge texture maps in your graphics design and many more wonderful things.
At best, SIMD compiler tweaks get you a couple extra FPS. Not the same order of magnitude.
You are correct, then. If you won't pony up for 6 gigs of registered ECC RAM, and you don't care about the added performance, you're best off with a 32 bit solution. Believe me though -- other people do care. Experience shows that the RAM will be with the reach of most users soon enough to matter, and within the reach of most budget consumers the year after. Since the budget minded purchase with a three year lifespan in mind, your 32 bit choice should do you well for now.
That much performance is silly anyhow for a normal person. If you're modelling geology to determine where to put the next well, maybe you need it. For most people a 2GHz machine with 512MB of RAM and an 80 GB drive is overkill.
For most of America air traffic control is coordinated on a machine almost as powerful as a 386.
The open, or public domain code and its functionality
The proprietary code and its functionality
The POSIX architecture
When Ransom Love bought Unix on a lark (my IPO was so huge... look, I can buy Unix...), the value of the name except as a trophy dropped to nil.
The public domain code and it's functionality lives on in BSD where some find it useful. Perhaps one day this branch will prove as versatile as Linux, but I doubt it.
The proprietary code and its functionality nobody in their right mind would want, because "The Future is Open(R)(TM)".
The POSIX architecture has been reimplemented in Linux in a more consistent way than using most proprietary *nix wares, and in parallel the technology of operating systems have been advanced to support more advanced concepts.
Before the parts were rent asunder, they ruled the server room. Now they have been broken apart, and like humpty dumpty, they'll not be put together again.
The purpose of government is, beyond defense, to deplete the surplus productivity. In an age where workers become ever more productive their exceess leisure would otherwise lead to great unhappiness and unrest.
While research ventures like NASA seem to be unlimited sinkholes to pour excess productivity into, actually the reverse is true. In the long term research always pays off, producing results which make people more productive.
To balance this we need even more bureaucracy and middle management in NASA, several layers of oversight for funding, safety and artistic merit, and that's still not enough.
As a beginning solution to the excess productivity problem I suggest we expend more public funds in the care and nurturing of feral cats.
So you've never dealt with a lawyer before? These lawyers know their involvement as a big name law firm was a PR stunt. They know the merit of their claim. As soon as the milk runs out they're on to the next cash cow.
No matter how poor it is, I'll be buying at least five if they become available. I'll buy the improved iterations when they come out if need be. When it comes to this choice, I'm a single issue consumer.
No. In the old Empire, the Jedi Masters dominate the galaxy with the light side of the Force. Annakin brings Balance by helping to annihilate them. The fullfillment of the prophecy is eagerly anticipated by the Jedi Masters because they (and you) don't read the classics and so are unaware of the ironic nature of prophecy.
8/12/2004 Redmond - Microsoft announced today the URA - "Universal Remote Administration" feature of its flagship Windows products is intended to ease the support of end users by helpdesk personnel, and is a subset of the previously announced "Universal Plug and Play" standard.
Industry security analyst Kevin Mitnick was laughing uncontrollably and unable to comment.
Although the hardware was identical, the load wasn't. I wasn't running services on the windows box because I'm not insane. Although the webserver was getting about 2 hits per second under linux in the background (and exercising the database server) and the mailserver was processing mail for my domains, the frame rates were still 30% higher than under OpenGL in Windows with no services. I play at 1280x1024.
I bought two identical platforms - one for myself and one for my partner. She prefers a different environment for now, but I installed it on her box to compare. It sucketh. The average frame rate is about 40, but it freezes for a moment every couple of seconds and like all windows boxes it crashes when you least want it to (but at least twice a day).
Yes, I play UT2K4 on my webserver. So fire me. But before you do, have a nice dinner.
UT2k4 works better on Linux. On identical hardware I get about 30% more FPS. If you have the CD version, run the shell script on CD1. Some caveats:
The installer only works in X
You'll need the driver installed for your video card first
Some distros use an obnoxious method for automounting CD's that conflict with the installer. Open another window to unmount and mount the CD's in this case
The installer writes to a number of directories including/usr/local/games/ut2004,/usr/share/applications,/usr/share/applnk/Games and/usr/local/bin. You'll need write access to these, so the installer may need to run as root. Once installed you can run as a normal user.
If you're not bouncing mail that landed in the catchall address, you are not being used as a "bounce relay" for that mail.
OTOH, if you reject that mail to the (forged by virus) sender, there is a chance the non-sender will open it and become infected with the virus.
Using a catchall makes it harder for real senders to find out why their mail to you is falling in a black hole, but it's still the responsible thing to do.
Why is it necessary to restart the computer in order to change one minor user preference? Restarting the computer is for replacing the OS with an updated one.
Today Media at $/TB is going to be IDE@200GB$508/TB.
Hire a guy to build you servers. You'll need one server per month, figure about $300 for the cpu and OS (this is slashdot. figure it out.) That's $1308 per month, plus whatever you pay your idiot nephew to set it up.
The good news is every month it gets cheaper.
Hint: Since your backup stream is 3mbps continuous, I'm going to guess you're using gigabit so add $100 per server for a switch network and NIC.
Throw the old servers in the attic as business needs require. Once it's built in our AO it costs about $1.00 a month worth of juice keep a server up, so the issue is really the business need to have the data be unavailable.
This might not be true in your area, but there are enough wide-open broadband + 802.11g access points in my area to anchor a freewan mesh of any size without even paying for internet access at all. Please note that many people (myself included) run their access points wide open deliberately.
Investment cost to host a freewan cell (802.11g) is about $100 upfront and $0 for ongoing costs. To anchor it to an ISP with acceptable TOS (or one that's known to turn a blind eye) is a minimal monthly many of us are already paying. Contrast that with the corpnet million dollar towers and the municipal $50 million dollar 802.11b networks and you begin to understand why the little guy has the advantage here.
When the mesh grows to the point where it's got consumers in the six figures, you can bet somebody is going to want to connect to it badly enough to pay the freight, and then the monthlies go away.
Apart from a solid municipal commitment to fiber-to-the-door, (and perhaps even then because of the side benefits) I don't see this not happening all over the country in the near future.
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Wow, immediately after the post went up, the members started going up. Now at 240 members and #4 rank. Its like some eery geek herding instinct. Gotta go get the client now.... Bye.
Yet.
While incremental optimizations are exciting to the geek crowd, they don't compare to the potential to have large datasets in RAM. Having large RAM enables you to do things like edit high quality video interactively, build complex relationships on huge datasets and still serve the data in real time, use huge texture maps in your graphics design and many more wonderful things.
At best, SIMD compiler tweaks get you a couple extra FPS. Not the same order of magnitude.
You are correct, then. If you won't pony up for 6 gigs of registered ECC RAM, and you don't care about the added performance, you're best off with a 32 bit solution. Believe me though -- other people do care. Experience shows that the RAM will be with the reach of most users soon enough to matter, and within the reach of most budget consumers the year after. Since the budget minded purchase with a three year lifespan in mind, your 32 bit choice should do you well for now.
That much performance is silly anyhow for a normal person. If you're modelling geology to determine where to put the next well, maybe you need it. For most people a 2GHz machine with 512MB of RAM and an 80 GB drive is overkill.
For most of America air traffic control is coordinated on a machine almost as powerful as a 386.
Because a processor with 64 bits of memory address bits can access more memory than one with only 32?
There are four relevant parts to Unix:
When Ransom Love bought Unix on a lark (my IPO was so huge... look, I can buy Unix...), the value of the name except as a trophy dropped to nil.
The public domain code and it's functionality lives on in BSD where some find it useful. Perhaps one day this branch will prove as versatile as Linux, but I doubt it.
The proprietary code and its functionality nobody in their right mind would want, because "The Future is Open(R)(TM)".
The POSIX architecture has been reimplemented in Linux in a more consistent way than using most proprietary *nix wares, and in parallel the technology of operating systems have been advanced to support more advanced concepts.
Before the parts were rent asunder, they ruled the server room. Now they have been broken apart, and like humpty dumpty, they'll not be put together again.
Unix is dead.
The purpose of government is, beyond defense, to deplete the surplus productivity. In an age where workers become ever more productive their exceess leisure would otherwise lead to great unhappiness and unrest.
While research ventures like NASA seem to be unlimited sinkholes to pour excess productivity into, actually the reverse is true. In the long term research always pays off, producing results which make people more productive.
To balance this we need even more bureaucracy and middle management in NASA, several layers of oversight for funding, safety and artistic merit, and that's still not enough.
As a beginning solution to the excess productivity problem I suggest we expend more public funds in the care and nurturing of feral cats.
So you've never dealt with a lawyer before? These lawyers know their involvement as a big name law firm was a PR stunt. They know the merit of their claim. As soon as the milk runs out they're on to the next cash cow.
Given a choice I'll take open, every time.
without the machine locking up. That's why they overclocked a P4 to 6GHz.
Unless the website designer intended to render a page that launches a vncserver to more conveniently 0wn your PC. Sheeple. Astroturf. Yuck.
No. In the old Empire, the Jedi Masters dominate the galaxy with the light side of the Force. Annakin brings Balance by helping to annihilate them. The fullfillment of the prophecy is eagerly anticipated by the Jedi Masters because they (and you) don't read the classics and so are unaware of the ironic nature of prophecy.
Industry security analyst Kevin Mitnick was laughing uncontrollably and unable to comment.
Because starting terminal services from a console was getting tedious...
This takes you to the Kuyper belt. From there, ion drive takes you the rest of the way.
By identical hardware, I meant:
Although the hardware was identical, the load wasn't. I wasn't running services on the windows box because I'm not insane. Although the webserver was getting about 2 hits per second under linux in the background (and exercising the database server) and the mailserver was processing mail for my domains, the frame rates were still 30% higher than under OpenGL in Windows with no services. I play at 1280x1024.
I bought two identical platforms - one for myself and one for my partner. She prefers a different environment for now, but I installed it on her box to compare. It sucketh. The average frame rate is about 40, but it freezes for a moment every couple of seconds and like all windows boxes it crashes when you least want it to (but at least twice a day).
Yes, I play UT2K4 on my webserver. So fire me. But before you do, have a nice dinner.
All your beowulf cluster are belong to us.
UT2k4 works better on Linux. On identical hardware I get about 30% more FPS. If you have the CD version, run the shell script on CD1. Some caveats:
- The installer only works in X
- You'll need the driver installed for your video card first
- Some distros use an obnoxious method for automounting CD's that conflict with the installer. Open another window to unmount and mount the CD's in this case
- The installer writes to a number of directories including
/usr/local/games/ut2004, /usr/share/applications, /usr/share/applnk/Games and /usr/local/bin. You'll need write access to these, so the installer may need to run as root. Once installed you can run as a normal user.
- Some Mods are not available for the linux version
- There is no linux version of the editor
Happy fragging!If you're not bouncing mail that landed in the catchall address, you are not being used as a "bounce relay" for that mail.
OTOH, if you reject that mail to the (forged by virus) sender, there is a chance the non-sender will open it and become infected with the virus.
Using a catchall makes it harder for real senders to find out why their mail to you is falling in a black hole, but it's still the responsible thing to do.
Why is it necessary to restart the computer in order to change one minor user preference? Restarting the computer is for replacing the OS with an updated one.
Today Media at $/TB is going to be IDE@200GB$508/TB.
Hire a guy to build you servers. You'll need one server per month, figure about $300 for the cpu and OS (this is slashdot. figure it out.) That's $1308 per month, plus whatever you pay your idiot nephew to set it up.
The good news is every month it gets cheaper.
Hint: Since your backup stream is 3mbps continuous, I'm going to guess you're using gigabit so add $100 per server for a switch network and NIC.
Throw the old servers in the attic as business needs require. Once it's built in our AO it costs about $1.00 a month worth of juice keep a server up, so the issue is really the business need to have the data be unavailable.
Sites running IIS as their web server.
You forgot to mention why it's to protect the children.
This is going to happen. Your "can't do" attitude indicates you're not going to be the one to do it. That is all.
The commodity hardware is available. The software is available. It has been done before.
This might not be true in your area, but there are enough wide-open broadband + 802.11g access points in my area to anchor a freewan mesh of any size without even paying for internet access at all. Please note that many people (myself included) run their access points wide open deliberately.
Investment cost to host a freewan cell (802.11g) is about $100 upfront and $0 for ongoing costs. To anchor it to an ISP with acceptable TOS (or one that's known to turn a blind eye) is a minimal monthly many of us are already paying. Contrast that with the corpnet million dollar towers and the municipal $50 million dollar 802.11b networks and you begin to understand why the little guy has the advantage here.
When the mesh grows to the point where it's got consumers in the six figures, you can bet somebody is going to want to connect to it badly enough to pay the freight, and then the monthlies go away.
Apart from a solid municipal commitment to fiber-to-the-door, (and perhaps even then because of the side benefits) I don't see this not happening all over the country in the near future.
Of course, YMMV.
build it!
Nobody is stopping you from getting your broadband enabled neigbors together and aggregating your bandwidth.