This is thing with these ratings ideas, you can slap warnings and ratings over games as much as you want, but it still doesn't stop shops like GAME selling them to kids, (and lets face it, the majority of places like this are staffed by kids that probably aren't old enough themselves to buy it either, let alone sell it).
But more importantly, it doesn't stop parents buying these 'unsuitable' games for their kids, I myself have also been in GAME, and witnessed parents buying games like Vice City, etc. for kids who are barely teenagers, just because the kids are tugging at their parents' arms screaming "I want! I want!", and the parents are just giving in to get a quiet time. I've never seen a parent examine the box, nor have I ever seen a sales representative inquire if the game is actually for the children and that it might not be suitable.
Tablespaces allow you to do things like place a table that is 90 percent read and 10 percent write on one RAID array while taking another table that is maybe 50 percent write and 50 percent read on another table and then taking the Postgres WAL and placing that on a completely different array.
It's fairly straightforward to put the WAL on a separate disk/array already, just symlink the data/pg_xlog directory elsewhere, or mount your separate disk/array at that point.
Popping tables on separate disks is a PITA currently, especially if they tend to grow and shrink with frequent use, so this tablespace stuff is very much welcomed.
Some ports (namely i386) ISTR have both disklabel and fdisk, your disklabel goes into one of the fdisk'd partitions set to the correct BSD partition ID. Whereas sparc, alpha, etc. just write their disklabels directly.
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Are you forgetting the hard drives in both the PS2 and Xbox? You can even have one on the Dreamcast with a bit of electronic hackery, (the other *nix running console you forgot to mention).
If given the choice I would take the Sparc 5 simply for it's greater I/O bandwidth alone. Actually, give me an Ultra 1 or 2, or a Sparc 20. Frankly, the Ultra 5 was a hunk of junk even on release. I wouldn't pay a dime for one of those.
Actually, I wouldn't say the Sparc 5 has got greater I/O, disk anyway. Despite the 16-bit SCA bays for the internal disks, the SCSI bus is still narrow. The internal disks on my Sparc 20 suck, but the stuff hanging off the SunSwift card are not quite as bad, and they're pretty much identical models throughout the whole system.
Firstly, I fail to see how "certain partition and file attributes" restricts the addition of extra software. As I understand it, those restrictions are only present for the Qube firmware loading the kernel, which expects a Linux-based OS.
From the article, stats for file transfer using Samba are shown, so it's pretty obvious a working TCP/IP stack is present, therefore services providing HTTP and SMTP have everything they need to work.
And secondly, it's NetBSD! You have so many options to add these services, either by using pkgsrc or building them from scratch with the provided toolchain, however you like.
A new rangew of Mini-ITX VIA boards are also packing two NICs on board, aiming towards networking applications.
You wouldn't really want to run anything but a router/appliance from CF for speed and limited write ability, and in those situations, a Pentium-M is vastly overpowered anyway.
I've had a C3-based EPIA running for many months now with a standard install of Slackware, bar a recompile of XFree86 to get some improvements to the original S3 drivers, but it would have still worked without them.
No binary drivers required. Sure, on some of the newer boards, there are features that are unlocked currently with binary drivers, but watching a DVD or DivX can be done in software-only on those machines, they are plenty fast enough for that.
The biggest problem with Linux on some of the pre-Nehemiah CPU cores is the i686/CMOV issue for binaries. This allegedly is no longer an issue on the newer cores.
I had this too, although this was actually in a Computer Science environment, but lectures/lessons not requiring the computers were taught in the same room.
The difference in our room was that there was a big red emergency power cutout button, which if the teacher heard anyone typing or clicking mice, he'd just walk over to and thump the button, and all the computers would go dead.
It seemed to work, as you couldn't feasibly do anything when you weren't supposed to, but I'd argue it wouldn't do the machines any good.
The problem is the dearth of apps that already do this, and try and do it like Outlook does for no good reason other than that.
Sure there are reasons for trying to make things Outlook-alike, ease of migration for one, but are you sure the Outlook way is the right way? I for one don't use it being of the *nix persuasion, but I have to support it from an administration POV, and I find myself going through the setup/option dialogs in circles. It sucks from that perspective alone.
Good for them that they're at least trying to do things differently rather than write Yet Another Outlook Clone.
Just from reading all these replies, hardly anyone has suggested that the computers might not be 32-bit x86.
How silly are you going to look turning up with Partition Magic and a W98 boot floppy, only to be met by a row of Sun Microsystems kit? All that we're told is that they're old. The world has old Sun's, old Vaxen, old Alpha's, etc.
To be honest, it's a bit too much of an open-ended question. To prepare for any and every eventuality is hard given the diversity of kit available.
I've been running PHP 4.2.3 with Apache 2.0.43+ and there haven't been any problems so far. I've kept the PHP options to a minimum to get Horde/Imp working, so there may be some adventurous settings that will still cause problems.
As someone who repeatedly got called by my mother when Windows kept crashing. I had enough. She wanted to email, browse the web and type a few simple documents and spreadsheets.
Bingo! Stuck her on a Linux box, with KDE and all the K-mumble programs. It took a bit of educating of where stuff lives, but she's got the hang of it at last. And the household is now Microsoft-free once I did the same thing for my younger sister!
Problems have all but disappeared, and now when there is a problem I know it really is a problem, not a random crash 'cos the day has a 'y' in it. Rather than try and guide her through what she's doing with Mum-style descriptions of what's happening, e.g. "The thingy is whizzing all over the screen", I can just SSH in and have a look.
Any bugs that she uncovers and are reproducible, I'll file an appropriate bug report, and everyone benefits.
My most memorable quote from her, "At last when the web browser now crashes, it doesn't take the whole machine down with it".
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This is thing with these ratings ideas, you can slap warnings and ratings over games as much as you want, but it still doesn't stop shops like GAME selling them to kids, (and lets face it, the majority of places like this are staffed by kids that probably aren't old enough themselves to buy it either, let alone sell it).
But more importantly, it doesn't stop parents buying these 'unsuitable' games for their kids, I myself have also been in GAME, and witnessed parents buying games like Vice City, etc. for kids who are barely teenagers, just because the kids are tugging at their parents' arms screaming "I want! I want!", and the parents are just giving in to get a quiet time. I've never seen a parent examine the box, nor have I ever seen a sales representative inquire if the game is actually for the children and that it might not be suitable.
Tablespaces allow you to do things like place a table that is 90 percent read and 10 percent write on one RAID array while taking another table that is maybe 50 percent write and 50 percent read on another table and then taking the Postgres WAL and placing that on a completely different array.
It's fairly straightforward to put the WAL on a separate disk/array already, just symlink the data/pg_xlog directory elsewhere, or mount your separate disk/array at that point.
Popping tables on separate disks is a PITA currently, especially if they tend to grow and shrink with frequent use, so this tablespace stuff is very much welcomed.
Some ports (namely i386) ISTR have both disklabel and fdisk, your disklabel goes into one of the fdisk'd partitions set to the correct BSD partition ID. Whereas sparc, alpha, etc. just write their disklabels directly.
port-cobalt also has both under NetBSD.
Mine does ;-)
Are you forgetting the hard drives in both the PS2 and Xbox? You can even have one on the Dreamcast with a bit of electronic hackery, (the other *nix running console you forgot to mention).
I'm guessing if you can afford licenses for these two suites of applications, you can afford a VMWare license.
If given the choice I would take the Sparc 5 simply for it's greater I/O bandwidth alone. Actually, give me an Ultra 1 or 2, or a Sparc 20. Frankly, the Ultra 5 was a hunk of junk even on release. I wouldn't pay a dime for one of those.
Actually, I wouldn't say the Sparc 5 has got greater I/O, disk anyway. Despite the 16-bit SCA bays for the internal disks, the SCSI bus is still narrow. The internal disks on my Sparc 20 suck, but the stuff hanging off the SunSwift card are not quite as bad, and they're pretty much identical models throughout the whole system.
Erm, you didn't see this Lada...
Firstly, I fail to see how "certain partition and file attributes" restricts the addition of extra software. As I understand it, those restrictions are only present for the Qube firmware loading the kernel, which expects a Linux-based OS.
From the article, stats for file transfer using Samba are shown, so it's pretty obvious a working TCP/IP stack is present, therefore services providing HTTP and SMTP have everything they need to work.
And secondly, it's NetBSD! You have so many options to add these services, either by using pkgsrc or building them from scratch with the provided toolchain, however you like.
A new rangew of Mini-ITX VIA boards are also packing two NICs on board, aiming towards networking applications.
You wouldn't really want to run anything but a router/appliance from CF for speed and limited write ability, and in those situations, a Pentium-M is vastly overpowered anyway.
I've had a C3-based EPIA running for many months now with a standard install of Slackware, bar a recompile of XFree86 to get some improvements to the original S3 drivers, but it would have still worked without them.
No binary drivers required. Sure, on some of the newer boards, there are features that are unlocked currently with binary drivers, but watching a DVD or DivX can be done in software-only on those machines, they are plenty fast enough for that.
The biggest problem with Linux on some of the pre-Nehemiah CPU cores is the i686/CMOV issue for binaries. This allegedly is no longer an issue on the newer cores.
Eh? Why?
If because you can use HTTPS to secure the connection, then SMTP has had STARTTLS for ages now, supported by every MTA that matters.
If it's for XML, then why on earth do you think XML is going to make a difference?
"A worldwide simultaneous launch..."?
That'll be a first for SCEE surely?
This, a survey from a company who can't even coherently label the speed of their mainstream processors...
I had this too, although this was actually in a Computer Science environment, but lectures/lessons not requiring the computers were taught in the same room.
The difference in our room was that there was a big red emergency power cutout button, which if the teacher heard anyone typing or clicking mice, he'd just walk over to and thump the button, and all the computers would go dead.
It seemed to work, as you couldn't feasibly do anything when you weren't supposed to, but I'd argue it wouldn't do the machines any good.
A false sense of security is better than no security at all. Discuss.
The problem is the dearth of apps that already do this, and try and do it like Outlook does for no good reason other than that.
Sure there are reasons for trying to make things Outlook-alike, ease of migration for one, but are you sure the Outlook way is the right way? I for one don't use it being of the *nix persuasion, but I have to support it from an administration POV, and I find myself going through the setup/option dialogs in circles. It sucks from that perspective alone.
Good for them that they're at least trying to do things differently rather than write Yet Another Outlook Clone.
So what you're after is this
Just from reading all these replies, hardly anyone has suggested that the computers might not be 32-bit x86.
How silly are you going to look turning up with Partition Magic and a W98 boot floppy, only to be met by a row of Sun Microsystems kit? All that we're told is that they're old. The world has old Sun's, old Vaxen, old Alpha's, etc.
To be honest, it's a bit too much of an open-ended question. To prepare for any and every eventuality is hard given the diversity of kit available.
I've been running PHP 4.2.3 with Apache 2.0.43+ and there haven't been any problems so far. I've kept the PHP options to a minimum to get Horde/Imp working, so there may be some adventurous settings that will still cause problems.
Bingo! Stuck her on a Linux box, with KDE and all the K-mumble programs. It took a bit of educating of where stuff lives, but she's got the hang of it at last. And the household is now Microsoft-free once I did the same thing for my younger sister!
Problems have all but disappeared, and now when there is a problem I know it really is a problem, not a random crash 'cos the day has a 'y' in it. Rather than try and guide her through what she's doing with Mum-style descriptions of what's happening, e.g. "The thingy is whizzing all over the screen", I can just SSH in and have a look.
Any bugs that she uncovers and are reproducible, I'll file an appropriate bug report, and everyone benefits.
My most memorable quote from her, "At last when the web browser now crashes, it doesn't take the whole machine down with it".