The real meat in these new machines is the significantly upgraded graphics chips. If you are a gamer, these machines are now acceptable for all but the most extreme requirements.
So how does the Mini figure in this equation? It's positioned for a media center type of machine. The upgraded graphics will probably not be used, so I don't understand why it should be considered an upgrade.
This is not true. I do this regularly and with great success. Agreed, it takes a bit of physical contact, but they all respond.
After some screaming and raging, pointing a bright light in its direction, and finally some slapping around, the Vista desktop responds with a blue screen.
The Linux laptop is a bit tougher but in the end still either goes into a comatose retreat, freezing X Window System, or shows its black&white console and dumps kernel.
Well a dedicated server requires maintenance. All my customers come to me saying that they will eventually get 100,000 visitors per day. I make the calculation for them for the monthly cost: $100 for a decent dedicated server, plus $250 for a sysadmin etc.
Eventually they all settle for shared hosting except when privacy is an issue.
In my experience, using multiple languages in a project will force you to write sizeable amounts of glue code. These processes will have to communicate one way or another and they all have their particular way to do so. So, your glue code is often not that simple but deals with interprocess communication for which a protocol will have to be devised (could be simple, but nevertheless).
Now if that was all, then so be it: write glue code. However, I found most programmers do not heavily check for errors in their normal code, where you have things like exceptions and return values at your disposal.
This becomes much worse when doing interprocess communication. The normal language constructs aren't there, you're communicating using a self-defined protocol. Often this is invented on the spot and does not include a proper way to catch errors and deal correctly with them.
So in my opinion: don't shy away from using multiple languages, but remember that you need a decent amount of time for what could be quite complicated glue code.
Instead of agressively attacking and answering in generalities ('there are many cases where ICC is beter'), care to explain how you formed your opinion?
A Java kernel would likely run at least 50 times faster then the very best hand coded assembler
I'm going to have to agree with you here. However with all the major browser producers concentrating on JavaScript speed recently, I'd say it's much better to use JavaScript instead of plain Java. Think about it, JavaScript is where the speediness is. Also, since almost every browser supports it, you could just boot the kernel using any browser. This could potentially get the kernel out of the hands of that bunch of self-righteous, elitist Linux hackers who are currently totally disconnected from users like you and I.~
I pay for my (business) GMail account, which definitely does not have that label, but still I was down. Oh well, I guess they'll still make the promised uptime.
Non Sequitur. Just because you can't remove all kernels with Yum doesn't make it suck compared to apt-get.
Really, if that is all you can come up with... Each has their pros and cons. Yum is slower. But doesn't require a separate update. But the apt GUI, Synaptic, is very nice. Et cetera.
This is something I never could understand. Why is it unprofessional to point out how unprofessionally a company treated you?
Because I don't want to be at the receiving end of your negative emotions. Because I'm not your friend, your shrink, your brother or your mother. Because it sounds like whining, is often not relevant to the people who you're telling this to, is strictly your viewpoint, is a personal experience, the list could go on.
If anything, I want to know what you're going to do with this. Sure, point out how you feel bad about it, then in the same breath, tell everyone you're moving on.
What would you prefer reading as a collegue's goodbye mail? - "Hi people, I feel pretty badly treated because John said that I wasn't blah blah" - "Hi people, I feel pretty badly treated but I'm moving on! If you ever need a good engineer then don't hesitate..."
I follow your comments and I know you had a bad experience before you started your own business. With such experiences, it's best to talk it through with your loved ones, and in the same conversation, talk about how you're going to pick it up.
Virtualization means NOT needing to buy new hardware since the hardware becomes a commodity, run it till it fails and then replace it. You get out of proactive replacement cycles
I don't think you get out of that. At some point, hardware has to be replaced because it's more economic to do so. Old hardware usually sucks up more juice and takes up more space because you need more of it.
And who gets to decide what browsers come installed?
Me of course. Who else?
That's right, the EU directive 31-337 states that user Cerberusss on the internet board "Slashdot" will have full discretionary power to decide which browsers will be installed.
I guess if you had a bunch of hashes, you could put these in a configuration and basically have the described functionality.
I've analyzed Snort more than 6 years ago and also remembered that it couldn't operate on more than 100Mbit. Might've been a change here and there, though.
Slashdot Mirror
The real meat in these new machines is the significantly upgraded graphics chips. If you are a gamer, these machines are now acceptable for all but the most extreme requirements.
So how does the Mini figure in this equation? It's positioned for a media center type of machine. The upgraded graphics will probably not be used, so I don't understand why it should be considered an upgrade.
Just change your prefs- under Index/General uncheck "Beta Index"
I did exactly that, only to find out that there's nothing on Slashdot to complain about. So I turned it on again.
You can't tell something is peaking until after it goes down.
And even then it can be a local maximum.
You can't cross-examine a computer.
This is not true. I do this regularly and with great success. Agreed, it takes a bit of physical contact, but they all respond.
After some screaming and raging, pointing a bright light in its direction, and finally some slapping around, the Vista desktop responds with a blue screen.
The Linux laptop is a bit tougher but in the end still either goes into a comatose retreat, freezing X Window System, or shows its black&white console and dumps kernel.
I wonder if the old MacMinis will be available in the brick-'n-mortar stores against a reduced price?
Anyone knows how Apple deals with oldish models?
Well a dedicated server requires maintenance. All my customers come to me saying that they will eventually get 100,000 visitors per day. I make the calculation for them for the monthly cost: $100 for a decent dedicated server, plus $250 for a sysadmin etc.
Eventually they all settle for shared hosting except when privacy is an issue.
I hadn't heard from Thrift before, great tip, thanks.
In my experience, using multiple languages in a project will force you to write sizeable amounts of glue code. These processes will have to communicate one way or another and they all have their particular way to do so. So, your glue code is often not that simple but deals with interprocess communication for which a protocol will have to be devised (could be simple, but nevertheless).
Now if that was all, then so be it: write glue code. However, I found most programmers do not heavily check for errors in their normal code, where you have things like exceptions and return values at your disposal.
This becomes much worse when doing interprocess communication. The normal language constructs aren't there, you're communicating using a self-defined protocol. Often this is invented on the spot and does not include a proper way to catch errors and deal correctly with them.
So in my opinion: don't shy away from using multiple languages, but remember that you need a decent amount of time for what could be quite complicated glue code.
Can't you rotate the complete desk? Then that sharp edge is sitting against the wall.
Instead of agressively attacking and answering in generalities ('there are many cases where ICC is beter'), care to explain how you formed your opinion?
A Java kernel would likely run at least 50 times faster then the very best hand coded assembler
I'm going to have to agree with you here. However with all the major browser producers concentrating on JavaScript speed recently, I'd say it's much better to use JavaScript instead of plain Java. Think about it, JavaScript is where the speediness is. Also, since almost every browser supports it, you could just boot the kernel using any browser. This could potentially get the kernel out of the hands of that bunch of self-righteous, elitist Linux hackers who are currently totally disconnected from users like you and I.~
I pay for my (business) GMail account, which definitely does not have that label, but still I was down. Oh well, I guess they'll still make the promised uptime.
Non Sequitur. Just because you can't remove all kernels with Yum doesn't make it suck compared to apt-get.
Really, if that is all you can come up with... Each has their pros and cons. Yum is slower. But doesn't require a separate update. But the apt GUI, Synaptic, is very nice. Et cetera.
In the end, it doesn't really matter.
This is something I never could understand. Why is it unprofessional to point out how unprofessionally a company treated you?
Because I don't want to be at the receiving end of your negative emotions. Because I'm not your friend, your shrink, your brother or your mother. Because it sounds like whining, is often not relevant to the people who you're telling this to, is strictly your viewpoint, is a personal experience, the list could go on.
If anything, I want to know what you're going to do with this. Sure, point out how you feel bad about it, then in the same breath, tell everyone you're moving on.
What would you prefer reading as a collegue's goodbye mail?
- "Hi people, I feel pretty badly treated because John said that I wasn't blah blah"
- "Hi people, I feel pretty badly treated but I'm moving on! If you ever need a good engineer then don't hesitate..."
I follow your comments and I know you had a bad experience before you started your own business. With such experiences, it's best to talk it through with your loved ones, and in the same conversation, talk about how you're going to pick it up.
I won't advocate tazering people indiscriminately
Me neither, but in this case it was a salesman. I don't know about you, I'd have a hard time calling that indiscriminately.
Virtualization means NOT needing to buy new hardware since the hardware becomes a commodity, run it till it fails and then replace it. You get out of proactive replacement cycles
I don't think you get out of that. At some point, hardware has to be replaced because it's more economic to do so. Old hardware usually sucks up more juice and takes up more space because you need more of it.
And who gets to decide what browsers come installed?
Me of course. Who else?
That's right, the EU directive 31-337 states that user Cerberusss on the internet board "Slashdot" will have full discretionary power to decide which browsers will be installed.
we could hide music in our rambling car analogy loaded posts.
Do you have a car analogy for that?
Sounds good to me
That is why I named my son hjretgwjsdfk. I was sure he would be the only one.
[voice type="Klingon"]
HAH! You were wrong! Hjretgwjsdfk is a true warrior's name! You stupid pahtk!
[/voice]
Fucking cry babies
Now now, young man! When the new internets are here, bad words are NOT allowed. Or I'll wash your mouth with soap!
[...]FORTRAN 77 Code. And woman would still randomly stop in and ask about my laptop.
Sorry to break the news, but it wasn't about the laptop. It was about the code so bad, the women wanted to put it out of its misery.
That's what she said.
All it does is compare the encoded hash value in the Bittorrent header against a list of known illegal hashes. Hashes you have to program manually.
That sounds exactly how Snort works.
I guess if you had a bunch of hashes, you could put these in a configuration and basically have the described functionality.
I've analyzed Snort more than 6 years ago and also remembered that it couldn't operate on more than 100Mbit. Might've been a change here and there, though.
How are you going to play the games?
Imagine (in 50 years time) playing Wii bowling without the wiimote.
It's been taken care of. You just use a DataMold. I can't talk about it. Well I could --- but then I'd have to kill you.
For instance, if I let my web servers run for, oh, say, a few weeks, then try to start the Gimp... there's going to be a lot of waiting.
On the other hand, your webservers are running fullspeed, with everything they've read the past weeks cached.
It's about choices, really. You can't have everything.