Quite honestly, Validation and documentation are really all that are needed, although translation into legible data sets would be nice. Of course, place the first two on the web, and you'll get your translation/preliminary analysis for free probably within days....
For the paranoid, use a mirrored set with an extra drive and swap out once a week.
What you're really getting with a mirrored set the way you're using it is uptime, not backups. Backups would require the swap out with a total of 3 drives in the series, at a minimum.
I run RAID 5 (yes, SCSI) and it's awesome in cases of a drive failure (2 in last 5 years) but it certainly doesn't make me feel safe, since I did lose an entire drive set once to a virus (fortunately, it was an old machine I was testing something with and whoopsie - connected it on the wrong side of the firewall. Yes, it was a fresh NT install...:)
I have a P133, a P200 MMX, and a PPro 180. I keep the P133 around for old games, and a recipe program my wife still uses occasionally. (I really should get that info migrated).
As for long term "modern" computers, I bought a P4 2.4 GHz a few years ago, recently upgraded the RAM to 2GB, and it still handles email just fine, thank you.:) The RAM upgrade was for picture editing and scanning, I actually could not scan a picture because I didn't have enough RAM @ 1GB!!!
I'll probably yank the MB/CPU combo and drop in a new AMD 64 X2 in about another 6-12 months, when they drop to ~$200 for the pair. (My RAM is compatible with those MBs. Although I'd really like a dual Opteron setup, I just really can't justify it for reading email and a few other little tasks I do at home).
1 and 3 are related. I agree that not having a decent integrated JSP editor bundled or available for free is a detriment. Then again, not everyone needs JSP editors.
2. I don't see this as a negative.;) I doubt 90+% of the java devs out there do either.
5. Eclipse has had this since at least 3.0.
6. I prefer to pick and choose my Tomcat server version, thank you.
So, I see 2 items not freely available for Eclipse, and 1 of those is undesired by a large number of java devs.
I'd agree with this. Why does a website need to set 27 different cookies? One cookie is all that is needed, the rest should be handled behind the scenes.
I am a cookie fan, double fudge chocolate chunk are my favorite.
OS/2 certainly wasn't a crappy OS, nor did it run on only 1% of the hardware out there. Warp 3 and Warp 4 ran well on almost any hardware that ran 95 or NT well.
What killed it was manifold, partly in-fighting at IBM, partly MS's underhanded 2GB mem request to make all MS Office apps not run on OS/2, partly the $100+ or so worth of royalties IBM had to pay on every copy of OS/2, making the price non-competitive.
OS/2 was an awesome OS, even today. You could run a C&C windowed session with sound while answering an email, then swap it back to full screen without a hiccup. Something that Windows couldn't match even in a buggy way for nearly a decade.
Anyways, it'll be interesting to see where OS X goes. I'd love to be able to run it on a mutli-processor, multi-core Opteron system.:)
You're mistaken on several fronts/points with AMD and the comparison with earlier comparisons.
First, Intel was the standard to be compatible with, and the early CPU comparisons with Cyrix is where that fails - Cyrix had compatibility issues.
AMD is compatible, heck, they are the x64 standard bearer, and their leapfrog in tech over Intel with the Opteron is just beginning to pay dividends. The dual-core CPUs are just the start of the performance gap that AMD is opening over Intel. So, AMD is the standard, has the technical merit, has the price/performance and outright price edge, and, probably most importantly, has the PR buzz.
Since AMD's technical lead is solidified by patents (a just use of patents for a change), Intel's in a world of hurt, since they're not going to be able to match AMD's performance advantage. This doesn't spell the end for Intel, they're too large and established, but they will no longer be the only game in town. If they are truly badly run, eventually they will become the next Cyrix.
All I recall of OS/2 for Windows was that it was much more difficult to run and had many more errors than OS/2 Warp based on the reports I was hearing at the time.
It's interesting that winos2 would run under Linux. I didn't know that.
OS/2's integrated speech recognition was more than a handful of commands. It was full dictation/control for any app that didn't take over the input channels, whether that app was speech enabled or not.
Not quite the same thing as the 1993 "Apple's speech recognition is voice-command oriented, i.e. not intended for dictation." which required customization of the OS to work.
That was my point - why should I have to pay $500 for Java 1.5 beta? Since Tiger's released, allow me to play with the beta. Who knows, I might even help in finding bugs. (Considering my work involves multi-threading and the new concurrent package, odds are high I might find a bug or two).
Apple should make them available to developers that want to risk the "beta" nature of the 1.5 JDK.
After all, why do I want to pony up $600 for Apple's developer program when I'm really interested in Java development? (Now that 1.5 no longer depends on a beta OS release?)
Apple is doing well, but as Java is a big part of my needs, and having 1.5 available becomes more important, I'd at least like to have the option to start working with it.
Wasn't a large part of that not trying due to infighting among divisions? Despite IBM's blunders in marketing, OS/2 had a hard-core fan base, and had they spun off OS/2 as a separate corp, it probably would have succeeded.
I do recall the OS/2 for windows costing considerably less. IIRC, that OS came without HPFS at all, and booted over Windows.
HPFS386 was a different beast, and came with the $1K+ OS/2 Server package, of which I have a copy at home, for free.:) I received it from someone who had an unused copy.
The OS/2 subsystem was dropped by 2K, I believe, definitely by XP. It could be re-installed under the initial dropped OS, but I do not believe current versions of XP will run it any longer.
v1.x was 16 bit, until 1.3, I believe. MS had source to OS/2 code up to 1.2, 1.3 was 100% IBM. IBM took over because MS and IBM had a technical disagreement about the direction of the OS. MS went with Windows, the successful and oh so well-architected system, while IBM completed OS/2, with a much better architecture but encumbered by far too many royalty payments to be competitive.
The $86/copy paid to MS pretty much guaranteed OS/2's death when OS prices fell under $100, IBM didn't help matters any by being schizophrenic regarding this PC OS that actually infringed into their big iron mainstays as PC hardware improved.
WPS was awesome, although slow if not properly programmed for. (Well, slow in some ways, but still beats the pants off of NT/2K/XP today in responsiveness while running good programs. I don't recall waiting for my mail to finish downloading mail from the server before I could do something else)
Actually, it'd be interesting to see how OS/2 stacks up today. A 10 year old OS on modern hardware, provided it loads. (Most likely not, drivers were a pretty big issue, but I still have some of the older hardware lying around that may allow it to run with a modern OS. Would depend mostly on motherboard BIOS compatibility, the rest should work)
As for features, we're finally getting some of those features released in the newer OSes out today. (Not from MS though;)
Actually, no. IBM really did all they could do. But until the late 90s, they had to pay $86 to MS for every copy of OS/2 sold (part of the licensing agreement for HPFS).
Those types of costs prevented IBM from truly competing on price with OS/2, which was truly unfortunate.
They also blew it with developers, but that's another story.
Most recent college grads are wholly unsuited to running large projects, despite whatever their own high opinions of themselves are. What makes them think they're more qualified than the 5 year veteran, or 10 year veteran for that matter? (Hint, there's lots of CS graduates from previous years that are more qualified than they are, and have experience to boot. Guess who gets the job of architecting a major project?)
Now, for well-paying. Well-paying for a new college grad would be anywhere near the average of a 1-2 year experienced employee (and we're not talking about those demoted to data entry because that's all they're qualified to do).
My advice is find a job that you like doing, don't expect easy money, because by and large no such thing exists. Money usually results from hard work, but not just hard work, as you'll usually have to deal with office politics to move ahead.
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I'm sure there are Mac OS X viruses out there, somewhere. My Powerbook hasn't seen one yet... :)
As for RAID5 - use a hot spare. Don't worry about running in a degraded state for longer than it takes to rebuild a drive.
Quite honestly, Validation and documentation are really all that are needed, although translation into legible data sets would be nice. Of course, place the first two on the web, and you'll get your translation/preliminary analysis for free probably within days....
For the paranoid, use a mirrored set with an extra drive and swap out once a week.
What you're really getting with a mirrored set the way you're using it is uptime, not backups. Backups would require the swap out with a total of 3 drives in the series, at a minimum.
I run RAID 5 (yes, SCSI) and it's awesome in cases of a drive failure (2 in last 5 years) but it certainly doesn't make me feel safe, since I did lose an entire drive set once to a virus (fortunately, it was an old machine I was testing something with and whoopsie - connected it on the wrong side of the firewall. Yes, it was a fresh NT install...:)
As for long term "modern" computers, I bought a P4 2.4 GHz a few years ago, recently upgraded the RAM to 2GB, and it still handles email just fine, thank you. :) The RAM upgrade was for picture editing and scanning, I actually could not scan a picture because I didn't have enough RAM @ 1GB!!!
I'll probably yank the MB/CPU combo and drop in a new AMD 64 X2 in about another 6-12 months, when they drop to ~$200 for the pair. (My RAM is compatible with those MBs. Although I'd really like a dual Opteron setup, I just really can't justify it for reading email and a few other little tasks I do at home).
1 and 3 are related. I agree that not having a decent integrated JSP editor bundled or available for free is a detriment. Then again, not everyone needs JSP editors.
;) I doubt 90+% of the java devs out there do either.
2. I don't see this as a negative.
5. Eclipse has had this since at least 3.0.
6. I prefer to pick and choose my Tomcat server version, thank you.
So, I see 2 items not freely available for Eclipse, and 1 of those is undesired by a large number of java devs.
I'd agree with this. Why does a website need to set 27 different cookies? One cookie is all that is needed, the rest should be handled behind the scenes.
I am a cookie fan, double fudge chocolate chunk are my favorite.
That would sort of remind me of a Cell processor. A main core, with some dedicated sub processors that could be used for other functions.
Earthlike? A 2 day "year"?
Their claim that it's "rocky" sounds an awful lot like a claim that an atomic bomb is a match.
OS/2 certainly wasn't a crappy OS, nor did it run on only 1% of the hardware out there. Warp 3 and Warp 4 ran well on almost any hardware that ran 95 or NT well.
:)
What killed it was manifold, partly in-fighting at IBM, partly MS's underhanded 2GB mem request to make all MS Office apps not run on OS/2, partly the $100+ or so worth of royalties IBM had to pay on every copy of OS/2, making the price non-competitive.
OS/2 was an awesome OS, even today. You could run a C&C windowed session with sound while answering an email, then swap it back to full screen without a hiccup. Something that Windows couldn't match even in a buggy way for nearly a decade.
Anyways, it'll be interesting to see where OS X goes. I'd love to be able to run it on a mutli-processor, multi-core Opteron system.
I would guess the answer to that is "yes".
GPL and Apache licenses aren't quite compatible.
You're mistaken on several fronts/points with AMD and the comparison with earlier comparisons.
First, Intel was the standard to be compatible with, and the early CPU comparisons with Cyrix is where that fails - Cyrix had compatibility issues.
AMD is compatible, heck, they are the x64 standard bearer, and their leapfrog in tech over Intel with the Opteron is just beginning to pay dividends. The dual-core CPUs are just the start of the performance gap that AMD is opening over Intel. So, AMD is the standard, has the technical merit, has the price/performance and outright price edge, and, probably most importantly, has the PR buzz.
Since AMD's technical lead is solidified by patents (a just use of patents for a change), Intel's in a world of hurt, since they're not going to be able to match AMD's performance advantage. This doesn't spell the end for Intel, they're too large and established, but they will no longer be the only game in town. If they are truly badly run, eventually they will become the next Cyrix.
I'll have to hop out and pick up tiger....
All I recall of OS/2 for Windows was that it was much more difficult to run and had many more errors than OS/2 Warp based on the reports I was hearing at the time.
It's interesting that winos2 would run under Linux. I didn't know that.
Perhaps they should just restrict them from user-level programs?
Not quite the same thing as the 1993 "Apple's speech recognition is voice-command oriented, i.e. not intended for dictation." which required customization of the OS to work.
That was my point - why should I have to pay $500 for Java 1.5 beta? Since Tiger's released, allow me to play with the beta. Who knows, I might even help in finding bugs. (Considering my work involves multi-threading and the new concurrent package, odds are high I might find a bug or two).
I had that in OS/2 Warp v4 back in 96. Speech Recognition becanse available on windows around 97/98.
Apple should make them available to developers that want to risk the "beta" nature of the 1.5 JDK.
After all, why do I want to pony up $600 for Apple's developer program when I'm really interested in Java development? (Now that 1.5 no longer depends on a beta OS release?)
Apple is doing well, but as Java is a big part of my needs, and having 1.5 available becomes more important, I'd at least like to have the option to start working with it.
Wasn't a large part of that not trying due to infighting among divisions? Despite IBM's blunders in marketing, OS/2 had a hard-core fan base, and had they spun off OS/2 as a separate corp, it probably would have succeeded.
I do recall the OS/2 for windows costing considerably less. IIRC, that OS came without HPFS at all, and booted over Windows.
:) I received it from someone who had an unused copy.
HPFS386 was a different beast, and came with the $1K+ OS/2 Server package, of which I have a copy at home, for free.
The OS/2 subsystem was dropped by 2K, I believe, definitely by XP. It could be re-installed under the initial dropped OS, but I do not believe current versions of XP will run it any longer.
v1.x was 16 bit, until 1.3, I believe. MS had source to OS/2 code up to 1.2, 1.3 was 100% IBM. IBM took over because MS and IBM had a technical disagreement about the direction of the OS. MS went with Windows, the successful and oh so well-architected system, while IBM completed OS/2, with a much better architecture but encumbered by far too many royalty payments to be competitive.
The $86/copy paid to MS pretty much guaranteed OS/2's death when OS prices fell under $100, IBM didn't help matters any by being schizophrenic regarding this PC OS that actually infringed into their big iron mainstays as PC hardware improved.
WPS was awesome, although slow if not properly programmed for. (Well, slow in some ways, but still beats the pants off of NT/2K/XP today in responsiveness while running good programs. I don't recall waiting for my mail to finish downloading mail from the server before I could do something else)
Actually, it'd be interesting to see how OS/2 stacks up today. A 10 year old OS on modern hardware, provided it loads. (Most likely not, drivers were a pretty big issue, but I still have some of the older hardware lying around that may allow it to run with a modern OS. Would depend mostly on motherboard BIOS compatibility, the rest should work)
As for features, we're finally getting some of those features released in the newer OSes out today. (Not from MS though;)
Actually, no. IBM really did all they could do. But until the late 90s, they had to pay $86 to MS for every copy of OS/2 sold (part of the licensing agreement for HPFS).
Those types of costs prevented IBM from truly competing on price with OS/2, which was truly unfortunate.
They also blew it with developers, but that's another story.
I'd disagree. Going from 1 to 2 gives you significant advantages in that you can now run two concurrent threads.
If the file system as a DB view ever gets going, you'll see immediate benefits with 2 CPUs over 1, even if the 1 CPU is a little faster.
Most recent college grads are wholly unsuited to running large projects, despite whatever their own high opinions of themselves are. What makes them think they're more qualified than the 5 year veteran, or 10 year veteran for that matter? (Hint, there's lots of CS graduates from previous years that are more qualified than they are, and have experience to boot. Guess who gets the job of architecting a major project?)
Now, for well-paying. Well-paying for a new college grad would be anywhere near the average of a 1-2 year experienced employee (and we're not talking about those demoted to data entry because that's all they're qualified to do).
My advice is find a job that you like doing, don't expect easy money, because by and large no such thing exists. Money usually results from hard work, but not just hard work, as you'll usually have to deal with office politics to move ahead.