we're retiring a 1994-model DEC (yes, Digital!) Alpha 2100 with a 200 MHz (yes, that's megahertz) processor. The thing has run 24x7 for nearly 10 years and probably averaged less than a day downtime a year. We downed it only for hardware upgrades.
We still have a 2100 (purchased in 1995, I think), that we maxed out years ago. Still usable as a development system for our small project, which runs on a cluster of AS100s.
DEC sure did make good hardware, back in the day. Sigh
Our GS1280s run OVMS 7.3 & Rdb 7.1. Kick-ass fast, Galaxy shared-memory clustering, SAN, the works, but flakier than any VAX or early AS ever were....
was a solely Intel offering for a very long time (close to 15 years, I think)
There have been 2nd sources for Intel chips since the late 70s. Some, like the Z80 and the AMD64, have been supersets, and others were/are strict work-alikes.
Zilog, AMD, Harris, Next-Gen, Cyrix & IBM all have been 2nd sources.
Yes, this is also the argument I use. Very logical.
A) Smoking Tobacco CAUSES lung disease. Everyone who inhales smoke recieves an amount of damage to their lungs.
Ummm, disease != damage. Not everyone who smokes gets lung/throat/mouth cancer, and not everyone who gets lung/throat/mouth smoked (or "dipped", in the case of mouth cancer).
soldier and a widow suing a man associated with Al Qaeda.
Ahhhhh!
His heart (IMNSHO) seems to be in the right place (Layne Morris, Former Utah National Guardsman: "This is one task that I seem to be in a position to do, and I don't think I ought to back down from that."), but the Courts aren't the place to fight this battle.
If he wants to continue fighting, he should join the CIA or something.
Maybe they didn't understand the exact medical nature of smoking dangers 50 years ago, but there's no way it wasn't self-evident that smoking is bad for your body.
I was, to anyone who started hacking after any physical ecertion....
And even back in the 20s & 30s, any coroner or Medical School student who cut open the chest of smoker would see hard, black lungs.
It's about a marginal group of yong men who havn't had anyone controlling their habits, they haven't been woken up at 6:00 and nobody has ordered them to do anything, they have been living without any limitations.
My annual budget is about US$15,000, including rent, travel, toys, and food. (It helps that I don't drink, and also that I don't have to drive to "work" every day.)...
This cycle has worked for me for about 18 years now.
You must not have any kids. Or a wife, or mortgage, car note, braces, tuition, clothes, etc that tradtionally go along with kids.
There is no point at which you can say "okay, this is an ape, this is a human."
We did not descend from apes. Siminans and hominids are on different branches of the same tree.
Be that as it may. there had to be a point where the first hominid couldn't interbreed with the other creatures around it. And there had to be more than one of these hominids around; otherwise, there would be nothing else for that creature to breed with, and it would have died without passing on it's genes.
Evolution is a process, not a step.
Or not: 'paleontologists had long been mum about their "dirty little trade secret:" most species appear suddenly in the fossil record and show no appreciable change for millions of years until their extinction.'
Stealing is using force (or fraud) to take something that someone has and therefore cannot have anymore because you took it.
Having just spoken to My Aunt The Lawyer, I can categorically say: your view of "stealing" is limited. There is also plain old theft. Think of shoplifting if you are confused.
For example, when you shoplift, you aren't using force (unless it's hard to jam that CD under your belt), and it's not fraud, but you are stealing. So, it's simple theft.
In the case of using commercial software which you did not pay for, well, there are laws against that, which are about as effective as dope laws, but, still, it is a crime.
We should start building small pebble-bed reactors now. Nothing like a live system to shake out the bugs. If I Were King, there'd be PB reactors dotting the country, providing 50% of our electric needs by 2010, and 100% by 2020, including excess capacity needed to crack water into H, for use in vehicle-sized fuel cells. All we'd need Persian Gulf oil for, then, is to make plastic.
and since we cut research into making it better, we are now behind France (the horror) in nuclear technology.
I have regular nightmares about this very thing....
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we're retiring a 1994-model DEC (yes, Digital!) Alpha 2100 with a 200 MHz (yes, that's megahertz) processor. The thing has run 24x7 for nearly 10 years and probably averaged less than a day downtime a year. We downed it only for hardware upgrades.
We still have a 2100 (purchased in 1995, I think), that we maxed out years ago. Still usable as a development system for our small project, which runs on a cluster of AS100s.
DEC sure did make good hardware, back in the day. Sigh
Our GS1280s run OVMS 7.3 & Rdb 7.1. Kick-ass fast, Galaxy shared-memory clustering, SAN, the works, but flakier than any VAX or early AS ever were....
That's "The Revelation of St. John".
If you want to be pedantic, at least get it right...
I dont think the folks at sparc.org can be considered a niche either.
Sure they can. Significantly less than a million SPARCs are sold each year, and that qualifies the architecture as niche.
program that sold ~2 million PowerPC chips
Many dozens of millions (pushing 100M) of x86 chips are sold each year.
That dwarfs everything except the "small stuff": 8085, MC68K/Dragonball, 6809, etc.
was a solely Intel offering for a very long time (close to 15 years, I think)
There have been 2nd sources for Intel chips since the late 70s. Some, like the Z80 and the AMD64, have been supersets, and others were/are strict work-alikes.
Zilog, AMD, Harris, Next-Gen, Cyrix & IBM all have been 2nd sources.
when we got our first batch of Alpha powered Vaxes
There's no such thing as as Alpha-powered VAX. Both the Alpha and VAX are chip architechtures.
'The creator of Linux says "I can't be nasty" when leading the open-source movement since it's all built on trust and teamwork'
... never stopped Theo :)
Hmm
Hmm, maybe that's why Linux is so popular, and OpenBSD is a niche OS...
10 years later and you couldn't GIVE a 1GB drive away.
Hmmm, it's the perfect size for a small Debian box, to be a firewall, DNS server and mail server.
72 or 80 columns. But you can only write to them so many times. Even the erasable ones tend to get too worn out by the rubber eraser.
Erasable punch cards?
Given the IQ level of many slashdotters, I can't tell whether this is supposed to be humor or not.
Yes, this is also the argument I use. Very logical.
A) Smoking Tobacco CAUSES lung disease. Everyone who inhales smoke recieves an amount of damage to their lungs.
Ummm, disease != damage. Not everyone who smokes gets lung/throat/mouth cancer, and not everyone who gets lung/throat/mouth smoked (or "dipped", in the case of mouth cancer).
Go back and study a bit more Logic...
find the idea of automatically wanting more money regardless of improvements, service etc. disgusting
Too bad that's not how the TG subscription service works.
I.e., cancelling an existing subscription won't break/kill WineX/Cedega.
soldier and a widow suing a man associated with Al Qaeda.
Ahhhhh!
His heart (IMNSHO) seems to be in the right place (Layne Morris, Former Utah National Guardsman: "This is one task that I seem to be in a position to do, and I don't think I ought to back down from that."), but the Courts aren't the place to fight this battle.
If he wants to continue fighting, he should join the CIA or something.
The poor were left alone. I recently heard a story on NPR
This is what you get for listening to NPR.
Sure, the peasants were left alone, if the king submitted to Ghengis. But if he didn't....
Everybody was wiped out, from the newborn to the geezer.
they'd absolutely hammer (ha!) the Intel chips
Gee, maybe that's why AMD chose "hammer" as the code name for that-which-would-be-Opteron...
I'm betting Intel chips were chosen for (supplier-)political reasons.
Or...... SGI started designing the Altix well before they could get any K8 engineering samples from AMD.
Maybe they didn't understand the exact medical nature of smoking dangers 50 years ago, but there's no way it wasn't self-evident that smoking is bad for your body.
I was, to anyone who started hacking after any physical ecertion....
And even back in the 20s & 30s, any coroner or Medical School student who cut open the chest of smoker would see hard, black lungs.
It's about a marginal group of yong men who havn't had anyone controlling their habits, they haven't been woken up at 6:00 and nobody has ordered them to do anything, they have been living without any limitations.
It's called "bad parents".
My annual budget is about US$15,000, including rent, travel, toys, and food. (It helps that I don't drink, and also that I don't have to drive to "work" every day.) ...
This cycle has worked for me for about 18 years now.
You must not have any kids. Or a wife, or mortgage, car note, braces, tuition, clothes, etc that tradtionally go along with kids.
There is no point at which you can say "okay, this is an ape, this is a human."
We did not descend from apes. Siminans and hominids are on different branches of the same tree.
Be that as it may. there had to be a point where the first hominid couldn't interbreed with the other creatures around it. And there had to be more than one of these hominids around; otherwise, there would be nothing else for that creature to breed with, and it would have died without passing on it's genes.
Evolution is a process, not a step.
Or not:
'paleontologists had long been mum about their "dirty little trade secret:" most species appear suddenly in the fossil record and show no appreciable change for millions of years until their extinction.'
There's also (I like COBOL. I hate clever C programming.)
Stealing is using force (or fraud) to take something that someone has and therefore cannot have anymore because you took it.
Having just spoken to My Aunt The Lawyer, I can categorically say: your view of "stealing" is limited. There is also plain old theft. Think of shoplifting if you are confused.
For example, when you shoplift, you aren't using force (unless it's hard to jam that CD under your belt), and it's not fraud, but you are stealing. So, it's simple theft.
In the case of using commercial software which you did not pay for, well, there are laws against that, which are about as effective as dope laws, but, still, it is a crime.
Why is ccmay's post modded flamebait?
You know-it-all college liberals don't like seeing what your Fearless Leaders are really like?
nuclear power is the best available option,
We should start building small pebble-bed reactors now. Nothing like a live system to shake out the bugs. If I Were King, there'd be PB reactors dotting the country, providing 50% of our electric needs by 2010, and 100% by 2020, including excess capacity needed to crack water into H, for use in vehicle-sized fuel cells. All we'd need Persian Gulf oil for, then, is to make plastic.
and since we cut research into making it better, we are now behind France (the horror) in nuclear technology.
I have regular nightmares about this very thing....
every river deep enough
Did you RTFA?
A swift-enough current is necessary, and most rivers don't run that fast.
10MW won't make a dent I think, but it's a good idea as an experiment.
Sure, it'll make a dent. Small dent, yes, but so what?
Even a Dubya fanboy like me knows that we need to diversify, instead of bleat and whine.
All the disks are usually) hooked up to the same power supply.
Nowhere I've ever worked.
Dual-redundant power supplies and SCSI controllers are the norm in an enterprise that cares about it's data.