Falcon has been specially developed for systems that are able to support larger memory architectures and multi-threaded or multi-core CPU environments. Most 64-bit architectures are ideal platforms for the Falcon engine, where there is a larger available memory space and 2-, 4- or 8-core CPUs available. It can also be deployed within a standard 32-bit environment.
The Falcon storage engine is designed to work within high-traffic transactional applications. It supports a number of key features that make this possible:
* True Multi Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) enables records and tables to be updated without the overhead associated with row-level locking mechanisms. The MVCC implementation virtually eliminates the need to lock tables or rows during the update process.
* Flexible locking, including flexible locking levels and smart deadlock detection keep data protected and transactions and operations flowing at full speed.
* Optimized for modern CPUs and environments to support multiple threads allowing multiple transactions and fast transaction handling.
* Transaction-safe (fully ACID-compliant) and able to handle multiple concurrent transactions.
* Serial Log provides high performance and recovery capabilities without sacrificing performance.
* Advanced B-Tree indexes.
* Data compression stores the information on disk in a compressed format, compressing and decompressing data on the fly. The result is in smaller and more efficient physical data sizes.
* Intelligent disk management automatically manages disk file size, extensions and space reclamation.
* Data and index caching provides quick access to data without the requirement to load index data from disk.
* Implicit savepoints ensure data integrity during transactions.
My understanding is that SCO is claming that IBM has to DESTROY all copies of AIX and return or destroy all copies of UNIX source code.
This also applies to IBM's customers that USE AIX. They are supposed to destroy and stop using their copy of AIX.
At least that is according to this article on Cnet:
CNet Article
I guess I would click on adds that I see if I cared even a little bit for what they are advertising. Am I that far removed from "normal" society that I don't relate to almost 100% of all adds?
The only adds that I have clicked on from slashdot all lead to thinkgeek.com.:-)
Neoware sold many X/ICA thin clients. I think they currently have one that runs linux as it's OS as well as ones that run win2000.
I haven't been watching them as much lately as I've been replacing my neostations with PC's running Linux.
Neoware
Age of Empires. The *ONE* reason why MS is on my computer. The *ONE* reason why I spent hundreds of $ on computer games this year for my family. The *ONE* reason why internet connection is important at home. The *ONE* reason I use the Zone.
Would I have bought MS Office for Linux six months ago? YES! Would I buy it now? Probably NOT. Why?
I made the annoucement today at our company's management meeting: I'm in the process of converting casual MS Office users to Gnumeric, Abiword and Evolution.
I was expecting to get drilled from my fellow managers regarding this decision, but after explaining why crazy people write free software their only response was "cool."
As a system administrator living in a corporate world I find myself supporting users who need to have MS Office.
I would *LOVE* to support them on a Linux Desktop instead of a Windows desktop but I can't since MS Office doesn't go there (yet). I would *LOVE* to pay Microsoft $$ to get office on my linux desktops.
When am I going to be able to do that?
*VERY HELPFULL* Dell is selling it's low end desktops with this chipset. We wanted to try it but wasn't sure how to get it to work. Never thought to check Intel's support web site... duh... Anyway THANKS!!
I really want to get this to work sice Age of Empires wants a 8 bit depth screen when using wine under Linux. However, when I try your trick, this is what I get:
server is already active for display 0
Any ideas how to get around this? I'm running XFree86 3.3.5 Thanks
I've always wanted to give Kickstart a try hoping someday I would have a gaggle of computers to install Linux on but I was scared I would find kickstart hard to learn.
We purchased two Dell machines destined to be the first two Linux desktops at our work. I'm going to have to give this a try for this!!
Kinda ironic though isn't it? A GUI interface to a command line installer?
I eval'd a WYSE Winterm a while back. They do exactly what you want. They boot Slackware Linux off a NFS server. Each client is an x86 computer with no harddrive. They all share the same NFS tree on the server with client specific settings stored in the/etc directory under their MAC address.
It was cool just to see how they did it. The machine itself was a bit slow, and I wanted a little more (better local browser, possibly NIS, graphical login?, etc). They have a new model out thats bigger faster better, but I haven't seen it yet.
Slashdot Mirror
Stolen directly from the mysql website:
Falcon has been specially developed for systems that are able to support larger memory architectures and multi-threaded or multi-core CPU environments. Most 64-bit architectures are ideal platforms for the Falcon engine, where there is a larger available memory space and 2-, 4- or 8-core CPUs available. It can also be deployed within a standard 32-bit environment.
The Falcon storage engine is designed to work within high-traffic transactional applications. It supports a number of key features that make this possible:
* True Multi Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) enables records and tables to be updated without the overhead associated with row-level locking mechanisms. The MVCC implementation virtually eliminates the need to lock tables or rows during the update process.
* Flexible locking, including flexible locking levels and smart deadlock detection keep data protected and transactions and operations flowing at full speed.
* Optimized for modern CPUs and environments to support multiple threads allowing multiple transactions and fast transaction handling.
* Transaction-safe (fully ACID-compliant) and able to handle multiple concurrent transactions.
* Serial Log provides high performance and recovery capabilities without sacrificing performance.
* Advanced B-Tree indexes.
* Data compression stores the information on disk in a compressed format, compressing and decompressing data on the fly. The result is in smaller and more efficient physical data sizes.
* Intelligent disk management automatically manages disk file size, extensions and space reclamation.
* Data and index caching provides quick access to data without the requirement to load index data from disk.
* Implicit savepoints ensure data integrity during transactions.
My understanding is that SCO is claming that IBM has to DESTROY all copies of AIX and return or destroy all copies of UNIX source code.
This also applies to IBM's customers that USE AIX. They are supposed to destroy and stop using their copy of AIX.
At least that is according to this article on Cnet: CNet Article
Um, RedHat comes with an auto-updater 'up2date'.
You just need to register your machine and it can automatically update your machine for you.
Some may complain that it is a 'for pay' service but you do get one system for FREE.
Check rhn.redhat.com for more details.
I guess I would click on adds that I see if I cared even a little bit for what they are advertising. Am I that far removed from "normal" society that I don't relate to almost 100% of all adds?
:-)
The only adds that I have clicked on from slashdot all lead to thinkgeek.com.
Neoware sold many X/ICA thin clients. I think they currently have one that runs linux as it's OS as well as ones that run win2000. I haven't been watching them as much lately as I've been replacing my neostations with PC's running Linux. Neoware
Age of Empires. The *ONE* reason why MS is on my computer. The *ONE* reason why I spent hundreds of $ on computer games this year for my family. The *ONE* reason why internet connection is important at home. The *ONE* reason I use the Zone.
Now, the *ONE* reason I have a passport account.
*SIGH*
Would I have bought MS Office for Linux six months ago? YES! Would I buy it now? Probably NOT. Why?
I made the annoucement today at our company's management meeting: I'm in the process of converting casual MS Office users to Gnumeric, Abiword and Evolution.
I was expecting to get drilled from my fellow managers regarding this decision, but after explaining why crazy people write free software their only response was "cool."
As a system administrator living in a corporate world I find myself supporting users who need to have MS Office. I would *LOVE* to support them on a Linux Desktop instead of a Windows desktop but I can't since MS Office doesn't go there (yet). I would *LOVE* to pay Microsoft $$ to get office on my linux desktops. When am I going to be able to do that?
I'm thinking of giving this a try at home on my RedHat 6.2 desktop. Anything that needs to be updated on 6.2 before attempting to use these kernels?
Oh man, if ONLY...
AOE II is the only reason I keep a win98 partition on this machine...
*VERY HELPFULL* Dell is selling it's low end desktops with this chipset. We wanted to try it but wasn't sure how to get it to work. Never thought to check Intel's support web site... duh... Anyway THANKS!!
Thanks! Works perfectly!!
server is already active for display 0
Any ideas how to get around this? I'm running XFree86 3.3.5 Thanks
We purchased two Dell machines destined to be the first two Linux desktops at our work. I'm going to have to give this a try for this!!
Kinda ironic though isn't it? A GUI interface to a command line installer?
It was cool just to see how they did it. The machine itself was a bit slow, and I wanted a little more (better local browser, possibly NIS, graphical login?, etc). They have a new model out thats bigger faster better, but I haven't seen it yet.
I *HAD* to pre-order mine. Mostly because I want to get it before Bob (insert evil laugh here).
But still, going to my local Best Buy and grabbing a copy off the shelf would be way cool. Maybe the wife wants a copy...
If I lived in Europe, my opinion would be: "I'm using caching, come and get me!!"
I would think that finding and prosecuting everyone would be way too expensive to make the law usefull.
Just downloaded pre9 and I can't compile pcmcia-cs-3.0.7 with it. It fails on /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/8390.c.
Anyone else with this problem?