I'm running a Q6600 @ 3.65GHz with 8GB of 1066MHz running an Ubuntu LAMP server (Headless)
It cost me less for the CPU 2 years ago than this AMD costs today. The Q6600 runs faster, if I go by the synthetic benchmarks. While I like rooting for the underdog, AMD is too far behind to make any serious run on the Core 2 market except for the fanbois.
This seems like too little too late, to me. But then again I am not in the market for another build. *shrug*
Since I stuffed my Q6600 rig into a 2U case, air cooling was not an option. I typically see the cores running at 25 - 40C with an ambient of 30 inside the case, and (summer) 28C outside the case, this under a full load. (4 core Prime stress) In winter the cores never get above 30C under the same load.
I live in rural environment, and it's ok for adults, here but it seems to be rough on kids.
It's not a violence issue here. It's a matter of distraction. Teen pregnancy. Drugs, and alcohol. These are not city problems they are societal problems.
You go off half cocked and you have this idea that I live in some ghetto of Detroit....
Get over yourself. You have no idea what you are talking about.
Bandwidth, cooling, power, cost/ft^2, building maint., system support.
Might it be that the model just doesn't scale right when the demand for servers levels off?
Are we seeing a collapse of the server bubble? If so then large scale data centers are going to go the way of the dinosaurs.
Lots of small business might be served by cloud solutions, but I am seeing many small business owners back away from it due to concerns over data security, and long term availability.
If Acme Cloud Source falls over, or starts sucking really bad, and I have some of my processes dependent on their particular system, how do I transition out of the mess? I have done that dance before. It's ugly, and it can cause a serious disruption to a small business, especially when management used those resources in mission critical processes.
Heck Acme Cloud Source swore up and down that they'd be there for the duration.... well how long is that in dog years?
It's a bad bet for Acme because if the service fails to grow, then tearing it down causes huge liability concerns from customers who get screwed by Acme dropping the service. Custies can't buy into Acme because they always need to have one foot out the door so they don't get stuck on a service that might get the plug pulled abruptly.
It will be nice to see some 8-core Itannic iron show up on ebay for cheap.
Maybe the answer is to buy all of the idle cpu cycles from the home users. I've got a few GFlops just sitting idle here, and I know how to keep my gear running, and reasonably secure.
Might be the way to build large compute clouds is to encourage small operators to provide small clusters, that they maintain, and sell by the minute to larger operators using a common framework.
Seti@Home and folding@home get a lot of work units done during idle times on home machines... Set it up a little more formally and small shops might be willing to maintain small clusters, if the pay per unit work, and terms were worth the investment. Obviously some security issues need to be worked out to keep bad actors from messing with the work units, or nosing around in the data, but these problems are not insurmountable.
While setting up large co-locs might not work in BFE, many small clusters scattered around might work out well.
If Joe Wannabe can keep a 5KW cluster up 24/7/365 in BFE over a pair of DSL/cable links how much would that be worth?
Now replicate across many low income areas. If the pay is right, and there are incentives for eventually moving the cluster out of his/her basement/garage into cheap office space and scaling up to some sweet spot with a few people employed.
now maybe some types of services can't afford the risk of massive distribution or the appearance of less than Fort Knox security, but I am sure many processes could work this way.
The only problem I see with that model is finding good employees to do the local care and feeding of the equipment.
That can be a real issue in places that have cheap land, hookers, and beer. Low wages and poor living conditions drove all the movers and shakers out of those areas long ago.
Additionally, even if you manage to get some of your staff to move to BFE, they are not going to want to stay. It's dangerous to raise kids in such places. Schools are notoriously bad, and there are too many opportunities for them to get side-tracked by the local losers.
An alarming lack of airborne greenhouse gasses leading to a dangerous trend of global cooling?
It was certainly dangerous, nay, deadly to early carbon fixing bacteria. Where do ya think all that calcium carbonate came from in the first place? Those early organisms basically poisoned the atmosphere with oxygen, and precipitated much of the CO2 out of the atmosphere and oceans.
The old macbook pro had a very different touchpad. It did process taps internally. The new one passes information about the touched regions to MacOS so that more complex gesture detection is supported. This is a case where the more complex gesture processing could not be handled in the touch pad, so the raw touches are passed to the main CPU for processing.
Maybe you should read up on how MacOS processes multi-point touches, before getting snarky with me about it.
Look back at the original reports of the incident. The Professor stated that his driver forced the door to the house open when the key failed to unlock the door.
That would leave an obvious sign of forced entry when the officer approached the scene.
Please explain how the apparent forced entry would not qualify as probable cause to believe a crime was in progress?
There are plenty of situations where an LE can enter private property without a warrant. Imminent threat to life or property is used by LE and FD/EMT personnel all the time. To wit: I called the cops to report water coming into my apartment from the apartment next door. The apartment manager was not available. The officer responding had no issue with breaking into the apartment to determine the source of the flood water, and determine if the elderly woman who lived there was safe. This required no warrant.
A key reason that might apply here is: a witness reporting a possible break-in (the 911 call) and the front door to the residence in question standing open, with an as yet unidentified person milling around in the house. The LE most certainly can ask the subject to identify themselves, though the LE may not search the residence, or even search the person without further probable cause.
If your argument reflected reality in the court room, then the RIAA/MPAA would not have been able to trot out pseudo-experts who don't know what they are talking about. What's worse is they contradicted their own testimony, between deposition, and trial, and their story changes from trial to trial.
If you want a real sample of just how much bullshit gets bandied about in the court room, make the effort to get selected for a jury the next time you get called to serve. It's pretty easy to survive voir dire if you aren't actively seeking to wriggle off the hook.
Here's a hint. They give you a notebook to use for the trial. Take detailed notes only on sworn testimony. Do not write down anything the lawyers say, or anything the judge says unless it is a direct instruction to the jury. When you get to the deliberation, check up with your fellow jurists and compare notes. Listen to the arguments your fellow jurists use to support their vote. You'll be shocked at how many of them are basing their arguments on what the lawyers said rather than the sworn testimony and approved exhibits.
I'd recommend that you keep a separate notebook of your own to keep hold of key testimony, especially the expert witnesses. Treat this second notebook as strictly write only until you have been released from duty. DO NOT REREAD IT DURING THE TRIAL OR DELIBERATION!! It's just so you wont forget what you heard and saw during the trial, since they will take your jury notebook away when the judgement has been read and you are dismissed.
After the trial has concluded and you have been dismissed, and thanked for your service: Go research key elements of sworn expert testimony that you relied upon to make your decisions during deliberation. Do some real digging. I think you'll find that those experts were only expert at twisting facts to suit their client's theories at trial.
There has been a lot of grumbling about reading comprehension around here recently.
Two things to consider:
1. "The meaning of the communication is the result you get." Repeat this regularly as a mantra. 2. Run your postings through MS Word with the Flesch-Kincaid report turned on, and shoot for a score of 60.0 - 70.0 (grade level 8.2)
If you pedantic, armchair, english masters do so, you might find that more people respond to your intended meaning. Stop blaming "reading comprehension" to cover for your lousy "writing to be understood" skills.
since the main CPU on the mac doesn't run the power management show at all. I can see how that might be a problem for Windows, and Apple supplied drivers.
The taps are processed as "gestures" under MacOS, because you can tap with one or more fingers to get different behaviors. Windows cannot deal with that. So the driver just passes the button presses. Apple could be a bit more sophisticated in the driver, and support taps, but I think the driver might get a little too complicated for that.
Thank you for being an unmitigated, fucking, tool about it.
Your G4 wouldn't run 10.6 anyway, and unless it is one of the high-end mirror-door models, it won't have the stones to run 10.5.
Your G4 is probably a doorstop at this point.
As for the "Apple Tax" While Microsoft has been beating itself to death trying to get it's user's to dump XP, Apple has rewritten large chunks of OS X in both 10.5 and 10.6 these are not service packs, they are rewrites of the OS. The list of changes between 10.4 and 10.5 is comparable to the feature lists differences between XP and Vista. Apple stated quite clearly that 1.6 was not going to have much new stuff, so guess what? They are selling it for $49.
Now how much is an 'Upgrade License' from XP to Vista? How much is Win7?
I'll pay my "Apple Tax" thank you, since it encourages Apple to keep innovating the OS, and the platform as a whole.
While your experience with cars is interesting, it's not very informed.
Honda clearly does build Acura with Honda parts, but some of the parts are unique to the Acura line. There are features on the car that are not supported on Honda's other products.
Apple is using Intel chip sets, and you will find that there are a lot of common parts between a std Wintel set up and the Macintel setup.
Two big Differences: * Custom multi-touch trackpad. Windows is not going to know what to do with the advanced output from the trackpad. The apple driver just makes sure that Windows sees what it needs to see from the device, for basic compatibility.
* Battery/power management. On Wintel machines the CPU manages the battery through a set of standardized devices. MBPs don't have these devices because the power management is handled by a custom microcontroller, that the main CPU does not have control over. Apple's drivers try to bridge the gap by mimicking the non-existent Wintel power management hardware. This will be a total fail if the OS in the driver's seat tries to bypass the driver, or use tricks that would only work on real hardware.
If Microsoft wants Apple owners to buy Windows, they might actually want to spend a little effort making sure it runs properly. Apple did a lot of work to make Bootcamp work, but supporting Windows is not Apple's job. That's Microsoft's job.
Microsoft needs to step up and support the configuration. That may mean helping apple with their drivers. It may be that there are bugs in Vista and Win7 that only appear on this config...
Microsoft needs to take responsibility for thier customers, or say flat out that they do not support BootCamp. Apple has handed Microsoft these sales on a silver platter.
This is less of an issue with the VM solutions, but Microsoft needs to treat these customers with the same lack of respect as the rest of their customers. Right now they get treated like 'pirates' for not running on well established commodity hardware.
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I'm running a Q6600 @ 3.65GHz with 8GB of 1066MHz running an Ubuntu LAMP server (Headless)
It cost me less for the CPU 2 years ago than this AMD costs today. The Q6600 runs faster, if I go by the synthetic benchmarks. While I like rooting for the underdog, AMD is too far behind to make any serious run on the Core 2 market except for the fanbois.
This seems like too little too late, to me. But then again I am not in the market for another build. *shrug*
Since I stuffed my Q6600 rig into a 2U case, air cooling was not an option. I typically see the cores running at 25 - 40C with an ambient of 30 inside the case, and (summer) 28C outside the case, this under a full load. (4 core Prime stress) In winter the cores never get above 30C under the same load.
I don't live in a city. And never said I did.
I live in rural environment, and it's ok for adults, here but it seems to be rough on kids.
It's not a violence issue here. It's a matter of distraction. Teen pregnancy. Drugs, and alcohol. These are not city problems they are societal problems.
You go off half cocked and you have this idea that I live in some ghetto of Detroit....
Get over yourself. You have no idea what you are talking about.
Then the scale factor is too high.
Bandwidth, cooling, power, cost/ft^2, building maint., system support.
Might it be that the model just doesn't scale right when the demand for servers levels off?
Are we seeing a collapse of the server bubble? If so then large scale data centers are going to go the way of the dinosaurs.
Lots of small business might be served by cloud solutions, but I am seeing many small business owners back away from it due to concerns over data security, and long term availability.
If Acme Cloud Source falls over, or starts sucking really bad, and I have some of my processes dependent on their particular system, how do I transition out of the mess? I have done that dance before. It's ugly, and it can cause a serious disruption to a small business, especially when management used those resources in mission critical processes.
Heck Acme Cloud Source swore up and down that they'd be there for the duration.... well how long is that in dog years?
It's a bad bet for Acme because if the service fails to grow, then tearing it down causes huge liability concerns from customers who get screwed by Acme dropping the service. Custies can't buy into Acme because they always need to have one foot out the door so they don't get stuck on a service that might get the plug pulled abruptly.
This cloud thing is a disaster waiting to happen.
It will be nice to see some 8-core Itannic iron show up on ebay for cheap.
Maybe the answer is to buy all of the idle cpu cycles from the home users. I've got a few GFlops just sitting idle here, and I know how to keep my gear running, and reasonably secure.
Might be the way to build large compute clouds is to encourage small operators to provide small clusters, that they maintain, and sell by the minute to larger operators using a common framework.
Seti@Home and folding@home get a lot of work units done during idle times on home machines... Set it up a little more formally and small shops might be willing to maintain small clusters, if the pay per unit work, and terms were worth the
investment. Obviously some security issues need to be worked out to keep bad actors from messing with the work units, or nosing around in the data, but these problems are not insurmountable.
While setting up large co-locs might not work in BFE, many small clusters scattered around might work out well.
If Joe Wannabe can keep a 5KW cluster up 24/7/365 in BFE over a pair of DSL/cable links how much would that be worth?
Now replicate across many low income areas. If the pay is right, and there are incentives for eventually moving the cluster out of his/her basement/garage into cheap office space and scaling up to some sweet spot with a few people employed.
now maybe some types of services can't afford the risk of massive distribution or the appearance of less than Fort Knox security, but I am sure many processes could work this way.
Agreed. It's truly the armpit of California.
The only problem I see with that model is finding good employees to do the local care and feeding of the equipment.
That can be a real issue in places that have cheap land, hookers, and beer. Low wages and poor living conditions drove all the movers and shakers out of those areas long ago.
Additionally, even if you manage to get some of your staff to move to BFE, they are not going to want to stay. It's dangerous to raise kids in such places. Schools are notoriously bad, and there are too many opportunities for them to get side-tracked by the local losers.
Grue.. Anyone?
An alarming lack of airborne greenhouse gasses leading to a dangerous trend of global cooling?
It was certainly dangerous, nay, deadly to early carbon fixing bacteria. Where do ya think all that calcium carbonate came from in the first place? Those early organisms basically poisoned the atmosphere with oxygen, and precipitated much of the CO2 out of the atmosphere and oceans.
Honestly I couldn't give a rats ass about the game offerings....
That cell chip, and a linux distro has me interested.
Just not sure how to fit it into my stable yet. And that as the only reason Sony doesn't have my cash.
The old macbook pro had a very different touchpad. It did process taps internally. The new one passes information about the touched regions to MacOS so that more complex gesture detection is supported. This is a case where the more complex gesture processing could not be handled in the touch pad, so the raw touches are passed to the main CPU for processing.
Maybe you should read up on how MacOS processes multi-point touches, before getting snarky with me about it.
Sorry to self-reply:
Look back at the original reports of the incident.
The Professor stated that his driver forced the door to the house open when the key failed to unlock the door.
That would leave an obvious sign of forced entry when the officer approached the scene.
Please explain how the apparent forced entry would not qualify as probable cause to believe a crime was in progress?
There are plenty of situations where an LE can enter private property without a warrant. Imminent threat to life or property is used by LE and FD/EMT personnel all the time. To wit: I called the cops to report water coming into my apartment from the apartment next door. The apartment manager was not available. The officer responding had no issue with breaking into the apartment to determine the source of the flood water, and determine if the elderly woman who lived there was safe. This required no warrant.
A key reason that might apply here is: a witness reporting a possible break-in (the 911 call) and the front door to the residence in question standing open, with an as yet unidentified person milling around in the house. The LE most certainly can ask the subject to identify themselves, though the LE may not search the residence, or even search the person without further probable cause.
If your argument reflected reality in the court room, then the RIAA/MPAA would not have been able to trot out pseudo-experts who don't know what they are talking about. What's worse is they contradicted their own testimony, between deposition, and trial, and their story changes from trial to trial.
If you want a real sample of just how much bullshit gets bandied about in the court room, make the effort to get selected for a jury the next time you get called to serve. It's pretty easy to survive voir dire if you aren't actively seeking to wriggle off the hook.
Here's a hint. They give you a notebook to use for the trial. Take detailed notes only on sworn testimony. Do not write down anything the lawyers say, or anything the judge says unless it is a direct instruction to the jury. When you get to the deliberation, check up with your fellow jurists and compare notes. Listen to the arguments your fellow jurists use to support their vote. You'll be shocked at how many of them are basing their arguments on what the lawyers said rather than the sworn testimony and approved exhibits.
I'd recommend that you keep a separate notebook of your own to keep hold of key testimony, especially the expert witnesses. Treat this second notebook as strictly write only until you have been released from duty. DO NOT REREAD IT DURING THE TRIAL OR DELIBERATION!! It's just so you wont forget what you heard and saw during the trial, since they will take your jury notebook away when the judgement has been read and you are dismissed.
After the trial has concluded and you have been dismissed, and thanked for your service: Go research key elements of sworn expert testimony that you relied upon to make your decisions during deliberation. Do some real digging. I think you'll find that those experts were only expert at twisting facts to suit their client's theories at trial.
Average literacy in general population hovers around the 5th or 6th grade reading level (Flesch reading score of 85.0 - 100.0) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch-Kincaid_readability_test
There has been a lot of grumbling about reading comprehension around here recently.
Two things to consider:
1. "The meaning of the communication is the result you get." Repeat this regularly as a mantra.
2. Run your postings through MS Word with the Flesch-Kincaid report turned on, and shoot for a score of 60.0 - 70.0 (grade level 8.2)
If you pedantic, armchair, english masters do so, you might find that more people respond to your intended meaning. Stop blaming "reading comprehension" to cover for your lousy "writing to be understood" skills.
since the main CPU on the mac doesn't run the power management show at all. I can see how that might be a problem for Windows, and Apple supplied drivers.
You are fucking wrong.
The taps are processed as "gestures" under MacOS, because you can tap with one or more fingers to get different behaviors. Windows cannot deal with that. So the driver just passes the button presses. Apple could be a bit more sophisticated in the driver, and support taps, but I think the driver might get a little too complicated for that.
Thank you for being an unmitigated, fucking, tool about it.
Your G4 wouldn't run 10.6 anyway, and unless it is one of the high-end mirror-door models, it won't have the stones to run 10.5.
Your G4 is probably a doorstop at this point.
As for the "Apple Tax"
While Microsoft has been beating itself to death trying to get it's user's to dump XP, Apple has rewritten large chunks of OS X in both 10.5 and 10.6 these are not service packs, they are rewrites of the OS. The list of changes between 10.4 and 10.5 is comparable to the feature lists differences between XP and Vista.
Apple stated quite clearly that 1.6 was not going to have much new stuff, so guess what? They are selling it for $49.
Now how much is an 'Upgrade License' from XP to Vista? How much is Win7?
I'll pay my "Apple Tax" thank you, since it encourages Apple to keep innovating the OS, and the platform as a whole.
While your experience with cars is interesting, it's not very informed.
Honda clearly does build Acura with Honda parts, but some of the parts are unique to the Acura line. There are features on the car that are not supported on Honda's other products.
Apple is using Intel chip sets, and you will find that there are a lot of common parts between a std Wintel set up and the Macintel setup.
Two big Differences:
* Custom multi-touch trackpad. Windows is not going to know what to do with the advanced output from the trackpad. The apple driver just makes sure that Windows sees what it needs to see from the device, for basic compatibility.
* Battery/power management. On Wintel machines the CPU manages the battery through a set of standardized devices. MBPs don't have these devices because the power management is handled by a custom microcontroller, that the main CPU does not have control over. Apple's drivers try to bridge the gap by mimicking the non-existent Wintel power management hardware. This will be a total fail if the OS in the driver's seat tries to bypass the driver, or use tricks that would only work on real hardware.
If Microsoft wants Apple owners to buy Windows, they might actually want to spend a little effort making sure it runs properly. Apple did a lot of work to make Bootcamp work, but supporting Windows is not Apple's job. That's Microsoft's job.
Microsoft needs to step up and support the configuration. That may mean helping apple with their drivers. It may be that there are bugs in Vista and Win7 that only appear on this config...
Microsoft needs to take responsibility for thier customers, or say flat out that they do not support BootCamp. Apple has handed Microsoft these sales on a silver platter.
This is less of an issue with the VM solutions, but Microsoft needs to treat these customers with the same lack of respect as the rest of their customers. Right now they get treated like 'pirates' for not running on well established commodity hardware.
The drivers don't do the gesture stuff. That happens at the OS level. Winblows doesn't support gestures.
drivers or no. The OS is running the show.
There is no clear root cause yet. Someone is going to figure out who's causing it. Then the fun begins :D
Maybe it should be. I can do this in OS X. Without accessing a CLI, BTW. :)
"You'd think every programmer would learn the basics of these subjects, as part of being a competent professional."
You are assuming too much.
Personally I don't think anyone questioned the QA value of pointing the science instruments at the earth to calibrate them.
Trolls aside, Captain Obvious, what DID you expect?
Stunned-to-silence wonderment?
For some reason I read that as:
And I, for one, welcome our new vegetarian overlords.
Could it be that the bovine revolution is nigh?
Would that be thinking inside the box?