My point was that FOR THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY, if you didn't have to pay for the UNIXware license, you could buy much faster CPUs even for the single proc boxes.
ie. Two single proc Opterons against a single dual proc box with two Pentium III 600mhz..
Hey, remember this one? "Guns don't kill people, people do".
Why do people insist on blaming the tool instead of the people who wield them?
Maybe it's because the tool makes it really easy for people to do bad things while thinking that they are doing good things and feeling proud of themselves?
No more bugging my friends when I'm making plans on the fly in the middle of the city and asking them to Google something for me (address, event time, etc:) I'll just have my laptop in my car...
I can say that I am outraged at the prospect of such a thing.
Record companies aren't entitled to my money, dammit!
This tax will only reward the non-artists businessmen and the big names that are signed to big labels. It'll do SQUAT for the bands I actually care about, and I pay for their albums anyway (after downloading them to see if they are good, of course -- the law of the jungle, only the strongest survives.)
Lucky for me, I have ended all friend-support for anyone not using Linux or MacOS.
Or you could've been a bit less drastic and made them switch to more secure apps while keeping the MS OS (yeah I know, not perfect but it's a step in the right direction -- people are less likely to ditch everything at once).
Why couldn't you just migrate them to Mozilla/Firebird and install some security measures on their computers (good anti-virus, Spybot:S&D, etc)?
His point seemed to be that normal people shouldn't use journaling file systems because if their data had value they'd spend money on hardware to protect it.
My point is that things can have value without having high monetary value, and so using something free such as a journaling file system makes sense.
Of course spending the big bucks on RAID5 and SCSI would be better - and should be used for things with high commercial value, for sure - but for other things that still have value but where it's hard to justifify an increase in budget using free solutions such as a better filesystem or floppy disk backups or whatever can be totally justified, in opposition to the original poster whole said that nobody with single IDE drives needed anything else than EXT2 (IIRC).
So right now I'm living in a cold, drafty, leaky house that I rent for US$70 a week (so you can imagine how crappy it is), I'm not allowed to be self-employed, there are no jobs going for a jet-engine designer and even if I wanted to flip burgers, the town where I'm living has just suffered a mill-closure that has put a whole lot of people on the unemployment line.
It's not going to be a very nice Christmas this year:-(
I may be crazy, but I think that you should set up a paypal account and let the community help you.
I'm sure that many people would donate whatever's been lost between the couch's cushions and it could add up to a helpful amount.
I've said it before; small donations are the way of the future!
I've read in a few places that XFS takes a bit more of your CPU than some of the other popular file-systems (such as reiser).
I was considering using XFS on my desktop, but since my CPU is getting old (K6-2 450mhz), I'm now hesitating; does it really make a noticeable difference?
Right now I'm using reiserFS; lets say that it's 100%. How much more would XFS take? 105%? 115%?
Of course any new feature should only be added if it's stable and doesn't affect the rest of the kernel when it's not used (for all the people who cry everytime a line of code is added to the stable kernel)...
Anyway, personally I'm waiting for 2.6 with great anticipation. I've had some problems with my USB mouse in 2.6-test11. Hopefully Slackware 9.2 will ship with it and it'll be better set than what I could do with my modest h4x0r skills...
if your data is valuable to you thne you spend the money to protect that data.
Here come the capitalists!
The value of data is not only about how much money it's worth, you know. It's not because someone doesn't have big bucks to spend on something that it's worthless in the grand scheme of things.
Or maybe you keep your family photo albums and personal diary in that freaking big vault in your basement?
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-Life is pain, highness. Anybody who says different is selling something.
you keep using that word... optimal. I do not think it means what you think it means.
(with apologies to Inigo Montoya)
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Doesn't it defeat the purpose of overclocking?
I thought you did that to get more out of your CPU than what you paid for.
If you are spending more on the cooling than on the computer, then why not get a faster one, or a second one (or dual, or whatever)?
Heh, I guess there's the whole hobby "I do it because it's fun!" thing that explains it...
Snow == water Doh!
> you can't run ONE oracle DB on TWO machines
Actually, you can. But it's naturally slower.
My point was that FOR THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY, if you didn't have to pay for the UNIXware license, you could buy much faster CPUs even for the single proc boxes.
ie. Two single proc Opterons against a single dual proc box with two Pentium III 600mhz..
2 single proc boxes is not going to run an Oracle installation faster than a two-way box. Your math only works for certain kinds of applications.
Well, it's hard to say without knowing what is in these two boxes single proc boxes, isn't it?
Big differences between 486s and Opterons.
But for the kind of money that you'd save by going Linux instead of UnixWare, you could probably afford to put Opterons in there.
XFce!
Hey, remember this one? "Guns don't kill people, people do".
Why do people insist on blaming the tool instead of the people who wield them?
Maybe it's because the tool makes it really easy for people to do bad things while thinking that they are doing good things and feeling proud of themselves?
No more bugging my friends when I'm making plans on the fly in the middle of the city and asking them to Google something for me (address, event time, etc :) I'll just have my laptop in my car...
Please google "driving safely" first. kthx
Do you kill flies with tactical nuclear devices?
I mean, the guy has a problem with one micro-switch and you tell him to switch computer.
Heh.
Microsoft truly does rule the world, and I, for one, am thankful.
Care to explain why?
I can say that I am outraged at the prospect of such a thing.
Record companies aren't entitled to my money, dammit!
This tax will only reward the non-artists businessmen and the big names that are signed to big labels. It'll do SQUAT for the bands I actually care about, and I pay for their albums anyway (after downloading them to see if they are good, of course -- the law of the jungle, only the strongest survives.)
Lucky for me, I have ended all friend-support for anyone not using Linux or MacOS.
Or you could've been a bit less drastic and made them switch to more secure apps while keeping the MS OS (yeah I know, not perfect but it's a step in the right direction -- people are less likely to ditch everything at once).
Why couldn't you just migrate them to Mozilla/Firebird and install some security measures on their computers (good anti-virus, Spybot:S&D, etc)?
...is there anything on TV worth watching?
I have a K6, you insensitive clod!
Just check to see if such donations might be taxable. They could always try to go after you again...
Those who donate should send it as a "gift", that might help.
His point seemed to be that normal people shouldn't use journaling file systems because if their data had value they'd spend money on hardware to protect it.
My point is that things can have value without having high monetary value, and so using something free such as a journaling file system makes sense.
Of course spending the big bucks on RAID5 and SCSI would be better - and should be used for things with high commercial value, for sure - but for other things that still have value but where it's hard to justifify an increase in budget using free solutions such as a better filesystem or floppy disk backups or whatever can be totally justified, in opposition to the original poster whole said that nobody with single IDE drives needed anything else than EXT2 (IIRC).
Hopefully 2.6.0 will be decently stable from the get go and won't get the bad reputation that early 2.4 had.
I'm glad that they could improve the kernel from both ends at the same time; big(ger) irons and the deskptop.
It should be a nice xmas.
http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet/donations.shtml
So right now I'm living in a cold, drafty, leaky house that I rent for US$70 a week (so you can imagine how crappy it is), I'm not allowed to be self-employed, there are no jobs going for a jet-engine designer and even if I wanted to flip burgers, the town where I'm living has just suffered a mill-closure that has put a whole lot of people on the unemployment line. It's not going to be a very nice Christmas this year :-(
I may be crazy, but I think that you should set up a paypal account and let the community help you. I'm sure that many people would donate whatever's been lost between the couch's cushions and it could add up to a helpful amount. I've said it before; small donations are the way of the future!
I've read in a few places that XFS takes a bit more of your CPU than some of the other popular file-systems (such as reiser).
I was considering using XFS on my desktop, but since my CPU is getting old (K6-2 450mhz), I'm now hesitating; does it really make a noticeable difference?
Right now I'm using reiserFS; lets say that it's 100%. How much more would XFS take? 105%? 115%?
Thanks,
You make this sound as if we couldn't have both.
Of course any new feature should only be added if it's stable and doesn't affect the rest of the kernel when it's not used (for all the people who cry everytime a line of code is added to the stable kernel)...
Anyway, personally I'm waiting for 2.6 with great anticipation. I've had some problems with my USB mouse in 2.6-test11. Hopefully Slackware 9.2 will ship with it and it'll be better set than what I could do with my modest h4x0r skills...
if your data is valuable to you thne you spend the money to protect that data.
Here come the capitalists!
The value of data is not only about how much money it's worth, you know. It's not because someone doesn't have big bucks to spend on something that it's worthless in the grand scheme of things.
Or maybe you keep your family photo albums and personal diary in that freaking big vault in your basement?
Now I use 10 charecter passwords for most of my stuff... Do I need to move to 15 charecters? A passphrase instead of a password?
I'm not expert, but it seems that the problem is that the actual password can be substituted by the hash of said password.
Usually it is easier to find the password than the hash, but with such brute-force available... Well, the lenght of your password may be irrelevant.
I may be misunderstanding the situation, though. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
How many drones working P2P-style (you create these hashes, I'll create these ones) would it take to equal this supercomputer?
I believe that what you are refering to is called "distributed computing".
A good example of crypto-key cracking by distributed computing can be found here.