For some reason seeing a dishwasher going mach 3 through the atmosphere would make my day.
Do you think if we lobbied the white house with enough petitions that they might just do this for the entertainment value?
Wonder what would happen when someone walks by with metal in their body?
I can see it now:
Sees metal piercings flying through the air. Man with screws in the leg.... what's that big circle thing over there.. whoa (as the screws flys from his body).
If you are a business, then charge business prices. If you are helping a buddy or a friend, then gratuity works great. When I am working professionally, the rates reflect exactly what the vendors and Vars charge, since that is exactly what I am performing. Recently, I checked in my own community and found out how much different businesses charge:
1. Looking at compusa, they have a 4 hour rate of 299 - equates to $75 an hour.
2. Some other locations, google for them, reveal that some tasks are around $200 per hour, such as networking, server configurations, troubleshooting.
3. When we have had either Sun or Oracle work on our systems (Oracle does not anymore), Oracle charged $10,000 for 2 days work, while Sun charged $500 an hour (2 minimum) if a system was not under a support contract.... IBM was similar.
4. When we had a VAR install a server, they would charge around $1500 - $3000 per system. This was normal from different VARs. This was just to install the OS.
Compare these to what you want to do, plus do your homework.
Also, if you are trying to be a professional business person, charge the appropriate amount.... you owe it to yourself and other professionals around you, ie if you charge very little, then you de-value the skills the rest of us have taken a life time to acquire as well as yourself!
Not reading the story, but does this mean more than 16 IRQs? Sure would be nice to have 256 rather than being confined by the 16 available. Been an issue for years.
Having worked for one of those commercial companies as a Test Engineer, that make software. I have seen too many times where bugs were known and went out to the customers anyway. Yeah, it was tested, but a rush test job occurs once in a while as well.... actually quite often.
There used to be a site that would record uptime and number of crashes per OS, ie 95, 98, 2000, Linux, etc... It included downloading a client that would watch and report back to the site with statistics. It would be nice to see a comparison.
Hmmm.... Didn't see anything about this that allows say Police to continue use of computers in their front seat? I know some of the cruisers do have a computer in the front seat so they can look up a drivers driving record.
It is disappointing to see many of the comments here. Some are good and beneficial comments, others are not.
Where is the spirit of Sharing Ideas here?
#Define Flame On
I suggest that some here Grow Up! Zip your pants up, and quit the p*ss*ng contest. Your 15 seconds of fame are over! Now start acting like team players in this world!
#Define Flame Off
How about several of the people here that apparently seem that they know their stuff the best (and they may), smash heads together to come up with some benchmarks that test appropriately each of the different Operating Systems. I do mean all of the different OSs, such as OS/2, HPUX, Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, Windows (3.1, 95, 98, 2000, NT, etc....) Linux 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, etc... FreeBSD 4.8, 4.9, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc.....
I would suggest the following:
1. Get some people together to come up with a general test that measures specific areas that the kernel is programmed for. These would be tests that would be subject to each OS developers approval (ie, that they test appropriately the area specified). Also, acquire each OS tuning parameters for each specific test.
2. Use these tests to benchmark where an OS has issues.
3. Forward these tests to developers who care about the OS they program, to use these as starting points where code may be improved.
4. Post the tests for each OS. Both before and after fixes.
Do I know what I am talking about? Probably not, but I was a test engineer for several years and we did perform quite a few test just like Fefe did to see what would happen. As time went on, yes we came up with better and better tests. Accept this fellows test as for what it is, a start of people getting together to put together better and better tests. By the way, he did a fairly good job for one that has gone out of their way to help the nerds out there think about things, some apparently think, while others just like to/..
Which OS do I use? Which ever is handy at the moment! Sometimes we don't get a choice!
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For some reason seeing a dishwasher going mach 3 through the atmosphere would make my day. Do you think if we lobbied the white house with enough petitions that they might just do this for the entertainment value?
Perl 6i or is that now i6 ? Need the i somewhere to keep consistent with the buzzwords these days.
Nope. The party is called GREED.
Wonder what would happen when someone walks by with metal in their body?
.... what's that big circle thing over there .. whoa (as the screws flys from his body).
I can see it now:
Sees metal piercings flying through the air.
Man with screws in the leg
start sarcasm
But it is not BSD! It can't be better than anything BSD has created.
We all know that Solaris is just a crappy system that has no use in the enterprise.
end sarcasm
1. Looking at compusa, they have a 4 hour rate of 299 - equates to $75 an hour.
2. Some other locations, google for them, reveal that some tasks are around $200 per hour, such as networking, server configurations, troubleshooting.
3. When we have had either Sun or Oracle work on our systems (Oracle does not anymore), Oracle charged $10,000 for 2 days work, while Sun charged $500 an hour (2 minimum) if a system was not under a support contract .... IBM was similar.
4. When we had a VAR install a server, they would charge around $1500 - $3000 per system. This was normal from different VARs. This was just to install the OS.
Compare these to what you want to do, plus do your homework.
Also, if you are trying to be a professional business person, charge the appropriate amount .... you owe it to yourself and other professionals around you, ie if you charge very little, then you de-value the skills the rest of us have taken a life time to acquire as well as yourself!
Didn't Microsoft pull the entire TCP/IP stack from BSD?
Uh, er, how about taking it out since it does not have interoperability!
Hmmm, to be fair, you would think that MySQL would compare itself in the same manner.
Looks pretty biased to me!
Now, where did I leave that monkey costume?
Frelling Cool!
I couldn't help myself! The voices inside made me say it.
So, as Penn and Teller would say, I call "BS".
Anyone remember this site?
Scotty: Hey Captain!, Er, your not gonna believe this, but the scanners are showing .....
Kirk: Arm the photon torpedos, we'll show those Romulans that they can't fool us!
So, which bf upgrade are you?
I think I am version 5.0.
Hmmm.... Didn't see anything about this that allows say Police to continue use of computers in their front seat? I know some of the cruisers do have a computer in the front seat so they can look up a drivers driving record.
It is disappointing to see many of the comments here. Some are good and beneficial comments, others are not.
/. .
Where is the spirit of Sharing Ideas here?
#Define Flame On
I suggest that some here Grow Up! Zip your pants up, and quit the p*ss*ng contest. Your 15 seconds of fame are over! Now start acting like team players in this world!
#Define Flame Off
How about several of the people here that apparently seem that they know their stuff the best (and they may), smash heads together to come up with some benchmarks that test appropriately each of the different Operating Systems. I do mean all of the different OSs, such as OS/2, HPUX, Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, Windows (3.1, 95, 98, 2000, NT, etc....) Linux 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, etc... FreeBSD 4.8, 4.9, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc.....
I would suggest the following:
1. Get some people together to come up with a general test that measures specific areas that the kernel is programmed for. These would be tests that would be subject to each OS developers approval (ie, that they test appropriately the area specified). Also, acquire each OS tuning parameters for each specific test.
2. Use these tests to benchmark where an OS has issues.
3. Forward these tests to developers who care about the OS they program, to use these as starting points where code may be improved.
4. Post the tests for each OS. Both before and after fixes.
Do I know what I am talking about? Probably not, but I was a test engineer for several years and we did perform quite a few test just like Fefe did to see what would happen. As time went on, yes we came up with better and better tests. Accept this fellows test as for what it is, a start of people getting together to put together better and better tests. By the way, he did a fairly good job for one that has gone out of their way to help the nerds out there think about things, some apparently think, while others just like to
Which OS do I use? Which ever is handy at the moment! Sometimes we don't get a choice!