It also has twice the processors, to generate the X2 times speed that they claim. Something tells me, now that VA is recieving the XServer G5 cluster nodes, that they may want to add some more units. they can put 48 units in each rack now, rather than 12 of the full size G5 Desktop form factor. According top my primitive calculations that would allow them to run 4 times as many machines in the same space (would be over 8000 CPUs. I figure that will likely kick the crap out of this new linux cluster...
Re-read the article your thinking of. M$ Long(wait)horn will require 3-4 times the GPU speed...
Thank would mean 3-4 GPU cards, not to mention the overhead for running them.
No Thanks, Make mine a mac, I have everything now what I've seen them planning for Longhorn. Feels like I'm back in 1984 waiting to see what Micro$oft copies from the mac... AGAIN...
If you read the short article. they are talking about pushing all the data for a SINGLE monitor, through two PARALELL cards. Essentially allowing for twice the GPU power to crunch the graphics for the monitor.
You are running a bunch of video cards INDEPENDANT of each other. Clearly NOT THE SAME THING...
You gotta give me a break, this company is a bunch of idiots, or that is at least what they take us for...
They claim there is a file out there that when you download it it deletes your home directory. I will say YES, there is...
ONLY IF YOU ARE A FRICKIN IDIOT!!!!
The "File" is nothing but a script that executes an "rm -rf ~" command. I can write a "Trojan Horse" with the same command in shell script, MS.bat, and numerous other scripting languages and in some cases compile it into an application as to remain unseen till it's too late. Please people stop making this shit up. If anyone seriously thinks the pirated application they are trying to get only takes 1-2 hundred K then THEY DESERVE TO GET THEIR INFO WIPED OUT!!!!
Actually they do, and did when I started. I've almost always been a Mac guy. there was a stint for 4 years before college that I went to the Dark side, but then I switched back, and now you'll have to pry my Mac from my cold, Dead Hands...
BTW I'm also a Sr Network Engineer for the Feds. and Yes they even know I'm a "Mac Guy"...
MacOSX Server has nearly all the abilities os Win2K3 active directory, AT ONE HALF THE PRICE!!
I priced it out for the small business I was consulting for. A single "new" Win2K3 server (just over $12K) and OS (over $15K) with a 2TB Raid ($12K) came in at $39000,
A Clustered pair of Xserver Dual CPU G5s ($4K eack X 2) with a 2TB Xraid ($8.5K) WITH THE OS was arround $19K. The OS was the huge money factor, 150 user ver of WIN 2K3 Enterprise server was like $15K All by itself, where the UNLIMITED (yes without limits on users) version of Mac OSX Panther Server was $1K with an Additional $1K Upgrade service guarentee for 3 years (Any new os is free for 3 years).
Yes the word Worm, rather than Virus. I was quoting the numerous publications that used that word instead. But see below text coppied in from CNN's coverage...
(CNN) -- The first Trojan horse virus to target Apple's latest operating system was discovered this week, and it appears to prey on the popularity of Apple's popular music service. However, it has not been released into the "wild" or on the Internet, and therefore remains low risk.
Trojan horse viruses typically open a secret door for hackers to exploit at a later time.
Macintosh security firm Intego received an e-mail copy of the virus on April 6, but stressed that it is not spreading through replication like a typical virus.
Intego dubbed it "MP3Concept" because of its "proof-of-concept" nature and because the malicious coding can be hidden within an attached MP3 music file. A modified version could also be inserted in other types of files, such as photos.
"We take this first Trojan very seriously," said Intego CEO Laurent Marteau. "This is very easy to modify and create a different version of the same problem."
Apple's operating system, Mac OS X, was released in early 2001, while Apple's iTunes music service was introduced in late 2003.
Double-clicking on the attached MP3 file launches the iTunes music program and simultaneously spawns the Trojan program in the background, said Marteau. But he added that it does not appear to be destructive except under certain computer settings. Intego stressed that this Trojan horse does not exploit any vulnerability in iTunes.
Security firm Symantec said Friday it was analyzing the virus for more details and agreed with the minimal damage level suggested by Intego.
Meanwhile, Apple said Friday that it's responding to the would-be threat and released the following statement:
"We are aware of the potential issue identified by Intego and are working proactively to investigate it. While no operating system can be completely secure from all threats, Apple has an excellent track record of identifying and rapidly correcting potential vulnerabilities."
Macintosh users have historically touted more robust security on Apple's machines. Security analysts also note that Apple retains less than 5 percent of the overall computer market, making it a much smaller target for hackers than Microsoft's Windows systems.
AS you can see it was NOT in teh wild as you claim. Please check all referances before you start throwing moderation arround, please.
Bob,
BTW I kinda know alot about what I'm talking about =>Sr. Level Network Engineer for Federal Government Agency.
Actually they include all the "extra" apps on the install disks. I agree with the first recomendation, repartition/re-format the drives the way you want and rebuild right off the start...
Bob
Apple user/programmer since 77 (Apple II), Mac User since 89 (Mac SE/30), Wow 27 years is a long time, and I'm only 36!!:)
I also remember something about the totally spoken interface making headlines on some of the Mac sites a month or two back. would be great for the disabled users out there...
You are clearly an ignorant Troll that has never actually used a Mac. I have not had a Kernel panic since I started using the Beta of MacOSX. unlike my XP Pro machine I'm fucked over with at work, it crashes 5-10 times a week, and it was just built from OEM disks 2 months ago....
And not to forget it was 1. a worm, not a virus, and 2 never in the wild, only a "proof of concept" from those idiots saying that it could be done.
Also don't forget that it required the user to do something that most people that play.MP3s never do.. Double clicking an MP3 to listen to it. 99.9% of users use a "Player" application to listen to music, all of which would totally gaak at trying to play the "worm"
Basically the company that put out the worm, was just trying to sell its' "Anti-virus" software...
Well, I might as well post a comment at the root level, as aposed to replying to other peoples comments.
1> this person has a $2000 dollar APPLE High Definition LCD Screen. The NATIVE resolution is 1920x1200. It goes without saying that his PeeCee probably has a graphic card capable of the resolution, if not I'm sure he has enough money to get one (they start at about $100).
2> for all you Google searchers... There are no KVM switches on your search that support anything higher than 1600x1200. I'm sure if he wanted to downgrade to that resolution, he would have never asked this question.
3> for the Suggestions involving VNC, or Remote Desktop, they are good suggestions however they have been found to be a known security issue. UNLESS you run your own home network behind a firewall these should NEVER be used. If you use them without blocking internet connectivity to those ports, you will have every script kiddy in the known universe tapdancing all over your precious machine. IF you are behind a firewall they would be OK provided you secure the LAN and "trust" all the other machines on that LAN.
With all that being said, I have looked into the issue also, I own a Dual 2Gig G5 with a 23" also, along with an alienware and laptop, the VNC/RemoteDesktop works for everything except when I want to play FPS games (or other high refresh rate applications) on the Alienware.
Us Mac users that know what the native res on the 23"hd is knew also that it would be stupid to "want" to use a resolution less than the native. Only a bunch of PeeCee boneheads would want to spend $2K on a monitor only to have the edges of the wide screen black (loosing the 320 pixels of the direrence)-- Bob
As I said to the Moron Rastor above
"I find it hilarious that you didn't read his post thouroughly. If you did you would have seen he wants it for a 23" Apple HD LCD. In other words, he wants to be able to use the native 1920x1200 resolution. If you had checked the ones you found they have a MAX digital resolution of 1600x1200. So who is the idiot now?..." So now we have more than one idiot...
I find it hilarious that you didn't read his post thouroughly. If you did you would have seen he wants it for a 23" Apple HD LCD. In other words, he wants to be able to use the native 1920x1200 resolution. If you had checked the ones you found they have a MAX digital resolution of 1600x1200. So who is the idiot now?...
I just watched the video on Cray's site about the X1. They spread the FUD pretty good. The X1 is essentially a cluster with a shared memory storage unit. I'm sure someone out there in the OS community will eventually come up with a way to build a box full of memory sticks and share that memory with multiple nodes simotenously. just give Open Source some time and a reason and they will come up with the answers. If not do it yourself, That's what open is all about...
My Dual 2Gig G5 is faster than the last Cray I hear about in the News. Like I said in an early post, Cray is dead, and spreading the FUD to drumb up some market share to come back. Back in the day the were beautiful machines, ran fast, and made great couches, now they are just that, couches!!!
Bob
And you figure Cray's "Cluster in one box" approach will take less power/cooling? Weren't the dam things cooled with liquid nitrogen at one point because of the Nuclear power plant like temps the things produced...
Bob
And the cost of the thoes Cray things? when figured in, I still think the Linux/MacOSX clustering machines will give Cray's cluster in one box approace a run for it's money...
Bob
Cray is dead, their old methods are dead, When VT, and Apple can build the 3rd fastest machine ever and do it for under 5 million (not including other facility expences). Where is Cray on the list?
This guy is all about the marketing approach and spreading the FUD to the masses to try to gain a market share again.
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Name some, and the proof that M$ did it BEFORE Apple...
Only if he WERE the surfboard!!! I hated that character so much, and I'm glad he only had a bit part in Clones.
They can't, they no longer have the two cents to rub together, now that SCO is falling apart...
It also has twice the processors, to generate the X2 times speed that they claim. Something tells me, now that VA is recieving the XServer G5 cluster nodes, that they may want to add some more units. they can put 48 units in each rack now, rather than 12 of the full size G5 Desktop form factor. According top my primitive calculations that would allow them to run 4 times as many machines in the same space (would be over 8000 CPUs. I figure that will likely kick the crap out of this new linux cluster...
Thank would mean 3-4 GPU cards, not to mention the overhead for running them.
No Thanks, Make mine a mac, I have everything now what I've seen them planning for Longhorn. Feels like I'm back in 1984 waiting to see what Micro$oft copies from the mac... AGAIN...
You are running a bunch of video cards INDEPENDANT of each other. Clearly NOT THE SAME THING...
They claim there is a file out there that when you download it it deletes your home directory. I will say YES, there is...
ONLY IF YOU ARE A FRICKIN IDIOT!!!!
The "File" is nothing but a script that executes an "rm -rf ~" command. I can write a "Trojan Horse" with the same command in shell script, MS .bat, and numerous other scripting languages and in some cases compile it into an application as to remain unseen till it's too late. Please people stop making this shit up. If anyone seriously thinks the pirated application they are trying to get only takes 1-2 hundred K then THEY DESERVE TO GET THEIR INFO WIPED OUT!!!!
BTW I'm also a Sr Network Engineer for the Feds. and Yes they even know I'm a "Mac Guy"...
They Do Now...
I priced it out for the small business I was consulting for. A single "new" Win2K3 server (just over $12K) and OS (over $15K) with a 2TB Raid ($12K) came in at $39000,
A Clustered pair of Xserver Dual CPU G5s ($4K eack X 2) with a 2TB Xraid ($8.5K) WITH THE OS was arround $19K. The OS was the huge money factor, 150 user ver of WIN 2K3 Enterprise server was like $15K All by itself, where the UNLIMITED (yes without limits on users) version of Mac OSX Panther Server was $1K with an Additional $1K Upgrade service guarentee for 3 years (Any new os is free for 3 years).
(CNN) -- The first Trojan horse virus to target Apple's latest operating system was discovered this week, and it appears to prey on the popularity of Apple's popular music service. However, it has not been released into the "wild" or on the Internet, and therefore remains low risk. Trojan horse viruses typically open a secret door for hackers to exploit at a later time. Macintosh security firm Intego received an e-mail copy of the virus on April 6, but stressed that it is not spreading through replication like a typical virus. Intego dubbed it "MP3Concept" because of its "proof-of-concept" nature and because the malicious coding can be hidden within an attached MP3 music file. A modified version could also be inserted in other types of files, such as photos. "We take this first Trojan very seriously," said Intego CEO Laurent Marteau. "This is very easy to modify and create a different version of the same problem." Apple's operating system, Mac OS X, was released in early 2001, while Apple's iTunes music service was introduced in late 2003. Double-clicking on the attached MP3 file launches the iTunes music program and simultaneously spawns the Trojan program in the background, said Marteau. But he added that it does not appear to be destructive except under certain computer settings. Intego stressed that this Trojan horse does not exploit any vulnerability in iTunes. Security firm Symantec said Friday it was analyzing the virus for more details and agreed with the minimal damage level suggested by Intego. Meanwhile, Apple said Friday that it's responding to the would-be threat and released the following statement: "We are aware of the potential issue identified by Intego and are working proactively to investigate it. While no operating system can be completely secure from all threats, Apple has an excellent track record of identifying and rapidly correcting potential vulnerabilities." Macintosh users have historically touted more robust security on Apple's machines. Security analysts also note that Apple retains less than 5 percent of the overall computer market, making it a much smaller target for hackers than Microsoft's Windows systems.
AS you can see it was NOT in teh wild as you claim. Please check all referances before you start throwing moderation arround, please.
Bob,
BTW I kinda know alot about what I'm talking about =>Sr. Level Network Engineer for Federal Government Agency.
Bob
Apple user/programmer since 77 (Apple II), Mac User since 89 (Mac SE/30), Wow 27 years is a long time, and I'm only 36!! :)
I also remember something about the totally spoken interface making headlines on some of the Mac sites a month or two back. would be great for the disabled users out there...
You are clearly an ignorant Troll that has never actually used a Mac. I have not had a Kernel panic since I started using the Beta of MacOSX. unlike my XP Pro machine I'm fucked over with at work, it crashes 5-10 times a week, and it was just built from OEM disks 2 months ago....
Also don't forget that it required the user to do something that most people that play .MP3s never do.. Double clicking an MP3 to listen to it. 99.9% of users use a "Player" application to listen to music, all of which would totally gaak at trying to play the "worm"
Basically the company that put out the worm, was just trying to sell its' "Anti-virus" software...
Bob
The 70,000 Viruses for WinBlows... For MacOSX ZERO...
Well, I might as well post a comment at the root level, as aposed to replying to other peoples comments.
1> this person has a $2000 dollar APPLE High Definition LCD Screen. The NATIVE resolution is 1920x1200. It goes without saying that his PeeCee probably has a graphic card capable of the resolution, if not I'm sure he has enough money to get one (they start at about $100).
2> for all you Google searchers... There are no KVM switches on your search that support anything higher than 1600x1200. I'm sure if he wanted to downgrade to that resolution, he would have never asked this question.
3> for the Suggestions involving VNC, or Remote Desktop, they are good suggestions however they have been found to be a known security issue. UNLESS you run your own home network behind a firewall these should NEVER be used. If you use them without blocking internet connectivity to those ports, you will have every script kiddy in the known universe tapdancing all over your precious machine. IF you are behind a firewall they would be OK provided you secure the LAN and "trust" all the other machines on that LAN.
With all that being said, I have looked into the issue also, I own a Dual 2Gig G5 with a 23" also, along with an alienware and laptop, the VNC/RemoteDesktop works for everything except when I want to play FPS games (or other high refresh rate applications) on the Alienware.
Bob
Us Mac users that know what the native res on the 23"hd is knew also that it would be stupid to "want" to use a resolution less than the native. Only a bunch of PeeCee boneheads would want to spend $2K on a monitor only to have the edges of the wide screen black (loosing the 320 pixels of the direrence)-- Bob
As I said to the Moron Rastor above "I find it hilarious that you didn't read his post thouroughly. If you did you would have seen he wants it for a 23" Apple HD LCD. In other words, he wants to be able to use the native 1920x1200 resolution. If you had checked the ones you found they have a MAX digital resolution of 1600x1200. So who is the idiot now?..." So now we have more than one idiot...
I find it hilarious that you didn't read his post thouroughly. If you did you would have seen he wants it for a 23" Apple HD LCD. In other words, he wants to be able to use the native 1920x1200 resolution. If you had checked the ones you found they have a MAX digital resolution of 1600x1200. So who is the idiot now?...
I just watched the video on Cray's site about the X1. They spread the FUD pretty good. The X1 is essentially a cluster with a shared memory storage unit. I'm sure someone out there in the OS community will eventually come up with a way to build a box full of memory sticks and share that memory with multiple nodes simotenously. just give Open Source some time and a reason and they will come up with the answers. If not do it yourself, That's what open is all about...
My Dual 2Gig G5 is faster than the last Cray I hear about in the News. Like I said in an early post, Cray is dead, and spreading the FUD to drumb up some market share to come back. Back in the day the were beautiful machines, ran fast, and made great couches, now they are just that, couches!!! Bob
And you figure Cray's "Cluster in one box" approach will take less power/cooling? Weren't the dam things cooled with liquid nitrogen at one point because of the Nuclear power plant like temps the things produced... Bob
And the cost of the thoes Cray things? when figured in, I still think the Linux/MacOSX clustering machines will give Cray's cluster in one box approace a run for it's money... Bob
Cray is dead, their old methods are dead, When VT, and Apple can build the 3rd fastest machine ever and do it for under 5 million (not including other facility expences). Where is Cray on the list? This guy is all about the marketing approach and spreading the FUD to the masses to try to gain a market share again.