The connector for the daughterboard looks to be the same as another PCI-E slot (but offset) - does it have to be enabled by jumper, or can you get three PCI-E devices to run at once?
Nah... They just used the same connector for a different purpose, it's just for making the board cheaper.
What does Oracle's stubbornness imply for the industry as a whole, with multicore chips coming to the fore so strongly?
I can't say about the whole thing... What I do know is that because Oracle inflexibility, high pricing and intrusive license-checking they will certainly lose clients on the long run.
And it's not just about multi-core processors...
Let me give an example:
I do work in a Federal University in Brazil, and we don't have exacly much money available.
Several months ago we bought a 4-CPU Sun E450 and we were going to pay for an Oracle license accordingly to that machine (a MHz-based license), it was just a matter of waiting the money to come for that.
In the meantime, Oracle decided to change the license so it's now based on the number of CPUs. When FINALLY the money arrived and we noticed the money wouldn't be enough anymore.
In the end we've got a 1-CPU license and we had to physically remove the other 3 CPUs from the machine.
Because of this and many other things (like a license-monitoring software from Oracle we HAD to install, as if we were some sort of criminals) we're now planning the migration to PostgreSQL and never again to use Oracle.
This is even more true in the case of the Windows IP stack. All M$ did by "stealing" the BSD networking stack is keep the rest of us from having to work around their bugs. This is a win for everyone.
This TCP stack theory is debateable.
And you know what... It's not the first time I hear this very same argument in favour of BSD license over GPL. -- Don't you BSD folks change the disk?
The only goal the GPL works toward beyond those of other OSD-compliant licenses is the perpetuation of the FSF utopia, which calls for nothing less than the destruction of the software industry as we know it. It claims to work toward freedom, while it actually works to deny freedom to those who do not share its goals.
The destruction of the software industry? Better asking the firms which use (and even contribute back to) GPL software, what do they think about this.
The BSD license is basically a Public Domain license with credits included.
It's not a problem by itself, if everyone else worked this way. -- But they don't, so you develop a software and make it available for free under the BSD license, but the ones who make money with your software are free to close the source?!
No, thanks.
I invest time and energy into the software I develop, and I respect it. -- I do respect myself.
One of the reasons there's not much interest on maintaining Hubble operational is because of the availability of land telescopes with similar precision nowadays.
The calculations includes the weather variable, so the Winter is supposed to contribute negatively.
But I've been wondering... Does that "Worst Day" thing apply to the Southern Hemisphere aswell? It's Summer here thank you (I do live in Brazil).
Or perhaps since we're at the opposite half of the planet it means everything is reversed (like the toilet-flush water-rotation effect)?
Maybe it's going to be the best day here, right?
(Oh, nevermind... It's raining like hell these days and everyone is depressed the whole week).
For IRS, in Brazil there's just one software provider: the government.
The software is free and has a Java version, thus you may run in any OS you like.
Actually the Pentium Is went from 60MHz-233MHz (AFAIR the 60/66s were still using 5v and, back then, people were shocked on how much heat they dissipated).
The Pentium Pro (PII minus MMX, remember?), though, started at 166MHz (up to 200MHz AFAIR)... It could be that processor but a desktop-class computer using Pentium Pro i find it unlikely.
I wonder what would be said if the Russians or Chinese announced such technology.
I guess that US gov't has a superior moral to attack foreign communication systems while being exempt of being called as "terrorist nation", "pariah" or "axis of evil".
Why are millions and millions of dollars being poured into space programs when Brazil, China and India are all considered Third World Countries. (China may be on the fence.) Wouldn't this money be better spent on social programs?
Perhaps because this will also create native technology and bring more jobs (directly and indirectly)?
I do not think that merely producing tons of sugar and coffee each year will be enough to improve the conditions in any country.
No need to mock Brazil with Mexican-ish expressions.
As if everything below Texas were some sort of uniform Hispanic cultural goo. People don't even speak Spanish in Brazil.
Why is $529 for a 17" Monitor, CPU,and keyboard/mouse + TONS of awesome software - with a one year Apple Warranty too much for you?
I can't say on pricing in the US, but in Brazil you pay 3x that price you mentioned for the very same Apple hardware.
Oh, i forgot to mention the horrible support Apple Brazil provides you... And pray your machine never breaks itself down.
GMX is a great free e-mail service IMO. My main e-mail account is hosted there since few years ago.
Nowadays, unfortunately, GMX offers their service in German language only... So its public is restricted.
Whatever about the labour markets in India and China, the real reason for this move is too keep wages, everywhere, down. If the Indian or Chinese programmers start asking for an extra 50 cent an hour, move it to Africa. And hey! There's still South America and Latin America id things go wrong there too!
I think that South America is already quite expensive for that alreay... Perhaps Central America instead.
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10 Gbps would be very useful for remote X.
I work in a Brazilian university and we have application servers and terminals running X. Currently the application servers are local (the machine is physically in the local rack of its building). We cannot put them in a central place due to bandwidth limitations, what is not convenient since we have to care about the physical access security of each server.
Also, more bandwidth is nice for playing videos remotely. We cannot allow this currently due to bandwidth (ok, there's the server's CPU to consider aswell).
The 42s had a lot going for it - I think HP would do well to re-release it, or at least make a new version.
Agreed... Myself I've got a 42S in 1991 and it's a great calculator, indeed.
It's responsive and simple to use as a 32S/32SII (with the same small form factor) and has a decent 2-line graphical display (this 33S model is just alphanumeric, apparently). -- You can think of the 42S being a sort of 48S-lite.
That was a nice pretty little machine... It also had a decent programming capability -- myself I wrote a graphic editor, a music editor (1 channel only, hardware limitation) and lots of games.
I wish HP did something like a 43S (AND with a DECENT plastic keyboard like the old models).
Conectiva is just bad, and that's pretty much a consensus in the brazilian Linux community.
Yeah, I know there are trollish bigots in the Brazilian Linux community who would prefer MS-DOS 3.3 instead of using Conectiva.
Kurumin may be ok for desktop and, yes, it's a very basic distribution with its 200mb CD.
But, I wouldn't use a fanboy distro like Kurumin in a server... Thank you very much.
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The connector for the daughterboard looks to be the same as another PCI-E slot (but offset) - does it have to be enabled by jumper, or can you get three PCI-E devices to run at once?
Nah... They just used the same connector for a different purpose, it's just for making the board cheaper.
I saw a popup while using lynx. Dump them girlie browsers.
Do you use Lynx? I think it's quite unsafe...
I telnet www.blah 80
What does Oracle's stubbornness imply for the industry as a whole, with multicore chips coming to the fore so strongly?
I can't say about the whole thing... What I do know is that because Oracle inflexibility, high pricing and intrusive license-checking they will certainly lose clients on the long run.
And it's not just about multi-core processors...
Let me give an example:
I do work in a Federal University in Brazil, and we don't have exacly much money available.
Several months ago we bought a 4-CPU Sun E450 and we were going to pay for an Oracle license accordingly to that machine (a MHz-based license), it was just a matter of waiting the money to come for that.
In the meantime, Oracle decided to change the license so it's now based on the number of CPUs. When FINALLY the money arrived and we noticed the money wouldn't be enough anymore.
In the end we've got a 1-CPU license and we had to physically remove the other 3 CPUs from the machine.
Because of this and many other things (like a license-monitoring software from Oracle we HAD to install, as if we were some sort of criminals) we're now planning the migration to PostgreSQL and never again to use Oracle.
Go PPC, go! ;)
One step more towards the x86 scum extinction (I hope).
Keep those firewalls banning entire countries (.kr and .br) and keep banning /16's and /8's until it is gone. The spammers are here to stay.
.br and most of the spam I get comes from the US.
Funny thing is that I live in
You've better refraining your cowboy unilateralist behaviour...
This is even more true in the case of the Windows IP stack. All M$ did by "stealing" the BSD networking stack is keep the rest of us from having to work around their bugs. This is a win for everyone.
This TCP stack theory is debateable.
And you know what... It's not the first time I hear this very same argument in favour of BSD license over GPL. -- Don't you BSD folks change the disk?
The only goal the GPL works toward beyond those of other OSD-compliant licenses is the perpetuation of the FSF utopia, which calls for nothing less than the destruction of the software industry as we know it. It claims to work toward freedom, while it actually works to deny freedom to those who do not share its goals.
The destruction of the software industry? Better asking the firms which use (and even contribute back to) GPL software, what do they think about this.
The BSD license is basically a Public Domain license with credits included.
It's not a problem by itself, if everyone else worked this way. -- But they don't, so you develop a software and make it available for free under the BSD license, but the ones who make money with your software are free to close the source?!
No, thanks.
I invest time and energy into the software I develop, and I respect it. -- I do respect myself.
One of the reasons there's not much interest on maintaining Hubble operational is because of the availability of land telescopes with similar precision nowadays.
The reason Hubble is in Space is because of lack of atmosphere distortion, so we have much more precise pictures.
But now we do have land telescopes which computer-controlled visual compensation which gives similar resolution at a fraction of the cost.
The calculations includes the weather variable, so the Winter is supposed to contribute negatively.
But I've been wondering... Does that "Worst Day" thing apply to the Southern Hemisphere aswell? It's Summer here thank you (I do live in Brazil).
Or perhaps since we're at the opposite half of the planet it means everything is reversed (like the toilet-flush water-rotation effect)?
Maybe it's going to be the best day here, right?
(Oh, nevermind... It's raining like hell these days and everyone is depressed the whole week).
The universe is destined to end.
That's not my problem.
Yeah, at first I understood that too...
It must be very obvious, since English is not my first language.
For IRS, in Brazil there's just one software provider: the government.
The software is free and has a Java version, thus you may run in any OS you like.
...Except that in Netherlands the chief Network Administrator working in an University is not paid 300 USD a month.
Wanna exchange the places, my friend?
Actually the Pentium Is went from 60MHz-233MHz (AFAIR the 60/66s were still using 5v and, back then, people were shocked on how much heat they dissipated).
The Pentium Pro (PII minus MMX, remember?), though, started at 166MHz (up to 200MHz AFAIR)... It could be that processor but a desktop-class computer using Pentium Pro i find it unlikely.
Probably it's a Pentium I machine, agreed.
I wonder what would be said if the Russians or Chinese announced such technology.
I guess that US gov't has a superior moral to attack foreign communication systems while being exempt of being called as "terrorist nation", "pariah" or "axis of evil".
Why are millions and millions of dollars being poured into space programs when Brazil, China and India are all considered Third World Countries. (China may be on the fence.) Wouldn't this money be better spent on social programs?
Perhaps because this will also create native technology and bring more jobs (directly and indirectly)?
I do not think that merely producing tons of sugar and coffee each year will be enough to improve the conditions in any country.
Aye carrumba!!! Aye-eee!!!!
No need to mock Brazil with Mexican-ish expressions.
As if everything below Texas were some sort of uniform Hispanic cultural goo. People don't even speak Spanish in Brazil.
Why is $529 for a 17" Monitor, CPU ,and keyboard/mouse + TONS of awesome software - with a one year Apple Warranty too much for you?
I can't say on pricing in the US, but in Brazil you pay 3x that price you mentioned for the very same Apple hardware.
Oh, i forgot to mention the horrible support Apple Brazil provides you... And pray your machine never breaks itself down.
Where did you say you live, anyway?
Actually this Greg Joswiak is a real person.
GMX is a great free e-mail service IMO. My main e-mail account is hosted there since few years ago.
Nowadays, unfortunately, GMX offers their service in German language only... So its public is restricted.
Whatever about the labour markets in India and China, the real reason for this move is too keep wages, everywhere, down. If the Indian or Chinese programmers start asking for an extra 50 cent an hour, move it to Africa. And hey! There's still South America and Latin America id things go wrong there too!
I think that South America is already quite expensive for that alreay... Perhaps Central America instead.
10 Gbps would be very useful for remote X.
I work in a Brazilian university and we have application servers and terminals running X.
Currently the application servers are local (the machine is physically in the local rack of its building). We cannot put them in a central place due to bandwidth limitations, what is not convenient since we have to care about the physical access security of each server.
Also, more bandwidth is nice for playing videos remotely. We cannot allow this currently due to bandwidth (ok, there's the server's CPU to consider aswell).
You can see here.
Basically it includes most EU countries and US/Canada.
Funny thing that Brazil is not considered much, despiste its official policy towards Free Software.
Now show me some news on GSM, then the 'rest of the World' might be interested.
The 42s had a lot going for it - I think HP would do well to re-release it, or at least make a new version.
Agreed... Myself I've got a 42S in 1991 and it's a great calculator, indeed.
It's responsive and simple to use as a 32S/32SII (with the same small form factor) and has a decent 2-line graphical display (this 33S model is just alphanumeric, apparently). -- You can think of the 42S being a sort of 48S-lite.
That was a nice pretty little machine... It also had a decent programming capability -- myself I wrote a graphic editor, a music editor (1 channel only, hardware limitation) and lots of games.
I wish HP did something like a 43S (AND with a DECENT plastic keyboard like the old models).
Conectiva is just bad, and that's pretty much a consensus in the brazilian Linux community.
Yeah, I know there are trollish bigots in the Brazilian Linux community who would prefer MS-DOS 3.3 instead of using Conectiva.
Kurumin may be ok for desktop and, yes, it's a very basic distribution with its 200mb CD.
But, I wouldn't use a fanboy distro like Kurumin in a server... Thank you very much.