If you read TFA (but this is/.), it says he used a retail processor. He was also limited to a single-socket solution, which means no multi-sockets server boards.
RAMBUS is dead. I remember the old days where you could get a Pentium 4 that used RAMBUS. This shit was always overrated and super expansive. I knew people who had 128MB of RAMBUS (and you had to buy this shit in pair too) who wanted to upgrade to something descent for the times, like 1G. They ended up getting a whole new computer for the price they would have paid for their RAMBUS, and their new computer was much faster than their old one. Also, Intel EPSD does server stuff. Check it out.
I switched from Debian to Ubuntu three years ago, but I'm very seriously considering switching back. My theory was that Ubuntu LTS releases were roughly equivalent to Debian stable, and that regular Ubuntu was somewhere between testing and unstable. The second half of that works out sort of okay, but using Ubuntu LTS as an alternative to Debian stable is a bad choice. The upgrade path from one LTS release to the next is horribly painful, because you have to upgrade to each intermediate release. And, in practice, I find the every-six-months big-bang upgrades more intrusive and problematic than the continual, incremental upgrades on Debian testing or unstable.
Try running Microsoft's equivalent to it -- oh no wait, you can't.
As a side note, you probably learned with your experience of things breaking, with windows you probably learned how to fix some problems using GUIs, third party apps and limited logging capability.
Mod this guy as informative! Having worked with Ubuntu developers on some bugs, I can say that non-Ubuntu specific fixes are sent upstream where they get commited.
I agree, and besides all this stuff they need to provide an easy way to install it using a PXE server. They have a bugged bootloader (BTX?) since 7.2 so I still have to use 7.1's loader to deploy any new versions. On top of that, I have to uncompress/untar/cpio a bunch of archive just to get access to the actual installer config file... and do the whole process again to get a disk image bootable from PXE.
Please remember that you tried Ubuntu 10.04 *beta 2*... Comparing a beta version of an OS against a final, second iteration of a major kernel version (vista was 6.0, 7 is 6.1)... Also, nVidia puts much more testing in it's Windows drivers than the linux ones, reason being their market is much more on windows than linux, but at least they're trying, unlike ATi (or AMD).
I can't believe they dont do code reviewing by peers and stuff like that. They have a pretty good mentality about things and I guess that applies to software coders as well.
Cutting the fuel pump isnt the right solution, what if you need to accelerate right after you braked hard? You're doomed, you just killed the engine! They should just implement a huge red panic button to shut everything off:)
I am not absolutely certain external HDDs do it the right way. I think it's more of a hack job allowing them to use maybe 600mA (500 on the data port + base 100 on the next one).
Wrong. A device can only receive up to 100mA without asking for it (like a keyboard, mouse, etc.) The USB spec calls for a 500mA maximum. Many usb devices need more and use 2 ports (like external 2.5" hdds).
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And about 97% of drivers "velocitycheat", or drive faster than the posted speed limit. See, I can make up new words too!
You mean speedhack? :)
The book offered on Lulu has the following mention:
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Hmm?
If you don't "write mem" your configurations, you don't deserve to be an admin at all.
If you read TFA (but this is /.), it says he used a retail processor. He was also limited to a single-socket solution, which means no multi-sockets server boards.
RAMBUS is dead. I remember the old days where you could get a Pentium 4 that used RAMBUS. This shit was always overrated and super expansive. I knew people who had 128MB of RAMBUS (and you had to buy this shit in pair too) who wanted to upgrade to something descent for the times, like 1G. They ended up getting a whole new computer for the price they would have paid for their RAMBUS, and their new computer was much faster than their old one.
Also, Intel EPSD does server stuff. Check it out.
apt-get remove users-like-you
I switched from Debian to Ubuntu three years ago, but I'm very seriously considering switching back. My theory was that Ubuntu LTS releases were roughly equivalent to Debian stable, and that regular Ubuntu was somewhere between testing and unstable. The second half of that works out sort of okay, but using Ubuntu LTS as an alternative to Debian stable is a bad choice. The upgrade path from one LTS release to the next is horribly painful, because you have to upgrade to each intermediate release. And, in practice, I find the every-six-months big-bang upgrades more intrusive and problematic than the continual, incremental upgrades on Debian testing or unstable.
Not anymore, you can directly upgrade from LTS to LTS.
Try running Microsoft's equivalent to it -- oh no wait, you can't.
As a side note, you probably learned with your experience of things breaking, with windows you probably learned how to fix some problems using GUIs, third party apps and limited logging capability.
Mod this guy as informative! Having worked with Ubuntu developers on some bugs, I can say that non-Ubuntu specific fixes are sent upstream where they get commited.
a first for me!
I agree, and besides all this stuff they need to provide an easy way to install it using a PXE server. They have a bugged bootloader (BTX?) since 7.2 so I still have to use 7.1's loader to deploy any new versions. On top of that, I have to uncompress/untar/cpio a bunch of archive just to get access to the actual installer config file... and do the whole process again to get a disk image bootable from PXE.
Exactly what I was going to suggest ;)
LOL!! Thanks for this great joke :)
Reminds me of /. ;)
I was kidding about the marketing dept ;) :(
I'm sure the UI team gets pushed features down the throat by people making decisions
He writes code for these things, he doesnt write the UI! That's done by the marketing dept!
They keep patching them for security updates, if you don't necessarily need the latest and newest...
Then stay on the LTS releases and have 3 years of support (5 on the server edition) so you don't have to upgrade as often!
Please remember that you tried Ubuntu 10.04 *beta 2*... Comparing a beta version of an OS against a final, second iteration of a major kernel version (vista was 6.0, 7 is 6.1)...
Also, nVidia puts much more testing in it's Windows drivers than the linux ones, reason being their market is much more on windows than linux, but at least they're trying, unlike ATi (or AMD).
I can't believe they dont do code reviewing by peers and stuff like that. They have a pretty good mentality about things and I guess that applies to software coders as well.
Cutting the fuel pump isnt the right solution, what if you need to accelerate right after you braked hard? You're doomed, you just killed the engine! :)
They should just implement a huge red panic button to shut everything off
I am not absolutely certain external HDDs do it the right way. I think it's more of a hack job allowing them to use maybe 600mA (500 on the data port + base 100 on the next one).
Wrong. A device can only receive up to 100mA without asking for it (like a keyboard, mouse, etc.) The USB spec calls for a 500mA maximum. Many usb devices need more and use 2 ports (like external 2.5" hdds).
We don't need more proof... The govt of Canada isnt doing anything good with our healthcare... why would the US do any better?
Thanks! I'll check it out!