Ive not personally played with performance cluster myself, but I seem to remember a DOS clustering project. I would like to see something like that mature, just because of the few known OS's that run on top of it.
With that, it would be really nice to just have a Performance Cluster VM OS that you could install whatever OS and have the computing power of buttloads of machines. It sure would put to use all of those 486's I have.
Your processor doesnt "Crash". If you are having issues, chances are it is because you are too incomptent to be that close to the hardware. Try an OEM built AMD machine. A completely different experience.
Not likely. First big crippling hurdle is the fact that you need a VESA 2.0 capable video card to even START the installation. You might THINK this is no big deal, but out of the 8 or so PCI video cards I have from that era, none were compliant.
Ok, I can understand Duplicate posts... I MIGHT even be convinced that it is something that can happen often, BUT someone HAS to say something about the fact that it is CmdrTaco that ALWAYS seems to post the duplicate stories. Someone SOMEWHERE has to address the issue. It is past the point of being funny, to the point where Ill stop paying.
I would really love a nice BIND configuration utility. Something where a whole package like webmin isnt necessary, but it makes life a whole lot easier. Redhats bindconf/redhat-bind-config was nice once upon a time, but getting it to run on anything but redhat requires about 2 gigs worth of obscure dependancies... I want something I can throw on say, a slackware machine, and it just go.
Even better would be something that also tied into dhcpd (these are the ISC daemons Im talking about, folks), that would serve to configuring them both, even on working together in a ddns/dhcp setup.
.. you know, sometimes bad decisions are made. I mean, not every idea can be a winner. Ask Microsoft about Virtual Boy. Maybe that was their bad idea, and these are good ones.
Cmon.... all of us IN the business knows how this usually works.... salesman goes out, trying to sell a product, the customer asks "Well we need it to do this... can it do this?" "SUURE IT CAN", then they come back and tell us what they just promised them... stupid, insecure, impractical... doesnt matter.
More then likely this will be hooked into Java somehow. Before you say "We already have Applets", Applets were visual components, but plugins dont necessarily need to be.
Im not going to go too deep into why your statement is completely sillyness... but I WILL point out, in regards to objects, us in the modern day have a field type cald BLOB (Binary large object)
SQL is meant for a relational database. XML is a hiearchial database... have you never worked on a project where your manager HAD to convert a projects database in XML because it was the new shiny buzzword? It NEVER works out very well because they are logically different. The same will go for SQL->XQuery.
Even more so, WHY do people insist on correcting spelling, especially on the internet? If we did the same for grammer, both typed and spoken, all we would be doing is having flame wars about it. You KNOW what he meant... so leave it at that.
A lot of people are making a stink about this not being GPL, and even poking fun at the fact that this style license is, in fact, less restrictive then the GPL... but make no mistake, MS knows what they are doing. If they were to make it GPL, then make changes... guess what... they have to release them. With this license, they release a code base, and everyone can pick at it as they want, even them... and they don't have to give the changes to anyone. So while everyone is making base systems with "Windows CE version X, with some tweaks", Microsoft can start adding whole chuncks of warm binary goodness and call it "Windows CE Super Platinum Edition", with "Super secure cryptography and cutting edge realtime multimedia support", while the base code under shared source has none of this.
While you may have seen this JOKE 10x here, how many times has that [BUFFERING] nailed you while listening/watching a stream? I bet close to everytime you used it... now tell me THAT hasn't gotten old already.
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Ive not personally played with performance cluster myself, but I seem to remember a DOS clustering project. I would like to see something like that mature, just because of the few known OS's that run on top of it.
With that, it would be really nice to just have a Performance Cluster VM OS that you could install whatever OS and have the computing power of buttloads of machines. It sure would put to use all of those 486's I have.
487 was technically the 486 with the built in coprcessor. So 487 and 486DX was synonmous.
Your processor doesnt "Crash". If you are having issues, chances are it is because you are too incomptent to be that close to the hardware. Try an OEM built AMD machine. A completely different experience.
... I was getting DTs from my lack of SCO news
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Not likely. First big crippling hurdle is the fact that you need a VESA 2.0 capable video card to even START the installation. You might THINK this is no big deal, but out of the 8 or so PCI video cards I have from that era, none were compliant.
Hell, I bought the game for $2 JUST FOR THE BOX. It looked black, but it has the heat sensitive color changing gell stuff. A wonderful time indeed.
Ok, I can understand Duplicate posts... I MIGHT even be convinced that it is something that can happen often, BUT someone HAS to say something about the fact that it is CmdrTaco that ALWAYS seems to post the duplicate stories. Someone SOMEWHERE has to address the issue. It is past the point of being funny, to the point where Ill stop paying.
The whole world JUST KNEW the earth was flat... so yes, 5.7 Billion people CAN be wrong.
I would really love a nice BIND configuration utility. Something where a whole package like webmin isnt necessary, but it makes life a whole lot easier. Redhats bindconf/redhat-bind-config was nice once upon a time, but getting it to run on anything but redhat requires about 2 gigs worth of obscure dependancies... I want something I can throw on say, a slackware machine, and it just go.
Even better would be something that also tied into dhcpd (these are the ISC daemons Im talking about, folks), that would serve to configuring them both, even on working together in a ddns/dhcp setup.
Im stupid. It IS Nintendo, but my fingers obviously were taken over... BUT BY WHO?!?!?
.. you know, sometimes bad decisions are made. I mean, not every idea can be a winner. Ask Microsoft about Virtual Boy. Maybe that was their bad idea, and these are good ones.
You could use the SunOS binary with some magic kernel hacking to get it working. Isnt very hard at all. Only V5.something though
... how about Fdora Core 2's boot disk image is 6MB... how the HELL am I going to fit that on a floppy?
I bet I pulled in a few "Floppy's are useless" goers... I have a couple of PPro machines that neither have USB or can boot from a cdrom. Thanks.
Try a sparcstation 5 @ 80mhz. You have no idea what "lowly" is
Cmon.... all of us IN the business knows how this usually works.... salesman goes out, trying to sell a product, the customer asks "Well we need it to do this... can it do this?" "SUURE IT CAN", then they come back and tell us what they just promised them... stupid, insecure, impractical... doesnt matter.
Maybe because not in a hundered billion years SHOULD ANYONE THINK that running something like FreeBSD as a desktop OS is a good idea.
More then likely this will be hooked into Java somehow. Before you say "We already have Applets", Applets were visual components, but plugins dont necessarily need to be.
Im not going to go too deep into why your statement is completely sillyness... but I WILL point out, in regards to objects, us in the modern day have a field type cald BLOB (Binary large object)
SQL is meant for a relational database. XML is a hiearchial database... have you never worked on a project where your manager HAD to convert a projects database in XML because it was the new shiny buzzword? It NEVER works out very well because they are logically different. The same will go for SQL->XQuery.
Even more so, WHY do people insist on correcting spelling, especially on the internet? If we did the same for grammer, both typed and spoken, all we would be doing is having flame wars about it. You KNOW what he meant... so leave it at that.
A lot of people are making a stink about this not being GPL, and even poking fun at the fact that this style license is, in fact, less restrictive then the GPL... but make no mistake, MS knows what they are doing. If they were to make it GPL, then make changes... guess what... they have to release them. With this license, they release a code base, and everyone can pick at it as they want, even them... and they don't have to give the changes to anyone. So while everyone is making base systems with "Windows CE version X, with some tweaks", Microsoft can start adding whole chuncks of warm binary goodness and call it "Windows CE Super Platinum Edition", with "Super secure cryptography and cutting edge realtime multimedia support", while the base code under shared source has none of this.
I can't tell if you are talking about Linux or WIndows CE, but the Windows CE Embedded Visual tools are free... both in obtaining and in licensing.a milyId=F663BF48-31EE-4CBE-AAC5-0AFFD5FB27DD&displa ylang=en
Check it out http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?F
Embedded Visual C++ and Embedded Visual Basic are included the last time I checked.
While you may have seen this JOKE 10x here, how many times has that [BUFFERING] nailed you while listening/watching a stream? I bet close to everytime you used it... now tell me THAT hasn't gotten old already.