I have only had one experience with Sun Rays, and it was bad, very bad.
At java one 2 years ago sun had something like 500(maybe even 1000) sun rays set up around moscone center. When you picked up your badge for the show, you got your smart card which got you onto the sun rays. before the show really started, and there were no many people, they were working ok, not fast, but ok. By the end of the first day of the show they werent really usable. it was taking several minutes to logon, and doing anythign was painfully slow. The next morning, the sun rays were all gone. They had all been replaced by ultra 10s. If sun cant even get them to run in a workable state, i have no faith in sun rays. Keep in mind that the network they were running on proably wasnt the most ideal, because they only have 5 days to setup the show. But still having to replace the $500 thin clients with $6000 workstations just doesnt look good. If the network was the computer, then we all using a giant abacus.
yes, there are 4 different speed/width configurations specified in the PCI spec:
33mhz/32bit
66mhz/32bit
33mhz/64bit
66mhz/64bit
The fastest, and also least common of the four is 66mhz/64bit, currently it is only found in high end servers. I think the list is in order of how common they are.
$500 a month is proably the fee for the isp, there is also the loop fee that you pay to your ILEC, so more realisticly, it will be between $800 and $1600, depending on your location.
I dont fully agree with you about printers, I have seen some very nice prints from computer printers, but they are not on consumer level printers, and werent on cheap paper. Very few people have a dye sublimation printer in their house. The inks in most sonsumer printers fade far to fast to be even considered for archival work. I'll take a properly preserved photo print on fiber paper over a digital prinbt any day.
oh, and i have never had problems taking pictures of animals with tech pan, just as long as the animals are sloths.
i'll bet you dont like paintings or any other sort of art?
there is more to photography than photojournalism. It's an art.
Personally, i am one of those guys who is in love with black and white, its fun. But sometime i do shoot color, and occasionally, i even shoot digital. When i shoot digital it is for photojournalism type things, things that need to be online quick. For sort of art, i still shoot black and white film. Film is still better quality than digital, and that i think that will remain true for a good period of time. Show me an affordable digital camera with more detail than a 6cm*6cm piece of kodac technical pan, then i will switch to digital, untill then, i will stick with film.
i think you are reading a little to much into this article. All it was announcing was a new version of IOS that supports mobile IP, not a worldwide wireless network.
sending media files through the keyboard port? umm, no. New macs use USB for the keyboard, USB is 12mbps, the iPod connects via firewire(iee1394), which is 400mbps, and is designed for things like digital video cameras and harddrives, it is very fast.
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Doh. it uses a frame buffer, not a standard vga text console.
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I never had any problems on my sparc with garbage on the console, and it Big endian.
CLosed source is not necesarily a gift, sometimes there are more people auditing closed source code than open source code. It is not often a full code audit is done on a large open source project, it is a time consuming proccess(just ask the openBSD folks). And sometimes, the only people who do the auditing, are hte people who wont share the problems.
I would say that it is still possible to maintain your privacy and post from an account on slashdot, thats because slashdot doesnt use your real name. slashdot is psuedononymous(sp?), no one forces you to have you email address or website listed.
would you mind explain your reasoning on calling microsoft communistic? When was the last time you saw them helping people? Microsoft seems to me to be closest to be like a member of the bourgeois, or maybe a wealthy landlord, making tenant farmers(consumers) pay to do their work(use their computers). I see nothing communistic about the commercial software industry, unless you are a stupid american and by communist you mean "evil and greedy".
Im not sure whether the baove post is meant to be flamebait, or just sensationalism, but either way, i'll bite.
do you have anything to back this up, i wuld be interested to see it.
GSM and CDMA use roughly the same power output.
I doubt anything in the actual protocol and modulation could cause GSM to be more likely to cause cancer, unless CDMA operates at a far lower duty cycle.
If you are refering to the difference in frequency, that will change. GSM in the USA is 1900mhz, and CDMA is between 800 and 900 mhz. There is a reason there has been so much talk latley about frequency allocation and auctions, providers need more bandwidth. Dont fool yourself into thinking 3g will be on 800mhz.
In most(all) current thionkpads, you can remove the CD-rom drive, and replace it with a battery. In my thinkpad, with the second battery, i get 6 hours of battery life. The laptop has a 650mhz pentium 3, but i have it set to clock down to 134 mhz on battery, and the screen set the lowest brightness.
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Mac OS has had virtual since 7.0(maybe before), it might not have worked all that well, but it was there.
good specs on 802.11, well, 802.11 is the name of the spec, ieee802.11, but IIRC the standard will cost an arm and a leg from IEEE, but many universities have standards in the libraries.
puple potatoes are not at all a new thing. They have been around for a long time, though most people havent seen them. They are more common in expensive gourmet restaurants than in dennys, i frequently buy them at the local farmers market. purple doesnt meen genetically modified.
There is a package for linux called lm_sensors. It consists of drivers(kernel modules) for various smbus controllers and sensors. it includes a command line utility(sensors) that reads data from the sensors. There are several daemons out that monitor this and when it gets over the alarm temp, shutsdown, or does som eother specified action, like maybe killing dnetc.
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I have only had one experience with Sun Rays, and it was bad, very bad.
At java one 2 years ago sun had something like 500(maybe even 1000) sun rays set up around moscone center. When you picked up your badge for the show, you got your smart card which got you onto the sun rays. before the show really started, and there were no many people, they were working ok, not fast, but ok. By the end of the first day of the show they werent really usable. it was taking several minutes to logon, and doing anythign was painfully slow.
The next morning, the sun rays were all gone. They had all been replaced by ultra 10s.
If sun cant even get them to run in a workable state, i have no faith in sun rays. Keep in mind that the network they were running on proably wasnt the most ideal, because they only have 5 days to setup the show. But still having to replace the $500 thin clients with $6000 workstations just doesnt look good.
If the network was the computer, then we all using a giant abacus.
yes, there are 4 different speed/width configurations specified in the PCI spec:
33mhz/32bit
66mhz/32bit
33mhz/64bit
66mhz/64bit
The fastest, and also least common of the four is 66mhz/64bit, currently it is only found in high end servers. I think the list is in order of how common they are.
HFS+ supports 256 character filenames, but the finder(pre os X) does not, so you are limmited to 31, even though the FS supports more.
$500 a month is proably the fee for the isp, there is also the loop fee that you pay to your ILEC, so more realisticly, it will be between $800 and $1600, depending on your location.
this is not magic: the gathering, this is slashdot, are all budhist, you lose karma here.
I dont fully agree with you about printers, I have seen some very nice prints from computer printers, but they are not on consumer level printers, and werent on cheap paper. Very few people have a dye sublimation printer in their house. The inks in most sonsumer printers fade far to fast to be even considered for archival work. I'll take a properly preserved photo print on fiber paper over a digital prinbt any day.
oh, and i have never had problems taking pictures of animals with tech pan, just as long as the animals are sloths.
i'll bet you dont like paintings or any other sort of art?
there is more to photography than photojournalism. It's an art.
Personally, i am one of those guys who is in love with black and white, its fun. But sometime i do shoot color, and occasionally, i even shoot digital. When i shoot digital it is for photojournalism type things, things that need to be online quick. For sort of art, i still shoot black and white film. Film is still better quality than digital, and that i think that will remain true for a good period of time. Show me an affordable digital camera with more detail than a 6cm*6cm piece of kodac technical pan, then i will switch to digital, untill then, i will stick with film.
i think you are reading a little to much into this article. All it was announcing was a new version of IOS that supports mobile IP, not a worldwide wireless network.
sending media files through the keyboard port? umm, no. New macs use USB for the keyboard, USB is 12mbps, the iPod connects via firewire(iee1394), which is 400mbps, and is designed for things like digital video cameras and harddrives, it is very fast.
Doh. it uses a frame buffer, not a standard vga text console.
I never had any problems on my sparc with garbage on the console, and it Big endian.
CLosed source is not necesarily a gift, sometimes there are more people auditing closed source code than open source code. It is not often a full code audit is done on a large open source project, it is a time consuming proccess(just ask the openBSD folks). And sometimes, the only people who do the auditing, are hte people who wont share the problems.
I would say that it is still possible to maintain your privacy and post from an account on slashdot, thats because slashdot doesnt use your real name. slashdot is psuedononymous(sp?), no one forces you to have you email address or website listed.
would you mind explain your reasoning on calling microsoft communistic? When was the last time you saw them helping people? Microsoft seems to me to be closest to be like a member of the bourgeois, or maybe a wealthy landlord, making tenant farmers(consumers) pay to do their work(use their computers). I see nothing communistic about the commercial software industry, unless you are a stupid american and by communist you mean "evil and greedy".
capacitors are rated by capacitance and voltage, not ampereage.
Im not sure whether the baove post is meant to be flamebait, or just sensationalism, but either way, i'll bite.
do you have anything to back this up, i wuld be interested to see it.
GSM and CDMA use roughly the same power output.
I doubt anything in the actual protocol and modulation could cause GSM to be more likely to cause cancer, unless CDMA operates at a far lower duty cycle.
If you are refering to the difference in frequency, that will change. GSM in the USA is 1900mhz, and CDMA is between 800 and 900 mhz. There is a reason there has been so much talk latley about frequency allocation and auctions, providers need more bandwidth. Dont fool yourself into thinking 3g will be on 800mhz.
In most(all) current thionkpads, you can remove the CD-rom drive, and replace it with a battery. In my thinkpad, with the second battery, i get 6 hours of battery life. The laptop has a 650mhz pentium 3, but i have it set to clock down to 134 mhz on battery, and the screen set the lowest brightness.
Mac OS has had virtual since 7.0(maybe before), it might not have worked all that well, but it was there.
imagine a beowulf cluster of those...
good specs on 802.11, well, 802.11 is the name of the spec, ieee802.11, but IIRC the standard will cost an arm and a leg from IEEE, but many universities have standards in the libraries.
collabnet is also a trademark in the USA.
puple potatoes are not at all a new thing. They have been around for a long time, though most people havent seen them. They are more common in expensive gourmet restaurants than in dennys, i frequently buy them at the local farmers market. purple doesnt meen genetically modified.
i eat purple potatoes frequently, i think they are better roasted than ohter potatoes, but i have never had the GM ones.
There is a package for linux called lm_sensors. It consists of drivers(kernel modules) for various smbus controllers and sensors. it includes a command line utility(sensors) that reads data from the sensors. There are several daemons out that monitor this and when it gets over the alarm temp, shutsdown, or does som eother specified action, like maybe killing dnetc.
you understand very little about the GPL, it does nothing to prevent forking, it is one of the freedoms that it gives people.