In reality, icc produces really good code for Athlon/Opteron. So good in fact that the SpecInt scores of Opteron with icc in 32-bit-mode are better than the scores with gcc in 64-bit-mode. -- Despite the extra 8 registers in 64-bit-mode.
Why would the RAM care whether the processor is clocked at 100MHz or 10GHz, if the performance is kept the same? The same goes for the chipset. Then you make the point about power twice, calling it heat the second time. However, I do not see that Athlon uses dramatically less power than P4 for equivalent performance, even though Athlon is clocked a lot lower.
Well that is good. But so far I can only download it if I agree to the license. I do not agree to the license (and I have avoided nForce2 for that reason) so I did not download it.
Read the license. No way that code ever gets into the kernel:
2.1.2 Linux Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of Section 2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux operating system may be copied and redistributed, provided that the binary files thereof are not modified in any way (except for unzipping of compressed files).
Do not believe the +/- 5% they talk about. Once you put a switching powersupply into the equation, you can easily measure double or half the real number.
The support is useless, since the next security vulnerability forces you off into patch-land again, and then the support is gone. Linus' kernel is a reference implementation these days, the distro kernels are actually useful.
"You chose Unix as your network computing platform because you knew you were in it for the long haul," Sun said in an ad that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Wednesday. "You'd expect your IT partner to show the same kind of commitment."
"Unfortunately, our friends in Blue have a problem with licensing contracts that could make things very expensive for anyone running AIX. Fortunately, Sun is ready to help."
If you patch a root exploit and it really fixes the problem without introducing new ones you will be using the official kernel, because it will become part of the official kernel faster than you can say "recompile"
Bzzt. Thanks for playing. I picked this scenario precisely because it was decided to not release 2.4.21 early even though 2.4.20 had a local root exploit. If you were running the official kernels, you were vulnerable between 17th of March at the latest (this is the time of the official announcement with patch, it seems) and 13th of June.
Official kernels are not useful for production on boxes that I have the responsibility for.
Sun has decided to pay off SCO, as well as pay for advertisements saying that IBM is landing its customers in a licensing mess. Of course Sun will gladly help, and even do trade-ins on Sun equipment for AIX stuff.
Sun has picked a side. So have I. Luckily it is pretty easy to avoid Sun and SCO.
Depending on official kernels is hopeless. What will you do if the official kernel leaves a local root exploit open for months? If you patch it yourself, you are not using the official kernel anymore...
OpenWindows is a Sun trademark. It is a desktop environment for Solaris. Sun hoped that it would become the industry standard desktop environment for X, but MOTIF won that battle only to discover that noone cared anymore.
If you (as a software supplier) mandate that software must have a particular license, then you have forced yourself from choosing from that particular subset of customers (who accept the license terms you have mandataed). You thus automatically exclude what may be better (i.e. more profitable), but not "accepting license terms as demanded" customers.
Non-negotiable contracts only exist when one party holds vastly more power than the other.
You are right from a moral viewpoint, but there is such a thing as realpolitik. Removing the government-granted monopoly from Microsoft would instantly cause a trade war with the US.
It is not in the interest of most countries to grant strong copyright monopolies, since most countries are heavy importers of copyrighted products. It is not that long ago that the US was in the same situation, and refused to recognize non-US copyrights. Lord of the Rings used to be published in the US with no permission from Tolkien. These days, countries do not get much of a choice in the matter.
They are not mandating a specific type of software. They are mandating a specific type of license. Microsoft can still sell to Brazil, they just need to pick a license that fits the rules.
It is common for companies and governments to have rules about which terms they accept in contracts. Why should software contracts be different?
IPSec is nice and everything, but you don't want to waste that much CPU power, and delay, just to visit slashdot.
I do. The PPro-200 server that is my gateway to the Internet easily handles IPSEC at 5.5Mbps, and my wireless connection cannot go faster than that. As to delay, my gateway is 2.5ms away via IPSEC over 802.11b. Without IPSEC (admittedly via IPv6, I would have to take IPSEC down to test IPv4 without IPSEC) my gateway is 2.2ms away. If getting the next/. story 0.3ms faster is that important, you can always subscribe.
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It must be annoying to write "USB2 has an advertised speed of 480000000000 mbps"
IPv6 encourages dynamic addresses, but not what IPv4 calls dynamic addresses - like what you get with dial-up or some cable modem connections. Addresses should not change just because you drop the line and reconnect. TCP sessions cannot survive that, for one thing.
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back when they primarily made workstations. They really know how much damage the low end can do to the high end. Yet they also know that these days they are going ever further up into the high end. This is primarily due to Wintel, so Sun had every reason to be scared of Microsoft. Without Wintel, we might find USD1000 64-bit workstations to be fairly decent value for the money.
Sun had a brief respite from the workstation battle due to the enormous server market during the boom. Then the boom faded and Lintel hit hard. Sun is forced to go where Linux cannot, up into the ultra high end with 5 9's and 128 CPU's per box. Perhaps they can survive there, perhaps not. There is at least one other company with large cash reserves but none of its original market left out there: SGI. They are trying to take Linux into just the space where Sun thought it would be safe.
Perhaps Sun can find a place for itself. Perhaps SGI can as well. The question is whether they stay around in anything but name and logo - and in SGI's case not even that.
It is impossible to tell for sure (there seems to be no audit clause in the FreeBSD license...) However, the general consensus seems to be that Hotmail is purely Windows-based these days.
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In reality, icc produces really good code for Athlon/Opteron. So good in fact that the SpecInt scores of Opteron with icc in 32-bit-mode are better than the scores with gcc in 64-bit-mode. -- Despite the extra 8 registers in 64-bit-mode.
...sounds like some kind of antitank weapon.
Why would the RAM care whether the processor is clocked at 100MHz or 10GHz, if the performance is kept the same? The same goes for the chipset. Then you make the point about power twice, calling it heat the second time. However, I do not see that Athlon uses dramatically less power than P4 for equivalent performance, even though Athlon is clocked a lot lower.
Well that is good. But so far I can only download it if I agree to the license. I do not agree to the license (and I have avoided nForce2 for that reason) so I did not download it.
2.1.2 Linux Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of Section 2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux operating system may be copied and redistributed, provided that the binary files thereof are not modified in any way (except for unzipping of compressed files).
Listening to the fridge is not particularly nicer than listening to the fans.
Do not believe the +/- 5% they talk about. Once you put a switching powersupply into the equation, you can easily measure double or half the real number.
The support is useless, since the next security vulnerability forces you off into patch-land again, and then the support is gone. Linus' kernel is a reference implementation these days, the distro kernels are actually useful.
"You chose Unix as your network computing platform because you knew you were in it for the long haul," Sun said in an ad that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Wednesday. "You'd expect your IT partner to show the same kind of commitment."
"Unfortunately, our friends in Blue have a problem with licensing contracts that could make things very expensive for anyone running AIX. Fortunately, Sun is ready to help."
Sun has certainly made a commitment to one side.
Bzzt. Thanks for playing. I picked this scenario precisely because it was decided to not release 2.4.21 early even though 2.4.20 had a local root exploit. If you were running the official kernels, you were vulnerable between 17th of March at the latest (this is the time of the official announcement with patch, it seems) and 13th of June.
Official kernels are not useful for production on boxes that I have the responsibility for.
Sun has picked a side. So have I. Luckily it is pretty easy to avoid Sun and SCO.
Depending on official kernels is hopeless. What will you do if the official kernel leaves a local root exploit open for months? If you patch it yourself, you are not using the official kernel anymore...
Why not? Most people have MTU's in the 1500 range. And fragments get you to 64k.
m is the prefix for milli.
OpenWindows is a Sun trademark. It is a desktop environment for Solaris. Sun hoped that it would become the industry standard desktop environment for X, but MOTIF won that battle only to discover that noone cared anymore.
The jonman_d just forgot the wonderful word "legacy" before "mission-critical". Then it all makes sense...
Non-negotiable contracts only exist when one party holds vastly more power than the other.
It is not in the interest of most countries to grant strong copyright monopolies, since most countries are heavy importers of copyrighted products. It is not that long ago that the US was in the same situation, and refused to recognize non-US copyrights. Lord of the Rings used to be published in the US with no permission from Tolkien. These days, countries do not get much of a choice in the matter.
It is common for companies and governments to have rules about which terms they accept in contracts. Why should software contracts be different?
I do. The PPro-200 server that is my gateway to the Internet easily handles IPSEC at 5.5Mbps, and my wireless connection cannot go faster than that. As to delay, my gateway is 2.5ms away via IPSEC over 802.11b. Without IPSEC (admittedly via IPv6, I would have to take IPSEC down to test IPv4 without IPSEC) my gateway is 2.2ms away. If getting the next /. story 0.3ms faster is that important, you can always subscribe.
It must be annoying to write "USB2 has an advertised speed of 480000000000 mbps"
RFC 1924 - A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses
IPv6 encourages dynamic addresses, but not what IPv4 calls dynamic addresses - like what you get with dial-up or some cable modem connections. Addresses should not change just because you drop the line and reconnect. TCP sessions cannot survive that, for one thing.
Sun had a brief respite from the workstation battle due to the enormous server market during the boom. Then the boom faded and Lintel hit hard. Sun is forced to go where Linux cannot, up into the ultra high end with 5 9's and 128 CPU's per box. Perhaps they can survive there, perhaps not. There is at least one other company with large cash reserves but none of its original market left out there: SGI. They are trying to take Linux into just the space where Sun thought it would be safe.
Perhaps Sun can find a place for itself. Perhaps SGI can as well. The question is whether they stay around in anything but name and logo - and in SGI's case not even that.
It is impossible to tell for sure (there seems to be no audit clause in the FreeBSD license...) However, the general consensus seems to be that Hotmail is purely Windows-based these days.