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  1. Re:Single thread performance on Oracle Demos New SPARC T4 Processor · · Score: 1

    Well, it is still 64 threads per socket, or 256 threads per box that that run parallelly. Is that not vast enough? With the 5x signlethread performance compared to the T3?

  2. you don't need a PhD to get a BSc on How Do You Keep Up With Science Developments? · · Score: 1

    I recommend online studies.
    No, not those online degree spams. But for example on www.studyastronomy.com I found that being able to choose the courses I'm really interested in (mostly cosmology/astronomy) while taking just a single course a year instead of four if I want to, puts the fun right back into studying the subject I'm interested in.
    Just my 2 EUR cents.

  3. Re:Adaption... on German Company To Install Linux On 10,000 PCs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So, how many of the companytools are webbased? How is it relevant on what OS your firefox runs on? Linux may not win the desktop war - but windows still can lose it. By fading out into a browser-running-firmware. And then why pay for windows?
    The new era is the one of the cloud. Bring on the vaporware jokes.
    On the serverside it is very similar. ZFS needs some more features, taking over the role of the servicerunning OS, like browsers do on the client side ;)
    Sadly the OS will fade into being a firmware, not more.

  4. Re:and? on Oracle To Halve Core Count In Next Sparc Processor · · Score: 1

    Oracle is almost clueless when it comes to hardware sales and development. Try "www.sun.com"... you get a redirect to the Oracle home page and then you have to search for a link to the server product lineup. It's almost as if they are hiding the fact that they have a hardware product to sell. I don't think the Oracle brain trust knows what to do with Sun h/w and the Solaris o/s.

    I beg to differ. sun.com is being redirected to oracle.com, but there right on the front page there is a complete section called 'Server and Storage Systems'.
    Also, their pre-Sun HW product, the Exadata, is being updated with new Sun HW and Solaris. Solaris 11, the first major release released under the Oracle regime.

    And last but not least have a look at their T-CPU roadmap - they have released the T3, and are working on the T4 to eliminate the single-thread performance weakness of the series. That is, doubling the efforts in the release cycle, in comparison to Sun's T1 and T2 releases (not to mention the Rock).

    Please reconsider your views. Would Oracle have named their new product "SPARC Solaris Sunrise Supercluster" if they'd plan to invest in both Sparc and Solaris?

  5. Re:and? on Oracle To Halve Core Count In Next Sparc Processor · · Score: 3, Informative

    first of all, you can put 8 quadcore CPUs at 2.66GHz in an M5000.
    You can even create two domains on the box that act like two separate machines, if you need electrical separation or want to build HA in-a-box. You can replace HW on-the-fly in the M5000. You can put more than 256GB RAM into it, if you want to. You can set up RAM mirroring in case you needed it. We are talking here real enterprise features, not just raw mips.

    Anyways, we are comparing here apples to oranges, sparc to x86. If your platform decision goes towards x86, then go for it. In this case, however I would definitely consider the SF X4470 or the X4800 servers if you need raw power. Or an Exadata if you need pretuned, preconfigured RAC on X86 - there you will find the X4800s as well :)

  6. comparison done in the US, if I get it right. on SAS Named Best Company To Work For In 2010 · · Score: 1

    what about the rest of the world?

  7. Re:Solaris? Give me a break. on The Best, Worst, and Ugliest OSes of the Decade · · Score: 1

    you sure are a funny troll :) don't let the facts get in the way, this is slashdot.

  8. Re:IMHO solaris has a really bad userland on The Best, Worst, and Ugliest OSes of the Decade · · Score: 1

    8 CPU M3k? what are you talking about? That is a single CPU box. Yeah, quadcore, and each core can run two threads. And wtf is an UltraSparc IV 64? Nonsense detected. And "for the purpose you use them for". Exactly. You should re-think your CPU architecture if it doesn't suite your needs. rule 80/20. The plannning/ranting ratio.

  9. Re:IMHO solaris has a really bad userland on The Best, Worst, and Ugliest OSes of the Decade · · Score: 2

    You, Sir, are a troll.

    instead of looking for tools you are used of on other platforms (top, killall), pls rtfm, and look for the functionalities delivered with the OS (prstat, pkill). Nonstandards switches? Which standard are you talking about?
    Instead of using old USIIIi boxes, have at last a look at the Sparc64 (Mx000 series) and the CMT processor based servers (T5xx0 Series).

    and so on.

    The rest is just useless rant. Go check your facts, or at least read wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T2 , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC64_VII , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC_Enterprise and sunsolve.

  10. Re:Go the whole hog... on OpenSolaris Or FreeBSD? · · Score: 1

    Really? And what kind of hardware does Solaris run on? What kind of hardware does HPUX run on? What kind of hardware does AIX run on?

    You are right with HPUX/AIX - but as for Solaris there's much more than you'd think:

    http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/

  11. Re:And to celebrate, it issued the command: on Unix Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    However -exec is slow. Try:

    rtfm://find

    Especially the section explaining the difference between "\;" and "+".

  12. Re:Glassfish is a Must-Have for Oracle on Will Oracle Keep Funding Sun's Pet Java Projects? · · Score: 1

    sparc servers as a not growing market, huh? You, Sir, seriously need to have a look at the T2+ and the Sparc64 based servers. Sure it took them a while to get those to the market - but see them rock (;)) now.

  13. Re:10,000 years on Work Progresses On 10,000 Year Clock · · Score: 1

    He wasn't. All he did was looking out of the window, thinking '42 will do', or similar. No mythical hocuspocus, no hidden message. Yes, I wish that there was one too though. Yes, I like 42 just the same since then. Go see the fscking web for details.

  14. Re:"commercial UNIX" on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 1

    Don't you love slashdot? There might go a significant Unix, an at-last-innovative-again company, and the most important topic here is macos being unix or not.

  15. Re:Oblig. lame joke on AIX On the Desktop Is Getting the Boot · · Score: 1

    space aliens? are there earth-aliens too? I mean besides RMS. And time-aliens? I mean besides RMS :) (with serious apologies to RMS. thanks for emacs, gcc, the recursive acronyme-mania, and so on)

  16. Re:This would be easy on Shuttleworth On Redefining File Systems · · Score: 1

    Well, duh, slashdot can still amaze me where actual trolling gets modded isnightful :)
    You obviously haven't had to setup the network connection on a linux in the last 3 years at least. No need to pretend that it's easy. Any recent ubuntu/Fedora installation will beg you to click on OK that it can set up the network for you. Hell, lately my dumb and outdated Gnome on debian asked me politely what kind of coffee it shall make until I can decide what to click on, the several found wireless networks or the wired one...

  17. Re:This would be easy on Shuttleworth On Redefining File Systems · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've read the entire apt-get man page several times, and I still don't know how to get a concise list of files that were just added to my system after "apt-get install awesome-widget"

    ever thought of "dpkg -L awesome-widget" ?

  18. Re:In other news, on Shuttleworth On Redefining File Systems · · Score: 2, Informative

    find /media/disk1 /media/disk2 /home -type f -exec grep -Hn "monkey" {} \;

    {} \; forks and starts a grep for every file found.
    {} + is rather what you might want to have - so it starts a grep with several files as an argument.
    Although with GNU grep you can as well simply grep -rli "monkey" /media/disk1 /media/disk2 /home too. Or using rgrep, that saves you one more character to type.

    HTH

  19. Re:Great... on E17, Slimmed Down For Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    look for easy_e17.sh on the web.
    single script to build and install e17 for you. HTH.

  20. Re:PGP... on Every Email In UK To Be Monitored · · Score: 1

    Simply obscuring the message means that the analysis engine has to try to decrypt the message without knowing the encryption algorithm and the key. It may be possible to recover both but you need something like the computing power at the disposal of the NSA. This is simply wrong. Go read about cryptanalysis.

  21. Re:MySQL sucks on David Axmark Resigns From Sun · · Score: 1

    fine. but are you ed'ing and fgreping the single raw devices in the raid array using the serial console controlled by whistling into a microphone?

  22. Re:That's the power of the open source license. on David Axmark Resigns From Sun · · Score: 1

    yeah, but check out where it is running, on Debian, Teh Chosen One!

  23. Re:Done in 1984 - Flux Capacitor on Tying Knots With Light · · Score: 1

    that doesn't mean that all of the strangely named ones are successful.

  24. Re:Minifig = Lego People on 30 Years of the Lego Minifig · · Score: 1

    Dagnabbit! I blame firefox's lack of sophisticated spell checking. Check the word I mean, not the word I typed!

    yeah! and where the heck ist my /bin/dwim binary?!

  25. Re:IC what? on ICQ Starts Blocking Alternative Clients · · Score: 1

    you can fix your liboscar.so.0.0.0 with hexedit too - a single hexvalue edit is needed - depending on your distro/libpurple package version. On debian lenny it is 0x2cd00, changing 0A to 0B - so icq works again with pidgin 2.4.2 without update too - TYVM AOL for changing the requirements once again.