I thought a few people were speculating this was a potential way to get the last few hundred mhz out of silicon, before everything goes dual core, but it seems the associated risk with water and electric doesn't fill everyone with confidence.
And chilling the cpu's down with industrial coolers is possible, for a few more mhz.
As for the crays, possibly, but you may be thinking of the computers submerged in mineral oil (or vegetable oil or whatever.. stfw.) These are cool, and make the water cooled xbox look like old hat, never mind sock knocking off.
Microsoft will now delay Vista even longer while they incorporate many of these new ideas...
Joking of course, they've already got most of this no doubt, as I'm sure they've been thrororghly testing the new Windows on 512 cpu SGI Altix systems, they must have thousands of developers working on it.
Oh, I seen the fbcon rotate too. Now This may have practical uses, but would also be a fantastic one to execute on your friends system when he aint looking. Imagine coming back and your screens upside down... muhahaha
There used to be some games on the Amiga that suggested as the new owner of the game that the first thing you should do is make a copy of the game disks and play from those instead. Gunship 2000 I think was one, but I can't actually remember as I had a hard disk which made needing the disks at all unessesary. You would think I would have had a disk full of borrowed software, but you'd be wrong.
Thats Lancashire, I live here, I know. But still, things get posted to me from the UK and sometimes people still spell it with a K or sometimes things go to Preston, Lanarkshire ill educated nimwits. How many brain cells did I wipe out last night.?
Actually Intel never had a 586, iirc Cyrix and maybe AMD did, but intel came up with the pentium. If they'd continued with the numbering scheme would have been 585.95551 anyway.
When later Intel pushed "Pentium", AMD also forgot numbers and went with Athlon.
Actually, they came up with the K6, about the same time as Pentium MMX. Then Intel came up with the Pentium II, so AMD had a k6-2. Then about the time of the Pentium III, AMD came up with a k6-3 which was so fast it was undercutting their new Athlon range due to its large cache, so they shelved it, which was a great shame as it was one of the fastest socket 7 chips ever made.
I find it amusing when a new, super fast architecture comes out thats going to blow away everything else. So then instead of continuing to make the older range for the budget end of the market, they make a retarded version of the new chip, because there isn't actually that much difference in speed when all things like cache are equal. Is the cache the expensive bit in modern procesors or what?
Yeah, I'm running a webserver here on NetBSD, but have just bought a compaq proliant 6000, got some extra xeons off a friend, and now it has 2.6gig ecc memory too. I hear that Linux scales better on multi processor hardware, so have Slackware installed, and pkgsrc from NetBSD. Anyone know if 3.0 is better than 2.x on multicpu architectures?
NetBSD is a lovely OS to work with though, I intend to keep DNS and mail running on it. I'd keep my quad xeon raid monster on it, but seen a study comparing Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD. On single processors, they all did pretty similar, but increase the number of processors, and Linux and Solaris edged into the lead, NetBSD fell backwards. Oh if this story was today and not three days ago, this would create a flamewar to kingdom come, but anyway.
Imagine picking at the scab! Everyone does that don't they? Where the scab is nearly ready to drop off, and you just start picking just before its ready, just to see. And then you end up pulling it off, and it is still too early, and it bleeds again. Oh well, another scab will form, and you'll be able to pick at that again in a week or so.
Well, if you did it after the face transplant, what if you went too far with the picking? The phone call back to the doctor would be pretty embarrasing:
"Uh, remember that new face you gave me? Well, uh, got another one? Um, see, I kinda lost it... yep, no I did say lost it... Well I know, I'm not sure how, I was just kinda picking at it, um and uh, I'm real sorry... "
I don't think I would be able to resist. Especially if its deadish with no feeling or anything... hmm I want one.
I was just thinking how nice it was that I'd read nearly all the comments for an ask-slashdot, and there hadn't been a single post that was offtopic. Everyone had stuck to the question. And it was nice to have a less serious question for once, as a change to the "Save me 5 big ones on a consultant" ones we usually get.
Not that there is anything wrong with those questions, it just makes it interesting to see what people get up to in their spare time. Glad to see more off this type of question recently.
You do stick 'Designed for Windows' stickers on the trashcans in your break don't you?
Anyway, the reading without trolls, it was just due to the moderation, here at the bottom of the comments is the troll. Or three. So few people have commented, the flame war hasn't started yet. The trivial comment that should be moderated Offtopic hasn't been written and moderated Insightful either, with 5 followups rated similar also not existing. Signal is up, noise is down.
Well, it seems fashionable to slag-off Slashdot recently. Don't confuse this with that, I still love Slashdot, even the things which people are complaining about. Its not about the news; that tagline is just to draw you into what Slashdot is really all about.
Sorry, should be putting this in my blog, but just wanted to show there was another side to the droves that claim to be leaving. Now make me offtopic:-)
Yeah, you could be right there. I post a fair bit to Slashdot after returning from the pub. I guess I meant that the way for honest Nigerians to be seen as legitimate, would be if they made a noise about stopping the scammers, which is what the asker of the question had asked about originally if I remember correctly. The fable is an old story that perhaps someone should have taken into consideration when these scams first started.
That last line was a little OTT, I apologize, will probably happen again. I've said before how my computer should have a breathalyzer on the front to stop the posting of jibberish when the pub shuts. Oh, and I wasn't familiar with any of those references, so I wiki'd. I'm English, and none of my fellow countrymen have ever done... oh no wait...
"A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life. "Pray save me, Master," he said, "and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity. Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and slave for my father and mother. Look too, at my feathers-- they are not the least like those of a Crane." The Farmer laughed aloud and said, "It may be all as you say, I only know this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company."
The Aasop's Fable website put the parable's meaning as "Birds of a feather stick together", but I heard it as "You are judged as the company you keep". Same meaning.
You want to be accepted, then stop accepting scum. Simple.
A few years ago they talked about abolishing road tax in the UK, which is currently based on engine size. They were talking about a system whereby you get charged per mile driven, on the type of road, at the time of day. It was unworkable of course, because the logistics did not add up. But now, technology marches on, and this is speculated. That they try to bring this in with underhand tactics, the back way, by lying through their back teeth, is typical of this government, and just another item in a long list of bastardized manouvers that disgusts me to the core. If they are going to do something, why can they not admit it, but being sly and pretending it is for our own good (cutting untaxed uninsured criminals out of driving) is treating us as if we were stupid.
I shouldn't mind, as I don't drive in rush hour, on major roads, or very far very often. I work mainly at home, and a mile down the (b) road, so it will cost me less. But the truth is something I appreciate. Heh... "the new terror laws won't be abused"... so why keep an 81 year old heckler out of your conference under them, you lying fu--wits.
You, and the other people who claim to have commited cow tipping are a bunch of fucktarded lepers. I'm a dairy farmer, and to hear of this makes me want to come over to your house and kick your cat. I bet I could make it airbourne for 5 seconds or so, given the correct run up, and with a bit of string tied to its tail I could keep it up indefinetly. And if its pregnant, wow, it'll take it even longer to get up!
Its a constant task to maintain the health of a cow, just like the task it would be to keep you alive should I find you tipping my moo's. Fuckwit. Apologies to the others about the language but you really are detestable.
Click Here for a list of all 5631 packages in the package collection. Or here for the packages indexed by category. The NetBSD website is really well organised, the documentation is top notch. If only more Linux distibutions were like this. I use a mixture of Slackware and NetBSD here, and am very happy. I have windows on a hard disk in a static bag in a cardboard box which I use to change toners in my printer.
Seriously, the package system for NetBSD is one of the best I've used, which is a fair compliment from a long time Slackware user. Even thinking of using pkgsrc under Slackware, as the instructions to do so are listed on netbsd.org. NetBSD is fast, stable, secure, with low overheads and I would reccomend it to anyone who already has a clue. I first ran it on my old Amiga, which I intend to do again some day for the geek points.
Yes, the link is on www.netbsd.org to http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/playstation2/, as already posted. Or were you trying to be funny? Theres a reason I set Slashdot to mod AC's down. The list of ports is on the main page for smegs sake.
The scientists at Southhampton were saddend by news of the Japenese doing a dvd in 0.5seconds, the best they had managed was in 4 seconds. So, late at night, confident that they could better it if they just increased the voltage a bit (they use overclockers.com for tips) they tried. It got hot, but lo! Wasn't there some liquid nitrogen around? But they still couldn't beat the Japense, so up the voltage went again. And then Bob, the youngest scientist used the jug of Liquid nitrogen to cool his beer, and before someone could refill it from the vat in the next room, a situation developed. But, before the fire, they did manage to beat the Japs, only the evidence is now toast. Truth.
I remember a few years ago that we slashdotted a webserver that was the size of a matchbox. It had a 486 processor, and the site had lots of images of the server. It only had something like a 64k net connection, and it was slow, but that was to be expected as it only had 16mb ram iirc. I cannot find the link after searching slashdot for it, but theres a follow up article from 1999. The old link for that does not work anymore either though.
Just 3 hours ago I was talking to someone who was trying this out. He said that when he has watching a DVD on his computer downstairs, by going upstairs the system should make the movie go upstairs too.
It does security, telecom, home automation, media, entertainment and computing. Seems to run on Linux too, and uses your modern mobile phone as a remote control / tracker.
I get so many of these zombie machines trying things everyday and never hear about anyone getting caught. Hope they get sentenced to ten years of Windows XP.
Well its not by lines of code, even though that will be linked to it. Its not the clever hacks, and not the number of releases. Its not the bug fix time, or the usenet posts, or the slashdot fame.
Its the lenth of the beard. Grow a beard like that, you'll get an award. It itches at first, but once its long enough to comb, its okay. If you want to get anywhere in the free software world, you need it. No-one takes a hacker seriously unless they have a bush under their chin. Linus himself would grow one if his wife would let him. If you aint a beard you're a suit.
Say you send one 1MB Word document to 100 of your colleagues. In a relational database-based, Single Instance Store-driven mail server, that document takes up exactly 1MB on the server. If somebody in the organization forwards the Word doc to the remaining 900 people in your organization
If somebody forwards a 1Mb word doc to 900 people they are a fucking idiot. Lart.
Show them a clean, functional environment. That means you don't have cables all over the place. That means your staff are well dressed, well groomed, and act with the utmost professionalism. Make sure all servers are mounted in their racks with the correct number of screws. Make sure any PC-style servers aren't badly scratched and have their cases on. Keep PC servers lined up evenly. Sweep the floor very often. Polish it, too.
Sorry but well groomed, lined up, swept to me sounds anal. I hate it when people think the most important things are the outside appearence, not whats going on inside. Some people think their own shit doesn't stink.
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I thought a few people were speculating this was a potential way to get the last few hundred mhz out of silicon, before everything goes dual core, but it seems the associated risk with water and electric doesn't fill everyone with confidence.
And chilling the cpu's down with industrial coolers is possible, for a few more mhz.
As for the crays, possibly, but you may be thinking of the computers submerged in mineral oil (or vegetable oil or whatever.. stfw.) These are cool, and make the water cooled xbox look like old hat, never mind sock knocking off.
Microsoft will now delay Vista even longer while they incorporate many of these new ideas...
Joking of course, they've already got most of this no doubt, as I'm sure they've been thrororghly testing the new Windows on 512 cpu SGI Altix systems, they must have thousands of developers working on it.
Oh, I seen the fbcon rotate too. Now This may have practical uses, but would also be a fantastic one to execute on your friends system when he aint looking. Imagine coming back and your screens upside down... muhahaha
There used to be some games on the Amiga that suggested as the new owner of the game that the first thing you should do is make a copy of the game disks and play from those instead. Gunship 2000 I think was one, but I can't actually remember as I had a hard disk which made needing the disks at all unessesary. You would think I would have had a disk full of borrowed software, but you'd be wrong.
Thats Lancashire, I live here, I know. But still, things get posted to me from the UK and sometimes people still spell it with a K or sometimes things go to Preston, Lanarkshire ill educated nimwits. How many brain cells did I wipe out last night.?
Actually Intel never had a 586, iirc Cyrix and maybe AMD did, but intel came up with the pentium. If they'd continued with the numbering scheme would have been 585.95551 anyway.
Actually, they came up with the K6, about the same time as Pentium MMX. Then Intel came up with the Pentium II, so AMD had a k6-2. Then about the time of the Pentium III, AMD came up with a k6-3 which was so fast it was undercutting their new Athlon range due to its large cache, so they shelved it, which was a great shame as it was one of the fastest socket 7 chips ever made.
I find it amusing when a new, super fast architecture comes out thats going to blow away everything else. So then instead of continuing to make the older range for the budget end of the market, they make a retarded version of the new chip, because there isn't actually that much difference in speed when all things like cache are equal. Is the cache the expensive bit in modern procesors or what?
Yeah, I'm running a webserver here on NetBSD, but have just bought a compaq proliant 6000, got some extra xeons off a friend, and now it has 2.6gig ecc memory too. I hear that Linux scales better on multi processor hardware, so have Slackware installed, and pkgsrc from NetBSD. Anyone know if 3.0 is better than 2.x on multicpu architectures?
NetBSD is a lovely OS to work with though, I intend to keep DNS and mail running on it. I'd keep my quad xeon raid monster on it, but seen a study comparing Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD. On single processors, they all did pretty similar, but increase the number of processors, and Linux and Solaris edged into the lead, NetBSD fell backwards. Oh if this story was today and not three days ago, this would create a flamewar to kingdom come, but anyway.
You aren't in any position to lecture us on bad government.
Everybody is in a position to lecture you on bad government. Except the uk, natch.
Dumb bumbling god fearing pig eyed hicks should not be entertained with the idea they can run countries, let alone continents. D'Oh!
:-(
Still better than the one we got though
What? Not 1.3.34? Are they not running microsoft auto update on this unix thing?
Imagine picking at the scab! Everyone does that don't they? Where the scab is nearly ready to drop off, and you just start picking just before its ready, just to see. And then you end up pulling it off, and it is still too early, and it bleeds again. Oh well, another scab will form, and you'll be able to pick at that again in a week or so.
Well, if you did it after the face transplant, what if you went too far with the picking? The phone call back to the doctor would be pretty embarrasing:
"Uh, remember that new face you gave me? Well, uh, got another one? Um, see, I kinda lost it... yep, no I did say lost it... Well I know, I'm not sure how, I was just kinda picking at it, um and uh, I'm real sorry... "
I don't think I would be able to resist. Especially if its deadish with no feeling or anything... hmm I want one.
I was just thinking how nice it was that I'd read nearly all the comments for an ask-slashdot, and there hadn't been a single post that was offtopic. Everyone had stuck to the question. And it was nice to have a less serious question for once, as a change to the "Save me 5 big ones on a consultant" ones we usually get.
:-)
Not that there is anything wrong with those questions, it just makes it interesting to see what people get up to in their spare time. Glad to see more off this type of question recently.
You do stick 'Designed for Windows' stickers on the trashcans in your break don't you?
Anyway, the reading without trolls, it was just due to the moderation, here at the bottom of the comments is the troll. Or three. So few people have commented, the flame war hasn't started yet. The trivial comment that should be moderated Offtopic hasn't been written and moderated Insightful either, with 5 followups rated similar also not existing. Signal is up, noise is down.
Well, it seems fashionable to slag-off Slashdot recently. Don't confuse this with that, I still love Slashdot, even the things which people are complaining about. Its not about the news; that tagline is just to draw you into what Slashdot is really all about.
Sorry, should be putting this in my blog, but just wanted to show there was another side to the droves that claim to be leaving. Now make me offtopic
Yeah, you could be right there. I post a fair bit to Slashdot after returning from the pub. I guess I meant that the way for honest Nigerians to be seen as legitimate, would be if they made a noise about stopping the scammers, which is what the asker of the question had asked about originally if I remember correctly. The fable is an old story that perhaps someone should have taken into consideration when these scams first started.
That last line was a little OTT, I apologize, will probably happen again. I've said before how my computer should have a breathalyzer on the front to stop the posting of jibberish when the pub shuts. Oh, and I wasn't familiar with any of those references, so I wiki'd. I'm English, and none of my fellow countrymen have ever done... oh no wait...
"A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a
number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he
trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was
earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life. "Pray save
me, Master," he said, "and let me go free this once. My broken
limb should excite your pity. Besides, I am no Crane, I am a
Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and
slave for my father and mother. Look too, at my feathers--
they are not the least like those of a Crane." The Farmer
laughed aloud and said, "It may be all as you say, I only know
this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you
must die in their company."
The Aasop's Fable website put the parable's meaning as "Birds of a feather stick together", but I heard it as "You are judged as the company you keep". Same meaning.
You want to be accepted, then stop accepting scum. Simple.
Well they ain't getting away with this! Who's for rioting? Anyone? Riot?
Of course as long as theres a law against Incitement to Riot I'm joking... Come the revolution they'll be first against the wall anyway.
I shouldn't mind, as I don't drive in rush hour, on major roads, or very far very often. I work mainly at home, and a mile down the (b) road, so it will cost me less. But the truth is something I appreciate. Heh... "the new terror laws won't be abused"... so why keep an 81 year old heckler out of your conference under them, you lying fu--wits.
You, and the other people who claim to have commited cow tipping are a bunch of fucktarded lepers. I'm a dairy farmer, and to hear of this makes me want to come over to your house and kick your cat. I bet I could make it airbourne for 5 seconds or so, given the correct run up, and with a bit of string tied to its tail I could keep it up indefinetly. And if its pregnant, wow, it'll take it even longer to get up!
Its a constant task to maintain the health of a cow, just like the task it would be to keep you alive should I find you tipping my moo's. Fuckwit. Apologies to the others about the language but you really are detestable.
Click Here for a list of all 5631 packages in the package collection. Or here for the packages indexed by category. The NetBSD website is really well organised, the documentation is top notch. If only more Linux distibutions were like this. I use a mixture of Slackware and NetBSD here, and am very happy. I have windows on a hard disk in a static bag in a cardboard box which I use to change toners in my printer.
Seriously, the package system for NetBSD is one of the best I've used, which is a fair compliment from a long time Slackware user. Even thinking of using pkgsrc under Slackware, as the instructions to do so are listed on netbsd.org. NetBSD is fast, stable, secure, with low overheads and I would reccomend it to anyone who already has a clue. I first ran it on my old Amiga, which I intend to do again some day for the geek points.
Yes, the link is on www.netbsd.org to http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/playstation2/, as already posted. Or were you trying to be funny? Theres a reason I set Slashdot to mod AC's down. The list of ports is on the main page for smegs sake.
The scientists at Southhampton were saddend by news of the Japenese doing a dvd in 0.5seconds, the best they had managed was in 4 seconds. So, late at night, confident that they could better it if they just increased the voltage a bit (they use overclockers.com for tips) they tried. It got hot, but lo! Wasn't there some liquid nitrogen around? But they still couldn't beat the Japense, so up the voltage went again. And then Bob, the youngest scientist used the jug of Liquid nitrogen to cool his beer, and before someone could refill it from the vat in the next room, a situation developed. But, before the fire, they did manage to beat the Japs, only the evidence is now toast. Truth.
I remember a few years ago that we slashdotted a webserver that was the size of a matchbox. It had a 486 processor, and the site had lots of images of the server. It only had something like a 64k net connection, and it was slow, but that was to be expected as it only had 16mb ram iirc. I cannot find the link after searching slashdot for it, but theres a follow up article from 1999. The old link for that does not work anymore either though.
Just 3 hours ago I was talking to someone who was trying this out. He said that when he has watching a DVD on his computer downstairs, by going upstairs the system should make the movie go upstairs too.
It does security, telecom, home automation, media, entertainment and computing. Seems to run on Linux too, and uses your modern mobile phone as a remote control / tracker.
plutohome.com
I get so many of these zombie machines trying things everyday and never hear about anyone getting caught. Hope they get sentenced to ten years of Windows XP.
Well its not by lines of code, even though that will be linked to it.
Its not the clever hacks, and not the number of releases.
Its not the bug fix time, or the usenet posts, or the slashdot fame.
Its the lenth of the beard. Grow a beard like that, you'll get an award. It itches at first, but once its long enough to comb, its okay. If you want to get anywhere in the free software world, you need it. No-one takes a hacker seriously unless they have a bush under their chin. Linus himself would grow one if his wife would let him. If you aint a beard you're a suit.
If somebody forwards a 1Mb word doc to 900 people they are a fucking idiot. Lart.
Sorry but well groomed, lined up, swept to me sounds anal. I hate it when people think the most important things are the outside appearence, not whats going on inside. Some people think their own shit doesn't stink.