Yes, as a matter of fact, there is steady constant work being done on the USB subsystem, it's being done mainly by one advernturesome soul who is in school right now. You can check his progress at the web site. You can always find information about inportant projects at the Linux Documentation Project. I know they have keyboards, hubs, mice and several interfacec cards working right now. They are doing some weird crap too... the guy that's doing it noticed that his code puked when he added the seventh mouse...
Balls on. 32 clients and under 100 connections per seccond is a weak test. Novell Netware (probably one of the least loved server OSs in the internet comunity) does a good 3000 CPS on MUCH crappier hardware with more clients with static HTML. I suspect that hardware being equal (MKLinux or equivalent hardware) linux would either dead tie (both running the same apache, yes?) or linux whup it's ass if the MAC machine is spinning cycles maintaining the GUI (hopefully it boots to text console, nice poetic justice). I would like to see how the load is distributed on the systems. NT has this habbit of letting a few user procesess eat all system resources, I know this is not so in Linux, but I don't have any experience with BSD.
Think about this, the smartupdate HAS to connect to Microsoft.com to do the Update... Duh.. that doesn't prove anything... What would prove something would be to do a sniffer capture and look at the traffic that the dammed thing sends.
I don't have 98 installed anywhere, but I'm trying to talk a friend of mine into letting me capture his...
Well, if you want a non-microsoft OS to play video on, give BE a whirl. I think they have the Intel codecs built into the OS, and they are 180 degrees from the Microsoft side of the world.
Hell, their OS is DESIGNED to play video....and they made it so that it's completely happy sharing a computer with another OS..Unlike 98/95/NT
Sure, they wrote an ASIC for doing a 4-bit adder and programmed it into a small legion of FPGA chips... that's the way a machine of this architecture operates. If you want to do satelite communications you load in an asic designed to do satelite comunications. If you're also doing text to speech conversions, then you swap in a text to speech asic... It's a parayne shift in computing. You reprogram your FPGA chip to do different tasks on an as-needed basis...
Don't be affraid! 2.2.0 (yeah, I know..need to upgrade..) is VERY stable, and 3-4X faster if you're running SMP... there are little buggies here and there, but no show stoppers.. I would suspect that the majority of the bugs are in little used/adbused sections of the kernel. The sooner everyone jumps in there and tries is, the sooner all of the bugs get found! Just thik about it this way, all you have to do to roll back is change a symbolic link and reboot from a different kernel...
I whish it was a better vendor... I suppose you take what you can get though... It's sad that the vendor that has pleged to rid the country of VARS gets the business that could really pump some life back into some of the smaller VARS....
How about using 150 NS DRAM instead of 10 NS SDRAM???? Even with "slow" DRAM, the device would obliterate a head/platter unit.... the place I would like to see something like this is indeed for those programs the use/tmp or some other such temp files... Obviously putting swap space on the drive would be worthless instead of spending much less money on additional system memory, but some programs MUST use temp files...
There used to be a company that sold something similar to that, it had 4 72 pin simm slots, a narrow scsi interface, and a nicad batery pack...Maximum 256 megs..
Those three pieces of technology should date the little bugger for ya.. I haven't seen one in several years...
I got arround it by loading 95 on a spare hard disk..the old guy came out to do the install and nearly crapped his pants when he saw the computer room... (I don't have any cases on, it impedes proper cooling:) I let him do his thing, call the MAC address, tore my walls up, wired stuff in etc.. then when he left I pulled the 10 mbit isa 3com card and 500 mb ide hard drive and put my netgear 10/100 and UWSCSI/Linux back in the machine... I had already set an old 486 up as a "router" with a coupple of NICS and Caldera linux.. I use a piece of.c code off of www.rootshell.com called changemac.c to change the internet-side card's mac address to the one that the ATM/ADSL bridge was looking for and set up the DHCP client (had to get/compile the latest to support a dual homed system). Everything works GREAT.
Just remember, these guys are mostly idiots. They don't want to do any more work than they have to. They don't want to get mired in any fiascos. I understand the need to have liunx and MAC OS and BE officially supported, but it's realiztically not going to happen anytime soon. The only thing we can do is to fight when it makes sense to fight, and bend like a reid in the wind when fighting will do no good. The phone factory is the only place more beaurocratic than the military, and they lack the command structure that the military has.
If you're netware server crashes that much you have a problem. It can easlily be hardware or an errant NLM or running your backup during file compression.
I routinely see netware servers that have uptimes of 400-600 days.. record is 900 days so far (took a polaroid of that one).
If you want some help with your system, I would be happy to help you wih your problem for free. You can contact me at dminderh@baynetworks.com if you'd like.
The new file system in netware 5 will mount & vrepair 1.1 TB in 15 secconds (that's the largest I have seen..I'm sure it will do more..)
And your mount time isn't that bad. Chrystler has a 500 GB volume that takes 22 hours to mount:)
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Yes, as a matter of fact, there is steady constant work being done on the USB subsystem, it's being done mainly by one advernturesome soul who is in school right now. You can check his progress at the web site. You can always find information about inportant projects at the Linux Documentation Project. I know they have keyboards, hubs, mice and several interfacec cards working right now. They are doing some weird crap too... the guy that's doing it noticed that his code puked when he added the seventh mouse...
Balls on. 32 clients and under 100 connections per seccond is a weak test. Novell Netware (probably one of the least loved server OSs in the internet comunity) does a good 3000 CPS on MUCH crappier hardware with more clients with static HTML. I suspect that hardware being equal (MKLinux or equivalent hardware) linux would either dead tie (both running the same apache, yes?) or linux whup it's ass if the MAC machine is spinning cycles maintaining the GUI (hopefully it boots to text console, nice poetic justice). I would like to see how the load is distributed on the systems. NT has this habbit of letting a few user procesess eat all system resources, I know this is not so in Linux, but I don't have any experience with BSD.
Think about this, the smartupdate HAS to connect to Microsoft.com to do the Update... Duh.. that doesn't prove anything... What would prove something would be to do a sniffer capture and look at the traffic that the dammed thing sends.
I don't have 98 installed anywhere, but I'm trying to talk a friend of mine into letting me capture his...
Well, if you want a non-microsoft OS to play video on, give BE a whirl. I think they have the Intel codecs built into the OS, and they are 180 degrees from the Microsoft side of the world.
:)
Hell, their OS is DESIGNED to play video....and they made it so that it's completely happy sharing a computer with another OS..Unlike 98/95/NT
They're gpomg to have GL VERY soon too
I think Canada should donate the silicon from Pamela Anderson Lee's enormous overstuffed hooters to the project.
Sure, they wrote an ASIC for doing a 4-bit adder and programmed it into a small legion of FPGA chips... that's the way a machine of this architecture operates. If you want to do satelite communications you load in an asic designed to do satelite comunications. If you're also doing text to speech conversions, then you swap in a text to speech asic... It's a parayne shift in computing. You reprogram your FPGA chip to do different tasks on an as-needed basis...
Don't be affraid! 2.2.0 (yeah, I know..need to upgrade..) is VERY stable, and 3-4X faster if you're running SMP... there are little buggies here and there, but no show stoppers.. I would suspect that the majority of the bugs are in little used/adbused sections of the kernel. The sooner everyone jumps in there and tries is, the sooner all of the bugs get found! Just thik about it this way, all you have to do to roll back is change a symbolic link and reboot from a different kernel...
I whish it was a better vendor... I suppose you take what you can get though... It's sad that the vendor that has pleged to rid the country of VARS gets the business that could really pump some life back into some of the smaller VARS....
(oh yeah, FIRST)
How about using 150 NS DRAM instead of 10 NS SDRAM???? Even with "slow" DRAM, the device would obliterate a head/platter unit.... the place I would like to see something like this is indeed for those programs the use /tmp or some other such temp files... Obviously putting swap space on the drive would be worthless instead of spending much less money on additional system memory, but some programs MUST use temp files...
There used to be a company that sold something similar to that, it had 4 72 pin simm slots, a narrow scsi interface, and a nicad batery pack...Maximum 256 megs..
Those three pieces of technology should date the little bugger for ya.. I haven't seen one in several years...
Your money takes "This Way In"to Intel's bank account.
with Bellsouth.net in Alabama...
:) I let him do his thing, call the MAC address, tore my walls up, wired stuff in etc.. then when he left I pulled the 10 mbit isa 3com card and 500 mb ide hard drive and put my netgear 10/100 and UWSCSI/Linux back in the machine... I had already set an old 486 up as a "router" with a coupple of NICS and Caldera linux.. I use a piece of .c code off of www.rootshell.com called changemac.c to change the internet-side card's mac address to the one that the ATM/ADSL bridge was looking for and set up the DHCP client (had to get/compile the latest to support a dual homed system). Everything works GREAT.
I got arround it by loading 95 on a spare hard disk..the old guy came out to do the install and nearly crapped his pants when he saw the computer room... (I don't have any cases on, it impedes proper cooling
Just remember, these guys are mostly idiots. They don't want to do any more work than they have to. They don't want to get mired in any fiascos. I understand the need to have liunx and MAC OS and BE officially supported, but it's realiztically not going to happen anytime soon. The only thing we can do is to fight when it makes sense to fight, and bend like a reid in the wind when fighting will do no good. The phone factory is the only place more beaurocratic than the military, and they lack the command structure that the military has.
If you're netware server crashes that much you have a problem. It can easlily be hardware or an errant NLM or running your backup during file compression.
:)
I routinely see netware servers that have uptimes of 400-600 days.. record is 900 days so far (took a polaroid of that one).
If you want some help with your system, I would be happy to help you wih your problem for free. You can contact me at dminderh@baynetworks.com if you'd like.
The new file system in netware 5 will mount & vrepair 1.1 TB in 15 secconds (that's the largest I have seen..I'm sure it will do more..)
And your mount time isn't that bad. Chrystler has a 500 GB volume that takes 22 hours to mount