Just some minor corrections and informaton for those interested.
Myricom is the company, Myrinet is the protocol. Infiniband is an open protocol. Myrinet has a maximum speed of 2.2Gb/sec while Infiniband can scale up to 30Gb/sec on a 16x PCI-E card and a 12x port on the switch.
As for what BlueGene/L uses, I don't think I'm at liberty to discuss that.
Then, the guy also said while it has a connection to a remote share, that is either slow or unreachable which is quite an important issue which really _can_ cause what he was talking about.
I currently have two remote shares mapped as network drives on this laptop. Both of which are currently unreachable because they are at work. It takes 1-2 seconds for everything to show up, even the disconnected shares, and it is all due to the hard drive reading.
Trust me, I like linux. My job title has "Linux Clustering" in it. But making up weird "problems" with WindowsXP (a very usable OS with many nice features) isn't going to help anyone.
As for the registry tweaking, yes, of course there are tons of sites with that information. What I was saying was that I'm not sure what exactly he is looking to "research" about the file browser in XP. There is absolutly no need to "tweak" it to make it perform well.
With XP, 512MB ram, and Pentium 4, I get to wait a good minute or two, just to SEE, let alone access, the drives that are still ON or CONNECTED to the machine.
That's funny, it takes about 1 second on a P3 800MHz with 256MB RAM. Yes, with the default settings.
Of course this is the DEFAULT settings, I've not taken the time to research how to "reconfigure" or "tweak" it.
Research, yeah... not really sure what you're talking about. Maybe try changing the way the window displays the view?
I can beat that... I work for IBM Linux Clustering. 32-way power5? Ehhh, not bad. 1024-way Xeon? Better. 2048-way Opteron? Yeah, now we're getting there.
Yes, there is no denying the fact that windows is retardedly accepting of spyware and viri to the standard user (i.e. idiot). However, not knowing the proper tools to remove it is no fault of the OS. Getting it in the first place is the fault of the OS. How you take care of the problem is up to the user. If, in these cases, your friends are reformatting to "fix" the problem, they are horribly misinformed as it is perfectly easy to maintain a windows installation (my girlfriend does it, and she's a polital science major and in a sorority if that means anything) with a few VERY easy to use programs (AdAware, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc). I'm not saying that it's ok to get the spyware/viri in the first place. That is indeed a bad problem with Windows. However, if I get a flat tire and decide that the best thing to do is buy a new car... that doesn't really matter.
While I agree with you to some extent, I do believe that it is mostly a function of "what you're used to." I'm assuming you use OSX at home (correct me if I'm wrong), which would explain why using Windows at work would be frustrating and intrusive, since you're used to a different platform. It could be anything, the point is that it is different than what you are used to. If you used Windows at home and at work, you wouldn't spend time remembering how to find things or do things, because you'd be used to doing them. I'm not saying that Windows has a greater magnitude of overall useability than OSX, but being accustomed to something greatly increases your productivity with it.
Not having to reformat or reinstall the OS every other week adds a great deal to productivity I would say.
I know... that you know... that you exaggerated that comment, but I'd still like to respond to it. I am in no way defending Windows here (typing this from Firefox/Gnome/Ubuntu), just defending Reality(tm). I've had a Linux box and a Windows box for years. Never once have I had to reformat and install Windows because of a virus/spyware problem. Yes, I've had spyware and even one or two viri on the machine, but removed it easily. It is a GROSS exaggeration to say that Windows needs to be reformatted or reinstalled every other week. I think you meant it mostly in jest and exaggeration, but sometimes when people make comments like this it blows my mind.
When was the last time Japan invaded a country over economic interests (and rewarded for it)?
Using something that is considered "highly arguable at best" to try and prove a point isn't going to get you much leverage. Not only that, but using it as if it is 100% fact is also not the best way to promote your way of thinking.
I'm not saying that I disagree with you or that I agree with you, I'm saying that there are PLENTY of people that do disagree with you. You did know that, right?
It's a perfectly viable platform. I play NWN on it too and I'm primarily a Linux user. I just wouldn't ever argue that "wake up, Linux has GREAT game support, check out these 4 game titles... just forget about the 10,000 other titles avaliable to windows..."
Maybe I should have said, Linux doesn't have enough game companines supporting it. I didn't mean to imply it wasn't a good platform.
Wake up rip van winkle - we've been gaming on linux for years, and sad to say, you were asleep and missed it all. For a gentle heads-up, see doom 1/2/3, quake 1/2/3, ut 2000/2003/2004, RtCW, etc etc...
That is just asking for trouble. Linux sucks ass at games, face it. That isn't an argument to be won right now.
Seriously... the random number generator story... just dismissing it as "quack pseudoscience" without any reason puts you in the same category as a religous fanatic in my book.
I just ordered a PowerBook. I'm going to run MacOS X on it. If I wanted a laptop running Debian, I already have one. I want something with absolutely perfect support for all the hardware on the machine, but which doesn't hold me back like Windows does. MacOS X is the answer, and I bought a PowerBook to run it.
If I got a Mini, it, too, would run MacOS X. I already have Debian boxes, and I didn't pay $500 just to spend an hour undermining half the benefits of having the machine in the first place.
Jeez. No one is making you put Debian on your Mac mini. We're glad you feel good about your buying decisions. You don't need to justify them here.
I'm not trying to troll here... more asking for help.
I don't think the fonts are "awful," but I will say that there is something... weird(?) about them. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but they just don't seem as crisp maybe? I'd be happy to try new fonts, I think I tried artwiz and speedo(maybe?) on Gentoo, but if anyone has any better suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
There are more ways to spot a terrorist than just their communications. Planning something big, did they recently stock up on extra toilet paper? New piles of dirt right outside a square block of concrete... Large purchases of bleach.. etc.
You're kidding right? You seriously expect someone to be stopped from crashing an airplane into a building by monitoring their TP consumption habits? What kind of an uproar would all these paranoid slashdotters be in if they got their house searched because they bought 10x the normal amount of TP in the last month due to mass indigestion from bad mexican food?
Seriously though, if the world existed the way a lot of Slashdotters think it should, crime would essentially be a "don't ask don't tell" activity.
Thank you. I was thinking the same exact thing. It would be nice to not hear random people, usually from other countries, comment on the way things happen in the US.
It's time to stop copying Windows XP, folks. It's time to start copying OS X. Unfortunately, nobody from KDE or Gnome seems to realize this.
Well.. I just have to respond to that. Look, not everyone thinks that OSX looks nice. No, really. It's true. Some of us think it looks worse than XP::gasp::. These are all opinions, of course. Besides, if everyone copied OSX (or XP, or whatever) then what would be the point? All the OSes would look the same.
It's because most people have bad taste. If you don't think that most people have bad taste, please explain the following: reality television, Britney Spears, Wal-Mart, Taco Bell, Jerry Springer, fanny packs, George W. Bush, AOL, and most of human culture since the dawn of time.
Ok, I'll bite. I find it slightly impossible that "most" people can posess bad taste. It's kind of disreguarding the fact that "taste" is totally subjective. Sure, I think a lot of those things you listed are shitty, but that doesn't mean that most people have bad taste. It just means that my taste differs from most people. Call that "good taste" if you will, but I don't agree. Besides, Britney Spears is pretty hot man...hehe.
I'm pretty sure that the interconnects inside the microprocessor would have noticably larger delays at the size you mention. It sounds crazy, but it happens. Stuff like L1,L2 cache --> FPU delays can affect the overall maximum frequency of the chip, and thus slow it down.
But you are correct in assuming that it would help heat dissiapation, assuming you kept the same number of transistors. If you really wanted to, you could make a chip that large with the same transistor density, but it wouldn't do you much good because the overall clock speed of the chip would be much slower than a modern microprocessor.
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Myranet or Infinband
Just some minor corrections and informaton for those interested.
Myricom is the company, Myrinet is the protocol. Infiniband is an open protocol. Myrinet has a maximum speed of 2.2Gb/sec while Infiniband can scale up to 30Gb/sec on a 16x PCI-E card and a 12x port on the switch.
As for what BlueGene/L uses, I don't think I'm at liberty to discuss that.
Then, the guy also said while it has a connection to a remote share, that is either slow or unreachable which is quite an important issue which really _can_ cause what he was talking about.
I currently have two remote shares mapped as network drives on this laptop. Both of which are currently unreachable because they are at work. It takes 1-2 seconds for everything to show up, even the disconnected shares, and it is all due to the hard drive reading.
Trust me, I like linux. My job title has "Linux Clustering" in it. But making up weird "problems" with WindowsXP (a very usable OS with many nice features) isn't going to help anyone.
As for the registry tweaking, yes, of course there are tons of sites with that information. What I was saying was that I'm not sure what exactly he is looking to "research" about the file browser in XP. There is absolutly no need to "tweak" it to make it perform well.
With XP, 512MB ram, and Pentium 4, I get to wait a good minute or two, just to SEE, let alone access, the drives that are still ON or CONNECTED to the machine.
That's funny, it takes about 1 second on a P3 800MHz with 256MB RAM. Yes, with the default settings.
Of course this is the DEFAULT settings, I've not taken the time to research how to "reconfigure" or "tweak" it.
Research, yeah... not really sure what you're talking about. Maybe try changing the way the window displays the view?
Every laptop since takes its design directly from the PowerBook.
Or the ThinkPad.
...but there is no internet connection at all
:)
Well, just a guess, but you might want to be connected to the internet to download the new version. You know, maybe?
I can beat that... I work for IBM Linux Clustering. 32-way power5? Ehhh, not bad. 1024-way Xeon? Better. 2048-way Opteron? Yeah, now we're getting there.
Yes, there is no denying the fact that windows is retardedly accepting of spyware and viri to the standard user (i.e. idiot). However, not knowing the proper tools to remove it is no fault of the OS. Getting it in the first place is the fault of the OS. How you take care of the problem is up to the user. If, in these cases, your friends are reformatting to "fix" the problem, they are horribly misinformed as it is perfectly easy to maintain a windows installation (my girlfriend does it, and she's a polital science major and in a sorority if that means anything) with a few VERY easy to use programs (AdAware, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc). I'm not saying that it's ok to get the spyware/viri in the first place. That is indeed a bad problem with Windows. However, if I get a flat tire and decide that the best thing to do is buy a new car... that doesn't really matter.
While I agree with you to some extent, I do believe that it is mostly a function of "what you're used to." I'm assuming you use OSX at home (correct me if I'm wrong), which would explain why using Windows at work would be frustrating and intrusive, since you're used to a different platform. It could be anything, the point is that it is different than what you are used to. If you used Windows at home and at work, you wouldn't spend time remembering how to find things or do things, because you'd be used to doing them. I'm not saying that Windows has a greater magnitude of overall useability than OSX, but being accustomed to something greatly increases your productivity with it.
Not having to reformat or reinstall the OS every other week adds a great deal to productivity I would say.
I know... that you know... that you exaggerated that comment, but I'd still like to respond to it. I am in no way defending Windows here (typing this from Firefox/Gnome/Ubuntu), just defending Reality(tm). I've had a Linux box and a Windows box for years. Never once have I had to reformat and install Windows because of a virus/spyware problem. Yes, I've had spyware and even one or two viri on the machine, but removed it easily. It is a GROSS exaggeration to say that Windows needs to be reformatted or reinstalled every other week. I think you meant it mostly in jest and exaggeration, but sometimes when people make comments like this it blows my mind.
Sorry, I'm done.
When was the last time Japan invaded a country over economic interests (and rewarded for it)?
Using something that is considered "highly arguable at best" to try and prove a point isn't going to get you much leverage. Not only that, but using it as if it is 100% fact is also not the best way to promote your way of thinking.
I'm not saying that I disagree with you or that I agree with you, I'm saying that there are PLENTY of people that do disagree with you. You did know that, right?
OS X's X11 already has this
Great, who the hell cares? He was talking about OSS and Linux, not OSX. Nice troll though.
It's a perfectly viable platform. I play NWN on it too and I'm primarily a Linux user. I just wouldn't ever argue that "wake up, Linux has GREAT game support, check out these 4 game titles... just forget about the 10,000 other titles avaliable to windows..."
Maybe I should have said, Linux doesn't have enough game companines supporting it. I didn't mean to imply it wasn't a good platform.
Wake up rip van winkle - we've been gaming on linux for years, and sad to say, you were asleep and missed it all. For a gentle heads-up, see doom 1/2/3, quake 1/2/3, ut 2000/2003/2004, RtCW, etc etc...
That is just asking for trouble. Linux sucks ass at games, face it. That isn't an argument to be won right now.
Seriously... the random number generator story... just dismissing it as "quack pseudoscience" without any reason puts you in the same category as a religous fanatic in my book.
I just ordered a PowerBook. I'm going to run MacOS X on it. If I wanted a laptop running Debian, I already have one. I want something with absolutely perfect support for all the hardware on the machine, but which doesn't hold me back like Windows does. MacOS X is the answer, and I bought a PowerBook to run it.
If I got a Mini, it, too, would run MacOS X. I already have Debian boxes, and I didn't pay $500 just to spend an hour undermining half the benefits of having the machine in the first place.
Jeez. No one is making you put Debian on your Mac mini. We're glad you feel good about your buying decisions. You don't need to justify them here.
Ah, thank you. I don't think I enabled the USE flag.
I'm not trying to troll here... more asking for help.
... weird(?) about them. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but they just don't seem as crisp maybe? I'd be happy to try new fonts, I think I tried artwiz and speedo(maybe?) on Gentoo, but if anyone has any better suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
I don't think the fonts are "awful," but I will say that there is something
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Yeah, assuming you want people with marijuana to not get caught.
There are more ways to spot a terrorist than just their communications. Planning something big, did they recently stock up on extra toilet paper? New piles of dirt right outside a square block of concrete... Large purchases of bleach.. etc.
You're kidding right? You seriously expect someone to be stopped from crashing an airplane into a building by monitoring their TP consumption habits? What kind of an uproar would all these paranoid slashdotters be in if they got their house searched because they bought 10x the normal amount of TP in the last month due to mass indigestion from bad mexican food?
Seriously though, if the world existed the way a lot of Slashdotters think it should, crime would essentially be a "don't ask don't tell" activity.
Thank you. I was thinking the same exact thing. It would be nice to not hear random people, usually from other countries, comment on the way things happen in the US.
It's time to stop copying Windows XP, folks. It's time to start copying OS X. Unfortunately, nobody from KDE or Gnome seems to realize this.
::gasp::. These are all opinions, of course. Besides, if everyone copied OSX (or XP, or whatever) then what would be the point? All the OSes would look the same.
Well.. I just have to respond to that. Look, not everyone thinks that OSX looks nice. No, really. It's true. Some of us think it looks worse than XP
It's because most people have bad taste. If you don't think that most people have bad taste, please explain the following: reality television, Britney Spears, Wal-Mart, Taco Bell, Jerry Springer, fanny packs, George W. Bush, AOL, and most of human culture since the dawn of time.
Ok, I'll bite. I find it slightly impossible that "most" people can posess bad taste. It's kind of disreguarding the fact that "taste" is totally subjective. Sure, I think a lot of those things you listed are shitty, but that doesn't mean that most people have bad taste. It just means that my taste differs from most people. Call that "good taste" if you will, but I don't agree. Besides, Britney Spears is pretty hot man...hehe.
I'm pretty sure that the interconnects inside the microprocessor would have noticably larger delays at the size you mention. It sounds crazy, but it happens. Stuff like L1,L2 cache --> FPU delays can affect the overall maximum frequency of the chip, and thus slow it down.
But you are correct in assuming that it would help heat dissiapation, assuming you kept the same number of transistors. If you really wanted to, you could make a chip that large with the same transistor density, but it wouldn't do you much good because the overall clock speed of the chip would be much slower than a modern microprocessor.
I side with who's correct, not accordig to party lines.
From your blog:
We, Republicans that is, got our asses stomped in 1992 and 1996. Sure, we didn't like it, but you know what? We dealt with it.
You bet on "gay marriage" and scaremongering about the supreme court. Sorry, that was not a winning bet.
Wow. And NFL football is gay? I hope that was mostly a joke, because your attempts to prove it were pathetic.
Who do you work for? I'm an EE grad looking for a job in chip design............
::only half joking::
heh...