I looked at their benchmark web page http://www.level5networks.com/prod_etherfabricperf.htm where they claim that a typical PC with "conventional" ethernet burns 83.5% of CPU for communication overhead while only 16.5% remain to the application.
But they don't say which CPU was used - probably an 850 MHz Pentium III or something similar outdated.
Fact is, on a current 3.x GHz Pentium IV or an equivalent Athlon or Opteron the communication overhead is in one digit range, percentage-wise.
A famous computer science quote is:
"Lies, damned lies and benchmarks"
and another one is
"Don't trust any statistics that you haven't forged yourself."
Actionist::= Person who ousts a brutal dictator from office & establishes democracy in a country that suffered from dictatorship for decades
Reactionist::= Person who wants brutal dictators like Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro to remain in power forever and doesn't give a damn about spreading democracy around the globe, as long as he/she has the privilege to live in one himself/herself
...and Apple's stock price will come down.
Why?
1. iPod inventories are building up
2. The switch to Intel chips will make corporate and private equipment buyers postpone purchases
Watch for a missed quarter and/or lowered guidance and/or an earnings pre-announcement.
Then, if you have Apple shares, watch out below.
Really tough to repair it if something breaks.
Swapping out the motherboard or even just the CPU is a major hassle.
The one and only counter example is: Memory upgrades are easier done than in desktop computers (due to a memory access hatch).
You have to sign an NDA. Period.
Now, if you're not Microsoft or Novell or RedHat but merely Jow Blow, it's not easy to even get into the position where you can sign an NDA.
What you could do is have business cards printed and stationary printed and pretend you are an OEM manufacturer in the embedded systems market or something.
But they see through that fairly quickly.
For instance, Intel will come to any meeting with four people (one technical guy, one marketing guy, one legal guy and one product manager) and it looks kind of funny if you're sitting there by yourself.
Also, usually they will want to come to you and it doesn't look too good if invite them into your office, your office being the rec room in your parents' house.
Impressive company http://www.xand.com/ - right on the home page it says "Click for Product Infomation"
Hold on a second - I wonder what product infomation actually is. It's not product information, that's for sure.
Has business picked up so much that companies are hiring dyslexic people as web designers?
(Then again, because this planet is so close to a star, its surface temperature is 400 to 750 degrees Fahrenheit and the electricity bill for A/C would certainly kill you even if the gravity doesn't).
CAD software - I don't find it difficult to use
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There's a startup company called Alibre http://www.alibre.com/ that offers 3D solid modeling CAD software.
The lowest cost version, below $1000, handles anything that starts out with a solid block of material (for instance, milling a complex heat sink out of a solid block of copper, or turning some big jack screw out of a solid block of aluminum, things like that.
The medium priced version, $1500, adds sheet metal design to that.
I use their sheet metal CAD for things like server enclosures.
Very simple to use:
You start out with a flat rectangle of sheet metal (on the screen). Then you add a flange on the left side and a flange on the right side, with just a few mouse clicks, and - bingo! - you have a U-profile. Then you add studs and/or standoffs as needed, holes as needed and you have the bottom part of a sheet metal case.
Having designed the bottom part, you then proceed to design the cover and the front panel and the rear panel. Thus, you get a sheet metal box.
What is it?
A custom rack mount server case.
You can then generate 2D drawings from the 3D model, print out the 2D drawings and take them to a local sheet metal shop for a quote.
...to log on to online banking or even to access your Gmail or Hotmail account - just take a notebook computer along.
It also helps to have two or three sets of passwords:
- The least sensitive password should be used for "subscription required" sites, like the NYT.
- The medium sensitive password should be used to protect your web mail accounts, like Gmail
- The most sensitive password should be used for online banking
...(discounts apply for multi-year signups), I'd only sign up for one of these if someone was pointing a gun at my head.
And that's just the second level.pro domains.
The third level.xyz.pro domains, for instance,.eng.pro, are a cool $199 per year...
Assume you lease an electric car.
And then assume further, that you like it so much that at the end of the leasing period (3 years typically) you buy the car from the leasing company.
And then, just a few years down the road, you find out that the batteries are dying and you need the replace the batteries to the tune of 10 to 15 grand.
What would the knee-jerk reaction of the typical American be?
That's right: LAWSUIT!
"Yes, your honor, unlike a car with a gasoline engine, the resale value of this car has dropped to zero!
With so-so batteries, it would be worth 6 grand but now they are forcing me to invest 15 grand (which I have no way of coming up with) into an old car which would, at best, bring 6 grand on the resale market!
I feel tricked!
I suffered emotional damage!
I want $5 million for the emotional stress this issue has caused me!"
Assume you are a private citizen in country 'A' and build a cruise missile in your garage (turbine engine, GPS-based autopilot, small warhead containing, say, 10 pounds of Semtex) and then fire it towards country 'U', and assume further that you actually cause property damage, you have committed a crime and, yes, you will be extradited.
In the DrinkOrDie case, a different crime has been committed, but the monetary damage was in country 'U' and not in country 'A', thus an extradition is clearly warranted.
About a year ago, Earthlink suddenly (and without prior notification) started to block traffic to destination port 25 (SMTP).
This blocked me from sending emails tagged as originating from my domain name.
I voted with my feet and am now a happy customer of Sonic.net (based in Santa Rosa, but serving the Greater Bay Area).
But I am still pissed off about Earthlink blocking traffic to destination port 25 (SMTP) and would enjoy it if a regulatory agency fined them.
$15000 seems like a joke, though.
If you had bothered to read the technical doc of the ATI V5000 card, you would have found out that of the two DVI connectors, only ONE is dual link capable and the other one is not.
The ATI V5000 has a dual-link DVI output, and apart from other FireGLs and a recently introduced Macintosh card there IS NO video card for PCs on the market that features a dual-link DVI output.
Why should anybody care?
If you want to hook up the 30" Apple LCD monitor, you NEED a dual-link DVI interface, and boy, have I been drooling over the 30" monitor ever since it was introduced.
(Not that I could afford it at its $3000 list price, but that's a different topic.)
The 30" Apple LCD monitor REQUIRES a dual-link DVI card.
The ATI V5000 card has dual link capability on one of its output channels.
Thus, they SHOULD work together.
Now, has anybody tried, do they ACTUALLY work together in real life?
(Not that I have the $3700 lying around that will pay for both the graphics card and the monitor.)
My objective was to be able to zoom by all those fat cats in their Mercedes' and BMWs and Lexi (plural of Lexus), and only a CNG powered car meets that objective.
(Electric cars have a limited range and their batteries have a limited lifetime, and I never considered them a viable alternative.)
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Hence, we use Linux (Suse 9.3) + Apache (1.3 or 2.0 depending on customer preferences).
http://www.myricom.com/ and http://www.myricom.com/news/050620a/
These babies used to cost $2500 just half a year ago. Now they are down to $800. Awesome.
I looked at their benchmark web page http://www.level5networks.com/prod_etherfabricperf .htm where they claim that a typical PC with "conventional" ethernet burns 83.5% of CPU for communication overhead while only 16.5% remain to the application.
But they don't say which CPU was used - probably an 850 MHz Pentium III or something similar outdated.
Fact is, on a current 3.x GHz Pentium IV or an equivalent Athlon or Opteron the communication overhead is in one digit range, percentage-wise.
A famous computer science quote is:
"Lies, damned lies and benchmarks"
and another one is
"Don't trust any statistics that you haven't forged yourself."
Actionist ::= Person who ousts a brutal dictator from office & establishes democracy in a country that suffered from dictatorship for decades ::= Person who wants brutal dictators like Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro to remain in power forever and doesn't give a damn about spreading democracy around the globe, as long as he/she has the privilege to live in one himself/herself
Reactionist
Why?
1. iPod inventories are building up
2. The switch to Intel chips will make corporate and private equipment buyers postpone purchases
Watch for a missed quarter and/or lowered guidance and/or an earnings pre-announcement.
Then, if you have Apple shares, watch out below.
Really tough to repair it if something breaks.
Swapping out the motherboard or even just the CPU is a major hassle.
The one and only counter example is: Memory upgrades are easier done than in desktop computers (due to a memory access hatch).
It doesn't look like you get a discount on the physical book when you purchase the Beta .pdf
Now, if you're not Microsoft or Novell or RedHat but merely Jow Blow, it's not easy to even get into the position where you can sign an NDA.
What you could do is have business cards printed and stationary printed and pretend you are an OEM manufacturer in the embedded systems market or something.
But they see through that fairly quickly.
For instance, Intel will come to any meeting with four people (one technical guy, one marketing guy, one legal guy and one product manager) and it looks kind of funny if you're sitting there by yourself.
Also, usually they will want to come to you and it doesn't look too good if invite them into your office, your office being the rec room in your parents' house.
Hold on a second - I wonder what product infomation actually is. It's not product information, that's for sure.
Has business picked up so much that companies are hiring dyslexic people as web designers?
Hence, only the lean and fit would survive.
(Then again, because this planet is so close to a star, its surface temperature is 400 to 750 degrees Fahrenheit and the electricity bill for A/C would certainly kill you even if the gravity doesn't).
The lowest cost version, below $1000, handles anything that starts out with a solid block of material (for instance, milling a complex heat sink out of a solid block of copper, or turning some big jack screw out of a solid block of aluminum, things like that.
The medium priced version, $1500, adds sheet metal design to that.
I use their sheet metal CAD for things like server enclosures.
Very simple to use:
You start out with a flat rectangle of sheet metal (on the screen). Then you add a flange on the left side and a flange on the right side, with just a few mouse clicks, and - bingo! - you have a U-profile. Then you add studs and/or standoffs as needed, holes as needed and you have the bottom part of a sheet metal case.
Having designed the bottom part, you then proceed to design the cover and the front panel and the rear panel. Thus, you get a sheet metal box.
What is it?
A custom rack mount server case.
You can then generate 2D drawings from the 3D model, print out the 2D drawings and take them to a local sheet metal shop for a quote.
It also helps to have two or three sets of passwords:
- The least sensitive password should be used for "subscription required" sites, like the NYT.
- The medium sensitive password should be used to protect your web mail accounts, like Gmail
- The most sensitive password should be used for online banking
Translate with http://babelfish.altavista.com/ or similar.
Better block ICMP as well.
...something more professional.
...(discounts apply for multi-year signups), I'd only sign up for one of these if someone was pointing a gun at my head. And that's just the second level .pro domains.
The third level .xyz.pro domains, for instance, .eng.pro, are a cool $199 per year...
And then assume further, that you like it so much that at the end of the leasing period (3 years typically) you buy the car from the leasing company.
And then, just a few years down the road, you find out that the batteries are dying and you need the replace the batteries to the tune of 10 to 15 grand.
What would the knee-jerk reaction of the typical American be?
That's right: LAWSUIT!
"Yes, your honor, unlike a car with a gasoline engine, the resale value of this car has dropped to zero!
With so-so batteries, it would be worth 6 grand but now they are forcing me to invest 15 grand (which I have no way of coming up with) into an old car which would, at best, bring 6 grand on the resale market!
I feel tricked!
I suffered emotional damage!
I want $5 million for the emotional stress this issue has caused me!"
In the DrinkOrDie case, a different crime has been committed, but the monetary damage was in country 'U' and not in country 'A', thus an extradition is clearly warranted.
This blocked me from sending emails tagged as originating from my domain name.
I voted with my feet and am now a happy customer of Sonic.net (based in Santa Rosa, but serving the Greater Bay Area).
But I am still pissed off about Earthlink blocking traffic to destination port 25 (SMTP) and would enjoy it if a regulatory agency fined them.
$15000 seems like a joke, though.
Cell is going to be great for gaming and rendering and such, but you won't see scientific applications running on it any time soon.
If you had bothered to read the technical doc of the ATI V5000 card, you would have found out that of the two DVI connectors, only ONE is dual link capable and the other one is not.
Why should anybody care?
If you want to hook up the 30" Apple LCD monitor, you NEED a dual-link DVI interface, and boy, have I been drooling over the 30" monitor ever since it was introduced.
(Not that I could afford it at its $3000 list price, but that's a different topic.)
The ATI V5000 card has dual link capability on one of its output channels.
Thus, they SHOULD work together.
Now, has anybody tried, do they ACTUALLY work together in real life?
(Not that I have the $3700 lying around that will pay for both the graphics card and the monitor.)
My objective was to be able to zoom by all those fat cats in their Mercedes' and BMWs and Lexi (plural of Lexus), and only a CNG powered car meets that objective.
(Electric cars have a limited range and their batteries have a limited lifetime, and I never considered them a viable alternative.)