My apologies, I apparently read too much into the part where they tested a similar configuration on the non-Intel hardware, and not enough in the section where they mentioned the fake RAID controllers onboard in the systems.
I've been building x346 systems lately, so I must have had hardware controllers on the brain.
They said dedicated card, which was used in another system (non-Intel). This means it was a PCI or PCI-X board, not the onboard Fake RAID, and not a 7e.
Thanks for checking some of these facts out before running your virtual mouth.
It wouldn't explain why he was faster if he was doing software RAID with SCSI, though.
I've done software and hardware RAID-5 with SCSI, using the same drives and cable, and can confirm that software RAID can be faster than a dedicated hardware controller, all drives and cabling remaining the same. Some hardware controllers can be pretty darn slow.
No kidding. That part caught my eye, as we use IBM where I work, and everything is RAID-5. If there's some kind of problem with even the lower end xSeries machines, this will affect our purchasing.
A post on Slashdot that was better written than any of the editorials I've ever seen come through the front page. Bravo, good sir/madam!
And to be slightly on topic, I'm surprised that more people don't realize the influence of well recognized Mac users and the consequences of their very public "switch" away from Mac computers. Consumers are generally sheep, after all...
No kidding. I gave Gentoo a fair shot on x86, x86-64, and sparc64. Wasn't all that great, to be honest, and now I'm running Ubuntu everywhere, because apps just freakin' work.
Macs have been a pain when it comes to interoperability with other non-Mac systems since day one. Mac OS X isn't much better, and has quite a few annoying aspects for me.
Damn... burningserver.com is taken! That'd be a pretty sweet domain name...
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I've read the arguements on LKML, and it seems to me Hans isn't the only one being stubborn about filesystems and whatnot in the kernel. The kernel developers are unyielding to modernizing the VM subsystem, which is causing a lot of grief for ReiserFS.
It's ugly, and annoying, especially for people like me who rely on ReiserFS in production. I'd love to see ReiserFS 4 in the standard kernel, it'd make my life a lot easier.
I can't use EXT2/3, it's too slow and just kills the machine for the amount of files we deal with on a lot of our systems. Going from Ext3 to ReiserFS 3 took us from a machine load of over 50 down to about 3 during stress testing recently.
Hans knows what he's doing, I just wish the kernel developers would accept and respect that (regardless of the retarded ego wars on the LKML).
No, won't be buying a PS3. Don't own a PS2 or PS1 either, I was playing PC games for the most part until I ditched Windows entirely.
I read your post, and understand what you said. I've seen some real audiophile setups, and can appreciate the amount of disposable income one must dedicate to have a very, very nice audio system. The modifications to some of the homes I've been in are impressive enough without the equipment thrown in the mix.
BTW, I was talking about the Blu-Ray player, not the HD-DVD player.
1080p is only useful for large displays? And here you thought you were a videophile. I didn't know liking interlaced video was "in". Or do you prefer just watching 720p?
I don't know where you got the idea that I was whining, I've been laughing pretty much the whole time I've been reading your posts.
Bravo for being one of the schleps who's gotta have the latest toys. I, as a sensible consumer, appreciate the monetary sacrifice you've made so there's one less revision 1 piece of crap on the shelf at Best Buy.
AVphiles don't go out and blow a wad of cash on unproven junk. They purchase well tested and well thought out hardware so they can enjoy their music/videos without having to worry about upgrading in the next three to six months. If you read anything about that Toshiba Blu-ray player, you'd know it's crap (doesn't even do 1080p).
I probably got the troll mod from someone chomping at the bit for a new PS3.
Sony's done enough for us with their root kits and whatnot, I don't need to support their dumb asses in a new format war. I'll gladly wait on the sidelines with DVD for a few years, and wait for the next revision/format to come out if these two can't get traction.
No kidding. I wasn't even thinking of the DRM mess!
Give it five years, and I can guarantee there won't be a stalemate. Consumers or industry will not want to deal with both, and someone will find a way to make one format rise to the top. Let's home DRM is killed off by then.
Ubuntu can keep him away from the command line, and x86 hardware is cheaper and easier to maintain than Mac hardware. If you didn't follow the thread, he's on his third Mac because the previous two failed.
I support Mac OS X, various forms of Linux, and Windows systems where I work. The Mac hardware and Mac OS X systems are definately the most annoying to deal with, and cost a great deal more (and do a great deal less) than the Linux and Windows workstations.
I don't think it's much of a stretch for someone who's used either a Windows PC or a Mac to switch to Linux, IF they can be happy using the applications available under Linux. Sometimes you gotta run one or the other based on the job (which is the only reason we have the Macs).
You shouldn't even have to do that as a normal end user. I admin Windows networks, and NO ONE gets admin access to their workstations except certian developers. The rest of the office is locked down, and have no problems doing their jobs and running a fairly decent assortment of applications (beyond MS Office).
Active Directory and group policies are your friend when it comes to a sane working environment under MS. Problem is, by the time you get that all sorted out, the admins are usually insane.;-)
Look at how cell phones are doing in North America vs. the world. The world has GSM where you are not tied to a provider you buy the handset from, and you do not pay for received calls. The contrary is true in North America.
Last time I checked, if you didn't want to take advantage of promotional pricing for a new phone through your carrier, you could always buy the phone retail. In other words, much like GSM phones, "unlocked" or retail CDMA phones can be used on just about any CDMA carrier. GSM phones can be locked or incompatible with some GSM carriers too, you know.
As for not paying for received calls, that's a feature of your wireless service provider, not GSM.
Some info on the differences between GSM and CDMA:
I was approaching the subject from the perspective of someone setting up their own system with BSD/Linux for the first time. If someone else is configuring a BSD or Linux system, then I'd have to agree that either one would work fine for the enduser (who's not going to be messing with the machine once it's configured).
Bravo on the troll post, though. Got me hook, line, and sinker.;-P
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My apologies, I apparently read too much into the part where they tested a similar configuration on the non-Intel hardware, and not enough in the section where they mentioned the fake RAID controllers onboard in the systems.
I've been building x346 systems lately, so I must have had hardware controllers on the brain.
They said dedicated card, which was used in another system (non-Intel). This means it was a PCI or PCI-X board, not the onboard Fake RAID, and not a 7e.
Thanks for checking some of these facts out before running your virtual mouth.
Just like the IBM ServerRAID controller mentioned in the article?
It wouldn't explain why he was faster if he was doing software RAID with SCSI, though.
I've done software and hardware RAID-5 with SCSI, using the same drives and cable, and can confirm that software RAID can be faster than a dedicated hardware controller, all drives and cabling remaining the same. Some hardware controllers can be pretty darn slow.
They specifically stated this was seen with an IBM ServerRAID controller. Not exactly a non-dedicated controller.
It IS the Inquirer, though, so the required grain of salt has been taken at my end.
No kidding. That part caught my eye, as we use IBM where I work, and everything is RAID-5. If there's some kind of problem with even the lower end xSeries machines, this will affect our purchasing.
I think you meant "web 0.2".
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http://www.burningserver.com/, for all your blank web page needs!
Anything that runs in OpenGL comes to mind.
Besides games, think of all the killer screen savers!
A post on Slashdot that was better written than any of the editorials I've ever seen come through the front page. Bravo, good sir/madam!
And to be slightly on topic, I'm surprised that more people don't realize the influence of well recognized Mac users and the consequences of their very public "switch" away from Mac computers. Consumers are generally sheep, after all...
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http://www.burningserver.com/, for all your blank web page needs!
One word:
BZFlag!
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http://www.burningserver.com/, for all your blank web page needs!
...how are the latest Linux drivers coming along?
Oh, well. Looks like a neat card, too bad it's still slower than the top of the line nVidia board. Expensive as all hell too!
Maybe once they get the liquid cooling thing down we'll see a good bump in clock speed.
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http://www.burningserver.com/, for all your blank web page needs!
No kidding. I gave Gentoo a fair shot on x86, x86-64, and sparc64. Wasn't all that great, to be honest, and now I'm running Ubuntu everywhere, because apps just freakin' work.
Macs have been a pain when it comes to interoperability with other non-Mac systems since day one. Mac OS X isn't much better, and has quite a few annoying aspects for me.
Speak for yourself, I married someone OUTSIDE of the county I grew up in.
Damn... burningserver.com is taken! That'd be a pretty sweet domain name...
I've read the arguements on LKML, and it seems to me Hans isn't the only one being stubborn about filesystems and whatnot in the kernel. The kernel developers are unyielding to modernizing the VM subsystem, which is causing a lot of grief for ReiserFS.
It's ugly, and annoying, especially for people like me who rely on ReiserFS in production. I'd love to see ReiserFS 4 in the standard kernel, it'd make my life a lot easier.
I can't use EXT2/3, it's too slow and just kills the machine for the amount of files we deal with on a lot of our systems. Going from Ext3 to ReiserFS 3 took us from a machine load of over 50 down to about 3 during stress testing recently.
Hans knows what he's doing, I just wish the kernel developers would accept and respect that (regardless of the retarded ego wars on the LKML).
Guess I hit a nerve there. Oh, well...
No, won't be buying a PS3. Don't own a PS2 or PS1 either, I was playing PC games for the most part until I ditched Windows entirely.
I read your post, and understand what you said. I've seen some real audiophile setups, and can appreciate the amount of disposable income one must dedicate to have a very, very nice audio system. The modifications to some of the homes I've been in are impressive enough without the equipment thrown in the mix.
BTW, I was talking about the Blu-Ray player, not the HD-DVD player.
1080p is only useful for large displays? And here you thought you were a videophile. I didn't know liking interlaced video was "in". Or do you prefer just watching 720p?
I don't know where you got the idea that I was whining, I've been laughing pretty much the whole time I've been reading your posts.
*golf clap*
Bravo for being one of the schleps who's gotta have the latest toys. I, as a sensible consumer, appreciate the monetary sacrifice you've made so there's one less revision 1 piece of crap on the shelf at Best Buy.
AVphiles don't go out and blow a wad of cash on unproven junk. They purchase well tested and well thought out hardware so they can enjoy their music/videos without having to worry about upgrading in the next three to six months. If you read anything about that Toshiba Blu-ray player, you'd know it's crap (doesn't even do 1080p).
Thanks for playing.
Twice the royalties, and twice the DRM headache. It may very well be unattractive for anyone to even WANT to develop a dual-format capable player.
I probably got the troll mod from someone chomping at the bit for a new PS3.
Sony's done enough for us with their root kits and whatnot, I don't need to support their dumb asses in a new format war. I'll gladly wait on the sidelines with DVD for a few years, and wait for the next revision/format to come out if these two can't get traction.
No kidding. I wasn't even thinking of the DRM mess!
Give it five years, and I can guarantee there won't be a stalemate. Consumers or industry will not want to deal with both, and someone will find a way to make one format rise to the top. Let's home DRM is killed off by then.
What a crock. Thanks, but no thanks, I'll just stick with DVDs until Blu-ray loses this battle and the prices come down on HD-DVDs.
Ubuntu can keep him away from the command line, and x86 hardware is cheaper and easier to maintain than Mac hardware. If you didn't follow the thread, he's on his third Mac because the previous two failed.
I support Mac OS X, various forms of Linux, and Windows systems where I work. The Mac hardware and Mac OS X systems are definately the most annoying to deal with, and cost a great deal more (and do a great deal less) than the Linux and Windows workstations.
I don't think it's much of a stretch for someone who's used either a Windows PC or a Mac to switch to Linux, IF they can be happy using the applications available under Linux. Sometimes you gotta run one or the other based on the job (which is the only reason we have the Macs).
You shouldn't even have to do that as a normal end user. I admin Windows networks, and NO ONE gets admin access to their workstations except certian developers. The rest of the office is locked down, and have no problems doing their jobs and running a fairly decent assortment of applications (beyond MS Office).
;-)
Active Directory and group policies are your friend when it comes to a sane working environment under MS. Problem is, by the time you get that all sorted out, the admins are usually insane.
Last time I checked, if you didn't want to take advantage of promotional pricing for a new phone through your carrier, you could always buy the phone retail. In other words, much like GSM phones, "unlocked" or retail CDMA phones can be used on just about any CDMA carrier. GSM phones can be locked or incompatible with some GSM carriers too, you know.
As for not paying for received calls, that's a feature of your wireless service provider, not GSM.
Some info on the differences between GSM and CDMA:
http://www.pctoday.com/Editorial/article.asp?arti
I was approaching the subject from the perspective of someone setting up their own system with BSD/Linux for the first time. If someone else is configuring a BSD or Linux system, then I'd have to agree that either one would work fine for the enduser (who's not going to be messing with the machine once it's configured).
;-P
Bravo on the troll post, though. Got me hook, line, and sinker.