A recent/. story had a MS drone pointing out that Linux didn't have the ability to hot swap out ram and cpu, a needed enterprise feature.
The ability to shut down a cpu, or a bank of ram would have great benefit in the large high availablity systems.
It wouldn't take much to extend this to power savings, which shouldn't affect semiconductors as much as mechanical devices.
If you had an 8-way 4Gb server, which goes mostly idle during extended periods, overnight or weekends, it could throttle back to 2 cpus and a gig of ram, powering the rest off. If the load average starts increasing, bring more cpus on-line. Same thing if there is a hardware problem, shut down the affected parts, and limp on the rest till its fixed.
Given that Linux has just (2.4) started supporting multi processors of this sort, it is a few versions away, but it is coming
"Advertisers, whom the entire Internet is funded by"
Excuse me? The Internet existed before it was allowed to be used for commercial purposes, much less advertising. Advertising is a Jonny-come-lately, trying to make money off of something, which has a strong culture against it.
That is the whole point of the article, you can't fund the Internet off of advertising.
The person who did the NetBSD work, isn't part of the team responsible for plex86, so the work goes on in parallel, and doesn't impact the development of the main product.
Unlike a commercial software shop, doing the NetBSD port doesn't take away any resources from the main development path.
And as it has been pointed out many times, the more eyes working on a project, and sharing the results makes for faster and better development.
Depends on the backup program. VAX/VMS put data into blocks, which were stored with a error correct block, so you would (default) store 11 blocks on tape for every block backed up.
By adjusting the parameters you could make a very reliable, but slow and large backup. Or if the media is reliable, stream large blocks with little error checking.
The Exabyte 8mm tape drive was very popular with small Vaxen. Held a couple of Gig on a camcorder tape, connected through a SCSI connection.
Worked well for backup, because you could usually get everything on one tape. The idea that you could walk off with the entire company in a shirt pocket was pretty revolutionary at the time as well.
Maybe Intel needs to do a better job of getting cpu information and test setups out to software developers, more than just two or three big ones?
Given the rapid development time of the open source community, Intel shouldn't have a problem getting support out there by the time chips reach production.
They can plain out have BSD code, which isn't under the GPL. And given that BSD's IP code is well noted for performance, it is a really good place to start. A whole lot of commercial products have tapped into Berkley's TCP/IP stack code base.
Light slows down when it is traveling in something other than a vacuum. I don't know off hand exactly how much, it depends on the cable, but your time should be higher.
Add this to a single board PCI computer, and a passive backplane, and you would have a product.
I'm thinking about a smart vending machine, or more in context, voting machines. Cluster them together, pop one of these cards into the "master", and connect the local network to the 'net.
Many small companies have a server system, which if it power cycles, they are basically down for the duration anyway. With a UPS and on a server, reboots shouldn't be a problem.
They are very much alike, with pistons and valves and what not. Noisy, hot, vibration sources, require maintenance. The humidity that is in the air causes problems when it settles out after compression.
Having one run in the garage for 3 hours a night, isn't an improvement over having that noise distributed over the driving area.
And improperly maintained compressed air equipment fails quite badly.
The DUNS number mentioned in the article is very much like a SSN. It uniquely identifies a company, and its relationships - like who it is owned by. You can get very detailed reports from DUNS and credit reports with that number.
The SIC code indentifies the industry the company is in, their very lifeblood.
So the combination is very much like a SSN and blood type.
It is interesting to note that Motorola talks about what the information is going to be shared with their distributors, but none of them mentioned even getting a sales pitch on that aspect of it.
That is corporate america's first wave of America. They should get a cease and decist order, with threats of further legal action.
Which would be the situation if the roles, corporation vs open source (aka the little guy).
The FSF needs a team of lawyers to support the open source movement, so that it can speak the corporate language. I really don't think they would have to do much more than send out letters, given the value of the public opinion. So there wouldn't be much actual legal (trial) work, more adding your name to the letterhead.
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The article mentioned they were working in a 12 inch pipe.
Navigating in a pipe sloped downhill is fairly easy.
This might work, with voice input. "Drop all" is much easier than "arrgh em space dash arrgh space asterick", if you are speaking your commands.
needs more smash and less mouth.
A recent /. story had a MS drone pointing out that Linux didn't have the ability to hot swap out ram and cpu, a needed enterprise feature.
The ability to shut down a cpu, or a bank of ram would have great benefit in the large high availablity systems.
It wouldn't take much to extend this to power savings, which shouldn't affect semiconductors as much as mechanical devices.
If you had an 8-way 4Gb server, which goes mostly idle during extended periods, overnight or weekends, it could throttle back to 2 cpus and a gig of ram, powering the rest off. If the load average starts increasing, bring more cpus on-line. Same thing if there is a hardware problem, shut down the affected parts, and limp on the rest till its fixed.
Given that Linux has just (2.4) started supporting multi processors of this sort, it is a few versions away, but it is coming
"Advertisers, whom the entire Internet is funded by"
Excuse me? The Internet existed before it was allowed to be used for commercial purposes, much less advertising. Advertising is a Jonny-come-lately, trying to make money off of something, which has a strong culture against it.
That is the whole point of the article, you can't fund the Internet off of advertising.
Keep this quiet, otherwise Saddam will snap them all up for his supercomputer cluster, like he did with the PS2.
Santa switched to quantum mechanics a few years ago, and as long as no one observes him directly, he is everywhere at once.
The list of "bad girls" is what keeps him so jolly.
The person who did the NetBSD work, isn't part of the team responsible for plex86, so the work goes on in parallel, and doesn't impact the development of the main product.
Unlike a commercial software shop, doing the NetBSD port doesn't take away any resources from the main development path.
And as it has been pointed out many times, the more eyes working on a project, and sharing the results makes for faster and better development.
Depends on the backup program. VAX/VMS put data into blocks, which were stored with a error correct block, so you would (default) store 11 blocks on tape for every block backed up.
By adjusting the parameters you could make a very reliable, but slow and large backup. Or if the media is reliable, stream large blocks with little error checking.
And doing a verify pass was SOP on critical data.
The Exabyte 8mm tape drive was very popular with small Vaxen. Held a couple of Gig on a camcorder tape, connected through a SCSI connection.
Worked well for backup, because you could usually get everything on one tape. The idea that you could walk off with the entire company in a shirt pocket was pretty revolutionary at the time as well.
Which is what to do if I find hardware I don't understand? Stop, an offer the option to boot a more generic (install/config/debug) kernal.
OpenBSD is also Canadian, so it is free of the sometimes petty US software export rules.
Maybe Intel needs to do a better job of getting cpu information and test setups out to software developers, more than just two or three big ones?
Given the rapid development time of the open source community, Intel shouldn't have a problem getting support out there by the time chips reach production.
They can plain out have BSD code, which isn't under the GPL. And given that BSD's IP code is well noted for performance, it is a really good place to start. A whole lot of commercial products have tapped into Berkley's TCP/IP stack code base.
I get the same thing off their front page, so they appear to be slashdotted.
Light slows down when it is traveling in something other than a vacuum. I don't know off hand exactly how much, it depends on the cable, but your time should be higher.
Add this to a single board PCI computer, and a passive backplane, and you would have a product.
I'm thinking about a smart vending machine, or more in context, voting machines. Cluster them together, pop one of these cards into the "master", and connect the local network to the 'net.
Many small companies have a server system, which if it power cycles, they are basically down for the duration anyway. With a UPS and on a server, reboots shouldn't be a problem.
They are very much alike, with pistons and valves and what not. Noisy, hot, vibration sources, require maintenance. The humidity that is in the air causes problems when it settles out after compression.
Having one run in the garage for 3 hours a night, isn't an improvement over having that noise distributed over the driving area.
And improperly maintained compressed air equipment fails quite badly.
Shouldn't MS be called to task, for not doing a better job of security in their os?
They probably meant 64 Kbps PER channel, which would be 128Kbps for stereo MP3.
It was very nice in a development environment, since you had the last xx (settable) versions of your work available to you.
For the moment at least, hardware power has caught up with the software, and for most purposes, you don't wish you had a faster computer all the time.
And that people haven't learned how to use the features they already have, so why would they feel the need for more?
Gamers are the ones pushing the envelope, todays machines are plenty fast enough for office automation.
The DUNS number mentioned in the article is very much like a SSN. It uniquely identifies a company, and its relationships - like who it is owned by. You can get very detailed reports from DUNS and credit reports with that number.
The SIC code indentifies the industry the company is in, their very lifeblood.
So the combination is very much like a SSN and blood type.
It is interesting to note that Motorola talks about what the information is going to be shared with their distributors, but none of them mentioned even getting a sales pitch on that aspect of it.
That is corporate america's first wave of America. They should get a cease and decist order, with threats of further legal action.
Which would be the situation if the roles, corporation vs open source (aka the little guy).
The FSF needs a team of lawyers to support the open source movement, so that it can speak the corporate language. I really don't think they would have to do much more than send out letters, given the value of the public opinion. So there wouldn't be much actual legal (trial) work, more adding your name to the letterhead.
/. should poll their readers, and submit the 20 highest rated questions to each of the candidates, and publish the results.
Even if we don't get replies here, it will promote a really good set of a questions that people can ask.