This sure ain't getting marked as +1 Informative, but had you considered checking with the SuSE teams? As one of very few distros that are processor-agnostic, I bet they've done some tests of their own.
FWIW, OS X server on a PPC outperformed Linux on an Intel 450 PII by 23%, according to osOpinion. (YMMV, read the fine print, etc., etc.)
If I were setting this up (which I've been thinking about doing), I'd throttle people's bandwidth at 50Kbps or so. It wouldn't be fast enough to leech MP3s, but just fine for e-mail, browsing, etc.
I tried to address this in a recent article on Advogato. I've gotten some great feedback on the system, but I'm yet to hear of an implementation of this system. If I had the know-how, I'm implement it myself, but that's not my bag.
I want a power strip that doesn't have an exposed power switch. You know what I mean -- the switch that points up towards your foot, begging to be stepped on, switching off your entire system.
Anybody know of a strip that puts the switch under a plastic cover or something?
I'm not totally dumb about the basic concepts of multi-dimensional theory, but I've got to admit: I have absolutely no idea of what this means. Could somebody explain this in layman's terms?
Just because a Microsoft employee says he doesn't like open-source does not mean that Microsoft as a company holds that view.
When Microsoft's #4 guy goes on the record with a news outlet to this extent, I think it's fair to say that this is Microsoft's view. If it weren't their perspective, this guy would be toast by now.
Just look under "Web Development Companies" on PHP's site, or under "Some MySQL Consultants" on MySQL's site. My company has been doing (almost exclusively) PHP/MySQL website development and consulting since the spring of 1999. Thanks in part to our listings on these sites, we get a good amount of site traffic (and therefore business) from folks looking for exactly what we do best.
I know that this is hardly ground-shaking, but our only complaint about these phones is that, bizarrely, they have no mute function. You can put somebody on hold, but during those extended conferences calls, sometimes you just want to hit mute to cough, have a drink, openly mock your client, etc. Unlike with our CDMA phones, these phones have never caused any interference with our office network.
In 1996, I used Canon's original digital camera, an Apple Newton 120 and a standard Motorola flip-phone. All survived many months of rugged backpacking without flaw or problem. (I used lots of other electronics, all of which failed miserably.) But this stuff rocked.
When I upgraded last night, I got an error explaining that I had to be running kernel 2.3.99 or newer. I didn't desire to patch the kernel on this particular machine, so I ended up upgrading to the newest 8.x. YMMV, but that was the result on this particular RH6.0 Intel box.
I recommend reading Scott Wunsch's excellent Chroot-BIND HOWTO for instructions on setting up BIND in a jailed root. I sleep better at night (really) thanks to this how-to.
Incredible -- I hadn't thought of this stuff for years. I was in first grade when those came out. They put me in fifth grade (if memory serves), because they didn't know what to do with. In the cafeteria, I had to eat with the big kids. They all brought transformers to school. I'd never seen them before, but I was amazed by them. I saw a kid with Optimus Prime, and I decided that I simply had to have one.
That's what I thought, but I've now read "Journey to the Center of the Earth," "Tom Sawyer," "Huck Finn," "The Importance of Being Earnest," "The Little Prince" and half a dozen other books on my Handspring Visor now. No problems at all; I love it.
An article like this shows how low the quality of Slashdot's journalism has gone. Making these kinds of rash accusations wihtout a solid knowledge of the facts is irresponsible.
Dude, it's an Ask Slashdot. Somebody asked what was going on, Cliff said that he wasn't sure, but that it didn't make sense. No journalistic-integrity problem here.
Good thought, but I don't. In fact, I have a different last name than he does.:) I bet that your advice would probably help a pretty good number of people in my position, though.
Yeah, my bank has told me the same thing. My problem is that I wouldn't buy things from Sears or Target. I'm not aware of having ever bought anything from either store. In fact, I don't really buy anything anywhere. Outpost.com pretty much does it for me.
I know, I know: start buying things from Sears. I will; it's good advice.:)
I'm completely unable to get a credit card, even the ones that you pay $500 for to get $500 in credit. I own a successful business, I have employees, I pay my vendors. I pay all of my monthly bills: telephone, health insurance, cable, bank loan, etc., etc. Yet I'm always turned down for credit, because I have no credit. A catch-22.
Out of curiousity, I ordered a copy of my credit report about a year ago. It reported that I still owe on a house that I bought when I was 12, a car when I was 14, and some rather-pricey jewelry that I got when I was 15. I must have been one hell of a precocious youth.
Of course, I called the credit agency. They told me that it was a "computer error," and removed all of those from my record. At least that part was easy. What I want to know is how many of those credit checks brought up the same result. And if this information has propagated to other databases.
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What's that like, going from Unix to Windows? I mean, used to drive a Porche, but now I have a Razor scooter, so I can sympathize.
-Waldo
This sure ain't getting marked as +1 Informative, but had you considered checking with the SuSE teams? As one of very few distros that are processor-agnostic, I bet they've done some tests of their own.
FWIW, OS X server on a PPC outperformed Linux on an Intel 450 PII by 23%, according to osOpinion. (YMMV, read the fine print, etc., etc.)
-Waldo
If I were setting this up (which I've been thinking about doing), I'd throttle people's bandwidth at 50Kbps or so. It wouldn't be fast enough to leech MP3s, but just fine for e-mail, browsing, etc.
-Waldo
I get a good laugh everytime I see that dialog box.
"Always trust content from Microsoft Corporation?"
*giggle*
-Waldo
I tried to address this in a recent article on Advogato. I've gotten some great feedback on the system, but I'm yet to hear of an implementation of this system. If I had the know-how, I'm implement it myself, but that's not my bag.
-Waldo
What kind of moron double-clicks on a banner ad?
-Waldo
I want a power strip that doesn't have an exposed power switch. You know what I mean -- the switch that points up towards your foot, begging to be stepped on, switching off your entire system.
Anybody know of a strip that puts the switch under a plastic cover or something?
-Waldo
I'm not totally dumb about the basic concepts of multi-dimensional theory, but I've got to admit: I have absolutely no idea of what this means. Could somebody explain this in layman's terms?
-Waldo
Just because a Microsoft employee says he doesn't like open-source does not mean that Microsoft as a company holds that view.
When Microsoft's #4 guy goes on the record with a news outlet to this extent, I think it's fair to say that this is Microsoft's view. If it weren't their perspective, this guy would be toast by now.
-Waldo
Just look under "Web Development Companies" on PHP's site, or under "Some MySQL Consultants" on MySQL's site. My company has been doing (almost exclusively) PHP/MySQL website development and consulting since the spring of 1999. Thanks in part to our listings on these sites, we get a good amount of site traffic (and therefore business) from folks looking for exactly what we do best.
-Waldo
What was the link again?
I know that this is hardly ground-shaking, but our only complaint about these phones is that, bizarrely, they have no mute function. You can put somebody on hold, but during those extended conferences calls, sometimes you just want to hit mute to cough, have a drink, openly mock your client, etc. Unlike with our CDMA phones, these phones have never caused any interference with our office network.
-Waldo
In 1996, I used Canon's original digital camera, an Apple Newton 120 and a standard Motorola flip-phone. All survived many months of rugged backpacking without flaw or problem. (I used lots of other electronics, all of which failed miserably.) But this stuff rocked.
When I upgraded last night, I got an error explaining that I had to be running kernel 2.3.99 or newer. I didn't desire to patch the kernel on this particular machine, so I ended up upgrading to the newest 8.x. YMMV, but that was the result on this particular RH6.0 Intel box.
-Waldo
I recommend reading Scott Wunsch's excellent Chroot-BIND HOWTO for instructions on setting up BIND in a jailed root. I sleep better at night (really) thanks to this how-to.
-Waldo
Incredible -- I hadn't thought of this stuff for years. I was in first grade when those came out. They put me in fifth grade (if memory serves), because they didn't know what to do with. In the cafeteria, I had to eat with the big kids. They all brought transformers to school. I'd never seen them before, but I was amazed by them. I saw a kid with Optimus Prime, and I decided that I simply had to have one.
And I got one. For Christmas. In fifth grade.
Oh, well, at least my parents tried.
Well, that wasn't *nothing*.
Er...wait...
NOOP
God, I love Assembly.
That's what I thought, but I've now read "Journey to the Center of the Earth," "Tom Sawyer," "Huck Finn," "The Importance of Being Earnest," "The Little Prince" and half a dozen other books on my Handspring Visor now. No problems at all; I love it.
-Waldo
There is.
An article like this shows how low the quality of Slashdot's journalism has gone. Making these kinds of rash accusations wihtout a solid knowledge of the facts is irresponsible.
Dude, it's an Ask Slashdot. Somebody asked what was going on, Cliff said that he wasn't sure, but that it didn't make sense. No journalistic-integrity problem here.
-Waldo
Good thought, but I don't. In fact, I have a different last name than he does. :) I bet that your advice would probably help a pretty good number of people in my position, though.
-Waldo
Yeah, my bank has told me the same thing. My problem is that I wouldn't buy things from Sears or Target. I'm not aware of having ever bought anything from either store. In fact, I don't really buy anything anywhere. Outpost.com pretty much does it for me.
:)
I know, I know: start buying things from Sears. I will; it's good advice.
-Waldo
I'm completely unable to get a credit card, even the ones that you pay $500 for to get $500 in credit. I own a successful business, I have employees, I pay my vendors. I pay all of my monthly bills: telephone, health insurance, cable, bank loan, etc., etc. Yet I'm always turned down for credit, because I have no credit. A catch-22.
Out of curiousity, I ordered a copy of my credit report about a year ago. It reported that I still owe on a house that I bought when I was 12, a car when I was 14, and some rather-pricey jewelry that I got when I was 15. I must have been one hell of a precocious youth.
Of course, I called the credit agency. They told me that it was a "computer error," and removed all of those from my record. At least that part was easy. What I want to know is how many of those credit checks brought up the same result. And if this information has propagated to other databases.
Credit baffles me. I hate it.
-Waldo