I would have made use of Sun's grid already
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Sun Grid Compute Utility
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if it boasted a 64bit Java VM. A mate of mine does some very interesting research in number theory, and a few of his applications would need massive amounts of fast addressable memory. 64bit of address space would conveniently suffice, i suppose. Any suggestions on what else (cheap, or at least affordable) to consider using, anyone?
Quick! Someone inform PETA that advanced display technology poses death threats to our sweet, little and innoncent insectoid friends! This kind of development has to be stopped most immediately!
Re:Thank you very much for Gnome Terminal improv.
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Gnome 2.14 Review
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You might want to take a look into rxvt-unicode (which is often called urxvt), a blazingly fast unicode-capable terminal emulator written in C++ with support for such goodies as xft (though I don't use it, as it's slowing down things tremendously) and not dependent on GTK[+] at all. It even features tabbing (so your window-manager does not need to do that), and implements a really neat idea of a client/server-model which allows one to spawn new terminals REALLY fast, while making it more lightweight, too.
To anybody out there: give it a shot, I bet you'll like it:)
While Visual Basic leads to quick and early (limited) success, your coding style and habits, and your perception of how to solve problems when programming in general, will be badly spoiled for a LOOONG time. I advise you to stay the fuck away from it. Go learn an interpreted, really well-designed language, such as Ruby. -> http://www.ruby-lang.org/
Actually, it is designed to be run with any POSIX-compatible shell. That doesn't make it any better or worse, though - it's a VERY nice tool for ripping CDDA. I dumped my collection of about 150 CDs to hdd in just under 2 days (when I was one of those teenagers you might want to hire to do it for you;)). The only drawback with all this ripping-by-yourself-stuff is, that if you want to have your music tagged properly and consistently, you're about to re-{read,format,write} ALL of the freedb-provided info with $EDITOR. Sucks, really. Still the way I'd go for to tackle the problem.
I probably would have checked the neat graphics on some Windows box of one of my into-games-friends, but the whole things looks like nothing more than a SLIGHTLY revamped 3dmark05. Seems they just had to add more details to the existing demos noone would really notice in fast-paced games at all, just to drive video card sales to new heights. Read: "Nothing really new and exciting to see for you here, please move along."
Don't get me wrong, I think widespread adoption of GNU/Linux and Free Software alike will happen, and it will be a good thing. But out of all possible choices of distributions, Linspire is without a doubt the worst (at least of those distros I know of, and that are quite a few...). It's ok and comfortable to have a system that "just works(tm)", but Linspire shows tendencies that it's not true to the heart of neither Free Software-philosophy, nor UNIX-pragmatism. The founder of Linspire, who afaik is also the former owner of mp3.com, has made statements in the past about how he thinks users should log in as root always, and that it's better not to confuse an end-user with such a thing as access privileges. Where this leads to can be observed on MSFT Windows nearly every day, where a privilege system that has been applied to (I prefer to say "bolted onto") a system that has so much legacy code to support leads to the "Log in as admin and go"-mess, implying MASSIVE threats to system security. Linspire also bundles a bunch of non-free tools they developed themselves (they could at release them under GPLv2, just as Red Hat and Novell do with their contributions, but no, they prefer to leech drom other projects and not giving back the same way the take), and don't seem to give a damn about anything related to the ethical and moral message Free Software stands for.
They (Mirus) would probably have fared better with, say, Ubuntu, or a customized Debian or Archlinux, as would their customers and society have, in the end.
Actually, the best (as in "fastest") card with free hardware glx support of the R2X0-series of Radeon chips is the "original" Radeon 8500 with 275MHz clock on GPU and RAM. The Radeon 9250 is just some stripped down (in terms of pixel-pipelines or so) version of the original R250.
However, XOrg 7.x comes with a driver called "r300", supporting glx on more recent hardware, ranging from the Radeon 9500-series up to the X850, I believe. There's just no way to utilize the cards' shaders, yet.
I misread the title 3 times or so as "Apple Designer Honoured By British Clown" and was like "Are they sure this is actually meant as a serious award?"... and I'm not even drunk (yet)!
... there are a few new features to expect. I'm most curious about the new drivers for ATI's R300-Chips (and newer), called "r300", which will provide GLX-Support (hardware-accelerated OpenGL) in a Free Software-only manner. Oh, and there are some minor features to be added, like 30Bit visuals for improved greyscale graphics for medical purposes, for example.
Apart from the new drivers, there's nothing to be OVERLY excited about this release - unless you're going to build yourself, I'm really looking forward to playing around with portions of the code without having to recompile the whole bloody source again.:)
That's a FAR more important issue than, say, intrepreting W3-standards in one common way amongst all browsers. Really. I'm glad they cooperate in fields that tremendously important.
I really, really hope this has positive impacts on the quality of nVIDIA's chipsets. They've been ridden with bugs times and times again, whilst ULi seemed to get along without major hickups like the totally b0rked SATA-implementation on the nForce3 150, for example. And I hope they'll continue to provide the Linux Kernel Hackers with specs of their chipsets, just in the fashion ULi used to do. It can only get better for nVIDIA by embracing ULi's practises in more than a few fields of operation, in my opinion.
Well, I guess we now know why Intel is heading for _FOUR_ cores on one DIE in 2007. One for your personal tasks, and the other 3 cores each for one anti-spyware-thingie exclusively;)
I wonder whether they're supplying users with custom patches to the Linux-kernel as well to cover their processors' real innermost:> If they actually include a motherboard with a halfway decent chipset, I'd probably buy one of those combos at 70US$ regardless of their fraudulent business practises, though.
There are people (like me) who refuse to install Flash (well, at least until GPLFlash is done and does not ruthlessly crash my browser on load any more;)) on their systems, so an alternative download for (non-interactive, if applicable) MPEG4-encoded, via a free codec like XViD, for example, versions of the files would be highly appreciated, methinks.
As a hobbyist software developer, I still believe in what's been taught at university:
"Seperate the program's core from its user interface."
So, what benefits does it give to incorporate "application logic" into it's graphical front-end, like the press release stub says. That's just stupid, isn't it? The only "plus" from my point of view is that the whole program would noticeably hang, and not just some kind of crashing server or back-end being controlled by a (maybe still responsive,) polished interface. Or do I miss something really important here?
It somewhat hurts me to disappoint you, but even Apple the Company and Steve Jobs as its CEO are after one thing, and one thing only in the end: 3. Profit!
And form my point of view, there's nothing to get out of buying SCO except you're a bit of a masochist and like getting 0wned rigorously in front of a court over years, because of your own bold but impressively stupid and uneducated moves based on wild guesswork and thrive for a quick and massive buck earned.
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if it boasted a 64bit Java VM. A mate of mine does some very interesting research in number theory, and a few of his applications would need massive amounts of fast addressable memory. 64bit of address space would conveniently suffice, i suppose. Any suggestions on what else (cheap, or at least affordable) to consider using, anyone?
Quick! Someone inform PETA that advanced display technology poses death threats to our sweet, little and innoncent insectoid friends! This kind of development has to be stopped most immediately!
You might want to take a look into rxvt-unicode (which is often called urxvt), a blazingly fast unicode-capable terminal emulator written in C++ with support for such goodies as xft (though I don't use it, as it's slowing down things tremendously) and not dependent on GTK[+] at all. It even features tabbing (so your window-manager does not need to do that), and implements a really neat idea of a client/server-model which allows one to spawn new terminals REALLY fast, while making it more lightweight, too.
:)
To anybody out there: give it a shot, I bet you'll like it
Civilization.
(Not the Sid-Meier-game, actually.)
While Visual Basic leads to quick and early (limited) success, your coding style and habits, and your perception of how to solve problems when programming in general, will be badly spoiled for a LOOONG time. I advise you to stay the fuck away from it. Go learn an interpreted, really well-designed language, such as Ruby. -> http://www.ruby-lang.org/
Actually, it is designed to be run with any POSIX-compatible shell. That doesn't make it any better or worse, though - it's a VERY nice tool for ripping CDDA. I dumped my collection of about 150 CDs to hdd in just under 2 days (when I was one of those teenagers you might want to hire to do it for you ;)). The only drawback with all this ripping-by-yourself-stuff is, that if you want to have your music tagged properly and consistently, you're about to re-{read,format,write} ALL of the freedb-provided info with $EDITOR. Sucks, really.
Still the way I'd go for to tackle the problem.
http://www.berlios.de/
Yeah, WEP is often referred to as Weakest Enrcyption Possible not completely without reason ;)
I probably would have checked the neat graphics on some Windows box of one of my into-games-friends, but the whole things looks like nothing more than a SLIGHTLY revamped 3dmark05. Seems they just had to add more details to the existing demos noone would really notice in fast-paced games at all, just to drive video card sales to new heights. Read: "Nothing really new and exciting to see for you here, please move along."
...this does not sound like rocket science at all?!
;)
These numbers refer to the per-unit price you're going to pay when shopping for at least 1000 (one thousand) units directly at the manufacturer.
Don't get me wrong, I think widespread adoption of GNU/Linux and Free Software alike will happen, and it will be a good thing. But out of all possible choices of distributions, Linspire is without a doubt the worst (at least of those distros I know of, and that are quite a few...). It's ok and comfortable to have a system that "just works(tm)", but Linspire shows tendencies that it's not true to the heart of neither Free Software-philosophy, nor UNIX-pragmatism. The founder of Linspire, who afaik is also the former owner of mp3.com, has made statements in the past about how he thinks users should log in as root always, and that it's better not to confuse an end-user with such a thing as access privileges. Where this leads to can be observed on MSFT Windows nearly every day, where a privilege system that has been applied to (I prefer to say "bolted onto") a system that has so much legacy code to support leads to the "Log in as admin and go"-mess, implying MASSIVE threats to system security. Linspire also bundles a bunch of non-free tools they developed themselves (they could at release them under GPLv2, just as Red Hat and Novell do with their contributions, but no, they prefer to leech drom other projects and not giving back the same way the take), and don't seem to give a damn about anything related to the ethical and moral message Free Software stands for.
They (Mirus) would probably have fared better with, say, Ubuntu, or a customized Debian or Archlinux, as would their customers and society have, in the end.
Actually, the best (as in "fastest") card with free hardware glx support of the R2X0-series of Radeon chips is the "original" Radeon 8500 with 275MHz clock on GPU and RAM. The Radeon 9250 is just some stripped down (in terms of pixel-pipelines or so) version of the original R250.
However, XOrg 7.x comes with a driver called "r300", supporting glx on more recent hardware, ranging from the Radeon 9500-series up to the X850, I believe. There's just no way to utilize the cards' shaders, yet.
I misread the title 3 times or so as "Apple Designer Honoured By British Clown" and was like "Are they sure this is actually meant as a serious award?"... and I'm not even drunk (yet)!
... there are a few new features to expect. I'm most curious about the new drivers for ATI's R300-Chips (and newer), called "r300", which will provide GLX-Support (hardware-accelerated OpenGL) in a Free Software-only manner.
:)
Oh, and there are some minor features to be added, like 30Bit visuals for improved greyscale graphics for medical purposes, for example.
Apart from the new drivers, there's nothing to be OVERLY excited about this release - unless you're going to build yourself, I'm really looking forward to playing around with portions of the code without having to recompile the whole bloody source again.
I'd do so, but I haven't got any points left at the moment.
A really interesting read, thanks for the link.
That's a FAR more important issue than, say, intrepreting W3-standards in one common way amongst all browsers. Really. I'm glad they cooperate in fields that tremendously important.
I really, really hope this has positive impacts on the quality of nVIDIA's chipsets. They've been ridden with bugs times and times again, whilst ULi seemed to get along without major hickups like the totally b0rked SATA-implementation on the nForce3 150, for example.
And I hope they'll continue to provide the Linux Kernel Hackers with specs of their chipsets, just in the fashion ULi used to do. It can only get better for nVIDIA by embracing ULi's practises in more than a few fields of operation, in my opinion.
Well, I guess we now know why Intel is heading for _FOUR_ cores on one DIE in 2007. One for your personal tasks, and the other 3 cores each for one anti-spyware-thingie exclusively ;)
is mutt or, better yet, mutt-ng if you're using IMAP.
No, really.
I wonder whether they're supplying users with custom patches to the Linux-kernel as well to cover their processors' real innermost :>
If they actually include a motherboard with a halfway decent chipset, I'd probably buy one of those combos at 70US$ regardless of their fraudulent business practises, though.
There are people (like me) who refuse to install Flash (well, at least until GPLFlash is done and does not ruthlessly crash my browser on load any more ;)) on their systems, so an alternative download for (non-interactive, if applicable) MPEG4-encoded, via a free codec like XViD, for example, versions of the files would be highly appreciated, methinks.
Of course I did not RTFA, but they must be speaking of "Third Party" Software Products such as, for instance, GNU/Linux or *BSD.
;-)
As a hobbyist software developer, I still believe in what's been taught at university:
"Seperate the program's core from its user interface."
So, what benefits does it give to incorporate "application logic" into it's graphical front-end, like the press release stub says. That's just stupid, isn't it? The only "plus" from my point of view is that the whole program would noticeably hang, and not just some kind of crashing server or back-end being controlled by a (maybe still responsive,) polished interface. Or do I miss something really important here?
It somewhat hurts me to disappoint you, but even Apple the Company and Steve Jobs as its CEO are after one thing, and one thing only in the end:
3. Profit!
And form my point of view, there's nothing to get out of buying SCO except you're a bit of a masochist and like getting 0wned rigorously in front of a court over years, because of your own bold but impressively stupid and uneducated moves based on wild guesswork and thrive for a quick and massive buck earned.