Except for the fact that the hackers will be devoting much time to turn this into the next iopener or such. The similarity to regular x86 hardware will only help. Once that happens, bye bye profits.
Actually rebooting has a low probability of fixing anything since the usual cause is that either the kernel or the module wasn't compiled with the appropriate doohickeys and whistles.
Why don't you take the cheaper route then? Get a cheap many-bay case with hefty power supply, add on an internal ribbon to external scsi port cable. Then load the case up with scsi drives and ribbon cable them together, terminate the last one. Then all you need is one good external scsi cable to attach it to your main box. You can actually buy these hd cases in a neat bundle.Oh yeah, lots of fans. 10k rpm drives get smokin.
I believe the word everyone is looking for is "catalyst" in that open source was inevitable for reasons such as scientific reproducibility and general coding discussions like perlmonks. What M$ did do however is piss off the sophisticated and talented computer users. That anger and fear of being squished by a huge tryanical company is what sped up the development of things like the GPL.
Actually the computation power needed to convert speech to text is unknown because it is an unsolved problem. There are hacks that can guess using probabilites and such but none of them are anywhere near startrek levels.
The Power line is pretty much irrelevant since the cpus cost in the many thousands of bucks. I seem to badly remember that they can be priced as high as 30k.
A google later, we have: IBM is launching its lowest-priced system, featuring eight processors, at $450,000.... he new IBM servers have a Power4 processor that contains two processors, a system switch, a large memory and input/output technology -- a design that enables the server to conserve energy and outperform servers that have twice as many processors, IBM said.
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Oh yes, lets say it enough times until it becomes fact.
I heard apple is paying $100 per drive. It must be true,
I heard it from a guy who heard it from a guy on/. who heard it from his nephew who heard it from his classmate who heard it from his little brothers baby sitter who heard it from her hair dresser who heard it from a woman whose husband works at apple.
Thank you for the useless and factless speculation.
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Re:First Airport, now this...
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it's a little weird to see that the OS for this device isn't actually Apple's
Why is this weird? I thought it was quite common knowledge that apple doesn't/didn't have the know-how to do operating systems. Hence the purchase of next, people who did.
It does not work fine on linux. The daemon has a memory leak. When I noticed, it had gotten up to 28MB of memory. I suppose if your windows box stayed up for "the past 4 years" you would know this.
I'm now left with the strange quandary that I never liked Wesley Crusher but
Wil Wheaton is a pretty cool guy. It's also hard to believe that he was 15
at the time and is now 29. I'm 28 now and my life at 15 was basically
c41|\/|3, s3%, and b334. Thus we come to the second quandary, I would have rather
been doing something like playing the Wesley Crusher character at the time
then wasting my teenage years away.
Geez this comes up every damn time. It is because of idiots like this. I had a similar rant long ago about this but the user history doesn't go far enough back or show any of the content of the post making it damn impossible to find anything. I suppose if I kept my rants on topic it would be easier.
(Now, if only AMD would add a JTAG debugger to the Athlon chip, I'd be a happy man.)
Have you ever used jtag? It's the buggiest thing I've ever seen. I've used it a lot on PPC and what they always fail to mention is that the jtag controller has to know what rev mask you're using on the chip. If anything is amiss, you'll get random operation.Not to mention the way it badly interacts with caches. And also that most board manufacturers fsck their jtag ports up. Did I also fail to mention that the damn jtag controllers cost like 5-8 grand? In the end all it does is restrict development to groups willing to lay down big money for the priviledge of developing for your system.
The first time I booted mklinux on a mac I was amazed. Damn it was beautiful text. There were so many lines that you could actually browse all the kernel messages. It made my x86 linux box look weak.
Actually, I still boot from floppy. When I set my box up years and years ago, lilo wasn't working for some reason and since I reboot maybe 2 or 3 times a year I never fixed it.
Actually it makes perfect sense to have a cut off date (I don't know about 1998 though). Why would anyone look up a harddrive that you can't buy anymore? And in the off chance that you can, odds are that the newer drives are larger, faster, and cheaper.
That 9 year old drive, what is like 40 MB? Where's your sense man?
In the future could you please tell me what products you're going to be buying so that I may
a) avoid those products
b) sell any stock in those companies
as you seem to be cursed.
Also, a quick inventory of other products you currently own would be much appreciated.
All I can think is, why don't we just change the code in mozilla to create a random user agent string. Screw the statistics. They're all wrong anyway. And wouldn't it be cool if the people who run the backbone modified carnivore to also munge the header strings in any packets going by.
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Have you ever actually read the GPL?
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A google later, we have: IBM is launching its lowest-priced system, featuring eight processors, at $450,000. ... he new IBM servers have a Power4 processor that contains two processors, a system switch, a large memory and input/output technology -- a design that enables the server to conserve energy and outperform servers that have twice as many processors, IBM said.
Note that this is the lowest-priced system.
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nuff said.
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Actually a -50 asshole moderation would be quite handy. It would reduce goatsex to ac's only.
It musta got cut.
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I heard apple is paying $100 per drive. It must be true, I heard it from a guy who heard it from a guy on /. who heard it from his nephew who heard it from his classmate who heard it from his little brothers baby sitter who heard it from her hair dresser who heard it from a woman whose husband works at apple.
Thank you for the useless and factless speculation.
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Why is this weird? I thought it was quite common knowledge that apple doesn't/didn't have the know-how to do operating systems. Hence the purchase of next, people who did.
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I'm now left with the strange quandary that I never liked Wesley Crusher but Wil Wheaton is a pretty cool guy. It's also hard to believe that he was 15 at the time and is now 29. I'm 28 now and my life at 15 was basically c41|\/|3, s3%, and b334. Thus we come to the second quandary, I would have rather been doing something like playing the Wesley Crusher character at the time then wasting my teenage years away.
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Have you ever used jtag? It's the buggiest thing I've ever seen. I've used it a lot on PPC and what they always fail to mention is that the jtag controller has to know what rev mask you're using on the chip. If anything is amiss, you'll get random operation.Not to mention the way it badly interacts with caches. And also that most board manufacturers fsck their jtag ports up. Did I also fail to mention that the damn jtag controllers cost like 5-8 grand? In the end all it does is restrict development to groups willing to lay down big money for the priviledge of developing for your system.
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That 9 year old drive, what is like 40 MB? Where's your sense man?
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a) avoid those products
b) sell any stock in those companies
as you seem to be cursed.
Also, a quick inventory of other products you currently own would be much appreciated.
PS Buy an X-box now!
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Because you don't know about the bash "ulimit -c 0" function.
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Let me guess, you and most people around you are old or white right?