Check out the SPEC scores. SPARC 1.2 Ghz have the same score a Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz. We all know about lies and benchmarks, but it seems to show that Mhz isn't the whole story.
You are comparing a CPU that was released very recently against one that has been out for a couple years. This should make it apparent that if you compare Sun's fastest CPU to Intel's fastest CPU, the Intel is significantly faster. When you attempt to compare at the same price point, you find that it's impossible - you can buy many full Intel systems for the cost of one Sun CPU.
Sun has improved prices (and CPU speed) lately, but it is too little too late. And many of the new systems, I presume in a desperate attempt to get to competetive prices, show a shocking lack of quality. But at least you get a really, really, really nice error message with your random crashes.
If you're an idiot and break your processor while overclocking on it, why should AMD pay?
What if you're just trying to be responsible, and applied thermal compound to your cpu as per standard industry practice? Should you be responsible for a faulty CPU when you took every reasonable effort to protect it from overheating?
Because software needs to be thoroughly tested before it can be called reliable.
Nonsense. Testing helps, but no amount of testing can show that software is reliable. You can't test for every state of the system. Only proper design can produce truly reliable software.
Not only are Google ads the only ones I ever click on, when the search I'm doing is for a product I intend to buy, I happily welcome the ads and in fact sometimes do a search just to see the ads.
This confirms what intelligent people have been saying for years. The problem with Internet advertising is that ads are not relevant, not selling products that anyone wants, and not even clear what message they are trying to convey. Google ads have none of these problems.
Re:Use MAC address filtering and Limited IP leases
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Whenever I set up a wireless network I make sure the only card allowed to use the network is one that I allow (via mac address filter)
Since anyone who knows your encryption key can see what mac addresses are allowed to communicate on the network, how does this improve security?
The parent post was moderated down to -1 in order to suppress knowledge of the fact certain members of the Samba team have such corrupted ethics as to make it questionable whether their software should be used for any purpose.
If you choose not to believe me without exploit code
then that's up to you, but I will not act in an
unprofessional way to prove a point.
Keeping a major security hole secret -is- extremely unprofessional. That you admit to keeping them secret makes me question the responsibility of yourself and the entire Samba team.
sorry, my point is, you can swap cf's on the street and exceed 20gb
I can't afford 20GB of CF cards. Can you?
Re:Where are all the high-res LCDs from laptops?
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Good question. And who the hell decided (Micron) that it was appropriate to run 1600x1450 res on a freakin' 15" laptop display?? I mean I got good eyes, but even so it's gets to be a strain sometimes.
Maybe you should use an OS that sizes fonts according to how big they will look to the user, and not a number of pixels.
2. The product of an engineers work is totally reliable - How many of the people reading this article right now, are worried about the floor they are supported by or the roof above them falling in? Compare that to the number of you that would not at all be surprised if the code they were currently running suddenly fell apart.
Software can be produced with a similarly high assurance of reliability. This is not often done because the costs are so high - and when it is done, it is usually for a very small piece of code. Something more complex just takes more people and more time. (and to not waste all the effort should be run on machines with mirrored RAM and redundant CPUs).
Unlike the US where if the business is making a false claim in an advertisement then you have the ad council of America to take care of the problem(most of the time)
"Ad council of America"? I've never even heard of them. In the US, false advertising is only actionable in the most egregious cases of fraud. In particular, it is perfectly OK to make false claims as long as it can't be proven that the claim is false.
Unfortunately Mozilla still has a horrible usability flaw that the developers refuse to address. It caches DNS lookups forever, and does not honor the TTL on the record - there is no way to turn this off. This means that any site that uses changing DNS records with a short TTL for failover or load balancing will be broken for Mozilla users. IE works fine. This issue makes Mozilla look really pathetic in a corporate environment.
Inductive simply means a magnetic field is generated by the reader, activating the curcit in the chip, much like high-security keyless entry systems work today.
You mean low security. These systems use a static 32 bit code (16 bit site ID and 16 bit individual ID). The transmission is one-way, not encrypted, and a card's code can be read by anyone at any distance (equipment permitting). These things should not be used for anything important.
mainly because it relies on being able to specify the installation process at 'make-install' time instead of normal 'make' time,
Nonsense. This may be the suggested usage in the documentation, but the documentation is wrong. It almost always works to specify the path at configure time. I have installed hundreds of packages (on thousands of machines) this way. The only package that has ever given me trouble is pkgconfig, because other packages put files underneath its structure - some one-time tweaking of the links fixed this for good.
Clearly Solaris' days are number in all but their most expensive enterprise systems
Solaris's days are numbered even in these systems. In the vast majority of cases, clusters provide better reliability and performance per dollar. Huge databases in particular are almost begging to be run on a cluster instead of a single huge system.
You cannot possibly download more than 1GB of work-related material per day. I'm waiting to be convinced otherwise
Easy. A redhat release. In fact I used to download them to home because my bandwidth at home was so much better than in the office, and the usage didn't impact anyone.
Jewish (Orthodox or Conservative)? Muslim (Shiite or Sunni)? Christian (Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Mormom, Baptist)? I must've missed where the government said that Catholocism was the one true faith.
These religions you list are all related, which is why they all have the same deity referred to on our currency. Buddhism is a popular religion which has no such God.
And the government isn't endorsing anything, it's saying schools can have children recite the pledge of allegiance.
You seem to be forgetting that schools *force* children to recite the pledge, which contains a religious statement that is not only unconstitutional, but may be abhorrent to followers of certain religions.
I must've missed where the government said that Catholocism was the one true faith.
First, the US is mostly a protestant country. Catholics are a minority, and were discriminated against for years.
Second, you must have missed the Slashdot interview where Bush says he only believes in religious freedom for Judeo-Christian-Muslim religions. You also must have missed the widely known quote where his father says that atheists should not be considered American. (He then used the quote from the Pledge to support this).
- Declaring the pledge of allegiance unconstitutional because it mentions "under God". Gee, I guess our currency and Constitution are also unconstitutional then as well.
Why do you not believe that an endorsement of a particular religion by the federal government is unconstitutional? The constitution explicitly bans it, so this seems an unlikely position to take.
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You are comparing a CPU that was released very recently against one that has been out for a couple years. This should make it apparent that if you compare Sun's fastest CPU to Intel's fastest CPU, the Intel is significantly faster. When you attempt to compare at the same price point, you find that it's impossible - you can buy many full Intel systems for the cost of one Sun CPU.
Sun has improved prices (and CPU speed) lately, but it is too little too late. And many of the new systems, I presume in a desperate attempt to get to competetive prices, show a shocking lack of quality. But at least you get a really, really, really nice error message with your random crashes.
What if you're just trying to be responsible, and applied thermal compound to your cpu as per standard industry practice? Should you be responsible for a faulty CPU when you took every reasonable effort to protect it from overheating?
Nonsense. Testing helps, but no amount of testing can show that software is reliable. You can't test for every state of the system. Only proper design can produce truly reliable software.
Not only are Google ads the only ones I ever click on, when the search I'm doing is for a product I intend to buy, I happily welcome the ads and in fact sometimes do a search just to see the ads.
This confirms what intelligent people have been saying for years. The problem with Internet advertising is that ads are not relevant, not selling products that anyone wants, and not even clear what message they are trying to convey. Google ads have none of these problems.
Since anyone who knows your encryption key can see what mac addresses are allowed to communicate on the network, how does this improve security?
The parent post was moderated down to -1 in order to suppress knowledge of the fact certain members of the Samba team have such corrupted ethics as to make it questionable whether their software should be used for any purpose.
Keeping a major security hole secret -is- extremely unprofessional. That you admit to keeping them secret makes me question the responsibility of yourself and the entire Samba team.
I can't afford 20GB of CF cards. Can you?
Maybe you should use an OS that sizes fonts according to how big they will look to the user, and not a number of pixels.
Software can be produced with a similarly high assurance of reliability. This is not often done because the costs are so high - and when it is done, it is usually for a very small piece of code. Something more complex just takes more people and more time. (and to not waste all the effort should be run on machines with mirrored RAM and redundant CPUs).
Actually, they usually use deadly poisons and not something that harmlessly makes you vomit.
"Ad council of America"? I've never even heard of them. In the US, false advertising is only actionable in the most egregious cases of fraud. In particular, it is perfectly OK to make false claims as long as it can't be proven that the claim is false.
Unfortunately Mozilla still has a horrible usability flaw that the developers refuse to address. It caches DNS lookups forever, and does not honor the TTL on the record - there is no way to turn this off. This means that any site that uses changing DNS records with a short TTL for failover or load balancing will be broken for Mozilla users. IE works fine. This issue makes Mozilla look really pathetic in a corporate environment.
Search bugzilla for "dns cache".
You mean low security. These systems use a static 32 bit code (16 bit site ID and 16 bit individual ID). The transmission is one-way, not encrypted, and a card's code can be read by anyone at any distance (equipment permitting). These things should not be used for anything important.
OK, on a system with hundreds of packages installed, how do you remove or upgrade one, without remembeing what files belong to what package?
Stow solves this problem.
And this is not a new idea with stow. Intelligent administrators have been doing this forever. Otherwise /usr/local turns into an unmanagable mess.
Nonsense. This may be the suggested usage in the documentation, but the documentation is wrong. It almost always works to specify the path at configure time. I have installed hundreds of packages (on thousands of machines) this way. The only package that has ever given me trouble is pkgconfig, because other packages put files underneath its structure - some one-time tweaking of the links fixed this for good.
Where you will be repeatedly ass-raped and contract AIDS, be given insufficient medical care, and die anyway.
Solaris's days are numbered even in these systems. In the vast majority of cases, clusters provide better reliability and performance per dollar. Huge databases in particular are almost begging to be run on a cluster instead of a single huge system.
Should injuries from reasonably hot coffee cause third degree burns, requing skin grafts?
This is not true. FTP does not use UDP fpr any purpose.
Easy. A redhat release. In fact I used to download them to home because my bandwidth at home was so much better than in the office, and the usage didn't impact anyone.
Shouldn't cooling require at least 100% of the power that heating does?
These religions you list are all related, which is why they all have the same deity referred to on our currency. Buddhism is a popular religion which has no such God.
And the government isn't endorsing anything, it's saying schools can have children recite the pledge of allegiance.
You seem to be forgetting that schools *force* children to recite the pledge, which contains a religious statement that is not only unconstitutional, but may be abhorrent to followers of certain religions.
I must've missed where the government said that Catholocism was the one true faith.
First, the US is mostly a protestant country. Catholics are a minority, and were discriminated against for years.
Second, you must have missed the Slashdot interview where Bush says he only believes in religious freedom for Judeo-Christian-Muslim religions. You also must have missed the widely known quote where his father says that atheists should not be considered American. (He then used the quote from the Pledge to support this).
Why do you not believe that an endorsement of a particular religion by the federal government is unconstitutional? The constitution explicitly bans it, so this seems an unlikely position to take.
It can? Linux can't. (well, maybe with some nonstandard kernel patch that causes your machine to crash more often than Windows 95).