Moore's Law needs to be the barrier that everyone tries to break. Over the next ten years we should expect to see intel, AMD, VIA, and those Dragon guys in China start catching up to each other and pushing raw CPU power to new heights.
Otherwise, I might not be able to run Doom ]|[ above 1600x1200 with all the effects turned on.
Because without SOMETHING, nothing isn't anything! If there was no energy or matter, what would the universe be? Nothing, because without stuff within the space as a contrast, the emptiness is no longer space, it is just nothing.
Even nothing is something, but to exist, there has to be something in the nothing to make the nothing something. I think.
Now that my brain hurts again, I'll go read a book...
This chip looks great, but will people be able to buy one? The 2800+ has been hard to find via internet/mail order, and almost impossible to find in stores. Perhaps the lower clock speed of the 3000+ will make for more successful fabs....
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that Sun could have sampled opinions from 100 Solaris administrators and used the results to produce this report about two or three years ago? Most obvious is the long section about Java's horrible performance, something that Solaris users have been complaining about for a very long time.
On the upside, Sun has given Python a real boost with this memo. Perhaps they should switch all their admin tools from Java to PyTK, it would definately be faster than waiting for SMC to start, which takes too long on any Sun box, even the fully-loaded Blade 2000s I use at the office.
This one reminds me of those Ann Landers "Stupid Thief" stories. What kind of idiot tries to steal from people using a college network? Students are broke, and most of the professors probably are not doing well either.
Maybe the next guy to try this will get a clue and do it at a law firm, so that he makes enough money to leave the country before getting caught!
" Doesn't anybody stop to think that the UK parliament might *implicitly* own the domain www.parliament.uk because they've been using it since before 1996?"
Even more obvious, maybe the UK parliament owns the domain because they ARE the UK parliament?
The only time you should accept a credit check or background investigation is when you are applying for a job where national secuirty or huge sums of money are at risk. In any other situation, an employer who demands a credit check is probably a bad company to work for.
Honestly, I would pay EXTRA for a mainboard without all that old junk. On a new system, all those old ports can do for most people is create extra points of failure.
" Explain why the other main open source desktop software from Sun -- OpenOffice -- was German based?"
Was and is are two different things... but first...
OpenOffice is not from Sun. Sun does not sell or provide OpenOffice to its customers. Sun bought StarDivision, and then the StarOffice source was then released to the OpenSource community as a both a great gift and a great way to attack Microsoft Office. OpenOffice will slowly tear into one of Microsoft's two profitably divisions, and in the end may well destroy it.
At the same time, StarOffice is now a proprietary American product with an American company in charge from a government point of view. Toss a pretty Gnome gui and anti-aliased fonts on top of it, and the office UNIX geeks no longer need a Windows workstation next to the Solaris box. It's a win-win situation for Sun.
"Can anyone remind me why Sun chose GNOME over KDE or any other desktop environment?"
Sun makes a lot of money selling their hardware to the USA, UK, Candada, and Australia. Much of this hardware goes into military/intelligence systems where software controlled by companies/groups outside the English-speaking nations.
If Sun had used KDE, the desktop would tie back to a German group. Even with the source readily available, there are plenty of old guys in the English-speaking world who won't want German software near their networks. The last thing Sun needs is Microsoft FUD pushing Solaris as supporting Euro-Socialist-Anti-American stuff.
Gnome, however, has a huge amount of American work behind it. Gnome gives Sun the ability to point at companies like Ximian as the big American influences, and bring GPL software into the government world. This forces the government to admit that their systems really DO run on open-source/GPL software. BIND, Sendmail, Postfix, Apache and so on are all important apps that the infrastructures of our governments rely on, but they all stay hidden away. In the long run Gnome on Solaris 10 will help change the way the world looks at open-source and GPL software, and we will all benefit.
Rick Berman needs to go. Rick Berman has needed to go for a very, very long time. Under Rick Berman Star Trek went from cutting-edge Sci-Fi to recycled plots and characters. The most refreshing thing Berman did was make Captain Janeway a woman, which would have been interesting were there not already female admirals. The most exciting thing Berman has done with Star Trek is cheesy sexual innuendo on "Enterprise;" other television shows broke that barrier in the 1980s.
Star Trek fans have been sick of Berman for over a decade. His stewardship has done nothing but run Star Trek shows and films into the ground while Paramount marketing made it a commodity. Perhaps the failure of Nemesis will finally wake up Paramount and Rick Berman will get the boot.
If corporations are really interested in protecting themselves, they should stop slashing IT budgets and downsizing engineers. Security goes downhill fast when the techies are too busy to keep servers patched, and nobody is watching for idiots sticking database servers outside the corporate firewall.
Every company with an internet-enabled IT infrastructure needs to have a dedicated sysadmin AND a dedicated security admin. If a company can't afford two full-time geeks to keep things secure, then they need to outsource server hosting to a secure facility.
I totally agree. Microsoft's recent security efforts far exceed anything done by any other vendor aside from the OpenBSD team. Sysadmins had six months to patch, and any responsible firewall manager should have had those ports blocked. This is a case of shitty network management, and should be treated and touted as such.
$1500 for an entry level machine? I spec'ed out a $1500 AMD box at the local whitebox store, let me show you what I get for $1500 there. MFG Apple Generic CPU 1 GHz G4 Athlon 2600 XP RAM 256 MB 1024 MB HDD 60GB ATA 100 80 GB ATA 1000 CD\DVD DVD/CD-RW DVD and CD-RW drives Video GeForce4 MX Radeon 9700 Pro
Does anyone see the rip-off here? Apple makes a great OS, and their systems are way cool, but the prices are insane! Apple is a software company that makes their money selling overpriced hardware. Their business model is crazy! Is it any wonder that Wintel boxes continue to dominate Apple in the market?
Why is it so hard for them to figure this out: 1. Record company still produces and promotes artist, and hosts www.bandname.com for the artist. 2. Record company sells mp3/ogg version of the album on www.bandname.com for $5, cutting out costs of the physical media production, and distribution.
Since you mentioned Solaris, I will point out that the Sun training classes I have been to were all superb. Sun's professors all have related college degrees and years of real experience. Classrooms are top-notch, with Sun boxes on well-configured networks. The books are actually useful, although some are the size of phone books. Sun's tests are designed around the courses and vice-versa, so you can take the class, actually learn something, and then get certified.
Sun's education program does have some downsides. First and formost, the classes are expensive, ranging from 2000 to 4000 dollaris. Second, Sun's certification exams suck, and some of them appear to have be written by people with a very poor grasp of the english language; some of the questions on the Solaris 7 Exam part II were so poorly written that none of the answers made sense.
If you want to try Sun, check out http://suned.sun.com.
One more piece of advice, many people in training are there because of new project ramp-ups, and have employers who are hiring, so take resumes on paper, floppy, and CD.
This sure as hell is not protecting my rights. In the name of competition, the courts are bloating up operating systems with even MORE crap that should be on some sort of companion disc. The last thing Windows needs is more crap in the default install.
If the judge does not want MS distributing a broken version of Java, I can understand that. But he should not force them to cram Sun's java into the OS, he should just tell them to fix their own! This decision is just a Lance Ito wannabe, blustering out his bad decision in a Jackson-esque fashion, hoping that interviewers will knock his door down.
Instead of writing a post complaining that two groups are colluding to not pay off politicians and subverting your fair use rights, go join the EFF and ask them to push this bill!
We do not need corporate help to get our rights set down in law! The EFF is working to be our voice! Take the time to donate some money and get this done!
"There's nothing especially great about it -- it's a web browser..."
How about it not being Internet Explorer? Apple is slowing breaking their ties to Microsoft, and if they can get a fully OS X compatible Appleworks out there (The current Appleworks requires OS X to install.) and have a non-IE browser as the default, the Mac community can go back to thumbing their noses at Bill Gates and Fester Ballmer.
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Moore's Law needs to be the barrier that everyone tries to break. Over the next ten years we should expect to see intel, AMD, VIA, and those Dragon guys in China start catching up to each other and pushing raw CPU power to new heights.
Otherwise, I might not be able to run Doom ]|[ above 1600x1200 with all the effects turned on.
Because without SOMETHING, nothing isn't anything! If there was no energy or matter, what would the universe be? Nothing, because without stuff within the space as a contrast, the emptiness is no longer space, it is just nothing.
Even nothing is something, but to exist, there has to be something in the nothing to make the nothing something. I think.
Now that my brain hurts again, I'll go read a book...
"Since matter can't be created nor destroyed, where did it come from? (though that is a question beyond most planes of though, IMO)"
Matter and energy exist because they have to. Otherwise, there would be nothing to compare the void to, and all existance would be nullified.
Here here! Maybe the EFF should jump on this one!
This chip looks great, but will people be able to buy one? The 2800+ has been hard to find via internet/mail order, and almost impossible to find in stores. Perhaps the lower clock speed of the 3000+ will make for more successful fabs....
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that Sun could have sampled opinions from 100 Solaris administrators and used the results to produce this report about two or three years ago? Most obvious is the long section about Java's horrible performance, something that Solaris users have been complaining about for a very long time.
On the upside, Sun has given Python a real boost with this memo. Perhaps they should switch all their admin tools from Java to PyTK, it would definately be faster than waiting for SMC to start, which takes too long on any Sun box, even the fully-loaded Blade 2000s I use at the office.
This one reminds me of those Ann Landers "Stupid Thief" stories. What kind of idiot tries to steal from people using a college network? Students are broke, and most of the professors probably are not doing well either.
Maybe the next guy to try this will get a clue and do it at a law firm, so that he makes enough money to leave the country before getting caught!
" Doesn't anybody stop to think that the UK parliament might *implicitly* own the domain www.parliament.uk because they've been using it since before 1996?"
Even more obvious, maybe the UK parliament owns the domain because they ARE the UK parliament?
The only time you should accept a credit check or background investigation is when you are applying for a job where national secuirty or huge sums of money are at risk. In any other situation, an employer who demands a credit check is probably a bad company to work for.
Honestly, I would pay EXTRA for a mainboard without all that old junk. On a new system, all those old ports can do for most people is create extra points of failure.
" Explain why the other main open source desktop software from Sun -- OpenOffice -- was German based?"
Was and is are two different things... but first...
OpenOffice is not from Sun. Sun does not sell or provide OpenOffice to its customers. Sun bought StarDivision, and then the StarOffice source was then released to the OpenSource community as a both a great gift and a great way to attack Microsoft Office. OpenOffice will slowly tear into one of Microsoft's two profitably divisions, and in the end may well destroy it.
At the same time, StarOffice is now a proprietary American product with an American company in charge from a government point of view. Toss a pretty Gnome gui and anti-aliased fonts on top of it, and the office UNIX geeks no longer need a Windows workstation next to the Solaris box. It's a win-win situation for Sun.
"Can anyone remind me why Sun chose GNOME over KDE or any other desktop environment?"
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Sun makes a lot of money selling their hardware to the USA, UK, Candada, and Australia. Much of this hardware goes into military/intelligence systems where software controlled by companies/groups outside the English-speaking nations.
If Sun had used KDE, the desktop would tie back to a German group. Even with the source readily available, there are plenty of old guys in the English-speaking world who won't want German software near their networks. The last thing Sun needs is Microsoft FUD pushing Solaris as supporting Euro-Socialist-Anti-American stuff.
Gnome, however, has a huge amount of American work behind it. Gnome gives Sun the ability to point at companies like Ximian as the big American influences, and bring GPL software into the government world. This forces the government to admit that their systems really DO run on open-source/GPL software. BIND, Sendmail, Postfix, Apache and so on are all important apps that the infrastructures of our governments rely on, but they all stay hidden away. In the long run Gnome on Solaris 10 will help change the way the world looks at open-source and GPL software, and we will all benefit.
Unless, of course, Sun goes bankrupt first
Rick Berman needs to go. Rick Berman has needed to go for a very, very long time. Under Rick Berman Star Trek went from cutting-edge Sci-Fi to recycled plots and characters. The most refreshing thing Berman did was make Captain Janeway a woman, which would have been interesting were there not already female admirals. The most exciting thing Berman has done with Star Trek is cheesy sexual innuendo on "Enterprise;" other television shows broke that barrier in the 1980s.
Star Trek fans have been sick of Berman for over a decade. His stewardship has done nothing but run Star Trek shows and films into the ground while Paramount marketing made it a commodity. Perhaps the failure of Nemesis will finally wake up Paramount and Rick Berman will get the boot.
If corporations are really interested in protecting themselves, they should stop slashing IT budgets and downsizing engineers. Security goes downhill fast when the techies are too busy to keep servers patched, and nobody is watching for idiots sticking database servers outside the corporate firewall.
Every company with an internet-enabled IT infrastructure needs to have a dedicated sysadmin AND a dedicated security admin. If a company can't afford two full-time geeks to keep things secure, then they need to outsource server hosting to a secure facility.
I totally agree. Microsoft's recent security efforts far exceed anything done by any other vendor aside from the OpenBSD team. Sysadmins had six months to patch, and any responsible firewall manager should have had those ports blocked. This is a case of shitty network management, and should be treated and touted as such.
$1500 for an entry level machine? I spec'ed out a $1500 AMD box at the local whitebox store, let me show you what I get for $1500 there.
MFG Apple Generic
CPU 1 GHz G4 Athlon 2600 XP
RAM 256 MB 1024 MB
HDD 60GB ATA 100 80 GB ATA 1000
CD\DVD DVD/CD-RW DVD and CD-RW drives
Video GeForce4 MX Radeon 9700 Pro
Does anyone see the rip-off here? Apple makes a great OS, and their systems are way cool, but the prices are insane! Apple is a software company that makes their money selling overpriced hardware. Their business model is crazy! Is it any wonder that Wintel boxes continue to dominate Apple in the market?
Why is it so hard for them to figure this out:
1. Record company still produces and promotes artist, and hosts www.bandname.com for the artist.
2. Record company sells mp3/ogg version of the album on www.bandname.com for $5, cutting out costs of the physical media production, and distribution.
TSIA.
What does it feel like to be an inspiration to thousands of script kiddies?
Since you mentioned Solaris, I will point out that the Sun training classes I have been to were all superb. Sun's professors all have related college degrees and years of real experience. Classrooms are top-notch, with Sun boxes on well-configured networks. The books are actually useful, although some are the size of phone books. Sun's tests are designed around the courses and vice-versa, so you can take the class, actually learn something, and then get certified.
Sun's education program does have some downsides. First and formost, the classes are expensive, ranging from 2000 to 4000 dollaris. Second, Sun's certification exams suck, and some of them appear to have be written by people with a very poor grasp of the english language; some of the questions on the Solaris 7 Exam part II were so poorly written that none of the answers made sense.
If you want to try Sun, check out http://suned.sun.com.
One more piece of advice, many people in training are there because of new project ramp-ups, and have employers who are hiring, so take resumes on paper, floppy, and CD.
This sure as hell is not protecting my rights. In the name of competition, the courts are bloating up operating systems with even MORE crap that should be on some sort of companion disc. The last thing Windows needs is more crap in the default install.
If the judge does not want MS distributing a broken version of Java, I can understand that. But he should not force them to cram Sun's java into the OS, he should just tell them to fix their own! This decision is just a Lance Ito wannabe, blustering out his bad decision in a Jackson-esque fashion, hoping that interviewers will knock his door down.
Instead of writing a post complaining that two groups are colluding to not pay off politicians and subverting your fair use rights, go join the EFF and ask them to push this bill!
We do not need corporate help to get our rights set down in law! The EFF is working to be our voice! Take the time to donate some money and get this done!
How about a nice, swift beating?
"There's nothing especially great about it -- it's a web browser..."
How about it not being Internet Explorer? Apple is slowing breaking their ties to Microsoft, and if they can get a fully OS X compatible Appleworks out there (The current Appleworks requires OS X to install.) and have a non-IE browser as the default, the Mac community can go back to thumbing their noses at Bill Gates and Fester Ballmer.