Yes, but most programs won't know how to take advantage of the four processors, and will run the same on a 4x1.7 machine as a 1.7 machine.
I have dual 3.2 GHz Xeons on my desktop, and most programs don't even see a performance increase. However, multitasking does - I can encode video and play WoW at 1920x1200 and have no problem at all. My music production software also sees a huge performance increase. However, if I try to run a program that doesn't take advantage of SMP, it will perform just the same as if I only had one 3.2 GHz Xeon.
The person who wrote TFA said it's both 16 GByte and 16 Gbit. Read it, you'll see that both are used throughout the article. So we'll never know which one it is.
Take a look at PC-BSD. It isn't Linux of course. Either way, it's pretty Joe Sixpack friendly. Graphical installer, the works.
They have only the necessities (KDE, Firefox, and a few others) installed by default, and downloaded packages have installers - you just run them and it installs with a wizard.
Every package is self contained - they all go in/usr/local/MyPrograms/packagename with all the required libraries, binaries, etc. Removing a package is as simple as removing that folder and the links, which is also handled automatically by a similar wizard.
I have reccomended it to a few people who are interested in beginning to learn UNIX OSes, and it works really well. They've all been able to figure it out really quick with no problem at all, and it gets them interested in free software.
There aren't a ton of packages avaliable yet, but the essentials are there and anyone can create new packages.
Google didn't buy an IM service. Yes, they used Jabber, but that doesn't mean they bought an existing service. They created it themselves. That isn't innovative, but MUCH of the stuff they have done is.
Ebay on the other hand, buys an established company. <sarcasm> This is such wonderful innovation! I can't even fathom how they were so innovative! </sarcasm>
People already have OSX running on whitebox PCs. only major requirement is an Intel 900 graphics card, which most PCs that people who'd want to run it won't have, since it's integrated. I have a friend who built a whitebox pc with that chip and Tiger runs beautifully on it.:P
I run my webservers and a small shared hosting business off of Layered Tech. I haven't had a single problem with them, nor any serious problems with downtime. My server's power supply died about a month ago and they had it back up and running with a new supply in less than 30 minutes. I completely agree with the parent, if you want dedicated go with Layered Tech. They're wonderful!
David - you might want to check on your server's hardware, there may be a problem there causing it to hang. Maybe give LT a buzz or an email and see if they can run diagnostics on it?
I would think that having different servers for each continent wouldn't matter much anyway, as it all connects to the same database. I'm sure there's some sort of cache daemon running to speed up things that are queried very often, but even so I don't see what would make implementing this difficult. I think seeing an auction house in each major city would be a very nice feature, and as far as I can see it shouldn't be as hard as the CM's are making it sound.
Having pro-life forced on you could be bad when say, a girl is 16 and gets pregnant. Because then, that ruins an innocent person's life for good because she's stuck supporting that child. Quite often when that happens, the person can never get back on their feet financially for most of their life. One solution is adoption, but most people wouldn't put a child up for adoption.
Well they could force the user to click it by not having a default button set, or have it set to no by default. I think that might work. If they just hit enter twice either nothing will happen or it'd go back to where they were entering it from.
Read the docs on the Acid 2 test - they specifically added bogus CSS tags to see how browsers handle that. A browser that handles it properly will ignore the tags.
I have no idea... DRM is getting totally out of hand. It's good if it's used properly, like Apple and iTunes for example... But knowing Microsoft they're gonna take it to the extreme.:(
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It's limited at 256 TB with 64KB clusters. ntfs.com is simply wrong.
Yes, but most programs won't know how to take advantage of the four processors, and will run the same on a 4x1.7 machine as a 1.7 machine. I have dual 3.2 GHz Xeons on my desktop, and most programs don't even see a performance increase. However, multitasking does - I can encode video and play WoW at 1920x1200 and have no problem at all. My music production software also sees a huge performance increase. However, if I try to run a program that doesn't take advantage of SMP, it will perform just the same as if I only had one 3.2 GHz Xeon.
Actually, nevermind that... Just re-read it and I misread part of it before.
The person who wrote TFA said it's both 16 GByte and 16 Gbit. Read it, you'll see that both are used throughout the article. So we'll never know which one it is.
cvsup /etc/cvsup/ports-supfile && pkgdb -F && portupgrade -a
Downloads and updates everything. Some user intervention required occasionally, but usually not. I love it!
Note that /etc/cvsup/ports-supfile is where I put my file, it isn't default there (for those of you who haven't used cvsup for ports in FreeBSD)
They have only the necessities (KDE, Firefox, and a few others) installed by default, and downloaded packages have installers - you just run them and it installs with a wizard.
Every package is self contained - they all go in /usr/local/MyPrograms/packagename with all the required libraries, binaries, etc. Removing a package is as simple as removing that folder and the links, which is also handled automatically by a similar wizard.
I have reccomended it to a few people who are interested in beginning to learn UNIX OSes, and it works really well. They've all been able to figure it out really quick with no problem at all, and it gets them interested in free software.
There aren't a ton of packages avaliable yet, but the essentials are there and anyone can create new packages.
Wow, you mean I'm not the only guy on Slashddot that uses FreeBSD? :P
I actually bit a troll saying that Google doesn't innovate and eBay buying Skype was major innovation. Did it on purpose though. :P
Google didn't buy an IM service. Yes, they used Jabber, but that doesn't mean they bought an existing service. They created it themselves. That isn't innovative, but MUCH of the stuff they have done is.
Ebay on the other hand, buys an established company. <sarcasm> This is such wonderful innovation! I can't even fathom how they were so innovative! </sarcasm>
I'd read that article you linked again, it says something more along the lines of 7500 terabytes.
People already have OSX running on whitebox PCs. only major requirement is an Intel 900 graphics card, which most PCs that people who'd want to run it won't have, since it's integrated. I have a friend who built a whitebox pc with that chip and Tiger runs beautifully on it. :P
David - you might want to check on your server's hardware, there may be a problem there causing it to hang. Maybe give LT a buzz or an email and see if they can run diagnostics on it?
I would think that having different servers for each continent wouldn't matter much anyway, as it all connects to the same database. I'm sure there's some sort of cache daemon running to speed up things that are queried very often, but even so I don't see what would make implementing this difficult. I think seeing an auction house in each major city would be a very nice feature, and as far as I can see it shouldn't be as hard as the CM's are making it sound.
If it's using ssl, putting it on 443 or 22 would make it a bit less suspicious :P
Home also can't join to a domain/active directory.
Having pro-life forced on you could be bad when say, a girl is 16 and gets pregnant. Because then, that ruins an innocent person's life for good because she's stuck supporting that child. Quite often when that happens, the person can never get back on their feet financially for most of their life. One solution is adoption, but most people wouldn't put a child up for adoption.
Yeah yeah, technicalities, you know what I meant. :P
Eh, good point. Still, it would make it a bit more difficult.
Well they could force the user to click it by not having a default button set, or have it set to no by default. I think that might work. If they just hit enter twice either nothing will happen or it'd go back to where they were entering it from.
Read the docs on the Acid 2 test - they specifically added bogus CSS tags to see how browsers handle that. A browser that handles it properly will ignore the tags.
Ah ha! I see, movie reference.
Oh come on, this isn't flamebait, it's a joke. :P
Most guitar amps generally have 0-10 on their output knobs, I think that's what he was talking about.
I have no idea... DRM is getting totally out of hand. It's good if it's used properly, like Apple and iTunes for example... But knowing Microsoft they're gonna take it to the extreme. :(
How'd this guy get modded troll? I'm pretty damn sure it was a joke not a troll. :P