Agreed. Unless the PO can provide some kind of explanation as to why he would bother using this special DVD player to play normal DVDs when it apparently sucks so hard.
it lets you join together multiple independent machines (like those in a beowulf cluster) and turn them into one big virtual machine with one system image. So, if you have 16 seperate PCs, you can boot and run linux and it will look like one big 16-cpu server.
That would be just like having a 16 processor server. Except that instead of the CPUs being linked together by a fast internal bus (like HyperTransport) they would be linked together with switched Ethernet.
Fantastic! I've always dreamed of building a 16 CPU server that can almost match the performance of a single CPU server and now is my chance!
This might be great for HA and consolidation, but you're not going to get the performance of a 16 CPU server unless they have developed an interconnect with latency and bandwidth equivalent to an FSB. If they have, I promise you it will cost more than a 16 CPU server to implement.
no it does not run on VMs, because the way it work with the hardware its totally different from how the emulated hardware on the VMs and causes BeOS to crash
Yeah, right. BeOS is just so awesomely different from every other OS ever written that it will never run on a VM. It knows, man! You can't fool the BeOS!
In reality, it runs fine on Virtual PC and I'm pretty sure it runs on VMware as an unsupported guest. In other words, there are no specific VMware drivers like you get for Windows, Linux etc.. because it's just not worth the hassle of writing them.
Find your nearest garden supply store that carries hydroponic gear. Now find the scruffiest employee therein. He'd be a great source of info on setting up ventilation systems in small rooms.
Although you can probably do without the activated charcoal air filters and high pressure sodium lighting for your application.
Oh, and make sure you don't have any male servers in the closet - you don't want them to fertilise the females.
Can the DDR2 take better-timing DIMMS, is it dual (or better) channel..
No, worse actually. DDR2 has much higher latency than standard DDR. It does offer a bandwidth advantage, but you need really high bandwidth to make up for it.
In summary, DDR2 is often slower than DDR. But as long as Steve Jobs stands up and says it's faster it won't be an issue, as reality will automatically adjust.
The only defense the unannointed have is to put together their own list of CGI proxies, and give them a hard time for a couple of days.
Allow me to translate :
"Waaahhhhh! I got spanked! So to prove my intellectual maturity, I spent several days vandalising Wikipedia through anonymous proxies!".
You sound like a real winner. In fact I'm amazed that you could find the time to do this. I would imagine you spend most of your waking hours trying to avoid the crowds of beautiful women who undoubtedly follow you everywhere.
Isn't there a lifespan on NAND flash memory in terms of read/write.
Yes, there is. But with modern flash it is most likely longer than the lifespan of the other components in your PC. It's also not clear at this stage how often the contents of the flash would be modified. I believe most modern flash is good for between 100,000 and 1,000,000 rewrites.
After all, we have only a vague idea of how this thing works. It could well require some kind of OS support.
Now obviously we don't know the answer to that until Intel decides to squirt out another press release at some point in the future. But in the mean time there may be some people on Slashdot who have some specialist knowledge of this type of thing. Maybe they will join the discussion and provide some insightful opinions or even some informative answers.
I believe use of the term 'peeps' in conversation eliminates your comments from serious consideration. Really. Nevertheless:
Slashdot really needs a "+5 Accidental Irony" moderation.
Because telling someone that their use of a certain word disqualifies them from a "serious" discussion and then going on to describe how your choice of portable gaming console is better than theirs absolutely requires it.
Yea me fighting a computer dork really worries me. Hire's hacker to trace the web dorks IP address, find's out his physical address, goes to his house - beats him over the head with a cluebat(hardened), and then takes his computer, the deed to his IPv4 address, and his poster of Liv Tyler
Just wanted to point out the delightful contrast between the Grandparents post, which is probably the funniest thing I've read all week and your post which is probably one of the least funny things I've ever read.
In future, please leave the attempts at humour to people who actually have a sense of humour.
My experience suggests that Suns compilers beat out GCC on single processor machines and more so on 8 and 16 processor systems.
I didn't realise that the compiler was involved in optimising code for multiple processors. I thought it was the programmer that had to do that. I must have been misinformed.
The benifit of Sun's mature sparc compilers might let you squeeze more performance out of a sparc box.
So are you comparing the Sun compiler and GCC on Sparc or Opteron because you don't make that clear? One would expect the Sun compiler to do best on Sparc since nobody else has ever been that interested in it.
If on the other hand, you are claiming that Sun have suddenly produced the best compiler for AMD's Opteron then I would like to see some more evidence.
I configured my gMail account to Moz Thunderbird. No targeted ads, and the benefit of the greatness that is the gMail spam filter. I would say that it is quite possible the GP poster does as well.
Yeah, I bet at least 99% of gMail users know how to do that.
For people who want to make multiple optimized kernels for distribution while using only one PC.
People who want to build multiple kernels for distribution generally know what they are doing and therefore do not subscribe to the belief that you need to be running a P4 to build a kernel for a P4.
I do this, but I use separate PCs, and will continue to.
You have got to be shitting me. Wouldn't it be easier to just do it on one PC and change the -march flag each time?
Can you let me know which distro you build kernels for so that I can avoid it like the plague? Thanks.
In point of fact the low quality of their filters continue to affect 2D performance when using an analog connection. Even more so when using the DVI to VGA dongle as they don't make these themsevles are of the cheapest supplier variety most of the time.
And the low quality of ATI's drivers continue to affect 2D performance, 3D performance, stability and user sanity. Great image quality though. When the drivers on my laptop crash every few hours and drop back to VGA mode with a cute little error message, I always take several minutes to admire the lovingly rendered 8bit 640x480 desktop before rebooting! Beat that Nvidia!
And before you call me a fanboy, consider this. If you have a laptop with an ATI chipset, ATI won't let you install their generic drivers. You have to get an update from your laptop manufacturer. Who almost certainly haven't deemed it necessary to provide them. This makes ATI the Slashcrap award winner for retarded, customer shafting business practice.
Don't worry though - you can download some hacked drivers instead. I don't know about you, but using hacked video drivers on my work laptop always gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling inside.
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This is bullshit !!
Agreed. Unless the PO can provide some kind of explanation as to why he would bother using this special DVD player to play normal DVDs when it apparently sucks so hard.
They're not suitable for any serious workstation tasks, like Tanenbaum is aiming for here.
Can you please point out at least one place where Tanenbaum states that he is aiming for serious workstation use?
Since everyone else knows that it's for teaching use, you're going to need to provide some evidence in order to prove that you're not batshit crazy.
What about kernel level rootkits such as Knark [packetstormsecurity.org]?
Is there actually such a thing as a non-kernel level rootkit?
Customer is not allowed to spread the product or its parts in neither binary nor source code form.
Ah, very clever. So if you actually put it on someone elses system they can say you were violating the licence agreement?
Customer is fully responsible for the application of boughten product.
Actually, maybe they're just retarded after all.
it lets you join together multiple independent machines (like those in a beowulf cluster) and turn them into one big virtual machine with one system image. So, if you have 16 seperate PCs, you can boot and run linux and it will look like one big 16-cpu server.
That would be just like having a 16 processor server. Except that instead of the CPUs being linked together by a fast internal bus (like HyperTransport) they would be linked together with switched Ethernet.
Fantastic! I've always dreamed of building a 16 CPU server that can almost match the performance of a single CPU server and now is my chance!
This might be great for HA and consolidation, but you're not going to get the performance of a 16 CPU server unless they have developed an interconnect with latency and bandwidth equivalent to an FSB. If they have, I promise you it will cost more than a 16 CPU server to implement.
no it does not run on VMs, because the way it work with the hardware its totally different from how the emulated hardware on the VMs and causes BeOS to crash
Yeah, right. BeOS is just so awesomely different from every other OS ever written that it will never run on a VM. It knows, man! You can't fool the BeOS!
In reality, it runs fine on Virtual PC and I'm pretty sure it runs on VMware as an unsupported guest. In other words, there are no specific VMware drivers like you get for Windows, Linux etc.. because it's just not worth the hassle of writing them.
There is no 3D acceleration in VMWare.
This isn't true. The latest version has experimental Direct 3D support. It can map Direct 3D calls to OpenGL on Linux.
Whether it's usable yet is another matter, but it is there.
In case of doubt, try googling for "vmware direct3d support" and reading the first link (or any of the other 18,000 for that matter).
Find your nearest garden supply store that carries hydroponic gear. Now find the scruffiest employee therein. He'd be a great source of info on setting up ventilation systems in small rooms.
Although you can probably do without the activated charcoal air filters and high pressure sodium lighting for your application.
Oh, and make sure you don't have any male servers in the closet - you don't want them to fertilise the females.
On a completely off-topic note, can I just mention that your website is one of the worst things I've ever seen on the Internet?
Most websites require the use of garish colours and Flash to achieve the level of horror that you have managed with just black and white.
I would prefer to spend a week looking at Goatse than experience that again.
That's going to change as time goes on-- I'm just one of the early adopters.
ITYM unpaid beta tester. HTH.
Yeah, when I try to visit homestar runner on my 64-bit PowerMac G5, I... oh, wait--it works.
That's probably because OSX is still almost entirely 32bit.
I'm sure that once Apple catch up you'll experience the same issue.
Can the DDR2 take better-timing DIMMS, is it dual (or better) channel..
No, worse actually. DDR2 has much higher latency than standard DDR. It does offer a bandwidth advantage, but you need really high bandwidth to make up for it.
In summary, DDR2 is often slower than DDR. But as long as Steve Jobs stands up and says it's faster it won't be an issue, as reality will automatically adjust.
Being able to play DVDs on Linux seems pretty productive and useful to me.
Yeah, I've been waiting for that feature for years. I long for the day when I will finally be able to play a DVD under Linux.
Who knows, maybe one day someone might even crack their encryption scheme?
The only defense the unannointed have is to put together their own list of CGI proxies, and give them a hard time for a couple of days.
Allow me to translate :
"Waaahhhhh! I got spanked! So to prove my intellectual maturity, I spent several days vandalising Wikipedia through anonymous proxies!".
You sound like a real winner. In fact I'm amazed that you could find the time to do this. I would imagine you spend most of your waking hours trying to avoid the crowds of beautiful women who undoubtedly follow you everywhere.
They're probably too busy finishing their software to finish their website. Shame the same can't be said for a lot of open source projects.
Yes, that's right. Open Source projects are famous for only caring about presentation and nothing else.
At least in the fucked up parallel universe your mind apparently inhabits. Keep taking the tablets.
Isn't there a lifespan on NAND flash memory in terms of read/write.
Yes, there is. But with modern flash it is most likely longer than the lifespan of the other components in your PC. It's also not clear at this stage how often the contents of the flash would be modified. I believe most modern flash is good for between 100,000 and 1,000,000 rewrites.
Yes but does it work with Linux?
After all, we have only a vague idea of how this thing works. It could well require some kind of OS support.
Now obviously we don't know the answer to that until Intel decides to squirt out another press release at some point in the future. But in the mean time there may be some people on Slashdot who have some specialist knowledge of this type of thing. Maybe they will join the discussion and provide some insightful opinions or even some informative answers.
I believe use of the term 'peeps' in conversation eliminates your comments from serious consideration. Really. Nevertheless :
Slashdot really needs a "+5 Accidental Irony" moderation.
Because telling someone that their use of a certain word disqualifies them from a "serious" discussion and then going on to describe how your choice of portable gaming console is better than theirs absolutely requires it.
Yea me fighting a computer dork really worries me. Hire's hacker to trace the web dorks IP address, find's out his physical address, goes to his house - beats him over the head with a cluebat(hardened), and then takes his computer, the deed to his IPv4 address, and his poster of Liv Tyler
Just wanted to point out the delightful contrast between the Grandparents post, which is probably the funniest thing I've read all week and your post which is probably one of the least funny things I've ever read.
In future, please leave the attempts at humour to people who actually have a sense of humour.
My experience suggests that Suns compilers beat out GCC on single processor machines and more so on 8 and 16 processor systems.
I didn't realise that the compiler was involved in optimising code for multiple processors. I thought it was the programmer that had to do that. I must have been misinformed.
The benifit of Sun's mature sparc compilers might let you squeeze more performance out of a sparc box.
So are you comparing the Sun compiler and GCC on Sparc or Opteron because you don't make that clear? One would expect the Sun compiler to do best on Sparc since nobody else has ever been that interested in it.
If on the other hand, you are claiming that Sun have suddenly produced the best compiler for AMD's Opteron then I would like to see some more evidence.
Danger Will Robinson test your firefox Danger Will Robinson
OH MY GOD!!!111oneone1!!
You mean this critical exploit could crash my browser???
Quick! Alert the Department of Homeland Security! And switch back to IE immediately!
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
PS. In case the subtle humour goes over your head, I am trying to insinuate that you are an easily excitable, scaremongering prick. Hope this helps.
I configured my gMail account to Moz Thunderbird. No targeted ads, and the benefit of the greatness that is the gMail spam filter. I would say that it is quite possible the GP poster does as well.
Yeah, I bet at least 99% of gMail users know how to do that.
I use Gmail. :)
"So I let Google spam me in a targeted and personal manner via HTML rather than random people spamming me through SMTP."
I can understand why you're so proud.
For people who want to make multiple optimized kernels for distribution while using only one PC.
People who want to build multiple kernels for distribution generally know what they are doing and therefore do not subscribe to the belief that you need to be running a P4 to build a kernel for a P4.
I do this, but I use separate PCs, and will continue to.
You have got to be shitting me. Wouldn't it be easier to just do it on one PC and change the -march flag each time?
Can you let me know which distro you build kernels for so that I can avoid it like the plague? Thanks.
In point of fact the low quality of their filters continue to affect 2D performance when using an analog connection. Even more so when using the DVI to VGA dongle as they don't make these themsevles are of the cheapest supplier variety most of the time.
And the low quality of ATI's drivers continue to affect 2D performance, 3D performance, stability and user sanity. Great image quality though. When the drivers on my laptop crash every few hours and drop back to VGA mode with a cute little error message, I always take several minutes to admire the lovingly rendered 8bit 640x480 desktop before rebooting! Beat that Nvidia!
And before you call me a fanboy, consider this. If you have a laptop with an ATI chipset, ATI won't let you install their generic drivers. You have to get an update from your laptop manufacturer. Who almost certainly haven't deemed it necessary to provide them. This makes ATI the Slashcrap award winner for retarded, customer shafting business practice.
Don't worry though - you can download some hacked drivers instead. I don't know about you, but using hacked video drivers on my work laptop always gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling inside.
And this is just on Windows.