Time to SHORT SELL GOOGLE, its about to tank if the top execs are bailing out
Ride the bubble, sell out the top, get out, let someone else clean up the mess when its all over. Preferably the Feds, on the public dollar.
Natasha, you imbecile... do not transmit over dis channel...
vee have to get the moose....
Anyone that's dialed around a shortwave dial has heard the CIA number codes being transmited...
One time pad is not that hard to implement in a computer program, and disguise the resulting data in BINHXQ output or hide it in a JPG... why post it plain text ascii...
This is a riddle someone has put up... to your caclulators, men!
You can walk into any flea market around the world and pick up a full Pentium 2 PC running Windows 98 for usually about $100... including mouse, keyboard, and monitor.
486s running Windows 95 and Opera... can be had for next to free. There is no need to build more crap to be disposed of in ten years time.
For anybody in the need, I source my Itanium 2 1.3's from a guy (packageshop@hotmail.com) for only $699! Where else can you get 3mb on chip cache for that kind of money at that price...!
I've only noticed a marginal speed bump with the 1.4 and 1.5's which are priced astronomically much more, so for price/performance tricking out a box with the 1.3's are the way to go, and their price is now very affordable. Now you can get them for a steal and these little babies are screamers.
I run a bunch of tricked out servers maxed out with four 1.3's each and the main cool deal with the Itanium 2's, was you can blow right on past the 4gb barrier and it executes code in big chunks.
Working with any computer with less than 4gb and 4 processors and you don't know what you are missing. These badboys have 28 dimm slots or 64 dimm slots and go up to 56gb and 64gb respectablly, node scalable up to 224 gb. Show me that motherboard of yours again with 2 dimm slots that goes up to 2gb??? Um, yeah, where's the trash can. You want one of these... its all about memory.
Itanium 2's running stuff in solid state memory with 3 caches between it and the memory totally obliterates everything else out there short of maybe Power5's, which are actually 4 processors on a chip and will cost you a small south american country.
You do have to flash upgrade your EFI bios with the lastest to enable EPIC, and the machines work best with lots of RAM because they execute code in chunks.
The issue of running 32bit code has never mattered to me, as the entire OS was recompiled for 64bit anyway, and if you're using linux everything is in the distro you need as a 64bit native app ready to go.
I run Centos Linux which is free, but have also used Redhat ia64, Suse Enterprise ia64, and the latest 64 bit Windows on them. The 32bit enabler was installed by default but I never used it, except under Windows.
Most people gave the Itaniums a bad rap, because the EFI didn't enable EPIC by default, and all that capability just was left bridaled and brimming there under the surface. So be sure to flash your EFI bios to enable EPIC. Also, I always get a better video card by default for my server, most servers ship with the bare minimum for video.
I won't even touch the Opterons or Xeons, they are kludges by comparison. Once you figure out the little tricks on how to make the ia64 chips sing you can do some serious number crunching.
Wikipedia still lists the Itanium 2 as Intels top dog processor.
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Time to SHORT SELL GOOGLE, its about to tank if the top execs are bailing out Ride the bubble, sell out the top, get out, let someone else clean up the mess when its all over. Preferably the Feds, on the public dollar.
Natasha, you imbecile... do not transmit over dis channel... vee have to get the moose.... Anyone that's dialed around a shortwave dial has heard the CIA number codes being transmited... One time pad is not that hard to implement in a computer program, and disguise the resulting data in BINHXQ output or hide it in a JPG... why post it plain text ascii... This is a riddle someone has put up... to your caclulators, men!
You can walk into any flea market around the world and pick up a full Pentium 2 PC running Windows 98 for usually about $100... including mouse, keyboard, and monitor. 486s running Windows 95 and Opera... can be had for next to free. There is no need to build more crap to be disposed of in ten years time.
For anybody in the need, I source my Itanium 2 1.3's from a guy (packageshop@hotmail.com) for only $699! Where else can you get 3mb on chip cache for that kind of money at that price...! I've only noticed a marginal speed bump with the 1.4 and 1.5's which are priced astronomically much more, so for price/performance tricking out a box with the 1.3's are the way to go, and their price is now very affordable. Now you can get them for a steal and these little babies are screamers. I run a bunch of tricked out servers maxed out with four 1.3's each and the main cool deal with the Itanium 2's, was you can blow right on past the 4gb barrier and it executes code in big chunks. Working with any computer with less than 4gb and 4 processors and you don't know what you are missing. These badboys have 28 dimm slots or 64 dimm slots and go up to 56gb and 64gb respectablly, node scalable up to 224 gb. Show me that motherboard of yours again with 2 dimm slots that goes up to 2gb??? Um, yeah, where's the trash can. You want one of these... its all about memory. Itanium 2's running stuff in solid state memory with 3 caches between it and the memory totally obliterates everything else out there short of maybe Power5's, which are actually 4 processors on a chip and will cost you a small south american country. You do have to flash upgrade your EFI bios with the lastest to enable EPIC, and the machines work best with lots of RAM because they execute code in chunks. The issue of running 32bit code has never mattered to me, as the entire OS was recompiled for 64bit anyway, and if you're using linux everything is in the distro you need as a 64bit native app ready to go. I run Centos Linux which is free, but have also used Redhat ia64, Suse Enterprise ia64, and the latest 64 bit Windows on them. The 32bit enabler was installed by default but I never used it, except under Windows. Most people gave the Itaniums a bad rap, because the EFI didn't enable EPIC by default, and all that capability just was left bridaled and brimming there under the surface. So be sure to flash your EFI bios to enable EPIC. Also, I always get a better video card by default for my server, most servers ship with the bare minimum for video. I won't even touch the Opterons or Xeons, they are kludges by comparison. Once you figure out the little tricks on how to make the ia64 chips sing you can do some serious number crunching. Wikipedia still lists the Itanium 2 as Intels top dog processor.