It was the explanation I got when I entered a datacenter in manhattan that had at least 3 procs in every multiprocessor machine(75-100 machines). I think it may have been creative sales tactics on Compaq's part.
I've heard of some HALs reciting the words of children's songs when you remove various components too.
It used to be fairly common to install a 3rd processor in any Windows based SMP machine for redundancy.
Because Windows had a seperate HAL for single, and multi processor configurations the machine would not be able to function with a single processor without a reinstall of the OS. I think this scenario is handled fairly well now but having 3 processors meant that you could loose one and the machine would still be able to boot in years past.
I am a 'social introvert' too. I haven't always been.
To me my outgoing work personality and my ability to strike up conversations with random people is learned because being an extrovert is the 'norm' and it will benefit me professionally. It feels very fake and I know it isn't genuine but I've observed people for a long time and I truely feel like I successfully exhibit a non introverted persona intentionally.
If one in ten attempts at humor are successful then I think it's all worth it. Humor is the cream in that bitchin coffee called LIFE and if you think you've manifested a bit of it on your own you should share it. Your friends already think you're weird so what are you going to loose?
This is specifically what I was looking for too and it isn't too surprising that it goes unanswered. The original thread was the clearest attempt at skewing the results that I could identify.
I wasn't trying to find the proverbial 'brick in the gears' but sore thumbs do make themselves rather apparent.
I actually drank my last IPA last week and I must buy more. Some guy wearing a wig told me it's always a good idea to do what he says and speak highly of samuel adams though.
Thanks! I'll have to try the doghead fish brewery 90 minute IPA! I like a dry beer!
Hops were originally used to preserve beer before refrigeration existed. Someone observed that people handling the hops got sleepy so some of it's other uses have been known for some time. I've smoked hops before in an attempt to get it's sleep inducing qualities but the whole idea of drinking more beer to get this benefit seems silly if it's just the hops that provide it.
Sam Adams is the hoppiest beer that I know of and it's my preferred poison but it seems that hops by themselves could be used unless the beneficial compounds are created by the fermenting process.
I've seen horrible accidents happen on TV just as people taste Sam Adams Lite for the first time so be careful.
It was my first Linux distro in 95' and what I liked about it then and now is that it didn't do everything for you. You HAD to take a little time to develop a basic and beneficial understanding of the OS instead of becoming proficient with clicking the NEXT button. If I need a production Linux machine and I'm not just trying some new distro then Slackware is my preferred distro too.
It is less filling and doesn't leave you with that bloated feeling that other beers do.
Geeks buy things that are smaller than the ones they already have. Vendors have given themselves room to un-grow and make more profit later on by reducing the size.
NJ if I know where the meaningful discussion is supposed to come into play. Your guess is as good as mine!
We generally offer a nice carboard box and the proverbial pink slip in reward for this kind of work. Code reviews are good for preventing this type of thing.
The MTA is truely awesome. I think this will be frowned upon though since it gives would be terrorists more oportunities that they wouldnt have had before.
Maybe we should just make cell phones that can't be easily connected to ignition devices.
I think the "wall worts" and internal stepdown transformers are what consumes most of that energy. If those were turned off while the device was not in use then they wouldn't waste enery and produce heat.
If any laws are passed it might be a good idea to invest in whoever sells those 2032 batteries.
I would still be using edit.com today had they ported it a long time ago. The only reason I stopped using it was the excessive CPU usage that was incurred on behalf of NTVDM!
I would still be using "copy con" too if the functionality still existed!
Now that Oracle owns a company whose technology mySQL is dependant upon they should probably be considered a threat as well. They are also an agressive company (ask PeopleSoft) and mySQL uses DB technologies from Berkely too? Others?
We could potentially have a situation where a litiguous bastard company like SCO makes a claim and demands $$ for that IP. The only difference in this case is that those claims would not be baseless.
Microsoft (reaper of other's creations) bought Sybase's database technologies fair and square. MSSQL 6.5 was a significant revision, and 7.0 was a complete rewrite (so they said.) Improving on existing technologies isn't a bad thing but in the OSS world it should be considered very carefully.
Who the mySQL CEO is hanging out with is not the issue. Where money is moving to/from isn't the issue.
The issue is that some litiguous bastard company has tried to bite us and we need to make sure we dont let it happen again.
The clear winner is Postgresql which has been developed from the ground up and isn't a convenient wrapper for other's technologies. ?? Maybe mySQL can use some of that money to negate their dependance on foreign IP. If not then postgresql is the answer.
Yes.. we were all so overtaken by the fat kid's response to Dr. Alan Grant's demonstration of the CLAW that we paid no attention to it's clear roundedness and inability to CUT flesh. .
class hollywood Lights. . Camera. . (hey fat kid they outlawed cake) ACTION!! deception.
Long pointy rounded things cannot also slice flesh. . this is NEWS?! I surely hope we're not paying these SCIENTISTS.. MY tax dollars to make these types of discoveries.
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It was the explanation I got when I entered a datacenter in manhattan that had at least 3 procs in every multiprocessor machine(75-100 machines). I think it may have been creative sales tactics on Compaq's part.
I've heard of some HALs reciting the words of children's songs when you remove various components too.
Sounds almost like Daryl Mcbride lives in Chicago and bought an Xbox.
It used to be fairly common to install a 3rd processor in any Windows based SMP machine for redundancy.
Because Windows had a seperate HAL for single, and multi processor configurations the machine would not be able to function with a single processor without a reinstall of the OS. I think this scenario is handled fairly well now but having 3 processors meant that you could loose one and the machine would still be able to boot in years past.
I am a 'social introvert' too. I haven't always been.
To me my outgoing work personality and my ability to strike up conversations with random people is learned because being an extrovert is the 'norm' and it will benefit me professionally. It feels very fake and I know it isn't genuine but I've observed people for a long time and I truely feel like I successfully exhibit a non introverted persona intentionally.
If one in ten attempts at humor are successful then I think it's all worth it. Humor is the cream in that bitchin coffee called LIFE and if you think you've manifested a bit of it on your own you should share it. Your friends already think you're weird so what are you going to loose?
This is specifically what I was looking for too and it isn't too surprising that it goes unanswered. The original thread was the clearest attempt at skewing the results that I could identify.
I wasn't trying to find the proverbial 'brick in the gears' but sore thumbs do make themselves rather apparent.
I actually drank my last IPA last week and I must buy more. Some guy wearing a wig told me it's always a good idea to do what he says and speak highly of samuel adams though.
Thanks! I'll have to try the doghead fish brewery 90 minute IPA! I like a dry beer!
Hops were originally used to preserve beer before refrigeration existed. Someone observed that people handling the hops got sleepy so some of it's other uses have been known for some time. I've smoked hops before in an attempt to get it's sleep inducing qualities but the whole idea of drinking more beer to get this benefit seems silly if it's just the hops that provide it.
Sam Adams is the hoppiest beer that I know of and it's my preferred poison but it seems that hops by themselves could be used unless the beneficial compounds are created by the fermenting process.
I've seen horrible accidents happen on TV just as people taste Sam Adams Lite for the first time so be careful.
Quantum produced a slow large (both physically and in storage capacity) drive to cater to this market. I dont think they went too far.
It was my first Linux distro in 95' and what I liked about it then and now is that it didn't do everything for you. You HAD to take a little time to develop a basic and beneficial understanding of the OS instead of becoming proficient with clicking the NEXT button. If I need a production Linux machine and I'm not just trying some new distro then Slackware is my preferred distro too.
It is less filling and doesn't leave you with that bloated feeling that other beers do.
Geeks buy things that are smaller than the ones they already have. Vendors have given themselves room to un-grow and make more profit later on by reducing the size.
NJ if I know where the meaningful discussion is supposed to come into play. Your guess is as good as mine!
We generally offer a nice carboard box and the proverbial pink slip in reward for this kind of work. Code reviews are good for preventing this type of thing.
The MTA is truely awesome. I think this will be frowned upon though since it gives would be terrorists more oportunities that they wouldnt have had before.
Maybe we should just make cell phones that can't be easily connected to ignition devices.
I think the "wall worts" and internal stepdown transformers are what consumes most of that energy. If those were turned off while the device was not in use then they wouldn't waste enery and produce heat.
If any laws are passed it might be a good idea to invest in whoever sells those 2032 batteries.
I would still be using edit.com today had they ported it a long time ago. The only reason I stopped using it was the excessive CPU usage that was incurred on behalf of NTVDM!
I would still be using "copy con" too if the functionality still existed!
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'Electionics' being mentioned in an acid oriented post made an attempt at humor on a Monday morning irresistible.
Have you never been homeless?! Colt 45 and Old English aren't sold in convenient fluid replenishing pint sizes by mistake.
"compared to the acids created by gasoline engines and powerstations in the atmosphere, the electionics production isn't even worth mentioning."
Yes, please. let's not mention Acid's involvment in the electionics..
acid + counting = funny numbers. Ask Florida.
Instead of seeing a blinking LED we'll see explosions in the sky! I can't wait for geeks to start slinging their own satellites up!
CPUs have toes, and dogmeat doesn't move very fast is what I got from one of the posts.
Who needs to burn fossil fuels when our deceased counterparts revolve at these speeds.
Little Jimmy, Grandma is slowing down again. Tell me how Richard Nixon is your hero so we can get home.
SCO isn't the only party you have to worry about.
Now that Oracle owns a company whose technology mySQL is dependant upon they should probably be considered a threat as well. They are also an agressive company (ask PeopleSoft) and mySQL uses DB technologies from Berkely too? Others?
We could potentially have a situation where a litiguous bastard company like SCO makes a claim and demands $$ for that IP. The only difference in this case is that those claims would not be baseless.
Microsoft (reaper of other's creations) bought Sybase's database technologies fair and square. MSSQL 6.5 was a significant revision, and 7.0 was a complete rewrite (so they said.) Improving on existing technologies isn't a bad thing but in the OSS world it should be considered very carefully.
Who the mySQL CEO is hanging out with is not the issue. Where money is moving to/from isn't the issue.
The issue is that some litiguous bastard company has tried to bite us and we need to make sure we dont let it happen again.
The clear winner is Postgresql which has been developed from the ground up and isn't a convenient wrapper for other's technologies. ?? Maybe mySQL can use some of that money to negate their dependance on foreign IP. If not then postgresql is the answer.
Yes that was a very good read. The name Forbes lost all credibility when Groklaw called them on their CBS reporting styles.
When you find a bad egg you tend to throw away the entire carton.
Yikes! Bad kitty!
I guess it would really depend on the skin your in.
Yes .. we were all so overtaken by the fat kid's response to Dr. Alan Grant's demonstration of the CLAW that we paid no attention to it's clear roundedness and inability to CUT flesh. .
.. MY tax dollars to make these types of discoveries.
class hollywood Lights. . Camera. . (hey fat kid they outlawed cake) ACTION!! deception.
Long pointy rounded things cannot also slice flesh. . this is NEWS?! I surely hope we're not paying these SCIENTISTS