"There's an odd catch, however, that will affect the highest of high-end configurations. "Because Microsoft Windows operating system support is limited to a 64-core environment, within a single OS instance, we'll support up to 64 cores," said Colin Lacey, a Unisys marketing vice president."
Gads, who on earth would run a 64-core Windows box? Unless they want to virtualize out multiple servers on one bit of hardware. Most of the "heavy lifting" I've seen on servers with mucho processor cores are running some flavor of Unix. I'm kinda surprised this hasn't been fixed already given the momentum of multi-core processors.
Windows Mobile is offered on a LOT of devices these days and is gaining in popularity. If Apple isn't offering a level playing field for 3rd party developers, then use your talent to write applications for other mobile platforms.
I "discovered" the brand when shopping on Newegg, but didn't see the exact config I wanted. So I went directly to the vendor's website and found that their gaming systems were EXTREMELY mod friendly with a wide variety of choices for components. So I mixed and matched and had them test it prior to delivery. The end result was a pretty tricked out quad-core core2duo box with lots of RAM and fast video for WELL under US$1K.
I'm with you. Government monopolized services tend to suck. Remember how absolutely substandard and slow postal delivery was in most of the world? Then along came some global competitors (and competing technology in the form of email and faxes) and suddenly they've found Jesus and are all about improving quality and speed of services.
The government should set rules to attempt to maintain a level playing field and then let private industry duke it out to see who has the most effective business model.
Works for us too. Typically, we keep one current RHEL license in case we need support and every machine gets a CentOS install. The RHEL license is our "last resort" option if we cannot fix a problem ourselves or get support from the usual community resources.
With that said, we haven't had to use Redhat's support in several years. It's more of a baby blanket at this point. At one time it was something held closely to our hearts, but over time we just kinda forgot about it...but can't bring ourselves to finally throw it in the dustbin.
Um...because CentOS is basically Redhat Enterprise Linux with the proprietary bits stripped out. So if the bug appears in RHEL, it will also appear in CentOS.
Personally, I always stash a copy of the latest version in/usr/local as another poster already mentioned. I've tripped on this bug before as well.
The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers.
It was a tossup between that quote and "Governor Tarkin, I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash. I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board."
Or just change it to the more accurate "Stuff that's free." The overall quality of the content is in decline, but occasionally there's still some good stuff.
The code is free. So anyone who thinks they can do a better job (or perhaps just a different job) of sifting the crap from the pile can, in theory, roll their own.
I live in a relatively rural area, but close enough to a large city that I can get 3G service at home. I was (and returned to) using a Samsung BlackjackII. I was able to use it without any issues at all and got 3G and EDGE service at and near my home. When I brought the new iphone home, I was unable to get anything other than a standard connection (no EDGE and no 3G) and sometimes I couldn't even get a reliable enough signal to make simple phone calls. After a few days of frustration, I returned it to the store and went back to the BlackjackII.
I agree. Openoffice is still "locally installable" and 100% free on the applications front. And any business that relies on an outside free webmail service for their corporate email needs is just asking for trouble...loss of the service from time to time is but one of the gotchas.
Agreed. I wonder what the TOS looks like for both companies? If they had 20,000 paying customers and they suddenly went {POOF}, you'd think that some of those customers might be annoyed enough about it to lawyer up.
Without knowing any of the details (since both sides seem very cagey about the specifics), it looks more like a classic case of a company running out of money and closing up shop with scant notice to their clients. I can't imagine anyone trusting what's left of this venture with any data in the future.
Now shut the hell up and watch what they tell you to watch...or else.:)
But seriously, the level of paranoia here about the country "losing face" if things don't come off exactly as planned is simply difficult to describe if you're not here on the ground to see it first hand. I'm sure the environment in Berlin wasn't much different in 1936. The city is crawling with army, police (in uniform and plainclothes), and civilian brown shirt.....er...I mean "helpers" complete with red armbands (sound familiar)?
So even if nothing really goes wrong, people are seeing the true nature of the Chinese government these days. It's really sad because normally Beijing is a very pleasant city and offers a lot rich cultural sites to visit along with fantastic food. Sigh...
"While the company vows to carry on, this certainly raises some questions about the likelihood of successful privatization of the Space industry."
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*yawn*
If Fiat fails, will we call into question the entire automobile industry? There are many companies working on private space flight. Elon Musk's company is only one of them. And given that Musk seems to be VERY well capitalized, I don't see them taking their ball and going home any time soon. Burt Rutan had a pretty spectacular explosion in their engine development process last year that resulted in a few fatalities, but I don't expect them to roll over and play dead either. I'm sure there will be even more failures peppering the process as time goes on...just like in every other industry.
You don't get to be in a position where you're the CEO/President of a company who's standard is "blessed" by the Chinese government without having very deep tendrils into the government itself (cough...corruption/nepotism...cough).
More often than not, there are personal and/or family relations between the regulators and the regulated in China that would land all the parties in jail in a developed country. Welcome to Chinese business 101.
We'll adapt. Kids will throw out their lemonade stand signs and wait outside with an electron hose.:)
Besides, the Tesla has an optional "on the road" charger for the car that operates on normal household current so you'd simply need to find someone willing to "rent" you an outlet for a little while.
However, before you write off your devices, you might try to see if there are more current firmware revisions that will make them a bit more resilient.
Even if that "fixes" the rebooting problem. You still ought to periodically check to see if there have been critical security bugs that have been addressed and rolled into newer firmware revs. Just because it's a black box doesn't mean you can just turn it on and forget about it. The black hats never sleep.
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"There's an odd catch, however, that will affect the highest of high-end configurations. "Because Microsoft Windows operating system support is limited to a 64-core environment, within a single OS instance, we'll support up to 64 cores," said Colin Lacey, a Unisys marketing vice president."
Gads, who on earth would run a 64-core Windows box? Unless they want to virtualize out multiple servers on one bit of hardware. Most of the "heavy lifting" I've seen on servers with mucho processor cores are running some flavor of Unix. I'm kinda surprised this hasn't been fixed already given the momentum of multi-core processors.
Cheers,
I think the right to be anonymous (if you choose) outweighs the "need to track down and prosecute scammers, spammers, and other criminals."
There are other ways to trace scammers...follow the money. In order to scam you, they must create a pathway for funds to travel from you to them.
Cheers,
Windows Mobile is offered on a LOT of devices these days and is gaining in popularity. If Apple isn't offering a level playing field for 3rd party developers, then use your talent to write applications for other mobile platforms.
I recently used these guys:
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/
I "discovered" the brand when shopping on Newegg, but didn't see the exact config I wanted. So I went directly to the vendor's website and found that their gaming systems were EXTREMELY mod friendly with a wide variety of choices for components. So I mixed and matched and had them test it prior to delivery. The end result was a pretty tricked out quad-core core2duo box with lots of RAM and fast video for WELL under US$1K.
Cheers,
I'm with you. Government monopolized services tend to suck. Remember how absolutely substandard and slow postal delivery was in most of the world? Then along came some global competitors (and competing technology in the form of email and faxes) and suddenly they've found Jesus and are all about improving quality and speed of services.
The government should set rules to attempt to maintain a level playing field and then let private industry duke it out to see who has the most effective business model.
Cheers,
"the decision was not made by Discovery or their advertising sales department but rather MythBuster's production company, Beyond Productions."
Riiiiiiiight..... **rolling eyes**
Probably a lot easier to source yourself a few liters of Cray blood (or some similar non-conductive coolant) to submerge the board in instead.
Cheers,
Works for us too. Typically, we keep one current RHEL license in case we need support and every machine gets a CentOS install. The RHEL license is our "last resort" option if we cannot fix a problem ourselves or get support from the usual community resources.
With that said, we haven't had to use Redhat's support in several years. It's more of a baby blanket at this point. At one time it was something held closely to our hearts, but over time we just kinda forgot about it...but can't bring ourselves to finally throw it in the dustbin.
Um...because CentOS is basically Redhat Enterprise Linux with the proprietary bits stripped out. So if the bug appears in RHEL, it will also appear in CentOS.
Personally, I always stash a copy of the latest version in /usr/local as another poster already mentioned. I've tripped on this bug before as well.
Cheers,
The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers.
It was a tossup between that quote and "Governor Tarkin, I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash. I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board."
More of the same. Just let go.
Or just change it to the more accurate "Stuff that's free." The overall quality of the content is in decline, but occasionally there's still some good stuff.
The code is free. So anyone who thinks they can do a better job (or perhaps just a different job) of sifting the crap from the pile can, in theory, roll their own.
A use for all those leftover Aeron chairs from the Internet bubble.
I live in a relatively rural area, but close enough to a large city that I can get 3G service at home. I was (and returned to) using a Samsung BlackjackII. I was able to use it without any issues at all and got 3G and EDGE service at and near my home. When I brought the new iphone home, I was unable to get anything other than a standard connection (no EDGE and no 3G) and sometimes I couldn't even get a reliable enough signal to make simple phone calls. After a few days of frustration, I returned it to the store and went back to the BlackjackII.
Just another datapoint.
I agree. Openoffice is still "locally installable" and 100% free on the applications front. And any business that relies on an outside free webmail service for their corporate email needs is just asking for trouble...loss of the service from time to time is but one of the gotchas.
Cheers,
Agreed. I wonder what the TOS looks like for both companies? If they had 20,000 paying customers and they suddenly went {POOF}, you'd think that some of those customers might be annoyed enough about it to lawyer up.
Without knowing any of the details (since both sides seem very cagey about the specifics), it looks more like a classic case of a company running out of money and closing up shop with scant notice to their clients. I can't imagine anyone trusting what's left of this venture with any data in the future.
Cheers,
You've clearly never been there. I live both in China and Sydney (and sometimes New York). So spare me your analysis Mr. AC.
Cheers,
At least the labeling is accurate:
"scientist and science-fiction writer" ;)
Now shut the hell up and watch what they tell you to watch...or else. :)
But seriously, the level of paranoia here about the country "losing face" if things don't come off exactly as planned is simply difficult to describe if you're not here on the ground to see it first hand. I'm sure the environment in Berlin wasn't much different in 1936. The city is crawling with army, police (in uniform and plainclothes), and civilian brown shirt.....er...I mean "helpers" complete with red armbands (sound familiar)?
So even if nothing really goes wrong, people are seeing the true nature of the Chinese government these days. It's really sad because normally Beijing is a very pleasant city and offers a lot rich cultural sites to visit along with fantastic food. Sigh...
"While the company vows to carry on, this certainly raises some questions about the likelihood of successful privatization of the Space industry."
---
*yawn*
If Fiat fails, will we call into question the entire automobile industry? There are many companies working on private space flight. Elon Musk's company is only one of them. And given that Musk seems to be VERY well capitalized, I don't see them taking their ball and going home any time soon. Burt Rutan had a pretty spectacular explosion in their engine development process last year that resulted in a few fatalities, but I don't expect them to roll over and play dead either. I'm sure there will be even more failures peppering the process as time goes on...just like in every other industry.
Too bad about the lost satellites.
Cheers,
Yes, it's a deleted scene from Stepford Wives Go To Mars.
Ermm.....more likely "will protect the stream of political contributions and lobbying money from the RIAA/MPAA/etc."
You don't get to be in a position where you're the CEO/President of a company who's standard is "blessed" by the Chinese government without having very deep tendrils into the government itself (cough...corruption/nepotism...cough).
More often than not, there are personal and/or family relations between the regulators and the regulated in China that would land all the parties in jail in a developed country. Welcome to Chinese business 101.
We'll adapt. Kids will throw out their lemonade stand signs and wait outside with an electron hose. :)
Besides, the Tesla has an optional "on the road" charger for the car that operates on normal household current so you'd simply need to find someone willing to "rent" you an outlet for a little while.
Cheers,
However, before you write off your devices, you might try to see if there are more current firmware revisions that will make them a bit more resilient.
Even if that "fixes" the rebooting problem. You still ought to periodically check to see if there have been critical security bugs that have been addressed and rolled into newer firmware revs. Just because it's a black box doesn't mean you can just turn it on and forget about it. The black hats never sleep.
Cheers,
Let me see what I can dig up on that.