I realize you may have meant that as a joke... but glxgears is a horrible benchmark.
If you really want to benchmark graphics, try viewperf. glxgears is too simple to actually stress a modern gpu. You're testing the rest of the system more than the graphics card with glxgears.
One big difference between stopping toads and stopping illegal immigrants... you can kill the toads on sight.
Even if they're not able to 100% eliminate the toads, they will at least be able to severely reduce the numbers, buying more time for threatened native species.
A pair of broadcom or intel gige cards running through a regular "netgear|linksys|d-link|smc|hp" switch can get latencies of about 20-30 microseconds for small packets. It creeps up as packets get larger.
The broadcom needs a slight ethtool config change to go that low- it otherwise gets about 45 us with a slightly lower cpu load.
I work in HPC linux clusters. HPC MPI app performance is largely determined by interconnect bandwidth and latency. We use our Link-Checker tool regularly to test latencies and bandwidths of high performance interconnects. Here are some recent results(latency is one way, bandwidth unidirectional):
Mellanox Infiniband cards with our own IB switch: latency of ~3.7us, bandwidth ~910MB/s
You can even skip the usb kit and just use a parallel port. A simple c app can toggle the data pins (2-9) on and off on a parallel port, triggering a relay.
I have the pin going through an fet (with 5v sys power feeding it) to bump up the juice enough to flip the relay in my setup. You may or may not need it with your relay and parallel port.
I have my personal server monitor it's cable modem connection (ping tests) and cut the power via a relay to reset it if needed.
Kind of offtopic, I know, but here is the c code to do it if you're interested:
int main(int argc,char *argv[]){ int duration; if(argc!=2){ fprintf(stderr,"Usage: flip-relay <duration>\n"); return(1); } /*defaults to relay on - swap the 255 and the 0 in the outb calls to reverse it*/ duration=atoi(argv[1]); ioperm(0x378,8,1); outb(255,0x378); sleep(duration); outb(0,0x378); return 0; }
That's right... only under linux distos, components are much more modularized. This better enables development by independent groups. If they wanted to "open up" a little to fight off complaints from groups like the EU, they can communicate between groups only with publicly available apis. Maybe this type of already proven organization could help the situation for Microsoft?
It seems more likely that the *exact* same hack working on multiple applications (assuming that no code was copied from one to the other) is probably the result of those applications sharing a library
Because Internet Explorer and Firefox share so many libraries... lol.
Another example could be web browsers. Internet Explorer, FireFox,
Opera are all competing pieces of software, with entirely different
source code...
They do, however, often end up all being vulnerable to the same hacks. Since they are all doing the same end jobs, many methods end up overlapping without even sharing/stealing source. This is the point. Those overlapping pieces could potentially be problem causers for copyright and patent laws.
The fat man makes a pun and you all wet yourselves.. I give you gold and I get squat!
Well, it's looks like he's cashing in on that gold! Stewie is definitely one of the funniest characters on Family Guy. I just hope they don't ruin it with this farce of a talk show.
Grub's biggest shortcoming right now is a lack of support for gpt partitions. To be able to use a raid larger than 2TB without carving it, you need to use a gpt partition table instead of a traditional dos style. lilo doesn't care about partition tables - it maps a specific location for the kernel, that's why it needs to be run every time. This hard mapping works with gpt, so for the large raids I've worked on, I've been forced to use lilo instead of the generally far superior grub.
My love for grub is for the same reasons everyone else has given - primarily it's ability to be fixed where a similar problem in lilo requires a boot cd - this is INVALUABLE doing tech support with inexperienced customers that have screwed up their systems and can't find their boot cds.
I've listened to several of the songs. It's quite interesting.
However, their recording and filtering process has left a considerable amount of background static and white noise. I understand that these are old recordings, and I definitely think these guys deserve pats on the back. But couldn't a white noise filter have been used in the digitization process to clean it up better?
We want these preserved in as close to originally performed quality, not originally recorded. Additional cleanup of the sound would get more people to listen to this interesting music.
The same goes for me. I integrate clusters, so I'm constantly testing new hardware. I can't tell you how many of my clothes have been ruined from either heatsink grease or sharp edges on sheet metal from the chassis.
I'm not allowed to wear jeans, so instead I wear nothing but cheap khaki pants and polo shirts I get from Intel and AMD. I continue to wear them even after a couple of grease stains or small tears, but replace them when it's too bad. In the summer, I wear shorts and a t-shirt from a vendor (much longer list on t-shirts than polos).
It would cost way too much money to dress fashionably, constantly replacing clothes. I have nice clothes too, but those are for my personal life. I won't destroy them at work.
I almost never see customers, so it doesn't matter. My boss dresses simarly. The few times we have a customer visit, we know beforehand and will dress at least a little better.
I am the admin for a small company myself. Here, there is only 1 thing we really need backed up regularly, and that is our customer data. It is backed up nightly onto a large raid system, and then once a week it is backed up to dvd from the raid. Larger volumes of data might be better handled with backups to tape or external hard drives. Those backups should then be stored off site for disaster recovery. Our regular employee data (current projects, etc) is backed up just to the raid itself. If anyone ever has anything particularly valuable, it too can be backed up offsite. The raid is just a bunch of ide disks in a software raid 5 with a hot spare. The raid is monitored by mdadm and warns me if a drive fails. If one fails, I let it rebuild onto the spare, and then cold swap the failed drive(5 mins downtime max).
It wouldn't be my negligence that led to OmniCorp's problem. It is OmniCorp's job to secure their data. There are many other ways besides my access point for a hacker to get to OmniCorp's server.
You can't feasibly control every method of connecting to the internet. Besides, people with the ability to hack into OmniCorp's servers are going to have no trouble getting past a wep key!
All of the zero gravity problems can be easily solved with artificial gravity. A spinning chamber can use centrifugal force to simulate gravity. Basically, the floor of the room is the outside edge of the spin, drawing everything towards the floor.
Um... those no trucks signs are for big trucks like 18 wheelers and stuff.
I actually drive a 5 speed Cherokee about 65 miles round trip to work. However, I live in New England and get hit with pretty bad winters, so the 4 wheel drive helps a LOT. A good 8 mile stretch of the drive is a winding back road that is always poorly plowed. And before anyone bothers.. I had a small front wheel drive vehicle(with great tires) before this, and it didn't even compare to a 4x4.
I also actually take it off road, something many suv's never see. I go fishing, hunting, and camping, so the vehicle actually gets used how it's meant to. But people are right.. most suv's, trucks, and minivans are not really needed.
Hyperthreading allows 1 thread to use the integer operations and another thread to use the floating point operations simultaneously. The integer and floating point execution areas are separate and can be used independently. Hyperthreading allows 2 paths into the cpu to allow them to be used simultaneously. A properly written program can benefit greatly from hyperthreading. In some application testing I've done in the hpc market, some codes have run ~30% faster with hyperthreading turned on since the physical cpu can be better utilized.
However.. we still sell >90% opterons, with a growing number of dual core opterons. All the xeon dual core stuff I've seen is garbage and totally wasteful. Their next line of dual core stuff should be better though (from what we've been told).
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I realize you may have meant that as a joke... but glxgears is a horrible benchmark.
If you really want to benchmark graphics, try viewperf. glxgears is too simple to actually stress a modern gpu. You're testing the rest of the system more than the graphics card with glxgears.
One big difference between stopping toads and stopping illegal immigrants... you can kill the toads on sight.
Even if they're not able to 100% eliminate the toads, they will at least be able to severely reduce the numbers, buying more time for threatened native species.
If that's so, why didn't you do it for sodum, potassum, calcum & the rest?
Because they didn't start out as "sodidium", "potassisium", and "calcicium".
I saw one at a trade show once.. they were really cool. The angle on the 3d was not bad either. I consider it a pretty revolutionary product actually.
The broadcom needs a slight ethtool config change to go that low- it otherwise gets about 45 us with a slightly lower cpu load.
I work in HPC linux clusters. HPC MPI app performance is largely determined by interconnect bandwidth and latency. We use our Link-Checker tool regularly to test latencies and bandwidths of high performance interconnects. Here are some recent results(latency is one way, bandwidth unidirectional):
I have the pin going through an fet (with 5v sys power feeding it) to bump up the juice enough to flip the relay in my setup. You may or may not need it with your relay and parallel port.
I have my personal server monitor it's cable modem connection (ping tests) and cut the power via a relay to reset it if needed.
Kind of offtopic, I know, but here is the c code to do it if you're interested:
Even shorter still!
emerge ntp
That's right... only under linux distos, components are much more modularized. This better enables development by independent groups. If they wanted to "open up" a little to fight off complaints from groups like the EU, they can communicate between groups only with publicly available apis. Maybe this type of already proven organization could help the situation for Microsoft?
It seems more likely that the *exact* same hack working on multiple applications (assuming that no code was copied from one to the other) is probably the result of those applications sharing a library
Because Internet Explorer and Firefox share so many libraries... lol.
Another example could be web browsers. Internet Explorer, FireFox,
Opera are all competing pieces of software, with entirely different
source code...
They do, however, often end up all being vulnerable to the same hacks. Since they are all doing the same end jobs, many methods end up overlapping without even sharing/stealing source. This is the point. Those overlapping pieces could potentially be problem causers for copyright and patent laws.
The fat man makes a pun and you all wet yourselves.. I give you gold and I get squat!
Well, it's looks like he's cashing in on that gold! Stewie is definitely one of the funniest characters on Family Guy. I just hope they don't ruin it with this farce of a talk show.
That's fine.. just go use msn or yahoo so the government gets it all. People should be CHEERING for google for taking a stand.
Of course not.. the fact that the majority of media workers use apples does NOT make them biased.. of course not...
Grub's biggest shortcoming right now is a lack of support for gpt partitions. To be able to use a raid larger than 2TB without carving it, you need to use a gpt partition table instead of a traditional dos style. lilo doesn't care about partition tables - it maps a specific location for the kernel, that's why it needs to be run every time. This hard mapping works with gpt, so for the large raids I've worked on, I've been forced to use lilo instead of the generally far superior grub.
My love for grub is for the same reasons everyone else has given - primarily it's ability to be fixed where a similar problem in lilo requires a boot cd - this is INVALUABLE doing tech support with inexperienced customers that have screwed up their systems and can't find their boot cds.
Either that.. or use one of the many logins available here http://www.bugmenot.com/view.php?url=www.nytimes.c om! Bugmenot rocks for all those PITA registration required sites.
I've listened to several of the songs. It's quite interesting.
However, their recording and filtering process has left a considerable amount of background static and white noise. I understand that these are old recordings, and I definitely think these guys deserve pats on the back. But couldn't a white noise filter have been used in the digitization process to clean it up better?
We want these preserved in as close to originally performed quality, not originally recorded. Additional cleanup of the sound would get more people to listen to this interesting music.
The same goes for me. I integrate clusters, so I'm constantly testing new hardware. I can't tell you how many of my clothes have been ruined from either heatsink grease or sharp edges on sheet metal from the chassis.
I'm not allowed to wear jeans, so instead I wear nothing but cheap khaki pants and polo shirts I get from Intel and AMD. I continue to wear them even after a couple of grease stains or small tears, but replace them when it's too bad. In the summer, I wear shorts and a t-shirt from a vendor (much longer list on t-shirts than polos).
It would cost way too much money to dress fashionably, constantly replacing clothes. I have nice clothes too, but those are for my personal life. I won't destroy them at work.
I almost never see customers, so it doesn't matter. My boss dresses simarly. The few times we have a customer visit, we know beforehand and will dress at least a little better.
I am the admin for a small company myself. Here, there is only 1 thing we really need backed up regularly, and that is our customer data. It is backed up nightly onto a large raid system, and then once a week it is backed up to dvd from the raid. Larger volumes of data might be better handled with backups to tape or external hard drives. Those backups should then be stored off site for disaster recovery. Our regular employee data (current projects, etc) is backed up just to the raid itself. If anyone ever has anything particularly valuable, it too can be backed up offsite. The raid is just a bunch of ide disks in a software raid 5 with a hot spare. The raid is monitored by mdadm and warns me if a drive fails. If one fails, I let it rebuild onto the spare, and then cold swap the failed drive(5 mins downtime max).
It wouldn't be my negligence that led to OmniCorp's problem. It is OmniCorp's job to secure their data. There are many other ways besides my access point for a hacker to get to OmniCorp's server.
You can't feasibly control every method of connecting to the internet. Besides, people with the ability to hack into OmniCorp's servers are going to have no trouble getting past a wep key!
All of the zero gravity problems can be easily solved with artificial gravity. A spinning chamber can use centrifugal force to simulate gravity. Basically, the floor of the room is the outside edge of the spin, drawing everything towards the floor.
Try telling my production servers that!
Um... those no trucks signs are for big trucks like 18 wheelers and stuff.
I actually drive a 5 speed Cherokee about 65 miles round trip to work. However, I live in New England and get hit with pretty bad winters, so the 4 wheel drive helps a LOT. A good 8 mile stretch of the drive is a winding back road that is always poorly plowed. And before anyone bothers.. I had a small front wheel drive vehicle(with great tires) before this, and it didn't even compare to a 4x4.
I also actually take it off road, something many suv's never see. I go fishing, hunting, and camping, so the vehicle actually gets used how it's meant to. But people are right.. most suv's, trucks, and minivans are not really needed.
Saying "some" would imply more than one. The only egg laying mammal (at least known) is the Platypus - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus
Hyperthreading allows 1 thread to use the integer operations and another thread to use the floating point operations simultaneously. The integer and floating point execution areas are separate and can be used independently. Hyperthreading allows 2 paths into the cpu to allow them to be used simultaneously. A properly written program can benefit greatly from hyperthreading. In some application testing I've done in the hpc market, some codes have run ~30% faster with hyperthreading turned on since the physical cpu can be better utilized.
However.. we still sell >90% opterons, with a growing number of dual core opterons. All the xeon dual core stuff I've seen is garbage and totally wasteful. Their next line of dual core stuff should be better though (from what we've been told).