Uh, can someone please un-demoderate the post by the 64-year-old guy that was marked as flamebait? I think everyone needs to see what he says. It will give us good practice shooting down this type of false reasoning.
This is either real or a really, really good imitation designed to draw the ire of the/. community.
Well, in case you ARE for real, Mr. Veteran, you're barking up the wrong tree. The people who frequent this board are not the "3r33t h4x0rs" and script kiddies that go around wreaking havoc.
Remember that movie you watched, "Hackers"? IT IS TOTALLY APOCRYPHAL.
Do some research before you start shooting off at the mouth. The whole "I was in the war" gambit doesn't excuse insulting a whole group of people without knowing anything about them.
It's like that everywhere. You can't get both Coke AND Pepsi at any restaurant, movie theatre, etc. because the establishment has to sign a monopoly contract saying that they will ONLY buy stuff which is bottled by corporation X. (And most if not all non-Coke, non-Pepsi soft drinks are actually bottled either by Coca-Cola or Pepsi.) This is made easier by the fact that many RESTAURANTS are even owned by either Coke or Pepsi (for example, Kentucky Fried Chicken is a subsidiary of Pepsi). This also extends to the Fritos and other miscellaneous snack foods you eat (Frito-Lay is under Pepsi, if I remember correctly). Just look at these products - many of them have a bunch of popular food item labels stamped in miniature somewhere on their own labels, and either Coke or Pepsi will be at the top of them all.
The only real exception I can remember seeing is with vending machines. You may not commonly see Coke and Pepsi in the same vending machine, but if there are two vending machines next to each other, one will usually have Coke and the other Pepsi.
Not me, dude. I do work in a big corporation. We have mostly Solaris boxes in our data center, and a few NT boxes that do odd stuff for one department. They work well, possibly because they always run the same set of a few apps (i.e. there aren't 80 desktop mcdoodles installed). That's good practice for any server, though. The serious heavy-duty stuff runs on beefy Sun hardware, and it runs well - let's face it, having a UNIX environment means all kinds of flexibility in the scripting area ALONE that NT just doesn't have (its idea of scripting is batch files and VBScript, and most sysadmins prefer the kind of scripting that only a full UNIX shell like sh or bash can afford them). But NT is good enough to do certain things, and one or two of the apps we decided to outsource instead of developing ourselves were available on NT and not Solaris. (Yes, believe it or not, sometimes it's cheaper to outsource something than write it yourself.)
I can. There are apps like PCAnywhere and VNM (the latter being free) which enables remote use of the computer.
BTW, why do we have to have Windows bashing in the article SUMMARIES on the FRONT PAGE? Don't journalists honor the values of letting the READERS make their OWN judgments anymore? Grow the fsck up. Linux is an O/S, not a lifestyle. (emacs, on the other hand, does appear to be a lifestyle.)
Seriously, proposing that Windows is somehow to blame for a supercomputer crashing is childish. Guess what, folks: NO ONE CARES WHETHER YOU HATE BILL GATES. It ranks right up there with pepole who make homepages that say "HI !!! I AM 8 AND I HAVE A HAMSTER AND MY FAVORITE COLOR IS ORANGE".
That wasn't even remotely close to being a troll. Lots of Linux users are like Mac users - they see only the good in their own OS and only the bad in other OSes.
Mr. English Colonel, tellin' me to lose weight! Ooh, I'm a hard case, he says! Well listen up, city Jeff! I ATE A BABY!!! Oh, aye! Baby! The OTHER other white meat! Baby! It's what's fer dinnair!
Their logo looks like a combination of the sign of Satan (which, inverted, is a peace sign) and the sign of the UN.
Look at their first member:
Dr. Robert DeMarais Professor of Business Arkansas Technical University, Russellville, AR I'm in the National Alliance because I'm sick of what's being done to our schools and our young people. I want an America where young men and women can learn and live in a White environment.
These are the words of scared white people who are unable to adapt. They probably grew up in an environment where most (all?) of their closest associates (family, friends, whatever) were white. The only part of other cultures that they can see is the bad part.
Racism is based on ignorance. If you thoroughly investigate, you find that EVERY race is comprised of people who are generally good, generally bad, and somewhere in-between.
He cracked the DVD encryption. He's responsible for his illegal actions and now he's going to pay the price. This is no one's fault but his own.
In fact, I'm somewhat pissed at him for doing it. When people do this sort of thing, it gives lawyers the opportunity to get more and more draconian laws passed. It also makes open source types out to be lawless. He opened Pandora's Box when he did that, and now we all have to bear the brunt of what is issuing forth.
Another consideration in SMP is this: If the CPU costs $75 but the motherboard costs $940, it's not a bargain until lots of people make the motherboard, which drives the price down.
I think SMP is a good idea for these chips. If the architecture can be modified to do it, I don't see why you couldn't have four or eight of these on one board. If you've ever looked inside the chassis of modern dial-up gear (the "modems" on the ISP's end, not the POTS device with the red blinky lights you have on your serial port), you know it's not unreasonable to have upwards of 8 processors - such as the i960, in Nortel's CVX gear - on one card alone, with numerous cards in one chassis.
At that point, you could build a massively parallel single computer, or a cluster of them if you needed even better/more redundant/more fault tolerant/whatever performance.
What really gets me is that they're trying to get the person's address. Usually you need a warrant or a subpoena of some variety, sent out by an actual court of law - you can't just expect companies to give out customers' vital information like that. The ISP I work for never gives out data without a warrant or subpoena, except when we catch one of our own members doing evil things and need to report it to the police or FBI.
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Good for him. Fucking poser polo-shirt preppie bastards.
Maybe "he" was in the service for a number of years?
Uh, can someone please un-demoderate the post by the 64-year-old guy that was marked as flamebait? I think everyone needs to see what he says. It will give us good practice shooting down this type of false reasoning.
DING DING DING!!!
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We have a winner!
This is either real or a really, really good imitation designed to draw the ire of the
Well, in case you ARE for real, Mr. Veteran, you're barking up the wrong tree. The people who frequent this board are not the "3r33t h4x0rs" and script kiddies that go around wreaking havoc.
Remember that movie you watched, "Hackers"? IT IS TOTALLY APOCRYPHAL.
Do some research before you start shooting off at the mouth. The whole "I was in the war" gambit doesn't excuse insulting a whole group of people without knowing anything about them.
Feh.
Yeah, you know you do it too. You, and your U-turn dink!
Already been to that link. Nice try! :D
Microsoft flames are about as original as washing a car with water rather than mud.
Read this and see what I mean.
FUCKING SHUT UP
I'll call it Micro$loth Windblows in a DELICIOUS TWIST of IRONY
Umm... please learn how to fucking use apostrophes.
The only real exception I can remember seeing is with vending machines. You may not commonly see Coke and Pepsi in the same vending machine, but if there are two vending machines next to each other, one will usually have Coke and the other Pepsi.
(sorry :))
also lots of people can't be bothered to ever vote or write a letter to their rep and/or senator
then they start shouting about how government doesn't represent them... STFU
Win3.1 still has better memory management than MacOS... :)
Not me, dude. I do work in a big corporation. We have mostly Solaris boxes in our data center, and a few NT boxes that do odd stuff for one department. They work well, possibly because they always run the same set of a few apps (i.e. there aren't 80 desktop mcdoodles installed). That's good practice for any server, though. The serious heavy-duty stuff runs on beefy Sun hardware, and it runs well - let's face it, having a UNIX environment means all kinds of flexibility in the scripting area ALONE that NT just doesn't have (its idea of scripting is batch files and VBScript, and most sysadmins prefer the kind of scripting that only a full UNIX shell like sh or bash can afford them). But NT is good enough to do certain things, and one or two of the apps we decided to outsource instead of developing ourselves were available on NT and not Solaris. (Yes, believe it or not, sometimes it's cheaper to outsource something than write it yourself.)
BTW, why do we have to have Windows bashing in the article SUMMARIES on the FRONT PAGE? Don't journalists honor the values of letting the READERS make their OWN judgments anymore? Grow the fsck up. Linux is an O/S, not a lifestyle. (emacs, on the other hand, does appear to be a lifestyle.)
Seriously, proposing that Windows is somehow to blame for a supercomputer crashing is childish. Guess what, folks: NO ONE CARES WHETHER YOU HATE BILL GATES. It ranks right up there with pepole who make homepages that say "HI !!! I AM 8 AND I HAVE A HAMSTER AND MY FAVORITE COLOR IS ORANGE".
That wasn't even remotely close to being a troll. Lots of Linux users are like Mac users - they see only the good in their own OS and only the bad in other OSes.
It is a non issue for many people. Problems with the news server, you say?!? OH NO!!! CALL THE KGB!!!
Mr. English Colonel, tellin' me to lose weight! Ooh, I'm a hard case, he says! Well listen up, city Jeff! I ATE A BABY!!! Oh, aye! Baby! The OTHER other white meat! Baby! It's what's fer dinnair!
Where do I sign up?
Look at their first member:
Dr. Robert DeMarais Professor of Business Arkansas Technical University, Russellville, AR
I'm in the National Alliance because I'm sick of what's being done to our schools and our young people. I want an America where young men and women can learn and live in a White environment.
These are the words of scared white people who are unable to adapt. They probably grew up in an environment where most (all?) of their closest associates (family, friends, whatever) were white. The only part of other cultures that they can see is the bad part.
Racism is based on ignorance. If you thoroughly investigate, you find that EVERY race is comprised of people who are generally good, generally bad, and somewhere in-between.
In fact, I'm somewhat pissed at him for doing it. When people do this sort of thing, it gives lawyers the opportunity to get more and more draconian laws passed. It also makes open source types out to be lawless. He opened Pandora's Box when he did that, and now we all have to bear the brunt of what is issuing forth.
Still, a processor that runs at 700MHz and dissipates only 1 watt of power? That's gotta save some on the electrical bills.
I think SMP is a good idea for these chips. If the architecture can be modified to do it, I don't see why you couldn't have four or eight of these on one board. If you've ever looked inside the chassis of modern dial-up gear (the "modems" on the ISP's end, not the POTS device with the red blinky lights you have on your serial port), you know it's not unreasonable to have upwards of 8 processors - such as the i960, in Nortel's CVX gear - on one card alone, with numerous cards in one chassis.
At that point, you could build a massively parallel single computer, or a cluster of them if you needed even better/more redundant/more fault tolerant/whatever performance.
What really gets me is that they're trying to get the person's address. Usually you need a warrant or a subpoena of some variety, sent out by an actual court of law - you can't just expect companies to give out customers' vital information like that. The ISP I work for never gives out data without a warrant or subpoena, except when we catch one of our own members doing evil things and need to report it to the police or FBI.