What if I like both eighties hair metal and symphonic orchestra? I guess it's okay to reccomend songs from each of those categories, but as the number of preferences rises, wouldn't it become harder and harder to pick even a specific genre to reccomend, much less a specific album?
Okay, so I'd really enjoy trying something like the clustered model, just for academic kicks, but a relevant question comes to mind, at least for me.
Where do people get the commodity systems cheap enough to be able to play around with this? I hardly want to spend two thousand bucks on some old P2s just to play around. Anyone have some hot tips where you can find real cheap (dare I dream... free) commodity systems to build a low-end cluster for kicks?
Also, I'm a Windows guy by trade. Will making a Linux cluster make me instantly cool?:)
It costs Apple $90.18 in materials to build the [$199] unit and $8 to assemble it, leaving a profit margin before marketing and distribution costs of about 50%.
I'm not sure what the implications are here. That seems like it's about right for a typical "hot" technology item.
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You've obviously never heard Larry Wall do one of these.
I just recently started participating in it. Doesn't seem too complicated, though I'm still a bit unclear as to the relevancy of the predicitions it generates. It seems to me that for this sort of thing to work right, you'd need a much larger sampling (which maybe Google is hoping to get), but then, maybe I just don't know what I'm talking about?
That's because viruses on Linux are so rarely reported due to their limited scope of effectiveness. Since Windows is more popular in the combined server and desktop markets, outbreaks cause significantly more damage (though I'm willing to bet the damage caused per exploited system is a far lower average than the lower volume, but higher cost server attacks that UNIXes more often suffer). In addition, Windows users tend toward not being so, how to put it nicely, interested in learning the proper maintenance of their systems (hey, I'm not complaining, doing it for them pays my bills), so they tend to frequently get infected by things that don't exploit security holes in the systems but rather excess holes in the heads of the users.
Compare to Linux in which most exploits are a result of actual security problems in either the kernel or the supporting applications, and you have less widespread attacks that affect fewer systems.
Difference in market shares, my friend. If you want to exploit a Linux system you're probably an attacker targetting a specific network and installation for a very specific purpose (making this attack something of an oddball). If you're looking to exploit a Windows system, however, you're more likely just a general Internet thug trying to install spam bots and backdoors on home machines. The latter causes more problem since the target is a much, much larger pool of users, so the latter gets more heavily reported even though the targetted attacks usually cause more on-average damage.
If they've determined a more efficient way to run their instructions, yes. There are more ways to make the processor perform better other than just speeding it up. A case study is the various AMD processors that, despite being technically slower, perform better.
Another valid option is to specialize the processor and focus all the resources on a specific task, but I don't think Intel is doing that.
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What if I like both eighties hair metal and symphonic orchestra? I guess it's okay to reccomend songs from each of those categories, but as the number of preferences rises, wouldn't it become harder and harder to pick even a specific genre to reccomend, much less a specific album?
Okay, so I'd really enjoy trying something like the clustered model, just for academic kicks, but a relevant question comes to mind, at least for me.
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Where do people get the commodity systems cheap enough to be able to play around with this? I hardly want to spend two thousand bucks on some old P2s just to play around. Anyone have some hot tips where you can find real cheap (dare I dream... free) commodity systems to build a low-end cluster for kicks?
Also, I'm a Windows guy by trade. Will making a Linux cluster make me instantly cool?
The important question answered:
It costs Apple $90.18 in materials to build the [$199] unit and $8 to assemble it, leaving a profit margin before marketing and distribution costs of about 50%.
I'm not sure what the implications are here. That seems like it's about right for a typical "hot" technology item.
You've obviously never heard Larry Wall do one of these.
I just recently started participating in it. Doesn't seem too complicated, though I'm still a bit unclear as to the relevancy of the predicitions it generates. It seems to me that for this sort of thing to work right, you'd need a much larger sampling (which maybe Google is hoping to get), but then, maybe I just don't know what I'm talking about?
That's because viruses on Linux are so rarely reported due to their limited scope of effectiveness. Since Windows is more popular in the combined server and desktop markets, outbreaks cause significantly more damage (though I'm willing to bet the damage caused per exploited system is a far lower average than the lower volume, but higher cost server attacks that UNIXes more often suffer). In addition, Windows users tend toward not being so, how to put it nicely, interested in learning the proper maintenance of their systems (hey, I'm not complaining, doing it for them pays my bills), so they tend to frequently get infected by things that don't exploit security holes in the systems but rather excess holes in the heads of the users.
Compare to Linux in which most exploits are a result of actual security problems in either the kernel or the supporting applications, and you have less widespread attacks that affect fewer systems.
Difference in market shares, my friend. If you want to exploit a Linux system you're probably an attacker targetting a specific network and installation for a very specific purpose (making this attack something of an oddball). If you're looking to exploit a Windows system, however, you're more likely just a general Internet thug trying to install spam bots and backdoors on home machines. The latter causes more problem since the target is a much, much larger pool of users, so the latter gets more heavily reported even though the targetted attacks usually cause more on-average damage.
If they've determined a more efficient way to run their instructions, yes. There are more ways to make the processor perform better other than just speeding it up. A case study is the various AMD processors that, despite being technically slower, perform better.
Another valid option is to specialize the processor and focus all the resources on a specific task, but I don't think Intel is doing that.