Is what seperates SCSI from IDE, but it's in the IDE spec, and people are working on it for the 2.5 linux kernel, there have been two recent patches implementing it.
Right now, you can bet that most drive and chipset suport for it is bugy as hell, but if people start to use it, it will improve.
At my last job, we wondered why our carefully tuned images looked like shit on AOL. We found they were recompressing our jpegs to make them much smaller (and thus lower quality). So we now send AOL really high quality jpegs so that our images don't get trashed as badly by AOL.
No charge if you let it send your change logs back to bitkeeper for public display, and you get the source, under basically the GPL, with the one restriction that it pass the regression tests (essentailly, you have to let it send the change logs back).
OK, so that's not technically free software, but isn't that close enough?
ah, they may be close, but they can have long apparant distances, as I understand it. Thus, they could be much better, with your eye thinking it is meters away, and meters across.
I'm another happy Robomail user, it works well without the license key, your sig line is nagware, and I think there is a startup delay that is one seconded per day after the trial period.
I really liked reading my mail with a database, it ran great under OS/2 as well.
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Not the same!
They have a few treaks for better memory performance in multi processor situations, have a look at the http://www.anandtech.com/ benchmarks. They do not seem to have benifit in single cpu systems.
Yes, unlike Intel, AMDs multi cpu version of their chip has real design differences, not pinout and cache changes.
Of course, all socket A chips are good for SMP use.
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/ has a install disk for RH & ReiserFS, I expect you could
use it for recovery.
These make nice emergency disks, including ssh:
http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ The LNX-BBC is a mini Linux-distribution, small enough to fit on a CD-ROM that has been cut, pressed, or molded to the size and shape of a business card.
Was the original name. It is decended from the BBC computer, which had a 6502, but when the designers started thinking about replacing it, they didn't like the way the 680x0 and the 80x86 handled interupts, among other things, so they decided to do their own design, I think Acorn was the name of the company, or the computer. I also seem to think they were interperted, so you could swich cpu arch with no real problems.
Dear me, the things you remember from being a Newton user.
well, they published a script, looks like they took the marked up shooting script, stuck in some stills, and sent it to the printers. I bought it in a English edition 20 or so years ago. That has not just the script for the sceen (with a big slash through each page in what looks like marker or crayon) but also stills for the King Brian The Wild sceen, so footage was shot.
What ever happened to Micron's SMP Athlon chipset, the one with the 8MB L3 cache on the chipset die? A flury of coverage a while back, and then nothing (I've looked).
OpenBSD is all about being done corectly, and from that, comes it's security. SMP is extremely hard to do completely corectly, they have only so much man power, so they haven't bothered.
If you can get a G4 at 850mhz in a laptop, it probably is the fastest. The 1ghz Intels likely cannot really run at that speed. Also, the mac has a higher max ram (1GB or better) that the PC (ok, I could be wrong).
So, is your data int or float, 8, 16, 32, or 64 bit, and can you work on several chunks at a time. If it is in 32 or smaller bit chunks, and you can do several at once, the mac is likely to rule suprem. It has 32 vs 8 128bit registers, and can do 2 instructions per clock tick vs 1 every other for the P3, for 4 times the speed, and better opps to boot.
Once again, what exactly are you doing?
Hey/., how about getting that kind of question for the next time someone asks what kind of system they should buy?
In linux, a process is almost as light as a thread in other OSs. So in linux, you have a choice of just how much you want your processes to share. If nothing, it's a traditional unix process, if almost everything, it's a thread. In linux, they all run as quick as threads do elsewhere.
What linux doesn't have is Posix threads, as Linus seems to feel that they are brain dead, something cobbled together before people really understood what the trade offs were. Linux will get them when someone who understands Posix threads and the linux kernel writes them, in a manner Linus accepts. There are very few people who could do that. But perhaps IBM will pay a few smart people to do it.
So, are you sure linux threads don't do what you need? Yes, they are not Posix compliant.
Well, I wanted a second handle some time ago, and I had a CD with Chaostrophy as a track title (Coil, the album "Love's Secret Domain"). Then I needed a vanity domain, and it was availible. It's a cool sounding word, and unique. A web search on it pulls up me, band refernces, and a Cal Tech physics prof's paper.
http://www.jwz.org/doc/
has a number of essays about mail on Unix systems, including problems with mail box formats.
I use Xemacs/Gnus/nnml so all my mail is stored as individual files, which is handy (as other posters have said) and has it's downsides, as they have said too (grep now bitches if passed all files in my main mail box). Still, I like it, best system I've used. Not so great for the multiple hosts thing though.
Or you could run your mail and xemacs on one machine, and either read your mail in a terminal, or open X windows on your local display. Look up gnuserve to do that, I think.
It is led by a guy who was an HP OpenView developer, then a consultant for iplementing it, then he decided to make something that actually worked, and was open.
What does your app need? Here's the questions I'd look at first, and a few thoughts.
First, is it fpu or integer intensive? If integer, intel can make sense. If fpu, can you use SIMD (MMX, 3dNow, alta vec, etc)? If you can, intel can still work, but if not, RISC is the only choice.
Second, how much memory bus does it really need? Ok, a lan will not cut it, but could you live with everything (cpu-cpu or cpu-memory) going over 1 100Mhz 64 bit bus (ok, I think the 8 way boxes have two busses, 4 cpu on each)? If so, an 8 way intel box may be the right choice. Test to see if you need 2MB cache, or if everything is good with 1MB or 512k, you can save some money. I don't know how the RISC boxes are with regards to bus, but they are better by a huge margin than intel. If you are going to wait a bit, the AMD 8 way boxes may be availible, you'd get stunning integer performance, ok fpu, and good memory bus performance, it is the same bus the Alpha uses.
Disk I/O, how much? are you loading from disk, and just chewing on it for a few days? If so, disk io doesn't much matter, but if it does, linux may not be the best choice.
I'm guessing that network io does not matter.
For this kind of task, I bet that linux will work just fine (spliting the multi threaded or multiple process app over multiple cpus). I'm guessing that if a big intel box is not suitable, a big alpha box is the best choice.
How much ram does the box need? If memory speed is the limiting factor, RISC usually has better memory designs.
$200k is not much money, really. I'm guessing it will buy you a fully tricked out 8 way Xeon Intel box, or somewhat less RISC. Of course, if you get more $, you can add more CPUs to your box, but not true for intel.
Hmmm, spend $100,000 on an intel box now, and $100,000 when you can get an 8 way AMD Athlon? Might be best of all worlds for your money.
Linus has said the 2.4 kernel will be vastly better under high loads. He reported recently that he did some testing to see how responsive it was under high loads, and it did much better than the 2.2 series did. This was a perception test, how it felt, so no hard numbers are possible.
Or am I dreaming? I don't think there is much for linux on HP, the were so closed that they would not even give out info so you could write a free compiler. Though there was some kind of port at one time or another.
how about www.bitkeeper.com? Sure, it is not actually GPL level free, it is free enough for most of us (free beer, and damn near pure free speech). You would need to get everyone to switch though, which could be a pain.
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Xscreensaver has a package called webcolage, it grabs images at random off the internet, I supose hacking how it gets the images would be easy enough.
Is what seperates SCSI from IDE, but it's in the IDE spec, and people are working on it for the 2.5 linux kernel, there have been two recent patches implementing it.
Right now, you can bet that most drive and chipset suport for it is bugy as hell, but if people start to use it, it will improve.
At my last job, we wondered why our carefully tuned images looked like shit on AOL. We found they were recompressing our jpegs to make them much smaller (and thus lower quality). So we now send AOL really high quality jpegs so that our images don't get trashed as badly by AOL.
No charge if you let it send your change logs back to bitkeeper for public display, and you get the source, under basically the GPL, with the one restriction that it pass the regression tests (essentailly, you have to let it send the change logs back).
OK, so that's not technically free software, but isn't that close enough?
ah, they may be close, but they can have long apparant distances, as I understand it. Thus, they could be much better, with your eye thinking it is meters away, and meters across.
I'm another happy Robomail user, it works well without the license key, your sig line is nagware, and I think there is a startup delay that is one seconded per day after the trial period.
I really liked reading my mail with a database, it ran great under OS/2 as well.
and I've never had searches work at Anandtech.
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http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1483&p=13
1.2Ghz MP vs regular 1.2Ghz Athlon (and many other AMD and Intel systems) single and dual, on a database benchmark, lower numbers are better.
2 MP 12.2
2 normal 16.0
1 MP 19.3
1 normal 19.8
Anyone heard any new rumors about this?
Not the same!
They have a few treaks for better memory performance in multi processor situations, have a look at the http://www.anandtech.com/ benchmarks. They do not seem to have benifit in single cpu systems.
Yes, unlike Intel, AMDs multi cpu version of their chip has real design differences, not pinout and cache changes.
Of course, all socket A chips are good for SMP use.
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/ has a install disk for RH & ReiserFS, I expect you could
use it for recovery.
These make nice emergency disks, including ssh:
http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ The LNX-BBC is a mini Linux-distribution, small enough to fit on a CD-ROM that has been cut, pressed, or molded to the size and shape of a business card.
Was the original name. It is decended from the BBC computer, which had a 6502, but when the designers started thinking about replacing it, they didn't like the way the 680x0 and the 80x86 handled interupts, among other things, so they decided to do their own design, I think Acorn was the name of the company, or the computer. I also seem to think they were interperted, so you could swich cpu arch with no real problems.
Dear me, the things you remember from being a Newton user.
well, they published a script, looks like they took the marked up shooting script, stuck in some stills, and sent it to the printers. I bought it in a English edition 20 or so years ago. That has not just the script for the sceen (with a big slash through each page in what looks like marker or crayon) but also stills for the King Brian The Wild sceen, so footage was shot.
What ever happened to Micron's SMP Athlon chipset, the one with the 8MB L3 cache on the chipset die? A flury of coverage a while back, and then nothing (I've looked).
Exactly, "done corectly".
OpenBSD is all about being done corectly, and from that, comes it's security. SMP is extremely hard to do completely corectly, they have only so much man power, so they haven't bothered.
If you can get a G4 at 850mhz in a laptop, it probably is the fastest. The 1ghz Intels likely cannot really run at that speed. Also, the mac has a higher max ram (1GB or better) that the PC (ok, I could be wrong).
/., how about getting that kind of question for the next time someone asks what kind of system they should buy?
So, is your data int or float, 8, 16, 32, or 64 bit, and can you work on several chunks at a time. If it is in 32 or smaller bit chunks, and you can do several at once, the mac is likely to rule suprem. It has 32 vs 8 128bit registers, and can do 2 instructions per clock tick vs 1 every other for the P3, for 4 times the speed, and better opps to boot.
Once again, what exactly are you doing?
Hey
In linux, a process is almost as light as a thread in other OSs. So in linux, you have a choice of just how much you want your processes to share. If nothing, it's a traditional unix process, if almost everything, it's a thread. In linux, they all run as quick as threads do elsewhere.
What linux doesn't have is Posix threads, as Linus seems to feel that they are brain dead, something cobbled together before people really understood what the trade offs were. Linux will get them when someone who understands Posix threads and the linux kernel writes them, in a manner Linus accepts. There are very few people who could do that. But perhaps IBM will pay a few smart people to do it.
So, are you sure linux threads don't do what you need? Yes, they are not Posix compliant.
Well, I wanted a second handle some time ago, and I had a CD with Chaostrophy as a track title (Coil, the album "Love's Secret Domain"). Then I needed a vanity domain, and it was availible. It's a cool sounding word, and unique. A web search on it pulls up me, band refernces, and a Cal Tech physics prof's paper.
It is not the best track on the album though.
http://www.jwz.org/doc/
has a number of essays about mail on Unix systems, including problems with mail box formats.
I use Xemacs/Gnus/nnml so all my mail is stored as individual files, which is handy (as other posters have said) and has it's downsides, as they have said too (grep now bitches if passed all files in my main mail box). Still, I like it, best system I've used. Not so great for the multiple hosts thing though.
Or you could run your mail and xemacs on one machine, and either read your mail in a terminal, or open X windows on your local display. Look up gnuserve to do that, I think.
http://www.opennms.org/
It is led by a guy who was an HP OpenView developer, then a consultant for iplementing it, then he decided to make something that actually worked, and was open.
Currently at version 0.4.1
What does your app need? Here's the questions I'd look at first, and a few thoughts.
First, is it fpu or integer intensive? If integer, intel can make sense. If fpu, can you use SIMD (MMX, 3dNow, alta vec, etc)? If you can, intel can still work, but if not, RISC is the only choice.
Second, how much memory bus does it really need? Ok, a lan will not cut it, but could you live with everything (cpu-cpu or cpu-memory) going over 1 100Mhz 64 bit bus (ok, I think the 8 way boxes have two busses, 4 cpu on each)? If so, an 8 way intel box may be the right choice. Test to see if you need 2MB cache, or if everything is good with 1MB or 512k, you can save some money. I don't know how the RISC boxes are with regards to bus, but they are better by a huge margin than intel. If you are going to wait a bit, the AMD 8 way boxes may be availible, you'd get stunning integer performance, ok fpu, and good memory bus performance, it is the same bus the Alpha uses.
Disk I/O, how much? are you loading from disk, and just chewing on it for a few days? If so, disk io doesn't much matter, but if it does, linux may not be the best choice.
I'm guessing that network io does not matter.
For this kind of task, I bet that linux will work just fine (spliting the multi threaded or multiple process app over multiple cpus). I'm guessing that if a big intel box is not suitable, a big alpha box is the best choice.
How much ram does the box need? If memory speed is the limiting factor, RISC usually has better memory designs.
$200k is not much money, really. I'm guessing it will buy you a fully tricked out 8 way Xeon Intel box, or somewhat less RISC. Of course, if you get more $, you can add more CPUs to your box, but not true for intel.
Hmmm, spend $100,000 on an intel box now, and $100,000 when you can get an 8 way AMD Athlon? Might be best of all worlds for your money.
Better questions people!
Linus has said the 2.4 kernel will be vastly better under high loads. He reported recently that he did some testing to see how responsive it was under high loads, and it did much better than the 2.2 series did. This was a perception test, how it felt, so no hard numbers are possible.
The bsd's do their thing well.
But I'm happy with linux.
Or am I dreaming? I don't think there is much for linux on HP, the were so closed that they would not even give out info so you could write a free compiler. Though there was some kind of port at one time or another.
how about www.bitkeeper.com? Sure, it is not actually GPL level free, it is free enough for most of us (free beer, and damn near pure free speech). You would need to get everyone to switch though, which could be a pain.
Oh, and I use Xemacs its self to filter my mail. I used to use procmail with VM, but with Gnus, this is easier.