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Another RAID for backup is worthless because you can't periodically offline it and ship it offsite for disaster recovery. That's why tape libraries exist. Trust me, tape is the way to go.
You're missing the fact that less than 1% of all on-line advertising is banner ads that pay on click-through. Traditional radio/tv/print adversiting is indeed what is failing.
Hearing these specs just makes me lament the Atari Lynx even more. The Atari Lynx *STILL TODAY* can mostly beat this thing if you don't develop cpu-crunching games. Raw CPU speed aside, the Atari Lynx had:
- Sprite scaling hardware (with no arbitrary limit to the number of sprites you could have onscreen; hardware could also "perspective distort" sprites)
- A math co-processor
- 4 stereo digital channels (think 'Amiga')
- 32 simultaneous colors with an undocumented hold-and-modify mode to get all 4096 onscreen at once (again, think 'Amiga')
(It shouldn't surprise you that the Lynx was designed by the same people who designed the Amiga.)
It is a testament to Atari's piss-poor marketing and licensening arrangements that the Lynx failed. Guys'n'gals, the Lynx existed in 1989, 12 YEARS before GBA! 12 years!
Actually, you have it backward. I don't know where you get your information from (hopefully not experience), but tape and pressed CDs have approximately the same life (10-20 years).
This is a fruitless exersize, because CDROM already contain parity blocks so that when you smudge a fingerprint on it, you can still read the disk. Adding additional parity won't solve his problem anyway if the disk rots; it rots uniformly.
Sounds like a solution to your problem would be IMAP + a web frontend so that you can read/post from anywhere. IMAP lets you read and organize your email from anywhere, as the mail is kept on the server. There's an IMAP web frontend written in PHP that you could implement fairly easily, if you had nice (read: compiler) access to a box that was always on the 'net...
The version of Outlook Express that I tested created a.mailboxlist file on the server--very non-standard. The version of Express that came with Office 2000 Beta (I HOPE it's better in the released version) did an IMAP NOOP when you asked it to refresh the headers! A NOOP! And to top it all off, Express only keeps the header information locally that you have set up in your "columns" (sent date, received date, sender, etc.), so if you decide to start sorting by, let's say, received date, but didn't originally have it as a column, you have to REFRESH ALL YOUR HEADERS since it never kept the full header. And since refreshing the headers doesn't work (see NOOP above), you have to redownload all of your email, including message bodies.
Your Netscape is crashing on Unix due to library inconsistencies. Fix your Unix box (which really sounds like a Linux box--not the same thing) and use Communicator. IMAP is definitely the way, but MS needs to get their act together.
We implemented MobyGames in PHP3 at first, but it became very apparent that, with our multiple queries and data integrity checks, it wasn't going to cut the mustard. (PHP4 may solve these problems if it avoids having to compile/interpret code every single page load, but I haven't tried it, so you should.)
We ended up rewriting the project in modperl and we quadrupled our speed.
I think some clarification is needed: Loki has shown that Linux can be a viable gaming platform, but I wouldn't call it an excellent one. Performance under X on a continuously multitasking system simply doesn't leave as much CPU time as going into windoze and hogging the entire system.
Note: I am not saying Linux is bad. I'm just saying that Linux is not as suited for gaming as other platforms. Of course, this should be common knowledge around here... and if it is, then heck, why the hell am I typing this anyway?
Sound emulation is not something done lightly or easily under any OS/platform. Just set up a 486 or equivalent to do sound recording. Add a network card, and you can record to some network drive.
With this proposed standard set to eliminate the typing of "dots, dashes, and backslashes" to get to a page, it's unnecessary--I don't know about you, but I've never had to type a dash or backslash to get to a page.
Either that, or the clueless reporter is getting computer-related stories wrong again, which wouldn't surprise me in today's media. Are there *any* reporters that get it right?
The word is "perquisite", so it should be abbreviated "perq". And improperly abbreviating a word is a grammar issue, not spelling (although I'll give you the spelling issue, because he's abbreviating a misspelled word:).
The word is "perquisite", so it should be abbreviated "perq". And improperly abbreviating a word is a grammar issue, not spelling although I'll give you the spelling issue, because he's abbreviating a misspelled word:).
Solaris will do this, but you will probably need to run it on a _big_ box, like a Sun Ex500 class machine with about 8 or more processors.
Nonsense. DePaul University runs 25,000 shell/email accounts on a 5-year-old SparcServer 1000 with only 4 CPUs. IMAPD and SENDMAIL are the only pieces of software used. Works great.
You're forgetting that the BIOS has to sit in actual ROMspace -- meaning that you'd be lucky to get 64K of space to work with (I'm thinking F000, here). There usually isn't enough space to include verbose error messages.
For a project that I'm involved in, we decided to compare three database backends as an informal educational exercise: Linux+PostgreSQL, Linux+Oracle, and Solaris+Oracle. All tests were done on a PII 450MHz; Linux was Redhat 5.2, and Solaris was 2.6x86. Single 2GIG partition, Adaptec SCSI on PCI, and (this is important) no changes were made to the default OS installs--to wit, we did not go on a kernel tweaking rampage or anything.
Without posting detailed results, we found:
Linux+Oracle was about 100% faster than Linux+PostgreSQL (about twice as fast) and
SolarisX86+Oracle was about 40% faster than Linux+Oracle.
Solaris is a 15-year-mature product, so it makes perfect sense.
Before you get your panties all in a wad, I run Linux at home and love it. But if I was running a mission-critical database backend, and had the choice between the two, I would go with Solaris. It can take an unholy beating and keep ticking.
For the record, we went with PostgreSQL+Linux, because they were free and we didn't have money for Oracle ($1200 for Linux version).
Could everyone go over to MobyGames and slashdot-effect the hell out of it? I'm curious to see what everyone thinks of the actual original Wing Commander--the PC game from 1990. Give it a rating if you have the 10 seconds it takes to do so...
Thank god for that... I was originally dismayed to see that a finger/talk/ftp/irc client replacement that did not use finger/talk/ftp/irc protocols was becoming popular... now that it's dying a little, I feel better.:-)
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Another RAID for backup is worthless because you can't periodically offline it and ship it offsite for disaster recovery. That's why tape libraries exist. Trust me, tape is the way to go.
You're missing the fact that less than 1% of all on-line advertising is banner ads that pay on click-through. Traditional radio/tv/print adversiting is indeed what is failing.
Hearing these specs just makes me lament the Atari Lynx even more. The Atari Lynx *STILL TODAY* can mostly beat this thing if you don't develop cpu-crunching games. Raw CPU speed aside, the Atari Lynx had:
- Sprite scaling hardware (with no arbitrary limit to the number of sprites you could have onscreen; hardware could also "perspective distort" sprites)
- A math co-processor
- 4 stereo digital channels (think 'Amiga')
- 32 simultaneous colors with an undocumented hold-and-modify mode to get all 4096 onscreen at once (again, think 'Amiga')
(It shouldn't surprise you that the Lynx was designed by the same people who designed the Amiga.)
It is a testament to Atari's piss-poor marketing and licensening arrangements that the Lynx failed. Guys'n'gals, the Lynx existed in 1989, 12 YEARS before GBA! 12 years!
Actually, you have it backward. I don't know where you get your information from (hopefully not experience), but tape and pressed CDs have approximately the same life (10-20 years).
This is a fruitless exersize, because CDROM already contain parity blocks so that when you smudge a fingerprint on it, you can still read the disk. Adding additional parity won't solve his problem anyway if the disk rots; it rots uniformly.
Sounds like a solution to your problem would be IMAP + a web frontend so that you can read/post from anywhere. IMAP lets you read and organize your email from anywhere, as the mail is kept on the server. There's an IMAP web frontend written in PHP that you could implement fairly easily, if you had nice (read: compiler) access to a box that was always on the 'net...
Thanks for your suggestion, but this is what I'm already doing and it's not cutting the mustard any more. Searching, for example, takes ages:
find ~/Mail -type f -exec grep -li $WORD) {} \;
There's not much you can do to speed this up, sadly, and the number of files/directories/folders/mailspools is becoming unmanagable.
As for saving *everything*, I don't. I just happen to receive 50+ emails every day that have information in them I need to file.
PS: Everything you've written back to 1981 including (I'm assuming) Super Scripsit files? Kick ass!
I doubt that checkpoint can do more in the IP forwarding arena than ipchains + advanced routing.
It can, and it is much easier to configure and is more elegant (ipchains + "advanced routing" is a hack).
I speak from experience.
Of course, a true hacker would be able to achieve more than 100% on the test.
You must have "guaranteed stability"? Then why the hell are you running Linux? OpenBSD is probably the most stable OS out there; go run that.
It's beta software. Give the guys a break.
...has already been written.
Are you on crack?
.mailboxlist file on the server--very non-standard. The version of Express that came with Office 2000 Beta (I HOPE it's better in the released version) did an IMAP NOOP when you asked it to refresh the headers! A NOOP! And to top it all off, Express only keeps the header information locally that you have set up in your "columns" (sent date, received date, sender, etc.), so if you decide to start sorting by, let's say, received date, but didn't originally have it as a column, you have to REFRESH ALL YOUR HEADERS since it never kept the full header. And since refreshing the headers doesn't work (see NOOP above), you have to redownload all of your email, including message bodies.
The version of Outlook Express that I tested created a
Your Netscape is crashing on Unix due to library inconsistencies. Fix your Unix box (which really sounds like a Linux box--not the same thing) and use Communicator. IMAP is definitely the way, but MS needs to get their act together.
We implemented MobyGames in PHP3 at first, but it became very apparent that, with our multiple queries and data integrity checks, it wasn't going to cut the mustard. (PHP4 may solve these problems if it avoids having to compile/interpret code every single page load, but I haven't tried it, so you should.)
We ended up rewriting the project in modperl and we quadrupled our speed.
I think some clarification is needed: Loki has shown that Linux can be a viable gaming platform, but I wouldn't call it an excellent one. Performance under X on a continuously multitasking system simply doesn't leave as much CPU time as going into windoze and hogging the entire system.
Note: I am not saying Linux is bad. I'm just saying that Linux is not as suited for gaming as other platforms. Of course, this should be common knowledge around here... and if it is, then heck, why the hell am I typing this anyway?
Sound emulation is not something done lightly or easily under any OS/platform. Just set up a 486 or equivalent to do sound recording. Add a network card, and you can record to some network drive.
Works for me very well.
Actually, Xing's MPEG encoder no longer does that, and is in fact the 3rd-best MPEG encoder out there.
With this proposed standard set to eliminate the typing of "dots, dashes, and backslashes" to get to a page, it's unnecessary--I don't know about you, but I've never had to type a dash or backslash to get to a page.
Either that, or the clueless reporter is getting computer-related stories wrong again, which wouldn't surprise me in today's media. Are there *any* reporters that get it right?
The word is "perquisite", so it should be abbreviated "perq". And improperly abbreviating a word is a grammar issue, not spelling (although I'll give you the spelling issue, because he's abbreviating a misspelled word :).
The word is "perquisite", so it should be abbreviated "perq". And improperly abbreviating a word is a grammar issue, not spelling although I'll give you the spelling issue, because he's abbreviating a misspelled word :).
It's spelled "perqs", not "perks".
Sorry... Normally I let this stuff go, but it's been getting really bad lately.
Solaris will do this, but you will probably need to run it on a _big_ box, like a Sun Ex500 class machine with about 8 or more processors.
Nonsense. DePaul University runs 25,000 shell/email accounts on a 5-year-old SparcServer 1000 with only 4 CPUs. IMAPD and SENDMAIL are the only pieces of software used. Works great.
You're forgetting that the BIOS has to sit in actual ROMspace -- meaning that you'd be lucky to get 64K of space to work with (I'm thinking F000, here). There usually isn't enough space to include verbose error messages.
Without posting detailed results, we found:
Solaris is a 15-year-mature product, so it makes perfect sense.
Before you get your panties all in a wad, I run Linux at home and love it. But if I was running a mission-critical database backend, and had the choice between the two, I would go with Solaris. It can take an unholy beating and keep ticking.
For the record, we went with PostgreSQL+Linux, because they were free and we didn't have money for Oracle ($1200 for Linux version).
Could everyone go over to MobyGames and slashdot-effect the hell out of it? I'm curious to see what everyone thinks of the actual original Wing Commander--the PC game from 1990. Give it a rating if you have the 10 seconds it takes to do so...
Thank god for that... I was originally dismayed to see that a finger/talk/ftp/irc client replacement that did not use finger/talk/ftp/irc protocols was becoming popular... now that it's dying a little, I feel better. :-)