Just to add to the political fray, some reports have UN officials already complaining that the US and other western nations are being "stingy" with their aid packages... and even suggesting that those countries raise taxes on their citizens to pay for more aid (if you believe the Wash. Times).
That particular official is from Norway. Norway, with less than 1/60th of the US population, has already donated 50 million NOK (a bit more than 8 million US dollars), mostly through NGOs. The US has donated 15 million US dollars.
In both countries, people are also donating themselves.
Liked the new installer, much easier to use and less klunky (on Winders).
Being able to install for everyone in one operation, instead of running one with/net and then a separate install for all separate users is a great improvement.
If there was a site documenting how to install those automatically (as well as thunderbird/firefox/a couple of standard extensions and jdk) when someone logged onto a machine, or update if present (with UNIX experience and samba servers), I'd have gotten an early Christmas present:).
If a person is head of a multi-national company with 150,000 employees, is that person personally criminally liable for the actions of every single employee?
He is responsible for having procedures in place that it does not happen.
Is the SLI only compatible with the new GeForce 6x00 series or can you use an older GeForce set?
Only some of the new GeForce 6x00 cards (not all) can be used for SLI. You need a special connector on the cards.... also, there are no PCI express versions of older GeForce cards anyway AFAIK.
They've lost gamer sales because the AMD 64 processors are a much better value for gaming than Prescott spaceheaters. The mainboard chipset is a pretty marginal contributor to framerates.
The performance difference between the CPUs isn't that big... the performance increase gained by SLI on the new nforce boards, OTOH, seems significant.
RAID 10 I can see if you really need high redundancy/availability, but 5+1 is just way too slow and too disk-hungry for any practical use. (what company or person wants to buy 16 disks for every 7 disks worth of storage they get to actually use?)
Lots of different terminilogy here.. when talking about 5+1 in a RAID5 setting, it's often a short way of saying "5 data disks +1 parity disk" for each set. 5+1 is a common configuration for write intensive tasks, since parity will be a limiting a factor. For more read intensive tasks, 8+1 isn't uncommon
But to add to the confusion, you do have
raid 51 too... for business critical systems for large companies, using more disks isn't that much of an issue either.
Seriously though... who REALLY needs to be contacted IMMEDIATELY 24-7?
Quite a few, actually... many of these aren't contacted that much (e.g. 24/7 support for selected customers in some companies, volunteer fire fighters etc), but needs to there if the need suddenly arises.
When launching Nocona, Intel focused on the platform, not the processor. After all, a processor is just part of something bigger... and the platform is AMDs weak point.
I wouldn't touch VIA and SIS with a ten foot pole for my own systems, even less for servers. Plenty of bad experiences.
NVIDIA does currently not go above 1 CPU, and has a strange proprietary ethernet card. I've also yet to see NVIDIA platforms support desirable enterprise features, like remote management/monitoring, other than the basic PCI slots. And while not proven bad, unlike VIA/SIS, they don't have a long track record for server chipsets either
Why don't the game companies simply join in selling items? It's not as if duplicate items would cost them anyhing to produce.
Because players want to feel that what they do in the game world is what has an impact... not how much money you're willing to give the company behind it.
If you try to get too much money out of it, you might just lose it all instead.
Who in their right mind would buy one of these chips?
End users buying the CPU itself (a very minor part of the market)? Not at lot. As part of a system? Quite a few more
One reason is that Dell, the #1 PC manufacturer only ships Intel. And their systems are usually priced pretty competively, at least if you want to use quality components. For companies and non-techies, reliability, support and other parts of the "total" package adds up to be far more important than a few percent performance they wouldn't even notice.
Also, I'd take Intel chipsets over Via or SIS anyday. Nvidia can be painful too, they don't even have an open networking driver (although a reverse engineered one exists for at least the NForce 2).
So, I'm curious. If a campaign contribution isn't a bribe, what exactly do you call it?
Some people may actually contirubte because they believe in the cause. Companies hedging their bets by giving to both candidates, otoh... or things like Disney extending copyright periods by buying senators... is not quite the same.
You can easily fork GCC, but the problem is maintaining it after the fork, especially if you want to include changes of the mainline GCC after your fork.
The egcs project who did just that was very successful.
to dump it off to tape and then just store the tapes instead of just deleting it. Though they are probably running an Exchange server so offloading data stores wouldn't be the easiest thing to do. If they were using something with a simple mbox store, they could easily just parse it through a date filter and dump the older than 90 day stuff to tape.
It's a lot tougher on backup systems to deal with mbox systems, because every time a flag is changed in a mail or a mail is added, the entire mailbox is added. Also, not possible to save a little bit of space by saving just one copy of a mail if there are multiple recipients handled by the same server.
Speaking of that, anyone know of a good, working database-based mail server for Linux?
It was hot coffee. It's supposed to be warm. Only idiots store it between their legs. She shouldn't have gotten a dime, much less become rich for being stupid.
Hopefully a 60GB iPod will drive the price of the iPod Mini down. At the moment it really doesn't measure up to your standard iPod in terms value for money.
It sells very well, so some would consider it good value already...
It's smaller. When trying to make it fit in a small pocket on your shirt, on your arm etc, smaller is better.
If you think of the 4 GB as a cache of the main collection, it can be plenty. It does require good software to manage what is on the device, though.
I had the same issue, and it was because of the driver. From time to time, it has happened to other cards too.... it was a fun day when many of the developers in a company having similar hardware switched to a kernel having a new problem with just such a problem with the tulip driver.
There are some of those too.... like in here in Norway ATM. Everything isn't black and white, though... a little bit of unions are good, too much bad. Key is to achieve a balance, as in most other areas.
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Just to add to the political fray, some reports have UN officials already complaining that the US and other western nations are being "stingy" with their aid packages... and even suggesting that those countries raise taxes on their citizens to pay for more aid (if you believe the Wash. Times).
That particular official is from Norway. Norway, with less than 1/60th of the US population, has already donated 50 million NOK (a bit more than 8 million US dollars), mostly through NGOs. The US has donated 15 million US dollars.
In both countries, people are also donating themselves.
So how do you write something like the melting point of copper? 2KK?
If you want to write 2000 K as two kiloKelvin, you'd do 2 kK. I think most would just write 2000 K, though.
Maybe it should be called edmm, then?
Liked the new installer, much easier to use and less klunky (on Winders).
Being able to install for everyone in one operation, instead of running one with /net and then a separate install for all separate users is a great improvement.
If there was a site documenting how to install those automatically (as well as thunderbird/firefox/a couple of standard extensions and jdk) when someone logged onto a machine, or update if present (with UNIX experience and samba servers), I'd have gotten an early Christmas present :).
You do know that we Brits are the culinary laughing stock of the world?
For a reason. There's happily a good amount of foreign restaurants there, though :)
That's why I'm glad to be Scottish. Who else would think of the deep fried mars bar / deep fried pizza?
The southern part of US... deep friend onions, bananas, mars bars, twinkies, turkeys.... anything.
Dell Just Started Selling Linux! And they still won't do a workstation!!!
Dell has been selling various versions of Red Hat Linux and has had a close relationship with Red Hat for many years now.
If a person is head of a multi-national company with 150,000 employees, is that person personally criminally liable for the actions of every single employee?
He is responsible for having procedures in place that it does not happen.
Is the SLI only compatible with the new GeForce 6x00 series or can you use an older GeForce set?
Only some of the new GeForce 6x00 cards (not all) can be used for SLI. You need a special connector on the cards.... also, there are no PCI express versions of older GeForce cards anyway AFAIK.
They've lost gamer sales because the AMD 64 processors are a much better value for gaming than Prescott spaceheaters. The mainboard chipset is a pretty marginal contributor to framerates.
The performance difference between the CPUs isn't that big... the performance increase gained by SLI on the new nforce boards, OTOH, seems significant.
RAID 10 I can see if you really need high redundancy/availability, but 5+1 is just way too slow and too disk-hungry for any practical use. (what company or person wants to buy 16 disks for every 7 disks worth of storage they get to actually use?)
Lots of different terminilogy here.. when talking about 5+1 in a RAID5 setting, it's often a short way of saying "5 data disks +1 parity disk" for each set. 5+1 is a common configuration for write intensive tasks, since parity will be a limiting a factor. For more read intensive tasks, 8+1 isn't uncommon
But to add to the confusion, you do have raid 51 too... for business critical systems for large companies, using more disks isn't that much of an issue either.
Seriously though... who REALLY needs to be contacted IMMEDIATELY 24-7?
Quite a few, actually... many of these aren't contacted that much (e.g. 24/7 support for selected customers in some companies, volunteer fire fighters etc), but needs to there if the need suddenly arises.
When launching Nocona, Intel focused on the platform, not the processor. After all, a processor is just part of something bigger... and the platform is AMDs weak point.
Why don't the game companies simply join in selling items? It's not as if duplicate items would cost them anyhing to produce.
Because players want to feel that what they do in the game world is what has an impact... not how much money you're willing to give the company behind it.
If you try to get too much money out of it, you might just lose it all instead.
What's it going to take for you to abandon an obscure format and switch to AAC?
An open source implementation, easily available in music programs under Linux so I can listen to them and create them there.
Funny thing is that her desktop is an AMD K6-II, but she doesn't even know it
The K6 series were pretty bad performancewise, but oh so cheap. Until Athlon, FPU performance and AMD was a tragic story.
Who in their right mind would buy one of these chips?
End users buying the CPU itself (a very minor part of the market)? Not at lot. As part of a system? Quite a few more
One reason is that Dell, the #1 PC manufacturer only ships Intel. And their systems are usually priced pretty competively, at least if you want to use quality components. For companies and non-techies, reliability, support and other parts of the "total" package adds up to be far more important than a few percent performance they wouldn't even notice.
Also, I'd take Intel chipsets over Via or SIS anyday. Nvidia can be painful too, they don't even have an open networking driver (although a reverse engineered one exists for at least the NForce 2).
So, I'm curious. If a campaign contribution isn't a bribe, what exactly do you call it?
Some people may actually contirubte because they believe in the cause. Companies hedging their bets by giving to both candidates, otoh... or things like Disney extending copyright periods by buying senators... is not quite the same.
You can easily fork GCC, but the problem is maintaining it after the fork, especially if you want to include changes of the mainline GCC after your fork.
The egcs project who did just that was very successful.
DSc was much more common earlier.
Back then, a doctor title was a crowning achievement of a scientific career. Now it's just more education before you start one.
to dump it off to tape and then just store the tapes instead of just deleting it. Though they are probably running an Exchange server so offloading data stores wouldn't be the easiest thing to do. If they were using something with a simple mbox store, they could easily just parse it through a date filter and dump the older than 90 day stuff to tape.
It's a lot tougher on backup systems to deal with mbox systems, because every time a flag is changed in a mail or a mail is added, the entire mailbox is added. Also, not possible to save a little bit of space by saving just one copy of a mail if there are multiple recipients handled by the same server.
Speaking of that, anyone know of a good, working database-based mail server for Linux?
It was hot coffee. It's supposed to be warm. Only idiots store it between their legs. She shouldn't have gotten a dime, much less become rich for being stupid.
Hopefully a 60GB iPod will drive the price of the iPod Mini down. At the moment it really doesn't measure up to your standard iPod in terms value for money.
It sells very well, so some would consider it good value already...
Red Hat supports the enterprise products for more than five years.
I had the same issue, and it was because of the driver. From time to time, it has happened to other cards too.... it was a fun day when many of the developers in a company having similar hardware switched to a kernel having a new problem with just such a problem with the tulip driver.
I've never heard of any unreasonable strikes...
There are some of those too.... like in here in Norway ATM. Everything isn't black and white, though... a little bit of unions are good, too much bad. Key is to achieve a balance, as in most other areas.