Although I don't like Sun, I must admit that the hole idea behind Linux is to allow everyone to ship the distro they want, and know we are attacking Sun for shipping another distro?! It's just me or we are playing hard to get?
I like the part where they said that Itanium 2 has 2x the SPECint performance of the original Itanium, since they never published it!! The SPECint performance for Itanium was so bad that only published SPECfp data!
It's just the same thing that happened when IBM published the SPECint/fp for POWER 4 processors. They only publish the data using 1 processor on the p690, so they run the hole SPEC benchmark suite un the 128MB SRAM cache memory, avoiding using regular DRAM. The easy way to see this is that they never published any SPECrate number, so to avoid showing that they don't scale as all processors start competing for the cache.
Sun USIII 1050MHz is almost 54% faster that USII 750MHz, as anyone can check going to the SPEC page (Sun Blade 1000 Model 1750 against Sun Blade 2050), with a 40% clock speed-up (this 14% increment is due to the compiler). This is exaclty the same processor at a faster clock, while Itanium 2 has more cache and a different architecture that Itanium, so a 1.5x to 2x speedup is less than spectacular, I will said.
For transaction processing, thay don't give any clue to show where they get the info from. While they expect to get the best OLTP number for 4-way systems, I don't think they will be able to surpass the AlphaServer ES45 MoDel 68/1000, which is by far the best 4-way system ever. What's worst, WLIW is know for been a poor performer for OLTP, and a great performer for floating-pont (that's why the only publisehd SPECfp!!). They never published any OLTP benchmark for Itanium (nor SAP, Peoplesoft, ORACLE, or even the raped PTC-C), so you can have an idea of how poor it is...
As of today, Fijutso PrimePower with 128 SPARC processors is the faster OLTP server ever (both SAP and TPC-C numbers!), with IBM p690 a close second for TPC-C and Sun SF15K a close second for SAP SD2-tier. Intel never showed in this kind of performance numbers, and Itanium certainly won't (unless while they keep running Windows).
About 14 years ago I used a galena radio (diode, capacitor and inductance, no batteries) to light up a standar red LED... and it worked!! Although the ligth was very dimm it worked. I added a second galena radio in parallel (as a current source) and it improved the hole result.
I haven't tried it on white LED, which requires more energy, but it might work... and this guy could get rid of the generator and the lead battery, and have free light without any human power source, as long as there are radio stations (or even pulsars! although you need to tune for high frequency) you can get it working!!!
>Look at the standard of living 100 years ago, >and compare it to today. Flush toilets, hot >water, antibiotics, refrigeration, crossing the >Atlantic ocean in hours instead of weeks, air >conditioning in the home and office, a printing >press and Cray supercomputer on every desk, and
Let me see... Mmmm... Flush toilets (not in poor Africa), hot water (not in poor India), antibiotics (not in poor Afganistan), refrigeration (not in poor Irak), crossing the Atlantic ocean in hours instead of weeks (not for Argentina's poors), air conditioning in the home and office (not even home nor office in Palestina), a printing press (not in poor Peru) and Cray supercomputer on every desk (certeanly not in any of the listed countries!).
>if the price of that standard of living is that >the people who made all these things possible >get rich as a result of my choosing to purchase >them, then so be it.
Unfortunatelly the price for YOU TO HAVE ALL THAT is 80% of the world population been poor and literally "starving to death in the streets" (please, go to Africa or India and you'll understand what you are talking about).
Regards!
Men, evolution simply can't happen in a leveled field. You need islands with marked different enviroments. Even if you force a single common enviroment, diferences will airse and disturbe it, leading once more to rich and poor inequety. don't flame me, flame Darwin...
I don't know why they even write C books. There has always been and will only be one programming book "the C programming languaje" by Kernigan Ritchie. Not only a superb C book, simply put, the best programming book ever. Now I'm looking for a similar book on JAVA, but all the books I found are tooooooo big. So far, the best JAVA book I read is "Just JAVA and beyond" by Peter Van Der Linden. Chapter 2 is all you need to know about OOP.
For raw MPP numeric processing, W2k is too dam slow. You can boot Linux in 4MB of RAM and less than 64MB of disk, then, just load the libraries you need and nothing else, and you will have a preety decent system. Try thining W2K down and you will have a huge problem there. You can use Sun's GridEngine for Linux (http://www.sun.com/software/gridware/gridengine_p roject.html) and best of all, it's open source! At the end, it all comes to your soft, if you develop a highly scalable, almost share nothing algorithm, Linux Clustering is the way to go. For fail-over Linux you have tha HA Linux project, once more, Open Source!
For raw MPP numeric processing, W2k is too dam slow. You can boot Linux in 4MB of RAM and less than 64MB of disk, then, just load the libraries you need and nothing else, and you will have a preety decent system. Try thining W2K down and you will have a huge problem there. You can use Sun's GridEngine for Linux (http://www.sun.com/software/gridware/gridengine_p roject.html) and best of all, it's open source! At the end, it all comes to your soft, if you develop a highly scalable, almost share nothing algorithm, Linux Clustering is the way to go. For fail-over Linux you have tha HA Linux project, once more, Open Source!
It will be really useful for the Linux minded people to have an easy step-by-step guide on some usefull examples for GridEngine for Linux. Are you contemplating such a guide?
If they ever Open Source JAVA, it will die in that excatly moment. Noone would ever develop any soft (IBM, Borland, etc.) if they aren't allow to copyright it.
It's a two edge sword...
A better approach (that they openly discarted) is to make it an ANSI standar.
Yor biggest problem is the idea of using Active Directory.
I've integrated myself several Windows, Linux and Solaris boxes under iPlanet Directory Server (which by the way, is free up to 200.000 directory entries).
The problem arise when you try to use Microsoft propietary LDAP (aka Active Directory). Just throw Active Direcotry away. Download for free Solaris 8 for Intel, download the latest LDAP Directory Server for Solaris Intel from iPlanet home page, and you will get plenty of docs from within iPlanet's site, and even Sun site. You can even call your Sun SE and get him to find all the documentation needed to integrate a Windows, Linux Solaris enviroment.
Realllllyyyyy ease!!
It's buyers fault, not programmers fault.
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Crappy programmers are cheaper than good ones. People prefers to buy cheap software with lots of features, even if it doesn't work!! So right now the situation is that, or either you make crappy cheap software with lots of features fast and keep selling like crazy (Microsoft way), or you built expensive great code with only a fraction of the features (belive me, to add features to a given soft takes lots of time) and no single person will buy it.
!!Don't kill the messanger!! Kill the software buyers!!
It's the buyers fault, not the programmers fault.
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Crappy programmers are cheaper than good ones. People prefers to buy cheap software with lots of features, even if it doesn't work!! So right now the situation is that, or either you make crappy cheap software with lots of features fast and keep selling like crazy (Microsoft way), or you built expensive great code with only a fraction of the features (belive me, to add features to a given soft takes lots of time) and no single person will buy it.
!!Don't kill the messanger!! Kill the software buyers!!
A Sun Enterprise 4500 can heal itself from any hardware failure (if properly configure) and even better, it has hot-swap I/O boards, hot-swap memory modules and even hot-swap CPUs!!!!! Amazing....
Only DSL is viable. Cable is a shared network, thus limiting scalability due to collisons. Satellite has 1 sec average latency due to the distance (it is Einstein fault, not mine), not a good thing for interactive apps (suposed to be the future of soft, like ASP, over the net Office, etc.). Power lines data transmition has been around for 20 something years, with huge interference problems (in the end, limiting throughput bheyond 1MB).
Wireless is even worst due to the increasing price of the spectre (licensing) and the increasing scpectrum band requirement for wireless broadband.
Future is for fibre... long live LASERs!!
Ok. The VLIW instruction is 128-bits wide, and it carries 3 instructions.... That lead us to 42-bit. It doesn't seem to be able to reference direclty a 64-bit memory cell, I wouldn't say it's a 64-bit processor.
MIPS R5000 and so on, and Sun UltraSPARC are fully 64-bit processors, not this Itanium crap.
Why don't get an account at YAHOO?
You can upload 10MB, each file can be as big as 5MB. You can accesses it from everywhere, even on vacations, you go to a CyberCafe and that's it!
MINIX is 100% microkernel, NT is not, becouse it has drivers and more things in ring 0 (executive layer, etc).
Neither NT nor UNIX is object oriented. Both OS have plenty of code in pure C and even in assembler that does not match to the object definition of the rest of the OS.
So, technically, MINIX is far more advance than W2K or whatever Microsoft OS you want (Windows 9X, Pocket PC, etc).
There's only one comercial 100% Object oriented OS in the world, and it is the now dead Newton OS from Apple.
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Although I don't like Sun, I must admit that the hole idea behind Linux is to allow everyone to ship the distro they want, and know we are attacking Sun for shipping another distro?! It's just me or we are playing hard to get?
I like the part where they said that Itanium 2 has 2x the SPECint performance of the original Itanium, since they never published it!! The SPECint performance for Itanium was so bad that only published SPECfp data!
It's just the same thing that happened when IBM published the SPECint/fp for POWER 4 processors. They only publish the data using 1 processor on the p690, so they run the hole SPEC benchmark suite un the 128MB SRAM cache memory, avoiding using regular DRAM. The easy way to see this is that they never published any SPECrate number, so to avoid showing that they don't scale as all processors start competing for the cache.
Sun USIII 1050MHz is almost 54% faster that USII 750MHz, as anyone can check going to the SPEC page (Sun Blade 1000 Model 1750 against Sun Blade 2050), with a 40% clock speed-up (this 14% increment is due to the compiler). This is exaclty the same processor at a faster clock, while Itanium 2 has more cache and a different architecture that Itanium, so a 1.5x to 2x speedup is less than spectacular, I will said.
For transaction processing, thay don't give any clue to show where they get the info from. While they expect to get the best OLTP number for 4-way systems, I don't think they will be able to surpass the AlphaServer ES45 MoDel 68/1000, which is by far the best 4-way system ever. What's worst, WLIW is know for been a poor performer for OLTP, and a great performer for floating-pont (that's why the only publisehd SPECfp!!). They never published any OLTP benchmark for Itanium (nor SAP, Peoplesoft, ORACLE, or even the raped PTC-C), so you can have an idea of how poor it is...
As of today, Fijutso PrimePower with 128 SPARC processors is the faster OLTP server ever (both SAP and TPC-C numbers!), with IBM p690 a close second for TPC-C and Sun SF15K a close second for SAP SD2-tier. Intel never showed in this kind of performance numbers, and Itanium certainly won't (unless while they keep running Windows).
About 14 years ago I used a galena radio (diode, capacitor and inductance, no batteries) to light up a standar red LED... and it worked!! Although the ligth was very dimm it worked. I added a second galena radio in parallel (as a current source) and it improved the hole result.
I haven't tried it on white LED, which requires more energy, but it might work... and this guy could get rid of the generator and the lead battery, and have free light without any human power source, as long as there are radio stations (or even pulsars! although you need to tune for high frequency) you can get it working!!!
Free enery for all, Thanks TESLA!!!
>Look at the standard of living 100 years ago,
>and compare it to today. Flush toilets, hot
>water, antibiotics, refrigeration, crossing the
>Atlantic ocean in hours instead of weeks, air
>conditioning in the home and office, a printing
>press and Cray supercomputer on every desk, and
Let me see... Mmmm... Flush toilets (not in poor Africa), hot water (not in poor India), antibiotics (not in poor Afganistan), refrigeration (not in poor Irak), crossing the Atlantic ocean in hours instead of weeks (not for Argentina's poors), air conditioning in the home and office (not even home nor office in Palestina), a printing press (not in poor Peru) and Cray supercomputer on every desk (certeanly not in any of the listed countries!).
>if the price of that standard of living is that
>the people who made all these things possible
>get rich as a result of my choosing to purchase
>them, then so be it.
Unfortunatelly the price for YOU TO HAVE ALL THAT is 80% of the world population been poor and literally "starving to death in the streets" (please, go to Africa or India and you'll understand what you are talking about).
Regards!
Men, evolution simply can't happen in a leveled field. You need islands with marked different enviroments. Even if you force a single common enviroment, diferences will airse and disturbe it, leading once more to rich and poor inequety. don't flame me, flame Darwin...
Regards!
I don't know why they even write C books. There has always been and will only be one programming book "the C programming languaje" by Kernigan Ritchie. Not only a superb C book, simply put, the best programming book ever. Now I'm looking for a similar book on JAVA, but all the books I found are tooooooo big. So far, the best JAVA book I read is "Just JAVA and beyond" by Peter Van Der Linden. Chapter 2 is all you need to know about OOP.
For raw MPP numeric processing, W2k is too dam slow. You can boot Linux in 4MB of RAM and less than 64MB of disk, then, just load the libraries you need and nothing else, and you will have a preety decent system. Try thining W2K down and you will have a huge problem there. You can use Sun's GridEngine for Linux (http://www.sun.com/software/gridware/gridengine_p roject.html) and best of all, it's open source!
At the end, it all comes to your soft, if you develop a highly scalable, almost share nothing algorithm, Linux Clustering is the way to go. For fail-over Linux you have tha HA Linux project, once more, Open Source!
For raw MPP numeric processing, W2k is too dam slow. You can boot Linux in 4MB of RAM and less than 64MB of disk, then, just load the libraries you need and nothing else, and you will have a preety decent system. Try thining W2K down and you will have a huge problem there. You can use Sun's GridEngine for Linux (http://www.sun.com/software/gridware/gridengine_p roject.html) and best of all, it's open source!
At the end, it all comes to your soft, if you develop a highly scalable, almost share nothing algorithm, Linux Clustering is the way to go. For fail-over Linux you have tha HA Linux project, once more, Open Source!
Regards!
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It will be really useful for the Linux minded people to have an easy step-by-step guide on some usefull examples for GridEngine for Linux. Are you contemplating such a guide?
Not much of an Open Source question, but after the Solaris 9 x86 cancellation, I don't quite understand their need to forbid it's download...
Whatever happened to the ANSI JAVA idea?
If open standar it, they will come...
If they ever Open Source JAVA, it will die in that excatly moment. Noone would ever develop any soft (IBM, Borland, etc.) if they aren't allow to copyright it.
It's a two edge sword...
A better approach (that they openly discarted) is to make it an ANSI standar.
Yor biggest problem is the idea of using Active Directory.
I've integrated myself several Windows, Linux and Solaris boxes under iPlanet Directory Server (which by the way, is free up to 200.000 directory entries).
The problem arise when you try to use Microsoft propietary LDAP (aka Active Directory). Just throw Active Direcotry away. Download for free Solaris 8 for Intel, download the latest LDAP Directory Server for Solaris Intel from iPlanet home page, and you will get plenty of docs from within iPlanet's site, and even Sun site. You can even call your Sun SE and get him to find all the documentation needed to integrate a Windows, Linux Solaris enviroment.
Realllllyyyyy ease!!
Crappy programmers are cheaper than good ones. People prefers to buy cheap software with lots of features, even if it doesn't work!! So right now the situation is that, or either you make crappy cheap software with lots of features fast and keep selling like crazy (Microsoft way), or you built expensive great code with only a fraction of the features (belive me, to add features to a given soft takes lots of time) and no single person will buy it.
!!Don't kill the messanger!! Kill the software buyers!!
Crappy programmers are cheaper than good ones. People prefers to buy cheap software with lots of features, even if it doesn't work!! So right now the situation is that, or either you make crappy cheap software with lots of features fast and keep selling like crazy (Microsoft way), or you built expensive great code with only a fraction of the features (belive me, to add features to a given soft takes lots of time) and no single person will buy it.
!!Don't kill the messanger!! Kill the software buyers!!
To learn how to make distributed databases to scale without limits, read http://www.geocities.com/feromus/db.htm
For a full explanation on how to make a database scale to inifitum, read http://www.geocities.com/feromus/db.htm
A Sun Enterprise 4500 can heal itself from any hardware failure (if properly configure) and even better, it has hot-swap I/O boards, hot-swap memory modules and even hot-swap CPUs!!!!! Amazing....
Only DSL is viable. Cable is a shared network, thus limiting scalability due to collisons. Satellite has 1 sec average latency due to the distance (it is Einstein fault, not mine), not a good thing for interactive apps (suposed to be the future of soft, like ASP, over the net Office, etc.). Power lines data transmition has been around for 20 something years, with huge interference problems (in the end, limiting throughput bheyond 1MB).
Wireless is even worst due to the increasing price of the spectre (licensing) and the increasing scpectrum band requirement for wireless broadband.
Future is for fibre... long live LASERs!!
This will certainly kill AOL... only DSL companies will survive (not even cable, due to it inherent broadcast limitation).
It is easier to create a new DirectTV reciever than to hack DirecTV ones. I've done it with roughtly 200 bucks.
Ok. The VLIW instruction is 128-bits wide, and it carries 3 instructions.... That lead us to 42-bit. It doesn't seem to be able to reference direclty a 64-bit memory cell, I wouldn't say it's a 64-bit processor. MIPS R5000 and so on, and Sun UltraSPARC are fully 64-bit processors, not this Itanium crap.
Why don't get an account at YAHOO? You can upload 10MB, each file can be as big as 5MB. You can accesses it from everywhere, even on vacations, you go to a CyberCafe and that's it!
MINIX is 100% microkernel, NT is not, becouse it has drivers and more things in ring 0 (executive layer, etc). Neither NT nor UNIX is object oriented. Both OS have plenty of code in pure C and even in assembler that does not match to the object definition of the rest of the OS. So, technically, MINIX is far more advance than W2K or whatever Microsoft OS you want (Windows 9X, Pocket PC, etc). There's only one comercial 100% Object oriented OS in the world, and it is the now dead Newton OS from Apple.