and me thinking of shoplifting a few cds this weekend. Never mind that, I'll get them off Napster, then claim the moral high ground by spouting some crap about reclaiming music for the people and sticking two fingers up at the fascist music industry.
How dare anyone feel they the right to try charging money for anything?
It's my experience that Solaris runs like a dog on low-end Intel hardware. The FS is slow anyway, (though very reliable) but the performance on IDE disks is apalling. Solaris can use DMA on certain chipsets, which makes a big difference to I/O speed, but I don't know if it was enabled in these tests.
If you give Solaris good hardware it will give you good performance, but on a single CPU system with only 64Mb of RAM and one IDE disk it will blow, as proved by these benchmarks.
My machine here has 2x733MHz PIII, 512Mb RAM, 4x18Gb LVD SCSI disks. It boots Solaris 7, Linux and FreeBSD and one day I might just get round to doing some benchmarks of my own. It would be very interesting to see performance comparisons on a decent, but still reasonably affordable machine.
I've always thought the expression "CD quality" was pretty stupid. Is that equivalent sound quality to a 1992 Saisho CD walkman or 12,000ukp worth of Linn CD12?
IMHO anyone who says MP3s are indistinguishable from CDs has never heard a good CD player. (But what do I know? I buy all my music on vinyl!)
Using magnets is just balancing forces: it's nothing to do with gravity as I see it.
Surely anti-gravity is a repelling force exerted by any body with mass on any other body with mass. Or, put another way, something the stretches the old "rubber sheet" of spacetime in the opposite "direction" to the way gravity stetches it.
Quite how you can research anti-gravity when no one understands how gravity works is beyond me.
Unix will die. As computers spread, more and more people begin to use them who assume windows is an integral part of every computer.
Nowadays you can do everything on windows that you can do on Unix. Whether you can do it as well, as efficiently or as reliably is not the point for most people. Point and click and MCSE are all that matters.
In business the people who hold the purse strings can see no further than Windows. All the new desktop users can see no further than Windows. All the kids learning to use computers are using Windows.
Flamebait? The guy's right: Sun are in this business to make money and all you "something for nothing" folk should be grateful when they decide to give you for free anything which they've spent good money developing. So many Linux people are so far up their own arses over licensing issues that they are unable to see any of the 101 good reasons why corporations like Sun hesitate to give away their trade secrets. GPL is great, altruism is great, selling products is sometimes essential.
I bet some fucknut wanted people to be able to have anything.they.want as a URL, and this is a result of him finally compromising his ideas after having DNS explained to him a thousand times.
Why do some people have to turn everything into a conspiracy?
Life as a University sys-admin is a constant battle to squeeze the maximum possible performance from out-of-date and underpowered resources.
Students who complain because they are suddenly being denied the opportunity to use equipment, often bought by taxpayers who have no right to use it, to effectively steal copyrighted material should brace themselves for the impending impact of Real Life.
To cry censorship and claim rights are being abused is ridiculous and frankly insulting to those genuinely denied free speech and movement.
University resources are bought to aid research and learning. If you want to download mp3s, run off back to your parents and do it on their phone bill. (Which I suspect is what most of those complaining have done.)
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and me thinking of shoplifting a few cds this weekend. Never mind that, I'll get them off Napster, then claim the moral high ground by spouting some crap about reclaiming music for the people and sticking two fingers up at the fascist music industry.
How dare anyone feel they the right to try charging money for anything?
> Would you rather a giant (but pitifully unskilled) army in front of you, or one very skilled assassin behind you?
I'm fucked either way.
KDE has always been too fast and stable for me - that's why I use Gnome. Hopefully this will redress the balance somewhat.
Now can I whine about the QT license please?
NB: this is supposed to be a (lame) joke but no doubt some idiot will mark it down as a troll. Thanks in advance.
It's my experience that Solaris runs like a dog on low-end Intel hardware. The FS is slow anyway, (though very reliable) but the performance on IDE disks is apalling. Solaris can use DMA on certain chipsets, which makes a big difference to I/O speed, but I don't know if it was enabled in these tests.
If you give Solaris good hardware it will give you good performance, but on a single CPU system with only 64Mb of RAM and one IDE disk it will blow, as proved by these benchmarks.
My machine here has 2x733MHz PIII, 512Mb RAM, 4x18Gb LVD SCSI disks. It boots Solaris 7, Linux and FreeBSD and one day I might just get round to doing some benchmarks of my own. It would be very interesting to see performance comparisons on a decent, but still reasonably affordable machine.
I've always thought the expression "CD quality" was pretty stupid. Is that equivalent sound quality to a 1992 Saisho CD walkman or 12,000ukp worth of Linn CD12?
IMHO anyone who says MP3s are indistinguishable from CDs has never heard a good CD player. (But what do I know? I buy all my music on vinyl!)
Rob
i) so you can annoy users of other Unices when your "portable" code won't build for lack of linux/soundcard.h
ii) so when your application hangs the X server you can shrug and say "well, what do you want for free?"
Rob
Using magnets is just balancing forces: it's nothing to do with gravity as I see it.
Surely anti-gravity is a repelling force exerted by any body with mass on any other body with mass. Or, put another way, something the stretches the old "rubber sheet" of spacetime in the opposite "direction" to the way gravity stetches it.
Quite how you can research anti-gravity when no one understands how gravity works is beyond me.
Unix will die. As computers spread, more and more people begin to use them who assume windows is an integral part of every computer.
Nowadays you can do everything on windows that you can do on Unix. Whether you can do it as well, as efficiently or as reliably is not the point for most people. Point and click and MCSE are all that matters.
In business the people who hold the purse strings can see no further than Windows. All the new desktop users can see no further than Windows. All the kids learning to use computers are using Windows.
I can't tell you how much I hope I'm wrong...
Flamebait? The guy's right: Sun are in this business to make money and all you "something for nothing" folk should be grateful when they decide to give you for free anything which they've spent good money developing. So many Linux people are so far up their own arses over licensing issues that they are unable to see any of the 101 good reasons why corporations like Sun hesitate to give away their trade secrets. GPL is great, altruism is great, selling products is sometimes essential.
How do you know? He might send them anonymously.
> Quake is not exactly what I call a game for most females
;-)
Don't worry: I'm working on an open source Unix port of "Barbie Fashion Designer".
surely it would have to be .cum?
I bet some fucknut wanted people to be able to have anything.they.want as a URL, and this is a result of him finally compromising his ideas after having DNS explained to him a thousand times.
Why do some people have to turn everything into a conspiracy?
Life as a University sys-admin is a constant battle to squeeze the maximum possible performance from out-of-date and underpowered resources.
Students who complain because they are suddenly being denied the opportunity to use equipment, often bought by taxpayers who have no right to use it, to effectively steal copyrighted material should brace themselves for the impending impact of Real Life.
To cry censorship and claim rights are being abused is ridiculous and frankly insulting to those genuinely denied free speech and movement.
University resources are bought to aid research and learning. If you want to download mp3s, run off back to your parents and do it on their phone bill. (Which I suspect is what most of those complaining have done.)