Comment On TV quite a bit (Score 1) 614
He's not terribly young, but Michio Kaku would be a good choice after watching some of his shows.
He's not terribly young, but Michio Kaku would be a good choice after watching some of his shows.
The Sun/Oracle Niagra II cpu is an 8 core, 8 thread per core cpu, and they put 4 physical cpu's in a box. That's 256 virtual cpus (and up to 512GB ram) in a 4u chassis. They've been shipping for 2 years.
Fermentation is pretty much an anaerobic reaction - No oxygen required. The C02 is a byproduct of turning sugars into alcohol.
No. We should refer to her as Prince. That should irritate them both.
I knew a man who played the system quite well when leaving a job. He gave three months notice on his resignation letter, and they immediately revoked his access and escorted him from the building, but had to keep paying him for the three months.
I sure am glad my OS and hardware can detect and correct memory errors on the fly and disable the dimms if need be. I know this is a linux-fest, but Solaris fault management is pretty awesome. I've seen it detect a failing cpu, evacuate the memory attached to it and disable the cpu without a hiccup.
The 'feeding rice to birds will make them swell up & explode' is a myth. snopes even says so.
Mod This up! I have a hard time looking at the stats on new cars and see nothing but HP improvements, not MPG improvements. For example, I had a '89 Mustang GT with 225 HP, and it was fast enough to be dangerous. I could shift out of 2nd gear at 75 mpg, and spin the tires in 3 gears. It got (for the time) decent mileage, namely 18 in the city, close to 25 on the highway. Fast forward 20 years, and the new mustangs get THE SAME MILEAGE, but have 300+ horsepower. The government can mandate all they want, but until people's attitudes change, horsepower sells more cars than MPG.
Put your test machines in a VM already. That way you can use the same hw to test multiple different OS/browser combinations. That will eliminate the HW cost. You still have the time for testing.
And if possible, enlist a couple of those who use IE6 (or can't switch away) and make them a deal - you will continue to support IE 6 if they will help test the site for you.
Were you watching the same presentation I was? I'm a Sun employee, and I (and others in my office) liked what we saw, and wanted more. I can't speak for others, but I'm looking forward to being part of Oracle. He wants to hire MORE engineers, not get rid of talent. He wants to use the compete stack of hw/sw/apps to succeed and beat a certain 3 letter company that has been spewing the FUD.
Not does it just contain ECC for each block, but the ECC for the block is not contained within the block, so you don't run into problems with self consistent but still bad blocks.
By buying Sun, Oracle gets a bunch of software. But OpenSolaris, MySQL, Java, and OpenOffice were all already open-source. Well, nothing was stopping them from selling customers a setup that used MySQL, Java, and OpenOffice, even before they bought Sun. That's what IBM does already. You could argue that Oracle gets more control now over these things.
Not only that, but they don't have to reinvent the wheel with a support organization for those products. They just bought one. Sun Support has always been a money maker for Sun.
(Caveat: I work for Sun Support. I personally am looking forward to being Oracle. Much better than having to take the Blue Pill(TM) of IBM)
Sun is as much a SOFTWARE company as a hardware company. Sun makes a TON of money licensing Java, and while Sun 'gives away' much of its software, support contracts on that software rake in a pretty penny as well.
Remember, Sun bought out PostGreSQL a while back. Now Oracle will have it AND MySQL
HOLY MACRO!