Re: An interesting article on DEC

2023-10-09 Thread Richard J. Kolb
Interesting read, thanks for sharing and for the follow on comments. I'm in the midst of working on porting code from Vax to modern hardware as we speak. Richard J. Kolb On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 12:49 PM Jerry Feldman wrote: > Yes, the pdp-8 also supported multi user and multi task

Re: An interesting article on DEC

2023-10-08 Thread Jerry Feldman
Yes, the pdp-8 also supported multi user and multi tasking. The burger king manex system used os-8 as it's os. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org On Sun, Oct 8, 2023, 10:40 AM jon.maddog.h...@gmail.com < jonhal...@comcast.net> wrote: > I also disagree with many items in

Re: An interesting article on DEC

2023-10-08 Thread jon.maddog.h...@gmail.com
I also disagree with many items in the article. Ignoring architectures like the PDP-11 and implying that multi-user started with VMS is just plain wrong. The PDP-11 was a premier platform for multi-user operating systems like RSTS, RSX-11, and Unix to name just a few. Secondly the movement

Re: An interesting article on DEC

2023-10-07 Thread ROGER LEVASSEUR
I so miss DEC. Bulk of CS degree was earned utilizing a DECSYSTEM-20, a VAX, and PDP-11 computers. Later I worked for DEC/Compaq/HP in the late 90s/early 2000s. -roger > On 10/07/2023 4:07 PM EDT Don wrote: > > >

Re: An interesting article on DEC

2023-10-07 Thread mikebw
It's a great article. I was the principal consultant for IDS in that era, and there is a staff alumni group active on Facebook where I posted this link. I disagree with a number of the claims in the article, especially that Windows NT was based on VMS when in fact it was based on and

An interesting article on DEC

2023-10-07 Thread Don
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/long-gone-dec-is-still-powering-the-world-of-computing/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Interesting documentary on hackers

2013-06-17 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Just watched this documentary with my wife: `Hackers are People Too' http://www.hackersarepeopletoo.com/ I liked it. She said, it was OK--I already knew all of that stuff from you, and it jumped around a little too much; I need linearity Anyone else seen it? Like? Dislike?

Re: Interesting documentary on hackers

2013-06-17 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Available in Amazon streaming (not Prime eligible). Not available in Netflix streaming. Thanks, I'll check it out. Greg Rundlett On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.comwrote: Just watched this documentary with my wife: `Hackers are People Too'

Re: Interesting documentary on hackers

2013-06-17 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 roz...@geekspace.comwrote: Just watched this documentary with my wife: `Hackers are People Too' http://www.hackersarepeopletoo.com/ There's two Linux documentaries that I know of, The Code and Revolution OS. I'm sure

Re: Interesting

2010-03-08 Thread Tom Buskey
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: While working on my paper about Linux and Cloud Computing (and thanks to all the people who sent me input), I went to the VirtualBox site:

Re: Interesting

2010-03-08 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com wrote: On 03/07/2010 02:56 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: New February 12, 2009 - VirtualBox 3.1.4 released! Oracle today released. Dammit, they've discovered Sun's secret time-travel project too. ;) We have always been

Re: Interesting article,

2010-03-08 Thread Alan Johnson
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: Well, except MacOSX has specific hardware. Indeed, that's a big part of Apple's strategy. Design the hardware and the software together, and

The illegality of playing DVDs on Linux (was Re: Interesting article)

2010-03-08 Thread Alan Johnson
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: Not one Linux distro I've seen does a convincing job with consumer media, an absolutely basic requirement, and something we ought to be able to get

Re: Interesting article,

2010-03-08 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I propose the rarely here is a function of the company in question. Even Apple falls into this category for they did not design every thing about everything they sell either. To that point, there is rarely a company worth much more than they are charging across most industries. =) The issue is

Interesting

2010-03-07 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
While working on my paper about Linux and Cloud Computing (and thanks to all the people who sent me input), I went to the VirtualBox site: http://www.virtualbox.org/ Over in the corner is the News Flash section, where for the past several months the news flashes start off with: New November 17,

Re: Interesting

2010-03-07 Thread Kenny Lussier
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: While working on my paper about Linux and Cloud Computing (and thanks to all the people who sent me input), I went to the VirtualBox site: http://www.virtualbox.org/ Oracle has acquired a few virtualization products as of

Re: Interesting article

2010-03-06 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 03/05/2010 05:00 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: I was looking into what it would take in the way of patent royalties to put Android onto the Openmoko phone. It was a mess, even just paying the royalties on a hardware basis. But people can not afford to pay the royalties on free CDs that

Re: Why Linux has problems with proprietary multimedia... (was: Interesting article)

2010-03-06 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Apple and Microsoft have paid up royalties on these things ... ... which has me wondering: how does Ubuntu get away with shipping all of the stuff necessary to do DVD-authoring!? While I've never touched

Re: Interesting article

2010-03-06 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: Not one Linux distro I've seen does a convincing job with consumer media, an absolutely basic requirement, and something we ought to be able to get right. Well, please ask the DVD people not to used royalty bearing patents in

Re: Interesting article

2010-03-06 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Again, I don't have a good answer, but that doesn't mean the problem goes away. Linux still sucks. Just to be clear, in this particular case any freely distributable piece of code that relies on royalty bearing codecs sucks. That includes BSD, Hurd, Minux, Android, MeeGO, etc. md

[OT] Re: Interesting article, games and ugly pants

2010-03-05 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
ugly pants carrying Windows laptops around. I must admit I never related ugly pants with Windows laptops. I sense a follow-up study, but firstwhat is the definition of ugly pants? md ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Interesting article,

2010-03-05 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: Freedom, and low cost, and robustness, and security, and choice, and all that good stuff. s/Linux/MacOSX/ Yes and no. MacOS X certainly has a

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-05 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Ben Eisenbraun b...@klatsch.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 06:12:53PM -0500, Star wrote: There have been a couple of great releases specifically targeting Linux as a platform. I'm thinking of Unreal, EVE, and Farcry (i think?) There have been some. I

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-05 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:  I remember that!  Computers with the hottest graphics hardware on the planet, and Doom still did all rendering in software and just blitted bitmaps to X.  :) Didn't Doom use OpenGL as its engine?  Id is one of the reasons

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: You mean Android right?  Droid is one model of phone using the Android platform.  Yes and no, because... I've read of fragmentation in the Android market.  Exactly.  Droid seems like the first Android phone that's

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-05 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:  Except for the fact that Andriod is pretty much all written in Java.  :-D  And doesn't use X.  And must be run in a VM which isn't the Java VM. Oh. I didn't know that. I don't have much interest in mobile phone

Re: Will Android draw developers to Linux? (was: Interesting article, games)

2010-03-05 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: BUT: I wonder if maybe Ben isn't talking about it being a `gateway drug' that draws people to platforms that are *technologically similar*, but if he instead is talking about it drawing people to platforms that

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:  Except for the fact that Andriod is pretty much all written in Java.  :-D  And doesn't use X.  And must be run in a VM which isn't the Java VM.

Re: Interesting article,

2010-03-05 Thread Tom Buskey
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: Well, except MacOSX has specific hardware. Indeed, that's a big part of Apple's strategy. Design the hardware and the software together, and

Re: Interesting article,

2010-03-05 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
O.K., I will wade in here. :-) For the most part, Ben is right. Vendors who completely control both hardware and software can make the best products, if your definition of best is a limited market of items, and you are willing to pay for them. MVS, VMS, Digital Unix. Rock solid, stable,

Re: Interesting article,

2010-03-05 Thread David Hardy
Between everyone here I continue to learn a helluva lot about what's going on with Linux vs. everything else, and am always grateful for it, particularly for the input from md and Ben recently. So, while having nothing much to contribute at this time other than congratulations and thanks for such

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-05 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 03/05/2010 12:36 PM, Thomas Charron wrote: But there's a whole slew of custom-google-glue-and-tweaks, which was disappointing. Yeah, Google likes to grab a project, modify it to its own needs, and throw the code over the wall. Same as happens for Chrome. Tom Callaway at Fedora did

Re: Interesting article

2010-03-05 Thread Ralph Mack
is about as interesting as a telephone or a toaster oven or a DVD player. In the real world, a computer is a convenient appliance for interpersonal communication and entertainment. It shouldn't be something you have to spend time on. If you want to make Linux work for the world, you need to provide

Re: Interesting article

2010-03-05 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Ralph, While I agree with some things you said: Not one Linux distro I've seen does a convincing job with consumer media, an absolutely basic requirement, and something we ought to be able to get right. Well, please ask the DVD people not to used royalty bearing patents in their codecs, and

Why Linux has problems with proprietary multimedia... (was: Interesting article)

2010-03-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes: Not one Linux distro I've seen does a convincing job with consumer media, an absolutely basic requirement, and something we ought to be able to get right. Well, please ask the DVD people not to used royalty bearing patents in their codecs, and

Re: Why Linux has problems with proprietary multimedia... (was: Interesting article)

2010-03-05 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
... which has me wondering: how does Ubuntu get away with shipping all of the stuff necessary to do DVD-authoring!? Ahhh, what does it meant to do DVD-authoring? Moving encoded bits on a DVD? No problem! Taking video bits from my video camera (encoded into Mpeg) and putting it onto my DVD? No

Interesting article,

2010-03-04 Thread Chris
I don't agree with all of it, but it does put a few things in perspective. http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7532tag=nl.e539 http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7532tag=nl.e539Chris -- IBA #15631 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Interesting article,

2010-03-04 Thread Brian Chabot
Chris wrote: I don't agree with all of it, but it does put a few things in perspective. http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7532tag=nl.e539 I do not agree with the author of the article either. His arguments seem only based on a limited experience of what Linux has to offer. I know that

Re: Interesting article,

2010-03-04 Thread Benjamin Scott
For the TL;DR crowd: Zealotry does not help the cause. It hurts. Reality check time. I suggest zealots take note. The way you and I think is not how most mainstream people think. If you insist on closing your eyes to how the people complaining see things, don't be surprised when they

Re: Interesting article,

2010-03-04 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I will play the Devil's advocate here: No gaming support - Mandriva has an entire product line devoted to gaming, but the gaming developers didn't work with it and the end users didn't try it out. It was subsequently dropped. Yes, and It was subsequently dropped is the issue. Linux just does

Re: Interesting article,

2010-03-04 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: For the TL;DR crowd: Zealotry does not help the cause. It hurts. Reality check time. I suggest zealots take note. The way you and I think is not how most mainstream people think. If you insist on closing your

Re: Interesting article,

2010-03-04 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Chris fj1...@gmail.com wrote: I don't agree with all of it, but it does put a few things in perspective. http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7532tag=nl.e539 Chris It's hard to say you don't agree with other users observations. Note, he's not the one the

Re: Interesting article,

2010-03-04 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Brian Chabot br...@datasquire.net wrote: I do not agree with the author of the article either. His arguments seem only based on a limited experience of what Linux has to offer. They aren't his arguments. So, what I’ve done here is gone through the

Re: Interesting article,

2010-03-04 Thread Alan Johnson
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: For the TL;DR crowd: Zealotry does not help the cause. It hurts. Reality check time. I suggest zealots take note. The way you and I think is not how most mainstream people think. If you insist on closing your

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-04 Thread Lori Nagel
To: Greater NH Linux User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Sent: Thu, March 4, 2010 12:36:54 PM Subject: Re: Interesting article, For the TL;DR crowd: Zealotry does not help the cause. It hurts. Reality check time. I suggest zealots take note. The way you and I think is not how most mainstream

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-04 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Lori, A good list of game issues. Now add the fact that most Linux people are: o Open Source (and typically games aren't) o quite a few don't believe in paying for anything (and game makers have to eat) o game making is more of a science combined with art these daysfew people would be happy

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Lori Nagel writes: 1) User interfaces tend to be poor and over compilcated, with a bunch of skills and stats taking up the whole screen in a way you can't close as opposed to the whole screen being immersed in the game. This is a valid complaint. The reason for this is probably because

Re: Interesting article,

2010-03-04 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: Freedom, and low cost, and robustness, and security, and choice, and all that good stuff. s/Linux/MacOSX/ Yes and no. MacOS X certainly has a number of selling points, several of which it shares with Linux, others which are

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-04 Thread Benjamin Scott
There is definitely a chicken-and-egg problem when it comes to games on Linux. Game publishers don't target Linux because there are few gamer customers running Linux. Gamer people don't run Linux because there are few publishers targeting Linux. (I don't have an answer.) -- Ben

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-04 Thread Star
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:  There is definitely a chicken-and-egg problem when it comes to games on Linux.  Game publishers don't target Linux because there are few There have been a couple of great releases specifically targeting Linux as a

Apple and Italian trains (was Re: Interesting article,)

2010-03-04 Thread Alan Johnson
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: But low cost? Freedom? You never really own a Mac -- you're just renting it from Steve Jobs. As someone said to me recently, There can be more than one evil empire. http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-04 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Star nhs...@gmail.com wrote: There have been a couple of great releases specifically targeting Linux as a platform.  I'm thinking of Unreal, EVE, and Farcry (i think?) Again, a few counter-examples does not mean the overall trend is untrue. :) With all of

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-04 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Star nhs...@gmail.com wrote: Then there's the Sound integration...  You've got Pulse over here, eSound on that guy, he's playing with ALSA, and OSS ... http://www.trilug.org/~crimsun/linuxaudio.png Oh, not this

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-04 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Star nhs...@gmail.com wrote: Then there's the Sound integration...  You've got Pulse over here, eSound on that guy, he's playing with ALSA, and OSS ...

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-04 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
... and I was trying to remember where I saw an analogous off-the-cuff flowchart for Windows. I just found it: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vLES3KKBdaM/Sjsptq1kkCI/AGU/yITp1qKuHOU/s1600-h/windowsaudio.png Yes, and it is true that Windows probably has as much a mess in this as Linux

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-04 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Oh, not this again--half of those arrows aren't even pointing to the right places One again, spectacularly missing the point. Say a programmer is used to MS Windows, where despite your flow chart, it's all

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-04 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 06:12:53PM -0500, Star wrote: There have been a couple of great releases specifically targeting Linux as a platform. I'm thinking of Unreal, EVE, and Farcry (i think?) There have been some. I remember playing Tribes 2 during lunch on the linux workstations in the NOC.

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-26 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/25/07, Bob King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you are saying the flag indicates only that it understands that flag, rather than has that capability? Wouldn't it be more useful to show what capabilities it HAS rather than those it knows about? Our mistake is in assuming that usefulness was

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-26 Thread Thomas Charron
On 4/26/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look for siblings : 2 in the cpuinfo. If it has the HT flag, but siblings is 1, it answers the question. Think of it as a matrix question. 'Just remember, there is no spoon, err, HT.' As an addendum, the lack of a siblings line also

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-26 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Apr 25, 2007, at 17:01, Bob King wrote: That seems a bit odd.So you are saying the flag indicates only that it understands that flag, rather than has that capability? yes. Wouldn't it be more useful to show what capabilities it HAS rather than those it knows about? yes. -Bill -

Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread Bob King
During the Xen discussion at MerriLUG, it was mentioned that the Xen implementation on FC6 required PAE on the cpu. I knew that my two Linux boxen at home did not support VTX, so I checked the processors for the PAE flag. My Xeon system had PAE and also supported hyperthreading, which was hardly

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread Thomas Charron
On 4/25/07, Bob King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the Xen discussion at MerriLUG, it was mentioned that the Xen implementation on FC6 required PAE on the cpu. I knew that my two Linux boxen at home did not support VTX, so I checked the processors for the PAE flag. My Xeon system had PAE and

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread Thomas Charron
On 4/25/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone had heard anything about this? If the cpu really supports hyperthreading then I might want to invest in a new mobo for that box. The differences between Dualcore and Hyperthreading are debatable. Is it possible

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread bmcculley
Interesting question, got me wondering if my Core 2 Duo cpu would look the same. Haven't had the chance to check it yet, but I did some reading and found that it seems neither the Pentium D 805 or my Core 2 Duo 6400 have hyperthread technology although they're both dual-cores. I haven't

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread bmcculley
Apr 2007 11:08:04 -0400 From: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise To: Bob King [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org On 4/25/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone had

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread Bob King
On 4/25/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The differences between Dualcore and Hyperthreading are debatable. Is it possible that whatever reported the HT bit simply did so because the capabilities from a software perspective are so simular? After rereading, I anted to clarify.

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread Bob King
interest. That is why I picked up that CPU. The mobo it is on will go from a 533 FSB up to 1066 , and is fairly flexible. Given that the cpu multiplier is 20 (providing 2.66GHz for that 533MHZ FSB) it could be very interesting. I don't want to go up to water cooling, but should be able to ratchet

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread Thomas Charron
On 4/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also, the table on page 18 of a good review of the D 805 on Tom's Hardware shows the D 805 has no HT implementation, but comments on the equivalency of dual-core. Find it at:

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread Shawn K. O'Shea
I was wondering if anyone had heard anything about this? If the cpu really supports hyperthreading then I might want to invest in a new mobo for that box. This got me curiously googling around and I found this in an Intel doc on the Linux kernel: ht in 'flags' field of /proc/cpuinfo indicate

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/25/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, this is exactly why I say the differences from a software perspective are debatable. In the sense of what you have to program to make use of it, yes. Either way, you have to worry about shared memory concurrency, locking, re-entrance,

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread Paul Lussier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are also a few dual cores with hyperthreading, Xeon was one product line I noticed had such models. Yeah, I just checked one of our new machines which is a dual dual-core. It reports 4 GenuineIntel CPUs in /proc/cpuinfo, all of which have the 'ht' flag set.

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread Bob King
On 4/25/07, Shawn K. O'Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ht in 'flags' field of /proc/cpuinfo indicate that the processor supports the Machine Specific Registers to report back HT or multi-core capability. Additional fields (listed down below) in the CPU records of /proc/cpuinfo will give more

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Apr 25, 2007, at 12:53, Shawn K. O'Shea wrote: ht in 'flags' field of /proc/cpuinfo indicate that the processor supports the Machine Specific Registers to report back HT or multi-core capability. Additional fields (listed down below) in the CPU records of /proc/cpuinfo will give more

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 14:15:55 Paul Lussier wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are also a few dual cores with hyperthreading, Xeon was one product line I noticed had such models. Yeah, I just checked one of our new machines which is a dual dual-core. It reports 4 GenuineIntel

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 13:56:35 Ben Scott wrote: On 4/25/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, this is exactly why I say the differences from a software perspective are debatable. In the sense of what you have to program to make use of it, yes. Either way, you have to

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/25/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, 'ht' just reports whether the CPU knows it has hyperthreading or knows it doesn't have hyperthreading. This tripped me up for a good hour once! So the HT flag does not indicate HyperThreading capability. Rather, the HT flag

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread bmcculley
much for my hope that the new 3GHz eight-core MacPro would hyperthread to give 16 virtual CPUs :-( Guess we're both sol. -brucem Original message Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:15:55 -0400 From: Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread mike ledoux
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 02:15:55PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are also a few dual cores with hyperthreading, Xeon was one product line I noticed had such models. Yeah, I just checked one of our new machines which is a dual dual-core. It reports 4

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 15:19:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually it looks like the newer Xeons (dual and quad cores) don't support HT. I googled and found this comment: Hyperthreading is only on the NetBurst based 50xx Xeons - the Core2 based 51xx Xeons do not support hyperthreading

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread Bob King
On 4/25/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, 'ht' just reports whether the CPU knows it has hyperthreading or knows it doesn't have hyperthreading. This tripped me up for a good hour once! I have a 2.5GHz P4 here without hyperthreading, but it knows that it doesn't: $cat

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread Paul Lussier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually it looks like the newer Xeons (dual and quad cores) don't support HT. I googled and found this comment: Hyperthreading is only on the NetBurst based 50xx Xeons - the Core2 based 51xx Xeons do not support hyperthreading The same is apparently true of

Re: Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

2007-04-25 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Apr 25, 2007, at 22:24, Paul Lussier wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually it looks like the newer Xeons (dual and quad cores) don't support HT. I googled and found this comment: Hyperthreading is only on the NetBurst based 50xx Xeons - the Core2 based 51xx Xeons do not support

Interesting article RH buys some Netscape goodies.

2004-10-01 Thread Jason
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1158498 Thought you all might be interested. Jason Kern www.KernBuilt.com 603.823.5150 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Interesting comments on SCO lawsuits

2004-02-19 Thread Hewitt Tech
This story claims that ATT disclaimed ownership of derivative UNIX code and SCO's lawsuits may fall apart... http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/unix/story/0,10801,90205,00.html -Alex ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interesting comments on SCO lawsuits

2004-02-19 Thread Jerry Feldman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:15:45 -0500 Hewitt Tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This story claims that ATT disclaimed ownership of derivative UNIX code and SCO's lawsuits may fall apart...

Re: Interesting comments on SCO lawsuits

2004-02-19 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:15:45AM -0500, Hewitt Tech wrote: This story claims that ATT disclaimed ownership of derivative UNIX code and SCO's lawsuits may fall apart... http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/unix/story/0,10801,90205,00.html groklaw.net is a great source of SCO/IBM

[gnhlug-announce] FYI: interesting speaking before the e-coast e-brew this month

2003-09-29 Thread Lori Hitchcock
Hi everyone, I thought some of us might be interested in attending this. The monthly e-coast e-brew will immediately follow the presentation. Thanks Lori Hitchcock -Original Message- From: Benjamin LaBolt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 9:16 AM

Looks interesting

2003-09-02 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
I have not read this entirely, however, a cursory look tells me others on this list may find it interesting. http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.real.html -- __ | 0|___||. Andrew Gaunt - Computing Development Environment _| _| : : } Lucent Technologies: http://www-cde.mv.lucent.com

Re: Interesting live NASA feed this afternoon (fwd)

2002-10-07 Thread Bayard R. Coolidge
Suzanne said: NASA claims that, for the first time, they'll have a live camera on the external tank of STS-112 (Atlantis), which will be broadcasting the entire liftoff and ascent, including the release and burnup of the tank itself. Lanuch is scheduled for 3:46pm EST Oct 7th, with a five

OT: Interesting Site

2002-08-26 Thread numberwhun
I found this site today and have been going through it since: http://www.empowermentzone.com/ There is so much information on here, it is going to take quite a while to go through. I hope everyone finds it as interesting as I do. Regards, Jeff Kirkland

Re: OT: Interesting Site

2002-08-26 Thread bscott
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, at 7:24pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this site today and have been going through it since: http://www.empowermentzone.com/ Oh my God! It's full of hyperlinks! ;-) -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the

Interesting idea for fighting SPAM...

2002-08-20 Thread Jeff Macdonald
http://www.habeas.com/faq/index.htm ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Interesting idea for fighting SPAM...

2002-08-20 Thread Bob Bell
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:32:17PM -0400, Jeff Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.habeas.com/faq/index.htm (We'll see if this post gets through; I'm 1 for 3 so far) Apparently a lot of people saw the Slashdot story and started coding their own Bayesian spam filters. There have