There's a lot of fuss in the UK at the moment about the launch by TalkTalk of Free Broadband Forever.
The salient point here is the use of the word Free, especially when you consider that it actually costs £20.99 each month.
I don't want to be cynical, and yes, I appreciate that you also get your line rental and a very good calling plan bundled in for that price, but at the end of the day, what you are paying for is all three items (line rental, calling plan, broadband) for the £20.99. It is mere marketing to suggest that what you are actually paying for is the first two items and the third is the free one.
I had to reformat some stuff from the man pages for inclusion in another document that would be converted to a proper table. Here’s a trick for using awk/gawk to take the input (multiple spaces) and output with tabs using different input and output separators.
Worth a read, but perhaps without a hot drink so you don't spray hot fluid over your monitor...although I guess that could then become a good starting point for a new story for the collections.
Worth a read, but perhaps without a hot drink so you don't spray hot fluid over your monitor...although I guess that could then become a good starting point for a new story for the collections.
As CPUs move to multi-core architecture, companies - both OEMs and end users - are facing issues of licensing. If you have a multi-CPU machine, you often have to buy a multi-CPU licence.
The query is whether a multi-core CPU is really two (or more) CPUs, or just one?
I mentioned then (actually, just last week) about the potential ongoing problems:
I can see the problems extending though as more multi-core x86 cores come on line. It's going to take a year or so for the kinks to be worked out of the different systems, and we may yet see some changes and equalization of the different solutions across different suppliers and manufacturers.
The article in Information Age (actually in the Insider section, page 10 - I can't find an online copy) mentioned something I hadn't considered - the role that distributed computing, grids and virtualization might play in the way people are charged.
I mentioned then (actually, just last week) about the potential ongoing problems:
I can see the problems extending though as more multi-core x86 cores come on line. It's going to take a year or so for the kinks to be worked out of the different systems, and we may yet see some changes and equalization of the different solutions across different suppliers and manufacturers.
The article in Information Age (actually in the Insider section, page 10 - I can't find an online copy) mentioned something I hadn't considered - the role that distributed computing, grids and virtualization might play in the way people are charged.
If you watch the CPU trends, the 64-bit computing has been here for years, but strangely in the commodity market of the x86 CPU, widespread adoption has not been as widespread compared to the high-end Unix and mainframe environments.
Now Microsoft are leading from the front by moving their own web servers to 64-bit CPUs - primarily to remove the memory limitations and therefore improve the speed and performance.
To show you how it is done, they've released a white paper on how it was done.