This week I have mostly been...

24seven · Post by **24seven** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:03 am

This week I have mostly been...

Drinking, playing CS:S and doing uni work.

How about you?

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 5:03 pm

Sleeping, drinking, cannibalising old PCs, tidying the flat, painting and decorating, reading the papers, worrying about bills.

Dave Rave · Post by **Dave Rave** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:40 pm

tidying !?!
hand in your gamers / PC fixer / geek badge boy!
there will be no tidying on my watch!!!

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 11:21 am

Whooops! Sorry Sir!

I must say though, it's most unlike me to tidy, and the place still looks in a right state. But I was getting embarassed asking people over.

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 11:40 am

Working, sleeping, eating, drinking, PCing and tax returning.

Oh, and tidying. Sorry, Dave Rave ! Had to find informations for tax returning.

purrkur · Post by **purrkur** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 2:05 pm

For the past two weeks I have been tuning Windows 2003 Enterprise server and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise and Linux SLES 9.0 along with Sybase ASE on a couple of fat 4x3.0GHz CPU IBM machine with 8GB memory and a Fibre Channel backend with 28 disks in it set up in a dual RAID 0 with 14 disks each. The reason for the tuning was to test our software on Linux vs Windows to see what OS/database does better. I have also been setting up those machines along with a bunch of dual CPU workstations >2.4GHz into a setup where we will test and demo a grid solution for financial calculations. I'll by flying down to IBM in Germany come Monday to continue the work. It has been a very interesting week, needless to say.

My older daughter also turned 5 yesterday so my wife and I have been busy with preparations and parties.

Oh, you are probably wondering how the tests went. I don't want to publicly humiliate Bill Gates but let me say that when Microsoft comes with another prepaid study saying that Windows is faster, I can say that I got the proof that shows that they not telling the truth

The speed difference was 11% at the lowest and when things turned really ugly, Linux and Sybase ASE were doing things almost twice as fast.

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 5:19 pm

You never miss an OS bashing opportunity eh, purrkur?

Happy birthday for your daughter yesterday.

purrkur · Post by **purrkur** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 1:38 am

Thanks a lot! I showed my daughter the pic and she thought it was great. She also asked why it had more than five candles

As for the bashing, I wouldn't call it that anymore. I tried my best to get both operating systems and databases to deliver their best. I honestly did because this was my big chance to see if what I have "felt" all along is correct or not. I have never been able to back up my feelings with facts, but now I do

I consider bashing to be mindless anti-talk about an OS based on everything but fact.

I still don't mind Windows. I still think we should work with that platform at work because we have customers (mostly the small ones) that are Windows only shops. We need to cater to their needs as well. But now I can finally have these performance discussions with people and base my conclusions on facts rather than feelings.

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 1:25 pm

Hey, I was only messing! I know you're not one of the "mindless" types!

Windows gets on my nerves but I have to use it because I write and produce music. It's either MS or MacOS, and I've never really got on with Macs. There are some very exciting developments happening in the Linux audio field, but it'll be quite some time before it's a viable option for me. I just wish Be Inc. had never gone the way it did.

purrkur · Post by **purrkur** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 2:02 pm

InactiveX wrote:Hey, I was only messing! I know you're not one of the "mindless" types!

Hehehe! I know, but I felt I needed to say it anyways

InactiveX wrote:Windows gets on my nerves but I have to use it because I write and produce music. It's either MS or MacOS, and I've never really got on with Macs. There are some very exciting developments happening in the Linux audio field, but it'll be quite some time before it's a viable option for me. I just wish Be Inc. had never gone the way it did.

I have read of some distros that are audio-centric. You can read more of them in this Linux Journal article. I also found this page on amundi at Distrowatch with reviews and other links. I have no idea how good that stuff is though but it might be worth keeping an eye on.

As for Be, I sincerely agree with you. I remember the first time I fired up the personal edition of BeOS 5.0. I was totally amazed at what it could do. Windows felt like a dinosaur in comparison.

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 2:20 pm

Thanks a lot for those links. Bookmarked!

Today I have mostly been thinking about writing my first GNU/Linux tune.

davd_bob · Post by **davd_bob** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 3:12 am

March 31, I mortgaged everything I own and bought my wife a Video store.
April 1, daughter and son-in-law left 3week old baby with us for 5 days while we tried to learn how to be small business owners.
April 2, clutch went out on my car.
April 4, had to drive 200 miles in my car with the bad clutch to get daughter and son-in-law as they were stranded.
Sometime, got BP6 back from Abit-RMA.

Last weeks...
Got the daughter back, gave the baby back, fixed the clutch myself, BP6 rebuilt, rebuilt a HP4, havent gone out of business yet.(just argue a lot)
Really Ive just been running like a headless chicken since March 31.

phaedrus · Post by **phaedrus** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 12:46 am

Well, let's see, I've spent the last week trying to find a Solid State Relay that doesn't crap out at 4.2 Kelvin (no luck so far, but most of the International Rectifier models get much better at 77 Kelvin). We're trying to find some switches that might actually work when we throw them inside a 6 Tesla superconducting magnet (cold superconducter, which means a Liquid Helium bath, which sits at 4.2 Kelvin).

Going to Nuclear & Particle Physics lecture 3 times a week. Learning about such interesting things as how the W+/- processes do not conserve Parity or Charge Conjugation (but are invariant under both operations combined). If that went over your head, don't worry, I'm specifically being a jackhole.

Spent Wednesday evening at a career fair trying to find someone to pay me money in 2 months.

Found out I won't be going to grad school next autumn. I'm not disappointed. I was getting to the point where I was half hoping I'd be turned down. I've been wanting a break from academia. I give myself two years with more money than I've got now to get sick of the job world and go back to being a student.

No tidying, and not enough money to tinker with hardware at the moment. Uniprocessor boxen suck.

Jeff

purrkur · Post by **purrkur** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 11:47 am

InactiveX wrote:Thanks a lot for those links. Bookmarked!

Today I have mostly been thinking about writing my first GNU/Linux tune.

I found this article on Professional Sound Editing with Audacity as well as this article on a program called Csound that might interest you. I haven't read them because my interest in those are not that great but I thought of you when I saw the articles mentioned on Linux Today so I thought I'd post them.

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:42 am

Cheers purrker. Looking now.

This week I have mostly been doing DIY on the flat and refurbishing old PCs.

24seven · Post by **24seven** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 8:47 pm

... doing UNI work and I'm currently in newcaslt egetting drunk

YAW!!!!

purrkur · Post by **purrkur** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 2:22 am

24seven wrote:newcaslt egetting

Hehehe! We ca nsee that

How are you feeling today?

24seven · Post by **24seven** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 5:26 am

Hehe didnt get to bed until erm 6:30am..

Dont feel too bad today thanks

I blame not being used to the keyboard. heh