From: jmfbahciv on 5 Mar 2007 07:10 In article <MPG.2054aaec1791f94798a052(a)news.individual.net>, krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: >In article <eseef4$8qk_001(a)s993.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com says... <snip> Thank you! >> >Words change meaning, levels of indirection are thrown in, confusion >> >reigns, Dimbulb is wrong (and swears a blue streak to prove it). >> >Nothing ever changes. >> >> [glum emoticon here] Yea, no progres has been observed. > >I've made this point in the other group, but sometimes things are >invented in more than one place at close to the same time. Each >invents new words and a mess occurs. For example: AMD and Intel have >totally different and contradictory vocabulary WRT caches. I always >get confused when reading either's cache docs. Well, when I started typing that kind of stuff up, we created our own spellings, too. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 5 Mar 2007 07:11 In article <MPG.205515a4ccabcb5498a058(a)news.individual.net>, krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: >In article <3j7mu2d76vc5eq16p9umeq49cp8kse4msj(a)4ax.com>, >MassiveProng(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org says... >> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 10:08:40 -0500, krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> Gave us: >> >> > I always >> >get confused when reading either's cache docs. >> > >> >> Not surprising since you don't even know where the drive controller >> for an IDE drive is located, and you are so retarded that you think it >> is merely a cache. >> >What a snip-forging clueless dolt, Dimbulb. ROTFLMAO. What irony! And MP claims I know nothing about hardware. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 5 Mar 2007 07:16 In article <3e6mu2tth78co1kfsatf1lefssf7865l6f(a)4ax.com>, MassiveProng <MassiveProng(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: >On Sun, 04 Mar 07 12:35:48 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: > >> >>Yes,yes. Is this hardware or software? Note, for the purposes >>of this discussion, firmware is soft. Oh, and exclude optical-- >>I don't understand that stuff. > > Bwuahahahahahah! > > So, you have no clue as to why logical block addressing was even >introduced? > > You scream "knows nothing" with your every post! > > Tell us... how many times, while you were "at the library" did you >ever visit the "wikipedea" page? Your answer will be quite revealing. No times. Wikipedia cannot be trusted to be correct. Most of the stuff we learned not to do has never been documented. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 5 Mar 2007 07:19 In article <esevoq$o8u$4(a)blue.rahul.net>, kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: >In article <eseg77$8qk_001(a)s993.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: >>In article <esc81s$atc$5(a)blue.rahul.net>, >> kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: >>>In article <esboom$8qk_001(a)s977.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, >>> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: >>>>In article <es9f0f$q95$6(a)blue.rahul.net>, >>>> kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: >>>>>In article <es98ds$8qk_001(a)s1006.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, >>>>> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: >>>>>[....] >>>>>The other stuff I've spoken to elsewhere. >>>>> >>>>>>The case that I brought up was database; with databases, the data >>>>>>is always a moving target that can never be snap-shot with accuracy. >>>>> >>>>>This is not always true. In a multidisk mirroring system, you can do a >>>>>commit and unmount one drive. It will be an image of what was there at >>>>>the time the commit happened. Disks are fast enough that this option can >>>>>be used for most applications. The delay caused by the OS's commit >>>>>operation is not very long. >>>> >>>>I know this is one strategy. One kind of implementation was called >>>>striping. For a reservation system, this may not be the best >>>>technique because data entry and maintenance is over a wide >>>>geographical area; the speed of light is very slow. >>> >>>You said "never". >> >>That's right; that kind of data base can never be snapshot with >>accuracy; this is because the same field can change often at >>the same wall clock time. > >So now you go back to "never". Which is it? I wish you would think and read at the same time. I'm getting weary of this word game you keep resorting to when I've made a point. <snip> /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 5 Mar 2007 07:21
In article <d87d5$45eac8ae$4fe73ef$20995(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, "nonsense(a)unsettled.com" <nonsense(a)unsettled.com> wrote: >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> In article <48cku2dg872ekdnpgtu6u9phbndvhu92oo(a)4ax.com>, >> MassiveProng <MassiveProng(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: >> >>>On Sat, 03 Mar 07 13:03:35 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >>> >>> >>>>In article <f3d56$45e8681e$49ecf0e$20166(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >>>> "nonsense(a)unsettled.com" <nonsense(a)unsettled.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>>MassiveProng wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On Fri, 02 Mar 07 12:25:31 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>In article <9abb5$45e6dbbb$4fe70c3$30531(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >>>>>>> "nonsense(a)unsettled.com" <nonsense(a)unsettled.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>In article <epccu25dvaomn9ak8i5fmq0lks6prbbtuh(a)4ax.com>, >>>>>>>>> MassiveProng <MassiveProng(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>Aren't you out of vital bodily fluids yet? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>This is what happens when you free the serfs. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Even serfs have been toilet trained and know the best >>>>>>>use of those other fluids. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Your senility is showing again, witch. Don't you have a grave site >>>>>>or an urn of ashes to talk to? Do you really feel so compelled to try >>>>>>to talk to us? If you're such a bit god, invent something! >>>>> >>>>>Well here's one that was/is incapable of learning toilet >>>>>skills. >>>> >>>>It is clear that he needs adult supervision of the >>>>maternal kind. >>> >>> More immature petty baby bullshit. You have succeeded in letting >>>the Unlearned Tard drag you down to its level. Congratulations. >> >> >> Your congratualtions are premature. I have yet to achieve his level >> of thinking ability. It's a fine goal. > >Thank you. However IMO we're merely displaced on the >same plateau. [blushing emoticon bows] And it's uphill both ways :-). /BAH |