{"id":548,"date":"2002-05-09T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-09T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/05\/09\/run-out-of-steam\/"},"modified":"2002-05-09T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-09T15:37:00","slug":"run-out-of-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/05\/09\/run-out-of-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Run out of steam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s hotbed of LJ postings and comments it seems everyone&#8217;s run out of steam today.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe there&#8217;s only a finite flux of comments and yesterday&#8217;s huge outpouring emptied the whole reservoir and now we&#8217;re having to wait for it to refill.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, who cares? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s been a pretty dull day in more ways than one. Firstly, it&#8217;s been a day of not very interesting work and the weather&#8217;s dreary too.<\/p>\n<p>Still, tomorrow afternoon there&#8217;s a Sun Technology Seminar over at the Computing Labs which includes a free lunch and (gosh) information which is not for general release on upcoming wonders of Sun marketting, sorry, technology for which I&#8217;ll have to sign a non disclosure agreement. This will be, of course, a software technology &#8216;cos in the hardware stakes Sun is dropping behind on the raw performance side.<\/p>\n<p>If you were strapped for cash and needed a computer to do lots of number crunching, would you:-<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Buy a Sun Blade 1000 with twin 900MHz UltraSPARC III processors (which under benchmarking show that they are a third less efficient than the current x86 processors per clock cycle) and 1GB of RAM for around \u00a310,000.<\/li>\n<li>Buy a dual Athlon MP 2000+ machine with twin processors, 1GB RAM and more disk than on the Blade 1000 plus a complete set of spare parts for \u00a35000 which is basically twice the raw computing power.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Hmm.. tricky, eh? The Sun is more reliable, yet the Athlon box is almost disposable but you can maintain it yourself for half the cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s hotbed of LJ postings and comments it seems everyone&#8217;s run out of steam today. Maybe there&#8217;s only a finite flux of comments and yesterday&#8217;s huge outpouring emptied the whole reservoir and now we&#8217;re having to wait for it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/05\/09\/run-out-of-steam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Kvvs-8Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}