[Info-vax] The Future of Server Hardware?

[Paul Sture]

In article <k4me6l$ihl$1 at dont-email.me>,
 Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:

> On 2012-10-05 05:24:37 +0000, JohnF said:
> 
> > Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> > 
> >> If you're thinking of basing this on Linux as I might suspect,
> > Yeah, why not? Seems like the most straightforward approach.
> 
> Um, because you hadn't mentioned your preferred OS target, and I was guessing.
> 
> >> ...see which GPU vendor is currently making and keeping the Linux folks
> >> happier; who has the better or more open drivers has varied over the
> >> last couple of years.
> > A not-so-veiled plug for nvidia?
> 
> I'm disinterested, though not uninterested; no horse in that race.
> 
> >> There's almost certainly a Linux HPC group or forum or resource around.
> > Yeah, sorry for yet another off-topic, non-vms discussion.
> 
> That was intended as a "there are better folks to ask that" comment.
> (Anybody that's popped up on IRC #vms knows I go off-topic, too.)
> 
> >> Current OS X includes OpenCL and some clever GCD threading syntax baked
> >> into the clang compiler, if you have one of those boxes around.
> > Thanks, again. Those are great search terms for an alternative
> > framework. (Though no matter how open OpenCL is, OS X is way too
> > closed for my liking. Linux gets the job done just fine, without
> > leading me around like a bull with a ring through its nose.)

I may have mis-remebered here, but didn't I see a comment about some 
useful sounding feature of Grand Central Dispatch that had been dropped 
in the latest release?
 
> Or loosely translated into VMS terms, "see figure one": 
> <http://www.dourish.com/goodies/see-figure-1.html>

I must share this one.  The background is that Ubuntu has incorporated 
Amazon results into desktop (i.e. local) searches.

http://ostatic.com/blog/the-ubuntu-12-10-desktop-includes-amazon-search-r
esults-users-revolt

"While some are calling it a tempest in a teapot, Ubuntu loyalists are 
expressing fury that the next version of Ubuntu includes shopping 
suggestions from Amazon directly in desktop search results. Version 
12.10 is imminent, and many Ubuntu users feel like the Amazon inclusions 
are nothing more than adware."

Someone has submitted ann SPR complaining that 'grep' (the unix 
equivalent of VMS SEARCH for those unfamiliar with it) results are 
boring and should also be enhanced with Amazon suggestions:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1055766

"grep -R doesn't automatically search amazon"

I particularly like the suggestion in comment #23:

"People who searched for this regexp also searched for"

-- 
Paul Sture