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1) And just what are you owed?
2) Will Bush get to level if he whacks Saddam?
3) Do you have to build a bowl in your mash potatoes for the gravy?
4) Four scoops of ice cream, your congressional member of your choice, and a hydrogen powered funny car.
5) Would you be willing to strip for the doom song?

VA 4450 chokes on 47 inserts per second while a 22XX was able to due 78 last night in testing without issue.

My cheap ass dual proc tyan board can do 112 on IDE drives (I was trying to stress it or the 22xx, I just wanted to see if it was better).

The 4 proc Intel motherboard inside of the 4450 sucks ass for IO.

Right now Slashdot has four of these (one is on loan). One is just dedicated as a search box. I leave one as a writer and use two as readers (BTW if you notice page glitches with out of date data this is the issue, I doubt we have hunted down all of the bugs in having writers and readers at the moment).

Want to bet a bunch of cheap dual proc/2gig boxes would blow away the 4450's (aka 4 proc/4gig boxes)?

I get asked this question every so often so since I just did the calculation for it I thought I would post it.

There are right around 4.4 million friends of friend and foes of friends relationships. This is out of 89K friend and foe relationships (the record number of second degree relationships is around 16K, with the next 3 being in the 13K range).

You know, I like my Zaurus. I have a couple of complaints about it but those are pretty minor and are more application specific (well battery life could be better but lets face facts, nothing is going to beat a palm since it does so little... which translates into it needing little battery life (sure, do away with color, a good processor, and I bet you could do the same)).
I now have my calendar working thanks to the fact that KOrganizer runs on it. Wish Kmail and the addressbook did too. The built in one sucks pretty badly to be honest and doesn't handle IMAP as well as it should. A simple perl script solves the issue when it comes to the addressbook, but I think that it is lame that it requires anything at all.

I may back up the entire thing and install the OpenZaurus boot roms, in all honesty I think they may be better then the sharp ones. I don't need to read word documents so the Hancom stuff is pointless for me. Opera's interface is cluncky.

Now if only KOrganizer could sync itself from an iCal file on the web. Now that would be very nifty.

On a side note, the image for the handhelds topic is a bit... dated.