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Thursday, November 14, 2002

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This is my 1003rd posting to the Universal Rule weblog (counted by the Radio item numbers). It took a little less that three months to write this many postings. How long will it take to reach the 2000 or 5000 postings milestones?

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XServe cluster achieves 217 GigaFlops: "Dauger Research today announced that its software achieved over 217 billion floating-point operations per second on a cluster of 33 XServes from the Applied Cluster Computing Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)." [MacMinute.com: Up-to-the-Minute Apple Mac News]

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Boing Boing Blog writes that Apple laptops kick Windows boxens's asses in price-performace shootout: "The Mac Observer has compiled a wonderful roundup comparing laptops from Apple, Dell, HP, Gateway, Sony, and Toshiba at various price-points ($3000, $2300, $2000, $1600, 1300, and $1000). The Macs win on almost every axis, but consistently fail to match PC boxen for L1 cache.

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Apple details File System Journaling: "Mac OS X Server version 10.2.2 provides a new journaling feature for the Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus) file system which enhances server availability and fault resilience. Journaling protects the integrity of the file system on Xserve and other computers using Mac OS X Server in the event of an unplanned shutdown or power failure. It also helps to maximize the uptime of servers and attached storage devices by dramatically expediting repairs to the affected volumes when the system restarts." [The Macintosh News Network]