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Is there any clustering technology available for *BSD? I mean, for someone who has assorted old hardware with many different processors and platforms, NetBSD seems ideal. And for a group of Intel boxes, FreeBSD has always been choice. (sorry:it's just more stable & higher performance than most linux distros--please don't take this as flame-bait, it's just my opinion; what i'm really looking for here is BSD alternatives to Beowulf clustering). And of course, anything that runs on OpenBSD is just kick-ass, although if you're running a cluster that's not connected to the Internet, securing everything is not really necessary, performance is more key. but i guess this might be a case of "just because i can."

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The reason for taxing the stock market has little to do with corporate power. It's more that a tax on the stock market (one fourth of one percent is all he's suggesting...which is nearly statistically insignificant compared to the 2% brokerage fee and is definitely insignificant compared to the price of the stock) because it will raise a lot of money for the government. And Ralph doesn't want that money for the unweildy Democrat- and Republican-run government; he wants it for a new, progressive, helpful government that will provide universal healthcare and education. The politicians don't need this right now because they don't need money for such programs, all they want to do is talk about programs like that and how nice it would be to have that, but how impossible it is. Then, they raise their salaries and raise the defense budget. This comment is probably wasted because you don't seem to either favor or go against the progressive tax. Nevertheless, the comment shall go up.

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very cool. thanks.

but is there anything like mathworld anywhere else on the Internet?

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sounds like a good idea F=ma
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I would have really liked to have a site like this. I hope it comes back. Until then, are there any sites like this out there? I often find myself in need of a mathematical reference like this one seems to be.

"don't know what you've got til it's gone"
- joni mitchell, i believe

On that note, maybe there should be repository for things like this. I know there is Yahoo! and the Opentext directory, but perhaps there should be a (relatively) small directory of sites like this. a "best of web" directory. just a thought...no real ideas here yet. think about it.

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how do you encrypt likely passphrases to compare them with /etc/passwd?
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i am not so sure how reliable this press release is, considering that they refer to neutrons and protons as elementary particles, which they most certainly are not. plus, splitting a wave function just splits the probability that you will find the electron in a certain place. it would make it (for example) half as likely to be in one bubble as the other. although the electron may be fissionable, this is probably not the experiment that will prove it.
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i'm surprised jobs didn't wait for a keynote to announce this one

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i can't wait to set up a beowulf cluster of these...

kidding. relax.

but in all seriousness, this looks very cool. i wonder how long it will take for vendors to offer linux as an option on their handhelds. with all the industry hype of linux, it may not be as long as you think.


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