Actually, the medical scenes in ER are fairly accurate. They film in a real ER, and they have real trauma nurses standing beside the main characters. There is also a real doctor on the set as a technical advisor. This show is one of the most (technically) realistic shows on television.
Hell, they don't even use special lighting. They use just the bare flourescent overheads. That is getting pretty damn accurate!
Did you see him on the Saturday Night Live 25 anniversary special? The Beastie Boys started playing "Sabotage" and then he jumed up on stage and they turned into his backing group. It was rather sweet.
He can't hold a candle to the legendary Simon Phillips, who has played on many (post Keith Moon) Who shows, many Pete Townshend or Roger Daltrey solo shows/albums, and who basically stepped in for Jeff Porcaro (Toto) after he died a few years ago.
I had the priviledge of seeing Simon play a drum clinic a few weeks ago, and I must say, he is an incredibly badass drummer with a great personality. Chops from hell, and not at all stuck up about it (like some I've seen). I rank him right up there with my all-time favorite: Neil Peart. Tim Alexander and Mike Portnoy are also really cool as well.
As has been stated many times in reference to Free Speech Software (as opposed the the corporate co-opted term "Open Source Software", which I never liked), version numbers are meaningless, as long as they increase between releases.
They could call it "Enlightenment 99" if they wanted to, it would still be the same code.
This is a problem admitted by Sun. It is not E that won't run Java, but Java doesn't conform to some of the specs for X ICCCM (enough C's?) window manager compliance. They are supposed to be fixing that soon.
Except for one early pre 0.16 CVS build I tried, E has run flawlessly for me since 0.15.0. Now the only WM that crashes on me is that weird "explorer.exe" program (in both 95/98 and NT, except NT restarts it cleanly, so except for the icons and toolbar flickering, you never notice)
I think this is where the distributions have been slacking. They need to have people dedicated to updating the help files and getting the changes back to the maintainers, so that then they can have updated documentation (and we all benefit). It is not enough to hire a bunch of hardcore, well-known coders and not hire any tech writers. You need both, and RedHat/VA/Linuxcare/SUSE/Debian people all need to start doing better in that regard.
We also need to realize that man page are really for listing options and privociding samples of use, not for detailed descriptions of how various parts of a package work together. A package overview would be nice for each package, and then distros could also provide documentation as to how several related packages work together.
I will say this, though. I do not find the man pages hard to use, but an html (or xml, even better) version would be nice, since then you could link through to related documentation. I think that the LDP has not lived up to its potential in this regard, but since I haven't contributed to it, I guess I can't really complain, now can I?
But can I modify source code, and make those changes public? Not for a measly $10.
Can I take Solaris, add some packages, replace some packages, write some new packages, burn it onto a CD and sell "BlueHat Solaris 8.0"? Not for any $$$.
Dude, you mean you don't have a daemon that connects to slashdot, reloads continously, and whenever a new story is added it blasts out your first post reply to the new article?
It is not up to each individual programmer if there is a class-action lawsuit on behalf of any programmer who distributes his software under the GPL, and whose program(s) is/are part of Corel's Linux distro. Then they can be sued by more than one, whether or not that programmer puts his name on the suit.
bzip/gzip would have to include non-free code to be able to uncompress the file types you use as examples. It is not snobbish at all.
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Close but no cigar.
If it did in fact say "everyone else", then it would be close to an open source license. Since it _does_ say "RSA Data Security" it is exactly the opposite of an Open Source License.
Fine, then don't buy whatever megachip Transmeta comes out with when they actually do produce something. The speculation is wild about their stuff, what with all of the patents that they filed for, but they haven't said anything, and refuse to say anything.
If you needed a web farm of ten quad Alphas, then you would definitely already have way more bandwidth than a 128K connection!
To answer your question "is it the server or the connection that gets overloaded during a Slashdotting?", I would suspect that it could be either one, depending on the site. If the pipe is smaller than the server, then you would see a lot of timeouts and super slow response (like this particular slashdotting). The pipe itself could overload and go down (the routers could bounce from the overload) or the ISP/Corporate/University admins could notice and block traffic to that server until the load goes down (sending nasty email along the way).
If the pipe is big enough, but the server itself cannot handle all of the connections, then everyone else would get server errors back from the server, or the server itself could buckle (and possibly bounce (reboot)).
"oooooooooohhhhhhhhhh, Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Spongebob Squarepants!!"
My son walks around singing the stupid themesong, and he hasn't even seen an episode of the show!
I can't believe cartoons like CatDog, Cow and Chicken, and SpongeBob exist. They are all stupid, gross ripoffs if the first season of Ren and Stimpy (w/ John K at the helm). Hell, even the rest of Ren and Stimpy is a stupid ripoff off the first season!
Be thankful you don't have to buy multiprocessor SCO OpenServer machines. The per-CPU additional license is ~1 1/2 than the cost of the base OS license (w/o devel tools!).
Dumbass, it's not a 128 CPU SMP system, it uses MPI (Message Massing Interface). This is like a beowulf system, except each processor isn't on its own separate computer.
FWIW, the SP2 supercomputers work in a similar fashion as these, just with a lot more engineering.
That's what this is, a cluster in a box. Each card has four CPU's, and the cards plug into a passive backplane. There is a cable going from the box to plug into a special PCI card in the regular Mac computer, and software that you run to allow mutithreaded/SMP apps (like Photoshop) to be distributed across all of the connected CPU's.
"Hmm, that rendering job is taking a lot longer than we expected, let's get another couple of these boxes and plug 'em in..." (later on) "Much better!!"
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Actually, the medical scenes in ER are fairly accurate. They film in a real ER, and they have real trauma nurses standing beside the main characters. There is also a real doctor on the set as a technical advisor. This show is one of the most (technically) realistic shows on television.
Hell, they don't even use special lighting. They use just the bare flourescent overheads. That is getting pretty damn accurate!
Please put the URL to these phishcasts up here please....
Did you see him on the Saturday Night Live 25 anniversary special? The Beastie Boys started playing "Sabotage" and then he jumed up on stage and they turned into his backing group. It was rather sweet.
CartMan: sweet....sweet...supersweet...
He can't hold a candle to the legendary Simon Phillips, who has played on many (post Keith Moon) Who shows, many Pete Townshend or Roger Daltrey solo shows/albums, and who basically stepped in for Jeff Porcaro (Toto) after he died a few years ago.
I had the priviledge of seeing Simon play a drum clinic a few weeks ago, and I must say, he is an incredibly badass drummer with a great personality. Chops from hell, and not at all stuck up about it (like some I've seen). I rank him right up there with my all-time favorite: Neil Peart. Tim Alexander and Mike Portnoy are also really cool as well.
As has been stated many times in reference to Free Speech Software (as opposed the the corporate co-opted term "Open Source Software", which I never liked), version numbers are meaningless, as long as they increase between releases.
They could call it "Enlightenment 99" if they wanted to, it would still be the same code.
This is a problem admitted by Sun. It is not E that won't run Java, but Java doesn't conform to some of the specs for X ICCCM (enough C's?) window manager compliance. They are supposed to be fixing that soon.
Except for one early pre 0.16 CVS build I tried, E has run flawlessly for me since 0.15.0. Now the only WM that crashes on me is that weird "explorer.exe" program (in both 95/98 and NT, except NT restarts it cleanly, so except for the icons and toolbar flickering, you never notice)
why doesn't slashdot put a "---" between the post and the signature, like in the newsgroups?
I added that to my sig for clarity
I think this is where the distributions have been slacking. They need to have people dedicated to updating the help files and getting the changes back to the maintainers, so that then they can have updated documentation (and we all benefit). It is not enough to hire a bunch of hardcore, well-known coders and not hire any tech writers. You need both, and RedHat/VA/Linuxcare/SUSE/Debian people all need to start doing better in that regard.
We also need to realize that man page are really for listing options and privociding samples of use, not for detailed descriptions of how various parts of a package work together. A package overview would be nice for each package, and then distros could also provide documentation as to how several related packages work together.
I will say this, though. I do not find the man pages hard to use, but an html (or xml, even better) version would be nice, since then you could link through to related documentation. I think that the LDP has not lived up to its potential in this regard, but since I haven't contributed to it, I guess I can't really complain, now can I?
But can I modify source code, and make those changes public? Not for a measly $10.
Can I take Solaris, add some packages, replace some packages, write some new packages, burn it onto a CD and sell "BlueHat Solaris 8.0"? Not for any $$$.
If it is a windows user, wouldn't they be a "cow orker"?
Dude, you mean you don't have a daemon that connects to slashdot, reloads continously, and whenever a new story is added it blasts out your first post reply to the new article?
What kind of hAX0r are you?
Umm, hello? Did you actually read the body of the article?
It is not up to each individual programmer if there is a class-action lawsuit on behalf of any programmer who distributes his software under the GPL, and whose program(s) is/are part of Corel's Linux distro. Then they can be sued by more than one, whether or not that programmer puts his name on the suit.
Do you mean in their proxy logs? Because you reading slashdot at work wouldn't show up in your employer's http logs.
bzip/gzip would have to include non-free code to be able to uncompress the file types you use as examples. It is not snobbish at all.
Close but no cigar.
If it did in fact say "everyone else", then it would be close to an open source license. Since it _does_ say "RSA Data Security" it is exactly the opposite of an Open Source License.
Fine, then don't buy whatever megachip Transmeta comes out with when they actually do produce something. The speculation is wild about their stuff, what with all of the patents that they filed for, but they haven't said anything, and refuse to say anything.
If you needed a web farm of ten quad Alphas, then you would definitely already have way more bandwidth than a 128K connection!
To answer your question "is it the server or the connection that gets overloaded during a Slashdotting?", I would suspect that it could be either one, depending on the site. If the pipe is smaller than the server, then you would see a lot of timeouts and super slow response (like this particular slashdotting). The pipe itself could overload and go down (the routers could bounce from the overload) or the ISP/Corporate/University admins could notice and block traffic to that server until the load goes down (sending nasty email along the way).
If the pipe is big enough, but the server itself cannot handle all of the connections, then everyone else would get server errors back from the server, or the server itself could buckle (and possibly bounce (reboot)).
"oooooooooohhhhhhhhhh,
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Spongebob Squarepants!!"
My son walks around singing the stupid themesong, and he hasn't even seen an episode of the show!
I can't believe cartoons like CatDog, Cow and Chicken, and SpongeBob exist. They are all stupid, gross ripoffs if the first season of Ren and Stimpy (w/ John K at the helm). Hell, even the rest of Ren and Stimpy is a stupid ripoff off the first season!
Be thankful you don't have to buy multiprocessor SCO OpenServer machines. The per-CPU additional license is ~1 1/2 than the cost of the base OS license (w/o devel tools!).
This _is_ a beowulf, only on one machine, not spread across compute nodes.
Dumbass, it's not a 128 CPU SMP system, it uses MPI (Message Massing Interface). This is like a beowulf system, except each processor isn't on its own separate computer.
FWIW, the SP2 supercomputers work in a similar fashion as these, just with a lot more engineering.
You may be askin' yourself, "Barry and Levon, where'd you get $240 to buy all that puddin' ?"
Shhh....
AWWW YEAH!!!!
That's what this is, a cluster in a box. Each card has four CPU's, and the cards plug into a passive backplane. There is a cable going from the box to plug into a special PCI card in the regular Mac computer, and software that you run to allow mutithreaded/SMP apps (like Photoshop) to be distributed across all of the connected CPU's.
"Hmm, that rendering job is taking a lot longer than we expected, let's get another couple of these boxes and plug 'em in..."
(later on)
"Much better!!"
Props to these guys. This is some mad hacking.
He/She needs these as well (take some of mine, I'll get more):
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