Sun will distribute Sun Grid Engine software under an industry-accepted open source license in order to accelerate the adoption of the distributed computing model.
Note that they haven't distributed it under an OpenSource License yet.
It's nice that IBM has released OpenAFS two or so months after they said that it would be released, but a Free (libre) clone called ARLA has existed for sometime, and in my experience hasn't caused me any problems on several platforms, and is GPL'd. Also, arla supports many platforms, including (Free|Net|Open)BSD, and non x86 Linuxen, which Transarc (the IBM owned company which actually develops AFS) hasn't bothered porting AFS to.
> "First of all, Mandarin is a spoken dialect"
> It is the "correct" way of pronouncing the Chinese written language, and is the language of the Han ethnic group, who are by far the largest in China. The
correlation between the Han people, written Chinese and "Mandarin" is very close.
Wrong.
Han is the ethnic group that consists of all Chinese speakers (Mandarin, Fujian, Hakka(?), Cantonese,and many others). Mandarin (language of Ministers) is the native language of people from Beijing (long capital of Imperial China, and home to the imperial court). 90% of Chinese citizens are "Han", the rest being Uighurs, Tibetans, Miao-Yao (aka Hmong), Mongols, Koreans, Manchurians, and others.
Now, if we go back to the 90% Han Chinese,
Cantonese is spoken amongst many southern Chinese, including those people native to Hong Kong. Fujian is I believe spoken by people of the South Eastern coast, and also many of the Overseas Chinese. Various other dialects are native to people of different regions of China.
However, they all share the same ideographs, and thus can all communicate with the written word. This is true for literates of {Mandarin,Fujian,Cantonese,other Chinese dialects}, but not for those literate in Tibetan, Mongolian, Uighur, or other languages spoken by people native to China, but not ethnic Han Chinese.
I hope I got the facts right. Any Sinologists and Chinese, feel free to correct any mistakes I might have made.
5000 (or 1000) languages spoken in India is like saying that 500 languages are spoken in America. Both are correct, since the large figures refer to many languages with small number of native language speakers (e.g. most Native American languages).
In reality, there are about 25-30 Indian languages with more than one million native speakers. Out of these, there are two main language groups, the Indo-Aryan languages (North), and the Dravidian languages (South). Hindi is the most widespread of the Indo-Aryan languages, while Tamil is the most widespread of the Dravidian languages. These two families have a completely different grammar, and mostly different words, the Dravidian languages having borrowed a lot of words from Sanskrit.
Hindi and Urdu (Pakistan's national language) are mutually intelligible, except for differences in script and formality. Hindi retained more words and its script, of Sanskrit, whereas Urdu borrowed alot of words, and its script from Persian and Arabic.
Also, due to education, and language similarities, many of the people of India can easily learn Hindi. About 80% of Indians can understand Hindi to a certain extent, and the other languages of North India, Bengali (150 million native speakers in India and Bangladesh), Punjabi (most Pakistanis), Marathi (70 million), and Gujarati (40 million), are similar enough to make it relatively easy to learn Hindi.
However, the Indian language with the most presence on the net appears to be Tamil. Even though it _only_ has about 65 million native speakers, the literacy rates of South Indians, is much higher than that of North Indians (80% vs 55%), and a relatively higher percentage of the "Great Indian Diaspora" are South Indian speakers of Dravidian languages. It is relatively simple for speakers of Dravidian languages (300 million worldwide), to learn it. Also, South India is well off compared to North India (ever heard of Bangalore?). Telugu (a Dravidian language which has more native speakers than Tamil), and Gujarati (an Indo-Aryan language) also have a growing net presence, though less than that of Hindi.
In the long run, Hindi will do quite well, but there are other languages, even in India which enjoy growing currency in the net world. It's just
that Netscape and other web browsers don't seem to support them yet.
The term Mandarin, was used by the British and
other Westerners to refer to the educated, courtly classes in Asia. This term comes from the Sanskrit Mantri, which means Minister (in a political and religious sense).
Interestingly enough, the word Hindi itself is of Persian origin, as Hind was the Persian name for the area beyond the Hindu(i.e. Indus) river.
Given that this service will allow you to control your Digital Video Recorder via the web, the DVR will naturally be connected to the net, probably by a modem. Television has traditionally been a one way medium with the exception of pay channels, and more generally cable TV. Therefore, most TV watchers in America watch channels and programs with impunity, since no one knows what they're watching. However the ability of the DVR to connect to the net will give BigBrother (or BigBusiness), to know your television watching habits, increasing the amount of information available in your "profile", something most people won't think about.
The US government maintains export controls on any processor with a performance of greater than 2 gigaflops, making it slightly difficult for some high tech companies and government agencies in India, China, and Russia to purchase high end Intel chips. By being a Taiwanese company, Via can potentially grab a huge, rapidly growing market from Intel and AMD, which may have legal difficulties selling chips from even their non-US chip fabs to these countries.
This problem could easily be taken care of once versions of BIND (and other name servers) which support DNAME become readily available. For those of you who haven't heard of it, a DNAME is similar to a CNAME, except that it works for an entire domain. I.e..new could be a DNAME for.gnu so that www.software.new would be in a way a CNAME for www.software.gnu.
Maybe if VC's weren't putting all their money into funding yetanotheronlinecdstore.com and morelinuxservers.com and other internet startups, we would have more money for speculative investments like space research.
Maybe we need the equivalent of a DARPA type research team again to get the ball rolling in the space industry.
Try using SSH portforwarding, which will allow you to use ssh to encrypt your ftp session. It works with most ftpd's. It works by encrypting a tunel between the ftp port on the remote machine to an unused port on your machine. All connections to the specified port on your machine automatically get sent through an ssh tunnel to the ftp port of the foreign machine. This will work with many other protocols as long as the remote machine is running an sshd.
I have no doubt that many individual people are struggling or living in extreme poverty but overall, the economy is doing well, and people's living standards are visibly improving. Due to increasing education (India's literacy rate is now about 60%. Still low, but increasing by 1 or 2% per year.), and continually decreasing birth rates (along with increasing investment), are all serving to raise living conditions amongst all classes. Though the urbanized middle and upper classes are seeing most of the gains so far, the poor are increasingly seeing gains in living standards. Even the slum dwellers in Indian cities have Cable TV these days. (If you're wondering about my sources, I've been visiting India at least once a year for the past 10 years.) The rural poor are less well off, but even averaged out, an average Indian lives a better and longer life than an average American from 1900, when America was amazing the world with it's newly found military might and growing power.
That's a very true point. in 1835, before Britain was that strong of a power in the Indian subContinent, ~30% of the world's GDP was controlled by India Then the Industrial revolution grew, and changed the situation within a century The information revolution can do the same.
A board like the Mac MultiProcessor Boards for StrongArm's would bring more bang for the buck in the long run, by using less power, creating less heat (less costs for air conditioning, case fans), and possibly cheaper motherboards/processors.
There are dinosaurs. A dinosaur named Archaeopteryx left descendants that didn't die out 65 million years ago with the rest of them. They're called birds.
By engaging in space tourism, more and more people will think of doing so. This has the ability to bring down the insanely high cost of space travel to the point where it will allow ordinary people to eventually travel into space, allowing economic development and colonization of space.
I think that has the ability to improve the lives of billions (and after that trillions and quadrillions) in the long run.
I tried using IE 5 for Solaris and it is _extremely_ slow, when compared to netscape. The first time I tried running it, it took about 4 minutes to startup on a Sun Ultra 5 (333 Mhz Ultra Sparc IIprocessor, 128MB RAM), and was painfully slow to run.
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If you read http://www.sun.com/gridware, you will note that it says:
Sun will distribute Sun Grid Engine software under an industry-accepted open source
license in order to accelerate the adoption of the distributed computing model.
Note that they haven't distributed it under an OpenSource License yet.
2 gig filesystem limit? I have a 25 gig ext2 filesystem under RedHat 6.2....
Arun
It's nice that IBM has released OpenAFS two or so months after they said that it would be released, but a Free (libre) clone .
called ARLA has existed for sometime, and in my experience hasn't caused me any problems on several platforms, and is GPL'd
Also, arla supports many platforms, including (Free|Net|Open)BSD, and non x86 Linuxen, which Transarc (the IBM owned
company which actually develops AFS) hasn't bothered porting AFS to.
Arun
For info on creating Linux from scratch (or at least another distro to start out with, try going to Linux From Scratch
Arun
> "First of all, Mandarin is a spoken dialect"
> It is the "correct" way of pronouncing the Chinese written language, and is the language of the Han ethnic group, who are by far the largest in China. The correlation between the Han people, written Chinese and "Mandarin" is very close.
Wrong.
Han is the ethnic group that consists of all Chinese speakers (Mandarin, Fujian, Hakka(?), Cantonese,and many others). Mandarin (language of Ministers) is the native language of people from Beijing (long capital of Imperial China, and home to the imperial court). 90% of Chinese citizens are "Han", the rest being Uighurs, Tibetans, Miao-Yao (aka Hmong), Mongols, Koreans, Manchurians, and others.
Now, if we go back to the 90% Han Chinese, Cantonese is spoken amongst many southern Chinese, including those people native to Hong Kong. Fujian is I believe spoken by people of the South Eastern coast, and also many of the Overseas Chinese. Various other dialects are native to people of different regions of China.
However, they all share the same ideographs, and thus can all communicate with the written word. This is true for literates of {Mandarin,Fujian,Cantonese,other Chinese dialects}, but not for those literate in Tibetan, Mongolian, Uighur, or other languages spoken by people native to China, but not ethnic Han Chinese.
I hope I got the facts right. Any Sinologists and Chinese, feel free to correct any mistakes I might have made.
Arun
5000 (or 1000) languages spoken in India is like saying that 500 languages are spoken in America. Both are correct, since the large figures refer to many languages with small number of native language speakers (e.g. most Native American languages). In reality, there are about 25-30 Indian languages with more than one million native speakers. Out of these, there are two main language groups, the Indo-Aryan languages (North), and the Dravidian languages (South). Hindi is the most widespread of the Indo-Aryan languages, while Tamil is the most widespread of the Dravidian languages. These two families have a completely different grammar, and mostly different words, the Dravidian languages having borrowed a lot of words from Sanskrit. Hindi and Urdu (Pakistan's national language) are mutually intelligible, except for differences in script and formality. Hindi retained more words and its script, of Sanskrit, whereas Urdu borrowed alot of words, and its script from Persian and Arabic. Also, due to education, and language similarities, many of the people of India can easily learn Hindi. About 80% of Indians can understand Hindi to a certain extent, and the other languages of North India, Bengali (150 million native speakers in India and Bangladesh), Punjabi (most Pakistanis), Marathi (70 million), and Gujarati (40 million), are similar enough to make it relatively easy to learn Hindi. However, the Indian language with the most presence on the net appears to be Tamil. Even though it _only_ has about 65 million native speakers, the literacy rates of South Indians, is much higher than that of North Indians (80% vs 55%), and a relatively higher percentage of the "Great Indian Diaspora" are South Indian speakers of Dravidian languages. It is relatively simple for speakers of Dravidian languages (300 million worldwide), to learn it. Also, South India is well off compared to North India (ever heard of Bangalore?). Telugu (a Dravidian language which has more native speakers than Tamil), and Gujarati (an Indo-Aryan language) also have a growing net presence, though less than that of Hindi. In the long run, Hindi will do quite well, but there are other languages, even in India which enjoy growing currency in the net world. It's just that Netscape and other web browsers don't seem to support them yet.
The term Mandarin, was used by the British and other Westerners to refer to the educated, courtly classes in Asia. This term comes from the Sanskrit Mantri, which means Minister (in a political and religious sense). Interestingly enough, the word Hindi itself is of Persian origin, as Hind was the Persian name for the area beyond the Hindu(i.e. Indus) river.
Given that this service will allow you to control your Digital Video Recorder via the web, the DVR will naturally be connected to the net, probably by a modem. Television has traditionally been a one way medium with the exception of pay channels, and more generally cable TV. Therefore, most TV watchers in America watch channels and programs with impunity, since no one knows what they're watching. However the ability of the DVR to connect to the net will give BigBrother (or BigBusiness), to know your television watching habits, increasing the amount of information available in your "profile", something most people won't think about.
Arun
Tyan plans on releasing a dual athlon motherboard, based on the AMD 770 chipset in the 4th quarter this year, codenamed "dolphin"
Arun
The US government maintains export controls on any processor with a performance of greater than 2 gigaflops, making it slightly difficult for some high tech companies and government agencies in India, China, and Russia to purchase high end Intel chips. By being a Taiwanese company, Via can potentially grab a huge, rapidly growing market from Intel and AMD, which may have legal difficulties selling chips from even their non-US chip fabs to these countries.
Arun
This problem could easily be taken care of once versions of BIND (and other name servers) which support DNAME become readily available. For those of you who haven't heard of it, a DNAME is similar to a CNAME, except that it works for an entire domain. I.e. .new could be a DNAME for .gnu so that www.software.new would be in a way a CNAME for www.software.gnu.
My $.02
Arun
Maybe if VC's weren't putting all their money into funding yetanotheronlinecdstore.com and morelinuxservers.com and other internet startups, we would have more money for speculative investments like space research.
Maybe we need the equivalent of a DARPA type research team again to get the ball rolling in the space industry.
Arun
Who is not trolling, but trying to make a point.
The Zimmerman telegram helped bring US into WWI, not WWII.
Arun
Try using SSH portforwarding, which will allow you to use ssh to encrypt your ftp session. It works with most ftpd's.
It works by encrypting a tunel between the ftp port on the remote machine to an unused port on your machine. All
connections to the specified port on your machine automatically get sent through an ssh tunnel to the ftp port of the
foreign machine. This will work with many other protocols as long as the remote machine is running an sshd.
Arun
MIT uses kerberized telnet (and increasingly SSH). It's secure and allows remote access.
Arun
I have no doubt that many individual people are struggling or living in extreme poverty but overall, the economy is doing well, and people's living standards are visibly improving. Due to increasing education (India's literacy rate is now about 60%. Still low, but increasing by 1 or 2% per year.), and continually decreasing birth rates (along with increasing investment), are all serving to raise living conditions amongst all classes. Though the urbanized middle and upper classes are seeing most of the gains so far, the poor are increasingly seeing gains in living standards. Even the slum dwellers in Indian cities have Cable TV these days. (If you're wondering about my sources, I've been visiting India at least once a year for the past 10 years.) The rural poor are less well off, but even averaged out, an average Indian lives a better and longer life than an average American from 1900, when America was amazing the world with it's newly found military might and growing power.
Arun
That's a very true point. in 1835, before Britain was that strong of a power in the Indian subContinent, ~30% of the world's GDP was controlled by India
Then the Industrial revolution grew, and changed the situation within a century
The information revolution can do the same.
Arun
I wouldn't call an economy growing at 7% a year a struggling economy.
Arun
A board like the Mac MultiProcessor Boards for StrongArm's would bring more bang for the buck
in the long run, by using less power, creating less heat (less costs for air conditioning, case fans),
and possibly cheaper motherboards/processors.
Arun
Uhhh. the AGP bus is meant for VIDEO cards, whereas PCI is more general purpose..
Arun
This is all nice and interesting, being a new musical form, but how many people are actually going to listen to it?
However, I can imagine musicians sampling this into their own recordings.
My $.02
Arun
There are dinosaurs. A dinosaur named Archaeopteryx left descendants that didn't die
out 65 million years ago with the rest of them. They're called birds.
Arun
You mean NetBSD hasn't already been ported to it? :)
What a shame
Arun
By engaging in space tourism, more and more people will think of doing so. This has the ability
to bring down the insanely high cost of space travel to the point where it will allow ordinary
people to eventually travel into space, allowing economic development and colonization of space.
I think that has the ability to improve the lives of billions (and after that trillions and quadrillions)
in the long run.
Arun
I tried using IE 5 for Solaris and it is _extremely_ slow, when compared to netscape. The first time I tried running it, it took about 4 minutes to startup on a Sun Ultra 5 (333 Mhz Ultra Sparc IIprocessor, 128MB RAM), and was painfully slow to run.
Arun