Bah, I've got dss. I always manage to find something more interesting to watch. For example, I'd rather stare at my coffee table's reflection in the blank tube than watch another sci-fi "series." As far as I'm concerned, that's time that could be better spent showing MST3K reruns or some kind of cartoon.:)
Actually, the dual procs would be good if you were dealing with an IDE source drive - it'd help out with interrupt handling. Either way, SCSI is the only way to fly here for the burners.
Yes. The president, wielding the awesome power of the "line-item veto" and other similar powers, has caused trash production to skyrocket in the last 14 months or so. Under a *democrat* president, we would have no trash, because we'd use every part of the buffalo to make teepees and hoof-pie.
Or, people who say "blame dubya" are just stupid.:)
Use perl to read from serial/write to network, some more perl to set up a daemon. Everyone gets a button (with guaranteed unique serial number), and blue dots get installed on networked nodes. The buttons are pretty cheap, and the readers are also pretty cheap. You could get 100 people and 100 workstations all running this stuff with hardware costs well below your budget, and have some cashleft over to write the daemons (which would be really simple). You could use the rest of the budget to pay me to write the stuff for you - I'm pretty cheap.:)
Yeah, didn't scotty go into the past and show some guy how to make it a few years ago? How else would those whales have gotten into the future and stopped the funny-noise alien ship?
I wonder if they'd use SCSI or, snicker, IDE drives in those machines? Compare those costs, and the difference gets much less.
Not that I wanna get into an argument over which is better, but I'd bet that they'd rather have their CPUs crunching number than wasting their time waiting for an unintelligent BUS to catch up...:)
It's possible to directly access individual mice and keyboards, and X already has a "screens" section where multiple cards can be set up to run the same or different x servers. The only hassle, I think, would be binding the right input devices to the right monitor - I'm not positive how tough it would be to get each input device to register in the same order.
Just look at an XFree 4 XF86Config file, it's not that big a deal. There's plenty of information about using multiple video cards under XF4 alerady out there, as that capability's been easy to use for a couple of years now.
There seem to be a lot of win32 changes recently - I wonder if they're trying to get the codebase more cross-platform stable before releasing a non-beta 2.0? Of course, there were almost no changes in the.22 release, so maybe this.23 is what should've been.22.:)
But, there weren't any ads on my local allfiliate - just about 15-20 minutes solid of them babbling on about the game that was just on a few minutes ago. If I wanted ot discuss the game, I would've invited some friends over and talked about it during the simpson's commercials.:)
Either way, my affiliate started at the beginning of the simpsons and seemed to trim commercials to get all of the subsequent shows back on the previous schedule. Hooray for me posting nothing useful.
tables: use tabs (specifying 4-spaces/tab optional)
graphics: attach the graphics then, don't embed them in a proprietary format
spelling/grammar checking: most email clients will spell check, and your grammar should be up-to-par *before* you start composing email
formatting/highlighting: see the asterics around "before" in the last phrase? See the spacebar, tab, and return keys on the keyboard? Those'll take car of most emails' formatting needs.
correction/collaboration: yeah, I suppose, but that's not what email's really for, and documents can quickly get out-of-sync using word's features. Use plain-text and a CVS repository - it'll work better.
password-protection: Don't send private messages to people who can't keep them private. In less than 10 minutes I can find a word password cracker on-line, so you're not protecting the document from being "sniffed".
If people send me a message in word format without giving me a reason, I delete it and assume that a virus sent it - because no sane person would compose email in word and send it as an attachment. If my employer did that, I'd find a new employer.
Just keep trying to get it until the file's named back:
cloudmaster@mymachine:~> g=0; while ! wget http://simplygnustep.sourceforge.net/downloads/sta ge-1.iso.zip >/dev/null 2> do g=$(($g+1)); echo $g; sleep 5; done; echo "retrieved after $g tries" | mail -s "simply unix done" cloudmaster
Assuming you're running a bourne shell, you'll get a progressively incrementing count until the file's name gets that ".0" off of the end and people can download it again. Whee.:)
If your cluster nodes are wasting time by filling the IDE bus constantly, you need to move your data into a RAMdisk anyway. The reason for clustering machines is to get more aggregate *CPU* power - not to read data off of a disk. The nodes should be spending more time processing data than they do transferring it to disk. If they're not, then the solution should probably be tuned differently.
The cluster should be fine with commonly available 100Mb equipment - maybe with multiple NICs in the head node to keep network utilization down a little (since all of the other nodes will just be talking to the head node).
SuSE certainly got a bunch of good names for their chameleon a while back, but decided that the worst entry should win. "Geeko?" Please MySQL folk, for the love of Pete, don't pick the dorkiest name possible...:)
There have been some fixes to those scripts that haven't made it to the downloadable version yet - but they were adequate for my needs at the time (a couple of years ago). Maybe a good start for someone wanting to do their own? I dunno - I was in a hurry...
I'll second this. I set up an openLDAP-based machine that handles some 10K users' email (authenticating and getting acocunt info from LDAP using padl's stuff), and it has no such problems (it's been up for a couple of years now, aside from scheduled reboots for new kernels once in a while). RTFM is kinda required if you're setting up a big system.
Ask the school(s) you're applying to. I was a computer engineering major following the software specialty track, which meant that I was essentially doing the first 1/2 of an EE degree and the second half of a CS degree. At the University of IL, there were 2 CS programs, one in the engineering school and one in the LAS school, as well as the CompE program. The engineering CS was for programmers, the LAS CS was for math people, essentially. Either way, take *all* of your classes seriously. Having A's in your core curriculum will not help you if you never turn in assignments in the physics classes...:)
BTW, my cars are a '75 El Camino with a 350HO crate motor, an '85 3/4 ton 2wd chevy with a 454, and an '01 Ford Focus - for those who wonder. Yes, that means this post isn't for you, Robert.;)
Well said. It seems that cars and computers elicit similar reactions from people. Either youre one of those "super geeks" that understand their workings, or you're too scared of that complicated machine to touch it. We all find it amusing when someone says that computers are really difficult to work on or figure out. I have the same reaction to people who claim cars are complicated. Then, I grew up on a farm with a dad with a pretty hot '70 chevelle (yes, the LS6), so I knew mechanics before I knew computers. An engine's simple, the systems are simple, but if someone's made up their mind that the device is "too complicated" for them to learn, then they'll never learn about it. Really, that's sad, because it's far easier to get screwed out of hundreds or thousands of dollars getting a car fixed than it is when getting a computer fixed by "professionals". Personally, I think that there should be a basic auto shop class required in high school for everyone who might drive someday. You don't have to know a wrist pin from a water pump, but you should know that low tire pressure will affect mileage and how to change oil before you can own a car.
Oh, to answer the question, I'm a wrenchhead and a computer geek. Learning makes me happy, creating make me happy, and variety makes me happy. That's why.
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Kapow! Almost instantly, there you have a link to google's cached copy, if one exists. Perhaps this should be in the Slash FAQ, or printed out and taped to everyone's monitor. For a little more effort, you could use some javascript to strip the http:// off of the current selection and replace it with "http://google.com/search?q=cache:" to automagicaly go to the google cache of whatever URL is currently selected in your browser (for those times when people helpfully make their link text the URL of the link).
*2* people were confused. The rest of us don't take everything so darned personally. We understand that the good ol' USA has recently started trying to blame every problem that anyone could have on possibly real conditions. That shifting of blame by calling everything an "illness" and broadening the criteria so that every lazy parent can call their undiciplined kid "ADHD victim" dilutes the seriousness of the actual disease (if it exists) and causes people who actually have problems to take everything personally.
I know people with kids that are labeled as suffering from "ADHD". I'm not an expert. I do know, however, that I learned to behave from my parents. I also know several parents who refuse to spank or even say "no" to their kids - who end up having crappy behaviour. Maybe there really are ADHD and similar problems - but ubernewby's probably right when he says that it's probably misdiagnosed more often than not.
If you're going with smart cards, why not go a step further and use ibuttons (http://www.ibutton.com/)? They're fairly cheap (64K button for $1.44 each in 100 lots) and can do way more (there are counter buttons for a similar price, for example). There are readers for under $10. I'm personally looking at replacing all of my key locks with ibutton-powered locks. That'll be cool.
Since it doesn't use TCP, I'll bet it won't have any problem handling the TCP part of "TCP/IP connections"... The networking end sounds really simple - send the amount of data to expect, wait for confirmation, send all of the data once *without* waiting for confirmation until it's all been sent. That's a lot easier than handling the overhead of tcp, which is the whole problem they're trying to solve.
I've got a matrix orbital (http://www.matrixorbital.com/) 40x4 VFD with serial interface and keypad reader installed in my car's dashboard right now. You might look into their product fi you don't wanna figure out how to control an LCD/VFD directly. The VFD kicks LCD's arse for legibility and cool-factor any time of day.
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And Samba is supported as well as a reverse engineered M$ "don't compete with us" protocol can possibly be. That implies that the support is NOT perfect.
Hopefully the audiotron won't be asked to act as a BDC or to integrate flawlessly with Active Directory.:) The audiotron's scope is reading files over smb shares, possibly with authentication - within that scope samba *is* perfect (in my experience).
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Bah, I've got dss. I always manage to find something more interesting to watch. For example, I'd rather stare at my coffee table's reflection in the blank tube than watch another sci-fi "series." As far as I'm concerned, that's time that could be better spent showing MST3K reruns or some kind of cartoon. :)
Actually, the dual procs would be good if you were dealing with an IDE source drive - it'd help out with interrupt handling. Either way, SCSI is the only way to fly here for the burners.
Yes. The president, wielding the awesome power of the "line-item veto" and other similar powers, has caused trash production to skyrocket in the last 14 months or so. Under a *democrat* president, we would have no trash, because we'd use every part of the buffalo to make teepees and hoof-pie.
:)
Or, people who say "blame dubya" are just stupid.
www.ibutton.com
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Use perl to read from serial/write to network, some more perl to set up a daemon. Everyone gets a button (with guaranteed unique serial number), and blue dots get installed on networked nodes. The buttons are pretty cheap, and the readers are also pretty cheap. You could get 100 people and 100 workstations all running this stuff with hardware costs well below your budget, and have some cashleft over to write the daemons (which would be really simple). You could use the rest of the budget to pay me to write the stuff for you - I'm pretty cheap.
Yeah, didn't scotty go into the past and show some guy how to make it a few years ago? How else would those whales have gotten into the future and stopped the funny-noise alien ship?
I wonder if they'd use SCSI or, snicker, IDE drives in those machines? Compare those costs, and the difference gets much less.
:)
Not that I wanna get into an argument over which is better, but I'd bet that they'd rather have their CPUs crunching number than wasting their time waiting for an unintelligent BUS to catch up...
It's possible to directly access individual mice and keyboards, and X already has a "screens" section where multiple cards can be set up to run the same or different x servers. The only hassle, I think, would be binding the right input devices to the right monitor - I'm not positive how tough it would be to get each input device to register in the same order.
Just look at an XFree 4 XF86Config file, it's not that big a deal. There's plenty of information about using multiple video cards under XF4 alerady out there, as that capability's been easy to use for a couple of years now.
There seem to be a lot of win32 changes recently - I wonder if they're trying to get the codebase more cross-platform stable before releasing a non-beta 2.0? Of course, there were almost no changes in the .22 release, so maybe this .23 is what should've been .22. :)
But, there weren't any ads on my local allfiliate - just about 15-20 minutes solid of them babbling on about the game that was just on a few minutes ago. If I wanted ot discuss the game, I would've invited some friends over and talked about it during the simpson's commercials. :)
Either way, my affiliate started at the beginning of the simpsons and seemed to trim commercials to get all of the subsequent shows back on the previous schedule. Hooray for me posting nothing useful.
tables: use tabs (specifying 4-spaces/tab optional)
graphics: attach the graphics then, don't embed them in a proprietary format
spelling/grammar checking: most email clients will spell check, and your grammar should be up-to-par *before* you start composing email
formatting/highlighting: see the asterics around "before" in the last phrase? See the spacebar, tab, and return keys on the keyboard? Those'll take car of most emails' formatting needs.
correction/collaboration: yeah, I suppose, but that's not what email's really for, and documents can quickly get out-of-sync using word's features. Use plain-text and a CVS repository - it'll work better.
password-protection: Don't send private messages to people who can't keep them private. In less than 10 minutes I can find a word password cracker on-line, so you're not protecting the document from being "sniffed".
If people send me a message in word format without giving me a reason, I delete it and assume that a virus sent it - because no sane person would compose email in word and send it as an attachment. If my employer did that, I'd find a new employer.
Just keep trying to get it until the file's named back:
cloudmaster@mymachine:~> g=0; while ! wget http://simplygnustep.sourceforge.net/downloads/sta ge-1.iso.zip > /dev/null 2> do g=$(($g+1)); echo $g; sleep 5; done; echo "retrieved after $g tries" | mail -s "simply unix done" cloudmaster
Assuming you're running a bourne shell, you'll get a progressively incrementing count until the file's name gets that ".0" off of the end and people can download it again. Whee. :)
Well, I'm not sure that "common english words" really applies when in Germany - given that German is the primary language spoken over there... :)
If your cluster nodes are wasting time by filling the IDE bus constantly, you need to move your data into a RAMdisk anyway. The reason for clustering machines is to get more aggregate *CPU* power - not to read data off of a disk. The nodes should be spending more time processing data than they do transferring it to disk. If they're not, then the solution should probably be tuned differently.
The cluster should be fine with commonly available 100Mb equipment - maybe with multiple NICs in the head node to keep network utilization down a little (since all of the other nodes will just be talking to the head node).
SuSE certainly got a bunch of good names for their chameleon a while back, but decided that the worst entry should win. "Geeko?" Please MySQL folk, for the love of Pete, don't pick the dorkiest name possible... :)
I almost wrote my own useradd/userdel/usermod. http://www.cloudmaster.com/~sauer/projects/fom-fil es/cache/8.html
There have been some fixes to those scripts that haven't made it to the downloadable version yet - but they were adequate for my needs at the time (a couple of years ago). Maybe a good start for someone wanting to do their own? I dunno - I was in a hurry...
I'll second this. I set up an openLDAP-based machine that handles some 10K users' email (authenticating and getting acocunt info from LDAP using padl's stuff), and it has no such problems (it's been up for a couple of years now, aside from scheduled reboots for new kernels once in a while). RTFM is kinda required if you're setting up a big system.
Ask the school(s) you're applying to. I was a computer engineering major following the software specialty track, which meant that I was essentially doing the first 1/2 of an EE degree and the second half of a CS degree. At the University of IL, there were 2 CS programs, one in the engineering school and one in the LAS school, as well as the CompE program. The engineering CS was for programmers, the LAS CS was for math people, essentially. Either way, take *all* of your classes seriously. Having A's in your core curriculum will not help you if you never turn in assignments in the physics classes... :)
BTW, my cars are a '75 El Camino with a 350HO crate motor, an '85 3/4 ton 2wd chevy with a 454, and an '01 Ford Focus - for those who wonder. Yes, that means this post isn't for you, Robert. ;)
Well said. It seems that cars and computers elicit similar reactions from people. Either youre one of those "super geeks" that understand their workings, or you're too scared of that complicated machine to touch it. We all find it amusing when someone says that computers are really difficult to work on or figure out. I have the same reaction to people who claim cars are complicated. Then, I grew up on a farm with a dad with a pretty hot '70 chevelle (yes, the LS6), so I knew mechanics before I knew computers. An engine's simple, the systems are simple, but if someone's made up their mind that the device is "too complicated" for them to learn, then they'll never learn about it. Really, that's sad, because it's far easier to get screwed out of hundreds or thousands of dollars getting a car fixed than it is when getting a computer fixed by "professionals". Personally, I think that there should be a basic auto shop class required in high school for everyone who might drive someday. You don't have to know a wrist pin from a water pump, but you should know that low tire pressure will affect mileage and how to change oil before you can own a car.
Oh, to answer the question, I'm a wrenchhead and a computer geek. Learning makes me happy, creating make me happy, and variety makes me happy. That's why.
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Kapow! Almost instantly, there you have a link to google's cached copy, if one exists. Perhaps this should be in the Slash FAQ, or printed out and taped to everyone's monitor. For a little more effort, you could use some javascript to strip the http:// off of the current selection and replace it with "http://google.com/search?q=cache:" to automagicaly go to the google cache of whatever URL is currently selected in your browser (for those times when people helpfully make their link text the URL of the link).
*2* people were confused. The rest of us don't take everything so darned personally. We understand that the good ol' USA has recently started trying to blame every problem that anyone could have on possibly real conditions. That shifting of blame by calling everything an "illness" and broadening the criteria so that every lazy parent can call their undiciplined kid "ADHD victim" dilutes the seriousness of the actual disease (if it exists) and causes people who actually have problems to take everything personally.
I know people with kids that are labeled as suffering from "ADHD". I'm not an expert. I do know, however, that I learned to behave from my parents. I also know several parents who refuse to spank or even say "no" to their kids - who end up having crappy behaviour. Maybe there really are ADHD and similar problems - but ubernewby's probably right when he says that it's probably misdiagnosed more often than not.
If you're going with smart cards, why not go a step further and use ibuttons (http://www.ibutton.com/)? They're fairly cheap (64K button for $1.44 each in 100 lots) and can do way more (there are counter buttons for a similar price, for example). There are readers for under $10. I'm personally looking at replacing all of my key locks with ibutton-powered locks. That'll be cool.
Since it doesn't use TCP, I'll bet it won't have any problem handling the TCP part of "TCP/IP connections"... The networking end sounds really simple - send the amount of data to expect, wait for confirmation, send all of the data once *without* waiting for confirmation until it's all been sent. That's a lot easier than handling the overhead of tcp, which is the whole problem they're trying to solve.
:) There's a nice little demo at http://www.digitalfountain.com/technology/coreTech nology.htm
BTW, it helps to read the article before posting "insightful" comments.
I've got a matrix orbital (http://www.matrixorbital.com/) 40x4 VFD with serial interface and keypad reader installed in my car's dashboard right now. You might look into their product fi you don't wanna figure out how to control an LCD/VFD directly. The VFD kicks LCD's arse for legibility and cool-factor any time of day.
And Samba is supported as well as a reverse engineered M$ "don't compete with us" protocol can possibly be. That implies that the support is NOT perfect.
Hopefully the audiotron won't be asked to act as a BDC or to integrate flawlessly with Active Directory. :) The audiotron's scope is reading files over smb shares, possibly with authentication - within that scope samba *is* perfect (in my experience).