It's true... I'll post a link if I can find it. The group of physicists were using a relatively new measurement technique, which is supposed to be more accurate. They divided the data-gathering work into two independent parts, and gave each part to a different group of scientists, to keep the results from being colored by wishful thinking. When the datasets were related and analyzed, the results disputed the standard model. There's a 10% chance that their data is incorrect, but the implications are deep enough that the experiment will likely be repeated. If the results are verified, this is big news.
(Although, since AFAIK GNU/Linux wasn't used by the scientists, it's not big enough news for Slashdot, I guess.)
Yes, a tragedy. I always thought he was a nice guy, but in our business, if you can't cut it, it's just a given that your body will be found tied to a chair with a dremel tool five inches up your ass.
Human life in itself is not hinderance to our cause, but its worth is nothing compared to the honor of the Organization. I love working for Amazon.com.
In protest of this lawsuit, I have registered the domain name "blizzard.com" and posted illegal copies of Blizzard's product information there. Check it out!
Almost forgot... Yeong Yang makes some of the l337est cases I've ever seen. The FlexATX (wow!) and Mini NLX form-factor cases are pretty slick (if you can find a decent mainboard that size), but nothing beats the "borg cube" case!
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I've been using an Antec "Performance Series Workstation Tower" for about a year, and I think it's great. It has two 80mm fan mounts at the anterior (intake), two more at the posterior (outtake), an easily removable side panel, and quick-release drive bays. It may seem like overkill, but SMP x86 systems with SCSI-3 disks tend to get very warm.:-) Just keep the case under your desk or in a closet and the fan noise shouldn't bother you too much.
Here's a suggestion... this case has almost an inch of space between the front of the metal chassis (where two of the fans are) and the removable plastic front. Buy an AC air filter, cut out a couple 8cm squares, and tape the pieces to the front of the metal to keep the fans from sucking in so much dust. Change the filters every two months or so. (That seems to work for me, and my systems are on 24/7/365.) You can buy filters which are designed to screw directly onto the face of the fans, but because of this case's snap-in fan mounts, those type of filters won't fit.
I own three Antec cases and have had no problems with them... the company seems to employ some really nice people, too.
I've bought all of my Antec cases from TechStore. You can buy the case I described (the SX830) for about $75 here. This is not an inexpensive case, but if you run powerful systems and/or overclock, I think it's a great investment. The case only comes with two fans, so you'll want to buy two more. Good sources for cooling supplies are Millisec and Cooler Guys.
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Many may initially balk at its "graphics", but playing Nethack is like reading a book... your eyes see the characters, and your imagination makes up the rest. I play the original (all ASCII) vesion on a color console, and there's nothing better... I've seen the X versions, but they spoil the magic for me; by attempting to make Nethack graphical, it ruins the atmosphere. (My attitude towards game graphics is all or nothing... either Nethack on a terminal, or Q3A on a GeForce2).
If you really need a graphical Nethack, try Diablo and Diablo 2. (Stop your bitching -- everyone reading this site has access to a PC or a Mac, and no amount of zealotry will change that.) Despite the fact that at times these two games degenerate into repetitive mouse-clicking frenzies, I find them extremely entertaining and addictive, and I have yet to play either Diablo game online . . .
Nethack is great, make no bones about it. (Har har.)
The_Messenger -- killed by a kitten named Fluffy.
PS - UNIX newbies will find Nethack an entertaining way to practice cursor movement in vi.;-)
PPS - Am I the only one who thinks that the long Nethack manual is perhaps the only coherent document ESR has ever written?
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The Open Group, current owners of the UNIX trademark, manages a collection of standards and certification processes which a product must meet to be allowed to call itself "UNIX". For instance, here's a short blurb about the UNIX 98 standard:
The UNIX 98 Product Standard is a significantly enhanced version of the UNIX 95 Product Standard. The mandatory enhancements include (1) Threads interfaces, (2) Multibyte Support Extension (MSE), (3) Large File Support, (4) Dynamic Linking, (5) changes to remove hardware data-length dependencies or restrictions, and (6) Year 2000 changes. In addition the following optional enhancements are included: Software Administration facilities and a set of APIs for realtime support. This Product Standard includes the following mandatory Product Standards: Internationalized System Calls and Libraries Extended V2,Commands and Utilities V3, C Language, Transport Service (XTI) V2, Sockets V2 and Internationalized Terminal Interfaces. In addition, it may also conform to the Software Administration Product Standard.
Thus, real UNIX systems have much commonality, despite their individual quirks and differences in implementation. The propagation of open standards and a UNIX "brand" which must conform to these standards makes everything easier, from porting software to system administration. AIX 4.3 is a very, very different system than say, Solaris 2.8, but because they are both UNIX products, you can be guaranteed of certain behaviors and the availability of certain interfaces, daemons, libraries, and whatnot. Vendors were willing to go through the licensing/OSF mess in the late 80s in order to make possible the Single UNIX Specification available today.
The fact that so many Linux users can remain so ignorant about the system which Linux ripped off is astounding.
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The fact that you even mention NT as an example of an "enterprise-ready" system shows that you have no idea what you're talking about. NT5 only runs on x86 hardware, which I don't acknowledge as a platform for doing anything but playing Quake 3 or running "myhomepage.com".
"Enterprise-ready" is an E10k with 64 CPUs, 64GB of RAM, a and multi-terabyte SAN. "Enterprise-ready" is an RS/6000 farm. And to me, "enterprise-ready" is real UNIX. Linux lacks scalablity[1] on non-trivial (read: non-x86) hardware and widespread commercial software support. And decent threads! (Ask anyone who's had to port large UNIX software packages to Linux.)
Another problem with Linux is that the historically best distributions (such as Debian) have no corporate accountability, while the commercially popular distributions (such as Red Hat) are buggy-as-hell and dumbed-down.
Don't get me wrong, I use and enjoy Linux... but I'm a UNIX guy at heart and it pains me to see companies such as SCO say that Linux is competitive with UNIX, which IMNSHO it is not. Real UNIX is not only guaranteed to work better than anything else on your vendor's non-trivial hardware, but it will also comply with a large number of open standards that Linux hasn't even approached yet. Each of our ten RS/6000 cages contains about $800,000 of hardware; the cost of UNIX is insignificant, and the advantages are innumerable. The only place for Linux in our datacenter is embedded in our routers.
Offtopic: While I am a UNIX zealot, I like much of RMS's philosophy and use a lot of GNU software. In fact, I refer to my UNIX boxes as "GNU/SunOS": SunOS/Solaris with a full GNU development suite. Incredibly slick. Free Software rules, Open Source drools.
Oh well, no one on this site listens anyway...
[1] And on x86, it only scales well to 4 CPUs, but anyone who is going to waste their money on a (NUM_OF_CPU >= 8) x86 box deserves what he gets.
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Give Riker the balls to nail every babe on the show.
That could be cool. I always thought Riker was like a castrated Kirk. (He had the hair and the looks, but not the balls.:-)
Give Beverly Crusher a hot nude lesbian scene in the holo-deck with Deanna Troi and a tub of strawberry Jello.
I'll, er, be back in a few minutes...
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Oh, sorry about your couch. Yes, I agree completely. I'm not a Trekk[er || ie] but I've always wanted to take Troi (like the Romans did, although with less screaming and death).
Give Wesley Crusher the screaming agonizing death he so richly deserved.
Preferably in an "accident" involving razor blades, beetles, and an enraged Q wearing leather pants.
Interestingly, this doesn't really matter, because anyone insane enough to buy S/390 and then run some Linux crap on it doesn't really "factor into the equation", if you catch my drift. IBM doesn't have a distro because they're smart enough not to invest a great deal of time or effort in a doomed business model. The little code contributed by IBM was well worth the developers' time, however, because it was good PR. IBM was the Microsoft of the 80s. But thanks to letting a few programmers give away free code under IBM's name, Big Blue is seen by a new generation of newbies as the Good Guys, happy to support l337 Open Source projects and fight the "Evil Empire" in Redmond. Linux gets a little free code, IBM gets a lot of good PR, and even after Linux's eventual (and quickening) demise, IBM gets to keep their new reputation as innovative thinkers, fighting for the Good of the People.
IBM is very quick to trumpet the "Linux compatibility" in AIX 5, but that's bullshit. (Hey, Win2k has TCP/IP services and a telnet client. Does that make it "Linux compatible" too?) IBM (much like Sun and others) is merely pushing Linux as a solution for inexpensive hardware such as routers, while continuing to sell UNIX as an enterprise solution. (And this is as it should be. Linux isn't even comparable to AIX, sadly.) The real computing industry is getting free (if not commercial quality) code and good PR by supporting Linux. And those who do not understand what's going on interpret this "industry support" as evidence that Linux is ready to compete in the real of Real, Commercial Software, which, (once again) sadly, it is not. Linux will reach heights undreamed of by Torvalds and then promptly self-destruct, when everyone realizes it was all just hype to begin with.
This is Very Simple: OSS is not a viable option for businesses interested in making money.
The only people getting rich off of the current "open-source wannabe UNIX" trend are CheapBytes.com and others who sell $.99 CD-Rs of the same product which Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE et al expect you to pay upwards of $40 for. Yeah, right.
How OSS works in the Real World
l337 Linux luser: Hey, d00d, try out this Linux thing, it will make you l337 and it's 0p3n 50urc3!!!@
Average PC user: Hmm, Open Source, you say? So it's available free of charge.
l337 Linux luser: No, man, even though you can get it for free, you're supposed to pay money for it, to make OSS a v14bL3 bu5in355 m0d3L!!
Average PC user: Well, sure, I'm willing to pay for it. Given, of course, that it has better hardware support, software support, and a user interface more suited to me, the Average PC User, than my current Windows 98 installation.
l337 Linux luser: Well, um, it's a hacked copy of a real operating system, which is looked down upon by real UNIX users, and is lambasted by Windows users for its incredibly poor hardware support and nonexistent consumer software market, but...
Average PC user: So you're telling me I should stop using Windows, which I know well and works fine, and instead use an immature UNIX-ripoff that...
l337 Linux luser: No, d00d, wait!
Average PC user:...and that even if I did want to run this OS, I should pay money for it when it's freely available? That I should support a business model which even the dumbest PHB understands doesn't make sense in the real world?
l337 Linux luser: Fuck j00, man! I guess j00 just aren't l337!
Average PC user: For me to poop on.
The End
The moral of that story is, NO FUCKING SHIT!! SuSE and Red Hat are fools if they envision themselves as anything other than charities. At least when I give money to the FSF (which I do regularly), I know that they aren't kidding themselves.
It's been said countless times in the past. I'll certainly be glad when this little fad is over so we ("we" of course being professional developers) can go back to programming as usual.
I am a huge fan of Plan 9, and I'm sure I'll be modded down for saying this, but... what is the fucking point of this? Dreamcast users have no need for Plan 9, and Plan 9 users in need of a cheap NC can do much better. By the way -- just because Plan 9 will run on those two CPUs doesn't mean it will run on the Dreamcast... you're forgetting about the graphics chipset, et cetera. Plan 9 doesn't have very stellar or far-reaching support on any architecture right now. IMNSHO, the developers should spend more time enhancing Plan 9's hardware support on SPARC and x86 platforms instead of porting to others. (Before it turns into another NetBSD, ie "runs on everything imaginable, but no one gives a shit".)
Porting your favorite niche OS to a toaster may be a fun way to spend a few weekends, but is it really valid material for a "news" site visted by millions of Windows users and dozens of Linux-wannabes every day?
I know I shouldn't expect any better, and I should just stop visiting the site if all I'm going to do is bitch, but wtf is up with Slashdot lately? Most of the front-page stories in the past month would have only ranked as "Quickie" material a year ago. I don't believe that there's a lack of non-trivial news. So what's the deal? Are you guys depressed over your worthless VA stock? Do you miss Hemos, since he left for the UK to become a FreeBSD user? Or are busy writing a version of Slash that actually works?
Considering that over 99% of Americans are the descendents of immigrants (of one type or another), that is hardly a fair comment. The atomic bomb is an American invention. We may have had it first because German persecution forced Einstein and others to flee to the US, but that inidicates that American freedom and ideals made it possible, strengthening my argument.
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Satan, Satan, Satan.
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Here's a suggestion... this case has almost an inch of space between the front of the metal chassis (where two of the fans are) and the removable plastic front. Buy an AC air filter, cut out a couple 8cm squares, and tape the pieces to the front of the metal to keep the fans from sucking in so much dust. Change the filters every two months or so. (That seems to work for me, and my systems are on 24/7/365.) You can buy filters which are designed to screw directly onto the face of the fans, but because of this case's snap-in fan mounts, those type of filters won't fit.
I own three Antec cases and have had no problems with them... the company seems to employ some really nice people, too.
I've bought all of my Antec cases from TechStore. You can buy the case I described (the SX830) for about $75 here. This is not an inexpensive case, but if you run powerful systems and/or overclock, I think it's a great investment. The case only comes with two fans, so you'll want to buy two more. Good sources for cooling supplies are Millisec and Cooler Guys.
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Many may initially balk at its "graphics", but playing Nethack is like reading a book... your eyes see the characters, and your imagination makes up the rest. I play the original (all ASCII) vesion on a color console, and there's nothing better... I've seen the X versions, but they spoil the magic for me; by attempting to make Nethack graphical, it ruins the atmosphere. (My attitude towards game graphics is all or nothing... either Nethack on a terminal, or Q3A on a GeForce2).
If you really need a graphical Nethack, try Diablo and Diablo 2. (Stop your bitching -- everyone reading this site has access to a PC or a Mac, and no amount of zealotry will change that.) Despite the fact that at times these two games degenerate into repetitive mouse-clicking frenzies, I find them extremely entertaining and addictive, and I have yet to play either Diablo game online . . .
Nethack is great, make no bones about it. (Har har.)
The_Messenger -- killed by a kitten named Fluffy.
PS - UNIX newbies will find Nethack an entertaining way to practice cursor movement in vi. ;-)
PPS - Am I the only one who thinks that the long Nethack manual is perhaps the only coherent document ESR has ever written?
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The fact that so many Linux users can remain so ignorant about the system which Linux ripped off is astounding.
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The fact that you even mention NT as an example of an "enterprise-ready" system shows that you have no idea what you're talking about. NT5 only runs on x86 hardware, which I don't acknowledge as a platform for doing anything but playing Quake 3 or running "myhomepage.com".
"Enterprise-ready" is an E10k with 64 CPUs, 64GB of RAM, a and multi-terabyte SAN. "Enterprise-ready" is an RS/6000 farm. And to me, "enterprise-ready" is real UNIX. Linux lacks scalablity[1] on non-trivial (read: non-x86) hardware and widespread commercial software support. And decent threads! (Ask anyone who's had to port large UNIX software packages to Linux.)
Another problem with Linux is that the historically best distributions (such as Debian) have no corporate accountability, while the commercially popular distributions (such as Red Hat) are buggy-as-hell and dumbed-down.
Don't get me wrong, I use and enjoy Linux... but I'm a UNIX guy at heart and it pains me to see companies such as SCO say that Linux is competitive with UNIX, which IMNSHO it is not. Real UNIX is not only guaranteed to work better than anything else on your vendor's non-trivial hardware, but it will also comply with a large number of open standards that Linux hasn't even approached yet. Each of our ten RS/6000 cages contains about $800,000 of hardware; the cost of UNIX is insignificant, and the advantages are innumerable. The only place for Linux in our datacenter is embedded in our routers.
Offtopic: While I am a UNIX zealot, I like much of RMS's philosophy and use a lot of GNU software. In fact, I refer to my UNIX boxes as "GNU/SunOS": SunOS/Solaris with a full GNU development suite. Incredibly slick. Free Software rules, Open Source drools.
Oh well, no one on this site listens anyway...
[1] And on x86, it only scales well to 4 CPUs, but anyone who is going to waste their money on a (NUM_OF_CPU >= 8) x86 box deserves what he gets.
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Here's a hint! (Don't click that at work.)
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Oh, sorry about your couch. Yes, I agree completely. I'm not a Trekk[er || ie] but I've always wanted to take Troi (like the Romans did, although with less screaming and death).
Preferably in an "accident" involving razor blades, beetles, and an enraged Q wearing leather pants.IBM is very quick to trumpet the "Linux compatibility" in AIX 5, but that's bullshit. (Hey, Win2k has TCP/IP services and a telnet client. Does that make it "Linux compatible" too?) IBM (much like Sun and others) is merely pushing Linux as a solution for inexpensive hardware such as routers, while continuing to sell UNIX as an enterprise solution. (And this is as it should be. Linux isn't even comparable to AIX, sadly.) The real computing industry is getting free (if not commercial quality) code and good PR by supporting Linux. And those who do not understand what's going on interpret this "industry support" as evidence that Linux is ready to compete in the real of Real, Commercial Software, which, (once again) sadly, it is not. Linux will reach heights undreamed of by Torvalds and then promptly self-destruct, when everyone realizes it was all just hype to begin with.
The only people getting rich off of the current "open-source wannabe UNIX" trend are CheapBytes.com and others who sell $.99 CD-Rs of the same product which Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE et al expect you to pay upwards of $40 for. Yeah, right.
The moral of that story is, NO FUCKING SHIT!! SuSE and Red Hat are fools if they envision themselves as anything other than charities. At least when I give money to the FSF (which I do regularly), I know that they aren't kidding themselves.
It's been said countless times in the past. I'll certainly be glad when this little fad is over so we ("we" of course being professional developers) can go back to programming as usual.
Porting your favorite niche OS to a toaster may be a fun way to spend a few weekends, but is it really valid material for a "news" site visted by millions of Windows users and dozens of Linux-wannabes every day?
I know I shouldn't expect any better, and I should just stop visiting the site if all I'm going to do is bitch, but wtf is up with Slashdot lately? Most of the front-page stories in the past month would have only ranked as "Quickie" material a year ago. I don't believe that there's a lack of non-trivial news. So what's the deal? Are you guys depressed over your worthless VA stock? Do you miss Hemos, since he left for the UK to become a FreeBSD user? Or are busy writing a version of Slash that actually works?
Considering that over 99% of Americans are the descendents of immigrants (of one type or another), that is hardly a fair comment. The atomic bomb is an American invention. We may have had it first because German persecution forced Einstein and others to flee to the US, but that inidicates that American freedom and ideals made it possible, strengthening my argument.