I think you're making partitioning sound easier than it actually is. IIRC, for each partition, you need a seperate I-brick. They're _not_ cheap. It's much more cost effective to go with a large, single-image system.
Why is it the job of the University to ensure student machines are virus free? I completely understand using something like this for Department machines, Computer Labs, etc, but a machine in a dorm room is not the property of the school and should not be treated as such. Viruses are part of the computer experience and students should take charge themselves.
Well, I think the issue is that universities are held responsible, by outside parties, for anything that goes on on their network. As such, they're blamed whenever a virus comes from a machine on thier network, whether it be a "University-owned" machine, or a students machine.
The problem (for me anyway) is that there are a lot of commercial/closed-src ssh apps (mostly for Win and MacOS) that don't support SSH2. Puting ssh1 compatability into ssh2 means that the vulnerable ssh1 daemon is still run when an ssh1 connection is made. So, I still run ssh1 everywhere so that I don't have to support some machines just running ssh2 and some machines running a combination of them both. When SSH official stops supporting and stops distributing the ssh1 source in May, most vendors will move to ssh2 only, but it's going to take a while.
I totally agree. Firewall-1 is a joke. Does it make any sense to run a firewall in user space? I don't think so. Besides that, you need to have X installed to use it... Give me OpenBSD anyday...
According to IBM's press release, this thing is made up of 1,250 p640's. Check out the specs of one here.
Since the thing has 2.5 TB of RAM, my best guess is that each p640 has 2 Power 3's and 2 GB of RAM (1 GB per CPU). It is possible that each p640 has 4 cpus (and 500 MB RAM per cpu), but that seems like an odd RAM/CPU ratio for a hefty IBM machine.
IMHO, games now-a-days are less fun. Everytime a "cutting-edge" game comes out, I drool over the cool new graphics, but when I play the game, I'm bored after 5 minutes. So, I think they (the game designers/makers) are spending more time on looks than on gameplay. I can download Nesticle and be entertained by Bionic Commando for weeks, but I can only play Q3 for 5 mins before getting bored with it. Why is that? Personally, I don't know for sure, I can only guess.
Does LinuxPPC support Altivec though? If not, will they beat Apple to SMP Altvec support? I very much doubt so. Though, it all seems pointless to me anyway. People by Apples so they can use MacOS. Why spend all that money and then waste it by running software that wasn't designed for it? It'd be like getting a proprietary SGI (O2, Indy, etc) and running Linux on it instead of IRIX. The user experience would be gone. So it is with Apples.
So, how are they going to keep things from hitting the elevator shaft and/or cars and killing people? There's so much junk, so many meteors, and a bunch of comets "flying" around up there.
Personally, I don't think Hemos ruined the joke at all. The thing that ruined it for me was the Five powerful, Internet-crawling robots line. I mean, who in their right mind is going to believe that? IMHO, something like PERL-based Internet-skowering scripts would have made a lot more sense....
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Well, I think the issue is that universities are held responsible, by outside parties, for anything that goes on on their network. As such, they're blamed whenever a virus comes from a machine on thier network, whether it be a "University-owned" machine, or a students machine.
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Since the thing has 2.5 TB of RAM, my best guess is that each p640 has 2 Power 3's and 2 GB of RAM (1 GB per CPU). It is possible that each p640 has 4 cpus (and 500 MB RAM per cpu), but that seems like an odd RAM/CPU ratio for a hefty IBM machine.
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I'm rebuilding all my machines already :)
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Does LinuxPPC support Altivec though? If not, will they beat Apple to SMP Altvec support? I very much doubt so. Though, it all seems pointless to me anyway. People by Apples so they can use MacOS. Why spend all that money and then waste it by running software that wasn't designed for it? It'd be like getting a proprietary SGI (O2, Indy, etc) and running Linux on it instead of IRIX. The user experience would be gone. So it is with Apples.
So, how are they going to keep things from hitting the elevator shaft and/or cars and killing people? There's so much junk, so many meteors, and a bunch of comets "flying" around up there.
Finally! Putty and Nifty-Telnet you are now mine! :)
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I read /. religiously and my OS of choice is FreeBSD... Frankly, I'm still trying to figure out why everyone thinks Linux is so great :)