i wondered that too. can it happen that this guy is coding e or something like that?
btw whats happening with e, havent seen any news on it for a while....
actually www.nic.nu has been doing similar thing for.nu domains for 5-6 months now. you can register domain under.nu with all characters in iso-8859-1 (latin-1) and they are possible going to add even support for iso-8859-2 (latin-2).
btw a bit info om iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-2.
iso-8859-1 is primarily used in western european countries while iso-8859-2 is used in southern and eastern europe.
i can run same binaries on every linux distro, thus linux is same os (imo anyway) and is not fragmented into different incompatible os.
offcourse there are small differences between different distros (biggest one being slackware using bsd init while rest is using sysV init) but lsb is working on making common standards for all gnu/linux based distros imo differences can be both good and bad, for example if you like bsd init than you can run slack, if you dont like it use another distro.
btw can i run for example binaries compiled for nbsd on fbsd or bsd/os without any kind of emulation? if not than bsd is much more fragmented than gnu/linux is.
> You can spend all the money you want on foreign aid, but it will just go to feeding the military and lining the pockets of the dictators in those countries
this might be the truth for the vast number of third world countries, but there are lots of third world countries that have good leaders but ppl are still starving. (there are numerous reasons why ppl are starving there; everything from low incomes because of western corporations are not willing to pay more than few $/hour to low prices on worlds market for raw materials country is exporting)
now we should not use these countries as excuse for not persuing space exploration. we can both explore space and help those ppl. imo problem is that people/govermants in europe/n. america are spending money on useless stuff.
i think you are missing the point here.
you dont start distributed project to render one picture. distributed projects are suitable for tasks that need lots of computing power while they are not producing enourmous amounts of data. for example when you download an ogr stub from distributed.net your computer crunches on it for a week. size of one stubb is less than 1kb.
i have tryed distributed.net , dcypher.net and seti@home. all of them have pretty interesting projects (distributed: math/crypto , dcypher: physics & seti@home: astronomy?) and i even intend to try popular power and parabon. here are my thoughts on all of these projects. i hope you will find them informative
seti@home is really cool project BUT they already have enough ppl on the project so they are recycling units + they refuse to further optimise their clients because they have enough of computing power. clients exists for every possible platform in the world.
dcypher.net has really interesting projects going on and is going to pay for processing power in the future. (they are already giving out some money on random basis. like 100$ to a random participant). problem with dcypher.net imo is that their software is still in the development phase. for example stats are not that good + you can cheat in gamma flux project by submitting same units twice or more (your computer generates gamma rays randomly so by just copying your buffers and submitting them once more you can get extra creds on the stat page). i believe that dcypher.net is going to be really good distributed computing effort in few months when they develop their software. clients exist for gnu/linux, freeBSD and windows. mac client is under development.
parabon still doesnt have a gnu/linux client (they are developing it) so its out of question for most of us slashdot users even if they have really cool project (chemotherapy ). client seems to exist only for windows.
popular power currently has a project on optimisation of influenza vaccination. they intend to pay for your computing cycles in the future. currently there are clients for gnu/linux and windows. mac client and solaris client are under development. linux client needs really lots of work , its really user unfriendly right now. it excepts you to install separate user just for running client. i will try it when it gets more user friendly.
and at the end, my currently dist. computing project of choice. distributed.net. oldest dist. computing effort on net. you have several projects to choose from. its 100% non-commercial, you can get most of the source code for their clients, stats are great, clients are stable, they exist for "every os" in the world:). so right now i would recommand to go on with distributed.net (join team SLASHDOT:) but look into dcypher.net, popular power or parabon in few months.
actually i believe that va linux and linux international are making efforts towards getting gnu/linux certified as "real" UNIX.
i believe there a lots of smarter ways for redhat or any other linux vendor to support free software community. i mean only big companies and govermant organisations care if gnu/linux is "real" unix or not. so those are the ones that should pay for getting gnu/linux unix certified. why should redhat which is selling linux mainly to private person pay.
if i remember correctly you have to pay lots of $ to someone to be certified as "real" UNIX. i dont see why we should waste money on such useless things....
isnt canadian space agency member of esa ?
on esa's jobs page it says Please note that
applications are only considered from nationals of one of the following States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Canada.
btw if you want to support space exploration go and register yourself at planetary.org. here is the list of the projects their are supporting right now: Mars Exploration - the Mars Microphone
Rover Technology
A 2001 Mars Odyssey: The Student NanoExperiment Challenge
Planetfest[tm]
Red Rover, Red Rover[tm] & Red Rover Goes to Mars[tm]
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Near-Earth Objects Research and Missions
actually there are some theories that predict start of new ice age because of global warming. if i remember it goes somethign like this:
because of global warming gulf stream gets weaker (proven already, since 1960 amount of warm water floating to waters around norway has decreased with 40%) and europe gets colder and colder. because of this there is more and more snow in scandinavia / iceland / scotland. this means that more and more of light is reflected back into the atmosphere which leads to even colder weather and then in 200-300 years we have an ice-age:(
you dont have to revert to stone age to prevent earth warming. did you know that one american uses five times more power than one european and thats only because ppl in america are to dumb to use energy saving lightbulbs and stuff like that.
it seems to me that if some govermant organisations says anything about enviroment or anything else most americans think that its propaganda. its scary to see that ppl cant trust even their own govermant. why the fuck would nasa lie about thing like this.
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i wondered that too. can it happen that this guy is coding e or something like that? btw whats happening with e, havent seen any news on it for a while....
actually www.nic.nu has been doing similar thing for .nu domains for 5-6 months now. you can register domain under .nu with all characters in iso-8859-1 (latin-1) and they are possible going to add even support for iso-8859-2 (latin-2).
btw a bit info om iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-2. iso-8859-1 is primarily used in western european countries while iso-8859-2 is used in southern and eastern europe.
i can run same binaries on every linux distro, thus linux is same os (imo anyway) and is not fragmented into different incompatible os.
offcourse there are small differences between different distros (biggest one being slackware using bsd init while rest is using sysV init) but lsb is working on making common standards for all gnu/linux based distros
imo differences can be both good and bad, for example if you like bsd init than you can run slack, if you dont like it use another distro.
btw can i run for example binaries compiled for nbsd on fbsd or bsd/os without any kind of emulation? if not than bsd is much more fragmented than gnu/linux is.
probably , as long as state of israel continues to harass them and denies them basic human rights.
here is an article on journaling fs
i already posted this once when discussing xfs beta article. anyway there is great article on journaling filesystems at linux gazette.
it explains different features and concepts related to the 4 different journaling filesystems. XFS, JFS, Ext3 and ReiserFS.
i dont know if anyone is interessted in this but there is a great article on journaling filesystems at linux gazette.
it explains different features and concepts related to the 4 different journaling filesystems. XFS, JFS, Ext3 and ReiserFS.
anyone who wants to explain what "propack" is?.
i looked at xfs web page and couldnt find any info on it.
probably not. i doubt that fbsd kernel team wants to include gpl'ed stuff into the fbsd kernel.
sdk that is used for this project is cosm. cosm was developed by former distributed.net developer. you can find more info on cosm on http://www.mithral.com/projects/cosm//A
> You can spend all the money you want on foreign aid, but it will just go to feeding the military and lining the pockets of the dictators in those countries
this might be the truth for the vast number of third world countries, but there are lots of third world countries that have good leaders but ppl are still starving. (there are numerous reasons why ppl are starving there; everything from low incomes because of western corporations are not willing to pay more than few $/hour to low prices on worlds market for raw materials country is exporting)
now we should not use these countries as excuse for not persuing space exploration. we can both explore space and help those ppl. imo problem is that people/govermants in europe/n. america are spending money on useless stuff.
contrib == contributed, main is where the "real" debian is
reading *everyone* who distributed KDE -- RedHat, Caldera, etc., and yes, even Debian
debian never distributed kde.
thats probably why distributed.net is sending each ogr stub twice and discards it if they are not identical when they are returned.
i think you are missing the point here.
you dont start distributed project to render one picture. distributed projects are suitable for tasks that need lots of computing power while they are not producing enourmous amounts of data. for example when you download an ogr stub from distributed.net your computer crunches on it for a week. size of one stubb is less than 1kb.
i have tryed distributed.net , dcypher.net and seti@home. all of them have pretty interesting projects (distributed: math/crypto , dcypher: physics & seti@home: astronomy?) and i even intend to try popular power and parabon.
:). so right now i would recommand to go on with distributed.net (join team SLASHDOT :) but look into dcypher.net, popular power or parabon in few months.
here are my thoughts on all of these projects. i hope you will find them informative
seti@home is really cool project BUT they already have enough ppl on the project so they are recycling units + they refuse to further optimise their clients because they have enough of computing power. clients exists for every possible platform in the world.
dcypher.net has really interesting projects going on and is going to pay for processing power in the future. (they are already giving out some money on random basis. like 100$ to a random participant). problem with dcypher.net imo is that their software is still in the development phase. for example stats are not that good + you can cheat in gamma flux project by submitting same units twice or more (your computer generates gamma rays randomly so by just copying your buffers and submitting them once more you can get extra creds on the stat page). i believe that dcypher.net is going to be really good distributed computing effort in few months when they develop their software. clients exist for gnu/linux, freeBSD and windows. mac client is under development.
parabon still doesnt have a gnu/linux client (they are developing it) so its out of question for most of us slashdot users even if they have really cool project (chemotherapy ). client seems to exist only for windows.
popular power currently has a project on optimisation of influenza vaccination. they intend to pay for your computing cycles in the future. currently there are clients for gnu/linux and windows. mac client and solaris client are under development. linux client needs really lots of work , its really user unfriendly right now. it excepts you to install separate user just for running client. i will try it when it gets more user friendly.
and at the end, my currently dist. computing project of choice. distributed.net. oldest dist. computing effort on net. you have several projects to choose from. its 100% non-commercial, you can get most of the source code for their clients, stats are great, clients are stable, they exist for "every os" in the world
Provided you live in scandanavia ;) Its a lengthy
its scandinavia not scandanavia....
actually i believe that va linux and linux international are making efforts towards getting gnu/linux certified as "real" UNIX.
i believe there a lots of smarter ways for redhat or any other linux vendor to support free software community. i mean only big companies and govermant organisations care if gnu/linux is "real" unix or not. so those are the ones that should pay for getting gnu/linux unix certified. why should redhat which is selling linux mainly to private person pay.
if i remember correctly you have to pay lots of $ to someone to be certified as "real" UNIX. i dont see why we should waste money on such useless things....
i think eu states are building new accelerator/collider at cern. check out www.cern.ch
canadian space agency
isnt canadian space agency member of esa ?
on esa's jobs page it says Please note that applications are only considered from nationals of one of the following States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Canada.
btw if you want to support space exploration go and register yourself at planetary.org. here is the list of the projects their are supporting right now:
Mars Exploration - the Mars Microphone
Rover Technology
A 2001 Mars Odyssey: The Student NanoExperiment Challenge
Planetfest[tm]
Red Rover, Red Rover[tm] & Red Rover Goes to Mars[tm]
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Near-Earth Objects Research and Missions
btw check out this distributed project: http://www.climate-dynam ics.rl.ac.uk/~hansen/casino21.html
it seems pretty cool, i have already signed...
heheh you were not one i was slamming :) i was just dissapointed by some dumb comments from americans in other threads in this story
actually there are some theories that predict start of new ice age because of global warming. if i remember it goes somethign like this: :(
because of global warming gulf stream gets weaker (proven already, since 1960 amount of warm water floating to waters around norway has decreased with 40%) and europe gets colder and colder. because of this there is more and more snow in scandinavia / iceland / scotland. this means that more and more of light is reflected back into the atmosphere which leads to even colder weather and then in 200-300 years we have an ice-age
you dont have to revert to stone age to prevent earth warming. did you know that one american uses five times more power than one european and thats only because ppl in america are to dumb to use energy saving lightbulbs and stuff like that.
it seems to me that if some govermant organisations says anything about enviroment or anything else most americans think that its propaganda. its scary to see that ppl cant trust even their own govermant. why the fuck would nasa lie about thing like this.