I'm pretty healthy but my fiancee has lupus. (It's Lupus awareness month.) I don't want any doctor to be able to access my records without my express permission. So, would that mean a 2-key system where myself and a physician would have to "log in"? That'd give him/her permission to read my charts anytime in the future. That'd be okay with me.
What I don't want is ANY doctor (say at a drug or insurance company) being able to get my or my fiancees records. I also want the database run by a non-profit organization supported by taxes or standardized fees. Imagine NSI with your medical records!
I have quite a few monitors and graphics cards. Is there a possibility of being able to use two or three monitors at once in the future? I'd love to see someone firing at me in my peripheral vision (hear it too with surround sound). That would make for a more engrossing experience. If it's a hardware limitation issue, would SMP help with this?
All right. You'd think the marketing genii would have put a link to a.wav or something with the pronunciation of their new marketing jewel. [Not that Linus'.wav file has cleared up any confusion.] Now, is it I'-ta'-nee-um or i-ta'-nee-um? Or wait... could there be a schwa sound at the front? Why don't I have a key for an upside down e? If it was so damn important that they had to bug the sh*t out of me in elementary school, why isn't there a key for it when I want to use or discuss it? [If someone brings up alternative keyboards I'll begin firing my BFG indiscriminately into the crowd here at the post office.]
The above poster (if nested) has it right. An NT print server will download the driver to a NTWS "transparently". That's why when one updates the print driver on the server, it automatically updates the clients whenever they use the printer in question. You can see this by watching the client screen closely or checking the event viewer.
I guess this is a useful technology if I can control my legos! Sorry, but I just don't get it and I work at Sun. Why the hell should anyone care about Jini? I hear all the propaganda at work but I just don't see a compeklling reason for the world to start using Jini. Of course, I may just be daft. This may be like Novell's NDS: really cool, useful and important but hard to explain until someone actually sees it or reaps its benefits.
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) original surname Rothschild
American short story writer, poet, and critic, a legendary figure in the New York literary scene. Parker was especially famous for her instant wit and and for her satirical verses. She also wrote sketches and short stories, many of them published in the New Yorker.
Parker was born in West End, New Jersey, to a Jewish father and Scottish mother. She was educated at a convent, and in 1916 she sold some of her poetry to the editor of Vogue, and was given an editorial position on the magazine. From 1917 to 1920 she worked as a critic for Vanity Fair, and formed with two other writers, Robert Benchley and Robert Sherwood the nucleus of the Algonquin Round Table, an informal luncheon club held at New York City's Algonquin Hotel.
[Disclaimer: Sun puts money into my bank account every two weeks in exchange for waking up and reading my email.]
Corona... err... Sun Ray 1 is a stateless client. "Your entire state and user environment is running on the server, not on the desktop," states our PR clone. The cool part is that you can "run" Solaris, NT or Java apps at the same time. This includes steaming sound and video to Windows apps/plugins that never seem to appear on other platforms/OSes.
I could see this as useful at colleges and schools. Work on your paper in StarOffice with Netscape open to reference sites and MP3Spy blaring into your headphones. If you need to stop, take out your "smartcard" and leave. Whenever you get to another SunRay, put in your smartcard and everything pops up as before (no lost time, except changing the station on mp3Spy).
Caveat: They'll have to pry my Ultra 2 out of my dead, cold hands. I don't trust visions of the future that are replays of past failures.
SCO (SCOC) info can be found at nasdaq.com. This pdf from nasdaq claims they have a market cap of only 279 million US dollars. Damn! That's not a lot for any big company to swallow. Why Sun doesn't buy them is beyond me, I just fix things there. Also, the owners who have more than 5% stake are:
MS 12.3%
Novell 13.8%
L Michaels 9.2%
D michaels 11.2%
I don't have time to read their by-laws, but if someone tenures an offer and the majority of stockholders vote to accept, it usually doesn't matter what one investor thinks or wants.
Indeed, it was Ebay management's fault. But it is hard to fault them. They have a huge farm of E10000s, but no hot backup in case the sh*t hits the fan. Not only that, in order to keep up with the exponential increase in business they would have to shell out over a million dollars a piece for more hardware to keep up with demand. Is business going to keep growing at 300%/yr? Should they buy 16 more starfires and the storage to go with them? How much would this cost? 50 million? How much profit have they made? There's a lot of tough questions for management to answer. She (the CEO and executives) has made at least one mistake so far. Hopefully they (and others) will learn.
The morale: With an internet company, you have to spend the money and "bet the farm".
...another internic to control the sales of keywords. just like domain names.
Exactly my fear. Imagine I have a site that deals with apples and pears. Do I have to register with someone so that people can find me? Will I have to outbid Apple Computers? Will I get sued for being referenced as "apple"? Who the hell is going to find MY site by looking up "apples and pears". I'm sure someone else has the same sick fascinations as I. As far as intranets go, you should have enough control over internal documents that navigation to them shouldn't be that difficult. On big sites, an internal search engine works fine as well. Sometimes I thinks these standards bodies just want to give O'Reilly another book to sell.
A G3 at the same clock speed as a PPC 601 or 604 should be 20 to 40 % faster.
Uhh, not quite. The G3 used the 603's FPU. For floating point operations, the 604 remains the best PowerPC. The G4 will use a FPU based on the 604 along with all the advantages of the G3 (backside cache, etc). Besides, the G3 lacks SMP support. Apple cannot hope to keep Photoshop users happy for long with single CPU systems when the same amount of money will buy you a dual processor NT machine. It's all about what get's the job done.
Ahhh... beer discussion! I hope they have something decent. Sam Adams, Widmer Hefeweizen, Guiness or something. The best would be some Gordon-Biersch Marzen. They make it right around the corner from the convention center (on San Fernando Street). Great stuff!!
There will be a great temptation to revise a lot of stuff. It's my hope that the original concept survives. But, look at what the greatest band ever, the Beatles, did with Jon's songs a couple of years ago. I just think projects like this should be left unfinished and just released as is without the Phil Specter symphonics added (reference: Let It Be).
There are some interesting things you can do with SO. With a java version, it is possible to modularize everything and only download the part that you need. Who the hell needs a spreadsheet program loaded locally when I can just pull down the word processor (without all the excess stuff they usually come with these days as well.) Users should transparently download the portion of the program they're working with when needed and save space for data.
I want Sun to get rid of Applix so bad it hurts sometimes. What a complete waste of my time.
_damnit_
P.S. It would be nice to get rid of SO's nasty habit of occupying my entire screen. I got two 21' monitors so that I could have lots of apps open at the same time, not so one app can make one screen look like an off-colored Win98 box!
Quickly though, wasn't their prior patent (on/. a few months ago) about hardware translation of non-native instruction sets? Claim 7 states software translation? Anyway, I made it to claim 29 and now my head hurts! I'll read this again in the morning.
How did you get dual-head to work on Linux? I've got cards and monitors for x86 that I can't use at home and my sparc5 has two fb's but only one works with RH6. Even KDE only works on one screen under Solaris7. This is bugging me, but not enough to go mucking around for a solution. A pointer to HOW-TOs would be appreciated.
The light rail is almost worthless right now. In 5 years it might be worthwhile (it'll go to Mountain View and down Tasman past Cisco's huge complex). I used to take Caltrain to Menlo Park and loved it. I always read the paper in the morning and a computer or SF/Fantasy book on the way home. Now if there was more of this to the east bay, I'd do it again. This is real timely, since I hvae to move from my apartment in a month. It's becoming a HUD project for people who make SV minimum wage (read: $15.00/hr). Anyone know of an apartment complex near a Pacbell CO (dsl limitations) that allows cats for under 1,300/month for 1br/1ba? Didn't think so.
The information in your quote consists of: "Beowulf is based on PVM and MPI, I forget which, maybe both..." How informative is that, eh? You could have looked it up to be sure if you weren't concerned with First Post status and wanted to inform the/. community.
Incidently, from the Beowulf Programming overview: "The Beowulf distribution includes several programming environments (all developed elsewhere) and development libraries as individually installable packages. PVM, MPI, and BSP are all available. SYS-V--style IPC and p-threads are also supported."
Give it a rest. You deliberately (I hope) provoked the moderators with a First Post subject line. Not to mention your comment was all of one sentence: 'It uses so it should be easy to port'. That kind of post is uninformative and the/. equivalent of aol'rs "me too!"
On anything other than x86, the boot partition must be FAT, period. On x86, you can boot from NTFS but it is difficult to correct minor problems (ie boot.ini). There are workarounds for this. I lost the site, but there are a few sites with boot floppies that can access NTFS partitions.
What does bug me is the inability to boot "single user" off a cd. MS has to do something about that.
Moderators, please give the preceding post its due. Its an important question. I'm trying to get my stuff off there right now but can't remember my password/login.:(
Here's the important question: ...I'm wondering what happens to guys who save their Open Source, Free Software and stuff there...
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I'm pretty healthy but my fiancee has lupus. (It's Lupus awareness month.) I don't want any doctor to be able to access my records without my express permission. So, would that mean a 2-key system where myself and a physician would have to "log in"? That'd give him/her permission to read my charts anytime in the future. That'd be okay with me.
What I don't want is ANY doctor (say at a drug or insurance company) being able to get my or my fiancees records. I also want the database run by a non-profit organization supported by taxes or standardized fees.
Imagine NSI with your medical records!
_damnit_
I have quite a few monitors and graphics cards. Is there a possibility of being able to use two or three monitors at once in the future? I'd love to see someone firing at me in my peripheral vision (hear it too with surround sound). That would make for a more engrossing experience.
If it's a hardware limitation issue, would SMP help with this?
Thanks for your time
_damnit_
All right. You'd think the marketing genii would have put a link to a .wav or something with the pronunciation of their new marketing jewel. [Not that Linus' .wav file has cleared up any confusion.]
Now, is it I'-ta'-nee-um or i-ta'-nee-um? Or wait... could there be a schwa sound at the front? Why don't I have a key for an upside down e? If it was so damn important that they had to bug the sh*t out of me in elementary school, why isn't there a key for it when I want to use or discuss it? [If someone brings up alternative keyboards I'll begin firing my BFG indiscriminately into the crowd here at the post office.]
_damnit_
The above poster (if nested) has it right. An NT print server will download the driver to a NTWS "transparently". That's why when one updates the print driver on the server, it automatically updates the clients whenever they use the printer in question. You can see this by watching the client screen closely or checking the event viewer.
_damnit_
I guess this is a useful technology if I can control my legos!
Sorry, but I just don't get it and I work at Sun. Why the hell should anyone care about Jini? I hear all the propaganda at work but I just don't see a compeklling reason for the world to start using Jini. Of course, I may just be daft. This may be like Novell's NDS: really cool, useful and important but hard to explain until someone actually sees it or reaps its benefits.
_damnit_
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) original surname Rothschild
American short story writer, poet, and critic, a legendary figure in the New York literary scene. Parker was especially famous for her instant wit and and for her satirical verses. She also wrote sketches and short stories, many of them published in the New Yorker.
Parker was born in West End, New Jersey, to a Jewish father and Scottish mother. She was educated at a convent, and in 1916 she sold some of her poetry to the editor of Vogue, and was given an editorial position on the magazine. From 1917 to 1920 she worked as a critic for Vanity Fair, and formed with two other writers, Robert Benchley and Robert Sherwood the nucleus of the Algonquin Round Table, an informal luncheon club held at New York City's Algonquin Hotel.
_damnit_
[Disclaimer: Sun puts money into my bank account every two weeks in exchange for waking up and reading my email.]
Corona... err... Sun Ray 1 is a stateless client. "Your entire state and user environment is running on the server, not on the desktop," states our PR clone. The cool part is that you can "run" Solaris, NT or Java apps at the same time. This includes steaming sound and video to Windows apps/plugins that never seem to appear on other platforms/OSes.
I could see this as useful at colleges and schools. Work on your paper in StarOffice with Netscape open to reference sites and MP3Spy blaring into your headphones. If you need to stop, take out your "smartcard" and leave. Whenever you get to another SunRay, put in your smartcard and everything pops up as before (no lost time, except changing the station on mp3Spy).
Caveat: They'll have to pry my Ultra 2 out of my dead, cold hands. I don't trust visions of the future that are replays of past failures.
_damnit_
Also, the owners who have more than 5% stake are:
I don't have time to read their by-laws, but if someone tenures an offer and the majority of stockholders vote to accept, it usually doesn't matter what one investor thinks or wants.
_damnit_
Indeed, it was Ebay management's fault. But it is hard to fault them. They have a huge farm of E10000s, but no hot backup in case the sh*t hits the fan. Not only that, in order to keep up with the exponential increase in business they would have to shell out over a million dollars a piece for more hardware to keep up with demand. Is business going to keep growing at 300%/yr? Should they buy 16 more starfires and the storage to go with them? How much would this cost? 50 million? How much profit have they made? There's a lot of tough questions for management to answer. She (the CEO and executives) has made at least one mistake so far. Hopefully they (and others) will learn.
The morale: With an internet company, you have to spend the money and "bet the farm".
_damnit_
Would the right honorable gentlemen allow a comment?
/. are converging... and I like it. Whoa!
This is getting scary... it's like C-SPAN's weekly coverage of UK Parliament and
Seriously, I think conversation here would benefit from a little more courtesy like the above post.
I yield the floor.
_damnit_
...another internic to control the sales of keywords. just like domain names.
Exactly my fear. Imagine I have a site that deals with apples and pears. Do I have to register with someone so that people can find me? Will I have to outbid Apple Computers? Will I get sued for being referenced as "apple"? Who the hell is going to find MY site by looking up "apples and pears". I'm sure someone else has the same sick fascinations as I.
As far as intranets go, you should have enough control over internal documents that navigation to them shouldn't be that difficult. On big sites, an internal search engine works fine as well.
Sometimes I thinks these standards bodies just want to give O'Reilly another book to sell.
_damnit_
A G3 at the same clock speed as a PPC 601 or 604 should be 20 to 40 % faster.
Uhh, not quite. The G3 used the 603's FPU. For floating point operations, the 604 remains the best PowerPC. The G4 will use a FPU based on the 604 along with all the advantages of the G3 (backside cache, etc). Besides, the G3 lacks SMP support. Apple cannot hope to keep Photoshop users happy for long with single CPU systems when the same amount of money will buy you a dual processor NT machine. It's all about what get's the job done.
_damnit_
Ahhh... beer discussion!
I hope they have something decent. Sam Adams, Widmer Hefeweizen, Guiness or something. The best would be some Gordon-Biersch Marzen. They make it right around the corner from the convention center (on San Fernando Street). Great stuff!!
_damnit_
Oasis is not the Beatles fault!
_damnit_
It's my job to freeze you. -- Logan's Run
_damnit_
There will be a great temptation to revise a lot of stuff. It's my hope that the original concept survives. But, look at what the greatest band ever, the Beatles, did with Jon's songs a couple of years ago.
I just think projects like this should be left unfinished and just released as is without the Phil Specter symphonics added (reference: Let It Be).
_damnit_
There are some interesting things you can do with SO. With a java version, it is possible to modularize everything and only download the part that you need. Who the hell needs a spreadsheet program loaded locally when I can just pull down the word processor (without all the excess stuff they usually come with these days as well.) Users should transparently download the portion of the program they're working with when needed and save space for data.
I want Sun to get rid of Applix so bad it hurts sometimes. What a complete waste of my time.
_damnit_
P.S. It would be nice to get rid of SO's nasty habit of occupying my entire screen. I got two 21' monitors so that I could have lots of apps open at the same time, not so one app can make one screen look like an off-colored Win98 box!
_damnit_
Quickly though, wasn't their prior patent (on /. a few months ago) about hardware translation of non-native instruction sets? Claim 7 states software translation?
Anyway, I made it to claim 29 and now my head hurts! I'll read this again in the morning.
_damnit_
OK> boot air -s
Cool! I hope I can boot off this airport. Things like this should make troubleshooting/installing new macs so much easier.
_damnit_
How did you get dual-head to work on Linux? I've got cards and monitors for x86 that I can't use at home and my sparc5 has two fb's but only one works with RH6. Even KDE only works on one screen under Solaris7. This is bugging me, but not enough to go mucking around for a solution. A pointer to HOW-TOs would be appreciated.
_damnit_
The light rail is almost worthless right now. In 5 years it might be worthwhile (it'll go to Mountain View and down Tasman past Cisco's huge complex). I used to take Caltrain to Menlo Park and loved it. I always read the paper in the morning and a computer or SF/Fantasy book on the way home. Now if there was more of this to the east bay, I'd do it again.
This is real timely, since I hvae to move from my apartment in a month. It's becoming a HUD project for people who make SV minimum wage (read: $15.00/hr). Anyone know of an apartment complex near a Pacbell CO (dsl limitations) that allows cats for under 1,300/month for 1br/1ba? Didn't think so.
_damnit_
The information in your quote consists of: "Beowulf is based on PVM and MPI, I forget which, maybe both..." How informative is that, eh? You could have looked it up to be sure if you weren't concerned with First Post status and wanted to inform the /. community.
Incidently, from the Beowulf Programming overview: "The Beowulf distribution includes several programming environments (all developed elsewhere) and development libraries as individually installable
packages. PVM, MPI, and BSP are all available. SYS-V--style IPC and p-threads are also supported."
_damnit_
Give it a rest. You deliberately (I hope) provoked the moderators with a First Post subject line. Not to mention your comment was all of one sentence: 'It uses so it should be easy to port'. That kind of post is uninformative and the /. equivalent of aol'rs "me too!"
_damnit_
Ok, in Solaris 2.x, most of your 4GB of memory is swap using tmpfs. You're only using the disk when you run out of room in tmpfs.
And, if you have only 2 drives and 4GB of memory, I suggest you spend a little cash on another drive.
_damnit_
On anything other than x86, the boot partition must be FAT, period. On x86, you can boot from NTFS but it is difficult to correct minor problems (ie boot.ini). There are workarounds for this. I lost the site, but there are a few sites with boot floppies that can access NTFS partitions.
What does bug me is the inability to boot "single user" off a cd. MS has to do something about that.
_damnit_
Moderators, please give the preceding post its due. Its an important question. I'm trying to get my stuff off there right now but can't remember my password/login. :(
...I'm wondering what happens to guys who save their Open Source, Free Software and stuff there...
Here's the important question: