The above comment is definately NOT in need of moderation. While perhaps the writer did not write the greatest example ever of disallusionment, it is a clear indictment of our justice system and our declining faith in it. The post is terse and effectively conveys his forecast for the trial. So, take your finger off the moderation trigger.
I signed up with PacBell too. I've never met such incompetent people in my life (except in Fry's). Of course the worst ones were the people I couldn't see. Why I had to wait 24 hrs for the router to allow me through is beyond my small little mind. Hell, I only waited 2 months for the techs to come out and give me the modem and splitter! You'd think the backend stuff would be done first. Once I got it working I've had no problems. It is the best thing I've done in years. Q3A and tribes rock with dsl. One IP address is a little cheap though. Oh well. Hmm, where's that HOWTO for IPchains...
I don't like the name, but that's not my real concern. I'm still waiting to see if they can produce parts in a timely manner. Intel just stumbled, and if AMD can't produce K7s in quantity they will miss one of the few opportunities they will ever get to be number one. That said, I want a nice dual K7 with Linux/Be dual boot for Quake3. Yummm...
SRI invented the mouse, hypertext, and a shit-load of stuff in the late 60s. Hell, they invented that magnetized ink on checks so my car payment goes through faster (sometimes not a good thing).
Anyway, like my asshole economics professor said years ago: it is better to be uninformed than misinformed.
Here's some cool stuff that explains that basically there is a "cap" on the end of our chromosomes that is reduced every time a cell divides. When the "cap" reaches a certain size the cell stops dividing (senescence). This is supposedly because you can only make so many copies before the quality is affected. Anyway, it's pretty interesting stuff. Search on Telomeres and Senescence and you'll find all kinds of info. Here's a Yahoo search on them
Here's a few things that were noted in a comparison of linux vs Solaris. I assume these are valuable traits (I am not a guru):
Journalling File System Swap File System for/tmp Real Time Scheduling Intelligent Kernel Thread Scheduling (where threads of a process are spread among all CPUs) Kernel Asynchronous I/O (KAIO) Large file support (2GB)
I know SGI is going to opensource a journalling filesystem. That could be in a module I suppose. The others are of various importance, but I suppose they should be considered.
SRI has contributed much to science and the world. In fact, without the contributions of SRI I would not be posting this right now to slashdot. A small list of things SRI invented that make this post possible: the IP protocol, mouse and hypertext/multimedia.
I worked for a few years at SRI (Stanford Research Institute) and know that two people died in a chemical explosion while working on this subject about 8 years ago. The researchers at SRI are brilliant and determined people whose results should be viewed with excitement. I only wish the cost weren't so high.
I tend to believe "openness" and dependability are the necessary ingredients for an operating system. The most important thing to me is that everyone gets to play on a level playing field. Protocols and operating systems need to be open to promote healthy competition. Honor? Well that's inherent in an Open Source project (it's the reason most contributors donate their efforts). Proprietary software is not beholden to honor, nor should it be. It is developed by companies which are first and foremost beholden to their stockholders.
the problem with win98/IE integration is that when IE crashes, my system is hosed (reboot and get another beer). When Netscape crashes, I restart it and get on with life. Using History makes this usually pretty easy. I personally cannot abide using a program that screws up my entire computer when it misbehaves.
Chris
PS. the last time I used IE 4.5 on a mac it had significant problems. It actually slowed down all other programs! There was stuff on this at www.macintouch.com such as this dated 2/1/99: John Kordyback supplied another example of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.5's penchant for reducing performance of other applications (see also Peek-a-boo, a utility for displaying resource usage):
"I've noticed that Interapplication Communication is much slower when Internet Expolorer 4.5 is running on my Mac (3400c/8.5.1/80 megs RAM). For example, if you run the following do-nothing AppleScript for Excel:
tell application "Microsoft Excel" Activate ClearContents Range "R1C1:R100C1" ClearContents Range "R1C2" set startTime to current date repeat with i from 1 to 100 set rowString to i as string set rngString to "R" & rowString & "C1" set FormulaR1C1 of Range rngString to rowString end repeat set totalTime to ((current date) - startTime) as string set FormulaR1C1 of Range "R1C2" to totalTime end tell
It averages 4.8 seconds without IE 4.5 running and 13.9 seconds with. I've also noticed that OLE communication (which really uses AppleEvents for communication) is similarly slower."
This is maybe the best idea I've heard on/. in a long time. Every day, essays should be stockpiled and then released in a separate section for viewing by the moderators and votes cast. The top (insert small integer here) should be posted to the main page for all to see. What better way to serve our community than to let it include the information we feel is of most interest. Besides, this would help move/. toward a "bazaar" model for news/opinion.
This is a great opportunity for linux.com and other sites to have their documentation at the ready to combat the oncoming flood of FUD. Everyone should help with documentation, especially graduates from "Newbie" status who can write-up nontechnical HOW-TOs for the upcoming class of newbies.
Until you've worked in an environment with NDS properly implemented, it's hard to get a handle on how much easier it makes life. Single-login would be a godsend to me and I'm working in a well developed NIS+ environment. I just finished another NIS+ course and I would give my left^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H love to have the simplicity of NDS on Linux and Solaris.
The more things that are integrated with NDS (ie Peoplesoft) the easier life seems to get. Plus, with partitioning of the NDS database, you save WAN bandwidth in large companies.
I recall that AT&T filed suit about a year ago to keep access to NT5's source, but MS said Win2k was a different beast than the NT5 was planned to be and kept the source from them. AT&T and MS settled out-of-court.
I agree it would have room. The E450 has 10 slots. I would put one SOC+ board in though for connection to a few A5000's (20 x 9.1/18GB each). That should be fast enough. Also, there shouldn't be any problem with heat. The E450 is designed to accomodate 10 PCI boards both in terms of spacially and thermally.
The specs for the new playstation make my mouth water! With the Emotion chip (2x the power of an SGI) I wonder how long it will take before we can emulate a Playstation II?
The ORB retail Parallel Port 2.2GB product will be available worldwide from many of the leading distribution, retail, VAR and mail order companies SOON!!.
The ORB External SCSI 2.2GB for Mac and PC and USB (PC / Mac) drives will be available in the second quarter of 1999.
The 2.2GB Firewire 1394 2.2GB will be shipping in the third quarter.
Besides adding another line in the "common sense guide to writing virii", can we learn anything from this? Are macros necessary? If so, should we use javascript, java, VB (this is possible with Star Office, is it not?) I am personally tired of having to disable "features" on MS products. My fiancee says she needs Word for writing her papers. I wouldn't allow it on any of my machines. Now she uses StarOffice. I am glad I made that decision. It pays to be different.
I had the pleasure of working with Novell 3.x-4.11 for a while. (I've not had hands-on with 5 yet.) The core operating system is quite strange... needs DOS to boot? There's no telnetYet, from any other machine on the network, I can RCONSOLE in and work on anything or just work with the great nwadmin application from any client. There is no better PC file/print server out there right now and NDS is an admin's best friend. However, I wouldn't want a Novell server as an application server. For that, I would go with a *nix box. Don't get me wrong, I love linux but in a typical windows* office, I'd rather have netware than SAMBA emulating an NT Domain (yech!) and SMB.
PS. I wish they would release the source to NDS. But that's their crown jewel right now. If anyone knows, how well does Netware on Caldera work?
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The above comment is definately NOT in need of moderation. While perhaps the writer did not write the greatest example ever of disallusionment, it is a clear indictment of our justice system and our declining faith in it. The post is terse and effectively conveys his forecast for the trial. So, take your finger off the moderation trigger.
I signed up with PacBell too. I've never met such incompetent people in my life (except in Fry's). Of course the worst ones were the people I couldn't see. Why I had to wait 24 hrs for the router to allow me through is beyond my small little mind. Hell, I only waited 2 months for the techs to come out and give me the modem and splitter! You'd think the backend stuff would be done first.
Once I got it working I've had no problems. It is the best thing I've done in years. Q3A and tribes rock with dsl. One IP address is a little cheap though. Oh well. Hmm, where's that HOWTO for IPchains...
I don't like the name, but that's not my real concern. I'm still waiting to see if they can produce parts in a timely manner. Intel just stumbled, and if AMD can't produce K7s in quantity they will miss one of the few opportunities they will ever get to be number one.
That said, I want a nice dual K7 with Linux/Be dual boot for Quake3. Yummm...
SRI invented the mouse, hypertext, and a shit-load of stuff in the late 60s. Hell, they invented that magnetized ink on checks so my car payment goes through faster (sometimes not a good thing).
Anyway, like my asshole economics professor said years ago: it is better to be uninformed than misinformed.
I've had plenty of LSD in my time and I can definitely say that my brain is an analog tomato.
Here's some cool stuff that explains that basically there is a "cap" on the end of our chromosomes that is reduced every time a cell divides. When the "cap" reaches a certain size the cell stops dividing (senescence). This is supposedly because you can only make so many copies before the quality is affected. Anyway, it's pretty interesting stuff. Search on Telomeres and Senescence and you'll find all kinds of info.
Here's a Yahoo search on them
Here's a few things that were noted in a comparison of linux vs Solaris. I assume these are valuable traits (I am not a guru):
/tmp
Journalling File System
Swap File System for
Real Time Scheduling
Intelligent Kernel Thread Scheduling (where threads of a process are spread among all CPUs)
Kernel Asynchronous I/O (KAIO)
Large file support (2GB)
I know SGI is going to opensource a journalling filesystem. That could be in a module I suppose. The others are of various importance, but I suppose they should be considered.
Any thoughts?
SRI has contributed much to science and the world. In fact, without the contributions of SRI I would not be posting this right now to slashdot. A small list of things SRI invented that make this post possible: the IP protocol, mouse and hypertext/multimedia.
I am biased though, I worked there for two years.
I worked for a few years at SRI (Stanford Research Institute) and know that two people died in a chemical explosion while working on this subject about 8 years ago. The researchers at SRI are brilliant and determined people whose results should be viewed with excitement. I only wish the cost weren't so high.
Chris
I tend to believe "openness" and dependability are the necessary ingredients for an operating system. The most important thing to me is that everyone gets to play on a level playing field. Protocols and operating systems need to be open to promote healthy competition.
Honor? Well that's inherent in an Open Source project (it's the reason most contributors donate their efforts). Proprietary software is not beholden to honor, nor should it be. It is developed by companies which are first and foremost beholden to their stockholders.
the problem with win98/IE integration is that when IE crashes, my system is hosed (reboot and get another beer). When Netscape crashes, I restart it and get on with life. Using History makes this usually pretty easy. I personally cannot abide using a program that screws up my entire computer when it misbehaves.
Chris
PS. the last time I used IE 4.5 on a mac it had significant problems. It actually slowed down all other programs! There was stuff on this at www.macintouch.com such as this dated 2/1/99:
John Kordyback supplied another example of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.5's penchant for reducing performance of other
applications (see also Peek-a-boo, a utility for displaying resource usage):
"I've noticed that Interapplication Communication is much slower when Internet Expolorer 4.5 is running on my Mac
(3400c/8.5.1/80 megs RAM). For example, if you run the following do-nothing AppleScript for Excel:
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
Activate
ClearContents Range "R1C1:R100C1"
ClearContents Range "R1C2"
set startTime to current date
repeat with i from 1 to 100
set rowString to i as string
set rngString to "R" & rowString & "C1"
set FormulaR1C1 of Range rngString to rowString
end repeat
set totalTime to ((current date) - startTime) as string
set FormulaR1C1 of Range "R1C2" to totalTime
end tell
It averages 4.8 seconds without IE 4.5 running and 13.9 seconds with. I've also noticed that OLE communication (which
really uses AppleEvents for communication) is similarly slower."
I have ID numbers on almost every important chip on my Sun workstation ...and I manage to live without Big Brother tracking me down.
This is maybe the best idea I've heard on /. in a long time. Every day, essays should be stockpiled and then released in a separate section for viewing by the moderators and votes cast. The top (insert small integer here) should be posted to the main page for all to see. What better way to serve our community than to let it include the information we feel is of most interest. Besides, this would help move /. toward a "bazaar" model for news/opinion.
This is a great opportunity for linux.com and other sites to have their documentation at the ready to combat the oncoming flood of FUD. Everyone should help with documentation, especially graduates from "Newbie" status who can write-up nontechnical HOW-TOs for the upcoming class of newbies.
Chris
Until you've worked in an environment with NDS properly implemented, it's hard to get a handle on how much easier it makes life. Single-login would be a godsend to me and I'm working in a well developed NIS+ environment. I just finished another NIS+ course and I would give my left^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H love to have the simplicity of NDS on Linux and Solaris.
The more things that are integrated with NDS (ie Peoplesoft) the easier life seems to get. Plus, with partitioning of the NDS database, you save WAN bandwidth in large companies.
I have lately had poor luck though. I constantly find it annoying that I have to update glib, gcc, make, etc. all the time. Oh well, it's free.
I recall that AT&T filed suit about a year ago to keep access to NT5's source, but MS said Win2k was a different beast than the NT5 was planned to be and kept the source from them. AT&T and MS settled out-of-court.
I agree it would have room. The E450 has 10 slots. I would put one SOC+ board in though for connection to a few A5000's (20 x 9.1/18GB each). That should be fast enough. Also, there shouldn't be any problem with heat. The E450 is designed to accomodate 10 PCI boards both in terms of spacially and thermally.
The specs for the new playstation make my mouth water! With the Emotion chip (2x the power of an SGI) I wonder how long it will take before we can emulate a Playstation II?
This is an excellent example of how OpenSource can motivate even commercial OS vendors who release kernel source.
The ORB retail Parallel Port 2.2GB product will be
available worldwide from many of the leading
distribution, retail, VAR and mail order companies
SOON!!.
The ORB External SCSI 2.2GB for Mac and PC and USB
(PC / Mac) drives will be available in the second
quarter of 1999.
The 2.2GB Firewire 1394 2.2GB will be
shipping in the third quarter.
enough said
Besides adding another line in the "common sense guide to writing virii", can we learn anything from this? Are macros necessary? If so, should we use javascript, java, VB (this is possible with Star Office, is it not?) I am personally tired of having to disable "features" on MS products. My fiancee says she needs Word for writing her papers. I wouldn't allow it on any of my machines. Now she uses StarOffice. I am glad I made that decision. It pays to be different.
I had the pleasure of working with Novell 3.x-4.11 for a while. (I've not had hands-on with 5 yet.) The core operating system is quite strange... needs DOS to boot? There's no telnetYet, from any other machine on the network, I can RCONSOLE in and work on anything or just work with the great nwadmin application from any client. There is no better PC file/print server out there right now and NDS is an admin's best friend. However, I wouldn't want a Novell server as an application server. For that, I would go with a *nix box. Don't get me wrong, I love linux but in a typical windows* office, I'd rather have netware than SAMBA emulating an NT Domain (yech!) and SMB.
PS. I wish they would release the source to NDS. But that's their crown jewel right now. If anyone knows, how well does Netware on Caldera work?
I'm sure there's irony there.