I tested it for the first time about a year ago, and was seduced by the ports tree... it gave me the impression that BSD is a little more sleek in structure than most Linux distros.
I upgraded my home server to 4.9 a few months ago, and the only downtimes were due to power outages... and after finding a little BIOS tweak in my Tyan Tiger, I think those will be minimized too:-)
This weekend, I migrated from XP to 4.9 for my desktop machine after drag-n-drop of all things decided to quit working... wtf? There's a few things that I anticipate will be tricky, like Xinerama support for my Radeon 7000 VE dual display, tweaking Vmware so it'll work correctly, and openoffice is being strangely adamant at not compiling. I'm not much of a coder, so things like this tend to make me run to the 'net for assistance, but that's what a supportive userbase is for.
Kudos to the FreeBSD team for attracting yet another user with a well-structured and well-executed OS.
I don't find the fast reactions unbelievable...
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... here at Virginia Tech, the virus has had our pop/smtp servers down since sometime last night. Apparently it infected our financial aid listserv, which caters to 51,000 email addresses, most of them in the vt.edu domain. Not to mention 8000 of the not-so-savvy on-campus undergrads whose systems have been infected. In the 4+ years I've been here, this is the longest downtime for our email system yet, even considering the downtime a couple routine server rebuilds caused. I'm sure other institutions, agencies, and businesses are experiences unheard-of downtimes as well.
In our [multimedia] lab, we use the G4 silver's onboard gigabit to connect to a 2-terabyte raid for uncompressed video storage. It sure ain't 'true-blue' gigabit throughput, but it peaks at about 200Mbyte/sec. I'm crossing my fingers that Jason, with his *nix experience, will be able to do the necessary tweaking to the systems and whatnot to boost that beyond stock OS X capabilities.
No one has told me why the timeline is so short for getting this thing up and running... probably has something to do with the grant money, and a related project needing flops. But hopefully their conversion to the infiniband gear will be sooner, rather than later.
Thanks to moderators for giving my parent my 1st +5... I divulged all I knew, and I'm glad it satisfied the masses!
My boss here at VT is a volunteer for this project... they've been designing and building rackmount shelf-type units to store all these new G5s, as well as helping with the cooling system. Here's some info he gave me.
The cluster will eventually run Mac OS 10.27... he said eventually, and Jason Lockhart, the project leader, is a friend and fellow Linux geek of mine (please don't hammer his inbox;-), so there's a chance that he might use some PPC distro at some point.
Interconnectivity will be done with Cisco equipment, among the onboard gigabit LANs. Infiniband cards will also eventually be installed for 10 Gbit throughput.
You guys can offer alternative solutions and troll this as much as you want, but this is what VT is going with. In my opinion, it's not a bad choice... the New IBM PPC chipset is balls-to-the-wall computing, and Apple's 'stock' offerings in the G5 (Gbit ethernet, serial ATA, etc.) are all strong selling points. The fact that this cluster is intended for intense vector and matrix-based algorithms is another bonus, b/c of the PPC vector processing unit.
Apparently Apple shifted us up to the top of their production ladder, in order to make the contract, thereby extending the wait times for consumers itching for a G5... I find that a little humorous. Can't wait to see gigaflop statistics!!
I've been using the Promise Fasttrak TX2000 on my desktop machine... WinXP and Linux or BSD, depending on the season... I do know that, according to the manual and other friends' experience, that a mirrored disc sharing another disc on the same cable can sometimes cause issues if a drive fails. I can't offer more specific details, because I stripe my RAID (A/V junkie;-)
Anywho, I've used software myself, and this hardware RAID is where it's at... I'm too poor to afford an SATA RAID card, but ATA133 RAID is a huge step up from my old 5400rpm setup.
Well, right about here is where I was hoping the community was going to discuss their experiences with parameter passing and configuration for getting PS7 to work in WINE, but instead I happen upon a GIMPvsPS thread... and don't get me wrong, I use the GIMP often for web graphics and other things, although I will admit that I haven't spent a ton of time learning the UI.
As a student and senior employee at a heavily-used on-campus multimedia lab, it's my job to teach students and faculty the entire range of Adobe products, including PS. It's a standard in the academic community, primarily due to its ease-of-use across multiple platforms. Seeing *nix as a potentially compatible OS made my day. Go to a job interview for a graphic/web design opening, and when they ask you how well you know Photoshop, see what kind of funny look they give you when you expound your knowledge of GIMP. I'm not saying that GIMP sucks, but simply reiterating the 'quickest/most convenient tool for the job' mentality, platform preferences aside.
I confess I'm more of a reader than a poster on/., but it saddens me when something notable like this makes the headlines, and the threads splinter off into borderline zealotry, when we could really be using this as a forum for more meaningful technical discussions (or even links to helpful stuff, when someone else has already said it best!)
whew! ok, sorry, I hope everyone has a great night
Probably not, bad publicity could spell disaster for them.
Isn't monster.com a corporation based in the USA? Maybe it's not even bad publicity, considering current events. They say any publicity is good publicity;-)
Bogus Removal Options. At first glance, even the sleaziness you described seems avoidable, per the opt-out link at the bottom. But click it, and it sends you to an IP address (no domain) with a nonexistent asp or php script. I guess it just backs up your assertion of spam as fraud, but it torques me enough to want to make it a separate assertion.
Akira, from my personal experience. Not too many of my clique are Anime appreciators (and I'm not much of an Anime fanboy either), but no one I've tried to expose to the movie ever sit through it. Personally, I think it's flat-out amazing, graphically and in terms of the story. It doesn't have the same conclusion as the graphic novels, but hey, perhaps I'm just a sucker for forward-thinking post-apolcalyptic sci-fi.
Gotta love/. as a medium for random thoughts/rants. Now time to attempt to sleep off the mocha hangover.
The modchip soap-opera has been going on for a little while now, and I think the whole thing stinks. I own a Dreamcast for one reason, and one reason only!
The funny part is: this krazy8 guy apparently lives in my town. He drives a canary yellow lexus, and flaunts it by parking on sidewalks. Never did have much sympathy for assholes. He owns a cell-phone retail shop too. I KNEW holding those things up to your ear too long would make you stupid.
I don't know enough about the Singularity theory to debunk or argue anything written, so I don't want to get technical on the subject. However, I really enjoyed the text. Just when the darkness of this new 'Cyberspace' starts to depress you, it concludes in a very suprising way, reminiscent of Daniel Quinn and his lessons in Ishmael. An excellent way to depict the effect of the Singularity on the human psyche, even if it is only fictional.
Although if I decide to read it again, I'll probably try to locate a print copy... my 19" CRT took a sick pleasure in burning my retinas.
...The idea of increasing the use of software, esp. OSS, to manage and automate governmental systems, is definitely a good idea. Why? When computers are doing the computation/delivery of information, transaction costs are reduced to zero. I'd say this would make for a more efficient and less bloated form of government, once the actual programming and configuration of said systems were completed. The only caveat is that the policies and procedures implemented in such programs would have to be scrutinized to ensure fairness and equality.*
That said, I don't think I've seen or heard of any open source application aimed at sectors of governmental operation... Any input on that subject?
*(I use the terms 'fairness' and 'equality' relatively loosely, so they can still be applied to the subject of national government.)
I'd have to agree with you as far as Real's future, except for one thing:
Real's compression schemes for streaming media currently top anything that Quicktime or Windows Media have developed... specifically in the area of voice recording. Their ability to preserve the nuances of dialect and inflection top anything else out there, all while creating a file nearly 1/3 smaller than comparable Quicktime compression.
Just a little FYI for anyone who uses compressed audio for streaming applications.
Globalization and Afghanistan
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Those Afghans who feel jaded by the spread of globalization should look at Japan. After WWII, Japan's economic development had nearly halted. However, they chose to embrace the ideas of globalization and free trade, and by the 80's they were setting new precedents in efficiency (look up the 'just-in-time' system of manufacturing, developed by Toyota). The popular opinion among many Afghans is that the United States' dominance in world economics is what is holding them back. But if they attempt to accept globalization as a form of progress, they too will have to opportunity to grow. Granted, this is where fundamentalism vs. cosmopolitanism comes into play, but bombing them certainly won't help them to think any differently, about us or their situation.
"The sooner we wean people off of religion, the less intolerance we'll have to deal with."
But isn't that a form of intolerance itself? People adhere to religious beliefs in order to satisfy the needs of their soul, which neither science nor technology can claim to do.
If today's tragedy is the responsibility of a religious group, it is because they are a group of seriously screwed-up individuals. Tibet has been occupied by China for years, but you don't see Tibetan Buddhist monks committing terrorist acts.
To misquote the NRA, religions don't kill people... people kill people.
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and by that I'm referring to FreeBSD and myself.
:-)
I tested it for the first time about a year ago, and was seduced by the ports tree... it gave me the impression that BSD is a little more sleek in structure than most Linux distros.
I upgraded my home server to 4.9 a few months ago, and the only downtimes were due to power outages... and after finding a little BIOS tweak in my Tyan Tiger, I think those will be minimized too
This weekend, I migrated from XP to 4.9 for my desktop machine after drag-n-drop of all things decided to quit working... wtf? There's a few things that I anticipate will be tricky, like Xinerama support for my Radeon 7000 VE dual display, tweaking Vmware so it'll work correctly, and openoffice is being strangely adamant at not compiling. I'm not much of a coder, so things like this tend to make me run to the 'net for assistance, but that's what a supportive userbase is for.
Kudos to the FreeBSD team for attracting yet another user with a well-structured and well-executed OS.
... here at Virginia Tech, the virus has had our pop/smtp servers down since sometime last night. Apparently it infected our financial aid listserv, which caters to 51,000 email addresses, most of them in the vt.edu domain. Not to mention 8000 of the not-so-savvy on-campus undergrads whose systems have been infected. In the 4+ years I've been here, this is the longest downtime for our email system yet, even considering the downtime a couple routine server rebuilds caused. I'm sure other institutions, agencies, and businesses are experiences unheard-of downtimes as well.
In our [multimedia] lab, we use the G4 silver's onboard gigabit to connect to a 2-terabyte raid for uncompressed video storage. It sure ain't 'true-blue' gigabit throughput, but it peaks at about 200Mbyte/sec. I'm crossing my fingers that Jason, with his *nix experience, will be able to do the necessary tweaking to the systems and whatnot to boost that beyond stock OS X capabilities.
No one has told me why the timeline is so short for getting this thing up and running... probably has something to do with the grant money, and a related project needing flops. But hopefully their conversion to the infiniband gear will be sooner, rather than later.
Thanks to moderators for giving my parent my 1st +5... I divulged all I knew, and I'm glad it satisfied the masses!
My boss here at VT is a volunteer for this project... they've been designing and building rackmount shelf-type units to store all these new G5s, as well as helping with the cooling system. Here's some info he gave me.
;-), so there's a chance that he might use some PPC distro at some point.
The cluster will eventually run Mac OS 10.27... he said eventually, and Jason Lockhart, the project leader, is a friend and fellow Linux geek of mine (please don't hammer his inbox
Interconnectivity will be done with Cisco equipment, among the onboard gigabit LANs. Infiniband cards will also eventually be installed for 10 Gbit throughput.
You guys can offer alternative solutions and troll this as much as you want, but this is what VT is going with. In my opinion, it's not a bad choice... the New IBM PPC chipset is balls-to-the-wall computing, and Apple's 'stock' offerings in the G5 (Gbit ethernet, serial ATA, etc.) are all strong selling points. The fact that this cluster is intended for intense vector and matrix-based algorithms is another bonus, b/c of the PPC vector processing unit.
Apparently Apple shifted us up to the top of their production ladder, in order to make the contract, thereby extending the wait times for consumers itching for a G5... I find that a little humorous. Can't wait to see gigaflop statistics!!
I've been using the Promise Fasttrak TX2000 on my desktop machine... WinXP and Linux or BSD, depending on the season... I do know that, according to the manual and other friends' experience, that a mirrored disc sharing another disc on the same cable can sometimes cause issues if a drive fails. I can't offer more specific details, because I stripe my RAID (A/V junkie ;-)
Anywho, I've used software myself, and this hardware RAID is where it's at... I'm too poor to afford an SATA RAID card, but ATA133 RAID is a huge step up from my old 5400rpm setup.
Hope that helps...
Mandrake 9.1:
% ps -ax
ps returned with SIGSEGV 11
GODDAMMIT!!
Also, that $699 modest distribution fee.
Well, right about here is where I was hoping the community was going to discuss their experiences with parameter passing and configuration for getting PS7 to work in WINE, but instead I happen upon a GIMPvsPS thread... and don't get me wrong, I use the GIMP often for web graphics and other things, although I will admit that I haven't spent a ton of time learning the UI.
/., but it saddens me when something notable like this makes the headlines, and the threads splinter off into borderline zealotry, when we could really be using this as a forum for more meaningful technical discussions (or even links to helpful stuff, when someone else has already said it best!)
As a student and senior employee at a heavily-used on-campus multimedia lab, it's my job to teach students and faculty the entire range of Adobe products, including PS. It's a standard in the academic community, primarily due to its ease-of-use across multiple platforms. Seeing *nix as a potentially compatible OS made my day. Go to a job interview for a graphic/web design opening, and when they ask you how well you know Photoshop, see what kind of funny look they give you when you expound your knowledge of GIMP. I'm not saying that GIMP sucks, but simply reiterating the 'quickest/most convenient tool for the job' mentality, platform preferences aside.
I confess I'm more of a reader than a poster on
whew! ok, sorry, I hope everyone has a great night
Probably not, bad publicity could spell disaster for them.
;-)
Isn't monster.com a corporation based in the USA? Maybe it's not even bad publicity, considering current events. They say any publicity is good publicity
Ride the apocalypse...
Bogus Removal Options. At first glance, even the sleaziness you described seems avoidable, per the opt-out link at the bottom. But click it, and it sends you to an IP address (no domain) with a nonexistent asp or php script. I guess it just backs up your assertion of spam as fraud, but it torques me enough to want to make it a separate assertion.
Akira, from my personal experience. Not too many of my clique are Anime appreciators (and I'm not much of an Anime fanboy either), but no one I've tried to expose to the movie ever sit through it. Personally, I think it's flat-out amazing, graphically and in terms of the story. It doesn't have the same conclusion as the graphic novels, but hey, perhaps I'm just a sucker for forward-thinking post-apolcalyptic sci-fi.
/. as a medium for random thoughts/rants. Now time to attempt to sleep off the mocha hangover.
Gotta love
The modchip soap-opera has been going on for a little while now, and I think the whole thing stinks. I own a Dreamcast for one reason, and one reason only!
The funny part is: this krazy8 guy apparently lives in my town. He drives a canary yellow lexus, and flaunts it by parking on sidewalks. Never did have much sympathy for assholes. He owns a cell-phone retail shop too. I KNEW holding those things up to your ear too long would make you stupid.
I don't know enough about the Singularity theory to debunk or argue anything written, so I don't want to get technical on the subject. However, I really enjoyed the text. Just when the darkness of this new 'Cyberspace' starts to depress you, it concludes in a very suprising way, reminiscent of Daniel Quinn and his lessons in Ishmael. An excellent way to depict the effect of the Singularity on the human psyche, even if it is only fictional.
Although if I decide to read it again, I'll probably try to locate a print copy... my 19" CRT took a sick pleasure in burning my retinas.
sorry to reply to my own post, but I just realized that my aforementioned caveat is already taken care of in Open Source solutions! Rock!
...The idea of increasing the use of software, esp. OSS, to manage and automate governmental systems, is definitely a good idea. Why? When computers are doing the computation/delivery of information, transaction costs are reduced to zero. I'd say this would make for a more efficient and less bloated form of government, once the actual programming and configuration of said systems were completed. The only caveat is that the policies and procedures implemented in such programs would have to be scrutinized to ensure fairness and equality.*
That said, I don't think I've seen or heard of any open source application aimed at sectors of governmental operation... Any input on that subject?
*(I use the terms 'fairness' and 'equality' relatively loosely, so they can still be applied to the subject of national government.)
I'd have to agree with you as far as Real's future, except for one thing:
Real's compression schemes for streaming media currently top anything that Quicktime or Windows Media have developed... specifically in the area of voice recording. Their ability to preserve the nuances of dialect and inflection top anything else out there, all while creating a file nearly 1/3 smaller than comparable Quicktime compression.
Just a little FYI for anyone who uses compressed audio for streaming applications.
Those Afghans who feel jaded by the spread of globalization should look at Japan. After WWII, Japan's economic development had nearly halted. However, they chose to embrace the ideas of globalization and free trade, and by the 80's they were setting new precedents in efficiency (look up the 'just-in-time' system of manufacturing, developed by Toyota). The popular opinion among many Afghans is that the United States' dominance in world economics is what is holding them back. But if they attempt to accept globalization as a form of progress, they too will have to opportunity to grow. Granted, this is where fundamentalism vs. cosmopolitanism comes into play, but bombing them certainly won't help them to think any differently, about us or their situation.
"The sooner we wean people off of religion, the less intolerance we'll have to deal with."
But isn't that a form of intolerance itself? People adhere to religious beliefs in order to satisfy the needs of their soul, which neither science nor technology can claim to do.
If today's tragedy is the responsibility of a religious group, it is because they are a group of seriously screwed-up individuals. Tibet has been occupied by China for years, but you don't see Tibetan Buddhist monks committing terrorist acts.
To misquote the NRA, religions don't kill people... people kill people.