Exactly.. I love doing distributed.net.. it's all just kinda a race between your friends to see who can do more units of work faster. I like to leave my computers on anyway for access reasons and also to slow wear and tear by power-cycling too much.
I thought ProcessTree might be good for that too, and hey, they might send you a couple of bucks a month for your trouble too. Not a *serious* money-making scheme. It's just for a bit of fun anyway really. If people can get research work done by using it, that's great.
Btw, I've heard people express concern about trojan binaries.. that can be a problem but downloading from trusted sites helps alleviate this. You shouldn't be using a client you got 'off a guy in the pub', but one from the organization that sponsors it (i.e. distributed.net). Also, don't run it under root, run it as 'nobody'.
I just had a look at my ProcessTree account and it seems they fucked up the accounts.. They had me down as having a lot of Mac G4/MacOS clients.. when in fact those numbers belonged in the Linux category (I have a Sun Sparc Classic that I put in the 'other' category and it somehow registered as a Mac G4 - I wish). I know it was set up right before, so it seems to have been corrupted. If you signed up for it, you might want to redo your account so they have the right information.
I have a 24/7 connected linux box and I was thinking of having a go.. sucks if they're after windows only though:/.. I agree that they'll have a harder time finding those connected 24/7 than a Linux/Unix machine.
We're about to buy two new servers where I work. As it kinda fell to me to figure out a spec, I actually went for AMD as I like their chips. The machines we're getting will only have one processor (obviously as the dual board isn't out yet), but 1Ghz TBirds should be good enough for the webserving and database tasks that we require. Obviously piling in a large amount of RAM to each machine is the key factor.
If they need upgrading to a dual setup then I guess we could get a dual AMD board and go from there.. but by that time they might well need replacing with something else. I don't see that happening for quite a while yet though.
For new desktops I'll probably recommend going with AMD again as I like them, their chips are sometimes half the price of P3s, and they run better for the same clock speed.
I guess we will be gradually replacing Intel computers with AMDs:D
Bleh!.. I don't want to go back to the days of oodles of peripherals with external boxes and psus and even MORE cables to deal with out on the desk. I like having it all wrapped up in one case. If the case is restrictive for cabling, get a bigger one. Many are around.
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Apache is for HTTP.. for FTP you need some sort of FTP daemon. wu-ftpd is around.. but is also one of the largest security holes known to man (or woman).
ProFTPD might be better.. can't say yet for sure as I don't really do any FTP serving.
Write-in votes and absentee ballots can also be transmitted online or, when computers aren't available, by paper or e-mail.
Jeez, Katz... email IS using a computer.
Anyone else get tired too of him saying the SAME thing over and over again?
He thinks bells and whistles will help.. it's the whole mess of so many candidates to vote for that needs addressing. Standardising how to vote too would be good. Electronic voting could be considered AFTER that, maybe.
Need the KISS methodology. Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Yes, I have to agree with you on that. Web Developers (of which I am one) want to be able to design sites that work well with the 'lowest common denominator' functionality in the browsers out there. If things break even more under Netscape then that gets harder. I for one will be sticking with Netscape 4.7x and recommending to my company (We use Netscape for mail at work as well as internet browsing) that we do not upgrade until these things can be sorted out and proved to be better.
It'd be worthwhile for Netscape to realize just WHO is going to use the product and how releasing a half-baked piece of software does noone a service and will probably alienate yet more people against Netscape - something I thought they didn't want.
Ah right.. yes, I didn't really browse around much I have to admit. I wasn't really thinking that the company was 'lying' about it.. just that I was confused about the/. headline. Maxtor still holds the 'record' it seems.
Yea, up to over 70GB for IDE.. I think SCSI's largest (widely available) disks are about 50GB, still nothing to sneeze at but for doing the maths on this one it still doesn't add up right in *ONE* U.
Even in 2Us, 12 x 50GB drives is 600GB. That's 4 in the smaller one and 8 in the larger one.
Yea, sendmail is crap.. so go use qmail and find something else to complain about:>
I think people still give/. and Taco (dunno if it was even his own personal fault) about the/. break-in.. and there was plenty deal made about it when it happened.
This is more than a 'glimmer' of a problem.. unless you've not been paying attention, there's been TWO of these 'M$ gets hacked' stories around recently and people are beginning to notice a bit of a 'theme' shall we say about the lack of security at M$ and now how even their own patches are not applied.
Sure people here love Linux and tend to bemoan M$, I know I do.. but a lot of it is not without justification.
Ah yea!!.. that's it.. I noticed you'd posted while I was writing mine and trying to think of it.. That name 'widget' makes me recall an image of Jack Dee (british comedian for non-Brit folks) hopping about with a lot of penguins for John Smiths.. dunno if that's the right commercial I'm thinking of or not. Jeez.. been a while since I've seen that too.. makes me wonder why I still give it mind-space..
*ROTFLOL*!.. I have to agree with you though.. I like Real Beer (is that a trademark too??).. much more so than the flavourless shite that's normally served up in the USA, but Guiness is pretty heavy stuff.. you can feel like you've eaten a whole meal by drinking a pint of that stuff.
Btw (FWIW) lots of other beers (Like Boddingtons or Caffreys - yum! - wish that was around here) have the 'draught-in-a-can' thing (draughtflow?).. makes it very like a regular pub-pulled pint. I don't know how many of them are imported into the US though. I know I've had Boddingtons over here... that was somewhere in NYC though, bit far from where I live currently.
- Brit beer drinker who's reduced to drinking Samuel Adam's Beer here in the USA.. oh well..
Yes, you and I have similar points of view it seems:).. I've done a number of Access database efforts for previous employers but they're all pretty small-scale stuff as you well know. As we were talking about MySQL, I naturally thought of its uses in webpages, as I don't know who uses it outside of serving webpage content - it seems to be its 'raison d'etre' so to speak. Sure, Access is usuable for prototyping and the odd table re-jig, but beyond that I don't much care for it:D.. I do certainly agree about using Oracle or Sybase if you need that power. I think I said as much before. MySQL does well for serving of a lot of content quickly, reading is very quick (not to say that other dbs aren't fast - but we're talking raw efficiency here). If you want to have users edit that content (like a discussion group) it can work very well, if you're finding its slow because of the locking then move on to something else, yes. --
Access???.. you're kidding right?:).. I hope so as I had to laugh when I read that. Access sucks for data 'access' (no pun intended) via anything else than a windows visual basic program.. Some of us like to use databases to power websites, and an effective way to do that is MySQL.. PHP + MySQL is wonderful, if you want to do e-commerce then you want something like Sybase or Oracle.. but then, you wouldn't run an e-commerce site from an Access database would you... Jeez, I hope you're not gonna disagree with me on that one:D
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Exactly.. I love doing distributed.net .. it's all just kinda a race between your friends to see who can do more units of work faster. I like to leave my computers on anyway for access reasons and also to slow wear and tear by power-cycling too much.
I thought ProcessTree might be good for that too, and hey, they might send you a couple of bucks a month for your trouble too. Not a *serious* money-making scheme. It's just for a bit of fun anyway really. If people can get research work done by using it, that's great.
Btw, I've heard people express concern about trojan binaries.. that can be a problem but downloading from trusted sites helps alleviate this. You shouldn't be using a client you got 'off a guy in the pub', but one from the organization that sponsors it (i.e. distributed.net). Also, don't run it under root, run it as 'nobody'.
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I just had a look at my ProcessTree account and it seems they fucked up the accounts.. They had me down as having a lot of Mac G4/MacOS clients.. when in fact those numbers belonged in the Linux category (I have a Sun Sparc Classic that I put in the 'other' category and it somehow registered as a Mac G4 - I wish). I know it was set up right before, so it seems to have been corrupted. If you signed up for it, you might want to redo your account so they have the right information.
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I have a 24/7 connected linux box and I was thinking of having a go .. sucks if they're after windows only though :/ .. I agree that they'll have a harder time finding those connected 24/7 than a Linux/Unix machine.
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We're about to buy two new servers where I work. As it kinda fell to me to figure out a spec, I actually went for AMD as I like their chips. The machines we're getting will only have one processor (obviously as the dual board isn't out yet), but 1Ghz TBirds should be good enough for the webserving and database tasks that we require. Obviously piling in a large amount of RAM to each machine is the key factor.
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If they need upgrading to a dual setup then I guess we could get a dual AMD board and go from there.. but by that time they might well need replacing with something else. I don't see that happening for quite a while yet though.
For new desktops I'll probably recommend going with AMD again as I like them, their chips are sometimes half the price of P3s, and they run better for the same clock speed.
I guess we will be gradually replacing Intel computers with AMDs
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Know of any good sources/outlets?
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Bleh! .. I don't want to go back to the days of oodles of peripherals with external boxes and psus and even MORE cables to deal with out on the desk. I like having it all wrapped up in one case. If the case is restrictive for cabling, get a bigger one. Many are around.
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Apache is for HTTP .. for FTP you need some sort of FTP daemon. wu-ftpd is around .. but is also one of the largest security holes known to man (or woman).
ProFTPD might be better.. can't say yet for sure as I don't really do any FTP serving.
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Might be easier to understand your writings if you broke up some of the more obvious run-on sentences. Some paragraph separation would help too :)
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I don't exactly write 'prose' either, but it's important to be clear lest your point get lost in 'oh, sod it.. I can't take reading that any more'.
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Bah.. GNOME is oh-so-much-slower you mean.
.. and it's got the themes so you can stop whining about it not looking very nice any more or too 'windowsy'.
KDE2 is sweet
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You're right.. it is rusty :) .. NP.
Corrected EigerStein LRP link here
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Write-in votes and absentee ballots can also be transmitted online or, when computers aren't available, by paper or e-mail.
.. it's the whole mess of so many candidates to vote for that needs addressing. Standardising how to vote too would be good. Electronic voting could be considered AFTER that, maybe.
Jeez, Katz... email IS using a computer.
Anyone else get tired too of him saying the SAME thing over and over again?
He thinks bells and whistles will help
Need the KISS methodology. Keep It Simple, Stupid.
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Ever played with xspringies? It's great fun playing with masses and springs.
I'm sure that could be combined into a game. Runs like the wind on my K6-2/300 too.
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Yes, I have to agree with you on that. Web Developers (of which I am one) want to be able to design sites that work well with the 'lowest common denominator' functionality in the browsers out there. If things break even more under Netscape then that gets harder. I for one will be sticking with Netscape 4.7x and recommending to my company (We use Netscape for mail at work as well as internet browsing) that we do not upgrade until these things can be sorted out and proved to be better.
It'd be worthwhile for Netscape to realize just WHO is going to use the product and how releasing a half-baked piece of software does noone a service and will probably alienate yet more people against Netscape - something I thought they didn't want.
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Ah right.. yes, I didn't really browse around much I have to admit. I wasn't really thinking that the company was 'lying' about it.. just that I was confused about the /. headline. Maxtor still holds the 'record' it seems.
:)
It's all a huge amount of space nevertheless
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Yea, up to over 70GB for IDE .. I think SCSI's largest (widely available) disks are about 50GB, still nothing to sneeze at but for doing the maths on this one it still doesn't add up right in *ONE* U.
Even in 2Us, 12 x 50GB drives is 600GB. That's 4 in the smaller one and 8 in the larger one.
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Yea, apart from that thing too the /. article talked of 640GB in 1U .. something which doesn't seem to add up.
.. umm???
StorageEngine 4 x 36GB = 144GB
StorageArray 8 x 36GB = 288GB
That's 2Us to get 432GB
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Yea, sendmail is crap .. so go use qmail and find something else to complain about :>
/. and Taco (dunno if it was even his own personal fault) about the /. break-in .. and there was plenty deal made about it when it happened.
.. unless you've not been paying attention, there's been TWO of these 'M$ gets hacked' stories around recently and people are beginning to notice a bit of a 'theme' shall we say about the lack of security at M$ and now how even their own patches are not applied.
.. but a lot of it is not without justification.
I think people still give
This is more than a 'glimmer' of a problem
Sure people here love Linux and tend to bemoan M$, I know I do
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Then maybe your college needs a swift kick in the backside for using SSN#s as student IDs .. can't they make up their own number and increment them???
new student=studentnumber++;
ad infinitum...
It's not hard, people.
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No it's not .. There's been Linux distros at WalMart for AGES .. where the fuck have you been???
This isn't news.
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Ah yea!! .. that's it.. I noticed you'd posted while I was writing mine and trying to think of it.. That name 'widget' makes me recall an image of Jack Dee (british comedian for non-Brit folks) hopping about with a lot of penguins for John Smiths.. dunno if that's the right commercial I'm thinking of or not. Jeez.. been a while since I've seen that too .. makes me wonder why I still give it mind-space..
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It's so thick it's like drinking bread, I swear.
.. I have to agree with you though.. I like Real Beer (is that a trademark too??) .. much more so than the flavourless shite that's normally served up in the USA, but Guiness is pretty heavy stuff.. you can feel like you've eaten a whole meal by drinking a pint of that stuff.
.. makes it very like a regular pub-pulled pint. I don't know how many of them are imported into the US though. I know I've had Boddingtons over here... that was somewhere in NYC though, bit far from where I live currently.
.. oh well..
*ROTFLOL*!
Btw (FWIW) lots of other beers (Like Boddingtons or Caffreys - yum! - wish that was around here) have the 'draught-in-a-can' thing (draughtflow?)
- Brit beer drinker who's reduced to drinking Samuel Adam's Beer here in the USA
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Yes, exactly.. I do hope that they're not sacrificing the read-speed advantage that most people choose MySQL for.
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Yes, you and I have similar points of view it seems :) .. I've done a number of Access database efforts for previous employers but they're all pretty small-scale stuff as you well know. As we were talking about MySQL, I naturally thought of its uses in webpages, as I don't know who uses it outside of serving webpage content - it seems to be its 'raison d'etre' so to speak. Sure, Access is usuable for prototyping and the odd table re-jig, but beyond that I don't much care for it :D .. I do certainly agree about using Oracle or Sybase if you need that power. I think I said as much before. MySQL does well for serving of a lot of content quickly, reading is very quick (not to say that other dbs aren't fast - but we're talking raw efficiency here). If you want to have users edit that content (like a discussion group) it can work very well, if you're finding its slow because of the locking then move on to something else, yes.
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Yay chaillet!.. at least someone on /. has a friggin clue.
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Access??? .. you're kidding right? :) .. I hope so as I had to laugh when I read that. Access sucks for data 'access' (no pun intended) via anything else than a windows visual basic program.. Some of us like to use databases to power websites, and an effective way to do that is MySQL .. PHP + MySQL is wonderful, if you want to do e-commerce then you want something like Sybase or Oracle .. but then, you wouldn't run an e-commerce site from an Access database would you... Jeez, I hope you're not gonna disagree with me on that one :D
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