I don't disagree that the Taliban have squandered their ample opportunity to solve this peacably. However, I wouldn't call our stance "bending over backwards" to look for a peacable solution. We apparently provided Pakistan with evidence linking the attacks to bin Laden, but not the Taliban. Why would that be, do you think?
Speaking one's mind doesn't mean you don't support the military. I support the fact that the men and women of the armed forces are fighting for my freedom and just doing what their bosses tell them to do. That's what being in the military is about.
that's not the same thing as saying I support the attacks themselves. I see no point in vilifying our servicepeople the way they were in the 60's, but what are they fighting for if I can't tell GWB what I really think of what he's doing?
How can 90% of the world's heroin come from Afghanistan when the Taliban officially declared growing opium poppies sinful a year ago, and their cultivation was stopped dead in its tracks?
You probably won't be reimbursed, because your subscription should continue where it left off. If you didn't get the latest issue, contact TPJ and let them know. I suppose if you aren't interested in receiving the new issues you might get a refund though....
In my opinion, continuing the subscriptions where they left off treats us old TPJ subscribers better than any other magazine in my experience. I know I'm happy, and plan to renew my subscription well in advance of it expiring.
BS. I returned a DVD of Princess Mononoke that didn't have the DVD inside--instead it had a CDROM. It took some pushing with management to make it happen, but happen it did, at Best Buy.
You can return opened merchandise if it's defective; if I can't play a CD on my computer, that damn well qualifies.
I'll second this. I did a fair bit of research after buying a cheap $30 model that claimed to be programmable--all of 4 buttons were programmable. The SL-9000 is a thing of beauty, and it does everything I want. The biggest problem is forgetting what some of the functions I don't use often are.
The Sony things and their ilk with the huge LCDs are ugly, they take up too much room, and as you say, they seem way too likely to get broken somehow.
The vast majority of Sun's boxes, including this one, are not fault tolerant. The CPU fails, the box panics, diagnostics presumably notice it's failed and map it out, and on reboot you no longer use the failed CPU. That's not the same thing.
So if the excell in stability, speed, and performance (though the distinction between the latter two eludes me), why are they only used for scientific research? After all, a business looking for 5 9's uptime is going to want those things in spades. I haven't heard too many scientific researchers insisting on 24x7 uptime (with a few exceptions).
What do you mean by small? Small MHz? Considering that SPARC is a RISC architecture, you can't really compare them apples to apples. It depends a lot on your workload. Sure I can run some or even many workloads faster though a Xeon, but I can't put more then 4 or maybe 8 of them into a machine very effectively.
If you're still running monolitic apps, maybe you need to redesign the app to take advantage of the scalability of threading....
Whoah, Nelly. You need to be clear on what kind of cluster you're talking about here....if you want an HA cluster, there are always drawbacks to putting all your nodes in one box. s/nodes/eggs/ && s/box/basket/.
You don't get it Erik. The question was will SGI be around in two years, or will they have joined DEC (and their wonderful Alpha chip) on the bonepile? What good is an O3K if you can't get it serviced?
Far cheaper than the time spent waiting for the Sun tech who comes, and then bends the fucking pins on a CPU trying to install it.
Let's see...
Sparc 1 box, CPU pretty much part of the MB, unless you get one of those fancy Weitek things. CPU fails, tech replaces MB, no pins to bend.
Sparc 2, Sparc IPX, etc, same story.
Sparc 20, suddenly we have CPUs with pins on them. Coulda happened. Of course, that hasn't been current tech for several years.
UltraSparc line comes out...pressure fittings for the Enterprise servers, no pins to bend. Deskside UltraSparc (like E250, E450), no pins to bend, the CPU is on a card just like Intel does these days.
Ultrasparc III line comes out, big servers don't even use pressure fittings--if you lose a CPU, you get a new system board. Deskside US III (SunBlade 1000) uses a card similar to older deskside units, and has rails to line it up and a torque tool to seat it. Don't see too many bent pins there.
So, apparently you got burned once a very long time ago with a Sparc 20. Don't you think it's time to get over it?
I'm thinking since Sun bought part of Cray from SGI when SGI ate Cray, and those engineers did the work on the StarFire (E10000), they very likely did this box too....
Maintenance is also a lot different for a single system image versus a beowulf cluster, with tradeoffs either way. To manage that big a beowulf cluster means managing a minimum of 27 different system images, which means 27 times some types of maintenance activity (I'm assuming 4 proc boxes max, so a more typical config would be 53 or 106 system images). On the other hand, if one of those fails, needs to be upgraded, or whatever, the impact to the cluster is probably pretty minimal. Unless starcat does something really different, a CPU failure will cause that single image to fail (which is of course why you'd split the box into two and use an HA cluster of some sort:-).
Sounds like relativism to me though, saying that murder is wrong, except when the state murders a murderer (and whatever other nifty exceptions are out there, like, say murdering the citizens of the great satan). Seems to me either murder is wrong or it's not if you want to ascribe absolutes to good and evil.
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I don't disagree that the Taliban have squandered their ample opportunity to solve this peacably. However, I wouldn't call our stance "bending over backwards" to look for a peacable solution. We apparently provided Pakistan with evidence linking the attacks to bin Laden, but not the Taliban. Why would that be, do you think?
that's not the same thing as saying I support the attacks themselves. I see no point in vilifying our servicepeople the way they were in the 60's, but what are they fighting for if I can't tell GWB what I really think of what he's doing?
Just so you don't think I'm on opium myself.... http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n904/a07.html
How can 90% of the world's heroin come from Afghanistan when the Taliban officially declared growing opium poppies sinful a year ago, and their cultivation was stopped dead in its tracks?
In my opinion, continuing the subscriptions where they left off treats us old TPJ subscribers better than any other magazine in my experience. I know I'm happy, and plan to renew my subscription well in advance of it expiring.
I don't recall exactly which one, but it was one of those magazine CDROM samplers.
You can return opened merchandise if it's defective; if I can't play a CD on my computer, that damn well qualifies.
didn't you see Lolita?
Excellent. As soon as I can do micropayments to read slashdot, I'll be more than happy to.
The Sony things and their ilk with the huge LCDs are ugly, they take up too much room, and as you say, they seem way too likely to get broken somehow.
The vast majority of Sun's boxes, including this one, are not fault tolerant. The CPU fails, the box panics, diagnostics presumably notice it's failed and map it out, and on reboot you no longer use the failed CPU. That's not the same thing.
So if the excell in stability, speed, and performance (though the distinction between the latter two eludes me), why are they only used for scientific research? After all, a business looking for 5 9's uptime is going to want those things in spades. I haven't heard too many scientific researchers insisting on 24x7 uptime (with a few exceptions).
Is OPS really capable of dealing with the latencies of a huge distance between nodes? I really doubt it....
And do you think we'll be any more successful in shutting them down than the government has been in shutting down MP3 trading and kiddie porn?
So you have to get stupider to go faster?
If you're still running monolitic apps, maybe you need to redesign the app to take advantage of the scalability of threading....
Lucky for newer customers, Solaris hasn't required disk for every byte of backing store in a long long time.
Not with SMP it hasn't.
Whoah, Nelly. You need to be clear on what kind of cluster you're talking about here....if you want an HA cluster, there are always drawbacks to putting all your nodes in one box. s/nodes/eggs/ && s/box/basket/.
You don't get it Erik. The question was will SGI be around in two years, or will they have joined DEC (and their wonderful Alpha chip) on the bonepile? What good is an O3K if you can't get it serviced?
Let's see...
Sparc 1 box, CPU pretty much part of the MB, unless you get one of those fancy Weitek things. CPU fails, tech replaces MB, no pins to bend.
Sparc 2, Sparc IPX, etc, same story.
Sparc 20, suddenly we have CPUs with pins on them. Coulda happened. Of course, that hasn't been current tech for several years.
UltraSparc line comes out...pressure fittings for the Enterprise servers, no pins to bend. Deskside UltraSparc (like E250, E450), no pins to bend, the CPU is on a card just like Intel does these days.
Ultrasparc III line comes out, big servers don't even use pressure fittings--if you lose a CPU, you get a new system board. Deskside US III (SunBlade 1000) uses a card similar to older deskside units, and has rails to line it up and a torque tool to seat it. Don't see too many bent pins there.
So, apparently you got burned once a very long time ago with a Sparc 20. Don't you think it's time to get over it?
I'm thinking since Sun bought part of Cray from SGI when SGI ate Cray, and those engineers did the work on the StarFire (E10000), they very likely did this box too....
Maintenance is also a lot different for a single system image versus a beowulf cluster, with tradeoffs either way. To manage that big a beowulf cluster means managing a minimum of 27 different system images, which means 27 times some types of maintenance activity (I'm assuming 4 proc boxes max, so a more typical config would be 53 or 106 system images). On the other hand, if one of those fails, needs to be upgraded, or whatever, the impact to the cluster is probably pretty minimal. Unless starcat does something really different, a CPU failure will cause that single image to fail (which is of course why you'd split the box into two and use an HA cluster of some sort :-).
No, lucky for us, the DMCA is not retroactive, and I'm willing to bet that ATA drivers were created a bloody long time ago relative to that.
Sounds like relativism to me though, saying that murder is wrong, except when the state murders a murderer (and whatever other nifty exceptions are out there, like, say murdering the citizens of the great satan). Seems to me either murder is wrong or it's not if you want to ascribe absolutes to good and evil.