Jeez, if you think that's big you should hunt up a picture of the old(? ~ four years ago) Quantum3D Obsidian X-24 card. Dual 12mb voodoo2 cards using hardware, integrated SLI, _on one card_. It was a _full length_ pci card. I had a normal sized pc case at the time and the damned thing just barely fit. (Maybe an inch of clearance between it and the drive bays.)
However an AS/400... server would kick-arse as a LAN gaming station
Sure, if you could find a port of Unreal Tournament or Quake 3 or (game of choice) to the tn3270 "graphics" protocol...;-) (Now, if you found a port for the game's server to unix, yeah, a nice smp unix box would probably scale to hundreds if not thousands of players if the code allowed that... (which, given the size of most levels, would be obscene))
They've got some pretty cool games in the $10 range, even double packs of cool games for $10. In the past couple of months I've gotten double packs of Shogo/Septerra Core and Fallout 1/Fallout 2, picked up Alpha Centauri there for $10 about six months ago... etc. The definiton of suprise is finding cheap, good games and Linux in the software section of Wal-Mart.;-)
1. I metamod. Sometimes I do have to wonder wtf the moderator was thinking... Something like this would greatly help me out. 2. When i moderate (rarely given how often i come here), I'd really like to give that extra sting into slapping somebody with a Troll or Flamebait mod ("-1, Troll, This Person Is A Monkey Felcher").;-)
If the public paid for it then it belongs to the entire public, and not just a politically correct subgroup.
Yeah, I'm getting kinda tired of my Mitsubishi Galant, where do I go to sign up for my M1-A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank?;-)
wow, you must have interesting time sense
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And really, C hadn't been around that long when Java was first introduced.
C = early 1970s, Java = mid-90s (well, unless you count Oak and that's still only early/mid-90s)...
A 20 year lead time is pretty considerable in any field, let alone IT where everything changes on a biweekly basis...
But while the current theory holds that mass is invariant, the particle's _energy_ (which, when you think about it, is what you're worried about anyway) is most certainly not invariant. Since these little fellows are zipping along at a literally astronomic clip, even the "massless"
photon has energy. IIRC, experiemental data held the mass of a photon as being something like 3.9x10^-(12?15?) that of the already quite svelte electron...
Electric fields generate magnetic fields, and both can in theory interfere with the propagation of electromagnetic waves, which are the other side of the photon coin (really, at that level, what is a wave? what is a particle? they're two ways of looking at the same thing. actually this is valid all size levels, but the wave/particle duality effects for anything larger than an angel's behind is vanishing, incredibly, stunningly small)
Besides, I was under the impression that quantum tunneling was the origin of some of the migration patterns in (or should I say through?) circuits. The lighter a particle is, the more prone it is to this "now I'm here, FOOLED YA! now I'm there" behavior... I'm too lazy to go dig up my pchem text, i'm sure somebody will follow up with a more precise explanation and some of the relevant equations. (I'm not a particle physicist, just a chemist, but we do rub elbows occasionally, much like every now and again a molecular biologist will talk to the chemists next door;-))
This is not to say this isn't a cool advance. It's just that I'm even more curious now as to how they got the magic chip to work, given what I imagine the physical and technical hurdles were...
Sometime last year (must have been spring becuase I was still in school), I saw a job advert on Dice.com requiring "10 or more years of experience with Linux". Um. Ok. Early spring of '91 start time with linux... Sooo, that leaves Linus, right? (iirc wasn't the first announcement in April of '91?)
Believe me, I'm well aware of that. Texas's version is to charge you out of state (3-4x higher) tuition after X credit hours (X being 170 for undergrads, and 99 for grads, ignoring that some graduate programs are > 99 hours. fools.).
But really, look at who implement the academic structures of the school? Professors, department administrative staff, etc. All people with a vested interest in having as many student's stay as long as possible: thus more money from the students AND the state. The may not be a free lunch, but most universities are downright larcenous about it!
What the hell are you smoking? It is a public-subsidized utility, wherein you or someone else forks over large sums of cash for knowledge. In many ways, it is analogous to a water company or electric company...
Ever wondered why they institute so many bullshit requirements to keep you there longer? $$$, my friend, that's what it's all about.
Or the ones where they want you to be an enterprise java developer (ok, common enough), AND an oracle DBA (ok, possible but unlikely that one person would be good at both), AND an expert graphic designer with an intimate knowledge of Photoshop (hahahahaha, right! Ok, maybe there is ONE person with expert knowledge of all three skill sets... good luck finding them!).
If you're smart enough to develop a generalized cure for cancer, hopefully you'd be smart enough to wait 24 hours before submitting it to the news agencies.;-)
OK, so I built a machine for my fiancee's parents (gigahertz-class duron, 256 ram, geforce 2 derivative, etc. quite a jump from the p200mmx they had). I went with the ECS board, becuase of all the good things I heard about it. The first motherboard suffered a catastrophic error, some widget on the underside of the board sort of exploded and the motherboard basically soldered itself to the case, shorting it. It's the first time I'd ever seen computer hardware _literally smoke_, and I don't mean just a little puff. (There's still a great big scorch mark on their case.) This also nuked pretty much everything plugged into the board except the cdrom and floppy. Thankfully, the shop we bought everything from (axtiontech, here in houston tx) really bent over backwards, giving us no problems about returning components. The next ecs board we got has been running flawlessly for a couple of months now. I guess we just got that one in a million lemon.
Stone simple operation. Only disadvantage if you want to call it that is that it's not free. You can get a package deal from the publisher for both programs for USD 129 iirc, i think that FX by itself is something like USD 50.
Scientific clustering and virtual hosting / "dedicated" hosting are really the only two places I can think of where somebody would need four thousand hosts (with massive horizontal scaling of a high traffic site (e.g. yahoo) falling under the hosting part above). Otherwise, I agree that number-based hostnames are somewhat cumbersome.
The name is a nonissue for OS determination. queso and the like work just as well with an ip as with a name...;-) True, your average skript k1dd13 might not know of queso, but a good cracker will. If you excercise due diligence as an admin, the good crackers are all that you have to worry about.
At $job[-2] we had about 200 hosts, give or take. Effectively, we did the name + number bit, becuase in our case, the servers were either standalone functionality (e.g. primedns.foo.com, secdns.foo.com, extwww.foo.com), or part of a large herd of machines doing the same thing: pbs001.. pbs111.. pbsXYZ (number cruncher machines running the pbs job batch control system). My advice to you is locate the "unique" machines, and give them names that strongly reflect their function on the network. The "herd members" you should give numeric names to (e.g. aix9999, fbsd3333, lnux2222, etc.) that also reflect the operating system being used (standardize the abbreviated os names, of course, nothing like wondering if 'dux' is a machine that quacks or a data general UX host). Keep an electronic (and paper!) record of what client is on which herd machine. I know the number thing seems a little impersonal, but how many anime series are there that can scale to several thousand host names? Even if you like war and peace, you'd run out after several hundred...
Speaking as a chemistry major who's spent entirely too much time in lab screwing around with the liquified gases, don't worry. Seriously. I mean, I guess unless you didn't have _any_ ventilation in the room where you were fooling with it. Still... You can hold liquid N2 in your hand, no problem. (there is an interface layer where your body heat has converted the N2 liq->gas, so it's "floating" on a cushion of gaseous nitrogen; basically just don't try to drink it or something retarded like that) I actually did the superconducting ytterium compound/levitating magnet thing once using superconductor pellets held in my hand with liq N2 poured on top.:-) So don't freak out, the liquified gases are pretty benign compared to some of the shite us chemistry f00ls mess around with... (as a still-not-so-evil example, 18+ molar mineral acids, so concentrated that they behave more like jelly than liquid) probably the only "liquid air" compound I'd be cautious around would be liq O2 and that's only because of the flammability aspect... I guess the main thing with these compounds is be careful about really really super cold metals because you could frostbite off of them (boiling, and thus gas interface, point is high)... wear work gloves or something if you're handling things in direct thermal contact with the gas (i suppose I should say liquid).
sorry for any incoherency or bad grammar/spelling; very, very, very drunk at the moment;-) wot can I say, chimay belgian ale is a great way to celebrate a radical success day at work...
if you want to mess around with ReallyCold(tm) but don't have access to liquified gases, try dry ice + (alcohol, usually ethanol or something more esoteric than that but methanol would do in a pinch (non-chemist-speak: grab some dry ice from Kroger's or a party store and mix it with rubbing alcohol, waaaay colder than you'd get with normal ice and water. in a pinch, just find the cheapest nastiest grain alcohol you can... (everkleer, what?);-))). in lab I've hit the -20/40 F region using just dry ice and some not-to-uncommon alcohols. as I recall the F scale itself was calibrated using esoteric mixtures of dry ice and ethanol. which, if you think about it, highlights the total absurdity of the non-metric temperature system. always kinda wondered if the water-bases liquid cooling systems could be adapted to use this class of stuff as a coolant...
Have fun, and play safe! (which, with these compounds, really means don't snort the vapors or drink the liquid)
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Jeez, if you think that's big you should hunt up a picture of the old(? ~ four years ago) Quantum3D Obsidian X-24 card. Dual 12mb voodoo2 cards using hardware, integrated SLI, _on one card_. It was a _full length_ pci card. I had a normal sized pc case at the time and the damned thing just barely fit. (Maybe an inch of clearance between it and the drive bays.)
They've got some pretty cool games in the $10 range, even double packs of cool games for $10. In the past couple of months I've gotten double packs of Shogo/Septerra Core and Fallout 1/Fallout 2, picked up Alpha Centauri there for $10 about six months ago... etc. The definiton of suprise is finding cheap, good games and Linux in the software section of Wal-Mart. ;-)
1. I metamod. Sometimes I do have to wonder wtf the moderator was thinking... Something like this would greatly help me out. 2. When i moderate (rarely given how often i come here), I'd really like to give that extra sting into slapping somebody with a Troll or Flamebait mod ("-1, Troll, This Person Is A Monkey Felcher"). ;-)
But while the current theory holds that mass is invariant, the particle's _energy_ (which, when you think about it, is what you're worried about anyway) is most certainly not invariant. Since these little fellows are zipping along at a literally astronomic clip, even the "massless" photon has energy. IIRC, experiemental data held the mass of a photon as being something like 3.9x10^-(12?15?) that of the already quite svelte electron... ;-))
Electric fields generate magnetic fields, and both can in theory interfere with the propagation of electromagnetic waves, which are the other side of the photon coin (really, at that level, what is a wave? what is a particle? they're two ways of looking at the same thing. actually this is valid all size levels, but the wave/particle duality effects for anything larger than an angel's behind is vanishing, incredibly, stunningly small)
Besides, I was under the impression that quantum tunneling was the origin of some of the migration patterns in (or should I say through?) circuits. The lighter a particle is, the more prone it is to this "now I'm here, FOOLED YA! now I'm there" behavior... I'm too lazy to go dig up my pchem text, i'm sure somebody will follow up with a more precise explanation and some of the relevant equations. (I'm not a particle physicist, just a chemist, but we do rub elbows occasionally, much like every now and again a molecular biologist will talk to the chemists next door
This is not to say this isn't a cool advance. It's just that I'm even more curious now as to how they got the magic chip to work, given what I imagine the physical and technical hurdles were...
Sometime last year (must have been spring becuase I was still in school), I saw a job advert on Dice.com requiring "10 or more years of experience with Linux". Um. Ok. Early spring of '91 start time with linux... Sooo, that leaves Linus, right? (iirc wasn't the first announcement in April of '91?)
Believe me, I'm well aware of that. Texas's version is to charge you out of state (3-4x higher) tuition after X credit hours (X being 170 for undergrads, and 99 for grads, ignoring that some graduate programs are > 99 hours. fools.). But really, look at who implement the academic structures of the school? Professors, department administrative staff, etc. All people with a vested interest in having as many student's stay as long as possible: thus more money from the students AND the state. The may not be a free lunch, but most universities are downright larcenous about it!
What the hell are you smoking? It is a public-subsidized utility, wherein you or someone else forks over large sums of cash for knowledge. In many ways, it is analogous to a water company or electric company...
Ever wondered why they institute so many bullshit requirements to keep you there longer? $$$, my friend, that's what it's all about.
Or the ones where they want you to be an enterprise java developer (ok, common enough), AND an oracle DBA (ok, possible but unlikely that one person would be good at both), AND an expert graphic designer with an intimate knowledge of Photoshop (hahahahaha, right! Ok, maybe there is ONE person with expert knowledge of all three skill sets... good luck finding them!).
You're probably thinking of ActiveState's Komodo, which does other things in addition to Perl (Python, etc.).
It's always easier to be a critic than a creator. ;-)
Go away Pip, nobody likes you. ;-)
BSD is about to die! They only have 7000 users! ;-)
If you're smart enough to develop a generalized cure for cancer, hopefully you'd be smart enough to wait 24 hours before submitting it to the news agencies. ;-)
I'd say Slashdot was more a wrong than a right. ;-)
we're in good company ;-)
OK, so I built a machine for my fiancee's parents (gigahertz-class duron, 256 ram, geforce 2 derivative, etc. quite a jump from the p200mmx they had). I went with the ECS board, becuase of all the good things I heard about it. The first motherboard suffered a catastrophic error, some widget on the underside of the board sort of exploded and the motherboard basically soldered itself to the case, shorting it. It's the first time I'd ever seen computer hardware _literally smoke_, and I don't mean just a little puff. (There's still a great big scorch mark on their case.) This also nuked pretty much everything plugged into the board except the cdrom and floppy. Thankfully, the shop we bought everything from (axtiontech, here in houston tx) really bent over backwards, giving us no problems about returning components. The next ecs board we got has been running flawlessly for a couple of months now. I guess we just got that one in a million lemon.
Stone simple operation. Only disadvantage if you want to call it that is that it's not free. You can get a package deal from the publisher for both programs for USD 129 iirc, i think that FX by itself is something like USD 50.
Scientific clustering and virtual hosting / "dedicated" hosting are really the only two places I can think of where somebody would need four thousand hosts (with massive horizontal scaling of a high traffic site (e.g. yahoo) falling under the hosting part above). Otherwise, I agree that number-based hostnames are somewhat cumbersome.
The name is a nonissue for OS determination. queso and the like work just as well with an ip as with a name... ;-) True, your average skript k1dd13 might not know of queso, but a good cracker will. If you excercise due diligence as an admin, the good crackers are all that you have to worry about.
At $job[-2] we had about 200 hosts, give or take. Effectively, we did the name + number bit, becuase in our case, the servers were either standalone functionality (e.g. primedns.foo.com, secdns.foo.com, extwww.foo.com), or part of a large herd of machines doing the same thing: pbs001 .. pbs111 .. pbsXYZ (number cruncher machines running the pbs job batch control system). My advice to you is locate the "unique" machines, and give them names that strongly reflect their function on the network. The "herd members" you should give numeric names to (e.g. aix9999, fbsd3333, lnux2222, etc.) that also reflect the operating system being used (standardize the abbreviated os names, of course, nothing like wondering if 'dux' is a machine that quacks or a data general UX host). Keep an electronic (and paper!) record of what client is on which herd machine. I know the number thing seems a little impersonal, but how many anime series are there that can scale to several thousand host names? Even if you like war and peace, you'd run out after several hundred...
Speaking as a chemistry major who's spent entirely too much time in lab screwing around with the liquified gases, don't worry. Seriously. I mean, I guess unless you didn't have _any_ ventilation in the room where you were fooling with it. Still... You can hold liquid N2 in your hand, no problem. (there is an interface layer where your body heat has converted the N2 liq->gas, so it's "floating" on a cushion of gaseous nitrogen; basically just don't try to drink it or something retarded like that) I actually did the superconducting ytterium compound/levitating magnet thing once using superconductor pellets held in my hand with liq N2 poured on top. :-) So don't freak out, the liquified gases are pretty benign compared to some of the shite us chemistry f00ls mess around with... (as a still-not-so-evil example, 18+ molar mineral acids, so concentrated that they behave more like jelly than liquid) probably the only "liquid air" compound I'd be cautious around would be liq O2 and that's only because of the flammability aspect... I guess the main thing with these compounds is be careful about really really super cold metals because you could frostbite off of them (boiling, and thus gas interface, point is high)... wear work gloves or something if you're handling things in direct thermal contact with the gas (i suppose I should say liquid).
sorry for any incoherency or bad grammar/spelling; very, very, very drunk at the moment ;-) wot can I say, chimay belgian ale is a great way to celebrate a radical success day at work...
if you want to mess around with ReallyCold(tm) but don't have access to liquified gases, try dry ice + (alcohol, usually ethanol or something more esoteric than that but methanol would do in a pinch (non-chemist-speak: grab some dry ice from Kroger's or a party store and mix it with rubbing alcohol, waaaay colder than you'd get with normal ice and water. in a pinch, just find the cheapest nastiest grain alcohol you can... (everkleer, what?) ;-))). in lab I've hit the -20/40 F region using just dry ice and some not-to-uncommon alcohols. as I recall the F scale itself was calibrated using esoteric mixtures of dry ice and ethanol. which, if you think about it, highlights the total absurdity of the non-metric temperature system. always kinda wondered if the water-bases liquid cooling systems could be adapted to use this class of stuff as a coolant...
Have fun, and play safe! (which, with these compounds, really means don't snort the vapors or drink the liquid)
This from a friend's father who was in the (American) Drug Enforcement Agency. I think there was also a TITS, but I don't recall what it stood for.