FYI: American Military bases overseas are considered "offsite american soil" and we attempt to have each base/fort/port classified as US Soil with the countries hosting them. So on-base useage would be OK. If you went off base to say, your housing unit, then it would be back into a region-code issue. da'fly
Ah well once the "great unwashed masses" no wait, thats us.. Uh, once the "great moronic masses" get online with Time goes AWOL, my cable modem won't be worth shit.
You know, if his comic didn't suck so damn much, I might listen to this blowhard. Who cares what he thinks? If humor didn't exist in Tech Support, most folks would quit anyway. You HAVE to have a carefree, easy going attitude about thousands of idiots screaming at you for mostly their own ineptitude or inexperience.
Why the heck would anyone spend the kinda huge $$ it takes to run a 390 series machine or a Fujitsu or other 3rd party VM processor and then run freeking Linux? What kinda moronic place would RUN this???
Do any of these guys know what it costs to run these things!!!?? Let alone the insane maintnance costs IBM extracts from customers!
The electricity alone for a month would buy a couple 'a beautiful 4p VA boxes. Not to mention the stupid cooling req., floor space, etc.
This is yet another in a long line of STUPID VM tricks from IBM so that this old-arse arch. stays around. What a pathetic waste of resources. (and floor space)
fsck this! Whats next IBM 502-linux? or maybe DEC 20xx series linux? fscking-A!
Well I'm not absolutely sure, as I can't remember off the top of my head how far they were carrying the data places. However we did achieve excellent results to the same place. Wasn't familiar with FFTW, but I'll check that one out. da'fly
Having actually seen the code for seti@home, I'd have to say that there are quite a few ways this code could be cleaned up. I was able to test a version using a much faster FFT from a commercially available fft library that I had my brother run. See his results!!! "wahl@sgi.com" thats right _1:52_ baby!!
Now I understand that there is even a FASTER version of an FFT out there as a public domain algorithm. This would have saved even more time.
All those standards bozo's are still trying to hammer out VESA digital lcd 1024x768 standard while companies like IBM and SGI are WAYYY out front doing 2048 and 1600 sized displays. This SUCKS. Now if a Voodoo or an nVidia supported OpenLDI or whatever the hell IBM will use...
The Sgi LCD is the "BEST" display, bar NONE, I have _ever_ used. Playing q3 on NT and Linux on an SGI VW 540 was AMAZING! On a PC with the sucky #9 rev 4, it was only amazing looking. Too bad about the 3d:(
Skin looks correctly colored unlike most crap lcds. I assume the IBM will have similar insanely good qualities. Now if only the standards bozos would get a REAL damn standard for digital:(
Agreed, and not just "The Fort" as everyone in SC'ing calls it. How about the NSA and other supercluster sites? Crap you guys ought to see the nsa's stuff.. SIGH
BUT it means someone needs to list the machine after a linpack run.
How about "small world after all" theme with everyone holding hands, or 1000's of monkeys on pcs spewing code, or a zillion little stupid penguins on pcs, or (laugh) the communist manifesto with Karl Marx/Eric Raymond, etc...
Are you creative or no? Its art, right? Do you really WANT art by commitee?
Who cares if an out of date game comes out? Myth is only of note due to the high number of mods. 'Call to power' just plain wasn't very good, at least Heroes just had an add-on released.
BUT in inquiring minds want to know 2 things:
Is any money being made from Linux games? period.
Who will be the first concurrent release? Quake3?
If no one makes any money off them, there is no reason to continue to lose development dollars on the "open software" crowd. One more reason most gamers like myself (who like Linux as the toy it is) hope it never takes over. I don't want to be forced to the console.
So now that some folks have figured out how to STEAL DvD data, what next? Much like the huge cd-r explosion will dvd-r's hurt the MPIA as much as cd-rs have cut into the software industries profits?
Do any of you out there even CARE? Or like I figure, none of you understand how you get paid (many of you are students ANYWAY!) and how lost profits affect you.
da fly'
immoral as any, but sad that the industry will now try another format.
Anyone here this one@SigGraph: Sgi gave RedHat some OpenGl "consession" in exchange for small mods to future Redhat release so Sgi can ship "redhat complient" boxes? Read "not linux complient, but _Redhat_ complient." (worrysome?)
I would guess these entail things like xfs, kernel debugging (i/lcrash) and the big-memory patches from sgi. Linus has already expressed a "not built here" attitude towards IBM and sgi's GPL code.
I know for a fact that both Xig and RedHat were courting SGI for a while regarding hardware OpenGL. Seems the battle is quietly over. Will we finally see hardware OpenGL accel. in X? I think this could be outstanding.
Uh DUH!! Of course they won't release it! Its in the hardware chipset (cobalt or arsenic or somesuch crap) Doing this is the same as handing out your microcode from the chipset, a.k.a. giving out your hardware secrets. With the box being so damn new, and them signing their souls away to M$, I can see not releasing this.
WHY would they WANT to give this out? They've released GLX already. I expect the second gen of these to support Linux native. We have a 320 here running X and use Opengl on it.
Give me one GOOD reason. And don't say to port apps, or something stupid like "for accelerated drivers".
What do you guys think an Origin is? Its a cluster with a ragingly-fast interconnect, but with shared memory as well. Sgi has been going this way for a while. Now that all the Sun weenies have had to eat their hats about all the shit they've slung about cc:numa, they too have cluster-style machines in the wings, and are pushing them HARD.
SMP/S^2MP/MPP and our little beowulfs are getting closer together every day. (ever notice that myrinet is 100% like the Cray t3e torus?)
I expect that clusters will continue to grow, and companies like whatever sgi becomes will push multi-cpu clusters on linux.
Nah they come in up 8 processor varieties, though I think that the 4 is out, and the 8 is soon
da'fly
And you thought OLD unions were bad???
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GEEK Unions?
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As a joke once, at an AT&T Bell Labs meeting I made a smart-assed comment about unionizing the system administrators. (typically the biggest geeks at AT&T) The ENTIRE room went deathly silent and everyone did a sharp intake of breath. What did I know? I was a 22yr old SA punk...
An older gentleman spoke softly and said (and I DO quote, as I'll never forget)
"Any company worth their salt would fire and black list ANYONE who ever tried to unionize admins. That much power in the hands of people like you is already scary. With a union and a strike you people could halt almost all forms of communication in the US."
At the time I was already aware how to screw up ALL the long distance in the states and satelite connections as well as all data networks. He was right, geeks wield TREMENDOUS power, and some people are very afraid of that.
Geeks are typically more inquisitive and smarter than the average Joe. People tend to fear that which they don't understand. Geeks seem to top the list since that little rampage over in CO.
I don't see how Harvard can be expected to host a site from an individual who is in NO way associated with Harvard. Not even a damn student! Would your little University admins host a non-students web site? I freaking doubt it... (as I assume well over 50% of you are still students) Hell, for those of you in the "real" world (sic:jargon file) would your company in ANY way wish to associate itself with hosting a non-involved site if you were not an ISP? Doubtfull at best.
Not returning the backups WAS out of line, however they have returned what some courts have held up to be personal property, as an author. (web content) Harvard has distanced itself from a controversial situation that their academic charter has nothing to do with. (the anti-online vs. anyone who objects thang)
Where did Harvard REALLY go wrong? Allowing their admin to host the site in the first place. Anyone wanna bet he/she was severely reprimanded? Possibly threatened with release? A little birdie tells me he was getting his resume' together over this one...
CNN has a hot story on this: http://cnnfn.com/hotstories/companies/9903/02/hp _b
Wonder what they will do to overall stock value?
Wonder if that Rick Beluzo that took over SGI knew this ahead of time?
fly on the wall
R12ks in Ascii Blue Mountain; real #'s.
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A little insect friend of mine out in the desert tells me that the govs' blue mtn. has been using R12k cpus for some time now; for test purposes, of course >:)
350Mhz Ip31 _me_, baby!
A little bird that chased the fly to make him lunch sez that Sgi's internal sales crapola lists the 300Mhz octane CAD #'s at roughly 30% faster than its previous R10k release (not the 250s) (with Mxe graphics)
Being an engineer that actively maintains a supercomputer SSD, and having built one for home once upon a time, I think I can safely comment here. SSDs are dieing out due to high prices and the cheapness of disk and memory today.
In some fields such as supercomputing they will be with us for a while. When 2 gigs of memory costs upwards of $2million USD, SSDs are worthwhile.
For home use their used to be a few companies that sold enclosures that were SCSI-1/2 compat. and took standard 30 pinn simms. The first I recall was on Mac, and used mac simms (ugh) Later I built one myself using 30 pin parity and built the parity into SCSI parity.
Wish I could find a home kit to reuse all these 30 and 72 pinn simms, sipps and dimms... It would make a NIFTY addition to an online server for something like Tribes or quake. AFS cache or NFS cachefs space...
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So Loki as a company exists for what purpose? What is the run rate? What do you see its future as?
What paradigm shifts could move gaming to the linux platform? Is that even a good idea? (well other than accel. 3D under some windowed environment)
da'fly
FYI: American Military bases overseas are considered "offsite american soil" and we attempt to have each base/fort/port classified as US Soil with the countries hosting them. So on-base useage would be OK. If you went off base to say, your housing unit, then it would be back into a region-code issue. da'fly
Ah well once the "great unwashed masses" no wait, thats us.. Uh, once the "great moronic masses" get online with Time goes AWOL, my cable modem
won't be worth shit.
da' fly
You know, if his comic didn't suck so damn much,
I might listen to this blowhard. Who cares what he thinks? If humor didn't exist in Tech Support, most folks would quit anyway. You HAVE to have a carefree, easy going attitude about thousands of idiots screaming at you for mostly
their own ineptitude or inexperience.
da' fly
Why the heck would anyone spend the kinda huge
$$ it takes to run a 390 series machine or a
Fujitsu or other 3rd party VM processor and
then run freeking Linux? What kinda moronic
place would RUN this???
Do any of these guys know what it costs to run these things!!!?? Let alone the insane maintnance costs IBM extracts from customers!
The electricity alone for a month would buy a
couple 'a beautiful 4p VA boxes. Not to mention
the stupid cooling req., floor space, etc.
This is yet another in a long line of STUPID VM
tricks from IBM so that this old-arse arch. stays around. What a pathetic waste of
resources. (and floor space)
fsck this! Whats next IBM 502-linux? or maybe
DEC 20xx series linux? fscking-A!
da'fly on da' fly in da' valley
Well I'm not absolutely sure, as I can't remember off the top of my head how far they were carrying the data places. However we did achieve excellent results to the same place. Wasn't familiar with FFTW, but I'll check that one out. da'fly
Having actually seen the code for seti@home,
I'd have to say that there are quite a few
ways this code could be cleaned up. I was able
to test a version using a much faster FFT from
a commercially available fft library that I had
my brother run. See his results!!!
"wahl@sgi.com" thats right _1:52_ baby!!
Now I understand that there is even a FASTER
version of an FFT out there as a public domain
algorithm. This would have saved even more
time.
da'fly
All those standards bozo's are still trying to
:(
:(
hammer out VESA digital lcd 1024x768 standard while companies like IBM and SGI are WAYYY out front doing 2048 and 1600 sized displays. This
SUCKS. Now if a Voodoo or an nVidia supported
OpenLDI or whatever the hell IBM will use...
The Sgi LCD is the "BEST" display, bar NONE,
I have _ever_ used. Playing q3 on NT and
Linux on an SGI VW 540 was AMAZING! On
a PC with the sucky #9 rev 4, it was only
amazing looking. Too bad about the 3d
Skin looks correctly colored unlike most crap
lcds. I assume the IBM will have similar
insanely good qualities. Now if only
the standards bozos would get a REAL
damn standard for digital
da' fly
So... Where's yer Linpack #'s AC????
So where's the Linpack #'s???
Agreed, and not just "The Fort" as everyone in
SC'ing calls it. How about the NSA and other supercluster sites? Crap you guys ought to see
the nsa's stuff.. SIGH
BUT it means someone needs to list the machine
after a linpack run.
How about "small world after all" theme with
everyone holding hands, or 1000's of monkeys on
pcs spewing code, or a zillion little stupid penguins on pcs, or (laugh) the communist manifesto with Karl Marx/Eric Raymond, etc...
Are you creative or no? Its art, right?
Do you really WANT art by commitee?
Who cares if an out of date game comes out?
Myth is only of note due to the high number of
mods. 'Call to power' just plain wasn't very good, at least Heroes just had an add-on released.
BUT in inquiring minds want to know 2 things:
Is any money being made from Linux games? period.
Who will be the first concurrent release? Quake3?
If no one makes any money off them, there is no
reason to continue to lose development dollars
on the "open software" crowd. One more reason
most gamers like myself (who like Linux as the
toy it is) hope it never takes over. I don't
want to be forced to the console.
da'fly
So now that some folks have figured out how to
STEAL DvD data, what next? Much like the huge
cd-r explosion will dvd-r's hurt the MPIA as
much as cd-rs have cut into the software industries profits?
Do any of you out there even CARE? Or like I
figure, none of you understand how you get
paid (many of you are students ANYWAY!) and
how lost profits affect you.
da fly'
immoral as any, but sad that the industry
will now try another format.
Are LCD monitors any better for peoples eyes?
I have an SGI digital LCD and my eyes seem MUCH
better off when staring at it over time than
my old CRT.
da' fly
Uhm so with this odd buisness model, has the RedHat corp. EVER had even one single profitable
quarter?
da'fly
Anyone here this one@SigGraph: Sgi gave RedHat some OpenGl "consession" in exchange for small mods to future Redhat release so Sgi can ship
"redhat complient" boxes? Read "not linux complient, but _Redhat_ complient." (worrysome?)
I would guess these entail things like xfs,
kernel debugging (i/lcrash) and the big-memory patches from sgi. Linus has already expressed a "not built here" attitude towards IBM and sgi's GPL code.
I know for a fact that both Xig and RedHat were
courting SGI for a while regarding hardware
OpenGL. Seems the battle is quietly over.
Will we finally see hardware OpenGL accel. in X?
I think this could be outstanding.
da'fly hacking away at OpenGL vis code
Uh DUH!! Of course they won't release it!
Its in the hardware chipset (cobalt or arsenic
or somesuch crap) Doing this is the same as
handing out your microcode from the chipset,
a.k.a. giving out your hardware secrets.
With the box being so damn new, and them
signing their souls away to M$, I can see
not releasing this.
WHY would they WANT to give this out? They've
released GLX already. I expect the second gen
of these to support Linux native. We have a
320 here running X and use Opengl on it.
Give me one GOOD reason. And don't say to
port apps, or something stupid like
"for accelerated drivers".
da'fly dreaming of OpenGL games that don't suck
What do you guys think an Origin is? Its a cluster with a ragingly-fast interconnect,
but with shared memory as well. Sgi has been
going this way for a while. Now that all the
Sun weenies have had to eat their hats about all
the shit they've slung about cc:numa, they too
have cluster-style machines in the wings, and
are pushing them HARD.
SMP/S^2MP/MPP and our little beowulfs are
getting closer together every day. (ever notice
that myrinet is 100% like the Cray t3e torus?)
I expect that clusters will continue to grow,
and companies like whatever sgi becomes will
push multi-cpu clusters on linux.
da'fly
Nah they come in up 8 processor varieties, though I think that the 4 is out, and the 8 is soon
da'fly
As a joke once, at an AT&T Bell Labs meeting
I made a smart-assed comment about unionizing the
system administrators. (typically the biggest geeks at AT&T) The ENTIRE room went deathly silent and everyone did a sharp intake of breath.
What did I know? I was a 22yr old SA punk...
An older gentleman spoke softly and said (and I DO quote, as I'll never forget)
"Any company worth their salt would fire and
black list ANYONE who ever tried to unionize
admins. That much power in the hands of
people like you is already scary. With a
union and a strike you people could halt
almost all forms of communication in the US."
At the time I was already aware how to screw
up ALL the long distance in the states and
satelite connections as well as all data networks.
He was right, geeks wield TREMENDOUS power,
and some people are very afraid of that.
Geeks are typically more inquisitive and smarter
than the average Joe. People tend to fear
that which they don't understand. Geeks seem
to top the list since that little rampage over
in CO.
da'fly
I don't see how Harvard can be expected to host a site from an individual who is in NO way associated with Harvard. Not even a damn student!
Would your little University admins host a non-students web site? I freaking doubt it...
(as I assume well over 50% of you are still students) Hell, for those of you in the "real"
world (sic:jargon file) would your company in ANY
way wish to associate itself with hosting a non-involved site if you were not an ISP? Doubtfull at best.
Not returning the backups WAS out of line, however
they have returned what some courts have held up to be personal property, as an author. (web content) Harvard has distanced itself from a
controversial situation that their academic
charter has nothing to do with. (the anti-online
vs. anyone who objects thang)
Where did Harvard REALLY go wrong? Allowing their admin to host the site in the first place. Anyone
wanna bet he/she was severely reprimanded? Possibly threatened with release? A little birdie tells me he was getting his resume' together over this one...
da' fly
CNN has a hot story on this:p _b
http://cnnfn.com/hotstories/companies/9903/02/h
Wonder what they will do to overall stock value?
Wonder if that Rick Beluzo that took over SGI knew
this ahead of time?
fly on the wall
A little insect friend of mine out in the desert
tells me that the govs' blue mtn. has been using R12k cpus for some time now; for test purposes, of course >:)
350Mhz Ip31 _me_, baby!
A little bird that chased the fly to make
him lunch sez that Sgi's internal sales crapola lists the 300Mhz octane CAD #'s at roughly 30% faster than its previous R10k release (not the 250s) (with Mxe graphics)
fly on the wall...
(note: all fly info violates no known NDA's)
Being an engineer that actively maintains a supercomputer SSD, and having built one for home once upon a time, I think I can safely comment here. SSDs are dieing out due to high prices and the cheapness of disk and memory today.
In some fields such as supercomputing they will
be with us for a while. When 2 gigs of memory
costs upwards of $2million USD, SSDs are worthwhile.
For home use their used to be a few companies
that sold enclosures that were SCSI-1/2 compat. and took standard 30 pinn simms. The first I recall was on Mac, and used mac simms (ugh)
Later I built one myself using 30 pin parity
and built the parity into SCSI parity.
Wish I could find a home kit to reuse all
these 30 and 72 pinn simms, sipps and dimms...
It would make a NIFTY addition to an online
server for something like Tribes or quake.
AFS cache or NFS cachefs space...
fly on the wall...