What?? You don't get increased standard of living because corporations are good. If any of the large manufacturers you mentioned could get away with selling you a 1980's 8088 PC for $5,000 while paying $0.02/hr to their workforce, they would do it in a flash; otherwise they would be cheating their investors. They reasons they can't get away with it are because a) competition and b) gov. regulations. Corporations spend most of their money in trying to a) kill the competition and b) change regulations. Big corporations can kill their competition by innovating, or by changing regulations in their favor; but why innovate when you can just buy politicians that enact laws that perpetuate your business model, and kill any highly innovative competitors. Thus, corporations are evil, and non-lobbied government regulations that foster competition and innovation in the marketplace turn all that evil energy into standard of living increasing good..
I'm amazed at the number of answers from the "Slashdot experts" and yet I don't see the correct one yet.
Yet you also fail to give a correct answer too.
Even though some claim they (dogs probably can) hear their video card HSync signal, most of the time what you hear when the speakers are off is static electricity discharges like when you degauss your monitor.
On the other hand the sounds the original poster refers to are most probably caused by the induced voltages in the speakers from **changes** in the nearby electromagnetic fields emanating from the front and back of monitors (especially the cheap ones with crappy farady cages), as the screen content and colors change. Conditions that maximize this would be high contrast patterns, like alternating bands of bright and dark, since those cause more change in the electromagnetic field, which maximizes inductions in nearby conductors, like the coils fo your speakers.
I am what you would probably call a Linux evangelist, but in this case I have to point out that rendering is a CPU bound process, and probably the only OS charasteristic that could significantly affect the performance of such jobs is stability or in other words *uptime*.
I also have to say (even though I am an SGI stock holder) that lowend SGI servers are kind of expensive, and probably the best price/performance ratio under Linux is on Alpha or Athlon boxes. And if you use 1U or 2U rack units you can fit *a lot* of CPU power just in a single rack. VA's boxes are not that bad either. __________________________________ Stop privacy invasion!
What is wrong with using Mandrake? It is the best distro, period. It makes no difference it is a server!
Mandrake (specially bleading edge cooker) always has the lastest apache packages with all kind of performance and bug fixes already applied. Debian is good and all, but you always end up using tarballs to get what you want...
Are you sure you know what you are talking about?
"The guy that sell Yahoo..." ha, ha, ha, it just sounds pathetic.
The only true thing you said is that Sun makes **reliable** hardware; but not necessarily trouble free: go issue a power off command on the prom of an Ultra150 and you will see what I mean... Hint (In case you do it): think about an SS5 power supply for the solution.
And yes, I consider myself an acomplished (or for you, excellent) Systems Engineer. I have worked with in and out with my share of Origins, Ultra Enterprise, HPs, you name it; and when it comes to cheap-r-us Linux servers, it is *custom built* with a stable Mandrake Cooker snapshot on top. ____________________________________________ _________
One of the things I hate the most is when the idiotic webmasters put a RealPlayer file (that I have the ability to view under Linux) as a plug-in, without providing a link to the file or URL so it can be viewed with an expawned external viewer.
Damn! How much would it cost them to add a simple link.
Damn you all webmasters that use plug-in mode only! ___________________________________________ __________
A terrorist with strong intentions could get some of the closed or classified source the same way they obtain satelite maps and plutonium, and then they have the source and nobody else do. In essence they could hack an election without the public or even the government knowing.
Dude, open peer reviewed security is the only security model proven to work period; the security community widely accepts this idea, why don't you? ____________________________________________ _________
Dude, that's what Network Information Databases like NIS, Tivoli, OpenView, etc. are for!
Don't try to force all the info that is supposed to be in a large database into a 8 char hostname.
The rule of thumb for ***EVERY*** environment is to use a peculiar name for the hostname and an alias for the formal name, but remember to make all mappings to the formal name!
Of course, if you have a big chunk of machines with the same function, like in labs, you use an enumerated peculiar name like, "guineo001"
FYI, Cray machines are made up of custom Alpha cores, and SGI has been researching Linux for a while.
But my take is that it would consist of a large cluster of large (8-32 CPU) SMP (this is the direction SGI is heading, I mean expanding IA64 SMP environments) IA64 nodes.
BTW, there are some non-public (not announced in the top500) installations of Linux clusters which are well above Avalon's #160 ranking. ________________________________________ _____________
This guy just got to the top of the computer industry VP surf, and he is already spitting out a bigger load of sh*t and crap than his MS counterparts.
Presenting this baseless attack of the GPL as an excuse to their decision is just disgusting, and me thinks that for them it will be spitting upwards.
I just feel sorry for the great people at Sun, since all this corporate crap (as opposed to real involvement like SGI) will only tarnish the image of Sun under the "new" recently raised microscopes. Of course, they think that a lot of computer users/whatever do not think (or for that matter know what it is) that GPL based OSS is great, and that they can get away with it... well, let's see.
kudos to the smart open thinking people at Sun reading this;-), remember you can express your opinion and change the World, Linus did, why can't you?
I think that this is a hoax (there is nothing at the website related to all the bull in the article) to promote a lame CDROM game. ___________________________________________ __________
Well, since people has soooo much imagination (as much as to make BWP a good movie), my next big thing and challenge to hollywood, will be to put up a scary web site that you go read, send me $7.50/ea, and then go home and use all your imagination for 2 hours to scare yourself. Total cost of production:
8 hr @ $100/hr of writing cheassy story = $800 8 hr @ $100/hr of building website = $800 $0 for geocities website = $0
A whooping $1600!!
But since I am doing it, I will doing for free!!
So if I could generate as much hype as the BWP, I could be rich!!! _________________________________________ ____________
I went to see this piece of junk because I tought it reflected a brilliant script done with low budget. But let me tell you, this script could have been done by a ten year old. I was specting a Spilberg level script with a $50K production budget, but got a $1.00 script with a $50k budget. I think the whole thing is just another well engineered scam, and they got me.
Basically the movie is multiple iterations one after the other of a one line story: "We are lost in the woods, what do we do? Shu, shu, I blame you! Walk (or sit and blame) in the day and boo boo in the night." with a careless attention to details: like infinite film and battery power (well maybe they had some kind of solar powered batteries' yea right, for a 70mm), and no food for almost a week (they could have eaten something in the woods).
In summary, I am ashamed I paid to see this crap, or better yet, one of the largest scams (I wonder how large is the chunk for the critics that gave positive reviews) I have seen.
ps: by the way the general reaction in the theater at the end was, "What, that is it, and I paid for this crap".
For about $600 you could build ***Two*** K6-2 450MHz headless boxes to use as a rendering mini-farm. You could set it up to run Linux with Blue Moon Rendering Tools (BRMT) to accept jobs over the net from your favorite NT Modeling Software (if it is high end enough it will have options for submitting jobs, and if not you could probably hack a system via the use of scripts). You could administer the boxes with linuxconf web, a browser, and telnet.
This setup will free you modeling station for creative work.
But of course this will take the handyman do-it-yourself fun out of the equation. _______________________________________ ______________
Open an account with an on-line trading company. I recommend Datek. Altough I think their current minimum is $2K. But I think other may not have this constrain. Check them all and compare. Opening the account is free, and most of them offer some interest (usually higher than a bank) on money deposited into the account. Datek is in the process of offering a checkbook, so you can use it as a checking account.
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So if you find 87307 an ancient ID, I guess my ID must make me a dinosaur ...
What?? You don't get increased standard of living because corporations are good. If any of the large manufacturers you mentioned could get away with selling you a 1980's 8088 PC for $5,000 while paying $0.02/hr to their workforce, they would do it in a flash; otherwise they would be cheating their investors. They reasons they can't get away with it are because a) competition and b) gov. regulations. Corporations spend most of their money in trying to a) kill the competition and b) change regulations. Big corporations can kill their competition by innovating, or by changing regulations in their favor; but why innovate when you can just buy politicians that enact laws that perpetuate your business model, and kill any highly innovative competitors. Thus, corporations are evil, and non-lobbied government regulations that foster competition and innovation in the marketplace turn all that evil energy into standard of living increasing good..
If he is one of the original bearded ones, I guess I must be one of the original ancient ones ;-)
I'm amazed at the number of answers from the "Slashdot experts" and yet I don't see the correct one yet.
Yet you also fail to give a correct answer too.
Even though some claim they (dogs probably can) hear their video card HSync signal, most of the time what you hear when the speakers are off is static electricity discharges like when you degauss your monitor.
On the other hand the sounds the original poster refers to are most probably caused by the induced voltages in the speakers from **changes** in the nearby electromagnetic fields emanating from the front and back of monitors (especially the cheap ones with crappy farady cages), as the screen content and colors change. Conditions that maximize this would be high contrast patterns, like alternating bands of bright and dark, since those cause more change in the electromagnetic field, which maximizes inductions in nearby conductors, like the coils fo your speakers.
>> 60 feet long is enough for a lot of calimari.
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> Yes, and studying too little in English class is not enough for a lot of studying.
Yes, and studying too little in English class is not enough for a lot of studing.
Did you read the post???
It says it is a "two-player only game"!
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Stop privacy invasion!
I am what you would probably call a Linux evangelist, but in this case I have to point out that rendering is a CPU bound process, and probably the only OS charasteristic that could significantly affect the performance of such jobs is stability or in other words *uptime*.
I also have to say (even though I am an SGI stock holder) that lowend SGI servers are kind of expensive, and probably the best price/performance ratio under Linux is on Alpha or Athlon boxes. And if you use 1U or 2U rack units you can fit *a lot* of CPU power just in a single rack. VA's boxes are not that bad either.
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Stop privacy invasion!
Doesn't Censorware programmers know about that old really useful thing called a regular expressions ????
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Oh well, I guess they are Windoze programmers
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You are full of crap!
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..." ha, ha, ha, it just sounds pathetic.
... Hint (In case you do it): think about an SS5 power supply for the solution.
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What is wrong with using Mandrake? It is the best distro, period. It makes no difference it is a server!
Mandrake (specially bleading edge cooker) always has the lastest apache packages with all kind of performance and bug fixes already applied. Debian is good and all, but you always end up using tarballs to get what you want
Are you sure you know what you are talking about?
"The guy that sell Yahoo
The only true thing you said is that Sun makes **reliable** hardware; but not necessarily trouble free: go issue a power off command on the prom of an Ultra150 and you will see what I mean
And yes, I consider myself an acomplished (or for you, excellent) Systems Engineer. I have worked with in and out with my share of Origins, Ultra Enterprise, HPs, you name it; and when it comes to cheap-r-us Linux servers, it is *custom built* with a stable Mandrake Cooker snapshot on top.
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I think there are two obvious limits:
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1. Creativity, to create numerous ortogonal coding systems: only limited by math no, no's
2. System sensitivity: ultimately limited by the laws of quantum mechanics, and our understanding of that fenomena.
So I think, there is enought room to grow.
Also remember that all kinds of light, X-rays, etc. are also part of the spectrum.
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One of the things I hate the most is when the idiotic webmasters put a RealPlayer file (that I have the ability to view under Linux) as a plug-in, without providing a link to the file or URL so it can be viewed with an expawned external viewer.
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Damn! How much would it cost them to add a simple link.
Damn you all webmasters that use plug-in mode only!
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Loss? Are you crazy.
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You only have loss if you go under the break even point, and that has **nothing** to do with non-executed sales.
GrossProfit (or loss) = GrossIncome - TotalCost
Note that GrossIncome is the real deal and not the "Oh if it wasn't for so and so, I would have made so and so" crap.
In that equation I do not see that "lost sales" anywhere, do you?
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A terrorist with strong intentions could get some of the closed or classified source the same way they obtain satelite maps and plutonium, and then they have the source and nobody else do. In essence they could hack an election without the public or even the government knowing.
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Dude, open peer reviewed security is the only security model proven to work period; the security community widely accepts this idea, why don't you?
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Dude, that's what Network Information Databases like NIS, Tivoli, OpenView, etc. are for!
_ _____
Don't try to force all the info that is supposed to be in a large database into a 8 char hostname.
The rule of thumb for ***EVERY*** environment is to use a peculiar name for the hostname and an alias for the formal name, but remember to make all mappings to the formal name!
Of course, if you have a big chunk of machines with the same function, like in labs, you use an enumerated peculiar name like, "guineo001"
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Fine grained SC's are not the only way to compute nuclear (or I guess now it is anti-matter?) reactions.
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Think super-scalable, super-reliable clusters.
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FYI, Cray machines are made up of custom Alpha cores, and SGI has been researching Linux for a while.
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But my take is that it would consist of a large cluster of large (8-32 CPU) SMP (this is the direction SGI is heading, I mean expanding IA64 SMP environments) IA64 nodes.
BTW, there are some non-public (not announced in the top500) installations of Linux clusters which are well above Avalon's #160 ranking.
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MOSIX Rocks!
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And the features that are comming will make for a very nice true distributed machine.
If you have more than one machine, you should try it; it is very easy to install.
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This is exactly my opinion.
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I guess there is no strong enough people at Sun to stand behind their decisions; instead of spitting sole baseless crap.
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This guy just got to the top of the computer industry VP surf, and he is already spitting out a bigger load of sh*t and crap than his MS counterparts.
... well, let's see.
;-), remember you can express your opinion and change the World, Linus did, why can't you?
_ _____
Presenting this baseless attack of the GPL as an excuse to their decision is just disgusting, and me thinks that for them it will be spitting upwards.
I just feel sorry for the great people at Sun, since all this corporate crap (as opposed to real involvement like SGI) will only tarnish the image of Sun under the "new" recently raised microscopes. Of course, they think that a lot of computer users/whatever do not think (or for that matter know what it is) that GPL based OSS is great, and that they can get away with it
kudos to the smart open thinking people at Sun reading this
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I think that this is a hoax (there is nothing at the website related to all the bull in the article) to promote a lame CDROM game._ __________
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Well, since people has soooo much imagination (as much as to make BWP a good movie), my next big thing and challenge to hollywood, will be to put up a scary web site that you go read, send me $7.50/ea, and then go home and use all your imagination for 2 hours to scare yourself. Total cost of production:
_ ____________
8 hr @ $100/hr of writing cheassy story = $800
8 hr @ $100/hr of building website = $800
$0 for geocities website = $0
A whooping $1600!!
But since I am doing it, I will doing for free!!
So if I could generate as much hype as the BWP, I could be rich!!!
________________________________________
I went to see this piece of junk because I tought it reflected a brilliant script done with low budget. But let me tell you, this script could have been done by a ten year old. I was specting a Spilberg level script with a $50K production budget, but got a $1.00 script with a $50k budget. I think the whole thing is just another well engineered scam, and they got me.
_ _____
Basically the movie is multiple iterations one after the other of a one line story: "We are lost in the woods, what do we do? Shu, shu, I blame you! Walk (or sit and blame) in the day and boo boo in the night." with a careless attention to details: like infinite film and battery power (well maybe they had some kind of solar powered batteries' yea right, for a 70mm), and no food for almost a week (they could have eaten something in the woods).
In summary, I am ashamed I paid to see this crap, or better yet, one of the largest scams (I wonder how large is the chunk for the critics that gave positive reviews) I have seen.
ps: by the way the general reaction in the theater at the end was, "What, that is it, and I paid for this crap".
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I think pricing is OK. Check it at:
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www.pricewatch.com
Unless there is a supply shortage like with the Vodoo3 3500's, you will see the price dropping every three or four days!
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For about $600 you could build ***Two*** K6-2 450MHz headless boxes to use as a rendering mini-farm. You could set it up to run Linux with Blue Moon Rendering Tools (BRMT) to accept jobs over the net from your favorite NT Modeling Software (if it is high end enough it will have options for submitting jobs, and if not you could probably hack a system via the use of scripts). You could administer the boxes with linuxconf web, a browser, and telnet.
_ ______________
This setup will free you modeling station for creative work.
But of course this will take the handyman do-it-yourself fun out of the equation.
______________________________________
Open an account with an on-line trading company. I recommend Datek. Altough I think their current minimum is $2K. But I think other may not have this constrain. Check them all and compare. Opening the account is free, and most of them offer some interest (usually higher than a bank) on money deposited into the account. Datek is in the process of offering a checkbook, so you can use it as a checking account.
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