I submitted two stories over the last little bit that got turned down.. The first one is Sun Microsystems is now offering the Solaris 8 Kernel SOURCE CODE for free!!
And the other was that Sun finally fixed TAR for Solaris 2.6 to tar up more than just 18 directories deep. This is pretty interesting stuff that people might want to know about.. this beer in space thing.. I dunno...
Bit off topic, but I noticed expecially since www.cnn.com is handling the load it is getting beautifully while the state of florida's servers have been hit and miss all night.
www.cnn.com is running Unix, while florida is running NT..
> I think it's sad that we'll probably never know who the people of Florida *REALLY* wanted for President:-(.
I think this is outragous!!! I mean seriously. Al Gore and Buchanon were not the only ones on the ballot that looked like that. If they marked it wrong in the begining they would have noticed that after looking over the other canidates and such.
This crazy. I can't believe people are actually buying this. If they didn't realize they voted for Buchanon at the time then why are they NOW saying "I voted for Buchanon, but I ment to vote for Gore. Opps."
I think they voted for Buchanon cause they said they would and were loyal to him while THINKING it wouldn't matter because Gore was going to win anyways. Now that Republicans are going to be in Office they are doing everything they can to stop it.
I think it's awful that it's such a close race. They're both not "truely" worthy of being President. But bush is definatly the lesser of two evils. Sad, but true.
AMD right now is hurting a little because a LOT of people are returning chips that have "gone bad". Now, do you think the chips really just "GO BAD" or do you think they're overclocking their chips??
AMD needs to save money to beat out Intel. I love AMD, and if they think they need to disable the OverClocking of their chips to stay ahead of intel, so be it.
Plus now the chip differences in price are praticly nothing. You can afford a 900MHz T-Bird these days!!!!
AMD is doing everything they can to get us the best chips possiable and keep compitition with Intel realistic.
I mean seriously. The risks involved in having something sticking out that far that is in orbit is just outragious.
I think we need to comeup with a new way to get things into space... but an elevator into space... doesn't seem like a good idea.
Why hasn't anyone done a "MoonBase"? Everyone keeps trying to do these space stations that keep failing and falling apart. A MoonBase would be a lot easier to build and maintain.. wouldn't it?
As far as the TRANSACTION. . . the transaction is secure, but whatever happeneds to the credit card once it gets to the final destination who knows... I mean it could be sitting on an NT SQL server with the default password set..
I would feel MUCH better doing online transactions with a number that will be used ONCE and then expire.
Amex could do this with a small selection of numbers because once the number expires it could be used with a different expiration date or something to make it unique to the new person it is assigned to.
The one thing I know is if RMS was any different of a man then he is, Linux among all other OpenSourced OS's would not be the same. He wrote emacs and gcc.. Who here uses gcc?? Need I say more ????
> but how big are we talking ballpark for something on the scale of say, a small nuke blast?
I don't know much myself.. but I think it depends on more the SPEED and SIZE than just plain ol' size.
The worry of something hitting us is that it could create a wave that would create a large enough earth quake to disrupt the 'thin' crust that seperates us from the lava we float on. =)
My beef about this story is why is it I ONLY heard about this on slashdot?? I did NOT see this in the News cast, nor the NPR Broadcast this morning nor on the way home from work, nutin. Not like it was a totally close call, but heck it wouldn't take much to spin things off like this our way.
Seriously, they saw it a week ago, why couldn't they even mention it somewhere to the masses? It might be on the front page this morning.. It's 11:56pm right now (for me in AZ)..
Notice none of the pictures show anyone off the ground in one of these things??? Kinda' Odd. Makes me wonder if even the inventors would get into one of these death traps.
I stayed a few years in Brasil. While I was there I had a friend who knew I knew some programming so he asked me to fix his Excel SpreadSheet. I never knew Excel had so much scripting capabilities.
The hardest part of the whole thing was that the scripting language was portuguese excel scripting. Very interesting match..
so like 'if' statements were like 'se'.. it was like a nightmare comming true.. =)
Seriously, people are waisting all their money to "deep freeze" their CPU's and Motherboards to achieve speeds they can achieve with just $10 CPU and Motherboard fans.
I mean seriously, 500+MHz for a Celeron 333MHz is not a "GREAT" achievement. I have a Pentium II 300MHz that I have been overclocking to 450MHz for the last few years with just a regular CPU fan.
I think this is brilliant. You can download the 1st episode and read the whole thing. If you like it, you contribute $1 to tell the author you liked it and want to see the next one.
One the next episode comes out, you read it, then decide if you like it or not. If you do not you don't pay the $1, if you do you pay the $1 to say you'd like it to have it continue.
There are MANY people that do that with video games these days. (ie playstation, dreamcast, nintendo, etc.) Basicly they try the game, if they like it and say it's something they are going to want to play alot, they buy it.
Piracy of video games has been around ever since video games have been sold and they are still in business and it's a growing business. So why shouldn't this take off? You'll have the people that are loyal and pay, and those who don't. But I believe that MOST people will feel like "Hell it's only a buck" and pay it.
Well, if everyone starts to use PGP the tracking of emails would be worthless except for knowing who they came from at what time and where they're going to..
I am a Unix Systems Admin. I have worked at a few different "BIG" Shops with lots of unix systems (Mostly Solaris, AIX, and IRIX)... Motorola being one, and now American Express. The thing I see that you would need to pull it off is look toward ZERO-ADMINISTRATION. You need 4 things to make it all work easily.
1. Centralized Authentication. Ok, When I played with rolling out large portions of Linux the only CENTRALIZED authentication that I could find was NIS. Not NIS+. So far NIS+ Has been the winner for working with Solaris, but I'm not sure if Linux has NIS+ Support yet. I have a ton of NIS+ administration scripts to make my life easy.. NIS+ is great because everything is encrypted over the network and you can't just attach any unix box to the domain without authentication like you can with NIS. I've never worked with LDAP but everyone says LDAP is going to be the wave of the future.. but I haven't seen it installed anywhere yet nor played with it.. but that's me..
2. NFS/Automounting You need to setup two bigger boxes that will do the NFS for the whole place. (Two for redundency) We have had ours setup in the past configured with HA (High-Availibility) using EMC disks between the machines so if one failed, the other could assume the role of the other and continue with business as usual until we get the other machine online.
NFS with Automouting would be used for Home Directories, Tools, Apps. So that way when you need to change a revision of a software, you change it in ONE location and it's changed everywhere. Also home directories over NFS/AutoMounter so that the user could essentually log into ANY machine on the network and have feel EXACTLY like he was at his desk. Also so that if the users machine dies, there is NO important data on it, give him a new box, get it in NIS+ & on the network and all his apps, data, and home directory are already available to him.
3. Monitoring Software You want to run some kind of monitoring software on all your servers and IMPORTANT desktops so that the problems find you instead of you finding the problems. In the past I have used "Big Brother" and "Net Saint". Both have been very good. Big Brother is written in all Bourne Shell / C while Net Saint is written in Perl / C.. The software to stay away from is CA Unicenter.. that thing is CRAP. So far everywhere I've been has payed a ton of money for CA and had it break tons of machines, the freeware monitoring softwares are the way to go, trust me! =)
4. PowerBroker PowerBroker is an expensive tool but if you're running a shop that is large, most likely you will require many people that will need "ROOT".. PowerBroker is Glorified SUDO. It can get people root and log the entire sessions Input AND Output to a file for later playback or realtime playback. Also does a lot more things... goto http://www.symark.com to check it out..
Well, that's about it.. basicly lay down the entire setup FIRST and then roll out the machines, don't play catchup.. it'll bite you in the butt..
Transmeta never WANTED to be a "production machine". Crusoe was designed to be a low power, close to Intel speed processor. Made for Portable products. Not something that you'll keep on your desktop..
People need to stick to what the crusoe was designed for.. quit trying to throw it in desktop machines..
They found an "INK" that when it is charged with electricity it "LIGHTS UP".. And they have it working in RED BLUE AND GREEN...
I don't know very much abount monitors or TV's.. but I know a little bit.. A conventional monitor uses EXTREAM amounts of light to go through lots of magnets and such to bend the light to hit the monitor/TV in the right places to do different colors, etc...
THIS technology would basicly make it so that your monitor could be as thin as a piece of paper and the wires which connect all the dots back to the computer.
I don't know.. sounds a bit FISHY to me. I mean, it should work.. but a few questions raise to my head... like...
a. How BRIGHT will these monitors be? Would they be viewable in broad sun light or in an office with bright lighting? Or just in the dark?
b. How FAST can these color dots light up and turn off?? I mean nothing worse than seeing trailers on your mouse when you don't want to. Or you minimize a window but you have to wait for the "dots" to loose their charge...
c. How "WELL" do these things respond to electricity? Can you give them a "little" juice and have them light up a little, and MORE JUICE to light up more? Otherwise you taking back to the primary colors for monitors.. back to 8 bit graphics..
d. Why couldn't you just do this with conventional LED type things? Like a "Light Bright".. =) I mean have a bunch of TINY R,G,& B LED's wired all together, when charged the R, G, B, light up accordingly.
ANYWAYS... Try it before you buy it.. and when you do buy it, check the warrenty and keep the receipt under lock and key..
No screen shots or feature lists on the web site??? Clever... Make everyone download it to get even a glimpse at it and stick a banner on the top of the page in the next few weeks saying "Over 10 BILLIONS are now using this product.."
NEW YORK -- While Crusoe's ship appears to have come in, some large PC makers have decided to hold off on adopting the new chip for notebook PCs. At least for now.
Jee.. I wonder for how long intel can keep paying these companies off... or threatening their first borns...
I don't think this only goes for NT.. seriously... You ever tried to run a whole bunch of X apps, on a Pentium 90 with 16 MB of ram?? How about 32MB ram?? Dude, it's not just NT that needs ram. Swapping on Linux is not something to look forward to..
Slashdot Mirror
I submitted two stories over the last little bit that got turned down.. The first one is Sun Microsystems is now offering the Solaris 8 Kernel SOURCE CODE for free!!
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/source
And the other was that Sun finally fixed TAR for Solaris 2.6 to tar up more than just 18 directories deep. This is pretty interesting stuff that people might want to know about.. this beer in space thing.. I dunno...
Bit off topic, but I noticed expecially since www.cnn.com is handling the load it is getting beautifully while the state of florida's servers have been hit and miss all night.
..
www.cnn.com is running Unix, while florida is running NT
Netcraft results of CNN.com
Netcraft results of Florida's Server (enight.dos.state.fl.us)
> I think it's sad that we'll probably never know who the people of Florida *REALLY* wanted for President :-(.
I think this is outragous!!! I mean seriously. Al Gore and Buchanon were not the only ones on the ballot that looked like that. If they marked it wrong in the begining they would have noticed that after looking over the other canidates and such.
This crazy. I can't believe people are actually buying this. If they didn't realize they voted for Buchanon at the time then why are they NOW saying "I voted for Buchanon, but I ment to vote for Gore. Opps."
I think they voted for Buchanon cause they said they would and were loyal to him while THINKING it wouldn't matter because Gore was going to win anyways. Now that Republicans are going to be in Office they are doing everything they can to stop it.
I think it's awful that it's such a close race. They're both not "truely" worthy of being President. But bush is definatly the lesser of two evils. Sad, but true.
AMD right now is hurting a little because a LOT of people are returning chips that have "gone bad". Now, do you think the chips really just "GO BAD" or do you think they're overclocking their chips??
AMD needs to save money to beat out Intel. I love AMD, and if they think they need to disable the OverClocking of their chips to stay ahead of intel, so be it.
Plus now the chip differences in price are praticly nothing. You can afford a 900MHz T-Bird these days!!!!
AMD is doing everything they can to get us the best chips possiable and keep compitition with Intel realistic.
I mean seriously. The risks involved in having something sticking out that far that is in orbit is just outragious.
... but an elevator into space... doesn't seem like a good idea.
I think we need to comeup with a new way to get things into space
Why hasn't anyone done a "MoonBase"? Everyone keeps trying to do these space stations that keep failing and falling apart. A MoonBase would be a lot easier to build and maintain.. wouldn't it?
Buying online is safe..
As far as the TRANSACTION. . . the transaction is secure, but whatever happeneds to the credit card once it gets to the final destination who knows... I mean it could be sitting on an NT SQL server with the default password set..
I would feel MUCH better doing online transactions with a number that will be used ONCE and then expire.
Amex could do this with a small selection of numbers because once the number expires it could be used with a different expiration date or something to make it unique to the new person it is assigned to.
The one thing I know is if RMS was any different of a man then he is, Linux among all other OpenSourced OS's would not be the same. He wrote emacs and gcc .. Who here uses gcc?? Need I say more ????
The next time this paticular "object" will be comming close will be September 21, 2109.
And that will be 0.043 AU which is FURTHER away than the one that happened yesterday (Sept. 1, 2000).
(IF they are correct about it's current orbit, if they are SLIGHTLY off on the orbit, we could all be toast.. j/k..
> but how big are we talking ballpark for something on the scale of say, a small nuke blast?
..
I don't know much myself.. but I think it depends on more the SPEED and SIZE than just plain ol' size.
The worry of something hitting us is that it could create a wave that would create a large enough earth quake to disrupt the 'thin' crust that seperates us from the lava we float on. =)
My beef about this story is why is it I ONLY heard about this on slashdot?? I did NOT see this in the News cast, nor the NPR Broadcast this morning nor on the way home from work, nutin. Not like it was a totally close call, but heck it wouldn't take much to spin things off like this our way.
Seriously, they saw it a week ago, why couldn't they even mention it somewhere to the masses? It might be on the front page this morning.. It's 11:56pm right now (for me in AZ)
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Notice none of the pictures show anyone off the ground in one of these things??? Kinda' Odd. Makes me wonder if even the inventors would get into one of these death traps.
Well, how does WINE fit in this whole picture?? Wouldn't it be nice if Mainsoft just fixed up wine for us.. =)
I stayed a few years in Brasil. While I was there I had a friend who knew I knew some programming so he asked me to fix his Excel SpreadSheet. I never knew Excel had so much scripting capabilities.
.. it was like a nightmare comming true.. =)
The hardest part of the whole thing was that the scripting language was portuguese excel scripting. Very interesting match..
so like 'if' statements were like 'se'
Seriously, people are waisting all their money to "deep freeze" their CPU's and Motherboards to achieve speeds they can achieve with just $10 CPU and Motherboard fans.
I mean seriously, 500+MHz for a Celeron 333MHz is not a "GREAT" achievement. I have a Pentium II 300MHz that I have been overclocking to 450MHz for the last few years with just a regular CPU fan.
I think this is brilliant. You can download the 1st episode and read the whole thing. If you like it, you contribute $1 to tell the author you liked it and want to see the next one.
One the next episode comes out, you read it, then decide if you like it or not. If you do not you don't pay the $1, if you do you pay the $1 to say you'd like it to have it continue.
There are MANY people that do that with video games these days. (ie playstation, dreamcast, nintendo, etc.) Basicly they try the game, if they like it and say it's something they are going to want to play alot, they buy it.
Piracy of video games has been around ever since video games have been sold and they are still in business and it's a growing business. So why shouldn't this take off? You'll have the people that are loyal and pay, and those who don't. But I believe that MOST people will feel like "Hell it's only a buck" and pay it.
Well, if everyone starts to use PGP the tracking of emails would be worthless except for knowing who they came from at what time and where they're going to..
Ryan
I am a Unix Systems Admin. I have worked at a few different "BIG" Shops with lots of unix systems (Mostly Solaris, AIX, and IRIX) ... Motorola being one, and now American Express. The thing I see that you would need to pull it off is look toward ZERO-ADMINISTRATION.
..
.. The software to stay away from is CA Unicenter .. that thing is CRAP. So far everywhere I've been has payed a ton of money for CA and had it break tons of machines, the freeware monitoring softwares are the way to go, trust me! =)
.. PowerBroker is Glorified SUDO. It can get people root and log the entire sessions Input AND Output to a file for later playback or realtime playback. Also does a lot more things... goto http://www.symark.com to check it out..
.. it'll bite you in the butt..
You need 4 things to make it all work easily.
1. Centralized Authentication (ie, NIS+, NIS, or LDAP)
2. NFS/Automounting
3. Monitoring Software
4. PowerBroker (http://www.symark.com)
1. Centralized Authentication.
Ok, When I played with rolling out large portions of Linux the only CENTRALIZED authentication that I could find was NIS. Not NIS+. So far NIS+ Has been the winner for working with Solaris, but I'm not sure if Linux has NIS+ Support yet. I have a ton of NIS+ administration scripts to make my life easy.. NIS+ is great because everything is encrypted over the network and you can't just attach any unix box to the domain without authentication like you can with NIS. I've never worked with LDAP but everyone says LDAP is going to be the wave of the future.. but I haven't seen it installed anywhere yet nor played with it.. but that's me
2. NFS/Automounting
You need to setup two bigger boxes that will do the NFS for the whole place. (Two for redundency) We have had ours setup in the past configured with HA (High-Availibility) using EMC disks between the machines so if one failed, the other could assume the role of the other and continue with business as usual until we get the other machine online.
NFS with Automouting would be used for Home Directories, Tools, Apps. So that way when you need to change a revision of a software, you change it in ONE location and it's changed everywhere. Also home directories over NFS/AutoMounter so that the user could essentually log into ANY machine on the network and have feel EXACTLY like he was at his desk. Also so that if the users machine dies, there is NO important data on it, give him a new box, get it in NIS+ & on the network and all his apps, data, and home directory are already available to him.
3. Monitoring Software
You want to run some kind of monitoring software on all your servers and IMPORTANT desktops so that the problems find you instead of you finding the problems. In the past I have used "Big Brother" and "Net Saint". Both have been very good. Big Brother is written in all Bourne Shell / C while Net Saint is written in Perl / C
4. PowerBroker
PowerBroker is an expensive tool but if you're running a shop that is large, most likely you will require many people that will need "ROOT"
Well, that's about it.. basicly lay down the entire setup FIRST and then roll out the machines, don't play catchup
Alrighty! Someone's making a decent Telnet/SSH Client for Windows.. Right on....
I can't believe what I am seeing.
..
Transmeta never WANTED to be a "production machine". Crusoe was designed to be a low power, close to Intel speed processor. Made for Portable products. Not something that you'll keep on your desktop
People need to stick to what the crusoe was designed for.. quit trying to throw it in desktop machines..
Well, it makes sense..
.. And they have it working in RED BLUE AND GREEN...
.. A conventional monitor uses EXTREAM amounts of light to go through lots of magnets and such to bend the light to hit the monitor/TV in the right places to do different colors, etc...
...
...
.. =) I mean have a bunch of TINY R,G,& B LED's wired all together, when charged the R, G, B, light up accordingly.
They found an "INK" that when it is charged with electricity it "LIGHTS UP"
I don't know very much abount monitors or TV's.. but I know a little bit
THIS technology would basicly make it so that your monitor could be as thin as a piece of paper and the wires which connect all the dots back to the computer.
I don't know.. sounds a bit FISHY to me. I mean, it should work.. but a few questions raise to my head... like
a. How BRIGHT will these monitors be? Would they be viewable in broad sun light or in an office with bright lighting? Or just in the dark?
b. How FAST can these color dots light up and turn off?? I mean nothing worse than seeing trailers on your mouse when you don't want to. Or you minimize a window but you have to wait for the "dots" to loose their charge
c. How "WELL" do these things respond to electricity? Can you give them a "little" juice and have them light up a little, and MORE JUICE to light up more? Otherwise you taking back to the primary colors for monitors.. back to 8 bit
graphics..
d. Why couldn't you just do this with conventional LED type things? Like a "Light Bright"
ANYWAYS... Try it before you buy it.. and when you do buy it, check the warrenty and keep the receipt under lock and key..
Yeah... maybe they could call it something like... Home Box Office ... HBO for short..
No screen shots or feature lists on the web site??? Clever... Make everyone download it to get even a glimpse at it and stick a banner on the top of the page in the next few weeks saying "Over 10 BILLIONS are now using this product.."
Interesting...
> My point is that whenever an upper limit has been defined, somebody has found a way to surpass it. The limit will keep being pushed upward
If that were a true statement, why haven't we hit the speed of light yet in some sort of space transportation?
NEW YORK -- While Crusoe's ship appears to have come in, some large PC makers have decided to hold off on adopting the new chip for notebook PCs. At least for now.
Jee.. I wonder for how long intel can keep paying these companies off... or threatening their first borns...
P-P-Please .... NO JAR JAR!
I don't think this only goes for NT .. seriously... You ever tried to run a whole bunch of X apps, on a Pentium 90 with 16 MB of ram?? How about 32MB ram?? Dude, it's not just NT that needs ram. Swapping on Linux is not something to look forward to..