Actually I have one such system down in the basement. 386DX fully loaded with 32mb ram, 40MB mfm disk with 8bit ISA controller. Last time I played with it I put in isa scsi card and a 4gb scsi disk + cdrom, but I still had to boot the installation from floppy, which is a bit of a pain to do these days. Debian 4 works fine on it and afaik also supports mfm/rll disks.
Yes, e17 handles multiple monitors in the only way that is logical to me and I simply don't understand why things like Gnome or KDE don't work in the same way.
For example: With gnome on two monitors I get a workspace that spans both monitors. So I can drag windows from one monitor to another. But when I change virtual desktop, it gets changed on both monitors. That makes the second monitor rather useless. With E17, I get a workspace that spans both monitors with addition that each monitor has its own virtual desktops. So I can drag windows from one monitor to another and when I change virtual desktop, it gets changed only on the current monitor while the other one remains where it was.
This E17 feature is so important to me that I'm willing to suffer all the other bugs E17 has in order to have a normal, productive environment.
Install cygwin or Microsoft'w own SFU (services for unix). They give you sshd under windows, init scripts, NFS mounting etc. SFU is actually based on openbsd userspace.
Look, majority of our infrastucture runs on russian software: OpenVZ/Virtuozzo virtualization, nginx web server, php-fpm russian patches... And it pumps out about 10 times the pages pure american technology would on the same hardware. I say more power to the Russians, they know how to squeeze everything from poor old hardware. Maybe that's why they don't need newer machines from Dell;)
My usage pattern is having browser open for months at a time, with 20-30 tabs regulary, sometimes more. I use opera, since no other browser is capable of something like this. But it looks like ff3 could be up to the task.
There's a userspace AoE "server" that you can run on linux and export any block device (disk, lvm, md, dm, crypt,...). It's available on sourceforge" along with some other nifty aoe related tools. My/home lives on vblade exported aoe device for more than a year now:)
You obviously never ever set up a mail server with moderate traffic. TBs are cheap, but IOPS are not. Today I can get same 100 IOPS from 1TB disk as I can get from 10 year old 2GB disk. While 100 IOPS per 2GB of disk space was bad but somehow manageable, 100 IOPS per 1TB of disk space is utterly worthless, unless you (as an end user) are willing to put up with up to 30s of wait to retrieve a single mail.
I watched the video with interest and found out that he's describing what freenet project has been doing for a few years now as something new and exciting. Despite this, I think such ideas really need to take root and sprout all around the world if we want the internet to survive.
I always felt that cars shoud be aerodynamic like a water drop, a bit flattened, with front wheels outside and with rear wheel under the end. Boxy 4-wheel cars always felt somewhat br0ken by design to me. This thing is like my dreams come true. I hope we'll see it on this side of atlantic soon.
You know what? That's exaclty what I like about Linux folks - they're using all this "70s technology" as you call it, they're really pushing it but they're nowhere near the technological limit. So why would you want to change the underlying technology if the one you have works and is well proven?
It's like with new server machines... when I get new bleeding edge stuff, I push it out to nonesential roles for a year or so... and when these new machines proved themselves as reliable, they gradually get more important roles.
Oh, the memories... I remember recording those weird sounds from a particular radio show to get the latest games... I remember Alchemist was particulary good.
Aerovironment Pathfinder... which developed into NASA's Centurion. Don't know how this israeli thing looks (something about cpu quota exceeded), but I think Aerovironment's flying wing was/is the right way to go.
I have 15k rpm disks in production since... 2002 I think. The poster should mention data per actuator figure from TFA, because that is what really matters.
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"It is well-known in our community that there is no scientific, firm way of actually completely verifying and validating software."
Um ... did this guy ever heard of formal verification? Or is math proof not good enough for him?
Actually I have one such system down in the basement. 386DX fully loaded with 32mb ram, 40MB mfm disk with 8bit ISA controller. Last time I played with it I put in isa scsi card and a 4gb scsi disk + cdrom, but I still had to boot the installation from floppy, which is a bit of a pain to do these days. Debian 4 works fine on it and afaik also supports mfm/rll disks.
Yes, e17 handles multiple monitors in the only way that is logical to me and I simply don't understand why things like Gnome or KDE don't work in the same way.
For example:
With gnome on two monitors I get a workspace that spans both monitors. So I can drag windows from one monitor to another. But when I change virtual desktop, it gets changed on both monitors. That makes the second monitor rather useless.
With E17, I get a workspace that spans both monitors with addition that each monitor has its own virtual desktops. So I can drag windows from one monitor to another and when I change virtual desktop, it gets changed only on the current monitor while the other one remains where it was.
This E17 feature is so important to me that I'm willing to suffer all the other bugs E17 has in order to have a normal, productive environment.
Install cygwin or Microsoft'w own SFU (services for unix). They give you sshd under windows, init scripts, NFS mounting etc. SFU is actually based on openbsd userspace.
You wouldn't belive it, but all AoE appliances by www.coraid.com run plan9 internally.
It was
POKE 23641,194
RUN
and the same address with value 197 that produced really interesting results.
Look, majority of our infrastucture runs on russian software: OpenVZ/Virtuozzo virtualization, nginx web server, php-fpm russian patches ... And it pumps out about 10 times the pages pure american technology would on the same hardware. I say more power to the Russians, they know how to squeeze everything from poor old hardware. Maybe that's why they don't need newer machines from Dell ;)
In related news, Zeitgeist: Addendum has been released to the public. Timing seems just perfect.
My usage pattern is having browser open for months at a time, with 20-30 tabs regulary, sometimes more. I use opera, since no other browser is capable of something like this. But it looks like ff3 could be up to the task.
Take a look at http://www.praxis-his.com/sparkada/ and "correctness by construction" design process. Something good came out of DoD ;)
There's a userspace AoE "server" that you can run on linux and export any block device (disk, lvm, md, dm, crypt, ...). It's available on sourceforge" along with some other nifty aoe related tools. My /home lives on vblade exported aoe device for more than a year now :)
Sure they can, they actually don't even need pilots for that. See here.
You obviously never ever set up a mail server with moderate traffic. TBs are cheap, but IOPS are not. Today I can get same 100 IOPS from 1TB disk as I can get from 10 year old 2GB disk. While 100 IOPS per 2GB of disk space was bad but somehow manageable, 100 IOPS per 1TB of disk space is utterly worthless, unless you (as an end user) are willing to put up with up to 30s of wait to retrieve a single mail.
I watched the video with interest and found out that he's describing what freenet project has been doing for a few years now as something new and exciting.
Despite this, I think such ideas really need to take root and sprout all around the world if we want the internet to survive.
Air powered version will be available soon at about twice the price.
I always felt that cars shoud be aerodynamic like a water drop, a bit flattened, with front wheels outside and with rear wheel under the end. Boxy 4-wheel cars always felt somewhat br0ken by design to me. This thing is like my dreams come true. I hope we'll see it on this side of atlantic soon.
Well someone should localize freenet into Chinese and all the problems will be gone ...
How much more easy can it get?
Here's a link to my previous comment on this topic. Not much has changed and I still see such large numbers as propaganda.
You know what? That's exaclty what I like about Linux folks - they're using all this "70s technology" as you call it, they're really pushing it but they're nowhere near the technological limit. So why would you want to change the underlying technology if the one you have works and is well proven?
... when I get new bleeding edge stuff, I push it out to nonesential roles for a year or so ... and when these new machines proved themselves as reliable, they gradually get more important roles.
It's like with new server machines
Oh, the memories ... I remember recording those weird sounds from a particular radio show to get the latest games ... I remember Alchemist was particulary good.
And heck, I use opera. Ffox is too slow for what I expect from "internet expirience".
... I have no idea where did this survey dig those numbers.
Also I maintain three of the top 10 visited sites in Slovenia (mostly by teenagers) and the stats there are:
ie 70%, ffox 27%, opera 1.6%.
ie 6 50%, mozilla 37%, ie 7 9%, opera 1.5%
ie 6 60%, mozilla 29%, ie 7 7%, opera 1.6%
So there
Aerovironment Pathfinder ... which developed into NASA's Centurion. Don't know how this israeli thing looks (something about cpu quota exceeded), but I think Aerovironment's flying wing was/is the right way to go.
Where can I find an honest back-to-back product comparison?"
In your test lab, stupid. I havent yet found a vendor that would deny an evaluation of their product.
I have 15k rpm disks in production since ... 2002 I think. The poster should mention data per actuator figure from TFA, because that is what really matters.