(hangups, not able to mount fat12/16 properly, and others (At least I couldn't get them to work:)).
Okay... I'm really lost here, what the hell is a fat12 drive? If you meant 32/16 then there was absolutely no trouble on any boxen I tested to read Fat32 or NTFS partitions. Not saying that you didn't have trouble, just I know that I was able to read it with 9.0 rc's.
As far as server tasks go. There is absolutely NO REASON to use any RPM-Based distro (more specifically SuSE, RH, or MDK). If you want a server you should use Debian or Slackware. These are perfect server distros because they follow the KISS philosophy. If you can show me how to do a base (kernel with very basic tools *ONLY*) install of any of those distros I would like to see it.
Yes I know RH has a non-X install, and I know there are ways to remove unwanted packages from MDK and SuSE, but can you take 15 megs of free space and install an entire functional distro to build components of the server that will be neccessary without all the other non-essential and sometimes harmful packages??
RH without bastille is about as safe as the pull out method in my book. All three of them come with far too much bloat for a server, hence why I also prefer *BSD for servers.
Keep It Simple Stupid... best philosophy for a server, period.
I'm sorry, but this made me laugh quite loudly. Especially reading the post about how "strengthening agents for bricks will kill us all" up above this post.
I definantelly must completely agree with you though, this is complete bullshit, and if you look at the "website" provided the guy "investigates" everything as a living enviroment. I will admit that I was dupped until I got to the middle and saw one of the suggestions being marine transport containers.
The sad part is, I'm sure that this phobia/paranoia/obsessive based disease is completely real in his mind, and I'm sure he's convinced that if he leaves his home he'll die.
I dunno if you can just single diagnose someone like this. Granted I've only taken like 6 psych courses my whole life, I did actually remember a few things.
My guess is the following:
1.) The guy is an agoraphobic (fears anything outside a defined comfort zone or familiar people)
2.) The guy has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (check his site and look at all the "homes" he's found and "researched")
3.) Possible mild scziophrenia(sp?)/paranoia (obviously there is something outside that is going to "kill" him, while this may fall into agoraphobia it resembles quite a bit of basic paranoia)
4.) Finally, manic depressive (all the guy can do is think about his doom)
HOWEVER, you are right, with a therapy and a drug treatment combination, he'll have his problem fixed in no time flat. Perhaps his "answer from slashdot" should be to contact a psychatrist.
Don't like the annoying tag-lines eh? Well then maybe YOU should submit some news. Seeing as I submitted this one and I made the oh so annoying tag line, I guess that makes me the enemy?
Read the article and you will notice that this is actually another example of AMD one-upping INTEL.
Re:Did they expect different? (Score:2, Flamebait)
by TheMidget (512188) on Wednesday March 12, @03:32AM (#5492251) Not while oil is so cheap.
No problema. Dubya and Saddam will solve this problem real soon now...
Okay here's my problem with the "flamebait" mod of this comment.
1.) the "threat" of war with Iraq and other oil problems (ref venezuela) have caused gas to skyrocket well over $2/gl in quite a few places in america.
2.) if an attack were made on Iraq then you can bet your bottom dollar that there would be all sorts of economical retalliation (remember OPEC).
3.) obviously there would be no focus on Iraq what-so-ever if it and an abundance of countries like it, didn't have the blood this country needs to operate, that is oil.
Which takes me on to my mild soapbox here. There would be absolutely no concern what-so-ever what was happening in the middle-east, west africa, southern america, or wherever else has oil and a shitty level of living and shitty government to boot. These countries have seen swells of cash because they sell what they pull right out of the ground on the open market where the "civilized" countries eat it up.
There would be no money for sadaams weapons of mass destruction if there was no need for purchasing his countries oil. I love how we can have the "drugs fund terrorism" commercials, but you never see "car buyers/gas buyers fun terrorism" when in reality they're more of a problem than the happy hippy down the corner toking it up with 5 of his friends (yes RMS is there too).
So don't go moddin things flamebait just because you don't agree with a poster, that's why theres the ability to comment on a comment, loser.
A lot of anger coming from the Telemarketing industry.
This would infer that you "know" people in the telemarketing industry. Which would infer that you also might know some "higer-ups" in the telemarketing industry.
I understand their pain, how about we call a secret meeting to have this act overturned.Tell all the telemarketers... Tonight, midnight, behind the quickie mart, come unarmed with a whole lot of cash. They'll be a guy there named Bruiser, he really is going to miss all those calls at 8:00 AM and 7:00 PM, and he really knows about the pain and anguish that these things can cause and Bruiser will not stand for people to laugh during the process.
I'm totally against the old Eye for an Eye law, time to implement new laws, Two Eyes for an Eye, bend over and take it.
From my favorite movie Boilerroom -- "now I've got to actually get a job"
14:49:21- Begin a quick pickup game of "Five against one"
14:52:32- I win...
14:53:33- Quick Clean-Up, time to check my karma rating for funny comment
I tell ya what, this logging thing could be fun... if anything to remember where you went for the good pics.
And I agree, masturbation and pornography are definantelly the downfall of society, just think of all those HAPPY SEXUALLY REPRESSED PEOPLE OUT THERE!!
BUT... isn't this was free enterprise and competition is all about? I'm sorry to see them go, but nothing lasts forever. It may be a long time, but slashdot will one day cease to exist, I'm not being a downer here, but these are just plain old facts.
There are very few geeks who want to read things on paper (bite me if you're one of the geeks who likes paper shit). And this is actually the first time I've ever heard this magazine mentioned in quite some time, you sure they're just NOW dead??
Perhaps public floggings and other corperal punishment as well.
However I have to wonder if all spammers are really sane... I just got an email about chicks who crave small penis's and those who crave big penis's and then emails about penis enlargement and viagra online purchases, it just seems weird that there is so much concern for my penis. Perhaps we should just imprison them on an island as they might find tar and feathering a bit kinky and enjoy it.
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Well that's fine, you feel free to not hold up on your end of the deal and you'll get more than a taste of pain, you'll get a four course meal of it.
You scientist schmucks.
Ack, I really need to quit watching mob movies.
(FYI: This was meant to be funny, it's saturday... loosen up a bit...)
Toy weapons (IE: Guns and Swords), as obviously these will be used for terrorist training devices. Why use the real thing, when you can go plastic.
Richard Simmons Videos - obviously a terrorist, have you see all those fat people "suffering to the oldies". Excercise is unamerican.
Chess Boards - Obviously the game of chess is nothing more than a war-game simulation with black and white pieces, obviously increasing racial tension.
Linux Operating System and all GNU Products - If I didn't know any better I'd suspect that someone must be funding these "free" projects, obviously since it's not American to give things out for free, it must be terrorism funding.
PokeMon - it's anime, obviously unamerican.
Honorable Mentions Include:
Duke Nuke Um Forever
The Flying/Electric Car
The True OJ Story
And... silly putty (ain't nothing silly about it)
Take a look at the amount of abandoned train tracks throughout america, it's extremely sad.
Back on topic. The one group that does know of the existance of all of these small little airfields is the DEA. With a small prop engine plane able to land nearly anywhere that's fairly long and flat it makes it virtually impossible to make any attempt to stop these planes from landing and dropping their loot.
With the infrared technology (nightvision) and other GPS devices these planes can fly in the dead of night during a new moon phase with no lights on and still relatively safely land and takeoff. So yes, these are not forgotten air strips, but there are some that wished they were.
Even more unrelated, where the hell do you get gas. Seeing as I've never flown a plane and definantelly not the lawnmower with wings kind. How does one go about getting gas? Do you just really fill up the tank, or in a pinch can you throw some standard disel in there? Always bugged me because I've never seen a plane gas station before, seen them for cars and boats, just never planes.
Times have changed and now instead of relying on local BBS's we can now be a part of a global network. I remember the coolest thing ever was a BBS I paid for would link up to a system called Global Chat, which took an extra modem in the pool dialed out to a link BBS and the program would allow chatting with people all around the country. This may seem like a drop in the bucket, but this was before E-Mail, Instant Messaging, and the like.
Another interesting fact I remember back in the day was being able to type faster than the 300 baud modems could send. Imagine that your fingers can transfer information from your brain to the computer, but the computer to computer connection can't keep up, granted this was before windows even. The idea of a personal computer has been around for ages and the computer to be used as a communication device is not a new idea.
The internet did not kill BBS's, BBS's simply became antiquated. Centralized file sharing was replaced by FTP and GOPHER (yes... gopher... I guess HTTP could be thrown in here too), message boards by Instant messengers (who remembers the beta versions of Mirabilis??) and the online community expanded to include every corner of the world not just the distance a spont was away to be too far because that would be "long distance" and cost an arm and a leg to get on.
Most BBS's, unless they had some money, had no more than 2 nodes, now it's not uncommon to see a website that gets hit with more than a million hits a day (putting their link on slashdot doesn't hurt).
The BBS was a prelude to the dial-up isp, and any BBS's that wanted to stay in business learned the wonderful ways of SLIP CSLIP and PPP...
This strikes me as a really cool idea. I already get the cards that tell me to file online rather than fill out paper forms, but it still forces me to buy tax software every year.
http://www.turbotax.com/freedom go there and do your taxes online and for free. It's for us poor people that don't really have the ability to buy three or four sports cars a year and are trying to get an education, but in the process are driving ourselves deeper and deeper into debt.
FOURTH YEAR IN A ROW!!! TurboTax offers electronic filing, combined with direct deposit, means I got my refund in 3 days! Eat that H&R.
What the hell is the point of limited broadband? I really must be missing something here. Is it just me or do boradband companies really just count on their users to have an always on service that they never use?
I know when a new release of any (insert free OS here) comes out on 3 or 4 CD images I want to download them all at the same time because I'm forking out $60+ US to be able to get all 4 of them in a few hours. Not to mention stream a little porn, web radio, or download just about everything I can from file planet.
Putting a limit on downloading to stop software piracy is the same as duck taping a cracked dam back together. The only thing I can see this benifiting is for the company to fuck over the consumer who has purchased a service. If they can't provide 3 meg/s to every person on the system at the same time with "always on" than maybe they need to re-think their business model.
Quite frankly I'm happy that Radio, DSL, and Cable are now offered in my area, makes things like this virtually impossible because of the tight competition for such a still narrow market.
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Hence why you can take it around a whole lot. I have a Toshiba Satellite 5005-S503... pIII with an GeForce 4 (mobile) and a 15 inch UXGA monitor. Only has roughly 2 hours of battery life.
Nice box but basically it's a desktop with a built in UPS.
There have been less Formula 1 drivers in history than space qualified astronauts.
There's a difference between qualified and actually went.
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See I leave mine in the office or at home because I'm absolutely horrible with anything I carry. Usually end up demolishing it completely. 5.4 pounds... I'm curious... iBook?
Ahhh... the joys of ripping apart posts on slashdot.
The parent post is somewhat misleading and more than a little spotty, but it got modded up, so I feel I should clarify.
Obviously the moderators are too stupid here and I'm a complete doofus for stating my opinion, I stated no "fact" anywhere in my post. Spotty was because I wasn't sure, and neither are you.
Renderman is a standard for going exporting frames to a renderer. Pixar's implementation is called Photorealistic renderman. Sun is not involved in this at all. It has run on x86 procs, as well as Linux for quite a while now. Renderers are relativly easy to port, especially from different Unixes. I am not sure if there are speed advantages to 64 bit computers, or if it is just accuracy and memory like always, which is still a big advantage for a renderer. ( can anyone clarify?) I have a PRman rendered image on my desktop right now on my 450 Mhz PIII. The above quote is pretty much completly false.
I didn't say it didn't work. I said it was a DISASTER. As in the productivity loss was so great that it was not feasible at the time for them to change over. And my comment wasn't false, it was completely true, the costs for programers to re-optmize for hardware that was already moving up to 64 bit was silly and not right for the time. Simple math made that clear, if you can't run it faster and cheaper you don't upgrade what essentially isn't broken.
The technology is just running off the shelf software and hardware. Different parts of dreamworks do use Linux heavily.
The ones that do rendering CGI use linux and irix. And there is a push to move from irix to a complete linux shop, obviously the catering crew doesn't need linux.
This is horribly misinformed. I don't have the energy to go into the whole issue here but suffice to say that this is wildly misplaced frustration. First of all, Pixar is not a member of the MPAA. They have a deal with Disney, which is. That attidude would be fitting and understandable with Disney for various reasons, but making Pixar your enemy is just wrong (except when they sued Larry Gritz personally to hold off competition to Renderman). The same goes for Visual Effects companies. ILM, Imageworks, Digital Domain, PDI, Pixar, Rythm and Hues, Weta, etc. are the best thing that's happening to Linux right now. They are so far removed from the wrongdoings of the MPAA its like me blaming someone for crime when their friends dad is part of the NRA. They are doing only good for Linux, and they are not hyprocrites. They do have deals with studios that are intern part of the MPAA. Not everything is perfect, and these issues are not something that they as companies are, should be, or will be concerned about. They are also starting to contribute to Linux, and I am confident more will come as Linux matures in their pipeline. Building up anger towards Visual Effects companies perpetuates the sterotype of free software advocates being zealots without understanding the whole issue.
Here let me sum it up for ya... do they make movies... exactly.
"Don't blame the artist for the managers mistakes" bullshit.
This Link makes no mention of Renderman running on anything Sun related, I see IRIX windows XP and RedHat mentioned here. Is this Sparc-64 tree of the RedHat??
I must be lost here, but most of these renderfarms I've seen that use Sun products is for network storage solutions, though they're even losing the marketshare these days. I think what people are starting to realize is that just because you paid a whole lot for it, doesn't mean you got "The Best".
Supercomputers of 5 years ago can be built today with computers being thrown away and setup into a computing cluster. Obviously the good old days of 40 trillion dollar super computers paid for by the goernment aren't the super computers of today.
That Sun had tried renderman (or whatever they call it) to run on 32 bit processors and it was a horrible disaster. Something about how it seemed more feasible and cost efficient to use Sun until the days in which the competiting 64 bit processors became cheaper.
I could have sworn that the software couldn't run at all in 64 bit. I'm just wondering if they didn't take a step down when they converted 64-bit optimized code to run on regular high cache 32-bit pentiums.
Great for linux and anyone who has half a brain knows that you can make a very nice system from the Intel Xeon chips and Linux. But Sparcs aren't x86's and they certainly don't run the same. I've been running a server off of a pII 400 mhz Xeon with 2 megs cache on it for nearly 4 years now. It's never failed me yet and I have no intentions of upgrading anytime soon, but then again I'm not rendering anything in 3 deminsions either.
Doesn't dreamworks use this type of technology already?
Damned MPAA members... we hate you because of your strives for world domination, but then you go and support linux... bastards we just love to hate you.
Lastly I'm really surprised that Pixar didn't go for a server farm of OS X boxen, just goes to show ya, right tool for the job. Maybe they'll throw darwin on their at least.
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(disclaimer: typical american here)
Same here in America, but obviously with the weird canadian money, my $10 is worth the same as your $100.
Joking aside... you really just lug your laptop everywhere? What I do is simple. I set up a savings account behind my checking account. That way if I ever do make money I can throw it into savings. But I just pop a few hundred out of the savings account into the checking account. If I over draw it automagically withdraws from the savings account by either the limit of the savings account or the $100 limit I have set. All this through the bank. I have destroyed every credit card I once had for this method which has already saved me nearly $200 in "credit bills". I love how those asses can lose my bill but I have to pay the penalty for it.
Take into account that this is also all online and I have an up-to-date balance of where I was what I spent and the date I spent it. Very nice indeed.
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Okay ... I'm really lost here, what the hell is a fat12 drive? If you meant 32/16 then there was absolutely no trouble on any boxen I tested to read Fat32 or NTFS partitions. Not saying that you didn't have trouble, just I know that I was able to read it with 9.0 rc's.
As far as server tasks go. There is absolutely NO REASON to use any RPM-Based distro (more specifically SuSE, RH, or MDK). If you want a server you should use Debian or Slackware. These are perfect server distros because they follow the KISS philosophy. If you can show me how to do a base (kernel with very basic tools *ONLY*) install of any of those distros I would like to see it.
Yes I know RH has a non-X install, and I know there are ways to remove unwanted packages from MDK and SuSE, but can you take 15 megs of free space and install an entire functional distro to build components of the server that will be neccessary without all the other non-essential and sometimes harmful packages??
RH without bastille is about as safe as the pull out method in my book. All three of them come with far too much bloat for a server, hence why I also prefer *BSD for servers.
Keep It Simple Stupid ... best philosophy for a server, period.
I definantelly must completely agree with you though, this is complete bullshit, and if you look at the "website" provided the guy "investigates" everything as a living enviroment. I will admit that I was dupped until I got to the middle and saw one of the suggestions being marine transport containers.
The sad part is, I'm sure that this phobia/paranoia/obsessive based disease is completely real in his mind, and I'm sure he's convinced that if he leaves his home he'll die.
I dunno if you can just single diagnose someone like this. Granted I've only taken like 6 psych courses my whole life, I did actually remember a few things.
My guess is the following:
1.) The guy is an agoraphobic (fears anything outside a defined comfort zone or familiar people)
2.) The guy has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (check his site and look at all the "homes" he's found and "researched")
3.) Possible mild scziophrenia(sp?)/paranoia (obviously there is something outside that is going to "kill" him, while this may fall into agoraphobia it resembles quite a bit of basic paranoia)
4.) Finally, manic depressive (all the guy can do is think about his doom)
HOWEVER, you are right, with a therapy and a drug treatment combination, he'll have his problem fixed in no time flat. Perhaps his "answer from slashdot" should be to contact a psychatrist.
Been using it for nearly 3 months now ...
Read the article and you will notice that this is actually another example of AMD one-upping INTEL.
Twice the cache and half the size. OBVIOUSLY someone might have wanted to pay a little more attention.
by TheMidget (512188) on Wednesday March 12, @03:32AM (#5492251)
Not while oil is so cheap.
No problema. Dubya and Saddam will solve this problem real soon now...
Okay here's my problem with the "flamebait" mod of this comment.
1.) the "threat" of war with Iraq and other oil problems (ref venezuela) have caused gas to skyrocket well over $2/gl in quite a few places in america.
2.) if an attack were made on Iraq then you can bet your bottom dollar that there would be all sorts of economical retalliation (remember OPEC).
3.) obviously there would be no focus on Iraq what-so-ever if it and an abundance of countries like it, didn't have the blood this country needs to operate, that is oil.
Which takes me on to my mild soapbox here. There would be absolutely no concern what-so-ever what was happening in the middle-east, west africa, southern america, or wherever else has oil and a shitty level of living and shitty government to boot. These countries have seen swells of cash because they sell what they pull right out of the ground on the open market where the "civilized" countries eat it up.
There would be no money for sadaams weapons of mass destruction if there was no need for purchasing his countries oil. I love how we can have the "drugs fund terrorism" commercials, but you never see "car buyers/gas buyers fun terrorism" when in reality they're more of a problem than the happy hippy down the corner toking it up with 5 of his friends (yes RMS is there too).
So don't go moddin things flamebait just because you don't agree with a poster, that's why theres the ability to comment on a comment, loser.
This would infer that you "know" people in the telemarketing industry. Which would infer that you also might know some "higer-ups" in the telemarketing industry.
I understand their pain, how about we call a secret meeting to have this act overturned.Tell all the telemarketers ... Tonight, midnight, behind the quickie mart, come unarmed with a whole lot of cash. They'll be a guy there named Bruiser, he really is going to miss all those calls at 8:00 AM and 7:00 PM, and he really knows about the pain and anguish that these things can cause and Bruiser will not stand for people to laugh during the process.
I'm totally against the old Eye for an Eye law, time to implement new laws, Two Eyes for an Eye, bend over and take it.
From my favorite movie Boilerroom -- "now I've got to actually get a job"
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-14:47:43- Begin wget all
14:48:42- Load pictures into IMGV
14:49:21- Begin a quick pickup game of "Five against one"
14:52:32- I win
14:53:33- Quick Clean-Up, time to check my karma rating for funny comment
I tell ya what, this logging thing could be fun
And I agree, masturbation and pornography are definantelly the downfall of society, just think of all those HAPPY SEXUALLY REPRESSED PEOPLE OUT THERE!!
jeeze people, that's why we got thumbs, use um!
hehehehe that makes me smile
There are very few geeks who want to read things on paper (bite me if you're one of the geeks who likes paper shit). And this is actually the first time I've ever heard this magazine mentioned in quite some time, you sure they're just NOW dead??
Exactly how it should be.
Perhaps public floggings and other corperal punishment as well.
However I have to wonder if all spammers are really sane ... I just got an email about chicks who crave small penis's and those who crave big penis's and then emails about penis enlargement and viagra online purchases, it just seems weird that there is so much concern for my penis. Perhaps we should just imprison them on an island as they might find tar and feathering a bit kinky and enjoy it.
You scientist schmucks.
Ack, I really need to quit watching mob movies.
(FYI: This was meant to be funny, it's saturday ... loosen up a bit ...)
... or your own underwater coffin, your choice on the title.
Richard Simmons Videos - obviously a terrorist, have you see all those fat people "suffering to the oldies". Excercise is unamerican.
Chess Boards - Obviously the game of chess is nothing more than a war-game simulation with black and white pieces, obviously increasing racial tension.
Linux Operating System and all GNU Products - If I didn't know any better I'd suspect that someone must be funding these "free" projects, obviously since it's not American to give things out for free, it must be terrorism funding.
PokeMon - it's anime, obviously unamerican.
Honorable Mentions Include:
Duke Nuke Um Forever ... silly putty (ain't nothing silly about it)
The Flying/Electric Car
The True OJ Story
And
Take a look at the amount of abandoned train tracks throughout america, it's extremely sad.
Back on topic. The one group that does know of the existance of all of these small little airfields is the DEA. With a small prop engine plane able to land nearly anywhere that's fairly long and flat it makes it virtually impossible to make any attempt to stop these planes from landing and dropping their loot.
With the infrared technology (nightvision) and other GPS devices these planes can fly in the dead of night during a new moon phase with no lights on and still relatively safely land and takeoff. So yes, these are not forgotten air strips, but there are some that wished they were.
Even more unrelated, where the hell do you get gas. Seeing as I've never flown a plane and definantelly not the lawnmower with wings kind. How does one go about getting gas? Do you just really fill up the tank, or in a pinch can you throw some standard disel in there? Always bugged me because I've never seen a plane gas station before, seen them for cars and boats, just never planes.
Another interesting fact I remember back in the day was being able to type faster than the 300 baud modems could send. Imagine that your fingers can transfer information from your brain to the computer, but the computer to computer connection can't keep up, granted this was before windows even. The idea of a personal computer has been around for ages and the computer to be used as a communication device is not a new idea.
The internet did not kill BBS's, BBS's simply became antiquated. Centralized file sharing was replaced by FTP and GOPHER (yes ... gopher ... I guess HTTP could be thrown in here too), message boards by Instant messengers (who remembers the beta versions of Mirabilis??) and the online community expanded to include every corner of the world not just the distance a spont was away to be too far because that would be "long distance" and cost an arm and a leg to get on.
Most BBS's, unless they had some money, had no more than 2 nodes, now it's not uncommon to see a website that gets hit with more than a million hits a day (putting their link on slashdot doesn't hurt).
The BBS was a prelude to the dial-up isp, and any BBS's that wanted to stay in business learned the wonderful ways of SLIP CSLIP and PPP ...
Am I really that old, geeze.
http://www.turbotax.com/freedom go there and do your taxes online and for free. It's for us poor people that don't really have the ability to buy three or four sports cars a year and are trying to get an education, but in the process are driving ourselves deeper and deeper into debt.
FOURTH YEAR IN A ROW!!! TurboTax offers electronic filing, combined with direct deposit, means I got my refund in 3 days! Eat that H&R.
I know when a new release of any (insert free OS here) comes out on 3 or 4 CD images I want to download them all at the same time because I'm forking out $60+ US to be able to get all 4 of them in a few hours. Not to mention stream a little porn, web radio, or download just about everything I can from file planet.
Putting a limit on downloading to stop software piracy is the same as duck taping a cracked dam back together. The only thing I can see this benifiting is for the company to fuck over the consumer who has purchased a service. If they can't provide 3 meg/s to every person on the system at the same time with "always on" than maybe they need to re-think their business model.
Quite frankly I'm happy that Radio, DSL, and Cable are now offered in my area, makes things like this virtually impossible because of the tight competition for such a still narrow market.
Nice box but basically it's a desktop with a built in UPS.
There's a difference between qualified and actually went.
See I leave mine in the office or at home because I'm absolutely horrible with anything I carry. Usually end up demolishing it completely. 5.4 pounds ... I'm curious ... iBook?
The parent post is somewhat misleading and more than a little spotty, but it got modded up, so I feel I should clarify.
Obviously the moderators are too stupid here and I'm a complete doofus for stating my opinion, I stated no "fact" anywhere in my post. Spotty was because I wasn't sure, and neither are you.
Renderman is a standard for going exporting frames to a renderer. Pixar's implementation is called Photorealistic renderman. Sun is not involved in this at all. It has run on x86 procs, as well as Linux for quite a while now. Renderers are relativly easy to port, especially from different Unixes. I am not sure if there are speed advantages to 64 bit computers, or if it is just accuracy and memory like always, which is still a big advantage for a renderer. ( can anyone clarify?) I have a PRman rendered image on my desktop right now on my 450 Mhz PIII. The above quote is pretty much completly false.
I didn't say it didn't work. I said it was a DISASTER. As in the productivity loss was so great that it was not feasible at the time for them to change over. And my comment wasn't false, it was completely true, the costs for programers to re-optmize for hardware that was already moving up to 64 bit was silly and not right for the time. Simple math made that clear, if you can't run it faster and cheaper you don't upgrade what essentially isn't broken.
The technology is just running off the shelf software and hardware. Different parts of dreamworks do use Linux heavily.
The ones that do rendering CGI use linux and irix. And there is a push to move from irix to a complete linux shop, obviously the catering crew doesn't need linux.
This is horribly misinformed. I don't have the energy to go into the whole issue here but suffice to say that this is wildly misplaced frustration. First of all, Pixar is not a member of the MPAA. They have a deal with Disney, which is. That attidude would be fitting and understandable with Disney for various reasons, but making Pixar your enemy is just wrong (except when they sued Larry Gritz personally to hold off competition to Renderman). The same goes for Visual Effects companies. ILM, Imageworks, Digital Domain, PDI, Pixar, Rythm and Hues, Weta, etc. are the best thing that's happening to Linux right now. They are so far removed from the wrongdoings of the MPAA its like me blaming someone for crime when their friends dad is part of the NRA. They are doing only good for Linux, and they are not hyprocrites. They do have deals with studios that are intern part of the MPAA. Not everything is perfect, and these issues are not something that they as companies are, should be, or will be concerned about. They are also starting to contribute to Linux, and I am confident more will come as Linux matures in their pipeline. Building up anger towards Visual Effects companies perpetuates the sterotype of free software advocates being zealots without understanding the whole issue.
Here let me sum it up for ya ... do they make movies ... exactly.
"Don't blame the artist for the managers mistakes" bullshit.
I must be lost here, but most of these renderfarms I've seen that use Sun products is for network storage solutions, though they're even losing the marketshare these days. I think what people are starting to realize is that just because you paid a whole lot for it, doesn't mean you got "The Best".
Supercomputers of 5 years ago can be built today with computers being thrown away and setup into a computing cluster. Obviously the good old days of 40 trillion dollar super computers paid for by the goernment aren't the super computers of today.
I could have sworn that the software couldn't run at all in 64 bit. I'm just wondering if they didn't take a step down when they converted 64-bit optimized code to run on regular high cache 32-bit pentiums.
Great for linux and anyone who has half a brain knows that you can make a very nice system from the Intel Xeon chips and Linux. But Sparcs aren't x86's and they certainly don't run the same. I've been running a server off of a pII 400 mhz Xeon with 2 megs cache on it for nearly 4 years now. It's never failed me yet and I have no intentions of upgrading anytime soon, but then again I'm not rendering anything in 3 deminsions either.
Doesn't dreamworks use this type of technology already?
Damned MPAA members ... we hate you because of your strives for world domination, but then you go and support linux ... bastards we just love to hate you.
Lastly I'm really surprised that Pixar didn't go for a server farm of OS X boxen, just goes to show ya, right tool for the job. Maybe they'll throw darwin on their at least.
Same here in America, but obviously with the weird canadian money, my $10 is worth the same as your $100.
Joking aside ... you really just lug your laptop everywhere? What I do is simple. I set up a savings account behind my checking account. That way if I ever do make money I can throw it into savings. But I just pop a few hundred out of the savings account into the checking account. If I over draw it automagically withdraws from the savings account by either the limit of the savings account or the $100 limit I have set. All this through the bank. I have destroyed every credit card I once had for this method which has already saved me nearly $200 in "credit bills". I love how those asses can lose my bill but I have to pay the penalty for it.
Take into account that this is also all online and I have an up-to-date balance of where I was what I spent and the date I spent it. Very nice indeed.