I was listening to a Toronto all-news radio station (AM 680 News) and they have said that Intel refutes the article saying they are not in any specific talks with Corel...
Corel's Michael Cowpland claims to be in "multi-faceted" talks with Intel... whatever that means...
For case 1, let's assume complete a complete linux front to back solution, with as much free (or mostly free) software as possible:
Needed Software Components:
1. Favourite Distro of Linux 2. MySQL or Postgres Database (personal pref is for MySQL... not going to get into the pros and cons here...) 3. Dynaminc Web-Scripting Language (PHP, Perl, whatever... personal pref for this kind of thing is PHP... again, I'm not debating at the moment...) 4. Linux Vitrual Server Project - very solid load-balancing from my experience. Don't know how it compares with the appliances on the market... but it's still solid. 5. HA/Redundancy software (Linux HA project isn't quite there... but they're getting close... there are some commercial packages available - one that's free for non-profit use - http://www.high-availability.com
Hardware:
NB: For maximum up-time I recommend systems with redundant hardware (backup power supplies, dual NICs, and RAID arrays)
1. Firewall/Load-balancer - preferably using HA/Redundancy software on two machines... Mirrored (RAID 1, right?) boot/system hot-plug drives are a good idea. 2. Web-farm - up to X systems (where X+1 breaks your budget...;) ) load balanced with Virtual Server Project. For a reasonably heavy duty method of doing this relatively cheaply, see Cubix and their "density" series... up to 8 servers in a single box... with hot plug everything. RAID isn't as necessary here... as the systems themselves are effective your RAID... 3. Database system - again preferably an HA/Redundancy cluster for maximum availability. I recommend a mirrored boot/system disk again, with a RAID 5 array (or RAID 5+5 - mirrored RAID arrays) for speed and maximum availability... highest RPM drives you can afford can help here a lot for speed, too. 4. 100 BaseT Switch for maximum through-put. Personal preference is for Cisco but your budget dollars may vary. 5. I've mentioned RAID a couple of times... you can get SCSI and IDE raid these days (SCSI being more common)... the cheapest/fastest one I've see is from Raidzone - very nice, check them out (up to 15 - 40 GIG hot-plug IDE drives in one array, with a very high through-put). You can also do software RAID, taking a performance hit, but saving coin...
Case 2 assumes that you don't mind using some commercial stuff... and have a bigger budget:
1. Replace Virtual Server with an appliance. (Alteon, F5 and Cisco all make good products... presently my preference is with F5's BigIP. 2. Replace in born Linux firewall with Checkpoint's firewall-1 running under linux - or an appliance firewall, a Cisco PIX is very nice, and has very high though-put. The Nokia appliance running Checkpoint and a BSD bastardisation is quite nice.
...is that iCrave was registered as a corporation in the US by a US citizen... hence why the court was in Pennsylvania. If this had been done by a Canadian then the US networks and the NFL would have had to try it under Canadian law.
Present Canadian law says that the airwaves belong to everyone... anything on the airwaves is fair game.
So if I decide to put up a web-site (as I'm a Canadian) that has these channels taken from an antenna - then the US networks and the NFL would have a much tougher battle ahead of them.
Gee, maybe I'll just do that... any venture capitalists out there that want to go for a fun ride?
Of two minds... 1. It sucked. 2. It was candy.
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Why did it suck: 1. I can't let go of my version of technical reality - especially in a show that is supposed to take place in present day. 2. Anyone who could create the technology shown (basically ST:NG holodecks) would be an instant trillionare. 3. No one fears the kill command if you have a back-up of all your data.
It was candy: 1. If you could let go, and just watch it as if the technology could exist - it wasn't bad. Even if the storyline was lame. 2. Mulder was amusing. Especially with the sun-glasses. 3. The slut was nice to look at. 4. Scully in the game uniform was probably every pre-pubescent's wet-dream come true.
1) I read some guy saying "Plastics melt" (among other "weaknesses")- ok, we're not talking saran wrap or the stuff they make pens out of here... the word of the day was "Acrylic"... some polymers can be made to withstand tremendous heat/strain/environments... 2) When they say "muscle"... it doesn't necessarily mean they've got to put it in a human body. They could mean for use in a machine - and muscle is the best word to describe how it works... (Robots, exoskeletons, automatic door closers...) 3) If they were developing it for the human body, it would have to be developed in a tested and controlled fashion. Allowances for added stress would have to be made (re-enforcements to skeletal structure) as part of the design/engineering of the product. Otherwise, the muscle would need be developed to not exceed the strength of the skeletal structure. (beyond the fact that I seem to remember that when bones are stressed they emit a small electrical signal - which would cause these "muscles" to stretch and relieve the tension...)
Don't just look for nay saying ways to FUD the product... any idiot can point out problems... if you were really smart, when you found the problem, you would make a suggestion on how to fix it.
One of the biggest costs in maintaining a Beowulf cluster is the power and heat disipation concerns. Introducing the Crusoe into the equation could fix those problems.
Sure they might not be quite as powerful as the latest whiz bang CPU... but I'm sure on a cost/cycle and a cost/watt basis they 'll win hands down.
I can see it now - hot pluggable arrays of crusoe boards in a racked Beowulf cluster. *Sigh*
I'm living the life at www.chapters.ca... and some days it ain't pretty.
You have to take control of your life though... and make time for the things that are important to you... I'm not quite there myself... yet... but I'm making progress, while working at a job that is both fun and rewarding.
Now I just have to hire a few more people that are willing to live that life... and I can take some time off...;) -
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You should try Archmage then... it's free and web-based...
I play my turns almost everyday...
It's also available from Chapters.ca at http://www.chapters.ca/digital/books /default.asp...
How many people work on the Slackware distro? I just wonder how that compares to the "big boys" like RedHat, Caldera, SUSE, etc...
... RedHat stole me with RH 6.1 though...
I was a solid user of Slackware up to 3.6
...but what are the Iridium satelites used for exactly?
I was listening to a Toronto all-news radio station (AM 680 News) and they have said that Intel refutes the article saying they are not in any specific talks with Corel...
Corel's Michael Cowpland claims to be in "multi-faceted" talks with Intel... whatever that means...
For case 1, let's assume complete a complete linux front to back solution, with as much free (or mostly free) software as possible:
;) ) load balanced with Virtual Server Project. For a reasonably heavy duty method of doing this relatively cheaply, see Cubix and their "density" series... up to 8 servers in a single box... with hot plug everything. RAID isn't as necessary here... as the systems themselves are effective your RAID...
Needed Software Components:
1. Favourite Distro of Linux
2. MySQL or Postgres Database (personal pref is for MySQL... not going to get into the pros and cons here...)
3. Dynaminc Web-Scripting Language (PHP, Perl, whatever... personal pref for this kind of thing is PHP... again, I'm not debating at the moment...)
4. Linux Vitrual Server Project - very solid load-balancing from my experience. Don't know how it compares with the appliances on the market... but it's still solid.
5. HA/Redundancy software (Linux HA project isn't quite there... but they're getting close... there are some commercial packages available - one that's free for non-profit use - http://www.high-availability.com
Hardware:
NB: For maximum up-time I recommend systems with redundant hardware (backup power supplies, dual NICs, and RAID arrays)
1. Firewall/Load-balancer - preferably using HA/Redundancy software on two machines... Mirrored (RAID 1, right?) boot/system hot-plug drives are a good idea.
2. Web-farm - up to X systems (where X+1 breaks your budget...
3. Database system - again preferably an HA/Redundancy cluster for maximum availability. I recommend a mirrored boot/system disk again, with a RAID 5 array (or RAID 5+5 - mirrored RAID arrays) for speed and maximum availability... highest RPM drives you can afford can help here a lot for speed, too.
4. 100 BaseT Switch for maximum through-put. Personal preference is for Cisco but your budget dollars may vary.
5. I've mentioned RAID a couple of times... you can get SCSI and IDE raid these days (SCSI being more common)... the cheapest/fastest one I've see is from Raidzone - very nice, check them out (up to 15 - 40 GIG hot-plug IDE drives in one array, with a very high through-put). You can also do software RAID, taking a performance hit, but saving coin...
Case 2 assumes that you don't mind using some commercial stuff... and have a bigger budget:
1. Replace Virtual Server with an appliance. (Alteon, F5 and Cisco all make good products... presently my preference is with F5's BigIP.
2. Replace in born Linux firewall with Checkpoint's firewall-1 running under linux - or an appliance firewall, a Cisco PIX is very nice, and has very high though-put. The Nokia appliance running Checkpoint and a BSD bastardisation is quite nice.
...and NASA has never once worried about contaminating me.
...is that iCrave was registered as a corporation in the US by a US citizen... hence why the court was in Pennsylvania. If this had been done by a Canadian then the US networks and the NFL would have had to try it under Canadian law.
Present Canadian law says that the airwaves belong to everyone... anything on the airwaves is fair game.
So if I decide to put up a web-site (as I'm a Canadian) that has these channels taken from an antenna - then the US networks and the NFL would have a much tougher battle ahead of them.
Gee, maybe I'll just do that... any venture capitalists out there that want to go for a fun ride?
Why did it suck:
1. I can't let go of my version of technical reality - especially in a show that is supposed to take place in present day.
2. Anyone who could create the technology shown (basically ST:NG holodecks) would be an instant trillionare.
3. No one fears the kill command if you have a back-up of all your data.
It was candy:
1. If you could let go, and just watch it as if the technology could exist - it wasn't bad. Even if the storyline was lame.
2. Mulder was amusing. Especially with the sun-glasses.
3. The slut was nice to look at.
4. Scully in the game uniform was probably every pre-pubescent's wet-dream come true.
...and how much do you think it costs?
Da Dwee - Da dwee da da dwee da...
I've always liked the Tick... I have an autographed copy of the "Tick Omnibus" - very cool.
Now, having said that... it could also pose competetion in the viagra dept...
1) I read some guy saying "Plastics melt" (among other "weaknesses")- ok, we're not talking saran wrap or the stuff they make pens out of here... the word of the day was "Acrylic"... some polymers can be made to withstand tremendous heat/strain/environments...
2) When they say "muscle"... it doesn't necessarily mean they've got to put it in a human body. They could mean for use in a machine - and muscle is the best word to describe how it works... (Robots, exoskeletons, automatic door closers...)
3) If they were developing it for the human body, it would have to be developed in a tested and controlled fashion. Allowances for added stress would have to be made (re-enforcements to skeletal structure) as part of the design/engineering of the product. Otherwise, the muscle would need be developed to not exceed the strength of the skeletal structure. (beyond the fact that I seem to remember that when bones are stressed they emit a small electrical signal - which would cause these "muscles" to stretch and relieve the tension...)
Don't just look for nay saying ways to FUD the product... any idiot can point out problems... if you were really smart, when you found the problem, you would make a suggestion on how to fix it.
One of the biggest costs in maintaining a Beowulf cluster is the power and heat disipation concerns. Introducing the Crusoe into the equation could fix those problems.
Sure they might not be quite as powerful as the latest whiz bang CPU... but I'm sure on a cost/cycle and a cost/watt basis they
'll win hands down.
I can see it now - hot pluggable arrays of crusoe boards in a racked Beowulf cluster. *Sigh*
...by the actual guy arrested?
I think it is here
Marvel comics always knew it was there!
48C is about the temperature of hot water straight from the water heater...
I'm Canadian, so my knowledge of the F scale is limited... but isn't 34F close to freezing???
I'm sure that the temperatures quoted are without heat-sinks...
Variable voltage and frequency on the chip to extend battery life.
:)
This is a very cool thing. Litteraly!
NB: Cooler running means longer chip-life too...
So far that is the gist of what they are saying.
I haven't heard any hard tech stuff... like how it benchmarks...
I do like the "PADD" that they've been showing off with "Mobile Linux"...
Mind you this is the "Overview presentation"...
Outside Loop as it says on the card... and they sell it for $80 US... (in the US)...
;)
The $125 Canadian from the Ottawa store is cool for us Canadians though.
Think about it... he can't just up and quit. He is the epitome of M$... if he did that, the stock would plummet. (and he couldn't cash out)
If he takes baby-steps away from the helm... and out of the lime-light... then he can safely cash out his stock, and retire...
It's a rough game in life when you use money to keep score... 'cause you don't want to give up any points...
...an open source contributor?
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...I thought to myself that this would be a more logical step...
;)
Now only if I could talk Bob into doing redhat Canada...he's a Canadian, he'd understand...
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...my wife works in the same sweatshop...
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Tell me about it.
;)
I'm living the life at www.chapters.ca... and some days it ain't pretty.
You have to take control of your life though... and make time for the things that are important to you... I'm not quite there myself... yet... but I'm making progress, while working at a job that is both fun and rewarding.
Now I just have to hire a few more people that are willing to live that life... and I can take some time off...
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