Ha! It is quite a neat place. One of the nicest datacenters I've been in. They do try to take some precautions I guess. For example, you won't find the addresses to any of their datacenters on their website and the buildings are completely unmarked. They're usually not in business parks or anywhere you'd really expect them to be either. However, I'm sure that information could be dug up rather easily:)..
Now would you have to get into the datacenter first? Or are the concrete walls a non-issue?
Google does not use 2U servers (at least for most of their servers.) They use 1U half depth servers. They are nothing more than a disk and a power supply sitting on top of a motherboard with no case. I have seen them many times.
I'm sure they do have 2U servers in some places for things like databases perhaps? However, their standard deployment is the 1U half depth.. box.. if you can even call it that:)
I can confirm this as well.. I have seen their racks in Equinix in Ashburn, VA. I pass by their cages every time I go to my cage there. I believe I also saw them in Exodus in Santa Clara a couple of years ago. They are 1U half depth and do indeed lack a case. There are definitely thousands of their servers in Ashburn, VA, and they are very space efficient (as they would need to be).
This can usually be achieved through Mandatory Access Control (MAC). I know FreeBSD 5.x has a MAC implementation, though I haven't used it myself. There are or have also been various linux MAC implementations available. Something to get used to though is that generally with MAC, there is no such thing as 'root'.
Well, obviously it's worked out for him. In fact, it's worked out for me too. I have downloaded about 1.5GB or so ($15) worth of songs from allofmp3 without any problems whatsoever. I used paypal in between as well. What is your point? If it works, it works.
I notice RealOne getting a lot of negative reviews.. Why is that? I understand why it sucks on Windows.. But really, most of those reasons don't exist on the mac. RealOne for mac does not throw crap all over your filesystem, it doesn't leave a long-running app running on your system, it doesn't give you random news events and crap in your systray. Honestly, RealOne for OS X, in my experience, has just worked. Minus the small registration portion you do when you install it, it works great. I know finding it on their website is a different story. But what is it that is wrong with the app itself? It even looks decent.
I'm not sure about iBooks.. But with Powerbooks, the developer tools come installed under/Applications somewhere as just a.mpkg.. Are you sure it wasn't there? Or is that only on the pro line?
I second.. or third.. that:).. I am also a registered launchbar user and have replaced it on many systems with Quicksilver.. I also have Butler which is fine as well, but not as pretty (does a lot more though)..
Just put in an OS X install CD and double click on Install Mac OS X.. Either that or have the CD in and hold C while booting. Once you're in the installer, you should find that one of Installer's menu items is to launch a disk utility (or just Disk Utility). You can format your drive from there.
If you are just planning on reinstalling OS X, then you can select 'Erase and Install' as your installation option and skip Disk Utility entirely.
Given that in rendering you are crunching large chunks of data. The fact that G5s are 64-bit and have an insane amount of bandwidth between every subsystem probably helps it quite a bit. Not to mention that while Shake is optimized for the G5 (compiled with 64 bit support), it is doubtful that the same optimizations were given for, say, AMD64. The G5 is no slouch, as you seem to be inferring.
One thing that I am pretty sure about, but not positive, is the cost of running a linux cluster node in the farm. I know the OS X licenses for a cluster node are free. However, I do not believe that to be the case with a Linux node. Again, further driving the cost way up. The most cost effective option for recent shake adopters are most likely XServe G5 Cluster Nodes. As they are relatively cheap individually (for the power they provide) and you do not need to pay a licensing fee for each node.
Shake is also costs twice as much for linux. Enough that it's cheaper to get a powermac and shake than to get a linux box and shake.. that's intentional.
I have these batteries as well.. Amazing.. The interesting thing to me was that you can charge both regular NiMH and IC-3 NIMH batteries with their charger. However, when charging IC-3 batteries you get a nice loud fan that goes until it's charged (15 minutes).. And when you take them out they are practically burning up:).. Good stuff though. I personally got mine at RadioShack
Safeway definitely keeps track of everything you buy. I remember when I lived in CA, I would use safeway home delivery. I remember the first time that I logged into safeway.com, it had EVERYTHING I had bought using my safeway card listed there. Everything. So apparently they have a huge database of all of this stuff. Personally, I don't really care. But it definitely does happen. What was kind of nice about it was that I could just choose my last shopping trip and have them deliver exactly what I had gotten the last time (or use it as a template).
I doubt it's the employee that just made up that policy. I'm sure that someone in the bank already thought of the cloning issues and that is why it their policy forbids the returning of lost cards.
I'm not sure what issues they do or do not have, but I have actually used some additional useful features on Wells Fargo ATMs. Namely, printing out a copy of my bank statement from the ATM. There's some other stuff you can do as well, but I did find that handy on one occasion.
I won mine off of the radio (WHFS).. Good Times:-).. Just picked it up the other day.. The design is brilliant. Does anyone else notice iPods/iTunes being promoted like crazy on the radio lately?
I am also a huge fan of Ruby.. However, Perl 6 is going to benefit everyone. Ruby will be able to target the Parrot VM as well as languages like Python and TCL. What does this mean? As I understand it, this means that anywhere parrot is installed, your bytecode can be run. No matter what language it's written in. This also means you'll be able to do things like use perl modules from Ruby or use python modules from Ruby or use Ruby modules from Python, etc.
Parrot is very exciting. I personally can't wait.:)
Mulberry does this too. I was at a loss for words when a similar dialog box came up. Very considerate:). What surprised me more was that it was actually right.
Unfortunately it just has some features that those clients do not. For example (with regards to mozilla, not sure about evolution), Identities. I can have many many identities in Mulberry. This is essential for me as I have various company aliases that I go by such as support, accounts, domains, abuse, etc. Each identity can be tied to a mailbox so that all replies from that mailbox default to a specific identity. Each identity can have its own PGP key, its own default CC recipients, everything. This is what has kept me from using Mozilla's mail client at all. This also keeps me from using Mail.app..
I would have to disagree.. Are you saying that pine supports IMAP better than mulberry? Mulberry supports everything except IMAP IDLE pretty much. Plus it supports other cool things like IMSP, ACAP and SIEVE.. What I hate about most IMAP clients (GUI ones anyway) is the fact that it still performs local searching instead of doing a search through the IMAP server (where all your messages are anyway).. This means that in order to do a full text search of all of my messages, I have to download the full bodies of every message to the local machine. Kind of defeats the purpose of IMAP..
That is what IMSP is for. I personally use Mulberry (the most complete IMAP client in existance I believe:)).. I stored my configuration for mulberry on the mail server (IMSP) as well as my address books.. This way all of my computers on every platform have the exact same mail configs.
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Ha! It is quite a neat place. One of the nicest datacenters I've been in. They do try to take some precautions I guess. For example, you won't find the addresses to any of their datacenters on their website and the buildings are completely unmarked. They're usually not in business parks or anywhere you'd really expect them to be either. However, I'm sure that information could be dug up rather easily :)..
Now would you have to get into the datacenter first? Or are the concrete walls a non-issue?
-JD-
Google does not use 2U servers (at least for most of their servers.) They use 1U half depth servers. They are nothing more than a disk and a power supply sitting on top of a motherboard with no case. I have seen them many times.
.. box.. if you can even call it that :)
I'm sure they do have 2U servers in some places for things like databases perhaps? However, their standard deployment is the 1U half depth
Regards,
-JD-
I can confirm this as well.. I have seen their racks in Equinix in Ashburn, VA. I pass by their cages every time I go to my cage there. I believe I also saw them in Exodus in Santa Clara a couple of years ago. They are 1U half depth and do indeed lack a case. There are definitely thousands of their servers in Ashburn, VA, and they are very space efficient (as they would need to be).
This can usually be achieved through Mandatory Access Control (MAC). I know FreeBSD 5.x has a MAC implementation, though I haven't used it myself. There are or have also been various linux MAC implementations available. Something to get used to though is that generally with MAC, there is no such thing as 'root'.
Well, obviously it's worked out for him. In fact, it's worked out for me too. I have downloaded about 1.5GB or so ($15) worth of songs from allofmp3 without any problems whatsoever. I used paypal in between as well. What is your point? If it works, it works.
I notice RealOne getting a lot of negative reviews.. Why is that? I understand why it sucks on Windows.. But really, most of those reasons don't exist on the mac. RealOne for mac does not throw crap all over your filesystem, it doesn't leave a long-running app running on your system, it doesn't give you random news events and crap in your systray. Honestly, RealOne for OS X, in my experience, has just worked. Minus the small registration portion you do when you install it, it works great. I know finding it on their website is a different story. But what is it that is wrong with the app itself? It even looks decent.
-JD-
I'm not sure about iBooks.. But with Powerbooks, the developer tools come installed under /Applications somewhere as just a .mpkg.. Are you sure it wasn't there? Or is that only on the pro line?
Regards,
-JD-
I second .. or third.. that :) .. I am also a registered launchbar user and have replaced it on many systems with Quicksilver.. I also have Butler which is fine as well, but not as pretty (does a lot more though)..
Just put in an OS X install CD and double click on Install Mac OS X.. Either that or have the CD in and hold C while booting. Once you're in the installer, you should find that one of Installer's menu items is to launch a disk utility (or just Disk Utility). You can format your drive from there.
If you are just planning on reinstalling OS X, then you can select 'Erase and Install' as your installation option and skip Disk Utility entirely.
Regards,
-JD-
Maybe he is used to using WiKis :).. That's what I thought when I saw it.
Interestingly enough, I believe that NeXTSTEP actually used 'NX' instead of 'NS' :)
Given that in rendering you are crunching large chunks of data. The fact that G5s are 64-bit and have an insane amount of bandwidth between every subsystem probably helps it quite a bit. Not to mention that while Shake is optimized for the G5 (compiled with 64 bit support), it is doubtful that the same optimizations were given for, say, AMD64. The G5 is no slouch, as you seem to be inferring.
One thing that I am pretty sure about, but not positive, is the cost of running a linux cluster node in the farm. I know the OS X licenses for a cluster node are free. However, I do not believe that to be the case with a Linux node. Again, further driving the cost way up. The most cost effective option for recent shake adopters are most likely XServe G5 Cluster Nodes. As they are relatively cheap individually (for the power they provide) and you do not need to pay a licensing fee for each node.
Shake is also costs twice as much for linux. Enough that it's cheaper to get a powermac and shake than to get a linux box and shake.. that's intentional.
I have these batteries as well.. Amazing.. The interesting thing to me was that you can charge both regular NiMH and IC-3 NIMH batteries with their charger. However, when charging IC-3 batteries you get a nice loud fan that goes until it's charged (15 minutes).. And when you take them out they are practically burning up :).. Good stuff though. I personally got mine at RadioShack
Safeway definitely keeps track of everything you buy. I remember when I lived in CA, I would use safeway home delivery. I remember the first time that I logged into safeway.com, it had EVERYTHING I had bought using my safeway card listed there. Everything. So apparently they have a huge database of all of this stuff. Personally, I don't really care. But it definitely does happen. What was kind of nice about it was that I could just choose my last shopping trip and have them deliver exactly what I had gotten the last time (or use it as a template).
Regards,
-JD-
I doubt it's the employee that just made up that policy. I'm sure that someone in the bank already thought of the cloning issues and that is why it their policy forbids the returning of lost cards.
Regards,
-JD-
I'm not sure what issues they do or do not have, but I have actually used some additional useful features on Wells Fargo ATMs. Namely, printing out a copy of my bank statement from the ATM. There's some other stuff you can do as well, but I did find that handy on one occasion.
I won mine off of the radio (WHFS).. Good Times :-).. Just picked it up the other day.. The design is brilliant. Does anyone else notice iPods/iTunes being promoted like crazy on the radio lately?
That's what Parrot is. Python and Ruby (as two examples) WILL be able to target parrot and run in the parrot VM.
I am also a huge fan of Ruby.. However, Perl 6 is going to benefit everyone. Ruby will be able to target the Parrot VM as well as languages like Python and TCL. What does this mean? As I understand it, this means that anywhere parrot is installed, your bytecode can be run. No matter what language it's written in. This also means you'll be able to do things like use perl modules from Ruby or use python modules from Ruby or use Ruby modules from Python, etc.
:)
Parrot is very exciting. I personally can't wait.
Mulberry does this too. I was at a loss for words when a similar dialog box came up. Very considerate :). What surprised me more was that it was actually right.
Unfortunately it just has some features that those clients do not. For example (with regards to mozilla, not sure about evolution), Identities. I can have many many identities in Mulberry. This is essential for me as I have various company aliases that I go by such as support, accounts, domains, abuse, etc. Each identity can be tied to a mailbox so that all replies from that mailbox default to a specific identity. Each identity can have its own PGP key, its own default CC recipients, everything. This is what has kept me from using Mozilla's mail client at all. This also keeps me from using Mail.app..
I would have to disagree.. Are you saying that pine supports IMAP better than mulberry? Mulberry supports everything except IMAP IDLE pretty much. Plus it supports other cool things like IMSP, ACAP and SIEVE.. What I hate about most IMAP clients (GUI ones anyway) is the fact that it still performs local searching instead of doing a search through the IMAP server (where all your messages are anyway).. This means that in order to do a full text search of all of my messages, I have to download the full bodies of every message to the local machine. Kind of defeats the purpose of IMAP..
That is what IMSP is for. I personally use Mulberry (the most complete IMAP client in existance I believe :)).. I stored my configuration for mulberry on the mail server (IMSP) as well as my address books.. This way all of my computers on every platform have the exact same mail configs.
Regards,
-JD-
Just want to correct you and whoever else is making this mistake. The child singing the song was of the male gender ;)