The current 64-bit offering from Intel, Itanium, is an entirely new chip that has no backwards compatibility with its x86 line of chips (from the 8080 chip to the Pentium IV) and is designed only for high end servers.
Support by the operating system is needed, something that already has been built into the
Linux kernel. I recomend reading Chapter 11 in
IA64 Linux Kernel - design and implementation. IA32 programs will think they are running on a Pentium III computer.
The recomendation is to not run IA32 programs on IA64, but to recompile them for the new architechture... but that is kind of obvious..
You can get an SX-6i .
The processor in ES is not made only for ES.
And I don't think you would sell many supercomputers for IBM if you were advocating Gimp and Mozilla as
applications...
The Earth Simulator is running Super UX.
The same operating system as the rest of the
NEC supercomputers
The German Language TV channel 3sat will
broadcast a 30 min film on Earth Simulator on Monday and 24th of June at 21:30 hours
and on Tuesday, 25th of June at 14:30 hours.
"my first software released under GPL (November 1988) -- now the Slashdot kiddies have to shut up; I was writing GPLed software before they were born, bwa ha ha!"
He has alot of good thing to say about software management and programming.. read and learn instead of getting caught in Microsoft bashing..
Building a Trebuchet the old way
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During the spring I saw a documentary about a team building a Trebuchet with medieval tools.
It was on the Swedish science program, Vetenskapens värld.
In the NOVA/WGBH Trebuchet Project
(October-November 1998), the Timber Framers Guild helped to build two Trebuchets, supervised
by Mr Renaud Beffeyte.
A 300 pound stone ball was used to smash
a a 7 foot-thick granite wall
more than 160 yards away.
No modern tools were used in the construction.
There are several types of Trebuchets and
other war-mashines.
Schematic overviews and more information can be
found at Medieval Mechanical Artillery
Monday, 25 Jun 2001, after thinking about this problem I went to the ThinkGeek website.
I did not find this kind of product in the
Work wear section but I found out that Willie was
responsible for new ideas. So I sent him this mail.
Subject: an idea..
Hi Willie..
Just had an idea for a new product..
You got an excelent line of different t-shirts and
golf-shirts. But there is something missing.
Working with computers you quickly gather alot of
different gadgets. Mobilephone, PDA, wallet,
cybertool, mp3player, caffeine.. etc..
Where do you put all that stuff when you want them
handy and you don't want to carry a backpack all
the time ?
There are backpacks that have a nice pocket for the mobilephone on the "strap".. handy ? Yes..
But I don't realy like the idea of having this thing too near my heart.. other alternative.. ?
frontpocket.. well.. another Willie in the vicinity..
backpocket ? sit down and you have a puzzle..
I have a pair of "suittrousers" with a nice mobilephone thighpocket..
very handy and is not in the way..
The ultimate GeekTrousers would be the army type
with alot of pockets to put survivalgear..
but going to work looking like Rambo will get management thinking of disgruntled employees and
rampage shootings..
Also it is hard to find a matching shirt for
those important customer meetings.
So go to an army surplus store nearby.
stop by a carpentershop..
Buy all different kinds of trousers..
spend an afternoon in the warehouse trying to
find the pair of trousers that will carry the
most kinds of gadgets in a safe way..
From that info, design a pair that would fit
in the corporate world..
Jackets or wests with the same properties would
probably be ok too..
Feel free to send me a pair filled with gadgets
if the idea turns out to work..;)
Time for the "Engineer suit".. The "Business suit"
for Engineers..
/Fred
PS. Any misspelled words or gramatical errors are
due to the long way this mail had to travel
from Sweden to the US..
alot of error sources on the way...
I never heard from Willie or ThinkGeek so I guess
they never thought this was a good idea.
From the posts on Slashdot it seems that they
would have made a buck if they had put a "suit"
together.
There is an XML/SGML alternative to LaTeX.
It is already used by LinuxDoc and it is called DocBook.
This XML/SGML solution will not give you power to specify exact inches/cm like LaTeX but the goal is to tag everything to use with stylesheets. With the use of MathML, one can get the formula writing powers of LaTeX.
Alot of work has been done by Norman Walsh and he has some nice stylesheets for making slides and even a website.
This is not for the person interested in flashy webpages, but for people interested in using the power of XML to document anything.
If you are working with writing technical documentation this is something that is worth looking into.
Read more about the history and articles about this at GP&C Systems International AB and here are some interesting facts about Mr Håkan Lans, the inventor.
He also holds one of three patents for the computer mouse and has a patent for color monitors for computers. Read more here!
Which quite naturally, requires an SSH client on the other end. I'm not allowed to install software on my machine at work, it's a reprimand if I do. Mindterm SSH client. Many computers has a Java enabled webbrowser.
Slashdot Mirror
There are 13 registered and 6897 anonymous users currently online. Current bandwidth usage: 1799.80 kbit/s
I use Expedia for maps over larger areas or driving directions in Europe.
I do not need US only maps your insensitive clod..
This was in the 1970:ies..
Here is another picture of the sub and one of Håkans
partners in building it.
Håkan Lans standing in front of his submarine, that is now placed in Swedens Technical Museum
First the moon and now the south pole.
Why does americans need to drive cars everywhere.. ?
I am not sure where you get this information from, or why not the editors have not checked this statement. The IA64 platfrom supports IA32 code. Read Intel Itanium Architecture Software Developer's Manual Vol. 2 rev. 2.0: System Architecture Part II chapter 9 entitled IA32 Application Support
Support by the operating system is needed, something that already has been built into the Linux kernel. I recomend reading Chapter 11 in IA64 Linux Kernel - design and implementation. IA32 programs will think they are running on a Pentium III computer.
The recomendation is to not run IA32 programs on IA64, but to recompile them for the new architechture... but that is kind of obvious..
You can get an SX-6i . The processor in ES is not made only for ES. And I don't think you would sell many supercomputers for IBM if you were advocating Gimp and Mozilla as applications...
The Earth Simulator is running Super UX. The same operating system as the rest of the NEC supercomputers
The German Language TV channel 3sat will broadcast a 30 min film on Earth Simulator on Monday and 24th of June at 21:30 hours and on Tuesday, 25th of June at 14:30 hours.
"my first software released under GPL (November 1988) -- now the Slashdot kiddies have to shut up; I was writing GPLed software before they were born, bwa ha ha!"
Posted Thursday, December 13, 2001 on his site..
He has alot of good thing to say about software management and programming.. read and learn instead of getting caught in Microsoft bashing..
During the spring I saw a documentary about a team building a Trebuchet with medieval tools.
It was on the Swedish science program, Vetenskapens värld.
In the NOVA/WGBH Trebuchet Project (October-November 1998),
the Timber Framers Guild helped to build two Trebuchets,
supervised by Mr Renaud Beffeyte.
A 300 pound stone ball was used to smash a a 7 foot-thick granite wall
more than 160 yards away.
No modern tools were used in the construction.
There are several types of Trebuchets and other war-mashines.
Schematic overviews and more information can be found at Medieval Mechanical Artillery
Monday, 25 Jun 2001, after thinking about this problem I went to the ThinkGeek website. I did not find this kind of product in the Work wear section but I found out that Willie was responsible for new ideas. So I sent him this mail.
Subject: an idea..
;)
/Fred
Hi Willie..
Just had an idea for a new product..
You got an excelent line of different t-shirts and
golf-shirts. But there is something missing.
Working with computers you quickly gather alot of
different gadgets. Mobilephone, PDA, wallet,
cybertool, mp3player, caffeine.. etc..
Where do you put all that stuff when you want them
handy and you don't want to carry a backpack all
the time ?
There are backpacks that have a nice pocket for
the mobilephone on the "strap".. handy ? Yes..
But I don't realy like the idea of having this
thing too near my heart.. other alternative.. ?
frontpocket.. well.. another Willie in the
vicinity..
backpocket ? sit down and you have a puzzle..
I have a pair of "suittrousers" with a nice
mobilephone thighpocket..
very handy and is not in the way..
The ultimate GeekTrousers would be the army type
with alot of pockets to put survivalgear..
but going to work looking like Rambo will get
management thinking of disgruntled employees and
rampage shootings..
Also it is hard to find a matching shirt for
those important customer meetings.
So go to an army surplus store nearby.
stop by a carpentershop..
Buy all different kinds of trousers..
spend an afternoon in the warehouse trying to
find the pair of trousers that will carry the
most kinds of gadgets in a safe way..
From that info, design a pair that would fit
in the corporate world..
Jackets or wests with the same properties would
probably be ok too..
Feel free to send me a pair filled with gadgets
if the idea turns out to work..
Time for the "Engineer suit".. The "Business suit"
for Engineers..
PS. Any misspelled words or gramatical errors are
due to the long way this mail had to travel
from Sweden to the US..
alot of error sources on the way...
I never heard from Willie or ThinkGeek so I guess they never thought this was a good idea. From the posts on Slashdot it seems that they would have made a buck if they had put a "suit" together.
There is an XML/SGML alternative to LaTeX. It is already used by LinuxDoc and it is called DocBook.
This XML/SGML solution will not give you power to specify exact inches/cm like LaTeX but the goal is to tag everything to use with stylesheets. With the use of MathML, one can get the formula writing powers of LaTeX.
Alot of work has been done by Norman Walsh and he has some nice stylesheets for making slides and even a website.
This is not for the person interested in flashy webpages, but for people interested in using the power of XML to document anything.
If you are working with writing technical documentation this is something that is worth looking into.
alfadir
--
"A witty quote proves nothing." - Signature Etiquette
Read more about the history and articles about this at GP&C Systems International AB and here are some interesting facts about Mr Håkan Lans, the inventor. He also holds one of three patents for the computer mouse and has a patent for color monitors for computers. Read more here!
Which quite naturally, requires an SSH client on the other end. I'm not allowed to install software on my machine at work, it's a reprimand if I do.
Mindterm SSH client. Many computers has a Java enabled webbrowser.