From what I understand - the NSA went through an outsourcing effort about 2 years ago (thanks Bill!!) - so anyone who was decent pretty much left the Agency. The ppl left in the trenches now are fresh out of college - most of whom know nothing BUT windows. Upper mgmt lacks the technical knowledge or even vocabulary to make intelligent decisions, and it looks like they're trying to turn the Agency into a "business".. MS caters to the business wannabe's who don't understand the more in-depth technical issues - so what's next? Our National Security depends on the success of the MS security model?
Good luck. Honestly, I'd investigate the *BSD solution for now, but I'd keep in mind that the upfront costs of the Sun system may actually be smaller than the long-term costs of the PCs.
Up front costs of a Sun? Take a look at some of the 1U netras - they're sub $1000 now? (your pricebook is a little old).. Sun's slashing prices to help unload a lot of their old UltraSparc h/w, and with all the dot-com sellouts there's a ton more in auctions all over.. not bad for a 64-bit machine with a *really nice* o/s now (Sol 8 - more big improvements in 9).
Sun h/w is at a really nice pricepoint now and with a well supported and bug-tested 64-bit O/S.. I'm not expecting IA64/linux to get there for at least another year or two - and by that point you should see a tighter merge on the two trees.
Solaris 8 has SDS (DiskSuite) improved and UFS logging natively.. throw in the native GNU utilities and an some big improvements in network caching - not bad for a free O/S..
somebody was kind enough to post the http://www.cmruk.com/cmrKHD.html URL which appears to have a more detailed paper on the technology.
If anyone actually sees this through all the crud - I was just wondering where I could go for a more technical discussion or nerdly discussion on the merits of what is being proposed here.
The 10TB leap would be a huge one, and it appears that they're using a single mode 5 micron fibre and able to read/write with a 0.1 micron spot size - so my guess that the signal is somehow modulated to reflectively hit different areas of the MO - but at current levels of fibre transfer (100MB/s) it would take roughly 125 days (sustained) to fill the 10.8TB.. of course then you could have the entire Library of Congress..
Is there anybody who knows more details about the signalling, or is there a more intelligent discussion elsewhere on some of these issues?
because it doesn't matter - all it would do is give everyone a number tag by which people would inaccurately judge a product.. contrary to popular belief - the universe doesn't resolve to a single number (well - ok you near 198.41.0.4 as you approach . in the internet universe).. but for the rest of the world - PI was fiction, the Ncomplete problem is bogus since it's always viewed linearly with a random or pseudo-random seed, and MIPS are meaningless without problem context and instruction optimization!
you want a bogoMIPS number? make one up! - I vote for a gazillion - I mean think about it - you've basically got a core chip that loads instructions as needed and then optimizes those instructions.. you think INTEL instructions are going to be a fair view of what this chip can really do? And you think BogoMIPS will tell you anything interesting about what applications this chip will excel at?.. you have a moving target number.. so what kind of Bogus MIPS number do you really want to see?..
and boy - if this slashdot discussion is even a mild subsection of people who have even a minor understanding of today's technology - this chip will majorly flop.. but not because of the ideas or technology - rather - people's grasp of technology can't seem to get past 1974.
bah - time to find a new group of people to discuss things with - too much noise here - not enough intelligent or well thought-out signal.
It always amazed me that these wonderful new technologies would be developed and the first thing they try and do is run windows on it.. makes you realize how much more of a dominance MSFT has and how the monopoly relationship btwn MSFT and INTL affects everyone.. TMTA will never take off until we really get the O/S's off the INTEL chips and their bastardized clones (AMD, etc..)
I don't know about the EFF(ff) argument about source code being speech.. when you get into issues of freedom of speech (well.. in the US anyways) - i think you'll find that not all speech is productive, and that speech is powerful (has the power of life and death,..) - and really what i believe the censors are aiming at has more to do with intent. Now intent (as we all know from watching the Florida debates) is a highly subjective matter to determine - but this is really where the case (and much of our humanity) lies..
Now i'm not sure that this is the best approach for dealing with this matter. If you look at source code more like a recipe (and sure you can print, reword, speak and sing recipes if you want.. "2 cups of butter 8 pounds of eggs"..) - but the intent (once again subjective) of a recipe is mostly different from many casual conversations in that it involves specific instructions on how to create/destroy something which is a different class of speech than saying "I think you suck because foo blah gah gump"..
Now I believe in this aim DeCSS has a stronger case - If you can begin to show that the use of a recipe (albeit a pretty bad one) has limited the freedom on the distribution of a better technology for all people - I think you have a case that's more akin to that of oppressive and controlling governments within the US federal government (in this case the standards organzations of the DVD Consortium controlled by corporations such as the MPAA) whose intent is to deny access to the enjoyment of a work of art because they have implemented a bad business model to begin with. The proliferation of this business model is based more on (once again subjective) an issue of maintaining control because it is more profitable for those with vested interests to prevent change. This stays a little truer to form and brings in the human side of the larger issues involved.
Now if the artists didn't support the MPAA or RIAA, I think they would find a better distribution mechanism and a better business model for truely talented people to shine without the corporate spin of opinion on what's good and what's not.. in other words.. we need to open source Art! and other areas of IP that have come under the hand of self-seeking corporations bent on controlling people through closed standards.
I'm sorry - but I like the structure that Postel and the ISI crew put in place for the.US domain - I don't think it's been unsuccessful from "long extensions" (that's like saying unix is unpopular because of "long pathnames" and dos 8.3 names are better).. rather it doesn't have the same appeal as the.com, or.tv because there's no marketing hype behind it, and no easy way for a company to become rich selling back to localities their own name.. it was designed to be usable and flexible and free for everyone - it was designed so that localities could have a representative address with a clear structure that prevents naming collisions - it was not designed to be profitable.
I say - do away with DNS and the money-laundering greed-mongers - the whole system is pretty screwed up.. selling domain-names is like selling real estate on the moon! Let's come up with a better way to get from point A to point B..
[btw - ever notice the eerie similarities between domain names (and now ML domain names) and the tower of Babel?]
---- .je
".. if they spoke the same language then nothing they attempted would be impossible for them.."
whois.internic.net now points to the NSI registry (Verisign Global Registry Services) whois server.. the internic was pretty much disbanded last year, and taken over by the US Dept of Commerce (check the registrations for internic.net and internic.com). For this query you'll get the same result if you do a:
whois -h whois.verisign-grs.com slashdot.org
If you actually bother to read the information it kicks back - you're now given the correct whois server for the registrar who submitted the domain registration.. in this case we see that slashdot registered with NSI.. do a whois query there to see more detailed information:
Hmm - sounds like a good case for a locality based infrastructure if I've ever heard of one.. But guess what - most local governments aren't equipped to handle or even understand how to network their own local government offices together. One look at the delegations in the.US TLD and I think you'll see the problem grows as very few localities are being run by the region they represent. In other words - every 3rd level delegation that is not administratively registered to the local government represented by the name is already a conflict of interest. This has huge implications on the usability and expansion of this structure. Used correctly, it could be a wonderful system to track and organize localities across the states to do something really useful with the technology at it's fingertips like say elections.. but the way that things are heading - will it ever be used this way? (Not withstanding the extremely noble effort of Postel and the ISI team).. probably not..
.. and why? Is it technically prohibitive or difficult to run a DNS server? No! - In many ways it's easier than running a webserver! The real prohibitive factor that keeps local governments back is simply greed. The perception that the technology is more advanced and difficult to implement has more to do with how it is communicated and the companies/monopolies who have a vested interests in keeping things the way it is.
So in other words, a very human problem creates a technical problem that creates another human problem.. you get the idea..
"But if they're so fierce and dangerous," Charlie said, "why didn't they eat us up right away in the Space
Hotel? Why did they waste time twisting their bodies into letters and writing SCRAM?"
"Because they're show-offs," Mr. Wonka replied. "They're tremendously proud of being able to write like
that."
"But why say scram when they wanted to catch us and eat us?"
"It's the only word they know," Mr. Wonka said.
I don't understand these new White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Phones.. i guess it makes sense since i typically see middle-aged White Anglo-Saxon Protestants using these devices, but maybe Nokia, Siemens and Ericsson should consider making products for other markets as well..
There is no such thing as a fat or thin pipe. Take my Coke as an example. Obviously, there are limitations on the acceptable width of the straw in the can. It has to be fat enough to allow passage of the soda (pop in Canada) with surface tension taken into effect. It has to be thin enough to fit in my mouth. Other than that, the straw's effectiveness depends on how hard one sucks.
and what about the beer/coke bong.. remember - pop a hole in the bottom, and pop the top - then the real bottleneck is your neck and your ability to chug. who needs straws?.. now if I'm always chugging cokes, you're gonna have a hard time taking a sip until I get sick, barf it up, and sell it back to you.. and hey! there's capitalistic ingenuity that should be rewarded!!
You're absolutely right - the insistence on personal rights and freedoms stomps on the rights and freedoms of others. I see it in traffic every day over here.. mainly.. the depersonalization creates an avenue where relationships can be abused, and we can become comfortable doing it.
"Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others."
I think it would make a lot of sense to do a physical to virtual mapping of us domains. As Jon Postel wrote in rfc1480 (1993):
Should all names be obvious? Trying to do this is desirable and also impossible. There will come a point when the obviously right name for an organization is already taken. As the system grows this will happen with increasing frequency. While ease of use to the end user is desirable, a higher priority must be placed on having a system that operates. This means that the manageability of the system must have high considerations
If only for finding the location of a virtual space, I don't think we fully understand the impact that this could have if we begin mapping the physical to the virtual. Think about it - if the US Postal Service ran these, every single physical mail address could be easily converted to a virtual address. Will this happen though? Only if we lose the preoccupation with our immediate greed and convenience to consider something larger than ourselves.
same sort thing happens in meetings.. seems to me that about every 7.5 minutes there's an off-topic break for about 2.5 minutes..
on a side-topic though I don't really understand the constant fascination with meetings - you get much less accomplished most of the time - is it because people like to feel important for being invited to meetings or.. oh wait - something else is happening - I have to run to a meeting..
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I've heard that the 2GHz # is simply 2 x 1GHz (or 2x750 overclocked) chips on the same die.. just another way of making an SMP look like a single chip with their IPC and processor synchronization in h/w on the side.
what's next - a million 486's dancing on the head of a pin?
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From what I understand - the NSA went through an outsourcing effort about 2 years ago (thanks Bill!!) - so anyone who was decent pretty much left the Agency. The ppl left in the trenches now are fresh out of college - most of whom know nothing BUT windows. Upper mgmt lacks the technical knowledge or even vocabulary to make intelligent decisions, and it looks like they're trying to turn the Agency into a "business" .. MS caters to the business wannabe's who don't understand the more in-depth technical issues - so what's next? Our National Security depends on the success of the MS security model?
With a direct neural interface into the frontal and occipital lobes .. everybody will want prostethic foreheads on their real heads ..
heck .. Microsoft did that and more!
Does this mean that they get sued by the Columbine parents? ..
It must have been the interface after all
I guess it's all a leap of faith ..
8P
Up front costs of a Sun? Take a look at some of the 1U netras - they're sub $1000 now? (your pricebook is a little old) .. Sun's slashing prices to help unload a lot of their old UltraSparc h/w, and with all the dot-com sellouts there's a ton more in auctions all over .. not bad for a 64-bit machine with a *really nice* o/s now (Sol 8 - more big improvements in 9).
Sun h/w is at a really nice pricepoint now and with a well supported and bug-tested 64-bit O/S .. I'm not expecting IA64/linux to get there for at least another year or two - and by that point you should see a tighter merge on the two trees.
Just say no (more) to Intel h/w!!
Solaris 8 has SDS (DiskSuite) improved and UFS logging natively .. throw in the native GNU utilities and an some big improvements in network caching - not bad for a free O/S ..
If anyone actually sees this through all the crud - I was just wondering where I could go for a more technical discussion or nerdly discussion on the merits of what is being proposed here.
The 10TB leap would be a huge one, and it appears that they're using a single mode 5 micron fibre and able to read/write with a 0.1 micron spot size - so my guess that the signal is somehow modulated to reflectively hit different areas of the MO - but at current levels of fibre transfer (100MB/s) it would take roughly 125 days (sustained) to fill the 10.8TB .. of course then you could have the entire Library of Congress ..
Is there anybody who knows more details about the signalling, or is there a more intelligent discussion elsewhere on some of these issues?
you want a bogoMIPS number? make one up! - I vote for a gazillion - I mean think about it - you've basically got a core chip that loads instructions as needed and then optimizes those instructions .. you think INTEL instructions are going to be a fair view of what this chip can really do? And you think BogoMIPS will tell you anything interesting about what applications this chip will excel at? .. you have a moving target number .. so what kind of Bogus MIPS number do you really want to see? ..
and boy - if this slashdot discussion is even a mild subsection of people who have even a minor understanding of today's technology - this chip will majorly flop .. but not because of the ideas or technology - rather - people's grasp of technology can't seem to get past 1974.
bah - time to find a new group of people to discuss things with - too much noise here - not enough intelligent or well thought-out signal.
It always amazed me that these wonderful new technologies would be developed and the first thing they try and do is run windows on it .. makes you realize how much more of a dominance MSFT has and how the monopoly relationship btwn MSFT and INTL affects everyone .. TMTA will never take off until we really get the O/S's off the INTEL chips and their bastardized clones (AMD, etc ..)
Now i'm not sure that this is the best approach for dealing with this matter. If you look at source code more like a recipe (and sure you can print, reword, speak and sing recipes if you want .. "2 cups of butter 8 pounds of eggs" ..) - but the intent (once again subjective) of a recipe is mostly different from many casual conversations in that it involves specific instructions on how to create/destroy something which is a different class of speech than saying "I think you suck because foo blah gah gump" ..
Now I believe in this aim DeCSS has a stronger case - If you can begin to show that the use of a recipe (albeit a pretty bad one) has limited the freedom on the distribution of a better technology for all people - I think you have a case that's more akin to that of oppressive and controlling governments within the US federal government (in this case the standards organzations of the DVD Consortium controlled by corporations such as the MPAA) whose intent is to deny access to the enjoyment of a work of art because they have implemented a bad business model to begin with. The proliferation of this business model is based more on (once again subjective) an issue of maintaining control because it is more profitable for those with vested interests to prevent change. This stays a little truer to form and brings in the human side of the larger issues involved.
Now if the artists didn't support the MPAA or RIAA, I think they would find a better distribution mechanism and a better business model for truely talented people to shine without the corporate spin of opinion on what's good and what's not .. in other words .. we need to open source Art! and other areas of IP that have come under the hand of self-seeking corporations bent on controlling people through closed standards.
I say - do away with DNS and the money-laundering greed-mongers - the whole system is pretty screwed up .. selling domain-names is like selling real estate on the moon! Let's come up with a better way to get from point A to point B ..
[btw - ever notice the eerie similarities between domain names (and now ML domain names) and the tower of Babel?]
----
.je .."
".. if they spoke the same language then nothing they attempted would be impossible for them
not unless they take root zone off the .COM nameservers ..
Look for ENUM .. coming soon to a TLD domain monopoly near you ..
whois -h whois.verisign-grs.com slashdot.org
If you actually bother to read the information it kicks back - you're now given the correct whois server for the registrar who submitted the domain registration .. in this case we see that slashdot registered with NSI .. do a whois query there to see more detailed information:
whois -h whois.networksolutions.com slashdot.org
So in other words, a very human problem creates a technical problem that creates another human problem .. you get the idea ..
the link just changed on me ..
"But if they're so fierce and dangerous," Charlie said, "why didn't they eat us up right away in the Space Hotel? Why did they waste time twisting their bodies into letters and writing SCRAM?" "Because they're show-offs," Mr. Wonka replied. "They're tremendously proud of being able to write like that." "But why say scram when they wanted to catch us and eat us?" "It's the only word they know," Mr. Wonka said.
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator was a great book .. ..
nice to know that world may finally catch up with Willy Wonka
A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire
and what about the beer/coke bong .. remember - pop a hole in the bottom, and pop the top - then the real bottleneck is your neck and your ability to chug. who needs straws? .. now if I'm always chugging cokes, you're gonna have a hard time taking a sip until I get sick, barf it up, and sell it back to you .. and hey! there's capitalistic ingenuity that should be rewarded!!
You're absolutely right - the insistence on personal rights and freedoms stomps on the rights and freedoms of others. I see it in traffic every day over here .. mainly .. the depersonalization creates an avenue where relationships can be abused, and we can become comfortable doing it.
"Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others."
Should all names be obvious? Trying to do this is desirable and also impossible. There will come a point when the obviously right name for an organization is already taken. As the system grows this will happen with increasing frequency. While ease of use to the end user is desirable, a higher priority must be placed on having a system that operates. This means that the manageability of the system must have high considerations
If only for finding the location of a virtual space, I don't think we fully understand the impact that this could have if we begin mapping the physical to the virtual. Think about it - if the US Postal Service ran these, every single physical mail address could be easily converted to a virtual address. Will this happen though? Only if we lose the preoccupation with our immediate greed and convenience to consider something larger than ourselves.
what was the professor's name with the huge nose?
on a side-topic though I don't really understand the constant fascination with meetings - you get much less accomplished most of the time - is it because people like to feel important for being invited to meetings or .. oh wait - something else is happening - I have to run to a meeting ..
what's next - a million 486's dancing on the head of a pin?