It's a different thing. MOSIX is effectively SMP over a network (yes I know it's not exactly the same, but hey.) whereas Beowulf is a message-passing system. The idea of Beowulf is to allow a single dataset to be worked on by processes running on several different machines, and applications have to be specially written. The upshot is, one application running fast. The idea of MOSIX is that you have one big kernel distributed over a lot of boxes (rather than SMP, which is just distributed over a lot of CPUs in one box). So a single thread can still only run on one CPU. But if you have lots of processes you want to run on one machine, or a heavily multithreaded process, then MOSIX is ideal. Of course, for lots of things you don't need either of these systems. If you can divide your data set up at the start of the task then 1/nth of the set can be processed on each single-processor machine. This is more or less how things like distributed.net work, with no need for MOSIX or Beowulf or PVM or any special system.
I've got a couple of things to say here. Firstly, I must disagree with the person who wrote saying that we should not sympathise with the Trench Coat Mafia because they were racist. Let me clarify this; I do not at all condone what the killers did. However, why is it worse to kill someone for being coloured than for being an athlete? Both are groups of people, and all people are equally precious. We should not abhor the killings because athletes were killed or because coloured people were killed, but because humans were killed. Although racism is a terrible thing, discrimination against the old, or against athletes, is equally terrible. However, finally the two boys became killers. It doesn't matter who they killed, whether of some minority or not. Every death is equally tragic. To claim that a death is somehow more appalling because the victim was a member of a particular group is to implicitly discriminate against everyone not in that group. The real tragedy in any case like this, whether the victims be white or black, rich or poor or entirely random people, is that people are driven to such depths of hatred in the first place.
On a different theme, at school I was a geek. I was in the computer club, listened to heavy metal and gothic stuff and played wargames. But I am also a dedicated mountaineer and spend a fair bit of time keeping in sufficiently good shape for the high mountains. There isn't necessarily an incompatibility between geeks and athletes (or "jocks" or whatever). I was in a sense lucky; at my school the teachers actually cared about their pupils and most of the pupils had sufficiently caring backgrounds that they weren't openly hostile to geeks or anyone else. But the problem geeks seem to have with sports (and team sports in particular) is that in general they will be the only geek on a team, and will therefore hate it. I reckon if more geeks could get to try sports in a geek-oriented environment they might like them. It's like computer games (which we all love, right?) only it's good for you as well. (OK, American football isn't but that's a particuarly stupid game anyway:P) We need geek-only sports clubs!
This assumes that the responsibility for our actions lies "elsewhere" with some organisation monitoring them a la 1984 and controlling what we do on the basis of that. However, this is the wrong alternative. Instead, why not accept that we do bear responsibility for what we do, and for ensuring that other people over whom we have influence (like our kids) learn to do the same. To go down the 1984 route is to degenerate into a culture with absolutely no control; when the Big Brother mechanism fails you are left with a bunch of pure savages made more dangerous than those of previous times by the technology they have access to.
It's not all GPLed. Qt, for a start. Even if they use the new license. And Netscape for another. And anything using a BSD license. Free Software is not equivalent to the (L)GPL. I'm not saying that's good or bad, just pointing it out.
Right, this has irritated me for a while now. There are perfectly good apps for linux, perfectly well able to match the functionality of Office (well OK maybe not the office assistant though I hear KDE are working on it, but that's a piece of shit anyway).
Spreadsheet: abs (look on linuxberg for it), Star Office Word processor: LyX (search on freshmeat), Word Perfect Presentation tool: Magic Point (probably find it on freshmeat) E-mail and news client: M, KDE's mail program etc... Finance package: OK, this is the one weak area I can think of (in terms of free software) though I think there have been a couple of big-name enterprise business programs ported lately Database: come on, this is what UNIX does best. There are loads.
Well duh! With gun control there would be far fewer guns in circulation, making it harder for the kids to have got them. The gun culture would also be less predominant, and they would therefore have been less likely to think of using guns. Whatever you say about hardened criminals still having access to guns (which is probably true, to some extent), harsh gun control still makes it extremely hard for first-timers, people without serious underworld connections (ie people like these two kids) to get hold of a gun. At the moment they can just steal their parents' (legally held) gun. If guns weren't around the home so much they couldn't.
It's pretty consistent. You seem so scared of your fellow countrymen that you need the right to bear arms to protect yourself -- but that's why you're scared of your fellow countrymen. Anyway, if the government really want to drag you to the gas chambers they won't even notice whatever poxy weapons you could get. Remember, if the government turn on everyone else - you have guns, they have large bunkers and nuclear weapons. Your uzis, AK-47s etc. aren't going to do much good if an ICBM lands near you. So why not concentrate on ensuring that America is a sufficiently nice country that the government (that YOU elect!) can be trusted, at least on the really important things. We seem to do OK without a right to bear arms in Britain, and let me compare the gun-death statistics for 1997: Britain - 30. USA - about 7,000 IIRC. Even given that our population is half that of the US, it's still about a factor of 100 out.
Can you get SRPMs? I can't see many people accepting RPMs from a completely unknown source (you may be trustworthy; on the other hand you may have added a whopping great backdoor). And if SSH provided RPMs wouldn't they be available at the usual places?
Floppies are good for storing absolutely unalterable files: you can have a floppy with the write-protect tab open with md5sums for all your suid binaries and run a program that diffs them against the current md5sums. For serious data storage of course, they're crap.
Nah. Their deaths will be faked and they will be forced to work as slaves for the British spooks until their minds are little better than mush. Then they will be paraded before the world as an example of what happens to those who mess with the big bad UK.
IIRC some of the -ac patches allow you to access >2GB of physical memory. I've never needed them (only having a lowly 128MB!) so I don't know how stable they are yet.
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It's a different thing. MOSIX is effectively SMP over a network (yes I know it's not exactly the same, but hey.) whereas Beowulf is a message-passing system. The idea of Beowulf is to allow a single dataset to be worked on by processes running on several different machines, and applications have to be specially written. The upshot is, one application running fast.
The idea of MOSIX is that you have one big kernel distributed over a lot of boxes (rather than SMP, which is just distributed over a lot of CPUs in one box). So a single thread can still only run on one CPU. But if you have lots of processes you want to run on one machine, or a heavily multithreaded process, then MOSIX is ideal.
Of course, for lots of things you don't need either of these systems. If you can divide your data set up at the start of the task then 1/nth of the set can be processed on each single-processor machine. This is more or less how things like distributed.net work, with no need for MOSIX or Beowulf or PVM or any special system.
axolotl
Sorry, for a moment there I thought you said something about intelligence. Obviously not...
It's been done. Go to your user preferences and select "Sort by newest first". Maybe ACs don't get to use this.
And/or put it in CVS so everyone can get read access to the truly current code.
Yes, but if you could affod a Cray you could fricking well afford a large pipe...
I've got a couple of things to say here.
:P) We need geek-only sports clubs!
Firstly, I must disagree with the person who wrote saying that we should not sympathise with the Trench Coat Mafia because they were racist. Let me clarify this; I do not at all condone what the killers did. However, why is it worse to kill someone for being coloured than for being an athlete? Both are groups of people, and all people are equally precious. We should not abhor the killings because athletes were killed or because coloured people were killed, but because humans were killed. Although racism is a terrible thing, discrimination against the old, or against athletes, is equally terrible. However, finally the two boys became killers. It doesn't matter who they killed, whether of some minority or not. Every death is equally tragic. To claim that a death is somehow more appalling because the victim was a member of a particular group is to implicitly discriminate against everyone not in that group. The real tragedy in any case like this, whether the victims be white or black, rich or poor or entirely random people, is that people are driven to such depths of hatred in the first place.
On a different theme, at school I was a geek. I was in the computer club, listened to heavy metal and gothic stuff and played wargames. But I am also a dedicated mountaineer and spend a fair bit of time keeping in sufficiently good shape for the high mountains. There isn't necessarily an incompatibility between geeks and athletes (or "jocks" or whatever). I was in a sense lucky; at my school the teachers actually cared about their pupils and most of the pupils had sufficiently caring backgrounds that they weren't openly hostile to geeks or anyone else. But the problem geeks seem to have with sports (and team sports in particular) is that in general they will be the only geek on a team, and will therefore hate it. I reckon if more geeks could get to try sports in a geek-oriented environment they might like them. It's like computer games (which we all love, right?) only it's good for you as well. (OK, American football isn't but that's a particuarly stupid game anyway
axolotl
This assumes that the responsibility for our actions lies "elsewhere" with some organisation monitoring them a la 1984 and controlling what we do on the basis of that. However, this is the wrong alternative. Instead, why not accept that we do bear responsibility for what we do, and for ensuring that other people over whom we have influence (like our kids) learn to do the same. To go down the 1984 route is to degenerate into a culture with absolutely no control; when the Big Brother mechanism fails you are left with a bunch of pure savages made more dangerous than those of previous times by the technology they have access to.
It's not all GPLed. Qt, for a start. Even if they use the new license. And Netscape for another. And anything using a BSD license. Free Software is not equivalent to the (L)GPL. I'm not saying that's good or bad, just pointing it out.
axolotl
No. If you can't be bothered to re-write it (or even copy & paste it), then I can't be bothered to go look for it.
axolotl
No. I f you can't be bothered to re-write it (or even copy & paste it), then I can't be bothered to go look for it.
axolotl
Right, this has irritated me for a while now. There are perfectly good apps for linux, perfectly well able to match the functionality of Office (well OK maybe not the office assistant though I hear KDE are working on it, but that's a piece of shit anyway).
Spreadsheet: abs (look on linuxberg for it), Star Office
Word processor: LyX (search on freshmeat), Word Perfect
Presentation tool: Magic Point (probably find it on freshmeat)
E-mail and news client: M, KDE's mail program etc...
Finance package: OK, this is the one weak area I can think of (in terms of free software) though I think there have been a couple of big-name enterprise business programs ported lately
Database: come on, this is what UNIX does best. There are loads.
axolotl
Well duh! With gun control there would be far fewer guns in circulation, making it harder for the kids to have got them. The gun culture would also be less predominant, and they would therefore have been less likely to think of using guns.
Whatever you say about hardened criminals still having access to guns (which is probably true, to some extent), harsh gun control still makes it extremely hard for first-timers, people without serious underworld connections (ie people like these two kids) to get hold of a gun. At the moment they can just steal their parents' (legally held) gun. If guns weren't around the home so much they couldn't.
axolotl
It's pretty consistent. You seem so scared of your fellow countrymen that you need the right to bear arms to protect yourself -- but that's why you're scared of your fellow countrymen.
Anyway, if the government really want to drag you to the gas chambers they won't even notice whatever poxy weapons you could get. Remember, if the government turn on everyone else - you have guns, they have large bunkers and nuclear weapons. Your uzis, AK-47s etc. aren't going to do much good if an ICBM lands near you.
So why not concentrate on ensuring that America is a sufficiently nice country that the government (that YOU elect!) can be trusted, at least on the really important things.
We seem to do OK without a right to bear arms in Britain, and let me compare the gun-death statistics for 1997: Britain - 30. USA - about 7,000 IIRC. Even given that our population is half that of the US, it's still about a factor of 100 out.
axolotl
Can you get SRPMs? I can't see many people accepting RPMs from a completely unknown source (you may be trustworthy; on the other hand you may have added a whopping great backdoor). And if SSH provided RPMs wouldn't they be available at the usual places?
axolotl
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Call me skeptic...
Floppies are good for storing absolutely unalterable files: you can have a floppy with the write-protect tab open with md5sums for all your suid binaries and run a program that diffs them against the current md5sums.
For serious data storage of course, they're crap.
axolotl
The Jesus one looks like Stallman. And I see the Adam and Eve ones are post-Eden :)
axolotl
Nah. Their deaths will be faked and they will be forced to work as slaves for the British spooks until their minds are little better than mush. Then they will be paraded before the world as an example of what happens to those who mess with the big bad UK.
Well... is it vicious?
That would be a bit shit. Very shit, in fact. I take it you mean exponentially, which is exactly the inverse of logarithmically.
No, the Bladerunner one was better
No, the Dune one was
No, she was prettie in Bladerunner
She was better in Dune... use VI!
Use emacs dammit!
"My mother? Lemme tell you about my mother..."
Sorry, I should have read the post to which you were replying more carefully. I didn't notice he said "electronic".
axolotl
Shuddup foo'!
IIRC some of the -ac patches allow you to access >2GB of physical memory. I've never needed them (only having a lowly 128MB!) so I don't know how stable they are yet.
axolotl
where can I find these drivers?
They sound rather good...
axolotl