If you reduce your withholding level to where you have a slight tax due (but be sure it won't exceed $500) by the end of the year, then you won't be putting your refund at risk, since you won't have one.
More cores is not necessarily better. Some software, and even some algorithms, can do poorly with such contentions on memory access. OTOH, others can do much better. You have to understand the software you intend to run on it a lot. Is it Embarrassingly parallel?
The distro does matter, often in ways not particular to being a cluster, but perhaps in ways making it easy to manage in general. For example, I'm moving away from Ubuntu (server) because it is too hard to selectively upgrade a single package or group of packages without imposing an upgrade on other packages. This is where "hand holding" has turned into "wrist crushing". So I'm moving to Slackware (which is getting a lot more capability through the SlackBuilds community).
This (GPL vs BSD) is where the fork in the road is. It depends on whether you want your code to be widespread one or or widespread the other way. In the GPL case, your code won't be used in certain products where they can't open the whole thing. In the BSD case, it can be used everywhere, but there's no obligated to release source for what it gets added to. You have to decide, for code you create, which way you want it to go. I recently switched to BSD for my library code, and staying with GPL for complete programs.
Yes, the -h option on chown and chgrp is needed to do this right. Also, you'll need to use -print0 on find, and -0 or --null on xargs, to avoid being corrupted by odd file names, including file names with newline characters in them (technically valid).
It seems some developers of Gnome want it to become a distribution, and eventually even the kernel. First abandon other Unix systems for Linux. Then abandon Linux itself to be its own OS. Given how crappy the GUI based system admin tools are now, I see this as heading over the cliff.
And if the advanced feature is not present on the kernel that is running, then the desktop app has to just panic and quit? Why not just not use that feature that isn't there? The Gnome Grave is now over a meter deep. Are they still digging?
Mr. Childs demanded no ransom. He demanded the network be kept solidly secure. Management (not sure which parts in particular) has ALL of the responsibility for this. But just like any political aspiring person, they will never, ever, admit to it. And I bet you are one of those types.
There was nothing wrong with the network. Mr. Childs planted no bombs in it. I didn't create any backdoors that were there for any purpose besides proper management. It is entirely unjustified to assume he did anything bad to the network. The costs of management trying to play games with the network should be billed to those management people, personally, not Mr. Childs. Its is they who were taking these steps just for appearance, and to make themselves look more powerful.
Of course, he did make one big mistake... he worked for asswipe political people (I still think you are one of those types). He should have moved on earlier. But where? Sony Entertainment? I bet those managers would have cared even less.
The answer is, if you work in security (and networking or system administration is a security job these days), you damn well better be working for someone who actually cares about the security and respects the processes and people that work it. At least some in the management of the City of San Francisco certainly don't give a damn about security at all.
I can see you have no experience with the kinds of political power plays that can happen in government offices. Mr. Childs' big mistake was not recognizing how seriously bad it can be in city government. At least Mr. Childs recognized all the means by which people could take over the network and put in efforts to ensure it would be tightly secure, even from those with physical access. Who would be to blame if someone screwed up the network and let hackers in?
Right, of course not. But the politicos that were really responsible for this still needed to make sure they were not seen by the general public to be at blame for this. They needed a scapegoat and got one. And today the city network is at much greater risk than it would have been had the proper culprit been identified, and Mr. Childs remained as the network administrator.
Mr. Child's mistake was working for an organization with people that will stab people in the back.
The need to expend that money to regain control of the network was because of their own stupidity, not because of Terry Childs. If I were a taxpayer in San Francisco, of course I would not want to be paying for that. I would want the culprit(s) to pay. And Terry Childs is NOT the culprit. Some political bosses higher up were. Bill the $900,000 to them, personally and make this right.
... to etch an antenna at the wavelength of 0.000001 meter? Well, OK, it's not trivial. But we do have things like lasers that can etch chemicals at that size and smaller. Then we need a way to transfer that etch to conductive metal, add rectification to make it usable and collectible, and have our own little power sources. A flat panel might do if the current level doesn't burn up the collection tap point.
Any kernel, anywhere? There's already a tool that can do that. It's called Linux. And it has far more capability than GRUB. Can GRUB grab a kernel via rsync over ssh and boot it? Linux can (be set up to) do that.
I'd rather be able to just have a fixed place to put a kernel, and have that place always boot. LILO isn't good enough because it requires running its "lilo" command to build a block index. The better way to very simply boot a kernel is to sequentially write that kernel to it's own partition. Since we have GPT, now, we have plenty of partition slots to put in alternate backup kernels in case the new one won't run.
But LILO isn't it, either, especially due to the way it manages indexing blocks, which is a major hassle. Had it not been for the DOS MBR partition table limitations, an early (and probably still used) bootloader might have placed kernel and initrd images directly in raw partitions. Now we have GPT with at least 128 partitions (it can do even more, but a certain OS won't support it) and there should be plenty of slots to slip in an OS or two, sequentially, without any need for a table of block indexes.
Oh, I'm personally not a Libertarian at all. There are a few things I do believe in that are very libertarian in leaning. The patent system overhaul I suggest, is one of those things that is, or should be, both libertarian and progressive supported. But I do like to call Libertarians to the carpet for being untrue to libertarianism. Another example is government issued marriage licenses. A true libertarian would get the government out of that business. Why should the government, at any level, be the gateway to getting married (even though for the most part that has not been a problem with it). If Ron Paul is a true libertarian, he would be seeking to remove the government from these activities. That doesn't mean that I would actually vote for him. Whether he would, or would not, I would not vote for him.
We only see these patent suits because it's something the government enforces. Patents are a form of taking property away from those who own it. Each inventor owns what he invents. But the government allows the first who filed for a patent to take the property away from other inventors. So the 2nd and latter inventors lose.
Of course, there always has been the risk that someone will see what is done and steal that, claiming to have invented it. The patent system was intended to encourage invention that never would have happened without the patent system. Most inventions today, like the upgrade button, are so trivial that no one would believe that they would only have been invented because a patent system exists.
Let me take a moment now to defend the patent system. There are a few very innovative or very expensive inventions that really do need the patent system. IMHO, these constitute a tiny fraction of patents actually issued, probably less than one percent. We need the patent system to get these inventions to come about.
What we do not need is a patent system that just issues patents for anything that comes along (under the guise that the courts will figure it out later). Because we have such an unfair court system (money rules, not justice), that means the patent system is unfair, too. And this harms the nation and its businesses, especially the innovative ones, the most. We need a complete and thorough patent system and patent process overhaul. It needs to judge each and every patent on the merit that founds the whole patent system to begin with. If an invention is something that we would have seen invented anyway, by the time it is needed, or soon after, typically because it is obvious to at least a number of people who could invent it, when posed with the problem, then that invention does not meet the real reason for a patent, and it should be denied.
The USPTO and the US Government itself are getting money because they issue these patents. And this is a big factor in why the system is so screwed up. They don't have an incentive to fix it.
This is why we need Libertarians to control Congress and the White House so they will get rid of government (especially Federal government) supporting this kind of theft, and promote a fully Free Enterprise system where anyone can invent whatever they want and not worry about the government stealing it. Ron Paul officially announced his candidacy for President today. Let's find out if he is a true Libertarian or just some two-faced Republican and get him to take a side.
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If you reduce your withholding level to where you have a slight tax due (but be sure it won't exceed $500) by the end of the year, then you won't be putting your refund at risk, since you won't have one.
More cores is not necessarily better. Some software, and even some algorithms, can do poorly with such contentions on memory access. OTOH, others can do much better. You have to understand the software you intend to run on it a lot. Is it Embarrassingly parallel?
The distro does matter, often in ways not particular to being a cluster, but perhaps in ways making it easy to manage in general. For example, I'm moving away from Ubuntu (server) because it is too hard to selectively upgrade a single package or group of packages without imposing an upgrade on other packages. This is where "hand holding" has turned into "wrist crushing". So I'm moving to Slackware (which is getting a lot more capability through the SlackBuilds community).
Red Hat gets chosen by people wearing suits and ties because there are people working at Red Hat who wear suits and ties.
How about I abuse you, instead.
This (GPL vs BSD) is where the fork in the road is. It depends on whether you want your code to be widespread one or or widespread the other way. In the GPL case, your code won't be used in certain products where they can't open the whole thing. In the BSD case, it can be used everywhere, but there's no obligated to release source for what it gets added to. You have to decide, for code you create, which way you want it to go. I recently switched to BSD for my library code, and staying with GPL for complete programs.
How about Scientific Linux?
Yes, the -h option on chown and chgrp is needed to do this right. Also, you'll need to use -print0 on find, and -0 or --null on xargs, to avoid being corrupted by odd file names, including file names with newline characters in them (technically valid).
No, it is the Chinese government that is the cause of problems in China.
It seems some developers of Gnome want it to become a distribution, and eventually even the kernel. First abandon other Unix systems for Linux. Then abandon Linux itself to be its own OS. Given how crappy the GUI based system admin tools are now, I see this as heading over the cliff.
And if the advanced feature is not present on the kernel that is running, then the desktop app has to just panic and quit? Why not just not use that feature that isn't there? The Gnome Grave is now over a meter deep. Are they still digging?
Back then, we walked to school ... up hill ... both ways.
Now days we are driven to school by soccer moms who tremble in panic at the sight of a snowflake.
Mr. Childs demanded no ransom. He demanded the network be kept solidly secure. Management (not sure which parts in particular) has ALL of the responsibility for this. But just like any political aspiring person, they will never, ever, admit to it. And I bet you are one of those types.
There was nothing wrong with the network. Mr. Childs planted no bombs in it. I didn't create any backdoors that were there for any purpose besides proper management. It is entirely unjustified to assume he did anything bad to the network. The costs of management trying to play games with the network should be billed to those management people, personally, not Mr. Childs. Its is they who were taking these steps just for appearance, and to make themselves look more powerful.
Of course, he did make one big mistake ... he worked for asswipe political people (I still think you are one of those types). He should have moved on earlier. But where? Sony Entertainment? I bet those managers would have cared even less.
The answer is, if you work in security (and networking or system administration is a security job these days), you damn well better be working for someone who actually cares about the security and respects the processes and people that work it. At least some in the management of the City of San Francisco certainly don't give a damn about security at all.
I can see you have no experience with the kinds of political power plays that can happen in government offices. Mr. Childs' big mistake was not recognizing how seriously bad it can be in city government. At least Mr. Childs recognized all the means by which people could take over the network and put in efforts to ensure it would be tightly secure, even from those with physical access. Who would be to blame if someone screwed up the network and let hackers in?
Right, of course not. But the politicos that were really responsible for this still needed to make sure they were not seen by the general public to be at blame for this. They needed a scapegoat and got one. And today the city network is at much greater risk than it would have been had the proper culprit been identified, and Mr. Childs remained as the network administrator. Mr. Child's mistake was working for an organization with people that will stab people in the back.
The need to expend that money to regain control of the network was because of their own stupidity, not because of Terry Childs. If I were a taxpayer in San Francisco, of course I would not want to be paying for that. I would want the culprit(s) to pay. And Terry Childs is NOT the culprit. Some political bosses higher up were. Bill the $900,000 to them, personally and make this right.
... to etch an antenna at the wavelength of 0.000001 meter? Well, OK, it's not trivial. But we do have things like lasers that can etch chemicals at that size and smaller. Then we need a way to transfer that etch to conductive metal, add rectification to make it usable and collectible, and have our own little power sources. A flat panel might do if the current level doesn't burn up the collection tap point.
Any kernel, anywhere? There's already a tool that can do that. It's called Linux. And it has far more capability than GRUB. Can GRUB grab a kernel via rsync over ssh and boot it? Linux can (be set up to) do that.
See Kexec.
I'd rather be able to just have a fixed place to put a kernel, and have that place always boot. LILO isn't good enough because it requires running its "lilo" command to build a block index. The better way to very simply boot a kernel is to sequentially write that kernel to it's own partition. Since we have GPT, now, we have plenty of partition slots to put in alternate backup kernels in case the new one won't run.
But LILO isn't it, either, especially due to the way it manages indexing blocks, which is a major hassle. Had it not been for the DOS MBR partition table limitations, an early (and probably still used) bootloader might have placed kernel and initrd images directly in raw partitions. Now we have GPT with at least 128 partitions (it can do even more, but a certain OS won't support it) and there should be plenty of slots to slip in an OS or two, sequentially, without any need for a table of block indexes.
Somewhere around 1.9999999999999999999999999999 I suppose
Isnt there a way to encapsulate IP, modulate it, and transit it over HAM radio?
IP over HAM radio would be the solution to most of the ISP problems
And the Republicans are all for lawsuit overhaul ... at least for lawsuits against Republicans.
Oh, I'm personally not a Libertarian at all. There are a few things I do believe in that are very libertarian in leaning. The patent system overhaul I suggest, is one of those things that is, or should be, both libertarian and progressive supported. But I do like to call Libertarians to the carpet for being untrue to libertarianism. Another example is government issued marriage licenses. A true libertarian would get the government out of that business. Why should the government, at any level, be the gateway to getting married (even though for the most part that has not been a problem with it). If Ron Paul is a true libertarian, he would be seeking to remove the government from these activities. That doesn't mean that I would actually vote for him. Whether he would, or would not, I would not vote for him.
We only see these patent suits because it's something the government enforces. Patents are a form of taking property away from those who own it. Each inventor owns what he invents. But the government allows the first who filed for a patent to take the property away from other inventors. So the 2nd and latter inventors lose.
Of course, there always has been the risk that someone will see what is done and steal that, claiming to have invented it. The patent system was intended to encourage invention that never would have happened without the patent system. Most inventions today, like the upgrade button, are so trivial that no one would believe that they would only have been invented because a patent system exists.
Let me take a moment now to defend the patent system. There are a few very innovative or very expensive inventions that really do need the patent system. IMHO, these constitute a tiny fraction of patents actually issued, probably less than one percent. We need the patent system to get these inventions to come about.
What we do not need is a patent system that just issues patents for anything that comes along (under the guise that the courts will figure it out later). Because we have such an unfair court system (money rules, not justice), that means the patent system is unfair, too. And this harms the nation and its businesses, especially the innovative ones, the most. We need a complete and thorough patent system and patent process overhaul. It needs to judge each and every patent on the merit that founds the whole patent system to begin with. If an invention is something that we would have seen invented anyway, by the time it is needed, or soon after, typically because it is obvious to at least a number of people who could invent it, when posed with the problem, then that invention does not meet the real reason for a patent, and it should be denied.
The USPTO and the US Government itself are getting money because they issue these patents. And this is a big factor in why the system is so screwed up. They don't have an incentive to fix it.
This is why we need Libertarians to control Congress and the White House so they will get rid of government (especially Federal government) supporting this kind of theft, and promote a fully Free Enterprise system where anyone can invent whatever they want and not worry about the government stealing it. Ron Paul officially announced his candidacy for President today. Let's find out if he is a true Libertarian or just some two-faced Republican and get him to take a side.