I remember those days. Wake up around 2pm, code until 4am, stopping only to order a pizza or go take a piss. Burning up cubes of Dew every day with the refrigerator set to Siberian Mode to cool it faster.
Now I'm a network engineer. Same hours, same pizza, same dew consumption, but sometimes I have to go kick a switch or replug a router. *sigh*
I used to swear by my old Mouse Systems 3 button trackball, where the ball is between the left and right buttons (above the middle button). But it got messed up somehow, it doesnt track well anymore (even after I cleaned everything), so I bought a Logitech TrackMan Marble+. After a week, I swear by it. I bought two more. One for work, one for the other computer.
An example of why multiple Internet links are important. A large server should try to have links to two ISPs with DNS on at least two separate places. Then the pipe would have run slower but data would still get through.
If they couldn't afford to double pay the first link, how the hell were they supposed to pay for the second link?
Unfortunately, business practice will often undermine correct network engineering theory.
OK. From the neat little Shockwave Flash thinger on the 3dfx website, it says "So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous." Actually, I find it highly ridiculous.
Come on. Do we -really- need to be able to frag at 3200x2400x32bpp at 60 frames per second? Well, ok, I guess piping this to a 57" big screen TV would be nice.
But seriously, isnt this approaching overkill? I find Quake II to be quite fun on a Voodoo3 3000 AGP. Granted, my shitty 14" monitor is the limit, and why I'm only running at 8x6. But alas.
According to the WAV file referenced in another reply (on ftp.kernel.org somewhere) and to posts Linus has made himself (and the correct *FINNISH* pronounciation of his name), it's pronounced something like "Leenucks". I used to insist on "lineucks", now I say "lynnucks" because it's faster to say:). Of course, the instructor in my UNIX OS and UNIX Administration classes pronounces it correctly ("leenucks"), and boy is it hard to listen to:)
...OK, so we run a 10 terabit backbone from NYC to SF, for instance. Then everyone starts selling their 100 gigabit routers super cheap, and every ISP on the planet buys two or three, and drops redundant links. The effect? Same as we have now. Except instead of trying to push a terabit down a gigabit pipe, we're pushing petabits down a terabit pipe. Same effect, just larger orders of magnitude. And remember, the number of people on the internet is doubling like twice a week now. I know, that's not accurate, but damn, sometimes it feels that way.
60Mbit DSL to the doorstep isn't viable. Neither is 100FX to my bedroom from my ISP. In reality, even a T1 to every house really isnt viable. Yeah, I'd be a helluva lot happier with an OC-12 to my desk so I could download StarOffice in 14 seconds flat, but I'm happy with a quarter-meg DSL or a 128K ISDN. It's not too slow, I can download a linux kernel in 15 minutes as opposed to an hour. In fact, I'm all for discouraging faster internet access. Yes, you and I will be limited to the "paltry" 128K... but the backbone won't be crushed.
If you have, for instance, one million DSL users running at 768K, that's 768 million kilobits of bandwidth. 768 gigabits. And we all know there's prolly many more than a million now.
And then there's the college students. They do porn, MP3's, and warez like it's a requirement for graduation. For example, my uni, Drexel University, has a DS3. UPenn has 2. Temple has a 5 meg FDS3. TJU has a 16 meg FDS3. That's just the major colleges in -ONE- -CITY-, eating up 200 megabits. Then there's PSU, Pitt, and the other 49 states, etc etc....
Then we have commercial entities like connexion.com, Microsoft, Sun, IBM, Oracle, and our favorite news for nerds site/., eating bandwidth like it's going out of style.
10 terabit is good. But we need to stop letting technologies like this creep out towards the edge, because it clogs the core. Ah hell, I'm just ranting. But my UserFriendly was slow this morning, and now I know why. Some smartassed kid who came into some money bought himself a 10tbit line and started mirroring every porn site on earth.
Well, in a non-legacy solution you'd be ridding yourself of three PCI video cards for one AGP or one PCI solution.
EXTREMELY correct. I'm doing the same (MatMilII + 2 x V2 -> v3 3000) myself. Mostly because the crossconnects are a pain.
Your sound could very well be offloaded onto USB, as could your modem, if you use modems.
I dislike USB, as it's not supported in NT4 (hello, Micrcosoft, anyone home? NT5/2000/whatever-its-called-this-week wont be out for a bit, and I'd like to use those USB ports please). But it's a good point, as not everyone is running a dual CPU board like I am, which requires NT for graphics stuff in Photoshop (yes I'm moving to gimp) and Adobe Illustrator (REQUIRED for my class), and linux for real work and games.
Seriously. Whoever marked this as flamebait really needs their head examined. It was concise, to the point, and EXTREMELY on topic. Go read the moderation rules again.
My University (Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA) did this in Spring of 1998. 5 students on my floor had network access terminated for the entire term due to MP3 sharing (they were, admittedly, stupid about it, non-passworded shares labelled "mp3"). Given that spring term is when we apply for coop jobs, and we had to grab the coop job lists off the network servers, they were hurting a fair bit.
I heard a report from somewhere that last year over 500 students at Drexel fell to the same fate (all frosh tho). Yet, nowhere in the networking policies do they specify MP3's, and an amazing number of people in this country don't even think twice before grabbing an MP3 or 50 for late night coding music. Noone really bothers to think that, yes, mp3's ARE copyright infringement if you don't own the CD. They just click and drag, click and drag...
Yes, I have MP3's. Used to have a secure 8GB archive on a server I administered. But anything I listened to on a regular basis, I bought the CD for. That's what I do now. I just bought 7 CDs to cover 17 MP3's that I listen to daily. If the music is good, I have no problems purchasing the CD and supporting the artist. Unfortunately, the local radio stations like to censor music, and they play the same 20 songs all damned day.
But I digress. This isn't the first time students have been raided, and I'm damned sure it won't be the last time.
2.HUB. Definitely. They're faster for this than routers, and are a good choice.
Hubs allow packet collisions, which will KILL a beowulf. Use a switch. Switches dont -always- nuke collisions, but at least more than 1 node can transmit at a time. Hubs are totally shared, so if you start getting more than 1 computer trying to transmit at once, it'll go ackbewm.
I recommend a Cisco Catalyst 100Mbit switch. Run fastether (preferrably 3com) cards in EVERY node.` Channel bond if necessary.
Having come from a 450 resident dorm with a counted 600 active computers on a flatnet (totally shared, no switches or routers), I can tell you hubs are -slow- for more than 3 or 4 systems.
Personally, I have WinAmp spewing tunes, shuffling through Orbital, Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morrisette, Barenaked Ladies, Sixpence, a 55 minute heavy trance mixtape a friend of mine made, etc. As long as it doesnt whine too much, or get me depressed thinking about how much I miss my girlfriend too much, it gets the juices flowing.
In March '99 I was almost killed in an auto accident (dumbassed me drove for 20 hours, fell asleep, and hit a tree at 55mph). In the impact I was ejected from the front seat to the back seat and landed hard on my left arm. I broke my left arm at midshaft humerous.
Anyone who's had a bit more of basic anatomy (including nerve trunking placements) just cringed hard at that, but for those who didnt, there are 3 nerve trunks (radial, median, ulnar) that go in grooves near the surface of the humerous. When you break it, you will almost -always- damage, if not sever completely, one or more of these nerves. I nearly severed the radial nerve midshaft and contused the other two rather badly. I have ~15% function of my left arm below the elbow, and just recently (5 months after the accident) got minor extensor movement in the wrist. The best guess my orthopaedic surgeon can give me is 12-18 months more being unable to type with the left hand.
Basically, I've had to learn to type one handed. There really arent any 3key combos i cant do with my right hand (ctrl-alt-del, ctrl-alt-bs), I just had to relearn the finger boundaries and stokes. It takes a while to relearn, but eventually it's workable. I cant really see how remapping a keyboard would help.
You might also contact an orthopaedic surgeon, an occupational therapist, or a doctor specializing in the hands and nerves, and ask them for recommendations. I did after my accident, and was told about a couple alternatives, but just decided to relearn how to type (and unfortunately my notes have disappeared). Apparently this happens a bit, though I swear I'd never thought of it.
Oh, and you have to learn to put up with millions of typos:)
natively. But the i686 uses a RISC core and translates instructions before executing them.
Uhhhhh. AFAIK, all ix86 chips are still (regrettably) CISC. I've been told that AMD K6 chips are running a RISC core, but then my sources have been known to be horribly wrong.
I'd like to think the i686 runs a RISC core, but I've already done enough wishful thinking for one day.
The biggest complaint I had with my old PalmPilot Pro, and the Palm IIIs are the plastic cases which pop and shift at the seams when you grip the device.
The case on my Palm III has -never- shifted or popped. I've had it since February, and for most of that time, I've been holding it (way too tightly usually) in my bad hand due to an auto accident in march. Have you dropped it? Check the case screws, or call 3Com. Sounds like a horked case, which they might repair (I had my first Palm III replaced by the vendor for free because it had a faulty ram chip. I thought it was strange that a Palm III only had 1MB ram...)
God I would -LOVE- to see Microsoft do this. Watching Bill Gates munch on crickets or worms at Comdex absolutely must be more hilarious than watching Windows98 blue screen when plugging in a scanner.
From September 98 to March 99, I worked as an intern in NetOps at a large hospital system in PA. Our biggest changeover push was bringing online the new clinical labs software on our Tandem. At 1:30AM on Friday night, I get paged by the second shift guy who usually just pages the on-call anyway and get asked to come in "just for a few minutes to look this over". 37 hours, 9 pots of coffee, 6 cases of Mt Dew, 7 dozen donuts, and 4 pizzas later, the four of us bring the damned system online. And that was just getting the Tandem to be seen on the network frum the entire/16 (and the 10.0.0.0/8 private network). The software didnt come online for another 2 weeks.
After going home at 2PM on sunday, I didnt come in until Wednesday. The -overtime- was nice, but dammit, you need to sleep. They called Tuesday afternoon asking where I was, so I just told them "36 on, 36 off, see you in the morning" and hung up.
Did I mention that I was only 19 at the time, still in college at Drexel University in PHL, and only paid 15/hr?
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I remember those days. Wake up around 2pm, code until 4am, stopping only to order a pizza or go take a piss. Burning up cubes of Dew every day with the refrigerator set to Siberian Mode to cool it faster.
Now I'm a network engineer. Same hours, same pizza, same dew consumption, but sometimes I have to go kick a switch or replug a router. *sigh*
I used to swear by my old Mouse Systems 3 button trackball, where the ball is between the left and right buttons (above the middle button). But it got messed up somehow, it doesnt track well anymore (even after I cleaned everything), so I bought a Logitech TrackMan Marble+. After a week, I swear by it. I bought two more. One for work, one for the other computer.
If they couldn't afford to double pay the first link, how the hell were they supposed to pay for the second link?
Unfortunately, business practice will often undermine correct network engineering theory.
OK. From the neat little Shockwave Flash thinger on the 3dfx website, it says "So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous." Actually, I find it highly ridiculous.
Come on. Do we -really- need to be able to frag at 3200x2400x32bpp at 60 frames per second? Well, ok, I guess piping this to a 57" big screen TV would be nice.
But seriously, isnt this approaching overkill? I find Quake II to be quite fun on a Voodoo3 3000 AGP. Granted, my shitty 14" monitor is the limit, and why I'm only running at 8x6. But alas.
According to the WAV file referenced in another reply (on ftp.kernel.org somewhere) and to posts Linus has made himself (and the correct *FINNISH* pronounciation of his name), it's pronounced something like "Leenucks". I used to insist on "lineucks", now I say "lynnucks" because it's faster to say :). Of course, the instructor in my UNIX OS and UNIX Administration classes pronounces it correctly ("leenucks"), and boy is it hard to listen to :)
...OK, so we run a 10 terabit backbone from NYC to SF, for instance. Then everyone starts selling their 100 gigabit routers super cheap, and every ISP on the planet buys two or three, and drops redundant links. The effect? Same as we have now. Except instead of trying to push a terabit down a gigabit pipe, we're pushing petabits down a terabit pipe. Same effect, just larger orders of magnitude. And remember, the number of people on the internet is doubling like twice a week now. I know, that's not accurate, but damn, sometimes it feels that way.
/., eating bandwidth like it's going out of style.
60Mbit DSL to the doorstep isn't viable. Neither is 100FX to my bedroom from my ISP. In reality, even a T1 to every house really isnt viable. Yeah, I'd be a helluva lot happier with an OC-12 to my desk so I could download StarOffice in 14 seconds flat, but I'm happy with a quarter-meg DSL or a 128K ISDN. It's not too slow, I can download a linux kernel in 15 minutes as opposed to an hour. In fact, I'm all for discouraging faster internet access. Yes, you and I will be limited to the "paltry" 128K... but the backbone won't be crushed.
If you have, for instance, one million DSL users running at 768K, that's 768 million kilobits of bandwidth. 768 gigabits. And we all know there's prolly many more than a million now.
And then there's the college students. They do porn, MP3's, and warez like it's a requirement for graduation. For example, my uni, Drexel University, has a DS3. UPenn has 2. Temple has a 5 meg FDS3. TJU has a 16 meg FDS3. That's just the major colleges in -ONE- -CITY-, eating up 200 megabits. Then there's PSU, Pitt, and the other 49 states, etc etc....
Then we have commercial entities like connexion.com, Microsoft, Sun, IBM, Oracle, and our favorite news for nerds site
10 terabit is good. But we need to stop letting technologies like this creep out towards the edge, because it clogs the core. Ah hell, I'm just ranting. But my UserFriendly was slow this morning, and now I know why. Some smartassed kid who came into some money bought himself a 10tbit line and started mirroring every porn site on earth.
--jd
Well, in a non-legacy solution you'd be ridding yourself of three PCI video cards for one AGP or one PCI solution.
EXTREMELY correct. I'm doing the same (MatMilII + 2 x V2 -> v3 3000) myself. Mostly because the crossconnects are a pain.
Your sound could very well be offloaded onto USB, as could your modem, if you use modems.
I dislike USB, as it's not supported in NT4 (hello, Micrcosoft, anyone home? NT5/2000/whatever-its-called-this-week wont be out for a bit, and I'd like to use those USB ports please). But it's a good point, as not everyone is running a dual CPU board like I am, which requires NT for graphics stuff in Photoshop (yes I'm moving to gimp) and Adobe Illustrator (REQUIRED for my class), and linux for real work and games.
Seriously. Whoever marked this as flamebait really needs their head examined. It was concise, to the point, and EXTREMELY on topic. Go read the moderation rules again.
--jd
My University (Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA) did this in Spring of 1998. 5 students on my floor had network access terminated for the entire term due to MP3 sharing (they were, admittedly, stupid about it, non-passworded shares labelled "mp3"). Given that spring term is when we apply for coop jobs, and we had to grab the coop job lists off the network servers, they were hurting a fair bit.
I heard a report from somewhere that last year over 500 students at Drexel fell to the same fate (all frosh tho). Yet, nowhere in the networking policies do they specify MP3's, and an amazing number of people in this country don't even think twice before grabbing an MP3 or 50 for late night coding music. Noone really bothers to think that, yes, mp3's ARE copyright infringement if you don't own the CD. They just click and drag, click and drag...
Yes, I have MP3's. Used to have a secure 8GB archive on a server I administered. But anything I listened to on a regular basis, I bought the CD for. That's what I do now. I just bought 7 CDs to cover 17 MP3's that I listen to daily. If the music is good, I have no problems purchasing the CD and supporting the artist. Unfortunately, the local radio stations like to censor music, and they play the same 20 songs all damned day.
But I digress. This isn't the first time students have been raided, and I'm damned sure it won't be the last time.
Hubs allow packet collisions, which will KILL a beowulf. Use a switch. Switches dont -always- nuke collisions, but at least more than 1 node can transmit at a time. Hubs are totally shared, so if you start getting more than 1 computer trying to transmit at once, it'll go ackbewm.
I recommend a Cisco Catalyst 100Mbit switch. Run fastether (preferrably 3com) cards in EVERY node.` Channel bond if necessary.
Having come from a 450 resident dorm with a counted 600 active computers on a flatnet (totally shared, no switches or routers), I can tell you hubs are -slow- for more than 3 or 4 systems.
Personally, I have WinAmp spewing tunes, shuffling through Orbital, Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morrisette, Barenaked Ladies, Sixpence, a 55 minute heavy trance mixtape a friend of mine made, etc. As long as it doesnt whine too much, or get me depressed thinking about how much I miss my girlfriend too much, it gets the juices flowing.
Well.
:)
In March '99 I was almost killed in an auto accident (dumbassed me drove for 20 hours, fell asleep, and hit a tree at 55mph). In the impact I was ejected from the front seat to the back seat and landed hard on my left arm. I broke my left arm at midshaft humerous.
Anyone who's had a bit more of basic anatomy (including nerve trunking placements) just cringed hard at that, but for those who didnt, there are 3 nerve trunks (radial, median, ulnar) that go in grooves near the surface of the humerous. When you break it, you will almost -always- damage, if not sever completely, one or more of these nerves. I nearly severed the radial nerve midshaft and contused the other two rather badly. I have ~15% function of my left arm below the elbow, and just recently (5 months after the accident) got minor extensor movement in the wrist. The best guess my orthopaedic surgeon can give me is 12-18 months more being unable to type with the left hand.
Basically, I've had to learn to type one handed. There really arent any 3key combos i cant do with my right hand (ctrl-alt-del, ctrl-alt-bs), I just had to relearn the finger boundaries and stokes. It takes a while to relearn, but eventually it's workable. I cant really see how remapping a keyboard would help.
You might also contact an orthopaedic surgeon, an occupational therapist, or a doctor specializing in the hands and nerves, and ask them for recommendations. I did after my accident, and was told about a couple alternatives, but just decided to relearn how to type (and unfortunately my notes have disappeared). Apparently this happens a bit, though I swear I'd never thought of it.
Oh, and you have to learn to put up with millions of typos
--jd
Uhhhhh. AFAIK, all ix86 chips are still (regrettably) CISC. I've been told that AMD K6 chips are running a RISC core, but then my sources have been known to be horribly wrong.
I'd like to think the i686 runs a RISC core, but I've already done enough wishful thinking for one day.
The biggest complaint I had with my old PalmPilot Pro, and the Palm IIIs are the plastic cases which pop and shift at the seams when you grip the device.
The case on my Palm III has -never- shifted or popped. I've had it since February, and for most of that time, I've been holding it (way too tightly usually) in my bad hand due to an auto accident in march. Have you dropped it? Check the case screws, or call 3Com. Sounds like a horked case, which they might repair (I had my first Palm III replaced by the vendor for free because it had a faulty ram chip. I thought it was strange that a Palm III only had 1MB ram...)
--jd
God I would -LOVE- to see Microsoft do this. Watching Bill Gates munch on crickets or worms at Comdex absolutely must be more hilarious than watching Windows98 blue screen when plugging in a scanner.
This sounds frighteningly familiar.
/16 (and the 10.0.0.0/8 private network). The software didnt come online for another 2 weeks.
From September 98 to March 99, I worked as an intern in NetOps at a large hospital system in PA. Our biggest changeover push was bringing online the new clinical labs software on our Tandem. At 1:30AM on Friday night, I get paged by the second shift guy who usually just pages the on-call anyway and get asked to come in "just for a few minutes to look this over". 37 hours, 9 pots of coffee, 6 cases of Mt Dew, 7 dozen donuts, and 4 pizzas later, the four of us bring the damned system online. And that was just getting the Tandem to be seen on the network frum the entire
After going home at 2PM on sunday, I didnt come in until Wednesday. The -overtime- was nice, but dammit, you need to sleep. They called Tuesday afternoon asking where I was, so I just told them "36 on, 36 off, see you in the morning" and hung up.
Did I mention that I was only 19 at the time, still in college at Drexel University in PHL, and only paid 15/hr?
*yawn* more coffee please.
Unfortunately, unless I'm mistaken, gcc/make are NOT threaded, so it wont really take advantage of the other CPUs.