The thing that has impressed people most often when I give them the quick rundown on Linux has been transparent X forwarding over SSH. I first noticed this back in 2000 when I did a little talk* for some Maryland Bar Assoc. tech conference and the people attending the talk wouldn't stop asking about it after I briefly mentioned it. They were mumbling stuff about thin clients, and to be honest, I couldn't understand the big deal, I had sort of taken it for granted.
But when I stopped to think about it, it IS a big deal. The ability to run fully graphical apps locally while keeping the vast majority of the CPU load remotely is very cool. It's how our local LUG was able to
set up a computer center for underprivledged kids -- A bunch of older, used equipment that would have otherwise been thrown away and a single beefy server to actually run all of the apps.
Doing it over SSH is even cooler. As long as there is a clear path for SSH between you and the box you are logged into, you needn't worry about what's between (firewalls, etc.)
* No, I didn't write that, believe it or not that little Linux blurb was written by a lawyer. They're not all bad.:) The only law firm I've ever run across that actually Gets It(tm).
It's funny, I talked with an SGI rep there and he said "We haven't annouced this yet, so you don't see it sitting there." To which I replied "Why don't you not tell me about what's not sitting there." "Sure, I won't", he said, and proceeded to tell me all about it.:)
Seriously, it looks pretty sweet, but I was more excited by the Origin 3900 -- 16 processors in one C-Brick (4U).
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That's what I'm afraid of, soon manufacturers will start producing pager, cell phones, and laptops with no way to turn them off.
I doubt that. I'm sure there will always be off switches on devices like laptops, cellphones, and pagers, otherwise you couldn't take them on a plane.
The National Motorists Association recently put forth a challenge to U.S. Cities using red light cameras: Let them engineer a solution for high red-light violation intersections. If they don't reduce the violations by 50%, they will pay the city $10,000 for a traffic safety program.
Not surprisingly, no city has yet taken them up on the offer. You decide why.
Comcast does indeed run a transparent proxy, at least on my connection. As someone else pointed out to me, they also leave off the "via:" header, which breaks the HTTP spec.
I sent Comcast a message about it, but they ignored it. If more people complained (ahem), perhaps they would be more willing to actually pay attention to standards.
I looked into using G4's for this purpose recently, but decided against it because of the availability of good Fortran compilers, either for OSX or Linux.
Price and simplicity have their place, but generally not at the expense of functionality and performance.
How do these speeds compare with DSL and cable modems?
EarthLink High Speed Internet Fixed Wireless Access offers downloads at speeds up to 1.5 Mbps, which is
equivalent to DSL and slightly superior to cable at its fastest. This service offers upload speeds of 128 Kbps,
which is equivalent to DSL's maximum upload speed.
So would I have to get both to get the content I want? Is it even possible to use one receiver for both? If not, then what if a third network starts up with content I want, instead? A fourth? A fifth?
Want futureproofing? Run innerduct to each of the locations. In the future, you can pull whatever you see fit to the location, should you choose to do so.
Well, of course, if I answer the phone and there is a 2-second delay, I automatically hang up. It's obviously a call center.
If, for some reason, I screw up, however, I have a wonderful solution.
If the telemarketer is selling vinyl siding for my home, I tell him: "What a coincidence! I install vinyl siding for a living!" If he's asking about a mortgage, I tell him: "That's funny! I'm a mortgage broker!". Etcetera.
On the other hand, who would want to use their new crappy internet? The money they're making has to come from somewhere- so New Crappy Internet (I think NCI should be the official name) will cost a fortune to anyone who uses it. Nice.
Huh? NCI as you describe it has existed for years. It's called AOL
There is nothing even remotely "good" about this. Sklyarov has a wife and kids. He's in jail for no good reason. It's easy to sit out here in our comfy offices in front of our comfy workstations where we read Slashdot all day and say "It's not all that bad that guy is stuck in jail."
You want the law overturned? Vote. Contact your representatives. Tell your friends.
Two Northrop engineers, Greg Toben and William Woodbury (Woodbury still lives in San Francisco), connected a 603 to a 405 accounting machine and modified some of the internal wiring. It should be noted that opening the cabinet of IBM equipment was strictly forbidden under the terms of IBM's customer leasing agreement (until 1956 all IBM machines could only be leased). While this was ostensibly to protect the customer from the lethal voltages inside, there obviously was a desire to minimize "cloning" of IBM equipment by its competitors (chiefly Remington-Rand). Once IBM field engineers and head office management got over their initial dismay, the merits of this combination could be seen (it could store a program for example).
So, IBM owes a lot of it's early vision to a few hackers who did a bit of reverse-engineering against an end-user license agreement? Shock, shock, horror, horror!
He's working as a stocker for some odd store. He's configured systems left and right. He's dying to get a $38,000/year job
somewhere doing anything. In his free time, he works on studying embedded systems and attending GSLUG meetings.
I was the only guy I knew driving a truck full of drywall who even knew how to SPELL Unix. (or spell in general for that matter... (g) ) Fortunately, I was able to get a job working for NASA as a Unix admin... Quite a difference. I agree with you wholeheartedly. I've known LOTS of Unix geeks who were working in Microsoft shops because that was all they could find. I knew a Linux guy who worked in steelwork because he could find nothing else. And it's not like the Baltimore/Washington area is lacking in technology firms.
Tell your friend to keep trying. Learn as much as possible, become the best developer or admin he can, keep pursuing his desires, and eventually things will work out. Imagine carrying a sheet of 14' drywall across a muddy construction site in the rain, having it snap over your head, your feet wet... your body aching. Every time a user comes in the door and asks me a stupid question; every time I can't get something to compile; every time I start to get frustrated, I sit back for a minute and reflect on that past. And I'm glad I had the experience. Now I can truly appreciate my job, and recognize that I am fortunate to only have the problems I do.
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You can also do this with XFS and "chacl", which has all sorts of ACL's I'm too lazy to mention here.
Meaning basically, the Matrix is nothing more than a giant UPS?
Strange you would say that. Yes, it is.
I sure hope they don't get serious electrical storms in Egypt, or this fellow may find himself with a big problem on his LAN.
But when I stopped to think about it, it IS a big deal. The ability to run fully graphical apps locally while keeping the vast majority of the CPU load remotely is very cool. It's how our local LUG was able to set up a computer center for underprivledged kids -- A bunch of older, used equipment that would have otherwise been thrown away and a single beefy server to actually run all of the apps.
Doing it over SSH is even cooler. As long as there is a clear path for SSH between you and the box you are logged into, you needn't worry about what's between (firewalls, etc.)
* No, I didn't write that, believe it or not that little Linux blurb was written by a lawyer. They're not all bad. :) The only law firm I've ever run across that actually Gets It(tm).
It's funny, I talked with an SGI rep there and he said "We haven't annouced this yet, so you don't see it sitting there." To which I replied "Why don't you not tell me about what's not sitting there." "Sure, I won't", he said, and proceeded to tell me all about it. :)
Seriously, it looks pretty sweet, but I was more excited by the Origin 3900 -- 16 processors in one C-Brick (4U).
> > Anyone with a lower id still around?
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> yep.
yep.
That's what I'm afraid of, soon manufacturers will start producing pager, cell phones, and laptops with no way to turn them off. I doubt that. I'm sure there will always be off switches on devices like laptops, cellphones, and pagers, otherwise you couldn't take them on a plane.
It costs $100/month, but it is an option. From the page:
Speeds Up to 3.5Mbps/384Kpbs
IP Addresses 5 Persistent IP Addresses with 6 month lease life
Price $95/month
I was reading your March 2002 update, which tells of your finding love with Natasha, and becoming a father to Sergey.
Has your perspective now changed; do you worry of something going wrong, and have you considered backing out?
Not surprisingly, no city has yet taken them up on the offer. You decide why.
I don't suppose you could make an "emergency allocation" for bandwidth? =)
I'm eating pringles as fast as I can!
Total accesses: 5342685 - Total Traffic: 372.3 GB .386% CPU load
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CPU Usage: u168.44 s755.12 cu4639.2 cs860.61 -
3.21 requests/sec - 234.5 kB/second - 73.1 kB/request
408 requests currently being processed, 86 idle servers
Scoreboard says no more than 957 httpds at once. Plenty of free memory, too. Bandwidth, however, is not free.
I sent Comcast a message about it, but they ignored it. If more people complained (ahem), perhaps they would be more willing to actually pay attention to standards.
> whats wrong with pgf90/linux?
Because it's only for x86
I looked into using G4's for this purpose recently, but decided against it because of the availability of good Fortran compilers, either for OSX or Linux.
Price and simplicity have their place, but generally not at the expense of functionality and performance.
EarthLink High Speed Internet Fixed Wireless Access offers downloads at speeds up to 1.5 Mbps, which is equivalent to DSL and slightly superior to cable at its fastest. This service offers upload speeds of 128 Kbps, which is equivalent to DSL's maximum upload speed.
Ummm... My cable modem says: Both of which are considerably faster than 1.5Mbps
I love to listen to C-SPAN and NPR.
XM has C-SPAN.
Sirius has NPR.
Neither has both.
And I'm sure that's just the beginning.
So would I have to get both to get the content I want? Is it even possible to use one receiver for both? If not, then what if a third network starts up with content I want, instead? A fourth? A fifth?
Want futureproofing? Run innerduct to each of the locations. In the future, you can pull whatever you see fit to the location, should you choose to do so.
Well, of course, if I answer the phone and there is a 2-second delay, I automatically hang up. It's obviously a call center.
If, for some reason, I screw up, however, I have a wonderful solution.
If the telemarketer is selling vinyl siding for my home, I tell him: "What a coincidence! I install vinyl siding for a living!" If he's asking about a mortgage, I tell him: "That's funny! I'm a mortgage broker!". Etcetera.
Works nearly 100% of the time.
Huh? NCI as you describe it has existed for years. It's called AOL
Have you ever been in jail? I have. It's not fun.
There is nothing even remotely "good" about this. Sklyarov has a wife and kids. He's in jail for no good reason. It's easy to sit out here in our comfy offices in front of our comfy workstations where we read Slashdot all day and say "It's not all that bad that guy is stuck in jail."
You want the law overturned? Vote. Contact your representatives. Tell your friends.
And your proof that you are not merely inciting slashdotters to call some legitimate company against whom you have some beef?...
So, IBM owes a lot of it's early vision to a few hackers who did a bit of reverse-engineering against an end-user license agreement? Shock, shock, horror, horror!
Well, Slashdot, that "tomorrow" is actually "today" at 1546 EDT
I was the only guy I knew driving a truck full of drywall who even knew how to SPELL Unix. (or spell in general for that matter... (g) ) Fortunately, I was able to get a job working for NASA as a Unix admin... Quite a difference. I agree with you wholeheartedly. I've known LOTS of Unix geeks who were working in Microsoft shops because that was all they could find. I knew a Linux guy who worked in steelwork because he could find nothing else. And it's not like the Baltimore/Washington area is lacking in technology firms.
Tell your friend to keep trying. Learn as much as possible, become the best developer or admin he can, keep pursuing his desires, and eventually things will work out. Imagine carrying a sheet of 14' drywall across a muddy construction site in the rain, having it snap over your head, your feet wet... your body aching. Every time a user comes in the door and asks me a stupid question; every time I can't get something to compile; every time I start to get frustrated, I sit back for a minute and reflect on that past. And I'm glad I had the experience. Now I can truly appreciate my job, and recognize that I am fortunate to only have the problems I do.