I must disagree, people will change when they see a viable reason. My girlfriend lives with her sister. They both have computer running windows XP. Both are computer literate, but not 'savy'. While I was there one day my GF asked me to fix her computer. She had a virus that the virus scanner could not remove. After fixing the virus issue I installed a spyware scanner and cleaned off 15 to 20 spy-ware programs. I introduced her to Firefox and recommended to her that she try to use it whenever possible. I explained that IE has some security holes in it and that might have been contributing to her virus and spyware problems. Trusting my advice she started using Firefox.
While I was there I also installed a spyware scanner on her sisters computer and recommended to her that she start using Firefox also. To which I got a "Mozilla? Thats Netscape right. I hate Netscape. It's always soo slow". I explained that this was likely to be "a better mozilla" then her past experiences and that for security reasons maybe it was a good idea to give to a try. She refused.
About a month later my girlfriend mentioned that she was virtually spyware free, but that her sister was still getting hits on her spyware scanner every day. She informed me that her sister had said "Maybe I should try that fire thingie". She set her sister up with Firefox. Her sister now says "it's not really that different from IE".
People will change when there is an overwhelming reason to. Viruses and spyware were enough of a reason for these two. The big problems is literacy, once they knew they had a problem with their web browser they did what was necessary to fix it.
Well.NET already has function level security. So it's possible to shut off access to parts of and API at runtime. I would suspect that you would need to "sign" your binaries in order for the system to allow it to run. Anything not signed would not be allowed access to the cluster/grid. You will probably be able to turn it off, which would be stupid except in the most trusted environments. This signing would take the form of an expensive.NET add on product. Thus giving then another way to make money on this. I'm not saying there security will be fool proof, but it will be easier to lock down a specific purpose system, then a general purpose system, and there are no Windows HPC enabled programs out there to be backwards compatible with.
50 meg live cd, based on knoppix/debian It can be installed on as little as a 250-300MB drive. At one point they had people who sucessfully installed in on a 486-33? 66? something like that. It has xzgv which should do the picture viewing you want.
I have a feeling that the Microsoft approach to HPC will be significantly different then traditional systems. It is entirely possible that they could create a stripped down operating system, like something you would find in the embedded market, to create drone computers. These drone computers would not have a gui, not have any programs on them and do nothing but be a slave to some proprietary remote execution protocol. Then they would release a "Windows HPC server" which would administer all the drone computers with a GUI interface. They might even be able to get the drones to PXE boot from the server. To integrate with this product there would be HPC.NET with which you could write programs to harness the power of the grid/cluster. It might even be that the HPC system itself is distributed a.NET runtime. Microsoft's approach to HPC will not be what we know as clustering/grid computing today. It will be an integrated Microsoft proprietary system that will be simple to get into and hard to move away from.
Computer game companies have the same problems as large scale "living games" in that the DM no longer can police the players effectively. I've played a good deal of living arcanis and living grayhalk and the per-written modules suffer from all the same symptoms as computer games. Forced linearity, plot repetition, and a lack of personal involvement of the players in the plot. (The most notable exception is the Baulders Gate series.) The person running the pre-written module has about as much influence over the story line as the computer, none. Even being a hard core "role player" I found myself wishing for combat so I could do something to effect plot.
I knew too much about the game system to play NWN. I built a character that killed everything in about one hit. It wasn't much fun to play after that. The plot came down to "get this item and bring it back". I'm not purely an acquisition of power motivated gamer so I lost interest.
I'm waiting for a game that can bring me the "other half" of the RPG experience. A non-linear, character driven system that focuses on how well you play your character, as opposed to how many combats you survived. Powerful characters should only be played by people who can handle them. Unfortunately when time is the only factor to acquisition of power you find a group of very powerful characters played by people not equipped to handle the responsibility and the game breaks, horribly. This is true for any version of D&D, Everquest, "Living" games and even the Camarilla.
How about a MMORPG that employs people to be real dungeon masters? Yeah, thats going to happen.. *sigh* no one is even going to pay me to run a good game.
Have you tried the "toram" cheat code on that thing? It must be amazing. For any of you who don't know the "toram" cheatcode copies the compressed file system to ram and runs from there.
Could you write something akin to a firewall that monitors all traffic on your computer or network and routes TLD's to the appropriate server for address resolution? This would make it work for all the programs that run on your computer. You could probably even make your own TLD's for an Intranet and Virtual Private networking this way.
somecomputer.linux - could ID a computer on the Virtual Private Network that runs linux
GG
I found this when looking for more info on the MediaGX board on google. http://ww w.arcomcontrols.com/products/icp/pc104/processors/ SBCMediaGX.htm No mention of price though. Mabe someone could put together a cheep Webplayer Wannabe bundel made to be a cheep linux box. I think there is a market for this. Mabe a "GeekBox"... a "SlashBox"? hummm....
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I must disagree, people will change when they see a viable reason. My girlfriend lives with her sister. They both have computer running windows XP. Both are computer literate, but not 'savy'. While I was there one day my GF asked me to fix her computer. She had a virus that the virus scanner could not remove. After fixing the virus issue I installed a spyware scanner and cleaned off 15 to 20 spy-ware programs. I introduced her to Firefox and recommended to her that she try to use it whenever possible. I explained that IE has some security holes in it and that might have been contributing to her virus and spyware problems. Trusting my advice she started using Firefox.
While I was there I also installed a spyware scanner on her sisters computer and recommended to her that she start using Firefox also. To which I got a "Mozilla? Thats Netscape right. I hate Netscape. It's always soo slow". I explained that this was likely to be "a better mozilla" then her past experiences and that for security reasons maybe it was a good idea to give to a try. She refused.
About a month later my girlfriend mentioned that she was virtually spyware free, but that her sister was still getting hits on her spyware scanner every day. She informed me that her sister had said "Maybe I should try that fire thingie". She set her sister up with Firefox. Her sister now says "it's not really that different from IE".
People will change when there is an overwhelming reason to. Viruses and spyware were enough of a reason for these two. The big problems is literacy, once they knew they had a problem with their web browser they did what was necessary to fix it.
Well .NET already has function level security. So it's possible to shut off access to parts of and API at runtime. I would suspect that you would need to "sign" your binaries in order for the system to allow it to run. Anything not signed would not be allowed access to the cluster/grid. You will probably be able to turn it off, which would be stupid except in the most trusted environments. This signing would take the form of an expensive .NET add on product. Thus giving then another way to make money on this. I'm not saying there security will be fool proof, but it will be easier to lock down a specific purpose system, then a general purpose system, and there are no Windows HPC enabled programs out there to be backwards compatible with.
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
50 meg live cd, based on knoppix/debian
It can be installed on as little as a 250-300MB drive.
At one point they had people who sucessfully installed in on a 486-33? 66? something like that. It has xzgv which should do the picture viewing you want.
I have a feeling that the Microsoft approach to HPC will be significantly different then traditional systems. It is entirely possible that they could create a stripped down operating system, like something you would find in the embedded market, to create drone computers. These drone computers would not have a gui, not have any programs on them and do nothing but be a slave to some proprietary remote execution protocol. Then they would release a "Windows HPC server" which would administer all the drone computers with a GUI interface. They might even be able to get the drones to PXE boot from the server. To integrate with this product there would be HPC.NET with which you could write programs to harness the power of the grid/cluster. It might even be that the HPC system itself is distributed a .NET runtime. Microsoft's approach to HPC will not be what we know as clustering/grid computing today. It will be an integrated Microsoft proprietary system that will be simple to get into and hard to move away from.
Blasphmer! In the words of our lord, who is soo soooo great!
"5 is just out"
Mod this man down!
Listen, this old system of yours could be on fire and I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a 27b/6... Bloody paperwork.
Computer game companies have the same problems as large scale "living games" in that the DM no longer can police the players effectively. I've played a good deal of living arcanis and living grayhalk and the per-written modules suffer from all the same symptoms as computer games. Forced linearity, plot repetition, and a lack of personal involvement of the players in the plot. (The most notable exception is the Baulders Gate series.) The person running the pre-written module has about as much influence over the story line as the computer, none. Even being a hard core "role player" I found myself wishing for combat so I could do something to effect plot.
.. *sigh* no one is even going to pay me to run a good game.
I knew too much about the game system to play NWN. I built a character that killed everything in about one hit. It wasn't much fun to play after that. The plot came down to "get this item and bring it back". I'm not purely an acquisition of power motivated gamer so I lost interest.
I'm waiting for a game that can bring me the "other half" of the RPG experience. A non-linear, character driven system that focuses on how well you play your character, as opposed to how many combats you survived. Powerful characters should only be played by people who can handle them. Unfortunately when time is the only factor to acquisition of power you find a group of very powerful characters played by people not equipped to handle the responsibility and the game breaks, horribly. This is true for any version of D&D, Everquest, "Living" games and even the Camarilla.
How about a MMORPG that employs people to be real dungeon masters? Yeah, thats going to happen
Yeah drive imaging is great, I just migrated my web server. All with just dd and ssh.
.. dd if=/dev/hda | ssh root@othermachine /bin/dd of=/dev/hda
I think the command was
Of course this is all explained on knoppix.net, but since thats getting slashstormed. Here is the
Google Cache
Have you tried the "toram" cheat code on that thing? It must be amazing. For any of you who don't know the "toram" cheatcode copies the compressed file system to ram and runs from there.
somecomputer.linux - could ID a computer on the Virtual Private Network that runs linux GG
I found this when looking for more info on the MediaGX board on google./ SBCMediaGX.htm
http://ww w.arcomcontrols.com/products/icp/pc104/processors
No mention of price though. Mabe someone could put together a cheep Webplayer Wannabe bundel made to be a cheep linux box. I think there is a market for this. Mabe a "GeekBox"... a "SlashBox"? hummm....