Did you actually read my posting? do you have some grasp of the english language?
look, what I was saying is that my country allowed a group of AMERICANS to come HERE and work for 6 months, in highly paid jobs, effectively taking jobs from our people, however we welcomed them with open arms, treated them well, and did everything to make that a good stay.
Then the same people, when I was going to the US simple to TRAIN them so THEY could do a job over there, blocked my entry and renneged on their contract. In the end they couldn't do the job themselves anyway, so your precious US people ended up losing work over this.
In my country, that is considered a pretty damn stupid thing to do, maybe it's just business as usual in the good ole US of A.
Believe it or not there are things other countries can do better than the US. It is safe to say that I will not be entering into further contracts in the US, therefore business opportunities will be lost in your precious country. This is no problem for me, I have plenty of customers elsewhere wanting my services.
And anyone who thinks this is off topic, think a little deeper. The topic here is a company who has actually got the good sense to offer an alternative to a *proven* monopoly. It would also seem that they have the common sense to have work done in the places where it can be best done. GOOD ON THEM!. I, as someone who strongly believes in REAL equalities and fairness, strongly applaud their actions.
Excellent! As a person who was 6 months ago blocked from working in the US (actually I was supposed to go there to train people in the use of software I had written, but this was blocked by a union using US work laws.. I would have been there for 3 weeks.) after the same group of people had spent over 6 months here in my country working without problem or limitation (and I must say they had a great time also!) I am completely in support of HP, thank you for pointing this out! Of course, I was not informed of these 'problems' until 2 weeks before I was due to leave, so all the development work ended up being wasted, at my expense. The company involved turned around and said it was not their problem, so no payment for any of my work.
But to get back on the subject, good on HP! another step forward for choice and freedom! I was sickened over the last couple of years with the methods msoft have used to try and present the selling of OS-less PCs as a form of piracy, well here is the solution - sell them with an OS, a free one!
The people BUYING the equipment should be the ones who decide what they do (and what they do not!) pay for in their PC, if they don't want to use msoft software, they should not have to buy it!
Of course, I can only assume that this move is due to the fact that people are starting to vote with their feet, and large companies (at least some) are realising that these are good sales being missed.
And does photoshop still have broken alpha, there it tried to use a non-standard tiff layer to represent what 100% of other software places in a standardised alpha layer?
I'll keep my Gimp thank!
And yes, I use this professionally, very porfessionally, I produce live television graphics systems. Photoshop has the most broken alpha support of anything out there!
Photoshop was designed for prepress use, and is broken for most other purposes.
Gimp 2.0, which I have been using in beta for some time, does everything better than photoshop, other than CMYK support (not an issue for anyone but prepress) and automation, which is a little more clunky. It more than makes up for these things in it's fineness of control for basic functions, and speed.
Fantastic!
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Well, I've been using the betas under both linux and windows for a month or so now, and I must say that this is a FANTASTIC improvement, which goes much deeper than just the improved UI.
Before this I used to use photoshop for much of my work, and Gimp for areas where I either needed the software on a machine that did not warrant a photoshop license, or to deal with alpha layers properly (which photoshop is terrible for). Photoshop is great for printing based people, but has some major miss-features for computer graphics use.
Gimp 2.0 however is much better than photoshop IMHO for many many jobs, although it is still just a bit lacking in the automation-of-tasks area.
Congratulations and Thanks to all the people involved in this fantastic piece of software!
Re:Erm, well good luck....you'll need it...
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Exactly, speaking as someone who has run CFD code on smallish clusters, 100MB ethernet falls flat on it's face at about 20 machines, and those were dual 500MHz machines - it will be worse with faster ones! (to preempt some silly comments, CFD code and linpack have a LOT in common)
And that was using specially tuned low latency ethernet drivers and TCP stack under linux. These guys have very very little chance of doing anything useful at all - which is a bit of a pity, but perhaps if they did just a little research first..
I wonder if they even have network switches that will efficiently route 1200 nodes.. let alone a decent plan to interconnect them.
The first step would be to use 1Gbit or faster concentration to some very smart switches to at least cut down the network blockage a little.. It won't help with the terrible latency, but will give them a little headroom at some vector lengths.
They will also suffer terribly from the differing speeds of nodes - I've yet to see a solution for linpack that distributes efficiently over a wide speed range of machines.
Of course, I bet in the end they just come up with a great SETI score, or something similar - something that would actually scale at all on a cluster like this.
They turn off all the 'automate EVERYTHING' approaches microsoft seem to think are a good idea, then it will become safe again to actually click on the links?
Really. perhaps a few more people should install pegasus email under windows, and download mozilla firebird - the world would really be a slightly better place!
Or is that just too obvious?
PS: What on EARTH is up with IE's css support? is it intentionally designed to be completely broken?
All the CFD Codes I run here I run in double precision floating point. (sometimes single precision when the situation allows..)
It must be some pretty funky code to be interger, never come across any real CFD code yet that is..
I mean, 90+% of the runtime of our CFD codes are spent in LAPACK, etc.. so we use the (nery nice) intel optimised versions (ASCII Red was not just a hardware project you know..) which do very very well..
Basically, I call BS!
If you are using some integer codes, then you are the only people I've ever heard of in the industry who are.. it must be very painfull!
And intel CPU's are really quite good at 80bit FP.. especially with the right libraries.
>The real question is have they finally dumped the >stupid x86 instruction set in favour of a >space/energy/coding efficient RISC set?
Ok, yeah, right, umm....
You DO know that RISC processors generally take up a lot more memory space for a given program, have more instructions, and are often more complex to code for, right? (of course this assumes you know what a delay slot is, or have understood the pain of manually doing indirect addressing, managing register windows during interrupts, or managing implicit instruction skip flags, the joys of RISC!)
I thought not..
as for the energy argument - get with the 90's - everyone is using similar internal execution units anyway - this is a red heering.
Of course, who am I to stand in the way of fashion..
RISC in it's pure form has not existed for over 10 years now.. neither has CISC, for that matter. It's about the same as attacking russians for being communist.. it's just not that simple.
The x86 instruction set and successfully covered the widest range of CPU performance ever, and is available in by far the most computers... I would suggest by just about any measure it is by far the most successful ever.
Of course, there seems to be a group of people who cannot stand the pain of thinking about their python interpreter running x86 code internally, or the fact that gcc is generating that for them. I truly feel sorry for them - they suffer on while the rest of us just get-on-with-the-job(tm).
I provide consultance and external admin to a 'mid sized company' who got hit by this in the last couple of days. This is a company with around 50 on-site employees and an anual turnover in the region of $40 Million.
My filters let through two instances of the virus before they automatically updated their defs. One went to a windows machine and infected it. One went to a mac, and did not. None of around 7 internal Linux servers were affected of course.
I knew very quickly which machine had an infection, as it was trying to send more viruses via the smtp server (which was by then blocking them) - we are not NEARLY stupid enough to give employees direct internet access via NAT!.
I blocked the access to the smtp server for that single machine (didn't even need to track down who it was) and they called me about 30 minutes later, when they next tried to send an email, letting me know who they were.
I asked them to download and run the cleaner program, which they did, so I re-enabled them. Their machine made no further attempts, so I suspect it is fine.
I also installed another layer of virus scanning just for the hell of it, and re-tuned their anti-spam setup with the latest versions. (clamav, http://www.clamav.net)
Total cost to them: 2 hours of my time at $60US/hour. 1 hour of employees time (overestimating here), say $60US/hour.
A moderate amount of traffic on their link (we are blocking around 1/minute at present for this virus, but it is dying pretty fast) - they pay a fixed link cost, so don't really care.
So there we go - lets call it $200US total cost, and they got some usefull systems updated as part of that.
Not that I'm saying that the machine would be my choice, but..
This machine is 64bit moron! UltraSPARC has been 64bit for quite some time now.. It's software is all 64bit, it has a true 64bit OS.
Not of course that that makes much difference to anything, as there are very few applications that require 64bit addressing as yet. Just about every processor current can move data in at least 64bit chunks.. often 128bit.
Perhaps, next time, take the effort to even open the page you are going to comment on and have a quick glance - it can do wonders!
Well, I gave up all caffiene about 4 years ago, and am very thankful. it has made my life a lot better IMHO. I was at a dangerous point (unless people think a whole packet of nodoze-plus in one go is normal..) and just decided to stop. Now I am ultra sensitive to caffiene, but just don't need it. It is a very bad physically addictive drug.
My advice - avoid sugar as a substitute - you can get diet caffiene free cock for example (well, here in NZ anyway).
Also avoid chocolate, coffee, many caffinated soft drinks, most energy drinks, tea, and any form of 'diet' pill.
decaf coffee and tea can help, but keep the amount down, BREAKING the addiction is the aim.
It took me about 3 weeks cold turkey to get back to 'normal'. Asprin and Neurofin in moderate quantities are your friends during this time (NOT paracetamol, it is bad for you!)
Don't try and wind down the amount - caffiene addiction cannot be addressed like that, the physical addiction will not leave untill your body is clean of it.
I know I'm going to get MURDERED for saying this, but is there perhaps a lesson in here about server hardware? Especially relatively new technologies? Actually, I don't have anything against the AMD stuff, mostly against VIA/SIS (who produce absolutly useless server level chipsets), but the two are often found together with AMD.
I *do* run some pretty big web sites (certainly in terms of processing), and stick to what would be regarded pretty boring configurations - making up for it with a bit of redundency of equipment.
At present my "prefered" configuration is intel 875 servers with 2.6GHz P4 CPUs, because they are cheap, common, and very very reliable. they just never give me failures.
The latest and 'whizziest' is all very well for a hot games machine, but for servers it is just not a good idea.
IMHO, if you are serious about needing $20KUS in equipment, you had better retionalise that by telling people WHAT hardware, because it seems like a very big ticket compared to what you should need to replace your current setup. People will be much more likely to contribute once they understand what is desired..
Anyhow, sorry for the lecture, and good luck with the hardware!
So, 72 BILLION a year just for TV advertising, of which 90% is trying to convince consumers to spend as much as possible on things that they very probably hadn't even imagined they would ever want - and then to replace those with the newer model ever 6 months.
Will anyone really lose too much sleep over this?
Of course there will be a fight - how DARE consumers want to avoid being hearded like so many sheep! the very thought of it.
Would it really be that bad to pay for the entertainment you want, rather than simply being fed the entertainment, and advertising, that they want to give you?
Then again I work in TV, but very rarely watch it. Maybe I'm just plain wrong.
And what makes you think that this will NOT use paracutes, with maybe a small amount of fuel to allow a softer 'soft' landing? after all, that fuel would save a LOT of structuer that would be required so the vehicle survived the just-paracure landing in a re-usable state..
It is quite possible to use a different approach for a 30 foot height control test and a full re-entry.... you say you are a rocket scientist?
Perhaps it's time for a few lateral-thinking courses.
1. Sorry? are there errors in what they are pointing out?
2. This is not the only paper pointing out the opposite, either.
3. No, it's called a 'natural occurance' - that's the whole point.
4. No, see 3.
5. There is a LOT of 'public' data out there, but very few of the people who like to stand on their soapboxes are at all interested in facts - since they know better.
Ever wondered why we are seeing a rapid increase in solar activity? hmmm.. nah - THAT can't be relivant, it must be the fault of faceless companies!
Excellent, They clustered a bunch of expensive management toys together and achieved about performance than a cheap desktop computer that costs less than the price of one of these toys?
Give them a medal - AND a slashdot leading story!
What next? how about a cluster of abacus? hey - wouldn't that be great! I feel excited already!
This is not some uber-hack, it is a trivial bit of work that a couple of half drunk people with a CE development system could throw together in a few hours!
How about some better ideas - distributed processing on nokia 3650's using SMS messages for data transfer and a cute graphics look to convince thousands of people to run the client? or even a dynamic bluetooth cluster that reconfigured as people entered and left the transmission area?
Firstly, why two seperate lists? are they saying there are as many unix security violations and windows? I wonder what colour the sky is in their world.
Secondly, just look at the lists.. a large number of the windows services are 'essential' (well, if you believe microsoft) for a windows server. Most of the unix services are easily replacable with effectively identical but more secure options. Anyone who runs sendmail rather than postfix gets all they deserve. RPC? why on earth would you make that available? NFS is hardly essential these days. No password accounts? my god - I never realised that was forced on you by unix!:P Bind? there are certainly secure alternatives to BIND (djbdns, for one) - and even BIND should be running chrooted anyway.. And clear text services? why don't they point out that situating your critical servers outside on the street is also a security risk!
My point is that nearly all of the unix 'problems' are very easy to avoid, or are only problems for very short times (the SSH/SSL problem, for example) - the majority of the windows 'problems' are almost impossible to avoid, patches come late, and sometimes even make things worse.
I see windows machines being virused/hacked about once a month (and trust me - I try to stop this a lot, as it makes my life very difficult) - I've only ever had ONE linux machine hacked in around 4 years - through a sendmail hole, and I stopped running sendmail everywhere the next day (it took about 1 hour to change 5 servers to postfix)
These lists need some form of relative threat rating on these problems!
How about people (well behaved of course) turning up outside these functions and giving all attendees free linux distributions and information as the arrive and leave?
Nothing like spreading a little information - and if SCO tries to block it, it makes them look like the bad guys.
For the cost of a couple of hundred writable CD's and some time a lot of good could be done to a very good target audience.
Actually, I would say this is one of the more useful SCOish pieces for a while - SCO coming out into the wild and talking to people could quite likely backfire on them if the masses can get a little organised.
I'm not of course talking about the crowds of screaming protesters approach here, but with a little consideration, organisation, and information a lot of their FUD spreading could be turned around on them.
To me this looks like a great opportunity - if this doesn't backfire on them, nothing will, IMHO.
Of course they may be hoping for, and may unfortunately get masses of idiots there making the non-SCO *nix comunity look like the revolting peasants, lets hope not.
A list of 'standard' questions should be distributed to be asked of SCO at these events, and the list should be tuned and improved as we find out what they have the most trouble answering.
Nothing scares these kinds of lawyers like an organised and informed public!
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Well, I've spent years working with children with severe and real ADHD problems, often mixed with other physical and mental handicaps.
I have only ever seen one approach result in a significant improvement in their quelity of life, and that is occupational therapy.
There is no drug out there that 'treats' ADHD, they all just mask it, which gives the brain no reason to learn its way to an improvement, the drugs are the worst enemy of an ADHD sufferer who actually wants to get better.
A seriously approached treatment program with a qualified and knowledgable occupational therapist can make a LARGE difference in even severe cases of ADHD, I've seen it - and I'm not talking about your average cases here but the type that land you up in perminent special care and are often linked to other physical and mental handicaps.
ADHD, like many brain dysfunctions, can be 'learned' out with enough work - maybe not totally, but often to a level that makes it very manageable.
Well, back in 1990 when I started in university computer science, this *was* one of the main things that a denial of service attack was considered to be.
DoS attacks were mainly either removal of a service (by crashing it and/or stoping it's reload) or resource starvation, being any of CPU, disk, memory, network, etc.
Good to see these people have bothered to flick through a bit of history probably over 15 years old by now and call it something new, yawn.
Having had enough background in large computer systems, it can become quite depressing watching the constant flow of 'new innovations' that have been done may many years before on big iron, but are seen as new by people who just don't have the experience to realise.
Of course it is easier to DoS a machine by using it's own functionality against it rather than just brute force, welcome to computer science 101.
Just wait six months and someone will be releasing a fantastic new defense against this by limiting the CPU resources of given tasks to defined amounts so they cannot stop the system and only that particular service.
I mean come on, this was a common undergrad trick on the vaxes we used to get to play with way back then.
The primary source of funding for the facility there is nuclear weapons stewardship - ie: keeping the US nuclear weapons stockpile warmed up and ready top go.
Hmmm, yep, that would be 'Dud Stuff' and aimed at 'killing people' I would have thought.
Not that they don't do a lot of great research in to other areas, but lets not fool ourselves here.
That would be for a 16bit signed integer, if he was using a 32bit signed integer (ie: as used by any c compiler in the last 10 years) make that figure around 2.1e+9 before it wraps - ie: it will not for quite some time.
Even at 1MByte per MP3, that would be 2048 terabytes of storage to house the MP3's, I dont think it's a big problem just yet.
come on people, computer math is just not that hard!
In which case, why do you state that you would use either an Athlon XP or a Transmeta chip? these are the exact opposites in the speed per power curve!
It sounds to me much more like an 'anything but intel' approach - fine, but at least admit it.
If you want a low power consumption (and quiet) desktop solution now, look into the VIA C3 series, not fast but very low power.
If you want a high power but fast solution, look at Intel or AMD, they rule the desktop one way or another.
I personally would like to see these new transmeta chips available in small embedded boards where their low heat production and high level of integration would be of great value, much like the C3 boards current are, but another step up, smaller and with lower power usage.
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You complete moron.
Did you actually read my posting? do you have some grasp of the english language?
look, what I was saying is that my country allowed a group of AMERICANS to come HERE and work for 6 months, in highly paid jobs, effectively taking jobs from our people, however we welcomed them with open arms, treated them well, and did everything to make that a good stay.
Then the same people, when I was going to the US simple to TRAIN them so THEY could do a job over there, blocked my entry and renneged on their contract. In the end they couldn't do the job themselves anyway, so your precious US people ended up losing work over this.
In my country, that is considered a pretty damn stupid thing to do, maybe it's just business as usual in the good ole US of A.
Believe it or not there are things other countries can do better than the US. It is safe to say that I will not be entering into further contracts in the US, therefore business opportunities will be lost in your precious country. This is no problem for me, I have plenty of customers elsewhere wanting my services.
And anyone who thinks this is off topic, think a little deeper. The topic here is a company who has actually got the good sense to offer an alternative to a *proven* monopoly. It would also seem that they have the common sense to have work done in the places where it can be best done. GOOD ON THEM!. I, as someone who strongly believes in REAL equalities and fairness, strongly applaud their actions.
Excellent!
As a person who was 6 months ago blocked from working in the US (actually I was supposed to go there to train people in the use of software I had written, but this was blocked by a union using US work laws.. I would have been there for 3 weeks.) after the same group of people had spent over 6 months here in my country working without problem or limitation (and I must say they had a great time also!) I am completely in support of HP, thank you for pointing this out!
Of course, I was not informed of these 'problems' until 2 weeks before I was due to leave, so all the development work ended up being wasted, at my expense. The company involved turned around and said it was not their problem, so no payment for any of my work.
But to get back on the subject, good on HP! another step forward for choice and freedom! I was sickened over the last couple of years with the methods msoft have used to try and present the selling of OS-less PCs as a form of piracy, well here is the solution - sell them with an OS, a free one!
The people BUYING the equipment should be the ones who decide what they do (and what they do not!) pay for in their PC, if they don't want to use msoft software, they should not have to buy it!
Of course, I can only assume that this move is due to the fact that people are starting to vote with their feet, and large companies (at least some) are realising that these are good sales being missed.
And does photoshop still have broken alpha, there it tried to use a non-standard tiff layer to represent what 100% of other software places in a standardised alpha layer?
I'll keep my Gimp thank!
And yes, I use this professionally, very porfessionally, I produce live television graphics systems. Photoshop has the most broken alpha support of anything out there!
Photoshop was designed for prepress use, and is broken for most other purposes.
Gimp 2.0, which I have been using in beta for some time, does everything better than photoshop, other than CMYK support (not an issue for anyone but prepress) and automation, which is a little more clunky. It more than makes up for these things in it's fineness of control for basic functions, and speed.
Well, I've been using the betas under both linux and windows for a month or so now, and I must say that this is a FANTASTIC improvement, which goes much deeper than just the improved UI.
Before this I used to use photoshop for much of my work, and Gimp for areas where I either needed the software on a machine that did not warrant a photoshop license, or to deal with alpha layers properly (which photoshop is terrible for). Photoshop is great for printing based people, but has some major miss-features for computer graphics use.
Gimp 2.0 however is much better than photoshop IMHO for many many jobs, although it is still just a bit lacking in the automation-of-tasks area.
Congratulations and Thanks to all the people involved in this fantastic piece of software!
Exactly, speaking as someone who has run CFD code on smallish clusters, 100MB ethernet falls flat on it's face at about 20 machines, and those were dual 500MHz machines - it will be worse with faster ones! (to preempt some silly comments, CFD code and linpack have a LOT in common)
And that was using specially tuned low latency ethernet drivers and TCP stack under linux.
These guys have very very little chance of doing anything useful at all - which is a bit of a pity, but perhaps if they did just a little research first..
I wonder if they even have network switches that will efficiently route 1200 nodes.. let alone a decent plan to interconnect them.
The first step would be to use 1Gbit or faster concentration to some very smart switches to at least cut down the network blockage a little.. It won't help with the terrible latency, but will give them a little headroom at some vector lengths.
They will also suffer terribly from the differing speeds of nodes - I've yet to see a solution for linpack that distributes efficiently over a wide speed range of machines.
Of course, I bet in the end they just come up with a great SETI score, or something similar - something that would actually scale at all on a cluster like this.
Oh well, I wish them luck anyway.
They turn off all the 'automate EVERYTHING' approaches microsoft seem to think are a good idea, then it will become safe again to actually click on the links?
Really. perhaps a few more people should install pegasus email under windows, and download mozilla firebird - the world would really be a slightly better place!
Or is that just too obvious?
PS: What on EARTH is up with IE's css support? is it intentionally designed to be completely broken?
Sigh.
You mean you are running integer CFD Code??
Amazing!
All the CFD Codes I run here I run in double precision floating point. (sometimes single precision when the situation allows..)
It must be some pretty funky code to be interger, never come across any real CFD code yet that is..
I mean, 90+% of the runtime of our CFD codes are spent in LAPACK, etc.. so we use the (nery nice) intel optimised versions (ASCII Red was not just a hardware project you know..) which do very very well..
Basically, I call BS!
If you are using some integer codes, then you are the only people I've ever heard of in the industry who are.. it must be very painfull!
And intel CPU's are really quite good at 80bit FP.. especially with the right libraries.
>The real question is have they finally dumped the
>stupid x86 instruction set in favour of a
>space/energy/coding efficient RISC set?
Ok, yeah, right, umm....
You DO know that RISC processors generally take up a lot more memory space for a given program, have more instructions, and are often more complex to code for, right?
(of course this assumes you know what a delay slot is, or have understood the pain of manually doing indirect addressing, managing register windows during interrupts, or managing implicit instruction skip flags, the joys of RISC!)
I thought not..
as for the energy argument - get with the 90's - everyone is using similar internal execution units anyway - this is a red heering.
Of course, who am I to stand in the way of fashion..
RISC in it's pure form has not existed for over 10 years now.. neither has CISC, for that matter.
It's about the same as attacking russians for being communist.. it's just not that simple.
The x86 instruction set and successfully covered the widest range of CPU performance ever, and is available in by far the most computers... I would suggest by just about any measure it is by far the most successful ever.
Of course, there seems to be a group of people who cannot stand the pain of thinking about their python interpreter running x86 code internally, or the fact that gcc is generating that for them.
I truly feel sorry for them - they suffer on while the rest of us just get-on-with-the-job(tm).
Sigh.
Well, lets see.
I provide consultance and external admin to a 'mid sized company' who got hit by this in the last couple of days. This is a company with around 50 on-site employees and an anual turnover in the region of $40 Million.
My filters let through two instances of the virus before they automatically updated their defs.
One went to a windows machine and infected it.
One went to a mac, and did not.
None of around 7 internal Linux servers were affected of course.
I knew very quickly which machine had an infection, as it was trying to send more viruses via the smtp server (which was by then blocking them) - we are not NEARLY stupid enough to give employees direct internet access via NAT!.
I blocked the access to the smtp server for that single machine (didn't even need to track down who it was) and they called me about 30 minutes later, when they next tried to send an email, letting me know who they were.
I asked them to download and run the cleaner program, which they did, so I re-enabled them. Their machine made no further attempts, so I suspect it is fine.
I also installed another layer of virus scanning just for the hell of it, and re-tuned their anti-spam setup with the latest versions.
(clamav, http://www.clamav.net)
Total cost to them:
2 hours of my time at $60US/hour.
1 hour of employees time (overestimating here), say $60US/hour.
A moderate amount of traffic on their link (we are blocking around 1/minute at present for this virus, but it is dying pretty fast) - they pay a fixed link cost, so don't really care.
So there we go - lets call it $200US total cost, and they got some usefull systems updated as part of that.
I didn't even have to leaave my home office.
So, your point was?
Not that I'm saying that the machine would be my choice, but..
This machine is 64bit moron! UltraSPARC has been 64bit for quite some time now.. It's software is all 64bit, it has a true 64bit OS.
Not of course that that makes much difference to anything, as there are very few applications that require 64bit addressing as yet. Just about every processor current can move data in at least 64bit chunks.. often 128bit.
Perhaps, next time, take the effort to even open the page you are going to comment on and have a quick glance - it can do wonders!
Having failed the slashdot typing challenge again..
Yes, as people seem to find it required to correct me, that should be caffiene free diet *coke*.
Then again, I prefer to avoid 'soft' drinks anyway, a little lime juice cordial in cold water is just as nice, IMHO.
Sigh.
Well, I gave up all caffiene about 4 years ago, and am very thankful. it has made my life a lot better IMHO.
I was at a dangerous point (unless people think a whole packet of nodoze-plus in one go is normal..) and just decided to stop.
Now I am ultra sensitive to caffiene, but just don't need it. It is a very bad physically addictive drug.
My advice - avoid sugar as a substitute - you can get diet caffiene free cock for example (well, here in NZ anyway).
Also avoid chocolate, coffee, many caffinated soft drinks, most energy drinks, tea, and any form of 'diet' pill.
decaf coffee and tea can help, but keep the amount down, BREAKING the addiction is the aim.
It took me about 3 weeks cold turkey to get back to 'normal'. Asprin and Neurofin in moderate quantities are your friends during this time (NOT paracetamol, it is bad for you!)
Don't try and wind down the amount - caffiene addiction cannot be addressed like that, the physical addiction will not leave untill your body is clean of it.
Once it's gone, it's not that hard to avoid.
Good luck!
I know I'm going to get MURDERED for saying this, but is there perhaps a lesson in here about server hardware? Especially relatively new technologies?
Actually, I don't have anything against the AMD stuff, mostly against VIA/SIS (who produce absolutly useless server level chipsets), but the two are often found together with AMD.
I *do* run some pretty big web sites (certainly in terms of processing), and stick to what would be regarded pretty boring configurations - making up for it with a bit of redundency of equipment.
At present my "prefered" configuration is intel 875 servers with 2.6GHz P4 CPUs, because they are cheap, common, and very very reliable. they just never give me failures.
The latest and 'whizziest' is all very well for a hot games machine, but for servers it is just not a good idea.
IMHO, if you are serious about needing $20KUS in equipment, you had better retionalise that by telling people WHAT hardware, because it seems like a very big ticket compared to what you should need to replace your current setup. People will be much more likely to contribute once they understand what is desired..
Anyhow, sorry for the lecture, and good luck with the hardware!
So, 72 BILLION a year just for TV advertising, of which 90% is trying to convince consumers to spend as much as possible on things that they very probably hadn't even imagined they would ever want - and then to replace those with the newer model ever 6 months.
Will anyone really lose too much sleep over this?
Of course there will be a fight - how DARE consumers want to avoid being hearded like so many sheep! the very thought of it.
Would it really be that bad to pay for the entertainment you want, rather than simply being fed the entertainment, and advertising, that they want to give you?
Then again I work in TV, but very rarely watch it. Maybe I'm just plain wrong.
And what makes you think that this will NOT use paracutes, with maybe a small amount of fuel to allow a softer 'soft' landing? after all, that fuel would save a LOT of structuer that would be required so the vehicle survived the just-paracure landing in a re-usable state..
It is quite possible to use a different approach for a 30 foot height control test and a full re-entry.... you say you are a rocket scientist?
Perhaps it's time for a few lateral-thinking courses.
Me. the EVIL one.
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1. Sorry? are there errors in what they are pointing out?
2. This is not the only paper pointing out the opposite, either.
3. No, it's called a 'natural occurance' - that's the whole point.
4. No, see 3.
5. There is a LOT of 'public' data out there, but very few of the people who like to stand on their soapboxes are at all interested in facts - since they know better.
Ever wondered why we are seeing a rapid increase in solar activity? hmmm.. nah - THAT can't be relivant, it must be the fault of faceless companies!
Have a Nice Day.
Excellent, They clustered a bunch of expensive management toys together and achieved about performance than a cheap desktop computer that costs less than the price of one of these toys?
Give them a medal - AND a slashdot leading story!
What next? how about a cluster of abacus? hey - wouldn't that be great! I feel excited already!
This is not some uber-hack, it is a trivial bit of work that a couple of half drunk people with a CE development system could throw together in a few hours!
How about some better ideas - distributed processing on nokia 3650's using SMS messages for data transfer and a cute graphics look to convince thousands of people to run the client? or even a dynamic bluetooth cluster that reconfigured as people entered and left the transmission area?
Wow! that took SECONDS of thinking!
Well, this list looks very foolish to me.
Firstly, why two seperate lists? are they saying there are as many unix security violations and windows? I wonder what colour the sky is in their world.
Secondly, just look at the lists.. a large number of the windows services are 'essential' (well, if you believe microsoft) for a windows server.
Most of the unix services are easily replacable with effectively identical but more secure options.
Anyone who runs sendmail rather than postfix gets all they deserve.
RPC? why on earth would you make that available? NFS is hardly essential these days.
No password accounts? my god - I never realised that was forced on you by unix!
Bind? there are certainly secure alternatives to BIND (djbdns, for one) - and even BIND should be running chrooted anyway..
And clear text services? why don't they point out that situating your critical servers outside on the street is also a security risk!
My point is that nearly all of the unix 'problems' are very easy to avoid, or are only problems for very short times (the SSH/SSL problem, for example) - the majority of the windows 'problems' are almost impossible to avoid, patches come late, and sometimes even make things worse.
I see windows machines being virused/hacked about once a month (and trust me - I try to stop this a lot, as it makes my life very difficult) - I've only ever had ONE linux machine hacked in around 4 years - through a sendmail hole, and I stopped running sendmail everywhere the next day (it took about 1 hour to change 5 servers to postfix)
These lists need some form of relative threat rating on these problems!
How about people (well behaved of course) turning up outside these functions and giving all attendees free linux distributions and information as the arrive and leave?
Nothing like spreading a little information - and if SCO tries to block it, it makes them look like the bad guys.
For the cost of a couple of hundred writable CD's and some time a lot of good could be done to a very good target audience.
Actually, I would say this is one of the more useful SCOish pieces for a while - SCO coming out into the wild and talking to people could quite likely backfire on them if the masses can get a little organised.
I'm not of course talking about the crowds of screaming protesters approach here, but with a little consideration, organisation, and information a lot of their FUD spreading could be turned around on them.
To me this looks like a great opportunity - if this doesn't backfire on them, nothing will, IMHO.
Of course they may be hoping for, and may unfortunately get masses of idiots there making the non-SCO *nix comunity look like the revolting peasants, lets hope not.
A list of 'standard' questions should be distributed to be asked of SCO at these events, and the list should be tuned and improved as we find out what they have the most trouble answering.
Nothing scares these kinds of lawyers like an organised and informed public!
Well, I've spent years working with children with severe and real ADHD problems, often mixed with other physical and mental handicaps.
I have only ever seen one approach result in a significant improvement in their quelity of life, and that is occupational therapy.
There is no drug out there that 'treats' ADHD, they all just mask it, which gives the brain no reason to learn its way to an improvement, the drugs are the worst enemy of an ADHD sufferer who actually wants to get better.
A seriously approached treatment program with a qualified and knowledgable occupational therapist can make a LARGE difference in even severe cases of ADHD, I've seen it - and I'm not talking about your average cases here but the type that land you up in perminent special care and are often linked to other physical and mental handicaps.
ADHD, like many brain dysfunctions, can be 'learned' out with enough work - maybe not totally, but often to a level that makes it very manageable.
Well, back in 1990 when I started in university computer science, this *was* one of the main things that a denial of service attack was considered to be.
DoS attacks were mainly either removal of a service (by crashing it and/or stoping it's reload) or resource starvation, being any of CPU, disk, memory, network, etc.
Good to see these people have bothered to flick through a bit of history probably over 15 years old by now and call it something new, yawn.
Having had enough background in large computer systems, it can become quite depressing watching the constant flow of 'new innovations' that have been done may many years before on big iron, but are seen as new by people who just don't have the experience to realise.
Of course it is easier to DoS a machine by using it's own functionality against it rather than just brute force, welcome to computer science 101.
Just wait six months and someone will be releasing a fantastic new defense against this by limiting the CPU resources of given tasks to defined amounts so they cannot stop the system and only that particular service.
I mean come on, this was a common undergrad trick on the vaxes we used to get to play with way back then.
Read the article,
The primary source of funding for the facility there is nuclear weapons stewardship - ie: keeping the US nuclear weapons stockpile warmed up and ready top go.
Hmmm, yep, that would be 'Dud Stuff' and aimed at 'killing people' I would have thought.
Not that they don't do a lot of great research in to other areas, but lets not fool ourselves here.
That would be for a 16bit signed integer, if he was using a 32bit signed integer (ie: as used by any c compiler in the last 10 years) make that figure around 2.1e+9 before it wraps - ie: it will not for quite some time.
Even at 1MByte per MP3, that would be 2048 terabytes of storage to house the MP3's, I dont think it's a big problem just yet.
come on people, computer math is just not that hard!
In which case, why do you state that you would use either an Athlon XP or a Transmeta chip? these are the exact opposites in the speed per power curve!
It sounds to me much more like an 'anything but intel' approach - fine, but at least admit it.
If you want a low power consumption (and quiet) desktop solution now, look into the VIA C3 series, not fast but very low power.
If you want a high power but fast solution, look at Intel or AMD, they rule the desktop one way or another.
I personally would like to see these new transmeta chips available in small embedded boards where their low heat production and high level of integration would be of great value, much like the C3 boards current are, but another step up, smaller and with lower power usage.