This new series is remarkable. I recently was lucky enough to buy one via ebay. Although it is not an officially supported platform yet, I have it running VMWare ESX Server 2.5, with 7 Virtual Machines, 6 of them Gentoo Linux and one Windows 2003 Server. My overall CPU utilization is less than 10% average... I can't begin to tell how fast it runs...
The latest version of BestCrypt supports that. You can create a container inside a container, and if you are forced to reveal the password, you only do so for the first container. The adversary remains unaware of the existance of the second container.
In general, I like this software because of its low CPU overhead and Linux compatibility, although I think version 7 is Windows only for now.
I read Slashdot everywhere I go. The most weird thing is the timing. I did it one day in Punta Arenas, in the Chilean Patagonia, and the next day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the next day and a half in Stockholm, Sweeden... across the world in 4 days...
Provide a licence of VMWare Workstation 4.5.2 to each student + one virtual machine with all the required School security. The virtual machine will be controlled, privided and mainained by the school. Access will be controlled and allowed only using the specific VM, that can be configured to be read-only, and expiring. The student still can do whatever they want with their laptop, even run Linux if they want, but the access to the school will be uniform and totally controlled.
I did it myself. I changed from pure old-fashioned programmer and I became a pre-sales engineer for the networking industry, and later a trainer. I was able to susrvive the crash right here in Silicon Valley (being myself a foreigner) while a bunch of other people was being laid off, never making less than 120K/yr.
I acknowledge I was lucky too, and I was in the right place at the right time, but here is my advice: cut your hair, shave, and put on your suit. Learn to speak and "sell". If you have a direct face-to-face communication with your customer, you'll be the last one to be shot.
Like many other Silicon Valley companies, my employer has not invested in IT equipment in years, and budgets are not getting better. Nevertheless, we need to keep moving forward with projects.
I used Gentoo to build 3 servers based on old SCSI-based Dell PCs with 256 MB of RAM and Pentium 3 CPUs running at 733Mhz. The application is remote training, with custom-made scripts that launch individual VNC frame buffers for each student. Then, we used a Sun Java-based application to connect to a Sun server behind.
Using the 2.6.2-mm2 kernel, the user perception is extraordinary. Nobody has ever complained about performance, and I've conducted 100% remote trainings with up to 12 sessions at the time.
Compiling is not really an issue. Because all machines are identical, I use distcc across them, and then one of them saves the.tbz2 binaries in an NFS export so the other ones just install with emerge -k. Fantastic performance. Clean configurations. Only the necessary packages. You name it. Gentoo is a winner.
Yes, he will be interviewed tonite in the David Lorentz program in CNET Radio in the San Francisco Bay Area (AM 910) and Boston. http://www.cnetradio.com
Anonymous P2P with direct search by key is the answer. Like FreeNet but way more efficient. Please support it. GNUnet is for all, at it really has the potential to become the next generation in P2P.
I'm amazed that the Slashdot community and the developers in general are not motivated and interested by the GNUNet project, that provides an encrypted, secure and private access to P2P.
The system is still in experimental stages, but it is *very* promising, and solves several of the issues in Freenet.
See it at http://www.gnu.org/software/GNUnet/gnunet.html
I think an interesting alternative could be what GNUNet is doing, like indexing files (or whole web sites for that matter) using specific keywords. Take a look at http://www.gnu.org/software/GNUnet
I have AT&T cable as well, and I did suscribe to the voice over cable service. I have to say I'm impressed with the quality. I've never had any problem so far. I droped Pacific Bell and I don't miss them at all...
First of nothing, let me tell you that for me Linux is almost a religion. I draged my wife and my little sister and her boyfriend to this BBQ (that was about something they don't fully understand) with my linux T-shirt and my "Linux 77" license plate in my lexus, just to see a bunch of people without any life or spark. I felt depressed with the attitude of these guys. My wife (who is more sociable than I) just went out there and met some people, and it was like, "hey guys! here is someone with a job!" thing.
I know most of us have our own lives and a lot of stuff to deal with daily, but I didn't expect these from my bretheren in the faith.
I do have to tell, though, that we met an old guy who saved the whole afternoon. Really cool guy and we shared a lot of interesting insights about using linux in education. I contributed with my link to www.LTSP.org at least. Better luck next time. P.S. You need to hire my wife as a social director (she accepts stocks...;))
Yes, there is a big difference. I have been an audiophile for a long time, but I also care about my pocket. You will find there is an intermediate segment with a very high quality for far less money than the one described in the original article.
Speakers for example. Low end is just low end. But in the 5-6K range, you can find speakers that rival to those in the 12K and above.
I've noticed that people in Canada and the UK are much more sensible to that issue than people in the US, and they have interesting magazines like the $ensible $ound, and What Hi-Fi, that recommend great systems for lower budgets.
I personally own legacy-audio signature speakers and Krell electronics, and I'm extremelly happy with them. Regarding to cables, you can do your own
Cheers,
If I would really have the time to investigate this subject, I'd probably use Bell Lab's Plan9 operatig system. After installing it in my laptop and run a CPU server, you can easily add more and more CPU processing to your application in a totally transparent way. The use of the resources is incredibly efficient and it is much easier to program than Unix/Linux.
DSP processing is just one more task that you could assign to a CPU.
First, I think you have an incredible oportunity in your hands. These kids are part of a new generation that is coming, and they will pretty much decide our future some day. If his intelligence is as developed as you say, teach him the building blocks in all the areas, icluding technology. He will use them as a lego and will create the next step, or may be something totally different. Teach him about who we are, as human race, and how interconected are all of us now. Show him how important is that the next generation learn to put the individualism in second place and do something just for the fun of making our lives better and richer for everyone, everywhere.
Now, to don't get "moderated", I'd teach him:
- Object oriented programming (independent of the language, C++ is you must)
- Parallel programming for massive parallel computers
- Neural networks and genetic algorithms
- VR and new ideas for man-machine interfaces
I would try to focus his intelligence in non-traditional and non-legacy systems, instead of using Linux, Windows or other old OSs as a base. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Linux fan, but the "new thing" can be totally different, and he may be the one to invent it.
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This new series is remarkable. I recently was lucky enough to buy one via ebay. Although it is not an officially supported platform yet, I have it running VMWare ESX Server 2.5, with 7 Virtual Machines, 6 of them Gentoo Linux and one Windows 2003 Server. My overall CPU utilization is less than 10% average... I can't begin to tell how fast it runs...
The latest version of BestCrypt supports that. You can create a container inside a container, and if you are forced to reveal the password, you only do so for the first container. The adversary remains unaware of the existance of the second container.
In general, I like this software because of its low CPU overhead and Linux compatibility, although I think version 7 is Windows only for now.
I read Slashdot everywhere I go. The most weird thing is the timing. I did it one day in Punta Arenas, in the Chilean Patagonia, and the next day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the next day and a half in Stockholm, Sweeden... across the world in 4 days...
Provide a licence of VMWare Workstation 4.5.2 to each student + one virtual machine with all the required School security. The virtual machine will be controlled, privided and mainained by the school. Access will be controlled and allowed only using the specific VM, that can be configured to be read-only, and expiring. The student still can do whatever they want with their laptop, even run Linux if they want, but the access to the school will be uniform and totally controlled.
I did it myself. I changed from pure old-fashioned programmer and I became a pre-sales engineer for the networking industry, and later a trainer. I was able to susrvive the crash right here in Silicon Valley (being myself a foreigner) while a bunch of other people was being laid off, never making less than 120K/yr.
I acknowledge I was lucky too, and I was in the right place at the right time, but here is my advice: cut your hair, shave, and put on your suit. Learn to speak and "sell". If you have a direct face-to-face communication with your customer, you'll be the last one to be shot.
Like many other Silicon Valley companies, my employer has not invested in IT equipment in years, and budgets are not getting better. Nevertheless, we need to keep moving forward with projects.
.tbz2 binaries in an NFS export so the other ones just install with emerge -k. Fantastic performance. Clean configurations. Only the necessary packages. You name it. Gentoo is a winner.
I used Gentoo to build 3 servers based on old SCSI-based Dell PCs with 256 MB of RAM and Pentium 3 CPUs running at 733Mhz. The application is remote training, with custom-made scripts that launch individual VNC frame buffers for each student. Then, we used a Sun Java-based application to connect to a Sun server behind.
Using the 2.6.2-mm2 kernel, the user perception is extraordinary. Nobody has ever complained about performance, and I've conducted 100% remote trainings with up to 12 sessions at the time.
Compiling is not really an issue. Because all machines are identical, I use distcc across them, and then one of them saves the
Yes, he will be interviewed tonite in the David Lorentz program in CNET Radio in the San Francisco Bay Area (AM 910) and Boston. http://www.cnetradio.com
Anonymous P2P with direct search by key is the answer. Like FreeNet but way more efficient. Please support it. GNUnet is for all, at it really has the potential to become the next generation in P2P.
I'm amazed that the Slashdot community and the developers in general are not motivated and interested by the GNUNet project, that provides an encrypted, secure and private access to P2P.
The system is still in experimental stages, but it is *very* promising, and solves several of the issues in Freenet.
See it at http://www.gnu.org/software/GNUnet/gnunet.html
I think an interesting alternative could be what GNUNet is doing, like indexing files (or whole web sites for that matter) using specific keywords. Take a look at http://www.gnu.org/software/GNUnet
I have AT&T cable as well, and I did suscribe to the voice over cable service. I have to say I'm impressed with the quality. I've never had any problem so far. I droped Pacific Bell and I don't miss them at all...
First of nothing, let me tell you that for me Linux is almost a religion. I draged my wife and my little sister and her boyfriend to this BBQ (that was about something they don't fully understand) with my linux T-shirt and my "Linux 77" license plate in my lexus, just to see a bunch of people without any life or spark. I felt depressed with the attitude of these guys. My wife (who is more sociable than I) just went out there and met some people, and it was like, "hey guys! here is someone with a job!" thing.
I know most of us have our own lives and a lot of stuff to deal with daily, but I didn't expect these from my bretheren in the faith.
I do have to tell, though, that we met an old guy who saved the whole afternoon. Really cool guy and we shared a lot of interesting insights about using linux in education. I contributed with my link to www.LTSP.org at least. Better luck next time. P.S. You need to hire my wife as a social director (she accepts stocks...;))
Yes, there is a big difference. I have been an audiophile for a long time, but I also care about my pocket. You will find there is an intermediate segment with a very high quality for far less money than the one described in the original article.
Speakers for example. Low end is just low end. But in the 5-6K range, you can find speakers that rival to those in the 12K and above. I've noticed that people in Canada and the UK are much more sensible to that issue than people in the US, and they have interesting magazines like the $ensible $ound, and What Hi-Fi, that recommend great systems for lower budgets. I personally own legacy-audio signature speakers and Krell electronics, and I'm extremelly happy with them. Regarding to cables, you can do your own
Cheers,
If I would really have the time to investigate this subject, I'd probably use Bell Lab's Plan9 operatig system. After installing it in my laptop and run a CPU server, you can easily add more and more CPU processing to your application in a totally transparent way. The use of the resources is incredibly efficient and it is much easier to program than Unix/Linux.
DSP processing is just one more task that you could assign to a CPU.
Just my 2 cents.
First, I think you have an incredible oportunity in your hands. These kids are part of a new generation that is coming, and they will pretty much decide our future some day. If his intelligence is as developed as you say, teach him the building blocks in all the areas, icluding technology. He will use them as a lego and will create the next step, or may be something totally different. Teach him about who we are, as human race, and how interconected are all of us now. Show him how important is that the next generation learn to put the individualism in second place and do something just for the fun of making our lives better and richer for everyone, everywhere.
Now, to don't get "moderated", I'd teach him:
- Object oriented programming (independent of the language, C++ is you must)
- Parallel programming for massive parallel computers
- Neural networks and genetic algorithms
- VR and new ideas for man-machine interfaces
I would try to focus his intelligence in non-traditional and non-legacy systems, instead of using Linux, Windows or other old OSs as a base. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Linux fan, but the "new thing" can be totally different, and he may be the one to invent it.