One of the other posts already pointed out that NT Enterprise Edition only supports 2 node fail-over. However, I believe that [he] is talking about Windows load balancing service. This used to be "Convoy Cluster Server". This is a pretty slick little piece of software, but it's not 100% transparent. 1. I believe that it supports up to 16 nodes in a cluster. 2. It distributes load based on which machine is least loaded in the cluster getting the next request. 3. You can't use things like ASP sessions because they don't work in a distributed environment. Jim
Although it is convienient to use the "that which is human" standard for the thing that "shall not be killed", but this is an artificial standard with no real meaning other than that provided by certain religous belief structures.
Humans kill, plain and simple. We kill for food, whether it be a plant, or other non-human animal we kill. We kill for space and comfort, we exterminate insects and plants form our living places.
Killing is something humans do, to remove killing from humans is to eliminate humans.
This is not to say that we should go around popping holes an anything that we set eyes on, but it is to say that killing is a tool that we have at our disposal, when used in a discriminating fashon it can supply us with food, clothing, shelter, and even ease suffering.
Look, I have two children of my own and I would never want to see something terrible happen to either one, but I can understand the thinking of ending the life of a chronically ill child.
As far as genetic engineering of the human race, that's been going on since the beginning of time and will only accelerate with the use of technology. This is unstoppable regardless of how repulsive the prospects.
The thing comes with GoBe Productive (www.gobe.com) for an office suite. It's running BeOS! The "Linux" stuff is probably nothing more than the already ported (by Cygnus) GNU toolset stuff.
Regular run-of-the-mill Window NT can address up to 2 GB of memory per process (I'm talking virtual memory here), the other 2 gig of memory (on Intel boxes) is reserved for the OS. The Intel x86 line can address up to 4GB of physical RAM.
Now, Windows NT "Enterprise Edition" can address up to 3 GB of memory per process with 1GB reserved for the OS on Intel platforms. On Alpha platforms use can use what Microsoft calls Very Large Memory or VLM to get pointers into memory aobe the 4GB mark. Such memory is not paged memory and you must actually have more than 4GB of PHYSICAL RAM to use VLM.
It's a shame to see so many people take what they have for granted:
1. Linux exists because of the FSF first, OSI second. 2. The FSF exists because of RMS.
I don't believe that BP is whining; he tried to find a way to package the FSF ideals in a way that may have made those ideals more palatable to the general public. What he is discovering is that the general public wants to hoard the fruits of the movement that started with the FSF and RMS.
As for whether or not M$ and Windoze will win, they already have in a way (the zealots out there: bear with me). If you measure winning by having the biggest most profitable software company in the world, or if you measure winning by installed base, then yes, they have won. I don't believe that that has to be the end of the game. FSF and the rest of the world can exist together. The importance of Linux, or the FSF, need not be diminished because there is a big boy on the block. I don't believe that Linux or the FSF will get squashed into non-existance by anyone. I don't think we need more flames about M$'s taking over the world. Trying to put OSI and FSF (i.e. GPL) this all in perspective:
1. Non-open source is the least desirable. 2. Open source is better, but not the best. 3. FSF's GPL is best.
The order presented above is in relation to the individual's rights (freedoms) with regard to using products with the given type of license.
It is clear that BP started out at FSF's GPL level. He created OSI to promote the "acceptable" parts of the GPL, but clearly he hoped that he had enough in OSI that it would essentially be the same as GPL. Clearly he was mistaken. His letter indicates that he is retreating to the FSF GPL and is thinking of other ways to promote the GPL.
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One of the other posts already pointed out that NT Enterprise Edition only supports 2 node fail-over. However, I believe that [he] is talking about Windows load balancing service. This used to be "Convoy Cluster Server". This is a pretty slick little piece of software, but it's not 100% transparent. 1. I believe that it supports up to 16 nodes in a cluster. 2. It distributes load based on which machine is least loaded in the cluster getting the next request. 3. You can't use things like ASP sessions because they don't work in a distributed environment. Jim
Although it is convienient to use the "that which is human" standard for the thing that "shall not be killed", but this is an artificial standard with no real meaning other than that provided by certain religous belief structures.
Humans kill, plain and simple. We kill for food, whether it be a plant, or other non-human animal we kill. We kill for space and comfort, we exterminate insects and plants form our living places.
Killing is something humans do, to remove killing from humans is to eliminate humans.
This is not to say that we should go around popping holes an anything that we set eyes on, but it is to say that killing is a tool that we have at our disposal, when used in a discriminating fashon it can supply us with food, clothing, shelter, and even ease suffering.
Look, I have two children of my own and I would never want to see something terrible happen to either one, but I can understand the thinking of ending the life of a chronically ill child.
As far as genetic engineering of the human race, that's been going on since the beginning of time and will only accelerate with the use of technology. This is unstoppable regardless of how repulsive the prospects.
My 2 cents.
The thing comes with GoBe Productive (www.gobe.com) for an office suite. It's running BeOS! The "Linux" stuff is probably nothing more than the already ported (by Cygnus) GNU toolset stuff.
Regular run-of-the-mill Window NT can address up to 2 GB of memory per process (I'm talking virtual memory here), the other 2 gig of memory (on Intel boxes) is reserved for the OS. The Intel x86 line can address up to 4GB of physical RAM.
Now, Windows NT "Enterprise Edition" can address up to 3 GB of memory per process with 1GB reserved for the OS on Intel platforms. On Alpha platforms use can use what Microsoft calls Very Large Memory or VLM to get pointers into memory aobe the 4GB mark. Such memory is not paged memory and you must actually have more than 4GB of PHYSICAL RAM to use VLM.
Hope this helps.
Be's CEO Jean-Louis Gassée offered to give away Be recently to OEMs. Why not go Open Source?
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It's a shame to see so many people take what they have for granted:
1. Linux exists because of the FSF first, OSI second.
2. The FSF exists because of RMS.
I don't believe that BP is whining; he tried to find a way to package the FSF ideals in a way that may have made those ideals more palatable to the general public. What he is discovering is that the general public wants to hoard the fruits of the movement that started with the FSF and RMS.
As for whether or not M$ and Windoze will win, they already have in a way (the zealots out there: bear with me). If you measure winning by having the biggest most profitable software company in the world, or if you measure winning by installed base, then yes, they have won. I don't believe that that has to be the end of the game. FSF and the rest of the world can exist together. The importance of Linux, or the FSF, need not be diminished because there is a big boy on the block. I don't believe that Linux or the FSF will get squashed into non-existance by anyone. I don't think we need more flames about M$'s taking over the world. Trying to put OSI and FSF (i.e. GPL) this all in perspective:
1. Non-open source is the least desirable.
2. Open source is better, but not the best.
3. FSF's GPL is best.
The order presented above is in relation to the individual's rights (freedoms) with regard to using products with the given type of license.
It is clear that BP started out at FSF's GPL level. He created OSI to promote the "acceptable" parts of the GPL, but clearly he hoped that he had enough in OSI that it would essentially be the same as GPL. Clearly he was mistaken. His letter indicates that he is retreating to the FSF GPL and is thinking of other ways to promote the GPL.
My 2 cents.