In this case, I think it's a somewhat serious idea. This design has only four nodes, so connecting several in a modular fashion might make sense, and retain some of the advantages in portability and cost. You could move the individual Microwulfs around, but bring them together for really big problems. Think of it as a LAN party for scientists.
Microwulf is designed as a Beowulf cluster, but how does that make it a supercomputer? To put it another way, what is super about a computer that isn't fast?
I hope you don't get modded down for sharing an experience. Implying that is almost flamebait. I use Ubuntu on several machines and have had mostly good experiences. I wanted to install it recently on an old Thinkpad A30, and it booted fine. The desktop appeared after a while, but starting any app, including a terminal was excruciatingly slow.
I started the installer, but gave up waiting for the GUI to appear after almost an hour. Then, I booted an alternate install CD in text mode, did a default install, and everything was fine. The CD drive was no speed demon, but installation took about 30 minutes, IIRC. Performance is fine now that Ubuntu's installed on the hard drive. I have had to do a little work to get the Linksys PC card Wifi adapter and Palm sync working, and I have not yet gotten suspend and hibernate to work reliably, but that may just require some magic ACPI kernel command line options.
I don't know why running things off the Live installer CD was so slow. I didn't have any trouble using the text mode installer, but I understand that many would want to avoid that.
Yeah, that's an interesting point. I honestly have no idea what RMS would have done if software weren't copyrightable but source usually wasn't provided with binaries. I suspect that if software weren't copyrightable, most authors wouldn't be opposed to making source available as well as binaries, but that would be a very different world from the one we're living in. I agree with RMS and the FSF to the extent that I think most software should be Free, but I can't agree that it's morally wrong to write proprietary software.
I'm pretty sure that most of the people at the FSF would share your skepticism of the value of copyright. The whole point of copyleft is to use the existing legal system to promote the FSF's ideals. If there weren't copyright, the GPL would carry no weight and wouldn't be needed in the first place, a situation that RMS would have undoubtedly preferred.
I tried to install the sucker, selected a bunch of options on my k7 2800+ system, which isn't a slouch by any means, after 27 hours of compiling I gave up.
Maybe you should try letting the computer do it next time.
That is interesting. I had sort of thought the runaway machine guns were a Hollywood invention, but I guess not. I do remember seeing a Gatling gun in an old Disney movie that would start firing if you bumped it and I'm certain that was bogus since Gatling guns used a human arm to turn the crank and cycle the actions.
I thought I had read something about gas-operated weapons having trouble in a low pressure environment, but I'm not sure about it, so you may be entirely correct. I am curious about where that idea came from in Firefly.
Yes, I was confused if you said "transformer" when you really meant "DC to DC converter". If those terms were commonly used interchangeably, perhaps I wouldn't have been confused. I was also confused by this statement:
I could connect a 2V battery to a transformer and get 120V. But it wouldn't last very long.
If you were really trying to emphasize that the voltage of a battery does not determine its energy capacity, you would have stated that the duration would depend on both the voltage and current of the load.
It doesn't look like Bowdler did anything to any Bible. He's best known for "Family Shakespeare". It seems that Boothroyd's New Family Bible appeared about the same time as "Family Shakespeare" and both were part of an already existing social trend.
I knew that some firearms can go off accidentally when dropped, but I didn't think a fully automatic weapon would keep firing. I thought at most a couple of rounds would be fired, but I'm not experienced with firearms, so it seems plausible.
You seem to be just as ignorant about electricity as the poster you replied to:
I could connect a 2V battery to a transformer and get 120V. But it wouldn't last very long.
First, a voltaic cell or battery of such cells produces direct current, which won't give you anything when connected to a transformer. If you connected the cell or battery to a power inverter, which makes alternating current out of direct current, you could then use a transformer to change the voltage.
Second, the voltage of a battery doesn't tell you anything about its energy storage capacity and does not determine the current drawn from it. You could make a 2V cell or battery with huge energy capacity just as you could make a 120V battery with a small energy capacity. You can draw a small current from a high voltage source just as you can draw a high current from a low voltage source.
A musket or any single-shot weapon should work fine in a vacuum, since gunpowder (of any type) must contain an oxidizer. However, a firearm that uses gas pressure to load another round, as many modern rifles do, may not cycle properly. Even if it didn't cycle completely, it would probably just require manual cycling of the action.
According to twosources I found, the AK-47 also owes some design principles to earlier American rifle designs. Just like many inventions, its success built on lessons learned from previous designs. It's not surprising that many have thought the AK-47 was derived from the MP-44, since they look almost identical superficially.
I'm pretty sure the USSR would be most accurately described as a republic or representative democracy, just like most, if not all Western "democracies." Of course, I'm speaking about the theoretical design, not how things actually worked.
No, there is case law in regards to photojournalism and copyright, saying that you can photograph anything in public, even someones home and through their windows and their businesses as long as you do it from a public area. Would you care to elaborate? What jurisdiction (country, state, county, city) is this? But even if one can copyright a photograph taken in public (I think one can in general), that's still an entirely different question from whether it is invasion of privacy. If it's an invasion of privacy (I'm not saying positively that this case is), then photos shouldn't be taken in the first place, even before copyright law would apply.
Yes, I think it is a potential threat to privacy that these photos are available on a public web site. Not only can anyone anywhere see it any time, but they can do so without the person being viewed being able to know who sees it. I'm not sure what the standards or restrictions should be, but I do think this type of service changes the situation signifcantly.
Are the photos for the "realestate industry" of random houses, or specific properties? I doubt there are details that specific in any copyright law, but this is about privacy, which is a separate issue. Even if there are no laws that specifically prohibit this, it's forboding.
I suspect that the only reason this is being commented on is that if Dell ships machines with an alternative to Windows, some will automatically expect the alternative to be a direct replacement and Wine is an obvious choice to try to replace Windows. Since Wine is available for installation on normal Ubuntu, it would be exceedingly strange if the same weren't true on the Dell machines.
The eWeek article has a bunch of quotes, but it's somewhat difficult to interpret. I am listening to the interview, but it's got a huge amount of background noise and difficult to make out at points. I think the interviewer said something like "Do you plan to push Wine on Ubuntu?" which is a much different question from "Do you want allow Ubuntu users to install Wine if they want to use it?".
Yeah, who's to say it's the carcinogens in cigarette smoke killing people? For all we know, it's really their high fat diets, sedentary lifestyles and tendency to get into debt with the Mafia.
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Hey, give the GP the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he lives in his mother's attic.
Can someone put your lawn furniture on his lawn without removing it from yours?
In this case, I think it's a somewhat serious idea. This design has only four nodes, so connecting several in a modular fashion might make sense, and retain some of the advantages in portability and cost. You could move the individual Microwulfs around, but bring them together for really big problems. Think of it as a LAN party for scientists.
Microwulf is designed as a Beowulf cluster, but how does that make it a supercomputer? To put it another way, what is super about a computer that isn't fast?
I hope you don't get modded down for sharing an experience. Implying that is almost flamebait. I use Ubuntu on several machines and have had mostly good experiences. I wanted to install it recently on an old Thinkpad A30, and it booted fine. The desktop appeared after a while, but starting any app, including a terminal was excruciatingly slow.
I started the installer, but gave up waiting for the GUI to appear after almost an hour. Then, I booted an alternate install CD in text mode, did a default install, and everything was fine. The CD drive was no speed demon, but installation took about 30 minutes, IIRC. Performance is fine now that Ubuntu's installed on the hard drive. I have had to do a little work to get the Linksys PC card Wifi adapter and Palm sync working, and I have not yet gotten suspend and hibernate to work reliably, but that may just require some magic ACPI kernel command line options.
I don't know why running things off the Live installer CD was so slow. I didn't have any trouble using the text mode installer, but I understand that many would want to avoid that.
Yeah, that's an interesting point. I honestly have no idea what RMS would have done if software weren't copyrightable but source usually wasn't provided with binaries. I suspect that if software weren't copyrightable, most authors wouldn't be opposed to making source available as well as binaries, but that would be a very different world from the one we're living in. I agree with RMS and the FSF to the extent that I think most software should be Free, but I can't agree that it's morally wrong to write proprietary software.
I'm pretty sure that most of the people at the FSF would share your skepticism of the value of copyright. The whole point of copyleft is to use the existing legal system to promote the FSF's ideals. If there weren't copyright, the GPL would carry no weight and wouldn't be needed in the first place, a situation that RMS would have undoubtedly preferred.
Maybe you should try letting the computer do it next time.
That is interesting. I had sort of thought the runaway machine guns were a Hollywood invention, but I guess not. I do remember seeing a Gatling gun in an old Disney movie that would start firing if you bumped it and I'm certain that was bogus since Gatling guns used a human arm to turn the crank and cycle the actions.
I thought I had read something about gas-operated weapons having trouble in a low pressure environment, but I'm not sure about it, so you may be entirely correct. I am curious about where that idea came from in Firefly.
It doesn't look like Bowdler did anything to any Bible. He's best known for "Family Shakespeare". It seems that Boothroyd's New Family Bible appeared about the same time as "Family Shakespeare" and both were part of an already existing social trend.
I knew that some firearms can go off accidentally when dropped, but I didn't think a fully automatic weapon would keep firing. I thought at most a couple of rounds would be fired, but I'm not experienced with firearms, so it seems plausible.
Second, the voltage of a battery doesn't tell you anything about its energy storage capacity and does not determine the current drawn from it. You could make a 2V cell or battery with huge energy capacity just as you could make a 120V battery with a small energy capacity. You can draw a small current from a high voltage source just as you can draw a high current from a low voltage source.
A musket or any single-shot weapon should work fine in a vacuum, since gunpowder (of any type) must contain an oxidizer. However, a firearm that uses gas pressure to load another round, as many modern rifles do, may not cycle properly. Even if it didn't cycle completely, it would probably just require manual cycling of the action.
I meant "mismatch."
Another casualty of the Pascal/C impedence match?
According to two sources I found, the AK-47 also owes some design principles to earlier American rifle designs. Just like many inventions, its success built on lessons learned from previous designs. It's not surprising that many have thought the AK-47 was derived from the MP-44, since they look almost identical superficially.
I'm pretty sure the USSR would be most accurately described as a republic or representative democracy, just like most, if not all Western "democracies." Of course, I'm speaking about the theoretical design, not how things actually worked.
Yes, I think it is a potential threat to privacy that these photos are available on a public web site. Not only can anyone anywhere see it any time, but they can do so without the person being viewed being able to know who sees it. I'm not sure what the standards or restrictions should be, but I do think this type of service changes the situation signifcantly.
Are the photos for the "realestate industry" of random houses, or specific properties?
I doubt there are details that specific in any copyright law, but this is about privacy, which is a separate issue. Even if there are no laws that specifically prohibit this, it's forboding.
I suspect that the only reason this is being commented on is that if Dell ships machines with an alternative to Windows, some will automatically expect the alternative to be a direct replacement and Wine is an obvious choice to try to replace Windows. Since Wine is available for installation on normal Ubuntu, it would be exceedingly strange if the same weren't true on the Dell machines.
The eWeek article has a bunch of quotes, but it's somewhat difficult to interpret. I am listening to the interview, but it's got a huge amount of background noise and difficult to make out at points. I think the interviewer said something like "Do you plan to push Wine on Ubuntu?" which is a much different question from "Do you want allow Ubuntu users to install Wine if they want to use it?".
How about glock headshots from across the map?
Yeah, who's to say it's the carcinogens in cigarette smoke killing people? For all we know, it's really their high fat diets, sedentary lifestyles and tendency to get into debt with the Mafia.