If you go to Lego's website and search for "build create" I think you'll be pleasently surprised. They actually have several products that are essentially a "bucket full of old school bricks".
Is this the first time Apple releases software that works on Windows?
Far from it. Back when there was a company called Claris (basically Apple's application software division), there was a lot of Windows applications, including Claris Works (now AppleWorks) and Claris Organizer (now Palm Desktop).
In recent years there's been the whole QuickTime architecture, not to mention everything iPod-related.
Now the question is wether we'll eventually see Mac OS X for x86
Well, there's always Darwin, but not the other all-important bits and bops. Although... Google a bit for Project Star Trek - to boldly go where no OS has gone before...
Your scenario is a best case recovery scenario using point-in-time recovery. What if its the point-in-time recovery that is broken/buggy? As a DBA, who do you want to deal with? Who are you gonna call?
You might want to look into Solaris 10 with ZFS. It's free (as in beer), comes with source, and ZFS sounds just about like something from the book of black magic. http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/10/ds/zfs.jsp
128-bit filesystem (zettabyte?)
Automagic volume management
Rock-stable NFS implementation
Serving files on a home LAN is not really that heavy on the CPU, so anything that's on the supported Solaris x86 list should do, just make sure you stick enough RAM in it. Personally I'd go for something that doesn't consume megawatts of energy and is relatively quiet.
Didn't Sun buy the best part of Cray, hence the E10k, or am I utterly wrong?
I forget where I snipped this from, but here goes:
The E10000 is a Celerity product. Celerity was an independent Unix box maker back in the 80's with their own processor architecture. Celerity went bust trying to bring a "minisupercomputer" version of the architecture to market in about 1987 (33 MHz, whoo hoo!). The assets and technology of Celerity along with the design team in San Diego were acquired by Floating Point Systems (FPS). FPS brought the system to market and made the transition to a SPARC based architecture (66 MHz) before going bust. The assets and technology of FPS along with the design team in San Diego and now the manufacturing team in Beaverton were acquired by Cray. Cray did a couple of turns of the crank on the FPS product and sold it as a "business supercomputer". When Cray was acquired by SGI, SGI wanted no part of the SPARC business and sold (yes, again) the San Diego design team (and I think the Beaverton group) to Sun who finally brought a SUCCESSFUL product to market with the E10000.
But it's still the same core team down in San Diego, so I like to think of the E10000 as being a Celerity product.
A Cray is not a true Cray unless it can be used as a stylish sofa
Which reminds me: I have always wondered what it would have been like to sit on one of those? Were there any mechanical parts inside the main tower making obnoxious amounts of noise?
> It's not like sudo's a particularly difficult-to-use program. What's the point?
Believe it or not, some companies won't accept third-party software for fear of it violating support contracts from major vendors ("you installed third-party freeware on your system? Right then, that'll be the cause of all the problems you are seing, and we don't support that"). If it's a commercial product you can suddenly have all kinds of contracts and certifications about not breaking existing systems, and in the commercial world that's what matters most.
All that without changing a single line of useful time-proven code.
Maybe the Deep Thought supercomputer will be played by Virginia Tech's Power Mac G5 cluster! I'm sure Apple would state that if any computer can tell us the meaning of life, it's the G5.
Given that Douglas Adams liked his Macs, that sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
I totally agree. In fact, I think they should design a range of products, mmm, and call it something like the 'Inventor' or 'Creator' series.
I imagine they could use model numbers like 4026, 4094, 4095 or 4407.
Alternatively, you could just go to the lego website and check out their current line of products, before giving them advice on what products to produce.
Some time ago I did a comparison of various file-based intrusion ddetection systems. The free/opensource ones that seemed to stand out were Integrit
http://integrit.sourceforge.net
and
Samhain
http://samhain.sourceforge.net
I have no idea wether they run on Windows, though.
Actually, I was quite surprised when I started grip on a RedHat-7.2 installation (with ximian gnome) and it defaulted to ogg'ing audio cds. I guess lame doesn't come standard with RedHat?
On a side note, I'll redo all my audiocds the second my mp3player [ http://shor.ter.dk/401090995 ]supports ogg, but not until then.
Doesn't anyone remember their computer science history?
http://www.csupomona.edu/~hnriley/www/VonN.html
Interestingly he says that the orders and data can reside in the same memory "if the machine can in some fashion distinguish a number from an order" And yet, there is no distinction between the two in memory.
The MTA (multi threaded acrchitecture) is alive and well. Tera bought Cray at SGI's garagesale and subsequently changed their name to Cray (http://www.cray.com).
The idea behind the MTA is to provide support for threads on the CPU itself. When a thread stalls on reading memory the CPU instantly switches to a different thread, hopefully allowing you 100% cpu usage. At the same time you can have a large number of CPUs all having access to the same global shared memory. I can't find a decent description on Cray's website anymore, but I'm sure it must be in there somewhere.
Tera has begun shipping their CPUs made from CMOS which appearently makes them faster and cheaper than galium arsenide. It's really quite an interesting idea, and it would be cool to see this technology dripping down into desktop computers.
Apple has a system called "Apple Network Administrators Toolkit". Amongst other things, it lets you remote control a Mac just like VNC. If you are the teacher you could have the admin tool on your computer and monitor up to nine (I think) screens as minitures on your own screen. It is up to the admin to decide wether those being monitored will see a pair of eyeballs in the menubar when they're being monitored.
Very typical for Apple, it is extremely difficult to find any information on their website. The closest is probably http://www.apple.com/networking/ana
Last I checked the client came free with every copy of Mac OS and the serverpart was included in AppleShare IP.
Slashdot Mirror
Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Solaris as well.
If you go to Lego's website and search for "build create" I think you'll be pleasently surprised. They actually have several products that are essentially a "bucket full of old school bricks".
Especially since IBM's AIX hasn't allowed SUID scripts since version 3.5.something...
- 128-bit filesystem (zettabyte?)
- Automagic volume management
- Rock-stable NFS implementation
Serving files on a home LAN is not really that heavy on the CPU, so anything that's on the supported Solaris x86 list should do, just make sure you stick enough RAM in it. Personally I'd go for something that doesn't consume megawatts of energy and is relatively quiet.Probably because the submitted link ends up pointing to dc.h4xx.com rather than the indicated yahoo.com link.
I forget where I snipped this from, but here goes:
Which reminds me: I have always wondered what it would have been like to sit on one of those? Were there any mechanical parts inside the main tower making obnoxious amounts of noise?
> It's not like sudo's a particularly difficult-to-use program. What's the point?
Believe it or not, some companies won't accept third-party software for fear of it violating support contracts from major vendors ("you installed third-party freeware on your system? Right then, that'll be the cause of all the problems you are seing, and we don't support that"). If it's a commercial product you can suddenly have all kinds of contracts and certifications about not breaking existing systems, and in the commercial world that's what matters most.
All that without changing a single line of useful time-proven code.
I find the meta-key quite handy when using X. A keyboard with only Alt and Ctrl just feels too much like DOS.
Given that Douglas Adams liked his Macs, that sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
I totally agree. In fact, I think they should design a range of products, mmm, and call it something like the 'Inventor' or 'Creator' series.
I imagine they could use model numbers like 4026, 4094, 4095 or 4407.
Alternatively, you could just go to the lego website and check out their current line of products, before giving them advice on what products to produce.
So a judge told SCO to come up with evidence within 30 days from December 5.
Would this evidence be the list of header files as printed in this letter, or has SCO chosen not to disclose anything further?
Is that 30 business days or 30 human days?
No, buy some of these and get a few of these.
Appearently you can actually boot from the iPods, although the older models with built-in FW connectors were easier to carry along to the serverroom.
Some time ago I did a comparison of various file-based intrusion ddetection systems. The free/opensource ones that seemed to stand out were Integrit http://integrit.sourceforge.net and Samhain http://samhain.sourceforge.net I have no idea wether they run on Windows, though.
Actually, I was quite surprised when I started grip on a RedHat-7.2 installation (with ximian gnome) and it defaulted to ogg'ing audio cds. I guess lame doesn't come standard with RedHat?
On a side note, I'll redo all my audiocds the second my mp3player [ http://shor.ter.dk/401090995 ]supports ogg, but not until then.
http://www.csupomona.edu/~hnriley/www/VonN.html
The MTA (multi threaded acrchitecture) is alive and well. Tera bought Cray at SGI's garagesale and subsequently changed their name to Cray (http://www.cray.com).
The idea behind the MTA is to provide support for threads on the CPU itself. When a thread stalls on reading memory the CPU instantly switches to a different thread, hopefully allowing you 100% cpu usage. At the same time you can have a large number of CPUs all having access to the same global shared memory. I can't find a decent description on Cray's website anymore, but I'm sure it must be in there somewhere.
Tera has begun shipping their CPUs made from CMOS which appearently makes them faster and cheaper than galium arsenide. It's really quite an interesting idea, and it would be cool to see this technology dripping down into desktop computers.
Apple has a system called "Apple Network Administrators Toolkit". Amongst other things, it lets you remote control a Mac just like VNC. If you are the teacher you could have the admin tool on your computer and monitor up to nine (I think) screens as minitures on your own screen. It is up to the admin to decide wether those being monitored will see a pair of eyeballs in the menubar when they're being monitored.
Very typical for Apple, it is extremely difficult to find any information on their website. The closest is probably http://www.apple.com/networking/ana
Last I checked the client came free with every copy of Mac OS and the serverpart was included in AppleShare IP.