It's not the tallest mountain, just the highest point on Earth (tallest mountain 'above sea level' even). The tallest mountain is Mauna Kea, in Hawaii. Everyone knows this...:):):)
Okay, I left slashdot for a few months and recently came back. I've spent about two weeks trying to figure out WHAT HAPPENED and it's not documented anywhere. I can't even figure out using context clues what a Slashback is; It's like quickies but shorter -- but there still are quickies!! I can't seem to find "the original" slashback, either, so there's no explanation in a faq or anywhere.
Can someone also tell me what happened to Karma? How come mine doesn't go up when I get a point? I never liked the moderation system, but now I can't find an explanation of what it's doing --- or at least an description that's different at all from "how it used to be."
Slashdot is a scary place. It feels like the twilight zone or something. Pardon my rant here, but I couldn't think of anyplace else to put it.
Of course people from New Mexico would want it declared a national historical site. After all, when they faked the landing, all the filming was done on NM's turf.
"Where's that Lego brick... where is it? I saw it here a few seconds ago. Oh, crap! I used it already. There must be another... somewhere... Oh, forget it. I'll just print me a new one."
> What's needed for this to happen is a "killer
> application"--one that will turn 3D printers
> into something that everyone wants to buy.
Uhh, what's the same "killer app" for everything else computer related in the past?
Pr0n!
That's right... print out your own model of Laetitia Casta or your own John Holmes. In the privacy of your own home, you won't even need to take those "embarassing" trips to that shady store downtown.
In 1996 in Atlanta, the Olympic folks were raising cain over legitimate uses of the word "Olympic" and "Olympics." They sued the fuck out of a little pizza place in the suburbs called "Olympic Pizza" that had been there long before Atlanta was chosen as a host city. I'm sure everyone else will report about this... it made the front page of the Atlanta Journal-Constipation a year before the games went up.
Won't it be great when we can register.cmo domains? The number of times I've tried surfing to yahoo.cmo can't even be counted in binary on two hands and two feet.
You can't boot off it with PC hardware because of the 1024 cylinder limit. Most OSes won't be able to use the entire thing as one partition (not that geeks would WANT to, but....). And, the age-old complaint: "I'll never be able to fill the whole thing!"
And after going after the "small server" line, they'll want the "big server" line. And look at what company wants to be purchased...
It's a company sitting there with a sub-$5 stock price. It has a brand new product line that kicks ass, but they're not marketing it at ALL. They have all but pulled out of the workstation market. They've divested their share of embedded processors and have all but broken free from their application development houses. In fact, the only thing this company has right now is Big Servers and Big Workstations: categories which don't overlap with anyone else in the business really.
I thought that according to the DOD security grading system a D was pretty good, at least for a computer that's connected to other machines. It's baseline. After all, Windows NT gets a C under "certain conditions." Trusted IRIX gets what, a B or something?
It's all part of my "Beatles Theory," which goes something like: If the three remaining members of the Beatles gathered to record an album and instead produced 60 minutes of their bowel movements, it would *still* go platinum and *still* win them Grammy awards. That being said, even if George Lucas edits together the cutting-room-floor pieces of THX-1138 (the first one, not the one that was "released"), and named it "Star Wars Episode Two," he'd have a bajillion people in line to see it for the first two months.
I admit, I was there in line for Episode 1 (which I've since convinced myself doesn't exist), but I've come to realize that not only has Lucas grown up (a painful surprise) but he's sold out just like Spielberg and Ford. Which makes me REALLY worry about any new Indiana Jones movie, despite any rumors I hear about it.
I really think it's interesting how/.ers, always quick to bash on Microsoft given the opportunity, are suddenly "on MS's side" in this case. Given the choice between big business and big government, the line in the sand has been drawn and geeks have chosen their side.
God bless libertarianism.:) Vote Harry Browne in 2000!
What ticks me off more than that is these sites that tend to have fair reviews, but every once in a while you get the "i analyzed seventeen different X's and chose to buy Y. Now that I got it in the mail, I'll tell you why it's so great." There's no quantitative analysis of it, just stuff you can read off the box. These reviewers that want to feel good about purchasing a CD-R made by Joe Schmoe or a monitor by PC-People and tell us how great it is, but don't put it side by side against anything else.
(There was a review on FiringSquad about a CD-R or something a few months ago that was one of these -- and it was the last time I visited the site.)
I miss the old Tom's HW. That had good comparisons with lots of info. The last great article they did was the second roundup of BX motherboards. Everything since has been advertising-supported *shit*.
That's about the diagnosis I expected. I'm planning on installing on a 3-module Onyx2 system (plus an IR2 graphics head, but that certainly won't be doing much... unless xf86 supports things that I don't know it does...:> ) and on an Onyx2 deskside, both in a couple weeks. I just want to see how it goes and how everything looks.
Then I'll work on forcing gr_osview to work and turning on the distributed.net client so we can REALLY see how good it's doing.:)
Ok, I lied. It turns out it's just an internal SGI thing for now. Check out http://reality.sgi.com/rhess_engr/q3a/irix/ for more info. "Any Day Now" is the official party line.:)
Actually, it DOES run linux. Or at least, there's partial kernel support for it. Download a 2.3 kernel and take a peek inside.. there's support for SGI IP27 systems. IP27's are Onyx2 and Origin 2000 boxes. Sure, it may not support multiple-module systems, but since this thing has half the node cards dead, you're set anyway.
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It's not the tallest mountain, just the highest point on Earth (tallest mountain 'above sea level' even). The tallest mountain is Mauna Kea, in Hawaii. Everyone knows this... :) :) :)
-Chris
Well that explains why it was all icy and he had such a hard time.
-Chris
Just in time for November's Top 500 list. Oh, "scheduled to be installed." Guess not. Sorry, guys!
-Chris
Okay, I left slashdot for a few months and recently came back. I've spent about two weeks trying to figure out WHAT HAPPENED and it's not documented anywhere. I can't even figure out using context clues what a Slashback is; It's like quickies but shorter -- but there still are quickies!! I can't seem to find "the original" slashback, either, so there's no explanation in a faq or anywhere.
Can someone also tell me what happened to Karma? How come mine doesn't go up when I get a point? I never liked the moderation system, but now I can't find an explanation of what it's doing --- or at least an description that's different at all from "how it used to be."
Slashdot is a scary place. It feels like the twilight zone or something. Pardon my rant here, but I couldn't think of anyplace else to put it.
It's been around for years. Pete Townshend designed it in 1970-1971.
We won't get fooled again.
-Chris
Of course people from New Mexico would want it declared a national historical site. After all, when they faked the landing, all the filming was done on NM's turf.
-Chris
"Where's that Lego brick... where is it? I saw it here a few seconds ago. Oh, crap! I used it already. There must be another... somewhere... Oh, forget it. I'll just print me a new one."
> What's needed for this to happen is a "killer
:)
> application"--one that will turn 3D printers
> into something that everyone wants to buy.
Uhh, what's the same "killer app" for everything else computer related in the past?
Pr0n!
That's right... print out your own model of Laetitia Casta or your own John Holmes. In the privacy of your own home, you won't even need to take those "embarassing" trips to that shady store downtown.
These things will sell like hotcakes.
-Chris
In 1996 in Atlanta, the Olympic folks were raising cain over legitimate uses of the word "Olympic" and "Olympics." They sued the fuck out of a little pizza place in the suburbs called "Olympic Pizza" that had been there long before Atlanta was chosen as a host city. I'm sure everyone else will report about this... it made the front page of the Atlanta Journal-Constipation a year before the games went up.
-Chris
Won't it be great when we can register .cmo domains? The number of times I've tried surfing to yahoo.cmo can't even be counted in binary on two hands and two feet.
-Chris
Since it's coming out next week, I guess it'll include RSA... :)
-Chris
You can't boot off it with PC hardware because of the 1024 cylinder limit. Most OSes won't be able to use the entire thing as one partition (not that geeks would WANT to, but....). And, the age-old complaint: "I'll never be able to fill the whole thing!"
:)
God bless hard drive technology.
-Chris
And after going after the "small server" line, they'll want the "big server" line. And look at what company wants to be purchased...
It's a company sitting there with a sub-$5 stock price. It has a brand new product line that kicks ass, but they're not marketing it at ALL. They have all but pulled out of the workstation market. They've divested their share of embedded processors and have all but broken free from their application development houses. In fact, the only thing this company has right now is Big Servers and Big Workstations: categories which don't overlap with anyone else in the business really.
What company will Sun buy next? SGI.
-Chris
I thought that according to the DOD security grading system a D was pretty good, at least for a computer that's connected to other machines. It's baseline. After all, Windows NT gets a C under "certain conditions." Trusted IRIX gets what, a B or something?
:)
-Chris
It's all part of my "Beatles Theory," which goes something like: If the three remaining members of the Beatles gathered to record an album and instead produced 60 minutes of their bowel movements, it would *still* go platinum and *still* win them Grammy awards. That being said, even if George Lucas edits together the cutting-room-floor pieces of THX-1138 (the first one, not the one that was "released"), and named it "Star Wars Episode Two," he'd have a bajillion people in line to see it for the first two months.
I admit, I was there in line for Episode 1 (which I've since convinced myself doesn't exist), but I've come to realize that not only has Lucas grown up (a painful surprise) but he's sold out just like Spielberg and Ford. Which makes me REALLY worry about any new Indiana Jones movie, despite any rumors I hear about it.
-Chris
I really think it's interesting how /.ers, always quick to bash on Microsoft given the opportunity, are suddenly "on MS's side" in this case. Given the choice between big business and big government, the line in the sand has been drawn and geeks have chosen their side.
:) Vote Harry Browne in 2000!
God bless libertarianism.
-Chris
That's just a joke?
-Chris
Put Ed Pool up there with Sam Khuri for "most annoying people on the Internet."
Maybe DE Technology will start exporting Benchmark Print Supply's recycled toner cartridges to the whole world...
-Chris
Ridiculous attitudes about gambling? You obviously don't live in a Big Game state. :)
http://www.theofficialbiggame.com
It's pretty darn popular here, especially after those folks split the 500 bazillion dollar jackpot a month ago.
-Chris
What ticks me off more than that is these sites that tend to have fair reviews, but every once in a while you get the "i analyzed seventeen different X's and chose to buy Y. Now that I got it in the mail, I'll tell you why it's so great." There's no quantitative analysis of it, just stuff you can read off the box. These reviewers that want to feel good about purchasing a CD-R made by Joe Schmoe or a monitor by PC-People and tell us how great it is, but don't put it side by side against anything else.
(There was a review on FiringSquad about a CD-R or something a few months ago that was one of these -- and it was the last time I visited the site.)
I miss the old Tom's HW. That had good comparisons with lots of info. The last great article they did was the second roundup of BX motherboards. Everything since has been advertising-supported *shit*.
-Chris
That's about the diagnosis I expected. I'm planning on installing on a 3-module Onyx2 system (plus an IR2 graphics head, but that certainly won't be doing much... unless xf86 supports things that I don't know it does... :> ) and on an Onyx2 deskside, both in a couple weeks. I just want to see how it goes and how everything looks.
:)
Then I'll work on forcing gr_osview to work and turning on the distributed.net client so we can REALLY see how good it's doing.
-Chris
Ok, I lied. It turns out it's just an internal SGI thing for now. Check out http://reality.sgi.com/rhess_engr/q3a/irix/ for more info. "Any Day Now" is the official party line. :)
-Chris
Actually, it DOES run linux. Or at least, there's partial kernel support for it. Download a 2.3 kernel and take a peek inside.. there's support for SGI IP27 systems. IP27's are Onyx2 and Origin 2000 boxes. Sure, it may not support multiple-module systems, but since this thing has half the node cards dead, you're set anyway.
-Chris
And the best part is... Q3A for IRIX just went alpha today. So you can have your quake and eat it, too.
-Chris
Or, it could just be that RedHat is SGI's choice of Linux distros... that's what their ProPacks run on.
-Chris