You can't run on bare metal on zSeries. The whole architecture just isn't designed to work that way. It has to have the virtualisation layer, or at least something that provides nearly all of the functionality of what would traditionally be considered a virtualisation layer.
And yet a private development company can build a completely new set of docks, including three huge bridges, in a third of the time it takes our local Council to replace a half mile stretch of cycle path...
Somehow I can't help thinking that all these devices that supposedly "help prevent" "RSI" are the modern equivalent of snake oil... Would be nice if products had to undergo proper medical testing (done by real scientists, that is, not quack doctors with a degree in "office therapy") before they could make such claims...
Well considering Berlios can't keep mailing lists or subversion up for more than a few days at a time, that shouldn't be hard... This stupidity, for example, is holding up a project release. Now, I realise I'm not paying anything for the service, but this kind of thing is coming close to convincing me that I should be...
It kinda depends upon what you want to do. What are the requirements for your cluster? Have you considered going massively SMP instead? Or are you just after a cluster for the sake of having one?
Automatic grading apps are, uh, somewhat prone to breakage. I know at least one university that uses them found that certain students just wrote programs that did sneaky tricks rather than the assignment at hand (fork off a child process that sleeps for a bit then overwrites the grade file, then just output whatever). Perhaps more effort to do a one off program that way, but far less in the long term.
Perhaps you should read the comments in the original post. You know, the part that says "Lets hope other distributions follow Ubuntu's lead on this one, some of the Gentoo manuals for example available in print this cheap would be really great to see.".
Looks like the mods have been on the $2 crack again.
If the Gentoo people can't even manage to keep the official branded CDs up to date reliably, I don't fancy their chances for documentation as well... If you want printed documentation, just find a local print shop and get them to do it for you.
Unfortunately, Alienware refuse to sell systems without Windows installed. This means you're shelling out ~$70 for something you may not be using, or may already own. Tough luck for them, because I was looking for a semi-portable Unix workstation and ended up buying from Hypersonic instead.
Sun SPARC kit doesn't use a BIOS. Unfortunately, nearly all modern graphics cards that haven't been specifically designed to work on non-x86* kit rely upon the BIOS to initialise the card. This massively limits the hardware availability. PCI, sadly, is only a hardware standard.
There's been some work by David S Miller on getting BIOS emulation into the Linux kernel so that regular cards can be fooled into working, but it's not there yet and will probably fall foul of Debian's firmware loading policy (does that apply to Ubuntu too?).
Curious that you consider some kind of bill of rights to be necessary for a democracy... In a true democracy, it's totally ok for anyone to be screwed over in every kind of way so long as the majority of voters don't dissent.
Wikipedia is not, in the traditional style, open source. With open source projects, there is still a central leader or small team of developers vetting contributions. With Wikipedia there are no such checks, with content being controlled by those who edit and revert fastest and those who can sneak malicious contributions into obscure places. There is also no-one handling the overall quality of any individual entry, thus the horrible prevalent writing style.
Liking Wikipedia to Linux is a huge error. The quality issue is extremely relevant.
Untrue. Brainfuck, for example, is Turing complete, but cannot be used to write a webserver because it doesn't have any way of talking to operating system network calls.
What's the deal with the tiny cache? My ten year old HyperSparc has more cache than that... You'd think that when dealing with high throughput graphics applications, a larger cache would make far more of a difference than a few hundred MHz either way.
Autopackage is not exactly loved by the distro people. See commentary from Gentoo, Debian, more Debian... Might be wise to keep those remarks in mind when considering using Autopackage packages on a distribution...
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It only came first. What a disappointment. I'd much rather it had come zeroth, that would have been a much better indication of success.
You can't run on bare metal on zSeries. The whole architecture just isn't designed to work that way. It has to have the virtualisation layer, or at least something that provides nearly all of the functionality of what would traditionally be considered a virtualisation layer.
Isn't that the Linux penguin? And isn't said penguin trademarked and copyrighted?
And yet a private development company can build a completely new set of docks, including three huge bridges, in a third of the time it takes our local Council to replace a half mile stretch of cycle path...
Somehow I can't help thinking that all these devices that supposedly "help prevent" "RSI" are the modern equivalent of snake oil... Would be nice if products had to undergo proper medical testing (done by real scientists, that is, not quack doctors with a degree in "office therapy") before they could make such claims...
Well considering Berlios can't keep mailing lists or subversion up for more than a few days at a time, that shouldn't be hard... This stupidity, for example, is holding up a project release. Now, I realise I'm not paying anything for the service, but this kind of thing is coming close to convincing me that I should be...
It kinda depends upon what you want to do. What are the requirements for your cluster? Have you considered going massively SMP instead? Or are you just after a cluster for the sake of having one?
Automatic grading apps are, uh, somewhat prone to breakage. I know at least one university that uses them found that certain students just wrote programs that did sneaky tricks rather than the assignment at hand (fork off a child process that sleeps for a bit then overwrites the grade file, then just output whatever). Perhaps more effort to do a one off program that way, but far less in the long term.
Said students got to keep the grades, too...
It's because Apple hardware is so frickin' expensive, so people kinda expect it to actually work.
How many developers do you think are really aware of the issues? There're plenty that aren't.
Perhaps you should read the comments in the original post. You know, the part that says "Lets hope other distributions follow Ubuntu's lead on this one, some of the Gentoo manuals for example available in print this cheap would be really great to see.".
Looks like the mods have been on the $2 crack again.
If the Gentoo people can't even manage to keep the official branded CDs up to date reliably, I don't fancy their chances for documentation as well... If you want printed documentation, just find a local print shop and get them to do it for you.
Unfortunately, Alienware refuse to sell systems without Windows installed. This means you're shelling out ~$70 for something you may not be using, or may already own. Tough luck for them, because I was looking for a semi-portable Unix workstation and ended up buying from Hypersonic instead.
Enquiring minds want to know.
Sun SPARC kit doesn't use a BIOS. Unfortunately, nearly all modern graphics cards that haven't been specifically designed to work on non-x86* kit rely upon the BIOS to initialise the card. This massively limits the hardware availability. PCI, sadly, is only a hardware standard.
There's been some work by David S Miller on getting BIOS emulation into the Linux kernel so that regular cards can be fooled into working, but it's not there yet and will probably fall foul of Debian's firmware loading policy (does that apply to Ubuntu too?).
Curious that you consider some kind of bill of rights to be necessary for a democracy... In a true democracy, it's totally ok for anyone to be screwed over in every kind of way so long as the majority of voters don't dissent.
Wikipedia is not, in the traditional style, open source. With open source projects, there is still a central leader or small team of developers vetting contributions. With Wikipedia there are no such checks, with content being controlled by those who edit and revert fastest and those who can sneak malicious contributions into obscure places. There is also no-one handling the overall quality of any individual entry, thus the horrible prevalent writing style.
Liking Wikipedia to Linux is a huge error. The quality issue is extremely relevant.
Untrue. Brainfuck, for example, is Turing complete, but cannot be used to write a webserver because it doesn't have any way of talking to operating system network calls.
Why should I care about NetBSD? Linux runs on more platforms, and doesn't make audio skip if you try to rip a CD at the same time...
"What is your favourite aspect of working for $company?". Usually pretty revealing, unless the company hires external interviewers...
Move to Canada. I hear they still have a few remaining civil liberties here.
What's the deal with the tiny cache? My ten year old HyperSparc has more cache than that... You'd think that when dealing with high throughput graphics applications, a larger cache would make far more of a difference than a few hundred MHz either way.
Autopackage is not exactly loved by the distro people. See commentary from Gentoo, Debian, more Debian... Might be wise to keep those remarks in mind when considering using Autopackage packages on a distribution...
Not capitalist... Capitalism relies upon well-informed consumers who are aware of when they are being sold a turd in a fancy box.
Oh come on... Why keep up the pretence of being 'editors' if you don't even fix stupid mistakes like it's versus its?