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  1. Re:Academics... on Ask Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik · · Score: 1

    As every day goes by I am forced to deal with yet another radical change in the way Redhat functions. I have just discovered the entitlements are now non-transferable, one month before the end-of-life of several older versions. This is incredibly inept timing and I received no notification of this change to my service agreement. Since I am being forced to migrate my services anyway, we are now openly discussing alternatives to your product. I am completely frustrated at the treatment that academics are receiving from your organization, as are many others. You know I was happy to pay for the subscription service to manage my systems, it added value to your product, but the constant changes by your management have me deeply concerned.

    Academics are not corporations, to be precise we are not-for-profit tax exempt organizations that educate the next generation of computer users. Please find out the answer to this question: How does Redhat plan to address usage within academia?

  2. Don't forget about Ctl-Alt-Ins on The Guy Responsible For Ctrl-Alt-Del · · Score: 2, Informative

    On the original IBM PC Jr., circa 1980, it had both soft-reset (Ctl-Alt-Del) and diagnostic mode (Ctl-Alt-Ins). Wouldn't it be great to boot into a diag mode and check memory, disk, video. Maybe these new bios' will give me back a feature from 23 yrs ago.

  3. X10 supports disabling of the pop-under! on Pop Up Advertising Continues to Suck · · Score: 2

    If you go to the following http://www.x10.com/x10ads.htm, they will set a cookie for 30-day that disables the pop-under. Opt-out...

  4. This would be very good at cloaking on Stop, Light. · · Score: 1

    an object. A thin film containing the rubidium vapor could, in effect, absorb all of the in bound light. And since no reflected light is returned the object would appear extremely dark or invisible.

  5. Re:MOSIX before Beowulf? on Linux Cluster For Processing DSP Effects? · · Score: 1

    I Agree. Installing a Mosix cluter is simple. All that is required is 2 RPM's, 100mbit switched network and some spare systems. The RPM's contain the Mosix kernel, so you don't even have to compile a new one. I built a small cluster with 3 CPUs(133-166Mhz) in a matter of a couple of hours. The process migration is efficent, commands are submitted to the Mosix process table by prefixing them, with 'mosrun'. Process monitoring is accomplished by the 'mon' command, which displays a simple ansi graph. The hardest part was configuring /etc/mosix.map. It needs to be in the format NODE #, NODE IP, TOTAL NODES #. I have been working on bootable mosix cd-os, so when you want an additional node, you just throw your cluster cd into your desktop machine.