Hey lets do something other then slam concepts, yes the idea doesn't have a clear method of excecution, but I am trying to get a little posistive discussion going on optimizing the setup, so rather then say, "no way in hell that will work, the current solution is the only one", lets try and work together, mmm k?
Comments are really the only major hurdle, in my opinion. Since Slashdot seems to hit only about 10 posts, maybe 15 a day, at no more then 1-10k a piece the stories would be easy to push out to a fair number of servers located across the world. With slower mirrors picking up some of the slack. Comments could be setup geographically, or housed per story on only a few servers or centrally, with the same monolithic MySQL DB but that doesn't seem to be an all too cost effective or none intensive concept. I am sure with a little queuing theory and routing design something better then a single monolithic database could be conceived. But then again why think out of the box eh? SlashCode is still Perl right (or am I massively outdated)? If so think someone needs to look at doing a rewrite, but maybe that has been done and it isn't years of spaghetti code.
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I have seen a couple links about people saying they should write their congress-person(sic?) but seeing as this is a bill in the Senate wouldn't it be better to write your Senator? Heck you can email them these days (probably a better chance of getting through with all the anthrax scares).
Not to be a stick in the mud, and don't get me wrong I am no fundie who thinks Earth is the only planet with life. But honestly pretty much EVERY planet we have explored people have concocated some story or theory or whatever about how it contains life, Mars, Venus, Jupiter etc. But once we get there we realize that there isn't any life, or at least any we can detect. So my guess is once we get to Jupiters ice moon we won't find anything but ice, and hydrogen sulfide, if we are lucky.
Anyway, I would prefer to see the space dollars be spent on extra-solar system exploration or better yet, colonization or at least space tourism. Not that finding microbes somewhere else in the solar system would be nice, but the odds are against it. And is anyone forgetting Jupiter freaking radiatioon belt? Sure the ice is thick, but who knows maybe that radiation was orders of magnitude stronger a million or more years ago and all of Jupiters moons are just giant sterilized balls of .
Why don't we work on a GPL decentralized hosting scheme for Slashdot? Then the hosting burden could be distrubuted over a larger number of machines (thousands, if not more) and you could have a sorta GPL Akamia setup. But maybe that is too socialistic, and wouldn't let anyone really be in control.
EmBSD, have to say I am a pretty big advocate of "less is more", basically it is the bare minimum of OpenBSD for securing a network (kernel, packet filter, ssh, syslogd and ipsec/named/dhcpd if you need em) and it all fits on under 32 meg and its all under the BSD license, so its free. It all comes preconfiged for firewalling (ipf and ipnat turned on and everything else just gone or turned off), so there is less to make mistakes with, less means less vulrablities and less to manage. So I would say look at EmBSD after reading this article and compare for yourself.
Well, if license agreements did protect companies we would probably end up with the equivlanent of malpractice insurance for software projects. Effectively increasing development costs by millions or billions. So it would stifle small projects. As fun as it would be to sure Microsoft, the costs and precidents would rebound and damage opensource and GPL.
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Sun puts out large purple boxes with GIANT Sun logos on the side and 30+ flashing lights. So I can't see much diffreance between that and the Mac case. I personally think the thing that holds Mac's back from the server market is honestly few people view them as servers, least in my experiance. What upper level manager wants to say he has a rack full of Apples? The mere mention of that sounds odd. The uninitiated want to say they have a rack full of Sun's, IBM's, Dells or Compaqs, not Fruit.
You mention open relays, more then likely there was/is an open relay some where on your subnet or in that co-lo farm. So maybe your good old ISP/co-lo hosting company got a message from RR threatening to block their subnet unless they close up all the open relays. I have seen this before, small hosting provider with no idea left all sorts of things open, suffice to say they got blacklisted till they fixed their open relays and broadcast forwarding and other stupid problems. So your provider got this message and ignored it or didn't understand, so you get all your stuff shutdown. I think if that is the case then yes RR is within their rights. But who knows, I don't know how many people you have on your server and the volume of traffic etc etc. Guess getting the story from RR would help/. understand, have you done any research with them?
The article states that there are problems finding mainframe staffing? I think this is totally unfounded. Many Many orginizations already have large mainframe implementations and want to roll the applications to midrange size systems. Converting to Linux would allow them to port the application but still use legacy hardware and legacy hardware resources (take a company like EDS for example, they have tons of mainframe operators already). So there is a vertain leveraging of resources (did I say leveraging?). But then again is Linux really a good mature midrange platform? And do you still really want to be tied to IBM, ie Big Brother, ie they may be cheap up front but they ALWAYS bill ya in the end.
I have had them freeze my account and hold payments (supposedly randomly), but I have had them do it more then a few times. I am by no means someone I would consider suspcious, I occsionally sell extra things I have on eBay and use PayPal for payments (we aren't talking large amounts either, maybe 100 bucks a pop), also occsionally buy things and use PayPal to pay (again nothing huge).
But on 3 separtate occasions I have had payments held, and also on one occasion I have had my account frozen. And yes it did take me FOREVER to get a hold of anyone on the phone (thank god for "free" LD on my cell). I was told it was a "routine" random freeze, blah blah blah, several days later they "unfroze" my account. And yes it was a major and total bitch, but there really aren't any other shows in town, so what do you do?
Reminds me of the old BBS door's, man everyone and their brother was writing those things. From Pimp Wars to Pissing contest, to OO][ who. Got pretty damn crazy back then, with everyone and their brother grabbing a Pascal compiler and popping one out.
I think the rant is unjustified. It is better to see thousands of people wanting/trying to write MMORPG's then not, cause if no one cares then your project/concept/genre is DEAD. So be happy people are into MMORPG's and have a beer or something.
If cost is an issue (since you are running on old hardware) then why would you switch to Microsoft? Not to mention the fact that Microsoft Cluster isn't something to write home about and it most certainly won't run on old hardware. Can you give more specifics on the hardware you have and what you want to do?
Stuff like this pisses me off. I have used like devices to carry all my legitimate games, which I have purchaed, on a single card. It is just damn convient, rather then carry 5-10 little cartriges around. I would have no problem if NOA sued the people pirating games, but suing over a Flash cart? Jesus is it really that much of a freaking trade secret? Carts are not new or secret tech. Just more use of the DMCA to boost sales.
I think the military one is made for walking, the civilian one seems made for stationary pumping stationary pumping. And honestly this doesn't seem to be a huge "Revolution" as this just uses a small generator like design (like those hand pumped flashlights). Now if they made those piezo-electric generator shoes or insoles, that would be cool.
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We used to do this with our Commmedore 64 floppy drives, or at least something close. You could control the and make it play a crude melody.
This would do nothing but sync his clocks together. He wants to validate his time is accurate. His best bet would be to use NIST shortwave or a modem to validate his time.
The networks are scared more then likely. Speaking as a VERY HAPPY TiVo owner I can say that my viewing habits have changed dramitically. I only really watch what I want to when I want to and I don't EVER watch commercials (fast forward is great) and I sometimes don't even know what station the program is from.
So the problem the networks have is they end up basically showing programs for free, so advertisers are probably applying pressure (ie threatening to pull sponsership) unless the networks fix the situation (ie sue PVR companies into the ground).
Personally, if it becomes illegal to use a TiVo or TiVo gets shutdown, I will stop watching TV, heck I have already stopped going to the movies (boycotting the MPAA) and I don't buy any music (boycotting the RIAA) might as well stop watching TV and just read.
Hmmmm, I would love to see a unit on 1984 and how digital media/archives make rewritting history easier then ever.
As for 451? I guess my take on it was more of a "if the Nazi's had won book" (I mean that was why everyone drove Volkswagon Beetles right, you know the "peoples car"), So explaining how propoganda, media bias and such play roles in society today. Maybe compare the US media's depiction of events to say the BBC or some other countries media (heck doing that on my own is fun, just watch IGN or the BBC and see what they say, it is almost always slightly differnt).
As much as I am a fan of putting Linux where ever it is possible but lets be honest, this is overkill for the application. There is considerably more mundane technology and none-tech devices that can perform this job, just as effeciently.
My understanding was Heisenberg was trying to communicate to Bohr that Germany was building a reactor (hence the little drawing on the napkin, of what appeared to be a reactor). Once the Allies got a hold of this however they took it as the Nazi's were going to build a reactor to make weapons grade plutonium, when in reality the Nazi's didn't belive that a bomb was even possible and in reality were building a reactor to power a large battleship. (if I remember my college history class right).
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Hey lets do something other then slam concepts, yes the idea doesn't have a clear method of excecution, but I am trying to get a little posistive discussion going on optimizing the setup, so rather then say, "no way in hell that will work, the current solution is the only one", lets try and work together, mmm k?
Comments are really the only major hurdle, in my opinion. Since Slashdot seems to hit only about 10 posts, maybe 15 a day, at no more then 1-10k a piece the stories would be easy to push out to a fair number of servers located across the world. With slower mirrors picking up some of the slack. Comments could be setup geographically, or housed per story on only a few servers or centrally, with the same monolithic MySQL DB but that doesn't seem to be an all too cost effective or none intensive concept. I am sure with a little queuing theory and routing design something better then a single monolithic database could be conceived. But then again why think out of the box eh? SlashCode is still Perl right (or am I massively outdated)? If so think someone needs to look at doing a rewrite, but maybe that has been done and it isn't years of spaghetti code.
I have seen a couple links about people saying they should write their congress-person(sic?) but seeing as this is a bill in the Senate wouldn't it be better to write your Senator? Heck you can email them these days (probably a better chance of getting through with all the anthrax scares).
Not to be a stick in the mud, and don't get me wrong I am no fundie who thinks Earth is the only planet with life. But honestly pretty much EVERY planet we have explored people have concocated some story or theory or whatever about how it contains life, Mars, Venus, Jupiter etc. But once we get there we realize that there isn't any life, or at least any we can detect. So my guess is once we get to Jupiters ice moon we won't find anything but ice, and hydrogen sulfide, if we are lucky.
Anyway, I would prefer to see the space dollars be spent on extra-solar system exploration or better yet, colonization or at least space tourism. Not that finding microbes somewhere else in the solar system would be nice, but the odds are against it. And is anyone forgetting Jupiter freaking radiatioon belt? Sure the ice is thick, but who knows maybe that radiation was orders of magnitude stronger a million or more years ago and all of Jupiters moons are just giant sterilized balls of .
Why don't we work on a GPL decentralized hosting scheme for Slashdot? Then the hosting burden could be distrubuted over a larger number of machines (thousands, if not more) and you could have a sorta GPL Akamia setup. But maybe that is too socialistic, and wouldn't let anyone really be in control.
EmBSD, have to say I am a pretty big advocate of "less is more", basically it is the bare minimum of OpenBSD for securing a network (kernel, packet filter, ssh, syslogd and ipsec/named/dhcpd if you need em) and it all fits on under 32 meg and its all under the BSD license, so its free. It all comes preconfiged for firewalling (ipf and ipnat turned on and everything else just gone or turned off), so there is less to make mistakes with, less means less vulrablities and less to manage. So I would say look at EmBSD after reading this article and compare for yourself.
Well, if license agreements did protect companies we would probably end up with the equivlanent of malpractice insurance for software projects. Effectively increasing development costs by millions or billions. So it would stifle small projects. As fun as it would be to sure Microsoft, the costs and precidents would rebound and damage opensource and GPL.
I want my Johnny Cab
Sun puts out large purple boxes with GIANT Sun logos on the side and 30+ flashing lights. So I can't see much diffreance between that and the Mac case. I personally think the thing that holds Mac's back from the server market is honestly few people view them as servers, least in my experiance. What upper level manager wants to say he has a rack full of Apples? The mere mention of that sounds odd. The uninitiated want to say they have a rack full of Sun's, IBM's, Dells or Compaqs, not Fruit.
You mention open relays, more then likely there was/is an open relay some where on your subnet or in that co-lo farm. So maybe your good old ISP/co-lo hosting company got a message from RR threatening to block their subnet unless they close up all the open relays. I have seen this before, small hosting provider with no idea left all sorts of things open, suffice to say they got blacklisted till they fixed their open relays and broadcast forwarding and other stupid problems. So your provider got this message and ignored it or didn't understand, so you get all your stuff shutdown. I think if that is the case then yes RR is within their rights. But who knows, I don't know how many people you have on your server and the volume of traffic etc etc. Guess getting the story from RR would help /. understand, have you done any research with them?
The article states that there are problems finding mainframe staffing? I think this is totally unfounded. Many Many orginizations already have large mainframe implementations and want to roll the applications to midrange size systems. Converting to Linux would allow them to port the application but still use legacy hardware and legacy hardware resources (take a company like EDS for example, they have tons of mainframe operators already). So there is a vertain leveraging of resources (did I say leveraging?). But then again is Linux really a good mature midrange platform? And do you still really want to be tied to IBM, ie Big Brother, ie they may be cheap up front but they ALWAYS bill ya in the end.
Well, that article was enough to make me want to switch to KDE (which I am doing right now). Gnome is goat cheese anyway.
I have had them freeze my account and hold payments (supposedly randomly), but I have had them do it more then a few times. I am by no means someone I would consider suspcious, I occsionally sell extra things I have on eBay and use PayPal for payments (we aren't talking large amounts either, maybe 100 bucks a pop), also occsionally buy things and use PayPal to pay (again nothing huge).
But on 3 separtate occasions I have had payments held, and also on one occasion I have had my account frozen. And yes it did take me FOREVER to get a hold of anyone on the phone (thank god for "free" LD on my cell). I was told it was a "routine" random freeze, blah blah blah, several days later they "unfroze" my account. And yes it was a major and total bitch, but there really aren't any other shows in town, so what do you do?
But cool, first we get transparent aluminum, then we get proper antimatter, whats next? warp drive right?
Reminds me of the old BBS door's, man everyone and their brother was writing those things. From Pimp Wars to Pissing contest, to OO][ who. Got pretty damn crazy back then, with everyone and their brother grabbing a Pascal compiler and popping one out.
I think the rant is unjustified. It is better to see thousands of people wanting/trying to write MMORPG's then not, cause if no one cares then your project/concept/genre is DEAD. So be happy people are into MMORPG's and have a beer or something.
If cost is an issue (since you are running on old hardware) then why would you switch to Microsoft? Not to mention the fact that Microsoft Cluster isn't something to write home about and it most certainly won't run on old hardware. Can you give more specifics on the hardware you have and what you want to do?
How does Blizzard lose out if people want to play their games? Seems this would only sell more Blizzard video games.
Stuff like this pisses me off. I have used like devices to carry all my legitimate games, which I have purchaed, on a single card. It is just damn convient, rather then carry 5-10 little cartriges around. I would have no problem if NOA sued the people pirating games, but suing over a Flash cart? Jesus is it really that much of a freaking trade secret? Carts are not new or secret tech. Just more use of the DMCA to boost sales.
I think the military one is made for walking, the civilian one seems made for stationary pumping stationary pumping. And honestly this doesn't seem to be a huge "Revolution" as this just uses a small generator like design (like those hand pumped flashlights). Now if they made those piezo-electric generator shoes or insoles, that would be cool.
We used to do this with our Commmedore 64 floppy drives, or at least something close. You could control the and make it play a crude melody.
This would do nothing but sync his clocks together. He wants to validate his time is accurate. His best bet would be to use NIST shortwave or a modem to validate his time.
Here is one from NIST, detailing differnt ways (you could always use a modem, the cheap route):http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/genera l/pdf/834.pdf
And here is a German company that makes a ISA card:http://www.quancom.de/quancom/quancom01.nsf/
The networks are scared more then likely. Speaking as a VERY HAPPY TiVo owner I can say that my viewing habits have changed dramitically. I only really watch what I want to when I want to and I don't EVER watch commercials (fast forward is great) and I sometimes don't even know what station the program is from.
So the problem the networks have is they end up basically showing programs for free, so advertisers are probably applying pressure (ie threatening to pull sponsership) unless the networks fix the situation (ie sue PVR companies into the ground).
Personally, if it becomes illegal to use a TiVo or TiVo gets shutdown, I will stop watching TV, heck I have already stopped going to the movies (boycotting the MPAA) and I don't buy any music (boycotting the RIAA) might as well stop watching TV and just read.
Hmmmm, I would love to see a unit on 1984 and how digital media/archives make rewritting history easier then ever.
As for 451? I guess my take on it was more of a "if the Nazi's had won book" (I mean that was why everyone drove Volkswagon Beetles right, you know the "peoples car"), So explaining how propoganda, media bias and such play roles in society today. Maybe compare the US media's depiction of events to say the BBC or some other countries media (heck doing that on my own is fun, just watch IGN or the BBC and see what they say, it is almost always slightly differnt).
As much as I am a fan of putting Linux where ever it is possible but lets be honest, this is overkill for the application. There is considerably more mundane technology and none-tech devices that can perform this job, just as effeciently.
My understanding was Heisenberg was trying to communicate to Bohr that Germany was building a reactor (hence the little drawing on the napkin, of what appeared to be a reactor). Once the Allies got a hold of this however they took it as the Nazi's were going to build a reactor to make weapons grade plutonium, when in reality the Nazi's didn't belive that a bomb was even possible and in reality were building a reactor to power a large battleship. (if I remember my college history class right).