This will not load balance "a site" - rather, it will load balance your connection to the internet.
Big difference. You can't run a load balanced web site with a device that works in this direction. To do that, you need a big pipe in that gets load balanced to *your* servers.
Why would this make cable/telecom companies "beat their heads" over this? It gives them more business. In fact, I bet it would increase their business. Joe Blow orders *two* cable modems because he wants twice the bandwidth. Same wit DSL.
Yes, for redundancy, you'd be better off with one cable and one dsl, but still, that means that there will be more business for the big guys overall.
You know some marketing guy is going to insist that the mouse be used to select numbers on a virtual keypad.:-)
DEC Alpha Floating Point Bug?
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As I reported in RISKS in 1997:
DEC Alpha Bug?!?
Wed, 02 Jul 1997 15:14:24 -0400
So there I am, looking at our trading system and noticing that the price of one particular bond was different on two separate machines. Damn, I think. Must be a bug in the latest release of our software. Quick, do a sum on all the libraries. Nope, they are the same. Executable? Nope, the same.
Hmm... Step through the code, hey, look at that! The pow() function is returning different results!
So, I wrote a stand alone program. Sure enough, the machine with the latest rev motherboard (one that was just replaced by DEC) is producing bad numbers. Time to try 'dxcalc', DEX's X calculator. Yup. different numbers. How about perl? Yup, different numbers. How about 'bc'? Duh, bc doesn't take floating point powers. Hmm... check libm. Nope, they are the same.
Bottom line: DEC will be here shortly.
Test your alpha. Try 'pow(1.234567, 7.654321)'. If you don't get 5.017something, you have the same problem.
RISKS? In our case, could have been a large sum of money.
The final resolution was that DEC claimed to have a bad motherboard. Yeah, right....
Oh, just what I want to help speed my text entry on a PDA - make me move my fingers off the keyboard, grab a stylus and select something on the screen. Yeah, that helps thing a lot. Not.
What? Your PDA doesn't have a keyboard? Too bad. After owning a Sharp Zaurus and a RIM pager, I believe there is no reason why a PDA cannot have a Zaurus/RIM type keyboard - it is clearly the fastest way to enter text into a PDA.
What if you forget to check in? Does the "countdown" start? Will the world end?
This is similar to the argument about usenet (message boards) vs. mailing lists. With mailing lists, if you forget about a low traffic list, you are reminded when mail comes in. With a message board, you have to remember to check in.
I find the "check in" model flawed because we (humans) are flawed.
The advent of computer simulations during the design phase means that car manufactures can design their machines to reach very high levels of performance "from the factory".
While you used to be able to bolt on an exhaust and put on a cold air intake and expect to see a 20% increase in power, today, if you see 5% you are lucky. Look at the S2000 - 120 hp per liter!
Most people will never see the 5%. Only if you are lucky enough to hit the track will it become evident.
Even with regards to suspension, they are designed to match the vehicle's abilities so well now that to get any gains from, say a strut tower brace or larger sway bars, is very hard to achieve.
I've found though, that "drivability" can in fact still be enhanced. While you are not going to see a big jump in peak horsepower (which doesn't really mean that much), you can get flatter torque curves. Does this make the car faster? Not much, but it makes it more drivable.
And... a dyno sheet where you can "see" an improvement doesn't always equate to a drivable improvement. You need to test it on a track - straight or curved depending on your desires.
But... the bottom line is that very few people ever experience they vehicles at even 80% of the "limit", and usually never on the street. So... as they say, YMMV. If you want to tinker, then ignore this reply. If you are looking for a faster car, please consider what I've typed as you might spend a lot of money for little gains.
God, I guess if I were blind, I'd want to get this too, but that "beep beep beep" noise it makes every time you use it would drive me nuts. I don't know how Steve Austin dealt with it!
:-)
Re:Can it compete with KDE?
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I'm sorry, but I don't think sawfish is the standard window manger for kde. Hence, we run into the same issue as with all OSS - Oh yeah, it works, you just have to do this and this...
Sorry folks, that doesn't work in the main stream...
And, red-carpet works just fine. Is there better? Sure. Is there worse? You betcha.
There is no fair way to test someone's knowledge. Some are better at written tests, so are better at "projects", etc.
Written tests do test certain kinds of knowledge while projects test another type of knowledge.
Your professor should be using both to judge your abilities (and hence your grade - which is another false metric, but better than nothing).
And... in life, you *do* have to do thing you don't like / aren't good at, so I'm afraid, you are going to have to get used to it.
That said, don't drop out - the formal education is invaluable. It will be the only time you get to cover a significant part of a subject. The learn-as-you-go model, while getting you a salary sooner, doesn't round you out enough. Don't forget the humanities and economics courses as well (I can't believe I just typed that!) - I did and have paid the price.
I've been thinking about this for some time - it sounds like we need a world wide governing body for radio frequencies. Sort of like ICANN, but one that works. (Yeah right, that'll happen!)
In fact, only understanding this partially, it seems to make sense to have standards that propose "trunking" or on the fly channel switching so we can utilize the bandwidth more evenly.
Re:Can it compete with KDE?
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Having used both window systems quite heavily, I tend to thing that they were designed from (with?) different points of view.
It seems that gnome is far more configurable from the front end than KDE, but kde has better app integration and tools.
I like them for different reasons and fortunately, I can get 90% of the functionality I want from either system.
Kind of like the difference between Mercedes and BMW...
The problem with this is that since the cells can only handle a maximum number of users, the "top" of the curve will be chopped off, not showing the true "jam".
Have you ever tried to phone home in a traffic jam?
I guess you just have to make sure to punch the holes on a hard surface or somebody will come by and use a piece of paper and pencil to "lift" what you wrote!:-)
Having several friends who are authors (both in text and music), I have to say that while the consumer may benifit, the people who worked hard to give you the joy of the story or song are losing.
If you can, buy the book or CD new - these guys don't make a lot of money (unless they are the lucky ones!) and need everything they can get.
This event reminds me of a time when the IBM AT was the hot sh*t and IBM was going around touting their wares.
At a demo, the IBM sales rep asked for questions. My friend said "How fast is your drive?" This was at a time when 60ms access time was SOTA. The IBM rep said "80ms..." My friend retorts "But the current tech is 60ms" to which the IBM rep said "See? IBM's is faster".
Their strength is their institutional consulting contracts... but that's hardly a growth path as the IBM name slowly, over time, becomes known for nothing in particular.
This was always their strength. It was almost like they made computers to support their consulting initiative.
Don't ever count this out - large corporations will always want this kind of service. It gives them the warm fuzzys to know there is some place to point a finger.
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Two years ago when I was in Tokyo, we were giving a demo with our Japanese counterparts to a financial instutution there.
The demos were given at 120k bps over a cell phone that flipped open and plugged into a pcmcia slot in our laptop.
That freakin' rocked. We (USA) didn't have anything even close.
This will not load balance "a site" - rather, it will load balance your connection to the internet.
Big difference. You can't run a load balanced web site with a device that works in this direction. To do that, you need a big pipe in that gets load balanced to *your* servers.
I'll respectfully disagree.
Why would this make cable/telecom companies "beat their heads" over this? It gives them more business. In fact, I bet it would increase their business. Joe Blow orders *two* cable modems because he wants twice the bandwidth. Same wit DSL.
Yes, for redundancy, you'd be better off with one cable and one dsl, but still, that means that there will be more business for the big guys overall.
This sounds like a good idea, but...
:-)
You know some marketing guy is going to insist that the mouse be used to select numbers on a virtual keypad.
As I reported in RISKS in 1997:
DEC Alpha Bug?!?
Wed, 02 Jul 1997 15:14:24 -0400
So there I am, looking at our trading system and noticing that the price of one particular bond was different on two separate machines. Damn, I think. Must be a bug in the latest release of our software. Quick, do a sum on all the libraries. Nope, they are the same. Executable? Nope, the same.
Hmm... Step through the code, hey, look at that! The pow() function is returning different results!
So, I wrote a stand alone program. Sure enough, the machine with the latest rev motherboard (one that was just replaced by DEC) is producing bad numbers. Time to try 'dxcalc', DEX's X calculator. Yup. different numbers. How about perl? Yup, different numbers. How about 'bc'? Duh, bc doesn't take floating point powers. Hmm... check libm. Nope, they are the same.
Bottom line: DEC will be here shortly.
Test your alpha. Try 'pow(1.234567, 7.654321)'. If you don't get 5.017something, you have the same problem.
RISKS? In our case, could have been a large sum of money.
The final resolution was that DEC claimed to have a bad motherboard. Yeah, right....
Oh, just what I want to help speed my text entry on a PDA - make me move my fingers off the keyboard, grab a stylus and select something on the screen. Yeah, that helps thing a lot. Not.
What? Your PDA doesn't have a keyboard? Too bad. After owning a Sharp Zaurus and a RIM pager, I believe there is no reason why a PDA cannot have a Zaurus/RIM type keyboard - it is clearly the fastest way to enter text into a PDA.
What if you forget to check in? Does the "countdown" start? Will the world end?
This is similar to the argument about usenet (message boards) vs. mailing lists. With mailing lists, if you forget about a low traffic list, you are reminded when mail comes in. With a message board, you have to remember to check in.
I find the "check in" model flawed because we (humans) are flawed.
The advent of computer simulations during the design phase means that car manufactures can design their machines to reach very high levels of performance "from the factory".
While you used to be able to bolt on an exhaust and put on a cold air intake and expect to see a 20% increase in power, today, if you see 5% you are lucky. Look at the S2000 - 120 hp per liter!
Most people will never see the 5%. Only if you are lucky enough to hit the track will it become evident.
Even with regards to suspension, they are designed to match the vehicle's abilities so well now that to get any gains from, say a strut tower brace or larger sway bars, is very hard to achieve.
I've found though, that "drivability" can in fact still be enhanced. While you are not going to see a big jump in peak horsepower (which doesn't really mean that much), you can get flatter torque curves. Does this make the car faster? Not much, but it makes it more drivable.
And... a dyno sheet where you can "see" an improvement doesn't always equate to a drivable improvement. You need to test it on a track - straight or curved depending on your desires.
But... the bottom line is that very few people ever experience they vehicles at even 80% of the "limit", and usually never on the street. So... as they say, YMMV. If you want to tinker, then ignore this reply. If you are looking for a faster car, please consider what I've typed as you might spend a lot of money for little gains.
To use DHCP with our phones. Throw in a little no-ip.com and we're all set. :-)
Combine this with this and we have the perfect solution.
Both will be feasable around the same time.
God, I guess if I were blind, I'd want to get this too, but that "beep beep beep" noise it makes every time you use it would drive me nuts. I don't know how Steve Austin dealt with it!
:-)
I'm sorry, but I don't think sawfish is the standard window manger for kde. Hence, we run into the same issue as with all OSS - Oh yeah, it works, you just have to do this and this...
Sorry folks, that doesn't work in the main stream...
And, red-carpet works just fine. Is there better? Sure. Is there worse? You betcha.
There is no fair way to test someone's knowledge. Some are better at written tests, so are better at "projects", etc.
Written tests do test certain kinds of knowledge while projects test another type of knowledge.
Your professor should be using both to judge your abilities (and hence your grade - which is another false metric, but better than nothing).
And... in life, you *do* have to do thing you don't like / aren't good at, so I'm afraid, you are going to have to get used to it.
That said, don't drop out - the formal education is invaluable. It will be the only time you get to cover a significant part of a subject. The learn-as-you-go model, while getting you a salary sooner, doesn't round you out enough. Don't forget the humanities and economics courses as well (I can't believe I just typed that!) - I did and have paid the price.
Wouldn't it be interesting if you could get a rebate for packets you forward?
Just out of interest, what parts of KDE do you feel are lacking in configuration?
Now, it may be me, or it may be kde, but for the life of me, I can't figure out how to make a window be ignored by ALT-TAB.
Similarly, I can't figure out how to have frameless windows.
And... where is the KDE version of red-carpet?! (I know - that's Ximian, not Gnome, but still...)
Heh! I'm not answering that one!
:-)
I mean, if I were to agree with you, we could start a flame war here.
I've been thinking about this for some time - it sounds like we need a world wide governing body for radio frequencies. Sort of like ICANN, but one that works. (Yeah right, that'll happen!)
In fact, only understanding this partially, it seems to make sense to have standards that propose "trunking" or on the fly channel switching so we can utilize the bandwidth more evenly.
Having used both window systems quite heavily, I tend to thing that they were designed from (with?) different points of view.
It seems that gnome is far more configurable from the front end than KDE, but kde has better app integration and tools.
I like them for different reasons and fortunately, I can get 90% of the functionality I want from either system.
Kind of like the difference between Mercedes and BMW...
The problem with this is that since the cells can only handle a maximum number of users, the "top" of the curve will be chopped off, not showing the true "jam".
Have you ever tried to phone home in a traffic jam?
I guess you just have to make sure to punch the holes on a hard surface or somebody will come by and use a piece of paper and pencil to "lift" what you wrote! :-)
Having several friends who are authors (both in text and music), I have to say that while the consumer may benifit, the people who worked hard to give you the joy of the story or song are losing.
If you can, buy the book or CD new - these guys don't make a lot of money (unless they are the lucky ones!) and need everything they can get.
>>Why do I feel like you work for Zaurus?
>How should I know? Because you're paranoid? I don't work for _Zenith_ (Zaurus is a PDA _model_ and i don't for it either).
Heh... Sharp makes the Zaurus.
1. Speed
2. Basic apps, calendar, contact list, notepad, maybe a todo list.
3. Anticipation of what I want to do, as in, make all the function keys do the right thing.
4. A *real* keyboard ala Zaurus.
5. A QA team who actually uses PDAs in real life.
Of all the above, 5 is the most important.
This event reminds me of a time when the IBM AT was the hot sh*t and IBM was going around touting their wares.
At a demo, the IBM sales rep asked for questions. My friend said "How fast is your drive?" This was at a time when 60ms access time was SOTA. The IBM rep said "80ms..." My friend retorts "But the current tech is 60ms" to which the IBM rep said "See? IBM's is faster".
Doh.
Glad to see IBM's HDD go...
Their strength is their institutional consulting contracts... but that's hardly a growth path as the IBM name slowly, over time, becomes known for nothing in particular.
This was always their strength. It was almost like they made computers to support their consulting initiative.
Don't ever count this out - large corporations will always want this kind of service. It gives them the warm fuzzys to know there is some place to point a finger.