Derek, please see my reply to afidel, if you wish. I'm having some troubles. Yes, I did know what you meant; wasn't posting to attack; I read, and a thought sparked, is all. Not speaking well, sorry. Only, it seemed important at the time.
On the one hand, "Whooosh"; on the other, and insightful, succinct statement of what I intended. Thank you.
Derek points out 'sophomoric semantic games. Way I see it, unless one resort to grunt or fist, all language is semantics (and grammar). It's the only thing that let's us try to have communication.
There were some things I wanted to try to get across, but every attempt got further away. Suffice, then, since Reagan, I've watched the often casual, sometimes seemingly directed, subornation and abuse of words and key phrases, not to communicate but to obfuscate, divert, and deter same. The chain for me began with "viable"; I don't recall if it was a politico or talking head, but within six months a useful word particular to biology and medicine showed up damn near everywhere it didn't belong. What I watched since is time and again what by rights ought to be useful common terms to let us talk in furtherance of problem solving become instead code phrases to divide and foster contention.
That's about the best I can do.
(Disclaimer - a remark set off a chain of thought; whatever resulted was not aimed at anyone.)
Try to find a decent weather app that will display barometer reading AND which direction it's moving. Children today don't even know what a fucking barometer is or why it's not just useful but important to knowing about condition and forecast. Pilots know - or used to, ditto sailors. Anyone who's ever done their own short-range forecast knows. Anyone who's ever had their own weather station at least has the inkling.
Given wind direction and glass, you're well over halfway towards next day's weather. Couple that with cloud observation, where you can watch the fronts, you'll do as well as the local weatherman - who these days likely as not is not a meteorologist anyway. Add in a regional weather map and jet-stream info, you can forecast short-range local about as well as NOAA.
For a bit of perspective, the only condition where there can be a free market is anarchy. Once there is any rule of law in any political system (difficult to have one without the other, I think; in fact, to define one rather requires the other) there is skewed market because most law is economic law. Even in criminal law the bulk of it involves property in some form. (There is no way to use law to establish a level playing field; the very act of trying prohibits such - someone is always at a disadvantage before the game starts.)
Productivity, that I can see; it can be tempting to take a break from work and play for a bit, only to next notice that three hours have passed;-)
I've been lucky, I guess, having had no performance problems of note. Helps that most of my games are older or do not need great gobs of resources. Might also help that I've got six cores and 8GB RAM - a smallish amount, by today's standards, from what I can gather. Had I the budget, and if the old house I rent a room in have better circuits, I'd like to get an eight-core, and at least double the memory. And, as I said close by, I'd not be unhappy with several systems.
I guess that I just don't care to cycle the system more'n needful - but one's needs do vary. It's a partial carry over from ST days, when there was a difference between cold-start and warm. The one was CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-DEL, the other CRTL-ALT-DEL - or they could be called from within a program.
Yepper, to both. I've had a few experiences that are not -yet- explained by science. There are explanations but they're a bit... squishy. Thing is, science doesn't give up and embrace received knowledge - it keeps plugging away, seeking to explain. One of the often unheralded duties of science is to continually test itself, looking for ways to tear down a theory containing an inconsistency in pursuit of better theory, for instance.
Oh, gosh, hadn't meant to brag on any great knowing of stuff, the more I learn, the more I learn that I don't know squat (other than I think I have a reasonable idea of what science is and how it works); gotta pay more attention to how I phrase things. Also, I forgot to add that I see danger in not only not having comments (although that's a choice for the site operator, and can simply be based on amount of hassle viz. overhead, moderation, whatever) but in in any way casually squelching a particular poster, a move which should never be taken lightly and without deliberation.
I'm guessing it was "the great unwashed" that set a poor tone. I had in mind an example from way back, a long, contentious 'discussion' on some forum, where it turned out that one of the combatants all the while didn't know the definitions and distinctions of theory and hypothesis. A good moderator/sysop (in the old GEnie usage, i.e.) catches things like that. A sysop might have carried some weight, whereas other parties to the discussion simply had an "opinion."
With the move from BBS, paid access or no, to the Web, moderators mostly vanished. Site operators didn't want the overhead of dealing even with volunteer sysops, let alone paid ones. At the same time there was less incentive to volunteer as a moderator - under the old ways, say on CompuServe, a sysop might get free connect time or library downloads sans traffic charge. Heck, on GEnie I got a virtual payment which could be applied anywhere on the site, including stores and affiliated university, just for writing a monthly column in one of their online magazines. On the Web? None of it, really; there was very little carryover, although a few of the good writers here and there got semi-paid blog/editor spots on a few sites.
To me it's not a matter of trying to "go back" - it's doing something that makes good sense at little cost - about as much screening as vetting blog posts as a featured writer on a site, for starters.
Organization of forums is something that is largely lacking, most places. There may be a topic set up by management for "hardware issues" which will then get filled with copious entries for "x86 installation problems" in several hundred separate sub-topics rather than get properly filtered and sorted into a handful or less of meaningful sub-topics.
Years back, when I first got XP, I had a driver issue so I went to Microsoft forums, using the built-in reader of Deepnet Explorer. After no less than 317 separate entries for my issue, I gave up. (I later found the needed dll by a couple of hours of refining my searches using several different search engines and then finding a place where I could download the damn thing. All told, maybe eight hours to get a stinking file that should have been provided by the peripheral maker or Microsoft. In fairness, it was a legacy piece of kit, and the original site had gotten wiped by the hosting service. The final clue to which dll for the particular chip and where to find it was in an obscure post on an obscure forum in Australia, as I recall. Better moderation might not have helped solve this particular quest, but it would have saved me five or so hours plowing through a dis-organized mess to eliminate chaff.)
All told, I welcome discussion. Even for a science-oriented site, I would tend to welcome all comers - but behave yourself, use some manners, and make an honest attempt at discussion within some reasonable version of consensual reality that has been backed by continual testing (outliers with interesting and real arguments welcome - but not the bucket brigades repeating some fluff from whatever a "feature commentator" on Fox News said last night or what your book of received knowledge said a thousand years ago).
"Debate" for many means to them that their idiocy is equal to any thus far working science. Rather than discuss the science - ways to test, for example, they simply regurgitate their agenda's talking points. Makes it difficult to impossible for others to talk about a given issue over the flood of "my view is as valid as yours simply because I espouse it."
In olden times, pre-Web, discussion areas (and usenet, long time back) were actively moderated by what were often termed "sysops" who would variously point people in the right direction, teach, admonish (and sometimes outright ban) the unwashed, and keep things organized. Now a given forum will get flooded with "Help! It's not working" posts. Back then, they'd get sorted and lumped by topic, for starters; in fact, many would not freely allow a new topic - it had to be requested. This cut down on some of the bullshit. Trolls and such did not last long in that kind of adult environment. That's not to say there weren't some heated discussions but they were on merit.
Ah, XP64; ran it for a couple of years from '06. Once set up and presuming no hassles finding drivers, yup, solid. I used it as a base for running some VMWare and the Microsoft virtual engine (can't think of the name right now) on a dual core AMD. Ran pretty well. I haven't looked at Win8 since pre-release, saw some interesting stuff but didn't want to fiddle with Metro - tho it itself has some neat bits. One thing, if I remember stuff Mark Russinovich and others have said, there was a lot of clean up in the graphics stack going from Vista to 7 and on to 8. I found that 8 itself ran quite spiffily given decent hardware. I gave up a long time ago getting Windows to put things where I wanted them, so good on ya for getting the My Docs moved. I could re-arrange things but it was a mess if a re-install became needful.
I've forgotten most of what I ever read about or tried to do with virtual machine hypervisors, only that those that run atop a host OS generally don't talk directly to the video card, so there's that to keep in mind. Otherwise, if one has some extra cores and a bunch of RAM, vms are really handy to have on hand. Nowadays I mostly use virt for looking at distros, apart from that XP vm around.
"Clearly the 4th Amendment was not written with any conception of today's electronic communications. We need more specific laws."
Perhaps. But it might be more to the point to have judges who made it into the electronic age.
The 4th uses the phrase "search" followed closely by "seizure." If you are forbidden to search for it without warrant its seizure (as in, collection) without warrant is forbidden as well.
I like the tree-mail analogy, especially because it might help judges and others. Just because the 'metadata' of name & address on the outside of an envelope needs to be seen by mail sorters and carriers does not in any way give them license to remember any of it, let alone collect such in some list.
On ownership: At no time is the data on the envelope owned by anyone other than the sender until such time as it it's the hands of the recipient. One might dredge up custodianship, but why introduce something thoroughly unnecessary?
If government want metadata they need to get a warrant for it.
Stop already with making BS decisions on what I want - let me configure it the way I want.
Re the article, I've never used middle-click paste, I used it to roll up the window until the wheel click switch died on my mouse.
For me, going back to ST days, it was always left-click place cursor, left-click and drag to select, right-click to context menu to select cut or copy, then go somewhere and select position with left-click then right-click to paste.
The comment earlier on UI and UX was right on. Give me an efficient, intuitive UI and let me configurable it as I see fit; do not remove settings. If you must design so as to keep newbies from shooting themselves in the foot, place them under an "advanced" tab. If someone goofs up their settings, have an "undo" or "set to default" button.
The UX idiots never even read the research on human interface performance that led to the GUI so have no understanding of why some things were the way they were, going by what I've seen the past ten years. I'm not against new if it advances the usability of a good windowing GUI on the desktop. If one wants a "common experience" across devices then have the WM/DE intelligently select config for device, not the current tendency to a Procrustean bed.
And yep, I followed that. Your posts give me a much better grounding when reading about datacenter, server, and DB stuff, and help me separate wheat from chaff. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and having the patience to explain it.
Ah, crap, forgot to add, I mostly play Civ V using CrossOver, and a bit of Silent Hunter IV. Haven't gotten Galactic Civilizations I or II running yet, that's gonna be a rainy day project. Games are problematic with Wine; the user community supports many more than CrossOver does, for example. I haven't used Play On Linux for a while, maybe I should try them again.
I'm with BergZ below, running XP in VirtualBox on Ubuntu host for a few old games and a couple of old programs (it's been so long since I've fired that vm up that I don't even recall what's all on there. I do know that "Empire: Wargame of the Century" is there. I haven't gotten the Atari ST version running yet - which in many respects I consider superior to the IBM-and-compatibles version, later the Windows version; for one thing, the mapmaker can make decent maps.)
Please do note that the games are older so don't need direct access to my video card to get reasonable display. I was never all that swift anyway, and my days of diving under the hood to fix the power steering or yanking the engine to do an overhaul are pretty much over.
Thanks for this. Came here partially to see if someone would mention the sonar records. Years back when U of Colo. was setting up their arctic climate research, I exchanged some email with a former sub driver was a prof there who'd done several patrols under ice. At the time there was only limited availability of USN data, and none from former Sovs.
While some will still consider the data anecdotal in comparison to satellite observations, the accumulation of something like 100,000 miles of track data starting in 1958 with Nautilus is nothing to sneeze at.
The lucid in your handle is valid; yours is the first explanation on making sure that data has gotten to where it's supposed to that I've been able to follow. (This stuff is so far from anything I know about as to be beyond laughable but I'm curious nonetheless.) Thank you.
However I may not have followed as well as I think, so a question, if I may: for the "extremely unlikely" case in the first para, would you know the transaction has been lost and be able to re-do it (i.e., rather than finding out later from the logs)? Sorry if I'm way out of line, but already said I was stupid.
Sounds like it could be fun. The problem areas I see are doing interconnects and finding an OS that'll efficiently manage I/O, memory use, apportioning and riding herd on processes including apps, a good user management console, and then it's just down to finding or writing programs to play with data.
As you can see, I don't know squat about this stuff, but I do mean it seems interesting. I'd like to see what somebody might cook up. Given the I/O capabilities it seems to me a cluster might be able to handle some interesting real-time operations of appropriate time frames, not just off-line data crunching, but that's just a guess.
Re the article, again, it looks interesting. That's just my bent towards moar cores and RAM; I'd like to see feedback from customers after a while using one or more M6-32 setups, and then some comparisons with alternate systems.
So far down in the thread, and no one has asked if it will run Crysis. Perhaps that's been deprecated.
The sig must have changed between the time you posted and now, because when I saw "My book about LSD and Self-Discovery" and "DroppingAcid" I twigged to the idea that the book likely had something to do with dropping acid. The link led to the book's page on Amazon.
Btw, I read some sample pages on Amazon; dude was there. His advice and descriptions pair nicely enough with what I found when I first tripped in '67. Well, I think it was '67. Sure seemed like it, all the way through '77, when I stopped doing any of that stuff, even weed. Now, rather miss it after all this time, both the experience and the people. Between work, school, war, and all the rest, there was for a while a time of magic.
You know I smoked a lot of grass
Oh Lord I popped a lot of pills
But I never touched nothin'
That my spirit could kill
--Steppenwolf, "The Pusher"; written by Hoyt Axton, whose own lyric runs:
You know I smoked a lot of grass
And I popped a couple of pills, now
But I never touched nothin' that
could break my will, now
--c. 1963 Lady Jane Music-BMI
I've never been to Burning Man, have you? My impression from word and picture is that the gathering covers a variety of type, from aging-hippie to those cutting new grooves. If I see anything at all corporate about it is in the organizing of structure and guidelines.
Can't speak for everyone, obviously, but why would I want a dual-boot setup just to run games? To me it's a hassle to have to re-boot just to get a particular environment. My preference is use Wine (CrossOver, actually) or if necessary a virtual machine. I play my games in a window anyway; I prefer to have convenient access to my computer. Then it becomes another hassle viz. Wine compatibility, of course. Having money and space for several systems would not displease me but that's not in the cards.
"...such a great advance..." - thanks for first good laugh of the day.
From the start of using a windowing GUI full-time in late 80s I prefer menus, especially if they're laid out logically. The CLI can be handy for something I don't remember the exact name of or is not in a menu, and when I don't need or want to use a full search utility. I found early on that when I wasn't coding or writing the more I liked select-and-click. (What I dislike are those poorly-designed programs that require one to switch frequently from keyboard to mouse and back.)
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Derek, please see my reply to afidel, if you wish. I'm having some troubles. Yes, I did know what you meant; wasn't posting to attack; I read, and a thought sparked, is all. Not speaking well, sorry. Only, it seemed important at the time.
On the one hand, "Whooosh"; on the other, and insightful, succinct statement of what I intended. Thank you.
Derek points out 'sophomoric semantic games. Way I see it, unless one resort to grunt or fist, all language is semantics (and grammar). It's the only thing that let's us try to have communication.
There were some things I wanted to try to get across, but every attempt got further away. Suffice, then, since Reagan, I've watched the often casual, sometimes seemingly directed, subornation and abuse of words and key phrases, not to communicate but to obfuscate, divert, and deter same. The chain for me began with "viable"; I don't recall if it was a politico or talking head, but within six months a useful word particular to biology and medicine showed up damn near everywhere it didn't belong. What I watched since is time and again what by rights ought to be useful common terms to let us talk in furtherance of problem solving become instead code phrases to divide and foster contention.
That's about the best I can do.
(Disclaimer - a remark set off a chain of thought; whatever resulted was not aimed at anyone.)
Try to find a decent weather app that will display barometer reading AND which direction it's moving. Children today don't even know what a fucking barometer is or why it's not just useful but important to knowing about condition and forecast. Pilots know - or used to, ditto sailors. Anyone who's ever done their own short-range forecast knows. Anyone who's ever had their own weather station at least has the inkling.
Given wind direction and glass, you're well over halfway towards next day's weather. Couple that with cloud observation, where you can watch the fronts, you'll do as well as the local weatherman - who these days likely as not is not a meteorologist anyway. Add in a regional weather map and jet-stream info, you can forecast short-range local about as well as NOAA.
For a bit of perspective, the only condition where there can be a free market is anarchy. Once there is any rule of law in any political system (difficult to have one without the other, I think; in fact, to define one rather requires the other) there is skewed market because most law is economic law. Even in criminal law the bulk of it involves property in some form. (There is no way to use law to establish a level playing field; the very act of trying prohibits such - someone is always at a disadvantage before the game starts.)
Productivity, that I can see; it can be tempting to take a break from work and play for a bit, only to next notice that three hours have passed;-)
I've been lucky, I guess, having had no performance problems of note. Helps that most of my games are older or do not need great gobs of resources. Might also help that I've got six cores and 8GB RAM - a smallish amount, by today's standards, from what I can gather. Had I the budget, and if the old house I rent a room in have better circuits, I'd like to get an eight-core, and at least double the memory. And, as I said close by, I'd not be unhappy with several systems.
I guess that I just don't care to cycle the system more'n needful - but one's needs do vary. It's a partial carry over from ST days, when there was a difference between cold-start and warm. The one was CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-DEL, the other CRTL-ALT-DEL - or they could be called from within a program.
I thought it was satire.
Yepper, to both. I've had a few experiences that are not -yet- explained by science. There are explanations but they're a bit... squishy. Thing is, science doesn't give up and embrace received knowledge - it keeps plugging away, seeking to explain. One of the often unheralded duties of science is to continually test itself, looking for ways to tear down a theory containing an inconsistency in pursuit of better theory, for instance.
Gotcha. And in that, along with Feynman, I agree. Never met him, read his popular books, watched about half the lectures so far. I miss that dude.
Testing the truth of things, right on.
Oh, gosh, hadn't meant to brag on any great knowing of stuff, the more I learn, the more I learn that I don't know squat (other than I think I have a reasonable idea of what science is and how it works); gotta pay more attention to how I phrase things. Also, I forgot to add that I see danger in not only not having comments (although that's a choice for the site operator, and can simply be based on amount of hassle viz. overhead, moderation, whatever) but in in any way casually squelching a particular poster, a move which should never be taken lightly and without deliberation.
I'm guessing it was "the great unwashed" that set a poor tone. I had in mind an example from way back, a long, contentious 'discussion' on some forum, where it turned out that one of the combatants all the while didn't know the definitions and distinctions of theory and hypothesis. A good moderator/sysop (in the old GEnie usage, i.e.) catches things like that. A sysop might have carried some weight, whereas other parties to the discussion simply had an "opinion."
With the move from BBS, paid access or no, to the Web, moderators mostly vanished. Site operators didn't want the overhead of dealing even with volunteer sysops, let alone paid ones. At the same time there was less incentive to volunteer as a moderator - under the old ways, say on CompuServe, a sysop might get free connect time or library downloads sans traffic charge. Heck, on GEnie I got a virtual payment which could be applied anywhere on the site, including stores and affiliated university, just for writing a monthly column in one of their online magazines. On the Web? None of it, really; there was very little carryover, although a few of the good writers here and there got semi-paid blog/editor spots on a few sites.
To me it's not a matter of trying to "go back" - it's doing something that makes good sense at little cost - about as much screening as vetting blog posts as a featured writer on a site, for starters.
Organization of forums is something that is largely lacking, most places. There may be a topic set up by management for "hardware issues" which will then get filled with copious entries for "x86 installation problems" in several hundred separate sub-topics rather than get properly filtered and sorted into a handful or less of meaningful sub-topics.
Years back, when I first got XP, I had a driver issue so I went to Microsoft forums, using the built-in reader of Deepnet Explorer. After no less than 317 separate entries for my issue, I gave up. (I later found the needed dll by a couple of hours of refining my searches using several different search engines and then finding a place where I could download the damn thing. All told, maybe eight hours to get a stinking file that should have been provided by the peripheral maker or Microsoft. In fairness, it was a legacy piece of kit, and the original site had gotten wiped by the hosting service. The final clue to which dll for the particular chip and where to find it was in an obscure post on an obscure forum in Australia, as I recall. Better moderation might not have helped solve this particular quest, but it would have saved me five or so hours plowing through a dis-organized mess to eliminate chaff.)
All told, I welcome discussion. Even for a science-oriented site, I would tend to welcome all comers - but behave yourself, use some manners, and make an honest attempt at discussion within some reasonable version of consensual reality that has been backed by continual testing (outliers with interesting and real arguments welcome - but not the bucket brigades repeating some fluff from whatever a "feature commentator" on Fox News said last night or what your book of received knowledge said a thousand years ago).
Then what, by your lights, separates science from other ways of knowing?
"Debate" for many means to them that their idiocy is equal to any thus far working science. Rather than discuss the science - ways to test, for example, they simply regurgitate their agenda's talking points. Makes it difficult to impossible for others to talk about a given issue over the flood of "my view is as valid as yours simply because I espouse it."
In olden times, pre-Web, discussion areas (and usenet, long time back) were actively moderated by what were often termed "sysops" who would variously point people in the right direction, teach, admonish (and sometimes outright ban) the unwashed, and keep things organized. Now a given forum will get flooded with "Help! It's not working" posts. Back then, they'd get sorted and lumped by topic, for starters; in fact, many would not freely allow a new topic - it had to be requested. This cut down on some of the bullshit. Trolls and such did not last long in that kind of adult environment. That's not to say there weren't some heated discussions but they were on merit.
Ah, XP64; ran it for a couple of years from '06. Once set up and presuming no hassles finding drivers, yup, solid. I used it as a base for running some VMWare and the Microsoft virtual engine (can't think of the name right now) on a dual core AMD. Ran pretty well. I haven't looked at Win8 since pre-release, saw some interesting stuff but didn't want to fiddle with Metro - tho it itself has some neat bits. One thing, if I remember stuff Mark Russinovich and others have said, there was a lot of clean up in the graphics stack going from Vista to 7 and on to 8. I found that 8 itself ran quite spiffily given decent hardware. I gave up a long time ago getting Windows to put things where I wanted them, so good on ya for getting the My Docs moved. I could re-arrange things but it was a mess if a re-install became needful.
I've forgotten most of what I ever read about or tried to do with virtual machine hypervisors, only that those that run atop a host OS generally don't talk directly to the video card, so there's that to keep in mind. Otherwise, if one has some extra cores and a bunch of RAM, vms are really handy to have on hand. Nowadays I mostly use virt for looking at distros, apart from that XP vm around.
From a comment I posted on schneier.com:
"Clearly the 4th Amendment was not written with any conception of today's electronic communications. We need more specific laws."
Perhaps. But it might be more to the point to have judges who made it into the electronic age.
The 4th uses the phrase "search" followed closely by "seizure." If you are forbidden to search for it without warrant its seizure (as in, collection) without warrant is forbidden as well.
I like the tree-mail analogy, especially because it might help judges and others. Just because the 'metadata' of name & address on the outside of an envelope needs to be seen by mail sorters and carriers does not in any way give them license to remember any of it, let alone collect such in some list.
On ownership: At no time is the data on the envelope owned by anyone other than the sender until such time as it it's the hands of the recipient. One might dredge up custodianship, but why introduce something thoroughly unnecessary?
If government want metadata they need to get a warrant for it.
Bet he's a blast at parties.
This.
Stop already with making BS decisions on what I want - let me configure it the way I want.
Re the article, I've never used middle-click paste, I used it to roll up the window until the wheel click switch died on my mouse.
For me, going back to ST days, it was always left-click place cursor, left-click and drag to select, right-click to context menu to select cut or copy, then go somewhere and select position with left-click then right-click to paste.
The comment earlier on UI and UX was right on. Give me an efficient, intuitive UI and let me configurable it as I see fit; do not remove settings. If you must design so as to keep newbies from shooting themselves in the foot, place them under an "advanced" tab. If someone goofs up their settings, have an "undo" or "set to default" button.
The UX idiots never even read the research on human interface performance that led to the GUI so have no understanding of why some things were the way they were, going by what I've seen the past ten years. I'm not against new if it advances the usability of a good windowing GUI on the desktop. If one wants a "common experience" across devices then have the WM/DE intelligently select config for device, not the current tendency to a Procrustean bed.
Wow, fantastic, and thank you.
And yep, I followed that. Your posts give me a much better grounding when reading about datacenter, server, and DB stuff, and help me separate wheat from chaff. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and having the patience to explain it.
Ah, crap, forgot to add,
I mostly play Civ V using CrossOver, and a bit of Silent Hunter IV. Haven't gotten Galactic Civilizations I or II running yet, that's gonna be a rainy day project. Games are problematic with Wine; the user community supports many more than CrossOver does, for example. I haven't used Play On Linux for a while, maybe I should try them again.
I'm with BergZ below, running XP in VirtualBox on Ubuntu host for a few old games and a couple of old programs (it's been so long since I've fired that vm up that I don't even recall what's all on there. I do know that "Empire: Wargame of the Century" is there. I haven't gotten the Atari ST version running yet - which in many respects I consider superior to the IBM-and-compatibles version, later the Windows version; for one thing, the mapmaker can make decent maps.)
Please do note that the games are older so don't need direct access to my video card to get reasonable display. I was never all that swift anyway, and my days of diving under the hood to fix the power steering or yanking the engine to do an overhaul are pretty much over.
Thanks for this. Came here partially to see if someone would mention the sonar records. Years back when U of Colo. was setting up their arctic climate research, I exchanged some email with a former sub driver was a prof there who'd done several patrols under ice. At the time there was only limited availability of USN data, and none from former Sovs.
While some will still consider the data anecdotal in comparison to satellite observations, the accumulation of something like 100,000 miles of track data starting in 1958 with Nautilus is nothing to sneeze at.
The lucid in your handle is valid; yours is the first explanation on making sure that data has gotten to where it's supposed to that I've been able to follow. (This stuff is so far from anything I know about as to be beyond laughable but I'm curious nonetheless.) Thank you.
However I may not have followed as well as I think, so a question, if I may: for the "extremely unlikely" case in the first para, would you know the transaction has been lost and be able to re-do it (i.e., rather than finding out later from the logs)? Sorry if I'm way out of line, but already said I was stupid.
Sounds like it could be fun. The problem areas I see are doing interconnects and finding an OS that'll efficiently manage I/O, memory use, apportioning and riding herd on processes including apps, a good user management console, and then it's just down to finding or writing programs to play with data.
As you can see, I don't know squat about this stuff, but I do mean it seems interesting. I'd like to see what somebody might cook up. Given the I/O capabilities it seems to me a cluster might be able to handle some interesting real-time operations of appropriate time frames, not just off-line data crunching, but that's just a guess.
Re the article, again, it looks interesting. That's just my bent towards moar cores and RAM; I'd like to see feedback from customers after a while using one or more M6-32 setups, and then some comparisons with alternate systems.
So far down in the thread, and no one has asked if it will run Crysis. Perhaps that's been deprecated.
The sig must have changed between the time you posted and now, because when I saw "My book about LSD and Self-Discovery" and "DroppingAcid" I twigged to the idea that the book likely had something to do with dropping acid. The link led to the book's page on Amazon.
Btw, I read some sample pages on Amazon; dude was there. His advice and descriptions pair nicely enough with what I found when I first tripped in '67. Well, I think it was '67. Sure seemed like it, all the way through '77, when I stopped doing any of that stuff, even weed. Now, rather miss it after all this time, both the experience and the people. Between work, school, war, and all the rest, there was for a while a time of magic.
You know I smoked a lot of grass
Oh Lord I popped a lot of pills
But I never touched nothin'
That my spirit could kill
--Steppenwolf, "The Pusher"; written by Hoyt Axton, whose own lyric runs:
You know I smoked a lot of grass
And I popped a couple of pills, now
But I never touched nothin' that
could break my will, now
--c. 1963 Lady Jane Music-BMI
I've never been to Burning Man, have you? My impression from word and picture is that the gathering covers a variety of type, from aging-hippie to those cutting new grooves. If I see anything at all corporate about it is in the organizing of structure and guidelines.
Can't speak for everyone, obviously, but why would I want a dual-boot setup just to run games? To me it's a hassle to have to re-boot just to get a particular environment. My preference is use Wine (CrossOver, actually) or if necessary a virtual machine. I play my games in a window anyway; I prefer to have convenient access to my computer. Then it becomes another hassle viz. Wine compatibility, of course. Having money and space for several systems would not displease me but that's not in the cards.
"...such a great advance..." - thanks for first good laugh of the day.
From the start of using a windowing GUI full-time in late 80s I prefer menus, especially if they're laid out logically. The CLI can be handy for something I don't remember the exact name of or is not in a menu, and when I don't need or want to use a full search utility. I found early on that when I wasn't coding or writing the more I liked select-and-click. (What I dislike are those poorly-designed programs that require one to switch frequently from keyboard to mouse and back.)