This was workred out long ago. You want dim room light so that your pupils can relax and open up. The human eye is most sensitive to green light, so use a dim green on a black background and you eye muscles will have an easy time of it. Look at old computer terminals - all green screens. - The Mad Duke
The IBM System p model 595 can hold 2 TB of RAM with 64 processors. I just got done installing on 7 of these boxes which had 1 TB in each. These servers can run AIX or Linux, but you gotta use AIX if you need lots of memory in a partition. FYI ! - The Mad Duke
Close, but no cigar. Walt Kelly said it best, "We have met the enemy and he is us". We elected the officials that do all this regulation, and we keep them in office with our votes. The real fundamental problem is that health care is a service for which there is _infinite_ demand. Think about it - the purpose of health care is to make you feel better and to live longer. The only limit on health care consumption is money - devote more money to health care and it will rapidly be spent. The basic question for me: Is health care a right or a privilege? Making it a right means still having to deny care to some because our resources are finite; the only debate then is where to draw the line. We have this delusion that this is a problem that can be solved, but we want someone else to solve it. One of the reason health care is so expensive in the U.S. is because of large awards in malpractice cases - juries who give these awards don't seem to notice that we all pay for them - big malpractice insurance bills have become part of the cost of doing business for doctors and hospitals. The health insurance industry today is maintained by our group hallucination of some third party paying for it all - this distances us from the real cost. FAH - face it people, we get the health care we deserve in the U.S.
Like you I had mixed feelings about Steam. I expected it to be abused, but so far Valve has behaved. It's also cool that this is the first wave in the revolution against Big Ugly Publishers. On line downloads may become the only way to get a grown up game that hasn't been cleaned up to be Wal-Mart acceptable. After my reloads I just kick off the automated downloads and go to bed. Getting a currently patched version of a game in one iteration with no need to hunt up CD's is a nice bonus.
Hey, it's got Dopefish in the very first level! http://www.dopefish.com/fishinfo.html/ Commander Keen's nemesis appears several more times in secret areas. In the Docks level in a building full of large chemical tanks are many warning signs not to inhale or ingest chemicals. One of them has an urban translation at the bottom, "Do Not Attempt To Get Crunk In This Bee-otch" There is a secret room in the Highrise level where you can find a sign that says, " OH SNAP - We Beat DNF Out Twice!"
I love games that reward exploration. Sorry folks, but 20 bucks is the price of a nice lunch. If you explore the levels you get a lot more entertainment for your money. I also like Steam - when WinXP becomes unuseable because of the usual bit rot I can easily reload all my Steam games just by logging back in to my account.
Nice write up from IBM, but it's important to remember thaat the Linux kernel only supports dynamic changes in CPU and PCI devices, you can't move memory around. AIX allows dynamic memory; the Linux kernel will need some fundamental chages to enable this. Power5 is indeed the coolest technology around today, but Dynamic LPAR started on the Power4 back in 2001, so this is kinda old news.
IBM started SHIPPING Power5 with SMT capablility August 31 of last year - IBM has SMT running on 1.9 GHz processors today. Sun is getting farther and farther behind.
Hanging in my closet is a "souvenier" from my last adventure with SLI: A Quantum3D Obsidian t-shirt. In my eagerness to own the latest and greatest graphics card I paid 600 bucks up front to preorder this card which was developed by a spin-off from 3DFx. The card shipped 6 weeks late, suffered from overheating since it crammed the components from 2 cards into a single PCI slot, and was soon equaled in performance by a simple pair of Voodoo 2 cards in adjacent slots. I expect a similar fate for this monstrosity since the GeForce 6800 pulls what - 75 watts ? I assume a 500 watt power supply will be required. Thanks, but no thanks.
IBM has a product called GPFS (General Parallel File System) which has sold on AIX for several years and is offered for Linux as well. On Intel based boxes it sells for about $1000 per CPU. I wonder how IBM will react to this Open Source competition ? The IBM product has very similar function - it is also used with Oracle RAC. It originated on the RS/6000 based SP clusters but has been ported out to be used on pretty much any AIX or Linux based cluster.
The Fact Checkers at the Philly Inq missed something: there is another movie based on a Gibson short story - "The New Rose Hotel". Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, and the delectable (OMFG where does that tattoo end) Asia Argento. The film was a commercial failure - it's rather slow and amateurish, but it's much better than that awful Keanu/Ice-T mess. I have the DVD right here in my sweaty little hand. Excuse me, gotta go watch Asia in the swimming pool again. Oh, and many thanks to my old buddy Marrow who gave me his copy.
IBM has a fix available for AIX 4.3 and 5.1 - download at ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/ tsmlogin_efix.tar.Z
The tsm/login/getty program runs setuid root under AIX, this may be an increased vulnerability. Patch, patch, patch!
- The Mad Duke
I agree, with a few additions. Make sure none of the IP server daemons are running - lpd, portmap, sendmail, as well as inetd. Have a buddy run a portscan on you firewall to make sure nothing is listening. AFAIK, there are no exploits of simple ipmasquerading.
Dean Kent in his August Industry Update at Real World Technologies http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RW T081000000000 indicates that DDR SDRAM only costs about 2% more to manufacture than the current SDR DRAM, whereas DRDRAM costs 35% more to make. That's a big hill for Rambus to climb, and a bit more than "slightly higher".
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This was workred out long ago. You want dim room light so that your pupils can relax and open up. The human eye is most sensitive to green light, so use a dim green on a black background and you eye muscles will have an easy time of it. Look at old computer terminals - all green screens.
- The Mad Duke
The IBM System p model 595 can hold 2 TB of RAM with 64 processors. I just got done installing on 7 of these boxes which had 1 TB in each. These servers can run AIX or Linux, but you gotta use AIX if you need lots of memory in a partition. FYI !
- The Mad Duke
Close, but no cigar. Walt Kelly said it best, "We have met the enemy and he is us". We elected the officials that do all this regulation, and we keep them in office with our votes. The real fundamental problem is that health care is a service for which there is _infinite_ demand. Think about it - the purpose of health care is to make you feel better and to live longer. The only limit on health care consumption is money - devote more money to health care and it will rapidly be spent. The basic question for me: Is health care a right or a privilege? Making it a right means still having to deny care to some because our resources are finite; the only debate then is where to draw the line. We have this delusion that this is a problem that can be solved, but we want someone else to solve it.
One of the reason health care is so expensive in the U.S. is because of large awards in malpractice cases - juries who give these awards don't seem to notice that we all pay for them - big malpractice insurance bills have become part of the cost of doing business for doctors and hospitals.
The health insurance industry today is maintained by our group hallucination of some third party paying for it all - this distances us from the real cost.
FAH - face it people, we get the health care we deserve in the U.S.
Like you I had mixed feelings about Steam. I expected it to be abused, but so far Valve has behaved. It's also cool that this is the first wave in the revolution against Big Ugly Publishers. On line downloads may become the only way to get a grown up game that hasn't been cleaned up to be Wal-Mart acceptable. After my reloads I just kick off the automated downloads and go to bed. Getting a currently patched version of a game in one iteration with no need to hunt up CD's is a nice bonus.
Hey, it's got Dopefish in the very first level! http://www.dopefish.com/fishinfo.html/ Commander Keen's nemesis appears several more times in secret areas.
In the Docks level in a building full of large chemical tanks are many warning signs not to inhale or ingest chemicals. One of them has an urban translation at the bottom, "Do Not Attempt To Get Crunk In This Bee-otch"
There is a secret room in the Highrise level where you can find a sign that says, " OH SNAP - We Beat DNF Out Twice!"
I love games that reward exploration. Sorry folks, but 20 bucks is the price of a nice lunch. If you explore the levels you get a lot more entertainment for your money. I also like Steam - when WinXP becomes unuseable because of the usual bit rot I can easily reload all my Steam games just by logging back in to my account.
Nice write up from IBM, but it's important to remember thaat the Linux kernel only supports dynamic changes in CPU and PCI devices, you can't move memory around. AIX allows dynamic memory; the Linux kernel will need some fundamental chages to enable this. Power5 is indeed the coolest technology around today, but Dynamic LPAR started on the Power4 back in 2001, so this is kinda old news.
IBM started SHIPPING Power5 with SMT capablility August 31 of last year - IBM has SMT running on 1.9 GHz processors today. Sun is getting farther and farther behind.
Hanging in my closet is a "souvenier" from my last adventure with SLI: A Quantum3D Obsidian t-shirt. In my eagerness to own the latest and greatest graphics card I paid 600 bucks up front to preorder this card which was developed by a spin-off from 3DFx. The card shipped 6 weeks late, suffered from overheating since it crammed the components from 2 cards into a single PCI slot, and was soon equaled in performance by a simple pair of Voodoo 2 cards in adjacent slots. I expect a similar fate for this monstrosity since the GeForce 6800 pulls what - 75 watts ? I assume a 500 watt power supply will be required. Thanks, but no thanks.
IBM has a product called GPFS (General Parallel File System) which has sold on AIX for several years and is offered for Linux as well. On Intel based boxes it sells for about $1000 per CPU. I wonder how IBM will react to this Open Source competition ? The IBM product has very similar function - it is also used with Oracle RAC. It originated on the RS/6000 based SP clusters but has been ported out to be used on pretty much any AIX or Linux based cluster.
The Fact Checkers at the Philly Inq missed something: there is another movie based on a Gibson short story - "The New Rose Hotel". Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, and the delectable (OMFG where does that tattoo end) Asia Argento. The film was a commercial failure - it's rather slow and amateurish, but it's much better than that awful Keanu/Ice-T mess. I have the DVD right here in my sweaty little hand. Excuse me, gotta go watch Asia in the swimming pool again. Oh, and many thanks to my old buddy Marrow who gave me his copy.
IBM has a fix available for AIX 4.3 and 5.1 - download at ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/ tsmlogin_efix.tar.Z
The tsm/login/getty program runs setuid root under AIX, this may be an increased vulnerability. Patch, patch, patch!
- The Mad Duke
I agree, with a few additions. Make sure none of the IP server daemons are running - lpd, portmap, sendmail, as well as inetd. Have a buddy run a portscan on you firewall to make sure nothing is listening. AFAIK, there are no exploits of simple ipmasquerading.
Dean Kent in his August Industry Update at Real World Technologies http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RW T081000000000 indicates that DDR SDRAM only costs about 2% more to manufacture than the current SDR DRAM, whereas DRDRAM costs 35% more to make. That's a big hill for Rambus to climb, and a bit more than "slightly higher".
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