ZFS has been optimized to take advantage of SSDs as ZFS intent log devices (whatever those are) in conjunction with regular drives. I think you may want to take a look at this for instance.
I haven't seen any specific optimizations for ZFS on standalone flash drives, but I would love to. Can you please provide any links?
You can use Perl 6 right now if you want. It is available, just not rated for production yet. I can understand that probably not many folks will want to use it for real world purposes, but this is pretty far from at least my definition of vapor.
I believe you when you say it is ok for you:) I know daskeyboard is one of the best out there.
For me, take a look at this enter key. The lower part is ridiculously thin. If you are pressing the enter close to the lower side like me, with that keyboard you have a problem. And that is the reason for my previous flames.
I just need to get this out of my system: The L-shaped enter keyboards MUST DIE! Half of the times I end up pressing backslash instead of enter, damn it!
The iPhone is arguably one of the most successful touchscreen devices ever built. But, the whole deal is not the touch screen. There where touchscreens before, but they were not wildly popular.
But the software, that's something different. The guys that built it certainly went to great lengths to make sure that it is easy, responsive, fast and, most importantly, feel and look right in all aspects, like animations, feedbacks, font sizes, icons etc.
Today's computer GUIs are mostly optimized to be used by mice and keyboards. A great deal of thought must be given to every little detail if a paradigm switch is to be made to touchscreens, or the outcome is in danger of not feeling right to the user.
I haven't had the chance of paying with any of the tablet PCs available today, are they fun and productive to use, or are they just a pain in the butt? Would love to hear the opinions of fellow/.ers.
Considering that they've purchased MySQL, StorageTec and Cluster File Systems (of Lustre fame), developed ZFS, implemented CIFS in OpenSolaris from scratch (not Samba based), participated in NFSv4 and constructed the thumper, these machines hardly come as a surprise.
For the last two years, almost all their moves are targeted towards one goal: Enter the storage market from a non-conventional angle. They want to do it unconventionally, because they know that storage more than anything else is becoming The commodity and today's toys won't cut it. Plus, at this point, all the mainstream storage vendors have difficulty tapping the low end. They may be able to sell their expensive products to clients with deep pockets, but for small businesses it's a different story. No to mention that they are unwilling to reinvent themselves. OTOH with all these inventions Sun may be trying to do what it did with workstations when it started in the 80s, start low and increase. Remains to be seen whether they can pull it.
We made the mistake of buying HP DL385 G2's (AMD64 opterons) to install Solaris, and now we are stuck with I/O performance that is stupidly low. Solaris literally screams with the DL360G5 (xeon) but with the DL385 (opteron) something is very wrong. Go figure. I suspect HP's drivers but there's really no good way to tell and I might very well be wrong. Support has been not so successful (yet) in finding anything of use.
Moral of the story? When going to install Solaris, do yourself a favor and buy Sun iron (not necessarily Sparc). The O/S is guaranteed to work perfectly and you'll be home in time for cornflakes instead of trying to figure out what's wrong.
We are looking for developers with experience building web scale distributed systems. We are currently working in Perl but have plans to use Java, Erlang and any other language that we think will suit our purposes. We aren't looking for expertise in any of those, particularly, but we expect that you will be an expert in the systems you know. We do require that you be passionate about testing (unit, integration, fault-injection) and code quality. Experience with relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, etc), embedded databases (BerkeleyDB, CDB, MonetDB, etc) and Linux are a big plus.
This means that there is also only a SINGLE VENDOR from which software can be obtained. Forget about competitive bidding, negotiating the best package price, etc.
Forget it. Medium-to-Large companies will NEVER go for this. OMG! Obtaining software from a single vendor! Never happened before.
The consumer fetches http://slashdot.org/~user345 and looks for specific pattern in the file (never mind the details). That pattern provides a server url (we'll call it the provider)
The consumer redirects my browser to the provider with some specific GET arguments.
I authenticate myself to the provider
provider redirects me to the consumer, but with some extra GET arguments with me
consumer sees my arguments
consumer contacts the provider for some verification
As long as the openid provider (the party that provides the identity by utilizing an authentication mechanism) can access the the REMOTE_USER env variable or something equivalent, it can perform its duty normally. I think it is really not important whether there is username/password based authentication or PKI authentication using soft tokens or hardware crypto tokens or biometric authentication or one time passwords or whatever else. It is up to the implementor of the service to decide what kind of authentication will be used according to his/her requirements. Using an external authentication mechanism can slightly perplex the situation on how logout is performed (as it is dependent on the auth mechanism) or on how attribute based authorization is being carried out.
But overall it gives great flexibility to the implementor because he/she can layout a scheme were existing authentication/authorization infrastructures (like an institution's LDAP for example) can be used in a cross platform way to offer web based identity.
My primary lang is Greek, which is perfectly supported by the English versions of windows or macosx so I wouldn't dare say that we get shafted. Its perfectly good on X11 too nowadays (on gnu/linux,solaris etc). Most of the times you simply activate an alternative keyboard layout from your OS settings (anyone can do it since it requires simply to check the appropriate checkbox), and just type away your text on Word, Pages, OO.org, Neooffice, whatever. Most mainstream fonts in the aforementioned OS's have a full set of Greek glyphs, and there are several commercial or free high quality true/opentype fonts (like for example, Gentium) if you need more. It is dead simple, it just works within 5 minutes and even the keyboard layout (mapping of keys to characters) is almost perfectly consistent among win, mac and X11. Using TeX/LaTeX/LyX is doable, but is (IMHO) limited and requires further non-trivial steps. Not surprisingly, most people are not comfortable with carrying out these steps.
Anyway, thanks for your response, it's interesting and I agree with you on the remark that LaTeX makes typesetting brainless.
Every time some story regarding word processing comes up in slashdot, there are always mentions of TeX, LaTeX, LyX etc. Most of the posts seem to come from people delighted with those tools, but since TeX hasn't yet managed to take over the world (yet), I suppose that there must be quite a few that tried it and didn't decide to use it. (Of course, being in slashdot and saying bad things about Donald Knuth's brainchild and its siblings must be suicidal for my karma:) ) My story is that I once spent several weeks trying to use LaTeX for my everyday purposes with the ultimate goal of using it to write my thesis. I even tried to use LyX since it was one of the only two GUI options then. I didn't manage to go far, mostly because my primary language was not English. I eventually managed to write some pieces, but it was severely cumbersome and limited in many ways. It sadly ended when I discovered that I could actually use StarOffice (there was no OO.org then) and get my work done in a fraction of the time.
So, some questions:
What's the current situation with languages than don't use latin characters? I remember that when I last tried some years ago, it was somewhat cumbersome to get it to work. Of course the situation could very well have improved vastly.
What't the current situation with fonts in general in TeX? Can I use an arbitrary unicode opentype or truetype font? It used to be a huge mess, I hope it has improved as well.
I honestly do not know if today the situation is completely different. Good for us if yes, as we have yet another option. But judging from tools like word 2008, oo.org 2, pages etc the competition is stiff. Can LyX really be compared with them?
You might be right on the lottery vs. visas elimination, it hadn't occurred to me.
As for the rest, what types of immigration to the US are there? If I am correct, there are employment visas, family based visas, the DV which is small as you say, and some minor forms such as for refugees, through investment etc. I am reading all this from here. If there are other forms, plz enlighten me.
Employment based visas require some form of sponsorship (if I'm not mistaken), so I would expect mostly highly skilled workers there. That's very good, but not exactly low class low brow. Family based visas on the other hand are for people having a close relative that is a citizen. Also very thoughtful, but applies only to families that are already halfway there. So I wouldn't count it either. I don't want to go on and on, I hope you get the idea of what I am saying. In the previous centuries, it used to be relatively easy to get to the land of the free. It is more mature now, a developed nation, and nobody really wants to leave the gates open. It's still great for those inside, but letting too many people in might jeopardize what has been accomplished. And I am not bashing anybody here, it's simply the way it is. I am only trying to point out that because of this, the US has moved closer to being like Europe in many ways. So I will insist, the US might still be taking the most immigrants from any other country, but the people and their mindset has changed.
At least your ancestors were able to leave Europe and come to America. Take note of where the US immigration policies are going. Unlike today, America was then open to "low class and low brow" as you say. Today, very few people can come to the US, even those that love America for what it represents (or at least used to).
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One of the reasons is that they are using something called "Windows Integrity Mechanism".
See mention at page 3 here.
Then read about the integrity mechanism here.
ZFS has been optimized to take advantage of SSDs as ZFS intent log devices (whatever those are) in conjunction with regular drives. I think you may want to take a look at this for instance.
I haven't seen any specific optimizations for ZFS on standalone flash drives, but I would love to. Can you please provide any links?
You can use Perl 6 right now if you want. It is available, just not rated for production yet. I can understand that probably not many folks will want to use it for real world purposes, but this is pretty far from at least my definition of vapor.
I believe you when you say it is ok for you :) I know daskeyboard is one of the best out there.
For me, take a look at this enter key. The lower part is ridiculously thin. If you are pressing the enter close to the lower side like me, with that keyboard you have a problem. And that is the reason for my previous flames.
I just need to get this out of my system: The L-shaped enter keyboards MUST DIE! Half of the times I end up pressing backslash instead of enter, damn it!
If you are using a Mac, perhaps you will find this interesting.
One of my coworkers has one of the originals (with an old iMac) and it is fantastic. This should be as close to the real thing as possible.
The iPhone is arguably one of the most successful touchscreen devices ever built. But, the whole deal is not the touch screen. There where touchscreens before, but they were not wildly popular.
But the software, that's something different. The guys that built it certainly went to great lengths to make sure that it is easy, responsive, fast and, most importantly, feel and look right in all aspects, like animations, feedbacks, font sizes, icons etc.
Today's computer GUIs are mostly optimized to be used by mice and keyboards. A great deal of thought must be given to every little detail if a paradigm switch is to be made to touchscreens, or the outcome is in danger of not feeling right to the user.
I haven't had the chance of paying with any of the tablet PCs available today, are they fun and productive to use, or are they just a pain in the butt? Would love to hear the opinions of fellow /.ers.
Safari is based on Webkit, which can achieve an almost perfect acid3 score. Anyone using windows or macosx can easilly try it.
Considering that they've purchased MySQL, StorageTec and Cluster File Systems (of Lustre fame), developed ZFS, implemented CIFS in OpenSolaris from scratch (not Samba based), participated in NFSv4 and constructed the thumper, these machines hardly come as a surprise.
For the last two years, almost all their moves are targeted towards one goal: Enter the storage market from a non-conventional angle. They want to do it unconventionally, because they know that storage more than anything else is becoming The commodity and today's toys won't cut it. Plus, at this point, all the mainstream storage vendors have difficulty tapping the low end. They may be able to sell their expensive products to clients with deep pockets, but for small businesses it's a different story. No to mention that they are unwilling to reinvent themselves. OTOH with all these inventions Sun may be trying to do what it did with workstations when it started in the 80s, start low and increase. Remains to be seen whether they can pull it.
You are comparing apples with oranges, nagios is for service monitoring, cacti is for diagrams.
We made the mistake of buying HP DL385 G2's (AMD64 opterons) to install Solaris, and now we are stuck with I/O performance that is stupidly low. Solaris literally screams with the DL360G5 (xeon) but with the DL385 (opteron) something is very wrong. Go figure. I suspect HP's drivers but there's really no good way to tell and I might very well be wrong. Support has been not so successful (yet) in finding anything of use.
Moral of the story? When going to install Solaris, do yourself a favor and buy Sun iron (not necessarily Sparc). The O/S is guaranteed to work perfectly and you'll be home in time for cornflakes instead of trying to figure out what's wrong.
Do you know what radio waves look like? I do.
He said something along these lines in "Whatever happened to the man of tomorrow" and then proceeded to follow the radio waves to the bad guy's hideout.
Whoa, Mr. AC there, that was extremely helpful.
BTW, it's Perl, not PERL.
Pray tell us, why should I heed someones opinion on a the language when he can't even spell it's name correctly?
TFA more or less says that IMDB is switching from Perl to Erlang. So I looked at the link and here's what I got:
(From here
We are looking for developers with experience building web scale distributed systems. We are currently working in Perl but have plans to use Java, Erlang and any other language that we think will suit our purposes. We aren't looking for expertise in any of those, particularly, but we expect that you will be an expert in the systems you know. We do require that you be passionate about testing (unit, integration, fault-injection) and code quality. Experience with relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, etc), embedded databases (BerkeleyDB, CDB, MonetDB, etc) and Linux are a big plus.
I'll leave anyone to draw his own conclusions.
the elephants on Neptune
Amen, +10 insightful.
Forget it. Medium-to-Large companies will NEVER go for this. OMG! Obtaining software from a single vendor! Never happened before.
As long as the openid provider (the party that provides the identity by utilizing an authentication mechanism) can access the the REMOTE_USER env variable or something equivalent, it can perform its duty normally. I think it is really not important whether there is username/password based authentication or PKI authentication using soft tokens or hardware crypto tokens or biometric authentication or one time passwords or whatever else. It is up to the implementor of the service to decide what kind of authentication will be used according to his/her requirements. Using an external authentication mechanism can slightly perplex the situation on how logout is performed (as it is dependent on the auth mechanism) or on how attribute based authorization is being carried out.
But overall it gives great flexibility to the implementor because he/she can layout a scheme were existing authentication/authorization infrastructures (like an institution's LDAP for example) can be used in a cross platform way to offer web based identity.
My primary lang is Greek, which is perfectly supported by the English versions of windows or macosx so I wouldn't dare say that we get shafted. Its perfectly good on X11 too nowadays (on gnu/linux,solaris etc). Most of the times you simply activate an alternative keyboard layout from your OS settings (anyone can do it since it requires simply to check the appropriate checkbox), and just type away your text on Word, Pages, OO.org, Neooffice, whatever. Most mainstream fonts in the aforementioned OS's have a full set of Greek glyphs, and there are several commercial or free high quality true/opentype fonts (like for example, Gentium) if you need more. It is dead simple, it just works within 5 minutes and even the keyboard layout (mapping of keys to characters) is almost perfectly consistent among win, mac and X11. Using TeX/LaTeX/LyX is doable, but is (IMHO) limited and requires further non-trivial steps. Not surprisingly, most people are not comfortable with carrying out these steps.
Anyway, thanks for your response, it's interesting and I agree with you on the remark that LaTeX makes typesetting brainless.
Every time some story regarding word processing comes up in slashdot, there are always mentions of TeX, LaTeX, LyX etc. Most of the posts seem to come from people delighted with those tools, but since TeX hasn't yet managed to take over the world (yet), I suppose that there must be quite a few that tried it and didn't decide to use it. (Of course, being in slashdot and saying bad things about Donald Knuth's brainchild and its siblings must be suicidal for my karma
My story is that I once spent several weeks trying to use LaTeX for my everyday purposes with the ultimate goal of using it to write my thesis. I even tried to use LyX since it was one of the only two GUI options then. I didn't manage to go far, mostly because my primary language was not English. I eventually managed to write some pieces, but it was severely cumbersome and limited in many ways. It sadly ended when I discovered that I could actually use StarOffice (there was no OO.org then) and get my work done in a fraction of the time.
So, some questions:
I honestly do not know if today the situation is completely different. Good for us if yes, as we have yet another option. But judging from tools like word 2008, oo.org 2, pages etc the competition is stiff. Can LyX really be compared with them?
You might be right on the lottery vs. visas elimination, it hadn't occurred to me.
As for the rest, what types of immigration to the US are there? If I am correct, there are employment visas, family based visas, the DV which is small as you say, and some minor forms such as for refugees, through investment etc. I am reading all this from here.
If there are other forms, plz enlighten me.
Employment based visas require some form of sponsorship (if I'm not mistaken), so I would expect mostly highly skilled workers there. That's very good, but not exactly low class low brow. Family based visas on the other hand are for people having a close relative that is a citizen. Also very thoughtful, but applies only to families that are already halfway there. So I wouldn't count it either. I don't want to go on and on, I hope you get the idea of what I am saying. In the previous centuries, it used to be relatively easy to get to the land of the free. It is more mature now, a developed nation, and nobody really wants to leave the gates open. It's still great for those inside, but letting too many people in might jeopardize what has been accomplished. And I am not bashing anybody here, it's simply the way it is. I am only trying to point out that because of this, the US has moved closer to being like Europe in many ways. So I will insist, the US might still be taking the most immigrants from any other country, but the people and their mindset has changed.
Best Regards!..
Above all it represents freedom and self determination. But take a look at this:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.01430:
These types of things show that America is becoming more and more like Europe.
Hi,
At least your ancestors were able to leave Europe and come to America. Take note of where the US immigration policies are going. Unlike today, America was then open to "low class and low brow" as you say. Today, very few people can come to the US, even those that love America for what it represents (or at least used to).