This is one of the reasons why I am an advocate for heterogeneous systems for server farms, clusters, labs, and such. If you have a server farm, you have some sort of tolerance for loss of systems. That redundancy works if systems fail at random, but this shows that that doesn't always happen. Let's say you have 200 machines with the same motherboard with the leaky caps. They all start leaking at about the same time, so they are all starting to wear out at the same rate. Now, let's say that the power company puts too much voltage on your line for a few seconds, the heat rises in the room, what have you, and all the motherboards blow at once. Or just 80% over an hour, it doesn't really matter. In any case, you're screwed.
Now, if you had differing systems, only half the systems are affected by the design flaw. The key here is to have systems with nothing in common. Power supplys, motherboards, cases, even cables must come from different companies. For example, half my server group is x86, the other half is SPARC. One runs Solaris, one runs NT. No matter what happens, with any design flaw, only half the servers will be affected at one time.
With all the insane laws on the books now, and you under the microscope of the DoJ as you are, do you feel it is even safe to do anything at all regarding a computer? Are you worried that you will break DMCA by using or publishing something like a bug patch or anything that deals with file formats (e-books, dvd), anything that could be considered a circumvention device?
93.3 FM Dallas used to be KRSM, the local radio station run by my high school. We were stripped of our license because all the rest of the FM spectrum had been allocated, and we were "low priority", being a non-commercial station.
That software product was actually a product of a company called "Palm Computing, Inc.", named Graffiti. I think that this "Palm" is what eventually went to USR, then to 3Com, then back to Palm.
That'd work until someone walked behind you with a camera and took a good photo of your hand. A few minutes with the perspective tool in The GIMP (come on, you know the theif would be a nerd), and some filtering, and you have yourself a key.
It's kinda like using fingerprints for keys. You leave them everywhere you go, and you can't change the locks when somebody gets the 'key'.
Would you pay twice as much for the same capacity? If so, then get two, big, cheap drives, and use mirroring RAID. You get much faster data rates, and you have backups.
Damnit! You took my joke! I have a notebook that I let run SETI when I'm in the car and I say I'm using high-powered computing to search for intellegence on the road.
Whenever I read about projects that will alter the way my computer works to better fit what it thinks it needs, I pray that it will never grace my computer. I use my computer as a very, very powerful tool, and, like any good tool, I want it to do exactly what I say, even if it may seem that I am making a mistake. Don't do anything I didn't tell you to do.
The 'mood' sensing properties of a computer system would be the worst kind of unwanted adaptation. It would change the way my computer works according to something I cannot always control fully. I want to be in control of my computer, so to do that, everything my computer does must be based on things in my control.
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This could be used where RF, fibre and wires dare not to tread. Like deep in a pipeline. Or a deep buried water main. Too deep for RF, say the bottom of the ocean. There are robots that go through these pipes, sort of sealing off the pipe, flowing at the speed of the fluid, coasting along. This technology could send data back in real time, instead of having to wait until the robot gets to the other end.
Kinda offtopic, but/. has plenty of spare disk space, and I have karma to burn...
Since you seem to know about GSDs, do you know of any public access to something similar to the console (telnet) access to SABRE or Worldspan? You used to be able to get to SABRE through a really, really powerful text thing, but now everything is through a web page that doesn't have nearly the power of the old stuff.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not a GPL expert, so, I'll ask. What keeps someone from making a 3rd party iso of RHAS?
Thanks. Now can anyone show me the Google cache of when Slashdot ran this story the first time?
Can any FireWire video cameras output live video to FireWire? Streaming video, anyone?
The Corvette has a fiberglass reinforced plastic body. And it always looks great, no dents, no dings.
This is one of the reasons why I am an advocate for heterogeneous systems for server farms, clusters, labs, and such. If you have a server farm, you have some sort of tolerance for loss of systems. That redundancy works if systems fail at random, but this shows that that doesn't always happen. Let's say you have 200 machines with the same motherboard with the leaky caps. They all start leaking at about the same time, so they are all starting to wear out at the same rate. Now, let's say that the power company puts too much voltage on your line for a few seconds, the heat rises in the room, what have you, and all the motherboards blow at once. Or just 80% over an hour, it doesn't really matter. In any case, you're screwed.
Now, if you had differing systems, only half the systems are affected by the design flaw. The key here is to have systems with nothing in common. Power supplys, motherboards, cases, even cables must come from different companies. For example, half my server group is x86, the other half is SPARC. One runs Solaris, one runs NT. No matter what happens, with any design flaw, only half the servers will be affected at one time.
Perhaps he is talking about Netscape "classic", i.e. the versions before NS6. They were a very different code base.
"What happened? Why did it break?"
I think were all asking that tonight.
There's just no way to capture to lack of sleep...
Really? I get a pretty good sense of a lack of sleep from computer games all the time...
Yeah. And the old name was so much better. Arlington Stadium. Whee!
With all the insane laws on the books now, and you under the microscope of the DoJ as you are, do you feel it is even safe to do anything at all regarding a computer? Are you worried that you will break DMCA by using or publishing something like a bug patch or anything that deals with file formats (e-books, dvd), anything that could be considered a circumvention device?
93.3 is evil.
93.3 FM Dallas used to be KRSM, the local radio station run by my high school. We were stripped of our license because all the rest of the FM spectrum had been allocated, and we were "low priority", being a non-commercial station.
Why do I have the feeling that you'd rather use the humanity defense to justify your beer belly?
In my city (Dallas) ClearChannel is a FM game. They own 4 of the music stations here.
...one made out of asbestos...
A whole new way of enforcing "no user serviceable parts inside".
That software product was actually a product of a company called "Palm Computing, Inc.", named Graffiti. I think that this "Palm" is what eventually went to USR, then to 3Com, then back to Palm.
Um...this is /.
Logic jokes are humor.
That'd work until someone walked behind you with a camera and took a good photo of your hand. A few minutes with the perspective tool in The GIMP (come on, you know the theif would be a nerd), and some filtering, and you have yourself a key.
It's kinda like using fingerprints for keys. You leave them everywhere you go, and you can't change the locks when somebody gets the 'key'.
Wouldn't that make your bedroom the...um, one with the bed?
Would you pay twice as much for the same capacity? If so, then get two, big, cheap drives, and use mirroring RAID. You get much faster data rates, and you have backups.
Best of both worlds...
Will it support ogg?
*ducks*
Damnit! You took my joke!
I have a notebook that I let run SETI when I'm in the car and I say I'm using high-powered computing to search for intellegence on the road.
Whenever I read about projects that will alter the way my computer works to better fit what it thinks it needs, I pray that it will never grace my computer. I use my computer as a very, very powerful tool, and, like any good tool, I want it to do exactly what I say, even if it may seem that I am making a mistake. Don't do anything I didn't tell you to do.
The 'mood' sensing properties of a computer system would be the worst kind of unwanted adaptation. It would change the way my computer works according to something I cannot always control fully. I want to be in control of my computer, so to do that, everything my computer does must be based on things in my control.
This could be used where RF, fibre and wires dare not to tread. Like deep in a pipeline. Or a deep buried water main. Too deep for RF, say the bottom of the ocean. There are robots that go through these pipes, sort of sealing off the pipe, flowing at the speed of the fluid, coasting along. This technology could send data back in real time, instead of having to wait until the robot gets to the other end.
Yours didn't? Crap. Guess it's time to buy a new calculator. (it was always kinda messy...)
Kinda offtopic, but /. has plenty of spare disk space, and I have karma to burn...
Since you seem to know about GSDs, do you know of any public access to something similar to the console (telnet) access to SABRE or Worldspan? You used to be able to get to SABRE through a really, really powerful text thing, but now everything is through a web page that doesn't have nearly the power of the old stuff.