I got Gnome and E running on my Indigo2 (bad quality screenshot here). However, I found it pretty slow and clunky compared to 4DWM (4DWM screenshot here. I got it running from the tardists downloaded from freeware.sgi.com - you need to download a lot of freeware libraries to get it going, but the tardist installer should iform you about dependancies.
That being said, I actually like 4DWM and the SGI desktop environment as a whole. It is very stable and I find it provides me with everything I want when coding on a *NIX system.
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Apart from hardware that supports it, how does NT support hot swapping CPUs and memory?
AFAIK, NT does not support swapping CPUs and memory. To get that kind of stuff, you have to move up to very high-end Sun gear or mainframes.
Swapping hard-drives from a RAID array is supported through hardware drivers on NT just like it is in Linux. As someone else has pointed out, with people like Compaq supporting Linux you'll start to see more of this type of hardware support on Linux.
Mind you, I've seen somone pull a "hot-swappable" drive from RAID array on a Compaq box and NT froze solid, so YMMV.
<P>Yeah, riiiight. Go look up the Environment Canada stats on the number of days with precipitation in Vancouver and compare it with, say, Ottawa.
<P>That and the city of Vancouver was designed by traffic flow morons, who figured the best way to guarantee gridlock was to make sure that all of the 4-lane divided highways ended outside the city.
<P>And then you Vancouverites keep on electing Communi^H^H^H^H^H^H^H NDP governments, which ensures you have such lovely things as governmewnt-run auto insurance that is charging you four times more than you should be paying, photo radar, etc. etc.
<P>Vancouver: nice place to visit, wouldn't want to live there.
Not all applications have to be re-written. There have been IPv6-compliant networking functions (inet_pton(), etc. etc.) out there for a while now, so if you have a clue you have been using them.
Sun, who provides a dual stack (IPv4 and IPv6) in Solaris 8 has a "scrubber" utility that will help go through your code and remove IPv4 only funtions and such.
Applications written to use the "newer" networking code work fine in IPv4 and IPv6 - like BIND9.
As an Ontario high-school student of 10 years ago (and a resident of Kanata where QNX is based) I have to say - really?
I wasn't into computers enough at the time to know what O/S they were running. I'm amazed it was QNX. What did they use for the GUI? Must have been something proprietary. Also if memory serves it was a client/server setup and the Icons we used ran everything over the network from a central server.
Ah man, the Logo interpreter and all that dorky educational doftware on the Icon - those wree the days:)
First, thanks for producing Nedit. I've been a big fan of the program for years, and it's always one of the first things that I install
Amen. I have used nedit for over 5 years - SGI has shipped it with their systems for quite a while.
As soon as I switched to a new job coding on Solaris the first thing I installed was nedit. As soon as I got into Linux a few years back, the forst thing I installed was nedit.
If you are reading this - thanks very much for producing nedit - I love it.
The intelligence was provided by the Polish (who were breaking some German Army Enigma before the war, and got some of this info, including an Army Enigma, to the British) the French (why had a German spy giving them Enigma codebooks) and the British and Canadians (who captured enigma wheels and codebooks on *several* raids on sinking U-boats and German weather ships). The British (Alan Turing) were the ones who were working on the codebreaking efforts during the critical years of the war.
It wasn't the Enigma machine itself that was so valuable (they knew how it worked before the war) but instead the wheels (especially when a wheel was added) and also the codebooks that contained the wheel and plugboard settings.
The Americans provided additional bombes (mechanical computers used to brute-force Enigma settings) to the effort later in the war. The Americans were also busy breaking the Japanese Naval cypher as well (entirely different).
Everyone contributed - there is lots of national pride to go around.:)
In the print version of IEEE Spectrum this month (not sure if it is on-line), they had an article on improvements in aviation weather forecasting.
One of the things that they want to do is transmit real-time weather data to aircraft in flight. The problem is that it takes a lot more bandwidth then they have currently available to do this, so they are going to start putting in high-speed communications links on aircraft (via satellite, etc.)
The problem with this is that the increased bandwidth costs big $, so they are thinking of offsetting the cost to the airlines by offering some of the spare bandwidth to passengers for entertainment services including internet access.
Except those cases where these "reputable merchants" had an architecture that left their SQLServer databses exposed on the Internet and they got sucked dry. I had my CC number stolen, and it was not log after CDNow (or one of those guys) had their database scarfed off of the 'net.
I have a friend who works at Compaq, and I have used an iPaq.
Compaq has a wirless LAN and wired 56k modem option right now, both of which use the expansion sleeve. Aparently the wirless lan card isn't great for performace (it is easily interfered with inside a building). They are working on a wirless modem that should be released real soon (TM).
I trying to answer my own question, I did manage to find this list of aribtrations performed by the WIPO. They are apparently one of several groups that can solve disputes.
... recieving the WIPO ruling wherein judge Roberto Bianchi gives his blessing for the pirateing of my domain "CORINTHIANS.COM"
Can someone post a link to or explain the current domain name resolution policy in plain English? I had a quick perusal of this at ICANN but there was too much legalese:)
Slashdot has no field reporters to gather (or fabricate) the news
Where have you been? Jon Katz, interviews and numerous editorial pieces have appeared here over the years. That may not be the bulk of the stories, but still...
the contributors filter the news that they think are worthy
Uhm, no - that would be kuro5hin. With 200,000+ user accounts and hundreds of submissions in the bin at a time, I would hardly say that Joe reader has much influence. The editors filter the new items they think are worthy.
I don't agree with the original poster that/. will become a Microsoft lap-dog, but you can't discount the possibility of them being bought out by a bigger news source. It has already happened - twice - and the/. editors have no say on whom they get sold to any more.
"It's hard for me to remember if I'm still shooting Episode I, the special edition, the DVD or Episode II," writes Lucas, a man who's obviously got a lot on his mind.
Did I miss something, or did Lucas just slip up?:)
I hate to use the slippery slope argument, but I really think it applies in this situation.
If whether linking to a site becomes a matter of a judge's opinion, then it is all for nothing anyways. Anyone small won't be able to afford the legal fees, and would just have to cave in to the RIAA (or whomever else's) demands.
The right thing to do, IMHO, is to have a decision in court that sets the precedent that linking to (possibly) illegal content is not illegal. Force RIAA and everyone else to go after the people actually providing and serving the content in question.
Of course, it is easy to see why RIAA is trying to short-circuit this. The illegal content in these type of cases is typically served from numerous free website hosting services, and is zipped or has an obscure filename in order to make it more difficult to locate. Going after the actual content providers would be much more difficult.
Preserving our rights to link to information on the web has to be more important then making the RIAA's job easier. It really is a slippery slope:)
At what point a link is contributory is the real issue that must be settled.
Exactly.
For example, let's take Google. They know that they link to illegal stuff. MP3s, warez, pr0n that is someone else's property, etc. etc. Are they also guily of contributory infringement?
Or, say I link to mp3board.com. Did I just break the law? Did Slashdot? I know that mp3board.com links to illegal content - I just helped you find it.
I think that facilitating a copyright violation needs a re-examination when it comes to the Internet. Maybe people who put those files up there are committing the violation. Maybe the ISP who hosts the site is (it is probably against their terms of service too). But people who link to the material in question?
If you enforce that standard, you are opening up a very dangerous precedent.
We buy or business ADSL (2.2MB down, 700K up, 5 dedicated IPs) through Bell Canada. We've done so for a year, before this service was available through other ISPs.
Now Trytel and other local ISPs have this service available for 20% cheaper. However, I am extremely hesitant to switch. Here's why:
When I call Bell I get the Bell Nexxia network technician directly on the phone. These guys speak router, TCP/IP and network protocols, and they know what they are doing. They have diagnosed and fixed the problems we have had both times remotely, quickly and courteously.
When I call Trytel (they do our mail and dialup) I get some jerkoff on the phone who starts in with making sure my Netscape settings are correct. When I am talking about network uptime for my business, I don't want to leave it in the hands of these clowns, plain and simple.
Right now, I'll pay the 20% premium and feel secure that someone competent is on the other end of the phone. Maybe it is different for home use, but for a business I'm sticking with the telco.
Other posters have done a pretty good job of discussing NUMA (ccNUMA is what SGI uses in the Origin machines).
Each Origin consits of node board that contain 2 CPUs and some RAM. The system can scale up to 512 node boards (1024 CPUs), but you obviously can't fit all of those CPUs in one Origin case (the little purple mini-fridge in the case of the Origin 2000). So, the CrayLINK is used to expand the CPU network topology beyond one box - it is basically a extremely large bandwidth short-range cable that connects Origin machines together to form one big cluster that is the equivalent of one box with 1024 CPUs.
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I got Gnome and E running on my Indigo2 (bad quality screenshot here). However, I found it pretty slow and clunky compared to 4DWM (4DWM screenshot here. I got it running from the tardists downloaded from freeware.sgi.com - you need to download a lot of freeware libraries to get it going, but the tardist installer should iform you about dependancies.
That being said, I actually like 4DWM and the SGI desktop environment as a whole. It is very stable and I find it provides me with everything I want when coding on a *NIX system.
AFAIK, NT does not support swapping CPUs and memory. To get that kind of stuff, you have to move up to very high-end Sun gear or mainframes.
Swapping hard-drives from a RAID array is supported through hardware drivers on NT just like it is in Linux. As someone else has pointed out, with people like Compaq supporting Linux you'll start to see more of this type of hardware support on Linux.
Mind you, I've seen somone pull a "hot-swappable" drive from RAID array on a Compaq box and NT froze solid, so YMMV.
Choosing "HTML formatted" would have made that look so much better :)
and then 7 months of glorious, sunny, days!
<P>Yeah, riiiight. Go look up the Environment Canada stats on the number of days with precipitation in Vancouver and compare it with, say, Ottawa.
<P>That and the city of Vancouver was designed by traffic flow morons, who figured the best way to guarantee gridlock was to make sure that all of the 4-lane divided highways ended outside the city.
<P>And then you Vancouverites keep on electing Communi^H^H^H^H^H^H^H NDP governments, which ensures you have such lovely things as governmewnt-run auto insurance that is charging you four times more than you should be paying, photo radar, etc. etc.
<P>Vancouver: nice place to visit, wouldn't want to live there.
This would be even funnier if that wasn't exactly what they are going to do.
This is the only way that they can get someone to buy NT and SQLServer to run *their* biztalk server vs. one implemented by someone else.
My favourite exchange involving Tom and an AC on /.
:)
they do
Not all applications have to be re-written. There have been IPv6-compliant networking functions (inet_pton(), etc. etc.) out there for a while now, so if you have a clue you have been using them.
Sun, who provides a dual stack (IPv4 and IPv6) in Solaris 8 has a "scrubber" utility that will help go through your code and remove IPv4 only funtions and such.
Applications written to use the "newer" networking code work fine in IPv4 and IPv6 - like BIND9.
As an Ontario high-school student of 10 years ago (and a resident of Kanata where QNX is based) I have to say - really?
:)
I wasn't into computers enough at the time to know what O/S they were running. I'm amazed it was QNX. What did they use for the GUI? Must have been something proprietary. Also if memory serves it was a client/server setup and the Icons we used ran everything over the network from a central server.
Ah man, the Logo interpreter and all that dorky educational doftware on the Icon - those wree the days
Amen. I have used nedit for over 5 years - SGI has shipped it with their systems for quite a while.
As soon as I switched to a new job coding on Solaris the first thing I installed was nedit. As soon as I got into Linux a few years back, the forst thing I installed was nedit.
If you are reading this - thanks very much for producing nedit - I love it.
Nothing is ever so clear-cut.
:)
The intelligence was provided by the Polish (who were breaking some German Army Enigma before the war, and got some of this info, including an Army Enigma, to the British) the French (why had a German spy giving them Enigma codebooks) and the British and Canadians (who captured enigma wheels and codebooks on *several* raids on sinking U-boats and German weather ships). The British (Alan Turing) were the ones who were working on the codebreaking efforts during the critical years of the war.
It wasn't the Enigma machine itself that was so valuable (they knew how it worked before the war) but instead the wheels (especially when a wheel was added) and also the codebooks that contained the wheel and plugboard settings.
The Americans provided additional bombes (mechanical computers used to brute-force Enigma settings) to the effort later in the war. The Americans were also busy breaking the Japanese Naval cypher as well (entirely different).
Everyone contributed - there is lots of national pride to go around.
In the print version of IEEE Spectrum this month (not sure if it is on-line), they had an article on improvements in aviation weather forecasting.
One of the things that they want to do is transmit real-time weather data to aircraft in flight. The problem is that it takes a lot more bandwidth then they have currently available to do this, so they are going to start putting in high-speed communications links on aircraft (via satellite, etc.)
The problem with this is that the increased bandwidth costs big $, so they are thinking of offsetting the cost to the airlines by offering some of the spare bandwidth to passengers for entertainment services including internet access.
You can still use WM with KDE - I have on occasion. WM is just replacing kwm - you can still use kicker and the other KDE stuff at the same time.
I'd imagine that this would be the case for KDE2 as well...
Except those cases where these "reputable merchants" had an architecture that left their SQLServer databses exposed on the Internet and they got sucked dry. I had my CC number stolen, and it was not log after CDNow (or one of those guys) had their database scarfed off of the 'net.
I have a friend who works at Compaq, and I have used an iPaq.
Compaq has a wirless LAN and wired 56k modem option right now, both of which use the expansion sleeve. Aparently the wirless lan card isn't great for performace (it is easily interfered with inside a building). They are working on a wirless modem that should be released real soon (TM).
Kinda like the XBox will intorduce them to:
;-)
<BLUE_SCREEN>
*** STOP: 0x00000019 BAD_POOL_HEADER
(list DLLs here)
Please contact your system administrator.
</BLUE_SCREEN>
eh?
You'd be surprised what other garbage this guy has written. How he got posted on the front page of /. is totally beyond me.
I trying to answer my own question, I did manage to find this list of aribtrations performed by the WIPO. They are apparently one of several groups that can solve disputes.
Can someone post a link to or explain the current domain name resolution policy in plain English? I had a quick perusal of this at ICANN but there was too much legalese :)
TIA
Where have you been? Jon Katz, interviews and numerous editorial pieces have appeared here over the years. That may not be the bulk of the stories, but still...
the contributors filter the news that they think are worthy
Uhm, no - that would be kuro5hin. With 200,000+ user accounts and hundreds of submissions in the bin at a time, I would hardly say that Joe reader has much influence. The editors filter the new items they think are worthy.
I don't agree with the original poster that /. will become a Microsoft lap-dog, but you can't discount the possibility of them being bought out by a bigger news source. It has already happened - twice - and the /. editors have no say on whom they get sold to any more.
Did I miss something, or did Lucas just slip up? :)
I hate to use the slippery slope argument, but I really think it applies in this situation.
:)
If whether linking to a site becomes a matter of a judge's opinion, then it is all for nothing anyways. Anyone small won't be able to afford the legal fees, and would just have to cave in to the RIAA (or whomever else's) demands.
The right thing to do, IMHO, is to have a decision in court that sets the precedent that linking to (possibly) illegal content is not illegal. Force RIAA and everyone else to go after the people actually providing and serving the content in question.
Of course, it is easy to see why RIAA is trying to short-circuit this. The illegal content in these type of cases is typically served from numerous free website hosting services, and is zipped or has an obscure filename in order to make it more difficult to locate. Going after the actual content providers would be much more difficult.
Preserving our rights to link to information on the web has to be more important then making the RIAA's job easier. It really is a slippery slope
At what point a link is contributory is the real issue that must be settled.
Exactly.
For example, let's take Google. They know that they link to illegal stuff. MP3s, warez, pr0n that is someone else's property, etc. etc. Are they also guily of contributory infringement?
Or, say I link to mp3board.com. Did I just break the law? Did Slashdot? I know that mp3board.com links to illegal content - I just helped you find it.
I think that facilitating a copyright violation needs a re-examination when it comes to the Internet. Maybe people who put those files up there are committing the violation. Maybe the ISP who hosts the site is (it is probably against their terms of service too). But people who link to the material in question?
If you enforce that standard, you are opening up a very dangerous precedent.
We buy or business ADSL (2.2MB down, 700K up, 5 dedicated IPs) through Bell Canada. We've done so for a year, before this service was available through other ISPs.
Now Trytel and other local ISPs have this service available for 20% cheaper. However, I am extremely hesitant to switch. Here's why:
When I call Bell I get the Bell Nexxia network technician directly on the phone. These guys speak router, TCP/IP and network protocols, and they know what they are doing. They have diagnosed and fixed the problems we have had both times remotely, quickly and courteously.
When I call Trytel (they do our mail and dialup) I get some jerkoff on the phone who starts in with making sure my Netscape settings are correct. When I am talking about network uptime for my business, I don't want to leave it in the hands of these clowns, plain and simple.
Right now, I'll pay the 20% premium and feel secure that someone competent is on the other end of the phone. Maybe it is different for home use, but for a business I'm sticking with the telco.
Other posters have done a pretty good job of discussing NUMA (ccNUMA is what SGI uses in the Origin machines).
Each Origin consits of node board that contain 2 CPUs and some RAM. The system can scale up to 512 node boards (1024 CPUs), but you obviously can't fit all of those CPUs in one Origin case (the little purple mini-fridge in the case of the Origin 2000). So, the CrayLINK is used to expand the CPU network topology beyond one box - it is basically a extremely large bandwidth short-range cable that connects Origin machines together to form one big cluster that is the equivalent of one box with 1024 CPUs.