This library has had a lot of books stolen over the last ten years which is a great shame. Some of these books were those collected by Catherine as a result of her correspondence with Voltaire and Didero's visit (I seem to remember that she bought a library from a western European country and hired Didero to help catalogue it).
Unfortunately, the library gets nothing like the money that the Hermitage gets and they too have security problems. A lot was stolen from the national library, particularly in the easly days after the full of the USSR.
There is a new national library building that is being constructed in the Moskovskaya region of St. Pete which probbly has better facilities. I don't know if it has been finished. However, the picture in the story shows the old building near Gostiny Dvor which is the original as created by Catherine.
The Russian National Library has had a lot of books removed, probably to order. The collection was started under Tsarina Catherine the Great and included many original works from different spheres that were collected from Europe. She was particularly interested in the arts, philosphy and the sciences (a part of philosophy).
She collected art works too which has turned into the Hermitage Museum. Whilst the Hermitage isn't funded well enough and the security is poor, the Russian National Library has negligiable funding so security is almost non existent. The staff are poorly paid and there are not enough of them.
Most books that have been stolen from there are never seen again, which implies they have been disposed of in private collections.
I am aware of some scheduler issues with Win2K where even a low priority task isn't kicked out immediately.
I do know of some people who use their spare cycles for in-house work such as financial institutions modeling portfolios. As a sanctioned application it seems to work well and in any case comes in over night.
On older systems there used to be a diagnostic operating system which was 100% independent of the end user tailored system and even came on its own disk packs.
Why not give the techies a bootable CD-ROM with a standalone diagnostic system on there? They could even use Linux as a kernel for this.
As for config problems, if it is a warranty supported system, then fine, the techie can play hunt the screwed up registry settings/old driver. If it is an unwarranted operating system then the s/w problems are that of the users,
I understand that in some countries, it is already possible to resell an OEM s/w license. That is they have a doctrine of first sale that says that once hardware+software has passed to the end-user, he/she is free to resell it as long as the s/w is completely removed from the system (i.e., a repartition with Linux would do it).
The resale of license plus media would place a heavy pressure on the price of new or updated licenses, the end result being the prices of OEM licenses and end user licenses must converge.
Well I guess someone will want to do a small footprint Java VM someday with uClibc. I understand the threads thing is now in the latest release though. Perhaps the rest will appear as well.
Glibc is wonderful, but its footprint is going to stamp my PDA into the ground. There is a definite need for a Glibc-, where the real issue is low footprint rather than performance and uClibc is one such solution.
I have done some hunting via Google and can only trace the Linux/IPAQ version on www.handhelds.org. I do note though that one of the libraries floating around (used for the Perl port amongst other things) emulates some of the Palm API.
There is an existing tidal power station in Rance in France with an output of around 280MW. The area is extremely tidal with differences of around 10 metres between high and low tides. It was made by constructing a dam across an estuary. No negative side effects have been seen.
The proposal discussed does not involve a dam so should be easier to construct, however some fish may be upset though.
Regrettably I can't run Linux yet there as I need synchronisation/integration with a Win2K desktop. AFAIK, the GTK+ viewer doesn't run there. However a bastardised version of Cygwin does run so perhaps there is some possibility of a port. Unfortunately I'm doing other things at the moment so don't have time to look at this. Maybe later.
You set the mobile favourites in Internet Explorer on your synchonisation PC (one of the things that IE is good for) and the IPAQ synchs through that folder.
That is pretty unimportant since what is really needed is for Microsoft to write an architecture guide for Windows. VMS used to be like Windows, a vast operating system with an amazing amount of complexity.
I have used VMS since the manuals had blue covers and sometimes still do as a major client still uses it for their backend. The point with VMS isn't just that the customers had the manual, Digital had it too. The system had some basic concepts, which once learned were reused all over the place. With WinXX, there isn't really a single unifying concept or architecture behind it and those that do exist change frequently and in incompatible manner.
Even if Microsoft's internal documentation is better than ours, they have the source code and if someone on the Office team has a problem with a GUI call, they can look at the implementation. We can't unless we sign our life away and even then there is no guarantee that you won't get shafted by a new release. This is just sloppy engineering management.
I have worked on some serious closed source projects and the whole thing was done with Office 97 (Office 2000 was installed only this year) and mostly on Excel and Word with MS Project for the GANT charts. We pushed the limits on some of these tools (particularly Excel) but we were able to coordinate across some massive projects.
There are a lot of really neat tools knocking around, but the starting point should be a standard office system and most importantly standard templates. Open source is prefereable but O97 did it for us.
E. Coli is extremely well used as a research and teaching tool. It makes me cringe when I hear the press talking about it as a cause of food poisoning. Certain strains as you say are definitely not nice but without a friendly strain of E. Coli, we wven have a problem as the gut can more easily be colonised by nastier strains.
I would guess the other thing is resilience. If a UML kernel goes down, it shouldn't break the host. Howver with the Vservers patch, it really is one kernel across the 'virtual servers' so if server' kernel breaks, all break. VMware is different in that it forms a virtualisation layer under the host OS which allows the guest systems to run. It is somewhat more tricky, but it has a reputation for being quite good, but is only available commercially.
Many years ago, I mean many (like over 12), I was working on NI-based VMS Clusters. Each system served its disks over an NI (LAN adapter) and disks were network accessible at the logical block level.
You know what, maybe it wasn't the fastest but it worked!!!!! You could even boot diskless systems which would carry on running quite happily using the remote disks as though they were local. In effect, all you did was to boot a system image that used a RAM-disk to start itself. This still works on Linux and many other Unix like systems. Many systems have ways of booting from RO media. Once the NI is loaded, you can network mount the remote disks and dismount the RAM disk.
Digital effectively split up disk access using something called MSCP. It was somewhat more general than the Linux SCSI 3-layer model but it effectively split the disk access by a program or file system from a device driver. It became a trivial matter to split the communication between the levels via the net. Of course, getting a disk mounted by more than one system led to some real fun on the file system side, but that eventually worked too. You know, sometimes, you need a pool of storage that isn't mega-high speed, but where you can store a lot.
As for your comments about Gigabit Lans, well that becomes less of an issue than switching.
Ok, these days HP/Compaq/Digital use Fibre-Channel for their high-performance systems. However, the price is far from cheap. Last, I heard the NI-based clusters still work very well and as the network performance was increased, so was the remote mounted disk throughput.
I don't know how well the iSCSI people are doing, but as long as they realise that they need to fix a few other details (a standard network lock protocol would be really cool to allow two disparate systems to coordinate access).
Oh, and you can usually fiund a hash chapter in most places in the world. I doubt whether it has started up yet in Afghanistan, but they are already in Uzbekistan and Pakistan as well as many places closer to home.
He doesn't know. The ambassador just tries to represent what he believes are US interests. Educate him that there is a lot of money to be made from open source software.
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Unfortunately, the library gets nothing like the money that the Hermitage gets and they too have security problems. A lot was stolen from the national library, particularly in the easly days after the full of the USSR.
There is a new national library building that is being constructed in the Moskovskaya region of St. Pete which probbly has better facilities. I don't know if it has been finished. However, the picture in the story shows the old building near Gostiny Dvor which is the original as created by Catherine.
She collected art works too which has turned into the Hermitage Museum. Whilst the Hermitage isn't funded well enough and the security is poor, the Russian National Library has negligiable funding so security is almost non existent. The staff are poorly paid and there are not enough of them.
Most books that have been stolen from there are never seen again, which implies they have been disposed of in private collections.
I am aware of some scheduler issues with Win2K where even a low priority task isn't kicked out immediately.
I do know of some people who use their spare cycles for in-house work such as financial institutions modeling portfolios. As a sanctioned application it seems to work well and in any case comes in over night.
Why not give the techies a bootable CD-ROM with a standalone diagnostic system on there? They could even use Linux as a kernel for this.
As for config problems, if it is a warranty supported system, then fine, the techie can play hunt the screwed up registry settings/old driver. If it is an unwarranted operating system then the s/w problems are that of the users,
The resale of license plus media would place a heavy pressure on the price of new or updated licenses, the end result being the prices of OEM licenses and end user licenses must converge.
Well I guess someone will want to do a small footprint Java VM someday with uClibc. I understand the threads thing is now in the latest release though. Perhaps the rest will appear as well.
Glibc is wonderful, but its footprint is going to stamp my PDA into the ground. There is a definite need for a Glibc-, where the real issue is low footprint rather than performance and uClibc is one such solution.
Thanks anyway for the hints.
I'll have a look at the WinCE SDK and the sources of the client and see what is possible.
The proposal discussed does not involve a dam so should be easier to construct, however some fish may be upset though.
Regrettably I can't run Linux yet there as I need synchronisation/integration with a Win2K desktop. AFAIK, the GTK+ viewer doesn't run there. However a bastardised version of Cygwin does run so perhaps there is some possibility of a port. Unfortunately I'm doing other things at the moment so don't have time to look at this. Maybe later.
Does the client run on PocketPC/WinCE? I know you support a whole plethora of desktops, but getting it on my handheld is what is important for me.
You set the mobile favourites in Internet Explorer on your synchonisation PC (one of the things that IE is good for) and the IPAQ synchs through that folder.
Regrettably, I have a handheld that still run the WinCE system. The Plucker handheld client is Palm only whilst Avantgo is multiplatform.
I have used VMS since the manuals had blue covers and sometimes still do as a major client still uses it for their backend. The point with VMS isn't just that the customers had the manual, Digital had it too. The system had some basic concepts, which once learned were reused all over the place. With WinXX, there isn't really a single unifying concept or architecture behind it and those that do exist change frequently and in incompatible manner.
Even if Microsoft's internal documentation is better than ours, they have the source code and if someone on the Office team has a problem with a GUI call, they can look at the implementation. We can't unless we sign our life away and even then there is no guarantee that you won't get shafted by a new release. This is just sloppy engineering management.
There are a lot of really neat tools knocking around, but the starting point should be a standard office system and most importantly standard templates. Open source is prefereable but O97 did it for us.
E. Coli is extremely well used as a research and teaching tool. It makes me cringe when I hear the press talking about it as a cause of food poisoning. Certain strains as you say are definitely not nice but without a friendly strain of E. Coli, we wven have a problem as the gut can more easily be colonised by nastier strains.
I would guess the other thing is resilience. If a UML kernel goes down, it shouldn't break the host. Howver with the Vservers patch, it really is one kernel across the 'virtual servers' so if server' kernel breaks, all break. VMware is different in that it forms a virtualisation layer under the host OS which allows the guest systems to run. It is somewhat more tricky, but it has a reputation for being quite good, but is only available commercially.
Closed source, yes it would. However, with open source and a crowd of other people very interested, it would be very quickly up to standard.
You know what, maybe it wasn't the fastest but it worked!!!!! You could even boot diskless systems which would carry on running quite happily using the remote disks as though they were local. In effect, all you did was to boot a system image that used a RAM-disk to start itself. This still works on Linux and many other Unix like systems. Many systems have ways of booting from RO media. Once the NI is loaded, you can network mount the remote disks and dismount the RAM disk.
Digital effectively split up disk access using something called MSCP. It was somewhat more general than the Linux SCSI 3-layer model but it effectively split the disk access by a program or file system from a device driver. It became a trivial matter to split the communication between the levels via the net. Of course, getting a disk mounted by more than one system led to some real fun on the file system side, but that eventually worked too. You know, sometimes, you need a pool of storage that isn't mega-high speed, but where you can store a lot.
As for your comments about Gigabit Lans, well that becomes less of an issue than switching.
Ok, these days HP/Compaq/Digital use Fibre-Channel for their high-performance systems. However, the price is far from cheap. Last, I heard the NI-based clusters still work very well and as the network performance was increased, so was the remote mounted disk throughput.
I don't know how well the iSCSI people are doing, but as long as they realise that they need to fix a few other details (a standard network lock protocol would be really cool to allow two disparate systems to coordinate access).
So, On-On to InterHash in Goa!!! - Upchuck.
Whoops, sorry, I forgot to close the URL. I was talking about the Hash House Harriers.
Oh, and you can usually fiund a hash chapter in most places in the world. I doubt whether it has started up yet in Afghanistan, but they are already in Uzbekistan and Pakistan as well as many places closer to home.
M shipped with complete source code and Cutlers name was on most of the exec modules.
This is one of the crucial areas that is giving OEMs problems and certainly protects Microsoft's hold on the desktop.
He doesn't know. The ambassador just tries to represent what he believes are US interests. Educate him that there is a lot of money to be made from open source software.