This BBC article is again an example of what irritates me so often in technical news messages. Both on-line or paper based. The journalist in question uses way too many words to poorly describe a device, where a simple picture or photo whould have explained so much better.
But on the other hand they have space available to illustrate with a nonsense image of people under an umbrella. Those people definitely don't need or want a rain-making machine.
We want relevant pictures, we want links!! But that's another issue, journalists never provide links to their sources. Maybe to hide how they just copied it from somewhere....
During my student time we always did this much simpler during dinner: Take a spoon, use a burning candle to fill it with melted wax, heat it over the candle until it bubbles and then put some liquid (beer most available and convenient:-) into the spoon. Indeed, flames up to the ceiling.
Unfortunately, after the experiment the spoon is not really useful anymore for eating, so it is better used for the next "vulcano":-)
Your link isn't especially helpful either. What's that langauge, dutch? Couldn't you have bothered with an explanation?
Mmmm, critter_hunter, you stop rather quickly, don't you. Each paragraph (indeed in Dutch) is followed by the translation in English. Or maybe you don't understand either of those two languages. Back to school.....
And on the original topic, SARA, as the high performance computing and network center in Holland is as much on the Internet backbone as you can get it. One of the UUNET founders, if my memory serves me right.
So, good luck in/.-ing that.... Slashdot itself or Google will probably be an easier target.
If apple created a GOOD (and popular) desktop product with OS X which has BSD underneath, then why wouldn't Sun be able to do a similar thing with Solaris on x86?
Do the math: With 20-50 thousand copies sold for 99 bucks, Sun can spend 2-5 million dollar before becoming a charity organisation. I'm pretty sure Apple spent a few:-) more millions on developing OS-X.
and temporarily change the partition types of the Linux partitions, because Solaris uses the same ones
That's correct, Solaris uses the same partition type as the Linux swap partition. During booting Linux suddenly also sees all the slices within the Solaris partition and your partition numbering goes suddenly haywire.
But there is a trick for that, which is to start the disk with your Linux OS partition (not too big, because the Solaris partition can't be too high), then your Linux swap, then your Solaris partition and than an extended partition with your Linux/home.
This would make your/home probably hda5, but after Solaris installation it suddenly becomes hda11 or something similar. The trick is now to put both hda5 and hda11 in your fstab (or just the hda11) and you are all set.
Only the quacks try to run a "giant website" on one machine.
Well, in typical Sun based architectures you will neither find the web servers running on big-box hardware. It is more typical to have the web servers deployed on a rack full of Netra T1's and then behind that a large Sun system for the application server and the database.
To take advantage of this, of course, you need to use GNU Httptunnel [nocrew.org] or a similar program to route your filesharing traffic through a proxy on the outside
But if you listen too much to Ms. Spears you don't develop the skills to even configure such a program....
Kristian (original poster) is probably European. Washing machines in Europe/Asia heat the water the same way as dishwashers in the US/Canada. The advantage is much better temperature control.
Machines on this side of the ocean are process-control wise pretty stone-age technology. Or am I the only one who is manually mixing a temperature "in between hot and warm":-). Even better is of course the Far East, where most washing machines have "fuzzy logic" control. That's the opposite from "bigger is better".
Oops, a bug in your washing program, now your laundry gets lost. Damn open-source washing. Better buy MyWash.exe and sign the EULA:-). Helpdesk at 1-800-GO-DIRTY...
Solaris supports either Sun Cluster for high-availability purposes. Or for HPC, you can use Sun Grid computing. And, compared to Linux, Solaris scales to a much higher amount of CPUs "within the box".
So to answer your question, no it doesn't do Beowulf, but there are many, many other ways to scale your system.
RAM, as I figure it, is at least 65 times more expensive (that's not 65% more, it's 6500% more).
Well, let's take for a second that your calculation is correct. Than, if the DRAM solution is 100 times faster (sorry, no data to support that claim, but let's assume) than the HD solution, you see why the DRAM way is more cost-effective than the HD way.
True, true, but the issue is not so much the number of bugs, but more that Microsoft is too easily accepting security vulnerabilities in favor of increasing marketshare. However, if 28 days of meditation helps for that.....
Looking at my Apache logfiles, I see the infected systems trying to obtain many.exe files, like cmd.exe. I was wondering if I could stop those systems, by taking a "shutdown.exe" program, renaming it to "cmd.exe" and putting it on my web-server. Than hoping that they download this "cmd.exe" and will execute it.
OK, it's only a stop-gap solution, just for this particular attack, but it could quiet things down (on my subnet). One problem is that I couldn't find a Windows "shutdown.exe" program that has no GUI and doesn't take any command-line parameters.
Had the same thoughts: why only available in two colors, I miss pink:-). And I suddenly realized where one of the 3M's is coming from, ehhh the last is for "Mouse".... But probably good for late-night surfing;-).
Ikea sells a nice bed-side rack/cabinet (17.5"x17.5" internal, 16" deep), which is exactly the right size. I got a white one, but if I remember, you can get other colors / finishes as well. OK, no rails and screws, but you just put in one or two more shelves and you can stack in 3-4 desktop PCs and other stuff. Or drill the holes yourself. They look much better and were something like $30-40 a piece.
Have a look at for example JK-Micro's stuff. In a box the size of two cigarette packs, you get a complete i386 PC, on board Ethernet (ne2000) and (optional) a 32M DiskOnChip.
What remains to be done is to port Linux to this hardware.
Slashdot Mirror
This BBC article is again an example of what irritates me so often in technical news messages. Both on-line or paper based. The journalist in question uses way too many words to poorly describe a device, where a simple picture or photo whould have explained so much better.
....
But on the other hand they have space available to illustrate with a nonsense image of people under an umbrella. Those people definitely don't need or want a rain-making machine.
We want relevant pictures, we want links!! But that's another issue, journalists never provide links to their sources. Maybe to hide how they just copied it from somewhere
Sounds like someone just got home from an AA meeting....
.... or were that the WW meetings ... confused ....
Ever having been adicted to more than a can of SPAM per day
you mean: "IANAL so YMMV"
During my student time we always did this much simpler during dinner: Take a spoon, use a burning candle to fill it with melted wax, heat it over the candle until it bubbles and then put some liquid (beer most available and convenient :-) into the spoon. Indeed, flames up to the ceiling.
:-)
Unfortunately, after the experiment the spoon is not really useful anymore for eating, so it is better used for the next "vulcano"
Your link isn't especially helpful either. What's that langauge, dutch? Couldn't you have bothered with an explanation?
.....
/.-ing that.... Slashdot itself or Google will probably be an easier target.
Mmmm, critter_hunter, you stop rather quickly, don't you. Each paragraph (indeed in Dutch) is followed by the translation in English. Or maybe you don't understand either of those two languages. Back to school
And on the original topic, SARA, as the high performance computing and network center in Holland is as much on the Internet backbone as you can get it. One of the UUNET founders, if my memory serves me right.
So, good luck in
If apple created a GOOD (and popular) desktop product with OS X which has BSD underneath, then why wouldn't Sun be able to do a similar thing with Solaris on x86?
:-) more millions on developing OS-X.
Do the math: With 20-50 thousand copies sold for 99 bucks, Sun can spend 2-5 million dollar before becoming a charity organisation. I'm pretty sure Apple spent a few
and temporarily change the partition types of the Linux partitions, because Solaris uses the same ones
/home.
/home probably hda5, but after Solaris installation it suddenly becomes hda11 or something similar. The trick is now to put both hda5 and hda11 in your fstab (or just the hda11) and you are all set.
That's correct, Solaris uses the same partition type as the Linux swap partition. During booting Linux suddenly also sees all the slices within the Solaris partition and your partition numbering goes suddenly haywire.
But there is a trick for that, which is to start the disk with your Linux OS partition (not too big, because the Solaris partition can't be too high), then your Linux swap, then your Solaris partition and than an extended partition with your Linux
This would make your
Only the quacks try to run a "giant website" on one machine.
Well, in typical Sun based architectures you will neither find the web servers running on big-box hardware. It is more typical to have the web servers deployed on a rack full of Netra T1's and then behind that a large Sun system for the application server and the database.
To take advantage of this, of course, you need to use GNU Httptunnel [nocrew.org] or a similar program to route your filesharing traffic through a proxy on the outside
But if you listen too much to Ms. Spears you don't develop the skills to even configure such a program....
A Beowulf cluster of these to finally answer the last great question of the ages: Where does that other sock go?
:).
Do you understand now, why there are both processes and threads (that's what some spinners make of your sock after processing
Kristian (original poster) is probably European. Washing machines in Europe/Asia heat the water the same way as dishwashers in the US/Canada. The advantage is much better temperature control.
:-). Even better is of course the Far East, where most washing machines have "fuzzy logic" control. That's the opposite from "bigger is better".
Machines on this side of the ocean are process-control wise pretty stone-age technology. Or am I the only one who is manually mixing a temperature "in between hot and warm"
grep $stains / > washing
tar xcf washing.tar
ftp ftp.washingmachine.org
Oops, a bug in your washing program, now your laundry gets lost. Damn open-source washing. Better buy MyWash.exe and sign the EULA :-). Helpdesk at 1-800-GO-DIRTY...
It's a simple question, which deserves a simple but interesting answer. When, when, oh when ....
Does this "Solaris" support Beowulf clustering?
Solaris supports either Sun Cluster for high-availability purposes. Or for HPC, you can use Sun Grid computing. And, compared to Linux, Solaris scales to a much higher amount of CPUs "within the box".
So to answer your question, no it doesn't do Beowulf, but there are many, many other ways to scale your system.
RAM, as I figure it, is at least 65 times more expensive (that's not 65% more, it's 6500% more).
Well, let's take for a second that your calculation is correct. Than, if the DRAM solution is 100 times faster (sorry, no data to support that claim, but let's assume) than the HD solution, you see why the DRAM way is more cost-effective than the HD way.
True, true, but the issue is not so much the number of bugs, but more that Microsoft is too easily accepting security vulnerabilities in favor of increasing marketshare. However, if 28 days of meditation helps for that.....
Yepp, you're for the biggest part right. But, a Windows shutdown.exe doesn't run well on my Linux box ;-).
Looking at my Apache logfiles, I see the infected systems trying to obtain many .exe files, like cmd.exe. I was wondering if I could stop those systems, by taking a "shutdown.exe" program, renaming it to "cmd.exe" and putting it on my web-server. Than hoping that they download this "cmd.exe" and will execute it.
OK, it's only a stop-gap solution, just for this particular attack, but it could quiet things down (on my subnet). One problem is that I couldn't find a Windows "shutdown.exe" program that has no GUI and doesn't take any command-line parameters.
Willem
Had the same thoughts: why only available in two colors, I miss pink :-). And I suddenly realized where one of the 3M's is coming from, ehhh the last is for "Mouse".... But probably good for late-night surfing ;-).
Ikea sells a nice bed-side rack/cabinet (17.5"x17.5" internal, 16" deep), which is exactly the right size. I got a white one, but if I remember, you can get other colors / finishes as well. OK, no rails and screws, but you just put in one or two more shelves and you can stack in 3-4 desktop PCs and other stuff. Or drill the holes yourself. They look much better and were something like $30-40 a piece.
Have a look at for example JK-Micro's stuff. In a box the size of two cigarette packs, you get a complete i386 PC, on board Ethernet (ne2000) and (optional) a 32M DiskOnChip. What remains to be done is to port Linux to this hardware.