Well Apple seems to have the config file problem well in hand by converting everything over to XML. In Linux configuration files are flat text files, and XML files are flat text files that are marked up in XML; so I don't see any strong advantage to converting. Actualy because of XML formal requirement of closing tags, it will cause the config files to increase in size, and increase application intialization times.
well an Xbox is about $179.00 retail, how long before they tweek the thing a bit and sell it at $360.00 and call it a Xnode? Downgrade or remove the graphics capabilities, upgrade the networking capabilities, add more memory and maybe a swap drive,then network boot off a XsuperNode, and an XadminNode to control the whole cluster.
...But did you say a pair of Microsofties was advocating the use of Linux Beowulfs for research?
Well Sort of, If you read the article carefully Gordon Bell and Jim Gray, scientists at Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center, are saying that scientific computeing is moving toward a data-centric and away from a processing-centric model. They did give lip-service to linux/beowolf technology, but also said
"But the Beowulf is a Volkswagen and these people are selling trucks."
So actualy they are saying that Sun, and IBM machines is the supercomputer centers are trucks and it's better to have a Linux/Beowolf Volkswagen of course if this idea gets any traction, I'll bet that Microsoft will be more than willing to provide their version of a sports car for the processing clusters. Right now Seti@home distributes it's data off 3 Sun Enterprise 450 series computers; to clients running on multiple OSes including Linux and all of the Windows variants. After Sun get kicked out of the data storage/server role, it'll be easier for Microsoft to pressure users into a windows only mode with the carrot of more complete vendor support. Microsoft is going to have trouble FUDding Sun and IBM out of the data centers because both companies have an outstanding reputation as heavey-lifters in that area, but Linux is much more vulnerable.
80486SLC was a cyrix chip that had 16 bit data bus, 24 bit memory addresses, and no math co. It performed somewhat better than a 386SX Mine was a 33Mhz w/16Meg of memory, I took it out of service because the harddisk failed, it's mobo and memory is still in storage. I wonder if you can still get a 25Mhz 80387 for it? would make a way cool nostalgia machine
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HEY that's not funny, I just spent 6 hours fighting to get a Wyse 60 up with out knocking any of the other Wyse 60 down. Stupid 10 year old MoBo blew out 2 serial ports in a week, and if anything happens to a digiboard port, I'm going to have to reconfig one of the ports over from an unused printer config to a terminal config and in the process will have to learn more about $<0 openserver than I want to know because the support company went out of bussiness 5 years ago!
given the fact that my linux machine is about 1/5 state-of-the-art speed-wise; I've gotten pretty annoyed with KDE and gnome lately and have been using tvwm on the box. after seeing the fvwm site I think'll probably be returning to my first love. The small size should free up a lot of resources streching the machine into another year or two of usefull life
my little bro said . It used to be on Simtel20 in the UNIX source code directory. Surely someone has all that stuff archived. It wasn't designed to identify authorship, I just noticed while playing with it that it did a pretty good job at it.
I also remember on/. about a college prof that used something similar to detect plagerism on assignments. If my bro finds it I'll get back with you
Linux has a lengthy history. Almost every line of code can be traced to when it was introduced and in many cases who put it there.
That will be interesting, each time SCO compalines about several lines of code being the same as in Linux, an IBM lawyer responds with, "That line was added originaly in 1985 by, x, in 1987 y added 3 spaces to conform to the current stylistic standards, when and who added it to the unix code base?"
IANAL but SCO distributed the code under the GPL and once you release under GPL it's forever. You can, if you're the sole owner, release the same code under a different license; but the GPLed version is forever out of your control as far as redistribution is concerned.
We had no way of knowing we were infringing because, after all, the code we were infringing is a secret."
Exactly, any project that has the same inputs, the same outputs and however many million lines of code is going to have code that is exactly the same as an other project that is equivalant, accounting for variable name being different, so when SCO's Chris Sontag said,
It is many different sections of code ranging from five to 10 to 15 lines of code in multiple places that are of issue, up to large blocks of code that have been inappropriately copied...
to me it seemed to be indicating that the linux people were unable to specificaly avoid using the same code as SCO claims to own, because they were not privy to the code; there are only so many different ways to write that pesky Hello World program. I'd be interested to see what SCO considers large Blocks, my guess is that this is a case of Shankspear sueing several of the infinite number of monkeys with typewriters for copyright infringement.
The other thing I find unusual is SCO has the unix and linux source code, why didn't they scan the code sets, there are programs available that will scan source code. My little brother wrote one that will tell you if a c program and a pascal program were writen by the same person correctly 85% of the time, and it much more accurate if the programs being scanned are written in the same language. Not using something like this on sources worth $billions is pretty irresponsible. Not using something like this before releasing a new version of Linux under the restrictions of the GPL is the stuff shareholder lawsuits are made of.
if the ap is OS then simpley look icons in similarly licensed OS aps and give credit where credit is due. Lots of usable icons can be found, if it's for comcercial licesned, he still might be able to find suitable icons or enlist some graphics types who'll do it for credit. Oh by the why stealing != fair-use, fair use might be something like a reveiw using a screen grab of the application, not taking it for your own use.
Our team is going to build a MySQL (load-balancing and fail-over) cluster for the Cluster World Expo in the end of June.
I think what they are doing is more of an look we got all the pieces here. Maybe what he realy wants to know is, is this the biggest ever set up as a convention demo, not the biggest production system.
spam exists because SMTP is intrinsicly flawed to allow it. I have to say that maybe your on to something here, I've never gotten any SPAM when we used good old UUCP.
why not make it a little easier if I send a email FROM budgenator@example.com just make sure that the email at least went through example.com. I'm not sure if this would be easier in the pop3 client or the SMTP server. see my journal entry for other ideas I've had on Fighting spam
took the first one out of my bulk-mail bos at yahoo and the site was up www2.pulsetv.com/st/prodinfo.asp?number=1399, Pul se Direct Inc., 19001 S. Old LaGrange, Mokena, IL 60448, US Domain Name: PULSETV.COM Administrative Contact
Domain register: register@pennmedia.com
PennMedia, 19001 S. Old LaGrange, Mokena, IL 60448 US
Phone 708-478-4500
Fax
He added probably that lets Congress keep it's delutions of grandure, and was definately a sign of respect for the company in the room
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oh baby that "you've got Mail" voice is just so sexy I can't help myself!
you can't hear the ultrasonic, but most of them turn on and off at line freq, 60Hz and that's what you here, it usualy sounds "clicky". We use a ultrasonic cleaner in the dental lab, and they put out enough power to punch holes through aluminum foil, the foil is almost "see through" in 30 seconds. I can't hear the noise, but if it runs a lot durring the day my ears get that "stuffy" feeling that they get when I'm exposed to to noise audible noise. If I had my choise, I'd leave the room when it's running; even though I can't hear it.
I'd guess that it was a hawk, owl, fox or bobcat because ferrets play rougher than a cat kills. My ferrets used to stalk the cat for fun, and my dog ( a pomeranian) would hide up on the sofa when the ferrets were playing on the floor playing.
the noisey things might keep them from coming in if there is nothing for them to eat, but if they are hungery, and you have food for them they'll be there. Moles eat lawn grubs, get rid of the grubs, you'll get rid of the moles. A good lawn insectcide works wonders, apply half in one direction, then the other half at 90 degrees for complete coverage.
go over the lawn with a verticutter, it'll cut the turf into strips so the mole burrows punch through and the cat can catch them in the meantime/
these guys have had the problem solved for a while now see the waste removeal section. Actualy you may find that after following these technics, that the resultant cats are worth more than the urine was on eBay.
The terrior breeds have a reputation as good ratter/mouser. Ferrets are excelent mousers, they are very social and will demand a lot of attention from you, but will provide a riot of entertainment too. Ferrets feces stink, descenting doesn't help, so they are not for everyone.
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Well Apple seems to have the config file problem well in hand by converting everything over to XML.
In Linux configuration files are flat text files, and XML files are flat text files that are marked up in XML; so I don't see any strong advantage to converting. Actualy because of XML formal requirement of closing tags, it will cause the config files to increase in size, and increase application intialization times.
well an Xbox is about $179.00 retail, how long before they tweek the thing a bit and sell it at $360.00 and call it a Xnode? Downgrade or remove the graphics capabilities, upgrade the networking capabilities, add more memory and maybe a swap drive,then network boot off a XsuperNode, and an XadminNode to control the whole cluster.
Well Sort of, If you read the article carefully Gordon Bell and Jim Gray, scientists at Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center, are saying that scientific computeing is moving toward a data-centric and away from a processing-centric model. They did give lip-service to linux/beowolf technology, but also said
"But the Beowulf is a Volkswagen and these people are selling trucks."
So actualy they are saying that Sun, and IBM machines is the supercomputer centers are trucks and it's better to have a Linux/Beowolf Volkswagen of course if this idea gets any traction, I'll bet that Microsoft will be more than willing to provide their version of a sports car for the processing clusters.
Right now Seti@home distributes it's data off 3 Sun Enterprise 450 series computers; to clients running on multiple OSes including Linux and all of the Windows variants. After Sun get kicked out of the data storage/server role, it'll be easier for Microsoft to pressure users into a windows only mode with the carrot of more complete vendor support.
Microsoft is going to have trouble FUDding Sun and IBM out of the data centers because both companies have an outstanding reputation as heavey-lifters in that area, but Linux is much more vulnerable.
80486SLC was a cyrix chip that had 16 bit data bus, 24 bit memory addresses, and no math co. It performed somewhat better than a 386SX
Mine was a 33Mhz w/16Meg of memory, I took it out of service because the harddisk failed, it's mobo and memory is still in storage. I wonder if you can still get a 25Mhz 80387 for it? would make a way cool nostalgia machine
Fvwm is what Microsoft THINK all UNIX(y) computers still look like! maybe then there is hope for Micro$haft after all
HEY that's not funny, I just spent 6 hours fighting to get a Wyse 60 up with out knocking any of the other Wyse 60 down. Stupid 10 year old MoBo blew out 2 serial ports in a week, and if anything happens to a digiboard port, I'm going to have to reconfig one of the ports over from an unused printer config to a terminal config and in the process will have to learn more about $<0 openserver than I want to know because the support company went out of bussiness 5 years ago!
given the fact that my linux machine is about 1/5 state-of-the-art speed-wise; I've gotten pretty annoyed with KDE and gnome lately and have been using tvwm on the box. after seeing the fvwm site I think'll probably be returning to my first love. The small size should free up a lot of resources streching the machine into another year or two of usefull life
my little bro said . It used to be on Simtel20 in the UNIX source code directory. Surely someone has all that stuff archived.
/. about a college prof that used something similar to detect plagerism on assignments. If my bro finds it I'll get back with you
It wasn't designed to identify authorship, I just noticed while playing with it that it did a pretty good job at it.
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NAH, donate the shares to FSF!, then everybody can call RMS a capitalist pig instead of a communist. or how about GNU is Not Unix, Oh Yes it is Now!
Linux has a lengthy history. Almost every line of code can be traced to when it was introduced and in many cases who put it there.
That will be interesting, each time SCO compalines about several lines of code being the same as in Linux, an IBM lawyer responds with, "That line was added originaly in 1985 by, x, in 1987 y added 3 spaces to conform to the current stylistic standards, when and who added it to the unix code base?"
IANAL but SCO distributed the code under the GPL and once you release under GPL it's forever. You can, if you're the sole owner, release the same code under a different license; but the GPLed version is forever out of your control as far as redistribution is concerned.
Exactly, any project that has the same inputs, the same outputs and however many million lines of code is going to have code that is exactly the same as an other project that is equivalant, accounting for variable name being different, so when SCO's Chris Sontag said,
to me it seemed to be indicating that the linux people were unable to specificaly avoid using the same code as SCO claims to own, because they were not privy to the code; there are only so many different ways to write that pesky Hello World program. I'd be interested to see what SCO considers large Blocks, my guess is that this is a case of Shankspear sueing several of the infinite number of monkeys with typewriters for copyright infringement.
The other thing I find unusual is SCO has the unix and linux source code, why didn't they scan the code sets, there are programs available that will scan source code. My little brother wrote one that will tell you if a c program and a pascal program were writen by the same person correctly 85% of the time, and it much more accurate if the programs being scanned are written in the same language. Not using something like this on sources worth $billions is pretty irresponsible. Not using something like this before releasing a new version of Linux under the restrictions of the GPL is the stuff shareholder lawsuits are made of.
if the ap is OS then simpley look icons in similarly licensed OS aps and give credit where credit is due. Lots of usable icons can be found, if it's for comcercial licesned, he still might be able to find suitable icons or enlist some graphics types who'll do it for credit.
Oh by the why stealing != fair-use, fair use might be something like a reveiw using a screen grab of the application, not taking it for your own use.
Our team is going to build a MySQL (load-balancing and fail-over) cluster for the Cluster World Expo in the end of June.
I think what they are doing is more of an look we got all the pieces here. Maybe what he realy wants to know is, is this the biggest ever set up as a convention demo, not the biggest production system.
spam exists because SMTP is intrinsicly flawed to allow it. I have to say that maybe your on to something here, I've never gotten any SPAM when we used good old UUCP.
why not make it a little easier if I send a email
FROM budgenator@example.com just make sure that the email at least went through example.com. I'm not sure if this would be easier in the pop3 client or the SMTP server. see my journal entry for other ideas I've had on Fighting spam
took the first one out of my bulk-mail bos at yahoo and the site was up www2.pulsetv.com/st/prodinfo.asp?number=1399,l se Direct Inc., 19001 S. Old LaGrange, Mokena, IL 60448, US
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Domain Name: PULSETV.COM
Administrative Contact
Domain register: register@pennmedia.com
PennMedia, 19001 S. Old LaGrange, Mokena, IL 60448 US
Phone 708-478-4500
Fax
He added probably that lets Congress keep it's delutions of grandure, and was definately a sign of respect for the company in the room
I've found the usual spyware - Gator, KaZaa, etc.
I've been using spybotS&D and its done a respectable job of finding and removing spyware on the wife's WinXP machine. it's realy surpising when it find 245 mal-ware type programs running and there removal allows the machine to boot up about 25% faster
oh baby that "you've got Mail" voice is just so sexy I can't help myself!
you can't hear the ultrasonic, but most of them turn on and off at line freq, 60Hz and that's what you here, it usualy sounds "clicky". We use a ultrasonic cleaner in the dental lab, and they put out enough power to punch holes through aluminum foil, the foil is almost "see through" in 30 seconds. I can't hear the noise, but if it runs a lot durring the day my ears get that "stuffy" feeling that they get when I'm exposed to to noise audible noise. If I had my choise, I'd leave the room when it's running; even though I can't hear it.
I'd guess that it was a hawk, owl, fox or bobcat because ferrets play rougher than a cat kills. My ferrets used to stalk the cat for fun, and my dog ( a pomeranian) would hide up on the sofa when the ferrets were playing on the floor playing.
the noisey things might keep them from coming in if there is nothing for them to eat, but if they are hungery, and you have food for them they'll be there. Moles eat lawn grubs, get rid of the grubs, you'll get rid of the moles. A good lawn insectcide works wonders, apply half in one direction, then the other half at 90 degrees for complete coverage.
go over the lawn with a verticutter, it'll cut the turf into strips so the mole burrows punch through and the cat can catch them in the meantime/
these guys have had the problem solved for a while now see the waste removeal section. Actualy you may find that after following these technics, that the resultant cats are worth more than the urine was on eBay.
The terrior breeds have a reputation as good ratter/mouser. Ferrets are excelent mousers, they are very social and will demand a lot of attention from you, but will provide a riot of entertainment too. Ferrets feces stink, descenting doesn't help, so they are not for everyone.