The other question is how many of the people IBM is going to relocate to BRIC countries will be backfilled by people from those countries coming here on H1B visas?
The mainframe was originally 24-bit..who ever would need more than 16MB of memory?? Well sometime in the 70's they realized they would need more...so they extended the architecture but used bit 32 of the address field to tell if it was in 24 or 31-bit mode. They have since added a 64-bit mode with their z-Architecture in 2000. They are all still natively supported in hardware...
I know it might sound a little strange but if you can develop mainframe skills in 5 years you will be worth your weight in gold. So many of the current people that are mainframe system programmers will be retired by then and there are not many people learning the skills to fill their places. The one problem is it is hard to learn the skills because you can't just play around with the latest versions of mainframe software on your PC like you can with most windows and unix tools and applications. IBM has a lot of information and free learning modules on their site and several schools are starting programs to teach these skills to fill the knowledge gap. Plus you can learn how to run linux on a mainframe too so that you don't feel totally in the dark ages:)
IBM Has had DC Power in their mainframes for years. The latest ones convert redundant 3-phase power to 480v DC for distribution between the frames. All the details you want can be found here
If you really have mission critical applications that can never go down just get an IBM Mainframe. You can replace just about any part in the system without it going down. They even have extra CPUs they can bring online if one fails. Oh, and if you are really paranoid you can cluster them together in different geographic areas.
Well if it happened like that, wouldn't it then mean dual core CPU's are even more so vulnerable?
Most dual core systems have at most a shared L2 and not a shared L1 cache. It might still be possible but a lot more difficult trying to do this exploit from L2 caches.
Apple makes a neat little device that you can use to stream music to and hooks up to your stereo. This combined with iTunes is a great way to play music all over the house.
As long as IBM is making mainframes there will be per processor fees...and they have been around for 40 years so I see at least another 40. Heck, now they even charge different amounts for a processor depending on what you are going to run on it.
The new version is called "The Design of Everyday Things" not the Psychology of Everyday things if anyone cares to find this book which is a very good read.
You can get AFS Clients from CMU with out a problem. However you can't always get it for the latest kernel. Take a look at/afs/andrew/system/archive/transarc/afs3.6/binary/ You can get both the kernel modules and the client software from there.
Sounds like a more advanced version of Sky Worker
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This sounds like a more advanced version of the Sky Worker project at the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Although this project was origionally supposed to be for a robot to maintain orbiting solar cells, it seems to have involved to working on a robot to build, inspect, and maintain space facilities.
There was an article on the front page of the Science Times of the New York Times a few weeks ago. The link can be found here. The robot is very cool. And what is really cool is that they allow undergrads to help work on it too.
I just got a call from my broker saying that Redhat came out and went up to $45 within seconds. e-trade's realtime quotes don't show that they have come out yet. Oh well if you got shares at $14 you should be happy now..but for me I can't afford to buy enough at that price to make it worth my while.
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The other question is how many of the people IBM is going to relocate to BRIC countries will be backfilled by people from those countries coming here on H1B visas?
The mainframe was originally 24-bit..who ever would need more than 16MB of memory?? Well sometime in the 70's they realized they would need more...so they extended the architecture but used bit 32 of the address field to tell if it was in 24 or 31-bit mode. They have since added a 64-bit mode with their z-Architecture in 2000. They are all still natively supported in hardware...
I know it might sound a little strange but if you can develop mainframe skills in 5 years you will be worth your weight in gold. So many of the current people that are mainframe system programmers will be retired by then and there are not many people learning the skills to fill their places. The one problem is it is hard to learn the skills because you can't just play around with the latest versions of mainframe software on your PC like you can with most windows and unix tools and applications. IBM has a lot of information and free learning modules on their site and several schools are starting programs to teach these skills to fill the knowledge gap. Plus you can learn how to run linux on a mainframe too so that you don't feel totally in the dark ages :)
IBM Has had DC Power in their mainframes for years. The latest ones convert redundant 3-phase power to 480v DC for distribution between the frames. All the details you want can be found here
If you really have mission critical applications that can never go down just get an IBM Mainframe. You can replace just about any part in the system without it going down. They even have extra CPUs they can bring online if one fails. Oh, and if you are really paranoid you can cluster them together in different geographic areas.
Well if it happened like that, wouldn't it then mean dual core CPU's are even more so vulnerable?
Most dual core systems have at most a shared L2 and not a shared L1 cache. It might still be possible but a lot more difficult trying to do this exploit from L2 caches.
I'd guess that the attack has more to do with the shared data caches than with any of the 'core' CPU functionality.
Sound quality will not change if he is sending mp3s around wirelessly(unless you have a crappy wireless network with a lot of packet loss).
Apple makes a neat little device that you can use to stream music to and hooks up to your stereo. This combined with iTunes is a great way to play music all over the house.
Have you looked at IBMs latest statements? Their X and Z series servers have been having double digit growth
Actually it is more likely a cluster of IBM PPC machines running AIX
As long as IBM is making mainframes there will be per processor fees...and they have been around for 40 years so I see at least another 40. Heck, now they even charge different amounts for a processor depending on what you are going to run on it.
http://www.rec.ri.cmu.edu/projects/toro/toro.shtml
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The new version is called "The Design of Everyday Things" not the Psychology of Everyday things if anyone cares to find this book which is a very good read.
Here is a link to more info on the technical details
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~virtualized-reality/
You can get AFS Clients from CMU with out a problem. However you can't always get it for the latest kernel. Take a look at /afs/andrew/system/archive/transarc/afs3.6/binary/ You can get both the kernel modules and the client software from there.
This sounds like a more advanced version of the Sky Worker project at the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Although this project was origionally supposed to be for a robot to maintain orbiting solar cells, it seems to have involved to working on a robot to build, inspect, and maintain space facilities.
There was an article on the front page of the Science Times of the New York Times a few weeks ago. The link can be found here. The robot is very cool. And what is really cool is that they allow undergrads to help work on it too.
Hmm...wonder if they will get the LNUX symbol. It seems as if they want people to think that they are GNU/Linux.
I just got a call from my broker saying that Redhat came out and went up to $45 within seconds. e-trade's realtime quotes don't show that they have come out yet. Oh well if you got shares at $14 you should be happy now..but for me I can't afford to buy enough at that price to make it worth my while.