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Re:Yes and no. Re:Easier than Beowulf?
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If a job takes 24 hours, to use PVM or some other parallel processing system you have to break the algorithm up and alter the program.
If the job takes 24 hours, but consists of a long pipe of filters, MOSIX should be able to run each filter on various processors and pipe the output between them. This is the benefit of MOSIX, of being able to use normal UNIX tools in parallel without alteration. (Of course, if one filter grinds for 23 hours before producing any output then you have a different problem...)
The kind of problems which a bomb designer would have to solve are the high-math problems which the older parallel processing tools are designed for. I don't think withholding MOSIX would have slowed down anyone doing such calculations. MOSIX is a more general purpose tool which will be finding many interesting small applications.
For that matter, the Linux Distributed IPC (DIPC) package was written by an someone from Iran, so open source parallel processing contributions are flowing in many directions already. And DIPC already has distributed shared memory, which MOSIX needs...maybe that will flow together.
Programs do not have to be designed for MOSIX to benefit from it. An obvious example is make. If you tell make to run several compiles in parallel, an SMP or MOSIX cluster will run those compiles on several processors at the same time. You can't do that on a Beowulf cluster without making a Beowulf version of the compiler. (Yes, I am aware that a compiler will want to do a lot of I/O to include files and libraries...)
I see again the moronized character set has ZDNet questioning its facts. Its saying "?Dolphin.?" and "?Gecko?" makes it hard to read and to identify whether they are not sure of their facts, whether there is a question being asked, or whether they are using a nonstandard character set.
(i) I cannot vote here. (j) I am non compos mentis. (k) I am serving a felony conviction. (l) I'm too young to vote. (m) I'm not eligible to vote. (n) I do not know what a vote is.
Making the company lose more than a certain amount may make it a state felony anyway. If it is a criminal act in your state, your state may classify it as being a felony when the loss is greater than a certain amount ($1,000? $2,000?).
$2,500 from Microsoft? Just looking at the first few pages I see more than that from ophtalmology and CPA groups. What Microsoft gave is a miniscule percentage of the total. I hope nobody is influenced by it...
Using computer items for clock faces is somewhat popular. The hole in the middle of a CD allows nondestructive use so you can use it as a way to frame your first *nix CD-ROM. I've also seen 8-inch and 5.25-inch floppies. You can find some of these things at electronics flea markets and surplus stores.
I do use "saytime" to have a computer speak the hour (of course, the computer uses NTP to have the correct time).
Or, a step above a sundial is XEarth, and tell the time based upon where the shadow is on the globe.
See man XF86Config and use/Summa to find mention of SummaSketch Tablet. There are several other tablets mentioned there, but as there may be a relationship between the Summagraphics and Calcomp tablets I'd try that first.
I see in the X server with Red Hat that at least some of those modules are included, so they just have to be mentioned in the configuration file.
Or put a terminal program on the serial port and see what data is arriving, and compare it to the SummaSketch code...
Yes, a dog is a pack animal and its master is the head of the pack...domesticated dogs recognize humans as pack members.
Cats are more independent. You could start making software for a cat by making Oneko, the X cat, more responsive to its environment and give it more emotions than boredom. Not that its boredom can't be useful, as PURR-PUSS uses boredom as a trigger to try a more creative action, while learning [Andreae] by trial and error.
A really obvious good idea
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Consider it as confirmation that someone else agrees that you had a good idea. If your patch was included unaltered, then they agree that you also phrased it correctly.
Re:OFF TOPIC - Slashdot problems
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I was also going to make a silly comment about this being the first major site running 2.3.* for production. But it looks more like DNS problems. Hard to read with half the stuff blank.
Let's see, in which SF classics were the following mentioned?
Broadcast power to a whole planet by firing an ionizing laser down through the ionosphere to the ground. Laser pulses create temporary conductive channel, causing huge current pulse which receivers can tap for power. Destroys existing power grid. Pulse through the atmosphere creates Chee-ops sound.
Innocent squirt guns converted to rebel weapon by sending electricity through two water streams.
Drawing electricity from the Sun creates ionized channel through atmosphere. Author mentioned huge amount of ozone made it impractical as a power source on Earth.
Using conductive studs on front of missile to burn through skin of spaceship.
An illegal device which stimulates the brain pleasure center from a distance.
Could the light be redshifted? Perhaps one side is orbiting away from us so fast it is redshifted to pink? But then you'd expect the opposite side to be blueshifted...is the telescope resolution high enough to see that?
Sigh. That old myth. Look at the first paper on this page. One of the designers of Ethernet tested it. Drove it at almost 100% of 10Mbps. A bunch of workstations on the net.
What happens when a thinking machine gets angry at us? Our first response will be to "kill" it, as a thinking machine
it will already know what we plan to do and make preparations. What will it do?
Ah, you are assuming it knows about death and self-preservation. It might not have our survival instincts and our experience and skills at dealing with the deception of predators.
Of course, it might simply have learned well what we taught it about the need for making backups...
Emergent behavior may be more organized than expected, but the behavior might not be what we would expect. The first example in the book is quite memorable. You just can't argue with logic...
I know that I'm currently wrestling with those problems. I have a device with proprietary hardware which runs Win 16, and the development tools create executables which won't run on Win95/98. And the Win 16 TCP stack hangs daily.
He mentions the large amount of hours needed to develop Linux applications. He does not mention the larger number of hours being lost every week as millions of Microsoft systems crash and waste the time of users, maintenance, and administrative staff.
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These pages explain this MS problem:
If the job takes 24 hours, but consists of a long pipe of filters, MOSIX should be able to run each filter on various processors and pipe the output between them. This is the benefit of MOSIX, of being able to use normal UNIX tools in parallel without alteration. (Of course, if one filter grinds for 23 hours before producing any output then you have a different problem...)
For that matter, the Linux Distributed IPC (DIPC) package was written by an someone from Iran, so open source parallel processing contributions are flowing in many directions already. And DIPC already has distributed shared memory, which MOSIX needs...maybe that will flow together.
Programs do not have to be designed for MOSIX to benefit from it.
An obvious example is make. If you tell make to run several compiles in parallel, an SMP or MOSIX cluster will run those compiles on several processors at the same time. You can't do that on a Beowulf cluster without making a Beowulf version of the compiler. (Yes, I am aware that a compiler will want to do a lot of I/O to include files and libraries...)
I see again the moronized character set has ZDNet questioning its facts. Its saying "?Dolphin.?" and "?Gecko?" makes it hard to read and to identify whether they are not sure of their facts, whether there is a question being asked, or whether they are using a nonstandard character set.
(i) I cannot vote here. (j) I am non compos mentis. (k) I am serving a felony conviction. (l) I'm too young to vote. (m) I'm not eligible to vote. (n) I do not know what a vote is.
Making the company lose more than a certain amount may make it a state felony anyway. If it is a criminal act in your state, your state may classify it as being a felony when the loss is greater than a certain amount ($1,000? $2,000?).
$2,500 from Microsoft? Just looking at the first few pages I see more than that from ophtalmology and CPA groups. What Microsoft gave is a miniscule percentage of the total. I hope nobody is influenced by it...
Yes, that is Oneko's main present purpose: to chase the mouse. She ignores all else on the desktop.
I do use "saytime" to have a computer speak the hour (of course, the computer uses NTP to have the correct time).
Or, a step above a sundial is XEarth, and tell the time based upon where the shadow is on the globe.
See man XF86Config and use /Summa to find mention of SummaSketch Tablet. There are several other tablets mentioned there, but as there may be a relationship between the Summagraphics and Calcomp tablets I'd try that first.
I see in the X server with Red Hat that at least some of those modules are included, so they just have to be mentioned in the configuration file.
Or put a terminal program on the serial port and see what data is arriving, and compare it to the SummaSketch code...
Cats are more independent. You could start making software for a cat by making Oneko, the X cat, more responsive to its environment and give it more emotions than boredom. Not that its boredom can't be useful, as PURR-PUSS uses boredom as a trigger to try a more creative action, while learning [Andreae] by trial and error.
There is also a lot more stuff on adaptive behavior and machine learning out there.
Consider it as confirmation that someone else agrees that you had a good idea. If your patch was included unaltered, then they agree that you also phrased it correctly.
I was also going to make a silly comment about this being the first major site running 2.3.* for production. But it looks more like DNS problems. Hard to read with half the stuff blank.
That is the British spelling. Maybe a Londoner should proofread your thesis.
Could the light be redshifted? Perhaps one side is orbiting away from us so fast it is redshifted to pink? But then you'd expect the opposite side to be blueshifted...is the telescope resolution high enough to see that?
Sigh. That old myth. Look at the first paper on this page. One of the designers of Ethernet tested it. Drove it at almost 100% of 10Mbps. A bunch of workstations on the net.
Ah, you are assuming it knows about death and self-preservation. It might not have our survival instincts and our experience and skills at dealing with the deception of predators.
Of course, it might simply have learned well what we taught it about the need for making backups...
Emergent behavior may be more organized than expected, but the behavior might not be what we would expect. The first example in the book is quite memorable. You just can't argue with logic...
He has even more extreme emergences in Code of the Lifemaker.
I know that I'm currently wrestling with those problems. I have a device with proprietary hardware which runs Win 16, and the development tools create executables which won't run on Win95/98. And the Win 16 TCP stack hangs daily.
"If you look carefully you can see the underwire in her bra cups."
Nah, it is the wire for his garrote...
Oh, I see. Lojban is good old Loglan, expressed in its full vocabulary and grammar. .iuru'e
He mentions the large amount of hours needed to develop Linux applications. He does not mention the larger number of hours being lost every week as millions of Microsoft systems crash and waste the time of users, maintenance, and administrative staff.