Well one reason it's useful is that it's possible to partition POWER servers down to tenths of a CPU so it's easy to find space to run something like p-AVE. Another is that SLES is licensed by the box rather than by CPUs or LPARs so anything that helps get more apps to run is a good thing.
I've got a 16 CPU P570 here at work and we run Linux on it exclusively due to the cost, as AIX means that you get soaked on costlier licenses. I've done my share of trying to get apps (primarily statistical programs) to work on the POWER CPU. I got R to work but there plenty of other programs that either don't have source or won't compile cleanly though part of that is almost certainly due to my GCC n00bishness so being able to run the x86 version right away is compelling.
I'm also beta-testing p-AVE right now. It works and is easy to get up and running. It's slow right now though compared to something that can run on POWER. It's interesting that this isn't an IBM product. It is from the same company who made Rosetta for Apple, namely Transitive Corp. So in one product you're going from PowerPC to Intel and the other goes Intel to POWER. It looks like IBM are going to do what Apple did and swallow the cost for end-users (or maybe make it back in Global Services consulting fees).
Yeah IBM has only invested in Novell. Now of course these days Novell is a popular target for takeover rumours due to the issue of Novell's inability to market themselves. But that doesn't mean that either IBM or say Oracle own them... yet.:)
Y'know the parent comment is one time I'm more than willing to let Dave Winner grab all the "glory" within the creation of RSS. Oh and if this turns into a flamewar over who invented what then let me get my CDF shout out, erm, out there.
Well you've answered your own question really. When everyone just has to have a slashdot t-shirt then those in the know can point out the plug design and put them back in their place.
The big question in programmed cell death research is how does one pronounce apoptosis. Is it literally a-POP-tosis or is the second p silent, as if we were ancient greeks? I thank the Academy for the honour but the debate will still rage I fear.
I dunno if having a TV tuner built into your vid card is a great idea. If you're an early adopter of the latest and greatest then it makes more sense to have a standalone card or a USB one.
The big question for an ATI part is how are those drivers. In addition, it looks like going to.13 micron is helping slow Nvidia down for the NV30 but that is a bump in the road ATI will hit too.
Your post is far too optimistic. The mortality rate from ALS is in the order of 90% after five years post diagnosis. Dr Bach admits that not too much can be done from people suffering from bulbar ALS (i.e. those having severe swallowing trouble). I take no pleasure in breaking to you the fact that all too often one gets both trouble with breathing and swallowing. Many people sign DNRs because they do not want to "comfortably" reside on a ventilator for years nor have feeding tubes for when they can't swallow or talk.
If people are thinking of a general type of device then it's important to keep in mind that ALS will affect different parts of a person's body. This is especially true in the early stages as it can start with trouble in the arms or legs. Quite often an ALS patient will have breathing and/or swallowing trouble by the time a remote monitor is needed. Breathing tubes are effective but won't work at night when a patient is trying to sleep. ALS patients don't get a full night's sleep and are usually tired and run down throught the day, especially if their breathing is degraded. Voice or noise activated devices usually won't help because the act of talking is tiring and patients often slur or can't clearly enunciate their words. Some sort of biofeedback device might work but bear in mind that patients in advanced stages may have oxygen lines and a small host of other aids for things like their phone so there will be an adjustment period involved in the introduction of any new device.
The last mile has been one of the biggest barriers to more widespread broadband adoption so something like this would be great. The only question is where does the bandwidth to the rest of the Net come form?
No they didn't say that. Is it that hard to type Netscape and WaSP into Google?
Here's a couple 'grafs of what they did say:
"Some will say we are to blame for your woes, since we were the ones demanding full compliance with standards. Frankly, if we had known you could not deliver a stable, usable, standards-compliant browser in under two years, we would not have asked you to try. More frankly still, we suspect you would have taken a more "realistic" approach if you'd realized it would take you this long to deliver the goods. But wasn't it your job to know whether or not you could pull this off before you pledged to do it? Estimating software delivery dates is notoriously tricky, we admit - but two whole years?
We wish everyone shared your passion to do the right thing and deliver XML and the DOM inside the browser. But if it takes you another six months to pull this off, the world's first fully standards-compliant browser could be playing to an empty house. And the message such a failure would send is: "Don't support standards if you want to stay in business." If you send the world that message, you will have harmed the cause you meant to help."
So they actually said pull NS4 and put out the product Netscape had promised.
Well, I'm sure calling the ISP could help but it's not *that* big of a deal. She has a bandwidth quota but she never gets near to hitting it, unlike me. The bigger problem is folks who don't know enough to patch their systems and stay du jour with A/V solutions.
Klez is a pain even if one's ISP blocks infected messages. My mother has dial-up and even though the ISP blocked the messages it sent a notification meassage to her. The first couple were okay but getting twenty ~100 Kb "warnings" is a waste of time and bandwidth. The sad part is the vulnerability is old. Can't wait for trustworthy computing.;)
If you put a bit of work in and look at things like the properties tab of a dll or expand out the registry keys then you will be less likely to take out web folders instead of bde. It's a pain but bear in mind that it's Kazaa and BDE's fault for not having a clean uninstall. As for if the program has a life of it's own, the cnet article implies, at least to my reading, that it can use another P2P network besides Kazaa so it could well persist. I can't be arsed to uninstall Kazaa but looking in the registry after an uninstall would soon show if BDE had gone too. One optimistic note is that BDE's financial statement reveals they have burn rate issues and don't forsee near-term profitability so they could fold, or, erm, sell the tech to someone else.
Thanks for the link to Strip. I also use Password Safe from Counterpane (www.counterpane.com) for my desktop system. It uses the Blowfish algorithm and you can have multiple databases for home and work etc.
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Well one reason it's useful is that it's possible to partition POWER servers down to tenths of a CPU so it's easy to find space to run something like p-AVE. Another is that SLES is licensed by the box rather than by CPUs or LPARs so anything that helps get more apps to run is a good thing.
I've got a 16 CPU P570 here at work and we run Linux on it exclusively due to the cost, as AIX means that you get soaked on costlier licenses. I've done my share of trying to get apps (primarily statistical programs) to work on the POWER CPU. I got R to work but there plenty of other programs that either don't have source or won't compile cleanly though part of that is almost certainly due to my GCC n00bishness so being able to run the x86 version right away is compelling.
I'm also beta-testing p-AVE right now. It works and is easy to get up and running. It's slow right now though compared to something that can run on POWER. It's interesting that this isn't an IBM product. It is from the same company who made Rosetta for Apple, namely Transitive Corp. So in one product you're going from PowerPC to Intel and the other goes Intel to POWER. It looks like IBM are going to do what Apple did and swallow the cost for end-users (or maybe make it back in Global Services consulting fees).
Yeah IBM has only invested in Novell. Now of course these days Novell is a popular target for takeover rumours due to the issue of Novell's inability to market themselves. But that doesn't mean that either IBM or say Oracle own them... yet. :)
Y'know the parent comment is one time I'm more than willing to let Dave Winner grab all the "glory" within the creation of RSS. Oh and if this turns into a flamewar over who invented what then let me get my CDF shout out, erm, out there.
Well you've answered your own question really. When everyone just has to have a slashdot t-shirt then those in the know can point out the plug design and put them back in their place.
I realize that "marginalized left of centre Canadian political party" is not as catchy as "Canada" but that last line in the post is simply lazy.
The big question in programmed cell death research is how does one pronounce apoptosis. Is it literally a-POP-tosis or is the second p silent, as if we were ancient greeks? I thank the Academy for the honour but the debate will still rage I fear.
I dunno if having a TV tuner built into your vid card is a great idea. If you're an early adopter of the latest and greatest then it makes more sense to have a standalone card or a USB one.
The big question for an ATI part is how are those drivers. In addition, it looks like going to .13 micron is helping slow Nvidia down for the NV30 but that is a bump in the road ATI will hit too.
Your post is far too optimistic. The mortality rate from ALS is in the order of 90% after five years post diagnosis. Dr Bach admits that not too much can be done from people suffering from bulbar ALS (i.e. those having severe swallowing trouble). I take no pleasure in breaking to you the fact that all too often one gets both trouble with breathing and swallowing. Many people sign DNRs because they do not want to "comfortably" reside on a ventilator for years nor have feeding tubes for when they can't swallow or talk.
If people are thinking of a general type of device then it's important to keep in mind that ALS will affect different parts of a person's body. This is especially true in the early stages as it can start with trouble in the arms or legs. Quite often an ALS patient will have breathing and/or swallowing trouble by the time a remote monitor is needed. Breathing tubes are effective but won't work at night when a patient is trying to sleep. ALS patients don't get a full night's sleep and are usually tired and run down throught the day, especially if their breathing is degraded. Voice or noise activated devices usually won't help because the act of talking is tiring and patients often slur or can't clearly enunciate their words. Some sort of biofeedback device might work but bear in mind that patients in advanced stages may have oxygen lines and a small host of other aids for things like their phone so there will be an adjustment period involved in the introduction of any new device.
The last mile has been one of the biggest barriers to more widespread broadband adoption so something like this would be great. The only question is where does the bandwidth to the rest of the Net come form?
No they didn't say that. Is it that hard to type Netscape and WaSP into Google?
Here's a couple 'grafs of what they did say:
"Some will say we are to blame for your woes, since we were the ones demanding full compliance with standards. Frankly, if we had known you could not deliver a stable, usable, standards-compliant browser in under two years, we would not have asked you to try. More frankly still, we suspect you would have taken a more "realistic" approach if you'd realized it would take you this long to deliver the goods. But wasn't it your job to know whether or not you could pull this off before you pledged to do it? Estimating software delivery dates is notoriously tricky, we admit - but two whole years?
We wish everyone shared your passion to do the right thing and deliver XML and the DOM inside the browser. But if it takes you another six months to pull this off, the world's first fully standards-compliant browser could be playing to an empty house. And the message such a failure would send is: "Don't support standards if you want to stay in business." If you send the world that message, you will have harmed the cause you meant to help."
So they actually said pull NS4 and put out the product Netscape had promised.
Well, I'm sure calling the ISP could help but it's not *that* big of a deal. She has a bandwidth quota but she never gets near to hitting it, unlike me. The bigger problem is folks who don't know enough to patch their systems and stay du jour with A/V solutions.
Klez is a pain even if one's ISP blocks infected messages. My mother has dial-up and even though the ISP blocked the messages it sent a notification meassage to her. The first couple were okay but getting twenty ~100 Kb "warnings" is a waste of time and bandwidth. The sad part is the vulnerability is old. Can't wait for trustworthy computing. ;)
If you put a bit of work in and look at things like the properties tab of a dll or expand out the registry keys then you will be less likely to take out web folders instead of bde. It's a pain but bear in mind that it's Kazaa and BDE's fault for not having a clean uninstall. As for if the program has a life of it's own, the cnet article implies, at least to my reading, that it can use another P2P network besides Kazaa so it could well persist. I can't be arsed to uninstall Kazaa but looking in the registry after an uninstall would soon show if BDE had gone too. One optimistic note is that BDE's financial statement reveals they have burn rate issues and don't forsee near-term profitability so they could fold, or, erm, sell the tech to someone else.
Thanks for the link to Strip. I also use Password Safe from Counterpane (www.counterpane.com) for my desktop system. It uses the Blowfish algorithm and you can have multiple databases for home and work etc.
cheers