People have a fundamental right to privacy, despite what every government entity thinks. If they have a need to violate it, take it to a judge, get a couple of cops, and stake you out. Its rediculous for a car I purchased to tattletale on me. If a car is speeding in the desert when no one else is around, is it a crime?
Pervasive intrusions like these car monitors are disgusting. Imagine if your hands transparently recorded what happened within one foot of your crotch, and anyone with a "reason" could download the data. Then tell me these pervasive intrusions are a good thing.
Microsoft may have the money to hire the best. Your argument is flawed of course, because:
1. You assume (thinly) that the best (in any field) will work for microsoft.
2. You assume that "Microsoft" listens to the "best" and does whatever they recommend, regardless of the consequences.
3. You assume that MS will take suggestions from edus when the edu finds something of note in the MS source.
Because you can't independently verify the quality of the source code or have access to the development process, you are limited to trying to claim the limit of liability from MS, namely new media, in the event that the software fails to perform.
The only reason science works is open peer review. Hell, the only reason anything works is open peer review. Would you honestly base your life's work one something without verifying it yourself? At least having someone you personally trust look at it? Why, given this choice, do you continue to support closed software development?
If some company, sole purpose in life to increase shareholder value, tells you that their product is better because they say so, do you believe them?
Do you take drugs (legal or illegal) without some sort of peer review process (legal, FDA, or illegal, a buddy who verifys that its good sh**)?
I mean, how hard is this to understand? Honestly....
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1. At what age does this manifest itself? 2. Does this work in other languages? I am guessing japanese (at least) would not work.... 3. What implications does this have for cryptology, in that you can't look for strings anymore?
Big Bonus question: 4. If 2 is false, in that it doesn't work for other languages, is this intrinsic property of English the reason that English has become the language of global business or is it simply a by-product of English being spoken by those who sailed the world and conquered the world (British and American Imperialism)? ie because English is recognisable after mangling, is that the reason that it is so "popular"?
Also, the most important value as an undergrad is the male/female ratio. Trust me. As a guy, I went to an engineering school, classes had like 10% girls (some had none, if I remember correctly). Totally distorts your worldview. Would have been nice if there had been actual girls around, my vision might be better....*cackle* Grad school maybe advisor first, topic second, school 150th, but undergrad, man, girls would have been nice.
I don't. The core development team for Linux may be smaller, tho I doubt it. Also, the core Linux developers are by all accounts (and from reading lkml for years) some of the best programmers/debuggers on earth, paid or unpaid. They are good team members, and their skills complement each other naturally.
Also, Linux has x million testers who have access to the source. Some percentage of them are able to code. A larger percentage of them are able to submit coherent bug reports and test fixes, since they have access to the latest code at all times.
If you have never built a team and tried to run it, you wont appreciate this one. But I have, and I do. They are stunningly effective and efficent.
Hopefully there is also a civil damage suit that can be levied against those SCO corporate officers (besides the federal criminal cases) who profit from this rediculous action. I still think hitting the legal team that agrees to represent SCO in this case would be fun too. Take a potshot at the legal system in the US, maybe get to the Supreme Court and hey, if they go for it, nuisance suits go out the window (since the law firm becomes liable for not doing due dilligence). So that other morally corrupt fsckwads don't try the same thing. Kill many evil birds with one stone.
Or, as everyone who didn't go there calls it, Bezerkley. And this nonsense that the other UCs are extension schools is like saying that UNC (which was founded a little before UCB) is the only UNC in NC, and that all other UNCs are extension schools.
Another thing we wouldn't have without Berkeley is LSD, as Timothy Leary got his phd there.... http://www.leary.com/Biography/Berkeley /berkeley.h tml
You forget Bill Joy went there, which is a bit more freaking relevant to BSD than Berkeley itself.
Mor importantly, you are posting on an international site a bunch of nonsense about someone making a spelling error. That's rich. I'm sure you've never misspelled anything in your life. Oh, because you go to Bezerkley, you don't misspell. Get the broom handle out of your ass.
No, all you can prove with that analysis is that the code in SCO Unix predates Linux. To "curb-stomp" IBM, you have to prove a custody chain that includes SCO giving IBM the code before its appearance in Linux, and then for extra points show that the path that the code took to make it into linux branches from this exchange to IBM. For example:
Assume that there is SCO code in the Linux kernel. If the SCO code makes an appearance in Linux prior to IBM receiving the code from SCO, all you have proven is that someone else put it there. So copyright infringement does not necessarily give you a case against IBM.
And that of course makes the big assumption that SCO didn't just copy the code out of Linux, since that is the flow that makes sense. And it will take just one former developer from SCO who saw SCO copy the code from Linux into SCO, figuring "nobody would notice" and "it doesn't hurt anybody anyway" to now come forward and SCO disappears, forever.
Seems a strange way to attempt to increase shareholder value, to flip a fucking coin. I smell a shareholder lawsuit coming against the corporate officers when this finally shakes down. Can you sue lawyers who knowingly commit bad law? If so, that law firm could be hurt, especially if they conspired to do bad law. That would be fun, IBM could sue Boies over SCO and not even have to admit that they really hate him because Mickeysoft got away with being a super-capitalist (in the 1970's Chinese sense).
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PS If you can, might be a good idea to buy a fsckload of SCO stock, so that you have a substantial chip in the game when the implosion starts. Anybody know what kind of cars these guys drive? Maybe one of em snuck a 959 or an ST205 in. I would settle for that.
Damn, actually I know one too. But I'm in California, so I guess that's not too unusual. This happens with a lot of things, being from California and all. No Sunday laws for alcohol purchase; boy was I suprised in the south on the one Sunday I got up well before noon and went shopping at the grocery store....
And my lonely planet Japan says "Getting naked with total strangers is not, for most of us, the cultural norm (California readers please fogive me),...".
My Samsung 191T is perfectly visible with negligible color shifting or brightness/contrast change from damn near 90 degrees off-axis; top, bottom, left, right (it tilts to do portrait or landscape). I believe the 170 degree figure. My laptops don't have nearly that viewing angle (IBM T20 and T21). The samsungs are pretty freaking cool man. I don't usually blow 800 bones on computer hardware, but this thing is pretty damn cool.
Hey, guess what? Most software is written for internal use only. What, companies are just going to stop customizing their code to suit their business because they can buy commercial off the shelf that will fit their business perfectly? And coders are going to stop doing what they love, because there is no money in it? Art too; those freaks only get paid when they are dead, nobody'll do that shit anymore either. Guess what? People are not rational economic actors. I guess you are tho; how is the payoff dating girls going? Found any sugar mommas to justify your pursuit? Otherwise, its just a waste of time, right? In fact, all of us are in it for the benjamins I guess. Shit, I wouldn't even be posting on slashdot if they didn't give me 2 cents a word. What is your rate? Just making sure I'm not getting the shaft; might get a better deal over at winmag.
Hey, do you live in a lead-lined house with an aluminum pyramid hat on all the time to block cosmic rays too? Your RAM, CPU, and hard drive will be worth pocket change in 2-3 years; who cares if by keeping the heat down you extended its life from 5 years to 10? Get real. If you bought 300$ computers every year you would have a faster machine on average than buying a 900$ computer every three years. Didja dink ah dat? Or do you just enjoy flushing money on expensive computer hardware so you can boast about flushing money on expensive computer hardware? Wait, are you one of those old guys I see driving their F40 down the freeway in the slow lane at 45, with the hazards on?
Oh my. You are so used to windows blowing chunks you are actually making excuses for it. That's pathetic.
And worse, you don't even understand that part of the kernel's job is to make sure that "applications" can't crash the box. And if you've never had an unexpected reboot of a box under windows, even 2k, then try plugging it in. Its not just a metal box with shiny things in it.
Nobody who uses Windows regularly believes in the stability of Win2k; as a server or a desktop. Just stop already, all you do is expose your ignorance.
If everyone only got paid a dollar a day, 30$ a month, then rent would drop to 4 or 5 dollars a month. Taxes would be 10-15$ a month. Rent is only unaffordable because "you" can't afford it; someone else can. Otherwise the landlord misses his mortgage payment. The idea that millions of minimum wage slaves will support a modern country is rediculous; nor will it come to pass in any of them unless they go dictator. Current inefficencies aside, everything remains the same. Get back on the good economy hallucination and miraculously, the economy improves....
One red (dead) pixel, 19 inches, dual inputs (analog for the KVM and digtal for the obligatory windows box), decent contrast, light weight (!), no heat problems, low energy usage. I freaking love it. And I can use LCDs for hours without eye strain, which was the most important thing for me.
I have never had a decent CRT after using LCDs; the eye fatigue from CRTs is amazingly noticeable once you don't use them anymore. I used to crank the refresh up to at least 85 Hz, higher if the monitor internal bandwidth could take it without getting fuzzy, to no avail. And I was one of those people who made fun of monitor snobs who told me they could "see" flicker at 85 Hz. Not anymore, no more CRTs for me.
Oh, plus, I move alot and the LCD weighs like 5-10 pounds, instead of 70-90 for a 19-21 inch monitor.
That's why I bought it, but I had pretty complicated and preissy requirements. Test before you buy is a good mantra, would have prevented one bad 19" purchase.
Wrong; unless you never patched the OS in seven years. What is that, 2.5?
Obviously not UltraSparc II with big cache, they die like files....
Or that E3500's don't obey init 5, or that solaris has no built in real LVM (Disksuite Doesn't count as real).
Or that the OS tools are so outdated and hacked that, as mentioned elsewhere, the GNU tools have to be installed to get any sort of reasonable system utilities.
Maybe it makes sense to you to pay 250k for two 8-way V880s, but 50 5k dual commodity CPU boxen can handle a lot more situations than one two-box freaking 8-way cluster. High availability databases excepted.
You will get the same application uptime out of 50 90% servers than one 50-nine cluster. Do the math. And no two box cluster is a 50-nine cluster; computers ain't been around that long.
Moreover, I can do rolling replacement of 15 servers a year if I have 50 of them. I have flexibility in my budget. One cluster, one hit. I realize government and education don't have to water the money tree, but business expects a return on its investment. Not to mention vendor lock in, etc....
I'm all for big iron, but it has limited uses. These multi-year uptimes don't fly except for non-network connected servers anymore. Its like having a 7-second Nova, I appreciate it but there are very few business uses for it.
1. Enormously, but not in absolute terms. What all the surveys fail to consider is that most people get the jobs they _want_ through the contacts they make in college. 5 and even 10 years down the road. No price on that.
2. If you like EE better than CS, do EE. Don't choose a major or a job because of the money. Choose it because you like it. Even if you don't get a job in it.
3. Depends on the high school and the college. Importantly, look at the male to female ratio as well as the coursework. Nothing sucks more than being in classes of 35 students, 32 guys and 3 girls (as a straight guy anyway).
4. Maybe, but nothing says accepted faster than high SAT and GPA. National Merit Scholar also helps.
5. Definately college, I only left when being destitute got old (4+ senior years...*grin*). Going directly to a career will leave you vulnerable for at least five years to losing your job to someone with a degree. It sucks, its true. You will also be shortchanged on salary, on average. Yes, Kobe Bryant didn't go to college and he makes millions a year. There are very few Kobes. If you are laid off, it will be harder to get another job. If you think you are "the shit", definately go to a really hard school where you will meet people who are truely smart. Unless you like being a big fish in a little pond; I dunno, some people like that. Have a good time, you only really get to go once, and working really sucks ass afterward, even if you get to do something interesting.
You can get by on very little money (I pay twice in Federal taxes now as I _lived on_ in college); unless you are fabulously wealthy or work hard and are lucky you won't accumulate any either even at six figures. Your spending will equal your income pretty damn quickly. And no toy is as stimulating as good conversation, preferably with a cute girl.
1. Ok, well, yeah, but the drives cost more than 1U dual PIII servers.
2. Yeah, you can, but try upgrading the firmware on an A3500FC on the fly. Would you now trust hitting the disk array with your database at the same time? I wouldn't....
3. Solaris doesn't have 64 bit memory access. Its like 38 or 48 bit. Check their UltraSparc docs.
4. Sure, and for things that need "decent" clustering, its one of a few options. Most things, however, don't need "decent" clustering.
5. No current Sun product supports 128 processors, and if you need a loaded E15k you have very specific needs indeed.
6. Again, how many UltraSparc II/III processors have failed on you in the past month? If you deal with lots of them, they die depressingly frequently. Especially considering the cost.
7. Anybody can and does provide support like this. Sun premium support (gold/platinum) is really freaking expensive.
Sun will continue to have fabrication problems, since they are relying on TI to fab for them. Sun has so many supply vendors that they run into the same problems white box vendors do, but they can hide it better. When push comes to shove, they are selling enormously expensive servers that are justified for about 1% of server duties. And that will shrink as Linux gains the features to compete in those corner cases. At which point, Sun will die. Period.
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Sun hardware compared to RS/6000s and PA-RISC boxes? Um, how many UltraSparc II (and III) processors have you had to replace? No wonder they have hotswap processors.... How many 75 MHz DIMMS in V480/V880 servers? How many times have you rebooted for out-of-memory conditions because Solaris lacks fine grained per-user resource quotas? And Veritas (VxVM), with its cutesy configuration nonsense and unintelligible boot configuration? Oh, did I mention to get that spotty Logical Volume Manager you get to pay extra? Dynamic multipathing over fiber that has been spliced into the OS in such a fashion that most tools don't recognise it? I will admit, compared to WinXXXX Solaris is a dream to work with, but compared to the Unices and hardware you mention I would have to seriously disagree. AIX is much improved of late (4.3 ish) and although HP-UX is oddball, once its configured it just works right.
At the high end there are only a few players right now, and Sun can try to make a business out of it, but Linux will slowly gain the functionality (tight LVM integration, improved clustering, etc) that is the current stronghold of Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX. I wouldn't use anything but linux on low and midrange servers, the only place that I have seen that it is not useful yet is large, highly-available databases. Give it three-five years, and it will be the choice there as well. And there will be nowhere for Sun and their $1M+ servers to go. And they will succumb.
Of course, since this is taking a day of your salary (you're at work then) you have (and pay for) the same support contract from your distro of choice that you pay for from Micro$oft, right? So it takes a day to call RHAT and get someone to clue you in? Oh, you didn't get a support contract from your distro because it was "free" software? Whatever; if you have critical Sun boxes you have support from Sun, HP-UX and HP the same, Compaq and MS too. If not, you are running without insurance; do you drive without insurance? Own a house without insurance? Rediculous....
They are working on LVM, and EVMS (userland) is going to work with 2.5/6 like it does for 2.4. If you need more LVM than EVMS, you are crazy. Also, what network failover is new? 2.4 supports channel bonding (read Documentation/networking/bonding.txt) and also supports just about everything you could possibly imagine wrt networking via iptools (read the lartc howto). Features are the one thing Linux doesn't lack, its got so many tools that, outside of custom applications with extreme requirements, it can basically do anything. Oh, also, can't run freakish proprietary code from monopolists, but what can? In short, these guys are good, and there is so much under the hood that is really incredible (and has been there for so long....) that outside of vendors supporting their own hardware (like they do for Win) with drivers (GPL please) there is little that is necessary to add to the linux kernel. Not that I don't applaud them trying, or would I stand in the way of a cool hack. They are even trying to put a generic crash dump capability in that allows userland to dump kernel cores to: Filesystem of your choice Serial console Network device of your choice Other server etc etc Amazing stuff. Just freaking amazing. If you haven't looked over the capabilities of the kernel lately, you owe it to yourself to do so.
Heya, related tech part here: http://www.stoner.leeds.ac.uk/research/gmr. htm
Spin coupled ferromagnetic layers, so, this is my reading and may be (is probably) wrong:
Top layer is magnetized one direction, intermediate layer of "pixie dust" is unmagnetized, bottom layer is magnetized in opposite direction (think herterostructural anti-ferromagnetism). The "pixie dust" with that thickness is what forces the anti-ferromagnetic behavior, thicker or thinner would allow either less anti-ferromagnetic behavior or no anti-ferromagnetism at all (its periodic; same reason for existence of anti-ferromagnetic and ferromagnetic behavior in other materials). Coupling causes much more resilient (harder) magnetization because Boltzmann thermal effects have to take effect on both layers at once. So entropic forces are hindered, and order is preserved accross the "pixie dust" layer. May be my mis-reading of the situation, however. Anyone else got a better idea?
Dude, I looked in the dictionary ( http://www.m-w.com ) and there were things I should have thanked unions for that I don't get.
1. Weekend - That's when I fix the servers. 2. Vacation - That's when I get paged to fix the servers. 3. Health Benefits - Things I need from being in a freezing room, standing, for 12 hours a day fixing servers. 4. Severance Pay - Something I don't need, the fans on the servers aren't that big. 5. Comp Time - What is this, a joke? 6. Work Safety Regulations - Like, the cones around the hole in the floor when they pull the tiles?
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People have a fundamental right to privacy, despite what every government entity thinks. If they have a need to violate it, take it to a judge, get a couple of cops, and stake you out. Its rediculous for a car I purchased to tattletale on me. If a car is speeding in the desert when no one else is around, is it a crime?
Pervasive intrusions like these car monitors are disgusting. Imagine if your hands transparently recorded what happened within one foot of your crotch, and anyone with a "reason" could download the data. Then tell me these pervasive intrusions are a good thing.
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Microsoft may have the money to hire the best. Your argument is flawed of course, because:
1. You assume (thinly) that the best (in any field) will work for microsoft.
2. You assume that "Microsoft" listens to the "best" and does whatever they recommend, regardless of the consequences.
3. You assume that MS will take suggestions from edus when the edu finds something of note in the MS source.
Because you can't independently verify the quality of the source code or have access to the development process, you are limited to trying to claim the limit of liability from MS, namely new media, in the event that the software fails to perform.
The only reason science works is open peer review. Hell, the only reason anything works is open peer review. Would you honestly base your life's work one something without verifying it yourself? At least having someone you personally trust look at it? Why, given this choice, do you continue to support closed software development?
If some company, sole purpose in life to increase shareholder value, tells you that their product is better because they say so, do you believe them?
Do you take drugs (legal or illegal) without some sort of peer review process (legal, FDA, or illegal, a buddy who verifys that its good sh**)?
I mean, how hard is this to understand? Honestly....
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1. At what age does this manifest itself?
2. Does this work in other languages? I am guessing japanese (at least) would not work....
3. What implications does this have for cryptology, in that you can't look for strings anymore?
Big Bonus question:
4. If 2 is false, in that it doesn't work for other languages, is this intrinsic property of English the reason that English has become the language of global business or is it simply a by-product of English being spoken by those who sailed the world and conquered the world (British and American Imperialism)? ie because English is recognisable after mangling, is that the reason that it is so "popular"?
Inquiring minds want to know....
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1. At what age does this ability manifest itself?
2. Does this ability
Also, the most important value as an undergrad is the male/female ratio. Trust me. As a guy, I went to an engineering school, classes had like 10% girls (some had none, if I remember correctly). Totally distorts your worldview. Would have been nice if there had been actual girls around, my vision might be better....*cackle*
Grad school maybe advisor first, topic second, school 150th, but undergrad, man, girls would have been nice.
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I don't. The core development team for Linux may be smaller, tho I doubt it. Also, the core Linux developers are by all accounts (and from reading lkml for years) some of the best programmers/debuggers on earth, paid or unpaid. They are good team members, and their skills complement each other naturally.
Also, Linux has x million testers who have access to the source. Some percentage of them are able to code. A larger percentage of them are able to submit coherent bug reports and test fixes, since they have access to the latest code at all times.
If you have never built a team and tried to run it, you wont appreciate this one. But I have, and I do. They are stunningly effective and efficent.
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Hopefully there is also a civil damage suit that can be levied against those SCO corporate officers (besides the federal criminal cases) who profit from this rediculous action. I still think hitting the legal team that agrees to represent SCO in this case would be fun too. Take a potshot at the legal system in the US, maybe get to the Supreme Court and hey, if they go for it, nuisance suits go out the window (since the law firm becomes liable for not doing due dilligence). So that other morally corrupt fsckwads don't try the same thing. Kill many evil birds with one stone.
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I liked data in Area 51 too. And the money shot.
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Or, as everyone who didn't go there calls it, Bezerkley. And this nonsense that the other UCs are extension schools is like saying that UNC (which was founded a little before UCB) is the only UNC in NC, and that all other UNCs are extension schools.
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Another thing we wouldn't have without Berkeley is LSD, as Timothy Leary got his phd there....
http://www.leary.com/Biography/Berkele
You forget Bill Joy went there, which is a bit more freaking relevant to BSD than Berkeley itself.
Mor importantly, you are posting on an international site a bunch of nonsense about someone making a spelling error. That's rich. I'm sure you've never misspelled anything in your life. Oh, because you go to Bezerkley, you don't misspell. Get the broom handle out of your ass.
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No, all you can prove with that analysis is that the code in SCO Unix predates Linux. To "curb-stomp" IBM, you have to prove a custody chain that includes SCO giving IBM the code before its appearance in Linux, and then for extra points show that the path that the code took to make it into linux branches from this exchange to IBM. For example:
Assume that there is SCO code in the Linux kernel.
If the SCO code makes an appearance in Linux prior to IBM receiving the code from SCO, all you have proven is that someone else put it there. So copyright infringement does not necessarily give you a case against IBM.
And that of course makes the big assumption that SCO didn't just copy the code out of Linux, since that is the flow that makes sense. And it will take just one former developer from SCO who saw SCO copy the code from Linux into SCO, figuring "nobody would notice" and "it doesn't hurt anybody anyway" to now come forward and SCO disappears, forever.
Seems a strange way to attempt to increase shareholder value, to flip a fucking coin. I smell a shareholder lawsuit coming against the corporate officers when this finally shakes down. Can you sue lawyers who knowingly commit bad law? If so, that law firm could be hurt, especially if they conspired to do bad law. That would be fun, IBM could sue Boies over SCO and not even have to admit that they really hate him because Mickeysoft got away with being a super-capitalist (in the 1970's Chinese sense).
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PS If you can, might be a good idea to buy a fsckload of SCO stock, so that you have a substantial chip in the game when the implosion starts. Anybody know what kind of cars these guys drive? Maybe one of em snuck a 959 or an ST205 in. I would settle for that.
Damn, actually I know one too. But I'm in California, so I guess that's not too unusual. This happens with a lot of things, being from California and all. No Sunday laws for alcohol purchase; boy was I suprised in the south on the one Sunday I got up well before noon and went shopping at the grocery store....
And my lonely planet Japan says "Getting naked with total strangers is not, for most of us, the cultural norm (California readers please fogive me),...".
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My Samsung 191T is perfectly visible with negligible color shifting or brightness/contrast change from damn near 90 degrees off-axis; top, bottom, left, right (it tilts to do portrait or landscape). I believe the 170 degree figure. My laptops don't have nearly that viewing angle (IBM T20 and T21). The samsungs are pretty freaking cool man. I don't usually blow 800 bones on computer hardware, but this thing is pretty damn cool.
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Hey, guess what? Most software is written for internal use only. What, companies are just going to stop customizing their code to suit their business because they can buy commercial off the shelf that will fit their business perfectly? And coders are going to stop doing what they love, because there is no money in it? Art too; those freaks only get paid when they are dead, nobody'll do that shit anymore either.
Guess what? People are not rational economic actors. I guess you are tho; how is the payoff dating girls going? Found any sugar mommas to justify your pursuit? Otherwise, its just a waste of time, right?
In fact, all of us are in it for the benjamins I guess. Shit, I wouldn't even be posting on slashdot if they didn't give me 2 cents a word. What is your rate? Just making sure I'm not getting the shaft; might get a better deal over at winmag.
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Hey, do you live in a lead-lined house with an aluminum pyramid hat on all the time to block cosmic rays too? Your RAM, CPU, and hard drive will be worth pocket change in 2-3 years; who cares if by keeping the heat down you extended its life from 5 years to 10? Get real. If you bought 300$ computers every year you would have a faster machine on average than buying a 900$ computer every three years. Didja dink ah dat? Or do you just enjoy flushing money on expensive computer hardware so you can boast about flushing money on expensive computer hardware?
Wait, are you one of those old guys I see driving their F40 down the freeway in the slow lane at 45, with the hazards on?
Buy a mac.
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Oh my. You are so used to windows blowing chunks you are actually making excuses for it. That's pathetic.
And worse, you don't even understand that part of the kernel's job is to make sure that "applications" can't crash the box. And if you've never had an unexpected reboot of a box under windows, even 2k, then try plugging it in. Its not just a metal box with shiny things in it.
Nobody who uses Windows regularly believes in the stability of Win2k; as a server or a desktop. Just stop already, all you do is expose your ignorance.
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If everyone only got paid a dollar a day, 30$ a month, then rent would drop to 4 or 5 dollars a month. Taxes would be 10-15$ a month. Rent is only unaffordable because "you" can't afford it; someone else can. Otherwise the landlord misses his mortgage payment. The idea that millions of minimum wage slaves will support a modern country is rediculous; nor will it come to pass in any of them unless they go dictator. Current inefficencies aside, everything remains the same. Get back on the good economy hallucination and miraculously, the economy improves....
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One red (dead) pixel, 19 inches, dual inputs (analog for the KVM and digtal for the obligatory windows box), decent contrast, light weight (!), no heat problems, low energy usage. I freaking love it. And I can use LCDs for hours without eye strain, which was the most important thing for me.
I have never had a decent CRT after using LCDs; the eye fatigue from CRTs is amazingly noticeable once you don't use them anymore. I used to crank the refresh up to at least 85 Hz, higher if the monitor internal bandwidth could take it without getting fuzzy, to no avail. And I was one of those people who made fun of monitor snobs who told me they could "see" flicker at 85 Hz. Not anymore, no more CRTs for me.
Oh, plus, I move alot and the LCD weighs like 5-10 pounds, instead of 70-90 for a 19-21 inch monitor.
That's why I bought it, but I had pretty complicated and preissy requirements. Test before you buy is a good mantra, would have prevented one bad 19" purchase.
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Wrong; unless you never patched the OS in seven years. What is that, 2.5?
Obviously not UltraSparc II with big cache, they die like files....
Or that E3500's don't obey init 5, or that solaris has no built in real LVM (Disksuite Doesn't count as real).
Or that the OS tools are so outdated and hacked that, as mentioned elsewhere, the GNU tools have to be installed to get any sort of reasonable system utilities.
Maybe it makes sense to you to pay 250k for two 8-way V880s, but 50 5k dual commodity CPU boxen can handle a lot more situations than one two-box freaking 8-way cluster. High availability databases excepted.
You will get the same application uptime out of 50 90% servers than one 50-nine cluster. Do the math. And no two box cluster is a 50-nine cluster; computers ain't been around that long.
Moreover, I can do rolling replacement of 15 servers a year if I have 50 of them. I have flexibility in my budget. One cluster, one hit. I realize government and education don't have to water the money tree, but business expects a return on its investment. Not to mention vendor lock in, etc....
I'm all for big iron, but it has limited uses. These multi-year uptimes don't fly except for non-network connected servers anymore. Its like having a 7-second Nova, I appreciate it but there are very few business uses for it.
andy
1. Enormously, but not in absolute terms. What all the surveys fail to consider is that most people get the jobs they _want_ through the contacts they make in college. 5 and even 10 years down the road. No price on that.
2. If you like EE better than CS, do EE. Don't choose a major or a job because of the money. Choose it because you like it. Even if you don't get a job in it.
3. Depends on the high school and the college. Importantly, look at the male to female ratio as well as the coursework. Nothing sucks more than being in classes of 35 students, 32 guys and 3 girls (as a straight guy anyway).
4. Maybe, but nothing says accepted faster than high SAT and GPA. National Merit Scholar also helps.
5. Definately college, I only left when being destitute got old (4+ senior years...*grin*). Going directly to a career will leave you vulnerable for at least five years to losing your job to someone with a degree. It sucks, its true. You will also be shortchanged on salary, on average. Yes, Kobe Bryant didn't go to college and he makes millions a year. There are very few Kobes. If you are laid off, it will be harder to get another job. If you think you are "the shit", definately go to a really hard school where you will meet people who are truely smart. Unless you like being a big fish in a little pond; I dunno, some people like that. Have a good time, you only really get to go once, and working really sucks ass afterward, even if you get to do something interesting.
You can get by on very little money (I pay twice in Federal taxes now as I _lived on_ in college); unless you are fabulously wealthy or work hard and are lucky you won't accumulate any either even at six figures. Your spending will equal your income pretty damn quickly. And no toy is as stimulating as good conversation, preferably with a cute girl.
andy
Rebuttal:
1. Ok, well, yeah, but the drives cost more than 1U dual PIII servers.
2. Yeah, you can, but try upgrading the firmware on an A3500FC on the fly. Would you now trust hitting the disk array with your database at the same time? I wouldn't....
3. Solaris doesn't have 64 bit memory access. Its like 38 or 48 bit. Check their UltraSparc docs.
4. Sure, and for things that need "decent" clustering, its one of a few options. Most things, however, don't need "decent" clustering.
5. No current Sun product supports 128 processors, and if you need a loaded E15k you have very specific needs indeed.
6. Again, how many UltraSparc II/III processors have failed on you in the past month? If you deal with lots of them, they die depressingly frequently. Especially considering the cost.
7. Anybody can and does provide support like this. Sun premium support (gold/platinum) is really freaking expensive.
Sun will continue to have fabrication problems, since they are relying on TI to fab for them. Sun has so many supply vendors that they run into the same problems white box vendors do, but they can hide it better. When push comes to shove, they are selling enormously expensive servers that are justified for about 1% of server duties. And that will shrink as Linux gains the features to compete in those corner cases. At which point, Sun will die. Period.
andy
Sun hardware compared to RS/6000s and PA-RISC boxes? Um, how many UltraSparc II (and III) processors have you had to replace? No wonder they have hotswap processors.... How many 75 MHz DIMMS in V480/V880 servers? How many times have you rebooted for out-of-memory conditions because Solaris lacks fine grained per-user resource quotas? And Veritas (VxVM), with its cutesy configuration nonsense and unintelligible boot configuration? Oh, did I mention to get that spotty Logical Volume Manager you get to pay extra? Dynamic multipathing over fiber that has been spliced into the OS in such a fashion that most tools don't recognise it? I will admit, compared to WinXXXX Solaris is a dream to work with, but compared to the Unices and hardware you mention I would have to seriously disagree. AIX is much improved of late (4.3 ish) and although HP-UX is oddball, once its configured it just works right.
At the high end there are only a few players right now, and Sun can try to make a business out of it, but Linux will slowly gain the functionality (tight LVM integration, improved clustering, etc) that is the current stronghold of Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX. I wouldn't use anything but linux on low and midrange servers, the only place that I have seen that it is not useful yet is large, highly-available databases. Give it three-five years, and it will be the choice there as well. And there will be nowhere for Sun and their $1M+ servers to go. And they will succumb.
andy
Of course, since this is taking a day of your salary (you're at work then) you have (and pay for) the same support contract from your distro of choice that you pay for from Micro$oft, right? So it takes a day to call RHAT and get someone to clue you in? Oh, you didn't get a support contract from your distro because it was "free" software? Whatever; if you have critical Sun boxes you have support from Sun, HP-UX and HP the same, Compaq and MS too. If not, you are running without insurance; do you drive without insurance? Own a house without insurance? Rediculous....
They are working on LVM, and EVMS (userland) is going to work with 2.5/6 like it does for 2.4. If you need more LVM than EVMS, you are crazy. Also, what network failover is new? 2.4 supports channel bonding (read Documentation/networking/bonding.txt) and also supports just about everything you could possibly imagine wrt networking via iptools (read the lartc howto).
Features are the one thing Linux doesn't lack, its got so many tools that, outside of custom applications with extreme requirements, it can basically do anything. Oh, also, can't run freakish proprietary code from monopolists, but what can?
In short, these guys are good, and there is so much under the hood that is really incredible (and has been there for so long....) that outside of vendors supporting their own hardware (like they do for Win) with drivers (GPL please) there is little that is necessary to add to the linux kernel. Not that I don't applaud them trying, or would I stand in the way of a cool hack.
They are even trying to put a generic crash dump capability in that allows userland to dump kernel cores to:
Filesystem of your choice
Serial console
Network device of your choice
Other server
etc etc
Amazing stuff. Just freaking amazing. If you haven't looked over the capabilities of the kernel lately, you owe it to yourself to do so.
andy
Heya, related tech part here:. htm
http://www.stoner.leeds.ac.uk/research/gmr
Spin coupled ferromagnetic layers, so, this is my reading and may be (is probably) wrong:
Top layer is magnetized one direction, intermediate layer of "pixie dust" is unmagnetized, bottom layer is magnetized in opposite direction (think herterostructural anti-ferromagnetism). The "pixie dust" with that thickness is what forces the anti-ferromagnetic behavior, thicker or thinner would allow either less anti-ferromagnetic behavior or no anti-ferromagnetism at all (its periodic; same reason for existence of anti-ferromagnetic and ferromagnetic behavior in other materials). Coupling causes much more resilient (harder) magnetization because Boltzmann thermal effects have to take effect on both layers at once. So entropic forces are hindered, and order is preserved accross the "pixie dust" layer.
May be my mis-reading of the situation, however.
Anyone else got a better idea?
andy
Dude, I looked in the dictionary ( http://www.m-w.com ) and there were things I should have thanked unions for that I don't get.
1. Weekend - That's when I fix the servers.
2. Vacation - That's when I get paged to fix the servers.
3. Health Benefits - Things I need from being in a freezing room, standing, for 12 hours a day fixing servers.
4. Severance Pay - Something I don't need, the fans on the servers aren't that big.
5. Comp Time - What is this, a joke?
6. Work Safety Regulations - Like, the cones around the hole in the floor when they pull the tiles?
Am I missing something?