It may be dead, but it still works. I used to use it to talk to people over the net when I had a need for voice communication (say long distance girlfriend). The point is that software in your current computer will work as well as a hardwired encryption phone. Sure we could all spend hundreds of dollars more to get a dedicated phone, but with that much money we could buy a palm pilot or a Rio or something.
I read a dilbert like that once, it went something like this:
Boss: We have a new program where every employee gets $20 for every bug they fix. Wally: I think I'll go code myself a minivan.
I think coders need money to survive, but you have got to figure out a way that doesn't encourage introducing bugs so you can fix them. I think companies like redhat are doing a fine job now of hiring people to work on software they need that is open source.
Have you ever wondered why people buy Kleenex instead of Puffs facial tissues? It's the same reason that people use AOL, familiarity. Let me illistrate with a real story:
In my effors to fund my education I work for the school tech support. Our school has free 56K dialup access. Our outgoing phone lines still hardly keep up at night with outgoing AOL users dialing in. They pay the money when they have faster, more reliable, commercial free access with tech support. It gets worse. When I go around installing 10/T network cards in fellow students computers I get people who still want to be able to dial out to AOL, dual T1s for free vs AOL 33.6 for a monthly fee and they choose AOL. I am nice enough to show them how they can be connected to AOL through our dual t1s and it is faster (after I fail to try to tell them AOL is evil) and they pay a smaller monthly fee.
If Microsoft offers dual T1 lines to everyone's home for free and sends real people out to support it they will still lose. AOL is unstoppable. Those disk wars they had a few years back paid off. They have a loyal (albiet ignorant) customer base. The only way to defeat AOL would be through education, and that's a whole new topic.
First if you unmount a scsi drive with an SCA connector you can pull it out hot, raid or not. This is not something new.
Now my main point I want to make is that the RS/6000s running linux is a much bigger deal. (Yes linux is running on RS/6000s) How does 32 processors sound? Hot swappable processor/memory/drives/cards? RS/6000s will autodetect bad processors and turn them off. When you come into work and your computer tells you processor 5 has been turned off and you replace it, add some ram, and put a new video card in all without ever rebooting your computer that's impressive.
Reasons to reboot a RS/6000:
1. You are moving it to another state 2. All of your processors failed at the same time 3. Your UPS just caught on fire 4. Oh wait, there are no more reasons
IBM is a good company when it comes to buyouts. I see this as a great step forward for Mylex. Basically IBM will not borgify Mylex, but will leave them a pretty much independent part of IBM. The reason they bought Mylex is because they have money to burn. Of course they will immediatly start incorperating Mylex scsi/raid into thier systems like RS/6000 and even some of their pcs.
My only concern is that the low end may get discontinued or get a price hike. I love my mylex card, great under linux and very cheap.
Apple's case's on the G3s are bringing apple back at the University. The campus InfoTech had decided to phase apple products out of everything but journalism/art. Now the new G3s are making them reconsider. How long it takes to upgrade ram may not matter to an individual user, but when you do 50-200 ram upgrades at a time this case pays for itself in saved labor. Also the G3s are just fast, and the price/performance curve has come down to about the same level of the PCs. The colored case matters on the imac, it sells the imac. However for real informed users the color is the least important feature.
I still remember the Rwanda slaughter, rivers flowing with blood. Instead of 13 people dead there were millions dead. Most of these murders were not at the hand of automatic rifles, but knives and sticks. I don't think we are going to remove all the trees from the world. People will continue to make weapons from rocks and sticks.
This is a moral issue, not an availability one. Taking away guns is like giving asprin to a man who just had his legs cut off. The pain will be less, but he will still bleed to death if the cause isn't dealt with. We need a return to God, morals, and decency in schools.
It only uses what power it needs, and a bit that is lost converting AC to DC power. Keep big power supplies so the voltage doesn't drop in your equipment.
linux is a UNIX variant. In fact all things known as UNIX are really UNIX variants. In my experience 95% of what you do on one system applies directly to all of them. This applies between Linux distributions as well. The shells are the same on most UNIXs, all use X windows, ftp, telnet or ssh, similar commands, and similar directory structures.
If you can use Linux you can use Solaris 7, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, SunOS, etc, etc.
Many system Administrators make a good living by catching these idiots and making sure they get the full force of the law breaking down their doors. I was talking to a system admin recently and she was amazed how lame the people trying to penetrate the systems she watches were. Doing things like typing instead of substuting the actualy command. She thinks they are reading straight from a piece of paper. I am suprised they can read.
I will actually defend Microsoft on this one. I don't defend them on much. The fact is that any computer site that uses the phrase "Where do you want to go Tommorow" is doing it as a Microsoft play. Microsoft has a right to protect itself. A company's rights do not go away when it becomes large. Microsoft is not the antichrist, just a company with bad products and good marketing. Even bad companies deserve fair treatment
An example of what a good CS education will do for you comes from a ACM sponsored programming contest I went to recently. The difference between real CS programs and technical programs is how problems are approached. In the ACM contest I went around and visited the other teams in our room. I noted which schools brought Java language books (Java is the latest technical hype), which schools brought C++ books, and which teams brought real books. Our team had books like _Introduction_to_Algorithms, Discrete math, and the like. We did have a language book, but it was for Pascal. Before the contest somebody asked me why we would want to use an old language like Pascal. After the contest when our two teams placed 1st and 2nd I asked him why he would want to use a language like C++. What was the point of that story? The point was that most technical colleges are like the business world, they are focused on learning a finite skill set. Going to a good college indeed makes you a better programmer, a better problems solver, and a better person.
Recently many people failed our intro to computer Science class (as usual). No lawsuits yet, but many of them have been raising a fuss to deans. When we have people who are in school to get a piece of paper instead of an education this will continue
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It may be dead, but it still works. I used to use it to talk to people over the net when I had a need for voice communication (say long distance girlfriend). The point is that software in your current computer will work as well as a hardwired encryption phone. Sure we could all spend hundreds of dollars more to get a dedicated phone, but with that much money we could buy a palm pilot or a Rio or something.
I read a dilbert like that once, it went something like this:
Boss: We have a new program where every employee gets $20 for every bug they fix.
Wally: I think I'll go code myself a minivan.
I think coders need money to survive, but you have got to figure out a way that doesn't encourage introducing bugs so you can fix them. I think companies like redhat are doing a fine job now of hiring people to work on software they need that is open source.
Have you ever wondered why people buy Kleenex instead of Puffs facial tissues? It's the same reason that people use AOL, familiarity. Let me illistrate with a real story:
In my effors to fund my education I work for the school tech support. Our school has free 56K dialup access. Our outgoing phone lines still hardly keep up at night with outgoing AOL users dialing in. They pay the money when they have faster, more reliable, commercial free access with tech support. It gets worse. When I go around installing 10/T network cards in fellow students computers I get people who still want to be able to dial out to AOL, dual T1s for free vs AOL 33.6 for a monthly fee and they choose AOL. I am nice enough to show them how they can be connected to AOL through our dual t1s and it is faster (after I fail to try to tell them AOL is evil) and they pay a smaller monthly fee.
If Microsoft offers dual T1 lines to everyone's home for free and sends real people out to support it they will still lose. AOL is unstoppable. Those disk wars they had a few years back paid off. They have a loyal (albiet ignorant) customer base. The only way to defeat AOL would be through education, and that's a whole new topic.
First if you unmount a scsi drive with an SCA connector you can pull it out hot, raid or not. This is not something new.
Now my main point I want to make is that the RS/6000s running linux is a much bigger deal. (Yes linux is running on RS/6000s) How does 32 processors sound? Hot swappable processor/memory/drives/cards? RS/6000s will autodetect bad processors and turn them off. When you come into work and your computer tells you processor 5 has been turned off and you replace it, add some ram, and put a new video card in all without ever rebooting your computer that's impressive.
Reasons to reboot a RS/6000:
1. You are moving it to another state
2. All of your processors failed at the same time
3. Your UPS just caught on fire
4. Oh wait, there are no more reasons
IBM is a good company when it comes to buyouts. I see this as a great step forward for Mylex. Basically IBM will not borgify Mylex, but will leave them a pretty much independent part of IBM. The reason they bought Mylex is because they have money to burn. Of course they will immediatly start incorperating Mylex scsi/raid into thier systems like RS/6000 and even some of their pcs.
My only concern is that the low end may get discontinued or get a price hike. I love my mylex card, great under linux and very cheap.
The full text of the ruling can be found at:
s tein_case/Legal/19990506_circuit_decision. html
http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/ITAR_export/Bern
It's about time.
Apple's case's on the G3s are bringing apple back at the University. The campus InfoTech had decided to phase apple products out of everything but journalism/art. Now the new G3s are making them reconsider. How long it takes to upgrade ram may not matter to an individual user, but when you do 50-200 ram upgrades at a time this case pays for itself in saved labor. Also the G3s are just fast, and the price/performance curve has come down to about the same level of the PCs. The colored case matters on the imac, it sells the imac. However for real informed users the color is the least important feature.
I still remember the Rwanda slaughter, rivers flowing with blood. Instead of 13 people dead there were millions dead. Most of these murders were not at the hand of automatic rifles, but knives and sticks. I don't think we are going to remove all the trees from the world. People will continue to make weapons from rocks and sticks.
This is a moral issue, not an availability one. Taking away guns is like giving asprin to a man who just had his legs cut off. The pain will be less, but he will still bleed to death if the cause isn't dealt with. We need a return to God, morals, and decency in schools.
It only uses what power it needs, and a bit that is lost converting AC to DC power. Keep big power supplies so the voltage doesn't drop in your equipment.
linux is a UNIX variant. In fact all things known as UNIX are really UNIX variants. In my experience 95% of what you do on one system applies directly to all of them. This applies between Linux distributions as well. The shells are the same on most UNIXs, all use X windows, ftp, telnet or ssh, similar commands, and similar directory structures.
If you can use Linux you can use Solaris 7, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, SunOS, etc, etc.
Many system Administrators make a good living by catching these idiots and making sure they get the full force of the law breaking down their doors. I was talking to a system admin recently and she was amazed how lame the people trying to penetrate the systems she watches were. Doing things like typing instead of substuting the actualy command. She thinks they are reading straight from a piece of paper. I am suprised they can read.
I will actually defend Microsoft on this one. I don't defend them on much. The fact is that any computer site that uses the phrase "Where do you want to go Tommorow" is doing it as a Microsoft play. Microsoft has a right to protect itself. A company's rights do not go away when it becomes large. Microsoft is not the antichrist, just a company with bad products and good marketing. Even bad companies deserve fair treatment
An example of what a good CS education will do for you comes from a ACM sponsored programming contest I went to recently. The difference between real CS programs and technical programs is how problems are approached. In the ACM contest I went around and visited the other teams in our room. I noted which schools brought Java language books (Java is the latest technical hype), which schools brought C++ books, and which teams brought real books. Our team had books like _Introduction_to_Algorithms, Discrete math, and the like. We did have a language book, but it was for Pascal. Before the contest somebody asked me why we would want to use an old language like Pascal. After the contest when our two teams placed 1st and 2nd I asked him why he would want to use a language like C++.
What was the point of that story? The point was that most technical colleges are like the business world, they are focused on learning a finite skill set. Going to a good college indeed makes you a better programmer, a better problems solver, and a better person.
Recently many people failed our intro to computer Science class (as usual). No lawsuits yet, but many of them have been raising a fuss to deans. When we have people who are in school to get a piece of paper instead of an education this will continue