I did the same actually - and with summer job money aswell so i feel your pain but im not actually all that upset. computers get upgraded all the time and if i started to wait i'd wait for ages. now i've had my 600MHz for alittle over a month and im really happy enough with it for years to come im sure.
if you start waiting and waiting you'll never get anything bought. buy stuff when you have the money/need for it..
NASA has got to get funded for this, and the U.S. shouldn't have to pick up the entire tab. Other industrial nations should chip in, as it would be saving the entire world's ass, not just our own
There are other's than NASA too - dont think NASA is the only one around just because they were first. For instance European Countries put money into European Space Agency and have own telescopes etc. not like americans put money into that;). ESA is also doing their part on ISS.
If you're not into gaming - give Matrox a try. they arent super-fast in 3D but they are awesome for workstation usage and desktop usage. Drivers for atleast my G-400 are extremely good. Dualhead is nice aswell - once you try two screens you'll never want to go back...
I thought it said alittle over 5000 processors?:). Though Google is built upon "commodity" hardware and tweaked for massive database-stuff and not for scientific calculations. This Japanese computer is a real supercomputer and Google is the worlds largest and fastest database. two totally different things.
And how long do you think it takes for a country as advanced as Japan to make nukes if forced to? What makes you think there arent plans ready for it - just that they havent been done yet... hell countries like Pakistan can make nukes - its not all that high tech after all.
What do you use it for? i was looking for somekinda way to migrate threads in programs i write to several computers but from what i read it didnt seem like a good idea to run a threaded java-app cause it wouldnt migrate anyways. Think it was because it used shared memory or something like that. I hope i understood it wrong but i stopped looking into it when it seemed that there is no real reason for me to run any kinda cluster unless i want to code "real" parallell code which i dont need for the stuff i code - yet atleast.
Why cant IBM give away the binaries of people are still using it? I mean there cant be a huge amount of people actually buying it is there? Yeah im sure you can find old servers running DHCP or something like that in the dark corners of server rooms etc but once they get upgraded they get another OS than OS/2?
Personally im still studying and dont have money to buy OS's which is why I use Linux (and the fact that everything i have to do can be done there) but wouldnt mind trying out OS/2 just for the kicks of it. Anyone know if IBM has somekinda educational license or cheap/free upgrade? I know i have OS/2 Warp 3 cd's somewhere which i never did anything with but would like to have the version 4 of it. (Got the Warp cd's just by paying the postal fee's for them or something like that).
Is there any reason anyone should use OS/2 these days? seriously?
The Register's post about Google and CoS - like the others that replied said - El Reg runs on business time - european such. so they arent as fast as the "geek-based" websites. Kinda annoying when there's no new news during Weekends but the stuff they write is good.
Nuclear facilities might be disabled by flying in a plane into them but you can rest assured that the core where the nuclear-stuff is will not be damaged without a nuke.
With disabled i mean having transformator-station disabled so they cant put the electricity onto the grid. Would take a month or so to clean up the mess and be back i'd wager. Modern nuclear plants dont need anyone to press the panic-button either, if the plant fails or the controls fail the rods will cool themselves down without any intervention (no automation either here - just plain gravity etc).
The amount of uranium that we know of or have digged up might be for 10 years supply but there are more of it but there just isnt any use to look for it before we start building more nuclear power. If im not totally mistaken they predict that there should be atleast 100 years worth of Uranium around if we start looking for it even abit more.
Also new reactors use alot less uranium than the old ones that these calculations probably have been based on.
Doesnt FreeBSD have quite good support for linux-binaries? i thought you could basically run anything compiled on a linux-system on freebsd with little or no performance-degration (sp?)? and last time i checked FreeBSD could install RPM aswell so i cant see any real reason for not using FreeBSD except of course SAP might only give support on RedHat-systems etc and not FreeBSD?
either way im running linux - just tested FreeBSD for awhile but didnt figure out for instance how to make MPlayer use _extremely_ well optimized drivers for my G-400 that are aviable as kernel modules for linux.
The power failure aspect of mainframes is priceless. If there is a power failure in the mainframe world all you have to do is wait until the lights are on, power the mainframe and associated SAN back on, and chug along while the Unix tribe fscks the night away. I'm sure journaling helps (gosh, had versions of that on mainframe DBs since the 80s), but nothing beats true bulletproof hardware.
You really think a mainframe can get a powerfailure?! Seriously - you ever been to a site that has even a smaller mainframe? most sites like that have multiple huge UPS-systems and if the system is abit more important they have backup generators aswell. The tech's taking care of the mainframe are really sloppy if they get a mainframe to go down in an unorderly fashion.
This is very true - you dont really use bullet-"proof" vests because it doesnt help when youre fighting against rifles - atleast the version that most of us will fight against (7.62mm, AK-47 etc). If you want bullet-proof you probably need a suit that is about the size that the guys in bomb-squad is wearing.
Bullet-proof vests are good against shrapnel though from artillery fire or bombing so they're not entirely useless. just limited use against say a rifle.
> I can get a box of 486 or Pentium boards for that much. And of course there is much more abundant binary-packaged software that will run on those
There really isnt any idea - imho - to use a box of 486's or Pentiums. You can basically use a couple of older comps for firewalling and a small http/ftp/whatever-server but what then? no idea trying to build up a cluster of them since you can buy a cheap Duron or something and you'll have way more power for less hassle (unless you just want to toy around which is fine).
But, again imo, it's alot geekier and cooler to have that firewall or small http-server running on a piece of hardware that is exotic while maybe not much more powerful than a Pentium. Which is probably why they are abit more expensive than that run-of-the-mill Pentium.
.. they'd have of those over here in Finland but im guess im all out of luck. Haven't seen any Alphas for sale except for a small shop that sold off old Alphas and Sparcs for insane prices. "local ebay" doesnt really hold any either though i check there every now and then..
I just wish there was a real computer recycling company/organisation that people would give they're old comps to that would more or less give the stuff away and if intrest for some particular machine hasnt been sparked for say 2 weeks they'd take it to the real recycling center. Of course there isnt really any money in a company working that way which is why there isnt one but it'd be neat.. (another what-to-do if I happen to win a lottery, would be a fun project:))
I personally hate all these studies that say "this and that" is bad for you. It's general joke in Finland that Swedes can always find everything to be dangerous - they were the first ones to find out that abnormal amounts of talking on cell-phones might increase your risk of cancer. So what - i dont talk all day on a cell-phone if i can help it? Also saw this funny scientific research that cell-phones would increase fertility for some odd reason.. wouldnt put much trust it that though;).
im sorry I cant help you with your sleeping problem but it is quite personal how hard it is to get to sleep and wake up etc.
I've always been the one that has an easy time getting sleep, sleep 7-8h and wake up real easy. real easy being im on my feet when the first ring sounds from my clock.
I have worked graveyard shift, morning shift and all different versions and havent had much of a problem. (graveyard last summer for 3months).
I know this is slashdot, the nerd mekka, but have you tried to workout regularly? it helps alot - i had a 6month period when i didnt workout much and noticed how much more tired i was during days and how much harder it was to get to bed. Not going back to that again - working out 2-3 times a week.
yeah that'd be really nice - im not much into optimizing yet but planning on maybe specializing into Process optimization etc so it'd be nice to see some examples on some optimization that is more understandable and not super-complex.
You can reach me at the email-address on my user (mail-alias that reaches me).
Personally im supremely confident that they already have domination over the cell-phone markets, bot OS and phone, and Nokia will be the next big player on the PDA-markets (are already actually) with their internet-enabled communicators etc.
There is no chance in hell that Windows CE will ever become a bigger player on Cell-phones imo. It will also become smaller on the PDA front when Nokia whips up more Phone/PDA's that are of superior quality.
Actually it isnt all that easy as it seems - I dont know how many restaurants there are in your town but it seems like if you want to make best solution you'd have to optimize it and depending on how many people, restaurants etc it might become some quite heavy calculations. Optimizing is surprisingly heavy on the comp and it becomes amazingly complex if you have several players and try to go back further than a week to make everything be ok.
And surprise surprise, not everyone would still be happy:). but that's human nature:)
Dont get my wrong - it sounds like an intresting little home-project to code, i mean some people code kernels and windowmanagers for fun:)
.. to give any direct advice since you didnt specify how large this budget is and what kinda stuff you already have at the university but..
Personally i study at a university and things that i would like to have improved are the amounts of terminals around campus to check email from.. Maybe somekinda thin-client/server system that allows you to access the uni-servers to check mail/news (slashdot;)).
Also i doubt that very many universities have enough of they're lecture data on the web - which is really helpful. If the budget is large enough you could hire someone or a few persons to help the lecturers that arent so computer-literate to "digitize" lecture materials and extra material aswell as make good homepages for the courses with links to relevant sites etc. We have those on some of the courses and they are great! More of those would be really neat - preferrably from all courses.
... Just a few kind suggestions - please be gentle:)
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its always the same way :).
I did the same actually - and with summer job money aswell so i feel your pain but im not actually all that upset. computers get upgraded all the time and if i started to wait i'd wait for ages. now i've had my 600MHz for alittle over a month and im really happy enough with it for years to come im sure.
if you start waiting and waiting you'll never get anything bought. buy stuff when you have the money/need for it..
There are other's than NASA too - dont think NASA is the only one around just because they were first. For instance European Countries put money into European Space Agency and have own telescopes etc. not like americans put money into that ;). ESA is also doing their part on ISS.
If you're not into gaming - give Matrox a try. they arent super-fast in 3D but they are awesome for workstation usage and desktop usage. Drivers for atleast my G-400 are extremely good. Dualhead is nice aswell - once you try two screens you'll never want to go back...
I thought it said alittle over 5000 processors? :). Though Google is built upon "commodity" hardware and tweaked for massive database-stuff and not for scientific calculations. This Japanese computer is a real supercomputer and Google is the worlds largest and fastest database. two totally different things.
And how long do you think it takes for a country as advanced as Japan to make nukes if forced to? What makes you think there arent plans ready for it - just that they havent been done yet... hell countries like Pakistan can make nukes - its not all that high tech after all.
What do you use it for? i was looking for somekinda way to migrate threads in programs i write to several computers but from what i read it didnt seem like a good idea to run a threaded java-app cause it wouldnt migrate anyways. Think it was because it used shared memory or something like that. I hope i understood it wrong but i stopped looking into it when it seemed that there is no real reason for me to run any kinda cluster unless i want to code "real" parallell code which i dont need for the stuff i code - yet atleast.
Why cant IBM give away the binaries of people are still using it? I mean there cant be a huge amount of people actually buying it is there?
Yeah im sure you can find old servers running DHCP or something like that in the dark corners of server rooms etc but once they get upgraded they get another OS than OS/2?
Personally im still studying and dont have money to buy OS's which is why I use Linux (and the fact that everything i have to do can be done there) but wouldnt mind trying out OS/2 just for the kicks of it. Anyone know if IBM has somekinda educational license or cheap/free upgrade? I know i have OS/2 Warp 3 cd's somewhere which i never did anything with but would like to have the version 4 of it. (Got the Warp cd's just by paying the postal fee's for them or something like that).
Is there any reason anyone should use OS/2 these days? seriously?
The Register's post about Google and CoS - like the others that replied said - El Reg runs on business time - european such. so they arent as fast as the "geek-based" websites. Kinda annoying when there's no new news during Weekends but the stuff they write is good.
Nuclear facilities might be disabled by flying in a plane into them but you can rest assured that the core where the nuclear-stuff is will not be damaged without a nuke.
With disabled i mean having transformator-station disabled so they cant put the electricity onto the grid. Would take a month or so to clean up the mess and be back i'd wager. Modern nuclear plants dont need anyone to press the panic-button either, if the plant fails or the controls fail the rods will cool themselves down without any intervention (no automation either here - just plain gravity etc).
The amount of uranium that we know of or have digged up might be for 10 years supply but there are more of it but there just isnt any use to look for it before we start building more nuclear power. If im not totally mistaken they predict that there should be atleast 100 years worth of Uranium around if we start looking for it even abit more.
Also new reactors use alot less uranium than the old ones that these calculations probably have been based on.
Thanks, I just owe you my laugh of the day - went to that site and browsed around for a few secs when my eyes fell on this language: Anal.
apparently a small language in India.. :)
Doesnt FreeBSD have quite good support for linux-binaries? i thought you could basically run anything compiled on a linux-system on freebsd with little or no performance-degration (sp?)? and last time i checked FreeBSD could install RPM aswell so i cant see any real reason for not using FreeBSD except of course SAP might only give support on RedHat-systems etc and not FreeBSD?
either way im running linux - just tested FreeBSD for awhile but didnt figure out for instance how to make MPlayer use _extremely_ well optimized drivers for my G-400 that are aviable as kernel modules for linux.
You really think a mainframe can get a powerfailure?! Seriously - you ever been to a site that has even a smaller mainframe? most sites like that have multiple huge UPS-systems and if the system is abit more important they have backup generators aswell. The tech's taking care of the mainframe are really sloppy if they get a mainframe to go down in an unorderly fashion.
This is very true - you dont really use bullet-"proof" vests because it doesnt help when youre fighting against rifles - atleast the version that most of us will fight against (7.62mm, AK-47 etc). If you want bullet-proof you probably need a suit that is about the size that the guys in bomb-squad is wearing.
:)
Bullet-proof vests are good against shrapnel though from artillery fire or bombing so they're not entirely useless. just limited use against say a rifle.
hope that helps
Same thing over here in Finland.. a bitch isnt it :(
There really isnt any idea - imho - to use a box of 486's or Pentiums. You can basically use a couple of older comps for firewalling and a small http/ftp/whatever-server but what then? no idea trying to build up a cluster of them since you can buy a cheap Duron or something and you'll have way more power for less hassle (unless you just want to toy around which is fine).
But, again imo, it's alot geekier and cooler to have that firewall or small http-server running on a piece of hardware that is exotic while maybe not much more powerful than a Pentium. Which is probably why they are abit more expensive than that run-of-the-mill Pentium.
.. they'd have of those over here in Finland but im guess im all out of luck. Haven't seen any Alphas for sale except for a small shop that sold off old Alphas and Sparcs for insane prices. "local ebay" doesnt really hold any either though i check there every now and then..
I just wish there was a real computer recycling company/organisation that people would give they're old comps to that would more or less give the stuff away and if intrest for some particular machine hasnt been sparked for say 2 weeks they'd take it to the real recycling center. Of course there isnt really any money in a company working that way which is why there isnt one but it'd be neat.. (another what-to-do if I happen to win a lottery, would be a fun project
I personally hate all these studies that say "this and that" is bad for you. It's general joke in Finland that Swedes can always find everything to be dangerous - they were the first ones to find out that abnormal amounts of talking on cell-phones might increase your risk of cancer. So what - i dont talk all day on a cell-phone if i can help it? Also saw this funny scientific research that cell-phones would increase fertility for some odd reason.. wouldnt put much trust it that though ;).
im sorry I cant help you with your sleeping problem but it is quite personal how hard it is to get to sleep and wake up etc.
I've always been the one that has an easy time getting sleep, sleep 7-8h and wake up real easy. real easy being im on my feet when the first ring sounds from my clock.
I have worked graveyard shift, morning shift and all different versions and havent had much of a problem. (graveyard last summer for 3months).
I know this is slashdot, the nerd mekka, but have you tried to workout regularly? it helps alot - i had a 6month period when i didnt workout much and noticed how much more tired i was during days and how much harder it was to get to bed. Not going back to that again - working out 2-3 times a week.
Yeah I agree with the other replier - let us know what kinda hardware that would be. Personally i'd be intrested to know atleast...
yeah that'd be really nice - im not much into optimizing yet but planning on maybe specializing into Process optimization etc so it'd be nice to see some examples on some optimization that is more understandable and not super-complex.
:)
You can reach me at the email-address on my user (mail-alias that reaches me).
And thanks alot
Personally im supremely confident that they already have domination over the cell-phone markets, bot OS and phone, and Nokia will be the next big player on the PDA-markets (are already actually) with their internet-enabled communicators etc.
There is no chance in hell that Windows CE will ever become a bigger player on Cell-phones imo. It will also become smaller on the PDA front when Nokia whips up more Phone/PDA's that are of superior quality.
Actually it isnt all that easy as it seems - I dont know how many restaurants there are in your town but it seems like if you want to make best solution you'd have to optimize it and depending on how many people, restaurants etc it might become some quite heavy calculations. Optimizing is surprisingly heavy on the comp and it becomes amazingly complex if you have several players and try to go back further than a week to make everything be ok.
:). but that's human nature :)
:)
And surprise surprise, not everyone would still be happy
Dont get my wrong - it sounds like an intresting little home-project to code, i mean some people code kernels and windowmanagers for fun
.. to give any direct advice since you didnt specify how large this budget is and what kinda stuff you already have at the university but.. ;)).
:)
Personally i study at a university and things that i would like to have improved are the amounts of terminals around campus to check email from.. Maybe somekinda thin-client/server system that allows you to access the uni-servers to check mail/news (slashdot
Also i doubt that very many universities have enough of they're lecture data on the web - which is really helpful. If the budget is large enough you could hire someone or a few persons to help the lecturers that arent so computer-literate to "digitize" lecture materials and extra material aswell as make good homepages for the courses with links to relevant sites etc. We have those on some of the courses and they are great! More of those would be really neat - preferrably from all courses.
... Just a few kind suggestions - please be gentle
Yeah well not everyone has fat pipes to the Internet I guess - its pretty expensive...
:)
Why would it be tough to be bilingual when you get hit in the head btw?