Check with the maker of your PC to see what type of memory it requires. Prices varies depending on the source and type, but use $50 per 128 MB as a benchmark.
$50 per 128MB?!!?! After a quick look at Crucial, they have their top DDR 256MB sticks at around $50. That's half what this guy is telling people.
I've been writing some articles about OSCAR and some of the projects that are related that are being developed at NCSA and other places. You can find the latest version of this newsletter at the Linux Developer Newsletter site.
analog face buttons that feel just like digital click switches--WHY?? (really, they should have made the 4 triggers analog, although they would have probably still ended up being cheap feeling)
Actually, as mentioned on Sony's site, all the buttons on the PS2 controller are analog, not just the face buttons. However, they do still all feel like digital on/off buttons.
So many people say that DSL is more reliable, even if it does have slightly lower speeds. In my town (a large University town), DSL is just as expensive as cable. Unfortunately, you only get 768kbps download speeds with DSL. My cable connection gives me routine download speeds of 400kBps (roughly 3mbps). As for reliability, I've had fewer problems with my cable connection than friends who pay for business DSL connections (which cost about twice as much as my cable connection).
I notice that they don't even use subversion themselves. Instead, they use a seemingly closed-source commercial product called SourceCast.
At work, we use CVS. While not everyone on the project uses it well, we end up using it effectively. We have had problems with people accidentally backing out changes because they didn't check their `cvs diff`, but other than that no other real problems.
Grand Theft Auto is now a Sony Exclusive franchise
Umm... it's coming out for PC. It's running on Windows. It's not as anti-Microsoft as you'd like, it just proves that the Xbox wasn't worth the time MS spent on it.
These are the three things to consider in your situation. College seems to be a good option, but you have to pick the right major. At my school [uiuc.edu], the CS program is purely software development. There is no instruction in shell scripting, Perl, or anything except Java (intro course) and C/C++. This does not provide a good background for a sysadmin by itself.
OTOH, we have the NCSA [ncsa.uiuc.edu] here, which provides many great opportunities. They don't offer a lot of jobs for students, but if you keep a close watch on the job listings, you can find one. I'm working on a project [oscar.sf.net] learning a lot about real sysadmin tasks, cluster admin, and software development. All this while learning how to really program in shell and Perl better than any CS class here ever taught me any other language.
Take my advice: go to college and work while you're there.
There actually is an option to do just this. Look around in the text saving settings. Sorry, I'd give more info but I'm away from my home computer (where I have it installed). It's a checkbox that says something about storing compressed XML files or normal ones.
Evolution is my regular e-mail client in Linux, and there is supposed to be some plugin/extension available from Ximian that allows it to interact with Exchange servers.
I used to work for the local (independent) college bookstore (Illini Union Bookstore), and we had access to Books in Print in both dead tree (very old) and web-based (shared a login with our university's library) formats. While the information was usually very good and very reliable, there were many problems.
Do you have any old books? BIP can be very unreliable when trying to find books published before 1980. Even still, BIP doesn't include information on all the different editions of a particular book, so your ISBN may not yield any results.
Speaking of no results, the search feature on BIP is incredibly unreliable. You can search for an ISBN, not find a book, then search for the title and come up with a book with the ISBN you just searched for. Try putting that ISBN back into the search box and it doesn't work! Sometimes you get what you want, sometimes you don't.
Aside from searching for basic bibliographic information (title, author, illustrator if any, publisher info, etc.), pricing and availability information (available for most books in BIP's database) are not up-to-date as they report them to be. Many times we ordered books and the publisher told us the books were priced very differently from what BIP told us. Good luck getting an accurate estimate of how much your book collection is worth!
In the end, a book database like cddb's cd database or even better, like imdb's movie database including reviews and ratings would help people organize and maintain their private collections, and would help bookstore employees get their job done. If only the book database software our bookstore used had the ability to access an outside database like that!
They are apparently hyping that Unix is an expensive money trap.
I thought M$ software was the biggest money trap for businesses? Let's see: $100 for the OS, $500 or so for Office... Maybe RedHat should run some ads saying they have the way out. At least RedHat lives up to the claims M$ is making.
As someone who works on making clusters of Itaniums (and soon McKinleys), I must say that I love the performance they offer, but the architecture has a few ideosyncracies (like elilo).
From what I know, all.org sites must be for not-for-profit information. Since when is the current content of the site (pr0n) not-for-profit? Aren't page views (thanks to the slashdot effect) or click-throughs by definition for-profit?
If you REALLY want the domain back, you can probably get it shut down on those grounds.
Is it just me, or is this a dumb idea? I mean, why bother with a cluster if you aren't exploiting some OTHER computer's resources. You might as well just run the job directly under Linux--you'd get the same performance (probably better).
So why did you click on the article? And why are YOU bothering to read Slashdot? Where are your priorities? Your mother would be disappointed for your lack of decent prioritization.
Anyway... I just got a job working with the NCSA as part of a project called OSCAR. It's basically an open-source solution to the problem of creating a cluster. I'm part of the team working on documentation and training materials for people trying to implement OSCAR. I can say, from my own experience, that installing a cluster (even only with 4 PCs) is not a simple task. OSCAR is still young as far as software development goes, but it will do the job well once it is finished.
For those interested, OSCAR 2.0 is on its way soon.
Slashdot Mirror
Top of the line model: Quid Pro
Base model: Status
Windows model: Vadis
It's jerry-rigged, not "jury-rigged," dammit!
Actually, it is "jury-rigged".
So far, every search I have made, from names of people, companies, class names, etc. yielded results that didn't even contain the search term(s).
Fuzzy searching is one thing, but at least TRY to get an exact match and let me know when you're just taking the first 2 characters of a search term.
The link in the story to OSCAR 3.0 should be to http://oscar.sourceforge.net The other site is just the parent organization's info page.
I've been writing some articles about OSCAR and some of the projects that are related that are being developed at NCSA and other places. You can find the latest version of this newsletter at the Linux Developer Newsletter site.
Where's the rest of the Axis of Evil? Iraq and Afghanistan are mentioned as levels in the full version, but do we get to blow up North Korea as well?
So many people say that DSL is more reliable, even if it does have slightly lower speeds. In my town (a large University town), DSL is just as expensive as cable. Unfortunately, you only get 768kbps download speeds with DSL. My cable connection gives me routine download speeds of 400kBps (roughly 3mbps). As for reliability, I've had fewer problems with my cable connection than friends who pay for business DSL connections (which cost about twice as much as my cable connection).
'All of the sudden it is OK to (put) something other than Windows.' is not a complete sentence!!!
The sentence should read 'All of the sudden it is OK to (put) something other than Windows' on these machines .
These editors must be too busy to parse sentences properly... don't we all know put takes two objects?
When HP finds out that news.com is publishing a link to the exploit, they'll probably want to shut them down too.
I notice that they don't even use subversion themselves. Instead, they use a seemingly closed-source commercial product called SourceCast.
At work, we use CVS. While not everyone on the project uses it well, we end up using it effectively. We have had problems with people accidentally backing out changes because they didn't check their `cvs diff`, but other than that no other real problems.
Grand Theft Auto is now a Sony Exclusive franchise
Umm... it's coming out for PC. It's running on Windows. It's not as anti-Microsoft as you'd like, it just proves that the Xbox wasn't worth the time MS spent on it.
These are the three things to consider in your situation. College seems to be a good option, but you have to pick the right major. At my school [uiuc.edu], the CS program is purely software development. There is no instruction in shell scripting, Perl, or anything except Java (intro course) and C/C++. This does not provide a good background for a sysadmin by itself.
OTOH, we have the NCSA [ncsa.uiuc.edu] here, which provides many great opportunities. They don't offer a lot of jobs for students, but if you keep a close watch on the job listings, you can find one. I'm working on a project [oscar.sf.net] learning a lot about real sysadmin tasks, cluster admin, and software development. All this while learning how to really program in shell and Perl better than any CS class here ever taught me any other language.
Take my advice: go to college and work while you're there.
There actually is an option to do just this. Look around in the text saving settings. Sorry, I'd give more info but I'm away from my home computer (where I have it installed). It's a checkbox that says something about storing compressed XML files or normal ones.
Hope it helps
Evolution is my regular e-mail client in Linux, and there is supposed to be some plugin/extension available from Ximian that allows it to interact with Exchange servers.
Hope it helps.
I used to work for the local (independent) college bookstore (Illini Union Bookstore), and we had access to Books in Print in both dead tree (very old) and web-based (shared a login with our university's library) formats. While the information was usually very good and very reliable, there were many problems.
Do you have any old books? BIP can be very unreliable when trying to find books published before 1980. Even still, BIP doesn't include information on all the different editions of a particular book, so your ISBN may not yield any results.
Speaking of no results, the search feature on BIP is incredibly unreliable. You can search for an ISBN, not find a book, then search for the title and come up with a book with the ISBN you just searched for. Try putting that ISBN back into the search box and it doesn't work! Sometimes you get what you want, sometimes you don't.
Aside from searching for basic bibliographic information (title, author, illustrator if any, publisher info, etc.), pricing and availability information (available for most books in BIP's database) are not up-to-date as they report them to be. Many times we ordered books and the publisher told us the books were priced very differently from what BIP told us. Good luck getting an accurate estimate of how much your book collection is worth!
In the end, a book database like cddb's cd database or even better, like imdb's movie database including reviews and ratings would help people organize and maintain their private collections, and would help bookstore employees get their job done. If only the book database software our bookstore used had the ability to access an outside database like that!
I wonder if these MP3s will be traded on Napster, Gnutella, etc... And what if someone figured out how to synthesize stuff from the songs.
Imagine hearing "Chromosome 10, #452" by the Scientists (of UIUC).
What will those nasty sections of DNA sound like? OTOH, what do green eyes sound like?
Maybe I'll be able to hear my own song one day, but until then I'll just have to dream.
They are apparently hyping that Unix is an expensive money trap.
I thought M$ software was the biggest money trap for businesses? Let's see: $100 for the OS, $500 or so for Office... Maybe RedHat should run some ads saying they have the way out. At least RedHat lives up to the claims M$ is making.
Let's first take a look at Intel's Big Chip from Feb. 4th. and look at ExtremeTech's article about 64-bit chips.
As someone who works on making clusters of Itaniums (and soon McKinleys), I must say that I love the performance they offer, but the architecture has a few ideosyncracies (like elilo).
From what I know, all .org sites must be for not-for-profit information. Since when is the current content of the site (pr0n) not-for-profit? Aren't page views (thanks to the slashdot effect) or click-throughs by definition for-profit?
If you REALLY want the domain back, you can probably get it shut down on those grounds.
Unless this is highly optimized, why not just use VMWare?
Is it just me, or is this a dumb idea? I mean, why bother with a cluster if you aren't exploiting some OTHER computer's resources. You might as well just run the job directly under Linux--you'd get the same performance (probably better).
So why did you click on the article? And why are YOU bothering to read Slashdot? Where are your priorities? Your mother would be disappointed for your lack of decent prioritization.
I'm a first time poster, so please bear with me.
Anyway... I just got a job working with the NCSA as part of a project called OSCAR. It's basically an open-source solution to the problem of creating a cluster. I'm part of the team working on documentation and training materials for people trying to implement OSCAR. I can say, from my own experience, that installing a cluster (even only with 4 PCs) is not a simple task. OSCAR is still young as far as software development goes, but it will do the job well once it is finished.
For those interested, OSCAR 2.0 is on its way soon.