Except in the wild, they don't swim all day from dawn to dusk. It depends on the species, but most penguins spend most of the day sitting around on the ice, or meandering about lazily.
Swimming around in circles all day could be a sign of a problem.
I see very few informed opinions about Compaq on this thread. Compaq has it's fingers in a LOT of pies, and they do a pretty damn good job of tasting them all. Compaq created the first PC BIOS, the first portable PC, and has been a dominant (typically top dog) force in the PC industry for over 20 years.
Now, that's what you hear from the media, and perhaps from passing knowledge. Most people don't realize that Compaq has been, and is currently, a major innovator in Intel-based and Alpha-based server technology, handheld devices, networking technology, storage area networks, clustering, Operating Systems development, and ultra-high-end servers. Compaq is so much more than a PC-clone OEM that it's ridiculous that people see that as the entirety of the company.
Anyone who has actually *worked* with the professional workstations (Deskpro) or the mainstream servers (Proliant) knows that they are a joy to work with, and a breeze to maintain. Compaq goes to great lengths to ensure a better product than their competitors, and they do a damn good job. Compaq sells more storage equipment than it's next three competitors combined. They sell more mainstream internet servers than anyone in the world. And you know why? Because they make a better product.
A Presario is intended to do exactly what they sell it for, give the home user a carefree experience. If you want to run the latest and greatest stuff, don't buy a presario. If you want to give your grandmother a new machine, buy a Presario.
I'm typing this on a Compaq Presario 1700-465, the finest laptop I've ever owned. It's well engineered, and is a great machine. I *know*, however, that whatever I want to do with it, I can. It's multi-booting RedHat 7, Win2k Pro, MSDOS 6, and FreeBSD. If you know what you're getting in to, Presario machines are exactly what you'd expect for a low-cost PC.
I've given this very thing a try on multiproc boxes and VMWare. It does *not* scale well, mostly because of the VM overhead. The software overhead is massively innefficient. It's worth the extra 50-60 dollars for the whole extra box (at least in the beowulf environment.) The mainframe boys have the nice advantage of having the "emulation" done in hardware. There's no reason to strain performance like this.
Funny thing is, we can't predict this stuff in advance. Of all the civilian technology I've been privy to, nothing will give us much more than a days warning of a NEO. Glare from the sun, as well as the fact that the asteroids don't radiate anything (glow) combine to make it hard to spot them. And that's all based upon the assumption that we're looking at the precisely correct portion of the sky at precisely the right moment. Keep in mind that space is big (real big,) and it gets harder to find things the farther they are away from the planet.
I know a lot of the flak that has been thrown up towards the largest of terrestrial telescopes is in the general direction of atmospheric aberration. Space-based platforms obviously don't have this, and so can "compensate" for the image degredation by having smaller overall aperatures.
Does the VLT, and will the OWL(T) have real-time or near real-time corrective optics? Further, do you think this can really help enough to justify the construction of land-based telescopes of this magnitude?
I'd really like to know what you think the trade-off here is. I really respect all of the work and effort that you've put into the science so far. Keep up the good work!
anyone else notice that they have, at every turn, pushed forward caldera as the god distro? look at the comparison page, they list drdos, dosemu and wabi as solely belonging to Caldera, and that's the only application-based info they give on that page....
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Except in the wild, they don't swim all day from dawn to dusk. It depends on the species, but most penguins spend most of the day sitting around on the ice, or meandering about lazily.
Swimming around in circles all day could be a sign of a problem.
Wrong. This article came out today, in the Cryptogram, which comes out Monthly on the 15th. As such, it was not reported last week. :)
He *did* crack PDFs in the US. He did it at his talk. Twice. I was there. :)
{|}---Tony Hagale -- tony@hagale.net -- http://tony.hagale.net
I see very few informed opinions about Compaq on this thread. Compaq has it's fingers in a LOT of pies, and they do a pretty damn good job of tasting them all. Compaq created the first PC BIOS, the first portable PC, and has been a dominant (typically top dog) force in the PC industry for over 20 years.
Now, that's what you hear from the media, and perhaps from passing knowledge. Most people don't realize that Compaq has been, and is currently, a major innovator in Intel-based and Alpha-based server technology, handheld devices, networking technology, storage area networks, clustering, Operating Systems development, and ultra-high-end servers. Compaq is so much more than a PC-clone OEM that it's ridiculous that people see that as the entirety of the company.
Anyone who has actually *worked* with the professional workstations (Deskpro) or the mainstream servers (Proliant) knows that they are a joy to work with, and a breeze to maintain. Compaq goes to great lengths to ensure a better product than their competitors, and they do a damn good job. Compaq sells more storage equipment than it's next three competitors combined. They sell more mainstream internet servers than anyone in the world. And you know why? Because they make a better product.
A Presario is intended to do exactly what they sell it for, give the home user a carefree experience. If you want to run the latest and greatest stuff, don't buy a presario. If you want to give your grandmother a new machine, buy a Presario.
I'm typing this on a Compaq Presario 1700-465, the finest laptop I've ever owned. It's well engineered, and is a great machine. I *know*, however, that whatever I want to do with it, I can. It's multi-booting RedHat 7, Win2k Pro, MSDOS 6, and FreeBSD. If you know what you're getting in to, Presario machines are exactly what you'd expect for a low-cost PC.
{|}---Tony Hagale -- tony@hagale.net -- http://tony.hagale.net
I've given this very thing a try on multiproc boxes and VMWare. It does *not* scale well, mostly because of the VM overhead. The software overhead is massively innefficient. It's worth the extra 50-60 dollars for the whole extra box (at least in the beowulf environment.) The mainframe boys have the nice advantage of having the "emulation" done in hardware. There's no reason to strain performance like this.
{|}---Tony Hagale -- tony@hagale.net -- http://tony.hagale.net
From the w3 page:
This version supports Linux 2.2.x and Linux 2.3.x.
{|}---Tony Hagale -- tony@hagale.net -- http://tony.hagale.net
Funny thing is, we can't predict this stuff in advance. Of all the civilian technology I've been privy to, nothing will give us much more than a days warning of a NEO. Glare from the sun, as well as the fact that the asteroids don't radiate anything (glow) combine to make it hard to spot them. And that's all based upon the assumption that we're looking at the precisely correct portion of the sky at precisely the right moment. Keep in mind that space is big (real big,) and it gets harder to find things the farther they are away from the planet.
{|}---Tony Hagale -- tony@hagale.net -- http://tony.hagale.net
Chris,
I know a lot of the flak that has been thrown up towards the largest of terrestrial telescopes is in the general direction of atmospheric aberration. Space-based platforms obviously don't have this, and so can "compensate" for the image degredation by having smaller overall aperatures.
Does the VLT, and will the OWL(T) have real-time or near real-time corrective optics? Further, do you think this can really help enough to justify the construction of land-based telescopes of this magnitude?
I'd really like to know what you think the trade-off here is. I really respect all of the work and effort that you've put into the science so far. Keep up the good work!
Thanks,
Tony
{|}---Tony Hagale -- tony@hagale.net -- http://tony.hagale.net
anyone else notice that they have, at every turn, pushed forward caldera as the god distro? look at the comparison page, they list drdos, dosemu and wabi as solely belonging to Caldera, and that's the only application-based info they give on that page....
--tony
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I wrote up a nice little response, and had it bounced back before I saw this comment....Anyone found a valid address yet?
--tony
{|}--\/\/\--Tony Hagale -- tony@hagale.net