The issue with revenue raising is actually bigger than you think. Once allowed to make serious money off tickets the entire mood of the department changes. The state patrol here got in trouble because they where not allowed to leave once they had pulled somebody over until a ticket had been issued. So if somebody 300 yards down the road started shooting they would get introuble if they didn't ticket the offender.
Add to that the "vauge" traffic laws and often people being ticketed just didn't have a clue what the law was at that time. In Salt Lake City it is common to only have one or two speed limit signs over a streach of a mile or two. Whats worse is that often the speed limit changes and no sign is put up. Where Fourth South turns into Foothill the speed limit changes and there is no sign. Where Foothill becomes I214 the speed goes from 40 to 65 with a minimum of 45. There is no sign for almost an 1/8 of a mile to notify drivers of this.
The worst abuse of "revinue collecting" is the highway cities in Idaho. The speed limit goes from 55 to 25 anytime you enter city limits and they make it a point to put bushes infront of the signs. Instand $130 ticket right there. Worst case is the sign going into Cascade. It got knocked over a few years back and it took a year and a half to fix.
This sounds exactly like the stuff that comes out of Utah (I live in Utah so I hear it day after day)
All that stuff is great, and I am sure it would have helped YOU. Tough tests would have prevented me from passing any classes. I do not do well on tests even if I know the material inside out. As an example, in a math class I took in Jr. High I walked away with 110% in the class due to large ammounts of bonus points I recieved for "wow"ing the teacher. Problem is that I got nothing but 60% or less on the tests.
I now play the bass but if I would have been forced to play in grade school I know for sure that I never would have been interested. I can not learn in groups at all. Its one of the reasons that I ended up being homeschooled. I need one on one interaction so I can leach knowledge from my instructor. I also need to know be held by self doubt created from perorming infront of others.
Manditory civil service? Ever research the draft? If people don't want to serve do not force them. The military clearly states that it doesn't want drafted people.
More PE?! I was nearly killed by the PE in my school. I am not kidding. Until I was 18 I was really under weight. (130lb and 6'3" tall at 17) I could not gain weight. Problem was that everybody thought that exercise is exactly what I needed. As soon as the super regiment of pushups and quarter mile runs went away I gained 40lb. My back doesn't give me grief anymore and I am at a much lower risk for screwing up my knees.
Paddle huh? Ever actually dealt with kids? Know how the paddle works at all? I grew up in a daycare (my mom ran one for 12 years) and I was a professionally trained babysitter. I can tell you that while it works for some kids all to often it it a short term cost and the kids know it. Yes, hold them accountable but the paddle is NOT the answer to this.
Same sex schools? I went to co-ed schools and was homeschooled. I am now in a program that is almost completly male. I never "chased tail" so to speak so that taints my view quite a bit but either program seems to have its fair share of distractions.
Pay teachers more? My neighbor swears against this. He is a high school level instructor that was awarded all sorts of teaching merits and awards. He thinks that if the pay is raised that it will only draw many people into the money, rather than the interest in actually educating children. I can not have an opinion on this one though because I am not a professional educator.
Notice that all these are ways your ideas would have hindered ME. Thats not to say that they do not work at all, just that using them as a blanket excuse is a really bad idea.
make it compulsory to learn a foreign language (starting early enough), and keep it for at least 7-8 years. It may not help much with the other school subject, but it'll certainly give us people who are less ignorant about the rest of the world, because they can educate themselves, once they become adults, about other points of view...
don't homeschool
Bwhahaha! This shows that you have never even looked at homeschooling. I got my HED at 15 and my AAS at 17. How? I was homeschooled through high school. My computer education came from some of the area tech companies. My science education came from a local chemists lab. My math education came from a math professor down the street. Think thats rare? Its not. Homeschooling parents that actually care about there kids usually give them 10 times the education that they will ever get out of public schools. Homeschoolers in my area scored 10% higher than public schoolers on virtually every test they took (ITBS, TAPS, etc) Homeschools also got into advanced placement classes far more often and usually graduated earlier. Homeschoolers had the most active clubs of any orginization in the valley and we usually had a much higher turn out to community events.
Before you keep harping on homeschoolers you might want to actually research how it works for most students. You also might want to research how well homeschoolers do after high school. All my friends have a BS/BA, many are working on MS/MA. Everybody that I know that homeschooled scored well above average on the SATs.
stop inflating grades (a recent article reflected on how many schools now have so many valedictorians (one in Seattle actually had 47 valedictorians!) that many have had to dispense with the tradition of having valedictorian address the graduating classes). (The New Yorker article is here and is a long, but worthwhile read.)
Guess what? My schools Math department pushed hard to stop inflating grades. The result was that very few students stuck with math and all the classes that required math classes suffered. So long as a single school in the nation is inflating grades everybody else has to do it or they are just hurting there own students.
The Computer Science Club at Boise State University just did a presentation for ~6th graders. We presented on the inner workings of AI by showing them the complete production of a evaluation tree using a java program we wrote.
Here is the download page for it. (I know I know! The site is default template. We just setup the new software last weekend so give us a break =)
Not sure if this helps younger kids get fired up but I did work for 6th graders. =) Its also fun to watch it generate and draw the tree.
I always wonder why Apple seems to be so popular for HPC? I mean, Apple makes good hardware and a very nice OS an all, but each compute node is so expensive that it doesn't seem worth it. To buy an compute node with roughly the same power costs half as much if you use Xeon or Athlon processors with support contracts with a large company. I had to design several clusters with a price limit of of $120,000. We could get 45-60 Apple boxes, or 240 Intel boxes. Yes the Xeon boxes where slower, but with almost 5 times as many boxes you get 5 times the memory, 5 times the disk space per node, and such. If your program is that processor dependant (or can't scale beyond a few nodes) you can run several copies at once. The power consumption of an Apple was almost the same as an Intel last I heard and the heat produced is almost exactly the same. Granted over several dozen/hundred nodes this can be a difference but it doesn't seem like nearly enough to make it worth $2k a node.
So my question is this. What makes Apple worth the money as a compute node? (I am not asking for desktops and such, only compute nodes) Anybody out there have a chance to do the purchasing for an Apple cluster? We always come back to Intel because of the cost so it would be nice to see the other side of the coin.
Grid computing is the concept of using distributed resources as one big resource. For example, Boise State currently uses all of the computers in the Engineering labs as a super computer when classes are not in session. Micron Technology uses all of its desktop systems as one big super computer.
Todd Tannebaum just gave an exec lent keynote at Boise State's HPC Workshop. He explained that while computing power has increased on a system by system basis, the total available computing power to a single person has actually decreased. For example, if you wanted all the computing resources in the 70's you simply logged into the department computer. Now you can't do that. You get a fraction of the total power in the department. Grid computing is attempting to fix that by using the desktop systems together as a big super computer.
For more information on Grid Computing check out Condor. It is a super powerfull grid computing environment.
Over the sumer I worked under a NIH sponsored grant (the BRIN/INBRE program). All of the research projects presented where public. Granted it was all university research and not private companies. Either way, I wrote some spine modeling software and to my knowledge I am required to release it open source (As I would anyways, though I would go GPL over PD personally.) About the only thing I can think of is that there where added requirements to the initial NIH grant by the BRIN/INBRE or BSU groups.
If your intrested, the pdf of the power I presented (warning, almost 3 megs) can be found here.
While I agree with you on some counts you are missing it on a bigger scale. If I write a program that may be used on many different platforms, including a 16 bit, 32 bit, and 64 bit platform, I might write a check in to see that an integer never gets to large.
if (i > 65535)
bla;
This will generate a warning on the 16 bit system that we can safley ignore. (It doesn't know if we are aware of the always false property of that statement. I might also have 5 malloc() calls and one free(). Reason? Its all the same data. I wrote a program that was allocating data based on another fixed field in a structure. malloc() changed bassed of lots of different variables, but free() remained the same regardless. Should the program not compile? Should I have to add several free() lines in order to get the program to "work?"
Warnings are warnings and not errors for a reason. They may or may not be a problem. Its best to not have them, but there are many times where they are not an issue.
oooo....But it's Area51! Obviously they are hiding something behind those sensors.
Ha. If there ever was anything alien there (highly doubtful), it's long since been moved. Hangar 18, maybe?
They use sensors almost exactly like those on the US/Mexico border. I guess we are hiding something behind those sensors =) I bet there is aliens on the other side!
At the time there where many large format media types available. Tape, Jazz, Zip, portable HD all where in there prime. CD-RW discs couldn't be read in most CD-R drives and most earlier audio systems wouldn't read CD-R discs. There wasn't a big advantage to buying a CD-RW drive over other solutions. Zip drives where $100 and the discs where $2, when I bought my CD-RW discs where like $20 and CD-R discs where $.50, or $1.25 with a jewel.
I don't think we have to "get the word out." Most cool tech innovations make it into the mainstream if they are really good enough. I remember buying a CD-RW (4x2x2) for $400. Everybody thought I was stupid for spending so much on a piece of hardware. Later I spend $300 on a 64MB MP3 player. The guy at the desk told me that I shouldn't get a MP3 player because changing the media was really hard. Yet most people now have both of these gadgets. If Vorbis is license free and simple enough to put on a hardware chip then it will slowly gain support and slowly people will begin to see it.
That is the difference between an EEPROM and an EPROM. EPROM's are erased by UV light, while EEPROMS are erased using electricity. =) Its not really that bizzare once you know that. We had a system go offline because the sticker faded. It was odd and took a little while to figure out.
I don't know if you have looked at many of those other employers but most are not hiring right now! I am developing applications that are boring. But you know what? Im getting paid at the moment (well.. at least I think I am =) All those "In it for the toys" people are now sitting on there butts reading the help wanted section.
At home I used a Iogear $60 USB KVM that works really well for video but causes all sorts of problems with the USB keyboard setup under Linux on my Tiger 133a (There is a problem with linux on the via chipsets that cause it to not be able to use USB devices with SMP enabled)
At work we use Aten Masterview switches wich cause all sorts of problems. They meerly move the monitor, keyboard and mouse connectors through solid state switches. This is anoying because when a system reboots you get keyboard errors and things like that. (Yes, I know most BIOS's can disable these warnings.. but nto all of them =) We are slowly switching over to the Cybex A400 series KVM's. These switch boxes allow us to connect up to 48 computers into a single monitor/keyboard. (several 4 ports into a 16 port) They include on screen display and lots of other features. One really nice thing is that they only use a cat five cable between the switches and not normal keyboard/mouse/vga cables.
The major draw back to these switches is that they cost a LOT. (up to $20k for 48 systems) They do however display really well and flow the keyboard and mouse across all systems. They also can be setup to give users access to some systems but not all. So you could give your user the ability to access the workstation/test system next to the server but not the server itsself. Its really nifty =)
(And of course, this review comes our TWO days AFTER I purchase a new Belkin 4 port E-Series switch box =) The thing hasn't even gotten here yet!
Remember, with devfs/dev/hdxx don't exist until the defsd program is run. Setting up linux to boot from/dev/hda1 will cause it to fail because/dev/hda1 doesn't exist. Also, you can download and run MAKEDEV without any problems to convert to non devfsd. I have yet to see a single device that doesn't work (Not that they are not out there mind you..) ReiserFS has no problems what so ever with devfs as long as you select the right partition (not/dev/hdxx!) its usually/dev/discs/disc0/part0 or something like that (I am at work so I can not verify). the/dev/hda1 link is acually created by the devfsd. =) Read the devfs how-to before starting and you usually have no problems whatsoever.
makes my business professors argument that Microsoft has in no way hurt business.
The protests over Software Assurance arose because the program and the 2001 deadline to enroll were announced after enterprises had set budgets for this year. That meant enterprises likely had to either raid existing budgets or trim workforce to enroll.
If companies are laying people off just so they can afford the new Microsoft license system it is a sure sign that companies are being hurt by Microsoft's monopoly.
I am sure this is an extreme example, but even still, it makes you think..
Flash is still EXTREEMLY expensive. Companies like Micron and Samsung are always looks for ways to drop the cost of solid state drives. Currently I have only seen a 4.3G solid state drive as the largest (Sorry.. no link at the moment) and, while it was fast, it was also extreemly expensive. (In the several thousand range.) It may have been quiet, but it sucked power at a far greater rate than any spinning media drive. Solid state sounds good on paper, and for some tasks it is good, but you have to think of this as a one or the other setup..
Spinning Media vs Solid State Cheap vs Expensive (Pretty much no exceptions, no matter what you do silicon wafers are far more expensive than disks) Large vs Small (Solid state is still very restricted by speeds/sizes compaired to spinning media) Slow vs. Fast (With the right interface, if they both use IDE it really won't help that much) Small vs. Large power use (Even in a idle state flash sucks far more current than a motor. 11ma by 128 parts is 1.408a in its IDLE state) Loud vs. Quiet (Solid state is VERY quiet.. =)
So, pick two or three areas that you are concerned with. If you want all the performance of a flash drive, with the cost of a spinning media drive you won't get a very large drive. Or if you want a large drive that is cheap, you won't get a quiet and fast drive.
You know how the saying goes.. Good, Cheap, Fast... Pick two.
Build a gigantic structure with a flat smooth surface for a exterior and start carving all the names of the people that have died from radiation or nuclear weapon detonation.
(Okay, so its a rip off of the Vietnam memorial, but hey.. it has a powerful effect =)
There are lots of companies out there that recycle old computers.. They tear them down and recover all the rare metals and such (No sense trying to recycle silicon since it's not exactly hard to make and its hard to rebuild. However, the gold bonding wires (the wires that connect the metal pins on the package to the silicon wafer inside. The company that I work for recycles all chips that are damaged or not working properly (and sells as many of them as they can to people that don't need fast or reliable parts) This same process is used on PCB's, and other common components. The relative cost of removing a part and trying to reuse it (a Rpack for example) is too high for real world situations. Instead they simply recover the precious metals and call it a day. In time, just like cans/paper recycling, the process will get refined and improved and they may be able to catalog parts for reuse (a 5V regulator hasn't had many major changes in the last few years.. to reuse a regulator from a 486 in a power supply for a TV or something will not cause problems. (Recent ATX supplies require faster/better regulation, which means that an older regulator won't fit the required properties and such.)
Remember that the people he is going to be talking to are buisness people.. As long as he uses lots of big buzz words and stays away from anti-buisness words, like 'free', 'share', and such he should do fine =) These are buisness students, they don't care about freedom, they don't care about power.. they care about cost! RMS will start with 'Open source gives you free...' and then get chased off the stage by a mob of internet investores that lost lots of there parents money in the market slowdown!
(Acually.. marketing people are fine as long as they are kept in there cage and feed twice a day!) =)
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The issue with revenue raising is actually bigger than you think. Once allowed to make serious money off tickets the entire mood of the department changes. The state patrol here got in trouble because they where not allowed to leave once they had pulled somebody over until a ticket had been issued. So if somebody 300 yards down the road started shooting they would get introuble if they didn't ticket the offender.
Add to that the "vauge" traffic laws and often people being ticketed just didn't have a clue what the law was at that time. In Salt Lake City it is common to only have one or two speed limit signs over a streach of a mile or two. Whats worse is that often the speed limit changes and no sign is put up. Where Fourth South turns into Foothill the speed limit changes and there is no sign. Where Foothill becomes I214 the speed goes from 40 to 65 with a minimum of 45. There is no sign for almost an 1/8 of a mile to notify drivers of this.
The worst abuse of "revinue collecting" is the highway cities in Idaho. The speed limit goes from 55 to 25 anytime you enter city limits and they make it a point to put bushes infront of the signs. Instand $130 ticket right there. Worst case is the sign going into Cascade. It got knocked over a few years back and it took a year and a half to fix.
This sounds exactly like the stuff that comes out of Utah (I live in Utah so I hear it day after day)
All that stuff is great, and I am sure it would have helped YOU. Tough tests would have prevented me from passing any classes. I do not do well on tests even if I know the material inside out. As an example, in a math class I took in Jr. High I walked away with 110% in the class due to large ammounts of bonus points I recieved for "wow"ing the teacher. Problem is that I got nothing but 60% or less on the tests.
I now play the bass but if I would have been forced to play in grade school I know for sure that I never would have been interested. I can not learn in groups at all. Its one of the reasons that I ended up being homeschooled. I need one on one interaction so I can leach knowledge from my instructor. I also need to know be held by self doubt created from perorming infront of others.
Manditory civil service? Ever research the draft? If people don't want to serve do not force them. The military clearly states that it doesn't want drafted people.
More PE?! I was nearly killed by the PE in my school. I am not kidding. Until I was 18 I was really under weight. (130lb and 6'3" tall at 17) I could not gain weight. Problem was that everybody thought that exercise is exactly what I needed. As soon as the super regiment of pushups and quarter mile runs went away I gained 40lb. My back doesn't give me grief anymore and I am at a much lower risk for screwing up my knees.
Paddle huh? Ever actually dealt with kids? Know how the paddle works at all? I grew up in a daycare (my mom ran one for 12 years) and I was a professionally trained babysitter. I can tell you that while it works for some kids all to often it it a short term cost and the kids know it. Yes, hold them accountable but the paddle is NOT the answer to this.
Same sex schools? I went to co-ed schools and was homeschooled. I am now in a program that is almost completly male. I never "chased tail" so to speak so that taints my view quite a bit but either program seems to have its fair share of distractions.
Pay teachers more? My neighbor swears against this. He is a high school level instructor that was awarded all sorts of teaching merits and awards. He thinks that if the pay is raised that it will only draw many people into the money, rather than the interest in actually educating children. I can not have an opinion on this one though because I am not a professional educator.
Notice that all these are ways your ideas would have hindered ME. Thats not to say that they do not work at all, just that using them as a blanket excuse is a really bad idea.
make it compulsory to learn a foreign language (starting early enough), and keep it for at least 7-8 years. It may not help much with the other school subject, but it'll certainly give us people who are less ignorant about the rest of the world, because they can educate themselves, once they become adults, about other points of view...
don't homeschool
Bwhahaha! This shows that you have never even looked at homeschooling. I got my HED at 15 and my AAS at 17. How? I was homeschooled through high school. My computer education came from some of the area tech companies. My science education came from a local chemists lab. My math education came from a math professor down the street. Think thats rare? Its not. Homeschooling parents that actually care about there kids usually give them 10 times the education that they will ever get out of public schools. Homeschoolers in my area scored 10% higher than public schoolers on virtually every test they took (ITBS, TAPS, etc) Homeschools also got into advanced placement classes far more often and usually graduated earlier. Homeschoolers had the most active clubs of any orginization in the valley and we usually had a much higher turn out to community events.
Before you keep harping on homeschoolers you might want to actually research how it works for most students. You also might want to research how well homeschoolers do after high school. All my friends have a BS/BA, many are working on MS/MA. Everybody that I know that homeschooled scored well above average on the SATs.
stop inflating grades (a recent article reflected on how many schools now have so many valedictorians (one in Seattle actually had 47 valedictorians!) that many have had to dispense with the tradition of having valedictorian address the graduating classes). (The New Yorker article is here and is a long, but worthwhile read.)
Guess what? My schools Math department pushed hard to stop inflating grades. The result was that very few students stuck with math and all the classes that required math classes suffered. So long as a single school in the nation is inflating grades everybody else has to do it or they are just hurting there own students.
The Computer Science Club at Boise State University just did a presentation for ~6th graders. We presented on the inner workings of AI by showing them the complete production of a evaluation tree using a java program we wrote.
Here is the download page for it. (I know I know! The site is default template. We just setup the new software last weekend so give us a break =)
Not sure if this helps younger kids get fired up but I did work for 6th graders. =) Its also fun to watch it generate and draw the tree.
I always wonder why Apple seems to be so popular for HPC? I mean, Apple makes good hardware and a very nice OS an all, but each compute node is so expensive that it doesn't seem worth it. To buy an compute node with roughly the same power costs half as much if you use Xeon or Athlon processors with support contracts with a large company. I had to design several clusters with a price limit of of $120,000. We could get 45-60 Apple boxes, or 240 Intel boxes. Yes the Xeon boxes where slower, but with almost 5 times as many boxes you get 5 times the memory, 5 times the disk space per node, and such. If your program is that processor dependant (or can't scale beyond a few nodes) you can run several copies at once. The power consumption of an Apple was almost the same as an Intel last I heard and the heat produced is almost exactly the same. Granted over several dozen/hundred nodes this can be a difference but it doesn't seem like nearly enough to make it worth $2k a node.
So my question is this. What makes Apple worth the money as a compute node? (I am not asking for desktops and such, only compute nodes) Anybody out there have a chance to do the purchasing for an Apple cluster? We always come back to Intel because of the cost so it would be nice to see the other side of the coin.
Grid computing is the concept of using distributed resources as one big resource. For example, Boise State currently uses all of the computers in the Engineering labs as a super computer when classes are not in session. Micron Technology uses all of its desktop systems as one big super computer.
Todd Tannebaum just gave an exec lent keynote at Boise State's HPC Workshop. He explained that while computing power has increased on a system by system basis, the total available computing power to a single person has actually decreased. For example, if you wanted all the computing resources in the 70's you simply logged into the department computer. Now you can't do that. You get a fraction of the total power in the department. Grid computing is attempting to fix that by using the desktop systems together as a big super computer.
For more information on Grid Computing check out Condor. It is a super powerfull grid computing environment.
Over the sumer I worked under a NIH sponsored grant (the BRIN/INBRE program). All of the research projects presented where public. Granted it was all university research and not private companies. Either way, I wrote some spine modeling software and to my knowledge I am required to release it open source (As I would anyways, though I would go GPL over PD personally.) About the only thing I can think of is that there where added requirements to the initial NIH grant by the BRIN/INBRE or BSU groups.
If your intrested, the pdf of the power I presented (warning, almost 3 megs) can be found here.
While I agree with you on some counts you are missing it on a bigger scale. If I write a program that may be used on many different platforms, including a 16 bit, 32 bit, and 64 bit platform, I might write a check in to see that an integer never gets to large.
if (i > 65535)bla;
This will generate a warning on the 16 bit system that we can safley ignore. (It doesn't know if we are aware of the always false property of that statement. I might also have 5 malloc() calls and one free(). Reason? Its all the same data. I wrote a program that was allocating data based on another fixed field in a structure. malloc() changed bassed of lots of different variables, but free() remained the same regardless. Should the program not compile? Should I have to add several free() lines in order to get the program to "work?"
Warnings are warnings and not errors for a reason. They may or may not be a problem. Its best to not have them, but there are many times where they are not an issue.
oooo....But it's Area51! Obviously they are hiding something behind those sensors. Ha. If there ever was anything alien there (highly doubtful), it's long since been moved. Hangar 18, maybe?
They use sensors almost exactly like those on the US/Mexico border. I guess we are hiding something behind those sensors =) I bet there is aliens on the other side!
At the time there where many large format media types available. Tape, Jazz, Zip, portable HD all where in there prime. CD-RW discs couldn't be read in most CD-R drives and most earlier audio systems wouldn't read CD-R discs. There wasn't a big advantage to buying a CD-RW drive over other solutions. Zip drives where $100 and the discs where $2, when I bought my CD-RW discs where like $20 and CD-R discs where $.50, or $1.25 with a jewel.
I don't think we have to "get the word out." Most cool tech innovations make it into the mainstream if they are really good enough. I remember buying a CD-RW (4x2x2) for $400. Everybody thought I was stupid for spending so much on a piece of hardware. Later I spend $300 on a 64MB MP3 player. The guy at the desk told me that I shouldn't get a MP3 player because changing the media was really hard. Yet most people now have both of these gadgets. If Vorbis is license free and simple enough to put on a hardware chip then it will slowly gain support and slowly people will begin to see it.
That is the difference between an EEPROM and an EPROM. EPROM's are erased by UV light, while EEPROMS are erased using electricity. =) Its not really that bizzare once you know that. We had a system go offline because the sticker faded. It was odd and took a little while to figure out.
I don't know if you have looked at many of those other employers but most are not hiring right now! I am developing applications that are boring. But you know what? Im getting paid at the moment (well.. at least I think I am =) All those "In it for the toys" people are now sitting on there butts reading the help wanted section.
At home I used a Iogear $60 USB KVM that works really well for video but causes all sorts of problems with the USB keyboard setup under Linux on my Tiger 133a (There is a problem with linux on the via chipsets that cause it to not be able to use USB devices with SMP enabled)
At work we use Aten Masterview switches wich cause all sorts of problems. They meerly move the monitor, keyboard and mouse connectors through solid state switches. This is anoying because when a system reboots you get keyboard errors and things like that. (Yes, I know most BIOS's can disable these warnings.. but nto all of them =) We are slowly switching over to the Cybex A400 series KVM's. These switch boxes allow us to connect up to 48 computers into a single monitor/keyboard. (several 4 ports into a 16 port) They include on screen display and lots of other features. One really nice thing is that they only use a cat five cable between the switches and not normal keyboard/mouse/vga cables.
The major draw back to these switches is that they cost a LOT. (up to $20k for 48 systems) They do however display really well and flow the keyboard and mouse across all systems. They also can be setup to give users access to some systems but not all. So you could give your user the ability to access the workstation/test system next to the server but not the server itsself. Its really nifty =)
(And of course, this review comes our TWO days AFTER I purchase a new Belkin 4 port E-Series switch box =) The thing hasn't even gotten here yet!
Remember, with devfs /dev/hdxx don't exist until the defsd program is run. Setting up linux to boot from /dev/hda1 will cause it to fail because /dev/hda1 doesn't exist. Also, you can download and run MAKEDEV without any problems to convert to non devfsd. I have yet to see a single device that doesn't work (Not that they are not out there mind you..) ReiserFS has no problems what so ever with devfs as long as you select the right partition (not /dev/hdxx!) its usually /dev/discs/disc0/part0 or something like that (I am at work so I can not verify). the /dev/hda1 link is acually created by the devfsd. =) Read the devfs how-to before starting and you usually have no problems whatsoever.
makes my business professors argument that Microsoft has in no way hurt business.
The protests over Software Assurance arose because the program and the 2001 deadline to enroll were announced after enterprises had set budgets for this year. That meant enterprises likely had to either raid existing budgets or trim workforce to enroll.
If companies are laying people off just so they can afford the new Microsoft license system it is a sure sign that companies are being hurt by Microsoft's monopoly.
I am sure this is an extreme example, but even still, it makes you think..
Flash is still EXTREEMLY expensive. Companies like Micron and Samsung are always looks for ways to drop the cost of solid state drives. Currently I have only seen a 4.3G solid state drive as the largest (Sorry.. no link at the moment) and, while it was fast, it was also extreemly expensive. (In the several thousand range.) It may have been quiet, but it sucked power at a far greater rate than any spinning media drive. Solid state sounds good on paper, and for some tasks it is good, but you have to think of this as a one or the other setup..
Spinning Media vs Solid State
Cheap vs Expensive (Pretty much no exceptions, no matter what you do silicon wafers are far more expensive than disks)
Large vs Small (Solid state is still very restricted by speeds/sizes compaired to spinning media)
Slow vs. Fast (With the right interface, if they both use IDE it really won't help that much)
Small vs. Large power use (Even in a idle state flash sucks far more current than a motor. 11ma by 128 parts is 1.408a in its IDLE state)
Loud vs. Quiet (Solid state is VERY quiet.. =)
So, pick two or three areas that you are concerned with. If you want all the performance of a flash drive, with the cost of a spinning media drive you won't get a very large drive. Or if you want a large drive that is cheap, you won't get a quiet and fast drive.
You know how the saying goes.. Good, Cheap, Fast... Pick two.
Even a 'IQ over 300' can't save you from the slashdot effect.
Was done by Illiad..
A recent Slashdot story covers the posabilities of .01nm transistors and how there currently is a theoreticle limit with our current process of .002nm
Build a gigantic structure with a flat smooth surface for a exterior and start carving all the names of the people that have died from radiation or nuclear weapon detonation.
(Okay, so its a rip off of the Vietnam memorial, but hey.. it has a powerful effect =)
A "daring spacewalk". huh? It wouldn't be as daring if the astronauts inside would stop trying to 'swat' the repairman with the arm =)
There are lots of companies out there that recycle old computers.. They tear them down and recover all the rare metals and such (No sense trying to recycle silicon since it's not exactly hard to make and its hard to rebuild. However, the gold bonding wires (the wires that connect the metal pins on the package to the silicon wafer inside. The company that I work for recycles all chips that are damaged or not working properly (and sells as many of them as they can to people that don't need fast or reliable parts) This same process is used on PCB's, and other common components. The relative cost of removing a part and trying to reuse it (a Rpack for example) is too high for real world situations. Instead they simply recover the precious metals and call it a day. In time, just like cans/paper recycling, the process will get refined and improved and they may be able to catalog parts for reuse (a 5V regulator hasn't had many major changes in the last few years.. to reuse a regulator from a 486 in a power supply for a TV or something will not cause problems. (Recent ATX supplies require faster/better regulation, which means that an older regulator won't fit the required properties and such.)
Remember that the people he is going to be talking to are buisness people.. As long as he uses lots of big buzz words and stays away from anti-buisness words, like 'free', 'share', and such he should do fine =) These are buisness students, they don't care about freedom, they don't care about power.. they care about cost! RMS will start with 'Open source gives you free...' and then get chased off the stage by a mob of internet investores that lost lots of there parents money in the market slowdown!
(Acually.. marketing people are fine as long as they are kept in there cage and feed twice a day!) =)