Us bio-informatics folks will likely be early adopters as well.
A -LOT- of bioinfo stuff being done at the University level is on Linux clusters. I'd -love- to add 16 dual-opteron nodes to mine, and let the 8 dual Xeons be deprecated....(maybe even give me an excuse to de-mob them and take them home with me;)
Oh, I know the parent didn't read the article, and he's obviously a clueless nit.
Now, you're obviously talking mileage for a new Corolla. My 1995 one is getting between 21-23 city, and 28-30 hwy. I'm gassing up about every other week, at about 17 bucks for a fillup. I also have 115k miles on it.
The wife drives a 97 Cavalier with 150k miles on it. Gets slightly better highway mileage, and has a bigger tank. However, she's doing gas 2-3 time a week.
So, let's say $60 a week in gas. That's $120 in two. With the Prius, that's be $60 for two weeks, about ~$5k for the year in gasoline savings off what she's driving now. I -will- grant that she'll see most of that with the Corolla, but she really doesn't like the new look *heh*.
Agreed, though. The hybrids -aren't- for folks making 30k a year and can only afford to get a beater to go to and from work. For those of us making 6 figures (combined), it's not a bad choice:)
5. A professor or CS class could admin the servers.
As someone paid to admin linux machines at a university, I can't recommend -AGAINST- this enough. Professors and students are users of the University computing facilities. Period. The labs are provided by the university, as are the copmuters themselves. If they want to play at being an admin, do it at home or in their dorm room. That, or get a job with information/computer services.
With that said, I fully agree that there should be -some- course time spent on teaching folks the basics of linux/unix administration, especially if that's what the prevalent platform on campus is.
However, I don't care -how- good the professors or students think they are (or how good they may actually be, unless they are actually working for the university/college as an admin, they shouldn't be permitted administrative privs on the machines.
(The -only- reason the prof I report to has the root password is in case I call in dead, and even in that case, it's in a sealed envelope, and he doesn't know what it is without cracking it).
Actually, the Prius gas performance is 52/45. It gets -better- gas mileage off the highway than on.:P
Now, that said, part of the "low" mileage of the Prius is because it's got a 4 cylinder engine (not a 2 like the Honda Insight had, and IIRC, the Insight got 60+ mpg). The reason for the 4 cyl instead of a 2 or 3 cyl? Americans need to feel "power" in their cars. While my 95 Corolla can accelerate faster than the Prius, I'm getting -half- the gas mileage it does in the city. If I can go from gassing up once a week to every other week, that's worth it to me.
If my wife can go from gassing up 3 times a week to 3 times every -two- weeks, that's worth it to me.:)
In fact, the wife and I (yes, some geeks -DO- get married...Look at CmdrTaco!!) have already decided that the next passenger vehicles we purchase will be hybrids (most likely the Toyota Prius, although the Honda Civic Hybrid looks good, too).
So what if it costs 10 grand more than a Corolla. You make that 10 grand back by gassing up once a week instead of two or three times a week (at 20 bucks a shot, that's 40 a week or 2 grand a year).
You can't exactly request that you be given a given netblock. Seriously. ARIN probably came back and told them "This is the only/8 currently available for assignment right now. take it or leave it and come back in 6 months.
This is why large ISPs and hosting companies (with multiple/16s or larger) tend to have IP addresses all over the place. YOu get what you can get, and you deal with it.
Having worked for a now defunct company that -did- want to try to provide a lowcost alternative to Westlaw and LexisNexis, I have a pretty good idea how expensive it'd be.
Anyone have a few tens of millions dollars laying around?
You have hardware (which is comparatively cheap). You have scanning and OCR work (which is the most labor and time intensive part). You have the delivery of information costs (which can get expensive with millions of hits a month) You have the software development costs (which aren't as expensive as any of the aforementioned, except maybe hardware).
You're talking about many millions of bucks to get something even rudimentary up and running. it sucks.
Marxists? Please. The entire notion of copyright has been utterly bastardized. The philosophy behind the US Constitution's Copyright Clause is that Copyright is a grant BY THE PUBLIC to the creator to allow the creator to make a bit of cash before reverting the material -back- to the public.
There is not truly "original" content. In fact, there's only 7 basic stories, or plotlines. Unless the creator has -no- contact with anything outside of their own closed mine, the public has a direct impact on the creators, and on the content they produce.
For a -much- better explanation of this, please read Justice Stevens' dissension in the Eldred case (Ginsberg's is excellent as well).
The gist, though, is that -without- works falling into the public domain, creativity and the production of new works -SUFFERS-. Why the hell do you think we're getting sequels to all of the Classic Disney films (I mean, do we -really- need 4 101 Dalmations sequels/retakes?)
Except for the handhelds (which almost -have- to be some sort of cartridge) Nintendo has gone the way of the Disc. Granted, it's a mini-disk, but it's still a disk:)
That said, I -DID- support Nintendo and got a gamecube. I've got Metroid and Mario goodness to go with my PS2 and the GTA3 and GTA:VC good/badness. You almost can't do just a single console anymore, there's too many good exclusives now (although it'd be -really- nice to see a single console get them all...except for Microsoft's...)
The Z-Series systems are the Mainframe class boxen. They've never run an Intel chip, and likely never will, for a variety of reasons. One of the primary ones being that Intel, and Intel compatable parts, can't give the level of HA needed in this kinds of machines (ie. shutting down a single CPU card/slot for online replacement, ditto with memory cards, etc).
IOW: Z-Series = S390
The -I-Series- are what we used to call the AS400 line of machines. They use the IBM PowerAS CPU. They, also, will never run a chip from Intel, for many of the same reasons (true HA)
These machines, incidentally, are the kinds of things that Intel is actually trying to move up either into, or against, with the Itanium. And like I said, I don't think they can...at least not as "only" a chip-house.
Nice way to troll the US Constitution. The problem ISN'T the Constitution, it's the nitwits that the uneducated, and uncaring, masses keep electing into office...people who are looking for ways to make end runs -around- the limits placed on them by the Constitution.
So instead of blaming the USC, blame yourself. And educate yourself about where your representatives stand on -all- this issues, not just the ones you care about.
For the proponents of Parliamentary-style governments: Fuck off. The US has been more successful both politically and economincally under our Constitutional Republic than -ANY- of your Parliamentary systems.
Soviet Russia refers to the old USSR, the great bastion of communism in the world prior to it's collapse *gags* 10ish years ago (has it -really- been that long already?!??!)
It used to be that it was a -very- big deal for a Western (ie. US or British) person to get into to Moscow, let alone the rest of the country...
EH? WHich Hosting companies do you deal with (other than -maybe- the Telco's) that have OC48's for their bandwidth into their NOC? I don't know of -any-, including Rackspace and Exodus.
*snark* Multiple OC3s, yeah. Even an OC12 or something. But -NOT- a 48. Most cities in the US have that much -aggregate- coming into them (there's several that now have 192's, but most only have 48s. Seriously).
And as an aside, I'd -personally- consider it very poorly managed if you colo a machine (or lease a dedicated server somewhere) and the hosting company -DOESN'T- have root. That's fucking stupid, because -part- of what you're paying them for is to keep yer machine up. If you don't want someone else having root on your machines, then lease your own T1 and drop it into your house/apartment. Seriously.
Dude. I learned how to learn when I was in college. Circumstances forced me to drop out, and I applied that ability to learn, to move forward and upward. I don't know about anyone else, but I have had -no- problem finding new jobs in this crap economy. Why? Becuase I'm not keeping my skillset static, and I can prove I have the skills, and the experience, to get the job done.
Franky, that's what employers are looking for, right now: the skills -and- the knowledge on how to most appropriately apply those skills. Just because you know a dozen programming languages doesn't mean that you know when to use one language over the other, or one design philosophy over another.
experience? there is no substitute for experience.
As others have already mentioned, it's questionable that the email is real, due to the absolutely combatative attitude contained in it. That said, I'm going to treat it like it was legit for the remainder of this post. 1. there's something stinky in the music industry, and it's their general attitude that -all- of their consumers are pirates. Fuck that noise. They wouldn't -exist- if it were for the bands and their fans. 2. I play music on my computers -exclusively-. if a cd won't play because it's copy protected, then they obviously don't want my business. oh wait, that's right, they'ver already said they don't want my business....(points at point #1).
Seriously, though: a boycott here -will- -not- -work-. which is unfortunately. Why won't it? Because the bands' fans will still buy, regardless of the new effort it will take to listen to the CDs. *mutters*
Yeah. The 9th and the 10th which pretty explicitly limit federal powers to those granted to it by the people, while reserving those not explicitly graned to the states and the people.
Unforuntately, the 9 idiots on the bench have effectively destroyed both of these amendments, and are doing a bangup job on the 4th.
Having worked with Big Iron before, I can safely say that you're wrong about there not being an OS in them. The OS is much closer to what one -should- be, though, and is quite unobtrusive. As for the cell phones and PDA's (the PDA's in particular) -do- have an OS. I mean, christ. the Palm and Visor run the -PalmOS- for crying out loud!! All those cellphones that have the games and crap on them now? there's an OS there, too.
Just because it's unobtrusive, and does what a good OS should, doesn't mean that it's not there.
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Us bio-informatics folks will likely be early adopters as well.
;)
A -LOT- of bioinfo stuff being done at the University level is on Linux clusters. I'd -love- to add 16 dual-opteron nodes to mine, and let the 8 dual Xeons be deprecated....(maybe even give me an excuse to de-mob them and take them home with me
Well, some of us -do- look at what the library says the functions are supposed to return (yeah, I actually read the headers!).
I like using things like uid_t, pid_t, time_t, clock_t, size_t, etc.
*snickers*
Funny :)
Oh, I know the parent didn't read the article, and he's obviously a clueless nit.
:)
Now, you're obviously talking mileage for a new Corolla. My 1995 one is getting between 21-23 city, and 28-30 hwy. I'm gassing up about every other week, at about 17 bucks for a fillup. I also have 115k miles on it.
The wife drives a 97 Cavalier with 150k miles on it. Gets slightly better highway mileage, and has a bigger tank. However, she's doing gas 2-3 time a week.
So, let's say $60 a week in gas. That's $120 in two. With the Prius, that's be $60 for two weeks, about ~$5k for the year in gasoline savings off what she's driving now. I -will- grant that she'll see most of that with the Corolla, but she really doesn't like the new look *heh*.
Agreed, though. The hybrids -aren't- for folks making 30k a year and can only afford to get a beater to go to and from work. For those of us making 6 figures (combined), it's not a bad choice
5. A professor or CS class could admin the servers.
As someone paid to admin linux machines at a university, I can't recommend -AGAINST- this enough.
Professors and students are users of the University computing facilities. Period. The labs are provided by the university, as are the copmuters themselves. If they want to play at being an admin, do it at home or in their dorm room. That, or get a job with information/computer services.
With that said, I fully agree that there should be -some- course time spent on teaching folks the basics of linux/unix administration, especially if that's what the prevalent platform on campus is.
However, I don't care -how- good the professors or students think they are (or how good they may actually be, unless they are actually working for the university/college as an admin, they shouldn't be permitted administrative privs on the machines.
(The -only- reason the prof I report to has the root password is in case I call in dead, and even in that case, it's in a sealed envelope, and he doesn't know what it is without cracking it).
Actually, the Prius gas performance is 52/45. It gets -better- gas mileage off the highway than on. :P
:)
Now, that said, part of the "low" mileage of the Prius is because it's got a 4 cylinder engine (not a 2 like the Honda Insight had, and IIRC, the Insight got 60+ mpg). The reason for the 4 cyl instead of a 2 or 3 cyl? Americans need to feel "power" in their cars. While my 95 Corolla can accelerate faster than the Prius, I'm getting -half- the gas mileage it does in the city. If I can go from gassing up once a week to every other week, that's worth it to me.
If my wife can go from gassing up 3 times a week to 3 times every -two- weeks, that's worth it to me.
*raises hand*
In fact, the wife and I (yes, some geeks -DO- get married...Look at CmdrTaco!!) have already decided that the next passenger vehicles we purchase will be hybrids (most likely the Toyota Prius, although the Honda Civic Hybrid looks good, too).
So what if it costs 10 grand more than a Corolla. You make that 10 grand back by gassing up once a week instead of two or three times a week (at 20 bucks a shot, that's 40 a week or 2 grand a year).
You can't exactly request that you be given a given netblock. /8 currently available for assignment right now. take it or leave it and come back in 6 months.
/16s or larger) tend to have IP addresses all over the place. YOu get what you can get, and you deal with it.
Seriously.
ARIN probably came back and told them "This is the only
This is why large ISPs and hosting companies (with multiple
Having worked for a now defunct company that -did- want to try to provide a lowcost alternative to Westlaw and LexisNexis, I have a pretty good idea how expensive it'd be.
Anyone have a few tens of millions dollars laying around?
You have hardware (which is comparatively cheap).
You have scanning and OCR work (which is the most labor and time intensive part).
You have the delivery of information costs (which can get expensive with millions of hits a month)
You have the software development costs (which aren't as expensive as any of the aforementioned, except maybe hardware).
You're talking about many millions of bucks to get something even rudimentary up and running.
it sucks.
Probably.
Marxists? Please.
The entire notion of copyright has been utterly bastardized. The philosophy behind the US Constitution's Copyright Clause is that Copyright is a grant BY THE PUBLIC to the creator to allow the creator to make a bit of cash before reverting the material -back- to the public.
There is not truly "original" content. In fact, there's only 7 basic stories, or plotlines. Unless the creator has -no- contact with anything outside of their own closed mine, the public has a direct impact on the creators, and on the content they produce.
For a -much- better explanation of this, please read Justice Stevens' dissension in the Eldred case (Ginsberg's is excellent as well).
The gist, though, is that -without- works falling into the public domain, creativity and the production of new works -SUFFERS-. Why the hell do you think we're getting sequels to all of the Classic Disney films (I mean, do we -really- need 4 101 Dalmations sequels/retakes?)
HA = High availability. The kind of things that banks and such absolutely require for their business processes.
The Z-Serious are using IBM POWER processors, as are the AS400 and RS6000 class machines, AFAICT.
Except for the handhelds (which almost -have- to be some sort of cartridge) Nintendo has gone the way of the Disc. Granted, it's a mini-disk, but it's still a disk :)
That said, I -DID- support Nintendo and got a gamecube. I've got Metroid and Mario goodness to go with my PS2 and the GTA3 and GTA:VC good/badness. You almost can't do just a single console anymore, there's too many good exclusives now (although it'd be -really- nice to see a single console get them all...except for Microsoft's...)
The Z-Series systems are the Mainframe class boxen. They've never run an Intel chip, and likely never will, for a variety of reasons. One of the primary ones being that Intel, and Intel compatable parts, can't give the level of HA needed in this kinds of machines (ie. shutting down a single CPU card/slot for online replacement, ditto with memory cards, etc).
IOW: Z-Series = S390
The -I-Series- are what we used to call the AS400 line of machines. They use the IBM PowerAS CPU.
They, also, will never run a chip from Intel, for many of the same reasons (true HA)
These machines, incidentally, are the kinds of things that Intel is actually trying to move up either into, or against, with the Itanium. And like I said, I don't think they can...at least not as "only" a chip-house.
Nice way to troll the US Constitution.
The problem ISN'T the Constitution, it's the nitwits that the uneducated, and uncaring, masses keep electing into office...people who are looking for ways to make end runs -around- the limits placed on them by the Constitution.
So instead of blaming the USC, blame yourself. And educate yourself about where your representatives stand on -all- this issues, not just the ones you care about.
For the proponents of Parliamentary-style governments: Fuck off. The US has been more successful both politically and economincally under our Constitutional Republic than -ANY- of your Parliamentary systems.
I hate to say this, I really do, since my Dad works for lockheed, but I agree :) Their HR folks -do- really suck.
:)
Nepotism doesn't even get interviews, and I've -tried-.
*shrugs*
Dat's ok. I like working for JHU
And Dell still ships machines with linux.
I know, I just got 10 of them.
_please_ tell me your not 16 or younger...PLEASE!
Soviet Russia refers to the old USSR, the great bastion of communism in the world prior to it's collapse *gags* 10ish years ago (has it -really- been that long already?!??!)
It used to be that it was a -very- big deal for a Western (ie. US or British) person to get into to Moscow, let alone the rest of the country...
Lord...the children forget...
EH?
WHich Hosting companies do you deal with (other than -maybe- the Telco's) that have OC48's for their bandwidth into their NOC? I don't know of -any-, including Rackspace and Exodus.
*snark* Multiple OC3s, yeah. Even an OC12 or something. But -NOT- a 48. Most cities in the US have that much -aggregate- coming into them (there's several that now have 192's, but most only have 48s. Seriously).
And as an aside, I'd -personally- consider it very poorly managed if you colo a machine (or lease a dedicated server somewhere) and the hosting company -DOESN'T- have root. That's fucking stupid, because -part- of what you're paying them for is to keep yer machine up. If you don't want someone else having root on your machines, then lease your own T1 and drop it into your house/apartment.
Seriously.
Dude.
I learned how to learn when I was in college. Circumstances forced me to drop out, and I applied that ability to learn, to move forward and upward.
I don't know about anyone else, but I have had -no- problem finding new jobs in this crap economy. Why? Becuase I'm not keeping my skillset static, and I can prove I have the skills, and the experience, to get the job done.
Franky, that's what employers are looking for, right now: the skills -and- the knowledge on how to most appropriately apply those skills.
Just because you know a dozen programming languages doesn't mean that you know when to use one language over the other, or one design philosophy over another.
experience? there is no substitute for experience.
As others have already mentioned, it's questionable that the email is real, due to the absolutely combatative attitude contained in it.
That said, I'm going to treat it like it was legit for the remainder of this post.
1. there's something stinky in the music industry, and it's their general attitude that -all- of their consumers are pirates. Fuck that noise. They wouldn't -exist- if it were for the bands and their fans.
2. I play music on my computers -exclusively-. if a cd won't play because it's copy protected, then they obviously don't want my business. oh wait, that's right, they'ver already said they don't want my business....(points at point #1).
Seriously, though: a boycott here -will- -not- -work-. which is unfortunately. Why won't it? Because the bands' fans will still buy, regardless of the new effort it will take to listen to the CDs.
*mutters*
Yeah.
The 9th and the 10th which pretty explicitly limit federal powers to those granted to it by the people, while reserving those not explicitly graned to the states and the people.
Unforuntately, the 9 idiots on the bench have effectively destroyed both of these amendments, and are doing a bangup job on the 4th.
Having worked with Big Iron before, I can safely say that you're wrong about there not being an OS in them.
The OS is much closer to what one -should- be, though, and is quite unobtrusive.
As for the cell phones and PDA's (the PDA's in particular) -do- have an OS.
I mean, christ. the Palm and Visor run the -PalmOS- for crying out loud!! All those cellphones that have the games and crap on them now? there's an OS there, too.
Just because it's unobtrusive, and does what a good OS should, doesn't mean that it's not there.
*sigh*
Can't you people recognize a troll anymore???