It isn't. Grid computing is the big buzzword of the day these days. I work with, and on, Globus, and this stuff just doesn't work yet. But beyond the fact that it isn't reliable software, what IBM is doing with Butterfly isn't really Grid computing. They're just saying that to get publicity.
Some of the original articles last year attributed features of the "grid" they're setting up to the Globus software, while anyone who has actually installed Globus knows that it can't do (things like accounting, failover services, etc).
I just tried what the Opera folks said, and it's giving me a page that is a much different size than they say they received, and doesn't appear to render incorrectly. I dunno, maybe MS "fixed it"...
I was at LinuxWorld in 2000, and the coolest giveaway I got was $290 in cash. Someone had one of those "go in the booth with a big fan and money blowing around for 30 seconds" things, and I managed to get the $290 in there. They gave me a t-shirt, too, but i wore thru it and tossed it, so I don't even remember who they were. Guess it wasn't so effective after all...
I think the point is not that he will be making any money, b/c he is admittedly not, nor the websites. The people gaining financially from this are those that do not have to pay for the premium channels which they can now receive for free as a result of his giving these documents away.
With the first one made in 1979, that means mel gibson will be what, 25 yrs or so older in this one. Now I realize he's only going to be 47 this coming yr, but still, it strikes me the same as making a new Indiana Jones movie at this point. It's a sequel to a movie (or series of movies) I liked a lot, but is the actor too old to portray the character? I don't want to think of Indiana Jones or Mad Max as older -- they're the guys in the originals, characters like that don't age. It's why they switch James Bond actors. You don't want to see James Bond realistically portrayed as a 60 yr old spy. He's a 30+ yr old guy kicking ass and sleeping with hot women.
How much is p2p really cutting into Luciano Pavarotti's record sales?
My AOL cancellation wasn't this hard
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I moved back in January, and my cable modem was going to take a month to install, so I brought along one of those free 1000 hour AOL CDs with me. I created my account, used it for access only, having other email and things, and after my modem was installed and working, I called the central AOL 800 customer service number. The entire call, from dial to hangup, took 5 minutes. 4 of those were waiting on hold.
They asked why I was cancelling. I said I got a cable modem. They said I could piggy-back AOL on the modem. I responded that I didn't use any AOL features, I was only using the dial-up access, and had no need for AOL anymore. They said, "Ok, thanks, you're all set," and it was done.
Maybe I am not a columnist because I don't have enough of these stereotypical annoying experiences to write about.:)
What about these allegations of crappy sound? Has anyone tried returning a CD because it sounded like shit (because of the audio data itself, not the content) Did they accept the return?
I bought a CD once at a store in MA when I was home visiting my folks from college during a break. There were some serious playability issues in my stereo CD player -- sometimes wasn't able to find the start of songs, sound quality was bad, all sorts of weirdness.
Anyway, I found this all out when I got back to school, which was in CT, a few hours away from where I bought the CD. It was only about a week after I bought it, and I still had the receipt, so I went to a store in CT (same chain that I bought the CD at), and when I explained what the problem was, they took the CD and let me exchange it for a different CD of same price (I ended up getting one that cost $1 more and had to pay the difference, but it didn't matter). They were quite cool about the whole thing -- no troubles at all.
The site's home page bears a disclaimer saying it is not affiliated with the law school. ... Mr. Costonis said one student had "raised questions relating to incorrect information that she had obtained from his Web site thinking it was the Law Center's Web site." He would not elaborate.
So a law student went to a website, missed the disclaimer on the first page that said "this is not the LSU law school website," then took some info from what may be this guy's personal calendar or some other source of information not affiliated with the school, then complained that it was incorrect. Ok, just out of curiosity, what's her name? I want to steer clear of this supergenius in case I ever need legal representation.
I understand what you're saying, and I guess I agree with it. I just don't understand why Slashdot chose something as insignificant as this to decide to start adhering to these "cardinal rules of journalism." There are plenty of other places where these guys have dropped the ball when it comes to responsible journalism. I'm not criticizing them, just saying that I think either do it across the board or don't, but every once in a while, especially when it doesn't matter, seems cheap and fake.
And yeah, I guess we did get off topic, didn't we.:)
But wouldn't "full disclosure" only matter if any of the parties involved (Newsforge, Linux.com, OSDN, or Slashdot) be involved with TiVo? Just because Slashdot has a sister news site doesn't mean to me that they should feel obligated to mention that that news site posted a news story and they linked to it.
What I'd consider good examples of "full disclosure" would be:
a) A 3rd party reviewed Newsforge and talked about how cool they were. Then, when Slashdot linked to that story, I'd hope they'd say, "Oh yeah, we're a sister of Newsforge, take this post to mean whatever you want."
b) Newsforge or Linux.com had a financial stake in TiVo. Then, yeah, if either of them link to a story extolling the coolness of TiVo, a mention of "BTW, we own part of this company, take the review to mean what you will," would be nice.
Just linking to a news story at another site doesn't seem like it matters much. It's not like the Newsforge people make x amount of money per hit, and they're conspiring with Slashdot to scam OSDN or something.
I guess I understand the idea of "full disclosure," but don't really see its relevance in this particular situation.
Out of curiosity, why does anyone care that the site that did a TiVo Series 2 review is owned by the same company that owns Slashdot? Are the/. guys feeling guilty about posting this story? If so, why? It's no more or less relevant than most of the other stories posted here.
Unlike the Debian strains which all adopted the apt-get tool, each RPM-based distro has gone their own way with dependency management. Debian doesn't seem to focus so much on a distinction between dependency management and package management.
Debian does distinguish between dependency management and package management. Apt-get deals w/ all the dependency crap, but it's built around Debian's package management system, dpkg.
Among the applications required by emergency management agencies are voice, video, instant messaging, e-mail, database services and Web browsing.
Does this seem to anyone else like it's part of an all inclusive list that touches everything anyone might need a net connection for? What else do most people use the net for besides voice, video, EM, email, db access, and/or web browsing? (I said most, obviously certain people do other stuff, but most people the gov't would need to reach w/ this access can't possibly do much more than what's on this list fragment, and since they said "Among the applications required," that leaves the door open to other things.)
I have to agree with you here. I will admit, though, that I will go see a matinee of the movie when it comes out. But I feel like George Lucas has "sold out," to just get more money. The story posted here on/. the other day about Star Wars Collectable guitars pretty much did it for me. Lucas now reminds me of Krusty the Klown, from that Simpsons episode where Krusty realizes that he has put his name on everything possible -- "Here, use my Krusty the Klown Eye Wash," or, "But this contract was drawn up on your line of legal forms." Lucas is totally in it for the money, but since I can't stop him from making the movies, I'll pay my $5 to go see them. I just refuse to participate in anything else Star Wars related (toys, posters, guitars, whatever).
If you've ever ordered from Amazon, this might concern you.
I've ordered from Amazon before. If "The Feds" (oooooh, scary) want to find out that I buy books like Programming Perl and Ender's Game, I don't care. I'm not buying books entitled, "How to Build Bombs to Blow Up Your Favorite National Monument" or something like that. Most people aren't.
Now, I'm not necessarily saying that Federal Law Enforcement Agencies simply being able to find out whatever books any random person is buying is a good thing -- that is bad. But that's obviously not how they're going to approach this. They're not just saying "Ok, we need a record of every book ever purchased by every person ever from you, Amazon (or B&N, etc)."
I don't know; this sensationalistic crap just gets old.
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"The fact that a manual is shorter doesn't mean that it is a better or easier to install program."
While this is true, it's not even to the point. They didn't compare manuals. They took a book written on building a Linux cluster, and compared it to what is basically a step by step outline for for plugging together a G4 cluster. There are similar outlines out there for Linux clusters, too:
But the point is, this article was written by pro-Mac people, so obviously they're going to take a pro-Mac stance. I mean, if these G4 clusters get to be useful, someone is going to write a 230 page book on how to build one of them. Right now, all the documentation that may be out there could be contained in this one page outline. The books come later, if the technology becomes accepted.
I would have to agree. I, too, enjoyed computers thoroughly, but as my academic career progressed, I did not find amusement in my classes or projects anymore.
I graduated, and got a job which seemed like it'd be fun. But that, too, turned into a lot of the same stuff in and out every day. I got laid off from this job, which was great, b/c I hated it anyway. I ended up spending a few months contemplating what to do next. I came to two conclusions -- get a job where I could do fun stuff, or go back to school.
Then, I had to find the obvious answer to the question, "What would I consider fun, but not get bored of immediately?" When I finally accidentally found the answer to this question, things started to make sense again. I put all my efforts into finding a job in this area, and caught on somewhere in what was basically an intern role. I am now doing this job, loving it as I'm learning more in a week than I did in a semester at school, and don't regret it at all.
But I was lucky -- this job is basically like being a grad student. I think school would definitely be a good choice for you, especially if you have one or two areas of the field of CS that you find somewhat interesting and may want to pursue further (crypto, distributed computing, algorithms, whatever).
The question was about which distros support linux clustering, and which people thought were good or not. It wasn't a call for a distro holy war, it wasn't a question about "How do I make a linux cluster?" or "What software packages are out there to cluster linux boxes?"
Personally, I find that while Red Hat is not my favorite of the linux distros, Red Hat offers Red Hat Professional Services, and this is a very nice thing for management, if the cluster in question is going to be a in a production environment at a company or business somewhere. If it's for your home use, do what you like, but most PHBs tend to take extreme comfort in the fact that if something linux related breaks, they can call Red Hat if the cluster admin on-site can't fix it, and Red Hat will either try to help on the phone, or you can pay for RH Prof. Services to come out to your site and take a look.
You are not the only one (I thought I was, until I saw your comments). Personally, I'd be much more interested to see a story that said George W Bush or Al Gore was interested in a Federal DNA Database, but apparently when in need of a story, people tend to chase down yesterday's headlines and see if they can squeeze some more blood from the stone.
People shouldn't care about this guy anymore. I think worse than someone posting the story at all is the comments of Timothy at the end of the submitted paragraph: "Think what you will of Mitnick, his court-imposed computer deprivation hasn't stopped him from peering and poking at the technological world." What the hell does this mean? Just because he reads some magazines or watches the news, he's "peering and poking at the technological world"???? Come on...If you read the news, or really just walk around with your eyes open these days, you're submitted to a blitz of "technology is cool, technology is great" attitudes and ads. It's impossible to miss. Does that mean my computer illiterate parents "peer and poke" at technology, and should be consulted about issues like this?
It was at the final phase of hiring -- after 2 initial phone interviews, I was invited to a weekend long hiring event. When at the hiring event, I was asked to sign an NDA, but it was to protect mainly two things -- at the event, the company discusses financial matters which pertain to the company -- they talk about how much money they're making/have made per quarter since the company's inception. The other thing that they want to try to protect is the hiring event process itself -- they feel it's so unique in the industry that they don't want others trying to do something similar. I must say, the event was very cool, and I did end up coming to the company, who I'm currently still with. But if I didn't, nothing that their NDA protected could have been accidentally asked about by another company when I interview somewhere else.
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It isn't. Grid computing is the big buzzword of the day these days. I work with, and on, Globus, and this stuff just doesn't work yet. But beyond the fact that it isn't reliable software, what IBM is doing with Butterfly isn't really Grid computing. They're just saying that to get publicity.
Some of the original articles last year attributed features of the "grid" they're setting up to the Globus software, while anyone who has actually installed Globus knows that it can't do (things like accounting, failover services, etc).
oil suffering from hydrophobia? oil with rabies?
I just tried what the Opera folks said, and it's giving me a page that is a much different size than they say they received, and doesn't appear to render incorrectly. I dunno, maybe MS "fixed it"...
I was at LinuxWorld in 2000, and the coolest giveaway I got was $290 in cash. Someone had one of those "go in the booth with a big fan and money blowing around for 30 seconds" things, and I managed to get the $290 in there. They gave me a t-shirt, too, but i wore thru it and tossed it, so I don't even remember who they were. Guess it wasn't so effective after all...
Bart: "Got him!"
Rod: "No, you just winged him and made him a Unitarian."
I think the point is not that he will be making any money, b/c he is admittedly not, nor the websites. The people gaining financially from this are those that do not have to pay for the premium channels which they can now receive for free as a result of his giving these documents away.
With the first one made in 1979, that means mel gibson will be what, 25 yrs or so older in this one. Now I realize he's only going to be 47 this coming yr, but still, it strikes me the same as making a new Indiana Jones movie at this point. It's a sequel to a movie (or series of movies) I liked a lot, but is the actor too old to portray the character? I don't want to think of Indiana Jones or Mad Max as older -- they're the guys in the originals, characters like that don't age. It's why they switch James Bond actors. You don't want to see James Bond realistically portrayed as a 60 yr old spy. He's a 30+ yr old guy kicking ass and sleeping with hot women.
How much is p2p really cutting into Luciano Pavarotti's record sales?
I moved back in January, and my cable modem was going to take a month to install, so I brought along one of those free 1000 hour AOL CDs with me. I created my account, used it for access only, having other email and things, and after my modem was installed and working, I called the central AOL 800 customer service number. The entire call, from dial to hangup, took 5 minutes. 4 of those were waiting on hold.
They asked why I was cancelling. I said I got a cable modem. They said I could piggy-back AOL on the modem. I responded that I didn't use any AOL features, I was only using the dial-up access, and had no need for AOL anymore. They said, "Ok, thanks, you're all set," and it was done.
Maybe I am not a columnist because I don't have enough of these stereotypical annoying experiences to write about. :)
What about these allegations of crappy sound? Has anyone tried returning a CD because it sounded like shit (because of the audio data itself, not the content) Did they accept the return?
I bought a CD once at a store in MA when I was home visiting my folks from college during a break. There were some serious playability issues in my stereo CD player -- sometimes wasn't able to find the start of songs, sound quality was bad, all sorts of weirdness.
Anyway, I found this all out when I got back to school, which was in CT, a few hours away from where I bought the CD. It was only about a week after I bought it, and I still had the receipt, so I went to a store in CT (same chain that I bought the CD at), and when I explained what the problem was, they took the CD and let me exchange it for a different CD of same price (I ended up getting one that cost $1 more and had to pay the difference, but it didn't matter). They were quite cool about the whole thing -- no troubles at all.
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Mr. Costonis said one student had "raised questions relating to incorrect information that she had obtained from his Web site thinking it was the Law Center's Web site." He would not elaborate.
So a law student went to a website, missed the disclaimer on the first page that said "this is not the LSU law school website," then took some info from what may be this guy's personal calendar or some other source of information not affiliated with the school, then complained that it was incorrect. Ok, just out of curiosity, what's her name? I want to steer clear of this supergenius in case I ever need legal representation.
I understand what you're saying, and I guess I agree with it. I just don't understand why Slashdot chose something as insignificant as this to decide to start adhering to these "cardinal rules of journalism." There are plenty of other places where these guys have dropped the ball when it comes to responsible journalism. I'm not criticizing them, just saying that I think either do it across the board or don't, but every once in a while, especially when it doesn't matter, seems cheap and fake.
:)
And yeah, I guess we did get off topic, didn't we.
But wouldn't "full disclosure" only matter if any of the parties involved (Newsforge, Linux.com, OSDN, or Slashdot) be involved with TiVo? Just because Slashdot has a sister news site doesn't mean to me that they should feel obligated to mention that that news site posted a news story and they linked to it.
What I'd consider good examples of "full disclosure" would be:
a) A 3rd party reviewed Newsforge and talked about how cool they were. Then, when Slashdot linked to that story, I'd hope they'd say, "Oh yeah, we're a sister of Newsforge, take this post to mean whatever you want."
b) Newsforge or Linux.com had a financial stake in TiVo. Then, yeah, if either of them link to a story extolling the coolness of TiVo, a mention of "BTW, we own part of this company, take the review to mean what you will," would be nice.
Just linking to a news story at another site doesn't seem like it matters much. It's not like the Newsforge people make x amount of money per hit, and they're conspiring with Slashdot to scam OSDN or something.
I guess I understand the idea of "full disclosure," but don't really see its relevance in this particular situation.
Out of curiosity, why does anyone care that the site that did a TiVo Series 2 review is owned by the same company that owns Slashdot? Are the /. guys feeling guilty about posting this story? If so, why? It's no more or less relevant than most of the other stories posted here.
Here's the press release from NEC, from back in March: http://www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0203/0801.html
Unlike the Debian strains which all adopted the apt-get tool, each RPM-based distro has gone their own way with dependency management. Debian doesn't seem to focus so much on a distinction between dependency management and package management.
Debian does distinguish between dependency management and package management. Apt-get deals w/ all the dependency crap, but it's built around Debian's package management system, dpkg.
Among the applications required by emergency management agencies are voice, video, instant messaging, e-mail, database services and Web browsing.
Does this seem to anyone else like it's part of an all inclusive list that touches everything anyone might need a net connection for? What else do most people use the net for besides voice, video, EM, email, db access, and/or web browsing? (I said most, obviously certain people do other stuff, but most people the gov't would need to reach w/ this access can't possibly do much more than what's on this list fragment, and since they said "Among the applications required," that leaves the door open to other things.)
I have to agree with you here. I will admit, though, that I will go see a matinee of the movie when it comes out. But I feel like George Lucas has "sold out," to just get more money. The story posted here on /. the other day about Star Wars Collectable guitars pretty much did it for me. Lucas now reminds me of Krusty the Klown, from that Simpsons episode where Krusty realizes that he has put his name on everything possible -- "Here, use my Krusty the Klown Eye Wash," or, "But this contract was drawn up on your line of legal forms." Lucas is totally in it for the money, but since I can't stop him from making the movies, I'll pay my $5 to go see them. I just refuse to participate in anything else Star Wars related (toys, posters, guitars, whatever).
I've ordered from Amazon before. If "The Feds" (oooooh, scary) want to find out that I buy books like Programming Perl and Ender's Game, I don't care. I'm not buying books entitled, "How to Build Bombs to Blow Up Your Favorite National Monument" or something like that. Most people aren't.
Now, I'm not necessarily saying that Federal Law Enforcement Agencies simply being able to find out whatever books any random person is buying is a good thing -- that is bad. But that's obviously not how they're going to approach this. They're not just saying "Ok, we need a record of every book ever purchased by every person ever from you, Amazon (or B&N, etc)."
I don't know; this sensationalistic crap just gets old.
"The fact that a manual is shorter doesn't mean that it is a better or easier to install program."
While this is true, it's not even to the point. They didn't compare manuals. They took a book written on building a Linux cluster, and compared it to what is basically a step by step outline for for plugging together a G4 cluster. There are similar outlines out there for Linux clusters, too:
The SCL Cluster Cookbook by the folks at Ameslab is a bit longer than 1 page, but still shorter than 230. (http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/ClusterCookbHow to Build a Beowulf Cluster -- this is 10 pages long, but goes into such detail as processor, network, RAM, and disk speeds separately for both master and slave nodes. (http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/bookshelf/articles/h
But the point is, this article was written by pro-Mac people, so obviously they're going to take a pro-Mac stance. I mean, if these G4 clusters get to be useful, someone is going to write a 230 page book on how to build one of them. Right now, all the documentation that may be out there could be contained in this one page outline. The books come later, if the technology becomes accepted.
----I would have to agree. I, too, enjoyed computers thoroughly, but as my academic career progressed, I did not find amusement in my classes or projects anymore.
I graduated, and got a job which seemed like it'd be fun. But that, too, turned into a lot of the same stuff in and out every day. I got laid off from this job, which was great, b/c I hated it anyway. I ended up spending a few months contemplating what to do next. I came to two conclusions -- get a job where I could do fun stuff, or go back to school.
Then, I had to find the obvious answer to the question, "What would I consider fun, but not get bored of immediately?" When I finally accidentally found the answer to this question, things started to make sense again. I put all my efforts into finding a job in this area, and caught on somewhere in what was basically an intern role. I am now doing this job, loving it as I'm learning more in a week than I did in a semester at school, and don't regret it at all.
But I was lucky -- this job is basically like being a grad student. I think school would definitely be a good choice for you, especially if you have one or two areas of the field of CS that you find somewhat interesting and may want to pursue further (crypto, distributed computing, algorithms, whatever).
Good luck...
The question was about which distros support linux clustering, and which people thought were good or not. It wasn't a call for a distro holy war, it wasn't a question about "How do I make a linux cluster?" or "What software packages are out there to cluster linux boxes?"
Personally, I find that while Red Hat is not my favorite of the linux distros, Red Hat offers Red Hat Professional Services, and this is a very nice thing for management, if the cluster in question is going to be a in a production environment at a company or business somewhere. If it's for your home use, do what you like, but most PHBs tend to take extreme comfort in the fact that if something linux related breaks, they can call Red Hat if the cluster admin on-site can't fix it, and Red Hat will either try to help on the phone, or you can pay for RH Prof. Services to come out to your site and take a look.
> physical state immune to certain types of information-corrupting "noise,"
>In the corporate world, we call this "management"
Actually, I was under the impression that management was the information-corrupting noise.
Or, alternatively, that management works in a state immune to information, which they consider noise.
You are not the only one (I thought I was, until I saw your comments). Personally, I'd be much more interested to see a story that said George W Bush or Al Gore was interested in a Federal DNA Database, but apparently when in need of a story, people tend to chase down yesterday's headlines and see if they can squeeze some more blood from the stone.
People shouldn't care about this guy anymore. I think worse than someone posting the story at all is the comments of Timothy at the end of the submitted paragraph: "Think what you will of Mitnick, his court-imposed computer deprivation hasn't stopped him from peering and poking at the technological world." What the hell does this mean? Just because he reads some magazines or watches the news, he's "peering and poking at the technological world"???? Come on...If you read the news, or really just walk around with your eyes open these days, you're submitted to a blitz of "technology is cool, technology is great" attitudes and ads. It's impossible to miss. Does that mean my computer illiterate parents "peer and poke" at technology, and should be consulted about issues like this?
It was at the final phase of hiring -- after 2 initial phone interviews, I was invited to a weekend long hiring event. When at the hiring event, I was asked to sign an NDA, but it was to protect mainly two things -- at the event, the company discusses financial matters which pertain to the company -- they talk about how much money they're making/have made per quarter since the company's inception. The other thing that they want to try to protect is the hiring event process itself -- they feel it's so unique in the industry that they don't want others trying to do something similar. I must say, the event was very cool, and I did end up coming to the company, who I'm currently still with. But if I didn't, nothing that their NDA protected could have been accidentally asked about by another company when I interview somewhere else.
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