I have to agree, this guy: a) doesn't seem to be making so little that things should be painful b) if it were so bad, why isn't his wife going to work? It's nice to be able to have one spouse to stay at home, but my pity is reserved for at *least* when that luxury is sacrificed c) Why the hell is he making payments on a 2002 car if he is in such bad shape? Sell/trade the damn thing in on a late 90s used car, expenses go down. d) Renting a Motel room is stupid, but I will say the article attempted to explain it as his bad credit keeps him from renting/homeowning, and that is understandable to an extent, but I'd wager that statement was only relevant with respect to the types of homes they would deem acceptable, they probably could suck it up and live in a lease below their prior standards until back on their feet.
I really think sob stories like this are not particularly inspiring. It's a story of a family who grew accustomed to a certain standard of living better than typical 'middle-class' and in the face of significant difficulty, refuses to adjust their living habits until it is too late, and even then pursues bad choices beyond the edge of their budget rather than settling for a lower standard of living. When the shit hit the fan for most people I know, their standard of living was quickly cut back and they in general adjusted their life for what they knew they could afford, rather than banking on credit with an uncertain future. Unfortunately, at least in the US, everyone is all about credit and hardly anyone lives debt-free, loves their credit cards, etc, so this kind of behavior is expected...
Not all of us, just most of us are absolute fucking morons with no respect for ourselves or the rest of the world.
The rest of us are just thoroughly ashamed to be an American right now. At least when all his first term bullshit was going on, we could comfort ourselves with the hope the country at large didn't know what they were getting when they chose Bush, but now after all his bullshit they fucking choose him again...
Acrobat reader for linux was derived from existing motif versions already written for other unix systems. Acrobat reader on other platforms was required to market the format as Adobe wanted ('portable document format'). Porting from, say, motif on solaris to motif on linux is, well, essentially free, relatively speaking.
The other Adobe products are written against Cocoa, Carbon, and/or MFC/win32, all of which are significantly different from linux/whatever toolkit. True, OSX versions for non-graphical tasks may be potentially similar to common linux APIs, and maybe, just maybe, leveraging GNUstep they could have very similar APIs overall to OSX, (which would be a nice boost to GNUstep, but I'm dreaming), but the reality is a serious port would probably need to use something more mainstream, GTK or QT.
An openmosix cluster would behave more along the lines of what you are thinking, but ultimately for HPC applications at scale it is generally more efficient to not do openmosix and write the programs explicitly for parallelism mindful of the layout of processing elements (i.e. network topology or balance between SMP connected processing elements and network connections between nodes).
Actually, a lot of the top500 supercomputers acheive or beat $1million/TFLOPs. Even if the price points weren't that good on the component parts, marketing departments are inclined to give huge discounts for the press coverage. You can bet SGI and Intel both gave exhorbitant discounts here, SGI's market presence has been dwindling, and overall the Itanium line has been a commercial failure. Being #1 on the top 500 for 6 months (the length between list compilations, and BlueGene isn't even close to finished, the NEC supercomputer is likely to make the list after next, etc etc), is very good marketing.
Of course, if BlueGene, Big Mac, and this supercomputer demonstrate one thing, it is that focusing on the processors exclusively is ridiculous. It is the processing element interconnect that really makes the difference in parallell computing. BlueGene has 16k 'pathetic' processors (700Mhz PPC) with a focus on a really potent interconnect network to be able to scale to 65k processors with very good scaling factors. Big Mac leverages infiniband, low latency, expensive, high bandwidth network to get where it is. And this, only 20 nodes, each with 512 processors within a box. I don't know the boxs interconnect strategy is, but you can bet the design is much better than myrinet and infiniband, technologies that communicate via PCI bus, that are not hardset in terms of processing element count, have longer cable lengths, etc.
Look at the top500, processors are important, but the network technology is what truly makes or breaks the clusters in that realm with such high node counts.
What's to stop them from simply downloading the graphic and using it themselves? It's not like they aren't already doing enough wrong that swiping graphics would make a huge difference...
True, the URL looks more legit if the link is direct, but anyone smart enough to look at the tags knows that doesn't ultimately mean anything.
Back in school I remember someone had a watch with a built in universal remote and learned the code for most TVs they would use in class. So when avideo was being shown, all of a sudden it would switch to a soap or something in the middle of class.
That is two inches too much;) Moving the pointer in a trackpoint means no more motion than reaching for a key, and the mouse buttons are within thumb reach (right beneath space). For laziness, trackpoint is just perfect. And the control with a trackpad is atrocious, or at least doesn't feel right. A mouse is worth moving my hand for (by far better than the other two options mentioned, and personally I never took to a trackball, though I tried), a trackpad isn't.
They are in the right place, I don't have to move my hand to move the damn pointer, and regardless of the improvements with respect to distinguishing wrist from intended use, it still frequently misregisters if I rest my wrist.
Also, it isn't like it is an expensive mechanism or is particular intrusive if you have both and want to ignore one or the other, it is pretty easy.
To say IB network management tools are better is a great understatement. Part of myrinet is that the network topology is forced to be simple and the switches as dumb as possible (distribute the task of routing and mapping the networks to the nodes). IB switches offer a tad more functionality and offload mapping work to the switch, but stays a source-routed network (which is the chief way these technologies acheive low latency while ethernet is switch routed and therefore scales poorly as the switches have more and more work to do.
Of course, until IB over fiber media comes around, myrinet cabling is a hell of a lot easier to deal with, longer lengths, more bendable, and tighter bend radius.
Use 'make Infiband hardware' in the lightest way, more like they work on firmware and resell Mellanox cards/designs. I'm actually not sure who does the final manufacturing, but every Infiniband HCA I have ever seen are absolutely impossible to distinguish physically from one another until in a system and starting firmware/drivers. I don't think it is feasible to deviate from Mellanox because of patents...
I screwed up a little, I described 4x infiniband, which is the most commonly used host interface. 1x infiniband is 2.5 Gbps and there is (relatively rare) 12x infiniband.
Infiniband is a general high-speed (10 gigabit/sec) low latency interconnect. Think of it as a really souped up ethernet, which is an oversimplification, but gives the very basic idea.
But it isn't, with current technology, the speed of light you have to worry about, it is the speed of electricity through whatever medium you can use, which is must slower.
Though I haven't seen advent children or anything, I never assumed mankind was destroyed, but rather Midgar abandoned as mankind learned to respect their world, and the likes of Kalm, Cosmo Canyon, etc continued on.
Right that it isn't the same connector as the data, it is adjacent and a bit larger, and yes, the connection cycles are reduced in comparison with the typical SCSI hot swap connector. For the sake of short term compatibility, I still have to lean toward having the power connector optional between ATX and the adjacent connector for a transitional time.
As far as controller draw, I was mostly referring to controller cards more, which have to pull power from the PCI slots and as such have to be mindful of the power limitations motherboard manufacturers have in mind. For example, have you ever seen a SCSI controller card that, itself, pushes power through its connectors? In every case I've ever seen, hot swap scsi backplanes in systems pull their power from somewhere else (either direct from the power supply, or from a port on the motherboard that could also be used with a different cable to power IDE devices). The SCSI drives with SCAs are typically hard to use with non-backplane systems, and vice-versa. SATA drives can easily be used with or without a backplane, and that is a strength in the desktop market.
The question is, though, how will input be? The problem with pen-input technology is less about the display, but mostly with the texture of the writing surface. When trying to avoid permament change (scratches) to something reusable, it has always been a dull instrument slipping on a relatively slick surface.
With paper and pen/pencil, the sharp writing utensil combined with a surface that produces some friction against that pen or pencil provides a much more controllable feel, less prone to accidental slips as you write. The setup doesn't have to be designed with many rewrites in mind so the scratches and denting that occurs with writing comfortably are no problem.
Now the eInk stuff is nice for eBook reading, but not much else (I think I'll prefer books still, where you don't have to worry about running out of battery and not being able to change to the next page.
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I have to agree, this guy:
a) doesn't seem to be making so little that things should be painful
b) if it were so bad, why isn't his wife going to work? It's nice to be able to have one spouse to stay at home, but my pity is reserved for at *least* when that luxury is sacrificed
c) Why the hell is he making payments on a 2002 car if he is in such bad shape? Sell/trade the damn thing in on a late 90s used car, expenses go down.
d) Renting a Motel room is stupid, but I will say the article attempted to explain it as his bad credit keeps him from renting/homeowning, and that is understandable to an extent, but I'd wager that statement was only relevant with respect to the types of homes they would deem acceptable, they probably could suck it up and live in a lease below their prior standards until back on their feet.
I really think sob stories like this are not particularly inspiring. It's a story of a family who grew accustomed to a certain standard of living better than typical 'middle-class' and in the face of significant difficulty, refuses to adjust their living habits until it is too late, and even then pursues bad choices beyond the edge of their budget rather than settling for a lower standard of living. When the shit hit the fan for most people I know, their standard of living was quickly cut back and they in general adjusted their life for what they knew they could afford, rather than banking on credit with an uncertain future. Unfortunately, at least in the US, everyone is all about credit and hardly anyone lives debt-free, loves their credit cards, etc, so this kind of behavior is expected...
No, not really, I don't have any IDE devices, just SCSI...
a coalition of radical states to be just fine You mean the US?
Lame, burning *any* cd, just use pxe to netboot an image...
Does fedora and the like still provide bootnet.img so that if you don't have PXE you can netboot from a floppy and not waste a single CD?
Democracy is alive and well in America, there are just more stupid than intelligent people, leading to stupid outcomes...
Not all of us, just most of us are absolute fucking morons with no respect for ourselves or the rest of the world.
The rest of us are just thoroughly ashamed to be an American right now. At least when all his first term bullshit was going on, we could comfort ourselves with the hope the country at large didn't know what they were getting when they chose Bush, but now after all his bullshit they fucking choose him again...
Actually, I would say IBM sells more Linux than AIX clusters anymore...
It didn't do anything on my system....
/dev/soundcard
However, I figured out how to fix my soundcard, it was mknod c 8 0
Must be something different, for those having problems and the stated solution, try that change, it's awesome . . .
I can imagine it being very different.
Acrobat reader for linux was derived from existing motif versions already written for other unix systems. Acrobat reader on other platforms was required to market the format as Adobe wanted ('portable document format'). Porting from, say, motif on solaris to motif on linux is, well, essentially free, relatively speaking.
The other Adobe products are written against Cocoa, Carbon, and/or MFC/win32, all of which are significantly different from linux/whatever toolkit. True, OSX versions for non-graphical tasks may be potentially similar to common linux APIs, and maybe, just maybe, leveraging GNUstep they could have very similar APIs overall to OSX,
(which would be a nice boost to GNUstep, but I'm dreaming), but the reality is a serious port would probably need to use something more mainstream, GTK or QT.
An openmosix cluster would behave more along the lines of what you are thinking, but ultimately for HPC applications at scale it is generally more efficient to not do openmosix and write the programs explicitly for parallelism mindful of the layout of processing elements (i.e. network topology or balance between SMP connected processing elements and network connections between nodes).
Actually, a lot of the top500 supercomputers acheive or beat $1million/TFLOPs. Even if the price points weren't that good on the component parts, marketing departments are inclined to give huge discounts for the press coverage. You can bet SGI and Intel both gave exhorbitant discounts here, SGI's market presence has been dwindling, and overall the Itanium line has been a commercial failure. Being #1 on the top 500 for 6 months (the length between list compilations, and BlueGene isn't even close to finished, the NEC supercomputer is likely to make the list after next, etc etc), is very good marketing.
Of course, if BlueGene, Big Mac, and this supercomputer demonstrate one thing, it is that focusing on the processors exclusively is ridiculous. It is the processing element interconnect that really makes the difference in parallell computing. BlueGene has 16k 'pathetic' processors (700Mhz PPC) with a focus on a really potent interconnect network to be able to scale to 65k processors with very good scaling factors.
Big Mac leverages infiniband, low latency, expensive, high bandwidth network to get where it is.
And this, only 20 nodes, each with 512 processors within a box. I don't know the boxs interconnect strategy is, but you can bet the design is much better than myrinet and infiniband, technologies that communicate via PCI bus, that are not hardset in terms of processing element count, have longer cable lengths, etc.
Look at the top500, processors are important, but the network technology is what truly makes or breaks the clusters in that realm with such high node counts.
What's to stop them from simply downloading the graphic and using it themselves? It's not like they aren't already doing enough wrong that swiping graphics would make a huge difference...
True, the URL looks more legit if the link is direct, but anyone smart enough to look at the tags knows that doesn't ultimately mean anything.
Back in school I remember someone had a watch with a built in universal remote and learned the code for most TVs they would use in class. So when avideo was being shown, all of a sudden it would switch to a soap or something in the middle of class.
Or else put a piece of cardboard in from of the TV IR receiver . . .
Sometimes the simple answer is the most effective.
That is two inches too much ;) Moving the pointer in a trackpoint means no more motion than reaching for a key, and the mouse buttons are within thumb reach (right beneath space). For laziness, trackpoint is just perfect. And the control with a trackpad is atrocious, or at least doesn't feel right. A mouse is worth moving my hand for (by far better than the other two options mentioned, and personally I never took to a trackball, though I tried), a trackpad isn't.
They are in the right place, I don't have to move my hand to move the damn pointer, and regardless of the improvements with respect to distinguishing wrist from intended use, it still frequently misregisters if I rest my wrist.
Also, it isn't like it is an expensive mechanism or is particular intrusive if you have both and want to ignore one or the other, it is pretty easy.
To say IB network management tools are better is a great understatement. Part of myrinet is that the network topology is forced to be simple and the switches as dumb as possible (distribute the task of routing and mapping the networks to the nodes). IB switches offer a tad more functionality and offload mapping work to the switch, but stays a source-routed network (which is the chief way these technologies acheive low latency while ethernet is switch routed and therefore scales poorly as the switches have more and more work to do.
Of course, until IB over fiber media comes around, myrinet cabling is a hell of a lot easier to deal with, longer lengths, more bendable, and tighter bend radius.
Use 'make Infiband hardware' in the lightest way, more like they work on firmware and resell Mellanox cards/designs. I'm actually not sure who does the final manufacturing, but every Infiniband HCA I have ever seen are absolutely impossible to distinguish physically from one another until in a system and starting firmware/drivers. I don't think it is feasible to deviate from Mellanox because of patents...
I screwed up a little, I described 4x infiniband, which is the most commonly used host interface. 1x infiniband is 2.5 Gbps and there is (relatively rare) 12x infiniband.
Infiniband is a general high-speed (10 gigabit/sec) low latency interconnect. Think of it as a really souped up ethernet, which is an oversimplification, but gives the very basic idea.
But it isn't, with current technology, the speed of light you have to worry about, it is the speed of electricity through whatever medium you can use, which is must slower.
[1] Oi, they should enable strikeout tags, it has endless comic potential. ;-)
*Real* geeks use ^H
Though I haven't seen advent children or anything, I never assumed mankind was destroyed, but rather Midgar abandoned as mankind learned to respect their world, and the likes of Kalm, Cosmo Canyon, etc continued on.
Right that it isn't the same connector as the data, it is adjacent and a bit larger, and yes, the connection cycles are reduced in comparison with the typical SCSI hot swap connector. For the sake of short term compatibility, I still have to lean toward having the power connector optional between ATX and the adjacent connector for a transitional time.
As far as controller draw, I was mostly referring to controller cards more, which have to pull power from the PCI slots and as such have to be mindful of the power limitations motherboard manufacturers have in mind. For example, have you ever seen a SCSI controller card that, itself, pushes power through its connectors? In every case I've ever seen, hot swap scsi backplanes in systems pull their power from somewhere else (either direct from the power supply, or from a port on the motherboard that could also be used with a different cable to power IDE devices). The SCSI drives with SCAs are typically hard to use with non-backplane systems, and vice-versa. SATA drives can easily be used with or without a backplane, and that is a strength in the desktop market.
The question is, though, how will input be? The problem with pen-input technology is less about the display, but mostly with the texture of the writing surface. When trying to avoid permament change (scratches) to something reusable, it has always been a dull instrument slipping on a relatively slick surface.
With paper and pen/pencil, the sharp writing utensil combined with a surface that produces some friction against that pen or pencil provides a much more controllable feel, less prone to accidental slips as you write. The setup doesn't have to be designed with many rewrites in mind so the scratches and denting that occurs with writing comfortably are no problem.
Now the eInk stuff is nice for eBook reading, but not much else (I think I'll prefer books still, where you don't have to worry about running out of battery and not being able to change to the next page.