My wife's ibook 700 was pretty unbearably slow with OS X 10.2 . Blowing an extra $125 on 512MB of RAM fixed it real quick, though. It's a shame they come with 128MB standard, that really isn't enough.
Do you really plan to be stuck on this planet for the next 4 billion years? The sun would have gobbled up our solar system by then, and life on Earth would have been wiped out well beforehand by overheating or of course being pelted by asteroids. Which is of course are just fancy names for ENTROPY DEATH. The clock is ticking! We must escape!
The ISS is just a feeble first step at researching how we can live outside of the womb of mother Earth... did you really expect to jump right to the Moon or to Mars? Of course, it might be a waste of time and money, but that's how many "operational prototypes" are. It would be even more of a failure if we attempted to colonize the moon and it went bust because we didn't have simple stuff like the operations and project management skills that could only be developed by running this ISS business. It would be a real shame if the entire human civilization was wiped out in a few millenia simply because we couldn't be bothered to take the first few baby steps out of our atmosphere.
But I guess more to answer your question, I used to work on a research project that investigated the granular flow of particles in microgravity. There's presumably a lot you can do with forming new materials and pharmaceuticals by developing manufacturing processes in the absence of a gravitational potential always fooling around with you. Our project was relatively pure research... stick a bunch of plastic BBs in a chamber with a circular conveyor belt and see if you could sort them by size, surface friction, or elasticity by merely using a kinetic energy gradient instead of a gravitational energy gradient. Not much practical use, but the point was to develop theoretical models and simulations to predict what would happen for more practical applications. Our conveyor belt had been tested a few times on NASA's KC-135 "vomit comet" aircraft (simulates micrgravity by flying a parabolic trajectory for a few tens of seconds), and was bound for the ISS when I graduated.
By the time this tech is ready for deployment, we should have a few moon colonies in place, right? Shouldn't be any problem maintaining a vacuum there!
This isn't going to solve any mass transit problems, however. We'd have to put much more work/regulation into urban design rather than trying to cruft a bunch of connective infrastructure onto current designs.
There's a lot that can be done that doesn't involve building revolutionary new tech... how about making it easier to live close to work? Corporate parks could start by building dorm-style apartments as part of their development with their own local mass-transit system. This could connect to the current lousy urban mass-transit system through busses or even a fleet of corporate cars parked in one large lot conveniently hidden away and marginalized. We (or our employers) could easily pay for it by working the extra hour or so we save by not commuting. So instead of traveling to work, we can commit most of our travel for pleasure (such as visiting your domestic partner:P -- domestic partners who telecommute and thus could follow their spouse around to these "corporate dorms" would thus go into very high demand!). People could also invest their money on their real homes in vacation areas (such as by the beach or in the mountains) instead of sinking it into POS suburban sprawl.
Eventually the developers building these types of communities could grow and evolve them into full out arcologies.
Several downsides, of course, the least of which involves bringing corporate culture that much closer to home (literally!). But damned if the answer to societal problems (the rush hour commute) doesn't involve societal changes.
Like corporate culture doesn't already define who we are, how we dress, and what we do already:P
Anarchy may not be the best form of government...
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zgv is a nice image viewer, very reminscent of the DOS VGA viewers. Slap it onto an old laptop with an old ethernet or slip serial connection and you can be all set...
As mentioned before, getting up and running with Cygwin is a snap! Here are your easy instructions:
Go to the cygwin site and click on the "install now" box on the side of the screen. Run the setup.exe program off the site (don't bother to save it somewhere, it gets updated almost weekly).
Tell it to install from the internet. Choose a mirror. It'll download a list of packages. Choose the Net | OpenSsh package. If you want to run the server, you might also want to choose everything in the Admin section. I also find Net | rsync more useful than the scp that comes with openssh.
Once the install is complete, fire it up and run ssh-host-config to set up the server. It'll ask you a bunch of simple questions, generate your hostkey, and stick the server in the startup scripts.
With just this, the whole install takes about 32MB. Enjoy!
Slashdot mentioned the Tzero a while ago. I'm certainly waiting until I can save up the ~$70K to afford one (after they come to market, of course...:P )
Even GLX works. I've managed to compile XScreensaver without too much trouble, (despite Jamie's best intentions, I suppose:> . All I had to do was change the order of some of the compile options... move -lXmu and -lXt up a bit. I also had to remove one of the hacks and didn't have GLExtrusion, but that was it.). GL hacks run pretty fast even using software rendering.
XFree86 for Win32 in general isn't terribly stable yet, but it works pretty good. It only runs in a window, so it doesn't really integrate seemlessly with the Windows GUI the way eXceed in passive mode does (where each client window can pop up separately using your Windows "window manager").
We have eXceed 3D (GLX), but I haven't gotten it to work well. It is dirt slow running the GL Xscreensaver hacks, but I probably need to recompile using the eXceed libs if I can figure out how to do that... I haven't had a lot of luck running GLX apps over the network either, probably because most of my GL apps are statically linked or something:/ .
My favourite solution for accessing UNIX desktops from a PC remains VNC, though.
Cygwin is just about mature enough to make Win32 a viable *NIX platform. The biggest thing missing is just decent file access (it's currently very, very slow, because they have to open every file in a directory just to get check for hidden UNIX-style attributes I guess.) Once this is handled better, as well as maybe some security issues, you'll pretty much have a decent POSIX environment.
Let's hope Wine does a good job catching up from the other end!;)
This cleans up a lot of math. And we're genetically predisposed to have an extra finger on each hand too. So if evolution has its way, by the time we convert, we'll be able to count to twelve on our fingers!
Now all we need is another evil conqueror to take over a large chunk of the world and force the change... and also beat off all the computer people who'd rather go with Base 16.
Our highschool pledge of went something like this:
I pledge allegiance to Queen Fragg and her mighty states of hysteria. And to the Republicans for which they scam one nacho unaware indisputable with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.
If you're going to the trouble of building your own piece, make sure it fulfills your needs uniquely, and isn't just a one-size-fits-all box that you might as well get prebuilt.
Several/. stories cover some superlatives, such as the quietest, smallest, or most overclockable boxes.
I wanted max I/O, so I shelled out for a nice Tyan Tiger MPX SMP motherboard with 64bit 66Mhz PCI. I bought two hard disks so I could make a raid0 / raid1 in software, but perhaps someday I'll throw in a hardware EIDE / SCSI RAID card. I also went for two sticks of RAM so accesses could be interleaved. This is all stuff OEMs don't even bother with.
My upgrade cycle is pretty low (~3-5 years, well, high according to my wife:P ). As a result, I usually pay extra for a top-of-the-line motherboard and skimp on the processor, knowing that the price on CPUs falls really fast. My plan is to spend a good $100 - $200 on the MB and maybe $50 on the CPU (usually the best performance/price ratio and probably close to the minimum that the MB can support). In about 2 years, the price of the fastest CPU that MB can support would have likely dropped from $300 to less than $100.
As far as isolating faulty parts, BE SURE to have geeky friends with similar equipment who will let you swap out components so you can figure out which part was DOA. Oh, and also time and patience.
Along the lines of time and patience, be prepared to spend lots of time at Tom's or Anandtech brushing up on the latest reviews of your components. Especially with video cards, where often times you can rip out a lot of hair trying to figure out whether it's worth $50-$100 in savings to get the cut-down MX or VE versions.
Make a checklist to make sure you don't leave anything out! It's a major bummer when you find that you're a cable short:P
This seems like it would be much more entertaining... I've always wanted to attach position fixes to my photos. Think of the possibilities! Your photo albums could then have a map interface where you could click on all of your vacation spots to call up the pictures you took from there.
Better yet, everyone could upload to a big photo database somewhere. Then if you wanted pictures of the grand canyon, you could go to the site and call of every picture people took on archive.
It would probably be pretty easy to do this now if you simply kept a GPS log of your travels and correlated the positions with the timestamps on your camera pictures. Any projects to do anything like this yet?:)
You've got to try galeon! It's like a browser done right! Here's my personal list of favourite features not offered by IE or even the Mozilla UI that it derives its rendering engine from:
popups can come up in new tabs, and each tab can have its own close button. You can kill popups without even looking at them! It also makes it easier to kill tabs without leaving the tab you're looking at (unlike the middle-click in mozilla)
The searches text inputs are very unobtrusive. It doesn't pop up that big ugly sidebar that insists on popping up even when you're doing normal searches in the main window.
It saves the state of your browsing session, so you can open everything just like it was when you left off after quitting / rebooting / crashing / etc. Big time saver!
The Preferences are in the Settings menu item, and not "Edit" or something silly like that
Nice autobookmarks feature of your most-browsed sites, when you don't feel like mucking around in your history
A bunch of other inane but useful features that really click in a way no other browser has clicked for me:P
Of course, it's a challenge building it to keep up with the pace of Mozilla development, but once it works, it's really nice...
(of course with debian, it's just a simple apt-get source -b galeon )
Hey, check out one of the new Google beta programs, answers.google.com
Even you can now earn fame and fortune, and yes, even internet cash be searching google's archives for answers to people's questions...
One factor was that Boeing was going after a more well-rounded entry that would be of use to all branches of the military, so they put a lot more emphasis on the VTOL capability than they should have.
The LockMart JSF, on the other hand, was designed more as a conventional fighter with the VTOL added on.
Only the Marine Corps were really interested in VTOL, and given that they would have only bought tens of aircraft (as opposed to the thousands the Air Force was looking for), the Air Force had much more sway. So LockMart correctly wooed the Air Force with fighter performance as the priority.
What I've started doing is recording internet music streams ( such as d-i etc. ) to tape overnight and playing them during my commute the next day. I'm sure you could do the same with CDR if you need the extra audio quality (I don't). That way, you get any channel you'd like. I've been pretty happy with this arrangement so far. Don't underestimate low-tech:)
NPR is only available on Sirius as far as I know (I could be wrong... check the XM listing!). I would rather go for XM since the $3/mo./is/ significant to me, and I work for Boeing, which built the XM sats (or at least acquired them from Hughes), and I live near DC where the XM studios are. But I really don't think I would be able to get by without Car Talk and Prarie Home Companion and My Word and even the annoying Peter Chichle (sp!) is endearing.
Splitting Time Warner RoadRunner service since '99
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We had RoadRunner in central New York back in 1999. I had a splitter lying around, so we plugged it in to my video capture card, and lo and behold, basic cable. My roommate even found some special drivers for his ATi All-in-Wonder to unbefunge some of the less-heavily "encrypted" pay channels.
We paid the price for it, though... they ran a James Bond marathon during exam week. Bastards...:P
I discovered links
while browsing through dselect a few years ago, and it's pretty awesome for a text mode browser: It supports tables, frames, and will even pass mouse clicks through when run through an xterm... it's almost exactly like using a GUI browser with the graphics off! I'm really surprised more people don't know about it by now.
Hmm, from freshmeat, it looks like the new version even has graphics support now:/ . Oh well:P . Give it a shot!
dillo was the only graphical browser I could ever get running on a 486/33Mhz with 16MB RAM (mozilla 0.8 ran, but swapped too much to be usable). Actually, come to think of it, Opera (5.x?) didn't work too bad either.
First, I try to adhere loosely to the FHS for ideas on overall organization. Even though it's mostly intended for POSIX systems, following their philosophy will really help you separate your data from your platform-dependent program files and libraries.
Most of my important stuff goes on the Linux server in/home (on an IDE software RAID1). However, I try to limit files in here to stuff that's absolutely essential to keep the size down. I occasionally mirror this offsite to my friends' servers with rsync (with the private stuff pgp encrypted). I try to make browser caches, etc. symlinks to dirs in/tmp . Try to keep only the stuff you created yourself in here.
I keep media and downloads on a plain partition under/home/ftp/pub (which is also symlinked from the http document root). That way, all my computers can easily get access to music and installers and junk.
NFS exports/home to the other UNIXen, as well as/usr for the other machines with the same CPU arch. It should be acceptable to export/usr/share to other UNIXen with different architectures.
I'd like to set up CODA, since it seems to support more different kinds clients than Intermezzo. These support disconnected operation and are good for laptops. For the meantime, I just use rsync to mirror home dirs onto my laptop, though (and just keep track of stuff that I change on the road manually:/ )
No thoughts on how to combine everything into a distributedFS so you could have parts of, say, a music archive living over several machines. There are several projects for Linux-only (PVFS) or Win32-only (more advanced network-neighborhoods). I'd say your best bet for convenience is just to make sure everything is visible from your one server and reexport it from there (invest in a switch so it doesn't deadlock your network). Until better DFSes exist, though, I think you'll get better performance and less confusion from running everything from one beefed-up server with a RAID (or two if you want failover).
For about the past month, any http connection I've made would be really slow and lossy, even though ping times to the sites were good. Anyone know if Covad is trying to set up some kind of transparent proxy on their network too?
I used to share lab space with Cornell's Odysseus team. Essentially, they created a hot probe and tried to see how far it could burrow into a vessel of ice.
Unfortunately, I believe they didn't have too much luck. Their cylindrical probe would only melt the ice right under it. The walls would freeze back into place and hold it with friction (since ice expands, and as such would create pressure on the hull). I wonder if they would have been more successful with a raindrop-shaped design, where the pressure from the refreezing ice would actually help propel it downward. In any case, the high pressures involved would probably crush any payload.
The other problem was how to relay any information it harvested back to the surface, so it could be retransmitted to Earth. H2O blocks most radio waves pretty well, and stringing a wire all that distance suffers similar problems as the probe itself -- you'd have to keep it hot to keep moving.
Until then, we'll just have to rely on remote sensing...
Wasn't multicast developed to tackle this kind of problem? They should theoretically be able to broadcast one stream and have it routed to all of their listeners. If it can't work in IPv4 on the current internet, what about with IPv6?
Come on, this is the stuff that's supposed to drive in new technology!
That's what everything was designed to handle. I'm surprised they don't tout it as much, considering it was Rob and Hemo's pet project from a while back...
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My wife's ibook 700 was pretty unbearably slow with OS X 10.2 . Blowing an extra $125 on 512MB of RAM fixed it real quick, though. It's a shame they come with 128MB standard, that really isn't enough.
The ISS is just a feeble first step at researching how we can live outside of the womb of mother Earth... did you really expect to jump right to the Moon or to Mars? Of course, it might be a waste of time and money, but that's how many "operational prototypes" are. It would be even more of a failure if we attempted to colonize the moon and it went bust because we didn't have simple stuff like the operations and project management skills that could only be developed by running this ISS business. It would be a real shame if the entire human civilization was wiped out in a few millenia simply because we couldn't be bothered to take the first few baby steps out of our atmosphere.
But I guess more to answer your question, I used to work on a research project that investigated the granular flow of particles in microgravity. There's presumably a lot you can do with forming new materials and pharmaceuticals by developing manufacturing processes in the absence of a gravitational potential always fooling around with you. Our project was relatively pure research... stick a bunch of plastic BBs in a chamber with a circular conveyor belt and see if you could sort them by size, surface friction, or elasticity by merely using a kinetic energy gradient instead of a gravitational energy gradient. Not much practical use, but the point was to develop theoretical models and simulations to predict what would happen for more practical applications. Our conveyor belt had been tested a few times on NASA's KC-135 "vomit comet" aircraft (simulates micrgravity by flying a parabolic trajectory for a few tens of seconds), and was bound for the ISS when I graduated.
By the time this tech is ready for deployment, we should have a few moon colonies in place, right? Shouldn't be any problem maintaining a vacuum there!
This isn't going to solve any mass transit problems, however. We'd have to put much more work/regulation into urban design rather than trying to cruft a bunch of connective infrastructure onto current designs.
There's a lot that can be done that doesn't involve building revolutionary new tech... how about making it easier to live close to work? Corporate parks could start by building dorm-style apartments as part of their development with their own local mass-transit system. This could connect to the current lousy urban mass-transit system through busses or even a fleet of corporate cars parked in one large lot conveniently hidden away and marginalized. We (or our employers) could easily pay for it by working the extra hour or so we save by not commuting. So instead of traveling to work, we can commit most of our travel for pleasure (such as visiting your domestic partner :P -- domestic partners who telecommute and thus could follow their spouse around to these "corporate dorms" would thus go into very high demand!). People could also invest their money on their real homes in vacation areas (such as by the beach or in the mountains) instead of sinking it into POS suburban sprawl.
Eventually the developers building these types of communities could grow and evolve them into full out arcologies.
Several downsides, of course, the least of which involves bringing corporate culture that much closer to home (literally!). But damned if the answer to societal problems (the rush hour commute) doesn't involve societal changes.
Like corporate culture doesn't already define who we are, how we dress, and what we do already :P
but it's better than no government at all!
Sorry, couldn't resist quoting fortune.
zgv is a nice image viewer, very reminscent of the DOS VGA viewers. Slap it onto an old laptop with an old ethernet or slip serial connection and you can be all set...
- Go to the cygwin site and click on the "install now" box on the side of the screen. Run the setup.exe program off the site (don't bother to save it somewhere, it gets updated almost weekly).
- Tell it to install from the internet. Choose a mirror. It'll download a list of packages. Choose the Net | OpenSsh package. If you want to run the server, you might also want to choose everything in the Admin section. I also find Net | rsync more useful than the scp that comes with openssh.
- Once the install is complete, fire it up and run ssh-host-config to set up the server. It'll ask you a bunch of simple questions, generate your hostkey, and stick the server in the startup scripts.
With just this, the whole install takes about 32MB.Enjoy!
Slashdot mentioned the Tzero a while ago. I'm certainly waiting until I can save up the ~$70K to afford one (after they come to market, of course... :P )
XFree86 for Win32 in general isn't terribly stable yet, but it works pretty good. It only runs in a window, so it doesn't really integrate seemlessly with the Windows GUI the way eXceed in passive mode does (where each client window can pop up separately using your Windows "window manager").
We have eXceed 3D (GLX), but I haven't gotten it to work well. It is dirt slow running the GL Xscreensaver hacks, but I probably need to recompile using the eXceed libs if I can figure out how to do that... I haven't had a lot of luck running GLX apps over the network either, probably because most of my GL apps are statically linked or something :/ .
My favourite solution for accessing UNIX desktops from a PC remains VNC, though.
Cygwin is just about mature enough to make Win32 a viable *NIX platform. The biggest thing missing is just decent file access (it's currently very, very slow, because they have to open every file in a directory just to get check for hidden UNIX-style attributes I guess.) Once this is handled better, as well as maybe some security issues, you'll pretty much have a decent POSIX environment.
Let's hope Wine does a good job catching up from the other end! ;)
12 has more common factors than 10...
12: 1,2,3,4,6,12
10: 1,2,5,10
This cleans up a lot of math. And we're genetically predisposed to have an extra finger on each hand too. So if evolution has its way, by the time we convert, we'll be able to count to twelve on our fingers!
Now all we need is another evil conqueror to take over a large chunk of the world and force the change... and also beat off all the computer people who'd rather go with Base 16.
Our highschool pledge of went something like this:
I pledge allegiance
to Queen Fragg
and her mighty states of hysteria.
And to the Republicans
for which they scam
one nacho
unaware
indisputable
with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.
If you're going to the trouble of building your own piece, make sure it fulfills your needs uniquely, and isn't just a one-size-fits-all box that you might as well get prebuilt.
/. stories cover some superlatives, such as the quietest, smallest, or most overclockable boxes.
:P ). As a result, I usually pay extra for a top-of-the-line motherboard and skimp on the processor, knowing that the price on CPUs falls really fast. My plan is to spend a good $100 - $200 on the MB and maybe $50 on the CPU (usually the best performance/price ratio and probably close to the minimum that the MB can support). In about 2 years, the price of the fastest CPU that MB can support would have likely dropped from $300 to less than $100 .
:P
Several
I wanted max I/O, so I shelled out for a nice Tyan Tiger MPX SMP motherboard with 64bit 66Mhz PCI. I bought two hard disks so I could make a raid0 / raid1 in software, but perhaps someday I'll throw in a hardware EIDE / SCSI RAID card. I also went for two sticks of RAM so accesses could be interleaved. This is all stuff OEMs don't even bother with.
My upgrade cycle is pretty low (~3-5 years, well, high according to my wife
As far as isolating faulty parts, BE SURE to have geeky friends with similar equipment who will let you swap out components so you can figure out which part was DOA. Oh, and also time and patience.
Along the lines of time and patience, be prepared to spend lots of time at Tom's or Anandtech brushing up on the latest reviews of your components. Especially with video cards, where often times you can rip out a lot of hair trying to figure out whether it's worth $50-$100 in savings to get the cut-down MX or VE versions.
Make a checklist to make sure you don't leave anything out! It's a major bummer when you find that you're a cable short
This seems like it would be much more entertaining... I've always wanted to attach position fixes to my photos. Think of the possibilities! Your photo albums could then have a map interface where you could click on all of your vacation spots to call up the pictures you took from there.
:)
Better yet, everyone could upload to a big photo database somewhere. Then if you wanted pictures of the grand canyon, you could go to the site and call of every picture people took on archive.
It would probably be pretty easy to do this now if you simply kept a GPS log of your travels and correlated the positions with the timestamps on your camera pictures. Any projects to do anything like this yet?
- popups can come up in new tabs, and each tab can have its own close button. You can kill popups without even looking at them! It also makes it easier to kill tabs without leaving the tab you're looking at (unlike the middle-click in mozilla)
- The searches text inputs are very unobtrusive. It doesn't pop up that big ugly sidebar that insists on popping up even when you're doing normal searches in the main window.
- It saves the state of your browsing session, so you can open everything just like it was when you left off after quitting / rebooting / crashing / etc. Big time saver!
- The Preferences are in the Settings menu item, and not "Edit" or something silly like that
- Nice autobookmarks feature of your most-browsed sites, when you don't feel like mucking around in your history
- A bunch of other inane but useful features that really click in a way no other browser has clicked for me
:P
Of course, it's a challenge building it to keep up with the pace of Mozilla development, but once it works, it's really nice... (of course with debian, it's just a simple apt-get source -b galeon )Hey, check out one of the new Google beta programs, answers.google.com Even you can now earn fame and fortune, and yes, even internet cash be searching google's archives for answers to people's questions...
One factor was that Boeing was going after a more well-rounded entry that would be of use to all branches of the military, so they put a lot more emphasis on the VTOL capability than they should have.
The LockMart JSF, on the other hand, was designed more as a conventional fighter with the VTOL added on.
Only the Marine Corps were really interested in VTOL, and given that they would have only bought tens of aircraft (as opposed to the thousands the Air Force was looking for), the Air Force had much more sway. So LockMart correctly wooed the Air Force with fighter performance as the priority.
What I've started doing is recording internet music streams ( such as d-i etc. ) to tape overnight and playing them during my commute the next day. I'm sure you could do the same with CDR if you need the extra audio quality (I don't). That way, you get any channel you'd like. I've been pretty happy with this arrangement so far. Don't underestimate low-tech :)
NPR is only available on Sirius as far as I know (I could be wrong... check the XM listing!). I would rather go for XM since the $3/mo. /is/ significant to me, and I work for Boeing, which built the XM sats (or at least acquired them from Hughes), and I live near DC where the XM studios are. But I really don't think I would be able to get by without Car Talk and Prarie Home Companion and My Word and even the annoying Peter Chichle (sp!) is endearing.
We had RoadRunner in central New York back in 1999. I had a splitter lying around, so we plugged it in to my video capture card, and lo and behold, basic cable. My roommate even found some special drivers for his ATi All-in-Wonder to unbefunge some of the less-heavily "encrypted" pay channels.
:P
We paid the price for it, though... they ran a James Bond marathon during exam week. Bastards...
Hmm, from freshmeat, it looks like the new version even has graphics support now :/ . Oh well :P . Give it a shot!
dillo was the only graphical browser I could ever get running on a 486/33Mhz with 16MB RAM (mozilla 0.8 ran, but swapped too much to be usable). Actually, come to think of it, Opera (5.x?) didn't work too bad either.
First, I try to adhere loosely to the FHS for ideas on overall organization. Even though it's mostly intended for POSIX systems, following their philosophy will really help you separate your data from your platform-dependent program files and libraries.
Most of my important stuff goes on the Linux server in /home (on an IDE software RAID1). However, I try to limit files in here to stuff that's absolutely essential to keep the size down. I occasionally mirror this offsite to my friends' servers with rsync (with the private stuff pgp encrypted). I try to make browser caches, etc. symlinks to dirs in /tmp . Try to keep only the stuff you created yourself in here.
I keep media and downloads on a plain partition under /home/ftp/pub (which is also symlinked from the http document root). That way, all my computers can easily get access to music and installers and junk.
Samba helps win32 boxes access the /home and /tmp directories.
NFS exports /home to the other UNIXen, as well as /usr for the other machines with the same CPU arch. It should be acceptable to export /usr/share to other UNIXen with different architectures.
I'd like to set up CODA, since it seems to support more different kinds clients than Intermezzo. These support disconnected operation and are good for laptops. For the meantime, I just use rsync to mirror home dirs onto my laptop, though (and just keep track of stuff that I change on the road manually :/ )
No thoughts on how to combine everything into a distributedFS so you could have parts of, say, a music archive living over several machines. There are several projects for Linux-only (PVFS) or Win32-only (more advanced network-neighborhoods). I'd say your best bet for convenience is just to make sure everything is visible from your one server and reexport it from there (invest in a switch so it doesn't deadlock your network). Until better DFSes exist, though, I think you'll get better performance and less confusion from running everything from one beefed-up server with a RAID (or two if you want failover).
Don't look at me, I have my squid cache set up :> . It would be nice if covad.net set up a proxy for us to use at our option, though...
"Hey Covad!"...
For about the past month, any http connection I've made would be really slow and lossy, even though ping times to the sites were good. Anyone know if Covad is trying to set up some kind of transparent proxy on their network too?
Unfortunately, I believe they didn't have too much luck. Their cylindrical probe would only melt the ice right under it. The walls would freeze back into place and hold it with friction (since ice expands, and as such would create pressure on the hull). I wonder if they would have been more successful with a raindrop-shaped design, where the pressure from the refreezing ice would actually help propel it downward. In any case, the high pressures involved would probably crush any payload.
The other problem was how to relay any information it harvested back to the surface, so it could be retransmitted to Earth. H2O blocks most radio waves pretty well, and stringing a wire all that distance suffers similar problems as the probe itself -- you'd have to keep it hot to keep moving.
Until then, we'll just have to rely on remote sensing...
Wasn't multicast developed to tackle this kind of problem? They should theoretically be able to broadcast one stream and have it routed to all of their listeners. If it can't work in IPv4 on the current internet, what about with IPv6?
Come on, this is the stuff that's supposed to drive in new technology!
That's what everything was designed to handle. I'm surprised they don't tout it as much, considering it was Rob and Hemo's pet project from a while back...