Regardless of how insulting this must sound: it seems as though you ask this question from the perspective of an NT administrator. It doesn't sound like you know what you want, just that you want it to be very, very simple, regardless of cost. In that case, hire a couple of college interns to install it for you.
If, instead, you are willing to put in a certain amount of effort to reap the benefits in a large-scale installation, a week spent hacking RedHat's installer or writing your own scripts would be well spent. To get you started in the right direction: install linux on a computer, dd if=/dev/hda of=/nfs_mount_on_server/linux.image, reverse if and of to install on next computer, repeat. Better yet, install a small version of Linux on a partrition on each computer that simply updates the hard drive image from the server. Boot to that version of Linux whenever you need to upgrade.
In Linux, there is no "pre-packaged" plug-and-play solution for ANYTHING, but EVERYTHING can be made to do exactly what you want. From what I hear, Norton Ghost works on Linux partitions, too.
Before I had an internet connection, I bought a book on Linux that came with a distro of RedHat. In fact, this was the selling point of the book, to me, at least. It was cheaper than a full version and the book explained everything in terms of that specific distro. Plus, downloading an ISO is impossible on a 56k connection. I'd take all the comments about "everyone has DSL now" with a grain of salt and remember who you are asking. As for the extra programs and scripts that the author put on the cd, however, I never even looked at them.
The gnutella newtork is horribly slow for modem users
This is true. When I say "fast", I mean the program itself is very fast and well-written. I've gotten sick of trying to use Java-based clients, even on a relatively fast machine. The Gnutella network is still as slow/unreliable as ever. Gnucleus' disadvantage is that it has not (yet) been updated to the 0.6 protocol, which is supposed to fix this. My hope in pointing out that Morpheus had adopted the client is that perhaps Morpheus will update the code and the changes will make their way back into Gnucleus. Besides, Morpheus didn't make the switch to Gnutella for performance reasons, rather economic ones.
How does a serious statement like this on an ACTUAL LAW get modded "Funny"? Are people really that out of touch? Do they not realize that this is a fact? This is not "Funny". This is +5, SAD TRUTH.
The constitution does not create any rights. It merely recognizes certain NATURAL RIGHTS and reserves the rest to the people. The ability to copy a piece of information that you have access to is a NATURAL RIGHT. It is infringed upon by the constitutional PRIVILEDGE of exclusive copy"right". Whether a right is recognized by law or by the constitution, it is no less a right. Rights are not granted by government.
Gnucleus is a FAST, open-source window$ client in a relatively stable state right now. It also works in Wine, from what I hear. It has lots of features not present in slower clients like Limewire and, being open-source, doesn't lock out other clients like BearShare does. Morpheus has switched its entire network to Gnutella on a modified Gnucleus client, so there is no longer the "lack of files" excuse for using a proprietary network instead of gnutella. If you download it, be sure to "evolve" to version 1.6.3, as the version on the site is not very stable.
what exactly is the difference between an individual and a corporation?
Legally, there is a HUGE difference. Individuals have Natural Rights and exist independent of government. They retain these rights even from government infringement. Corporations, however, are solely legal entities created to protect individuals from personal responsibility for collective actions. They exist at the pleasure of government, and are COMPLETELY subject to ANY government regulation. The people who form the corporation, are, however, not. This is a tricky difference.
'evil' stigma of profit"
"Evil" or not, profit entails commerce, and being "engaged in interstate commerce" puts one squarely in the jurisdiction of the United States. Giving away MP3s for free, however, is not commerce, regardless of what any court says about "value depreciation".
individuals are subject to laws and punishments
This is wrong! Individuals who are not "engaged in interstate commerce" are not subject to ANY US laws, unless they reside within the US (DC, Puerto Rico, army bases, etc). This is the most misunderstood concept of Constitutional Law. Besides, individuals have Rights which they can assert in the face of unreasonable government regulation while corporations do not.
By their own admission, from literature I've seen, this program is exactly learning how to "properly firewall a system", because even CS students don't come out of college with that knowledge. Not even how to firewall a gov't system, since all of the critical systems are, as many have already pointed out, physically secure. (I know, that wasn't a sentence. I'm too lazy to fix it.) It is simply a program to use government funds to train people for corporate jobs, hence the paltry 2 year requirement. This is *yet* another instance of the facist tendency of US politicians to sell the fruits of publicly-funded research directly to the corporate establishment. Although, in this case, it at least benefits a few hard-working CS students also.
Notice he said most brilliant. He's not referring to the 1% between the top 98-99%, who end up becoming professors. He's talking about the 1% who are smarter than these nitwits and can't pass any of their droll classes because of it.
I'm just curious, but, what is the use for this? Are you in prison trying to reach your attorney? Are you in an oppressive, 3rd world dictatorship? Are you in school trying to pass notes? Again, just curious...
This is misleading. Everyone thinks that since the service was "free", it was non-profit. Napster profitted from advertising on its website, the only place one could download the Napster client. Thus, it profitted (although indirectly) from enabling people to commit copyright infringement. Although I would adamantly defend an individual's RIGHT to do this, corporations do not have rights. They are subject to laws and punishments such as this, paltry though it is (cease and desist).
I bought a cadre of smart-card readers and Netsign software from Litronic, now known as SSP Solutions, because they promised "smart-card enabled dial-up access" with Windows 98. When I got them and was programming the pin number into them, I noticed that the familiar ***** appears on one of the dialog boxes. I thought "nooo, this can't possibly be what I think it is" and downloaded a windows password cracker that just reads the memory location that contains the contents of those *****. Sure enough, there was my pin number, protected only by the brilliant security of the Windows 98 operating system. After explaining what "smart-card" means to the tech guy, Litronic refused to take the readers & software back, citing a "no return" policy on their website. Needless to say these useless products are sitting in a cabinet waiting for me to find a use for them in Linux. SSP has taken the webpage down that duped me into buying this product, but you can still find the claim in reviews such as this onet.
Never underestimate the stupidity of corporate america when it comes to technology. I'm consulting for a company now that pays someone, full-time, to *manually* copy (as in type) updated prices from vendors' DATA FILES ON DISKS into their system. The worst part is that he's fighting a losing battle; vendors update their prices faster than he can type them in. Paying someone to do this wouldn't suprise me at all.
I did a little brainstorming on this when the Mindstorm DAT Changer appeared on/. The easiest thing I came up with was to create "blanks" to stack between the cds. They would be something like AOL cds with small plastic pipe glued to the top and bottom. The robotic arm would just have to be able to grip a cd. Whatever logic controls the arm would have to realize that only every other cd is an actual cd, the others are "blanks". The problem would be that the "spindles" of blank cds would have to be manually arranged with these "blanks" between them, lots of work, and the "blanks" would have to be created to begin with. But I had plans for a arm that just goes around in a circle and picks up and moves cds and "blanks" from one spindle to another, sadly reminiscent of the "Towers of Hanoi" problem. If anyone actually thinks this is a good idea, or is crazy enough to try to build one, e-mail me.
after reading about the lego DAT changer, (mentioned above), I sat down to design one for cds. I started with a ludicrous robotic arm design and finally ended up concluding that your idea would be the best. I have an "extra" 5 disc cd changer lying around, (extra because mp3's are SOO much easier), but haven't yet been brave enough to tear it apart. Maybe now I might...
This is the most asinine, communist idea I have ever heard. It's almost as bad as hate crimes legislation. Oh, boo-hoo, blind people can't see books so they need special legislation to allow them to do what anyone in the US can do already under the "fair-use" doctrine. This makes me proud that I live in a country in which RIGHTS ARE RETAINED, not granted. Although, sometimes I wonder if anyone in our government knows this.
This really can't be how moderation is done. I reply with a poingnant response to an on-topic, although unpopular comment and I get modded (0 -- Offtopic). I guess I'll have to be satisfied that, hours later, evidence appears on Slashdot that Microsoft is doing exactly as I said. More importantly, it is VERY RELEVANT to clustering. You moderators can go fuck yourselves.
I don't have the EULA, but from a legal standpoint, "The Product" referred to multiple times must be the same, single product. And since this is the licensing agreement for XP, "the Product" is most probably XP itself. eg.
"any Device to use, access, display, or run the Product or Product's user interface, unless the Device has a separate license for the Product.
This suggests that the "Product" has a user interface, is able to be "accessed", and requires a license. I would assume XP itself is the only of the two that meets these requirements.
Distributed servers is an interesting proposal, and might be the solution in the end, but in the interim it is just not feasible. Clusters *always* run better when there is a central server to coordinate tasks. The algorithms for distributed coordination are just not there. Network protocols (P2P) for distributed file-sharing are getting closer, but are still not scalable without huge performance hits. And the most important point of all, $2000 will still buy a machine that is up to the task of serving hundreds of clients. When/if processing speed hits a ceiling (price/performnce) and home users no longer need twice the power they needed a year ago, distributed serving will be price effective. Until then, a structured environment offers so much more in terms of manageability that the price is worth it.
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because you have no local disk for fast scratch space
no, but with the $100 you saved not buying a disk you could have an extra 256MB of VERY FAST scratch space.
This is a perfect example of Microsoft "innovation". Bill Gates and his lackeys can't even steal their ideas directly from the academic community; they have to wait until another, smaller company implements clustering as an add-on to Windows (Citrix) and becomes successful. Then, Microsoft incorporates this "innovation" into their product and proceeds to put said company out of business. It has happened hundreds of times. The worst part is that most idiots believe that Microsoft actually came up with the idea in the first place. It's sad, really.
I think this is where clustering should be done, for now at least, at the thread level. Most programs are multi-threaded. Most people don't want to rewrite programs to support MPI or PVM. Lots of projects that previously had to implement their own clustering protocols can just utilize Mosix instead. If I could talk my boss into it, I would put Linux/Mosix on every desktop at work and have a giant Mosix cluster. This is the future of computing.
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If, instead, you are willing to put in a certain amount of effort to reap the benefits in a large-scale installation, a week spent hacking RedHat's installer or writing your own scripts would be well spent. To get you started in the right direction: install linux on a computer, dd if=/dev/hda of=/nfs_mount_on_server/linux.image, reverse if and of to install on next computer, repeat. Better yet, install a small version of Linux on a partrition on each computer that simply updates the hard drive image from the server. Boot to that version of Linux whenever you need to upgrade.
In Linux, there is no "pre-packaged" plug-and-play solution for ANYTHING, but EVERYTHING can be made to do exactly what you want. From what I hear, Norton Ghost works on Linux partitions, too.
Before I had an internet connection, I bought a book on Linux that came with a distro of RedHat. In fact, this was the selling point of the book, to me, at least. It was cheaper than a full version and the book explained everything in terms of that specific distro. Plus, downloading an ISO is impossible on a 56k connection. I'd take all the comments about "everyone has DSL now" with a grain of salt and remember who you are asking. As for the extra programs and scripts that the author put on the cd, however, I never even looked at them.
This is true. When I say "fast", I mean the program itself is very fast and well-written. I've gotten sick of trying to use Java-based clients, even on a relatively fast machine. The Gnutella network is still as slow/unreliable as ever. Gnucleus' disadvantage is that it has not (yet) been updated to the 0.6 protocol, which is supposed to fix this. My hope in pointing out that Morpheus had adopted the client is that perhaps Morpheus will update the code and the changes will make their way back into Gnucleus. Besides, Morpheus didn't make the switch to Gnutella for performance reasons, rather economic ones.
It isn't. That doesn't mean it isn't a right and it isn't protected. Point out the Ninth Amendment to your law professor and demand a fucking cookie.
How does a serious statement like this on an ACTUAL LAW get modded "Funny"? Are people really that out of touch? Do they not realize that this is a fact? This is not "Funny". This is +5, SAD TRUTH.
The constitution does not create any rights. It merely recognizes certain NATURAL RIGHTS and reserves the rest to the people. The ability to copy a piece of information that you have access to is a NATURAL RIGHT. It is infringed upon by the constitutional PRIVILEDGE of exclusive copy"right". Whether a right is recognized by law or by the constitution, it is no less a right. Rights are not granted by government.
Gnucleus is a FAST, open-source window$ client in a relatively stable state right now. It also works in Wine, from what I hear. It has lots of features not present in slower clients like Limewire and, being open-source, doesn't lock out other clients like BearShare does. Morpheus has switched its entire network to Gnutella on a modified Gnucleus client, so there is no longer the "lack of files" excuse for using a proprietary network instead of gnutella. If you download it, be sure to "evolve" to version 1.6.3, as the version on the site is not very stable.
Legally, there is a HUGE difference. Individuals have Natural Rights and exist independent of government. They retain these rights even from government infringement. Corporations, however, are solely legal entities created to protect individuals from personal responsibility for collective actions. They exist at the pleasure of government, and are COMPLETELY subject to ANY government regulation. The people who form the corporation, are, however, not. This is a tricky difference.
'evil' stigma of profit"
"Evil" or not, profit entails commerce, and being "engaged in interstate commerce" puts one squarely in the jurisdiction of the United States. Giving away MP3s for free, however, is not commerce, regardless of what any court says about "value depreciation".
individuals are subject to laws and punishments
This is wrong! Individuals who are not "engaged in interstate commerce" are not subject to ANY US laws, unless they reside within the US (DC, Puerto Rico, army bases, etc). This is the most misunderstood concept of Constitutional Law. Besides, individuals have Rights which they can assert in the face of unreasonable government regulation while corporations do not.
By their own admission, from literature I've seen, this program is exactly learning how to "properly firewall a system", because even CS students don't come out of college with that knowledge. Not even how to firewall a gov't system, since all of the critical systems are, as many have already pointed out, physically secure. (I know, that wasn't a sentence. I'm too lazy to fix it.) It is simply a program to use government funds to train people for corporate jobs, hence the paltry 2 year requirement. This is *yet* another instance of the facist tendency of US politicians to sell the fruits of publicly-funded research directly to the corporate establishment. Although, in this case, it at least benefits a few hard-working CS students also.
Notice he said most brilliant. He's not referring to the 1% between the top 98-99%, who end up becoming professors. He's talking about the 1% who are smarter than these nitwits and can't pass any of their droll classes because of it.
sad but true
I'm just curious, but, what is the use for this? Are you in prison trying to reach your attorney? Are you in an oppressive, 3rd world dictatorship? Are you in school trying to pass notes? Again, just curious...
a device "no bigger than a shirt button" capable of "tracking items or people" that "can harvest all the energy it needs from its environment."
This is misleading. Everyone thinks that since the service was "free", it was non-profit. Napster profitted from advertising on its website, the only place one could download the Napster client. Thus, it profitted (although indirectly) from enabling people to commit copyright infringement. Although I would adamantly defend an individual's RIGHT to do this, corporations do not have rights. They are subject to laws and punishments such as this, paltry though it is (cease and desist).
I bought a cadre of smart-card readers and Netsign software from Litronic, now known as SSP Solutions, because they promised "smart-card enabled dial-up access" with Windows 98. When I got them and was programming the pin number into them, I noticed that the familiar ***** appears on one of the dialog boxes. I thought "nooo, this can't possibly be what I think it is" and downloaded a windows password cracker that just reads the memory location that contains the contents of those *****. Sure enough, there was my pin number, protected only by the brilliant security of the Windows 98 operating system. After explaining what "smart-card" means to the tech guy, Litronic refused to take the readers & software back, citing a "no return" policy on their website. Needless to say these useless products are sitting in a cabinet waiting for me to find a use for them in Linux. SSP has taken the webpage down that duped me into buying this product, but you can still find the claim in reviews such as this onet.
Never underestimate the stupidity of corporate america when it comes to technology. I'm consulting for a company now that pays someone, full-time, to *manually* copy (as in type) updated prices from vendors' DATA FILES ON DISKS into their system. The worst part is that he's fighting a losing battle; vendors update their prices faster than he can type them in. Paying someone to do this wouldn't suprise me at all.
I did a little brainstorming on this when the Mindstorm DAT Changer appeared on /. The easiest thing I came up with was to create "blanks" to stack between the cds. They would be something like AOL cds with small plastic pipe glued to the top and bottom. The robotic arm would just have to be able to grip a cd. Whatever logic controls the arm would have to realize that only every other cd is an actual cd, the others are "blanks". The problem would be that the "spindles" of blank cds would have to be manually arranged with these "blanks" between them, lots of work, and the "blanks" would have to be created to begin with. But I had plans for a arm that just goes around in a circle and picks up and moves cds and "blanks" from one spindle to another, sadly reminiscent of the "Towers of Hanoi" problem. If anyone actually thinks this is a good idea, or is crazy enough to try to build one, e-mail me.
after reading about the lego DAT changer, (mentioned above), I sat down to design one for cds. I started with a ludicrous robotic arm design and finally ended up concluding that your idea would be the best. I have an "extra" 5 disc cd changer lying around, (extra because mp3's are SOO much easier), but haven't yet been brave enough to tear it apart. Maybe now I might...
This is the most asinine, communist idea I have ever heard. It's almost as bad as hate crimes legislation. Oh, boo-hoo, blind people can't see books so they need special legislation to allow them to do what anyone in the US can do already under the "fair-use" doctrine. This makes me proud that I live in a country in which RIGHTS ARE RETAINED, not granted. Although, sometimes I wonder if anyone in our government knows this.
This really can't be how moderation is done. I reply with a poingnant response to an on-topic, although unpopular comment and I get modded (0 -- Offtopic). I guess I'll have to be satisfied that, hours later, evidence appears on Slashdot that Microsoft is doing exactly as I said. More importantly, it is VERY RELEVANT to clustering. You moderators can go fuck yourselves.
"any Device to use, access, display, or run the Product or Product's user interface, unless the Device has a separate license for the Product.
This suggests that the "Product" has a user interface, is able to be "accessed", and requires a license. I would assume XP itself is the only of the two that meets these requirements.
Distributed servers is an interesting proposal, and might be the solution in the end, but in the interim it is just not feasible. Clusters *always* run better when there is a central server to coordinate tasks. The algorithms for distributed coordination are just not there. Network protocols (P2P) for distributed file-sharing are getting closer, but are still not scalable without huge performance hits. And the most important point of all, $2000 will still buy a machine that is up to the task of serving hundreds of clients. When/if processing speed hits a ceiling (price/performnce) and home users no longer need twice the power they needed a year ago, distributed serving will be price effective. Until then, a structured environment offers so much more in terms of manageability that the price is worth it.
no, but with the $100 you saved not buying a disk you could have an extra 256MB of VERY FAST scratch space.
This is a perfect example of Microsoft "innovation". Bill Gates and his lackeys can't even steal their ideas directly from the academic community; they have to wait until another, smaller company implements clustering as an add-on to Windows (Citrix) and becomes successful. Then, Microsoft incorporates this "innovation" into their product and proceeds to put said company out of business. It has happened hundreds of times. The worst part is that most idiots believe that Microsoft actually came up with the idea in the first place. It's sad, really.
I think this is where clustering should be done, for now at least, at the thread level. Most programs are multi-threaded. Most people don't want to rewrite programs to support MPI or PVM. Lots of projects that previously had to implement their own clustering protocols can just utilize Mosix instead. If I could talk my boss into it, I would put Linux/Mosix on every desktop at work and have a giant Mosix cluster. This is the future of computing.