I had an idea once, a far out, way out idea, a way far outre idea - in my lounge you see the avant garde sculpture with all those little boxes spiraling around a central pole - no, wait half a mo, that's the servers, and next to them you have the hard drives on a SAN - don't trip over the power cable, will you!? It's a fully Uninterruptable Power Supply, fully shielded from everything except a nuclear strike. No, the little boxes don't have power supplies all of their own! It's elementary - they communicate with the UPS over the power cable.
The CPUs communicate over a gigabit Fibre Channel with each other and with the SAN - SAN's an arbitrated loop of course, the CPUs are switched fabric - and these are my screens - a full seven times twenty-one inch! And all running Enlightenment on X on their own Graphics PUs. It's wonderful what you can do with switched fabric and a set of flat screens!
I haven't seen the film as yet, only seen the film book, and I was first put out by the plot change, having Arwen Undomiel instead of Glorfindel lead the hobbits and Aragorn to safety at Rivendell.
Later I realized how appropriate it actually was, and I think Tolkein would've agreed. Arwen Undomiel is the great-great-granddaughter of the elvish princess Luthien Tinuviel who dared the gates of hell (Angband) to recover the Silmarillion and to be with her lover, the mortal man Beren. She was the great-granddaughter of the foresighted and brave elvish princess Idril Celebrindal, who led her people out of the doomed city of Gondolin during the War of the Silmarils. She was the granddaughter of Elwing, who threw herself into the sea rather than let her estranged relatives the sons of Feanor take the Silmaril by force. And last but hardly least, she was the granddaughter of Galadriel who helped lead the Noldor out of the Blessed Realm into Middle Earth to fight the War of the Silmarils.
Having her take the place of Glorfindel in fighting off the Ringwraiths is entirely in character.
amongst us would like to ask that most central question:
PL/I or Algol68?
While the more facetious would like to know:
What with the "War on French Tourism - oops, that should really read - Terrorism" threatening to clog up the vital arteries of life in the Western World, is it likely that we will ever get the opportunity to roll some of those obscene laws back?
How well will "sunset clauses" actually work, or is it likely that even suggesting such clauses need to be reviewed, will be taken as treason?
J.G. Ballard's "Vermillion Sands" - there's a story there about an author who has his computer/typewriter working for him - it's an IBM of some sort or other. And there's a house that's getting ill.
X10, anybody? And as for computer doing the writing for you, all you do is hook up emacs on "Meta X dissociated-press" to some incoming text, feed the resultant text through a grammar checker, and a style checker, etc, and you have the computer writing for you. Doesn't have to mean much, or even anything at all!
it succeeds, it will add a little bit extra to the practical knowledge of fiddlin' around with them thar gene thingees. so on one point it's a GOOD THING, on another it's a BAD THING.
And when we've got that done, settled, etc, any chance of cloning homo neanderthalensis back from extinction, or homo ergaster, or homo habilis, or paranthropus boisei, or whatever?
I doubt you can beat a subject-oriented language!!!
Getting facetious, Cyclone sounds like an interesting idea - I just wish they'd released an open source edition of C+@, and let Unir be the little fish in the big pond that that would've provided, instead of letting Unir be the extra-size fish in the tiny little pond that resulted - yes, we've read DJJ, and no we can't afford C+@!!! What more can you want?
Wouldn't datalog be better? A prolog/database derivative, it manages to look enough like english to pass muster with the non-digitally-literate, and can be learnt quickly.
Oh, yes, doesn't have the parentheses lisp is (in)famous for...
You could use it for all sorts of object configurations - make/etc a set of files with different permissions, add another level to the system permissions (kernel to root, bin, and all the rest) - I'm probably talking about something completely different than the standard Linux/Unix whatever, aren't I?
I would've thought a far more appropriate place for a simulated Mars mission would've been one of the Antarctic Dry Valleys, and for a lot longer than the month they suggest.
I mean, get real - Mars is going to be out of touch for a good nine or more months, except for the radio communications. Or much longer - how many flights/cruises/tours of duty will be able to be sent in such a short space of time?
Kind of like Antarctica, I would've thought.
I'd jump if they were offering it in Antarctica, cause that's right next door to where I'm living - NZ itself - but I suspect Deep Freeze would have fits... go figure!
I was needing a scientific library earlier on in the peace!!! "Numerical Recipes" was too expensive - cashwise - and way too highly priced for my intended use of Mathematical Libraries for a TCAS plus Aeronautical Navigation software (GPL'ed).(You know, spherical trig. plus vectors, etc.)
And GSL is written in C - excellent!!! A lot easier to interface it to the likes of GNATS, and so forth.
links to your own personal web site for starters, then links to YFWS (your favourite web sites, eg, Slashdot, OSDN, etc), a bit of personal info, a heap of loadable modules so you don't come across as the klutz-maestro when your victim inserts it only to find that he can't do anything because of driver problems, etc (and so they can use it as a rescue disk), plus intrusion detection tools... apart from that - well, at 50 megs you're hardly likely to get much on it.
"Microsoft says it's "irresponsible" to expect them to get a patch out for a critical flaw within "a few days"."
thinking that Microsoft's New Deal was to be Services, pure and simple.
"Yes, sir, how would you like to be served? We've got an extra-special discount today on sauteeing customers, and would you like to be served with fries or rice?"
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The CPUs communicate over a gigabit Fibre Channel with each other and with the SAN - SAN's an arbitrated loop of course, the CPUs are switched fabric - and these are my screens - a full seven times twenty-one inch! And all running Enlightenment on X on their own Graphics PUs. It's wonderful what you can do with switched fabric and a set of flat screens!
Later I realized how appropriate it actually was, and I think Tolkein would've agreed. Arwen Undomiel is the great-great-granddaughter of the elvish princess Luthien Tinuviel who dared the gates of hell (Angband) to recover the Silmarillion and to be with her lover, the mortal man Beren. She was the great-granddaughter of the foresighted and brave elvish princess Idril Celebrindal, who led her people out of the doomed city of Gondolin during the War of the Silmarils. She was the granddaughter of Elwing, who threw herself into the sea rather than let her estranged relatives the sons of Feanor take the Silmaril by force. And last but hardly least, she was the granddaughter of Galadriel who helped lead the Noldor out of the Blessed Realm into Middle Earth to fight the War of the Silmarils.
Having her take the place of Glorfindel in fighting off the Ringwraiths is entirely in character.
amongst us would like to ask that most central question:
PL/I or Algol68?
While the more facetious would like to know:
What with the "War on French Tourism - oops, that should really read - Terrorism" threatening to clog up the vital arteries of life in the Western World, is it likely that we will ever get the opportunity to roll some of those obscene laws back?
How well will "sunset clauses" actually work, or is it likely that even suggesting such clauses need to be reviewed, will be taken as treason?
money back from the politcos - put something like that in every politicos' seat - it's not for nothing they're called benchwarmers.
find some way of putting this stuff into blankets and mattresses, and you'll have all the honeymoon hotels beating a path to your door.
and it even accepts input from amateurs. So if you think you've got something useful to say, you send the editors it.
;)
It does appear to be a web-only mag though, so if you're not comfortable with that (shrugs
Apart from that, Linux Journal is good, and I've been known to read Linux Magazine, and to look at other ones.
J.G. Ballard's "Vermillion Sands" - there's a story there about an author who has his computer/typewriter working for him - it's an IBM of some sort or other. And there's a house that's getting ill.
X10, anybody? And as for computer doing the writing for you, all you do is hook up emacs on "Meta X dissociated-press" to some incoming text, feed the resultant text through a grammar checker, and a style checker, etc, and you have the computer writing for you. Doesn't have to mean much, or even anything at all!
it succeeds, it will add a little bit extra to the practical knowledge of fiddlin' around with them thar gene thingees. so on one point it's a GOOD THING, on another it's a BAD THING.
And when we've got that done, settled, etc, any chance of cloning homo neanderthalensis back from extinction, or homo ergaster, or homo habilis, or paranthropus boisei, or whatever?
What about C+-?
I doubt you can beat a subject-oriented language!!!
Getting facetious, Cyclone sounds like an interesting idea - I just wish they'd released an open source edition of C+@, and let Unir be the little fish in the big pond that that would've provided, instead of letting Unir be the extra-size fish in the tiny little pond that resulted - yes, we've read DJJ, and no we can't afford C+@!!! What more can you want?
Wouldn't datalog be better? A prolog/database derivative, it manages to look enough like english to pass muster with the non-digitally-literate, and can be learnt quickly.
...
/etc a set of files with different permissions, add another level to the system permissions (kernel to root, bin, and all the rest) - I'm probably talking about something completely different than the standard Linux/Unix whatever, aren't I?
Oh, yes, doesn't have the parentheses lisp is (in)famous for
You could use it for all sorts of object configurations - make
Maybe I should just shut up and get on with it;)
I would've thought a far more appropriate place for a simulated Mars mission would've been one of the Antarctic Dry Valleys, and for a lot longer than the month they suggest.
... go figure!
I mean, get real - Mars is going to be out of touch for a good nine or more months, except for the radio communications. Or much longer - how many flights/cruises/tours of duty will be able to be sent in such a short space of time?
Kind of like Antarctica, I would've thought.
I'd jump if they were offering it in Antarctica, cause that's right next door to where I'm living - NZ itself - but I suspect Deep Freeze would have fits
I was needing a scientific library earlier on in the peace!!! "Numerical Recipes" was too expensive - cashwise - and way too highly priced for my intended use of Mathematical Libraries for a TCAS plus Aeronautical Navigation software (GPL'ed).(You know, spherical trig. plus vectors, etc.)
And GSL is written in C - excellent!!! A lot easier to interface it to the likes of GNATS, and so forth.
links to your own personal web site for starters, then links to YFWS (your favourite web sites, eg, Slashdot, OSDN, etc), a bit of personal info, a heap of loadable modules so you don't come across as the klutz-maestro when your victim inserts it only to find that he can't do anything because of driver problems, etc (and so they can use it as a rescue disk), plus intrusion detection tools ... apart from that - well, at 50 megs you're hardly likely to get much on it.
thinking that Microsoft's New Deal was to be Services, pure and simple.
"Yes, sir, how would you like to be served? We've got an extra-special discount today on sauteeing customers, and would you like to be served with fries or rice?"