"the analyst group Gartner predicts that three million virtual machines will be in use by 2009, up from today's 500,000"
Our small company alone will have rolled out more than 5000 virtual machines by that time, which would account for 1/500 of the volume increase. Not very likely. We replace the hardware of old legacy client systems running OS/2, put the OS/2 system inside a Xen VM, and add another VM running Linux which is our migration target. Very sweet.
There will be a lot more virtual machines by that time. A lot. In all likelihood as many as a hundred times more.
I'm not a physics dude, obviously. Does Group Velocity also apply to solid matter? Like for instance, if you were to connect the surface of the Earth to the surface of the Moon using a diamond rod three inches thick, save one foot for vertical movement of the rod, would it take the equivalent time of light to travel the length of the rod for any vertical movement to register at the other end?
To an outside observer I guess then it would look like the rod was being compressed and extended by the movement, without either the density nor the mass of the rod ever changing. Which seems a bit weird.
I forwarded a link to the article to my boss today. We don't make hardware, but we do make software systems that are sometimes dependant on special hardware. He commented that this was really good ammo in those cases when we have trouble obtaining working drivers for our (Linux-based) products. This tells me that announcements like this one are needed and necessary - if only to remind the world around us of the incredible and important work done by the large contingency of open source and free software developers. And that it is actually available, for free, to anyone.
Soon now, OSDL and TLF will be selling "Linux Ready"-stickers for OEM's to paste on to their thingies.
OK, blame me - I wrote the original query at the HP support forum (but not the article here at slashdot). I probably should have expanded the header to say "Intel VT (TM)", as that is what Intel is officially calling it. Let's at least agree that "Virtualization Technology" is a bit on the long side. (And had I used that, the slashdot crowd would have jumped me for the use of "z" instead of "s" in "Virtualization".)
So - the crime was considered serious enough to forcibly extract DNA from the suspected criminals. But it was not considered serious enough to warrant the same suspected criminals the aid of a public defender. (As in the case of Gottfrid Svartholm, who was detained and interrogated for six hours, devoid of any legal representation.) That can't be right.
Once the probe broke through the ice at the bottom, wouldn't the tremendous water pressure down there carry it all the way back up to the top again, creating kind of a geyser throwing the probe up and away?
A registered my own domain a year and a half ago, and I figured that I'd create one email address that I'd always use publicly, to reduce the spam damage.
I chose to call it spam@...
Since then, it's been fairly heavily exposed, mainly on usenet. But to my surprise, it receives almost no spam at all. A couple of Nigerian letters is all. I figure the harvesting bots might be weeding out what they perceive as "fake" addresses.
One problem though is that some online companies apparently reckon the same as the bots, as they won't accept a "spam@"-address in the on-line registration.
How about 'google search.' As in, 'just do a google search for it.' That usage is pretty common, and in that contect, google is an adjective modifying the word 'search.'
Nope. That makes it an adverb. It's modifying a verb, see?
"I can't believe it took until this far down the thread for someone to point it out though"
Yeah, that's funny, to my eyes it stood out immediately! But then, english is only my third language...
No, seriously, it's probably easier to spot these little things if the language is an acquired skill. (though I must confess my association was to children's language, not "ye olde speake")
The snow and ice is white. It follows that it's reflecting most of the received sunlight right back into space.
Water and land, on the other hand, being non-white, absorb a lot more of the sunlight, at least in the visible spectrum.
Viewing this factor alone (which of course is a stupid thing to do), it points to an accelerated process of trapping more energy from the sun within Earth's athmosphere. Melting more ice -> absorbing more energy -> melting more ice...
I participated in a couple of mailing list some thirteen years ago. Back then no-one thought anything of exposing their email addresses, spam was hardly invented. And anyway, it was email, not the web.
I still have the same email address. Nowadays I wish I hadn't participated, the spam is a real problem.
Just to give an example of a _bad_ thing about "mailing list -> usenet converters".
Screening for genetic disorder is already in place and standard practice in civilised societies. It is common knowledge that the possibility of having a child born with Down's syndrome increases with the age of the mother. Pregnant women over the age of 35 are informed of the increased risk and offered a test. Free of charge. This goes for most western European countries.
Think of this as proper exploitation of available technology and information. No-one is harmed in this specific case, and the parents' concern for their first child speaks well of their ability to love and cherish their coming child, however much screened and whatever the outcome of this. In short, this is a happy situation.
Now if We can just get a "Do Not Spam" List to go with the "Do Not Call" list.
If we could only...? It's the next logical step! First sensible move from the White House since the little cowboy took office.
If you want to put a halter on spam, the first thing you need is something to enforce. Up until now, there hasn't been anything in sight. With an "opt out"-policy in place, the originator, or even the purported benefactor, of the unsolicited commercial email had better make sure they're untouchable by US jurisdiction. A server in a banana republic is not likely to save your ass for this one. And just how are you supposed to make business happen when you have to stay out of reach?
X wouldn't be installed on a server, right? That means this could be implemented right off the bat with no adverse impact. It's scheduling in general we're talking about here. The jerkiness *is* pretty apparent and losing it would certainly help on the desktop.
Also, do not forget, the same "jerkiness" would be present, albeit not as apparent, in other daemon intense computing environments. So it should improve running Linux in general. Hooray I say!
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"the analyst group Gartner predicts that three million virtual machines will be in use by 2009, up from today's 500,000"
Our small company alone will have rolled out more than 5000 virtual machines by that time, which would account for 1/500 of the volume increase. Not very likely. We replace the hardware of old legacy client systems running OS/2, put the OS/2 system inside a Xen VM, and add another VM running Linux which is our migration target. Very sweet.
There will be a lot more virtual machines by that time. A lot. In all likelihood as many as a hundred times more.
I'm not a physics dude, obviously. Does Group Velocity also apply to solid matter? Like for instance, if you were to connect the surface of the Earth to the surface of the Moon using a diamond rod three inches thick, save one foot for vertical movement of the rod, would it take the equivalent time of light to travel the length of the rod for any vertical movement to register at the other end?
To an outside observer I guess then it would look like the rod was being compressed and extended by the movement, without either the density nor the mass of the rod ever changing. Which seems a bit weird.
Just curious.
I forwarded a link to the article to my boss today. We don't make hardware, but we do make software systems that are sometimes dependant on special hardware. He commented that this was really good ammo in those cases when we have trouble obtaining working drivers for our (Linux-based) products. This tells me that announcements like this one are needed and necessary - if only to remind the world around us of the incredible and important work done by the large contingency of open source and free software developers. And that it is actually available, for free, to anyone.
Soon now, OSDL and TLF will be selling "Linux Ready"-stickers for OEM's to paste on to their thingies.
OK, blame me - I wrote the original query at the HP support forum (but not the article here at slashdot). I probably should have expanded the header to say "Intel VT (TM)", as that is what Intel is officially calling it. Let's at least agree that "Virtualization Technology" is a bit on the long side. (And had I used that, the slashdot crowd would have jumped me for the use of "z" instead of "s" in "Virtualization".)
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So - the crime was considered serious enough to forcibly extract DNA from the suspected criminals. But it was not considered serious enough to warrant the same suspected criminals the aid of a public defender. (As in the case of Gottfrid Svartholm, who was detained and interrogated for six hours, devoid of any legal representation.) That can't be right.
Once the probe broke through the ice at the bottom, wouldn't the tremendous water pressure down there carry it all the way back up to the top again, creating kind of a geyser throwing the probe up and away?
A registered my own domain a year and a half ago, and I figured that I'd create one email address that I'd always use publicly, to reduce the spam damage.
I chose to call it spam@...
Since then, it's been fairly heavily exposed, mainly on usenet. But to my surprise, it receives almost no spam at all. A couple of Nigerian letters is all. I figure the harvesting bots might be weeding out what they perceive as "fake" addresses.
One problem though is that some online companies apparently reckon the same as the bots, as they won't accept a "spam@"-address in the on-line registration.
How about 'google search.' As in, 'just do a google search for it.' That usage is pretty common, and in that contect, google is an adjective modifying the word 'search.'
Nope. That makes it an adverb. It's modifying a verb, see?
"I can't believe it took until this far down the thread for someone to point it out though"
Yeah, that's funny, to my eyes it stood out immediately! But then, english is only my third language...
No, seriously, it's probably easier to spot these little things if the language is an acquired skill. (though I must confess my association was to children's language, not "ye olde speake")
Well, carry on!
The snow and ice is white. It follows that it's reflecting most of the received sunlight right back into space.
Water and land, on the other hand, being non-white, absorb a lot more of the sunlight, at least in the visible spectrum.
Viewing this factor alone (which of course is a stupid thing to do), it points to an accelerated process of trapping more energy from the sun within Earth's athmosphere.
Melting more ice -> absorbing more energy -> melting more ice...
Or am I wrong about this?
if I send a mail to somebody, and this person doesn't like me, can he accuse me for sending unsolicited email ?
Just not if you email him first and ask for permission to write to him.
No, wait...
"You wouldn't be able to, say, chemically dissociate water atoms..."
Huh!? Water atoms?
Can you make wind atoms from this stuff as well? How about fire atoms, wouldn't that be something?
I participated in a couple of mailing list some thirteen years ago. Back then no-one thought anything of exposing their email addresses, spam was hardly invented. And anyway, it was email, not the web.
I still have the same email address. Nowadays I wish I hadn't participated, the spam is a real problem.
Just to give an example of a _bad_ thing about "mailing list -> usenet converters".
This comment is metamaterial.
It will absorb your information.
It will not be subject to moderation.
It will be metamoderated directly.
Screening for genetic disorder is already in place and standard practice in civilised societies. It is common knowledge that the possibility of having a child born with Down's syndrome increases with the age of the mother. Pregnant women over the age of 35 are informed of the increased risk and offered a test. Free of charge. This goes for most western European countries.
Think of this as proper exploitation of available technology and information. No-one is harmed in this specific case, and the parents' concern for their first child speaks well of their ability to love and cherish their coming child, however much screened and whatever the outcome of this. In short, this is a happy situation.
Now if We can just get a "Do Not Spam" List to go with the "Do Not Call" list.
If we could only...? It's the next logical step! First sensible move from the White House since the little cowboy took office.
If you want to put a halter on spam, the first thing you need is something to enforce. Up until now, there hasn't been anything in sight. With an "opt out"-policy in place, the originator, or even the purported benefactor, of the unsolicited commercial email had better make sure they're untouchable by US jurisdiction. A server in a banana republic is not likely to save your ass for this one. And just how are you supposed to make business happen when you have to stay out of reach?
For the name on the menu, I mean...
I recommend earplugs. Or a shotgun.
A McMuffler perhaps?
Yes, whole tables of them.
IP to McAdDressing.
Renders new meaning to the term MAC-address.
Ho-hum, let me blame my company's Internet Slowness Aggregation-server for the double post. Feel free to mod parent redundant. It certainly is.
If this "fednet" is to be totally separate, they're not going with IP version 4, are they? The article doesn't say.
That's about the only realistic route a worldwide migration to IPv6 could take, in my opinion - building an entirely separate infrastructure.
Then we can have that one and they can have the old one back!
If this "fednet" thing is to be totally separate, they're not staying with IP version 4, are they? The article doesn't say as far as I can make out.
That's about the only realistic route a worldwide migration to IPv6 could take, I think - building an entirely separate infrastructure.
Then we can have that one and they can have the old one back!
X wouldn't be installed on a server, right? That means this could be implemented right off the bat with no adverse impact. It's scheduling in general we're talking about here. The jerkiness *is* pretty apparent and losing it would certainly help on the desktop.
Also, do not forget, the same "jerkiness" would be present, albeit not as apparent, in other daemon intense computing environments. So it should improve running Linux in general. Hooray I say!
Make an exception. Mod parent up to a 6. Please?