07/02/02, 8:30 a.m. EDT--IBM has introduced a new e-business service that allows corporations to access large-scale computing infrastructure on-demand over the Internet. The service, called Linux Virtual Services, connects customers using Linux-based applications to IBM e-business hosting centers that provide managed server processing, storage and networking capacity, allowing them to tap into "virtual servers" on IBM zSeries mainframes running Linux in a secure hosting environment.
By partitioning the processing, storage and network capacity for each customer, IBM says it can isolate individual demand on the system and map resources to that demand while still ensuring separation between customers. Customers can purchase processing power on-demand, by the service unit. IBM will also provide application porting services for customers on non-Linux platforms.
Our article today sounds like batch: "computing power of a supercomputer for a short period" although they do go on to say "Other services could be delivered in much the same way".
"IBM has joined the burgeoning grid party, sinking US$4 billion into building 50 computer server farms around the world. On Thursday, the company announced that the British government has selected it to provide key technologies for the "National Grid," a huge, interlocked network of computers distributed throughout the country.
IBM was awarded the contract to build a high-tech data storage facility at Oxford University, one of nine grid centers. The company is already working on a grid connecting five universities in the Netherlands. "
Sounds like they know how they are going to spend the money, but the article in question wasn't very detailed.
Well...someone has to put the bagel in the toaster;-)
Wladawksy-Berger:
Let me first comment on the complexity question because this is very important.
Like other major technology infrastructures, such as electricity or the telephone
network, the aim is that even though the infrastructure itself is complex--say
to generate electricity you have Hoover dam, transmission lines from Hudson
Bay, nuclear power plants in Canada--if want to toast a bagel in the morning,
you don't have to know any of that.
"Irving Wladawksy-Berger, vice-president of technology and strategy for IBM's Server Group, is a 32-year IBM veteran whose career has included stints in research, product development, business management, and strategic planning. In 1995 he was handpicked by CEO Lou Gerstner to figure out how to make the Internet a core part of IBM's business. He is still on that mission, although his latest focus is on two next-generation technologies: grid computing and autonomic systems. Wladawksy-Berger believes the Internet is on the verge of becoming a global virtual computer, like a utility power grid, with computing resources available on demand."
"In the late 1970's Microsoft licensed UNIX source code from AT&T which at the time was not licensing the name UNIX. Therefore Microsoft created the name Xenix. Microsoft did not sell Xenix to end-users but instead licensed the software to software OEMs such as Intel, Tandy, Altos and SCO who then provided a finished version of their own Xenix to the end-users or other customers." http://www.computerhope.com/unix/xenix.htm
I would suggest Microsoft reliscensed Xenix (which was sourcecode liscensed from ATT) rather than "sold" it. Its not like it was developed at MS so much as brokered.
"The Court understands fully why licensing has many advantages for software publishers. However, this preference does not alter the Court's analysis that the substance of the transaction at issue here is a sale and not a license," Judge Pregerson writes. If you put your money down and walked away with a CD, you bought that copy, EULA or no EULA. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5628
The first amendment isn't authorative everywhere. Part of why freenet exists is to provide a means of communication which is purely free and protected, so as to be unstoppable by authority, in part because authority can become corrupted. It is a safeguard on the political system. Could freenet be abused? Well yes it could. Do we need something like this? God willing we never will, but then whoever hopes they need a fire extinguisher. Freenet is just an experiment until someone manages to dissolve the constitution. Then it becomes a necessary tool. At which point it becomes illegal. It would seem that the only societies that would allow freenet are those free enough not to need it yet. So perhaps its most useful time frame would be immediately after a coup, but before the regime has consolidated power.
So access to freenet is requires access to keys. Yet the keys published on websites don't resolve (least, they never did for me). Instead, keys will now be posted on freenet, where if I had a key I could access said keys. Hmmm...I keep pulling at my boot but I can't seem to fly.
Like others, I love the idea. Yet experience suggests that actually reaching content seems unlikely. This would be the third time I tried, so I think I'll wait until I see slashdot posts after a release where people claim to actually be seeing a "net" in freenet. Perhaps I just don't know the right people to get started...
Aren't you innocent until proven guilty? Don't they have to prove intent to commit a crime? Or do you suggest that freedom of speech is inherently negligent (negligence is a legal form of intent). If the file is encrypted to the point where you can't determine what it is, then isn't your node a "free carrier"?
Likewise the rest: To promote the progress of science and useful arts, (NOT the authors, inventors, or corps.s) by securing for limited times (not effectively forever) to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
So far, the molecular cascades have a perfect operational record, Heinrich said. "We have seen over 10,000 of these hops and we have never seen an incorrect one," he said. In fact, it was this incredible reliability of the cascade that first attracted Heinrich to invent the domino code.
I like a text-bsed installer. I prefer a text-based bootup. I use Blackbox alot. I think textmodes are cleaner. But, Mandrake recognizes my USB mouse, USB printer, and even gives me a dropdown that has my monitor listed. I couldn't get the scroll mouse to work with debian. Oh well. I actually enjoyed the first few hours of trying. Not so much the few hours the next day. So I'd suggest its not about "text-based", its about ever completing it so that it works.
I can't imagine not having a compiler in my base system. I even run Emacs on my windows partion. What sort of app.s do you run? Have you ever tried MC for a file manager?
Our physics department runs three versions of windows. Our library runs two versions of windows. The intersection is null. So Without leaving my dorm room I can see two buildings that have 5 versions of windows in production use. Win 3.1, Win 98SE, NT4, W2K, XP.
Behavior has never been the sole determining factor of guilt in our legal system. If someone convinces you that pushing a button will bring the elevator to your floor, and it blows up a building, you aren't the one who blew it up. It matters less "who pushes the button" than what each intended to do. A person who steals bread to feed his starving children is in violation yet shouldn't be punished the same as someone who destroys a loaf of someone else's bread so that children will starve. To ignore intent is just simplistic to an extreme that indicates you've perhaps not considered the matter.
So is state sponsered marriage legislation of morality? Its not for hetrosexual couples? But it is for homosexual couples? Its not legislating morality when the legislation supports your cultural worldview, but it is "morality" when it doesn't support your worldview? I sense a contradiction. As long as its a crime...regardless? Isn't that... wrong?
That flat rate is for any year you did a partial broadcast since 1998. Hence, you pony up $2500. That flat rate is "temporary" until congress passes legislation. At which point you pay the difference.
>>"...Republicans..."
The religious right are all Republican, yes, but most Republicans aren't of the Religious Right. I can still remember the controversy surrounding admitting the religious right to the heart of the GOP.
My first linux install was Debian downloaded to floppys. I wanted my first time to be free in all senses of the word. I prefer Debian from my "religious" perspectives. Its the one distribution I really want to survive. Yet while I install it every third upgrade (SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, repeat) I always miss some basic functionality that I can't get working. This last time it was both sound and my scroll mouse. I love apt-get. Upgrading couldn't be easier. Its beautiful. But...I could only spend 30-40 hours reconfiguring before I gave up again. Installed the new mandrake 9, autodetection makes it a non-issue. I can understand choice. I use 5 different windowmanagers weekly just for the pleasure of a new look and feel. But its not a choice if the choice is "do without". Install/configure isn't an important part of a distribution if you can get past it. If you can't get past it, then its critical. Its sad that the distribution that has won my heart remains so critical.
Slashdot Mirror
Our article today sounds like batch:
"computing power of a supercomputer for a short period" although they do go on to say "Other services could be delivered in much the same way".
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/12470.html
Sounds like they know how they are going to spend the money, but the article in question wasn't very detailed.
"Irving Wladawksy-Berger, vice-president of technology and strategy for IBM's Server Group, is a 32-year IBM veteran whose career has included stints in research, product development, business management, and strategic planning. In 1995 he was handpicked by CEO Lou Gerstner to figure out how to make the Internet a core part of IBM's business. He is still on that mission, although his latest focus is on two next-generation technologies: grid computing and autonomic systems. Wladawksy-Berger believes the Internet is on the verge of becoming a global virtual computer, like a utility power grid, with computing resources available on demand."
"In the late 1970's Microsoft licensed UNIX source code from AT&T which at the time was not licensing the name UNIX. Therefore Microsoft created the name Xenix. Microsoft did not sell Xenix to end-users but instead licensed the software to software OEMs such as Intel, Tandy, Altos and SCO who then provided a finished version of their own Xenix to the end-users or other customers." http://www.computerhope.com/unix/xenix.htm
I would suggest Microsoft reliscensed Xenix (which was sourcecode liscensed from ATT) rather than "sold" it. Its not like it was developed at MS so much as brokered.
"The Court understands fully why licensing has many advantages for software publishers. However, this preference does not alter the Court's analysis that the substance of the transaction at issue here is a sale and not a license," Judge Pregerson writes. If you put your money down and walked away with a CD, you bought that copy, EULA or no EULA. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5628
The first amendment isn't authorative everywhere. Part of why freenet exists is to provide a means of communication which is purely free and protected, so as to be unstoppable by authority, in part because authority can become corrupted. It is a safeguard on the political system. Could freenet be abused? Well yes it could. Do we need something like this? God willing we never will, but then whoever hopes they need a fire extinguisher. Freenet is just an experiment until someone manages to dissolve the constitution. Then it becomes a necessary tool. At which point it becomes illegal. It would seem that the only societies that would allow freenet are those free enough not to need it yet. So perhaps its most useful time frame would be immediately after a coup, but before the regime has consolidated power.
So access to freenet is requires access to keys. Yet the keys published on websites don't resolve (least, they never did for me). Instead, keys will now be posted on freenet, where if I had a key I could access said keys. Hmmm...I keep pulling at my boot but I can't seem to fly.
Like others, I love the idea. Yet experience suggests that actually reaching content seems unlikely. This would be the third time I tried, so I think I'll wait until I see slashdot posts after a release where people claim to actually be seeing a "net" in freenet. Perhaps I just don't know the right people to get started...
Aren't you innocent until proven guilty? Don't they have to prove intent to commit a crime? Or do you suggest that freedom of speech is inherently negligent (negligence is a legal form of intent). If the file is encrypted to the point where you can't determine what it is, then isn't your node a "free carrier"?
Likewise the rest:
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, (NOT the authors, inventors, or corps.s)
by securing for limited times (not effectively forever)
to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
So far, the molecular cascades have a perfect operational record, Heinrich said. "We have seen over 10,000 of these hops and we have never seen an incorrect one," he said. In fact, it was this incredible reliability of the cascade that first attracted Heinrich to invent the domino code.
I like a text-bsed installer. I prefer a text-based bootup. I use Blackbox alot. I think textmodes are cleaner. But, Mandrake recognizes my USB mouse, USB printer, and even gives me a dropdown that has my monitor listed. I couldn't get the scroll mouse to work with debian. Oh well. I actually enjoyed the first few hours of trying. Not so much the few hours the next day. So I'd suggest its not about "text-based", its about ever completing it so that it works.
Where else can one participate in a transcendental flame-war?
e^(-i pi)+1=0
Interesting though that linus used GNU tools...then GPLed his kernel, don't you think?
I can't imagine not having a compiler in my base system. I even run Emacs on my windows partion. What sort of app.s do you run? Have you ever tried MC for a file manager?
Useless w/o XFree? Now you totally lose me. I did *all* of numerical analysis II from Screen running Emacs running Octave.
Our physics department runs three versions of windows. Our library runs two versions of windows. The intersection is null. So Without leaving my dorm room I can see two buildings that have 5 versions of windows in production use. Win 3.1, Win 98SE, NT4, W2K, XP.
But did you ever see a 4004?
Not to the majority of users: "dialup".
Yeah right. So rm everything but your kernel and init scripts and see what you can do with your box. Not much.
Behavior has never been the sole determining factor of guilt in our legal system. If someone convinces you that pushing a button will bring the elevator to your floor, and it blows up a building, you aren't the one who blew it up. It matters less "who pushes the button" than what each intended to do. A person who steals bread to feed his starving children is in violation yet shouldn't be punished the same as someone who destroys a loaf of someone else's bread so that children will starve. To ignore intent is just simplistic to an extreme that indicates you've perhaps not considered the matter.
So is state sponsered marriage legislation of morality? Its not for hetrosexual couples? But it is for homosexual couples? Its not legislating morality when the legislation supports your cultural worldview, but it is "morality" when it doesn't support your worldview? I sense a contradiction. As long as its a crime...regardless? Isn't that... wrong?
That flat rate is for any year you did a partial broadcast since 1998. Hence, you pony up $2500. That flat rate is "temporary" until congress passes legislation. At which point you pay the difference.
>"Even the religious right".
>>"...Republicans..." The religious right are all Republican, yes, but most Republicans aren't of the Religious Right. I can still remember the controversy surrounding admitting the religious right to the heart of the GOP.
My first linux install was Debian downloaded to floppys. I wanted my first time to be free in all senses of the word. I prefer Debian from my "religious" perspectives. Its the one distribution I really want to survive. Yet while I install it every third upgrade (SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, repeat) I always miss some basic functionality that I can't get working. This last time it was both sound and my scroll mouse. I love apt-get. Upgrading couldn't be easier. Its beautiful. But...I could only spend 30-40 hours reconfiguring before I gave up again. Installed the new mandrake 9, autodetection makes it a non-issue. I can understand choice. I use 5 different windowmanagers weekly just for the pleasure of a new look and feel. But its not a choice if the choice is "do without". Install/configure isn't an important part of a distribution if you can get past it. If you can't get past it, then its critical. Its sad that the distribution that has won my heart remains so critical.