I just wanted to vent my frustration about one particular "solution" and hopefully help someone who is thinking about using TS for serious work.
These are things I've experienced. If I'm wrong, please tell me.
Terminal Services is undoubtedly a step in the right direction for Microsoft. Starting a seperate login for connecting users is a great idea (Not Microsoft's idea, but a great idea nonetheless)... The problem is, they didn't DO it right!
There are a number of processes which require someone to be logged in on the system console. This is just dumb for a server.
For example, if you TS in to a Win2k Server and add a scheduled task that does something with network drives, it will FAIL if no one is logged in, because Windows only mounts the network drives when the user who mapped them logs in! Windows "helpfully" unmaps the drives when someone logs out. The only workaround I've found is to use AT.EXE, set the AT user to Administrator instead of SYSTEM, and make the scheduled task mount the drives itself. Pain in the ass!
Also, try going to Task Scheduler and RUNning a task inside a Terminal Services session. It will run..... ON THE SYSTEM CONSOLE! If no one is logged in there, no one sees the app, even if it is set as Interactive.
Microsoft needs to get away from the practice of providing half-assed implementations of other peoples' great ideas.
I think you're wrong. I don't think they are even considering doing anything of the sort.
Grid computing, as defined in that IBM article, implies geographic seperation. Getting 1000X or even 100X of the PS2's processing power into the PS3 within 1 or 2 years is unrealistic. The price of the system simply does not allow it.
Even with internal multiprocessing, you'd still need a huge number of processors.
Why does everyone use gears for settings? I never understood that. I think a panel with a dial, a switch and a lever (or something similar) is more intuitive.
This is a ridiculous hype-fest for even The very fact that the guy followed up the distributed comment by some random buzzwordism about biological computing should tip you off.
Here are some problems with a distributed gaming console that I can think of off the top of my head:
- Latency: The main reason you'd want a lot of processor power in gaming is to calculate physics and graphics. This needs to be done on a damn-near-real time basis. No distributed computing network can provide this. High end clustering, maybe, but nobody is going to pay for multiple PlayStatia to play one game.
- Availability: Sony KNOWS that they are making a device akin to a toaster. When you turn on the console you should be able to play your game. Without worrying about your network connection, whether your neighbor's microwave is disrupting the Super National Ultra Wireless Grid, etc.
- Infrastructure: Don't even get me started. Sony would have to build millions of wireless POPs in a grid across the entire country. Or wire everyone's house when they buy a PlayStation.
- System Load: Say the PS3 is 10x more powerful than it is now. That means you still need 100 of them to reach the "1000x" figure they are blathering about. This means that if America has a million networked, always-on PS3s, only 1% of them cam be in use at any given time. During peak hours this is probably not possible.
In other words, this is dumb. Tell me if I'm wrong. Justin
How about averaging it over several seconds? That's what uptime(1) does.
If you did, like, 5 or 10 seconds, you'd have a good idea of what was going on without the needle constantly slamming into the limits. (If you think about it, on the lowest level, CPU usage is either 100% or 0% all the time...)
I'm guessing that it probably has some sort of automatic gain control. With silence, it jacks the volume up all the way and starts picking up static and electromagnetic noise from the motors, power supply instabilities, whatever.
The company I work for moved from posh, high-tech Northern Virginia to York, PA. York is a sad, sad city. Almost everyone is white, almost no one has an open mind and the main attractions are the Harley Davidson factory and the Hooters. Culinary choices range from Arby's to Old Country Buffet. The local strip mall is almost devoid of actual places to buy anything.
Needless to say, I live 2 hours away and telecommute!
The reason they moved there, of course, is that this part of York has extremely poor economics and is being targeted for "growth" by the government. They have established an Official Small Business Bribery Zone and give us tax breaks and free services. Woohoo!
Read free articles and make social commentary at the same time! Use username: nytsux, password: nytsux and you're set. (The worst part? I didn't create this account, I guessed!)
This is the electronic version of telling your supermarket checker "I'm sorry, I left my BONUS CARD at home, could you scan yours?";)
In order to bring this article on topic, anyone interested in more information about Tilden's robots should check out the book Robo sapiens. It's great.
My personal DSL mail server was used to send about 4,000 spam messages about a month ago.
I instantly showed up on about 5 of these spam blocking lists, including ORBZ, the MAPS RBL, etc. I fixed the open relay issue in an hour, submitted my IP and was off all of the lists in about a day. No problem. *shrug*
P.S. Anyone know a good way to delete messages on a regexp from the Qmail queue?;)
Think about it mang. If he had posted it on his own private website, it would have been cowardly. But Slashdot has a hojillion readers; this'd be like taking her to Times Square and having "WILL YOU MARRY ME" scroll across the giant tickers.
[Moderators, go ahead and mod me down if you want:) This is way offtopic but the parent poster doesn't have an e-mail listed;)]
Sorry. I wasn't trying to brag or anything. If nothing else you should be inspired that something this good can happen to a shmoe like me. I met her on IRC for crissake.
BTW, I'm curious, where did you find a picture?;) I know there are a few up on the web somewhere, but...
Perhaps bad Photoshop work is one of the Signs of Poor Investments in their booklets.;)
They might have purposely limited the amount of time they spent on this graphic in order to give people a better chance of not feeling like an idiot once they reached the "You've been Scammed" page.
Does anyone know if Fox uses this on Simpsons in syndication?
There seems to be some weird artifacts on many of these. About 1.5 times a second, the whole screen appears to shift slightly. It's like one of the interlaced fields is dominant and then it flips.
This is really annoying to me, and I have seen it on multiple TVs. It might happen on other shows, but it is very noticable in animation.
I would go as far as to say that the handheld UI market is saturated now, and that ANY new company trying to enter a PDA into the market not based on WinCE or PalmOS will be disappearing rather quickly. Then again, I'm no market analyst.
I too have been admonished on occasion by our resident office grammarian who tells me that "unique" is a boolean affair. Perhaps the concept could better be expressed with some other words. This text entry system is very different. It's novel. Etc.
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One blank CD-R? Try eight! If you look at any of the unofficial builds, they take up a massive amount of space.
Will they pare it down for the official release? (Offer certain packages only online?)
Justin
I just wanted to vent my frustration about one particular "solution" and hopefully help someone who is thinking about using TS for serious work.
These are things I've experienced. If I'm wrong, please tell me.
Terminal Services is undoubtedly a step in the right direction for Microsoft. Starting a seperate login for connecting users is a great idea (Not Microsoft's idea, but a great idea nonetheless)... The problem is, they didn't DO it right!
There are a number of processes which require someone to be logged in on the system console. This is just dumb for a server.
For example, if you TS in to a Win2k Server and add a scheduled task that does something with network drives, it will FAIL if no one is logged in, because Windows only mounts the network drives when the user who mapped them logs in! Windows "helpfully" unmaps the drives when someone logs out. The only workaround I've found is to use AT.EXE, set the AT user to Administrator instead of SYSTEM, and make the scheduled task mount the drives itself. Pain in the ass!
Also, try going to Task Scheduler and RUNning a task inside a Terminal Services session. It will run..... ON THE SYSTEM CONSOLE! If no one is logged in there, no one sees the app, even if it is set as Interactive.
Microsoft needs to get away from the practice of providing half-assed implementations of other peoples' great ideas.
Aaaugh!
Justin
I think you're wrong. I don't think they are even considering doing anything of the sort.
Grid computing, as defined in that IBM article, implies geographic seperation. Getting 1000X or even 100X of the PS2's processing power into the PS3 within 1 or 2 years is unrealistic. The price of the system simply does not allow it.
Even with internal multiprocessing, you'd still need a huge number of processors.
Justin
Why does everyone use gears for settings? I never understood that. I think a panel with a dial, a switch and a lever (or something similar) is more intuitive.
Justin
"For even Sony", even. First sentence. Blah.
Justin
This is a ridiculous hype-fest for even The very fact that the guy followed up the distributed comment by some random buzzwordism about biological computing should tip you off.
Here are some problems with a distributed gaming console that I can think of off the top of my head:
- Latency: The main reason you'd want a lot of processor power in gaming is to calculate physics and graphics. This needs to be done on a damn-near-real time basis. No distributed computing network can provide this. High end clustering, maybe, but nobody is going to pay for multiple PlayStatia to play one game.
- Availability: Sony KNOWS that they are making a device akin to a toaster. When you turn on the console you should be able to play your game. Without worrying about your network connection, whether your neighbor's microwave is disrupting the Super National Ultra Wireless Grid, etc.
- Infrastructure: Don't even get me started. Sony would have to build millions of wireless POPs in a grid across the entire country. Or wire everyone's house when they buy a PlayStation.
- System Load: Say the PS3 is 10x more powerful than it is now. That means you still need 100 of them to reach the "1000x" figure they are blathering about. This means that if America has a million networked, always-on PS3s, only 1% of them cam be in use at any given time. During peak hours this is probably not possible.
In other words, this is dumb. Tell me if I'm wrong.
Justin
How about averaging it over several seconds? That's what uptime(1) does.
If you did, like, 5 or 10 seconds, you'd have a good idea of what was going on without the needle constantly slamming into the limits. (If you think about it, on the lowest level, CPU usage is either 100% or 0% all the time...)
Justin
May I suggest "Hungry?"
(It's a Far Side thing)
Justin
I'm guessing that it probably has some sort of automatic gain control. With silence, it jacks the volume up all the way and starts picking up static and electromagnetic noise from the motors, power supply instabilities, whatever.
Justin
How can this be? 2.0.x compiled on my 486dx2/66 with 32mb in just under half an hour. Has the code ballooned that much?
Justin
Needless to say, I live 2 hours away and telecommute!
The reason they moved there, of course, is that this part of York has extremely poor economics and is being targeted for "growth" by the government. They have established an Official Small Business Bribery Zone and give us tax breaks and free services. Woohoo!
Justin
How about not having to change discs? And oh yes, not worrying about CAV versus CLV, etc, etc..
:)
Did I forget to mention the vastly superior horizontal resolution of DVD?
Sorry, some media do wonderfully in analog (Music on LPs, for example) but this isn't one of them.
Justin
This is the electronic version of telling your supermarket checker "I'm sorry, I left my BONUS CARD at home, could you scan yours?" ;)
In order to bring this article on topic, anyone interested in more information about Tilden's robots should check out the book Robo sapiens. It's great.
Justin
My personal DSL mail server was used to send about 4,000 spam messages about a month ago.
;)
I instantly showed up on about 5 of these spam blocking lists, including ORBZ, the MAPS RBL, etc. I fixed the open relay issue in an hour, submitted my IP and was off all of the lists in about a day. No problem. *shrug*
P.S. Anyone know a good way to delete messages on a regexp from the Qmail queue?
Justin
Uh huh. She had no obligation to answer here, and I'd venture to say that if she'd said "No," he wouldn't have updated the article with it.
:) She's said yes now, lighten up.
Please let's end this thread. CmdrTaco should be able to save this and look back at it later.
CONGRATS and good luck!!!
Justin
Think about it mang. If he had posted it on his own private website, it would have been cowardly. But Slashdot has a hojillion readers; this'd be like taking her to Times Square and having "WILL YOU MARRY ME" scroll across the giant tickers.
Justin
[Moderators, go ahead and mod me down if you want :) This is way offtopic but the parent poster doesn't have an e-mail listed ;)]
;) I know there are a few up on the web somewhere, but...
Sorry. I wasn't trying to brag or anything. If nothing else you should be inspired that something this good can happen to a shmoe like me. I met her on IRC for crissake.
BTW, I'm curious, where did you find a picture?
Justin
Ah, but you are mistaken. I am a geek with a girlfriend. Wife, in fact. She is also a geek.
Justin
'Cuz the last 15 anti-Katz posts have been moderated up to 3 or 5. ;)
(The post you were replying to is currently at 3, Funny)
Justin
You've got it backwards.
This is a simulation of quantum computing, written in Perl.
(Say, have I just been trolled?)
Justin
OK, but would it not be a horribly lossy situation if they had to go down for a week while they re-spidered the entire Internet? ;)
They may not be "creating" content, but this is their product! Think about it.
Justin
Google does so cache images. :)
The idea that all this is on DRAM is staggering. If the refresh stops (board failure, power problem) the data is just GONE?!
Justin
Perhaps bad Photoshop work is one of the Signs of Poor Investments in their booklets. ;)
They might have purposely limited the amount of time they spent on this graphic in order to give people a better chance of not feeling like an idiot once they reached the "You've been Scammed" page.
Justin
Does anyone know if Fox uses this on Simpsons in syndication?
There seems to be some weird artifacts on many of these. About 1.5 times a second, the whole screen appears to shift slightly. It's like one of the interlaced fields is dominant and then it flips.
This is really annoying to me, and I have seen it on multiple TVs. It might happen on other shows, but it is very noticable in animation.
Anyone?
Justin
I would go as far as to say that the handheld UI market is saturated now, and that ANY new company trying to enter a PDA into the market not based on WinCE or PalmOS will be disappearing rather quickly. Then again, I'm no market analyst.
I too have been admonished on occasion by our resident office grammarian who tells me that "unique" is a boolean affair. Perhaps the concept could better be expressed with some other words. This text entry system is very different. It's novel. Etc.
Justin