I wonder what the limits and power of a 4-way quad Xeon Beowulf cluster would be like.
With RAM so cheap nowadays, one could have at least a capable cluster without monster chips. Coupled with Xeons, I fail to imagine how great the price:performance ratio is compared to Big Iron like IBM's Power3 and Power4 systems...
I am sick and tired of corporatism that injures the consumer.
Eventually corporate rules and regualtions will have shoved the U.S. Constitution to the back of the line-- while it says we can speak freely, everyone else will have taken everything to speak about away.
If there's the means (an OS) and the tools (the dev kit) on something as lucrative as the PS platform, it'll have people crawling all over it, especially when the OS is Linux.
I had a friend in high school who wrote "hacking tools" in VB-- they were simply GUI wrappers around software that retrieved information from various text files on the system it was run on-- email, system config files, etc.
Well, believe it or not, some teache came along and confiscated the zip disk with the projects on it, and deleted not only his project fro the hard drive, but the files named by the programs!
When the time came to reboot the mcahine, my friend was indouble trouble for having destroyed the machine.
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mods: i know this is OT, but it's very important.
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they dont make 400mhz mobos for xeons? if nto now, they will for intel's upcoming 2.2ghz xeons.
Commodity parts. Big Iron peice are more expensive than PC pieces.
I still think that the $:performance ratio is very exciting on the PC side.
Don't forget Linux, which is free/
I wonder what the limits and power of a 4-way quad Xeon Beowulf cluster would be like.
With RAM so cheap nowadays, one could have at least a capable cluster without monster chips. Coupled with Xeons, I fail to imagine how great the price:performance ratio is compared to Big Iron like IBM's Power3 and Power4 systems...
*drool*
THe laws cripple the innocent and law-abiding, while nothing changes for the criminals except maybe (MAYBE) an extra nanosecond of paranoia.
The laws are a joke. WOrk on other ways of stoping terrorist communiques, such as email or Morse code.
When will the goverment get this? I am sick and tired of bumbling laws that injure the citizen's rights and abilities.
I used FrontPage in high school, and never looked back. Vim or Xemacs under Linux work best, period.
I am sick and tired of corporatism that injures the consumer.
Eventually corporate rules and regualtions will have shoved the U.S. Constitution to the back of the line-- while it says we can speak freely, everyone else will have taken everything to speak about away.
Rise up.
If there's the means (an OS) and the tools (the dev kit) on something as lucrative as the PS platform, it'll have people crawling all over it, especially when the OS is Linux.
It seems that America, UK, and Germany are the best-represented Open Source developing countries.
Of course other notables such as Guido von Rossum and Theo de Raadt come to mind, but those are exceptions...
The consumers should ask thenselves, "will this benefit us?"
I'm sick and tired or corporatism that injures the consumers.
Although the Romans said it rights centuries ago: caveat emptor.
XHTML 1.1 incorporates Ruby.
...But that doesn't mean I'll tell.
I refuse to use any service that does not explicitly state privacy policy that is acceptable to me.
My personal life is too important to me.
I had a friend in high school who wrote "hacking tools" in VB-- they were simply GUI wrappers around software that retrieved information from various text files on the system it was run on-- email, system config files, etc.
Well, believe it or not, some teache came along and confiscated the zip disk with the projects on it, and deleted not only his project fro the hard drive, but the files named by the programs!
When the time came to reboot the mcahine, my friend was indouble trouble for having destroyed the machine.
To this day I can't fathom the idiocy.
and the first fiasco with Steve.
Thankfully he was aquitted, but now faces another bleak challenge.
Does anyone thinkg it would be a good idea to start a PayPal donation system?