How about this article or this one. Maybe not direct evidence for bankrolling, but Iranians are moving into Iraq to fight against the U.S. Many analysts think that Iran and Syria are co-operating with the terrorist organizations.
I've seen many other articles as well. Do a search at google.
I personally know of several large companies who are running stock OpenPBS, mine included, and it works fine. The largest OpenPBS cluster I am aware of is several hundred nodes. I'm running three small clusters (up to 44 cpus). We are currently up to several thousand jobs on two of them with OpenPBS only hanging once or twice in about a year.
However, TORQUE is new to me, I'll have to check it out.
There are many other open source cluster/queuing systems available.
The one I prefer is OpenPBS. It works very well for engineering compute clusters, and there are many different resource schedulers available which use the PBS job and node management system.
They still exist. They are called seat belt pre-tensioners and are used on lots of vehicles now. The best occupant protection sytems tend to have belt pre-tensioners.
Lets see, the US GDP hasn't decreased lately, although the number of manufacturing jobs has. How can this be? It is due to worker productivity increases. i.e. we are producing more with less workers. These lost manufacturing jobs are not coming back.
However, see this article for a more detailed discussion of the situation:
Free Trade Wars
I think that is correct, however, if you notice the numbers at the federal debt web site, the federal debt has grown every year since 1987. i.e. there has been no budget surplus for a long time, despite what politicians would like you to think.
If you want a low power system, definately check out the EPIA systems from VIA.
A less expensive option is the VIA C3. These cpu's are socket 370 compatible. You can find these for under $50. See pricewatch. Max power on these is about 18 watts.
I have similar concerns with RedHat support and haven't made any decisions yet as to what is the right way to proceed. RedHat is pretty standard in my field, but I'm concerned about the support issues. They should really offer a less expensive option with updates but without support.
One comment on the RedHat kernels. They contain backported security patches and bug fixes that you won't find in the kernel.org sources.
As an example, I just had a major problem getting tape backups to work properly on a new linux server. Turns out there is a bug in the st driver. The RedHat 2.4.20 kernels are patched, the original 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 sources are not.
Well, AOL dial-in's work just fine in Detroit. (AOL's provided by my employer). I'm typing this on a notebook, a cheap power inverter and a 12 V. deep cycle marine battery. This works well for my amateur radio equipment too.
Josh
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Here is my experience. I have a Promise UltraTrak100 TX4, an UltraTrak RM8000, Compaq RA7000 and a FibreChannel 10 disk array. They have been used on HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX and Linux and the performance is pretty consistent across all OS's.
I like using an external unit as it makes it easy to move it to another server if necessary.
However, there seems to be an issue with the Promise UltraTrak100 TX4 not queuing SCSI commands. Not sure if that is just an HP-UX problem or if it happens under Linux. It seems to really slow down the HP-UX server compared to the Compaq RA7000. I'm happy with the performance of the RM8000 connected to a Linux box. The price is consideribly less than a SCSI solution.
If you want need something faster, go with SCSI. I can't justify the cost of Fibre, unless you plan on going to a SAN.
What you seem to be unaware of is the fact that, in the USA, slavery is illegal even if the slave agrees to become one while still "free".
The basic principals of a good government are life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, and they should be applied in that order. If I choose to work for someone for a place to sleep and food, that is fine. The problem with "slavery" is that the slave's liberty is violated, they loose their right to self-determination. Based on this argument government has no authority to ban prostitution.
The FSF would like to see society develop a similar "morality" regarding a person's right to share information, even if it's in the form of computer software. (This is my opinion, of course; I don't speak or work for the FSF.)
Apply this to books. I cannot copy a book and give away the copies on the pretense of "sharing information". I can, however, write my own book on the same subject and distribute that freely (assuming it wasn't plagarized). Just because computers make it easy to distribute source code and executables, does not mean that it is our right to freely distribute executables of other people's work and to demand the source!
There is a big difference between IP and someone's work i.e. source code and executables. Share ideas if you wish, write a clone program, but don't pretend that someone selling their work as they see fit is a violation of your rights.
Again, you chose to buy the DVD. i.e. before you chose to purchase the DVD you have no claim, you then purchase the DVD, and now you are claiming that the manufacturer has infringed your rights. That is nonsense. If you don't agree with the limitations built into the product, don't buy it!
This whole argument is based on the idea that the customer has a "claim" on the manufacturers/producers skills and time and can dictate what they can or cannot do with the product. Read Ayn Rands "Atlas Shrugged" to see what this causes.
Do a little research into Dewey and the NEA and you will find communist/Marxist ideals spread throughout.
Point 10 of the communist manefesto:
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.
I don't have the full details, but there are issues far more disconcerting than educating students for dead-end jobs.
No, I don't think he missed the point. Using a particular software package is a choice made by the user. It is not forced on the user as slavery was. Claiming that this is an infringement on rights is backwards, you can't make a choice and as a result of that choice, claim that your rights have been infringed.
your freedom only extends so far as it does not infringe on the freedoms of others
Yes, and by demanding that an individual release source, you are taking away that individuals right to use his IP as he sees fit.
Source code is the raw material used to produce a product. If you give a user the source code, you have given them essentially all they need to recreate the product. What if I demanded access to a production factory's machinery so that I could modify and produce my own widget? It doesn't make sense.
Well, if you have any understanding of the U.S. Constitution, you'd understand that voting methods for federal elections are determined by each state. In fact, the federal government doesn't have the authority to require a consistent state-wide voting system. It's called federalism.
However, the situation in Florida was unacceptable. That's what happens when you elect representatives with minimal consideration of their competance and understanding of basic governmental principals. (This one will give me more Social Security money, I'll vote for him. Ugh)
The issue is company owership of the last mile. If it can only be owned by a single company, it is a monopoly.
Unless the infrastructure is rebuilt to allow the ownership of the last mile to change hands, at the request of the end user, we're screwed. The alternative is something similar to the natural gas market, except with a physical wire, it is a little more difficult.
Communism, Marxism and to a lesser extent Socialism don't work in the political world, so why do we expect the same philosophy to produce high-quality OSS?
Good software requires motivation, either monetary or personal. People don't do good work without it. OSS based companies are probably the best way to accomplish this. Employees in traditional companies convincing management of the benefits of using and supporting OSS would go a long way as well.
Personally, I would like to spend time improving OSS software, but my non-working hours are too valuable to be spent doing work for free,
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How about this article or this one. Maybe not direct evidence for bankrolling, but Iranians are moving into Iraq to fight against the U.S. Many analysts think that Iran and Syria are co-operating with the terrorist organizations.
I've seen many other articles as well. Do a search at google.
According to this article, the lifespan is about 10,000 writes.
They also suggest using the noatime mount option for flash ram, which is a good suggestion.
Josh
I'm in the automotive industry.
I personally know of several large companies who are running stock OpenPBS, mine included, and it works fine. The largest OpenPBS cluster I am aware of is several hundred nodes. I'm running three small clusters (up to 44 cpus). We are currently up to several thousand jobs on two of them with OpenPBS only hanging once or twice in about a year.
However, TORQUE is new to me, I'll have to check it out.
There are many other open source cluster/queuing systems available.
The one I prefer is OpenPBS. It works very well for engineering compute clusters, and there are many different resource schedulers available which use the PBS job and node management system.
Search for adapter in the TitleIndex.
According to the release notes, the extension API has changed for 0.9.
See the Mozilla Firefox 0.9 Release Notes.
Josh
So if you don't like the Hardylaw article, try this one: www.bowlingfortrugh.com.
They analyize every scene of the movie and point out what Moore does to mislead the viewer.
They still exist. They are called seat belt pre-tensioners and are used on lots of vehicles now. The best occupant protection sytems tend to have belt pre-tensioners.
Lets see, the US GDP hasn't decreased lately, although the number of manufacturing jobs has. How can this be? It is due to worker productivity increases. i.e. we are producing more with less workers. These lost manufacturing jobs are not coming back.
However, see this article for a more detailed discussion of the situation: Free Trade Wars
Anyone tried compiling the UNIX GPL'd Qt using Windows Services for UNIX 3.0? Could be an easy way to solve the Win32 GPL problem.
I think that is correct, however, if you notice the numbers at the federal debt web site, the federal debt has grown every year since 1987. i.e. there has been no budget surplus for a long time, despite what politicians would like you to think.
If you want a low power system, definately check out the EPIA systems from VIA.
A less expensive option is the VIA C3. These cpu's are socket 370 compatible. You can find these for under $50. See pricewatch. Max power on these is about 18 watts.
Josh
I have similar concerns with RedHat support and haven't made any decisions yet as to what is the right way to proceed. RedHat is pretty standard in my field, but I'm concerned about the support issues. They should really offer a less expensive option with updates but without support.
One comment on the RedHat kernels. They contain backported security patches and bug fixes that you won't find in the kernel.org sources.
As an example, I just had a major problem getting tape backups to work properly on a new linux server. Turns out there is a bug in the st driver. The RedHat 2.4.20 kernels are patched, the original 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 sources are not.
Well, AOL dial-in's work just fine in Detroit. (AOL's provided by my employer). I'm typing this on a notebook, a cheap power inverter and a 12 V. deep cycle marine battery. This works well for my amateur radio equipment too.
Josh
Here is my experience. I have a Promise UltraTrak100 TX4, an UltraTrak RM8000, Compaq RA7000 and a FibreChannel 10 disk array. They have been used on HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX and Linux and the performance is pretty consistent across all OS's.
Speeds are sustained write speeds.
Compaq RA7000 RAID5 (6 10K disks) - 8 MB/s
UltraTrak100 TX4 RAID5 (3 7200 RPM disks) - 7 MB/s
UltraTrak RM8000 RAID5 (3 7200 RPM disks) - 18 MB/s
FibreChannel Array RAID0 (10 10K disks) - 70 MB/s (saturates the bus)
I like using an external unit as it makes it easy to move it to another server if necessary.
However, there seems to be an issue with the Promise UltraTrak100 TX4 not queuing SCSI commands. Not sure if that is just an HP-UX problem or if it happens under Linux. It seems to really slow down the HP-UX server compared to the Compaq RA7000. I'm happy with the performance of the RM8000 connected to a Linux box. The price is consideribly less than a SCSI solution.
If you want need something faster, go with SCSI. I can't justify the cost of Fibre, unless you plan on going to a SAN.
Josh
What you seem to be unaware of is the fact that, in the USA, slavery is illegal even if the slave agrees to become one while still "free".
The basic principals of a good government are life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, and they should be applied in that order. If I choose to work for someone for a place to sleep and food, that is fine. The problem with "slavery" is that the slave's liberty is violated, they loose their right to self-determination. Based on this argument government has no authority to ban prostitution.
The FSF would like to see society develop a similar "morality" regarding a person's right to share information, even if it's in the form of computer software. (This is my opinion, of course; I don't speak or work for the FSF.)
Apply this to books. I cannot copy a book and give away the copies on the pretense of "sharing information". I can, however, write my own book on the same subject and distribute that freely (assuming it wasn't plagarized). Just because computers make it easy to distribute source code and executables, does not mean that it is our right to freely distribute executables of other people's work and to demand the source!
There is a big difference between IP and someone's work i.e. source code and executables. Share ideas if you wish, write a clone program, but don't pretend that someone selling their work as they see fit is a violation of your rights.
Again, you chose to buy the DVD. i.e. before you chose to purchase the DVD you have no claim, you then purchase the DVD, and now you are claiming that the manufacturer has infringed your rights. That is nonsense. If you don't agree with the limitations built into the product, don't buy it!
This whole argument is based on the idea that the customer has a "claim" on the manufacturers/producers skills and time and can dictate what they can or cannot do with the product. Read Ayn Rands "Atlas Shrugged" to see what this causes.
There are issues far deeper than this, here is a start:
sierratimes article
Do a little research into Dewey and the NEA and you will find communist/Marxist ideals spread throughout.
Point 10 of the communist manefesto:
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.
I don't have the full details, but there are issues far more disconcerting than educating students for dead-end jobs.
No, I don't think he missed the point. Using a particular software package is a choice made by the user. It is not forced on the user as slavery was. Claiming that this is an infringement on rights is backwards, you can't make a choice and as a result of that choice, claim that your rights have been infringed.
your freedom only extends so far as it does not infringe on the freedoms of others
Yes, and by demanding that an individual release source, you are taking away that individuals right to use his IP as he sees fit.
Source code is the raw material used to produce a product. If you give a user the source code, you have given them essentially all they need to recreate the product. What if I demanded access to a production factory's machinery so that I could modify and produce my own widget? It doesn't make sense.
Well, if you have any understanding of the U.S. Constitution, you'd understand that voting methods for federal elections are determined by each state. In fact, the federal government doesn't have the authority to require a consistent state-wide voting system. It's called federalism.
However, the situation in Florida was unacceptable. That's what happens when you elect representatives with minimal consideration of their competance and understanding of basic governmental principals. (This one will give me more Social Security money, I'll vote for him. Ugh)
So instead of a monopoly we have a ... monopoly?
The issue is company owership of the last mile. If it can only be owned by a single company, it is a monopoly.
Unless the infrastructure is rebuilt to allow the ownership of the last mile to change hands, at the request of the end user, we're screwed. The alternative is something similar to the natural gas market, except with a physical wire, it is a little more difficult.
Absolutely.
Communism, Marxism and to a lesser extent Socialism don't work in the political world, so why do we expect the same philosophy to produce high-quality OSS?
Good software requires motivation, either monetary or personal. People don't do good work without it. OSS based companies are probably the best way to accomplish this. Employees in traditional companies convincing management of the benefits of using and supporting OSS would go a long way as well.
Personally, I would like to spend time improving OSS software, but my non-working hours are too valuable to be spent doing work for free,
I work for an HP (mostly) shop as well. The N-Class machines have very good I/O, but CPU just doesn't cut it anymore.
However, the HP visualize workstations tend to be a balanced solution - better than SGI and Sun, at least in the recent past.