everyone, pick an npr link, fill out the form and then send them the form. you might also enclose a note saying that you're deducting a dollar from your yearly npr donations that year for each form you send in.
> Personally, I wish the linux world had more tolerance for new PL ideas
what?! how many languages must linux support? linux uses gcc for its compiler which is designed to allow people to more easily support new languages. plus there are tons of other languages supported - functional, logic, scripting, procedural, oo, and more.
and look at the languages used to build on top of linux. c, c++, modula-3, perl, python, shell, tcl/tk, elisp, scheme, caml, fortran, java, objective-c. i've used pieces of s/w on linux systems that use all of those (not at once). and those are just the ones i know of.
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and they would do that how? barring a nuclear power source i think they're out of luck - solar won't work once it goes too far into the ice. and most of the space based nuclear power plants don't make a huge amount of energy afaik.
uh, moron, i was referring to people contributing code to the non-free versions. not the people paid to do it, just the ones who were contributing code thinking it was free software when it was actually just "free beer" software.
it's too bad that people don't pay more attention to rms when he talks about freedom.
and it's also too bad that people kept doing dev on possibly not free pgp versions instead on truly free implementations of pgp (ie gnupg). how many times are we going to learn this lesson?
in an article linked from the interview, damian conway explains that argv is being replaced because it's hard to explain its latin origin. since i've always been told that argv was short for "argument vector" i kind of agree.
is damian pulling people's legs? he seems like a rather prolific hacker, surely he's not that clueless.
before the libertarians mouth off, please not that this is private industry pushing hollings for this law. bad gov't typically gets bought by "free enterprise" when people don't pay any fucking attention to their gov't.
too many people in america complain that their gov't doesn't work right, maybe they should get off their ass and vote a better one in.
have you considered that linux is, in reality, just a variant of unix. so any textbooks for unix will work for linux. and since unix has been used in uni's for decades, i'm sure there are a few.
that said i didn't have many cs textbooks that mentioned any os. "the design and implementation of bsd 4.x" was about the only one i can think of. but then i graduated from uni 10 years ago as of 17/5. god that's depressing.
look, these were issues brought up by healthcare people, not me. all i suggested was that the guy should ask. i would assume like most developers/admins, issues like infection and the like (at least biological) would not be at the top of his list. hospitals and doctors offices can and frequently do have different needs then other places. and your mistakes can have personal - even mortal - effects on people, not just the normal financial or time consuming ones.
it can/should be a neat project, but this person should walk in and try to cover all the bases. alcohol wipes could take care of the pda, just warning his father on the limits of digital images and pda displays can take care of the x-ray issue. but he should bring them up and get his dad communicating with him on those kinds of issues. and by the way, there was a story on the bbc (i think) saying that the average cubicle desk had many times more bacteria then an office toilet. and that the biggest source of bacteria was computer keyboards. so maybe those heathcare people who kept asking me about that weren't just being pains in my ass.
when i first left uni, i worked for the dental school. some interesting issues cropped up when we discussed computers and patients. i only really remember these two, but make sure you work out the medical issues with your dad.
how do you sterilise a pda? pda's don't like autoclaves.
what resolution do you need to store x-ray's at? if your dad misses a tumor because the resolution isn't good enough, what will the lawyers say? and i doubt he has x-rays now online, but he might want them in the future.
for gods sake, just install some linux distro plus evolution and star office. even if your a bill gates groupie you've got to admit that ms needs something to get it's attention and cop the fuck on. if a decent percentage of desktops migrate to linux, and say they're doing it for security, then maybe ms will wake up and pay attention.
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what you really want to do is test the network, cpu and memory load of 450 clients. the xserver will run on the thin clients, the xclients will run on the application server. first, remember that x allows load balancing - when the xterminal's xserver starts up it can issue an xdmcp request and get a list of available servers with their load. as long as the servers share a common home directory, no worries. plus you can reduce network load by using multiple subnets and so on.
but your question was, how to test what you describe. look into using xnest, xvnc or xvfb on a few host clients. each instance of those on a host client will be a test client. the more host clients you have the better since that means less test clients per host client. xnest will put a lot of load on the host client but you can use all the fake clients at once (or at least you can see them all at once, you'll still have to move your mouse from one to the other). xvnc will put less load on the host clients, but you'll need to run vncviewers to see each fake client. finally you can use xvfb which will allow you no control over the test client, but will stress the host clients less.
the latter might actually be easier to test with though. the first test could be to start up 450 xvfb xservers. then start up gnome/kde desktops for 450 users on the application server (with DISPLAY pointed to each of the xvfb xservers). that should test ram requirements. then keeping the desktops running, run x11perf (on the application server) on all the displays. that should exercise network load and cpu.
wow, i live in ireland, but i still have friends in the states. got a nasty phone bill today thanks to a telco screwup, so this story was timely. how does the cisco kit deal with 220v? does vonage like international customers? personally i think it would be quite amusing to have a us number again.
i'm a yank who lives overseas and i get all sorts of abuse regarding irony. irony is an unexpected outcome. defaced iis servers are not unexpected, therefore the word you meant to use was "Coincidentally."
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then that means that i must be in heaven!
"brand recognition"? this is a news for nerds site, not a news for marketing weasels site.
it's my understanding that the latest changes in the us currency were due in part to the fact that us currency was too easily copied.
all the hits will only encourage this idiot.
everyone, pick an npr link, fill out the form and then send them the form. you might also enclose a note saying that you're deducting a dollar from your yearly npr donations that year for each form you send in.
> Personally, I wish the linux world had more tolerance for new PL ideas
what?! how many languages must linux support? linux uses gcc for its compiler which is designed to allow people to more easily support new languages. plus there are tons of other languages supported - functional, logic, scripting, procedural, oo, and more.
and look at the languages used to build on top of linux. c, c++, modula-3, perl, python, shell, tcl/tk, elisp, scheme, caml, fortran, java, objective-c. i've used pieces of s/w on linux systems that use all of those (not at once). and those are just the ones i know of.
patent this!
...and this prevents people from just removing your harddrive and grabbing the data that way how exactly? oops.
and they would do that how? barring a nuclear power source i think they're out of luck - solar won't work once it goes too far into the ice. and most of the space based nuclear power plants don't make a huge amount of energy afaik.
wait, i develop linux applications. now how am i supposed to use ie? or is there an ie for linux download page i missed somewhere.
semi-related, do you find that hemeroids affect your vocal cords?
uh, moron, i was referring to people contributing code to the non-free versions. not the people paid to do it, just the ones who were contributing code thinking it was free software when it was actually just "free beer" software.
> 1. Bill Gates buys U.S. Supreme court, clears M$ of all charges.
/. well, very briefly before gates had osdn's web farm confiscated due to an ms license audit.
no, no, i can see that one on
it's too bad that people don't pay more attention to rms when he talks about freedom.
and it's also too bad that people kept doing dev on possibly not free pgp versions instead on truly free implementations of pgp (ie gnupg).
how many times are we going to learn this lesson?
in an article linked from the interview, damian conway explains that argv is being replaced because it's hard to explain its latin origin. since i've always been told that argv was short for "argument vector" i kind of agree.
is damian pulling people's legs? he seems like a rather prolific hacker, surely he's not that clueless.
before the libertarians mouth off, please not that this is private industry pushing hollings for this law. bad gov't typically gets bought by "free enterprise" when people don't pay any fucking attention to their gov't.
too many people in america complain that their gov't doesn't work right, maybe they should get off their ass and vote a better one in.
ah, rant done, feel better.
hey, go visit fairvote.org
have you considered that linux is, in reality, just a variant of unix. so any textbooks for unix will work for linux. and since unix has been used in uni's for decades, i'm sure there are a few.
that said i didn't have many cs textbooks that mentioned any os. "the design and implementation of bsd 4.x" was about the only one i can think of. but then i graduated from uni 10 years ago as of 17/5. god that's depressing.
that's nice and all, but it would also be nice to see them by os or by isp.
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look, these were issues brought up by healthcare people, not me. all i suggested was that the guy should ask. i would assume like most developers/admins, issues like infection and the like (at least biological) would not be at the top of his list. hospitals and doctors offices can and frequently do have different needs then other places. and your mistakes can have personal - even mortal - effects on people, not just the normal financial or time consuming ones.
it can/should be a neat project, but this person should walk in and try to cover all the bases. alcohol wipes could take care of the pda, just warning his father on the limits of digital images and pda displays can take care of the x-ray issue. but he should bring them up and get his dad communicating with him on those kinds of issues.
and by the way, there was a story on the bbc (i think) saying that the average cubicle desk had many times more bacteria then an office toilet. and that the biggest source of bacteria was computer keyboards. so maybe those heathcare people who kept asking me about that weren't just being pains in my ass.
when i first left uni, i worked for the dental school. some interesting issues cropped up when we discussed computers and patients. i only really remember these two, but make sure you work out the medical issues with your dad.
how do you sterilise a pda? pda's don't like autoclaves.
what resolution do you need to store x-ray's at? if your dad misses a tumor because the resolution isn't good enough, what will the lawyers say? and i doubt he has x-rays now online, but he might want them in the future.
for gods sake, just install some linux distro plus evolution and star office. even if your a bill gates groupie you've got to admit that ms needs something to get it's attention and cop the fuck on. if a decent percentage of desktops migrate to linux, and say they're doing it for security, then maybe ms will wake up and pay attention.
hey look, google will give out addresses: :)
here's one that might be of interest....
what you really want to do is test the network, cpu and memory load of 450 clients. the xserver will run on the thin clients, the xclients will run on the application server. first, remember that x allows load balancing - when the xterminal's xserver starts up it can issue an xdmcp request and get a list of available servers with their load. as long as the servers share a common home directory, no worries. plus you can reduce network load by using multiple subnets and so on.
but your question was, how to test what you describe. look into using xnest, xvnc or xvfb on a few host clients. each instance of those on a host client will be a test client. the more host clients you have the better since that means less test clients per host client. xnest will put a lot of load on the host client but you can use all the fake clients at once (or at least you can see them all at once, you'll still have to move your mouse from one to the other). xvnc will put less load on the host clients, but you'll need to run vncviewers to see each fake client. finally you can use xvfb which will allow you no control over the test client, but will stress the host clients less.
the latter might actually be easier to test with though. the first test could be to start up 450 xvfb xservers. then start up gnome/kde desktops for 450 users on the application server (with DISPLAY pointed to each of the xvfb xservers). that should test ram requirements. then keeping the desktops running, run x11perf (on the application server) on all the displays. that should exercise network load and cpu.
wow, i live in ireland, but i still have friends in the states. got a nasty phone bill today thanks to a telco screwup, so this story was timely. how does the cisco kit deal with 220v? does vonage like international customers? personally i think it would be quite amusing to have a us number again.
considered squeak?
perhaps, but it's actually spelled damnit.
and yes, consequently would also work.
i see no one has noticed the humor in the comment...
i'm a yank who lives overseas and i get all sorts of abuse regarding irony. irony is an unexpected outcome. defaced iis servers are not unexpected, therefore the word you meant to use was "Coincidentally."
thank you.