Hmmmmm.... I wonder how much power and A/C I'd have to install in the basement in order to...
Depends if the S/390 support is for their PowerPC-based CMOS boxes or not.. the CMOS boxes are pretty efficient (about the size of a RS6000 990) compared to earlier designs. I'm assuming the PPC port is the compatible port as there's already been a lot of work on Linux in the PPC area...
Be realistic though. There's no reason that a 'standard workstation' install package on Sol shouldn't contain GCC (or, gasp, a free compiler like they used to include, dare I dream?), Perl5, traceroute, tripwire, satan, tcpwrappers, ssh and other tools..
Sol2.7 goes some distance on this from what I hear (apparently, they got traceroute in.. took long enough!) but they are certainly not the easiest OS to start from scratch with. Still, I guess that's why us Sol admins get paid the big buxx;)
(and as an aside, learn more about pkgproto, pkgtrans, and the other pkg-creating programs. I have a Sol2.6 CDROM that includes pretty much all pkgs Sun left out, either swiped from sunsite/sunfreeware or in about 6 cases built myself...) Your Working Boy,
U5s are pretty sweet boxes, once you slap a proper SCSI board and enough RAM in there... And it'll fit much more nicely on a rack than a clunky (but cooler in other ways) U10...
Still, if I had it all over to do again, I'd probably go for an AXi clone and a desktop rack from blackbox... Your Working Boy,
I've been typing 10+ hours a day for more than 10 years (everything from a Laser128 to various PC keyboards, but never any of that new-age "ergonomic" crap!) and I have never experienced wrist pain.
Weird. Me neither: I've been typing since age 6, so I wonder if my wrist and finger muscles (and even bones) grew up to support typing motions.. Still wanna get that Aeron chair though, as my back is not too great...
It's an old version, so what's the point? Do you want a code fork, where any improvements are obviated or made incompatible with the current functioning version? At what point do the/. developers decide 'enough is enough' and let people at the code? Is there a foreseeable actual date for this?
I think, given/.'s nature as an advocate of OSS, that it be held to the same standards that it (and its 'community') holds to other projects/corps/developers.. Glass house, stones, etc..
And if noone shows interest in this, it'll never be seen... Hell, look at the interest that has been shown and the results so far.. Will the recent source (or a public CVS server) just magically appear? Your Working Boy,
About 5-6 years ago there was a Scientific American cover story on the permanence of data....I've checked their site, but their archives don't go back that far -- sorry!
JMS is cool like that.. Any guy who names one of his most important (and popular, in a twisted sort of way;) characters after a SF writer is definitely a fan..
And, of course, a No-Prize to whoever knows the name and role of the character.. Your Working Boy,
The problem is that nations don't want to get into the competition game. Once the economy is global, then nations need to compete against each other for the 'business' of multinational corporations ('business' being jobs, tax dollars, prestige, etc which help keep the citizenry happy enough to remain compliant and obedient). Like any competition, certain nations have certain advantages (natural resources, good government, educated people, deep water ports, affluent people, disciplined culture, infrastructure) over others, so those less-advantaged nations have to overcome those missing advantages by other means (dictatorial 'serf' labor, environmental hostility) when competing. Some businesses (consulting) don't care about low labor costs or environmental laissez-faire. Others (manufacturing, heavy industry, etc) may consider those criteria more important.
Where does government enter into this? Government decides the compromise between what its voters demand (high wages, good jobs, environmental protection, fair treatment of labor, etc) and what these companies demand (largely, the diametric opposite). The decisions made by governments are reflected in its trade policies.
Not that the government is correct, but that's the rationale IMHO.. The scary part is that, when compared, corporate demand is like the tortoise and popular demand is like the hare: slow and steady lobbying will almost always beat heated point-in-time (but mostly ephemeral) protests..
Let every registered user rank every slashdot article and show the rankings in the main screen.
Pretty cool idea too, but I'm hoping that by opening up the submission queue to many eyes, it should mean that the queues stay short (or can handle more submissions) and each queue moderator spends less time on wading thru them..
Just think, it's like fixing bugs of a journalistic type rather than a technical type, and as we all know, with thousands of eyeballs all bugs are shallow;)
Hey, if I remembered it, he should:/. pays his rent, all I do is read the articles and occasionally mouth off.. (Though, in a manner of speaking, I _am_ paid to read/., but don't tell anyone that;)
To prevent this, perhaps there should be a separate 'meta-slashdot' site where submissions are ranked by slashdot contributors (say, selected based on karma, instead of arbitrarily by the high priests of/.) without comment, and then released to the public, via a system of submission moderation similar to the system of comment moderation, and where submissions are then presented in user-configurable order..
If I could get my hands on the current running/. code, I might even write it! C'mon Rob, et. al, it can't be _that_ ugly.. Or at least not as ugly as the code I inherited 4 months ago.... Couldn't be as hard as writing a mass-vhosting system that can manage tens-to-hundreds of thousands of donames and their associated websites (source available upon request, I just have to prefix all the perl files with the GPL)...
... A Mac-in-the-box, with the current gen's iMac bits in a stereo-style component that can be plugged into your TV or computer monitor and your stereo rig (with a cordless keyboard/mouse and/or cordless keyboard with integrated trackpoint).. I guess that's what Pippin was.
I wonder if I coudl do this by buying iMac replacement bits and putting them together.. I wonder...
I saw a man in a sea turtle costume (bearing the placard: Save the sea turtles. Go fig, at a trade conference?) beating the hell out of another man who was unlucky enough to rouse the beast's ire.
No, see, Gamera's the friend of children.. He don't give a crap about adults...
Your Working Boy,
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... is something along the lines of Lexis/Nexis and the law. Nobody can copyright the law, but the indices and commentaries can be copyrighted, and (whether we like it or not) currently the search algorithms to manage those indices can be patented.
So, to carry it over to genetics, the underlying genes (law) cannot be copyrighted (and this is ambiguous still: is it code (copyright) or algorithm (patent)?), but the indices and commentaries on the sequences can be copyrighted, and the search/combination techniques and/or machinery can be patented.
So, we need to make clear and loud the mandate that:
the human genome itself constitutes information that is in the public domain (or, at worst, the property of the person(s) who contributed the gene sample(s))
that while indices and commentaries on the genetic code may be proprietary in a society that protects proprietary intellectual property, equally protected is the privilege of the people to compile a separate set of indices and commentaries, at public expense, of the same public-domain information, or to license (or acquire by legal means) . Assuming, of course, that any research funded by public money is released into the public domain.
We need to define the problem fairly and completely, then fight strenuously to make sure that bad precedent is not set. Your Working Boy,
.. is what I prefer.. Always been solid for me, and hitting - and picking a screen is much easier than remembering which button switches to which box...
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Will the port run on HP3000/MPEiX boxes as well?
Your Working Boy,
In your example, you can get the 5->6, 6->7, 7->8, 8->9, 9->10, 10->11,11->12.
It's a shame there isn't a script that does this for you....
Hmm, an idea has just formed...
Your Working Boy,
Hmmmmm.... I wonder how much power and A/C I'd have to install in the basement in order to...
Depends if the S/390 support is for their PowerPC-based CMOS boxes or not.. the CMOS boxes are pretty efficient (about the size of a RS6000 990) compared to earlier designs. I'm assuming the PPC port is the compatible port as there's already been a lot of work on Linux in the PPC area...
Your Working Boy,
Be realistic though. There's no reason that a 'standard workstation' install package on Sol shouldn't contain GCC (or, gasp, a free compiler like they used to include, dare I dream?), Perl5, traceroute, tripwire, satan, tcpwrappers, ssh and other tools..
;)
Sol2.7 goes some distance on this from what I hear (apparently, they got traceroute in.. took long enough!) but they are certainly not the easiest OS to start from scratch with. Still, I guess that's why us Sol admins get paid the big buxx
(and as an aside, learn more about pkgproto, pkgtrans, and the other pkg-creating programs. I have a Sol2.6 CDROM that includes pretty much all pkgs Sun left out, either swiped from sunsite/sunfreeware or in about 6 cases built myself...)
Your Working Boy,
An Ultra5 gathering dust?
How much do you want for it?
U5s are pretty sweet boxes, once you slap a proper SCSI board and enough RAM in there... And it'll fit much more nicely on a rack than a clunky (but cooler in other ways) U10...
Still, if I had it all over to do again, I'd probably go for an AXi clone and a desktop rack from blackbox...
Your Working Boy,
I've been typing 10+ hours a day for more than 10 years (everything from a Laser128 to various PC keyboards, but never any of that new-age "ergonomic" crap!) and I have never experienced wrist pain.
Weird. Me neither: I've been typing since age 6, so I wonder if my wrist and finger muscles (and even bones) grew up to support typing motions.. Still wanna get that Aeron chair though, as my back is not too great...
Your Working Boy,
"You can learn Perl "small end first". You can program in Perl baby-talk and we promise not to laugh."
;)
~The Camel Book
Maybe not, but beware the cutting sarcasm (if you're lucky) of Abigail...
(that's a compliment.. Really!
Your Working Boy,
It's an old version, so what's the point? Do you want a code fork, where any improvements are obviated or made incompatible with the current functioning version? At what point do the /. developers decide 'enough is enough' and let people at the code? Is there a foreseeable actual date for this?
/.'s nature as an advocate of OSS, that it be held to the same standards that it (and its 'community') holds to other projects/corps/developers.. Glass house, stones, etc..
I think, given
And if noone shows interest in this, it'll never be seen... Hell, look at the interest that has been shown and the results so far.. Will the recent source (or a public CVS server) just magically appear?
Your Working Boy,
Don't contribute code to software licensed under the SCSL. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
(Learned that the hard way using UPS for my 8-way KVM...)
Your Working Boy,
About 5-6 years ago there was a Scientific American cover story on the permanence of data....I've checked their site, but their archives don't go back that far -- sorry!
The irony is delicious...
Your Working Boy,
JMS is cool like that.. Any guy who names one of his most important (and popular, in a twisted sort of way ;) characters after a SF writer is definitely a fan..
And, of course, a No-Prize to whoever knows the name and role of the character..
Your Working Boy,
The problem is that nations don't want to get into the competition game. Once the economy is global, then nations need to compete against each other for the 'business' of multinational corporations ('business' being jobs, tax dollars, prestige, etc which help keep the citizenry happy enough to remain compliant and obedient). Like any competition, certain nations have certain advantages (natural resources, good government, educated people, deep water ports, affluent people, disciplined culture, infrastructure) over others, so those less-advantaged nations have to overcome those missing advantages by other means (dictatorial 'serf' labor, environmental hostility) when competing. Some businesses (consulting) don't care about low labor costs or environmental laissez-faire. Others (manufacturing, heavy industry, etc) may consider those criteria more important.
Where does government enter into this? Government decides the compromise between what its voters demand (high wages, good jobs, environmental protection, fair treatment of labor, etc) and what these companies demand (largely, the diametric opposite). The decisions made by governments are reflected in its trade policies.
Not that the government is correct, but that's the rationale IMHO.. The scary part is that, when compared, corporate demand is like the tortoise and popular demand is like the hare: slow and steady lobbying will almost always beat heated point-in-time (but mostly ephemeral) protests..
Your Working Boy,
Let every registered user rank every slashdot article and show the rankings in the main screen.
;)
Pretty cool idea too, but I'm hoping that by opening up the submission queue to many eyes, it should mean that the queues stay short (or can handle more submissions) and each queue moderator spends less time on wading thru them..
Just think, it's like fixing bugs of a journalistic type rather than a technical type, and as we all know, with thousands of eyeballs all bugs are shallow
Your Working Boy,
Hey, if I remembered it, he should: /. pays his rent, all I do is read the articles and occasionally mouth off.. (Though, in a manner of speaking, I _am_ paid to read /., but don't tell anyone that ;)
/.) without comment, and then released to the public, via a system of submission moderation similar to the system of comment moderation, and where submissions are then presented in user-configurable order..
/. code, I might even write it! C'mon Rob, et. al, it can't be _that_ ugly.. Or at least not as ugly as the code I inherited 4 months ago.... Couldn't be as hard as writing a mass-vhosting system that can manage tens-to-hundreds of thousands of donames and their associated websites (source available upon request, I just have to prefix all the perl files with the GPL)...
To prevent this, perhaps there should be a separate 'meta-slashdot' site where submissions are ranked by slashdot contributors (say, selected based on karma, instead of arbitrarily by the high priests of
If I could get my hands on the current running
Your Working Boy,
... A Mac-in-the-box, with the current gen's iMac bits in a stereo-style component that can be plugged into your TV or computer monitor and your stereo rig (with a cordless keyboard/mouse and/or cordless keyboard with integrated trackpoint).. I guess that's what Pippin was.
I wonder if I coudl do this by buying iMac replacement bits and putting them together.. I wonder...
Your Working Boy,
Where are all these sweatshops everyone's protesting. They used to be on the Lower East Side, in NY. Where'd they move them all to?
Hell's Kitchen.
(And Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, Malaysia, etc..)
Your Working Boy,
I saw a man in a sea turtle costume (bearing the placard: Save the sea turtles. Go fig, at a trade conference?) beating the hell out of another man who was unlucky enough to rouse the beast's ire.
No, see, Gamera's the friend of children.. He don't give a crap about adults...
Your Working Boy,
is it clicky or mushy?
Your Working Boy,
so I would suggest that it is valid to restrict the clients. (It might be technically hard - or impossible - but that is another matter.)
Why not steal the validation code from the Netrek source?
Your Working Boy,
So, to carry it over to genetics, the underlying genes (law) cannot be copyrighted (and this is ambiguous still: is it code (copyright) or algorithm (patent)?), but the indices and commentaries on the sequences can be copyrighted, and the search/combination techniques and/or machinery can be patented.
So, we need to make clear and loud the mandate that:
We need to define the problem fairly and completely, then fight strenuously to make sure that bad precedent is not set.
Your Working Boy,
"there's a fine line between bright and unhappy adolescents and mass-murderers"
Best thing I read all morning...
Your Working Boy,
at CSC.. I'm not an employee, just someone who bought a 4-tape DAT autoloader for $269 from them and is quite happy with it..
Your Working Boy,
Writes are slower because you have to read a stripe of data, calculate parity and write the whole stripe back again.
;)
Kinda why you want gobs of battery-backed RAID controller cache memory... (and a UPS, and clean power...
Your Working Boy,
If copyright infringement becomes a crime, then isn't the infringer considered a 'criminal' and thus entitled to free representation?
IIRC you are not entitled to representation in civil disputes..
Your Working Boy,
.. is what I prefer.. Always been solid for me, and hitting - and picking a screen is much easier than remembering which button switches to which box...
Your Working Boy,