I dunno, I just think my wiring is just so different, like trying to get a PAL signal on a NTSC screen.. It's also like, how do I get to know someone without looking like some overbearing freak? And every time, every f?ck?ng time I've ever raised the portcullis and lowered the bridge, it's gone horribly wrong! Some people weren't meant to be with other people, I suppose. Or rather, they may be meant to be with crazy people, and not crazy in a good way.
What about Firewall/NATs? if the internal server was DDNS and the NAT assignation was tied into DDNS, then it wouldn't matter what the world thought and you could run your internal updates as fast as you like with external updates set to a more bandwidth-friendly longer settign.
Probably it's that clunky Win3.1 interface that gives the 'solid' feel
Like that Motif-fy look? (and wasn't MS involved with Motif at some point, which is why Motif titlebars look Win31-y and alt-tab functions like it does?;)
Bands of the future will make money more through live performances and less through record sales.
Uh, that's actually how it works today... A starting band can sell 10 million albums, but they only get US$0.54 per album, minus costs of recording, minus the advance, minus management/union/legal fees, minus the cost of the video.. Out of the US$15 you paid for that CD, the artist most likely will see no more than US$0.35 of it! The way almost all bands make a living is thru live show receipts (and the big money is made when they get a sponsor to cover the costs of the show) and merchandising. REM IIRC is a big exception to this, but they've been around nearly 20 years..
There's no reason why you couldn't continue to use ext2 filesystems for whatever reason you'd want, until the ext2 drivers are excised from the kernel source. However, having the ability to boot from a mirrored logical volume (plex? my AIX -> Veritas filter is faulty) without paying OS/Veritas tax is extremely appealing to those of us who care about data integrity, availability, etc...
Flexibility and features are GOOD, particularly if they're free and robust....
Imagine you've just jetted out to Andromeda for the weekend, and you've forgotten to activate your 20th century spamblocker.. And you start getting this crap..
If you grew up in the outer colonies, you'd be tempted to put a few bucks together for a planetcracker and get revenge on the filthy cesspit...
When I was in university, for an advanced level history course on the Roman Empire, our final paper was to write an essay discussing and analyzing a 'modern' piece of media which involved the Roman Empire. Guess which one I picked...
hehe.. NSI's been pimpin' out the.net and.org TLDs for awhile now.... I think there were a couple of/. threads regarding this, but the consensus is that they do it now so folks have to buy 3 flavors of every domain they want to own.
IBM's got, what, 150dpi in production now? I think their 770 13.8" screen is 1280x1024, and they've got a lot of R&D invested in fine dot-pitch display technology....
Close: Most Hollywood movies have aspect ratios of 1.85:1 to 2.35:1. 16x9 is 1.78x1. However, given overscan and some automatic reframing, 16x9 sets can display full resolution DVD _AS LONG AS THE DVD WAS ANAMORPHICALLY ENHANCED!!!_ Elsewise, if the disk was _NOT_ anamorphically enhanced, you do _NOT_ get the enhanced DVD resolution on the widescreen set. IIRC, displaying anamorphic 16x9 discs as widescreen on a 4x3 set requires your DVD to perform a 4:3 pulldown and drop a largish percentage of resolution on the fly. Some older machines don't do this well, and anamorphically-enhanced discs look quite bad on those early decks.
It took me awhile to actually figure this out, but search dejanews in alt.video.dvd for links to the full anamorphic story: it's worth it.
btw: I will _not_ purchase a movie that was shot in widescreen which is not anamorphically-enhanced. I may rent, but I won't buy. This pisses me off: the Kubrick box set is mega-shite for this reason. Doesn't hurt that they didn't bother to remix the audio masters to an up-to-date format (many of the Kubrick discs are matted w/Dolby Digital MONO.. Sheesh guys, couldn't you even at least try to emulate a theater soundfield? I _hate_ my receivers DSP modes....)
(btw, me and my buds were huge Who fans thru high school, my best friend got to see Tommy @ Radio City Music Hall twice, and we both saw the reunion tour (in Giants stadium) and Quadrophenia (in MSG). I still like them, but I've moved on to harder core stuff like Miles Davis, James Brown, Beethoven, The Orb, PWEI, Black Eyed Peas, Milt Jackson, Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66, MC 900ft Jesus, Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto.... Still, nothin beats throwing on 'Live at Leeds' or 'Sell Out' when the mood is appropriate..;)
ps: Any chance of a DTS-remixed Live at Leeds within my lifetime? I'd _love_ to get the audience mixed ambiently thru my surrounds....
Yah, but at $20/desk and $5000/server, kinda pricey.. Besides, who's to say that if enough nerds find it useful it won't be 'emulated' in an Open flavor?
I do like RS6ks quite a bit, but not at the prices IBM is asking.. Though the situation was different when I was an IBM internal: we got new stuff for 40 cents on the dollar.. Used stuff we inherited, cobbled together, or got for almost nuthin..
AIX is more plug-and-playable than any M$ crud, is relatively stable (don't forget fixdist!), and has lots of cool features. It's price/performance sucks, yes, but many corps place uptime and features above price/performance on the tasks they buy RS6ks for...
It's probably the biggest feature of AIX as compared to any other Unix, and you leave it out.
AIX's implementation of LVM is one of the best IMO. Granted, you can't shrink lvs or fs's, but you can increase their size while in full multiuser mode.
AIX can also perform many kernel reconfig tasks without rebooting, as it has a dynamic kernel. The ODM is necessary to support this.
The reason you run AIX is because you absolutely never want to _have_ to reboot for anything, and AIX is closest to that ideal among all the unices I've had admin privs on (AIX, Solaris, SunOS, HPUX, Digital Unix 4, Linux). From what I hear, only DGUX is more serious about uptime and availability, and they're not as well supported as AIX in terms of free software (Solaris/Linux/*BSD #1, HPUX/AIX/SGI/DEC #2, DGUX/Sequent/et al. #3)
Remember... 'Use the right tool for the job'... Platform-agnosticism is a feature, not a bug... As in other areas of life, bigotry reveals ignorance...
(And please don't consider this a flame, merely a counterpoint. Work on whatever you love, just be careful about other people's loves.....;)
Privatization presents those dangers when a government-created monopolistic entity is permitted to conduct business. Simply open the market (cable, utility, eventually police, education) to multiple competitors. Note I say competitors, not bidders: there should be no way that a single corp has power delegated via contract from an elected government. Simply define the correct performance criteria publicly and openly, provide certification and oversight of the government-services 'market', and allow any corp who meets or exceeds the criteria and proves worthy of certification to compete. Permit government to compete as well, with oversight being separate from the competition. Perhaps even outsource the oversight! However, I don't know if government can be trusted to do even this little, without some kind of revolution...
Connecticut IIRC outlaws ATM charges. I like that, and I also believe that government should be as large as the majority of its population consciously desires. It's when the government grows unnoticed like a basement fungus, coopting things you weren't keeping an eye out for, you have to worry about it. My personal beliefs lean towards 'good government' with a vigilant citizenry, though I don't hold too much hope for vigilance from the ADD generation.
Hey, I hate the government as much as the next geek, but there are things which are can be more efficiently done in numbers than on an individual basis. Government serves me best when it provides a services 'economy of scale', like when it can afford enough weaponry and personnel to defend my liberties as opposed to me dropping mad cheddar to buy my own arsenal..
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Motorola made RS6k PCI systems. Groupe Bull still does. IIRC PreP systems can handle AIX, since you can run AIX on the IBM POWER series PCs
AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Story of my fu??ing life in college...
I dunno, I just think my wiring is just so different, like trying to get a PAL signal on a NTSC screen.. It's also like, how do I get to know someone without looking like some overbearing freak? And every time, every f?ck?ng time I've ever raised the portcullis and lowered the bridge, it's gone horribly wrong! Some people weren't meant to be with other people, I suppose. Or rather, they may be meant to be with crazy people, and not crazy in a good way.
I could go for some flat food...
It's the appreciation that's the hard part.. Most women I've known tend to consider tech distasteful and something best not spoken of in public.
"Oh yah. Those tech vests are real nice. Fascinating." get me OUTTA this store! I've got database interface wrappers to debug!!
I dream of the day I can find a woman who:
Is that too much to ask?
What about Firewall/NATs? if the internal server was DDNS and the NAT assignation was tied into DDNS, then it wouldn't matter what the world thought and you could run your internal updates as fast as you like with external updates set to a more bandwidth-friendly longer settign.
Probably it's that clunky Win3.1 interface that gives the 'solid' feel
;)
Like that Motif-fy look? (and wasn't MS involved with Motif at some point, which is why Motif titlebars look Win31-y and alt-tab functions like it does?
... Are they talking about severing the pin on the CHIP or on the MOTHERBOARD?
I ask, because of this:
Several sites have stated that Intel will disable the AN15 pin on Socket 370 motherboards to discourage Socket 370 SMP systems
should s/motherboards/CPUs/g ?
Either way, I gots mine...
... The nerd working for Adam Curry.. ;)
(and who is no longer doing so, unfortunately.. I wish I had the balls and lack of car to follow him to Amsterdam...)
Bands of the future will make money more through live performances and less through record sales.
Uh, that's actually how it works today... A starting band can sell 10 million albums, but they only get US$0.54 per album, minus costs of recording, minus the advance, minus management/union/legal fees, minus the cost of the video.. Out of the US$15 you paid for that CD, the artist most likely will see no more than US$0.35 of it! The way almost all bands make a living is thru live show receipts (and the big money is made when they get a sponsor to cover the costs of the show) and merchandising. REM IIRC is a big exception to this, but they've been around nearly 20 years..
CALM DOWN EVERYONE!!!!
There's no reason why you couldn't continue to use ext2 filesystems for whatever reason you'd want, until the ext2 drivers are excised from the kernel source. However, having the ability to boot from a mirrored logical volume (plex? my AIX -> Veritas filter is faulty) without paying OS/Veritas tax is extremely appealing to those of us who care about data integrity, availability, etc...
Flexibility and features are GOOD, particularly if they're free and robust....
Was there a long line-up when this happened?
Will Ontario promote Corporal Punishment next?
;)
(And how about General Education? Then again, Ontario does a good job of that, eh?
Imagine you've just jetted out to Andromeda for the weekend, and you've forgotten to activate your 20th century spamblocker.. And you start getting this crap..
If you grew up in the outer colonies, you'd be tempted to put a few bucks together for a planetcracker and get revenge on the filthy cesspit...
Now Congress has every legal right to tax transactions over the net.
BZZZZZT!!!! Please consult your copy of the US Constitution, Article I section 9, and thank you for playing!
Bloody hell...
When I was in university, for an advanced level history course on the Roman Empire, our final paper was to write an essay discussing and analyzing a 'modern' piece of media which involved the Roman Empire. Guess which one I picked...
SPLITTER!
hehe.. NSI's been pimpin' out the .net and .org TLDs for awhile now.... I think there were a couple of /. threads regarding this, but the consensus is that they do it now so folks have to buy 3 flavors of every domain they want to own.
Drinking 10 year old whiskey is pedophilia.. You need something a bit more mature...
;)
Like 16-year-old Lagavulin...
(If there's grass on the field, play ball!
IBM's got, what, 150dpi in production now? I think their 770 13.8" screen is 1280x1024, and they've got a lot of R&D invested in fine dot-pitch display technology....
Close: Most Hollywood movies have aspect ratios of 1.85:1 to 2.35:1. 16x9 is 1.78x1. However, given overscan and some automatic reframing, 16x9 sets can display full resolution DVD _AS LONG AS THE DVD WAS ANAMORPHICALLY ENHANCED!!!_ Elsewise, if the disk was _NOT_ anamorphically enhanced, you do _NOT_ get the enhanced DVD resolution on the widescreen set. IIRC, displaying anamorphic 16x9 discs as widescreen on a 4x3 set requires your DVD to perform a 4:3 pulldown and drop a largish percentage of resolution on the fly. Some older machines don't do this well, and anamorphically-enhanced discs look quite bad on those early decks.
It took me awhile to actually figure this out, but search dejanews in alt.video.dvd for links to the full anamorphic story: it's worth it.
btw: I will _not_ purchase a movie that was shot in widescreen which is not anamorphically-enhanced. I may rent, but I won't buy. This pisses me off: the Kubrick box set is mega-shite for this reason. Doesn't hurt that they didn't bother to remix the audio masters to an up-to-date format (many of the Kubrick discs are matted w/Dolby Digital MONO.. Sheesh guys, couldn't you even at least try to emulate a theater soundfield? I _hate_ my receivers DSP modes....)
I'm not a mod or a rocker....
I'm a mocker....
(btw, me and my buds were huge Who fans thru high school, my best friend got to see Tommy @ Radio City Music Hall twice, and we both saw the reunion tour (in Giants stadium) and Quadrophenia (in MSG). I still like them, but I've moved on to harder core stuff like Miles Davis, James Brown, Beethoven, The Orb, PWEI, Black Eyed Peas, Milt Jackson, Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66, MC 900ft Jesus, Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto.... Still, nothin beats throwing on 'Live at Leeds' or 'Sell Out' when the mood is appropriate..;)
ps: Any chance of a DTS-remixed Live at Leeds within my lifetime? I'd _love_ to get the audience mixed ambiently thru my surrounds....
Yah, but at $20/desk and $5000/server, kinda pricey.. Besides, who's to say that if enough nerds find it useful it won't be 'emulated' in an Open flavor?
Well, AIX's max filesystem size is 1TB, max filesize is ~64GB, and max total system addressable disk of ~2PB (that's PETAbytes).
Check out th e AIX FAQ section which goes over this.
Remember, Linux is not the only OS out there......
Yep, sounds like an S70 to me..
I do like RS6ks quite a bit, but not at the prices IBM is asking.. Though the situation was different when I was an IBM internal: we got new stuff for 40 cents on the dollar.. Used stuff we inherited, cobbled together, or got for almost nuthin..
AIX is more plug-and-playable than any M$ crud, is relatively stable (don't forget fixdist!), and has lots of cool features. It's price/performance sucks, yes, but many corps place uptime and features above price/performance on the tasks they buy RS6ks for...
'Use the best tool for the job'...
Did you even use LVM?
;)
It's probably the biggest feature of AIX as compared to any other Unix, and you leave it out.
AIX's implementation of LVM is one of the best IMO. Granted, you can't shrink lvs or fs's, but you can increase their size while in full multiuser mode.
AIX can also perform many kernel reconfig tasks without rebooting, as it has a dynamic kernel. The ODM is necessary to support this.
The reason you run AIX is because you absolutely never want to _have_ to reboot for anything, and AIX is closest to that ideal among all the unices I've had admin privs on (AIX, Solaris, SunOS, HPUX, Digital Unix 4, Linux). From what I hear, only DGUX is more serious about uptime and availability, and they're not as well supported as AIX in terms of free software (Solaris/Linux/*BSD #1, HPUX/AIX/SGI/DEC #2, DGUX/Sequent/et al. #3)
Remember... 'Use the right tool for the job'... Platform-agnosticism is a feature, not a bug... As in other areas of life, bigotry reveals ignorance...
(And please don't consider this a flame, merely a counterpoint. Work on whatever you love, just be careful about other people's loves.....
Hey, I hate the government as much as the next geek, but there are things which are can be more efficiently done in numbers than on an individual basis. Government serves me best when it provides a services 'economy of scale', like when it can afford enough weaponry and personnel to defend my liberties as opposed to me dropping mad cheddar to buy my own arsenal..
Screw General Cinema, UA, etc.. Watch it in your own theater with good popcorn, comfy seats, and no morons shouting back at the screen.
;)
My HT rig beats many theatres in my neighborhood (Brooklyn), though that really isn't saying much
I can't wait until Matrix streets (Oct 5 is the rumored date)..