One common misconception is that these are 64 way SMP boxes. They aren't. See, they're really 4 CPU bricks (C-bricks) with low latency, high bandwidth interconnects and smart memory management units to do memory references on remote boxes.
You most probably know better than I do (as I have never worked on an Altix), but SGI seem to disagree with you:
Up to 512 processors tightly coupled and operating under a single copy of the O/S
While Linux's SMP is perfectly good, I sincerely doubt it would scale quite as well as the boilerplate enterprise OSs such as Solaris or the mainframe platforms.
And this, my friends, is why 'dependency hell' is a good thing. A flaw is found in zlib - no trouble, just run the normal update program that comes with your distribution, 'yum update' or whatever, the centrally installed zlib library will be updated, and all applications will start using it.
Er... no. Long running software (ie daemon) will continue to use the old version, which would reside in memory (in their code segment, I guess). We got beaten by this a little while back, when there was a worm exploiting Apache thru a bug in OpenSSL. The guy responsible for applying the security updates did in fact update the lib, but did not restart Apache. Result ? One of our machine got owned, even though the bug was patched.
You worked on SFU ? Well, great ! I have a few questions for you:
1. Why did they used LDAP dn instead of plain group names in the msSFU35GroupMember attribute ? (not sure about attribute name, you get my drift)
2. Why is the User objectClass structural ? It could have been auxiliary of account, for example. That would have simplified my life a lot.
3. Why, ho why, did'nt they used RFC2307 for SFU ? Corrolary : why do they have to change attribute names with each release ? (prfix msSFU -> msSFU30 -> msSFU35)
In my part of the world (Canada), almost everybody is paid weekly or bi-weekly on Thursday. I had a job once that was paid twice a month (on the 1st and 15th), and that was it.
I am suprised nobody mentionned Ubuntu yet. They give away manufactured CD in a professionnal-looking sleeve. It include a live CD and an installation CD. Leaving a stack of those near the cash of your local computer shop to give away to customers as perk is a nice idea I plan to realize once I receive my Ubuntu Shipit order.
2) that the person philisophically (sp?) matches our beliefs
I am not entirely sure what you mean by that, but it give me the creeps. Are your employees supposed to agree with you on all front (ie religion, politic, etc) ?
Sometimes getting laid off is the best thing that can happen to a person so sympathy isn't necessary.
The market for this card is geeks, hackers and open source die hards.
Most will already have the latest kickass graphics card in a machine,[...snip...]
I am a geek, hacker, open source die hard and proud owner of a MX400.
Geeks != gamers. AFAIC, as long as it run Neverwinter Nights...
WRT the Xilinx evaluation board... that's some pretty cool stuff. A question : how do you program them ? I guess through the JTAG interface. If it is the case, are there Linux tools to do the job, or you are stuck using proprietary tools under Windows ?
Not to go crazy on this one, but what is the big deal is requiring your calendar and address book be tied to your email client. I guess somewhere along the line everyone got mixed up and decided this is the way life should be.
Off all the move Microsoft made toward customer lock-in, I think tying Outlook and Exchange together with closed protocol was the smartest. Making Exchange 2000 depend on Active Directory was the second smartest. Now that the suit are in love with Outlook and that most people equate email with Outlook, they have a pretty strong tie on the server room of most organisation.
As a side note, I can't believe people actually like Outlook. The damn POS is so confusing, I wonder how people actually get anything done using it.
[...snip...]nobody would be able to make a living writing software (bad).
Why ? Software have value to users, wheter they are Free/Libre or not. If [writing a software|fixing a bug|adding a feature] have value to you, and it is not currently done for free (beer), why won't you be willing to pay to have it done in a Free (speech) way ?
The false dichotomy between Free/Libre software and living wage of programmer fall squarely in the domain of uninformed FUD. I have been paid in the past to write features and fix bug in FLOSS which made their way back in the project. Some people are even paid full-time to do just that. Ask Linus, RedHat employees, etc.
I would prefer all distros to come with the very basics installed, and then.. you can run an add-on installer where you can slap in your choices.
Even better would be a setup that gave you the most common choices. eg. Install a webserver; or install a KDE desktop machine. Even then, the minimum would be installed, if you then wanted (eg) Java support on your webserver, you'd run the add-on installer to get it.
Just like most distro already do. Have you installed a mainstream distribution (ie not Gentoo) in the last five years ?
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Welcome to 2003.
You most probably know better than I do (as I have never worked on an Altix), but SGI seem to disagree with you :
Well...
The "cheap" part remain to be confirmed.....
Er... no. Long running software (ie daemon) will continue to use the old version, which would reside in memory (in their code segment, I guess). We got beaten by this a little while back, when there was a worm exploiting Apache thru a bug in OpenSSL. The guy responsible for applying the security updates did in fact update the lib, but did not restart Apache. Result ? One of our machine got owned, even though the bug was patched.
You worked on SFU ? Well, great ! I have a few questions for you :
1. Why did they used LDAP dn instead of plain group names in the msSFU35GroupMember attribute ? (not sure about attribute name, you get my drift)
2. Why is the User objectClass structural ? It could have been auxiliary of account, for example. That would have simplified my life a lot.
3. Why, ho why, did'nt they used RFC2307 for SFU ? Corrolary : why do they have to change attribute names with each release ? (prfix msSFU -> msSFU30 -> msSFU35)
What's wrong with the FHS ?
Some distribution don't respect it ? Use another one.
Why the fuck where you working for such a bunch of lowballs in the first place ?
The Altix is a general purpose multiprocessor machine.
In my part of the world (Canada), almost everybody is paid weekly or bi-weekly on Thursday. I had a job once that was paid twice a month (on the 1st and 15th), and that was it.
I am suprised nobody mentionned Ubuntu yet. They give away manufactured CD in a professionnal-looking sleeve. It include a live CD and an installation CD. Leaving a stack of those near the cash of your local computer shop to give away to customers as perk is a nice idea I plan to realize once I receive my Ubuntu Shipit order.
More info at shipit.ubuntu.com.
I am not entirely sure what you mean by that, but it give me the creeps. Are your employees supposed to agree with you on all front (ie religion, politic, etc) ?
Keyword here : sometime.
I am a geek, hacker, open source die hard and proud owner of a MX400.
Geeks != gamers. AFAIC, as long as it run Neverwinter Nights ...
WRT the Xilinx evaluation board ... that's some pretty cool stuff. A question : how do you program them ? I guess through the JTAG interface. If it is the case, are there Linux tools to do the job, or you are stuck using proprietary tools under Windows ?
Off all the move Microsoft made toward customer lock-in, I think tying Outlook and Exchange together with closed protocol was the smartest. Making Exchange 2000 depend on Active Directory was the second smartest. Now that the suit are in love with Outlook and that most people equate email with Outlook, they have a pretty strong tie on the server room of most organisation.
As a side note, I can't believe people actually like Outlook. The damn POS is so confusing, I wonder how people actually get anything done using it.
Apparently, Novell is working on one.
Just like most distro already do. Have you installed a mainstream distribution (ie not Gentoo) in the last five years ?
Highlighting a problem is one thing, whining about a non-issue is another. Too much choices ? Stick to the defaults, damn it!
If you don't want to make choice, why did you clicked on "Select individual packages" in the first place ? Where the defaults not good enough ?
Ubuntu and Novell Linux Desktop are also built on this principle.
At almost 3500$ CDN, it better be.
Nitpicker ...
Actually, it have been slow days for the past 5 years already. Where have you been since 1998 ?
I did just that recently : exported my Dia diagram to EPS, imported it in OO.o.
.eps an .epsi (check ps2epsi).
One catch : if you want to see your EPS on-screen, you need to make your
But then, what do you do to update your sound driver ? Flash your sound card BIOS ?