metallica sues the RIAA. it's gonna happen. unless they're the rednecks that i think they are. i'm gonna savor every second of the irony. not that i download music, of course. naah... i'm off to much better things. like downloading movies.;)
Apparently 5 minutes of brisk pumping will give you 20 minutes of battery life, it can also be used to power most other electrical devices with a rechargable battery.
Guys typically take shorter to reach orgasm [not speaking for myself here;)]. women need more time 'at-it'. this solves that issue. guys do a brisk pumping for 5 minutes. put that battery into you-know-what and the women get to go at it for 20 minutes. didn't solve world hunger. but very close. very close.
fill up your companys toner cartridges with disappearing ink. problem solved.
Maybe i need to sell that idea to Dissapearing Inc. anyone reading this that works for that company? just don't want them to pay me with bills that were printed after the treasury starts using those toner cartridges.;)
well, XML seems like the right choice to me. granted XML is not the magic bullet but something that needs a good framework to make it that magic bullet. XML inherently doesn't do it for you. good DTD parsers could be used to easily build a generic configuration tool. you want to configure apache? well, parse the config XML and the DTD, you got your current settings and all the legal settings... you want to configure samba? parse the config XML and the DTD... configure DNS?... and so on. maybe we throw in another XML which describes what each tag does -- comments to the user type thing. the main benefit, as i see it, would be a common set of rules for all configuration files. if you look at fstab and then printtab, there is pretty much nothing in common except that they're ascii files;)
maybe we do that in a two step process. use the DTD/XML thing right now with a little postconfiguration script that reads from those files and spits out a config file in it's current form. that way, apps continue working. as the apps get updated, we stop using the postconfig utility to generate say, fstab from fstab.xml etc...
oh, someone mentioned that you couldn't grep for meat, you could definitely get another set of tools that work the same way with xml. i have been thinking about this possibility for a while. it's cool other were in the same state of mind. worth thinking over.
well, at work, i used to get all kinds of porn spam. so when i opened my email if a coworker walked by, they'd think i was surfing the internet for porn in the office since the email were in html with all kinds of porn pictures in them. i couldn't explain all that to every passerby.. so i had to be on a lookout for coworkers while i was checking my mail. so yeah, spam is as serious as child molestation. i could be sued if some female coworker walked by and i happened to open up my email that contained aforementioned spam. just today my boss showed me email that offered him 'barn babes'. he had to shut his door to show me those email and to ask me what he could do to stop them. i don't know about you but that's pretty serious. so any fucking open relays need their balls strung from a rope in the middle of a freakin rhino stampede. thank you -- goodnight.
since you are "ready to do my pennance.", all you need to do is bring up another host with a different name. as much as you can come up with analogies, so can i. one is: if you're a child molestor you're labeled for life. notin' you can do 'bout it.
is that MS is a corporation. in the business for making money. and anything that doesn't make money is a loss. for the longest time security was something behind the scenes and never a 'feature' that would generate any money. that hasn't changed. what has changed is that with more and more bad press MS has been getting for insecure software, 'security' has started to cost them money. people use MS software but rarely trust it. that's the only reason why they're interested in 'security'. for people to buy into.NET in all it's different interpretations people need to be able to trust it with their personal info (passport comes to mind.) without this trust,.NET would ==.NOT. notice the careful use of the word 'trustworthy computing' by mister gates -- not 'secure software' or 'bulletproof agains all eveldoers' but 'trustworthy computing'. what he is doing is lining up a PR campaign to promote.NET. nothing more nothing less. it has nothing to do with a secure operating system. it has to do with a 'trustworthy computing' ala.NET.
if we're talking 'e-books' the adobe format then i don't see what the big deal is. it's just another format. if we're talking about e-books as in electronic form of a book then i think it would be safe to assume a lot of techies (including myself) are increasingly relying on it. i almost never keep a hardcopy reference book. especially on something about computers where the book is outdated before it's proofread. i rely on hardcopy for learning something new and use the electronic form (mostly web-sites) for reference. as for e-book the format -- i'm really not that interested. what's the point of trying to create a feel of a book when we can do better nagivation with web-pages. i mean, a book is a sequential read thingy. web pages are random access that can be made sequential. why recreate the limitations of hardcopy books? i remember back in the day when they had those multiple scenerio hardy boys books. i forget what they were called. you had to flip to a specific page depending on what you decided they boys were going to do. those people had the interactive part down. maybe we need to leverage that further and create books with that kind of interaction to close the gap between books (scripted) and games (multiple path scripted.. unscripted). that would raise the bar on authors, the readers... not only do you have to come up with a compelling story but you have to come up with a maze of stories... now that is what would suit the capabilities of e-books (not talking about the format.. but e as in electronic book). you could read those many times and would actually interact with you.
well, they were good in more ways than one. they wrote the constitution. good deed #1. but the current gummint taketh it away. bummer. but the founding father on the green piece of paper is doing his good deed #2. buy with cash. no trace back to you. 'cept for the eye in the sky maybe. but without a name or some form of number to get back to you, it'd be hard. go George W. no not that lame three finger 'W', the real George W -- George Washington.
i hate tv. if you tape one of these shows and watch it in fast forward you'll know what i mean. 30 minutes show means 20 minutes of ads and 10 minutes of what is on the tv guide. no thank you. that's why i don't bother with cable/satallite/what-have-you. just news please. recently i've even stopped watching the news even. it's nothing short of cliffhangers full of sansationalism -- "an area women gives birth to seven headed green baby; news at 9". or "investigative reports!! 25 lifers are on the loose -- your life may be in danger -- news at 10". if my life was in danger, i'd really fucking appriciate them telling me now. who knows i may get my throat slit before 10. what a bunch of retards. TV has become an updatable billboard that people pay to get into their homes. someone's gonna have to pay me to get one of these things into my living room.
you mean walk around *all* of redmond? i would assume that would take a while. especailly if redmond is not bike or pedestrian friendly.
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i'm been working with a 3 node test cluster (mosix) for viability for our apps. we tried mosix first since we don't want to write to a specific clustering API. we already have a ton of programs and introducing a new API into all of those would be a massive headache. plus a number of our developers dont' know much about parallelisms and the headaches it brings to the table.
with mosix, you just 'fork and forget'. that's simple enough. but here are some of the issues that i've run into and hope it's useful for someone else since it took me about a whole week to figure it out.
Sockets don't migrate. fileHandles dont' migrate. ie. for any I/O to occure, the process is brought back home, then upon completion of the I/O, if appropirate it is transparently sent out. what that means is that if the ratio of i/o to other normal crunching stuff is low, the process is probably going to spend most of it's time at home. what i'm going to do next is test if a process migrates at all by just having an open file handle without doing any I/O. i might post it as a follow-up to this comment. if i have time, i'll also play around with mfs. but probably not. if someone has more info regarding I/O using mfs i would appriciate much. ie. if mfs is used to do file I/O can the process still migrate while doing the I/O? apart from file sharing, what other benefits does mfs bring?
Another thing i've tested is java. as you might already know, native-thread java uses shared memory so that can't be migrated. i was using sun's VM so i turned on the '-classic' switch to use green threads. it migrates. for 5 instances of the JVM, on (3) pentium MMX boxes, i had a 70% (roughly) performance gain (timewise). for about 20 instances of the JVM (i know, that's a waste but more on that later..) i had about 47% gain in time. and i assume it will reduce drastically after that for just spawning that many JVM vs. doing actual work.
to optimize, what i'm going to do is first figure out how many nodes are running. then spawn that many JVMs and split the job between those VMs. and hope mosix sends out each VM to a seperate machine. this is not much different from running a rsh call (or ssh for the security minded folks) except, we don't have to figure out the load on each box we run the command on and we don't have to worry about collecting the output at the end of the run. if someone has a better idea about running java on mosix, i'd love to hear about it. just post your ideas as a reply to this message. i'm sure others will find it useful too. with the mailing list going away and no real documentation for mosix... bummer. also, has anyone tested it with apache? i don't know much about apache but know that it uses shared mem. so can the process forks of apache be migrated? + there's the issue of open sockets from a specific IP. how does that play into this. i've read stuff on web sites that say they're running apache on a mosix cluster. is it one of those 'ahh... i want a beowulf of these' nuts? or is that legit?
i was using that pigeon WAN for a while. but after a bunch of hawks migrated to my area it dropped too many packets. at one point i totally lost all connection. so had to give up that pegion WAN. besides it left a lot of fragmented packets near my network and was a bitch to clean up.
um, regarding software is not brain surgery, well, tell that to nasa who develops flight control software. during a formal methods class in school we looked at some of their stuff. not a brain surgery but if that software goes wrong at least a couple of brains go splat and eventually fall into the ocean. so it is both rocket science AND brain surgery that goes into software. also, i know of a couple of people that died due to over exposure to radiation because this software on a radiation machine had a bug when you hit the backspace button at the wrong point in the program execution and thus would get an overdose. (they used that video to sell formal methods to us). so software does deal with saving or killing people. dont' just think of software as the word processing stuff on your desktop.
is the system i have at home. i look at each incoming packet on paper and then pass it on the the lan if it looks legit. the only way to punch a hole in the firewall is with a shotgun at my belly..
a DVD now costs what? say $20. you *add* to the manufacturing process and you sell the product for *substancially less*?!!
something tells me that either that the free market theory is shot or that there is no free-market that actually drives costs down based on supply-demand and the cost of production. rather, the cost seems to be associated with how much the consumer can use it. shit man, i knew i shoulda charged $1000000 for the last anvil i sold. the consumer will be using it forever!!!
hell no. i realized that waaay back when. but at that time i thought it was more a marketing company. then later i discovered that it was an accounting company (search on google on the accounting practices of the company and you'll know what i mean. it's essentially a pyramid scheme.) Now, i know it's the digital mafia. the software company in redmond is just the little restaurant that they operate out of. and they got quite a scam going too.. pay off legislators to pass dubious laws then use that law thru BSA to threaten government offices. those offices coughs up tax payers money to avoid auditing hassles. the mob then uses that money to pay off more legislators to pass more dubious laws (the 'no digital equipment without content protection' scam that took place recently comes to mind.) Both the company and the politicians line up their pockets and the little tax-payer ends up coughing up the 'protection' money. if someone (in the form of a business) poses any threat to this nicely organized scheme, well use BSA again to disrupt them and eventually make 'em pay.
he says something along the lines of "this will get people switching over from windows to linux". I disagree. I think it's going to play out with MS 'playing nice' with Mono to first see if their idea can be implemented cross-platform. second to let it make inroads into 'Anything But MS' programmers. that would make the OS/FSF programmers bite into this environment since it is not MS after all. then, as the SAMBA team would attest, MS will implement some patented idea into the CLI or whatever the acronym is.. and people are left with two choices. abandon whatever they've worked on for a couple of years (including the knowledge and the effort put into learning the new environment) or walk into the arms of MS. and I think MS is counting on the fact that the platform will be sufficiently ubiquitous so that people will find it hard to just abandon it. and since everyone was gung-ho all this time getting MS-CLI implemented, nobody bothered to create a competing product. you're left with the only option and that is to switch to windows. I understand that it's a cool idea. I support Miguel in his thoughts. But if he expects MS to play nice he's very neive. I know there some other project that does the same thing by targeting the JVM. it's very needed. i'm not an expert so i may be wrong in saying that the JVM may be less cool than the MS-CLI but that might be the only alternative when MS decides to stop playing nice stranding the mono users.
i think he probably meant "RedHat linux won't rule the desktop." There are many other distros that are shooting to rule the desktop and I just don't see why they can't be a serious contender. Bob Young is in line to speak for RedHat. Not so for the entire beast that is linux. It's natural progression in evolution of linux that would be hard to stop even if he went out of his way to stop it. I would doubt that Bob Y. would really want to go out of his way to stop it. Therefore, linux on the desktop is inevitable.
I'm a longtime fan of RH (using it to type this right now) but Bob Y. should speak for himself (RedHat) and not drag others (Mandrake etc.) into it.
I would have never thought that joe who lives down the hall from me was so famous! but everyone who knows him (or his name at least) don't seem to know him very well. from what i've seen when i've visited his apartment, not only does he understand how Tivo works but he's currently hacking it. he's added the 'terabyte storage' slashdot was talking about yesterday i think. that, linked up to a security system that was brought up today on slashdot. so now, not only does he have TV when you want it.. he's got CCTV when you want it. so you see my pal Joe Average from down the hall might look like a dumbass to you all but he's really smart. i am amazed that people that seem to know him underestimate his mental capacity to comprehend the difference between a Tivo and a VCR even!! i'm telling you, the dude is smart. but why is everyone trying to sell him stuff? the dude's got everything!!
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metallica sues the RIAA. it's gonna happen. unless they're the rednecks that i think they are. i'm gonna savor every second of the irony. not that i download music, of course. naah... i'm off to much better things. like downloading movies. ;)
Guys typically take shorter to reach orgasm [not speaking for myself here ;)]. women need more time 'at-it'. this solves that issue. guys do a brisk pumping for 5 minutes. put that battery into you-know-what and the women get to go at it for 20 minutes. didn't solve world hunger. but very close. very close.
..has austin powers mojo?
Maybe i need to sell that idea to Dissapearing Inc. anyone reading this that works for that company? just don't want them to pay me with bills that were printed after the treasury starts using those toner cartridges. ;)
maybe we do that in a two step process. use the DTD/XML thing right now with a little postconfiguration script that reads from those files and spits out a config file in it's current form. that way, apps continue working. as the apps get updated, we stop using the postconfig utility to generate say, fstab from fstab.xml etc...
oh, someone mentioned that you couldn't grep for meat, you could definitely get another set of tools that work the same way with xml. i have been thinking about this possibility for a while. it's cool other were in the same state of mind. worth thinking over.
well, at work, i used to get all kinds of porn spam. so when i opened my email if a coworker walked by, they'd think i was surfing the internet for porn in the office since the email were in html with all kinds of porn pictures in them. i couldn't explain all that to every passerby.. so i had to be on a lookout for coworkers while i was checking my mail. so yeah, spam is as serious as child molestation. i could be sued if some female coworker walked by and i happened to open up my email that contained aforementioned spam. just today my boss showed me email that offered him 'barn babes'. he had to shut his door to show me those email and to ask me what he could do to stop them. i don't know about you but that's pretty serious. so any fucking open relays need their balls strung from a rope in the middle of a freakin rhino stampede. thank you -- goodnight.
since you are "ready to do my pennance.", all you need to do is bring up another host with a different name. as much as you can come up with analogies, so can i. one is: if you're a child molestor you're labeled for life. notin' you can do 'bout it.
is raisetheFINGER. you know which one.
is that MS is a corporation. in the business for making money. and anything that doesn't make money is a loss. for the longest time security was something behind the scenes and never a 'feature' that would generate any money. that hasn't changed. what has changed is that with more and more bad press MS has been getting for insecure software, 'security' has started to cost them money. people use MS software but rarely trust it. that's the only reason why they're interested in 'security'. for people to buy into .NET in all it's different interpretations people need to be able to trust it with their personal info (passport comes to mind.) without this trust, .NET would == .NOT. notice the careful use of the word 'trustworthy computing' by mister gates -- not 'secure software' or 'bulletproof agains all eveldoers' but 'trustworthy computing'. what he is doing is lining up a PR campaign to promote .NET. nothing more nothing less. it has nothing to do with a secure operating system. it has to do with a 'trustworthy computing' ala .NET.
if we're talking 'e-books' the adobe format then i don't see what the big deal is. it's just another format. if we're talking about e-books as in electronic form of a book then i think it would be safe to assume a lot of techies (including myself) are increasingly relying on it. i almost never keep a hardcopy reference book. especially on something about computers where the book is outdated before it's proofread. i rely on hardcopy for learning something new and use the electronic form (mostly web-sites) for reference. as for e-book the format -- i'm really not that interested. what's the point of trying to create a feel of a book when we can do better nagivation with web-pages. i mean, a book is a sequential read thingy. web pages are random access that can be made sequential. why recreate the limitations of hardcopy books? i remember back in the day when they had those multiple scenerio hardy boys books. i forget what they were called. you had to flip to a specific page depending on what you decided they boys were going to do. those people had the interactive part down. maybe we need to leverage that further and create books with that kind of interaction to close the gap between books (scripted) and games (multiple path scripted.. unscripted). that would raise the bar on authors, the readers... not only do you have to come up with a compelling story but you have to come up with a maze of stories... now that is what would suit the capabilities of e-books (not talking about the format.. but e as in electronic book). you could read those many times and would actually interact with you.
that they don't want to compete with the vast resources of the gummint.
that's not saying they won't participate in this.
well, they were good in more ways than one. they wrote the constitution. good deed #1. but the current gummint taketh it away. bummer. but the founding father on the green piece of paper is doing his good deed #2. buy with cash. no trace back to you. 'cept for the eye in the sky maybe. but without a name or some form of number to get back to you, it'd be hard. go George W. no not that lame three finger 'W', the real George W -- George Washington.
i hate tv. if you tape one of these shows and watch it in fast forward you'll know what i mean. 30 minutes show means 20 minutes of ads and 10 minutes of what is on the tv guide. no thank you. that's why i don't bother with cable/satallite/what-have-you. just news please. recently i've even stopped watching the news even. it's nothing short of cliffhangers full of sansationalism -- "an area women gives birth to seven headed green baby; news at 9". or "investigative reports!! 25 lifers are on the loose -- your life may be in danger -- news at 10". if my life was in danger, i'd really fucking appriciate them telling me now. who knows i may get my throat slit before 10. what a bunch of retards. TV has become an updatable billboard that people pay to get into their homes. someone's gonna have to pay me to get one of these things into my living room.
you mean walk around *all* of redmond? i would assume that would take a while. especailly if redmond is not bike or pedestrian friendly.
with mosix, you just 'fork and forget'. that's simple enough. but here are some of the issues that i've run into and hope it's useful for someone else since it took me about a whole week to figure it out.
Sockets don't migrate. fileHandles dont' migrate. ie. for any I/O to occure, the process is brought back home, then upon completion of the I/O, if appropirate it is transparently sent out. what that means is that if the ratio of i/o to other normal crunching stuff is low, the process is probably going to spend most of it's time at home. what i'm going to do next is test if a process migrates at all by just having an open file handle without doing any I/O. i might post it as a follow-up to this comment. if i have time, i'll also play around with mfs. but probably not. if someone has more info regarding I/O using mfs i would appriciate much. ie. if mfs is used to do file I/O can the process still migrate while doing the I/O? apart from file sharing, what other benefits does mfs bring?
Another thing i've tested is java. as you might already know, native-thread java uses shared memory so that can't be migrated. i was using sun's VM so i turned on the '-classic' switch to use green threads. it migrates. for 5 instances of the JVM, on (3) pentium MMX boxes, i had a 70% (roughly) performance gain (timewise). for about 20 instances of the JVM (i know, that's a waste but more on that later..) i had about 47% gain in time. and i assume it will reduce drastically after that for just spawning that many JVM vs. doing actual work.
to optimize, what i'm going to do is first figure out how many nodes are running. then spawn that many JVMs and split the job between those VMs. and hope mosix sends out each VM to a seperate machine. this is not much different from running a rsh call (or ssh for the security minded folks) except, we don't have to figure out the load on each box we run the command on and we don't have to worry about collecting the output at the end of the run. if someone has a better idea about running java on mosix, i'd love to hear about it. just post your ideas as a reply to this message. i'm sure others will find it useful too. with the mailing list going away and no real documentation for mosix... bummer. also, has anyone tested it with apache? i don't know much about apache but know that it uses shared mem. so can the process forks of apache be migrated? + there's the issue of open sockets from a specific IP. how does that play into this. i've read stuff on web sites that say they're running apache on a mosix cluster. is it one of those 'ahh... i want a beowulf of these' nuts? or is that legit?
i was using that pigeon WAN for a while. but after a bunch of hawks migrated to my area it dropped too many packets. at one point i totally lost all connection. so had to give up that pegion WAN. besides it left a lot of fragmented packets near my network and was a bitch to clean up.
um, regarding software is not brain surgery, well, tell that to nasa who develops flight control software. during a formal methods class in school we looked at some of their stuff. not a brain surgery but if that software goes wrong at least a couple of brains go splat and eventually fall into the ocean. so it is both rocket science AND brain surgery that goes into software. also, i know of a couple of people that died due to over exposure to radiation because this software on a radiation machine had a bug when you hit the backspace button at the wrong point in the program execution and thus would get an overdose. (they used that video to sell formal methods to us). so software does deal with saving or killing people. dont' just think of software as the word processing stuff on your desktop.
is the system i have at home. i look at each incoming packet on paper and then pass it on the the lan if it looks legit. the only way to punch a hole in the firewall is with a shotgun at my belly..
something tells me that either that the free market theory is shot or that there is no free-market that actually drives costs down based on supply-demand and the cost of production. rather, the cost seems to be associated with how much the consumer can use it. shit man, i knew i shoulda charged $1000000 for the last anvil i sold. the consumer will be using it forever!!!
the mafia never existed either right?
.. three words: "mail order brides". i believe it fully supports i18n.
he says something along the lines of "this will get people switching over from windows to linux". I disagree. I think it's going to play out with MS 'playing nice' with Mono to first see if their idea can be implemented cross-platform. second to let it make inroads into 'Anything But MS' programmers. that would make the OS/FSF programmers bite into this environment since it is not MS after all. then, as the SAMBA team would attest, MS will implement some patented idea into the CLI or whatever the acronym is.. and people are left with two choices. abandon whatever they've worked on for a couple of years (including the knowledge and the effort put into learning the new environment) or walk into the arms of MS. and I think MS is counting on the fact that the platform will be sufficiently ubiquitous so that people will find it hard to just abandon it. and since everyone was gung-ho all this time getting MS-CLI implemented, nobody bothered to create a competing product. you're left with the only option and that is to switch to windows. I understand that it's a cool idea. I support Miguel in his thoughts. But if he expects MS to play nice he's very neive. I know there some other project that does the same thing by targeting the JVM. it's very needed. i'm not an expert so i may be wrong in saying that the JVM may be less cool than the MS-CLI but that might be the only alternative when MS decides to stop playing nice stranding the mono users.
I'm a longtime fan of RH (using it to type this right now) but Bob Y. should speak for himself (RedHat) and not drag others (Mandrake etc.) into it.
I would have never thought that joe who lives down the hall from me was so famous! but everyone who knows him (or his name at least) don't seem to know him very well. from what i've seen when i've visited his apartment, not only does he understand how Tivo works but he's currently hacking it. he's added the 'terabyte storage' slashdot was talking about yesterday i think. that, linked up to a security system that was brought up today on slashdot. so now, not only does he have TV when you want it.. he's got CCTV when you want it. so you see my pal Joe Average from down the hall might look like a dumbass to you all but he's really smart. i am amazed that people that seem to know him underestimate his mental capacity to comprehend the difference between a Tivo and a VCR even!! i'm telling you, the dude is smart. but why is everyone trying to sell him stuff? the dude's got everything!!