Using a wireless network as the backbone for a cluster seems to me to be inefficient, at least right now.
Sure, you've got a lot of power available, but your latency is going to be pretty bad. And your reliability, especially in buildings with a lot of concrete. I don't know how well OpenMOSIX handles faults.
On another note, what happens to a wireless network when you put a whole bunch of computers in the same room? Which will be more important? The number of channels, or the bandwidth per channel?
Again, I don't know how OpenMOSIX would react.
Of course, it is an interesting idea, even if it needs work. Perhaps incorporating mesh network logic with signal strength sensing would improve the behavior of the system.
I think that was settled back in the mid 90s. US courts intervened.
Of course, we still have the Microsoft tax, but only because it's cheaper for companies to sell stations bundled with Windows and AOL than for them to sell them without an OS.
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The sad thing is that it works the same way for physical mail.
So the only way of eliminating junk email is to make it more expensive to send than snail mail. And that expense isn't likely just to be placed on spammers.
If I had to pay 32 cents for every email, I'd be a lot less likely to communicate.
A lot of the arguments supporting Linux in there are now used by Windows supporters. Things like "All the software I want runs now" and the like.
Rolled in there with greater portability and flexibility, I guess Linux's focus has changed in ten years. I think that's probably the most important thing to note.
It'd be neat if you could, but you'd probably be required to run TCPA first. All communications would be encrypted, and if you opened the binary in a debugger, you'd be slapped with a lawsuit before you got a ping response from the server.
In short, it's too risky. They don't want anyone to have the slightest chance to put together enough data to reconstruct a portion of whatever they're working on.
The Bourne shell is the standard that most modern shells support. A Debian installation couldn't possibly work without a proper interpereter at/bin/sh.
In fairness, I'll point out that Debian also doesn't work properly without Perl. (It's an extremely painful process to manually upgrade Perl in Debian when you don't notice that you grabbed perl 5.8.2, and perl-modules 5.8.3. Especially when you're upgrading over the sneakernet.)
Well, they were clever enough to get past my Thunderbird installation's bayesian filter, even after thousands of messages marked as spam.
It's interesting that we're having another of a technology-beats-technology war here. The success one drives the improvement of the other, and vice versa.
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Using a wireless network as the backbone for a cluster seems to me to be inefficient, at least right now.
Sure, you've got a lot of power available, but your latency is going to be pretty bad. And your reliability, especially in buildings with a lot of concrete. I don't know how well OpenMOSIX handles faults.
On another note, what happens to a wireless network when you put a whole bunch of computers in the same room? Which will be more important? The number of channels, or the bandwidth per channel?
Again, I don't know how OpenMOSIX would react.
Of course, it is an interesting idea, even if it needs work. Perhaps incorporating mesh network logic with signal strength sensing would improve the behavior of the system.
I think that was settled back in the mid 90s. US courts intervened.
Of course, we still have the Microsoft tax, but only because it's cheaper for companies to sell stations bundled with Windows and AOL than for them to sell them without an OS.
Keep em coming. (And make sure someone's doing Debian packages.) :)
That would depend on how bad the room would smell afterwards. If it were some of my relatives, I'd pay for juice right off the main lines.
Is that why Penn State always won home games? Their opponents couldn't concentrate?
Come to think of it, could the students concentrate?
Yeah...we have been 'full of it' lately...
The sad thing is that it works the same way for physical mail.
So the only way of eliminating junk email is to make it more expensive to send than snail mail. And that expense isn't likely just to be placed on spammers.
If I had to pay 32 cents for every email, I'd be a lot less likely to communicate.
I'd like a massively multiplayer SimCity 2000, but I don't have an internet connection at home. :(
I was born in 1983, so I never really encountered a lot of the older arcade games.
:)
However, when I encountered SolarWolf under Linux, I was instantly addicted.
I was especially shocked when I beat it after fifty levels..I'd hardly noticed the time go by.
A lot of the arguments supporting Linux in there are now used by Windows supporters. Things like "All the software I want runs now" and the like.
Rolled in there with greater portability and flexibility, I guess Linux's focus has changed in ten years. I think that's probably the most important thing to note.
That brings up an important point: Nanotubes can be expected to be carcinogenic.
They're essentially really sharp needles that could poke through anything they touch. Including the nucleus of cells in the body.
Unless you need both ALSA and OSS, don't compile the OSS modules.
/lib/modules/2.6.*
(I think) make modules_install will remove the modules already there before installing the new ones.
Otherwise, it's perfectly fine to re-run make bzImage, modules and modules_install after rm -rf
Three arc-seconds?
Depends on how warped...
Nevermind.
Bah. You're better off having a friend construct one for you.
I suspect their excuse (at least among the suits) is those darn people with video cameras.
...you'll start seeing Apple references in their material. :)
An apple with a bite out of it. A super-genius TiBook in Toy Story 3. Or something.
It'd be neat if you could, but you'd probably be required to run TCPA first. All communications would be encrypted, and if you opened the binary in a debugger, you'd be slapped with a lawsuit before you got a ping response from the server.
In short, it's too risky. They don't want anyone to have the slightest chance to put together enough data to reconstruct a portion of whatever they're working on.
The Bourne shell is the standard that most modern shells support. A Debian installation couldn't possibly work without a proper interpereter at /bin/sh.
In fairness, I'll point out that Debian also doesn't work properly without Perl. (It's an extremely painful process to manually upgrade Perl in Debian when you don't notice that you grabbed perl 5.8.2, and perl-modules 5.8.3. Especially when you're upgrading over the sneakernet.)
Unless someone wrote an obfuscating filter into the mass-mailing software.
Well, they were clever enough to get past my Thunderbird installation's bayesian filter, even after thousands of messages marked as spam.
It's interesting that we're having another of a technology-beats-technology war here. The success one drives the improvement of the other, and vice versa.
So the ISDN modem takes full control of the signaling on the line?
So, here's an easy (if not cheap) solution.
Pay up, then stop selling. Refuse to sell so long as that law is in place.
Apple's got the kind of fan base that might make that tactic popular.
So how does ISDN work?
no, no, no! "dotCode"
Loki (the company) was popular around here because they worked with game developers to port their games to Linux.
One of the developers there also (and still does) works on the QuakeForge project.