Seriously. They're wicked. I just bought a 1550 for my camera gear and laptop. That way if I need to check it when I'm traveling over the next few days I can. Also, if I need to take it on a kayak, I can just tow it behind the boat.
Well designed kit kicks arse.
Tim
PS. Using pelican cases probably increases the chances that your stuff will go missing. They're the sort of cases that people only put decent gear in so it's probably a 'good' choice for theives.
I don't even want that much. Was with you until you said pictures. All I want is a phone with a good battery life and a decent address book. I don't mind a few other features (such as a calculator or a few simple games like Tetris to pass the time...
You see. This is the "problem". He wants a phone and a camera, and you want a phone and a couple of games. Other people want other things. How does a phone company accomodate that? They put everything in. I think it makes perfect sense personally. It's just a matter of having an interface that doesn't force features on the user.
Linux needs to be top of the heap (or stack) and to do that, development needs to be faster, with more features being added and less time spent on the politics
You clearly haven'y spent much time reading the linux kernel mailing list.
Kernel development is actually remarkably unpolitical. That list is dominated by technical discussion not politics. I'm not saying that politics doesn't come up (especailly just after Linus started using bitkeeper:-) but for the most part it's an extreamely technical forum - as it should be.
Linux may not be on the top of the heap, but it's climbing it, not falling back. I'd suggest that that is an indication that the speed of development is just fine.
So, we have user passwords as the source, which users freely give away by (1) using telnet instead of SSH, (2) just being very uninformed or gullible users, enough to plug in his/her unix password to a web form, and (3) once-removed version of (1) or (2) since these are just obtained from other compromised machines.
I think you'll find that ftp and pop/imap are far more frequently a problem than telnet/rsh. The stupidity of using them has been less widely publicised and it's more of a hassle and drain on resources to implement the secure equivalents.
Doesn't it seem more likely that our microbial organisms wouldn't stand a chance against Martian organisms fighting on their own turf? What makes Earth organisms so tough?
Err... Actually there is a long and illustrious history of organisms from Environment A going to Environment B and kicking the crap out of it in nasty and unexpected ways. Here in New Zealand, for example, our native birds are seriously endangered because of imported pests like rats and possums. Not to mention the difficulties of controlling imported weeds like gorse and pests like rabbits.
I'm no biologist, but an organism that has lived on mars for thousands of years might be able to cope with that environment well, but probably wouldn't cope well with changes in environment.
It's little more than hopeful thinking to suggest that organisms from Earth would pose no threat. They would be of no threat if they died as a result of the Martian environment straight away. But that's wishful thinking.
Well, that's what Terra Soft Solutions is there for. They're the one Mac reseller that preloads and supports Linux on the machines they sell. If, like the US Navy, you want Xserves running Linux, you turn to Terra Soft.
Well that's true, but I'm not in the states. IBM has techs in every major city in the world. That's a big plus.
Blades have excellent managment features which are pretty much vital when running hundreds/thousands of servers. That combined with the space savings (again vital when running hundreds or thousands of servers) make these blades a very attractive alternative to xserves. Also you can get support from IBM for running linux or aix on blades. I don't think you'll have much luck getting linux support from Apple. Vendor support is important for this type of product range.
I agree that they are a little disapointing though - especailly not being able to take more than 4GB of RAM. Even IBMs xeon blades can take more than that.
why would anyone with a g5 who's already running os x want to run yellow dog linux? (serious question.)
I know several linux geeks who really liked OSX when they started using it but found it more and more annoying as time went by. Not being very customisable was a common complaint. (no focus follows mouse etc)
Also, if you want a linux box with 8GB of RAM, it wouldn't be a bad choice.
Fair or not, Apple is regarded as the best platform for image/media/graphics processing and rendering (I'm not so familiar with the Apple hardware config, so verification, anybody?).
Apples aren't normally used for the rendering. Not on big projects with clusters etc. Normally one would use linux machines running on 1U x86 servers or blades.
You seem to be forgetting that there are other factors to consider when working out price. A significant part of the price of running a large cluster is cooling. You get a couple of thousand procs in a room, and airconditioning becomes challenging. I don't know how hot opterons are in relation to xeons, but it's a very important factor that needs to be considered.
That may well be true, but it's also not really relevant. Being a known troll doesn't mean that his 'essay' is wrong - something that a lot of people seem to have missed. I thought most of the same things as he did when I read the detailed description of the benchmarks, and if you understand anything about benchmarks then you probably would have too.
You can get the pdf which describe the process here.
The thing that everyone needs to remember though is that EVERYONE CHEATS, the point of releasing benchmarks to the public is very rarely to ensure that they can make an informed discussion, it is to make your product look better than everyone else's. They should be viewed with a healthy dose of scepticism.
Another thing to remember - especially if you are about to flame someone - is that few people, if any, are saying that these new Macs are anything but very good. What they are saying, is that Apple may not be presenting the facts in a clear and unambiguous fashion.
Be grateful that the specifics of the testing are available.
The problem would be the same as all other non-centralised encryption techniques (pgp etc). It's damned inconvenient. For a start each person you talk to is going to have to have some kind of key for you (or you for them) which makes the whole thing massively impractical. You clearly can't just use encryption to and from the server (ssl type things) because the government will control the servers... p2p encryption is the only way, but its not really viable.
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Any reason the link you posted was to an IP? Seems like a crazy thing to do, since it could well lead to the google mirror being/.ed. That link presumably bypasses all their load balancing stuff.
Not a biggy, just wondering if there was a reason that wasn't immediately obvious. (maybe that is the exact url that google gives out, which would be silly of them).
Does anyone know how clever it is? There are several things that I suppose you could do to make sure that this doesn't get in the way of normal browsing, but still catches DOS attacks. What sort of things does this module include to work intelligently? How tunable is it?
One thing that jumps to mind is that you could have some kind of ratio between images and html which has to be adhered to for any x second period. This would hopefully mean that going to webpages with lots of images (which are all requested really quickly) wouldn't cause any problems. Also, more than one request can be made in a single http session (I think - I don't really know anything about this) so I guess you could make use of that to assess whether the traffic fitted the normal profile of a websurfer for that particular site.
Also, is there anything you can do to ensure that several people behind a NATing firewall all surfing to the same site don't trip the anti-DOS features?
You don't seem to understand just how expensive education is. Developing computer systems is expensive, but in comparison to developing a working education system for a billion odd people, it's really, really cheap. I don't know, but i would be suprised if the Indian government wasn't spending a hell of a lot more on education than they are on this machine.
My mind-set tells me that it should check the effective user id of the running process but then isn't this setuid and setgid again? If the kernel will grant this request by checking a list of applications that is allowed to do this, then how is this different from a kernel checking if an application is owned by root?
It is different because if an application is set SUID root, then it has the ability to do anything that root can do. With this new method, it would have permission to do certian defined things as root. For example, binding to tcp ports, or even binding to just one particular tcp port.
Quite a different thing.
Burns said the change was necessary because ICANN has exceeded its authority, does not operate in an open fashion, and is dangerously unaccountable to Internet users, businesses and other key interest groups.
This is almost certianly true, but I have serious doubts that the US government is more accountable, more open, or less likely to exceed its authority (though if you give your self enough authority then its hard to exceed it).
So what is a 'blog'. It's used here as if we should all know what it is, and it is always possable that I am the only one who doesn't, but could someone tell me anyway. Just to clarify.
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Can people please stop capitalising the name. It's Weta Workshop and Weta Digital.
A weta is a big fuck off insect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta
Also, it's pronounced Wet-a. Not Weeta.
You should look at mysql cluster. I'm yet to use it, but for a write heavy and high-availability SQL DB it's a pretty good option.
t er-overview.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-clus
Cheers,
Tim
Seriously. They're wicked. I just bought a 1550 for my camera gear and laptop. That way if I need to check it when I'm traveling over the next few days I can. Also, if I need to take it on a kayak, I can just tow it behind the boat. Well designed kit kicks arse. Tim PS. Using pelican cases probably increases the chances that your stuff will go missing. They're the sort of cases that people only put decent gear in so it's probably a 'good' choice for theives.
You see. This is the "problem". He wants a phone and a camera, and you want a phone and a couple of games. Other people want other things. How does a phone company accomodate that? They put everything in. I think it makes perfect sense personally. It's just a matter of having an interface that doesn't force features on the user.
Hmm...
clichekiller certainly hasn't killed any cliches with that fine investigative effort.
Pointless slashdot stories Unite!
Good one. You've really enlightened us all.
You clearly haven'y spent much time reading the linux kernel mailing list.
Kernel development is actually remarkably unpolitical. That list is dominated by technical discussion not politics. I'm not saying that politics doesn't come up (especailly just after Linus started using bitkeeper :-) but for the most part it's an extreamely technical forum - as it should be.
Linux may not be on the top of the heap, but it's climbing it, not falling back. I'd suggest that that is an indication that the speed of development is just fine.
I think you'll find that ftp and pop/imap are far more frequently a problem than telnet/rsh. The stupidity of using them has been less widely publicised and it's more of a hassle and drain on resources to implement the secure equivalents.
Err... Actually there is a long and illustrious history of organisms from Environment A going to Environment B and kicking the crap out of it in nasty and unexpected ways. Here in New Zealand, for example, our native birds are seriously endangered because of imported pests like rats and possums. Not to mention the difficulties of controlling imported weeds like gorse and pests like rabbits.
I'm no biologist, but an organism that has lived on mars for thousands of years might be able to cope with that environment well, but probably wouldn't cope well with changes in environment.
It's little more than hopeful thinking to suggest that organisms from Earth would pose no threat. They would be of no threat if they died as a result of the Martian environment straight away. But that's wishful thinking.
Blades have excellent managment features which are pretty much vital when running hundreds/thousands of servers. That combined with the space savings (again vital when running hundreds or thousands of servers) make these blades a very attractive alternative to xserves. Also you can get support from IBM for running linux or aix on blades. I don't think you'll have much luck getting linux support from Apple. Vendor support is important for this type of product range.
I agree that they are a little disapointing though - especailly not being able to take more than 4GB of RAM. Even IBMs xeon blades can take more than that.
For the record, this isn't off topic.
I know several linux geeks who really liked OSX when they started using it but found it more and more annoying as time went by. Not being very customisable was a common complaint. (no focus follows mouse etc)
Also, if you want a linux box with 8GB of RAM, it wouldn't be a bad choice.
...welcome our new Nude overlords.
What can I say, it's been a slow day.
Apples aren't normally used for the rendering. Not on big projects with clusters etc. Normally one would use linux machines running on 1U x86 servers or blades.
Do you think he would find this description depressing? I can't think of anything more disappointing than uberness wasted on blogging.
You seem to be forgetting that there are other factors to consider when working out price. A significant part of the price of running a large cluster is cooling. You get a couple of thousand procs in a room, and airconditioning becomes challenging. I don't know how hot opterons are in relation to xeons, but it's a very important factor that needs to be considered.
That may well be true, but it's also not really relevant. Being a known troll doesn't mean that his 'essay' is wrong - something that a lot of people seem to have missed.
I thought most of the same things as he did when I read the detailed description of the benchmarks, and if you understand anything about benchmarks then you probably would have too.
You can get the pdf which describe the process here.
The thing that everyone needs to remember though is that EVERYONE CHEATS, the point of releasing benchmarks to the public is very rarely to ensure that they can make an informed discussion, it is to make your product look better than everyone else's. They should be viewed with a healthy dose of scepticism.
Another thing to remember - especially if you are about to flame someone - is that few people, if any, are saying that these new Macs are anything but very good. What they are saying, is that Apple may not be presenting the facts in a clear and unambiguous fashion.
Be grateful that the specifics of the testing are available.
The problem would be the same as all other non-centralised encryption techniques (pgp etc). It's damned inconvenient. For a start each person you talk to is going to have to have some kind of key for you (or you for them) which makes the whole thing massively impractical.
You clearly can't just use encryption to and from the server (ssl type things) because the government will control the servers... p2p encryption is the only way, but its not really viable.
Any reason the link you posted was to an IP? Seems like a crazy thing to do, since it could well lead to the google mirror being /.ed. That link presumably bypasses all their load balancing stuff.
Not a biggy, just wondering if there was a reason that wasn't immediately obvious. (maybe that is the exact url that google gives out, which would be silly of them).
Does anyone know how clever it is? There are several things that I suppose
you could do to make sure that this doesn't get in the way of normal browsing, but still catches DOS attacks. What sort of things does this module include to work intelligently? How tunable is it?
One thing that jumps to mind is that you could have some kind of ratio between images and html which has to be adhered to for any x second period. This would hopefully mean that going to webpages with lots of images (which are all requested really quickly) wouldn't cause any problems. Also, more than one request can be made in a single http session (I think - I don't really know anything about this) so I guess you could make use of that to assess whether the traffic fitted the normal profile of a websurfer for that particular site.
Also, is there anything you can do to ensure that several people behind a NATing firewall all surfing to the same site don't trip the anti-DOS features?
Just thinking while I type really...
You don't seem to understand just how expensive education is.
Developing computer systems is expensive, but in comparison to developing a working education system for a billion odd people, it's really, really cheap. I don't know, but i would be suprised if the Indian government wasn't spending a hell of a lot more on education than they are on this machine.
Quite a different thing.
This is almost certianly true, but I have serious doubts that the US government is more accountable, more open, or less likely to exceed its authority (though if you give your self enough authority then its hard to exceed it).
Pfui. Snow Crash. Neuromancer or almost anything else by Gibson.
Snow Crash is by Neal Stephenson. Your statement makes it look Snow Crash was written by Gibson.
You never know though, it might just be my copy.
So what is a 'blog'. It's used here as if we should all know what it is, and it is always possable that I am the only one who doesn't, but could someone tell me anyway. Just to clarify.
Thanks. It's good of you. Really. It is.