Franco: And now my friend, the first-a rule of Italian driving. [Franco rips off his rear-view mirror and throws it out of the car]
Franco: What's-a behind me is not important.
Harry the mailman brings us letters soaked with rain,
Jambs the box so full that the mail is crushed,
and then laughs when we complain.
Charlie the milkman is the biggest slob in town,
Seldom leaves the quarts that we've asked him for,
and when he does, they're upside-down
11 months throughout the year
they're as lousy as can be,
but starting December they work with great efficiency.
Charlie and Harry really show they're full of zip
Then they work that way,
every doggone day,
'till they get their Christmas tip!
I always thought Nintendo EOLed the Wii and the Wii network services way too quickly. What would it have cost to keep Wii News, Wii Weather, along with the multi-player gaming, web browsing, movies etc. going on all those platforms? They were in so many households. A backward compatible Wii+ with just an HDMI port and a speed bump would have sold better than the Wii U (and even have sold fine as a complementary product along side the Wii U).
For many years my daily driver was a M3000 Fujitsu 4 core 2.86Ghz SPARCVII with 64GB of RAM and a internal RAID disk running Solaris 10. It still would be too had my employer not moved to a combination of Windows and Linux. Very reliable, scalable, hardware and OS.
As a teenaged employee at our town's only computer store, my boss had me order a large number of Atari 2600 games for Christmas 1982 thinking I knew what would sell. He told me to go wild. I think I ordered some number in the teens of the E.T. cartridges because the movie was so popular, I thought it too would be a sure hit. That was the title I ordered the most of. Most of the other cartridges I ordered sold well (I recall Wizard of Wor sold out), but not E.T. and my boss held me responsible for the poor sales. I quit a few months later.
Are there any desktops other than CDE that let you define multiple actions for a given file type and have those actions be scripts? For example most desktops let you define what application to open a file type with, but CDE lets me define as many open actions as I want, and allows me to have shell scripts perform those actions.
So instead of a text file being restricted to only canned Open and Print actions, I can define OpenReadOnly, Edit, SpellCheck, SpellCorrect, PrintEnscript1Col, PrintEnscript2Col, Encrypt, etc.
How about the opposite of self driving cars as a panacea? Cars that need the total involvement of the driver to be driven, such as a car with a manual transmission, could prevent tech distraction.
The name "Udacity" seems a bit too cute if part of the goal is to have someone want to put successful completion of this education from this institution on their resume/CV and have it be taken seriously.
I worked for the Marine Corps Systems Command (Quantico, VA) and tried mightily to move the Corps to inexpensive open systems and protocols. I don't know where General Cartwright was at the time, but the Marine Corps leadership did not look kindly on my attempts to implement solutions to the problems the General states exist. The General was quoted as saying "... we buy proprietary [and] we don't understand what it is we're buying into," My direct experience says this not a true statement. The Marine Corps understands to the highest degree that they are buying proprietary, closed, expensive systems. That's precisely what they specified, so that's exactly what they get. If anyone in this forum thinks that the Marine Corps leadership lacked sage advice or that nobody was willing to put their career on the line to get the leadership on the right path, you are mistaken.
Or their spouse normally drives that vehicle and gets annoyed when the mirrors are moved and therefore the current driver just looks over their shoulder before lane changes etc.
"... Pittsburgh Steelers bars are the visible cultural artifact of a kind of economic diaspora. People in those bars are the refugees who looked at high taxes, union dominance and lousy schools and voted with their feet...."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123214881023691891.html
Do you want Sun's Solaris Software Companion CD?
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/s9do wnload.html
"Welcome to Sun's Companion CD image download site for the Solaris 9 Operating System for x86 and SPARC platforms. This site enables users to download a CD (ISO) image of the Solaris Software Companion CD. Included are hundreds of Linux and other Open Source applications, tools, and commands built and packaged for the Solaris 9 Operating System (x86 and SPARC). The software is available in pre-compiled binary and source code format."
I think Sun allows different CPU speeds so if you buy a 1200Mhz board it will work with your older 900Mhz boards, or you can pull boards out of an older system and tuck them in slots on a newer system or vice versa. You don't lose your board investment, and you can exchange boards between servers.
I don't think it is fixed speed per se. A 1200Mhz USIV board is going to be able to consume more bandwidth for a given application than a 900Mhz USIII board. Yes, if a 900Mhz USIII has maxed out an I/O bound application, you are right in that there is no more bandwidth available for that particular board. A faster CPU doesn't buy you more bandwidth if there is none left to be used.
I'm curious how other vendors scale interconnect speed based on their CPU speed. Can they mix and match CPU speeds like Sun? I'd appreciate some pointers. Thanks in advance.
1) It is not a 150Mhz backplane, it is (in the case of a Sun 15K) an 18x18 crossbar switch each of which has a 150Mhz 32 byte wide (not 32 bit, 32 BYTE) data path, which is 172.8 Gbytes a second. You can't think it as just a huge, fast datapath either. The entire system is snooping other transactions to keep the caches updated to it doesn't have to request data multiple times. See Sun 15K System Overview for a better explanation.
Instead of purifying the air of the entire room, you can just purify the air going into your computer(s). The Dirt Bag is a filter bag that fits around a computer.
Yes, the idea with literate programming is that the documentation and code is all one file. It prevents the whole "Oh, now I need to do the docs." problem, and the problem where the documentation diverges from the actual code. If you change the code, you change the documentation right in the same file next to the code. I find noweb to be an interesting tool. It is Latex and Lyx aware. The one page document on noweb below is very informative:
Onepage guide to noweb
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Gumball Rally (1976)
Franco: And now my friend, the first-a rule of Italian driving.
[Franco rips off his rear-view mirror and throws it out of the car]
Franco: What's-a behind me is not important.
Harry the mailman brings us letters soaked with rain,
Jambs the box so full that the mail is crushed,
and then laughs when we complain.
Charlie the milkman is the biggest slob in town,
Seldom leaves the quarts that we've asked him for,
and when he does, they're upside-down
11 months throughout the year
they're as lousy as can be,
but starting December they work with great efficiency.
Charlie and Harry really show they're full of zip
Then they work that way,
every doggone day,
'till they get their Christmas tip!
(Mad magazine circa 1975)
He bankrolled Dreamworks SKG.
I always thought Nintendo EOLed the Wii and the Wii network services way too quickly. What would it have cost to keep Wii News, Wii Weather, along with the multi-player gaming, web browsing, movies etc. going on all those platforms? They were in so many households. A backward compatible Wii+ with just an HDMI port and a speed bump would have sold better than the Wii U (and even have sold fine as a complementary product along side the Wii U).
For many years my daily driver was a M3000 Fujitsu 4 core 2.86Ghz SPARCVII with 64GB of RAM and a internal RAID disk running Solaris 10. It still would be too had my employer not moved to a combination of Windows and Linux. Very reliable, scalable, hardware and OS.
Pension obligations.
As a teenaged employee at our town's only computer store, my boss had me order a large number of Atari 2600 games for Christmas 1982 thinking I knew what would sell. He told me to go wild. I think I ordered some number in the teens of the E.T. cartridges because the movie was so popular, I thought it too would be a sure hit. That was the title I ordered the most of. Most of the other cartridges I ordered sold well (I recall Wizard of Wor sold out), but not E.T. and my boss held me responsible for the poor sales. I quit a few months later.
Are there any desktops other than CDE that let you define multiple actions for a given file type and have those actions be scripts? For example most desktops let you define what application to open a file type with, but CDE lets me define as many open actions as I want, and allows me to have shell scripts perform those actions.
So instead of a text file being restricted to only canned Open and Print actions, I can define OpenReadOnly, Edit, SpellCheck, SpellCorrect, PrintEnscript1Col, PrintEnscript2Col, Encrypt, etc.
How about the opposite of self driving cars as a panacea? Cars that need the total involvement of the driver to be driven, such as a car with a manual transmission, could prevent tech distraction.
The name "Udacity" seems a bit too cute if part of the goal is to have someone want to put successful completion of this education from this institution on their resume/CV and have it be taken seriously.
I worked for the Marine Corps Systems Command (Quantico, VA) and tried mightily to move the Corps to inexpensive open systems and protocols. I don't know where General Cartwright was at the time, but the Marine Corps leadership did not look kindly on my attempts to implement solutions to the problems the General states exist. The General was quoted as saying "... we buy proprietary [and] we don't understand what it is we're buying into," My direct experience says this not a true statement. The Marine Corps understands to the highest degree that they are buying proprietary, closed, expensive systems. That's precisely what they specified, so that's exactly what they get. If anyone in this forum thinks that the Marine Corps leadership lacked sage advice or that nobody was willing to put their career on the line to get the leadership on the right path, you are mistaken.
> There is not an English word opposite to postpone, so they made one up.
Accelerate? Advance?
We need to postpone the meeting time.
We need to postpone the software release.
We need to advance the meeting time.
We need to accelerate the software release.
Or their spouse normally drives that vehicle and gets annoyed when the mirrors are moved and therefore the current driver just looks over their shoulder before lane changes etc.
"... Pittsburgh Steelers bars are the visible cultural artifact of a kind of economic diaspora. People in those bars are the refugees who looked at high taxes, union dominance and lousy schools and voted with their feet. ..."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123214881023691891.html
Do you want Sun's Solaris Software Companion CD? http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/s9do wnload.html
"Welcome to Sun's Companion CD image download site for the Solaris 9 Operating System for x86 and SPARC platforms. This site enables users to download a CD (ISO) image of the Solaris Software Companion CD. Included are hundreds of Linux and other Open Source applications, tools, and commands built and packaged for the Solaris 9 Operating System (x86 and SPARC). The software is available in pre-compiled binary and source code format."
I don't think it is fixed speed per se. A 1200Mhz USIV board is going to be able to consume more bandwidth for a given application than a 900Mhz USIII board. Yes, if a 900Mhz USIII has maxed out an I/O bound application, you are right in that there is no more bandwidth available for that particular board. A faster CPU doesn't buy you more bandwidth if there is none left to be used.
I'm curious how other vendors scale interconnect speed based on their CPU speed. Can they mix and match CPU speeds like Sun? I'd appreciate some pointers. Thanks in advance.
2) Solaris 10 with N1 Grid containers should give Solaris the finer grain control that users want.
They already have plenty of computers there for your use. You'll learn more and meet lifelong friends in the computer lab without one.
Buzz
Instead of purifying the air of the entire room, you can just purify the air going into your computer(s). The Dirt Bag is a filter bag that fits around a computer.
Buzz
What is is a dirt bag?
Yes, the idea with literate programming is that the documentation and code is all one file. It prevents the whole "Oh, now I need to do the docs." problem, and the problem where the documentation diverges from the actual code. If you change the code, you change the documentation right in the same file next to the code. I find noweb to be an interesting tool. It is Latex and Lyx aware. The one page document on noweb below is very informative: Onepage guide to noweb