Here in the UK, we're being encouraged to do returns online. As I had to fill one in for 2001/2002 (things like having a private pension etc & being in the higher tax bracket meant I was due a refund), I figured I might as well. From the web site, I was able to enter details for all my incomings & outgoings in forms. At the end of it all, it calculated my tax due & tax paid (via PAYE and tax deducted at source) and offered to give me a refund either by cheque in the mail, a higher tax code for next year (to recover it) or even by direct bank transfer (which I chose).
Which drooling moron decided it would be a good idea to move almost all the non-alphanumeric keys around? I'd particularly like to introduce their head to a clue-by-four for putting / as a shifted key... at the far top right. Yes, let's put the fscking directory path delimiter for Unix in the most awkward place possible. You're only going to use it, oh, every time you need to run a script in the current directory ('cause you don't have . in your path so you run./xxxx), any time you want to navigate to the root directory or specify a full path. *slap*
It really screws up any touch typers (e.g. myself) as I end up typing the wrong characters half the time.
Just one of my pet rants about HP systems. My other favourite has to be how you specify the default gateway in SAM... You'd think it would be under network settings, wouldn't you? No, it's under "local hosts file". Obvious, isn't it? *sigh*
When I used to MUD, there was sex between characters all the time
Hrm, you obviously played different MUDs to me... I do remember one guy I knew at Uni who used to play on one of the furry mucks; they were weird........
Yup, we're looking at 100 posts, each using up 2 points (1 to -1) so that at least 200 points, not counting the "excess" as 5 people try to mod it into oblivion at the same time.
Right now, I'd advocate deletion of posts & accounts. Unfortunately, that way leads unto some rather sticky territory as far as censorship & potentially allows a court to decide that/. should remove all contentious content (i.e. whatever someone who can afford a lawyer doesn't like). At the very least, IP bans are in order.
That said, it's one heck of a card; up to 1GB of texture RAM (!!) and it's got great connectivity to the RAM as it plugs into the main system bus on a V880 rather than being limited to PCI bandwidth.
It's a niche item, but it'll do well in visualisation studios; for instance, we have a huge rendering server with real 3D capabilities (i.e. you need the glasses) running on an SGI; this might be able to replace that.
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It depends what you want to run; you could run a useful MP3/OGG player under linux with the buttons doing the appropriate job (volume, forward, back etc) without a keyboard.
This isn't an attempt to run a normal linux session on some other hardware, so much as getting an open OS onto the iPod to support things like OGG.
Sun got hammered with the endless delays to UltraSPARC-III. When it came out, it whipped the opposition in the 64-bit arena until IBM released the Power4, which beat up SPARC in turn.
Sun are still scheduled to release the UltraSPARC-IV this year (at last report) which will be dual-core (same as Power4) and might again leapfrog IBM for a while.
Sun aren't doing that badly, all things considered, given the current state of the economy. We'll see how things pan out over the next few years, but it's too early to say Sun/SPARC is dying.
If you're aiming for stability, you try to remove all such possible causes; even if Windows will crash once a week, there's no point making it worse by risking memory failure.
Even if your machine doesn't crash, a flipped memory bit could invalidate your data results by altering a crucial figure. In some cases, it's not important, but a flipped bit at the higher range could alter a conclusion significantly and you wouldn't notice.
Depending on your target audience, the latter may be more important than the former.
I've set up IMP both under Solaris & Debian. Under Solaris, it was a royal PITA as installing horde + IMP isn't that intuitive, plus it puts various options in different files. Upgrades were a nightmare, as I tried to make sure that I didn't over-write any important files.
Under debian, it was 90% apt-get install imp with a little tweaking afterwards.
In both cases, it's been solid to work with and I've never had any problems with it after initial configuration.
Er, why use a hard drive as RAM when you can just add loads of swap space? The VM will handle that space more efficiently if it knows it's hard disk rather than RAM.
However, the main way you might be able to add RAM over and above the MB limit is via some kind of PCI card with DIMMS on it. I'm not sure how that would work over PCI (even 66MHz/64bit) or how it would work at a lower level, but it might get by some limits. The limits OP was asking about may be of the order of trying to get over 1GB of RAM for some simulation code. Of course if you need over 1GB of RAM, buy a system which supports it.
In any event, from what people are saying, the NUMA patch is a change to the scheduler, to ensure that processes run on the CPU nearest the RAM bank storing the data. I don't think it addresses trying to add RAM from other sources (either disk or hypothetical PCI card)
I'd imagine it's mainly for 64-bit as that's the kind of systems which tend to ship with NUMA (usually with MIPS or Itanium). Without knowing more, I couldn't comment as to whether it will work under 32-bit or not, but I can't see how it would be so limited.
Also, I seriously doubt if any desktop machine will use NUMA; it's primarily about systems which use system boards, where there are CPUs & RAM on a board which slots into the system & a CPU can access memory on a local board faster than that on other boards. Desktops tend to use one "system board" (i.e. the motherboard) so there isn't the difference in speed for accessing the data.
FWIW, Linux already has LVM & JFS, although I'm not sure of the level of stability. From experience, the AIX LVM is rock-solid, and I've created, mirrored & expanded filesystems on the fly very easily.
As for the ESS, it's platform independant; in fact, we're looking at using it on HP servers using the PSSP stuff to mirror across arrays as well.
HACMP has caused us some issues, but that could be down to the comparitively new hooks with GPFS (which, BTW, is also available for linux) it has to be used as an NFS server.
Finally, we don't have a p690 either (well, not at our site; I think they have one elswhere in the group).
Well, my firewall's been getting hit with port 1434/UDP packets (>150 so far today), so I decided to have a looksee where they were coming from by doing reverse lookups on the IPs. Most seemed to be Europe (.de,.fr,.nl) and some.au, but I did notice one in... navy.mil.
Seems the US military managed to leave an unpatched SQL server open to the world...
I'm getting problems accessing sites as it can't resolve the DNS. Thought it might be something wacky on my router box, so I rebooted it (well, tried to; for some reason reboot, halt & init 6 didn't work so I had to power-cycle). Still no joy. Check a few sites (including/.) and find out about the problems.
According to the logs, I've had 123 hits on UDP port 1434 since 5:30am GMT, all blocked and pointless as I don't run MS SQL server.
Fact is, there isn't a standard way to export things like packages, stored procedures etc. Every database has some specific features which don't match the others, so you have to have a vendor specific method to export databases for backup purposes.
If you just want data out of a table, it isn't that hard to write a select statement to parse out to an insert statement.
Well, I've got nearly 200 CDs in my collection, but most of what I buy these days is:
Old stuff
Old stuff to replace tapes
Compilations (mainly old stuff)
There's an occassional new CD I'll buy, but the majority of them are for bands from the 80s or early 90s (e.g. Bon Jovi). There's very few of the new stuff I can stand to listen to, let alone buy a CD of, a situation which isn't helped by the prevalence of Pop Idol/Star/Rivals.
On that subject, a small prediction about Girls Aloud (if you don't know what I mean, be glad). Now they've had the "rocking" kind of song, the next single will be an up-beat dance song, followed by a ballad.
First point: the inefficiencies of numbering schemes makes a lot of wastage. Your area code might cover a densely populated area (e.g. NY) or it may cover 1000 people in a large area of desert. The former requires a large number space (e.g. 1 million), meaning the latter has a large wastage. There's probably other issues, for example if you require 150 area codes, you allocate 3 digits, effectively wasting 85% of the namespace. Added together, you miss a lot.
You could make this more efficient, but it becomes much more difficult to manage, both in terms of human understanding and the complexity of exchanges.
As for "phone number for life", what happens when you move areas? That number has to be programmed into various exchanges across the country, causing massive complexity. Telco equipment could support it, but it probably requires a complete refit of all systems.
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All in all, pretty painless as well as free...:)
Which drooling moron decided it would be a good idea to move almost all the non-alphanumeric keys around? I'd particularly like to introduce their head to a clue-by-four for putting / as a shifted key... at the far top right. Yes, let's put the fscking directory path delimiter for Unix in the most awkward place possible. You're only going to use it, oh, every time you need to run a script in the current directory ('cause you don't have . in your path so you run ./xxxx), any time you want to navigate to the root directory or specify a full path. *slap*
It really screws up any touch typers (e.g. myself) as I end up typing the wrong characters half the time.
Just one of my pet rants about HP systems. My other favourite has to be how you specify the default gateway in SAM... You'd think it would be under network settings, wouldn't you? No, it's under "local hosts file". Obvious, isn't it? *sigh*
It'll burn up in our atmosphere and what's ever left will be no bigger than a chihuahua's head...
At the risk of giving useful information in a joke thread, try syncing the time between servers; use NTP for $DEITY's sake!
From your URL, AGP provides up to 533MB/sec. The backplane on a V880 gives over 4GB/sec, or 8 times as much bandwidth.
Right now, I'd advocate deletion of posts & accounts. Unfortunately, that way leads unto some rather sticky territory as far as censorship & potentially allows a court to decide that /. should remove all contentious content (i.e. whatever someone who can afford a lawyer doesn't like). At the very least, IP bans are in order.
Pity some idiot(s) have to spoil things.
That said, it's one heck of a card; up to 1GB of texture RAM (!!) and it's got great connectivity to the RAM as it plugs into the main system bus on a V880 rather than being limited to PCI bandwidth.
It's a niche item, but it'll do well in visualisation studios; for instance, we have a huge rendering server with real 3D capabilities (i.e. you need the glasses) running on an SGI; this might be able to replace that.
This isn't an attempt to run a normal linux session on some other hardware, so much as getting an open OS onto the iPod to support things like OGG.
This quote appears on pretty much every "MS is scared of linux" article and has long since ceased to be "insightful".
Can we drop, it please?
Sun are still scheduled to release the UltraSPARC-IV this year (at last report) which will be dual-core (same as Power4) and might again leapfrog IBM for a while.
Sun aren't doing that badly, all things considered, given the current state of the economy. We'll see how things pan out over the next few years, but it's too early to say Sun/SPARC is dying.
- If you're aiming for stability, you try to remove all such possible causes; even if Windows will crash once a week, there's no point making it worse by risking memory failure.
- Even if your machine doesn't crash, a flipped memory bit could invalidate your data results by altering a crucial figure. In some cases, it's not important, but a flipped bit at the higher range could alter a conclusion significantly and you wouldn't notice.
Depending on your target audience, the latter may be more important than the former.It depends on what you're aiming at, to be honest; VPN is more secure, but you have to have the necessary software installed on the client.
Under debian, it was 90% apt-get install imp with a little tweaking afterwards.
In both cases, it's been solid to work with and I've never had any problems with it after initial configuration.
Tell me, do you like me just for my laptop?
No honey, of course not, I love you for the sex as well!
That's OK then...
However, the main way you might be able to add RAM over and above the MB limit is via some kind of PCI card with DIMMS on it. I'm not sure how that would work over PCI (even 66MHz/64bit) or how it would work at a lower level, but it might get by some limits. The limits OP was asking about may be of the order of trying to get over 1GB of RAM for some simulation code. Of course if you need over 1GB of RAM, buy a system which supports it.
In any event, from what people are saying, the NUMA patch is a change to the scheduler, to ensure that processes run on the CPU nearest the RAM bank storing the data. I don't think it addresses trying to add RAM from other sources (either disk or hypothetical PCI card)
Also, I seriously doubt if any desktop machine will use NUMA; it's primarily about systems which use system boards, where there are CPUs & RAM on a board which slots into the system & a CPU can access memory on a local board faster than that on other boards. Desktops tend to use one "system board" (i.e. the motherboard) so there isn't the difference in speed for accessing the data.
As for the ESS, it's platform independant; in fact, we're looking at using it on HP servers using the PSSP stuff to mirror across arrays as well.
HACMP has caused us some issues, but that could be down to the comparitively new hooks with GPFS (which, BTW, is also available for linux) it has to be used as an NFS server.
Finally, we don't have a p690 either (well, not at our site; I think they have one elswhere in the group).
Seems the US military managed to leave an unpatched SQL server open to the world...
According to the logs, I've had 123 hits on UDP port 1434 since 5:30am GMT, all blocked and pointless as I don't run MS SQL server.
If you just want data out of a table, it isn't that hard to write a select statement to parse out to an insert statement.
Sounds a little like what happened to Spiderman
- Old stuff
- Old stuff to replace tapes
- Compilations (mainly old stuff)
There's an occassional new CD I'll buy, but the majority of them are for bands from the 80s or early 90s (e.g. Bon Jovi). There's very few of the new stuff I can stand to listen to, let alone buy a CD of, a situation which isn't helped by the prevalence of Pop Idol/Star/Rivals.On that subject, a small prediction about Girls Aloud (if you don't know what I mean, be glad). Now they've had the "rocking" kind of song, the next single will be an up-beat dance song, followed by a ballad.
Reminds me of a joke I heard: "Cats have 9 lives. Which makes them ideal for conducting medical experiments on."
You could make this more efficient, but it becomes much more difficult to manage, both in terms of human understanding and the complexity of exchanges.
As for "phone number for life", what happens when you move areas? That number has to be programmed into various exchanges across the country, causing massive complexity. Telco equipment could support it, but it probably requires a complete refit of all systems.