Hrm, well, according to the dictionary, a Supercomputer is "a large very fast mainframe used especially for scientific computations".
An alternative definition is "A mainframe computer that is among the largest, fastest, or most powerful of those available at a given time"
Again, the word "mainframe", which I don't believe covers any cluster solution, even if it's built with 10,000 3GHz P3s. That would, however, be a very powerful compute pool, but not a mainframe.
Of course, you could argue whether that dictionary definition is now wrong and whether the definition of supercomputer should include these clusters; Dictionaries reflect the language of the time, they don't define it.
Seen that policy; we use it at work with our online bidding system. Basically, we ask companies to bid to provide a service or supply something and they "bid down" to lower prices. If there's a bid in the last 5 minutes, it gets extended by 5 minutes (potentially indefinately). Bear in mind this is for auctions normally lasting 30 minutes.
This would basically be MS buying two competitors. Rational Clearcase competes with Visual Sourcesafe and Borland's development products obviously compete with Visual Studio (as well as doing a fair bit with Java, which MS probably don't like).
If this is true, they've obviously decided to really flip the bird to the courts...
Any decent grid software will gracefully handle failures due to power-offs, whether they're due to power/hardware failure or some malicious sod hitting power buttons.
I'm hoping Gateway are smart enough to consider that...
It's not really all that surprising; there's a few potential pitfalls (read: race conditions) in SMP that you can get round in a uni-processor build. As OpenBSD is intended to be a secure OS, you make things simpler (and, by inference, more secure) by sticking to a single-CPU model.
The problem is, I don't know how much of OpenBSD's kernel really relies on the assumption that it'll only ever run on one CPU and it may take some time before OpenBSD becomes as stable and secure as it needs to be.
OpenBSD is designed for an "edge server" environment, where scalability isn't as important as security.
I guess we're kinda spoiled in the UK, as we have Newsround which is, basically, news for kids. It does report most of the main events in the world (although there is more emphasis on "stuff for kids", like Harry Potter premieres, sports personalities etc) in a way that kids can understand. The main thing that differs is that there's a lot more background on the stories, e.g. they'll explain some of the history of Israel/Palestine if they're reporting on that, while if you're watching the main news, you're expected to know most of that already.
My thoughts exactly, as a BIOS manufacturer isn't in the same arena as a browser.
However, should Phoenix (BIOS) wish to pursue this through the courts, Phoenix (browser) wouldn't be in a good position to defend itself. Sometimes it's easier to "roll over" and just change names.
It's an interesting method; if an OEM can't sell a linux PC, they sell a Windows machine with an option to swap out the hard drive for a linux image.
The problem is that the MS tax is still levied, so the linux option would still be more expensive, unless you can justify it through lower support costs.
Well, the telescope has been built for other stuff, and to be honest, they're probably going to use this as a test to see how good it is. In short, even if there weren't any moon-landing doubters, there would still be value in doing this.
Try a company like Freeserve. You can register online (i.e. before you get here) and use that to connect. You'll get charged for the price of a local call (1p/minute at weekends) to dial up, but otherwise it's free. You get a website/email account, but you'll probably want to use a webmail account or something for the short time you'll be here.
Time to find out if their disaster recovery procedures work... There'll be a heck of a lot of running around trying to get some kind of infrastructure back in place now, I'd imagine.
Versions have been from 2.6 to 8; haven't tried it in 9 yet.
Not screen/keyboard, IIRC
1, s & S are equivalents. I've either started it as reboot -- -s from the OS or boot -s from the OK prompt.
In default config, Solaris never starts openwindows. It does start dtlogin at run level 2. If it's starting any GUI at run level 1 (i.e. single user mode), it because you've changed something in the Solaris config or there's something in the.profile file.
Huh?? What makes you think that Solaris does? I've booted loads of workstations/servers into single user mode for maintenance and I've never seen it start up a GUI for it.
As others have pointed out, most other Unices don't come with a C compiler either, but I will allow the fact that it's strange to have/etc/vfstab instead of/etc/fstab. Then again, Solaris isn't unique in having certain files with different names in different places.
It's a fair point; I don't want a pile of files cluttering my desktop!
What should happen is:
User creates a new document
Software saves a copy of it to disk in a temp folder
Software saves updates periodically to this file
Now, if the user exits, it will ask if he wants to save; if he does, it saves to the specified location & deletes the temp file. If he doesn't, it deletes the temp file.
If the software/computer crashes, on the next startup, it prompts the user that it has a file stored; would you like to open it? Options are open, leave or delete.
Some of these options are already available in other software; vi will store its buffers if it's killed off, and Word (and other word processors) have autosave. It's not rocket science to implement the missing features.
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An alternative definition is "A mainframe computer that is among the largest, fastest, or most powerful of those available at a given time"
Again, the word "mainframe", which I don't believe covers any cluster solution, even if it's built with 10,000 3GHz P3s. That would, however, be a very powerful compute pool, but not a mainframe.
Of course, you could argue whether that dictionary definition is now wrong and whether the definition of supercomputer should include these clusters; Dictionaries reflect the language of the time, they don't define it.
This came as quite a shock to the Red Indians who had thought it was there all along.
(feel free to substitute Australia/Aboriginies)
As an aside, anyone else find it mildly ironic that the problematic file in question is called "overflow.cgi"?
Seen that policy; we use it at work with our online bidding system. Basically, we ask companies to bid to provide a service or supply something and they "bid down" to lower prices. If there's a bid in the last 5 minutes, it gets extended by 5 minutes (potentially indefinately). Bear in mind this is for auctions normally lasting 30 minutes.
Another view: if MS buys Borland, how long do you think those products would last?
If this is true, they've obviously decided to really flip the bird to the courts...
I'm hoping Gateway are smart enough to consider that...
The problem is, I don't know how much of OpenBSD's kernel really relies on the assumption that it'll only ever run on one CPU and it may take some time before OpenBSD becomes as stable and secure as it needs to be.
OpenBSD is designed for an "edge server" environment, where scalability isn't as important as security.
Toys "R" Us sells toys, so Kids "R" Us would sell...
I guess we're kinda spoiled in the UK, as we have Newsround which is, basically, news for kids. It does report most of the main events in the world (although there is more emphasis on "stuff for kids", like Harry Potter premieres, sports personalities etc) in a way that kids can understand. The main thing that differs is that there's a lot more background on the stories, e.g. they'll explain some of the history of Israel/Palestine if they're reporting on that, while if you're watching the main news, you're expected to know most of that already.
Er, how many systems does NetBSD not run on?
Damn, I need to start reading some Heinlein!
However, should Phoenix (BIOS) wish to pursue this through the courts, Phoenix (browser) wouldn't be in a good position to defend itself. Sometimes it's easier to "roll over" and just change names.
The problem is that the MS tax is still levied, so the linux option would still be more expensive, unless you can justify it through lower support costs.
Well, the telescope has been built for other stuff, and to be honest, they're probably going to use this as a test to see how good it is. In short, even if there weren't any moon-landing doubters, there would still be value in doing this.
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Another web site gets killed by /.
Try a company like Freeserve. You can register online (i.e. before you get here) and use that to connect. You'll get charged for the price of a local call (1p/minute at weekends) to dial up, but otherwise it's free. You get a website/email account, but you'll probably want to use a webmail account or something for the short time you'll be here.
You say that like it's a bad thing...
Time to find out if their disaster recovery procedures work... There'll be a heck of a lot of running around trying to get some kind of infrastructure back in place now, I'd imagine.
That's what iSCSI is for.
- Versions have been from 2.6 to 8; haven't tried it in 9 yet.
- Not screen/keyboard, IIRC
- 1, s & S are equivalents. I've either started it as reboot -- -s from the OS or boot -s from the OK prompt.
In default config, Solaris never starts openwindows. It does start dtlogin at run level 2. If it's starting any GUI at run level 1 (i.e. single user mode), it because you've changed something in the Solaris config or there's something in theAs others have pointed out, most other Unices don't come with a C compiler either, but I will allow the fact that it's strange to have /etc/vfstab instead of /etc/fstab. Then again, Solaris isn't unique in having certain files with different names in different places.
What should happen is:
- User creates a new document
- Software saves a copy of it to disk in a temp folder
- Software saves updates periodically to this file
Now, if the user exits, it will ask if he wants to save; if he does, it saves to the specified location & deletes the temp file. If he doesn't, it deletes the temp file.If the software/computer crashes, on the next startup, it prompts the user that it has a file stored; would you like to open it? Options are open, leave or delete.
Some of these options are already available in other software; vi will store its buffers if it's killed off, and Word (and other word processors) have autosave. It's not rocket science to implement the missing features.