OK the math was wrong but my point remains - if the typical "abuse" is that someone looks up or can look up my personal details, I wouldn't mind at all provided the system increases security a bit. The low likelihood of possible abuse (1:30K or whatever) was a secondary point. (By the way, I don't know why the information mentioned - address, names of neighbors, etc. - are considered private anyway?)
As for the quote - yes, there's waste and abuse in each and every department and government office. Therefore I think that efforts against it should be directed at all departments and the government in general, not at single organization.
Compatibility: you're missing the point - no (serious) enterprise will want to use I'm not going to run Oracle 9i RAC at home and a company that can afford Oracle license won't want to use un-approved HA software with it (or for that matter, won't want to run 9i RAC on Debian or Fedora). Just because daemons can start and stay alive it doesn't mean it's compatible.
Lineox: yes, I know, Lineox is built from RH 's Enterprise SRPMS. Same as above - if you spend 100K on Oracle licence, will you try to save 10K on Red Hat software? It is possible but not practical.
For all practical purposes one hour support and paid-for GFS are mandatory. What you said is correct, it's just that my viewpoint is different.
Big deal - someone looks up my residence or phone number - so what? If that's the price we have to pay for just marginally better security, so be it!
Another thing - if they have records on 98% of the U.S. population and if there's 10,000 abuses a year, that means each person has about 3,000,000,000/10,000 = one in 300K chance to get "abused". So fscking what?
Noone said it's got anything to do with F/OSS community - it's just a _better_ spreadsheet for Linux.
> weakened userbase of Gnumeric, which was and is a better and more compatible app. I don't see you whining about that.
As far as most practical users are concerned, who gives a damn. Sure it'd be great if Linux had a perfectly compatible and "free" Office application but it doesn't (yet).
Why is it that "yet another" syndrom is always welcome when the other app is F/OSS and trashed when the other app is not free? Those folks make good Linux software and customers who recognize that value and want to pay for it have every goddamn right to do so.
> When they started playing ads in theatres, they lost their right to complain about piracy. So I say screw 'em.
You can say whatever you want - the point is that ads actually lower the price of admission.
You don't have to go to the movies or can be late to skip the ads. And of course you can deliver on your pledges that don't do no damage to movie theaters at all - at least I have never gone to a movie threater because a DVD or AVI wasn't available but because I wanted to see the movies on the big screen.
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Francis Bacon wrote on this subject quite some time ago (the thing about Portugal focusing on wine exports, comparative advantages et cetera)
>Paying licensing fees to an American company means that this money is *leaving* your economy, and that there is no current expectation that it will come back
Buying US software also means American consumers will be able to buy more oil-guzzling SUVs, so if the Iraqies can fix their oil industry in the meantime, they will see their monies come back a runnin'!
This may not be correct, but it's a possibility just like your idea and both should be considered if the best approach is to be found.
"High frequency currents can travel through the human body without danger, and they were believed to have relieving and tonic influences. Although electrotherapy is not so popular in present medicine, similar techniques find several implementations even today. "
In absolute terms it does but in relative terms it does not (the equivalent of lining up several times in short queues vs. one time in a long queue - when duration of both sides is the same).
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>How difficult would it be to start a successful Free Software business in Iraq?
What do you think? It's already difficult enough in the U.S.
(Not to mention that they can't run their computers 'cause there's no electricity.)
>Less money spent on Microsoft software, and more spent on local services means more money in the economy which translates into a better ability to tackle these other problems.
Well, that's your assumption - provided that the amount of work required to provide those services is more cost effective than buying commercial software and investing time in doing something more profitable (such as fixing oil pipelines or catching the remaining Saddam's lunatics)
They can charge for that (and people can pay for whatever they want) but Yahoo has every right to disallow non-Yahoo clients from connecting to their private* network.
When that happens, Trillian has no power to complain - had they had the guts, they could instead have returned the money to their customers since the software did not/does not work as advertised... If they claimed to have a feature over availability of which they had no control, they knew (or should have known) that they misled the paying customers.
* I think that this, though, has been a subject of debate - whether IM networks are public or private, that is
We are storry to inform you that becuase our Xstor RAID isn't scalable enough and its RAID cannot be rebuilt online, we are currently unable to provide any extra space to our faithful customers.
Please wait until the new and more powerful version of Xstor RAID is released and check back again!
Well nobody said Gmail will stay free forever - I believe you do remember when Yahoo and Hotmail were free with no practical limitations (one wouldn't need a big mailbox because it was hard to send and download big files via 14.4 modem..).
Why would someone want to use Hotmail or other paid-for email service? Simply because they want an address that won't get screwed up - of course it's impossible to tell with certainty, but if I want an email address that won't disappear, I do want to pay the provider because if nobody pays, one day they'll go under. If ad clicks in Gmail and other tricks don't do it, do you think Gmail will continue forever?
In other words, $20 bucks (or whatever) a year is a reasonable insurance fee (as I said, it's impossible to get a 100% guarantee, but still) and proper contribution to the folks who work at the provider and need to get paid. I don't _want_ to use my Gmail address in resumes or for correspondence with people I plan to stay in touch with in 10 years time.
:-) Maybe couple more racks for the networking and storage stuff.
Yeah, that's a lot of servers. I forgot to mention the power consumption (blades are savers, of course) and MTBF (don't know the exact figures but in such large clusters they probably have couple of failed servers every day - their identification, disposal, installing a replacement, then re-provisioning is quite labor-intensive).
> I suggest you actually READ the patent. they are trying to patent data transfer (PAN) and power transfer.
Their technique is different from other/previous inventions because the powered device can transmit and use power/data without actually having its own power source. Therefore they're not trying to patent PAN.
Quote: Because the devices of the present invention are networked, they can be recharged and powered by other devices on the network.
IBM's and others' PAN devices all have their own power source (at least News.com reported that IBM's device had the size of stack of cards).
when they can act as one system they become a cluster. when ur compute task can run on it as on single system u can call it a supercomputer. these divisions are quite arbitrary, of course. c http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/multipro cessing
white boxes aren't any cheaper - they take up expensive server room space. and with the current technology white boxes require dramatically more complicated cabling and hence their setup is more expensive (labor intesive), maintenance as well.
due to limited expansion space blades aren't as suitable for beefed up cluster nodes as 1u servers are.
my take on the whole apple hpc thing is that it's very hyped up. just like their xserve raid which is pathetic but people think it's a revolutionary new SAN - you pay little and yet you get EMC quality SAN.. yeah right.
ibm could cause intel big troubles with their powerpc blades though... amd is currently hot but let's see how intel will do with the new 64/32 processor..
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Athlon is definitively a dangerous weapon - it can cause 3rd degree skin burns
The stupidest comment of the day. Congrats!
What'd you do that for?
>Anybody know what the search engine spider calls itself.
Look at your Web server log (if you know what I'm talking about)
OK the math was wrong but my point remains - if the typical "abuse" is that someone looks up or can look up my personal details, I wouldn't mind at all provided the system increases security a bit.
The low likelihood of possible abuse (1:30K or whatever) was a secondary point.
(By the way, I don't know why the information mentioned - address, names of neighbors, etc. - are considered private anyway?)
As for the quote - yes, there's waste and abuse in each and every department and government office. Therefore I think that efforts against it should be directed at all departments and the government in general, not at single organization.
Pedophiles do
(just to make sure this is a JOKE)
Compatibility: you're missing the point - no (serious) enterprise will want to use
I'm not going to run Oracle 9i RAC at home and a company that can afford Oracle license won't want to use un-approved HA software with it (or for that matter, won't want to run 9i RAC on Debian or Fedora).
Just because daemons can start and stay alive it doesn't mean it's compatible.
Lineox: yes, I know, Lineox is built from RH 's Enterprise SRPMS. Same as above - if you spend 100K on Oracle licence, will you try to save 10K on Red Hat software? It is possible but not practical.
For all practical purposes one hour support and paid-for GFS are mandatory.
What you said is correct, it's just that my viewpoint is different.
Big deal - someone looks up my residence or phone number - so what?
If that's the price we have to pay for just marginally better security, so be it!
Another thing - if they have records on 98% of the U.S. population and if there's 10,000 abuses a year, that means each person has about 3,000,000,000/10,000 = one in 300K chance to get "abused". So fscking what?
> To achieve this performance, the new file system will leverage Lustre,
Leverage.... Lustre _is_ a file system.
Why don't they say it like it is:
"To achieve needed performance and scalability, SGI won't be using its own cluster file system but Lustre."
1000 nodes?
I don't think either GFS or GPFS are scalable to that many nodes.
I don't think so.
Red Hat's HA clustering software is also GPL but it doesn't run on other distros (and is not supported by Red Hat on other distros).
The code itself is open source, that is true, but "Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription [is] required" (http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/gfs/)
Noone said it's got anything to do with F/OSS community - it's just a _better_ spreadsheet for Linux.
> weakened userbase of Gnumeric, which was and is a better and more compatible app. I don't see you whining about that.
As far as most practical users are concerned, who gives a damn.
Sure it'd be great if Linux had a perfectly compatible and "free" Office application but it doesn't (yet).
Why is it that "yet another" syndrom is always welcome when the other app is F/OSS and trashed when the other app is not free?
Those folks make good Linux software and customers who recognize that value and want to pay for it have every goddamn right to do so.
> When they started playing ads in theatres, they lost their right to complain about piracy. So I say screw 'em.
You can say whatever you want - the point is that ads actually lower the price of admission.
You don't have to go to the movies or can be late to skip the ads. And of course you can deliver on your pledges that don't do no damage to movie theaters at all - at least I have never gone to a movie threater because a DVD or AVI wasn't available but because I wanted to see the movies on the big screen.
Francis Bacon wrote on this subject quite some time ago (the thing about Portugal focusing on wine exports, comparative advantages et cetera)
>Paying licensing fees to an American company means that this money is *leaving* your economy, and that there is no current expectation that it will come back
Buying US software also means American consumers will be able to buy more oil-guzzling SUVs, so if the Iraqies can fix their oil industry in the meantime, they will see their monies come back a runnin'!
This may not be correct, but it's a possibility just like your idea and both should be considered if the best approach is to be found.
I'm no engineer but here's a quote:
"High frequency currents can travel through the human body without danger, and they were believed to have relieving and tonic influences. Although electrotherapy is not so popular in present medicine, similar techniques find several implementations even today. "
http://www.mercury.gr/tesla/transen.html
In absolute terms it does but in relative terms it does not (the equivalent of lining up several times in short queues vs. one time in a long queue - when duration of both sides is the same).
>How difficult would it be to start a successful Free Software business in Iraq?
What do you think?
It's already difficult enough in the U.S.
(Not to mention that they can't run their computers 'cause there's no electricity.)
>Less money spent on Microsoft software, and more spent on local services means more money in the economy which translates into a better ability to tackle these other problems.
Well, that's your assumption - provided that the amount of work required to provide those services is more cost effective than buying commercial software and investing time in doing something more profitable (such as fixing oil pipelines or catching the remaining Saddam's lunatics)
They can charge for that (and people can pay for whatever they want) but Yahoo has every right to disallow non-Yahoo clients from connecting to their private* network.
When that happens, Trillian has no power to complain - had they had the guts, they could instead have returned the money to their customers since the software did not/does not work as advertised... If they claimed to have a feature over availability of which they had no control, they knew (or should have known) that they misled the paying customers.
* I think that this, though, has been a subject of debate - whether IM networks are public or private, that is
Exactly - what's the point if you have to re-check it anway?
That is the main reason I don't use any spam filters.
Without a filter I can check emails as they come rather than create myself a "homework" of having to check 50 messages at once...
Dear Customer
We are storry to inform you that becuase our Xstor RAID isn't scalable enough and its RAID cannot be rebuilt online, we are currently unable to provide any extra space to our faithful customers.
Please wait until the new and more powerful version of Xstor RAID is released and check back again!
Sincerely,
Apple Customer Service
New Delhi
Well nobody said Gmail will stay free forever - I believe you do remember when Yahoo and Hotmail were free with no practical limitations (one wouldn't need a big mailbox because it was hard to send and download big files via 14.4 modem..).
Why would someone want to use Hotmail or other paid-for email service?
Simply because they want an address that won't get screwed up - of course it's impossible to tell with certainty, but if I want an email address that won't disappear, I do want to pay the provider because if nobody pays, one day they'll go under.
If ad clicks in Gmail and other tricks don't do it, do you think Gmail will continue forever?
In other words, $20 bucks (or whatever) a year is a reasonable insurance fee (as I said, it's impossible to get a 100% guarantee, but still) and proper contribution to the folks who work at the provider and need to get paid.
I don't _want_ to use my Gmail address in resumes or for correspondence with people I plan to stay in touch with in 10 years time.
:-)
Maybe couple more racks for the networking and storage stuff.
Yeah, that's a lot of servers. I forgot to mention the power consumption (blades are savers, of course) and MTBF (don't know the exact figures but in such large clusters they probably have couple of failed servers every day - their identification, disposal, installing a replacement, then re-provisioning is quite labor-intensive).
> I suggest you actually READ the patent. they are trying to patent data transfer (PAN) and power transfer.
Their technique is different from other/previous inventions because the powered device can transmit and use power/data without actually having its own power source. Therefore they're not trying to patent PAN.
Quote: Because the devices of the present invention are networked, they can be recharged and powered by other devices on the network.
IBM's and others' PAN devices all have their own power source (at least News.com reported that IBM's device had the size of stack of cards).
a commercial alternative with support:
http://www.lineox.com/lel3.php - 20 Euro for WS, ES, AS on a DVD
or free ones:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/centos/
and
http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/
when they can act as one system they become a cluster. when ur compute task can run on it as on single system u can call it a supercomputer.o cessing
these divisions are quite arbitrary, of course.
c http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/multipr
white boxes aren't any cheaper - they take up expensive server room space. and with the current technology white boxes require dramatically more complicated cabling and hence their setup is more expensive (labor intesive), maintenance as well.
and dont forget the IDE hard disk...
due to limited expansion space blades aren't as suitable for beefed up cluster nodes as 1u servers are.
my take on the whole apple hpc thing is that it's very hyped up. just like their xserve raid which is pathetic but people think it's a revolutionary new SAN - you pay little and yet you get EMC quality SAN.. yeah right.
ibm could cause intel big troubles with their powerpc blades though... amd is currently hot but let's see how intel will do with the new 64/32 processor..