This sort of thing happens a lot. The company will actually have the licenses for that particular software (and version of) however, company politics and red tape make it time consuming for a user to get a copy of that software during the time frame needed to complete the project. In the end, the resourceful employee grabs a warezed copy of the software.
The company STILL has a license for the software (unless all licenses are in use) and there are no problems. A company that I worked for had a real methodic scheme for documenting all software licenses and it could take upwards of two weeks for requested software to be installed on a computer as we made sure there are available licenses.
Simple answer: No. This is commonly used for allocated scratch space in cluster environments e.g. beowulf. We use it to reduce the reads and writes that usually bring an NFS system to its knees. It would not help Bittorrent.
It's a parallel file system, not a drop in replacement for local FS's like XFS or ext3. It runs across multiple hosts, striping the data on each host. Also, haveing multiple I/O hosts in the array helps to distribute the read/write across multiple nodes, thus reducing the overhead for those operations.
This is like "Distributed NFS" although that description does it a huge injustice, it should help to get the point across.
PVFS (in its first incarnation) despite some instability (more so due to the fact that our first cluster was COTS cheap-o hardware), really helped drive down the load on our clusters by removing the need to perform NFS writes to a single head node for scratch space. The set up is extrememly simple and the code base was really small.
I plan on evaluating PVFS2 for our new clusters along with Lustre and GFS although I have heard nothing about the latter two operating over the MPI-ROMIO subsystem (which would definitely offer a performance increase).
Well, since you _can't_ enter anyway, how would you do it? Yeah, it sounds like a simple problem (and IBM themselves already released a spec for "parallelizing" your start up sequence), BUT I highly doubt that without a solid background in at least some upper level C.S. theory (e.g. algorithms, data structures, something) that you could do any better than the college applicants (granted, I've met some college students that were, um, lacking).
I've implemented this before on my Dell laptop while maintaining backward compat. with the admin tools like chkconfig and service by rewriting the rc.sysinit and other files (this was a while ago) to skip all the software raid config (most of it is skipped via 'if' statements, but who has software raid on a laptop???) and loads drivers more efficiently (in parallel while non dependent services are also starting). Dependent services are scheduled accordingly and started in parallel if possible. I cut my boot time from 19 sec (i was pretty stripped down service-wise to begin with) to a measly 9 sec (from BIOS to GDM login).
Even all THIS work is probably not exactly what Big Blue had in mind. They are probably looking for something even lower-level (though I could be wrong).
A completely assinine argument, if I may be so bold. We can easily recreate that particular experiment by having you sit down and eat breakfast today, documenting it, and proving it one year from now. Its the same thing as that idiot that asked how you prove that everything wasn't created five minutes ago and that we all just have memories of the perceived past.
We had no need 1 year ago to document or experiment with your breakfast eating habits, but now that you've posed the question, recreating that experiment is easy.
You may think that these statements are logical, but they are not. They are rooted in rhetoric and are created, usually, by people that have smoked copious amounts of pot. It is safe to assume that the earth and the universe were not created 5 minutes ago, but a long time ago due to overwhelming scientific evidence.
If your statements are logical, then is the following statement logical as well: "If God is all powerful, can he create a rock so massive that even he can't lift it? See its a paradox so God CAN'T exist." These statements are purely irrational and have no place in the realm of scientific reason.
I didn't really fall for a troll, I was thrown off by your sig. One person might read it and find it humorous while another reads it and finds you to be a moron. Such is life. What _wasn't_ a troll was the fact that you misspelled the word which was my actual initial reason for causing this whole mess to begin with. Obviously, this was not intentional as you went and corrected the spelling later.
I'm also pretty well aware of libertarian Ideologies. They say some things that I agree with and then they say that markets should dictate certain things and corporations should dictate certain things and I become a little disappointed that they are really just the "Corporate" party. The American Libertarian is a member of the Business Party. Libertarian Ideology is not in line with this as Corporate control is not in line with Personal Freedom.
There is a big difference between the Libertarian Party (e.g. Michael Badnarik) and Libertarian Ideology (e.g. Dalai Llama, Ghandi, etc).
No. Because your signature conveys such a profound sense of naivete
and absurdity that I can only hope you were joking when you said what you said. John Kerry is no libertarian. Libertarians are far-right wingers (isolationism, pro-gun, privatization, etc) that make Bush look like a liberal. That and the fact that you misspelled libertarian, indicated to me, a level of political awareness more in line with a "My daddy said this so I'm voting for Bush" voter than your typical slashdotter thus reminding me of my personal desire for politically uneducated individuals to be barred from access to the ballot (In a comical sense).
Dude, that's insane. You'd have to build a ram stick with more mass than the entire universe to exhaust the memory addressing capability of a 256 bit chip.
I absolutely believe that an analytical background esp. in C.S., Mathematics, or Physics will aid any potential poker player.
I recently started playing (C.S. background) and noticed that it was very easy to get into the game. It's not just analyzing statistics e.g. odd of the next flop being in my favor, etc. but analyzing your opponents.
The math aspect of probabilities has defintely helped in terms of knowing when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em although you sometimes just have to chance it.
Quoting Lars T. from earlier, Regarding "And we don't emit as much in a year as a good size active volcano can do in a week. But we do emit enough to cause CO2 levels to rise."
"Scientists have calculated that volcanoes emit between about 130-230 million tonnes (145-255 million tons) of CO2 into the atmosphere every year (Gerlach, 1999, 1992). This estimate includes both subaerial and submarine volcanoes, about in equal amounts. Emissions of CO2 by human activities, including fossil fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring, amount to about 22 billion tonnes per year (24 billion tons). Human activities release more than 150 times the amount of CO2 emitted by volcanoes--the equivalent of nearly 17,000 additional volcanoes like Kilauea (Kilauea emits about 13.2 million tonnes/year)!"
Please don't make this so personal. I do not enjoy the attacks. And I am sure that you wouldn't either. Lets be gentlemen about our disagreements.
Finally, I agree with you. I apologize for being brash, but I do feel strongly about this issue. Let me make it clear as well, that I am not equating America's patriots to terrorists. It may have came across that way, but it was not my intended meaning. The Palestinians also face a mighty military in Israel that they have no chance of overcoming. Different situation, yes. Does it justify suicide bombing, no. Can we come to an understanding as to why they plan suicide attacks, maybe in time.
I enjoyed this debate actually. I'm sorry if I came off a little rough, but such is life. Some people are fairly passionate about certain things and get a little heated during debate.
Maybe it IS ok to kill people as long as you are misunderstood or have a good reason.
Well, the Colonial rebels of 18th century America resorted to guerilla tactics to help defeat the British by destroying supply lines and incoming ships. This amounted to "terrorism" back then. Would you look back on the founding fathers as bad people because they spilled blood to win freedom?
I'm not saying that what the palestinians are doing is right, but what I am saying is that what Israel is doing is wrong also.
If the Palestinians want to retake their land, they should organize an army and have a war.
Brilliant idea! God, why has no one else thought of this? You'd think that in 50 years, someone would have thought of this! I'm not even going to get into the naivety of this statement.
Now, its completely obvious you have not a clue! The palestinians technically do not have a government as one would define it that they can use to negotiate with the Israelis. They aren't even an official country. The land that once belonged to those people ~50 years ago was given to the Jewish people after the Holocaust by the U.N. They were "given" the land by the British who occupied it prior to the creation of the U.N. When the Jews immigrated from Europe, it displaced a lot of those palestinians. They wanted to establish their own state but there were disputes regarding the borders and therefore, statehood never came to fruition. Technically, they have lived under Israeli rule for many years now.
When you've been trying to no avail for over 50 years to negotiate with a government that couldn't care less about your situation and has acted almost apartheid-like towards your people, with the cooperation of very powerful forces (namely the U.S.), people often see only one solution: take as many of em down with me as I can.
You have to have an open mind and not summarily rule people as "evil" or "crazy". Neither of us has any clue what it is like to be a Palestinian. Nor do we have any right to judge those people based on actions caused by events we aren't even aware of. You can continue to live in a bubble and point the finger at Islam or "crazy" Palestinians or hold a totally different situation up to the same level as your neighborly dispute but the truth is that the situation has a lot more variables in it that you are aware.
Let me ask you something: If your neighbor came over to your house, butchered your wife, your children, bulldozed your home, and then had the nerve to construct an add-on to his house on your property, you'd probably want to drive a semi through his, regardless of who or what was inside. There is your simple neighborly dispute with a Palestinian/Israeli twist.
All you anti Israel anti-semites need to get a grip!
Being against the policies of Israel does not make one an anti-semite nor anti-Israel, but simply being against the policies of Israel.
It is very obvious, that from your statement, you have very little, if any, understanding of the situation that has been going on there for the past 50 years. Everyone likes to pin the blame on the "rags" or the "towel heads" but God fucking forbid you question the "chosen people" and their actions.
Like any logical person, you should question the motives of both sides. Why do the palestinians send suicide bombers to kill people? Why do they throw rocks and bottles at Israeli tanks? What is driving them? Then ask yourself why the Israelis are bulldozing homes, indiscriminantly shooting at unarmed civilians and journalists, and building a brick wall, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the end of the cold war. Then, ask yourself why and how Israel was put in the Middle East in the first place. They drove an entire population out of their homeland and continue to spread like a plague with their settlements dotting the surrounding areas due to deregulation by the Israeli government.
There is nothing wrong with defending your own country.
Although this is correct, the context is such that they aren't defending their country, they are defending the expansion of their country. There is a big difference. One is patriotism and self-preservation whereas the other is imperialist bullying.
The Bush administration has been gunning for Iraq since before they were elected. Proof of this exists here in their mission statement dated 1997.
You speak of resolutions, but what about the ~60 resolutions that Israel has violated during the past 50 years? Quite the double standard, don't you think?
The truth is, we have found no weapons. The one or two that we have found were 14 year old batches of Sarin, which has a shelf-life of maybe 2 or 3 years (pre-gulf war 1). We have pissed a lot of people off. We have created more terrorists instead of less and our allies would rather brandish their middle finger than lend us a helping hand.
Asside from the number of dead bodies we've either had to bury or fly back home in pine boxes, I'd still say we did a pretty shitty job. You tell us to "get the facts straight" and that "Saddam failed to comply with any of the resolutions". The fact that not a single WMD nor tangible program to develop them has been discovered tells me that you need to get your facts straight.
I'm sure there are probably plenty of trollish or insightful statements regarding the language and its features, so i'm going for simple: It can use GTK2 themes and has Anti-Aliased fonts for Swing apps! Limewire looks like a gnome application now (not too mention it runs almost as quickly as one). This is what we need, cross-platform bytecode and cross-platform interfaces to common widget sets. Rock on!
As much as I like and respect Linus and his decisions, it seems the kernel has become an "entity" of sorts. Times are changing and certain problems will arise when one uses time-honored policies instead of progressive thinking (not to say Linus is not a progressive thinker, on the contrary...)
A fork, based on a recent stable release, that is kept current by applying patches and fixes while preserving the existing driver ABI. Redhat does this when it back-ports features from newer kernels into its production kernels. Basically, let Linus and co. write the bleeding-edge kernels while said fork makes catastrophic changes to the driver ABI every two years or so instead of every three weeks.
I may be wrong in my thinking, but a fork wouldn't hurt anything in my opinion. This wouldn't be a fork due to policy decisions e.g. FreeBSD + OpenBSD or XFree86 + Xorg, but a fork of necessity to provide hardware manufacturers a stable interface for supporting linux, therefore allowing them to focus more on improving their drivers' performance than on keeping up with each kernel release. Then, they can release binary drivers and rest assured that they will work for some period of time.
Your average Joe Six Pack has likely never heard the term 'x86' therefore hearing 'x64' would probably result in little confusion as far as marketing goes. Your average systems administrator likely has heard both terms and would know the difference anyway. I think x64 has a nice ring to it myself. It sounds like an experimental aircraft project.
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Daft... very, very daft. I would explain, but I hate feeding the trolls.
This sort of thing happens a lot. The company will actually have the licenses for that particular software (and version of) however, company politics and red tape make it time consuming for a user to get a copy of that software during the time frame needed to complete the project. In the end, the resourceful employee grabs a warezed copy of the software.
The company STILL has a license for the software (unless all licenses are in use) and there are no problems. A company that I worked for had a real methodic scheme for documenting all software licenses and it could take upwards of two weeks for requested software to be installed on a computer as we made sure there are available licenses.
Simple answer: No. This is commonly used for allocated scratch space in cluster environments e.g. beowulf. We use it to reduce the reads and writes that usually bring an NFS system to its knees. It would not help Bittorrent.
It's a parallel file system, not a drop in replacement for local FS's like XFS or ext3. It runs across multiple hosts, striping the data on each host. Also, haveing multiple I/O hosts in the array helps to distribute the read/write across multiple nodes, thus reducing the overhead for those operations.
This is like "Distributed NFS" although that description does it a huge injustice, it should help to get the point across.
PVFS (in its first incarnation) despite some instability (more so due to the fact that our first cluster was COTS cheap-o hardware), really helped drive down the load on our clusters by removing the need to perform NFS writes to a single head node for scratch space. The set up is extrememly simple and the code base was really small.
I plan on evaluating PVFS2 for our new clusters along with Lustre and GFS although I have heard nothing about the latter two operating over the MPI-ROMIO subsystem (which would definitely offer a performance increase).
Well, since you _can't_ enter anyway, how would you do it? Yeah, it sounds like a simple problem (and IBM themselves already released a spec for "parallelizing" your start up sequence), BUT I highly doubt that without a solid background in at least some upper level C.S. theory (e.g. algorithms, data structures, something) that you could do any better than the college applicants (granted, I've met some college students that were, um, lacking).
I've implemented this before on my Dell laptop while maintaining backward compat. with the admin tools like chkconfig and service by rewriting the rc.sysinit and other files (this was a while ago) to skip all the software raid config (most of it is skipped via 'if' statements, but who has software raid on a laptop???) and loads drivers more efficiently (in parallel while non dependent services are also starting). Dependent services are scheduled accordingly and started in parallel if possible. I cut my boot time from 19 sec (i was pretty stripped down service-wise to begin with) to a measly 9 sec (from BIOS to GDM login).
Even all THIS work is probably not exactly what Big Blue had in mind. They are probably looking for something even lower-level (though I could be wrong).
By race. You assume if they aren't white suburbia, they are foreign nationals or something and card them. Sounds very, um, democratic, eh?
Prove what I ate for breakfast today last year.
A completely assinine argument, if I may be so bold. We can easily recreate that particular experiment by having you sit down and eat breakfast today, documenting it, and proving it one year from now. Its the same thing as that idiot that asked how you prove that everything wasn't created five minutes ago and that we all just have memories of the perceived past.
We had no need 1 year ago to document or experiment with your breakfast eating habits, but now that you've posed the question, recreating that experiment is easy.
You may think that these statements are logical, but they are not. They are rooted in rhetoric and are created, usually, by people that have smoked copious amounts of pot. It is safe to assume that the earth and the universe were not created 5 minutes ago, but a long time ago due to overwhelming scientific evidence.
If your statements are logical, then is the following statement logical as well: "If God is all powerful, can he create a rock so massive that even he can't lift it? See its a paradox so God CAN'T exist." These statements are purely irrational and have no place in the realm of scientific reason.
Looking back on this thread, I'm quite amused at how far it went. Well done on the sig, for it has served its purpose.
I didn't really fall for a troll, I was thrown off by your sig. One person might read it and find it humorous while another reads it and finds you to be a moron. Such is life. What _wasn't_ a troll was the fact that you misspelled the word which was my actual initial reason for causing this whole mess to begin with. Obviously, this was not intentional as you went and corrected the spelling later.
I'm also pretty well aware of libertarian Ideologies. They say some things that I agree with and then they say that markets should dictate certain things and corporations should dictate certain things and I become a little disappointed that they are really just the "Corporate" party. The American Libertarian is a member of the Business Party. Libertarian Ideology is not in line with this as Corporate control is not in line with Personal Freedom.
There is a big difference between the Libertarian Party (e.g. Michael Badnarik) and Libertarian Ideology (e.g. Dalai Llama, Ghandi, etc).
>> God I hope you aren't voting.
> Why? Because you disagree with me?
No. Because your signature conveys such a profound sense of naivete and absurdity that I can only hope you were joking when you said what you said. John Kerry is no libertarian. Libertarians are far-right wingers (isolationism, pro-gun, privatization, etc) that make Bush look like a liberal. That and the fact that you misspelled libertarian, indicated to me, a level of political awareness more in line with a "My daddy said this so I'm voting for Bush" voter than your typical slashdotter thus reminding me of my personal desire for politically uneducated individuals to be barred from access to the ballot (In a comical sense).
Vote for a Man, Vote for Bush!
Not a liberatarian flipflop hippie.
I'm sorry, but you've no idea how ridiculous you sound. God I hope you aren't voting.
P.S. Its libertarian, not liberatarian.
Dude, that's insane. You'd have to build a ram stick with more mass than the entire universe to exhaust the memory addressing capability of a 256 bit chip.
All i can say is "Whoa".
I absolutely believe that an analytical background esp. in C.S., Mathematics, or Physics will aid any potential poker player.
I recently started playing (C.S. background) and noticed that it was very easy to get into the game. It's not just analyzing statistics e.g. odd of the next flop being in my favor, etc. but analyzing your opponents.
The math aspect of probabilities has defintely helped in terms of knowing when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em although you sometimes just have to chance it.
In sum, being a C.S. guy definitely helps.
Hope this helps.
Please don't make this so personal. I do not enjoy the attacks. And I am sure that you wouldn't either. Lets be gentlemen about our disagreements.
Finally, I agree with you. I apologize for being brash, but I do feel strongly about this issue. Let me make it clear as well, that I am not equating America's patriots to terrorists. It may have came across that way, but it was not my intended meaning. The Palestinians also face a mighty military in Israel that they have no chance of overcoming. Different situation, yes. Does it justify suicide bombing, no. Can we come to an understanding as to why they plan suicide attacks, maybe in time.
I enjoyed this debate actually. I'm sorry if I came off a little rough, but such is life. Some people are fairly passionate about certain things and get a little heated during debate.
Maybe it IS ok to kill people as long as you are misunderstood or have a good reason.
Well, the Colonial rebels of 18th century America resorted to guerilla tactics to help defeat the British by destroying supply lines and incoming ships. This amounted to "terrorism" back then. Would you look back on the founding fathers as bad people because they spilled blood to win freedom?
I'm not saying that what the palestinians are doing is right, but what I am saying is that what Israel is doing is wrong also.
If the Palestinians want to retake their land, they should organize an army and have a war.
Brilliant idea! God, why has no one else thought of this? You'd think that in 50 years, someone would have thought of this! I'm not even going to get into the naivety of this statement.
I'm done with you.
Now, its completely obvious you have not a clue! The palestinians technically do not have a government as one would define it that they can use to negotiate with the Israelis. They aren't even an official country. The land that once belonged to those people ~50 years ago was given to the Jewish people after the Holocaust by the U.N. They were "given" the land by the British who occupied it prior to the creation of the U.N. When the Jews immigrated from Europe, it displaced a lot of those palestinians. They wanted to establish their own state but there were disputes regarding the borders and therefore, statehood never came to fruition. Technically, they have lived under Israeli rule for many years now.
When you've been trying to no avail for over 50 years to negotiate with a government that couldn't care less about your situation and has acted almost apartheid-like towards your people, with the cooperation of very powerful forces (namely the U.S.), people often see only one solution: take as many of em down with me as I can.
You have to have an open mind and not summarily rule people as "evil" or "crazy". Neither of us has any clue what it is like to be a Palestinian. Nor do we have any right to judge those people based on actions caused by events we aren't even aware of. You can continue to live in a bubble and point the finger at Islam or "crazy" Palestinians or hold a totally different situation up to the same level as your neighborly dispute but the truth is that the situation has a lot more variables in it that you are aware.
Let me ask you something: If your neighbor came over to your house, butchered your wife, your children, bulldozed your home, and then had the nerve to construct an add-on to his house on your property, you'd probably want to drive a semi through his, regardless of who or what was inside. There is your simple neighborly dispute with a Palestinian/Israeli twist.
All you anti Israel anti-semites need to get a grip!
Being against the policies of Israel does not make one an anti-semite nor anti-Israel, but simply being against the policies of Israel.
It is very obvious, that from your statement, you have very little, if any, understanding of the situation that has been going on there for the past 50 years. Everyone likes to pin the blame on the "rags" or the "towel heads" but God fucking forbid you question the "chosen people" and their actions.
Like any logical person, you should question the motives of both sides. Why do the palestinians send suicide bombers to kill people? Why do they throw rocks and bottles at Israeli tanks? What is driving them? Then ask yourself why the Israelis are bulldozing homes, indiscriminantly shooting at unarmed civilians and journalists, and building a brick wall, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the end of the cold war. Then, ask yourself why and how Israel was put in the Middle East in the first place. They drove an entire population out of their homeland and continue to spread like a plague with their settlements dotting the surrounding areas due to deregulation by the Israeli government.
There is nothing wrong with defending your own country.
Although this is correct, the context is such that they aren't defending their country, they are defending the expansion of their country. There is a big difference. One is patriotism and self-preservation whereas the other is imperialist bullying.
Get a clue.
Thanks. I'll correct my sentences:
The truth is, we have found no weapons, only broken, rotten and ineffective remnants of what may have been a weapon or weapons years ago.
The Bush administration has been gunning for Iraq since before they were elected. Proof of this exists here in their mission statement dated 1997.
You speak of resolutions, but what about the ~60 resolutions that Israel has violated during the past 50 years? Quite the double standard, don't you think?
The truth is, we have found no weapons. The one or two that we have found were 14 year old batches of Sarin, which has a shelf-life of maybe 2 or 3 years (pre-gulf war 1). We have pissed a lot of people off. We have created more terrorists instead of less and our allies would rather brandish their middle finger than lend us a helping hand.
Asside from the number of dead bodies we've either had to bury or fly back home in pine boxes, I'd still say we did a pretty shitty job. You tell us to "get the facts straight" and that "Saddam failed to comply with any of the resolutions". The fact that not a single WMD nor tangible program to develop them has been discovered tells me that you need to get your facts straight.
I'm sure there are probably plenty of trollish or insightful statements regarding the language and its features, so i'm going for simple: It can use GTK2 themes and has Anti-Aliased fonts for Swing apps! Limewire looks like a gnome application now (not too mention it runs almost as quickly as one). This is what we need, cross-platform bytecode and cross-platform interfaces to common widget sets. Rock on!
/* End hysteria... */
Easy solution:
fork();
Why?
As much as I like and respect Linus and his decisions, it seems the kernel has become an "entity" of sorts. Times are changing and certain problems will arise when one uses time-honored policies instead of progressive thinking (not to say Linus is not a progressive thinker, on the contrary...)
A fork, based on a recent stable release, that is kept current by applying patches and fixes while preserving the existing driver ABI. Redhat does this when it back-ports features from newer kernels into its production kernels. Basically, let Linus and co. write the bleeding-edge kernels while said fork makes catastrophic changes to the driver ABI every two years or so instead of every three weeks.
I may be wrong in my thinking, but a fork wouldn't hurt anything in my opinion. This wouldn't be a fork due to policy decisions e.g. FreeBSD + OpenBSD or XFree86 + Xorg, but a fork of necessity to provide hardware manufacturers a stable interface for supporting linux, therefore allowing them to focus more on improving their drivers' performance than on keeping up with each kernel release. Then, they can release binary drivers and rest assured that they will work for some period of time.
Just my $0.02
I see this as a way to get out of work.
"I can't restart NFS because I'm locked out of root." or
"I would get those new user accounts created.... but I can't log in right now."
How about excercising some fucking self countrol you dumbass dipshit!
Curses and colorful metaphores courtesy of the site.
Your average Joe Six Pack has likely never heard the term 'x86' therefore hearing 'x64' would probably result in little confusion as far as marketing goes. Your average systems administrator likely has heard both terms and would know the difference anyway. I think x64 has a nice ring to it myself. It sounds like an experimental aircraft project.