Even if Windows cluster became the best solution for HPC clustering, it would require a lot of ISV support. I haven't been around HPC systems in about four months, but I gather that it would take a while to get all of the major players to beef up their Windows support and tuning to get close to their Unix/Linux base.
At my last job, we had around 500 or so compute nodes at our site (more globally). The system we wrote to manage the jobs was seriously tailored to a Unix-like platform. It would also be non-trivial to port management code like that.
So once they get the performance up, and the ISVs to support it well enough, you still have to make a very convincing argument for people to change they way they are doing things.
In order to get any packages that you really want to use in Fedora, you need to add on repositories. If you do that, you will wind up in dependency hell... eventually. Hopefully some of these repos will combine and that will help.
That said, I ditched Fedora and went to Ubuntu. Ubuntu/Debian and Gentoo have done this correct from the begining. It seems really tacked-on with Fedora.
Your right. When I am bored the best thing is an empty iPod. Last time I checked they didn't bundle any songs with them. You need a vending machine that sells CDs next to it, and then a PC to rip and load the music on an iPod.
Then you find out that the battery is dead.
This may suit the needs of a business traveler that has a laptop with music on it, but I figure that most people who are that with it would have an iPod.
So we can chalk the sales up to: 1) People who are interested in the novelty of purchasing an iPod from a vending machine. Maybe it can even take a picture. woot 2) Emergency replacement for broken iPods. 3) Gifts.
I never said that it needs a base installation. I said that it was based on CentOS... which is correct.
Openfiler is a pre-configured copy of CentOS. I assume that how they do this is with a series of packages in the base distribution. It has a lot of features, because it is a full Linux distro.
In FreeNAS, the OS is a kernel and a compressed (RO) ramdisk that is normally stored on a CF/SD card. The whole OS takes up less than 16mb of space. The kernel boots and loads the OS into RAM. It then loads the configuration file.
I am currently looking for a home NAS solution, and read about both recently. Please let me know if you think that I am incorrect, but this is what I got by reading the respective websites.
OpenFiler is based on CentOS 3. It does NOT fit in a small footprint. The point of FreeNAS wasn't to have a different installer and a web interface to polish it up, it was for a small footprint.
I personally watched an alternate cut of all 3 of the latest Star Wars films. They were done by someone in their spare time, taking the deleted scenes, alternate angles and other DVD features and stitching them together.
I was impressed. I do recall that David Bowie and Trent Reznor released tracks and allowed their fan's to remix it. I would really like to see a director pick up all the tape from the cutting room floor and see what the fans can do. Maybe they could even include the editing capability into DVD releases so that you could master your own cut without having to be a AV nerd.
If the title of each "major" post was a little more defined, I would really like that design. What he has done with the bottom is fantastic, I just think that a little work on the top would help frame each article better.
This will be modded down, but seriously.. is the birday of a person who is alive really worth mentioning?
If there is some dead computer scientist, or Science Fiction writer, or kernel hacker and you want to give some information on what they did, and why they were important... go ahead. But this.. really is not necessary.
Files are never hosted on the forums, so Apple should be going after the person who is hosting the material. Apple doesn't understand how teh intarweb works.
The really interesting thing is that the Apple legal department uses Microsoft Entourage as an e-mail client. Lowtax posted the headers in his response (posted above by someone else).
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I don't think that you find people complaining about how/. looks, you find them complaining about:
1) Slashvertisements 2) Duplicate, triplicates et cetera 3) Spelling errors. 4) No mechanisms to protect the/. effect (Option of nyud.net:8080 in the original links).
I heard from a co-worker in the UK that they basically get shit prices on almost all technology items. He recently got an expensive DSLR (Nikon D20 or something.. I can't remember). The price here was less than the price in British pounds.
IMHO, that is insane... no wonder he got the camera here.
>Concert seats are a fixed supply, so traditional economics apply. The point where the demand drops off is the proper price point. If that's $100, $200, $300, it doesn't matter. Basic economics.
Seats to one paticular concert... may be. However in NYC, I think that there are going to be at least 5 concerts. They have the ability to increase or decrease the supply a bit. Not a lot, but a bit.
You have the right to consume less at the same price, but if enough people do the same and that causes the business model of your content provider to fail... you should expect to see their business model change (e.g. fees).
Seriously though, I think that we all have run into assholes on IRC. If you want support, an semi anonymous chatroom may not be the best place. You can find forums or other places to get good support, but IRC isn't the best.. IMHO.
For example, if you are new to making Fedora usable, fedorafaq.org and the like have some good hints on how to get things setup. I also personally have found good help on the forums I lurk the most, http://forums.somethingawful.com./ I used to be a Unix/Linux admin, so I also spent a good deal of my time helping people there. There still are some tools, but it isn't nearly as bad as IRC.
The only caveat to virtualization the way you are describing it is that if a system has most of it's time at 10% utilization, but peaks for a few hours pegging the CPU, and using all of the memory... you could be in a bind.
It takes a much different set of administration skills to manage systems like these than it does lots of distributed boxen. I can't admit that I know all of the problems and issues, but there are many. I know that at my last job, we had a lot of systems that were performing very poorly (serious disk I/O and latency). This was probably due to a kernel bug, as it existed on many systems and platforms, but we never had time (or motivation) to fix the problem. The amount of knowledge and understandig to convert an environment to a virtualized one is, IMHO, non-trivial. Benefits are there, but it takes a lot of work and planning.
This is really cool, but to quote one of your links -- "Until a vector map solution is available, GPS use on the Nokia 770 tablet will be recreatonal at best." That about sums it up. The size is right for that, the on-screen keyboard can be changed, lots of things can be fixed... but until there is either a free or non-free vector based GPS solution, it will just be a toy.
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Even if Windows cluster became the best solution for HPC clustering, it would require a lot of ISV support. I haven't been around HPC systems in about four months, but I gather that it would take a while to get all of the major players to beef up their Windows support and tuning to get close to their Unix/Linux base.
At my last job, we had around 500 or so compute nodes at our site (more globally). The system we wrote to manage the jobs was seriously tailored to a Unix-like platform. It would also be non-trivial to port management code like that.
So once they get the performance up, and the ISVs to support it well enough, you still have to make a very convincing argument for people to change they way they are doing things.
In order to get any packages that you really want to use in Fedora, you need to add on repositories. If you do that, you will wind up in dependency hell ... eventually. Hopefully some of these repos will combine and that will help.
That said, I ditched Fedora and went to Ubuntu. Ubuntu/Debian and Gentoo have done this correct from the begining. It seems really tacked-on with Fedora.
Seriously. Did anyone read this before they posted it? This article is so bad, it hurts.
/. (mainly how ugly it was), can we work on the remaining problems?
Now that we have solved the biggest problem facing
Wasn't the Erie canal implemented by lawyers and judges who learned it as they went?
Your right. When I am bored the best thing is an empty iPod. Last time I checked they didn't bundle any songs with them. You need a vending machine that sells CDs next to it, and then a PC to rip and load the music on an iPod.
Then you find out that the battery is dead.
This may suit the needs of a business traveler that has a laptop with music on it, but I figure that most people who are that with it would have an iPod.
So we can chalk the sales up to:
1) People who are interested in the novelty of purchasing an iPod from a vending machine. Maybe it can even take a picture. woot
2) Emergency replacement for broken iPods.
3) Gifts.
I never said that it needs a base installation. I said that it was based on CentOS... which is correct.
Openfiler is a pre-configured copy of CentOS. I assume that how they do this is with a series of packages in the base distribution. It has a lot of features, because it is a full Linux distro.
In FreeNAS, the OS is a kernel and a compressed (RO) ramdisk that is normally stored on a CF/SD card. The whole OS takes up less than 16mb of space. The kernel boots and loads the OS into RAM. It then loads the configuration file.
I am currently looking for a home NAS solution, and read about both recently. Please let me know if you think that I am incorrect, but this is what I got by reading the respective websites.
OpenFiler is based on CentOS 3. It does NOT fit in a small footprint. The point of FreeNAS wasn't to have a different installer and a web interface to polish it up, it was for a small footprint.
I personally watched an alternate cut of all 3 of the latest Star Wars films. They were done by someone in their spare time, taking the deleted scenes, alternate angles and other DVD features and stitching them together.
I was impressed. I do recall that David Bowie and Trent Reznor released tracks and allowed their fan's to remix it. I would really like to see a director pick up all the tape from the cutting room floor and see what the fans can do. Maybe they could even include the editing capability into DVD releases so that you could master your own cut without having to be a AV nerd.
Maybe they parade around in those outfits AND sell/give-away stickers and tee shirts. I'd buy one if they sold 'em.
It's cool ... the new /. CSS will fix dupes. :-)
If the title of each "major" post was a little more defined, I would really like that design. What he has done with the bottom is fantastic, I just think that a little work on the top would help frame each article better.
Good point. I thought that /. was a site where people posted news articles and there was a small forum for the peanut gallery's comments.
Can we get the topic changed from "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." to "CmdrTaco's e/n Blo!!!!1"?
This will be modded down, but seriously.. is the birday of a person who is alive really worth mentioning?
... go ahead. But this.. really is not necessary.
If there is some dead computer scientist, or Science Fiction writer, or kernel hacker and you want to give some information on what they did, and why they were important
Doesn't Despair Inc. have a patent on the frownie? I think that Walmart was trying to be honest and put a frown, but they couldn't due to the patent.
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Files are never hosted on the forums, so Apple should be going after the person who is hosting the material. Apple doesn't understand how teh intarweb works.
The really interesting thing is that the Apple legal department uses Microsoft Entourage as an e-mail client. Lowtax posted the headers in his response (posted above by someone else).
Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22])
by mx3.somethingawful.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E4981B523C
for webmaster@somethingawful.com; Tue, 2 May 2006 21:38:35 -0500 (CDT)
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Subject: Urgent Legal Notice from Apple Computer
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http://www.improveverywhere.com.nyud.net:8080/miss ion_view.php?mission_id=57
I don't think that you find people complaining about how /. looks, you find them complaining about:
/. effect (Option of nyud.net:8080 in the original links).
1) Slashvertisements
2) Duplicate, triplicates et cetera
3) Spelling errors.
4) No mechanisms to protect the
and so on...
I heard from a co-worker in the UK that they basically get shit prices on almost all technology items. He recently got an expensive DSLR (Nikon D20 or something.. I can't remember). The price here was less than the price in British pounds.
IMHO, that is insane... no wonder he got the camera here.
>Concert seats are a fixed supply, so traditional economics apply. The point where the demand drops off is the proper price point. If that's $100, $200, $300, it doesn't matter. Basic economics.
... may be. However in NYC, I think that there are going to be at least 5 concerts. They have the ability to increase or decrease the supply a bit. Not a lot, but a bit.
Seats to one paticular concert
You have the right to consume less at the same price, but if enough people do the same and that causes the business model of your content provider to fail ... you should expect to see their business model change (e.g. fees).
Stop modding things like this flamebait. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
So keep your ID cards in a lead wallet. First there were tinfoil hats, then lead wallets. What will be next?
Seriously though, I think that we all have run into assholes on IRC. If you want support, an semi anonymous chatroom may not be the best place. You can find forums or other places to get good support, but IRC isn't the best .. IMHO.
For example, if you are new to making Fedora usable, fedorafaq.org and the like have some good hints on how to get things setup. I also personally have found good help on the forums I lurk the most, http://forums.somethingawful.com./ I used to be a Unix/Linux admin, so I also spent a good deal of my time helping people there. There still are some tools, but it isn't nearly as bad as IRC.
The only caveat to virtualization the way you are describing it is that if a system has most of it's time at 10% utilization, but peaks for a few hours pegging the CPU, and using all of the memory... you could be in a bind.
It takes a much different set of administration skills to manage systems like these than it does lots of distributed boxen. I can't admit that I know all of the problems and issues, but there are many. I know that at my last job, we had a lot of systems that were performing very poorly (serious disk I/O and latency). This was probably due to a kernel bug, as it existed on many systems and platforms, but we never had time (or motivation) to fix the problem. The amount of knowledge and understandig to convert an environment to a virtualized one is, IMHO, non-trivial. Benefits are there, but it takes a lot of work and planning.
This is really cool, but to quote one of your links -- "Until a vector map solution is available, GPS use on the Nokia 770 tablet will be recreatonal at best." That about sums it up. The size is right for that, the on-screen keyboard can be changed, lots of things can be fixed ... but until there is either a free or non-free vector based GPS solution, it will just be a toy.
This is worth looking at:
http://linuxadvocate.org/projects/roadster