Go on then- whats your *original* idea for a supercomputer architecture/technology? Is it feasable, viable or usable- could *you* spec it enough to build it?
Who would write software for such a radical architecture? "port linux" I hear you shout, as much as I love Linux-how much would you have to do to adapt it to such an alien original architecture? How much would have to be spent in terms of time, resources and money on full R&D, porting, hardware, manufacture etc... I admit it would be interesting to see new stuff- but it aint that easy. And although clusters are boring, they seem to work and at relatively low cost. Its probably not great slashdot news, but if it works - dont fix it....
Hang on- you're telling me that having a socket live all of the time is wierd? I mean - how about un-pluggin something and watching the lovely blue arcs... Man.. My GF always tries to make me turn everything off by the wall socket before unplugging it - mostly I do- but sometimes I am lax....
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I would love to be able to buy lego aluminium panels... Or any metal lego would rule... Imagine an panel with lugs on the top, and lug fittings on the base(right angled panels - with folded edges to stop cuts etc), and a plexiglass opening in the center...
I had better stop- this is making me drool...
Umm - 'cept were we to find aliens - and beleive me I do beleive we may one day do so, then their physiology would be nothing like ours. They may have the cure to "Alien Cancer" and "Alien Aids" - but its about as much use to us as a cure for spider impotency. Though if they want something in return- I would suggest vapourizing the white house for its ores... Occupants and all...
I personally use it on a reasonably light-load webserver/fileserver running linux. It remains on- as it is used, but when its not very busy- then it is used for distributed computing- currently folding@home, but it has been used for Seti@home as well.
Still I wonder how distributed computing could be used to solve well known environmental issues - like make more efficient engines, or better batteries or super-efficient energy generators etc...
Or renting a room in a hotel... But saying that- just 'cos you move out of yuour parents pad doesnt mean you can make as much noise and mess as you like.. I still get the neighbours thump on the walls occasionally - gimme a break it was saturday night and only 12:30...
I wish could afford the condo or hotel - or even to buy myself a small semi - though in London you would pay way over 200 grand for that.
Surely for that reason it is even more attractive to mod it- just to see what you can get it to do...
I just think if Microsoft were a bit less heavy handed it would go a long way. I really enjoyed Sony's Net-Yaroze at Uni, so I went home, bought an exploder card and turned my PS1 into a "Not-yaroze" programmable one. I dont need to do that with the Ps2 - I have a PS2 dev tool sat on my desk, but for those who dont work in multi-million dollar dev companies - they need a way in. Admittedly- the X-Box is all directx which could be written, and tested to some degree on a PC - but you never know till it runs on the actual hardware. Beleive me- there are bugs we just could never have seen until we try a gold-disk on a debug or consumer box.
Sorry - maybe I am talking out my arse here- but werent the first Quake mods(before halflife) made without the code being released- while it was still copyrighted... Oh yeah... I thought that halflife modding had started before Valve released the code as well. They probably had to reverse engineer it- as would the modders - I would find it difficult to beleive they used MS-Source code and not reverse engineered the compiled code(beleive me two very different things).
As for "stealing" the linux source code- how could you- its open already or havent you heard? Its true that were Microsoft to be using the code copied from Linux in a product that they were suing pirates for having copied it then they would be in uproar. But then who knows - MS could well be doing it already, it would not surprise me. IANAL
but I think there are interesting ways to use GPL code legitamately - like have it as a GPL'd free plug-in to a proprietary peice of software and sell that bundled.
While you're aregument is not unreasonable- and commands respect, the fact that this kind of modding would be restriced to the elite few who could. I am not necessarily saying that is a bad thing. I still know people who winge that computers aas a medium full tsop should have been restricted to the few who could - but thats an extreme facist viewpoint. I think when it comes down to modding- manufacturers would do well to cradle a certain amount of it- and maybe divert the modders intentions away from piracy to more interesting things - like running linux(albeit a competitor) or turning the XBox into a rather large and expensive PIC for a robot. I still think Lego have shown some great moves with the RCX.
Actually you are most likely to blow yourself to kingdom come trying and drop twitching to the ground like so much charred meat.....Some caps and the coils can hold some nasty charges in a TV.
Dont say you werent warned....
Hey man- I moved out from my parents like 10 years ago and still regret it.
Good Food, cheap rent, cheap electricity, not having to cope with council tax forms and that crap. But saying that- it would make it hard with my fiancee. I wouldnt worry about chores living at home- when you live in a flat of your own- you have to do all your washing, washing up, cooking, cleaning and stuff yourself unless you dont mind living in a hole...
Personally- I think he might have thought it through. I dont have as much time for hacking and general nerding because the house needs sorting, bills need paying and my flatmate is a pain...
Well- it depends if you consider the hobbyists who are likely to be virgins are safe from Microsofts big red evil eye(think eye of sauron with Bill Gates dancing like a chimp in front of it).
Screw the xbox and the horse it came in on. I am much more interested and have been for some time interested in modding the RCX. Sony didnt like piracy mod-chips -but they have ported linux to the PS2 themselves - a damn good version too - similar to redhat. The PS2 does not make a great machine to run Linux on, and I doubt the XBox does too. But what sony are encouraging are developers for future. Of course if they were to open up their libraries, sell the hardware at a profit(yes most consoles are sold at a loss) - maybe they could enjoy the runaway success vavle's half-life was and the RCX enjoyed. I stopped buying lego for many years, and left t in an old cupboard. It was only when I saw the RCX and what I could do with it and NQC that I bought it and got back into Lego. Now I am willing to spend huge amounts of time- making models, designing robot circuits for mods, coding in NQC. And I SPEND MONEY at the Lego stores, at Bricklink, on eBay.
Personally I think Microsoft should have used their "Embrace and Extend" strategy(although it has been sinister at times) than stamping like a beast. I understand that every X-Box is sold at a $120 loss - fine then sell software/manuals and hardware(at a profit) for the modders. Like parallel/network cables, a version of visual studio.net created for the X-Box, Controller/Memory port manuals etc. There is a market if they target it correctly-and they could gain "a fanatical following" instead of so many fanatical enemies.
Or better still make lids of theis stuff to fool and annoy parents.
But seriously- could this not be used to seal stuff in cold temperature applications. And could this be used like a reverse affect SMA(Shape Memory Alloy).
Nice.....
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Hmmm - You have set me thinking- why havent I disabled the trashcan on my two windows boxes(one at home and one at work). It something I am happy to be without on my linux box.
TO be honest even my mother- a non-techie cant stand it. She deletes stuff, and considers it deleted. SO when it turns out that she has wasted 200+mb on a trash can on her low spec machine for wordprocessing - she gets upset. I think its time to disable it...
I also think more people should be aware of right-click dragging in windows...
Sounds more like a church of scientology lecture than a security system. Mysql, snort and other unix/linux products also have naming conventions- just different ones. As if thats the real issue anyway...
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If the moderation system worked, then your comment regarding spelling and grammar would have been modded down in an instant.
These guys(and I speak for myself here too) reasing this, and talking about packet sniffing are techies. Techies dont need to advertise products, or have shiny teeth, shiny boots or slick nike jackets. Techies dont need to spell perfectly- and are more likely to deliberately mis-spell a word to save typing characters or so non-techies cant read it. We are some of the most egotistical arrogant scum of the universe and once we have accepted that we are a techie-we dont try and deny that. When I read a posting-I look for content- wether it was well researched and well thought out, if it was even on topic-and will then respond in a way that I deem suitable. If I disagree I will say so. I dont even mind normal bitching matches and stuff. But anal english teachers can go to pgce.gov.co.uk or somewhere else. Because they are not welcome here. Go away- and leave network packet sniffing conversation to people who are too interested in networking to give a monkeys uncle about the quality of their grammar and spelling.
Its a pity we never thought of any nice little acronyms like that. We used to settle for telling the hardware guy a nursing student was on their way down the blower. They knew what that always meant. I was tech support on a uni campus. The computer students who occasionally got it wrong were the least of our worries. The nursing students and psychology students would freak out and cry their eyes out when anyting went wrong - We had one girl- who couldnt click on the document because the stupid paperclip had popped up(not my policy but I wanted the damn thing removed full stop) in word and took key and mouse focus in app-modal. She was crying about how she had lost her coursework and was going to fail and was gonna throw herself in the Thames. First job- Calm her down and get her to chill out. Second job- Close the damned paper clip and tick boxes so it never happened again on her account.
And as for parents and old people - I came off well as my father was a mainframe hex-coder, his father an early mainframe experimenter who now messes around with DTP and music, and all my uncles on my fathers side are techs or inventors. However my sisters still havent a clue....
However did you reach that conclusion and what are you basing it on? I mean really- box specs(Cpu, HDD, Memory, Graphics system etc), Windows versions, benchmarks taken. Give us figures.
I have a linux box that is dog slow for image processing. But its great for apache. This is because it is a P2 at 266mhz with 512Mb of ram and 20gb hdd. Its ancient. I have 3 other different boxes. One of them dual boots. I would not compare my 1ghz Athlon with 1gig of ram running windows and Adobe Photoshop performance to the PII.
I know all about secure servers. When online using VNC on SSH with a windows 2k box, shutting it down accidentally. It was getting complacent with using keys instead of mouse to lock the box... Its very secure until I get home.... At least my linux boxen are all still up though...
The nice thing about linux is you have the choice. I do have a problem with software relying on the KDE api's so they do not run in other WM's- but the gnome apps run under pretty much anything. Its the choice that is good. If I want it to run like a windows clone- I can, if I want it to look like liquid, I can. I personally think giving users the *choice* to run linux as if it was a windows replacement is great. Number 1) it rids us of the monopoly 2) If gives the impression the linux is not a geek only domain.
If you have a problem with guis in general- fine, dont install X11 and just use the CLI. Its your choice- but dont make other peoples choices for them. Most distributions do ask if you would like to install X. Just say NO if you dont want it. To me the whole point in OSS is having the choice. And dictating how everyone else should and shouldnt have there desktop/interface setup is plain bull.
I remember an old colleague once trying to reason that people who dont understand hex and assembly shouldnt use computers. They drove a car. I asked if they could remove, service and refit their carbureteur. They said no. I reasoned they shouldnt be allowed to drive it and she couldnt see my point. I really hope there are not too many of these people around. I am a developer- I write code, understand code. But I really dont expect everyone else to. In fact for the non-techie people the best user interface is the one they dont notice because they are to busy using it, and enjoying it.
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Go on then- whats your *original* idea for a supercomputer architecture/technology? Is it feasable, viable or usable- could *you* spec it enough to build it?
Who would write software for such a radical architecture? "port linux" I hear you shout, as much as I love Linux-how much would you have to do to adapt it to such an alien original architecture? How much would have to be spent in terms of time, resources and money on full R&D, porting, hardware, manufacture etc... I admit it would be interesting to see new stuff- but it aint that easy. And although clusters are boring, they seem to work and at relatively low cost. Its probably not great slashdot news, but if it works - dont fix it....
Hang on- you're telling me that having a socket live all of the time is wierd? I mean - how about un-pluggin something and watching the lovely blue arcs... Man.. My GF always tries to make me turn everything off by the wall socket before unplugging it - mostly I do- but sometimes I am lax.... -=-
I would love to be able to buy lego aluminium panels... Or any metal lego would rule... Imagine an panel with lugs on the top, and lug fittings on the base(right angled panels - with folded edges to stop cuts etc), and a plexiglass opening in the center...
I had better stop- this is making me drool...
Umm - 'cept were we to find aliens - and beleive me I do beleive we may one day do so, then their physiology would be nothing like ours. They may have the cure to "Alien Cancer" and "Alien Aids" - but its about as much use to us as a cure for spider impotency. Though if they want something in return- I would suggest vapourizing the white house for its ores... Occupants and all...
I personally use it on a reasonably light-load webserver/fileserver running linux. It remains on- as it is used, but when its not very busy- then it is used for distributed computing- currently folding@home, but it has been used for Seti@home as well.
Still I wonder how distributed computing could be used to solve well known environmental issues - like make more efficient engines, or better batteries or super-efficient energy generators etc...
What do you mean - run it in the bar?
There is a google toolbar extension for Mozilla - called goglebar- look for it on mozdev.
Or renting a room in a hotel... But saying that- just 'cos you move out of yuour parents pad doesnt mean you can make as much noise and mess as you like.. I still get the neighbours thump on the walls occasionally - gimme a break it was saturday night and only 12:30...
I wish could afford the condo or hotel - or even to buy myself a small semi - though in London you would pay way over 200 grand for that.
Surely for that reason it is even more attractive to mod it- just to see what you can get it to do...
I just think if Microsoft were a bit less heavy handed it would go a long way. I really enjoyed Sony's Net-Yaroze at Uni, so I went home, bought an exploder card and turned my PS1 into a "Not-yaroze" programmable one. I dont need to do that with the Ps2 - I have a PS2 dev tool sat on my desk, but for those who dont work in multi-million dollar dev companies - they need a way in. Admittedly- the X-Box is all directx which could be written, and tested to some degree on a PC - but you never know till it runs on the actual hardware. Beleive me- there are bugs we just could never have seen until we try a gold-disk on a debug or consumer box.
Sorry - maybe I am talking out my arse here- but werent the first Quake mods(before halflife) made without the code being released- while it was still copyrighted... Oh yeah... I thought that halflife modding had started before Valve released the code as well. They probably had to reverse engineer it- as would the modders - I would find it difficult to beleive they used MS-Source code and not reverse engineered the compiled code(beleive me two very different things).
As for "stealing" the linux source code- how could you- its open already or havent you heard? Its true that were Microsoft to be using the code copied from Linux in a product that they were suing pirates for having copied it then they would be in uproar. But then who knows - MS could well be doing it already, it would not surprise me. IANAL but I think there are interesting ways to use GPL code legitamately - like have it as a GPL'd free plug-in to a proprietary peice of software and sell that bundled.
While you're aregument is not unreasonable- and commands respect, the fact that this kind of modding would be restriced to the elite few who could. I am not necessarily saying that is a bad thing. I still know people who winge that computers aas a medium full tsop should have been restricted to the few who could - but thats an extreme facist viewpoint. I think when it comes down to modding- manufacturers would do well to cradle a certain amount of it- and maybe divert the modders intentions away from piracy to more interesting things - like running linux(albeit a competitor) or turning the XBox into a rather large and expensive PIC for a robot. I still think Lego have shown some great moves with the RCX.
Actually I should point out the ATW and Sony have deals cut. Sony staff get discounts on ATW discs.
In fact - MS Windows is a tool that could be used for such since it ships with notepad as standard. As could EDIT under the MS-DOS Command line.
But like they care about real "rights" and "piracy". They only got where they are today by selling products they didnt even own yet.....
But would you drive a car Microsoft built in the firstplace...
Actually you are most likely to blow yourself to kingdom come trying and drop twitching to the ground like so much charred meat.....Some caps and the coils can hold some nasty charges in a TV.
Dont say you werent warned....
Hey man- I moved out from my parents like 10 years ago and still regret it.
Good Food, cheap rent, cheap electricity, not having to cope with council tax forms and that crap. But saying that- it would make it hard with my fiancee. I wouldnt worry about chores living at home- when you live in a flat of your own- you have to do all your washing, washing up, cooking, cleaning and stuff yourself unless you dont mind living in a hole...
Personally- I think he might have thought it through. I dont have as much time for hacking and general nerding because the house needs sorting, bills need paying and my flatmate is a pain...
Well- it depends if you consider the hobbyists who are likely to be virgins are safe from Microsofts big red evil eye(think eye of sauron with Bill Gates dancing like a chimp in front of it).
Screw the xbox and the horse it came in on. I am much more interested and have been for some time interested in modding the RCX. Sony didnt like piracy mod-chips -but they have ported linux to the PS2 themselves - a damn good version too - similar to redhat. The PS2 does not make a great machine to run Linux on, and I doubt the XBox does too. But what sony are encouraging are developers for future. Of course if they were to open up their libraries, sell the hardware at a profit(yes most consoles are sold at a loss) - maybe they could enjoy the runaway success vavle's half-life was and the RCX enjoyed. I stopped buying lego for many years, and left t in an old cupboard. It was only when I saw the RCX and what I could do with it and NQC that I bought it and got back into Lego. Now I am willing to spend huge amounts of time- making models, designing robot circuits for mods, coding in NQC. And I SPEND MONEY at the Lego stores, at Bricklink, on eBay.
Personally I think Microsoft should have used their "Embrace and Extend" strategy(although it has been sinister at times) than stamping like a beast. I understand that every X-Box is sold at a $120 loss - fine then sell software/manuals and hardware(at a profit) for the modders. Like parallel/network cables, a version of visual studio.net created for the X-Box, Controller/Memory port manuals etc. There is a market if they target it correctly-and they could gain "a fanatical following" instead of so many fanatical enemies.
Or better still make lids of theis stuff to fool and annoy parents.
But seriously- could this not be used to seal stuff in cold temperature applications. And could this be used like a reverse affect SMA(Shape Memory Alloy).
Nice.....
Hmmm - You have set me thinking- why havent I disabled the trashcan on my two windows boxes(one at home and one at work). It something I am happy to be without on my linux box.
TO be honest even my mother- a non-techie cant stand it. She deletes stuff, and considers it deleted. SO when it turns out that she has wasted 200+mb on a trash can on her low spec machine for wordprocessing - she gets upset. I think its time to disable it...
I also think more people should be aware of right-click dragging in windows...
Sounds more like a church of scientology lecture than a security system. Mysql, snort and other unix/linux products also have naming conventions- just different ones. As if thats the real issue anyway...
If the moderation system worked, then your comment regarding spelling and grammar would have been modded down in an instant.
These guys(and I speak for myself here too) reasing this, and talking about packet sniffing are techies. Techies dont need to advertise products, or have shiny teeth, shiny boots or slick nike jackets. Techies dont need to spell perfectly- and are more likely to deliberately mis-spell a word to save typing characters or so non-techies cant read it. We are some of the most egotistical arrogant scum of the universe and once we have accepted that we are a techie-we dont try and deny that. When I read a posting-I look for content- wether it was well researched and well thought out, if it was even on topic-and will then respond in a way that I deem suitable. If I disagree I will say so. I dont even mind normal bitching matches and stuff. But anal english teachers can go to pgce.gov.co.uk or somewhere else. Because they are not welcome here. Go away- and leave network packet sniffing conversation to people who are too interested in networking to give a monkeys uncle about the quality of their grammar and spelling.
Its a pity we never thought of any nice little acronyms like that. We used to settle for telling the hardware guy a nursing student was on their way down the blower. They knew what that always meant. I was tech support on a uni campus. The computer students who occasionally got it wrong were the least of our worries. The nursing students and psychology students would freak out and cry their eyes out when anyting went wrong - We had one girl- who couldnt click on the document because the stupid paperclip had popped up(not my policy but I wanted the damn thing removed full stop) in word and took key and mouse focus in app-modal. She was crying about how she had lost her coursework and was going to fail and was gonna throw herself in the Thames. First job- Calm her down and get her to chill out. Second job- Close the damned paper clip and tick boxes so it never happened again on her account.
And as for parents and old people - I came off well as my father was a mainframe hex-coder, his father an early mainframe experimenter who now messes around with DTP and music, and all my uncles on my fathers side are techs or inventors. However my sisters still havent a clue....
However did you reach that conclusion and what are you basing it on? I mean really- box specs(Cpu, HDD, Memory, Graphics system etc), Windows versions, benchmarks taken. Give us figures.
I have a linux box that is dog slow for image processing. But its great for apache. This is because it is a P2 at 266mhz with 512Mb of ram and 20gb hdd. Its ancient. I have 3 other different boxes. One of them dual boots. I would not compare my 1ghz Athlon with 1gig of ram running windows and Adobe Photoshop performance to the PII.
I know all about secure servers. When online using VNC on SSH with a windows 2k box, shutting it down accidentally. It was getting complacent with using keys instead of mouse to lock the box... Its very secure until I get home.... At least my linux boxen are all still up though...
The nice thing about linux is you have the choice. I do have a problem with software relying on the KDE api's so they do not run in other WM's- but the gnome apps run under pretty much anything. Its the choice that is good. If I want it to run like a windows clone- I can, if I want it to look like liquid, I can. I personally think giving users the *choice* to run linux as if it was a windows replacement is great. Number 1) it rids us of the monopoly 2) If gives the impression the linux is not a geek only domain.
If you have a problem with guis in general- fine, dont install X11 and just use the CLI. Its your choice- but dont make other peoples choices for them. Most distributions do ask if you would like to install X. Just say NO if you dont want it. To me the whole point in OSS is having the choice. And dictating how everyone else should and shouldnt have there desktop/interface setup is plain bull.
I remember an old colleague once trying to reason that people who dont understand hex and assembly shouldnt use computers. They drove a car. I asked if they could remove, service and refit their carbureteur. They said no. I reasoned they shouldnt be allowed to drive it and she couldnt see my point. I really hope there are not too many of these people around. I am a developer- I write code, understand code. But I really dont expect everyone else to. In fact for the non-techie people the best user interface is the one they dont notice because they are to busy using it, and enjoying it.