The module looks cool...but I can't help but be amused by adding regex capabilities to PERL fer chrissakes! The language already has awesome regex capabilities (yes, they can be a bit arcane...but, hell, that's half the fun of perl - obfuscation if you want it) and was designed with parsing data in mind.
While I realize not everyone shares the same taste in literature, chill out and take your meds. Firstly, your grammar indicates you rushed this response, as it's a bit incoherent. Secondly, it's a joke. The only person I really want off/. is LandDolphin - and out of the gene pool as well.
...I want my fletcher. Twist the dial, one dart kills them on the spot, one blows them to bits, one contains shellfish toxin, and one gives them a nice, slow cancer.
Now that's killing with style. If the cops want me subdued, I think they've already proven that six big guys w/ batons and pistol butts can do it. Eventually....
Think William Gibson's Neuromancer, for those that don't get the reference. If you haven't read the book, get off/.
And notice that Apple moved to a x86/x64 platform. So, therefore, I seriously doubt they'll be releasing any more OSes to run on PPC platforms, not to mention that PPC and POWER architectures are different beasts anyways. Related, but different in crucial ways.
Good thought, but I doubt it. I've always viewed MS's HPC as something of a joke - I mean, they've had to buy the hardware and supply the software for free for almost all major deployments. And most of those were in the educational industry, whose attitude consists of "it's free, we'll take it, who gets bragging rights? Oh, it's supposed to do something? Shit, I'll throw some grad students at it..." - and nothing ever gets done.
State Farm. They have to be fucking crazy. Especially considering the fact that I damn near totalled my truck (dodging a squirrel, hit a brick mailbox) the week before they sent me a postcard asking me to call them.
So I called...thinking it was something to do with my truck (dreading that it was "...and we're cancelling your insurance, you fucking psycho"). Nope. They wanted to tell me that if I also purchased life insurance, my premium would go down enough to cover the life insurance and save me a few hundred a year.
Don't ask me...I thought I did some weird shit on drugs, but this takes the fucking cake.
Of course they're screwing around - most applications using these chips will be either (a) server apps that are multi-threaded and optimized for the architecture (POWER architectures will not run WoW, geniuses) or (b) supercomputing applications (in which case they will use MPI or OpenMP and also be heavily tuned to the architecture).
About the most generic server apps these things will see will be things like NIS or LDAP. Compiled for the architecture and most likely still heavily optimized. There's a reason that IBM releases their own compiler (XL) suite for POWER chips.
And, yes, it will run Linux. And AIX. And nothing else.
You should come to Texas. All of my firearms come w/ stickers and tags that say "Not to be sold in the states of CA/blah-blah". And my cigarette pack says "Warning : Cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide".
Fuck it - at least I don't have to worry about cancer.
On a lighter note, my insurance company actually called me up to tell me that if I took out a life insurance policy, it would reduce my car insurance enough that I would actually save about ten bucks a month. And I'd have life insurance as well.
Bear in mind, I have 2 DWIs, a billion tickets, totalled quite a few vehicles, etc. I don't know if they're crazy (and just want to sell life insurance, damn the other departments) or someone has calculated the odds on my living to see 30 and feels sorry for whoever will be making my funeral arrangements.
...reminded off the Bill Hicks' skit about what happens when a new official is elected? It's basically like this :
1) Official is elected.
2) Official is escorted into a smoky room where the heads of the most powerful business interests sit.
3) A screen lowers, plays the Kennedy assassination from an angle that no one has ever seen before (the shooter's angle, for the imaginatively-challenged).
4) Screen retracts, the head of the "board" asks the official "Any questions?".
5) Official responds "Uh, what's my agenda?"
Yeah, that sounds about right. Republican (aka Coke - or cocaine, in Bush's case) or Democrat (aka Pepsi). Pick your sugar-water, America.
Unwillingness to hurt/kill is one of the first obstacles that someone must overcome to be a survivor. Admittedly, shooting one's wife in the heat of passion does not make one a cold-blooded killer. But if he's in decent shape, keeps his mouth shut, shows racial solidarity, and hurts a few people bad enough (I don't care what people say - most real fights are over in about five seconds, and if you know what you're doing, you get in the first shot at the slightest hint of aggression), he'll be fine.
Of course, this is Hans Reiser (aka "Mr. I'm Smarter, Better, and Slicker Than Anyone Else") we're talking about.
They'd get a real big surprise if they tried this on me. I've been tasered multiple times, and only once did it stun me long enough for the police to get me in full restraints. Both incidents that I can remember (one was in a black-out) I just saw a bright spark, was momentarily uncoordinated, and kept on fighting. While already hand-cuffed, I might add (once was when I a cop slapped a woman in front of me, and the other was when a cop started making some rather unkind remarks about my mother through an open window - without realizing that he was close enough to head-butt).
I'm a little more concerned about the tracking than the "torture" part, thank you very much.
This is how I used to get my furniture : put on a work uniform w/ a few friends doing the same, show up to a motel w/ a shipping/receiving invoice, get a desk clerk to sign it, and carry a couch or whatever out. Almost 100% success rate at chain motels.
I favor the "Bubba Solution" (which I am going to implement as soon as I get a ticket from one of those nifty cameras they now have at stoplights) - cover license plates with mud, and shoot the damn camera. When dealing with government agencies, the same approach works as well (but only if the sheeple can stop watching TV long enough to get off their asses, which I don't see happening).
Well, I already know I'm "Fucked For Life" when it comes to the criminal justice system. There's about 4 states and numerous cities/counties that have comprehensive (30-200) pictures of my extensive tattooing. I didn't hear any privacy advocates screaming about that, despite the fact that those pictures were taken when I was booked, not convicted.
That doesn't bother me half as much (since I live a relatively straight life) as the fact that many of my tattoos are common w/in certain subcultures, some of which have high crime rates. An ignorant cop and/or DA might take a single tattoo as "evidence" that I was the perp in whatever case, and I'd end up having to defend myself for no good reason.
As for retinal and/or other unique identifiers (including tattoos), I think these should only be used to verify guilt or innocence in a trial. Nowhere else. But who am to halt "progress" (even if it's just the progress of a boot grinding into our collective faces)?
I don't know where you live, but I can promise you that if my neighborhood ever rioted, it would make South Central LA look like recess at an elementary school playground. And I can think of other, predominantly white neighborhoods, out in the sticks, where not only are the locals as well armed (or better) than your average Army soldier, a lot of them are ex-USMC, whacked out of their gourd on meth, and know every inch of those backroads and woods. Those are the neighborhoods where the local cops don't even go. I'd love to see the U.S. government attempt an action in one of those neighborhoods. Even the ATF/DEA almost never target individuals, let alone a massive operation in the area. It's simply not worth it for them.
But I do agree with you that a lot of U.S. "citizens" (I use the term loosely, because they're more like consumers than citizens, as citizens participate in more than watching American Idol and eating fucking Doritos) would view any insurrection as whatever their telescreen told them to.
Lab,
I meant to respond to this yesterday, but was just too busy. You're right, for your application. I work mostly in the seismic processing sector, and the biggest challenge I've found is convincing my bosses that things like RSA/IPMI and/or hardware console servers are necessary if you actually want to scale your system out (as they inevitably need to, and then wonder why it's not manageable). That and to try new architectures and whatnot. The other stuff is pretty much a given, it's just a matter of doing it right - which is where a lot of people screw the pooch.
And I hadn't heard the bit about the future open-sourcing of Solaris, either. Just caught it yesterday (I don't always have the time to read/post on/.).
Well, thanks for the information, I'll be putting it on my list of things to check up on. BTW, I love your sig, been seeing it forever and always wanted to comment on it.
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The module looks cool...but I can't help but be amused by adding regex capabilities to PERL fer chrissakes! The language already has awesome regex capabilities (yes, they can be a bit arcane...but, hell, that's half the fun of perl - obfuscation if you want it) and was designed with parsing data in mind.
Not as much as AC posts by idiots.
While I realize not everyone shares the same taste in literature, chill out and take your meds. Firstly, your grammar indicates you rushed this response, as it's a bit incoherent. Secondly, it's a joke. The only person I really want off /. is LandDolphin - and out of the gene pool as well.
Now that's killing with style. If the cops want me subdued, I think they've already proven that six big guys w/ batons and pistol butts can do it. Eventually....
Think William Gibson's Neuromancer, for those that don't get the reference. If you haven't read the book, get off /.
And notice that Apple moved to a x86/x64 platform. So, therefore, I seriously doubt they'll be releasing any more OSes to run on PPC platforms, not to mention that PPC and POWER architectures are different beasts anyways. Related, but different in crucial ways.
Good thought, but I doubt it. I've always viewed MS's HPC as something of a joke - I mean, they've had to buy the hardware and supply the software for free for almost all major deployments. And most of those were in the educational industry, whose attitude consists of "it's free, we'll take it, who gets bragging rights? Oh, it's supposed to do something? Shit, I'll throw some grad students at it..." - and nothing ever gets done.
So I called...thinking it was something to do with my truck (dreading that it was "...and we're cancelling your insurance, you fucking psycho"). Nope. They wanted to tell me that if I also purchased life insurance, my premium would go down enough to cover the life insurance and save me a few hundred a year.
Don't ask me...I thought I did some weird shit on drugs, but this takes the fucking cake.
About the most generic server apps these things will see will be things like NIS or LDAP. Compiled for the architecture and most likely still heavily optimized. There's a reason that IBM releases their own compiler (XL) suite for POWER chips.
And, yes, it will run Linux. And AIX. And nothing else.
Just give me your CC # and something can be arranged...
Fuck it - at least I don't have to worry about cancer.
Bear in mind, I have 2 DWIs, a billion tickets, totalled quite a few vehicles, etc. I don't know if they're crazy (and just want to sell life insurance, damn the other departments) or someone has calculated the odds on my living to see 30 and feels sorry for whoever will be making my funeral arrangements.
Humor aside, we all know that he'll end up as a "moral pundit" or some similar shit on FOX News.
All of them. Starting with the one(s) that contains Washington D.C.
1) Official is elected.
2) Official is escorted into a smoky room where the heads of the most powerful business interests sit.
3) A screen lowers, plays the Kennedy assassination from an angle that no one has ever seen before (the shooter's angle, for the imaginatively-challenged).
4) Screen retracts, the head of the "board" asks the official "Any questions?".
5) Official responds "Uh, what's my agenda?"
Yeah, that sounds about right. Republican (aka Coke - or cocaine, in Bush's case) or Democrat (aka Pepsi). Pick your sugar-water, America.
Unwillingness to hurt/kill is one of the first obstacles that someone must overcome to be a survivor. Admittedly, shooting one's wife in the heat of passion does not make one a cold-blooded killer. But if he's in decent shape, keeps his mouth shut, shows racial solidarity, and hurts a few people bad enough (I don't care what people say - most real fights are over in about five seconds, and if you know what you're doing, you get in the first shot at the slightest hint of aggression), he'll be fine.
Of course, this is Hans Reiser (aka "Mr. I'm Smarter, Better, and Slicker Than Anyone Else") we're talking about.
I'm a little more concerned about the tracking than the "torture" part, thank you very much.
Trace them via the physical layer, and then contact me. 3K USD for the laptop, or 90K for the laptop and their head in a cooler.
They have been simulating it, that's why he said "My friends and I". *shudders*
This is how I used to get my furniture : put on a work uniform w/ a few friends doing the same, show up to a motel w/ a shipping/receiving invoice, get a desk clerk to sign it, and carry a couch or whatever out. Almost 100% success rate at chain motels.
I favor the "Bubba Solution" (which I am going to implement as soon as I get a ticket from one of those nifty cameras they now have at stoplights) - cover license plates with mud, and shoot the damn camera. When dealing with government agencies, the same approach works as well (but only if the sheeple can stop watching TV long enough to get off their asses, which I don't see happening).
That doesn't bother me half as much (since I live a relatively straight life) as the fact that many of my tattoos are common w/in certain subcultures, some of which have high crime rates. An ignorant cop and/or DA might take a single tattoo as "evidence" that I was the perp in whatever case, and I'd end up having to defend myself for no good reason.
As for retinal and/or other unique identifiers (including tattoos), I think these should only be used to verify guilt or innocence in a trial. Nowhere else. But who am to halt "progress" (even if it's just the progress of a boot grinding into our collective faces)?
But I do agree with you that a lot of U.S. "citizens" (I use the term loosely, because they're more like consumers than citizens, as citizens participate in more than watching American Idol and eating fucking Doritos) would view any insurrection as whatever their telescreen told them to.
And I hadn't heard the bit about the future open-sourcing of Solaris, either. Just caught it yesterday (I don't always have the time to read/post on
Take care, it's been a pleasure.
Well, thanks for the information, I'll be putting it on my list of things to check up on. BTW, I love your sig, been seeing it forever and always wanted to comment on it.
Yeah, there's nothing like doing a bare metal install of Irix to make you want to smash an expensive machine to bits with a sledgehammer.