Add this cluster to one of the available Condor pools. The system is designed to do exactly what you want: Take unused resources and utilize them. The difference with you is that you'll be adding a *LOT of unused resources to whatever pool is lucky enough to have you.
SO.. after waiting so long for FF3 to come out formal I go and add myself to the big counter.
I then proceed to go through the *hell of getting it running. My end solution which has me now reading/. in FF3? Installing to a different directory than the default. What?!?
After cleaning up from several failed installs I decided to watch the install folder as I ran the installer several times. The first time I didn't even get the firefox.exe executable.. after that I got more each time until about the 8th iteration the directory stopped growing each time.
I did a bunch of searching (using IE damnit as FF was now hosed) and found plenty of people having the same problem. I finally found someone who was able to get the installer to work by selecting a diff directory and that solved my problem.
This is idiotic. I'm used to having to debug *real problems but if they can't even get the installer right how can I have any faith in the browser. Seems to be working well so far but really.. this is no way to win a war.
Hate Apple? Of Course I do.. and have in some form or another for a LONG time. I owned an Amiga 1000 and 2500 back when Apple was getting all the glory for their machine / OS that were cr@p in comparison. (I still have them and they still work better for what I use them for)
The biggest reason I hate Apple has nothing whatsoever to do with the company themselves. Every time I hear some Apple fanatic spewing about how they are so much better than everyone else I want to reenact the scene from V where Donovan catches the alien without his eyes in. The difference here is that alien will be Steve Jobs. As far as I'm concerned he is as much of an a-hole as Bill Gates but he gets SO much more cred because Apple is now the underdog. Meanwhile Apple does as much as they can with the market power they have to try to be as much like Microsoft as they can.
Me? I live on a combination of Linux, BSD, AmigaOS and Windows boxes. I've had to keep some pretty powerful windows boxes around because Pro Tools and my other sound software don't run well in Linux / Wine and I'd rather die a burning death than have to deal with Apple's interface. Yep.. as stable as OSX may have become throwing *nix under the hood that didn't fix the fact I can't stand their interface. iPod? I have a Nomad Jukebox (made by a company that *used to have a monopoly on the Sound Interface business) It doesn't lock down my audio files and supports more formats and doesn't grab my machine by the nuts just to be able to sync audio. The only thing Apple did innovative with the iPod is take what Creative Labs did first and make it better and use their market influence to push it to their devoted followers. (too bad the original Nomad had a terrible interface and CL was relatively obscure when it came to buying stand-alone devices)
Google? I love Google but that doesn't change the fact they are quickly consolidating their own power grab on the universe.
I'm not going to throw the whole 'Corporations are evil' line out there.. that's overly simplistic hippy BS. The truth is that corporations (especially public ones) are ravenous entities that feed on growth (not $$ as is popularly believed) I could profit a cool $1B this year and my shareholders will be happy but if I *only profit $1B next year my stock price will plummet and people will be discussing the downfall of my organization. The problem is that what it takes to continually grow is eventually you're going to start bumping into and then consuming or destroying everything that is in your path. Those getting consumed or destroyed will always see this as evil whereas they who are doing it will call it either success or survival....
As much as I love a good round of detangling the ether.. I'm not exactly doing that everyday. Every sound gig resembles the following: Find the boxen/buckets of mic/power/adapter cables, untangle the mess left by the wank the night before, make a bad band sound good then untangle all those same cables from their gear and the beverages they have spilled throughout the night and just early enough that it has begun to congeal and stick and properly wrap to try to be nice the next shmoe unlike said wank from the night before.
Add to that a mix of christmas lights that some band thought would look cool and the raw wiring that's frays grab each other like teeny-boppers at a rave and you have a whole pile of fun on your hands 8}
I know Amiga didn't do this on one chip but the concept of having 'multiple processing cores' was what made the actual Amigas so cool (well that and a well done OS for the time). You had a main processing core that was a base 88K chip plus separate processors to handle the video and audio load. Made for a machine that ran circles around its contemporary competitors despite its slow main proc.
Isn't the new incarnation of Amigacorp planning on coming out with hardware again? A guy can dream..
The biggest reason I still keep some winblows around is the severe lack of Sound Processing software out there. Aside from webby activities the majority of time I spend on my home machines is doing wav editing and mastering live music performances.
Where's my Sound Forge or Goldwave or ProTools or anything for that matter for Linux? Back working in a research lab in Madison I was attempting to write some myself although I found documentation for audio hardware to be crap or unavailable. I really *have* to keep on using M$ until the big audio companies start looking Linux...and *Please* correct me if there is good stuff out there. I would love to be wrong on this point but my searches have been fruitless.
In our company I've got a slightly more aggravating problem. We already had a mature piece of CRM software which had been developed in shop. Next our management decides that they really want a commercial product so they go out and purchase ACT (with the WiredContact package that allows for web use without client side software needs)
Did they ask us if we could add the requisite features to our existing sytem? No. Did they check to see if maintaining synchronicity between the two systems would be manageable? No.
ACT! does provide an API for communicating directly with the ACT database (which BTW looks kinda like an Access DB but really isn't) Unfortunately this API is in C so to access it from our Java code I need to write a semi massive amount of JNI. Not to mention the fact that synchronizing two systems that contain slightly different datasets presents all the usual problems of "Who's authoritative?" "Does maintenance have to be frozen on the old system to account for synchronicity?" "How often do you synch-up? Constant? Daily? etc."
We could have very easily added the additional features they wanted as well as coding a web interface for easy on the road access with significantly less expence than the ACT! package and built on top of an existing stable system that wouldn't have to deal with the sychronicity issues.
Management.. SMACK! ow.. I'll go back to my cave now.
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Add this cluster to one of the available Condor pools. The system is designed to do exactly what you want: Take unused resources and utilize them. The difference with you is that you'll be adding a *LOT of unused resources to whatever pool is lucky enough to have you.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
SO.. after waiting so long for FF3 to come out formal I go and add myself to the big counter.
/. in FF3? Installing to a different directory than the default. What?!?
I then proceed to go through the *hell of getting it running. My end solution which has me now reading
After cleaning up from several failed installs I decided to watch the install folder as I ran the installer several times. The first time I didn't even get the firefox.exe executable.. after that I got more each time until about the 8th iteration the directory stopped growing each time.
I did a bunch of searching (using IE damnit as FF was now hosed) and found plenty of people having the same problem. I finally found someone who was able to get the installer to work by selecting a diff directory and that solved my problem.
This is idiotic. I'm used to having to debug *real problems but if they can't even get the installer right how can I have any faith in the browser. Seems to be working well so far but really.. this is no way to win a war.
Hate Apple? Of Course I do.. and have in some form or another for a LONG time. I owned an Amiga 1000 and 2500 back when Apple was getting all the glory for their machine / OS that were cr@p in comparison. (I still have them and they still work better for what I use them for)
...
The biggest reason I hate Apple has nothing whatsoever to do with the company themselves. Every time I hear some Apple fanatic spewing about how they are so much better than everyone else I want to reenact the scene from V where Donovan catches the alien without his eyes in. The difference here is that alien will be Steve Jobs. As far as I'm concerned he is as much of an a-hole as Bill Gates but he gets SO much more cred because Apple is now the underdog. Meanwhile Apple does as much as they can with the market power they have to try to be as much like Microsoft as they can.
Me? I live on a combination of Linux, BSD, AmigaOS and Windows boxes. I've had to keep some pretty powerful windows boxes around because Pro Tools and my other sound software don't run well in Linux / Wine and I'd rather die a burning death than have to deal with Apple's interface. Yep.. as stable as OSX may have become throwing *nix under the hood that didn't fix the fact I can't stand their interface. iPod? I have a Nomad Jukebox (made by a company that *used to have a monopoly on the Sound Interface business) It doesn't lock down my audio files and supports more formats and doesn't grab my machine by the nuts just to be able to sync audio. The only thing Apple did innovative with the iPod is take what Creative Labs did first and make it better and use their market influence to push it to their devoted followers. (too bad the original Nomad had a terrible interface and CL was relatively obscure when it came to buying stand-alone devices)
Google? I love Google but that doesn't change the fact they are quickly consolidating their own power grab on the universe.
I'm not going to throw the whole 'Corporations are evil' line out there.. that's overly simplistic hippy BS. The truth is that corporations (especially public ones) are ravenous entities that feed on growth (not $$ as is popularly believed) I could profit a cool $1B this year and my shareholders will be happy but if I *only profit $1B next year my stock price will plummet and people will be discussing the downfall of my organization. The problem is that what it takes to continually grow is eventually you're going to start bumping into and then consuming or destroying everything that is in your path. Those getting consumed or destroyed will always see this as evil whereas they who are doing it will call it either success or survival.
As much as I love a good round of detangling the ether.. I'm not exactly doing that everyday. Every sound gig resembles the following: Find the boxen/buckets of mic/power/adapter cables, untangle the mess left by the wank the night before, make a bad band sound good then untangle all those same cables from their gear and the beverages they have spilled throughout the night and just early enough that it has begun to congeal and stick and properly wrap to try to be nice the next shmoe unlike said wank from the night before.
Add to that a mix of christmas lights that some band thought would look cool and the raw wiring that's frays grab each other like teeny-boppers at a rave and you have a whole pile of fun on your hands 8}
I know Amiga didn't do this on one chip but the concept of having 'multiple processing cores' was what made the actual Amigas so cool (well that and a well done OS for the time). You had a main processing core that was a base 88K chip plus separate processors to handle the video and audio load. Made for a machine that ran circles around its contemporary competitors despite its slow main proc.
Isn't the new incarnation of Amigacorp planning on coming out with hardware again? A guy can dream..
The biggest reason I still keep some winblows around is the severe lack of Sound Processing software out there. Aside from webby activities the majority of time I spend on my home machines is doing wav editing and mastering live music performances.
..and *Please* correct me if there is good stuff out there. I would love to be wrong on this point but my searches have been fruitless.
Where's my Sound Forge or Goldwave or ProTools or anything for that matter for Linux? Back working in a research lab in Madison I was attempting to write some myself although I found documentation for audio hardware to be crap or unavailable. I really *have* to keep on using M$ until the big audio companies start looking Linux.
So how many 9s do we suppose Google has? (given the recent Interview)
99.99999999999999999???
In our company I've got a slightly more aggravating problem. We already had a mature piece of CRM software which had been developed in shop. Next our management decides that they really want a commercial product so they go out and purchase ACT (with the WiredContact package that allows for web use without client side software needs)
Did they ask us if we could add the requisite features to our existing sytem? No. Did they check to see if maintaining synchronicity between the two systems would be manageable? No.
ACT! does provide an API for communicating directly with the ACT database (which BTW looks kinda like an Access DB but really isn't) Unfortunately this API is in C so to access it from our Java code I need to write a semi massive amount of JNI. Not to mention the fact that synchronizing two systems that contain slightly different datasets presents all the usual problems of "Who's authoritative?" "Does maintenance have to be frozen on the old system to account for synchronicity?" "How often do you synch-up? Constant? Daily? etc."
We could have very easily added the additional features they wanted as well as coding a web interface for easy on the road access with significantly less expence than the ACT! package and built on top of an existing stable system that wouldn't have to deal with the sychronicity issues.
Management.. SMACK! ow.. I'll go back to my cave now.