Until a couple of months ago I was the Sr Linux Cluster admin for the research division of a major pharma company. Our cluster did just fine with GigE interconnectivity, without bottlenecking.
Make sure you tune your cluster subnet, adjusting window sizes, utilize jumbo frames, etc. Just the jump from 1500 MTU to jumbo frames made a HUUUUGE difference in performance, so spending a couple of days just tuning the network will make all the difference in the world.
HBO is obstructing me from recording Rome through the firewire port on my digital cable box. I'm legally permitted to time shift my viewing of the show, but technically obstructed by them. I see nothing wrong with downloading the torrent as I am an HBO subscriber. That might soon end, though.
The license is an agreement. If you don't like the terms, don't accept the license, and don't use the software.
There is a lot of crap out there about companies liking proprietary software because it gives them someone to sue when the software breaks catastrophically. That Microsoft has about a $40 billion dollar war chest, earned almost entirely through the sale of very broken software, pokes some big holes in that theory.
You're getting software for free. Don't bitch about indemnity in the license.
I had it out on eMule for awhile. I have the full SVCD-length video on my hard disk now. I'll have to edit out just the Cherokee bit and put that up. The Cherokee in question is not something that had $20,000 worth of upgrades done to it. No lift. A rear locker, offroad tires (small ones at that), and a confident & experienced driver.
Most people who have a bad impression of a Cherokee's abilities have never seen one riding on the Jeep trails. The Cherokee is no joke.
"I normally rollerblade for sport/exercise, but it is fairly unprofessional to show up in my workplace with the rather large and clunky traditional equipment."
If this is your excuse for not rollerblading, you're not likely to like anything anyone here has to pitch.
But honestly I think the problem is all in your head. I think if you had a backpack and stowed all your gear in the pack before walking in the door nobody could possibly object.
I'm a colonist that would be interested in paying for legal copies of Doctor Who.
Given the popularity of PVR devices, I think it would be lovely to have the ability to subscribe to Doctor Who. I pay a subscription fee for n episodes and when they are available for download, my MythTV or TiVo or whatever downloads them and makes them available to me.
The video download should be free of commercials and HDTV resolution (or better)... the UK equivilant of our 720p in the US. Bonus points if it's already available in NTSC format but I won't be upset if I have to re-encode it myself from PAL to NTSC.
Have a couple of MythTV backends archiving all of the major news networks, CSPAN, History Channel, Discovery Channel, PBS, etc. Instead of TV-based frontends, have some PC's with CRT's and headphones as frontends.
Not all CPU hours are the same. An hour on a moderately fast SPARC processor is not as valuable as a moderately fast Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron or a PowerPC.
Be careful. A utilikilt is more skirt than kilt in its construction. If you want a solid color kilt, there are more kilt-like garments out there that can be had for a fairer price, more custom-tailored, and in a shorter time period.
I like Pittsburgh Kilts, USA Kilts (tartan only), and AmeriKilt personally.
Your intel is outdated. Get thee to a VW dealership and test drive a TDI-powered Golf or Jetta. Not even a brand new one. Try one that's five years old that was traded in on a new one.
It works great. About a year ago I used LTSP on top of CentOS Linux to run a bunch of HP thin clients. I PXE booted the thin clients which worked great. You have to add a couple of options to the LTSP config file to work with the Via chipset on the HP thin client but it's a no brainer and works well.
whiteboxlinux.net used to be a community site for the WBEL distribution. The lead maintainer of the WBEL project, exhibiting the traits of some of the greatest people in FOSS, was a complete dickhead to work with and furthermore refused almost all offers of help. Said dickhead blasted the whiteboxlinux.net site, wrote it off as domain hijacking, and the site maintainer was lured away to work on CentOS which had a much stronger community behind it and very approachable project leadership.
WBEL was probably the first RHEL clone out with a 1.0 release but it's also a one man show. CentOS has a small army of people behind it so if one or two important people get hit by a bus, it will continue on without them.
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Until a couple of months ago I was the Sr Linux Cluster admin for the research division of a major pharma company. Our cluster did just fine with GigE interconnectivity, without bottlenecking.
Make sure you tune your cluster subnet, adjusting window sizes, utilize jumbo frames, etc. Just the jump from 1500 MTU to jumbo frames made a HUUUUGE difference in performance, so spending a couple of days just tuning the network will make all the difference in the world.
HBO is obstructing me from recording Rome through the firewire port on my digital cable box. I'm legally permitted to time shift my viewing of the show, but technically obstructed by them. I see nothing wrong with downloading the torrent as I am an HBO subscriber. That might soon end, though.
The license is an agreement. If you don't like the terms, don't accept the license, and don't use the software.
There is a lot of crap out there about companies liking proprietary software because it gives them someone to sue when the software breaks catastrophically. That Microsoft has about a $40 billion dollar war chest, earned almost entirely through the sale of very broken software, pokes some big holes in that theory.
You're getting software for free. Don't bitch about indemnity in the license.
Yugoslavian M59/66.
You can get them for under $100 if you know where to look.
When it runs out of consumables, it has a failover system that is quite effective.
"The vlc player alone has nice streaming support, but they also have separate streaming server"
Note that they recommend the use of vlc now as a server as opposed to vls. vlc has exceeded the capabilities of vls.
Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
I had it out on eMule for awhile. I have the full SVCD-length video on my hard disk now. I'll have to edit out just the Cherokee bit and put that up. The Cherokee in question is not something that had $20,000 worth of upgrades done to it. No lift. A rear locker, offroad tires (small ones at that), and a confident & experienced driver.
Most people who have a bad impression of a Cherokee's abilities have never seen one riding on the Jeep trails. The Cherokee is no joke.
"Throw away that Cherokee POS. It's not as good "out in the sticks" as an F-150 with decent tires anyway."
I've got some great video footage from Kodak Rock in Uwharrie Nat'l Forest that would take that line of BS and throw it right out the window.
"I normally rollerblade for sport/exercise, but it is fairly unprofessional to show up in my workplace with the rather large and clunky traditional equipment."
If this is your excuse for not rollerblading, you're not likely to like anything anyone here has to pitch.
But honestly I think the problem is all in your head. I think if you had a backpack and stowed all your gear in the pack before walking in the door nobody could possibly object.
Magnatune is a great place to check out for alternative distribution. They won't take "just anybody", though. But it's worth looking into.
...will be one of those rare above-water ones.
I'm a colonist that would be interested in paying for legal copies of Doctor Who.
Given the popularity of PVR devices, I think it would be lovely to have the ability to subscribe to Doctor Who. I pay a subscription fee for n episodes and when they are available for download, my MythTV or TiVo or whatever downloads them and makes them available to me.
The video download should be free of commercials and HDTV resolution (or better)... the UK equivilant of our 720p in the US. Bonus points if it's already available in NTSC format but I won't be upset if I have to re-encode it myself from PAL to NTSC.
Imagine a series of acrylic columns, each filled with water or some other fluid. Bubbles are gently percolating in each column (when all is well).
Each column represents the network load on a given subnet.
As the network load rises on a subnet, the intensity of the bubbles increases.
Have a couple of MythTV backends archiving all of the major news networks, CSPAN, History Channel, Discovery Channel, PBS, etc. Instead of TV-based frontends, have some PC's with CRT's and headphones as frontends.
Not all CPU hours are the same. An hour on a moderately fast SPARC processor is not as valuable as a moderately fast Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron or a PowerPC.
...but you will get a bill for $300 per hour for it.
There's no such thing as a "Zero Emission Vehicle".
Wrong.
Be careful. A utilikilt is more skirt than kilt in its construction. If you want a solid color kilt, there are more kilt-like garments out there that can be had for a fairer price, more custom-tailored, and in a shorter time period.
I like Pittsburgh Kilts, USA Kilts (tartan only), and AmeriKilt personally.
"You mean been given the nickname "french-fry" by your neighbors??"
;-)
I wear a kilt every day, so I'm sure they have worse names for me than that.
Your intel is outdated. Get thee to a VW dealership and test drive a TDI-powered Golf or Jetta. Not even a brand new one. Try one that's five years old that was traded in on a new one.
Turbo-Diesel owners have been seeing numbers in this range, or better, for years.
Seems what the market needs is a diesel/electric hybrid to get numbers that will impress any diesel owners.
Otherwise most TDI Volkswagens have been able to outshine these numbers for years. Plus you can't run a Prius on used cooking oil.
It works great. About a year ago I used LTSP on top of CentOS Linux to run a bunch of HP thin clients. I PXE booted the thin clients which worked great. You have to add a couple of options to the LTSP config file to work with the Via chipset on the HP thin client but it's a no brainer and works well.
You expect him to agree with the review and say "Yeah. I fucked up. This movies sucks. Don't waste your money."?
Not very.
whiteboxlinux.net used to be a community site for the WBEL distribution. The lead maintainer of the WBEL project, exhibiting the traits of some of the greatest people in FOSS, was a complete dickhead to work with and furthermore refused almost all offers of help. Said dickhead blasted the whiteboxlinux.net site, wrote it off as domain hijacking, and the site maintainer was lured away to work on CentOS which had a much stronger community behind it and very approachable project leadership.
WBEL was probably the first RHEL clone out with a 1.0 release but it's also a one man show. CentOS has a small army of people behind it so if one or two important people get hit by a bus, it will continue on without them.