I find it rather funny that the Linux code is well commented but the SVR4 code has little to no comments at all. Just because the function names are the same doesn't mean it was copied. It just means that the coders implemented functions with the same names (and I bet that the Linux versions worked rather differently than the original SVR4 code).
just speaking from my own experience. No matter where you are or what you are doing, if you mention that you work in the computer business you will shortly be flooded with questions on how to fix some odd problem they are seeing. I tend not to deal with M$ products all that much (other than to play games) and its easier for me to tell someone to go use xxx freeware or opensource application that I know will do what they need rather than to try and figure out what might be wrong with whatever crappy M$ application they might like to use.
I know that this might not be exactly what they are looking for, but at the same time they aren't paying me and if they want help they get it on my terms.
"Most Linux-only users use NFS, which does not have these security holes."
Yeah... it NFS just has plenty of holes of its own. I would be the first to say that I think that SMBFS is crap, but NFS isn't the network filesystem that we should be holding up as a good system to emulate.
It just seems a tad ironic that a part of the kernel that makes linux more compatable with MS Windows is again the root cause of more security problems. All the more reason to ban SMBFS from my home network.
I would be quite happy if just the window focus would follow to wherever I was looking. Can't say how many times I have typed important things like "reboot" or "rm -rf foo" in the wrong window just because my window focus didn't magically follow where I was looking. If they could get around to just doing that then maybe the days of "focus follows mouse" would be over.
I own a neuros and use it just about every day. A while back I saw some info on making digital recordings with the neuros on their forum. The line in on the neuros is unpowered and you would want a good powered mic with preamp.
I happen to work in a facility that has large had both large supercomputers (cray t3e, j90, sgi) and linux and *nix based clusters (beowulf/linux, compaq/Tru64). The Cray CTO is correct that you can't just call every linux cluster out there HPC. Just about anyone with networking and linux knowledge can build a linux cluster.
What really makes a difference between an HPC cluster and your normal every day cluster is the hardware interconnects used. There is a comment in the artical that refers to not using I/O for memory and message passing. I am not quite sure what he means by that, but I am guessing that he is saying that the network is not used for shared memory/message passing (MPI/openMP/SHMEM).
If a cluster can limit the impact of latency between nodes either through smarter software or faster interconnects then I can't see any reason not to concider a linux cluster as HPC.
Clusters without smarter software tend to be a real difficult coding platforms. Some developments with things like globally shared memory might make the difference, but there will still be the problem of latency between nodes.
well... I have shown all of the Miyazaki films I can get my hands on to my younger cousins and it has kept them out of their parent's hair for over an hour.
Not to mention I think that the deeper messages and far better art presented in these films compared to the standard Disney fare completely blows Micky out of the water.
I personally think that Disney doesn't market the japanese animation that they have licensed because they get a bigger chunk of profit out of their own movies. That and they are afraid of tarnishing thier image by having something controversial show up in one of these films. Hell... they don't even really put their name on the dvd's they were selling at first... they were them under a subsidiary (BuenaVista I think).
Spirited away didn't even get put in more than a couple of theaters until after it had won an oscar and then it seemed that Disney grudgenly re-released it to theaters.
As for the merchandise angle, I think that Totoro stuffed animals would do well with younger kids. The other films would be a little more difficult I agree, but there are things (like the wood spirits in Mononoke) that could do ok. Sure, you aren't going to make sequals direct to dvd/vhs, but I think you get more bang for your buck (in the longer films). Hey... how about a Porco Rosso flying pig toy... that could work:-)
I am not so convinced in that. Disney seems to have the ability to sit back and buy whatever they want. It all depends on how they plan to market things.
Case in point, Disney owns all the rights to the Miyazaki films here in the US. They could probably make quite a bit of money by leaching off of them by re-releasing them in the theaters and re-hyping them. Too bad they won't however since all they want to release is cheap crappy animation with a soundtrack by Phil Collins or Elton John.
Well... I doubt that the $199 Walmart Microtel machine will have a simple easy to use web gui for setting up all of the services that this system offers (DNS, DHCP, NFS/SAMBA, etc). It also looks like it will function as a simple firewall. This pretty much looks sort of like a linksys firwall box just that it has a hard drive that you can use as a file server.
One thing is that I can't seem to find any pricing info on one of these boxes. It may not be suited all that well for someone who could build all of these features into a cheap linux box on their own, but might do well for a small business owner that doesn't know the low level knowledge of configuring dns/dhcp but has the need for a firewall/fileserver.
Yeah... I would suspect this as well (but you never know... they really could be that stupid).
It does bring up however, that one of the biggest risks to networks that are secured is people using laptops that move around to unsecured networks. If there are no measures to firewall laptops off from the rest of the network then its just about as bad as not having a firewall at all.
It seems that the neuros online store doesn't even have the player in stock at the moment and when I tried to use their secure page it seems to hate mozilla.... you would think they would want my money or something, but no...
Its a little campy, but I like Michael Stackpole's writing. His most recent series (which I believe he calls the DragonCrown War Cycle) is a series of four books (at least just four planned so far). So far three of the books are in print:
The Grand Crusade [most likely due out in Nov 2003]
I got turned on to Michael Stackpole when I was in my Battletech phase (if anyone plays this game you probably know Michael from the novels and the game materials). He has just started writing Mechwarrior novels once again as well.
Another of my recent favorites is Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel trilogy. Good writing, interesting story line (more of an alternate history/universe than fantasy in my mind). The trilogy:
Some people would probably call them trash, but I also like the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novels (and the other stories in the same world) by Laurell K. Hamilton. I think the best description of the world would be a R-rated Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Its a fun read. A good fan site can be found here: http://www.laurellkhamilton.org/
hmm... I wonder if it will be kosher...
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Seriously, I wonder if my jewish friends will be able to partake of the grown meat. I mean, it does not have cloven hooves or chew cud when it was grown in a vat.
Any Rabbi's out there want to give this a shot?
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What about healing himself? That was one of the major themes. Prot at on point mentions this.
heh.... little do you know that Transformers was
originally done in Japan:)
If you want to compare good anime verses animation done by disney I think you should take a look at some of Miyazaki's movies (Nausica of the Valley of the Wind, Laputa, Porco Roso). Any of his movies would put any but some of the very oldest disney movies to shame.
I know that this will most likely not change your mind about the subject of anime, but from some of the comments that you have made it is clear that you have had exposure to the darker side of anime (the half that more in common with porn). If Urotsokudoji is all that you have seen from the genre (I don't believe that it is just any other genre... more like a set of sub-genres) you would see that anime is much more than character drawings of guys with "six dicks".
Take for instance Lain. Lain's subject matter has more in common with scifi movies like The Matrix than with porn. Lain has little if any sexual content. In fact I think Trinity and Neo are more overtly sexual in several scenes than in any scene from the entire 13 episodes of Lain.
I think what is so special about anime is that it tends to be very diverse. You name a genre and I bet that you could find an anime title that would fit right in. Yes the/. contributors and editors tend to concentrate on anime titles that have most in common with scifi and fantasy, but there are plenty of other titles out there that don't fit into either of those genres (take for instace many of the anime movies directed by Miyazaki).
one last parting shot... when was the last time you saw an american movie that did a cyberpunk theme that did not turn into a "shoot'em up"?
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I find it rather funny that the Linux code is well commented but the SVR4 code has little to no comments at all. Just because the function names are the same doesn't mean it was copied. It just means that the coders implemented functions with the same names (and I bet that the Linux versions worked rather differently than the original SVR4 code).
The site referenced in the article is already giving out 503's. Here is a google cache of the page:
w ww.qbrundage.com/michaelb/pubs/essays/working_at_m icrosoft.html+&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=fir efox
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:ILiHKIGJa_oJ:
and no mac version either. I guess I shouldn't complain since it is free, but maybe someone will do a port some day.
just speaking from my own experience. No matter where you are or what you are doing, if you mention that you work in the computer business you will shortly be flooded with questions on how to fix some odd problem they are seeing. I tend not to deal with M$ products all that much (other than to play games) and its easier for me to tell someone to go use xxx freeware or opensource application that I know will do what they need rather than to try and figure out what might be wrong with whatever crappy M$ application they might like to use.
I know that this might not be exactly what they are looking for, but at the same time they aren't paying me and if they want help they get it on my terms.
Its a little odd that this article would be posted without a note that Firefox 1.0.3 has just been released: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1 .0.3.html
I would like to know why the decision was made to not give Zephod the second head and third arm (as was in the radio show, tv and books).
Granted that these weren't really all that important to the story line, but they did have some jokes that were related.
"Most Linux-only users use NFS, which does not have these security holes."
Yeah... it NFS just has plenty of holes of its own. I would be the first to say that I think that SMBFS is crap, but NFS isn't the network filesystem that we should be holding up as a good system to emulate.
It just seems a tad ironic that a part of the kernel that makes linux more compatable with MS Windows is again the root cause of more security problems. All the more reason to ban SMBFS from my home network.
I would be quite happy if just the window focus would follow to wherever I was looking. Can't say how many times I have typed important things like "reboot" or "rm -rf foo" in the wrong window just because my window focus didn't magically follow where I was looking. If they could get around to just doing that then maybe the days of "focus follows mouse" would be over.
I own a neuros and use it just about every day. A while back I saw some info on making digital recordings with the neuros on their forum. The line in on the neuros is unpowered and you would want a good powered mic with preamp.
Try taking a look at the forum yourself.
Is this counting the spare battery (or does the spare only kick in after 8 hours)?
I happen to work in a facility that has large had both large supercomputers (cray t3e, j90, sgi) and linux and *nix based clusters (beowulf/linux, compaq/Tru64). The Cray CTO is correct that you can't just call every linux cluster out there HPC. Just about anyone with networking and linux knowledge can build a linux cluster.
What really makes a difference between an HPC cluster and your normal every day cluster is the hardware interconnects used. There is a comment in the artical that refers to not using I/O for memory and message passing. I am not quite sure what he means by that, but I am guessing that he is saying that the network is not used for shared memory/message passing (MPI/openMP/SHMEM).
If a cluster can limit the impact of latency between nodes either through smarter software or faster interconnects then I can't see any reason not to concider a linux cluster as HPC.
Clusters without smarter software tend to be a real difficult coding platforms. Some developments with things like globally shared memory might make the difference, but there will still be the problem of latency between nodes.
well... I have shown all of the Miyazaki films I can get my hands on to my younger cousins and it has kept them out of their parent's hair for over an hour.
:-)
Not to mention I think that the deeper messages and far better art presented in these films compared to the standard Disney fare completely blows Micky out of the water.
I personally think that Disney doesn't market the japanese animation that they have licensed because they get a bigger chunk of profit out of their own movies. That and they are afraid of tarnishing thier image by having something controversial show up in one of these films. Hell... they don't even really put their name on the dvd's they were selling at first... they were them under a subsidiary (BuenaVista I think).
Spirited away didn't even get put in more than a couple of theaters until after it had won an oscar and then it seemed that Disney grudgenly re-released it to theaters.
As for the merchandise angle, I think that Totoro stuffed animals would do well with younger kids. The other films would be a little more difficult I agree, but there are things (like the wood spirits in Mononoke) that could do ok. Sure, you aren't going to make sequals direct to dvd/vhs, but I think you get more bang for your buck (in the longer films). Hey... how about a Porco Rosso flying pig toy... that could work
I am not so convinced in that. Disney seems to have the ability to sit back and buy whatever they want. It all depends on how they plan to market things.
Case in point, Disney owns all the rights to the Miyazaki films here in the US. They could probably make quite a bit of money by leaching off of them by re-releasing them in the theaters and re-hyping them. Too bad they won't however since all they want to release is cheap crappy animation with a soundtrack by Phil Collins or Elton John.
yep... a torrent for this sure would be nice.
Well... I doubt that the $199 Walmart Microtel machine will have a simple easy to use web gui for setting up all of the services that this system offers (DNS, DHCP, NFS/SAMBA, etc). It also looks like it will function as a simple firewall. This pretty much looks sort of like a linksys firwall box just that it has a hard drive that you can use as a file server.
One thing is that I can't seem to find any pricing info on one of these boxes. It may not be suited all that well for someone who could build all of these features into a cheap linux box on their own, but might do well for a small business owner that doesn't know the low level knowledge of configuring dns/dhcp but has the need for a firewall/fileserver.
Yeah... I would suspect this as well (but you never know... they really could be that stupid).
It does bring up however, that one of the biggest risks to networks that are secured is people using laptops that move around to unsecured networks. If there are no measures to firewall laptops off from the rest of the network then its just about as bad as not having a firewall at all.
Actually... if you know anything about scientific computing you would want fortran (believe me I know...)
It seems that the neuros online store doesn't even have the player in stock at the moment and when I tried to use their secure page it seems to hate mozilla.... you would think they would want my money or something, but no...
Everyone thinks of her Miles Vorkosigan/Naismith series, but I recently read one of her fantasy novels and I found it quite enjoyable.
Check out The Curse of Chalion. Supposedly there is a sequel coming out later this year entitled: Paladin of Souls.
A good site for Bujold can be found at http://www.dendarii.com/.
Its a little campy, but I like Michael Stackpole's writing. His most recent series (which I believe he calls the DragonCrown War Cycle) is a series of four books (at least just four planned so far). So far three of the books are in print:
I got turned on to Michael Stackpole when I was in my Battletech phase (if anyone plays this game you probably know Michael from the novels and the game materials). He has just started writing Mechwarrior novels once again as well.
Another of my recent favorites is Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel trilogy. Good writing, interesting story line (more of an alternate history/universe than fantasy in my mind). The trilogy:
Some people would probably call them trash, but I also like the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novels (and the other stories in the same world) by Laurell K. Hamilton. I think the best description of the world would be a R-rated Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Its a fun read. A good fan site can be found here: http://www.laurellkhamilton.org/
Seriously, I wonder if my jewish friends will be able to partake of the grown meat. I mean, it does not have cloven hooves or chew cud when it was grown in a vat.
Any Rabbi's out there want to give this a shot?
What about healing himself? That was one of the major themes. Prot at on point mentions this.
heh.... little do you know that Transformers was :)
originally done in Japan
If you want to compare good anime verses animation done by disney I think you should take a look at some of Miyazaki's movies (Nausica of the Valley of the Wind, Laputa, Porco Roso). Any of his movies would put any but some of the very oldest disney movies to shame.
I know that this will most likely not change your mind about the subject of anime, but from some of the comments that you have made it is clear that you have had exposure to the darker side of anime (the half that more in common with porn). If Urotsokudoji is all that you have seen from the genre (I don't believe that it is just any other genre... more like a set of sub-genres) you would see that anime is much more than character drawings of guys with "six dicks".
/. contributors and editors tend to concentrate on anime titles that have most in common with scifi and fantasy, but there are plenty of other titles out there that don't fit into either of those genres (take for instace many of the anime movies directed by Miyazaki).
Take for instance Lain. Lain's subject matter has more in common with scifi movies like The Matrix than with porn. Lain has little if any sexual content. In fact I think Trinity and Neo are more overtly sexual in several scenes than in any scene from the entire 13 episodes of Lain.
I think what is so special about anime is that it tends to be very diverse. You name a genre and I bet that you could find an anime title that would fit right in. Yes the
one last parting shot... when was the last time you saw an american movie that did a cyberpunk theme that did not turn into a "shoot'em up"?