The problem with Sun hardware is that it's too awesome. Where I work we have two sun mainframes; nice and all, and I can occasionally blow peoples minds regarding the things that you can do with the system, but they cost more than all the rest of the crap in the server room combined, without providing the same level of performance.
The 25k is not a mainframe. It is a high-end server. I'm sorry but it had to be said.
I believe he meant to quote two different examples of things that aren't open source:
1. The browser plug-in (which they recently came out with a new version of, IIRC)
2. J2ME
Eh, Linux is ok on the desktop, but for servers, I really prefer FreeBSD.
Sometimes I get tired of that, and use NetBSD for a while. A short stint with NetBSD, Apache, Postgresql, and PHP usually refreshes me long enough so that I can FreeBSD, Apache, Postgresql, and PHP again. So, you FAPP, NAPP and then FAPP again?
They mean something else. FreeBSD implemented journaling at the block-device level. On top of it you can put any filesystem you want and both the metadata and data will be journaled.
UFS2+S implements soft updates which give pretty much the same benefits at the filesystem layer as journaling.
Using a plain background makes the recognition of the characters trivial.
You need a distorted pattern or noise on the background, otherwise it's just a matter of increasing the contrast on the image and those just-slightly distorted characters become easily detected by OCR software.
Actually, there are more than a couple of cuts. There are 9 cuts. (the length of a reel of film at the time was around 10 minutes)
Still, it was quite a technical feat at the time and it was very carefully cut (cuts take place at moments when the camera is zooming into an object or panning across it) to make it look like it was a single shot like the Parent said.
It doesn't need to be spinning constantly since data can be cached on the internal memory so it improves battery life on portable devices such as notebooks where a 15k rpm disk would drain your battery pretty quickly.
I called a couple of weeks ago because VxVM decided to break for no particular reason at all and disable the 257 disks on the diskgroup. 20 minutes on the phone with the guy who opened up the case ticket, and then 15 minutes of terribly lame music until I got to a tech.
And that's after saying "Yes, this is a production server and yes, there's a total outage."
This 80-core processor would probably also benefit from the is_computer_on_fire() syscall available on BeOS.
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While trying to install Nexenta GNU/OpenSolaris the installation kept failing for random reasons. The installer includes a console version of Tetris you can play while the software installs, I found out that playing it kept the installer from failing. That's what I call Computer Voodoo.
I'd argue that in the case of a computer playing chess, it was instructed how to play by humans.
A better analogy would be a computer that is able to take the rules of chess as it's only input and figure out how to play and beat humans on it's own.
We've been using Trac for at least half a year at the office and it's simply great.
You can browse projects from a Subversion repository, syntax-hightlighted and everything. Keep track of tickets/milestones. And of course, you have the wiki.
Our setup uses SVNManager + Trac for everything related to source control/documentation.
I use it for profiling big multi-threaded client/server applications and it usually comes in handy at spotting memory leaks and the bottlenecks in the code.
I use it with Delphi's native win32 compiler, but it supports a wide array of platforms. I believe it supports everything you need on.NET and the price tag is quite affordable.
I clicked on the monkey story, I wouldn't have clicked on any of the others except for the one that says "Turkey", then I would realize it isn't about the yummy bird and close it.
If I wanted to be up-to-date on the war on terrorism, Irak or whatever I would watch CNN, but I want to know about Monkeys so I read Slashdot.
My humble suggestion, stop submitting political stories and start looking for monkey stories. A turkey story would be nice too.
Obligatory monkey story:
I like Monkeys
The pet store was selling them for five cents a piece.
I thought this was odd since they were normally a couple thousand. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth so I bought 200 of them. I like monkeys.
I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one of them drive. His name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright. They kept punching themselves in the genitals. I laughed. They punched me in the genitals. I stopped laughing.
I herded them into my room. They didn't adapt very well to their new environment. They would screech and hurl themselves off the couch at high speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the spectacle lost its novelty halfway into it's third hour. Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive; they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sort of dropped dead. Kinda like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. God damn cheap monkeys.
I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my room; on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked like I had 200 throw rugs. I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It got stuck. Then I had one dead, wet monkey and one hundred ninety-nine dead, dry monkeys.
I tried to pretend that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real bad. I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in my toilet and I didn't want to call a plumber. I was embarrassed. I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortuantely there was only enough room for two at a time, so I had to change them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so it didn't go bad.
I tried to burn them, but little did I know that my bed was flammable. I had to extinguish the fire. Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in my freezer, and one hundred ninety-seven dead, charred monkeys in a pile on my bed.
The odor wasn't improving. I became agitated at my inability to dispose of the dead monkeys and I really had to use the bathroom. So I went and severely beat one of the monkeys. I felt better.
I tried throwing them away but the garbage man said the city was not allowed to dispose of charred primates. I told him I had a wet one. He couldn't take it either. I didn't bother asking about the frozen ones.
I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts. My friends didn't quite know what to say. They pretended to like them, but I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I punched them in the genitals.
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The 25k is not a mainframe. It is a high-end server. I'm sorry but it had to be said.
I believe he meant to quote two different examples of things that aren't open source:
1. The browser plug-in (which they recently came out with a new version of, IIRC)
2. J2ME
Can we move on now?
They mean something else. FreeBSD implemented journaling at the block-device level. On top of it you can put any filesystem you want and both the metadata and data will be journaled.
UFS2+S implements soft updates which give pretty much the same benefits at the filesystem layer as journaling.
You might want to look up the definition of UPnP.
The Olympus SW cameras are really great to take everywhere you go. You should check them out.
Using a plain background makes the recognition of the characters trivial.
You need a distorted pattern or noise on the background, otherwise it's just a matter of increasing the contrast on the image and those just-slightly distorted characters become easily detected by OCR software.
Excuse me but http://www.ruby-lang.org/ runs on Radiant CMS, which is written in ruby, not on php.
Actually, there are more than a couple of cuts. There are 9 cuts. (the length of a reel of film at the time was around 10 minutes)
Still, it was quite a technical feat at the time and it was very carefully cut (cuts take place at moments when the camera is zooming into an object or panning across it) to make it look like it was a single shot like the Parent said.
More info at Wikipedia.
I like editing my video over my 3270 emulator in binary.
It's really great. In a few more decades I'll have my first short film ready.
It doesn't need to be spinning constantly since data can be cached on the internal memory so it improves battery life on portable devices such as notebooks where a 15k rpm disk would drain your battery pretty quickly.
I called a couple of weeks ago because VxVM decided to break for no particular reason at all and disable the 257 disks on the diskgroup. 20 minutes on the phone with the guy who opened up the case ticket, and then 15 minutes of terribly lame music until I got to a tech.
And that's after saying "Yes, this is a production server and yes, there's a total outage."
Here in Buenos Aires IBM does the same thing, as well as shuttles from and to some urban areas.
I'm guessing similar services are available in other places as well
This 80-core processor would probably also benefit from the is_computer_on_fire() syscall available on BeOS.
While trying to install Nexenta GNU/OpenSolaris the installation kept failing for random reasons. The installer includes a console version of Tetris you can play while the software installs, I found out that playing it kept the installer from failing. That's what I call Computer Voodoo.
I'd argue that in the case of a computer playing chess, it was instructed how to play by humans.
A better analogy would be a computer that is able to take the rules of chess as it's only input and figure out how to play and beat humans on it's own.
We've been using Trac for at least half a year at the office and it's simply great.
You can browse projects from a Subversion repository, syntax-hightlighted and everything. Keep track of tickets/milestones. And of course, you have the wiki.
Our setup uses SVNManager + Trac for everything related to source control/documentation.
Check out AQTime.
I use it for profiling big multi-threaded client/server applications and it usually comes in handy at spotting memory leaks and the bottlenecks in the code.
I use it with Delphi's native win32 compiler, but it supports a wide array of platforms. I believe it supports everything you need on .NET and the price tag is quite affordable.
I know this is going to be modded -1, Offtopic but I really need to say it.
Best. Game. Ever.
In Latin America MSN Messenger uses you!
God no, your site already destroyed my life and now that I have it back you just had to pull me back in?
Why? Oh! Why?
*cries and stuff* *sigh* *plays lotgd*
Oh my, I meant to say BE, "we're all going to BE robots", NOT "DO robots" you sickos..
What about the ReadDoll (tm) of the future?
I clicked on the monkey story, I wouldn't have clicked on any of the others except for the one that says "Turkey", then I would realize it isn't about the yummy bird and close it.
If I wanted to be up-to-date on the war on terrorism, Irak or whatever I would watch CNN, but I want to know about Monkeys so I read Slashdot.
My humble suggestion, stop submitting political stories and start looking for monkey stories. A turkey story would be nice too.
Obligatory monkey story:
I like Monkeys
The pet store was selling them for five cents a piece.
I thought this was odd since they were normally a couple thousand. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth so I bought 200 of them. I like monkeys.
I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one of them drive. His name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright. They kept punching themselves in the genitals. I laughed. They punched me in the genitals. I stopped laughing.
I herded them into my room. They didn't adapt very well to their new environment. They would screech and hurl themselves off the couch at high speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the spectacle lost its novelty halfway into it's third hour. Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive; they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sort of dropped dead. Kinda like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. God damn cheap monkeys.
I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my room; on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked like I had 200 throw rugs. I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It got stuck. Then I had one dead, wet monkey and one hundred ninety-nine dead, dry monkeys.
I tried to pretend that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real bad. I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in my toilet and I didn't want to call a plumber. I was embarrassed. I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortuantely there was only enough room for two at a time, so I had to change them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so it didn't go bad.
I tried to burn them, but little did I know that my bed was flammable. I had to extinguish the fire. Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in my freezer, and one hundred ninety-seven dead, charred monkeys in a pile on my bed.
The odor wasn't improving. I became agitated at my inability to dispose of the dead monkeys and I really had to use the bathroom. So I went and severely beat one of the monkeys. I felt better.
I tried throwing them away but the garbage man said the city was not allowed to dispose of charred primates. I told him I had a wet one. He couldn't take it either. I didn't bother asking about the frozen ones.
I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts. My friends didn't quite know what to say. They pretended to like them, but I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I punched them in the genitals.
I like monkeys.
(DISCLAIMER: I am not the author of this story.)
Well, 3D Realms used to be Apogee... and they were the ones that payed id to make it, didn't they? It's something...
He could be using a browser with an ad-blocking feature or an ad-blocking proxy.