I am quite aware of their financial situation; however my bet still stands. I bet that slashdot.org will make it through 2003. If you are so certain, why don't you bet me? We can place money for a beer in escrow.
Re:The sysadmins sound so... disturbing.
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They shouldn't have given themselves away. It is clear from the description that these aren't real sysadmins at all.
I bet they don't even drink caffeinated coffee or have Big Ol' Programmers' Beards!
You can add to your list the HP calculators that were recently disconinued. I have a special part in my heart for the HP 48G. Now, the whole HP calc division has been dropped. To anyone ho has uesd one - they were much better than what TI had out at the same time. Unfortunately TI got all the schools hooked on TIs by giving them to teachers, giving large rebates, etc. and all you need to do is hook acedemia and you're in.
i should have mentioned that the BIOS is often the main limiting factor, not the OS.
ext2 is capable of 4TB maximum, with a max files size of 2TB. ext3 is the same, i belive.
ntfs has a theoretical max space limitation of 16 exabytes.
also note there are other limitations besides the theoretical limits... bios, interface, software, and max # of LUNs just to name a few. reliastically, a few terabytes is probably the ceiling for now for joe blow hardware.
actually, both windows and linux can theoretically support 2TB of data per server, possibly more by now. I have never tried THAT much on one server, but I do test 7TB disk arrays, and I am fairly certain the limit is still at 2TB for windows and linux. someone please correct me if i am wrong. i have never "tested" this fact, but thre is documentation of it if you are willing to look.
Oh okay. That makes sense. I remember the last theme park I went to developed all their film, and the majority of people didn't buy the pictures, yet they had to develop every picture anyways. I can see how digital cameras would very quickly pay for themselves in reducing the large amount of work and waste!
What would you have? Streaming images of beowulf clusters with their cases being removed, complete with 21" LCD monitors basking in a sauna heated by 3GHz Pentium 4's and large fibrechannel hard disk arrays?
Interesting. Would you mind telling me what kind of application you need that high of a resolution for (in a network/webcam)? 6 MP is a lot for a fixed camera! or are you doing remote photography for prints or something? I'm interested.
Not unless you want a network cable following the train everywhere! for that you would want a wireless 802.11b network camera... But that's an expensive train @ $300-$400 a pop!
The cheapest ones I can find are around $200 right now... Looks like maybe only another year or so of waiting before they become cheap enough for "fun project" cameras.
I think the thing that stops a lot of people from buying network cameras is that they are too expensive, so people only buy them when they are absolutely necessay. Otherwise, people just get an old machine they had laying around and hook it up to a webcam/video camera/digital camera.
I know I would like a couple network cams at my house, but the price is still beyond what I would pay for something I don't really need.
However, the 1.3mp is a plus - but you could probably get an old computer and an older 1.3mp camera for much cheaper. The only reason you would really need a network cam is if space was an issue. If there was ever one for sale for around $100, I would buy one. Until then, I just don't need one that bad.
Interesting that this one as well as all the axis ones run linux.
Exactly. I know a lot of it must come from printing money, but it is important to keep the debt as low as possible in order to not ultimately decrease the value of the dollar. It is not just some made up number that has no meaning.
Yeah. there is no reason not to try just because it wouldn't do much. By that rationale, why should I even get out of bed? I am not going to accomplish much today, so I may as well not even try.
Could you please express the amount of money in a currency we slashdotters could understand? We prefer either metric assloads or libraries of congress.
yes, thank you. when people compare macs to pcs, they need to compare apples to apples, or at least as close as possible (it gets a little grey with respect to processors and such).
You're kidding right? If you can find one cluless aol user that knows what darwin is, and can describe what the ppc and x86 architectures are, then I'll give you $5.
computer retards are not going to order this - why would they? The people that order this will be tinkerers that want to save a little time.
Slashdot Mirror
I am quite aware of their financial situation; however my bet still stands. I bet that slashdot.org will make it through 2003. If you are so certain, why don't you bet me? We can place money for a beer in escrow.
They shouldn't have given themselves away. It is clear from the description that these aren't real sysadmins at all.
I bet they don't even drink caffeinated coffee or have Big Ol' Programmers' Beards!
If you are serious, I will bet you whatever you want that slashdot will make it past 2003.
someone mod the parent up. An AC who is not smoking crack!
what would it be like to have a beowulf cluster in the same, compact box? that would br crazy!
You can add to your list the HP calculators that were recently disconinued. I have a special part in my heart for the HP 48G. Now, the whole HP calc division has been dropped. To anyone ho has uesd one - they were much better than what TI had out at the same time. Unfortunately TI got all the schools hooked on TIs by giving them to teachers, giving large rebates, etc. and all you need to do is hook acedemia and you're in.
i should have mentioned that the BIOS is often the main limiting factor, not the OS.
ext2 is capable of 4TB maximum, with a max files size of 2TB. ext3 is the same, i belive.
ntfs has a theoretical max space limitation of 16 exabytes.
also note there are other limitations besides the theoretical limits... bios, interface, software, and max # of LUNs just to name a few. reliastically, a few terabytes is probably the ceiling for now for joe blow hardware.
actually, both windows and linux can theoretically support 2TB of data per server, possibly more by now. I have never tried THAT much on one server, but I do test 7TB disk arrays, and I am fairly certain the limit is still at 2TB for windows and linux. someone please correct me if i am wrong. i have never "tested" this fact, but thre is documentation of it if you are willing to look.
it depends on what you are talking about. firewire is plenty fast for joe blow to do DV editing. it is fast enough for linear editing.
You sure do excel at taking things out of context! Are you in politics?
Oh okay. That makes sense. I remember the last theme park I went to developed all their film, and the majority of people didn't buy the pictures, yet they had to develop every picture anyways. I can see how digital cameras would very quickly pay for themselves in reducing the large amount of work and waste!
What would you have? Streaming images of beowulf clusters with their cases being removed, complete with 21" LCD monitors basking in a sauna heated by 3GHz Pentium 4's and large fibrechannel hard disk arrays?
And don't give him anymore ideas! That poor train is tattered enough!!
Interesting. Would you mind telling me what kind of application you need that high of a resolution for (in a network/webcam)? 6 MP is a lot for a fixed camera! or are you doing remote photography for prints or something? I'm interested.
Not unless you want a network cable following the train everywhere! for that you would want a wireless 802.11b network camera... But that's an expensive train @ $300-$400 a pop!
The cheapest ones I can find are around $200 right now... Looks like maybe only another year or so of waiting before they become cheap enough for "fun project" cameras.
here's a $200 after rebate camera, and the cool 802.11b ones start at around $300-$400. Yow!
I think the thing that stops a lot of people from buying network cameras is that they are too expensive, so people only buy them when they are absolutely necessay. Otherwise, people just get an old machine they had laying around and hook it up to a webcam/video camera/digital camera.
I know I would like a couple network cams at my house, but the price is still beyond what I would pay for something I don't really need.
However, the 1.3mp is a plus - but you could probably get an old computer and an older 1.3mp camera for much cheaper. The only reason you would really need a network cam is if space was an issue. If there was ever one for sale for around $100, I would buy one. Until then, I just don't need one that bad.
Interesting that this one as well as all the axis ones run linux.
Exactly. I know a lot of it must come from printing money, but it is important to keep the debt as low as possible in order to not ultimately decrease the value of the dollar. It is not just some made up number that has no meaning.
Yeah. there is no reason not to try just because it wouldn't do much. By that rationale, why should I even get out of bed? I am not going to accomplish much today, so I may as well not even try.
Dear Sir,
Could you please express the amount of money in a currency we slashdotters could understand? We prefer either metric assloads or libraries of congress.
Thank you,
slashdot
here is a full mirror with all the pictures for your enjoyment. it's not running IIS, so there is no way in the world we can slashdot it!
mirror
I contacted him for a mirror, so feel free to slashdot my univerity's lowly linux server:
Behold, here is a mirror
actually, someone IS holding a gun up to my head, forcing me to read every comment and post, you insensitive clod!
yes, thank you. when people compare macs to pcs, they need to compare apples to apples, or at least as close as possible (it gets a little grey with respect to processors and such).
You're kidding right? If you can find one cluless aol user that knows what darwin is, and can describe what the ppc and x86 architectures are, then I'll give you $5.
computer retards are not going to order this - why would they? The people that order this will be tinkerers that want to save a little time.