One problem they run into is finding a hard-drive manufacturer that still produces low capacity drives. Hard drive makers end of life series of hard drives as time goes on. It costs them money to maintain multiple designs of hard drives, so they tend to only keep a few in production at any given time.
But with the almost guaranteed sales associated with the X-Box, I could see a hard-drive manufacturer bending over backwards for MS.
I wonder if SourceForge will ever move from CVS over to subversion. Maybe they could setup a temp program to allow people choose which way they use. The benefits subversion brings to OSS soruce control is really amazing.
But it is hard to say how well subversion would handle the load. I'm guessing sf.net has done a lot of tweaking to get CVS to handle the number of projects they currently have, and moving everyone over... or just supporting both, is greater than the effort they want to put in.
I'd have to agree that all those little popups that you get from different applications are really a bother; you get side tracked from what you are doing, and then getting back to what you were doing takes a minute or 2, or longer depending on what you were doing. This time tends to add up quickly.
I make it a point, with any program that has popup or notifications of any kind, I do my best to turn them off. Like Outlook 2000. It has a sound beep and an Icon that appears in the systray when you get new mail. Well, disable the sounds, and set Windows to always hide that new email icon (You can't turn off the notification in Outlook 2000, but you can in 2003).
The information the provide is nice, but I'm busy right now, get back to me when I'm not trying to figure out why this code is seg faulting 56 hours into a a 72 hour test.
People tend to get confused and think that what IGE is doing is illegal, when it is not. What IGE does is against the Terms that you agree to when you play the game. From the terms I have read from a few MMORPGs that I have played, the only way they will/can do to you is cancel your account. And it is rare that they will even do this.
It is rather hard to prove that any single player is involved in the sale of in-game money. The only for sure way I've ever heard of would be to have the company (Like Blizzard), buying money from a site like IGE, then when the money is delivered, they cancel the account of the person who sent them the money. I don't see many game developers doing this.
Plus, IGE is only the middleman in the deal. IGE doesn't have anyone directly work for them that farms money to be able to sell to other players. IGE pays people as those people sell the money to IGE, then IGE sells that money to some other person. This makes it even harder for them to get caught.
I've done some work in the HPC (High Performance Computing) field, and for a lot of the applications in research, you only need that much CPU power once. I did some coding that I had run on NERSC, and I can see the use of this for private companies (NERSC is owned by the Department of Energy).
This is what I've seen of people doing research type work. The researchers will have a smaller cluster always available to then (2 to 16 node setup), that they use for all their initial development of the application. But when they need to run the program for real, doing their full calculation, they would farm it out to some big system like NERSC. The scheduling systems these kinda of systems have tend to do a really good job at scheduling workloads, and the wait tends to be minimal.
I think this is a good idea for companies that don't want to build their own grid. The cost of the computers might not be a lot, but if you have an application that requires a lot of communication between systems, you need a really good interconnect system (such as InfiniBand) cost a lot of money to setup. You could spend as much on a good interconnect system as you do on all your computers, if not more.
Could someone reply with the times of the crashes in that video? Some people are talking about multiple BSODs and other weird things happening. It would be nice to know when these happen so we could just skip to the good stuff.
The company I work for does the exact same thing. When they need to hire someone, but they can't get the upper level people to create a rec for a new job, they will bring you on as a contractor. We have a contracting company that you actually work for, and then we pay the company who will then pay the contractor.
Some people in my company went for a little over 2 years as a contractor, others went for 9 months, some for 3 months. It all depends on the state of the company and what they are able to get upper level manager to sign for.
My company has hired fulltime everyone they told they would move from a contractor. The contracting company provided healthcare, and even hard 401k. It was a pretty good deal.
Check out http://www.sgi.com/products/storage/ for some more info about the storage they are using. For those that don't want to wander around the site, there is a link under the picture of the storage array that says "Watch a Video" and it gives an overview of the technology that SGI uses in their storage solution.
They use tape storage from Storage Tek like this one And harddrive storage from Engenio (formally LSI Logic Storage Systems) like this.
Another project with a lot of Documentation
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This is an amazing stat program that is open source with a lot of documentation backing it up.
Some of the documentation you can download: An Introduction to R (approx. 100 pages, 650kB) The R Reference Index (approx. 2300 pages, 12MB)
Also, under their contributed documentation section, they have the documents sepearted by "Documents with more than 100 pages" and "Documents with less than 100 pages".
In the article, it talked about Teradata providing their data storage. Teradata is more of a solution provider then a maker of storage systems. http://www.engenio.com/default.aspx?pageID=394
These are from the comments on the torrent page for KNOPPIX
* V3.4-2004-05-03 (experimental) - switched from syslinux to isolinux (no emulation) boot method - Kernel 2.4.26 (default) and Kernel 2.6.5 (as boot option) with ACPI enabled (use knoppix acpi=off in case of problems, knoppix26 to try Kernel 2.6) - New wireless drivers for: ipw2100 ("Centrino"(TM)), madwifi, hostap - captive-ntfs installer - live-installer by Fabian Franz - KDE 3.2.2 - kdevelop3 - OpenOffice 1.1.1 (german and english) - gimp 2.0 - Had to remove the entire latex system (101MB) because of space reasons - Removed KOffice for the same reason -/dev/modem setup tool supporting serial, USB, bluetooth and irda devices - gprs connection tool - lots of improvements in the hardware detection and new boot options, please check knoppix-cheatcodes.txt.
Many spammers hijack other peoples email accounts, or use fake/stolen credit cards to get email address from big providers (like Earthlink).
So this same person will go on Earthlink with their stole credit card, rack up some huge postal bill on the credit card from all the spam he/she sends out, but never actually get stuck with the bill.
Hacking/backdoors would also become more predominate on people computers, so the hacker/spammer can spam from valid email addresses without getting charged. This would just cause more problems then already exist.
My sister has been married for 8 years or so now, and I've seen her and her husband play a lot of games together (as I've joined in on some).
Warcraft 3 was actually a popular one for them. They would not play the actual game but the custome maps that people would make. There were a lot of team co-op kind of maps for that, and they really enjoyed it.
The game they are on now is Final Fantasy 11. Long ago my sister played Ultima Online when it first came out, since then she has not played another MMORPG. She ended up getting FFXI right around when it came out. After my bro-in-law watcher her play it, she went out and bought it (within a week). They now play together on the same server in the same party. I know just this weekend they spent an entire day not even leaving their computer room.
Team orriented games seem to be the most popular for them, especially ones where it is not uber fast-pased.
G4TV did a half-hour segment talking about this game. It does seem really sweet. The company that makes this game was founded back in 2000 by 3 guys that used to work at Midway (and had been for a while). They were doing arcade games and knew the market for them was dieing, so the took a leap of faith and started their own company. They then got the funding behind the project and just went to town.
It seems to follow most other basic FPSes out there are far as style, but they did it in an innovative way. They've got lots of different weapons and such (like 14 I think), and some really cool features for when you are going through the missions (being able to re-program enemy machines to fight along side you, or you can sneak up on other robots, and "jack-in" to them and have total control).
It looks pretty sweet, I think it would be a fun "party" type game, like TimeSplitters 2. Gamecube and X-Box have up to 4 person multiplayer, 2 person on PS2... not sure if you can link consoles together or not. They have all the different multiplayer modes that most of the other FPS console games have.
Huh, I don't know. It crashed it when I clicked straight through this time. Maybe different versions of Moz? I am running Mozilla 1.4 on both a WinXP and Linux, and it crashes on both.
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One problem they run into is finding a hard-drive manufacturer that still produces low capacity drives. Hard drive makers end of life series of hard drives as time goes on. It costs them money to maintain multiple designs of hard drives, so they tend to only keep a few in production at any given time.
But with the almost guaranteed sales associated with the X-Box, I could see a hard-drive manufacturer bending over backwards for MS.
I wonder if SourceForge will ever move from CVS over to subversion. Maybe they could setup a temp program to allow people choose which way they use. The benefits subversion brings to OSS soruce control is really amazing.
But it is hard to say how well subversion would handle the load. I'm guessing sf.net has done a lot of tweaking to get CVS to handle the number of projects they currently have, and moving everyone over... or just supporting both, is greater than the effort they want to put in.
Maybe some day...
I'd have to agree that all those little popups that you get from different applications are really a bother; you get side tracked from what you are doing, and then getting back to what you were doing takes a minute or 2, or longer depending on what you were doing. This time tends to add up quickly.
I make it a point, with any program that has popup or notifications of any kind, I do my best to turn them off. Like Outlook 2000. It has a sound beep and an Icon that appears in the systray when you get new mail. Well, disable the sounds, and set Windows to always hide that new email icon (You can't turn off the notification in Outlook 2000, but you can in 2003).
The information the provide is nice, but I'm busy right now, get back to me when I'm not trying to figure out why this code is seg faulting 56 hours into a a 72 hour test.
People tend to get confused and think that what IGE is doing is illegal, when it is not. What IGE does is against the Terms that you agree to when you play the game. From the terms I have read from a few MMORPGs that I have played, the only way they will/can do to you is cancel your account. And it is rare that they will even do this.
It is rather hard to prove that any single player is involved in the sale of in-game money. The only for sure way I've ever heard of would be to have the company (Like Blizzard), buying money from a site like IGE, then when the money is delivered, they cancel the account of the person who sent them the money. I don't see many game developers doing this.
Plus, IGE is only the middleman in the deal. IGE doesn't have anyone directly work for them that farms money to be able to sell to other players. IGE pays people as those people sell the money to IGE, then IGE sells that money to some other person. This makes it even harder for them to get caught.
It's a Fargate. Not a Stargate like from that movie, or the popular syndicated TV series.
I believe companies that back up the Mozilla foundation (financially) are in favor of the Mozilla suite at a whole.
Here's the fixed links:
http://www.nersc.gov/
http://www.intel.com/technology/infiniband/
I've done some work in the HPC (High Performance Computing) field, and for a lot of the applications in research, you only need that much CPU power once. I did some coding that I had run on NERSC, and I can see the use of this for private companies (NERSC is owned by the Department of Energy).
This is what I've seen of people doing research type work. The researchers will have a smaller cluster always available to then (2 to 16 node setup), that they use for all their initial development of the application. But when they need to run the program for real, doing their full calculation, they would farm it out to some big system like NERSC. The scheduling systems these kinda of systems have tend to do a really good job at scheduling workloads, and the wait tends to be minimal.
I think this is a good idea for companies that don't want to build their own grid. The cost of the computers might not be a lot, but if you have an application that requires a lot of communication between systems, you need a really good interconnect system (such as InfiniBand) cost a lot of money to setup. You could spend as much on a good interconnect system as you do on all your computers, if not more.
Could someone reply with the times of the crashes in that video? Some people are talking about multiple BSODs and other weird things happening. It would be nice to know when these happen so we could just skip to the good stuff.
The company I work for does the exact same thing. When they need to hire someone, but they can't get the upper level people to create a rec for a new job, they will bring you on as a contractor. We have a contracting company that you actually work for, and then we pay the company who will then pay the contractor.
Some people in my company went for a little over 2 years as a contractor, others went for 9 months, some for 3 months. It all depends on the state of the company and what they are able to get upper level manager to sign for.
My company has hired fulltime everyone they told they would move from a contractor.
The contracting company provided healthcare, and even hard 401k. It was a pretty good deal.
Check out http://www.sgi.com/products/storage/ for some more info about the storage they are using. For those that don't want to wander around the site, there is a link under the picture of the storage array that says "Watch a Video" and it gives an overview of the technology that SGI uses in their storage solution.
They use tape storage from Storage Tek like this one
And harddrive storage from Engenio (formally LSI Logic Storage Systems) like this.
"The R Project for Statistical Computing"
http://www.r-project.org/
This is an amazing stat program that is open source with a lot of documentation backing it up.
Some of the documentation you can download:
An Introduction to R (approx. 100 pages, 650kB)
The R Reference Index (approx. 2300 pages, 12MB)
Also, under their contributed documentation section, they have the documents sepearted by "Documents with more than 100 pages" and "Documents with less than 100 pages".
In the article, it talked about Teradata providing their data storage. Teradata is more of a solution provider then a maker of storage systems.
http://www.engenio.com/default.aspx?pageID=394
But to get an idea of the hardware they might have in there.
http://www.engenio.com/default.aspx?pageId=61
I'd guess something like that?
These are from the comments on the torrent page for KNOPPIX
/dev/modem setup tool supporting serial, USB, bluetooth and irda devices
* V3.4-2004-05-03 (experimental)
- switched from syslinux to isolinux (no emulation) boot method
- Kernel 2.4.26 (default) and Kernel 2.6.5 (as boot option) with ACPI enabled (use knoppix acpi=off in case of problems, knoppix26 to try Kernel 2.6)
- New wireless drivers for: ipw2100 ("Centrino"(TM)), madwifi, hostap
- captive-ntfs installer
- live-installer by Fabian Franz
- KDE 3.2.2
- kdevelop3
- OpenOffice 1.1.1 (german and english)
- gimp 2.0
- Had to remove the entire latex system (101MB) because of space reasons
- Removed KOffice for the same reason
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- gprs connection tool
- lots of improvements in the hardware detection and new boot options, please check knoppix-cheatcodes.txt.
Cool, thanks.
Where exactly is this add listed.. in the admin page.. or what? Be more specific if you could.
We have a research park that puts out crappy software, and we have riots too!
4 .pdf
http://www.iowastatedaily.com/galleries/pdf/04190
And to download the Windows 2014 Service Pack 2
KENADA!!!!
Many spammers hijack other peoples email accounts, or use fake/stolen credit cards to get email address from big providers (like Earthlink).
So this same person will go on Earthlink with their stole credit card, rack up some huge postal bill on the credit card from all the spam he/she sends out, but never actually get stuck with the bill.
Hacking/backdoors would also become more predominate on people computers, so the hacker/spammer can spam from valid email addresses without getting charged. This would just cause more problems then already exist.
My sister has been married for 8 years or so now, and I've seen her and her husband play a lot of games together (as I've joined in on some).
Warcraft 3 was actually a popular one for them. They would not play the actual game but the custome maps that people would make. There were a lot of team co-op kind of maps for that, and they really enjoyed it.
The game they are on now is Final Fantasy 11. Long ago my sister played Ultima Online when it first came out, since then she has not played another MMORPG. She ended up getting FFXI right around when it came out. After my bro-in-law watcher her play it, she went out and bought it (within a week). They now play together on the same server in the same party. I know just this weekend they spent an entire day not even leaving their computer room.
Team orriented games seem to be the most popular for them, especially ones where it is not uber fast-pased.
G4TV did a half-hour segment talking about this game. It does seem really sweet.
The company that makes this game was founded back in 2000 by 3 guys that used to work at Midway (and had been for a while). They were doing arcade games and knew the market for them was dieing, so the took a leap of faith and started their own company. They then got the funding behind the project and just went to town.
It seems to follow most other basic FPSes out there are far as style, but they did it in an innovative way. They've got lots of different weapons and such (like 14 I think), and some really cool features for when you are going through the missions (being able to re-program enemy machines to fight along side you, or you can sneak up on other robots, and "jack-in" to them and have total control).
It looks pretty sweet, I think it would be a fun "party" type game, like TimeSplitters 2. Gamecube and X-Box have up to 4 person multiplayer, 2 person on PS2... not sure if you can link consoles together or not. They have all the different multiplayer modes that most of the other FPS console games have.
MacJedi is completely right and needs to get that point across. Many of the experements that the Nazi's did are still sealed away.
X = Tabbed Browsing
X = Popup Blocker
X = Handles CSS properly
Huh, I don't know. It crashed it when I clicked straight through this time. Maybe different versions of Moz? I am running Mozilla 1.4 on both a WinXP and Linux, and it crashes on both.