about when the "Internet" first took it's baby steps.
How about when DARPA officially earmarked the money to start the research program? Anyone want to hazard a guess when that was, exactly?
Something I learned in English class:
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Use the present or active tense as much as possible. Never the future or the past tense. Future tense implies uncertainty. Past tense implies rationalization. Present tense exhibits a certain confidence in whatever statement you are making; whether this confidence is due to a strong position or a strong will.
Probably because securing XDMCP and figuring out xauth is not exactly simple. If OSX's X11 came with XDMCP disabled and a local unix socket only for making connection (otherwise proxied through ssh) it would be cool. I don't suppose that's the default... -_-
But it still kinda sucks (really). Anything really powerful is tied up in the expensive IAS product. Contrast to apache/tomcat and related tools. All free, and you don't need an expensive server license for your machine.
Why anyone would want to use it except to expose a COM object with XML-RPC or something is beyond me.
You don't use an administrator account. You log in as yourself, and use Run As... You could set up multiple Run-As users with varying levels of access if you wanted. The only thing Windows lacks is the concept of a "wheel" group, users who can't even try using a switch-user command.
Having a linux kernel running as a layer on top of a JVM is kinda useless since it's designed to run some sort of native binaries. So the question becomes: which target architecture do you then emulate in the JVM to accomodate the user space programs, or do you force all userland apps to be java bytecode as well? Then what's the point? Just use straight java on the JVM.
Really, more useful would be a full-fledged java-based x86 or whatever simulator with emulated hardware that a kernel would target. Then any standard propietary binaries could run in that, and even be migrated across an java cluster.
Here I am, thinking with all this doom and gloom RFID fear tinfoil-hat nonsense on slashdot any time the subject comes up, that everyone is already WELL educated on the subject. So much so that posting this article would be redundant...
A lesson for you people: it's not the end of the world.
... that is a bunch of "service nodes" will be lashed together into an SSI. These all run their modified SuSE. So if you have two I/O nodes and two login nodes and 4 Network nodes, that might be an "8-way" SUSE image. They communicate with other lashed-together service nodes with Luster. The compute nodes are part of a huge loosely coupled SSI running the microkernel... which are submitted jobs by one the SSIs running on the service nodes.
Someone correct me if I'm off the mark here.
Also, eye for expandability...
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By "limiting" themselves to the 1xx opterons, they could move to 2xx or 8xx later on. It'd then be easy enough to connect 8 or 12-way by hooking up more interconnects per board, adding a second CPU on each board, etc. etc. by utilizing the additional HT links. And then when the dual cores come out... hehehe.
Active / 100% CPU usage vs. Screensaver.
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Errr... No computer in existance runs a screen saver because the CPU usage is less than 100%. Desktop computers run screen savers to prevent a still image from burning onto your monitor or LCD (or to lock the terminal if it thinks you've left). This has everything to do with no use of mouse or keyboard, not CPU usage.
When any computer has nothing to do in a timeslice, it generally calls the HALT instruction, which puts it into a low power state until a timer interrupt or something comes along and wakes it up to do something else.
This is why CPUs that are idle generally take less power than one running Prime95 or 128 of them rendering a 3d movie.
No one does trig with x87 anyway.
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You're supposed to use lookup tables, recurrence relations and interative refinement to get the precision you need when you need it. The only time you should be using fsincos (SLOW) is when you need to build a table or populate variables accurately before a loop.
The schools who placed highest were the ones who filled in the surveys most convincingly (or filled them in at all).
Most of that stuff on the survey is bullshit. There's no concept of bandwidth, density, etc., just mostly a buzzword bingocard (and no scoring rubric).
The IBM stuff comes as an SDK/dev kit he could wrap or configure to make it look like his own technology. The vxmPlayer JAR is stripped of all identifiable text or symbols. But the performance and quality suggests the IBM tech demo using an H263 stream. I can't easily verify the stream either: the player takes a parameter which contains a URL which is encoded somehow (probably with a key within the player itself)... and I'm too lazy right now to set up ethereal and capture it on the fly....
Just listen to the guy sleaze and backpedal around his stupidity.
He tried it once with PDF2HTML, and now he's doing it with PearPC. Anyone wanna bet VX30 is some sort of code ripped out of a university project, or IBM's mpeg4 on java or Fluendo or something?::shakes head::
If you buy an MSI or ASUS (or Tyan but that's pricey) AMD mobo you're pretty much guaranteed good and stable performance. You'll never see a SiS chipset, and you'll only find the most stable implementations of Via, AMD or more recently, Nvidia chipsets therein.
Because HP/Compaq, Gateway and Dell motherboards AND cases are ALL MADE IN TAIWAN. Laptops too.
But almost none of the desktop systems have any custom-made parts besides the power supply/case/motherboard. Everything else is standard, or OEM'd with Dell/whatever stickers on them.
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about when the "Internet" first took it's baby steps.
How about when DARPA officially earmarked the money to start the research program? Anyone want to hazard a guess when that was, exactly?
Use the present or active tense as much as possible. Never the future or the past tense. Future tense implies uncertainty. Past tense implies rationalization. Present tense exhibits a certain confidence in whatever statement you are making; whether this confidence is due to a strong position or a strong will.
Probably because securing XDMCP and figuring out xauth is not exactly simple. If OSX's X11 came with XDMCP disabled and a local unix socket only for making connection (otherwise proxied through ssh) it would be cool. ... -_-
I don't suppose that's the default
But it still kinda sucks (really).
Anything really powerful is tied up in the expensive IAS product.
Contrast to apache/tomcat and related tools. All free, and you don't need an expensive server license for your machine.
Why anyone would want to use it except to expose a COM object with XML-RPC or something is beyond me.
You don't use an administrator account.
You log in as yourself, and use Run As...
You could set up multiple Run-As users with varying levels of access if you wanted.
The only thing Windows lacks is the concept of a "wheel" group, users who can't even try using a switch-user command.
Having a linux kernel running as a layer on top of a JVM is kinda useless since it's designed to run some sort of native binaries. So the question becomes: which target architecture do you then emulate in the JVM to accomodate the user space programs, or do you force all userland apps to be java bytecode as well? Then what's the point? Just use straight java on the JVM.
Really, more useful would be a full-fledged java-based x86 or whatever simulator with emulated hardware that a kernel would target. Then any standard propietary binaries could run in that, and even be migrated across an java cluster.
Here I am, thinking with all this doom and gloom RFID fear tinfoil-hat nonsense on slashdot any time the subject comes up, that everyone is already WELL educated on the subject. So much so that posting this article would be redundant...
A lesson for you people: it's not the end of the world.
The DoD gave me TS-poly SCI/Counterintel/COMSEY
ME... a foreign cartoon character.
I've got an upcoming briefing with Navy Intelligence brass about my upcoming Yankee White investigation.
Ha ha ha... Suckers.
... that is a bunch of "service nodes" will be lashed together into an SSI. These all run their modified SuSE. So if you have two I/O nodes and two login nodes and 4 Network nodes, that might be an "8-way" SUSE image. They communicate with other lashed-together service nodes with Luster. The compute nodes are part of a huge loosely coupled SSI running the microkernel... which are submitted jobs by one the SSIs running on the service nodes.
Someone correct me if I'm off the mark here.
By "limiting" themselves to the 1xx opterons, they could move to 2xx or 8xx later on. It'd then be easy enough to connect 8 or 12-way by hooking up more interconnects per board, adding a second CPU on each board, etc. etc. by utilizing the additional HT links.
And then when the dual cores come out... hehehe.
Errr...
No computer in existance runs a screen saver because the CPU usage is less than 100%. Desktop computers run screen savers to prevent a still image from burning onto your monitor or LCD (or to lock the terminal if it thinks you've left). This has everything to do with no use of mouse or keyboard, not CPU usage.
When any computer has nothing to do in a timeslice, it generally calls the HALT instruction, which puts it into a low power state until a timer interrupt or something comes along and wakes it up to do something else.
This is why CPUs that are idle generally take less power than one running Prime95 or 128 of them rendering a 3d movie.
You're supposed to use lookup tables, recurrence relations and interative refinement to get the precision you need when you need it.
The only time you should be using fsincos (SLOW) is when you need to build a table or populate variables accurately before a loop.
When have you _ever_ had a CPU fail with proper cooling, motherboard and power supply?
It's mostly marketing fluff, IMHO. CPUs don't spontaneously fail if they aren't put in machines assembled by idiots.
The schools who placed highest were the ones who filled in the surveys most convincingly (or filled them in at all).
Most of that stuff on the survey is bullshit. There's no concept of bandwidth, density, etc., just mostly a buzzword bingocard (and no scoring rubric).
How is it possible the users can install ANYTHING (not just Google Desktop) on public internet terminals or in libraries?
Seems to me focusing on the WRONG problem.
This is the future :p
Agent-based modeling owns the skies.
The IBM stuff comes as an SDK/dev kit he could wrap or configure to make it look like his own technology.
The vxmPlayer JAR is stripped of all identifiable text or symbols.
But the performance and quality suggests the IBM tech demo using an H263 stream.
I can't easily verify the stream either: the player takes a parameter which contains a URL which is encoded somehow (probably with a key within the player itself)... and I'm too lazy right now to set up ethereal and capture it on the fly....
Someone else wanna try and see?
But ghost's functionality is NOT a difficult concept for any Unix. I mean, it's all UI and calling commands like fdisk, dd, gzip, etc.
Why do you even need a program? Just tell someone to boot off a rescue CD and use DHCP, dd over the network to a server, what's the big deal?
Mountain out of a molehill.
But a website that has ABSOLUTELY NO BENEFIT TO ANYBODY that only leeches ad impressions from slashdotters is a bit distressing.
But if your website had CONTENT and ads, and links from slashdot got you traffic, well THE MORE POWER TO YOU.
Duuuuurrr...
Just listen to the guy sleaze and backpedal around his stupidity.
::shakes head::
He tried it once with PDF2HTML, and now he's doing it with PearPC. Anyone wanna bet VX30 is some sort of code ripped out of a university project, or IBM's mpeg4 on java or Fluendo or something?
Great, a google-scraper. That's no more informative or useful than those amazon click-through referral sites.
KRYEZIU IS JUST A FUCK.
If you buy an MSI or ASUS (or Tyan but that's pricey) AMD mobo you're pretty much guaranteed good and stable performance. You'll never see a SiS chipset, and you'll only find the most stable implementations of Via, AMD or more recently, Nvidia chipsets therein.
Smokin fast... ^_^
Because HP/Compaq, Gateway and Dell motherboards AND cases are ALL MADE IN TAIWAN. Laptops too.
But almost none of the desktop systems have any custom-made parts besides the power supply/case/motherboard. Everything else is standard, or OEM'd with Dell/whatever stickers on them.