Absolutely. They've even ported TurboVision to X and ncurses which would provide a lovely interface. (No, seriously, I've always liked TurboVision.) What I was trying to point out is that there is a requirement to work with the existing serial terminals - DOS and DESQview just aren't going to work for them.
I agree. I'd be very disappointed if a 118-CPU RHEL Grid computer system with probably more than 200GB of RAM couldn't out-perform a 2-CPU system with 16GB running OS/390. (The IBM 2066-002 in its standard config only has 2GB I think.) Although I'm a little disappointed that it's only out-performing it by 70% (maybe they're using 4,200rpm 2.5" drives):
Internal tests have showed speed improvements in data-file processing of up to 70% over what the mainframe could provide.
And the slight lack of logic of blocking email from addresses that only host websites.
Whilst I have no experience with SPEWS, I have worked with ISP's and webhosting providers in the past. Blocking IP's that "only host websites" makes perfect sense when those web sites host brain dead form-to-mail scripts/executables (ie: sender and recipient addresses can be supplied as form parameters) - it's as good as advertising free SPAM zombies.
I mentioned BOINC specifically because, although the management client/UI is OS-specific, the actual worker processes (at least the ones I've played with) are Java-based and so should run as-is in a JVM on the main processor (the PPE?). To make good use of the multi-processor architecture on the PS3, though, these worker processes would need to be rewritten so that work units could be processed across the multiple Cell cores (the SPE's?) because these don't use main memory but have their own isolated memory workspaces for code and data.
Except that it sounds like the client (probably a bank or a lotto agency) already has a considerable investment in serial terminals, so no DOS for you: The main reasons are the need for a very low bandwidth and the ability to run on serial terminals.
Disclaimer: I haven't read-up on Cell BE systems, nor the PS3, so I have no clue at all as to how their computing power compares to desktop PC's.
Would PS3's be useful as a "low power" platform to run distributed computing apps like SETI@home (or insert your favorite)? Is there ever likely to be a BOINC client available to run under Yellow Dog on the PS3?
Are there any sets of pictures that allow me to see them in action?
Why yes, in TFA you'd notice a link to a "Mossberg on Microsoft Office" video with a peek of the revamped Microsoft Office. Read: it's 3min 51sec of Walt Mossberg crapping-on with about 20 seconds total showing Office 2007 just sitting there not actually doing anything. It unfortunately doesn't show Office doing any of the extremely useful things Mossberg is talking about.
The 68000 was packaged in an enormous 64-pin package (I've heard it called "the aircraft carrier") and IIRC it required three voltages.
Ah, no, the 68000 was definitely a single-supply 5 volt chip. It did come in via two pins, though (14 and 49), to spread the current load across the die.
Perhaps you're confusing the power requirements of the chip with the power outputs of the Macintosh power supply which were +5v (main logic), +12v (drive and video power) and -5v (serial).
From another page about this at NASA (emphasis added):
Radar-dark surfaces are smooth and most likely liquid, rock, ice or organics. More than 75 radar-dark patches or lakes were seen, ranging from 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) to more than 70 kilometers (43 miles) across.
The images are blatantly false-colour. The "blue" areas meant to potray liquid (making people think of water) but could just as easily be ice or lava flows.
Well it's kinda obvious from where I'm sitting: Sure, he's no roboticist, but robots run software and Bill-and-Co just launched Microsoft Robotics Studio a short time ago. There was even an article about it on that place, um, I think it was called Slashdot.
Except for that 5% slack space behind the scenes used for wear-levelling (it's done in hardware now, no need for file systems like JFFS). I guess if someone was keen enough they could decapsulate the card and scrutinize the memory chip under an electron microscope to try to image what's been previously written in that 5% but who'd actually bother?
C'mon people, this is just an alarmist article. It's not like the military is going to put something sensitive like Launch Codes on memory cards and then sell them on eBay.
If you're super-paranoid like some of the tinfoil hat-wearing ones around here there's always shred -n 16 -z/dev/sdX optionally followed by a mkfat for the next lucky customer's convenience.
Ok, I thought CTSS was a task switching layer on top of the basic OS, FMS. The article goes on to talk about OS-level virtualization and yet doesn't mention TopView or DESQview?
Hands-up who doesn't remember running up QEMM and DESQview to run their BBSes back in the 80's?
Linux audio/video support is much better than Windows audio/video support
You've obviously never tried to install drivers for the latest ATI Mobility cards (for notebooks, you've heard of those right?) under Ubuntu so you can crank up xgl.
Yes, the photo is from the National Taiwan University, but the work was done by scientists at the Northeast Argicultural University in Harbin - MAINLAND CHINA.
I've never been impressed with the black levels on either LCD or Plasma panels - they both suck, although Plasma is (usually) better.
It's said that Plasma panels no longer suffer from burn-in, but they have too-short a warranty for me to take that gamble. HDR LCD panels should be coming out in 2007, and will certainly give Plasma a shot to the head. Panasonic is panicking and trying to clear-out their Plasma stocks because they perceive the impending threat.
For my money, I'm holding out for SED (Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display) panels. Millions of CRT's in a flat panel - neither LCD nor Plasma will be able to match its colour gamut, tonal range nor its power consumption. Now if only Canon and Toshiba (the SED research and production partners) would get off their butts and launch them to markets outside of Japan, instead of cancelling US demonstrations, I'd actually go out and buy one. Although I'd probably settle for a HDR LCD if SED never arrives.
Cooper said state of the art bearing systems at several points in the tower will allow a power plant to rotate the base of the tower at 5mm per second using only 21 electic kettles' worth of solar power.
I never read of anyone having suffered consequences as a result of someone losing their data. Why is that?
Because not many media outlets are interested in reporting on individuals who lose a few hundred dollars when they can throw around figures like 100,000+ victims in a single crime.
If you ask something ridiculous, you run the risk of potential employees thinking that either you don't know what you're talking about or that you're toying with them.
True, but you're looking for someone who has a good chance of being able to do the job.
When hiring support techs for an ISP many years ago one of my favourite scenarios was to pretend to be a customer who has just migrated from another ISP and could't get their browser to connect anywhere: the modem would dial-up and connect, I could check my mail no problems, but no matter what URL I tried I kept getting a "Connect failed" error message. Bear in mind that the people being interviewed had typically been support techs from other ISPs themselves and that this was one of our most common problems. It was surprising how few knew they had to check and fix the proxy settings in the browser.
"We also would have to decide if it's a safety issue.' Vallese added that that means that if remotes were, for instance, smashing into a television hard enough to cause the tube to explode or somehow stop working in a dangerous way, it could also be deemed a safety issue."
Sheesh, have CRT's been "off the market" so long that people have forgotten how they work? CRT's are big vacuum tubes. Due to the near-vacuum inside them, they will *implode* when broken, not explode. Worst case scenario the cathode guns (at the back of the tube) will try to come out through the front of the tube but will be restrained by the pins attached to the neck board and associated cables. The glass on the front of a tube is so thick (so it doesn't self implode) that you'd virtually have to hit one with a hammer to break it, usually with only the shadow mask getting dislodged and a whole bunch of phosphor with it.
Epson make plenty of scanners for handling larger film stock. Since these negatives are probably black-and-white you could also consider X-Ray film scanners.
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Absolutely. They've even ported TurboVision to X and ncurses which would provide a lovely interface. (No, seriously, I've always liked TurboVision.) What I was trying to point out is that there is a requirement to work with the existing serial terminals - DOS and DESQview just aren't going to work for them.
Whilst I have no experience with SPEWS, I have worked with ISP's and webhosting providers in the past. Blocking IP's that "only host websites" makes perfect sense when those web sites host brain dead form-to-mail scripts/executables (ie: sender and recipient addresses can be supplied as form parameters) - it's as good as advertising free SPAM zombies.
Thanks for that... interesting!
I mentioned BOINC specifically because, although the management client/UI is OS-specific, the actual worker processes (at least the ones I've played with) are Java-based and so should run as-is in a JVM on the main processor (the PPE?). To make good use of the multi-processor architecture on the PS3, though, these worker processes would need to be rewritten so that work units could be processed across the multiple Cell cores (the SPE's?) because these don't use main memory but have their own isolated memory workspaces for code and data.
Except that it sounds like the client (probably a bank or a lotto agency) already has a considerable investment in serial terminals, so no DOS for you: The main reasons are the need for a very low bandwidth and the ability to run on serial terminals.
Disclaimer: I haven't read-up on Cell BE systems, nor the PS3, so I have no clue at all as to how their computing power compares to desktop PC's.
Would PS3's be useful as a "low power" platform to run distributed computing apps like SETI@home (or insert your favorite)? Is there ever likely to be a BOINC client available to run under Yellow Dog on the PS3?
Why yes, in TFA you'd notice a link to a "Mossberg on Microsoft Office" video with a peek of the revamped Microsoft Office. Read: it's 3min 51sec of Walt Mossberg crapping-on with about 20 seconds total showing Office 2007 just sitting there not actually doing anything. It unfortunately doesn't show Office doing any of the extremely useful things Mossberg is talking about.
Ah, no, the 68000 was definitely a single-supply 5 volt chip. It did come in via two pins, though (14 and 49), to spread the current load across the die.
Perhaps you're confusing the power requirements of the chip with the power outputs of the Macintosh power supply which were +5v (main logic), +12v (drive and video power) and -5v (serial).
From another page about this at NASA (emphasis added):
The images are blatantly false-colour. The "blue" areas meant to potray liquid (making people think of water) but could just as easily be ice or lava flows.
Well it's kinda obvious from where I'm sitting: Sure, he's no roboticist, but robots run software and Bill-and-Co just launched Microsoft Robotics Studio a short time ago. There was even an article about it on that place, um, I think it was called Slashdot.
Except for that 5% slack space behind the scenes used for wear-levelling (it's done in hardware now, no need for file systems like JFFS). I guess if someone was keen enough they could decapsulate the card and scrutinize the memory chip under an electron microscope to try to image what's been previously written in that 5% but who'd actually bother?
C'mon people, this is just an alarmist article. It's not like the military is going to put something sensitive like Launch Codes on memory cards and then sell them on eBay.
If you're super-paranoid like some of the tinfoil hat-wearing ones around here there's always shred -n 16 -z /dev/sdX optionally followed by a mkfat for the next lucky customer's convenience.
Ok, I thought CTSS was a task switching layer on top of the basic OS, FMS. The article goes on to talk about OS-level virtualization and yet doesn't mention TopView or DESQview?
Hands-up who doesn't remember running up QEMM and DESQview to run their BBSes back in the 80's?
Even if he did manage to get the HP XP installed with the Promise RAID drivers, he probably wasn't ready to enable 48-bit LBA to handle ATAPI drives larger than 137GB under XP.
Linux audio/video support is much better than Windows audio/video support You've obviously never tried to install drivers for the latest ATI Mobility cards (for notebooks, you've heard of those right?) under Ubuntu so you can crank up xgl.
Yes, the photo is from the National Taiwan University, but the work was done by scientists at the Northeast Argicultural University in Harbin - MAINLAND CHINA.
I think he means unique across multiple directories.
I've never been impressed with the black levels on either LCD or Plasma panels - they both suck, although Plasma is (usually) better.
It's said that Plasma panels no longer suffer from burn-in, but they have too-short a warranty for me to take that gamble. HDR LCD panels should be coming out in 2007, and will certainly give Plasma a shot to the head. Panasonic is panicking and trying to clear-out their Plasma stocks because they perceive the impending threat.
For my money, I'm holding out for SED (Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display) panels. Millions of CRT's in a flat panel - neither LCD nor Plasma will be able to match its colour gamut, tonal range nor its power consumption. Now if only Canon and Toshiba (the SED research and production partners) would get off their butts and launch them to markets outside of Japan, instead of cancelling US demonstrations, I'd actually go out and buy one. Although I'd probably settle for a HDR LCD if SED never arrives.
An ED-209 steps out from around the corner and says, "Drop your weapon now. You have five seconds to compile."
..." in the summary should probably read, "... were compiled by futures researchers ..."
i.e.: "... were complied by futures researchers
... if Fox sued MGM for naming the computer in Wargames 2 "Ripley."
Nice to know that not even W3C can afford to spell check everything: teached CSS. It's not just /. editors! :)
Because not many media outlets are interested in reporting on individuals who lose a few hundred dollars when they can throw around figures like 100,000+ victims in a single crime.
True, but you're looking for someone who has a good chance of being able to do the job.
When hiring support techs for an ISP many years ago one of my favourite scenarios was to pretend to be a customer who has just migrated from another ISP and could't get their browser to connect anywhere: the modem would dial-up and connect, I could check my mail no problems, but no matter what URL I tried I kept getting a "Connect failed" error message. Bear in mind that the people being interviewed had typically been support techs from other ISPs themselves and that this was one of our most common problems. It was surprising how few knew they had to check and fix the proxy settings in the browser.
Epson make plenty of scanners for handling larger film stock. Since these negatives are probably black-and-white you could also consider X-Ray film scanners.