I would argue that it is important. Looking far into the future, when does a machine get rights? When it shows that it does have a "soul"? Or when it thinks enough like a human? Or does a machine never qualify?
Maybe when it can exist independently of us? Not just function independently, but maybe even reproduce by themselves, without any input from us? Whether that in and of itself would merit giving it rights, I'm not sure, but I think that that would bring it closer.
What about the Wow! signal? Not exactly conclusive proof of alien life, I know. But IMHO Seti is something worth devoting some effort to. Maybe not as much as say Folding@Home, but I feel it's important enough to dedicate some effort to.
Actually, on my quad core I run both Seti and Folding, when I have it on and am leaving it alone (not so much at the moment).
I've got a Soedris Net4501 running OpenBSD which I am happy with. I don't mind editing the config file by hand, but you could easily use something like pfSense as well. Some of the other models they have do wifi too.
The rev command has got to be one of the most useless Unix commands I've ever come across. It's almost as if someone's first c program somehow got taken up as a part of standard Unix! Maybe in the days before sed and awk and perl it had some function in pipes that I can't grok, but nowadays other than making hints for video game websites I can't imagine what it's for.
I shut my laptop down when I'm not going to use it for a while, instead of putting it into suspend. On battery less boot time means more time to actually use the machine, so I'm interested.
On the other hand, my battery should probably be replaced as I can only get about an hour out of it on a single charge.
Wouldn't it be possible to use a DNS record to specify the port of a particular instance of a service? (I think this is what an SRV record can do; correct me I'm wrong.) Just a thought, I could see it making things uglier too.
Ugh, that problem pissed me off to no end, and I agree that it looks horrible right out of the box. The problem stems from the libflashsupport library, which lets Flash work wtih Pulseaudio. I was able to solve it by upgrading a bunch of Pulseaudio packages to the ones in testing for Intrepid, and this fixed it for me.
So yeah, it's too bad that right now people have to resort to the command line, but at least the way it looks things will be better in Intrepid in that respect.
If the price/watt can come down enough, people may just be willing to invest in it themselves. It may be worthwhile to have a source of energy that's both clean and reliable, as locally produced solar (for instance) would be. The systems could be grid interactive with battery backup.
Hmm, I could see my mom getting a Mac. My dad might get into it too, but I think that both could get used to Ubuntu. Chances are whichever they chose I'd end up helping them get it going, so setting it up wouldn't be an issue. My brother uses both an Ubuntu PC and a Mac and does fine.
I could see this as being a great opportunity for both platforms. Maybe we'll even see more native Linux versions of commercial apps with a bit more competition.
Jay Leno, David Letterman, or any other comedic talent can crack a joke about Al Gore 'inventing the Internet,' and the audience is likely to respond with howls of laughter."[100]
It's also important to get a decent UPS too, if you're using it for something like a server. I think the cheapy ones basically just use a transfer relay, where as the higher end ones actually run the hardware off of the battery via the inverter all the time. While I would think that with the former (called "standby" UPSs maybe?) the transfer time wouldn't be enough to cause too many problems, you still don't have the buffer that you'd get with a true uninterruptible power supply.
I think a lot of the cheaper ones don't put out a true sine wave either, though for their intended purpose of letting you shutdown your desktop cleanly again they're probably fine.
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I would argue that it is important. Looking far into the future, when does a machine get rights? When it shows that it does have a "soul"? Or when it thinks enough like a human? Or does a machine never qualify?
Maybe when it can exist independently of us? Not just function independently, but maybe even reproduce by themselves, without any input from us? Whether that in and of itself would merit giving it rights, I'm not sure, but I think that that would bring it closer.
What about the Wow! signal? Not exactly conclusive proof of alien life, I know. But IMHO Seti is something worth devoting some effort to. Maybe not as much as say Folding@Home, but I feel it's important enough to dedicate some effort to.
Actually, on my quad core I run both Seti and Folding, when I have it on and am leaving it alone (not so much at the moment).
I've got a Soedris Net4501 running OpenBSD which I am happy with. I don't mind editing the config file by hand, but you could easily use something like pfSense as well. Some of the other models they have do wifi too.
The rev command has got to be one of the most useless Unix commands I've ever come across. It's almost as if someone's first c program somehow got taken up as a part of standard Unix! Maybe in the days before sed and awk and perl it had some function in pipes that I can't grok, but nowadays other than making hints for video game websites I can't imagine what it's for.
I feel the same way about the yes command.
Jeez, I hate it when that happens.
Yes, it's all explained here.
I shut my laptop down when I'm not going to use it for a while, instead of putting it into suspend. On battery less boot time means more time to actually use the machine, so I'm interested.
On the other hand, my battery should probably be replaced as I can only get about an hour out of it on a single charge.
Wouldn't it be possible to use a DNS record to specify the port of a particular instance of a service? (I think this is what an SRV record can do; correct me I'm wrong.) Just a thought, I could see it making things uglier too.
I'm aspiring to be an old school UNIX hacker, so I'm growing a beard.
"International waters: the land that law forgot."
Ugh, that problem pissed me off to no end, and I agree that it looks horrible right out of the box. The problem stems from the libflashsupport library, which lets Flash work wtih Pulseaudio. I was able to solve it by upgrading a bunch of Pulseaudio packages to the ones in testing for Intrepid, and this fixed it for me.
So yeah, it's too bad that right now people have to resort to the command line, but at least the way it looks things will be better in Intrepid in that respect.
You really think he'd make it that simple? The guy's pretty smart, I'd imagine he'd have at least used a blue LED.
I think that the government could help out, maybe with tax incentives or some such.
If the price/watt can come down enough, people may just be willing to invest in it themselves. It may be worthwhile to have a source of energy that's both clean and reliable, as locally produced solar (for instance) would be. The systems could be grid interactive with battery backup.
The media does whatever makes them money.
It depends too on what they're running on the servers; I'm sure several say Xserve installations run something YellowDog. Just a thought.
I'll bet it could run NetBSD.
Hmm, I could see my mom getting a Mac. My dad might get into it too, but I think that both could get used to Ubuntu. Chances are whichever they chose I'd end up helping them get it going, so setting it up wouldn't be an issue. My brother uses both an Ubuntu PC and a Mac and does fine.
I could see this as being a great opportunity for both platforms. Maybe we'll even see more native Linux versions of commercial apps with a bit more competition.
I always thought it was a Web browser.
That sounds good, I'll have to try it.
Jay Leno, David Letterman, or any other comedic talent can crack a joke about Al Gore 'inventing the Internet,' and the audience is likely to respond with howls of laughter."[100]
lol internets
I wouldn't say there's a need, as 4chan's back up now.
My servers run on Electricity
My servers run on Love.
It's also important to get a decent UPS too, if you're using it for something like a server. I think the cheapy ones basically just use a transfer relay, where as the higher end ones actually run the hardware off of the battery via the inverter all the time. While I would think that with the former (called "standby" UPSs maybe?) the transfer time wouldn't be enough to cause too many problems, you still don't have the buffer that you'd get with a true uninterruptible power supply.
I think a lot of the cheaper ones don't put out a true sine wave either, though for their intended purpose of letting you shutdown your desktop cleanly again they're probably fine.
True, but I still wouldn't want to run anything sensitive on it.