Nahh thats all higher layer confusion. Want to piss off a "lawyer-type" network engineer? Talk to them about layers 8 and 9 as if he missed that chapter in his book.
IP maps between MAC and tcp/udp/ospf/whatever protocol aka layer 2
TCP is just one of many protocols that lives between an address at the low end and some semi-processed data stream at the higher end aka layer 3
If you're using MACs in your TCP you're doin' it wrong. Ditto for using TCP ports inside your ip addresses, more or less.
This is separate from "management level decisions" like many ipv6 admins really like to set up their DNS server on an address ending in:53. I'm guilty of putting webservers on blah-blah:80 of an ipv6/64 block for the same reason.
But I have been hearing about the lavish pay and benefits that the public sector that those of us shlubs in the private sector can only dream about./sarcasm
Thats the class warfare talking. Those same benefits used to be crap compared to what the private sector guys got, but the job stability was better so it was seen as a fair tradeoff. The end game of the class warfare is all those "better private sector jobs" have all been eliminated to provide for exorbitant CEO bonuses, etc, so in a weird turn of events the jobs with the poorest pay and benefits... are the only jobs left... until the politicians use them as a weapon in class warfare and get rid of them too.
Note that Soyuz is on about its 7th or 8th generation of craft. The soyuz deaths occurred in some pretty ancient models.
Standard/. car analogy is its like being scared to hitch a ride in your kid's ford focus because in your dad's generation ford made the incredible exploding pinto. There's a lot of water under the bridge in the last 5 generations of vehicle and 40 years. I'd feel much safer in a current model soyuz than a current model space shuttle, for obvious reasons.
Sure we could build something faster, but fast enough? We need something 2-3 orders of magnitude faster to be really useful. That's a tall order.
No, not really. Helios was a fat-a** at about 820 pounds. A ham radio microsat sized probe plus an actual intention to "go fast" could probably go 3 orders of mag faster. You can get two orders of mag just by thinning the probe weight, maybe another if you go gonzo on booster and upper stage size and really fine tune the gravitational assists.
I've often wondered if you combined the X-15 goal of "just go fast, that's all" with a space probe, just what would happen, exactly... Probably something the size of a saturn-5, launching a truly giant ion upper stage, launching a tiny little probe the size of AO-51 (two dozen pounds, more or less)...
Your teacher's union isn't like mine. The max salary is around $65k (might have changed, my mom hasn't been in the system for 5 years). That $65 requires a PhD and 30 years of teaching. Granted, cost of living here isn't terrible, but only retirees come in making that amount. I started my first career job at $35k and had to live with my mom, coincidentally why I know the pay structure. How are we to have great teachers when we don't value them that much.
Cost Of Living Adjustment?
One of the benefits of a union contract, is the salaries are all public. Every teacher with 12 years experience and a masters gets precisely $X base pay, its that simple. My numbers are from the early 90s in a relatively expensive suburb.
...which begs the question: Why can't the patent office employ a few people who are skilled in the art of software?
No, it doesn't beg the question. A more proper way to do that, would be to state that it would be a good idea to hire computer scientists because it would be a good idea to hire computer scientists. It's a very thin line between that and circular reasoning, which I might have crossed.
Whatever, anyway, the reason why they don't employ CS grads or even IT grads, is they don't employ many grads at all. Its about like the ratio of title examiners to real estate purchasers, or the ratio of grocery shoppers to grocery checker employees. There just are not many of them, compared to the scope of human knowledge.
lmao yes teachers get paid as much as possible (about 30k with a master's degree and certificate where i live)
Its a different wage structure than the rest of us are used to.
Yes, the first year is 30K. Any employee who survives gets a union mandated 8% annual payraise. Its all part of the game, just like they get three months vacation and "we" get about two weeks. The game is every teacher starts out of school as lower middle class wage, and retires as very much upper middle class in the low $100K area.
It's super for those who're young and independent, agreed. One size doesn't fit all, 4 long days REALLY suck if you've got kids of your own
LOL I had exactly the opposite experience.
Young and Single and 4 days = "the guys" are going out to the bar after work to watch "the game" and meet women, wanna come along? Oh wait you've gotta work an extra hour and then wake up for work really early tomorrow.
Kids of your own = "I just saved 20% on my day care expenses." And anyone who's paid a day care bill recently knows that is no small change... Also you get to spend an extra day per week with your kids, which, assuming you and your kids like each other, is priceless.
alternates between friday and monday rock even harder
How in gods name do you schedule anything? Daycare wants a fixed day of week schedule. I can't instantly tell a doctor I always can make an appointment on Fridays. None of the 9-5ers do anything on Friday anyway, all they do is talk about the weekend, so that means you waste a day's work every other week.
What about all the parents who suddenly find they have to be home on Fridays instead of working?
Bring your kid to work day, every Friday? Its not as insane as it sounds. I worked at a place with onsite day care, and it worked out pretty well. I also worked at a place where the owners kids just kinda "hung out" and learned the business whenever school was not in session. Pretty much as soon as they're old enough to understand "shut up, don't touch, just watch" they're ready to be kinda junior apprentices...
Going the other direction it forces a national dialog on working at home for those who can. If I recall how it all went down, the stalling point was my wife's boss wanted to know how he could be certain she was doing her work at home. She asked him how he was certain she was doing her work at 2am when he paged her, or any of the 99.9% of the time he was not vulture like hovering over her shoulder at work. Light bulb went on over bosses head. She started her new WAH schedule the next week. This may be my memory failing me, but I think that was how it happened, perhaps not. "If I use a laptop to work at home at 2am, trust me, it works just as well to work at home at 2pm"
It would be an interesting task to figure out the optimal hours for children to be educated - it may be that less daily hours may be helpful or not
/.ers think back upon your own past. I never let school get in the way of my education. I could trivially sit down and blast 12 hours straight of learning programming or systems administration or ham radio or building electronics stuff or reading a Really good book. But there was no freaking way I could do that 5 or 7 days in a row.
I would hazard a guess that at least/.er personality kids would excel at longer hours, fewer days.
I would extend that assumption, that even "intellectually challenged" kids had no problem turnin wrenches on their car for 12 hours, or going fishing for 12 hours, or whatever else those kids did they seemed to do it for extended durations, but not every day of the week.
Thinking back on ancient history, the ancients pretty much worked "until it was done" but on days with no work they F-ed off a lot. Not much nose to the grindstone every day of the year, at least with the ancients. Either you worked like a dog all day, or it was religious worship/celebration/festival day and you goofed off all day. If there is any genetic metabolic component to that, we should have the same preference.
This may or may not work out for schools but I would love a 3-day weekend every week at my job!
I'm living the dream... Note that if you work 4 day "weeks" the odds of getting bugged to log in at home on the 5th day of the week darn near approach 50%. So its not really a "4 day week" its more like "4 to 5 days a week, depending on problems"
Daycare costs of small children drop at least 20%, more if you're creative about which hours and days you work. My coworkers thought I was crazy to take a $2K paycut to switch employers to a 4-day employer... Then I pointed out I was saving something like $7K year on day care cost by creative arrangement of my "working days", and saving at least $1K/year on car fuel and maint, and saving around four hours per week of sitting in my car in a traffic jam... Incredibly good deal.
The longer day is not exactly oppressive... An extra hour before and after lunch, big deal, unless you're mr. clockwatcher you'll never mentally notice. This also means I miss the worst of "rush hour" traffic so bizarrely enough working two extra hours per day cuts into my free time by LESS than two hour per day, because commute drops from 45+ minutes to about 20 or less. So an "eight hour day" means about 9.5 hours outside the home, and a "ten hour day" means about 10.6 hours outside the home, an added cost of only about one hour "lost", in exchange for an extra day off per week.
It depends on your job. I program a lot, on long projects, and it takes forever to "get in the groove" and once I'm going I don't want to stop and I hate senseless interruptions. Posting to/. gets me in the mood, I'm gonna refactor a data importer right after this... Anyway longer shifts, and weekend hours, work beautifully for my job. If your job is standing heavy manual labor, then an extra 20% effort per day might kill you, so it depends.
Sleep and eating patterns take about a week to resolve, after which it feels perfectly normal.
Big finance people are already taking all the money, now they are also (indirectly) cutting down on education. Poor and uneducated people, rich and knowledgeable lords, well come back 500 years ago.
This assumes the purpose of schools is to educate. It seems more likely their purpose is to train, and to indoctrinate classist philosophies, indoctrinate assembly line attitudes toward work schedules much like the ancient factories (which have mostly left the country).
I never let school get in the way of my education. The two are almost orthogonal.
Now untrained people, yes that is an issue, but if there are no jobs and never will be for them, no real loss. As long as there are enough doctors for the few who can afford them, enough plumbers for the few who can afford them, etc, it'll be OK. It's a pretty strong signal of what the elite think is the long term employment outlook.
The Chinese government has a weird obsession with Falun Gong, which I don't quite understand.
They demand there must be no national organization other than the party.
For a USA analogy, look how much daytime TV hosts LOOOOVE the internet. Their viewers are treated to endless FUD and terror tactics about the evils of the internet, and how the village moron would be perfectly safe if only there were no internet. There must be no popular media but the mainstream media. Same idea.
Generally the earthquake precedes the news reports about the earthquake.
Not always. TV / phones go at the speed of light, and S and P waves move at the speed of sound in that material, so TV / phones win if you're far enough away. The japanese blow huge amounts of money on early warning systems that do work, assuming you're not directly over the epicenter. There was a recent/. post on that very topic...
It's not just about dynamic range, it's also about manipulating the image without degrading it due to rounding errors.
That answer does make sense, if you're very extensively manipulating the image.
Another answer I just though of was digital watermarking support. If no human eye can see details beyond 10 to 16 bits, encode your copyright notice in plain black and white english text down in the 24 bit level where no one could ever (normally) see it.
You can learn how to do what they do, in your basement, it'll just be somewhat smaller and slower, by at worst only by about two orders of magnitude. In fact my basement is considerably more technologically advanced than their datacenter. In fact, a recent string of emails on the NANOG mailing list about basement labs indicates my basement is relatively crude and simplistic.
Compare and contrast w/ my house
2770 square foot data center with 76 racks
About the same floor size, although they're about seventy racks ahead of me. I had three at one point. Now I have none. Distributed computing...
the connection to the outside world is 2Gbps
OK they have me beat by a factor of 100.
130 virtual machines.
They've got me by a factor of 10, unless the trip thru the journalist filter means they've got 130 virtualization hosts which would imply almost uncountable images. I only have about two dozen images across 4 hosts.
"I hope by the end of the year we'll finally have IPv6."
I've got them beat by about a decade. "Legal reasons" prevent them from running a tunnel over their existing lines to H.E. or sixxs? I've never heard of such a thing. Can't even imagine.
Eventually, Albertson says that the project will be moving to Puppet
I've got them beat by a couple years. Really, once you are "admin" of more than a dozen or so images/servers, you need it...
Ganeti supports Xen and KVM, but Albertson says that the lab has switched over to KVM after having problems with Xen.
I fooled around with them, but I now mostly use LXC images. Kind of a top down approach rather than bottom up. Needless to say, I'm a nearly 100% Debian site, both hosts and images, LXC isn't the kind of thing you use to run W2K or OSX. LXC is really boring, it just works, except for integration with AFS.
Wake me up when I can finally use 16, 32 or 64 bits per channel, and the channels aren't restricted to RGBA or integers...
Overkill slightly? Power dynamic range from single photon starlight to laser eye damage is only about 100 dB... You can't buy 64 bit A/D converters, unless you're talking about some kind of marketing thing where you have 4 16 bit A/D in the same box. LCD monitors are very low contrast, just barely above 20 dB, paper and ink's only about 10 dB.
There does not seem to be a practical input or output technology that can use more than 16 bits. 8 bits is probably too low. I would advocate for 16 bit, but 32 is as pointless as using scientific notation for each channel.
Note also that human 'races' are all entirely cross-fertile, and thus are decidedly not 'separate species'.
Cites? We are not 100% cross fertile right now. Close enough to 100% not to matter a whole heck of a lot, but not exactly 100% for all combos. A cite would not be an online simplified blanket statement, but an actual grid of cross-fertility rates... I do agree that those rates are in the high 99% range, but the important point is we are not by any means immune to speciation pressures that apply to all animals.
If the west and east hemispheres had stayed separate for more than a couple thousand years, maybe 125K years, then we would have probably separated into two species. Also true that there would be no specific date where we went from 100% cross fertile to 0% cross fertile. It would be a very gradual decline in cross fertility of perhaps 1% every 1000 years or so. Within an order of magnitude, anyway.
Also, in Europe, religion is supposed (and accepted, from my point of view) as a largely personal thing, not to be shared or proselytised.
I've found over the decades that is kind of a cultural difference between us and them. They just don't talk about themselves as much. Considered in very bad taste to talk about the smallest details of salaries, taxes, house price, "athletic prowess", even school grades, at least in situations where sometimes it seems that's all Americans talk about.
Kind of like how in the USA young people just do not talk about personal medical issues to the point of awkwardness unless its utterly in your face like a leg cast, and suddenly around age 60 they almost desperately want to tell anyone who can't run away fast enough all about their ulcers and hemorrhoids and operations. I would guess in.eu they don't do that, or at least their old people do it less than even our young people.
Their sitcoms, for example, must be wildly different than ours.
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Fortunately, TCP/IP itself crosses ISO layer boundaries, so it's all good ;)
Nahh thats all higher layer confusion. Want to piss off a "lawyer-type" network engineer? Talk to them about layers 8 and 9 as if he missed that chapter in his book.
IP maps between MAC and tcp/udp/ospf/whatever protocol aka layer 2
TCP is just one of many protocols that lives between an address at the low end and some semi-processed data stream at the higher end aka layer 3
If you're using MACs in your TCP you're doin' it wrong. Ditto for using TCP ports inside your ip addresses, more or less.
This is separate from "management level decisions" like many ipv6 admins really like to set up their DNS server on an address ending in :53. I'm guilty of putting webservers on blah-blah:80 of an ipv6 /64 block for the same reason.
LOL my theory is he could do it for 12 hours, so he proves me wrong by petering out at nine words? LOL at the meta-joke.
But I have been hearing about the lavish pay and benefits that the public sector that those of us shlubs in the private sector can only dream about. /sarcasm
Thats the class warfare talking. Those same benefits used to be crap compared to what the private sector guys got, but the job stability was better so it was seen as a fair tradeoff. The end game of the class warfare is all those "better private sector jobs" have all been eliminated to provide for exorbitant CEO bonuses, etc, so in a weird turn of events the jobs with the poorest pay and benefits ... are the only jobs left ... until the politicians use them as a weapon in class warfare and get rid of them too.
Note that Soyuz is on about its 7th or 8th generation of craft. The soyuz deaths occurred in some pretty ancient models.
Standard /. car analogy is its like being scared to hitch a ride in your kid's ford focus because in your dad's generation ford made the incredible exploding pinto. There's a lot of water under the bridge in the last 5 generations of vehicle and 40 years. I'd feel much safer in a current model soyuz than a current model space shuttle, for obvious reasons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_(spacecraft)
I guarantee that if I'm at the bar watching a White Sox game, and somebody turns it off in favor of some video game, there's going to be hell to pay.
If the video game supporters outnumber the 'real sport' supporters, I would think not...
Instead of a game of who can be the smartest*, you prefer a sport where the luckiest win first and the best win second.
* Where smartest here means the one who can outsmart the opponent, is better at strategy and can think faster.
luck has nothing to do with it, it all:
1) Which team pays the most
2) .. for which player takes the most performance enhancing drugs.
Sure we could build something faster, but fast enough? We need something 2-3 orders of magnitude faster to be really useful. That's a tall order.
No, not really. Helios was a fat-a** at about 820 pounds. A ham radio microsat sized probe plus an actual intention to "go fast" could probably go 3 orders of mag faster. You can get two orders of mag just by thinning the probe weight, maybe another if you go gonzo on booster and upper stage size and really fine tune the gravitational assists.
I've often wondered if you combined the X-15 goal of "just go fast, that's all" with a space probe, just what would happen, exactly... Probably something the size of a saturn-5, launching a truly giant ion upper stage, launching a tiny little probe the size of AO-51 (two dozen pounds, more or less)...
Your teacher's union isn't like mine. The max salary is around $65k (might have changed, my mom hasn't been in the system for 5 years). That $65 requires a PhD and 30 years of teaching. Granted, cost of living here isn't terrible, but only retirees come in making that amount. I started my first career job at $35k and had to live with my mom, coincidentally why I know the pay structure. How are we to have great teachers when we don't value them that much.
Cost Of Living Adjustment?
One of the benefits of a union contract, is the salaries are all public. Every teacher with 12 years experience and a masters gets precisely $X base pay, its that simple. My numbers are from the early 90s in a relatively expensive suburb.
RFC 793 (TCP) is prior art for RFC 2460 (IPv6)
RFC 791 for IP addrs ... you're crossing ISO layer boundaries there.
...which begs the question: Why can't the patent office employ a few people who are skilled in the art of software?
No, it doesn't beg the question. A more proper way to do that, would be to state that it would be a good idea to hire computer scientists because it would be a good idea to hire computer scientists. It's a very thin line between that and circular reasoning, which I might have crossed.
Whatever, anyway, the reason why they don't employ CS grads or even IT grads, is they don't employ many grads at all. Its about like the ratio of title examiners to real estate purchasers, or the ratio of grocery shoppers to grocery checker employees. There just are not many of them, compared to the scope of human knowledge.
lmao yes teachers get paid as much as possible (about 30k with a master's degree and certificate where i live)
Its a different wage structure than the rest of us are used to.
Yes, the first year is 30K. Any employee who survives gets a union mandated 8% annual payraise. Its all part of the game, just like they get three months vacation and "we" get about two weeks. The game is every teacher starts out of school as lower middle class wage, and retires as very much upper middle class in the low $100K area.
It's super for those who're young and independent, agreed. One size doesn't fit all, 4 long days REALLY suck if you've got kids of your own
LOL I had exactly the opposite experience.
Young and Single and 4 days = "the guys" are going out to the bar after work to watch "the game" and meet women, wanna come along? Oh wait you've gotta work an extra hour and then wake up for work really early tomorrow.
Kids of your own = "I just saved 20% on my day care expenses." And anyone who's paid a day care bill recently knows that is no small change... Also you get to spend an extra day per week with your kids, which, assuming you and your kids like each other, is priceless.
alternates between friday and monday rock even harder
How in gods name do you schedule anything? Daycare wants a fixed day of week schedule. I can't instantly tell a doctor I always can make an appointment on Fridays. None of the 9-5ers do anything on Friday anyway, all they do is talk about the weekend, so that means you waste a day's work every other week.
What about all the parents who suddenly find they have to be home on Fridays instead of working?
Bring your kid to work day, every Friday? Its not as insane as it sounds. I worked at a place with onsite day care, and it worked out pretty well. I also worked at a place where the owners kids just kinda "hung out" and learned the business whenever school was not in session. Pretty much as soon as they're old enough to understand "shut up, don't touch, just watch" they're ready to be kinda junior apprentices...
Going the other direction it forces a national dialog on working at home for those who can. If I recall how it all went down, the stalling point was my wife's boss wanted to know how he could be certain she was doing her work at home. She asked him how he was certain she was doing her work at 2am when he paged her, or any of the 99.9% of the time he was not vulture like hovering over her shoulder at work. Light bulb went on over bosses head. She started her new WAH schedule the next week. This may be my memory failing me, but I think that was how it happened, perhaps not. "If I use a laptop to work at home at 2am, trust me, it works just as well to work at home at 2pm"
It would be an interesting task to figure out the optimal hours for children to be educated - it may be that less daily hours may be helpful or not
/.ers think back upon your own past. I never let school get in the way of my education. I could trivially sit down and blast 12 hours straight of learning programming or systems administration or ham radio or building electronics stuff or reading a Really good book. But there was no freaking way I could do that 5 or 7 days in a row.
I would hazard a guess that at least /.er personality kids would excel at longer hours, fewer days.
I would extend that assumption, that even "intellectually challenged" kids had no problem turnin wrenches on their car for 12 hours, or going fishing for 12 hours, or whatever else those kids did they seemed to do it for extended durations, but not every day of the week.
Thinking back on ancient history, the ancients pretty much worked "until it was done" but on days with no work they F-ed off a lot. Not much nose to the grindstone every day of the year, at least with the ancients. Either you worked like a dog all day, or it was religious worship/celebration/festival day and you goofed off all day. If there is any genetic metabolic component to that, we should have the same preference.
This may or may not work out for schools but I would love a 3-day weekend every week at my job!
I'm living the dream... Note that if you work 4 day "weeks" the odds of getting bugged to log in at home on the 5th day of the week darn near approach 50%. So its not really a "4 day week" its more like "4 to 5 days a week, depending on problems"
Daycare costs of small children drop at least 20%, more if you're creative about which hours and days you work. My coworkers thought I was crazy to take a $2K paycut to switch employers to a 4-day employer... Then I pointed out I was saving something like $7K year on day care cost by creative arrangement of my "working days", and saving at least $1K/year on car fuel and maint, and saving around four hours per week of sitting in my car in a traffic jam... Incredibly good deal.
The longer day is not exactly oppressive... An extra hour before and after lunch, big deal, unless you're mr. clockwatcher you'll never mentally notice. This also means I miss the worst of "rush hour" traffic so bizarrely enough working two extra hours per day cuts into my free time by LESS than two hour per day, because commute drops from 45+ minutes to about 20 or less. So an "eight hour day" means about 9.5 hours outside the home, and a "ten hour day" means about 10.6 hours outside the home, an added cost of only about one hour "lost", in exchange for an extra day off per week.
It depends on your job. I program a lot, on long projects, and it takes forever to "get in the groove" and once I'm going I don't want to stop and I hate senseless interruptions. Posting to /. gets me in the mood, I'm gonna refactor a data importer right after this... Anyway longer shifts, and weekend hours, work beautifully for my job. If your job is standing heavy manual labor, then an extra 20% effort per day might kill you, so it depends.
Sleep and eating patterns take about a week to resolve, after which it feels perfectly normal.
Big finance people are already taking all the money, now they are also (indirectly) cutting down on education. Poor and uneducated people, rich and knowledgeable lords, well come back 500 years ago.
This assumes the purpose of schools is to educate. It seems more likely their purpose is to train, and to indoctrinate classist philosophies, indoctrinate assembly line attitudes toward work schedules much like the ancient factories (which have mostly left the country).
I never let school get in the way of my education. The two are almost orthogonal.
Now untrained people, yes that is an issue, but if there are no jobs and never will be for them, no real loss. As long as there are enough doctors for the few who can afford them, enough plumbers for the few who can afford them, etc, it'll be OK. It's a pretty strong signal of what the elite think is the long term employment outlook.
A screen in the video also reveals 'the name of the software
Everything China makes is just bad ripoffs of our original work. So... how do you write "Back Orifice 2000" in Chinese, and does that match the video?
The Chinese government has a weird obsession with Falun Gong, which I don't quite understand.
They demand there must be no national organization other than the party.
For a USA analogy, look how much daytime TV hosts LOOOOVE the internet. Their viewers are treated to endless FUD and terror tactics about the evils of the internet, and how the village moron would be perfectly safe if only there were no internet. There must be no popular media but the mainstream media. Same idea.
Generally the earthquake precedes the news reports about the earthquake.
Not always. TV / phones go at the speed of light, and S and P waves move at the speed of sound in that material, so TV / phones win if you're far enough away. The japanese blow huge amounts of money on early warning systems that do work, assuming you're not directly over the epicenter. There was a recent /. post on that very topic...
I like that it's listed at a depth of 1km, with an uncertainty of +/- 7.4 km... I really hate those sky-quakes.
That's shallow enough to have been "something" at one of the local military bases.
It's not just about dynamic range, it's also about manipulating the image without degrading it due to rounding errors.
That answer does make sense, if you're very extensively manipulating the image.
Another answer I just though of was digital watermarking support. If no human eye can see details beyond 10 to 16 bits, encode your copyright notice in plain black and white english text down in the 24 bit level where no one could ever (normally) see it.
where the lager beer was invented in the brewery of Anton Dreher.
Vikings. I'm only half way joking.
You can learn how to do what they do, in your basement, it'll just be somewhat smaller and slower, by at worst only by about two orders of magnitude. In fact my basement is considerably more technologically advanced than their datacenter. In fact, a recent string of emails on the NANOG mailing list about basement labs indicates my basement is relatively crude and simplistic.
Compare and contrast w/ my house
2770 square foot data center with 76 racks
About the same floor size, although they're about seventy racks ahead of me. I had three at one point. Now I have none. Distributed computing...
the connection to the outside world is 2Gbps
OK they have me beat by a factor of 100.
130 virtual machines.
They've got me by a factor of 10, unless the trip thru the journalist filter means they've got 130 virtualization hosts which would imply almost uncountable images. I only have about two dozen images across 4 hosts.
"I hope by the end of the year we'll finally have IPv6."
I've got them beat by about a decade. "Legal reasons" prevent them from running a tunnel over their existing lines to H.E. or sixxs? I've never heard of such a thing. Can't even imagine.
Eventually, Albertson says that the project will be moving to Puppet
I've got them beat by a couple years. Really, once you are "admin" of more than a dozen or so images/servers, you need it...
Ganeti supports Xen and KVM, but Albertson says that the lab has switched over to KVM after having problems with Xen.
I fooled around with them, but I now mostly use LXC images. Kind of a top down approach rather than bottom up. Needless to say, I'm a nearly 100% Debian site, both hosts and images, LXC isn't the kind of thing you use to run W2K or OSX. LXC is really boring, it just works, except for integration with AFS.
Wake me up when I can finally use 16, 32 or 64 bits per channel, and the channels aren't restricted to RGBA or integers ...
Overkill slightly? Power dynamic range from single photon starlight to laser eye damage is only about 100 dB... You can't buy 64 bit A/D converters, unless you're talking about some kind of marketing thing where you have 4 16 bit A/D in the same box. LCD monitors are very low contrast, just barely above 20 dB, paper and ink's only about 10 dB.
There does not seem to be a practical input or output technology that can use more than 16 bits. 8 bits is probably too low. I would advocate for 16 bit, but 32 is as pointless as using scientific notation for each channel.
Note also that human 'races' are all entirely cross-fertile, and thus are decidedly not 'separate species'.
Cites? We are not 100% cross fertile right now. Close enough to 100% not to matter a whole heck of a lot, but not exactly 100% for all combos. A cite would not be an online simplified blanket statement, but an actual grid of cross-fertility rates... I do agree that those rates are in the high 99% range, but the important point is we are not by any means immune to speciation pressures that apply to all animals.
If the west and east hemispheres had stayed separate for more than a couple thousand years, maybe 125K years, then we would have probably separated into two species. Also true that there would be no specific date where we went from 100% cross fertile to 0% cross fertile. It would be a very gradual decline in cross fertility of perhaps 1% every 1000 years or so. Within an order of magnitude, anyway.
Also, in Europe, religion is supposed (and accepted, from my point of view) as a largely personal thing, not to be shared or proselytised.
I've found over the decades that is kind of a cultural difference between us and them. They just don't talk about themselves as much. Considered in very bad taste to talk about the smallest details of salaries, taxes, house price, "athletic prowess", even school grades, at least in situations where sometimes it seems that's all Americans talk about.
Kind of like how in the USA young people just do not talk about personal medical issues to the point of awkwardness unless its utterly in your face like a leg cast, and suddenly around age 60 they almost desperately want to tell anyone who can't run away fast enough all about their ulcers and hemorrhoids and operations. I would guess in .eu they don't do that, or at least their old people do it less than even our young people.
Their sitcoms, for example, must be wildly different than ours.