..to say it was designed as a single user system with no networking is just false.
Of course. But it was implemented as a single user system, since it was meant to be used as a single user system only. Microsoft would rather get the $200 license fee per user, and not per multiuser machine. They preserved their profit margin, while crippling WinNT before it was ever born. The true multiuser version was called Hydra, and I don't know what ever happened to it.
The millisecond process switching times, unstable behaviour under load, and awkward, slow interprocess communications APIs in WinNT are all because of lack of pressure on MS developers to implement those features correctly. The lack of pressure went probably something like this: "Well, noone will use this much anyways, so who cares that process switch takes 10 msec?".
I still have some earrings made out of a pair of decapped Motorola 68331s with clear epoxy over the chip "to bring out its natural beauty and to highlight the golden tone of the connecting wires", as I wrote in the ebay description when trying to sell them (unsuccessfully).
Speaking of decorations, if you go to CompUSA, they sell all sorts of decorations made out of old PCB blanks. Which is kinda lame. Because, if you ask me, the nail-sharp components are what makes old broken PCBs the useful decor items that they are. Where I lived a few years back, we had a wall in the living room clad in old PC motherboards. That is, I nailed some (a lot) old 386 and 486 motherboards to the living room wall.
Then we decided that that was too geeky, threw away the motherboards, and re-decorated the wall by hot-glueing a 1000 CDs to the wall. In case you're wondering, the CDs were free, a thrown away defective production run, 1000 count, found on the sidewalk next to a CD factory.
..what if you are a PC user? Then you probably don't know what FireWire is. And you haven't had the pleasure of being acquainted with iTunes either. And a simple interface is not that hard to find. I would say, for anyone with a recent cellphone the click-wheel is less intuitive than a 4-button joystick-like thingy that most other players use. Now I haven't seen a smaller player than iPod, but there are some that are not too much bigger (look for HDD120).
So why do PC users want iPods? I have a theory here. I think it must be the white headphones that allow them to mimic the much cooler mac users. In fact, I know a looser who got a pair of white headphones for his CD player just to look like he had an iPod in his pocket.
The way I look at it, I can put my linux on my laptop myself. And I would too, 'cause I like Mandrake better than SuSE. And if I wanted Windows, I've a few licenses already, so I wouldn't want to pay for 'nother one:-).
But hey: isn't this a great way to avoid paying the Microsoft Tax?! I mean, noone would sell a laptop to you with no operating system. At least if you get is with SuSE, even if you are going to replace it, you are not paying for the useless system that you will replace anyways, right>?
You pretty much can't raise standards for a "good" system from HP without ending up without there being no good systems from HP:-). Sorry HP. You should've stuck with oscilloscopes.
Great! Too bad it's not someone who actually builds a good reliable laptop. I really don't care for HP junk, linux or not. And I really don't have a problem getting linux to run on my thinkpad:-).
The way I look at it, it's these third-grade hardware manufacturers that give desktop/laptop linux a bad name.
This seems like common sense. Shouldn't all network admins be doing this anyway?
All network security work is pretty much just common sense, don't you think? It's how much common sense you actually put to work that's important.
I actually read the article:-) I understand that MS Word is a large piece of software, even larger than the article about it. Still some of this hunting tail seems pretty amaturish. Like some guy getting an honorary title for implementing multilevel undo? I know a professor who had his 2nd year colledge students do that as a homework, for a vector-oriented drawing program. A homework, not even a project.
Add all this crap about "not being able to debug without a debugger" and it makes a pretty good laugh - the guy sounds as if they are proud of inventing Heisenberg bugs there - right after they forgot all about debugging prints.
In Europe anyway they call them torches don't know about Russia.
In Russia they call them in Russian:-). The word would be "fonarik", you insensitive clod!
Do nothing, water evaporates and plant blows up. Drop rods, water gets displaced by rods and you lose cooling, plant blows up.
From what I remember, also: Drop rods one-by-one, the reactor stops. But it takes time to drop rods one by one, so, again, at some point you are out of time to do that either, and the only thing to do is, well, hmm, something like duck and cover...
Note that l and i would be in the same group then, and L would be in another. This also maps out the 1337-speak, so here you could add a lameness qualifier to each character, based on it's 1337-ness.
I think that this kind of system would essentially halt illegal file sharing
Right. Like speeding tickets effectively eliminate speeding.
Then, again, meybe you live in some country where people don't speed, like Germany. Here in the States it's all hypocrisy at its finest. In fact, not speeding could be very dangerous when it gets you tailgated by angry 18-wheelers at 65 mph.
'a process configured to run under an administrative privilege level' which, based on authorization information 'in a data store', may perform actions at administrative privilege on behalf of a 'user process'
I think what that says is that an administrative process is running (like a daemon), and a user process asks it to do some tricks for it. Not like sudo at all, sudo is not a daemon. Then, again, there are many other suid root daemons -- X server anyone?
It's all very well to mock the I/O of PCI, but that's why we're all imminently moving to PCI Express, at a rather more respectable (current) maximum of 8+GBps rather than 133Mbps... Run a few gigabit ethernets in a hypercube formation and you have some rapid data transfer...
The main reason for supercomputers to exist is not the high bandwidth, it's the latency of the switch. The network hardware that is used in clusters as the interconnect medium (switch) can provide very high bandwidth, but the latency is high simply because you can not have low latency over large distance, and the network hardware is designed to connect over large distances. Even if you put your nodes in the same rack, the 1000000 gigabit ethernet or whatnot stock solution you use to interconnect them, will still take milliseconds ping time.
The supercomputers run on a custom, specially designed switch instead. This design includes a lot of cost and complexity just to get the latency down. This may not make any difference for your typical web-server application, but that's not what the supercomputers are designed for.
Some scientific computations have very low dependency between parts of the dataset. For example, pretty much any simulation or search application does fine on a cluster. Anything that allows you to split the work into a large number of independent tasks runs fine on a cluster. Some scientific applications do not allow the work to be split into independent pieces. Sometimes you just need random access all over your distributed data space, and for such applications the speed of computation is determined mostly by network latency. This is where you need a supecomputer, and no cheap cluster would help.
The starter is a 300 apm 12 volt motor. That's 3.6 kW. Not exactly a full car engine's power, but yes, it will move the car in 1st gear. And I've actually done it. Heck, with a full battery you could even drive the car around for 30 seconds or so on just the starter.
And it's fairly easy to shift the gears without the clutch. Just sorta hunt for the point where the engine and the wheels spin at the same speed at the gearbox, and you can shift it. You will have to double-clutch as you shift up. Don't do to much of this type of driving, though, it kills the transmission rather quickly.
I'd get an RF meter and check the shielding on the microwave with it. Don't want it to heat *me* when I'm sitting there hungry, watching my yestarday's pizza warm up.
Honey quick! Nail this memory card to the tree!
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These guys have just such imagination. How about some real-life tests, like static electricity, X-ray machine, being left on the dashboard on a sunny day, being brought in on a cold winter day..
And if you are going to drop it in water, use salty water. After all, there are those things called "sea" and "ocean" and people get their cameras splashed when they play near them. Probably no less often then they spill soda on them.
Oh, and when you precious memory card falls out of your pocket while you are crossing the street, there are going to be tons of toy cars running over it.
Those would be speaker magnets:-) Besides, a motor is a motor, and doesn't need to cost an arm and a leg.
Than, again, even if it was cheap, it would still run on a battery. And a battery is a battery - heavy and never has enough juice to get where you want to go.
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Of course. But it was implemented as a single user system, since it was meant to be used as a single user system only. Microsoft would rather get the $200 license fee per user, and not per multiuser machine. They preserved their profit margin, while crippling WinNT before it was ever born. The true multiuser version was called Hydra, and I don't know what ever happened to it.
The millisecond process switching times, unstable behaviour under load, and awkward, slow interprocess communications APIs in WinNT are all because of lack of pressure on MS developers to implement those features correctly. The lack of pressure went probably something like this: "Well, noone will use this much anyways, so who cares that process switch takes 10 msec?".
Erm.. Poke his eyes out, maybe? Nah, he'd keep tripping on the mouse cord.. WAIT!
So... Can you use it as a laser pointer?
Excuses, excuses... *barfs on keyboard*
I still have some earrings made out of a pair of decapped Motorola 68331s with clear epoxy over the chip "to bring out its natural beauty and to highlight the golden tone of the connecting wires", as I wrote in the ebay description when trying to sell them (unsuccessfully).
Speaking of decorations, if you go to CompUSA, they sell all sorts of decorations made out of old PCB blanks. Which is kinda lame. Because, if you ask me, the nail-sharp components are what makes old broken PCBs the useful decor items that they are. Where I lived a few years back, we had a wall in the living room clad in old PC motherboards. That is, I nailed some (a lot) old 386 and 486 motherboards to the living room wall.
Then we decided that that was too geeky, threw away the motherboards, and re-decorated the wall by hot-glueing a 1000 CDs to the wall. In case you're wondering, the CDs were free, a thrown away defective production run, 1000 count, found on the sidewalk next to a CD factory.
..what if you are a PC user? Then you probably don't know what FireWire is. And you haven't had the pleasure of being acquainted with iTunes either. And a simple interface is not that hard to find. I would say, for anyone with a recent cellphone the click-wheel is less intuitive than a 4-button joystick-like thingy that most other players use. Now I haven't seen a smaller player than iPod, but there are some that are not too much bigger (look for HDD120).
So why do PC users want iPods? I have a theory here. I think it must be the white headphones that allow them to mimic the much cooler mac users. In fact, I know a looser who got a pair of white headphones for his CD player just to look like he had an iPod in his pocket.
It's a pyramid scheme, which means 1/5 of the participants will actually get the $300 gadget for free. Good odds, I'm playing..
The way I look at it, I can put my linux on my laptop myself. And I would too, 'cause I like Mandrake better than SuSE. And if I wanted Windows, I've a few licenses already, so I wouldn't want to pay for 'nother one:-). But hey: isn't this a great way to avoid paying the Microsoft Tax?! I mean, noone would sell a laptop to you with no operating system. At least if you get is with SuSE, even if you are going to replace it, you are not paying for the useless system that you will replace anyways, right>?
You pretty much can't raise standards for a "good" system from HP without ending up without there being no good systems from HP:-). Sorry HP. You should've stuck with oscilloscopes.
Great! Too bad it's not someone who actually builds a good reliable laptop. I really don't care for HP junk, linux or not. And I really don't have a problem getting linux to run on my thinkpad:-). The way I look at it, it's these third-grade hardware manufacturers that give desktop/laptop linux a bad name.
So my plans to publish "The Tao of Zen" should be put on hold? "The Tao of Zen" - double whammy. How about "The Zen of Tao?"
Sounds much like them penis enlargement gremlins are at it again.
This seems like common sense. Shouldn't all network admins be doing this anyway? All network security work is pretty much just common sense, don't you think? It's how much common sense you actually put to work that's important.
I actually read the article:-) I understand that MS Word is a large piece of software, even larger than the article about it. Still some of this hunting tail seems pretty amaturish. Like some guy getting an honorary title for implementing multilevel undo? I know a professor who had his 2nd year colledge students do that as a homework, for a vector-oriented drawing program. A homework, not even a project. Add all this crap about "not being able to debug without a debugger" and it makes a pretty good laugh - the guy sounds as if they are proud of inventing Heisenberg bugs there - right after they forgot all about debugging prints.
antabuse. Now all we need is the equivalent of naloxone for when you forget to use lockout, and end up slashdotting so much it makes you dizzy.
In Europe anyway they call them torches don't know about Russia. In Russia they call them in Russian:-). The word would be "fonarik", you insensitive clod!
Do nothing, water evaporates and plant blows up. Drop rods, water gets displaced by rods and you lose cooling, plant blows up.
From what I remember, also:
Drop rods one-by-one, the reactor stops. But it takes time to drop rods one by one, so, again, at some point you are out of time to do that either, and the only thing to do is, well, hmm, something like duck and cover...
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Almost forgot:
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5. Profit
Eh, never mind...
Right. Like speeding tickets effectively eliminate speeding.
Then, again, meybe you live in some country where people don't speed, like Germany. Here in the States it's all hypocrisy at its finest. In fact, not speeding could be very dangerous when it gets you tailgated by angry 18-wheelers at 65 mph.
'a process configured to run under an administrative privilege level' which, based on authorization information 'in a data store', may perform actions at administrative privilege on behalf of a 'user process' I think what that says is that an administrative process is running (like a daemon), and a user process asks it to do some tricks for it. Not like sudo at all, sudo is not a daemon. Then, again, there are many other suid root daemons -- X server anyone?
It's all very well to mock the I/O of PCI, but that's why we're all imminently moving to PCI Express, at a rather more respectable (current) maximum of 8+GBps rather than 133Mbps... Run a few gigabit ethernets in a hypercube formation and you have some rapid data transfer...
The main reason for supercomputers to exist is not the high bandwidth, it's the latency of the switch. The network hardware that is used in clusters as the interconnect medium (switch) can provide very high bandwidth, but the latency is high simply because you can not have low latency over large distance, and the network hardware is designed to connect over large distances. Even if you put your nodes in the same rack, the 1000000 gigabit ethernet or whatnot stock solution you use to interconnect them, will still take milliseconds ping time.
The supercomputers run on a custom, specially designed switch instead. This design includes a lot of cost and complexity just to get the latency down. This may not make any difference for your typical web-server application, but that's not what the supercomputers are designed for.
Some scientific computations have very low dependency between parts of the dataset. For example, pretty much any simulation or search application does fine on a cluster. Anything that allows you to split the work into a large number of independent tasks runs fine on a cluster. Some scientific applications do not allow the work to be split into independent pieces. Sometimes you just need random access all over your distributed data space, and for such applications the speed of computation is determined mostly by network latency. This is where you need a supecomputer, and no cheap cluster would help.
The starter is a 300 apm 12 volt motor. That's 3.6 kW. Not exactly a full car engine's power, but yes, it will move the car in 1st gear. And I've actually done it. Heck, with a full battery you could even drive the car around for 30 seconds or so on just the starter.
And it's fairly easy to shift the gears without the clutch. Just sorta hunt for the point where the engine and the wheels spin at the same speed at the gearbox, and you can shift it. You will have to double-clutch as you shift up. Don't do to much of this type of driving, though, it kills the transmission rather quickly.
kills my WiFi...
I'd get an RF meter and check the shielding on the microwave with it. Don't want it to heat *me* when I'm sitting there hungry, watching my yestarday's pizza warm up.
These guys have just such imagination. How about some real-life tests, like static electricity, X-ray machine, being left on the dashboard on a sunny day, being brought in on a cold winter day..
And if you are going to drop it in water, use salty water. After all, there are those things called "sea" and "ocean" and people get their cameras splashed when they play near them. Probably no less often then they spill soda on them.
Oh, and when you precious memory card falls out of your pocket while you are crossing the street, there are going to be tons of toy cars running over it.
Those would be speaker magnets:-) Besides, a motor is a motor, and doesn't need to cost an arm and a leg.
Than, again, even if it was cheap, it would still run on a battery. And a battery is a battery - heavy and never has enough juice to get where you want to go.