is in my laptop?
They could also make these artificially, putting in the precise concentration and distribution of nitrogen.
All I heard was 'Quantum Computer' and 'persists for a real amount of time' and 'room temperature.'
Sorry, that's the IBM blades being the ones in that supercomputer... my bad.
Sun blades are great too... smaller form factor but less CPU and more KW needed. and equal number of processors in traditional pizza box units consumes 3 times as much power and releases 3 times as much heat. not to mention it fills an entire rack, while the IMB blades take only half or less (I can't remember the exact unit size, and i'm too lazy to dig out the info...)
For an enterprise setup, you'd be a dumbass not to go with blades... it's cheaper, easier, and more space efficient... and if you have a bad blade, replacement is a snap...
I work for a large telecom in the back end software devision and the team I work on develops the operating software for the network. My usual test environment is a cluster of 64 Sunfire servers with each of those servers containing 8 processors and 32 Gb of RAM. Including the infrastructure, Myranet optical lines, and NetApp storage boxes this brings my setup from the uber to the l33t.
The other day, I wanted to see how fast this cluster could encode The Matrix... it took 4 seconds... I was pleased.
We're upgrading to 256 IBM Blades soon so it should get fun then. I'm a big fan of blades... the Sun blades we use are tremendously fast and perfect for what we do. need more processing power? chuck in another 64 blades into that rack and there you go... Those blades are the same that are used in the MareNorstrum cluster in Spain... that would be the 5th most powerful supercomputer in the world (and is at par with the Earth Simulator, costing 10% as much heheh)... damn I can't wait to get those going...
For some reason, when I get home, not having all that power and an internet connection to match just feels wrong.
I set up a similar project here in Nova Scotia to get internet to a group of people that were too far away to get ground lines. I used a string of directional antennas about 1km apart up the slope of the hill, then to a central station that radiated the internet signal to the houses.
The big problem is speed and bandwidth... but, aslong as your clients are not all slashdot addicts who spend loads of time online, you should be fine. Make sure the company you go with knows their graph theory when it comes to designing the access points. this problem is a graph colouring/shortest path problem.
Eclipse is great. I use it for my Java, and just started with C++ and C in that. There are plugins for all major languages which you can get on the eclipse site. Doxygen is great for creating cool UML diagrams or documentation for the code. The GNU compilier tools are great and make is where it's at.
For java, once you have your desired runtime lib installed its all gravy...
vi, vim, nano, emacs, whatever you want to use, it should be up to the programmmer. I would also ask your staff what tools they want to use and what they feel would make them be the most productive.
yep, and when you write code for servers that deal with over 10,000,000 email messages per day, where downtime means you also loose your job, and where the difference between 1,000,000 users and 100,000,000 users is 100 ms in transfer time, you get a 'unique' perspective on what is what in the world of telecommunications.
Also, the blades I use are great small scale testing servers. I have 8 sitting on one rack, and i can simulate incredable loads and unique conditions before we send them over to the 'real world'.
I agree. I write my code under the assumption (rightly so) that my code will be reviewed by many people in the near future, and then added onto after a bit.
In fact, working at Research In Motion has shown me how to write better code... sometimes, the most efficient or clever solution are the worst. I would rather see longer variable names, descriptive control structures and a total lack of goto statements. If you write sensible code, and use an optimization setting of 4 or 5, then you will have better programs in the long run. Also, the more complex and "optimized" your code is, the less chance the compilier would be able to optimize it and may even slow it down a little.
But the biggest thing is to make it readable... I think writing code that executes SO FAST would be useful only in real time systems and large servers.
Now... back to my realtime system... gotta make those blade servers smoke!
There are other companies that are doing this... SCO tried to take the UNIX market by legal force, Microsoft is patenting everything in sight, and now EA is buying all the competition. Some have not done so well, but in a few years, I believe that a few large "umbrella corperations" will control 90% of the market. I'm not saying that is a bad thing, but I don't know if Proctor and Gamble brand cheese or Microsoft cars are good.
I think this buy-up process will re-ignite the flame of "build up a small software company with a good idea, then get bought out and retire at 30." that fed the dot-com bubble. That means jobs, market explosion, and then the ineviable fall again. Welcome to the rollercoaster we call the technology market... and soon, all markets.
And I don't think that the Canadian Governemnt will get involved. Unless EA wants to buy and liquidate, thus putting hundreds of people out of work, and into the welfare lines. Also, most companies in Canada are subsidized for different jobs. I work with Research In Motion, and we have to log our R&D time for tax benifits, and for each co-op intern (like myself) they get more tax breaks. Tax breaks loose money for governemnts, so this is more of a prevention of jobloss measure than anything else... If they can keep jobs in the country, that's more money for them...
In all groups, there are offical, and un-official designations. I, for example, am an Infastructure Software Developer. But, I am also the team's go-to guy. I have no long term projects, only short ones, so people bring me things to work on, on the side. There are the guru's who everyone goes to and the loners or the popular people. If the boss knows the groups working, they can interact more effectivly. Also, don't be afraid to let the programmers have a little extra room to develop and imagine. If you become a slave driver, your project will fall behind and mabey even fail.
If you want to be the best, think back to when you were in the team and what your first boss (or first good boss) were like... if they sucked, do the total opposite. If they did things well, and you remember having a good time, do what they did.
I will leave you with a quote from futurama. "If you've done your job right, it won't seem like you've done anything at all." - God
I've "sat through" the install on a less than uber system and it can take upwards of 3 days to build and install all the needed and wanted packages for a complete system. But, it's worth it.
I've had Cedega running with Steam for CS quite well. It only took 2 tries and 32 wtf's. Also, for games that run in linux when a patch is properly applied, you can emerge them. but you need the cd's or images as the emerge only comes with the patch. but it does the install for ya. Gentoo is teh slick... I just wish their install process was a little more automated. HINT HINT!!
this sounds like Robocode from IBM, http://www.robocode.net has a large following. We used this in my 1st year as a programming project. My friend's was powerful... it would learn you and never loose.
it's not hard to do. There is a set API, and everything is there. It's like lego,... which makes it fun too.
Myself and a small contigent from Acadia University in Wolfville Nova Scotia attended this conference. I must say that between the great social aspect, the networking with big-wigs from large companies, and amazingly interesting talks on new and innovative topics make for three of the best days of your year.
I was supposed to go this year, and had been registered (and probabally still am) until I recieved my current co-op position at RIM.
The attendees range from hardcore computer programmers and engineers, to buisness students working on an e-commerce degree. I totally reccomend this conference, but you may have to wait till next year to attend. I hear this one filled up extra quick. I will be attending next year if all goes well.
The lecutre of Quantum Cryptography last year was amazing. I still remember the whole thing... especially when he had one of his laptops break into the other laptop using different techniques and operating systems. None were sacred... He managed to crack all versions of windows and a couple UNIX boxes. Just to proove a point: Quantum Cryptography is the way to go.
the americans do have some fence mending to take care of. Russia isn't at fault. atleast they are committed to their space program. I hope russia puts some money into their new shuttle plans... I saw some models and test data.. quite promising.
Mabey russia and america could break down their ICBM's and strap them all together to launch stuff into orbit. It would be better than just sitting on those bombs... Good ol'e atlas missle...
I agree with this statement. Often, the LAN parties need to be run in structures that are designed for it. I know in Halifax, where I live, we have a few buildings designed, and fully stocked for small scale lans. These are rentable for a modest fee, and if you play your cards right, you can mark it up a bit and make a few bucks.
LAN parties have never been known a profit magnas, so I would suggest something different. Mabey some sort of sale/car wash. They tend to produce some modest buckeroos, and are considerably easier to make.
At my university, we have regular LAN parties, but we use classrooms that are wired with gigabit LANs and all the security we need from the university. Since each student gets a decently powered laptop, it's simple to run and the gamers just bring their computers with any prefiera they want.,mmmmmmm cookie bake sales....
While doing research for an AI project, I found a project that does this, kinda, and is written totally in PHP, etc... its called AIStockBot
Its nicely obsfrucated, but it's open source... some of their algorithms and predicting phases are quite complex. I decided to do something a little more basic and written in C. mmmmmm C...
Yeah... I guess I should have read their site recently.... hehehe
I find that since the Apple drivers come, basically, from one little sector of the market, their drivers are decently written and easy to setup. That's not the case with some x86 wifi cards
I enjoy a nice copy of knoppix which comes with Kismet, Airsnort and other great little programs like that. It makes war driving simple.
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If you have the time, do what I did. Put Gentoo on the system by a normal install method. you can make it like a 4 gig partition and then export the system as an image. It will definitly fit on a DVD, and a CD if you go min.
I do this at school here because all the computers the kids have are the same... so I just get a perfectly working system on mine, and then create a liveCD from it for the other computers. It makes data recovery in the user support center a sinch.
And a live CD for gentoo PPC is in the works. Should be out with the 2004.4 version release.
I am good friends with some of the designers of that car. Hell... I even helped carry the solar panels into the conference building in Scarbrough in January where I met them. It is truly tragic, and my heart goes out to them. That is the problem with this kind of tragedy... this car was designed for racing and not highway travel competing for road space with Cadillacs.
I agree completly. Being a Computer Science student at a Canadian school , We are taught the OOA/D and have courses that are just one 4 month development project. These are all done in groups of 4 and are great fun putting them together.
IMHO, the group needs to work together so they don't work on something they shouldnt have, and so when the team lead gives them their assignemnts for the night or week (I was the lead. Gave them lots, gave me lots... big project... ugh) they know what they are doing and come back with most if not all of their objectives taken care of. Our project was more succesful than other groups (my spelling aside) mainly because we were all friends and knew how to push each other to do our best. There were the groups of people the Prof stuck together because they didn't say that they had a group or didn't have anyone they could work with. Those people managed to complete the project but after reviewing our peers code, their work was bad. It lacked proper style in some cases and when a simple algorithm would have done the trick, they went nuts and did something totally in-efficient like using threads in Java... not smart.
So yes... a team's ability to interact with each other and their own mindsets on the team and the project being in sync do make for a better project. Now... if only those team building exersizes they put us through before the course worked...
porthole is the best portage gui interface in my mind... i think there are like 4 - 10 different onces. Check the app-portage tree in the list. It will have a link to each team's website.
I agree though that portage, being the main differentiating factor between gentoo and some other Linux'es (not debian... apt-get is the father of portage), is not represented in such a great way. As for X, go X.org... much better, and the licencing issues won't tie you in a knot.
Also, if you are looking for another list of linux programs, check the applications section of www.linux.org . it's a searchable database of available programs and is pretty good for finding old or obscure programs.
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is in my laptop? They could also make these artificially, putting in the precise concentration and distribution of nitrogen. All I heard was 'Quantum Computer' and 'persists for a real amount of time' and 'room temperature.'
Sorry, that's the IBM blades being the ones in that supercomputer... my bad.
Sun blades are great too... smaller form factor but less CPU and more KW needed. and equal number of processors in traditional pizza box units consumes 3 times as much power and releases 3 times as much heat. not to mention it fills an entire rack, while the IMB blades take only half or less (I can't remember the exact unit size, and i'm too lazy to dig out the info...)
For an enterprise setup, you'd be a dumbass not to go with blades... it's cheaper, easier, and more space efficient... and if you have a bad blade, replacement is a snap...
I work for a large telecom in the back end software devision and the team I work on develops the operating software for the network. My usual test environment is a cluster of 64 Sunfire servers with each of those servers containing 8 processors and 32 Gb of RAM. Including the infrastructure, Myranet optical lines, and NetApp storage boxes this brings my setup from the uber to the l33t.
The other day, I wanted to see how fast this cluster could encode The Matrix... it took 4 seconds... I was pleased.
We're upgrading to 256 IBM Blades soon so it should get fun then. I'm a big fan of blades... the Sun blades we use are tremendously fast and perfect for what we do. need more processing power? chuck in another 64 blades into that rack and there you go... Those blades are the same that are used in the MareNorstrum cluster in Spain... that would be the 5th most powerful supercomputer in the world (and is at par with the Earth Simulator, costing 10% as much heheh)... damn I can't wait to get those going...
For some reason, when I get home, not having all that power and an internet connection to match just feels wrong.
Agree.
I set up a similar project here in Nova Scotia to get internet to a group of people that were too far away to get ground lines. I used a string of directional antennas about 1km apart up the slope of the hill, then to a central station that radiated the internet signal to the houses.
The big problem is speed and bandwidth... but, aslong as your clients are not all slashdot addicts who spend loads of time online, you should be fine. Make sure the company you go with knows their graph theory when it comes to designing the access points. this problem is a graph colouring/shortest path problem.
that would be a cool project...
Eclipse is great. I use it for my Java, and just started with C++ and C in that. There are plugins for all major languages which you can get on the eclipse site. Doxygen is great for creating cool UML diagrams or documentation for the code. The GNU compilier tools are great and make is where it's at.
For java, once you have your desired runtime lib installed its all gravy...
vi, vim, nano, emacs, whatever you want to use, it should be up to the programmmer. I would also ask your staff what tools they want to use and what they feel would make them be the most productive.
cheers
yep, and when you write code for servers that deal with over 10,000,000 email messages per day, where downtime means you also loose your job, and where the difference between 1,000,000 users and 100,000,000 users is 100 ms in transfer time, you get a 'unique' perspective on what is what in the world of telecommunications.
Also, the blades I use are great small scale testing servers. I have 8 sitting on one rack, and i can simulate incredable loads and unique conditions before we send them over to the 'real world'.
I agree. I write my code under the assumption (rightly so) that my code will be reviewed by many people in the near future, and then added onto after a bit.
In fact, working at Research In Motion has shown me how to write better code... sometimes, the most efficient or clever solution are the worst. I would rather see longer variable names, descriptive control structures and a total lack of goto statements. If you write sensible code, and use an optimization setting of 4 or 5, then you will have better programs in the long run. Also, the more complex and "optimized" your code is, the less chance the compilier would be able to optimize it and may even slow it down a little.
But the biggest thing is to make it readable... I think writing code that executes SO FAST would be useful only in real time systems and large servers.
Now... back to my realtime system... gotta make those blade servers smoke!
true... that is a problem with the Canadian Government... and being a canadian, I don't know if that even means anything now...
There are other companies that are doing this... SCO tried to take the UNIX market by legal force, Microsoft is patenting everything in sight, and now EA is buying all the competition. Some have not done so well, but in a few years, I believe that a few large "umbrella corperations" will control 90% of the market. I'm not saying that is a bad thing, but I don't know if Proctor and Gamble brand cheese or Microsoft cars are good.
I think this buy-up process will re-ignite the flame of "build up a small software company with a good idea, then get bought out and retire at 30." that fed the dot-com bubble. That means jobs, market explosion, and then the ineviable fall again. Welcome to the rollercoaster we call the technology market... and soon, all markets.
And I don't think that the Canadian Governemnt will get involved. Unless EA wants to buy and liquidate, thus putting hundreds of people out of work, and into the welfare lines. Also, most companies in Canada are subsidized for different jobs. I work with Research In Motion, and we have to log our R&D time for tax benifits, and for each co-op intern (like myself) they get more tax breaks. Tax breaks loose money for governemnts, so this is more of a prevention of jobloss measure than anything else... If they can keep jobs in the country, that's more money for them...
In all groups, there are offical, and un-official designations. I, for example, am an Infastructure Software Developer. But, I am also the team's go-to guy. I have no long term projects, only short ones, so people bring me things to work on, on the side. There are the guru's who everyone goes to and the loners or the popular people. If the boss knows the groups working, they can interact more effectivly. Also, don't be afraid to let the programmers have a little extra room to develop and imagine. If you become a slave driver, your project will fall behind and mabey even fail.
If you want to be the best, think back to when you were in the team and what your first boss (or first good boss) were like... if they sucked, do the total opposite. If they did things well, and you remember having a good time, do what they did.
I will leave you with a quote from futurama. "If you've done your job right, it won't seem like you've done anything at all." - God
I've "sat through" the install on a less than uber system and it can take upwards of 3 days to build and install all the needed and wanted packages for a complete system. But, it's worth it.
I've had Cedega running with Steam for CS quite well. It only took 2 tries and 32 wtf's. Also, for games that run in linux when a patch is properly applied, you can emerge them. but you need the cd's or images as the emerge only comes with the patch. but it does the install for ya. Gentoo is teh slick... I just wish their install process was a little more automated. HINT HINT!!
I enjoy the Gameboy universal remote. My meger-translationability does not help much.
And the Amiga Guitar one is pretty messed. This makes me want to go off and make my old 8086's into more useful fish tanks or laptops.
this sounds like Robocode from IBM, http://www.robocode.net has a large following. We used this in my 1st year as a programming project. My friend's was powerful... it would learn you and never loose.
it's not hard to do. There is a set API, and everything is there. It's like lego,... which makes it fun too.
Myself and a small contigent from Acadia University in Wolfville Nova Scotia attended this conference. I must say that between the great social aspect, the networking with big-wigs from large companies, and amazingly interesting talks on new and innovative topics make for three of the best days of your year.
I was supposed to go this year, and had been registered (and probabally still am) until I recieved my current co-op position at RIM.
The attendees range from hardcore computer programmers and engineers, to buisness students working on an e-commerce degree. I totally reccomend this conference, but you may have to wait till next year to attend. I hear this one filled up extra quick. I will be attending next year if all goes well.
The lecutre of Quantum Cryptography last year was amazing. I still remember the whole thing... especially when he had one of his laptops break into the other laptop using different techniques and operating systems. None were sacred... He managed to crack all versions of windows and a couple UNIX boxes. Just to proove a point: Quantum Cryptography is the way to go.
Nail, meet hammer.
the americans do have some fence mending to take care of. Russia isn't at fault. atleast they are committed to their space program. I hope russia puts some money into their new shuttle plans... I saw some models and test data.. quite promising.
Mabey russia and america could break down their ICBM's and strap them all together to launch stuff into orbit. It would be better than just sitting on those bombs... Good ol'e atlas missle...
Genetialia. I don't want to even try to fix those. /lol
I agree with this statement. Often, the LAN parties need to be run in structures that are designed for it. I know in Halifax, where I live, we have a few buildings designed, and fully stocked for small scale lans. These are rentable for a modest fee, and if you play your cards right, you can mark it up a bit and make a few bucks.
,mmmmmmm cookie bake sales....
LAN parties have never been known a profit magnas, so I would suggest something different. Mabey some sort of sale/car wash. They tend to produce some modest buckeroos, and are considerably easier to make.
At my university, we have regular LAN parties, but we use classrooms that are wired with gigabit LANs and all the security we need from the university. Since each student gets a decently powered laptop, it's simple to run and the gamers just bring their computers with any prefiera they want.
While doing research for an AI project, I found a project that does this, kinda, and is written totally in PHP, etc... its called AIStockBot
Its nicely obsfrucated, but it's open source... some of their algorithms and predicting phases are quite complex. I decided to do something a little more basic and written in C. mmmmmm C...
/dev/Phi
I would join something... but I'm already in the IEEE Computer society and some canadian clubs aswell. (CIPS and a few others)
Yeah... I guess I should have read their site recently.... hehehe
I find that since the Apple drivers come, basically, from one little sector of the market, their drivers are decently written and easy to setup. That's not the case with some x86 wifi cards
I enjoy a nice copy of knoppix which comes with Kismet, Airsnort and other great little programs like that. It makes war driving simple.
If you have the time, do what I did. Put Gentoo on the system by a normal install method. you can make it like a 4 gig partition and then export the system as an image. It will definitly fit on a DVD, and a CD if you go min.
I do this at school here because all the computers the kids have are the same... so I just get a perfectly working system on mine, and then create a liveCD from it for the other computers. It makes data recovery in the user support center a sinch.
And a live CD for gentoo PPC is in the works. Should be out with the 2004.4 version release.
True mano... I was more into Sonic than Mario... I still have my Genesis and play when I am... infulenced... by... substances...
hehe... Knuckles..
I am good friends with some of the designers of that car. Hell... I even helped carry the solar panels into the conference building in Scarbrough in January where I met them. It is truly tragic, and my heart goes out to them. That is the problem with this kind of tragedy... this car was designed for racing and not highway travel competing for road space with Cadillacs.
Rest in peace Andrew, and keep them strong Raja.
I agree completly. Being a Computer Science student at a Canadian school , We are taught the OOA/D and have courses that are just one 4 month development project. These are all done in groups of 4 and are great fun putting them together.
IMHO, the group needs to work together so they don't work on something they shouldnt have, and so when the team lead gives them their assignemnts for the night or week (I was the lead. Gave them lots, gave me lots... big project... ugh) they know what they are doing and come back with most if not all of their objectives taken care of. Our project was more succesful than other groups (my spelling aside) mainly because we were all friends and knew how to push each other to do our best. There were the groups of people the Prof stuck together because they didn't say that they had a group or didn't have anyone they could work with. Those people managed to complete the project but after reviewing our peers code, their work was bad. It lacked proper style in some cases and when a simple algorithm would have done the trick, they went nuts and did something totally in-efficient like using threads in Java... not smart.
So yes... a team's ability to interact with each other and their own mindsets on the team and the project being in sync do make for a better project. Now... if only those team building exersizes they put us through before the course worked...
porthole is the best portage gui interface in my mind... i think there are like 4 - 10 different onces. Check the app-portage tree in the list. It will have a link to each team's website.
I agree though that portage, being the main differentiating factor between gentoo and some other Linux'es (not debian... apt-get is the father of portage), is not represented in such a great way. As for X, go X.org... much better, and the licencing issues won't tie you in a knot.
Also, if you are looking for another list of linux programs, check the applications section of www.linux.org . it's a searchable database of available programs and is pretty good for finding old or obscure programs.