Almost no one tries to build NT clusters. One cluster vendor reported that only about 10% of their clients specify NT. The reason is simple - you are simply throwing your money away, as NT doesn't scale. That alone should be sufficient to make the case against NT clustering.
I'm as anti-NT as the next Slash-Dotter, but lets not go as low as MS does. That comment is pure FUD. NT Will definitely "scale". The Mindcraft benchmarks, with all their bias, effectively showed that.
The problem is that while the first box that crashed is still re-booting, the fail-over box crashes as well. Even their HA clusters are only 99% available... pathetic.
This has been said, but AiX is out of Linux in one very important lead. The future. IBM must spend millions to advance AiX even one minor version number. All they have to do to advance Linux is port it to their own hardware. Then all the hackers out there with spare 390's out there can tweak it and add DVD support.
Oh wait, that is one flaw with this port. All of the previous ports of Linux have had at least a workstation version of the hardware available to the general community. I don't think there's a Mini-390 out there anyways.
That means that basically IBM will be the only ones seriously working on it. They had to have figured that out by now.
Still.. the number of programs that would instantly be able to run on big(REALLY BIG) iron is alluring.
jBASE is NOT Pick. jBASE is a Multi-Value DBMS that uses the Pick methodology on databases. This basically means that Normalized tables are thrown out the door in favor of real-world friendly delimited records stored in a hashed file. Multiple values can be stored in one field(much like Oracle 8i's nested tables, but much faster). Beyond that, jBASE has ODBC and JDBC connectivity. They also have a free, 3 user development/trial system available for download. Check them out at www.jbase.com.
There is an Open source project in development right now to create the same sort of thing. It is called MaVerick. Check it out at www.maverick-dbms.org
Why isn't mine moving very fast then? I've been running the thing for almost 15 minutes, and have only 5 periods. On RC5, I'd have 8 or 9 now. I figured that CSC would move faster. Are the blocks bigger?
Wow.. in the minute it took me to write this, it went up to 310.38. Moving right along.
If the Linux community(myself included) doesn't focus on an image, Linux will find itself running on computers in houses with Betamax VCR's... Don't discount how important an image is.
I don't think Hollywood has a grasp on any level of reality. When I see movies about Hollywood, by Hollywood, I think "No, thats just stupid, people don't act like that!". But Really, they do! After having two family members working in Hollywood, I've learned that Hollywood is really like that. They don't care about how the REAL world is, they care about how good the movie is.
Sure, there are some directors and writers out there who can get it right, but only on subjects of global importance. The computer/hacking/wirehead community is too far removed from the rest of the world for Hollywood to care. So, for convenience they'll make it up to fit the story.
Look at The Matrix. Even though it is a truly cool movie(and has Anti-Microsoft undertones), it still doesn't really get it right. Lawrence Fishburn butchers the line "This is where we broadcast our pirate signal and hack into The Matrix."
I don't know how they got it right with War Games. Maybe it was because computer graphics weren't in terribly wide use yet. Maybe they actually had somebody on the set to tell them how it should work. But ever since then, it has gone WAY down hill.
Our only hope is for some independent film maker to make a documentary style film about his computer buddies. Either that, or an actual theatrical piece. I'm more comfortable with the former, as, actors try to bring drama to something that has no drama in speech.
There's a big problem with that unfortunately... Blue LED's are about 20 times as expensive as Red/Green/Yellow. They use Gallium, which is mucho expensive.
Besides, the green is good, and now, we can think of it as cow-patty green.
I've stuck my head in a demo unit(admittedly, almost a year ago), and been very unimpressed. The displays are a bit dificult to read, and somewhat intrusive. Until they get some higher quality display technology, wearable computing will sit where pen-computing sat for a while. But look a all of us with our Palm Pilots now... it took a re-application of the technology.
Xybernaut should be careful, or their computer will go the way of the Apple Newton.
One more small thing: Batteries need to get cheaper and smaller. Oooo, maybe fuel cells?
I think you missed something very important there... They don't want to spend a lot of money. I'm sure NT has "student" pricing, but I don't know if it would even apply. The main crux of his question is "how can I get one big machine to do all of this?". NT misses the mark there unfortunately. As your message says, you just run shoutcast on it... No mail, no web. Oh well.
I like the Athlon idea... but where can you buy one?
What do you mean when you say compact fluorescents?
I have several fluorescent lights that were installed with my house, and I'm removing them. They give me headaches with the buzzing and the flickering, and I hate turning on a light and watching it flash.
Some products out there use a different sort of technology though, maybe this is what you're talking about?
I personally would rather have a solar energy system than having all my lights behave so poorly.
I will agree with Bruce though... Coal Plants just suck!
Woke up this morning and the lights were out...
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As I opened my eyes this morning, I realized there was a suttle difference from most mornings. There was no Red glow coming from my alarm clock. Looking out the window at 5:30 this morning, the whole neighborhood was dark.
Immediately it clicked, "oh man, its 9999, and I'm low on canned goods". Phone still worked, so I called Southern California Edison. The recording said there was a wide-spread blackout in my area. I started having visions of looters and scenes from the movie "The Trigger Effect".
At 7:30, the power came back on. No word from SCE, but I had since fired up my laptop, and discovered all the "9/9/99 came and went" stories, so it wasn't a surprise.
Still spooked me, even though I'm a programmer, and know it SHOULDN'T cause a problem, I was convinced it had.
A different concept than Flat-Tables like SQL and Oracle use, check out http://www.picksys.com. They were one of(if not THE) first commercial DataBases available on Linux. There's a newer, more superior product called jBASE(http://www.jbase.com) that works similarly. The programming language is a REALLY easy, fast, BASIC language, and there are thousands of business that use this technology(Ever heard of FTD? Sony? NEC? They all use MultiValue Databases at the core of their business).
There's even an open-source MVDBMS in development right now called MaVerick(http://www.maverick-dbms.org).
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Almost no one tries to build NT clusters. One cluster vendor reported that only about 10% of their clients specify NT. The reason is simple - you are simply throwing your money away, as NT doesn't scale. That alone should be sufficient to make the case against NT clustering.
I'm as anti-NT as the next Slash-Dotter, but lets not go as low as MS does. That comment is pure FUD. NT Will definitely "scale". The Mindcraft benchmarks, with all their bias, effectively showed that.
The problem is that while the first box that crashed is still re-booting, the fail-over box crashes as well. Even their HA clusters are only 99% available... pathetic.
This has been said, but AiX is out of Linux in one very important lead. The future. IBM must spend millions to advance AiX even one minor version number. All they have to do to advance Linux is port it to their own hardware. Then all the hackers out there with spare 390's out there can tweak it and add DVD support.
Oh wait, that is one flaw with this port. All of the previous ports of Linux have had at least a workstation version of the hardware available to the general community. I don't think there's a Mini-390 out there anyways.
That means that basically IBM will be the only ones seriously working on it. They had to have figured that out by now.
Still.. the number of programs that would instantly be able to run on big(REALLY BIG) iron is alluring.
jBASE is NOT Pick. jBASE is a Multi-Value DBMS that uses the Pick methodology on databases. This basically means that Normalized tables are thrown out the door in favor of real-world friendly delimited records stored in a hashed file. Multiple values can be stored in one field(much like Oracle 8i's nested tables, but much faster). Beyond that, jBASE has ODBC and JDBC connectivity. They also have a free, 3 user development/trial system available for download. Check them out at www.jbase.com.
There is an Open source project in development right now to create the same sort of thing. It is called MaVerick. Check it out at www.maverick-dbms.org
Why isn't mine moving very fast then? I've been running the thing for almost 15 minutes, and have only 5 periods. On RC5, I'd have 8 or 9 now. I figured that CSC would move faster. Are the blocks bigger?
Wow.. in the minute it took me to write this, it went up to 310.38. Moving right along.
If the Linux community(myself included) doesn't focus on an image, Linux will find itself running on computers in houses with Betamax VCR's... Don't discount how important an image is.
Uhhhh... http://www.linuxcare.com
If thats not enough for anyone using Linux, I don't know what is!
I don't think Hollywood has a grasp on any level of reality. When I see movies about Hollywood, by Hollywood, I think "No, thats just stupid, people don't act like that!". But Really, they do! After having two family members working in Hollywood, I've learned that Hollywood is really like that. They don't care about how the REAL world is, they care about how good the movie is.
Sure, there are some directors and writers out there who can get it right, but only on subjects of global importance. The computer/hacking/wirehead community is too far removed from the rest of the world for Hollywood to care. So, for convenience they'll make it up to fit the story.
Look at The Matrix. Even though it is a truly cool movie(and has Anti-Microsoft undertones), it still doesn't really get it right. Lawrence Fishburn butchers the line "This is where we broadcast our pirate signal and hack into The Matrix."
I don't know how they got it right with War Games. Maybe it was because computer graphics weren't in terribly wide use yet. Maybe they actually had somebody on the set to tell them how it should work. But ever since then, it has gone WAY down hill.
Our only hope is for some independent film maker to make a documentary style film about his computer buddies. Either that, or an actual theatrical piece. I'm more comfortable with the former, as, actors try to bring drama to something that has no drama in speech.
There's a big problem with that unfortunately... Blue LED's are about 20 times as expensive as Red/Green/Yellow. They use Gallium, which is mucho expensive.
Besides, the green is good, and now, we can think of it as cow-patty green.
I've stuck my head in a demo unit(admittedly, almost a year ago), and been very unimpressed. The displays are a bit dificult to read, and somewhat intrusive. Until they get some higher quality display technology, wearable computing will sit where pen-computing sat for a while. But look a all of us with our Palm Pilots now... it took a re-application of the technology.
Xybernaut should be careful, or their computer will go the way of the Apple Newton.
One more small thing: Batteries need to get cheaper and smaller. Oooo, maybe fuel cells?
I think you missed something very important there... They don't want to spend a lot of money. I'm sure NT has "student" pricing, but I don't know if it would even apply. The main crux of his question is "how can I get one big machine to do all of this?". NT misses the mark there unfortunately. As your message says, you just run shoutcast on it... No mail, no web. Oh well.
I like the Athlon idea... but where can you buy one?
What do you mean when you say compact fluorescents?
I have several fluorescent lights that were installed with my house, and I'm removing them. They give me headaches with the buzzing and the flickering, and I hate turning on a light and watching it flash.
Some products out there use a different sort of technology though, maybe this is what you're talking about?
I personally would rather have a solar energy system than having all my lights behave so poorly.
I will agree with Bruce though... Coal Plants just suck!
As I opened my eyes this morning, I realized there was a suttle difference from most mornings. There was no Red glow coming from my alarm clock. Looking out the window at 5:30 this morning, the whole neighborhood was dark.
Immediately it clicked, "oh man, its 9999, and I'm low on canned goods". Phone still worked, so I called Southern California Edison. The recording said there was a wide-spread blackout in my area. I started having visions of looters and scenes from the movie "The Trigger Effect".
At 7:30, the power came back on. No word from SCE, but I had since fired up my laptop, and discovered all the "9/9/99 came and went" stories, so it wasn't a surprise.
Still spooked me, even though I'm a programmer, and know it SHOULDN'T cause a problem, I was convinced it had.
A different concept than Flat-Tables like SQL and Oracle use, check out http://www.picksys.com. They were one of(if not THE) first commercial DataBases available on Linux. There's a newer, more superior product called jBASE(http://www.jbase.com) that works similarly. The programming language is a REALLY easy, fast, BASIC language, and there are thousands of business that use this technology(Ever heard of FTD? Sony? NEC? They all use MultiValue Databases at the core of their business).
There's even an open-source MVDBMS in development right now called MaVerick(http://www.maverick-dbms.org).
My head hurts.. I think I need to play qUAKE for a while to ease the throbbing.
But Seriously, this stuff is very cool. Once those are out, I guess it won't matter if you have a 4096 or 8192 bit PGP key... you're still toast!
Carnegie Mellon has a nice link that will help anybody out that needs info on email servers...
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http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/email/servt