Electronic Freedom Foundation comes straight to mind.. Apache I'm sure could always use some backing. Help back Samba, Gnome, perhaps even the LDP. Backing NetBSD, OpenBSD, HURD would be extremely cool. =)
Okay then.. a 600Mhz UltraSparc3 would be relatively close to a 750Mhz 21264 Alpha to a 1000Mhz P3 on SPECint benchmarks I believe. Wait till the 1500Mhz UltraSparc5's are out though .
Intel's downfall is they are moving further and further CISC with their P3 SIMD, while Alpha's are easily pushing ahead along with Sun on beautiful RISC CPU's.
Then again, the P3 will probably kick Alpha's ass on gaming benchmarks, but the Alpha will most definately nail the P3 to the ground in processing war applications.
I couldn't even imagine how much processing power it would take to calculate missile trajectories and such. It's probably relatively close to making films like Star Wars or Toy Story, or large decryption. It takes a lot of power to try and bring such large math as close to real time as possible.
2500 Alpha CPU's, at let's say.. $1000 each comes to $2.5 Million. How much does this pricing compare to Cray or Origin supercomputers? Alpha's are incredible to say the least, but I'm wondering if we can get a Beowulf cluster going for a cheaper price with similar speeds?
If I was shelling out that much cash, I'd probably want to go MIPS though, but it all depends on the company's infrastructure and needs. I'm overall impressed by Compaq's dedication to providing excellent and reliable products (e.g. Proliant servers), but I'm a little bit edgy with their up and down attitude towards Alpha lately.:)
Would this hold up in court? Well your honour, unfortunately the drive which may have contained the pertenant information appears to have been zeroed.
Oh crap, but they still got my tape backups. =)
Seriously though, I strongly believe that encrypted means of communication, or filesystems, should not become open to the court system. That defeats part of the point of encryption right there (well duh, I don't want other people reading my data). The government will never pass a bill on this though, as they have to much pressure from the FBI, DOD, CIA, police, and courts to be able to access any information they want at their free whim.
Does anyone want to write a feature into POP3/IMAP for desctructive emails ala 'You have 30 seconds to read this email before it self destructs' or 'sender requests that this email be destroyed'? I'm more than game.
I've been following SGI for quite a while now.. They began focusing on the x86 line as they figured the 64-bit Merced/Itanium/McKinney/[fill in the blank] would take over the marketplace sometime very soon for visual workstations.
On the high end market, they purchased Cray, and continued work on the Orion line of supercomputers.
Bad move buying Cray, bad move focusing on x86 64-bit imho. They had to get rid of Cray as it was becoming excess baggage. I may be wrong, but Intel is having trouble getting their 64-bit cpu higher than 400Mhz, while Alpha are laughing happily to the bank on their 21264 chipset, while working on their 21364 chipset (1000Mhz, 64-bit I believe). Sun continues working towards the UltraSparc-3 chipset (750Mhz 64-bit) and UltraSparc-5 chipset (1500Mhz 64-bit).
Perhaps SGI should stick to high end 32-bit x86 chips for their workstation line, and continue pumping out MIPS cpu's on the beautiful Origin line. I understand fazeing out IRIX, but really..
Where will it end? I love SGI products! Are they organized enough to provide me with a reliable long term gameplan, and be able to produce their servers in a timely manner?
True, but Al Gore invented the internet, and as our future president he can do whatever he wants with his invention. Hmm, maybe we can start taxing Usenet posts and IRC bots while we're at it. The day I pay an e-commerce tax on the pizza I just ordered from Pizza Hut, or the keg of beer I just bought offshore from underagebeersales.nu is the day I move back into my isolated Y2K bomb shelter.
.. or it will just push up server collocation, and everyone will run their servers out of the Christmas Islands, or anywhere offshore to avoid sales taxes. Found any good gambling sites running out of the States lately? (hi Starnet!)
Hmm, good idea for a business plan right there. IPO anyone?;)
The Canadian gov't taxes us on blank cd's.. There's no end to what they'll try to tax us on. I can't wait for the day where we pay:
$0.02 tax for using email/webmail
$0.05 tax on isp dialup
$0.01 tax on memory used by your perl script
$0.15 tax on large software d/l's (ala gnu)
$1.00 tax for trolling/.
Honestly, I think government's will start taxing isp's, which will in turn bring up isp prices. Either that, or credit card portal's on the net and banks will be forced to place a tax on any online transactions.
Even better.. Their membership form should indicate if you are applying as a commercial or non-profit login, and perhaps do like ICANN does and actually mail the user their login/password (to confirm that they are for real, by submitting a valid address).
Sad to see a standard go commercial. If anything this might push a trend towards Firewire.
USB runs at 1.5 to 12.0Mbps.. It'll hopefully get faster over time, but probably won't ever be comparable to firewire. Wireless will certainly take over your peripheral devices sometime this decade.:)
There's no stopping them. Perhaps we should start rating supercomputers as any computer or cluster that can handle a teraflop? These are the days when your Dreamcast is even considered a supercomputer. Will governement ever learn to keep up with the times?
How viable is Novell today compared to our Unix options (NIS, NFS, Samba, etc)? Are there any Unix tools for migrating Novell networks to Unix, or to bring them side to side?
What services can Novell provide me that Unix can't?
This is great.. I'd really like my voice to be heard. Right now if I wanted to become an accredited registrar I would require:
$1,000 US ICANN application fee
$5,000 US ICANN annual fee
$70,000 US in working capital
not to mention...
$10,000 US NSI registration fee
$100,000 US performance assurance bond
and even after all that trouble, NSI will take $9 US from every registration I were to put through! It's nice to have a say in who gets to go through, and to perhaps bring NSI back down to earth.
This has brought my conclusion to going through the Tucows OpenSRS system, which is a free registration and free perl based CGI's, through which I can register domains for a simple $10 US per year ($9 of which goes to NSI, $1 going to Tucows for providing us with this great service).
Some more links for those of you ready to become your own registrar:
Good luck! I hope everyone helps contribute to the OpenSRS project, as it will certainly be the way of the future for small ISP's like myself who can't afford NSI's outrageous costs and bonds.
Just how fast can current technology take us with hard drives? What are the other technologies being developped to cope with speed limitations that we'll certainly hear about in the near future, not to mention to lower the price of the current hard drives out there?
net-pf-3 should be off because no ax25 module is available yet.. net-pf-4 should be off if you don't use the ipx module, and net-pf-5 should be off if you don't use the appletalk module.
I have no idea why it would be calling ppp-compress instead of bsd_comp and ppp_deflate (both are ppp modules), but I would assume you could alias any of those ppp-compress modules to bsd_comp or ppp_deflate. =)
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Electronic Freedom Foundation comes straight to mind.. Apache I'm sure could always use some backing. Help back Samba, Gnome, perhaps even the LDP. Backing NetBSD, OpenBSD, HURD would be extremely cool. =)
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Okay then.. a 600Mhz UltraSparc3 would be relatively close to a 750Mhz 21264 Alpha to a 1000Mhz P3 on SPECint benchmarks I believe. Wait till the 1500Mhz UltraSparc5's are out though .
Intel's downfall is they are moving further and further CISC with their P3 SIMD, while Alpha's are easily pushing ahead along with Sun on beautiful RISC CPU's.
Then again, the P3 will probably kick Alpha's ass on gaming benchmarks, but the Alpha will most definately nail the P3 to the ground in processing war applications.
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I couldn't even imagine how much processing power it would take to calculate missile trajectories and such. It's probably relatively close to making films like Star Wars or Toy Story, or large decryption. It takes a lot of power to try and bring such large math as close to real time as possible.
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2500 Alpha CPU's, at let's say.. $1000 each comes to $2.5 Million. How much does this pricing compare to Cray or Origin supercomputers? Alpha's are incredible to say the least, but I'm wondering if we can get a Beowulf cluster going for a cheaper price with similar speeds?
:)
If I was shelling out that much cash, I'd probably want to go MIPS though, but it all depends on the company's infrastructure and needs. I'm overall impressed by Compaq's dedication to providing excellent and reliable products (e.g. Proliant servers), but I'm a little bit edgy with their up and down attitude towards Alpha lately.
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# umount /dev/sda2 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda2
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda2
# mkfs.ext2
# mount
Would this hold up in court? Well your honour, unfortunately the drive which may have contained the pertenant information appears to have been zeroed.
Oh crap, but they still got my tape backups. =)
Seriously though, I strongly believe that encrypted means of communication, or filesystems, should not become open to the court system. That defeats part of the point of encryption right there (well duh, I don't want other people reading my data). The government will never pass a bill on this though, as they have to much pressure from the FBI, DOD, CIA, police, and courts to be able to access any information they want at their free whim.
Does anyone want to write a feature into POP3/IMAP for desctructive emails ala 'You have 30 seconds to read this email before it self destructs' or 'sender requests that this email be destroyed'? I'm more than game.
EraseMe
I've been following SGI for quite a while now.. They began focusing on the x86 line as they figured the 64-bit Merced/Itanium/McKinney/[fill in the blank] would take over the marketplace sometime very soon for visual workstations.
On the high end market, they purchased Cray, and continued work on the Orion line of supercomputers.
Bad move buying Cray, bad move focusing on x86 64-bit imho. They had to get rid of Cray as it was becoming excess baggage. I may be wrong, but Intel is having trouble getting their 64-bit cpu higher than 400Mhz, while Alpha are laughing happily to the bank on their 21264 chipset, while working on their 21364 chipset (1000Mhz, 64-bit I believe). Sun continues working towards the UltraSparc-3 chipset (750Mhz 64-bit) and UltraSparc-5 chipset (1500Mhz 64-bit).
Perhaps SGI should stick to high end 32-bit x86 chips for their workstation line, and continue pumping out MIPS cpu's on the beautiful Origin line. I understand fazeing out IRIX, but really..
Where will it end? I love SGI products! Are they organized enough to provide me with a reliable long term gameplan, and be able to produce their servers in a timely manner?
EraseMe
True, but Al Gore invented the internet, and as our future president he can do whatever he wants with his invention. Hmm, maybe we can start taxing Usenet posts and IRC bots while we're at it. The day I pay an e-commerce tax on the pizza I just ordered from Pizza Hut, or the keg of beer I just bought offshore from underagebeersales.nu is the day I move back into my isolated Y2K bomb shelter.
I don't think that made sense, but nonetheless..
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.. or it will just push up server collocation, and everyone will run their servers out of the Christmas Islands, or anywhere offshore to avoid sales taxes. Found any good gambling sites running out of the States lately? (hi Starnet!)
;)
Hmm, good idea for a business plan right there. IPO anyone?
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$0.02 tax for using email/webmail
$0.05 tax on isp dialup
$0.01 tax on memory used by your perl script
$0.15 tax on large software d/l's (ala gnu)
$1.00 tax for trolling /.
Honestly, I think government's will start taxing isp's, which will in turn bring up isp prices. Either that, or credit card portal's on the net and banks will be forced to place a tax on any online transactions.
Screw this internet, I'm starting my own one.
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Want to speak up against web patents? Join the League for Programming Freedom, fully endorsed by RMS and GNU.
Here are some excellent News links dealing with recent absurd patents, and essays on the subject.
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Even better.. Their membership form should indicate if you are applying as a commercial or non-profit login, and perhaps do like ICANN does and actually mail the user their login/password (to confirm that they are for real, by submitting a valid address).
Sad to see a standard go commercial. If anything this might push a trend towards Firewire.
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USB runs at 1.5 to 12.0Mbps.. It'll hopefully get faster over time, but probably won't ever be comparable to firewire. Wireless will certainly take over your peripheral devices sometime this decade. :)
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1999.. Alpha 750Mhz 21264 CPU..
2000.. AMD 1000Mhz CPU..
2001.. Intel 1500Mhz CPU..
2002.. Sun 1500Mhz UltraSparc5 CPU..
There's no stopping them. Perhaps we should start rating supercomputers as any computer or cluster that can handle a teraflop? These are the days when your Dreamcast is even considered a supercomputer. Will governement ever learn to keep up with the times?
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How viable is Novell today compared to our Unix options (NIS, NFS, Samba, etc)? Are there any Unix tools for migrating Novell networks to Unix, or to bring them side to side?
What services can Novell provide me that Unix can't?
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$1,000 US ICANN application fee
$5,000 US ICANN annual fee
$70,000 US in working capital
not to mention...
$10,000 US NSI registration fee
$100,000 US performance assurance bond
and even after all that trouble, NSI will take $9 US from every registration I were to put through! It's nice to have a say in who gets to go through, and to perhaps bring NSI back down to earth.
This has brought my conclusion to going through the Tucows OpenSRS system, which is a free registration and free perl based CGI's, through which I can register domains for a simple $10 US per year ($9 of which goes to NSI, $1 going to Tucows for providing us with this great service).
Some more links for those of you ready to become your own registrar:
http://www.iana.org/
http://www.icann.org/
http://www.ietf.org/
http://www.nsiregistry.com/
http://www.internic.net/
Good luck! I hope everyone helps contribute to the OpenSRS project, as it will certainly be the way of the future for small ISP's like myself who can't afford NSI's outrageous costs and bonds.
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Anyone know why the Cutting Edge Linux site hasn't been updated for Kernel 2.3.x notes in over a month and a half? I really loved that page...
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Just how fast can current technology take us with hard drives? What are the other technologies being developped to cope with speed limitations that we'll certainly hear about in the near future, not to mention to lower the price of the current hard drives out there?
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net-pf-3 should be off because no ax25 module is available yet.. net-pf-4 should be off if you don't use the ipx module, and net-pf-5 should be off if you don't use the appletalk module.
I have no idea why it would be calling ppp-compress instead of bsd_comp and ppp_deflate (both are ppp modules), but I would assume you could alias any of those ppp-compress modules to bsd_comp or ppp_deflate. =)
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