Does this mean IBM is going to look into ways to make it support 64 processors?
If true, this seems like it could be excellent for the Linux community. Even if it isn't exactly '64 processor SMP'. Please, post your thoughts on this.. i'm interested in knowing a definate answer.
Yap. Shame the 'big guys' in the office (boss, VP of IT, or prez) makes the decisions and sometimes is stubborn about it.
Now i'm wondering how many staunch MS people will switch from outlook to something like eudora, or netscape mail.
Oh well. I'll stick with pine, and if there is some pine vulnerability, i'll go to Elm. If Elm.. then.. i'll telnet to the sendmail port and do it in RAW mode. =)
Oh, and if i was head of a company, i'd switch everyone to RAW mode in that case =)))
I'd say that's likely, but a good question is "exactly what and how" =)
Obviously, you have disk quuotas... most large systems have 2 meg (or 1 meg) quotas , so you have at least that limit.
By my calculations, a 5k email (with attachment) on a 1 meg quota is easily 200 messages. So, if your inbox can only handle 200-400 based on quota alone, at least it won't be such a large job cleaning them up.
But, I see where a great use of 'rate of email recievership' could be useful.
One of my workterms standardized into outlook though, and I could only imagine what happened when.vbs worms first hit.
Someone ought to do a statistical analysis of the worms distribution patterns, and come up with some real interesting numbers.
One question that begs to be answered: is how much email was being sent in your corporate network?
If all@blah.com contained HUNDREDS of addresses, and HUNDREDS of people were clicking on a message at around the same time, this could lead to a quite exponential flow of email traffic.
I would imagine if it ever went this high, the email server(s) would just not handle the load.. or, in a worst case, the network could not handle it? (that would be a hell of a lot of exponential growth)
Or, was it shut down to merely stop people from losing data (perhaps)/ stop all the phonecalls to the helpdesk, etc etc.
Personally, I use Pine on a 10,000 user unix machine.
I have YET to recieve ANY of the 'vbs' email worms in any email i've ever recieved.
I'm on numerous email lists, with friends from all over, hence i'd expect to at least recieve one.
I have not recieved any of the melissa, iloveyou, or variants.
Not a single one.
I can only assume i'm not alone, but if I and others are in the same situation, does this not mean that the virus isn't as widespread as people say it is?
IF it was, i think all us pine/elm/etc users should recieve something... and get a good laugh.
I now know the one I used was the 950. The 957 no doubt has much more possabilities.. i'm just not so sure that one will fit in one's jean pocket easily (although it should fit in many others<G>)
I've used a Rim device. An acquaintance of mine works for RIM and he was given one with service, and I have had the opportunity to play with it.
I managed to send a few quick emails to my inbox and tested the amount of time it takes for a message to reach it's destination. It was just like most email, as it only took seconds to reach my land-based account.
The machine comes with 2 megs of Non volatiale memory, and the more programs you have stored, the less you have for storing email. (even though, say, you have 800k free space.. that's TONS of room for text-emails)
If i'm not mistaking , the devices have very programmable features, so stocks, news, should not be very tough to do.
There was also games, like Tetris: Just turn the device over vertically and you play tetris using the scrollbar and one or two of the buttons. The screens resolution and number of grayscale 'colours' impressed me.
Also, don't be fooled by the small 'keyboard'.. It still allows you to 'type' in your email/etc VERY quickly and effectively.
The scrollbar (like ones on a mouse, sorta) is placed very intuitivbely.. you use your thumb to move around the menu systems in their propriety OS and once you get used to it things become very quick and productive.
Concluding: I wanted one very bad after playing with it. The sheer possabilities of instant-email-in-your-pocket is enough for me..
If you don't want to put it together, and you want to easily add rf TX/RX circuit to it, use a handyboard.
check this site out:
Link
We used a handyboard circuit, with some pre-bought (ming) rf tx/rx boards. They basically plug into the analog ports of the handyboard and you write code (easy) to monitor the port.
Then your robot does whatever you want to..
if you get a handyboard there is a nice manual that shows you what is available for servo motors, analog and digital inputs, and other neat devices.
Basically, aside from the size of the handyboard, and it's cost, it could be extremely flexible.
Now.. if only i had the time to make my old SNES controllers a battery powered TX i'd have a real cool toy =)
You can't port the source of a robot to linux. The source serves one main purpose -- robot control. You typically create the source using an operating system (in any text editor), compile it for the target processor (be it Parallax, or others such as PIC microconntroler, Motorola 68hc11, etc) and upload/execute it. The code controls the servo motors and other electronics (sensors, actuators, etc). Porting to linux means you require a board with enough computer hardware to actually RUN linux. Now, this could be done but a small robot like that with an operating system as robust as linux is just overkill. Not to mention the hardware would be expensive. If you want to learn more about robotics, check out http://www.eos.uoguelph.ca/webfiles/zelek/05-340/0 5-340-syllabi.html This page contains a course I have taken and we built a robot that is to play 'soccer' recieving commands from a central computer. Now, 89 bucks is cheap (our robots are probably worth 500-700 bux CAN) but with the right knowledge you could probably bring that down quite a bit.
Yes. I've been boasting about linux to my friends for a few years now , but when they asked me how to install it i could only say
" you need to know a lot about your PC before doing it. Partitioning, your IRQ's and I/O addresses of cards, your specific hardware, etc"
Now, i tell them to burn corel linux, make sure their CDROM is bootable, and off they go..
I'm certain others will follow with the easy-install, what i read about mandrake 7.0 SEEMS to follow with easy installation..
But, I do warn my friends, that once they have installed linux, any problems they encounter could become a technical issue. It's these issues that linux needs to address in the future and it's obvious it's going in that direction :
Make the utilities talk to each other, make printing flawless and easy, make configuring the desktop and other nifty things easy as pie. Make it such that anyone can perform basic troubleshooting and fixing, (.. etc..) and you have a winnner. It's getting there folks..
OH, and i know caldera has had a very easy to install distribution for a while, but it does cost money. =)
If i'm not mistaking, corel posted jobs for full-time paid WINE developers on their jobs page.
Would this not mean they are automatically contributing to an exciting segment of the open source community?
Anyone remember when WINE would crash on Windows 3.1 notepad? I do.
Now i hear it runs tons of applications almost flawlessly. Now, with some real backing maybe it'll become exactly what it's creators envisioned of it. I can't wait.. One day we linux folk will be able to tell our friends:
"Install linux! It's easy to install, and runs all your windows applications! You don't need windows anymore!"
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How will this support 64 processors?
Does this mean IBM is going to look into ways to make it support 64 processors?
If true, this seems like it could be excellent for the Linux community. Even if it isn't exactly '64 processor SMP'. Please, post your thoughts on this.. i'm interested in knowing a definate answer.
Yap. Shame the 'big guys' in the office (boss, VP of IT, or prez) makes the decisions and sometimes is stubborn about it.
Now i'm wondering how many staunch MS people will switch from outlook to something like eudora, or netscape mail.
Oh well. I'll stick with pine, and if there is some pine vulnerability, i'll go to Elm. If Elm.. then.. i'll telnet to the sendmail port and do it in RAW mode. =)
Oh, and if i was head of a company, i'd switch everyone to RAW mode in that case =)))
I'd say that's likely, but a good question is "exactly what and how" =)
Obviously, you have disk quuotas... most large systems have 2 meg (or 1 meg) quotas , so you have at least that limit.
By my calculations, a 5k email (with attachment) on a 1 meg quota is easily 200 messages. So, if your inbox can only handle 200-400 based on quota alone, at least it won't be such a large job cleaning them up.
But, I see where a great use of 'rate of email recievership' could be useful.
No no no.. I'm not saying my friends are dumb, but in terms of computer-stuff some of them just know how to email people.
Many people I asked said they never got one.
It could be, we aren't connected by few degrees to the corporate world.. which seems to be the most hit with the virus =)
No, I'm a student =)
.vbs worms first hit.
One of my workterms standardized into outlook though, and I could only imagine what happened when
Someone ought to do a statistical analysis of the worms distribution patterns, and come up with some real interesting numbers.
One question that begs to be answered: is how much email was being sent in your corporate network?
If all@blah.com contained HUNDREDS of addresses, and HUNDREDS of people were clicking on a message at around the same time, this could lead to a quite exponential flow of email traffic.
I would imagine if it ever went this high, the email server(s) would just not handle the load.. or, in a worst case, the network could not handle it? (that would be a hell of a lot of exponential growth)
Or, was it shut down to merely stop people from losing data (perhaps)/ stop all the phonecalls to the helpdesk, etc etc.
Personally, I use Pine on a 10,000 user unix machine.
I have YET to recieve ANY of the 'vbs' email worms in any email i've ever recieved.
I'm on numerous email lists, with friends from all over, hence i'd expect to at least recieve one.
I have not recieved any of the melissa, iloveyou, or variants.
Not a single one.
I can only assume i'm not alone, but if I and others are in the same situation, does this not mean that the virus isn't as widespread as people say it is?
IF it was, i think all us pine/elm/etc users should recieve something... and get a good laugh.
Any IT admins (and of course, end users) who don't rely on microsoft products should be joyous right about now -- they are immune.
During a workterm I had a couple years ago, they were migrating everything to Microsoft.
Including outlook.
Poor poor sysadmins. =)
Perhaps closed..
but i played tetris =)
And there are more games..
i was more excited about the email part.
I still want one.. i should walk to their head office and get one (I'm not far from the head office)
http://www.blackberry.net/purchase/prius.shtml
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This shows some other models compatible with the RIM style devices.
http://www.blackberry.net/overview/handheld_spe
Here are specs on the two RIM models.
I now know the one I used was the 950. The 957 no doubt has much more possabilities.. i'm just not so sure that one will fit in one's jean pocket easily (although it should fit in many others<G>)
I've used a Rim device. An acquaintance of mine works for RIM and he was given one with service, and I have had the opportunity to play with it.
I managed to send a few quick emails to my inbox and tested the amount of time it takes for a message to reach it's destination. It was just like most email, as it only took seconds to reach my land-based account.
The machine comes with 2 megs of Non volatiale memory, and the more programs you have stored, the less you have for storing email. (even though, say, you have 800k free space.. that's TONS of room for text-emails)
If i'm not mistaking , the devices have very programmable features, so stocks, news, should not be very tough to do.
There was also games, like Tetris: Just turn the device over vertically and you play tetris using the scrollbar and one or two of the buttons. The screens resolution and number of grayscale 'colours' impressed me.
Also, don't be fooled by the small 'keyboard'.. It still allows you to 'type' in your email/etc VERY quickly and effectively.
The scrollbar (like ones on a mouse, sorta) is placed very intuitivbely.. you use your thumb to move around the menu systems in their propriety OS and once you get used to it things become very quick and productive.
Concluding: I wanted one very bad after playing with it. The sheer possabilities of instant-email-in-your-pocket is enough for me..
bring on the newer models!
oops..
www.eos.uoguelph.ca/webfiles/zelek/
go to MECHATRONICS course page..
If you don't want to put it together, and you want to easily add rf TX/RX circuit to it, use a handyboard.
check this site out:
Link
We used a handyboard circuit, with some pre-bought (ming) rf tx/rx boards. They basically plug into the analog ports of the handyboard and you write code (easy) to monitor the port.
Then your robot does whatever you want to..
if you get a handyboard there is a nice manual that shows you what is available for servo motors, analog and digital inputs, and other neat devices.
Basically, aside from the size of the handyboard, and it's cost, it could be extremely flexible.
Now.. if only i had the time to make my old SNES controllers a battery powered TX i'd have a real cool toy =)
You can't port the source of a robot to linux. The source serves one main purpose -- robot control. You typically create the source using an operating system (in any text editor), compile it for the target processor (be it Parallax, or others such as PIC microconntroler, Motorola 68hc11, etc) and upload/execute it. The code controls the servo motors and other electronics (sensors, actuators, etc). Porting to linux means you require a board with enough computer hardware to actually RUN linux. Now, this could be done but a small robot like that with an operating system as robust as linux is just overkill. Not to mention the hardware would be expensive. If you want to learn more about robotics, check out http://www.eos.uoguelph.ca/webfiles/zelek/05-340/0 5-340-syllabi.html This page contains a course I have taken and we built a robot that is to play 'soccer' recieving commands from a central computer. Now, 89 bucks is cheap (our robots are probably worth 500-700 bux CAN) but with the right knowledge you could probably bring that down quite a bit.
Yes. I've been boasting about linux to my friends for a few years now , but when they asked me how to install it i could only say
..) and you have a winnner. It's getting there folks..
" you need to know a lot about your PC before doing it. Partitioning, your IRQ's and I/O addresses of cards, your specific hardware, etc"
Now, i tell them to burn corel linux, make sure their CDROM is bootable, and off they go..
I'm certain others will follow with the easy-install, what i read about mandrake 7.0 SEEMS to follow with easy installation..
But, I do warn my friends, that once they have installed linux, any problems they encounter could become a technical issue. It's these issues that linux needs to address in the future and it's obvious it's going in that direction :
Make the utilities talk to each other, make printing flawless and easy, make configuring the desktop and other nifty things easy as pie. Make it such that anyone can perform basic troubleshooting and fixing, (.. etc
OH, and i know caldera has had a very easy to install distribution for a while, but it does cost money. =)
If i'm not mistaking, corel posted jobs for full-time paid WINE developers on their jobs page.
Would this not mean they are automatically contributing to an exciting segment of the open source community?
Anyone remember when WINE would crash on Windows 3.1 notepad? I do.
Now i hear it runs tons of applications almost flawlessly. Now, with some real backing maybe it'll become exactly what it's creators envisioned of it. I can't wait.. One day we linux folk will be able to tell our friends:
"Install linux! It's easy to install, and runs all your windows applications! You don't need windows anymore!"