Currently I am working with a company called Belobox Networks to port their high reliability network to have Linux support. These network are designed to be used in military situations where then network needs to keep running correctly even if parts of the network are physically damanged. I don't know all of the specifics of the network, but they currently run on PowerPC machines with a VME backplane bus, and are installed on some military cruisers. Currently most installations are using AIX, but they are wanting to start supporting Linux. Stay tuned to that.
SCI is actually a CC-NUMA system. You should be able to use any SMP enabled (threaded) program as long as you recompile it. That's the beauty of CC-NUMA, no rewriting necessary.
Might be slightly offtopic, but I've been curious as to how well FreeBSD supports SMP. I have access to an old 8 way P-90 machine, to mess around with, and I was going to try Linux and *BSD and other free OS's on it, but could find almost no information about using *BSD on SMP machines. The only one with any mention of SMP support was FreeBSD, but it sounded like the project was rather new.
I just wanna know where MTV's hard hitting coverage of Y2K has been? Hopefully they'll come out with a "True Life: After Y2K" to showcase some more of their technical knowledge.
Geez, whatever happened to learning for the sake of knowledge? I for one can not resist the lure of making some dough as currently in debt college student, so I plan on working whenever I graduate with my computer science BS degree. But, I am moving to a university town (Austin, TX) so I can get my master's degree whenever I graduate. Personally, I know that a master's won't mean squat to my employer. But, it'll mean something to me. I want to prove to myself that I can do it. Maybe I am missing something here, but for me, my drive is not about making money (that is a plus, though) it is about doing something that I enjoy, and I won't mind putting a little more effort forth just to show myself I can achieve that goal.
oh, so I guess if you type "rm -Rf/" and you're logged in as, say, "fredf", do you think you will be able to delete critical system files? Sure, you'll probably delete/home/fredf, but unless you login as root, you'll most likely do no damage to anything else. Maybe my previous statement wasn't perfectly clear, but gimme a break, it's late!
---- Warning...Maybe a little offtopic This brings up a question I was wondering about the other day, and I think that I know the answer.
Is it possible for a virus to execute on a unix machine and do any damage?
I know that the same effect as the "bubbleboy" virus could be achieved by targeting pine users or something, if their were those sorts of weaknesses in pine.
In my opinion, though, a malicious virus, that did things such as deleting files, or whatever would have to have the ability to obtain root privileges, or it basically would only be able to delete or change files that the dummy user had access to in the first place.
I assume this is correct, since I have never seen any Virii targeted towards say an i386 Linux system, or any virus scanners for Linux.
Hmmm...What was going through the DVD industries' heads?
"Oooh...I have a good idea, let's try threats! I think we should threaten the entire open source community by bullying a couple of hackers around."
Bad idea.
This is going to backlash tenfold. It has already started with what is probably going to be a very large number of mirror sites of these products. Maybe they'll learn that can't bully us around.
I don't know anybody who has every bought a system that had Linux pre-installed on it, and I know some pretty hardcore Linux fans.
If it ever becomes totally mainstream, there'll probably be a whole lot of "hardcore" Linux users that will jump ship to *BSD or Plan9, or something less mainstream.
One of their screenshots (the one that is 1600x1200 and running xmms) is very interesting. I certainly hope for their sake that those MP3's weren't downloaded illegally!
This is one of the most retarded things I have ever heard. They're gonna sue companies for trying to fix a bug that some people think will alter civilization as we know it tremendously. I mean what kind of company wants a reputation for impeding process towards Y2K compliance?!? As if people aren't freaked out enough about the whole Y2K thing. .Maybe this is a sign of the apocalypse...Stupid big businesses impedeing progress of the common good. Head for the hills everybody! For once in my life, maybe I'll be glad I'm in a small town in Arkansas.
-- Only in America would the problem of dates not being represented in enough digits be abbreviated as "the Y2K bug"
Oh no! What horror! I'd hate for new, potentially better technology to be available for the open source community to choose! I suppose that TurboLinux should just throw away their code so nobody's feelings get hurt.
Interestingly enough, though, there are some search engines that do not exhibit this kind of behavior. For instance, searching for the term "yahoo" in google gives www.yahoo.com as the top result. Of course, google also gives the user click through access to AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, Lycos, Deja, Yahoo!, Amazon, Open Directory, and eGroups
I want to know what you guys were smoking when you thought that this would be a good story to cover on/.? A story like this on slashdot does nothing more than piss people off. We all know we're geeks. This story is offensive trash, and should not be featured in slashdot headlines in my opinion.
Slashdot Mirror
By the way, the address for that is http://www.nersc.gov/research/FTG/via/
I am working on a version of M-VIA for PowerPC. Hopefully it will be done soon. Look for it.
Currently I am working with a company called Belobox Networks to port their high reliability network to have Linux support. These network are designed to be used in military situations where then network needs to keep running correctly even if parts of the network are physically damanged. I don't know all of the specifics of the network, but they currently run on PowerPC machines with a VME backplane bus, and are installed on some military cruisers. Currently most installations are using AIX, but they are wanting to start supporting Linux.
Stay tuned to that.
OK....
Now everybody start coding Palm apps so you can get in on the IPO!
The next Suns are going to be cluster machines. Solaris 8 will support a single operating system running over an internal cluster.
SCI is actually a CC-NUMA system.
You should be able to use any SMP enabled (threaded) program as long as you recompile it.
That's the beauty of CC-NUMA, no rewriting necessary.
are there any of these that focus on v2.2 kernels?
I promise I'm working on a Linux project right now. I'm just not done yet.
I use it on my Linux box, and it works great.
Everything works (including the wheel) except for the two side buttons.
I love Dennis Miller's response to Y2K.
Oh well...Who wants to be on campus?
Everyone's going to be on 6th street anyway!
Might be slightly offtopic, but I've been curious as to how well FreeBSD supports SMP.
I have access to an old 8 way P-90 machine, to mess around with, and I was going to try Linux and *BSD and other free OS's on it, but could find almost no information about using *BSD on SMP machines. The only one with any mention of SMP support was FreeBSD, but it sounded like the project was rather new.
I just wanna know where MTV's hard hitting coverage of Y2K has been?
Hopefully they'll come out with a
"True Life: After Y2K" to showcase some more of their technical knowledge.
Geez, whatever happened to learning for the sake of knowledge?
I for one can not resist the lure of making some dough as currently in debt college student, so I plan on working whenever I graduate with my computer science BS degree.
But, I am moving to a university town (Austin, TX) so I can get my master's degree whenever I graduate.
Personally, I know that a master's won't mean squat to my employer. But, it'll mean something to me. I want to prove to myself that I can do it.
Maybe I am missing something here, but for me, my drive is not about making money (that is a plus, though) it is about doing something that I enjoy, and I won't mind putting a little more effort forth just to show myself I can achieve that goal.
oh, so I guess if you type "rm -Rf /" /home/fredf, but unless you login as root, you'll most likely do no damage to anything else.
and you're logged in as, say, "fredf", do you think you will be able to delete critical system files?
Sure, you'll probably delete
Maybe my previous statement wasn't perfectly clear, but gimme a break, it's late!
---- Warning...Maybe a little offtopic
This brings up a question I was wondering about the other day, and I think that I know the answer.
Is it possible for a virus to execute on a unix machine and do any damage?
I know that the same effect as the "bubbleboy" virus could be achieved by targeting pine users or something, if their were those sorts of weaknesses in pine.
In my opinion, though, a malicious virus, that did things such as deleting files, or whatever would have to have the ability to obtain root privileges, or it basically would only be able to delete or change files that the dummy user had access to in the first place.
I assume this is correct, since I have never seen any Virii targeted towards say an i386 Linux system, or any virus scanners for Linux.
Just another one of those "features" that make Internet Explorer so much better than Netscape...No wonder it's winning the browser war.
Hmmm...What was going through the DVD industries' heads?
"Oooh...I have a good idea, let's try threats!
I think we should threaten the entire open source community by bullying a couple of hackers around."
Bad idea.
This is going to backlash tenfold. It has already started with what is probably going to be a very large number of mirror sites of these products. Maybe they'll learn that can't bully us around.
Linux absolutely is a fringe operating system.
I don't know anybody who has every bought a system that had Linux pre-installed on it, and I know some pretty hardcore Linux fans.
If it ever becomes totally mainstream, there'll probably be a whole lot of "hardcore" Linux users that will jump ship to *BSD or Plan9, or something less mainstream.
There are some other decent utilities, such as blender and xpovray that you might think about as well.
One of their screenshots (the one that is 1600x1200 and running xmms) is very interesting.
I certainly hope for their sake that those MP3's weren't downloaded illegally!
This is one of the most retarded things I have ever heard. They're gonna sue companies for trying to fix a bug that some people think will alter civilization as we know it tremendously. I mean what kind of company wants a reputation for impeding process towards Y2K compliance?!? As if people aren't freaked out enough about the whole Y2K thing.
.Maybe this is a sign of the apocalypse...Stupid big businesses impedeing progress of the common good. Head for the hills everybody!
For once in my life, maybe I'll be glad I'm in a small town in Arkansas.
-- Only in America would the problem of dates not being represented in enough digits be abbreviated as "the Y2K bug"
Oh no! What horror! I'd hate for new, potentially better technology to be available for the open source community to choose!
I suppose that TurboLinux should just throw away their code so nobody's feelings get hurt.
Interestingly enough, though, there are some search engines that do not exhibit this kind of behavior. For instance, searching for the term "yahoo" in google gives www.yahoo.com as the top result.
Of course, google also gives the user click through access to AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, Lycos, Deja, Yahoo!, Amazon, Open Directory, and eGroups
I want to know what you guys were smoking when you thought that this would be a good story to cover on /.?
A story like this on slashdot does nothing more than piss people off. We all know we're geeks. This story is offensive trash, and should not be featured in slashdot headlines in my opinion.