The entire job need not be restarted; The portion of the job that was on the dead node is handed off to another. The job may suffer a long barrier condition until the new node catches up, but on a reasonably finegrained cluster such as this it would be a mere matter of seconds. If the entire job were to die (controlling node, bad logic, etc) then the load lost isn't going to be saved by a checkpointing system anyway.
The shrink used to refer to it as a deep-seated God complex coupled with weakly disassociative mania, until I killed him.
He missed the obvious sociomanipulative streak, and didn't deserve to live..;)
Seriously though. GPL is an ideology manifested in license. In simplest form, that information, source code, knowledge, cheese, etc, is best when shared. Stallman just happened to be a code monkey when the mental light went on, so this is how it manifested itself.
This was not funny. In fact, I hit myself in the head, repeatedly, with the handle of a #2 Phillips just after posting it. I was also heard to murmur something about pulling a Bobbsey Twins (the porno, not the childrens book) on the miscreant Compaq 5100 with said screwdriver, but that was the indoubatably the Stoli talking..
Where was I?? Oh, yeah. Get back on the cluetrain, Jimmy boy, and mix yourself another while you're at it..
GPL'ed authors for the most part, screaming/. posters make up the rest of we.
it's a good thing even if some of the participants get dragged kicking and screaming into the quicksand
In short, no. GPL/GNU is an idelogy more than a license. That statement is what made the spread of Socialism such a fearful thing; That the vehement Socialist would kill his brethren in order to enforce the ideal.
Your reasoning seems to imply that you think that open source is something to be avoided.
Not at all! I dislike the US court system, where money and the sheen of false respectability can get you through the judicial finish line first with a Ford Pinto entrant.
Again, open source is not the shaft.
You are correct. Hauling someone's ass into court and hiding behind a lawyer when a 'Hey you! Knock it off' in person would have sufficed is the shaft.
Hydrogen, methane perhaps. Just imagine a giant 'swim bladder' attached to the lower GI to trap gas..Feeling a little heavy on your feet? Hit the jurassic Taco Bell for some 49 cent Gorditas with a double side of Bush's baked beans..
No helium; After all, it was detected first on the surface of the Sun, not on Earth. Not enough of it, per se..
But what happens when some script kiddie introduces a modified protein into the CVS food tree? Or someone forgets to check the source before make cola and gets butyric acid in his drink instead of citric?
Big diff between trashed partition tables and trashed kidneys..
One perfectly good reason is that we don't have wads of cash in our pockets to sue every Big Company who snafs up a little on the meaning and spirit of GPL. Another, we'd rather have a company fix their mistake and take a public 'we screwed up' spanking than duking it out in court.
Finally, because we're the good guys. Just because most everyone else on earth would bend you over in court for a nickel doesn't mean you have to hand out the shaft as well.
The IR port would make it a perfect universally interfacable hack project..
I've got a Handspring Visor, and have continually thought of hacking it..
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911 my ass..
It's so National Security and the FBI don't have to leave their cramped little cubes with triangulation gear to locate a cellphone. After all, that takes a bit of obvious effort, and you usually arouse suspicion when you do it, especially without a warrant..
Exactly my thoughts. If I want something, it's because it fills a need. If I want a new video card, it's specifications, cost and perhaps a little bit of 'their last card didn't suck'. If I want a new car, it's horsepower, aftermarket tweakability and reliability, I could care less about who's big, glossy print ads I've seen, or which company has more Prime Time commercials. In most cases, I'll look at the best advertised choices last, because in my book big ads mean big ad budget, meaning less R&D, quality control, and a bigger markup.
Ever read the Cluetrain Manifesto? If only marketing and advertising had read and believed it, I honestly don't think they'd be contemplating this..
A third possibility exists. That NetPD was not told to watch for such traffic, and didn't. When asked, 'Oh, btw, how many unsigned artists got traded?' they pulled a number out of their collective asses..
I actually think it's better that all of the verbal gaffs were left in. You could tell it was Lars, you could tell it was off the cuff, and you could most certainly tell there was no laywer sitting between Lars and the phone.
If they had screened the gaffs, we would have indebatably spent the next 300 comments complaining that 'Lars musta been scripted or something'.
No, he hasn't sued anyone. And while I wouldn't consider it a reasonable patent, nor likely to stand up in court, in today's market it kind of makes sense. The patent holder sells his own line of cat-decorated laser pointers under the brandname 'High-Tech Play Time'.. (you can buy the same pointer sans kitty stickers at the local Radio Shack) That 'You can sell my 'cat-exerciser' idea if I can incorporate your 'catnip-express' into my 'feline dreamhouse'' kind of lawsuit avoidance..
I keep it as proof you can patent anything, no matter how moronic or obvious.. Even if you can't win a lawsuit based on it, you can sure as hell waste everyones time, money, and sanity.. For comparison, it resides next to the filing for the McCoy lubricator, which IMHO is a good example of a perfect patent..
Trademarked, not patented.. All it really means is that other companies can't make their competing product smell like freshly mown grass.. Silly, sure, but not a terrible legal catastrophe that would prevent fine, upstanding Brits from mowing their lawns..
Not nearly as bad as the copy of 'Method of Exercising a Cat' I have on my cube wall, a patent from 1996 that makes patent infringement out of the time honored tradition that is getting your cat chase the beam of a flashlight..
I can see how such a policy would cut piracy, and I'm sure Dell's vendors like that.. I assume you are wishing to install Linux on the machine, but if you could prove that you had a license for say, MS Windows 95, would they back off on the charge and give you a blank HD??
Actually, we should go back to the thirties when the government didn't have the technology to store all my personal information
They did it back then too, and they could get away with it publicly then. They kept tabs on suspected Communists from about 1910 on. With all of that trouble brewing in Czarist Russia, they weren't taking any chances..
Prtty good, but not up to your usual. Still, it's the best troll this article is going to see!!
Perhaps osm and Miss. Portman as Captain Kirk and Yeoman Randall in 'Star (as in hot young actress) Trek'? Or Scully and Mulderin 'OS/X Files'? ESR could star as Cancer Man!
MSN is far more than a portal, it's a friggin ISP! They depend on subscriber payments for most of their revenue, and not 'click-thru'. MSNBC, while also a portal, has commercial advert revenue..
Also, Netscape has been giving away their browser far longer than they have depended on Mozilla, and Mozilla was written by Netscape employees, with user contrib actually negligible in the outcome of it..
It's more than likely that you are thinking of a setup like the integrated Netfinity cards in a AS/400.. The S/390 doesn't work that way.While most of the time the 'user' OS session is in a VM under 390, the guest OS must still pretend to access the underlying HAL in an identical manner. Any OS capable of guest is capable of running on the iron, since the OS doesn't know the difference!!
With an exception for the newest rev, you can even completly replace the host OS with Linux, including the userland VMs..
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The entire job need not be restarted; The portion of the job that was on the dead node is handed off to another. The job may suffer a long barrier condition until the new node catches up, but on a reasonably finegrained cluster such as this it would be a mere matter of seconds. If the entire job were to die (controlling node, bad logic, etc) then the load lost isn't going to be saved by a checkpointing system anyway.
The shrink used to refer to it as a deep-seated God complex coupled with weakly disassociative mania, until I killed him.
;)
He missed the obvious sociomanipulative streak, and didn't deserve to live..
Seriously though. GPL is an ideology manifested in license. In simplest form, that information, source code, knowledge, cheese, etc, is best when shared. Stallman just happened to be a code monkey when the mental light went on, so this is how it manifested itself.
This was not funny. In fact, I hit myself in the head, repeatedly, with the handle of a #2 Phillips just after posting it. I was also heard to murmur something about pulling a Bobbsey Twins (the porno, not the childrens book) on the miscreant Compaq 5100 with said screwdriver, but that was the indoubatably the Stoli talking..
Where was I?? Oh, yeah. Get back on the cluetrain, Jimmy boy, and mix yourself another while you're at it..
That was not funny.
Who is we?
/. posters make up the rest of we.
GPL'ed authors for the most part, screaming
it's a good thing even if some of the participants get dragged kicking and screaming into the quicksand
In short, no. GPL/GNU is an idelogy more than a license. That statement is what made the spread of Socialism such a fearful thing; That the vehement Socialist would kill his brethren in order to enforce the ideal.
Your reasoning seems to imply that you think that open source is something to be avoided.
Not at all! I dislike the US court system, where money and the sheen of false respectability can get you through the judicial finish line first with a Ford Pinto entrant.
Again, open source is not the shaft.
You are correct. Hauling someone's ass into court and hiding behind a lawyer when a 'Hey you! Knock it off' in person would have sufficed is the shaft.
Well, you have Metric tons, short tons, long tons and plain 'ol tons. Several maintain uniformity of measurement standard, a few do not.
Pick one and try again. *G*
Hydrogen, methane perhaps. Just imagine a giant 'swim bladder' attached to the lower GI to trap gas..Feeling a little heavy on your feet? Hit the jurassic Taco Bell for some 49 cent Gorditas with a double side of Bush's baked beans..
No helium; After all, it was detected first on the surface of the Sun, not on Earth. Not enough of it, per se..
But what happens when some script kiddie introduces a modified protein into the CVS food tree? Or someone forgets to check the source before make cola and gets butyric acid in his drink instead of citric?
Big diff between trashed partition tables and trashed kidneys..
One perfectly good reason is that we don't have wads of cash in our pockets to sue every Big Company who snafs up a little on the meaning and spirit of GPL. Another, we'd rather have a company fix their mistake and take a public 'we screwed up' spanking than duking it out in court.
Finally, because we're the good guys. Just because most everyone else on earth would bend you over in court for a nickel doesn't mean you have to hand out the shaft as well.
The IR port would make it a perfect universally interfacable hack project..
I've got a Handspring Visor, and have continually thought of hacking it..
911 my ass..
It's so National Security and the FBI don't have to leave their cramped little cubes with triangulation gear to locate a cellphone. After all, that takes a bit of obvious effort, and you usually arouse suspicion when you do it, especially without a warrant..
Exactly my thoughts. If I want something, it's because it fills a need. If I want a new video card, it's specifications, cost and perhaps a little bit of 'their last card didn't suck'. If I want a new car, it's horsepower, aftermarket tweakability and reliability, I could care less about who's big, glossy print ads I've seen, or which company has more Prime Time commercials. In most cases, I'll look at the best advertised choices last, because in my book big ads mean big ad budget, meaning less R&D, quality control, and a bigger markup.
Ever read the Cluetrain Manifesto? If only marketing and advertising had read and believed it, I honestly don't think they'd be contemplating this..
A third possibility exists. That NetPD was not told to watch for such traffic, and didn't. When asked, 'Oh, btw, how many unsigned artists got traded?' they pulled a number out of their collective asses..
I actually think it's better that all of the verbal gaffs were left in. You could tell it was Lars, you could tell it was off the cuff, and you could most certainly tell there was no laywer sitting between Lars and the phone.
If they had screened the gaffs, we would have indebatably spent the next 300 comments complaining that 'Lars musta been scripted or something'.
No, he hasn't sued anyone. And while I wouldn't consider it a reasonable patent, nor likely to stand up in court, in today's market it kind of makes sense. The patent holder sells his own line of cat-decorated laser pointers under the brandname 'High-Tech Play Time'.. (you can buy the same pointer sans kitty stickers at the local Radio Shack) That 'You can sell my 'cat-exerciser' idea if I can incorporate your 'catnip-express' into my 'feline dreamhouse'' kind of lawsuit avoidance..
I keep it as proof you can patent anything, no matter how moronic or obvious.. Even if you can't win a lawsuit based on it, you can sure as hell waste everyones time, money, and sanity.. For comparison, it resides next to the filing for the McCoy lubricator, which IMHO is a good example of a perfect patent..
Trademarked, not patented.. All it really means is that other companies can't make their competing product smell like freshly mown grass.. Silly, sure, but not a terrible legal catastrophe that would prevent fine, upstanding Brits from mowing their lawns..
Not nearly as bad as the copy of 'Method of Exercising a Cat' I have on my cube wall, a patent from 1996 that makes patent infringement out of the time honored tradition that is getting your cat chase the beam of a flashlight..
Congratulations! That is the strangest reply I have ever recieved..
5) Hand them a book on Java and tell them that intentionally obfuscating their code is grounds for dismissal.
I can see how such a policy would cut piracy, and I'm sure Dell's vendors like that.. I assume you are wishing to install Linux on the machine, but if you could prove that you had a license for say, MS Windows 95, would they back off on the charge and give you a blank HD??
Actually, we should go back to the thirties when the government didn't have the technology to store all my personal information
They did it back then too, and they could get away with it publicly then. They kept tabs on suspected Communists from about 1910 on. With all of that trouble brewing in Czarist Russia, they weren't taking any chances..
if a quantum computer got in the hands of a criminal they could breeze through most anything
What really worries me is the day John Carmack gets his hands on the first prototype of 3DFX's Quantum-processing video card..
It was a pretty bit o' prose, but it had an ending as predictable and sudden as an Arnold "I'm a Kennedy now!" Schwarzenegger movie..
;)
And who says I'm an armchair troll
Perhaps I'm a closet troll and not just a 'karma-whore'...
Besides, osm and Miss Portman are yours to do with as you like (literally), and it wouldn't be my place to do an osm troll..
Prtty good, but not up to your usual. Still, it's the best troll this article is going to see!!
Perhaps osm and Miss. Portman as Captain Kirk and Yeoman Randall in 'Star (as in hot young actress) Trek'? Or Scully and Mulderin 'OS/X Files'? ESR could star as Cancer Man!
MSN is far more than a portal, it's a friggin ISP! They depend on subscriber payments for most of their revenue, and not 'click-thru'. MSNBC, while also a portal, has commercial advert revenue..
Also, Netscape has been giving away their browser far longer than they have depended on Mozilla, and Mozilla was written by Netscape employees, with user contrib actually negligible in the outcome of it..
It's more than likely that you are thinking of a setup like the integrated Netfinity cards in a AS/400.. The S/390 doesn't work that way.While most of the time the 'user' OS session is in a VM under 390, the guest OS must still pretend to access the underlying HAL in an identical manner. Any OS capable of guest is capable of running on the iron, since the OS doesn't know the difference!!
With an exception for the newest rev, you can even completly replace the host OS with Linux, including the userland VMs..
I have one floating around, and I could swear it was pink... Here's a look at some of them, provided by an indoubtably insane Disney fan..