I see too much bytching going on here. 'plex86' is a fine name for the project. It's a virtualizer that lets you run several concurrent copies of the OS, each thinking it has it's own 80x86 processor. Lets play the name game until we get something short and unique!!
Several concurrent copies of 80x86 OS. Multiple copies of 80x86 OS Multiple 80x86 OS Multiple x86 OS multiple x86 multiplex86 plex86
Take a mylar 'anti-static' bag from one of your old peripherials. Walk out to your car. Take a pair of jumper cables and connect one of the closed corners to your engine block. Pull the plug end of a spark plug wire, and slide the insulative cover back so you can see the metal clip. Here's where a buddy comes in handy!;) While holding the spark plug wire the hell away from you or the car (neoprene gloves are nice of you're a wuss and don't like 15KV pokes from a Honda) have the buddy start it.. Bring the plug wire near to the bag.
Go to the hardware store. Purchase a 3 1/2 foot length of white 6 inch PVC pipe, a matching pipe cap, a bottle of acetone, a can of flat military green spray paint. Should cost you about $13.. Wipe all of the blue marking off of the pipe with the acetone and a cloth. (Not a paper towel!) Glue the pipe cap on with whatever adhesive you have on hand. Paint the thing green. For added effect, put a momentary switch through the pipe cap, rigged to a 9V battery and a model rocket ignitor.
Your coworkers don't know you don't really have a LAW under your desk. First time you ned to eject one, pull it and start waving like a lunatic.
On a side note, I do have a man-portable rocket launcher around here made of much the same stuff. Uses four 'C' cells for propulsion, and wire whiskers on the nose of the rocket to keep it from veering into the side of the tube in case of a partial misfire. The PVC will even take a double motor explosion gracefully enough to keep you alive! Granted, I ended up jacketing the proximal end with steel HVAC piping after the second in-tube explosion, but hey!
If I remember, it had a RCA jack that connected to the back of the TI, a switch, a coax connector for the antenna and a bit of two conductor ladder line to the TV? Go out to the local Radio Shack with the busted unit in hand and ask them for another one like that. If they don't have one in stock they will order one for $3.19. They're a common thing! There is no reason to have such a fine bit of computational hardware just lying there when you could be playing Wumpus!!
No formal IDE hotswap outside of 'IDE' flashcards.. I've tried it (cloning solution), the only safe way involved a pair of fast-latch 20 pole switches and a powersupply modified for variable voltage..
I burned out eighteen 120meg Connor's that weekend..
What, is today's generation wussified? When I was a kid we used to play with screwdrivers and B&W TV flyback transformers.. I vaguely remember poking a Ann Arbor terminal with a pen-knife once.. After waking up, I didn't have much of a Wenger or much desire to do it again..
Wait.. I'm only 22, and I was a psychotic. The 112vac squirt gun proves that..Hmm.. The voltage must have fried a couple of braincells.
No, I've seen the same problem with SCSI and Linux's software RAID. It seems to be an intermittant conspiracy on behalf of all three layers, RAID, fs and hardware.. I used to use a striped RAID to spool high-bitrate video to. Some days, it would take it like a champ. Others, under identical conditions, would beat the hell out of the processor. I finally dumped the FS layer, and wrote the stream raw. I could only keep one stream managably without rechecking for end-of stream but I never had any load spikes. I finally switched from software/SCSI to one of the Promise IDE RAID controllers, and while the upper end I could push was lower it was much more consistant.
On a side note, I was contemplating purchasing a pair of this very RAID controller in the near future. The older Promise has served me well..
I will be trying this. Thanks/. ! You saved me a couple of hundred.. Pick a bar and a time guys, the first few rounds of Bass are on me!
I did something similar; Got tired of my disparate installations of varying distros on varying machines. Used SuSE as the base, because frankly they include almost everything known to man in their distributions. I ran through to establish what I would need installed on each machine, and lumped into one huge list of packages. After adding a couple of new kernels that would fit the needs of all my hardware, plus a modular one that would work on damn near everything, and making a few modifications to the package list, I burned it to CD using the standard SuSE disk structure so I still could use the SuSE install diskettes. Later, after implementing a Linux rapidinstaller for Win32 systems, I went back and juggled the packages so that they could be tranparently installed/upgraded over the network. Pop a disk into the FD, cycle the machine, and a disk-specific script on the server does the work. Upgrade X to 3.9.xx? Sure.. tar the tree up and slap it on the server. Assign it a new task ID, generate a boot floppy with that ID. Pop that floppy into the boxen you need upgraded and cycle them. Same goes for reinstallation, repartitioning, etc..
...in the common course of business, or for gain of economic interest
The people at Microsoft are no different than us; They deserve their individual right to the source too! If joeblow@eggsucker.microsoft.com wants to submit a patch, or tweak it to his personal liking, he should be able to. Judging him a 'lying scumbag' based on the exploits of his employer are wrong..
You went through all the trouble of finding/purchasing a V20 and you didn't even O/C it?? I had one of the earlier 10mhz 8086's, and I was able to dead drop a 10 Mhz V30 in and tweak the RC clock mechanism to almost 16!! I had to add a heatsink and remove the coprocessor, but it ran like a demon! The 16Mhz CDIP 80C86's would clock almost eighteen, and the V20 16's would hit 21 nicely.. Damn, those were the days..
Sorry. PCS is an acronym. 'Possession of a Controlled Substance'. You really don't see people charged with it, unless they pled down; the drug laws have become so insane that any meaningful quantity qualifies for the bigger charge of 'Possession With Intent to Distribute'. The intent is assumed by the fact you have more than a couple j's worth in your pocket. I've seen guys go through twice what the minimum for PID is in an afternoon!
Misdemeanor charge handed to someone caught with a crack pipe. While it is usually given to someone without enough residue to prosecute for PCS, crack pipes and certain flavors of 'bowls' have no redeeming secondary use other than to consume a controlled substance and are illegal.
S&M is the only Metallica album I don't own;( I'm listening to Master of Puppets right now, in fact..
We very well may. I live about a half hour east of the Slashdot Compound in Michigan. $19 is typical for the ultra-popular stuff in the larger 'Best Buy' type stores. Trolling other places will usually net you a copy for 15-16. It's still not 12 though!
I had it appraised when I had the dial cleaned three years back. While I wasn't told that it was one of their earliest specimins, I was told that my particular model had gone for $14,000 in open auction, and that the guessed value was $6-8K. $6,000 doesn't mean terribly much to me, I'm not materialistic. I was given the watch with the implicit instruction that it be used, as it had been, and I will.
Sure $12 isn't a lot. Unfortunatly, $12 won't buy you a CD. Please, go into a mainstream music store and look at the prices! Do you know they still want $35 USD for the White Album? Britney Spears, $19. The only thing I've seen at that price are twenty year old Simon & Garfunkel albums.
so instead of having to waste multiple hours ripping songs from someone else's CD
Perhaps you should invest in a newer CDROM drive. The last time I saw it take that long was on a two-speed Teac, and with all of cdparanoia's error-correction on. On this here 40x IBM, I can rip an entire CD in about six minutes. (cdparanoia/dev/scd0 -X -Y -Z -B)
having the technical knowledge to turn those songs into a CD
Have you checked out the state of CD burning programs, especially for Win32? Most of them will decompress MP3's on the fly for you as they are burned! AOL lusers couldn't possibly ask for more than that!
The US used to do just that, and to the Cubans no less. Now we try to shove 'Radio Free Marti' down their throats; I'd prefer the static myself. It would serve us right if the Cubans returned the favor!
If GNUChess is multithreaded it will run fine on a MOSIX cluster as-is. Granted, MOSIX is a wee bit lossier than a native MPI program, but why sweat the port whan you can throw more power at the one you have.
No picture.. It's a standard gold-filled open-face Hamilton Perpetual bankers watch, 18 size, with four small diamonds set into the gold and silver face later. I can't say for sure when it was made, but it was pawned in NYC in December of 1892. (The pawnbroker engraved the ticket number and date inside the watch.) It is keywound, so it may very well be older. Family hairloom; I'm the fifth generation to carry it.
Having just played extensivly with it, I am happy to say I have just found the first example of the Y3K bug.. Sadly, during the next millennial rollover, the date changes from '2999' to ' 00; The century dial no longer has enough pre-scribed numerals and is blank. There is enough space on the dial to have another 20 or so centuries, so I'll make sure to have it engraved before then..;-)
My 1892 Hamilton perpetual got the date correct. It even rolled over to '2000' for me on New Years. I believe it will keep the correct date until 2199. Amazing to think that the engineer had the foresight to see that someone would still be using it more than 300 years in the future. Perhaps the FORTRAN and RPG programmers of the 1960's should have taken a clue from the watchmakers of the 1890's.
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I see too much bytching going on here. 'plex86' is a fine name for the project. It's a virtualizer that lets you run several concurrent copies of the OS, each thinking it has it's own 80x86 processor. Lets play the name game until we get something short and unique!!
Several concurrent copies of 80x86 OS.
Multiple copies of 80x86 OS
Multiple 80x86 OS
Multiple x86 OS
multiple x86
multiplex86
plex86
Good enough!
That effect is better with a high-voltage tranformer. Instead of the burning, red glow, you get actual explosions.
Take a mylar 'anti-static' bag from one of your old peripherials. Walk out to your car. Take a pair of jumper cables and connect one of the closed corners to your engine block. Pull the plug end of a spark plug wire, and slide the insulative cover back so you can see the metal clip. Here's where a buddy comes in handy! ;) While holding the spark plug wire the hell away from you or the car (neoprene gloves are nice of you're a wuss and don't like 15KV pokes from a Honda) have the buddy start it.. Bring the plug wire near to the bag.
It's like a huge AOL CD!!!
Go to the hardware store. Purchase a 3 1/2 foot length of white 6 inch PVC pipe, a matching pipe cap, a bottle of acetone, a can of flat military green spray paint. Should cost you about $13.. Wipe all of the blue marking off of the pipe with the acetone and a cloth. (Not a paper towel!) Glue the pipe cap on with whatever adhesive you have on hand. Paint the thing green. For added effect, put a momentary switch through the pipe cap, rigged to a 9V battery and a model rocket ignitor.
Your coworkers don't know you don't really have a LAW under your desk. First time you ned to eject one, pull it and start waving like a lunatic.
On a side note, I do have a man-portable rocket launcher around here made of much the same stuff. Uses four 'C' cells for propulsion, and wire whiskers on the nose of the rocket to keep it from veering into the side of the tube in case of a partial misfire. The PVC will even take a double motor explosion gracefully enough to keep you alive! Granted, I ended up jacketing the proximal end with steel HVAC piping after the second in-tube explosion, but hey!
Gentus did make it up almost two weeks back. Perhaps you should peruse 'Older stuff' once in a while, eh?
I know Vesptas's Bigfoot runs under Hercules, and I've heard rumor that Linux/390 will as well, although I have yet to try it.
Yes sir! Star Raiders was great.. I kept my 400 running for a few extra years (Well into the 90's)just so I could play it.
Damn Cylon cruisers!
If I remember, it had a RCA jack that connected to the back of the TI, a switch, a coax connector for the antenna and a bit of two conductor ladder line to the TV? Go out to the local Radio Shack with the busted unit in hand and ask them for another one like that. If they don't have one in stock they will order one for $3.19. They're a common thing! There is no reason to have such a fine bit of computational hardware just lying there when you could be playing Wumpus!!
No formal IDE hotswap outside of 'IDE' flashcards.. I've tried it (cloning solution), the only safe way involved a pair of fast-latch 20 pole switches and a powersupply modified for variable voltage..
I burned out eighteen 120meg Connor's that weekend..
What, is today's generation wussified? When I was a kid we used to play with screwdrivers and B&W TV flyback transformers.. I vaguely remember poking a Ann Arbor terminal with a pen-knife once.. After waking up, I didn't have much of a Wenger or much desire to do it again..
Wait.. I'm only 22, and I was a psychotic. The 112vac squirt gun proves that..Hmm.. The voltage must have fried a couple of braincells.
No, I've seen the same problem with SCSI and Linux's software RAID. It seems to be an intermittant conspiracy on behalf of all three layers, RAID, fs and hardware.. I used to use a striped RAID to spool high-bitrate video to. Some days, it would take it like a champ. Others, under identical conditions, would beat the hell out of the processor. I finally dumped the FS layer, and wrote the stream raw. I could only keep one stream managably without rechecking for end-of stream but I never had any load spikes. I finally switched from software/SCSI to one of the Promise IDE RAID controllers, and while the upper end I could push was lower it was much more consistant.
/. ! You saved me a couple of hundred.. Pick a bar and a time guys, the first few rounds of Bass are on me!
On a side note, I was contemplating purchasing a pair of this very RAID controller in the near future. The older Promise has served me well..
I will be trying this. Thanks
I did something similar; Got tired of my disparate installations of varying distros on varying machines. Used SuSE as the base, because frankly they include almost everything known to man in their distributions. I ran through to establish what I would need installed on each machine, and lumped into one huge list of packages. After adding a couple of new kernels that would fit the needs of all my hardware, plus a modular one that would work on damn near everything, and making a few modifications to the package list, I burned it to CD using the standard SuSE disk structure so I still could use the SuSE install diskettes. Later, after implementing a Linux rapidinstaller for Win32 systems, I went back and juggled the packages so that they could be tranparently installed/upgraded over the network. Pop a disk into the FD, cycle the machine, and a disk-specific script on the server does the work. Upgrade X to 3.9.xx? Sure.. tar the tree up and slap it on the server. Assign it a new task ID, generate a boot floppy with that ID. Pop that floppy into the boxen you need upgraded and cycle them. Same goes for reinstallation, repartitioning, etc..
Replace in any way, shape or form.
...in the common course of business, or for gain of economic interest
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The people at Microsoft are no different than us; They deserve their individual right to the source too! If joeblow@eggsucker.microsoft.com wants to submit a patch, or tweak it to his personal liking, he should be able to. Judging him a 'lying scumbag' based on the exploits of his employer are wrong..
You went through all the trouble of finding/purchasing a V20 and you didn't even O/C it?? I had one of the earlier 10mhz 8086's, and I was able to dead drop a 10 Mhz V30 in and tweak the RC clock mechanism to almost 16!! I had to add a heatsink and remove the coprocessor, but it ran like a demon! The 16Mhz CDIP 80C86's would clock almost eighteen, and the V20 16's would hit 21 nicely.. Damn, those were the days..
Have you ever been to New York and listened to the working-class locals? We already have one!
Sorry. PCS is an acronym. 'Possession of a Controlled Substance'. You really don't see people charged with it, unless they pled down; the drug laws have become so insane that any meaningful quantity qualifies for the bigger charge of 'Possession With Intent to Distribute'. The intent is assumed by the fact you have more than a couple j's worth in your pocket. I've seen guys go through twice what the minimum for PID is in an afternoon!
Ever hear of 'Possession of Paraphenelia'?
Misdemeanor charge handed to someone caught with a crack pipe. While it is usually given to someone without enough residue to prosecute for PCS, crack pipes and certain flavors of 'bowls' have no redeeming secondary use other than to consume a controlled substance and are illegal.
[laughs]
;( I'm listening to Master of Puppets right now, in fact..
S&M is the only Metallica album I don't own
We very well may. I live about a half hour east of the Slashdot Compound in Michigan. $19 is typical for the ultra-popular stuff in the larger 'Best Buy' type stores. Trolling other places will usually net you a copy for 15-16. It's still not 12 though!
I had it appraised when I had the dial cleaned three years back. While I wasn't told that it was one of their earliest specimins, I was told that my particular model had gone for $14,000 in open auction, and that the guessed value was $6-8K. $6,000 doesn't mean terribly much to me, I'm not materialistic. I was given the watch with the implicit instruction that it be used, as it had been, and I will.
Some slight critiques
/dev/scd0 -X -Y -Z -B)
$12 is just not alot of money to spend for a CD
Sure $12 isn't a lot. Unfortunatly, $12 won't buy you a CD. Please, go into a mainstream music store and look at the prices! Do you know they still want $35 USD for the White Album? Britney Spears, $19. The only thing I've seen at that price are twenty year old Simon & Garfunkel albums.
so instead of having to waste multiple hours ripping songs from someone else's CD
Perhaps you should invest in a newer CDROM drive. The last time I saw it take that long was on a two-speed Teac, and with all of cdparanoia's error-correction on. On this here 40x IBM, I can rip an entire CD in about six minutes. (cdparanoia
having the technical knowledge to turn those songs into a CD
Have you checked out the state of CD burning programs, especially for Win32? Most of them will decompress MP3's on the fly for you as they are burned! AOL lusers couldn't possibly ask for more than that!
Otherwise, dead on. It's all about control, baby!
The US used to do just that, and to the Cubans no less. Now we try to shove 'Radio Free Marti' down their throats; I'd prefer the static myself. It would serve us right if the Cubans returned the favor!
If GNUChess is multithreaded it will run fine on a MOSIX cluster as-is. Granted, MOSIX is a wee bit lossier than a native MPI program, but why sweat the port whan you can throw more power at the one you have.
As for software that runs on a Beowulf, Scientific Applications on Linux used to have a fair rundown of them.
No picture.. It's a standard gold-filled open-face Hamilton Perpetual bankers watch, 18 size, with four small diamonds set into the gold and silver face later. I can't say for sure when it was made, but it was pawned in NYC in December of 1892. (The pawnbroker engraved the ticket number and date inside the watch.) It is keywound, so it may very well be older. Family hairloom; I'm the fifth generation to carry it.
Having just played extensivly with it, I am happy to say I have just found the first example of the Y3K bug.. Sadly, during the next millennial rollover, the date changes from '2999' to ' 00; The century dial no longer has enough pre-scribed numerals and is blank. There is enough space on the dial to have another 20 or so centuries, so I'll make sure to have it engraved before then.. ;-)
My 1892 Hamilton perpetual got the date correct. It even rolled over to '2000' for me on New Years. I believe it will keep the correct date until 2199. Amazing to think that the engineer had the foresight to see that someone would still be using it more than 300 years in the future. Perhaps the FORTRAN and RPG programmers of the 1960's should have taken a clue from the watchmakers of the 1890's.