they were powerpcs, 603-66s and 603e-133s. I miss my BeBox more than I can convey in words:( I'm going to get all bleary eyed if I continue this post, so...
You seem to be suggesting the same thing as the author. The point you and he are missing is that, while check-sums and trust-chains can be poisoned, the scale on which it would have to happen is impractical. If a bunch of RIAA bots all trust eachother and I make the mistake of trusting them about a particular checksum, it will be the last time. That whole chain of trust will be suspect and that particular filename/checksum will be on my ignore list. All I need is to add a few regular file traders keys to my trusted list and I will be able to find what I want. Additionally as reliable chains grow in size, fake ones will also have to grow to be appealing to newbies. File trading was one of the first things I used the internet for, over a bbs shell using irc and ftp. It wasnt too hard for my 11yr old mind then and the choices have only increased and become easier since then. True, the RIAA, if it blew a huge wad hiring script-kiddies could make things a little more complicated for the first time ever, but I suspect that the progress in p2p would only start increasing faster since new features would be required.
The Xbox has a unified memory architecture, which for those who don't know, means that the cpu and gpu share the same 64M. Furthermore, the GPU in the Xbox, like the Geforce4, has two programmable vector units. I'm not an Xbox developer, and I havent written any vertex programs yet, but I think it may be possible to use them in custom HPC apps because of the unified mem. The limiting factor in using Xboxes as cluster nodes to me is the 64M of ram, but there is a spot for another RAM chip (which is used in the Xbox dev kit), so that may be correctable. As to whether just the 700Mhz cpu, ram, hd and nic are worth it for clustering at $200, I havent done the math, but I would certainly guess so. I cant think of any system I could buy a bunch of identicals of for $200 a piece regardless of speed.
I'm having this same problem- I assume you mean I should change it in the plan.ini, and not in X or win2k which makes no sense given the appearance of the display. How do I modify that with it all fscked up? how do I boot rio-less? I've read everything relavent on the bell-labs site, and learned a lot of other stuff- I'm installing it on another box with the floppy, but I'd like it to work in vmware too:)
I was pleasantly surprised and excited when I saw the story on the front page this morning- I tried to install release 3 when it first came out but was blocked by hardware imcompatability. The list now looks like I may have everything I need for 2 or more nodes. But I've read through the comments all the way down into the unmoderated zone and the vast majority are trolling, whining and bitching about the license or RMS. Isnt this supposed to be news for nerds, when did it become an asbestos arena for armchair ip lawyers?
I should have 70 BriQs today or tommorow sans drivebay housing. I'm pretty dissapointed with the per-node pricing of Black Lab Linux (by the same folks).
I'm thinking at the moment that I'll netboot Debian and install my own clustering libraries and tools, since as far as I can tell, everything included in Black Lab is available elsewhere except their graphical cluster management tools.
Too bad they didn't see fit to GPL them and just make money on their rather expensive BriQ's (We paid $1500/per for G4s) before Black Lab was released.
Does anyone have any experience with these? Any tips?
I tried out a friend's pair of Bose noise cancelling headphones with an iPod in a crouded restaurant the other day. I was absolutely amazed- I'd tried cheaper noise cancelling technology years ago and not really been able to tell the difference, but this time I was turning the noise cancellation on and off with glee! I hope they catch on so we can get some volume pricing going:)
I'm sure that if you're anything like I was about 4 years ago you aren't even reading this and if you are you're doing it from behind six feet of defenses. Know that you know nothing and everything will begin to make sense. Breathe out your past with every breath and breathe in the present. Worry more about others than your self. With the new, easy to get along with personality that has arisen from living this way I've found a group of people who I learn from and enjoy being with, not just showing off to. Several of us are working on an MMORPG in fact- using nevrax's libraries (nevrax.org). I too dreamed of interacting in such an environment and such books as Ender's Game and later Snow Crash fueled that passion. There are many things I've thought I came up with only to find someone had already done it. I've learned not to let that get me down and instead take heart that my ideas were indeed workable and useful. I still hope to innovate, but thats not accomplished by working on recognition for ideas that are already disseminated. Put out your newest, edgiest, most likely to be wrong ones and you'll be contributing.
Unfortunately the signal from my geforce to toshiba cinema series hdtv is s-video so it's not as purty as it could be. DVD's look fantastic with the colorstream connection. I've found vga to colorstream cables for as little as $100, but haven't been able to afford it recently (the hdtv's a long story). I'd attempt this if it would give me 1080i
As for my set's obsolesence? I get my tv shows off the net anyway- the set is for games and dvd's
In answer to all those going, "huh? i thought the whole point of lasers was that they're coherent/all the same wavelength" Any device which excites one or more substances electrons to jump up an energy level and then fall back generating a specific wavelength (per substance) photon. these are usually bounced back and forth in a chamber and released at one end. This article is about a quantum cascade laser, which is a bit more complicated than my simplified (even for normal lasers) explaination. The point is, that while coherent lasers are the norm and coherence has many uses, this is still a laser and the technology may have many different uses itself.
If linux did something like this to microsoft? could you explain how the entity Linux could do anything to M$, much less proprietarize itself to discriminate against hardware not licensed from this entity "Linux" of which you speak? The controllers are disguised USB. As such, while M$ is within their legal rights to include whatever non-standard "features" like differently shaped plugs and occlusion of ranges of USB id's, other companies are also within their rights to make interoperable products without paying royalties if they can impliment in an informationally "clean" environmentn (somewhat easy given that its USB). I hope I'm not casting pearls before trolls, but I have a feeling I am:)
This is the first poem I've composed in the comment box:) not terribly happy with it, but the time constraints of anyone seeing it makes it easier to just start (with a topic in mind) and then just finish (something i have trouble with) maybe i'll write more here:)
To clarify on the second point:
The dual 64bit memory controllers of the Nvidia nForce northbridge part allow the cpu and gpu to access the same ddr ram at the same time and with the same speed. This doesn't help in non 3d apps, but then I haven't seen a lot of desktop apps besides maya and games that are dying for a huge performance upgrade anyway.
Larrence Leisig and I agree that there is a lack of killer apps to drive the demand to drive the r&d to keep moore's law going. On the other hand there are vast areas of application for embedded systems. Scientific and other cpu hungry apps will continue to be parralelized and run on ever cheaper distributed systems.
It seems to me that Rambus has offended so much of the industry that it even intel's continued (though lately lessening) support, or perhaps especially with intel's support it will fail to be implemented by the majority of m/b manufacturers.
Other avenues for gaining speed exist- like Nvidia's extra memory controller for the gpu in the xbox and higher end nForce chipset.
I'm a game developer working on the Nel platform. I've only dealt with app level code so far, but from my few perusals of the lower levels of the library and my browsings of simple directx code, it seems as if the complexity would make for pretty slow and buggy engines.
Extra layers obviously have that property in general, but I see it as the wrong place to create that cross compatability. The nevrax team has said in the past that they have designed the system to be able to replace the OpenGL bindings with DirectX or gamecube api (what is gc api like?)
I hope that more developers will build games based on Opensource engines as our company is (in-orbit.net)- it has saved us a lot of money and allowed us to focus on gameplay and uniqueness.
Some people use it. For instance i use mosix, which transparently migrates linux processes around.
ive also spent a truly innordinate amount of time thinking about installing amoeba, plan9 and others. the reason i havent is that mosix does alot of what i want in a cluster but i dont have to limit my set of apps to those that come with or i can manage to compile in one of those odd OSes.
But with the OSkit and the growing prevalence of platform independant languages (java, python) i can see a time not too distant when the fireball amoeba distro and the linux single system image projects are competing for the average user.
Or maybe we'll get lucky and a project to put together the best features of plan9, qnx, eros and amoeba will take off with a leader like linus.
Eros components arent just small and work exactly as documented like your assembly example- that would be enough if every programmer were an anal retentive computer scientist maybe.
in eros everything is orthogonally persistant meaning that every object, without doing anything on its own, has it's state saved by the system.
the other neat feature that makes it more reliable even in the face of bad application level code is that instead of access list based security ala unix, there are fine grained permissions called capabilites that govern what any object may do to any other.
these features coupled with transparent distribution could guarantee that even if the terminal in front of you is struck by lightning you'll be able to move to the nearest working one and pick up *exactly* where you left off!
check it out- there are a lot of kewl os level ideas that could make life better if adopted by more mainstream oses.
Re:Why I think Jon Katz articles are a Good Thing
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after i had, for years, posted unresearched or exaggerated drivel in the same public forum? i should count myself lucky to only be flamed electronically.
i could indeed remove jon from my preferences, but i keep him there for the same reason i watch network news- to see what is being offered to the ignorant masses as truth.
i dont make personal attacks on him either, but i try to point out where he's woefully incorrect for the same reason i explain what ive read on zmag.org to ppl in the same room when network news is on.
i dont think katz is purposely trying to lower the iq of/. i think he's just too lazy to research his articles or too sure of his conclusions to allow facts to get in the way. either way i'd like him to read comments to that effect and start posting stories that dont make me want to give up on/. alltogether
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it all depends on how you define AI of course, but what i think they mean is that it uses fuzzy logic and spelling and gramatical checkers to determine the likelyhood that 3rd to last keystroke was an a rather than a z. it doesnt take a supercomputer to know that vapor isnt spelled vzpor.
I just installed it on a k6-2 500 with 64M and its flying- Ultra responsive in launching and switching programs.! Redrawing in voyager with the cheapy agp card in this box isn't hot, but reasonable.
I haven't had time to really dig deep but I am very impressed so far.
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they were powerpcs, 603-66s and 603e-133s.
I miss my BeBox more than I can convey in words:( I'm going to get all bleary eyed if I continue this post, so...
You seem to be suggesting the same thing as the author. The point you and he are missing is that, while check-sums and trust-chains can be poisoned, the scale on which it would have to happen is impractical. If a bunch of RIAA bots all trust eachother and I make the mistake of trusting them about a particular checksum, it will be the last time. That whole chain of trust will be suspect and that particular filename/checksum will be on my ignore list. All I need is to add a few regular file traders keys to my trusted list and I will be able to find what I want. Additionally as reliable chains grow in size, fake ones will also have to grow to be appealing to newbies.
File trading was one of the first things I used the internet for, over a bbs shell using irc and ftp. It wasnt too hard for my 11yr old mind then and the choices have only increased and become easier since then. True, the RIAA, if it blew a huge wad hiring script-kiddies could make things a little more complicated for the first time ever, but I suspect that the progress in p2p would only start increasing faster since new features would be required.
The Xbox has a unified memory architecture, which for those who don't know, means that the cpu and gpu share the same 64M.
Furthermore, the GPU in the Xbox, like the Geforce4, has two programmable vector units. I'm not an Xbox developer, and I havent written any vertex programs yet, but I think it may be possible to use them in custom HPC apps because of the unified mem.
The limiting factor in using Xboxes as cluster nodes to me is the 64M of ram, but there is a spot for another RAM chip (which is used in the Xbox dev kit), so that may be correctable.
As to whether just the 700Mhz cpu, ram, hd and nic are worth it for clustering at $200, I havent done the math, but I would certainly guess so. I cant think of any system I could buy a bunch of identicals of for $200 a piece regardless of speed.
I'm having this same problem-
I assume you mean I should change it in the plan.ini, and not in X or win2k which makes no sense given the appearance of the display.
How do I modify that with it all fscked up? how do I boot rio-less?
I've read everything relavent on the bell-labs site, and learned a lot of other stuff- I'm installing it on another box with the floppy, but I'd like it to work in vmware too:)
~m
I was pleasantly surprised and excited when I saw the story on the front page this morning- I tried to install release 3 when it first came out but was blocked by hardware imcompatability. The list now looks like I may have everything I need for 2 or more nodes.
But I've read through the comments all the way down into the unmoderated zone and the vast majority are trolling, whining and bitching about the license or RMS. Isnt this supposed to be news for nerds, when did it become an asbestos arena for armchair ip lawyers?
I should have 70 BriQs today or tommorow sans drivebay housing. I'm pretty dissapointed with the per-node pricing of Black Lab Linux (by the same folks).
I'm thinking at the moment that I'll netboot Debian and install my own clustering libraries and tools, since as far as I can tell, everything included in Black Lab is available elsewhere except their graphical cluster management tools.
Too bad they didn't see fit to GPL them and just make money on their rather expensive BriQ's (We paid $1500/per for G4s) before Black Lab was released.
Does anyone have any experience with these? Any tips?
I tried out a friend's pair of Bose noise cancelling headphones with an iPod in a crouded restaurant the other day.
I was absolutely amazed- I'd tried cheaper noise cancelling technology years ago and not really been able to tell the difference, but this time I was turning the noise cancellation on and off with glee!
I hope they catch on so we can get some volume pricing going:)
I'm sure that if you're anything like I was about 4 years ago you aren't even reading this and if you are you're doing it from behind six feet of defenses.
Know that you know nothing and everything will begin to make sense.
Breathe out your past with every breath and breathe in the present.
Worry more about others than your self.
With the new, easy to get along with personality that has arisen from living this way I've found a group of people who I learn from and enjoy being with, not just showing off to. Several of us are working on an MMORPG in fact- using nevrax's libraries (nevrax.org).
I too dreamed of interacting in such an environment and such books as Ender's Game and later Snow Crash fueled that passion. There are many things I've thought I came up with only to find someone had already done it. I've learned not to let that get me down and instead take heart that my ideas were indeed workable and useful. I still hope to innovate, but thats not accomplished by working on recognition for ideas that are already disseminated. Put out your newest, edgiest, most likely to be wrong ones and you'll be contributing.
breathe,
~m
Unfortunately the signal from my geforce to toshiba cinema series hdtv is s-video so it's not as purty as it could be. DVD's look fantastic with the colorstream connection. I've found vga to colorstream cables for as little as $100, but haven't been able to afford it recently (the hdtv's a long story). I'd attempt this if it would give me 1080i
As for my set's obsolesence? I get my tv shows off the net anyway- the set is for games and dvd's
Its not actually true the theres always only one wavelength per substance- even single atoms like copper can emit multiple wavelengths
ation:)
In answer to all those going, "huh? i thought the whole point of lasers was that they're coherent/all the same wavelength"
Any device which excites one or more substances electrons to jump up an energy level and then fall back generating a specific wavelength (per substance) photon. these are usually bounced back and forth in a chamber and released at one end.
This article is about a quantum cascade laser, which is a bit more complicated than my simplified (even for normal lasers) explaination.
The point is, that while coherent lasers are the norm and coherence has many uses, this is still a laser and the technology may have many different uses itself.
If linux did something like this to microsoft? could you explain how the entity Linux could do anything to M$, much less proprietarize itself to discriminate against hardware not licensed from this entity "Linux" of which you speak?
The controllers are disguised USB. As such, while M$ is within their legal rights to include whatever non-standard "features" like differently shaped plugs and occlusion of ranges of USB id's, other companies are also within their rights to make interoperable products without paying royalties if they can impliment in an informationally "clean" environmentn (somewhat easy given that its USB).
I hope I'm not casting pearls before trolls, but I have a feeling I am:)
Thank you so much:)
This is the first poem I've composed in the comment box:) not terribly happy with it, but the time constraints of anyone seeing it makes it easier to just start (with a topic in mind) and then just finish (something i have trouble with)
maybe i'll write more here:)
~m
passed, of course:)
/. to see it:)
its hard to write and proofread a poem fast enough for anyone on
thanks for the critique- only way to improve:)
Elizabeth sits in a closet now
and the blissful memories fade
visions of objects and mime-types
and the neat little scripts that i made
Hope for the future has past
from my elegant blue Beth
to various *n*x machines
what little hope I have left
For as much as gnu's full of bounty
and the empire looks to fall from it's hill
I remember a time that was simpler
only a BeBox my wish could fulfill
To clarify on the second point:
The dual 64bit memory controllers of the Nvidia nForce northbridge part allow the cpu and gpu to access the same ddr ram at the same time and with the same speed. This doesn't help in non 3d apps, but then I haven't seen a lot of desktop apps besides maya and games that are dying for a huge performance upgrade anyway.
Larrence Leisig and I agree that there is a lack of killer apps to drive the demand to drive the r&d to keep moore's law going. On the other hand there are vast areas of application for embedded systems. Scientific and other cpu hungry apps will continue to be parralelized and run on ever cheaper distributed systems.
It seems to me that Rambus has offended so much of the industry that it even intel's continued (though lately lessening) support, or perhaps especially with intel's support it will fail to be implemented by the majority of m/b manufacturers.
Other avenues for gaining speed exist- like Nvidia's extra memory controller for the gpu in the xbox and higher end nForce chipset.
I'm a game developer working on the Nel platform. I've only dealt with app level code so far, but from my few perusals of the lower levels of the library and my browsings of simple directx code, it seems as if the complexity would make for pretty slow and buggy engines.
Extra layers obviously have that property in general, but I see it as the wrong place to create that cross compatability. The nevrax team has said in the past that they have designed the system to be able to replace the OpenGL bindings with DirectX or gamecube api (what is gc api like?)
I hope that more developers will build games based on Opensource engines as our company is (in-orbit.net)- it has saved us a lot of money and allowed us to focus on gameplay and uniqueness.
Some people use it. For instance i use mosix, which transparently migrates linux processes around.
ive also spent a truly innordinate amount of time thinking about installing amoeba, plan9 and others. the reason i havent is that mosix does alot of what i want in a cluster but i dont have to limit my set of apps to those that come with or i can manage to compile in one of those odd OSes.
But with the OSkit and the growing prevalence of platform independant languages (java, python) i can see a time not too distant when the fireball amoeba distro and the linux single system image projects are competing for the average user.
Or maybe we'll get lucky and a project to put together the best features of plan9, qnx, eros and amoeba will take off with a leader like linus.
Eros components arent just small and work exactly as documented like your assembly example- that would be enough if every programmer were an anal retentive computer scientist maybe.
in eros everything is orthogonally persistant meaning that every object, without doing anything on its own, has it's state saved by the system.
the other neat feature that makes it more reliable even in the face of bad application level code is that instead of access list based security ala unix, there are fine grained permissions called capabilites that govern what any object may do to any other.
these features coupled with transparent distribution could guarantee that even if the terminal in front of you is struck by lightning you'll be able to move to the nearest working one and pick up *exactly* where you left off!
check it out- there are a lot of kewl os level ideas that could make life better if adopted by more mainstream oses.
after i had, for years, posted unresearched or exaggerated drivel in the same public forum? i should count myself lucky to only be flamed electronically. /. i think he's just too lazy to research his articles or too sure of his conclusions to allow facts to get in the way. either way i'd like him to read comments to that effect and start posting stories that dont make me want to give up on /. alltogether
i could indeed remove jon from my preferences, but i keep him there for the same reason i watch network news- to see what is being offered to the ignorant masses as truth.
i dont make personal attacks on him either, but i try to point out where he's woefully incorrect for the same reason i explain what ive read on zmag.org to ppl in the same room when network news is on.
i dont think katz is purposely trying to lower the iq of
it all depends on how you define AI of course, but what i think they mean is that it uses fuzzy logic and spelling and gramatical checkers to determine the likelyhood that 3rd to last keystroke was an a rather than a z. it doesnt take a supercomputer to know that vapor isnt spelled vzpor.
skilful (sic) and intelligent people who kill themselves may or may not have reproduced beforehand:)
indeed
a friend of mine put a camera into a radio controlled plane which broadcast on uhf, so u can pick it up on a tv. Also look at 12v bike generators.
I just installed it on a k6-2 500 with 64M and its flying- Ultra responsive in launching and switching programs.! Redrawing in voyager with the cheapy agp card in this box isn't hot, but reasonable.
I haven't had time to really dig deep but I am very impressed so far.