Here are some ideas that have been used to good effect at other sites, based on anecdotal evidence:
Qmail - Fast mta, reliable NFS delivery in the Maildir format. Others may vote for PostFix. I don't know it, but it may do as well.
Netapp - Fast nfs server. Multiple mail server can write to it. There are other NFS solutions from much higher-end storage vendors like MTI and EMC, but that may be more then you want:)
F5 makes BigIP, a load-balancing ip switch. This lets you multiplex things like pop3, imap, and smtp to a farm of servers, and elimintas the possibility that anyone won't be able to check their mail or won't be able to receive email.
Cyrus is an imap server. It's pretty good from all I hear. I still have yet to implement it. The other 3 parts I've used a lot, and love 'em.
Hotmail runs many email servers behind an ip switch (ala F5's BigIP, Ipivot's Broker, Alteon's switch, Cisco's LocalDirector, LinuxDirector, etc). The responses gained from queso or nmap are the answers from the load balancing box, not the mail servers. This has been experimentaly proven and confirmed.
According to all of their press releases they run sun hardware and solaris.
Hotmail runs a (heavily) modified Zmailer for inbound connections, and local delivery, probably in some failsafe and distributed manner.
Hotmail uses qmail for delivery, outbound. This version of qmail is also modified, at least somewhat, and probably a *lot* by now.
Depends on whose pricing they're competing with. If they're shooting for EMC's market, and aren't going to undercut them, then I'd guess that the 420GB configuration will be something like $250,000.
They will probably only sell the unit with support contracts that cost.2 * (cost of unit) for a year's worth of service.
This is IBM trying to get more money by selling hardware and services, and cutting into the market that EMC *owns*. These guys sell boxes that can be made more redundant then a chicken joke.
In this market, 420 GB is pretty small, kind of like a bottom-of-the-line MTI system (no hardware control, just a box where you can hot-swap the drives).
Puh-leeze. Anyone with any ethics would disclose any such statement, and reporter or publication worth reading would print such a disclosure.
This is an extremely generous on the part of redhat. It seems that they're offering "friends and family" shares to any developer who wishes to participate, because they're acknolwedging that their company relies on our work. As with any company going public, these shares cost, but they're rarely offered to this large a group.
As far as contributers to debian, and other distros are concerned, their work has gone into redhat's product, and redhat's work has informed and helped and been similarly incorperated with debian and the other distros as well. This may not happen so much these days, but it sure was the case in the past.
You'd have to detail how this works for me to understand how you can be powered by solaris and nt on what sounds (to my reading) like the same set of storage arrays. I'm really confused about what the post really means.
You can attach multiple host to the same ring, but you may end up with one of the following issues:
o I'm not sure if clariion will support multiple hosts attaching to one of their controller ports.
o If you're using dynamic multipathing w/in veritas' volume manager then you may have to be extra careful w/ your hardware and software setup. I don't know if veritas has confirmed that this works on pci-based fibre interfaces yet for their product.
o If you don't buy a sun A5100 or so array then you have to buy veritas' volume manager to achive storage sharing. However this is worth it b/c it will save you the cost of buying another pair of controllers on your clariion system.
From my perspective DM just looked like a really bad-ass hired thug. His grimmaces and growls and making-faces just made his character seem like an inarticulate thug.
Not that he didn't work as a character that way. The movie needed at least one visible bad-ass.
Let's add: remove the offensively light treatment of slavery.
No matter what era of slavery you talk about, slave life has never been this carefree. The many different (brief) reads of different slave cultures always include social stratification, restriction of privliges, lack of education, lack of right to any posessions, lack of personal space, lack of extra food, lack of clean living space, etc... general second-class citizen status, without the citizenship. How does it come about that a slave has a good education, friends who can freely come and go in the daytime (the time when most work gets done in most cultures), enough parts to put together a droid and a racing doo-hickey, food to share etc...
Those who have _abnormal concentrations_ are trained as Jedi in the old days (and suffer from the exclusivity and secretiveness common to cloistered groups.)
I like your optimism about the possibility of growing egalitarianism, and I think that nothing I say necessarily disgrees with it. However I think you're ignoring the plot point that the little unspellable beasties that allow for the use of the force possible impregnated a woman to create Anakin. This would indicate to me that the existance in the star wars world of abnormal concentrations of these beasties shouldn't be confused with arbitrary distributions of people with abnormal concentrations. The people would seem to be "chosen" by somewhat cogniscent sentient biengs.
Though the cause isn't genetic it seems more then likely that it is supposed to be pre-determined.
I think a lot of your other points are respectable, but I don't think there's enough depth to the movie to offer a good discussion of them. Using Obi-wan's anger as an example...
Lucas clouds the issues that you bring up by offering an oversimplification of human emotion. Is Obi-wan feeling anger? Is it grief-driven rage? Is it desperation that leads to darth maul's slaying? It could be any one of those, but it's probably anger because that's about the only emotion that Lucas is ready to deal with in his movies. He makes his world so black-and-white that every character is limited in their options. I wish there was more here to base discussion of this particular point on, but it just doesn't seem to be there.
He then complains that Lucas doesn't base any of the concepts in his movies on his pride and joy -- democracy. If I recall correctly, the queen distinctly said "I was not ELECTED" -- that suggests democracy to me.
The word "suggestion" here is important. Lucas uses a lot of mixed symbols from different traditions to affect the atmosphere in his movies. The title of "queen" is probably used to be evocative for the movie because that makes her a special character, and likely because she is not a democraticly elected political figure. The "election" mentioned doesn't necessarily mean a fully democratic election, or even a remotely popular election. Reading "Hamlet" you'll be reminded that in Denmark the king was chosen (aka elected) by a body of rulers. In ancient rome I believe the ruler was "elected" by a rather select few. Besides, can you imagine, really, voting for a 16 year old kid? Hello? Besides, where would an otherwise normal looking teenager get a wardrobe that included a black wire-frame dress that has slowly blinking LED's framing her face if she wasn't... say... born with a royal inheritance?
History has a lot of examples of "elected" rulers whose rule had nothing to do with the choice of the people they ruled. Start with communist countries, i.e. the "Peoples republic of china" and tell me if you think that the ruler was asked by the people to kill and torture them.
Lucas also depicts the reality of democracy not the fairy tale Brin wants it to be. So what! His illogicities about the senate and the naboo are completely unfounded -- UN!. Most of his illogicities are unfounded.
Lucas is manipulating a powerful symbol, and a modern one. The cooperative ruling body. He obviously doesn't believe in it. The extent of his distrust is the bummer, and the fact that he expresses and supports that distrust to, us his audience, could be seen as a disservice since it's an entirely uninformed opinion that we're supposed to buy along with the story to make it real
The Godwin's Law implications of his Nazi allusions have been mentioned by others, but what I notice is that his treatment of Star Wars is both uncharitable and unfaithful to Lucas' films.
Not to be too nit-picky, but this is possibly the first time I've seen nazi attributions in an online discussion where its use was even remotely warranted.
There seem to be two cases to be made for its validity.
First, the archetype is a visible figure of immense evil, the crimes committed involve unimaginable numbers of human death.
The second is that the symbols used for the empire's soldiers in the original series are reminiscent of the uniforms of nazi germany and the german armies of ww1.
IMHO Lucas used nazi symbols to lend substance, or at least atmosphere, to his movie before it took on it's current increadible (unbelievable, astounding, etc.) proportions. I can't think of any reason to ignore it in analyzing it later on in life.
The Godwin's Law implications of his Nazi allusions have been mentioned by others, but what I notice is that his treatment of Star Wars is both uncharitable and unfaithful to Lucas' films.
Not to be too nit-picky, but this is possibly the first time I've seen nazi attributions in an online discussion where its use was even remotely warranted.
There seem to be two cases to be made for its validity.
First, the archetype is a visible figure of immense evil, the crimes committed involve unimaginable numbers of human death.
The second is that the symbols used for the empire's soldiers in the original series are reminiscent of the uniforms of nazi germany and the german armies of ww1.
IMHO Lucas used nazi symbols to lend substance, or at least atmosphere, to his movie before it took on it's current increadible (unbelievable, astounding, etc.) proportions. I can't think of any reason to ignore it in analyzing it later on in life.
That's what ip masquerading and NAT's are for - however there are still problems with this approach, especially in larger organizations that have to coordinate this for themselves. Using RFC 1918 space you can do well in a centrally managed organization, but it can become confusing if you don't centralize the management of this resource internally.
It also sucks if you use rfc1918 space for your wan interfaces - it confuses traceroutes a *lot* if they return identical numbering for interfaces on routers for 2 (or more) different ISP's!
I think ARIN doesn't hand out class C's anymore, only/19's or larger blocks after you prove you can route them and that you have the userbase to populate that/19. Otherwise you have to get a network from your upstream provider.
There was an increadible segment on last weekends This American Life. It was the last segment, which dealt with the quelling the genesis of discrimination in very young children. The link above will take you to the home page that has a link to realaudio of the episode, and links to the book itself.
The segment talks about a book called "You can't say you can't play" where a kindergarten teacher and researcher forbids her students from excluding any of the other children from playing. The results are surprising and encouraging.
It's always a little freaky when someone gets roasted in public, but Bruce has participated in a couple of visible public conflagurations in the last year. In fact every project I've been aware of his involvement in has resulted in a personality conflict in spite of his obviously good intentions. I have not been "present" at any of his departures so I don't really know what the ins and outs were, but I don't think I could bring myself to join him in a project.
I do wish that they got a few quotes from suse, caldera, and slackware - caldera is taking a big pro-standards position, and I'd like to see if even they would lock themselves into the LSB or if their position comes down to about the same as redhat.
Of course, SCO could always get rid of the standard unix utilities that they maintain and have used for the last decade and just use gnu utilities, gnu compilers, etc. Since they own unix they could just charge $50 for the kernel and charge extra for support and optional features.
Then RMS could get on their back for being a GNU system built on top of a SCO kernel:)
(note:.edu cost changes would only benefit 4-year colleges and universities)
.net,.com, and.org domain "speculators" are real problem. My understanding is that they do not pay for the vast majority of their thousands and thousands of domain names.
So, if fighting against squatting is going to be moved to the next level, something has to be done. Most companies that squat on domain names never bother paying the dues because NSI doesn't require immideate billing for companies that already have a great number of outstanding unpaid domain names. If that were fixed then the profitability in domain squatting would be blown away.
In addition, NSI completely overcharges for the maintanence of their database and nameservers. By now it's widely known that they are completely mis-managed, and many people would like to demonstrate how easy it would be to design a better system from the ground up, at a low cost.
The dilbert parody is just the most boring waste of time. This is probably the first time that something has made an appearance on/. that I think truly doesn't deserve it.
Anyone else distrubed by the thought of "hand-held radar that police can use to see inside a room before bursting in"?
Here in New York City we'd be happy to have something that would ensure that the police can see a person clearly outside of a building prior to pumping them full of bullets.
Outside that bit of current events, I imagine that something like hurricane fonts will happen - things that people can use to generate interference. At least I hope such things are common. After all, there are so many things that interfere with my AM reception here at home - from the microwave to my monitor - that I expect that future technologies will evolve associated technologies that provide static as a side-effect.
Regarding fbsd's smp, according to http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html At this point in development of the SMP kernel we do poorly in many benchmarks. We have been concentrating on other issues such as stability and understanding of the low level hardware issues. As we start to work on areas that improve performance benchmarks are useful for gaugeing our progress.
Though this may be out of date, there are notes in the 3.0 release readme that indicate that SMP is not yet done in freebsd. Comparing the two doesn't seem fair to either.
The 2gb is correct on the intel platform. Putting linux on an alpha or an ultrasparc changes the picture. I've been told that the other 2^31 bits of ram are reserved for virtual memory.
Actually, is the mips r4k and r10k addressed as a 64 bit architecture? If so, then that also has through-the-roof amounts of addressable ram.
Anyway, the point is that since linux is not shackled to one architecture the review is dead wrong on this point.
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Here are some ideas that have been used to good effect at other sites, based on anecdotal evidence:
:)
Qmail - Fast mta, reliable NFS delivery in the Maildir format. Others may vote for PostFix. I don't know it, but it may do as well.
Netapp - Fast nfs server. Multiple mail server can write to it. There are other NFS solutions from much higher-end storage vendors like MTI and EMC, but that may be more then you want
F5 makes BigIP, a load-balancing ip switch. This lets you multiplex things like pop3, imap, and smtp to a farm of servers, and elimintas the possibility that anyone won't be able to check their mail or won't be able to receive email.
Cyrus is an imap server. It's pretty good from all I hear. I still have yet to implement it. The other 3 parts I've used a lot, and love 'em.
-Peter
OK, here's the scoop:
Hotmail runs many email servers behind an ip switch (ala F5's BigIP, Ipivot's Broker, Alteon's switch, Cisco's LocalDirector, LinuxDirector, etc). The responses gained from queso or nmap are the answers from the load balancing box, not the mail servers. This has been experimentaly proven and confirmed.
According to all of their press releases they run sun hardware and solaris.
Hotmail runs a (heavily) modified Zmailer for inbound connections, and local delivery, probably in some failsafe and distributed manner.
Hotmail uses qmail for delivery, outbound. This version of qmail is also modified, at least somewhat, and probably a *lot* by now.
-Peter
Re: price
.2 * (cost of unit) for a year's worth of service.
Depends on whose pricing they're competing with. If they're shooting for EMC's market, and aren't going to undercut them, then I'd guess that the 420GB configuration will be something like $250,000.
They will probably only sell the unit with support contracts that cost
-Peter
This is IBM trying to get more money by selling hardware and services, and cutting into the market that EMC *owns*. These guys sell boxes that can be made more redundant then a chicken joke.
In this market, 420 GB is pretty small, kind of like a bottom-of-the-line MTI system (no hardware control, just a box where you can hot-swap the drives).
-Peter
Puh-leeze. Anyone with any ethics would disclose any such statement, and reporter or publication worth reading would print such a disclosure.
This is an extremely generous on the part of redhat. It seems that they're offering "friends and family" shares to any developer who wishes to participate, because they're acknolwedging that their company relies on our work. As with any company going public, these shares cost, but they're rarely offered to this large a group.
As far as contributers to debian, and other distros are concerned, their work has gone into redhat's product, and redhat's work has informed and helped and been similarly incorperated with debian and the other distros as well. This may not happen so much these days, but it sure was the case in the past.
-Peter
You'd have to detail how this works for me to understand how you can be powered by solaris and nt on what sounds (to my reading) like the same set of storage arrays. I'm really confused about what the post really means.
-Peter
You can attach multiple host to the same ring, but you may end up with one of the following issues:
o I'm not sure if clariion will support multiple hosts attaching to one of their controller ports.
o If you're using dynamic multipathing w/in veritas' volume manager then you may have to be extra careful w/ your hardware and software setup. I don't know if veritas has confirmed that this works on pci-based fibre interfaces yet for their product.
o If you don't buy a sun A5100 or so array then you have to buy veritas' volume manager to achive storage sharing. However this is worth it b/c it will save you the cost of buying another pair of controllers on your clariion system.
Man, I love big storage.
-Peter
From my perspective DM just looked like a really bad-ass hired thug. His grimmaces and growls and making-faces just made his character seem like an inarticulate thug.
Not that he didn't work as a character that way. The movie needed at least one visible bad-ass.
-Peter
Let's add: remove the offensively light treatment of slavery.
No matter what era of slavery you talk about, slave life has never been this carefree. The many different (brief) reads of different slave cultures always include social stratification, restriction of privliges, lack of education, lack of right to any posessions, lack of personal space, lack of extra food, lack of clean living space, etc... general second-class citizen status, without the citizenship. How does it come about that a slave has a good education, friends who can freely come and go in the daytime (the time when most work gets done in most cultures), enough parts to put together a droid and a racing doo-hickey, food to share etc...
-Peter
Those who have _abnormal concentrations_ are trained as Jedi in the old days (and suffer from the exclusivity and secretiveness common to cloistered groups.)
I like your optimism about the possibility of growing egalitarianism, and I think that nothing I say necessarily disgrees with it. However I think you're ignoring the plot point that the little unspellable beasties that allow for the use of the force possible impregnated a woman to create Anakin. This would indicate to me that the existance in the star wars world of abnormal concentrations of these beasties shouldn't be confused with arbitrary distributions of people with abnormal concentrations. The people would seem to be "chosen" by somewhat cogniscent sentient biengs.
Though the cause isn't genetic it seems more then likely that it is supposed to be pre-determined.
I think a lot of your other points are respectable, but I don't think there's enough depth to the movie to offer a good discussion of them. Using Obi-wan's anger as an example...
Lucas clouds the issues that you bring up by offering an oversimplification of human emotion. Is Obi-wan feeling anger? Is it grief-driven rage? Is it desperation that leads to darth maul's slaying? It could be any one of those, but it's probably anger because that's about the only emotion that Lucas is ready to deal with in his movies. He makes his world so black-and-white that every character is limited in their options. I wish there was more here to base discussion of this particular point on, but it just doesn't seem to be there.
-Peter
He then complains that Lucas doesn't base any of the concepts in his movies on his pride and joy -- democracy. If I recall correctly, the queen distinctly said "I was not ELECTED" -- that suggests democracy to me.
The word "suggestion" here is important. Lucas uses a lot of mixed symbols from different traditions to affect the atmosphere in his movies. The title of "queen" is probably used to be evocative for the movie because that makes her a special character, and likely because she is not a democraticly elected political figure. The "election" mentioned doesn't necessarily mean a fully democratic election, or even a remotely popular election. Reading "Hamlet" you'll be reminded that in Denmark the king was chosen (aka elected) by a body of rulers. In ancient rome I believe the ruler was "elected" by a rather select few. Besides, can you imagine, really, voting for a 16 year old kid? Hello? Besides, where would an otherwise normal looking teenager get a wardrobe that included a black wire-frame dress that has slowly blinking LED's framing her face if she wasn't... say... born with a royal inheritance?
History has a lot of examples of "elected" rulers whose rule had nothing to do with the choice of the people they ruled. Start with communist countries, i.e. the "Peoples republic of china" and tell me if you think that the ruler was asked by the people to kill and torture them.
Lucas also depicts the reality of democracy not the fairy tale Brin wants it to be. So what! His illogicities about the senate and the naboo are completely unfounded -- UN!. Most of his illogicities are unfounded.
Lucas is manipulating a powerful symbol, and a modern one. The cooperative ruling body. He obviously doesn't believe in it. The extent of his distrust is the bummer, and the fact that he expresses and supports that distrust to, us his audience, could be seen as a disservice since it's an entirely uninformed opinion that we're supposed to buy along with the story to make it real
-Peter
The Godwin's Law implications of his Nazi allusions have been mentioned by others, but what I notice is that his treatment of Star Wars is both uncharitable and unfaithful to Lucas' films.
Not to be too nit-picky, but this is possibly the first time I've seen nazi attributions in an online discussion where its use was even remotely warranted.
There seem to be two cases to be made for its validity.
First, the archetype is a visible figure of immense evil, the crimes committed involve unimaginable numbers of human death.
The second is that the symbols used for the empire's soldiers in the original series are reminiscent of the uniforms of nazi germany and the german armies of ww1.
IMHO Lucas used nazi symbols to lend substance, or at least atmosphere, to his movie before it took on it's current increadible (unbelievable, astounding, etc.) proportions. I can't think of any reason to ignore it in analyzing it later on in life.
-Peter
The Godwin's Law implications of his Nazi allusions have been mentioned by others, but what I notice is that his treatment of Star Wars is both uncharitable and unfaithful to Lucas' films.
Not to be too nit-picky, but this is possibly the first time I've seen nazi attributions in an online discussion where its use was even remotely warranted.
There seem to be two cases to be made for its validity.
First, the archetype is a visible figure of immense evil, the crimes committed involve unimaginable numbers of human death.
The second is that the symbols used for the empire's soldiers in the original series are reminiscent of the uniforms of nazi germany and the german armies of ww1.
IMHO Lucas used nazi symbols to lend substance, or at least atmosphere, to his movie before it took on it's current increadible (unbelievable, astounding, etc.) proportions. I can't think of any reason to ignore it in analyzing it later on in life.
-Peter
My experience is that ext2 is way faster then solaris' ufs. Especially in high-performance queuing situations.
-Peter
That's what ip masquerading and NAT's are for - however there are still problems with this approach, especially in larger organizations that have to coordinate this for themselves. Using RFC 1918 space you can do well in a centrally managed organization, but it can become confusing if you don't centralize the management of this resource internally.
It also sucks if you use rfc1918 space for your wan interfaces - it confuses traceroutes a *lot* if they return identical numbering for interfaces on routers for 2 (or more) different ISP's!
-Peter
I think ARIN doesn't hand out class C's anymore, only /19's or larger blocks after you prove you can route them and that you have the userbase to populate that /19. Otherwise you have to get a network from your upstream provider.
-Peter
There was an increadible segment on last weekends This American Life. It was the last segment, which dealt with the quelling the genesis of discrimination in very young children. The link above will take you to the home page that has a link to realaudio of the episode, and links to the book itself.
The segment talks about a book called "You can't say you can't play" where a kindergarten teacher and researcher forbids her students from excluding any of the other children from playing. The results are surprising and encouraging.
-Peter
It's always a little freaky when someone gets roasted in public, but Bruce has participated in a couple of visible public conflagurations in the last year. In fact every project I've been aware of his involvement in has resulted in a personality conflict in spite of his obviously good intentions. I have not been "present" at any of his departures so I don't really know what the ins and outs were, but I don't think I could bring myself to join him in a project.
I do wish that they got a few quotes from suse, caldera, and slackware - caldera is taking a big pro-standards position, and I'd like to see if even they would lock themselves into the LSB or if their position comes down to about the same as redhat.
-Peter
Of course, SCO could always get rid of the standard unix utilities that they maintain and have used for the last decade and just use gnu utilities, gnu compilers, etc. Since they own unix they could just charge $50 for the kernel and charge extra for support and optional features.
:)
Then RMS could get on their back for being a GNU system built on top of a SCO kernel
-Peter
(note: .edu cost changes would only benefit 4-year colleges and universities)
.org domain "speculators" are real problem. My understanding is that they do not pay for the vast majority of their thousands and thousands of domain names.
.net,.com, and
So, if fighting against squatting is going to be moved to the next level, something has to be done. Most companies that squat on domain names never bother paying the dues because NSI doesn't require immideate billing for companies that already have a great number of outstanding unpaid domain names. If that were fixed then the profitability in domain squatting would be blown away.
In addition, NSI completely overcharges for the maintanence of their database and nameservers. By now it's widely known that they are completely mis-managed, and many people would like to demonstrate how easy it would be to design a better system from the ground up, at a low cost.
-Peter
The dilbert parody is just the most boring waste of time. This is probably the first time that something has made an appearance on /. that I think truly doesn't deserve it.
-Peter
Anyone else distrubed by the thought of "hand-held radar that police can use to see inside a room before bursting in"?
Here in New York City we'd be happy to have something that would ensure that the police can see a person clearly outside of a building prior to pumping them full of bullets.
Outside that bit of current events, I imagine that something like hurricane fonts will happen - things that people can use to generate interference. At least I hope such things are common. After all, there are so many things that interfere with my AM reception here at home - from the microwave to my monitor - that I expect that future technologies will evolve associated technologies that provide static as a side-effect.
It just may take some time.
-Peter
Regarding fbsd's smp, according to
http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html
At this point in development of the SMP kernel we do poorly in many benchmarks. We have been concentrating on other issues
such as stability and understanding of the low level hardware issues. As we start to work on areas that improve performance
benchmarks are useful for gaugeing our progress.
Though this may be out of date, there are notes in the 3.0 release readme that indicate that SMP is not yet done in freebsd. Comparing the two doesn't seem fair to either.
-Peter
I'd like to mention the rumors that I've been hearing, though not to contradict the report.
Ext3fs is supposed to be ext2fs w/ the option to use a jounal, or to act as a traditional ext2fs.
Sounds cool to me.
-Peter
The 2gb is correct on the intel platform. Putting linux on an alpha or an ultrasparc changes the picture. I've been told that the other 2^31 bits of ram are reserved for virtual memory.
Actually, is the mips r4k and r10k addressed as a 64 bit architecture? If so, then that also has through-the-roof amounts of addressable ram.
Anyway, the point is that since linux is not shackled to one architecture the review is dead wrong on this point.
-Peter