As I recall this was the 99th shuttle launch. Given the previous catastrophe this'd make it about a 1% chance of horror for a shuttle launch (not including weather statistics, etc...) so at what point does this factor into fuel savingins vs. lives?
If you drove a car to work and back that had a history of blowing up 1% of use, that'd mean you were at risk of death once a year (52 weeks, trip to and from work...) would you take a root that saved on gas, or a safer root????
Probably in their niche predicting things like this is like two years ago saying "someday we will have a computer running at 1Gz." It's a combination of being in the know and seeing the invevitable - but when it happens (is discovered, refine, produced, etc...) we are no less excited having heard someone's predictions.
When I was getting my undergrad degree I had classes in C, C++, ADA, etc... but the university offered a course in pure OO and the teacher used small talk. At the time I had never heard of the language so I tried to sign up, but the stupid school's online course registration system wasn't working. I tried several times, as did my friends. Eventually we go in and on the first day of class the prof was talking about how small talk is used and she mentioned that our online course registration software was developed entirely with small talk - not a good way to start.
Over the semester I gained an apreciation for small talk. I feel that any coder worth their salts (especially one with a BS or higher) should be able to learn almost any language by reading a good book in a week - just to learn the new subtle elements (note: learn a language != proficiency). However, small talk didn't jump right up and look like C, C++, ADA, etc... I feel it didn't fit the learning curve because it has a large amount of subtle differences.
IMHO it's partly due to "bad press" and large amounts of differences. Again IMHO ADA and S are very very very nice languages but they don't get the best talk time in Unniversities either, but I'd expect a new hire with a BS who new C/C++ to learn ADA or S readily quickly, whereas I would think small talk to take longer. When you put that into the cost equation for development it adds a price on that might put it higher than a competitor who does not need to retrain.
On a side bar I remember seeing an applicatioin that would take any C or C++ source and translate it to ADA code, but none exists to go the other way and I think there's a reason for that. Anyone see anything for other code translations (let's keep on topic and look for Small Talk translators) between other languages?
Is it me, or does that new game boy look a lot like Game Gear? I remember in my days of youth owning both GG and GB - even though critics said Game Gear was too large (it definately wasn't pocket size).
I wonder what the critics will think of that size now?
If I were a software house and I wanted to make chips I just don't code more and have chips fall out. You need wafer fabs, polishers, furnaces, etc... It's not easy to just stand up and go "I think I will make ICs today." So my question is where the heck do they think they are going to just start making ICs? Redmond? Are they going to have a German Plant like AMD?
Unless they carve them out of wood - which wouldn't be too surprising - they don't appear to have the talent pool to draw from for design or production.
I think you are missing the point - there is a lot to be said about a computer that has few devices in/attached to it. It sounds like this person is looking to maintain this stability and reduce the hassel.
Since you did bring it up and I'm sure there are others out there who are thinking the same thing I'll toss in my two cents on the monitor/keyboar/mouse switches: get something powered. For example the black box stuff we use at work is great and it can handle sun (read 13w3) and PC (read SVGA) interchangly on the same box (you can program the switch with what type is plugged into it and what it needs to output). I thought I'd get a similar effect when I got a monitor/keyboard/mouse switch that was not powered - it works fine on systems where I used a 14" monitor, but for every video card/17" or greater monitor combo I tried I got some signal degradation (read fuzzyness) most likely due to the length of signal cable (and signal drop at the box itself). I tried loading the cable with ferites as well. If anyone has suggestions with my problem speak away - but if this is the case that the orig. questioner posed I don't see this as a cheap/benefitial option since he seems quite happy with his lack of head, sorry, headless system.
See, Latin is on the rise again - everyone is speaking it now - even in Latin discussion panels. Now I guess I should brush up on my ero eris erit erimus eritus erunt. Sheesh, and I just had a good use for the pluperfect tense.
Oh, wait, you mean to tell me this has nothing to do with the Roman Language??? Stercus!
Why would any selfrespecting linux user put AOL anything on his box?
It's not necessarily for linux addicts, but if granny talks to her family via AOL, and you want to setup a system for granny to use that she will be familiar with and you do not have to worry about paying an extra Franklin+ for an OS.
Anything that takes Linux a little closer to mainstream, anything that makes one more person standup and say "now linux has everything I use, I think I will try it," anything from a major internet company that makes people take notice of Linux is a good thing for the Linux community.
Who knows, this may attract the next Linus who currently is 8 years old using AOL to check email to let Daddy show them Linux and open their mind.
I really doubt I'm going to run out and sign up for AOL just because they have a linux product - but I will have a little more respect for them and I will definately consider them the lesser of two evils (in comparison to MSN).
I hope these are what the orig. poster inteded, but to help you out here I can tell you that isky is has no price on the site stating, "Exact pricing will be finalized nearer to our late 2001 service launch," but they have all sorts of neat info on their satilite locations in the sky so you'll know where to aim your playstation missle if you are upset at the service.
Gilat didn't jump up and hit me in the face with pricing or any ordering informaion for that matter, but I'm probably just not clicking on the right silly-sounding-word-that-sounds-like-every-other-c hoice (TM) (choices are things such as SkyBlaster, SkySurfer, WebSat, etc..)
For the budget segment, the company will come out with Timna, an inexpensive version of Celeron containing a built-in graphics chip and a memory controller. In the following quarter, the company will release a version of Timna for mobile computers, sources said.
But doesn't say *when* the sucker will be out - just that it will be mobile the following quarter.
Hmmm, the windows version I use from AOL allows me to setup individual sounds per person when they log in - however buddy pounce would sure be nice on windows. But what I miss most about AIM on windows - only running one instance of the buddy list - I like have a secret screen name where I can watch who blocks me to go online, or see if that person you don't want to talk to is waiting online for your *known* screen name to appear.
Any idea if it uses the all-too-comon "getting away message" message to IM someone just to see how they said they aren't around?
I found that all too anoying and I misunderstood it initially to mean that the other person was telling me automagically that they were going off-line...
I purchased an ISA card back in the 286 days that would allow PCs to read MAC disks and copy any disk - heck I used it to make perfect copies of my Atari stuff.
As I recall shortly after this product's release a suit was avoided by discontinuing this copy feature.
Back then software makers were fewer, and you had to pirate based on word of mouth not leaching from some FTP site somewhere - now companies want more money than ever and have more money at their disposal to go after (and here's the key word) specific copying tools.
By this I mean you can buy a CD Burner, and CDRs, and floppy disks by the arm-full and get really good at copying files (copy a:\. b: would be cleaner than the origonl poster, but as the one reply states diskcopy is cleaner), but those are all general purpose, multi-use types. When you start releasing software to copy a specific area of things (say Maxis' The Sims) you tend to set off the specific maker (Maxis) and they will most likely look at you in a less-than-positive way.
In this case the things up for grabs to be copied are more than just one title but it still pokes in the ribs of a single entity.
I was at a SUN course about a year or two ago and the representative was suggesting that admins move away from seperate partitions for everything and just have / and swap (prefer swap to be on a drive where the main executables don't live) and for big storage arrays just/export/home1... home10... etc depending on your physicaly drive layout.
As for like everyone else is posting, we just jumpstat at work and here is an layout file for a typical system with a single 18g drive:
as you can see quite a wast to/tmp2 but/opt and the like are mounted remotely from file servers. However, we do use a different config for a group here doing some sort of Physical Design and Engineering work that needs a large/var/tmp
Is it me or does this seem easier to setup than editing/etc/vfs/vfstab to export/export/blah - now if only we could get NIS to adopt this for automounts we'd be set for NIS on a WAN !!! (except for the minor issue that anyone can read a file - but life has it's trade offs....)
Some of the thing that are fundamental to the ideal e-voting aren't yet developed. A basic idea is that a person who votes, puts their vote into a sealed evelope with carbon paper in it and a piece of card board. The voter signs their name to the envelope but no where the carbon paper is. This signed evelope (with vote inside) is sent to a voter registration person. They check that the name on the outside is a legitimate voter (legite implies registered and has not yet voted). This validator signs the envelope where the carbon paper is - thus signing the ballot inside as well verifying the ballot (and vote) as legitimate and countable. This envelope is sent back the voter where they can open the envelope (ie remove their name from it) and send the validated ballot to a vote counter.
This works great with signatures that can not be fordged, and carbon paper, and envelopes. Getting it to work as a system of encrypted transmissions and "signing" these gets a little tougher. Got a neat way of "signing" an encrypted vote to authenticate it and removing the signature of the voter completely, cleanly, and (preferably) eleganctly email me and we can go on tour!
I know everyone has already pointed out that home DSL setups are nothing new, but the discussion also seems to include some "how to get it to work under *nix" that I might be able to help with...
I'm using telocity as my provider, and they sent me a kit w/ lovely windows instructions for install/config. You use some form of DHCP to find out what IP you are assigned from the ISP, but since you have a static IP I just used a winbloze box (my neighbor's that I borrowed for a minute) to quickly change to DHCP and run winipcfg to find my static IP and DNS info. I then fired up my linux box, changed the IP info over to the stuff I just learned, set the router to that I of DSL modem and fired off IP masq for the rest of the network.
Looking back, I'm sure I could have had DHCP running under linux, but I had heard that needs a reboot to get the leasing.... and I'd hate to reboot.
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It would take a tremendous amount of bouncing to generate something like what you suggest... but if you could there would be a major thing to learn from it - what is at the center of the earth?
I don't mean is it carmel or truffel, but liquid or solid? Eventhough there was "Journey to the Center of Earth" that didn't seem to help much. What has helped are major earthquakes on one side of the earth that can be measured on the other side in specific places, measure the time delay (and note any lack of sites to detect the quake) and ponder if the center of the earth is absorbing quakes or not...
I remember seeing online somewhere (link unknown right now) about a guy who made a special case and filled it with mineral oil, then used a pump to pump some of it up onto an air-conditioner's set of coils only to have the stuff then fall directly onto the CPU and get mixed in with the other mineral oil... pretty neat.
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As I recall this was the 99th shuttle launch. Given the previous catastrophe this'd make it about a 1% chance of horror for a shuttle launch (not including weather statistics, etc...) so at what point does this factor into fuel savingins vs. lives?
If you drove a car to work and back that had a history of blowing up 1% of use, that'd mean you were at risk of death once a year (52 weeks, trip to and from work...) would you take a root that saved on gas, or a safer root????
Probably in their niche predicting things like this is like two years ago saying "someday we will have a computer running at 1Gz." It's a combination of being in the know and seeing the invevitable - but when it happens (is discovered, refine, produced, etc...) we are no less excited having heard someone's predictions.
When I was getting my undergrad degree I had classes in C, C++, ADA, etc... but the university offered a course in pure OO and the teacher used small talk. At the time I had never heard of the language so I tried to sign up, but the stupid school's online course registration system wasn't working. I tried several times, as did my friends. Eventually we go in and on the first day of class the prof was talking about how small talk is used and she mentioned that our online course registration software was developed entirely with small talk - not a good way to start.
Over the semester I gained an apreciation for small talk. I feel that any coder worth their salts (especially one with a BS or higher) should be able to learn almost any language by reading a good book in a week - just to learn the new subtle elements (note: learn a language != proficiency). However, small talk didn't jump right up and look like C, C++, ADA, etc... I feel it didn't fit the learning curve because it has a large amount of subtle differences.
IMHO it's partly due to "bad press" and large amounts of differences. Again IMHO ADA and S are very very very nice languages but they don't get the best talk time in Unniversities either, but I'd expect a new hire with a BS who new C/C++ to learn ADA or S readily quickly, whereas I would think small talk to take longer. When you put that into the cost equation for development it adds a price on that might put it higher than a competitor who does not need to retrain.
On a side bar I remember seeing an applicatioin that would take any C or C++ source and translate it to ADA code, but none exists to go the other way and I think there's a reason for that. Anyone see anything for other code translations (let's keep on topic and look for Small Talk translators) between other languages?
Dude, are they /.'ed or something 'cause I keep getting an error on their form:
Error Message:
undefin not found in list of allowed referrers.
Please use your 'back' button to return to the Web form.
Great, and I wanted my shirt!
Is it me, or does that new game boy look a lot like Game Gear? I remember in my days of youth owning both GG and GB - even though critics said Game Gear was too large (it definately wasn't pocket size).
I wonder what the critics will think of that size now?
If I were a software house and I wanted to make chips I just don't code more and have chips fall out. You need wafer fabs, polishers, furnaces, etc... It's not easy to just stand up and go "I think I will make ICs today." So my question is where the heck do they think they are going to just start making ICs? Redmond? Are they going to have a German Plant like AMD?
Unless they carve them out of wood - which wouldn't be too surprising - they don't appear to have the talent pool to draw from for design or production.
I think you are missing the point - there is a lot to be said about a computer that has few devices in/attached to it. It sounds like this person is looking to maintain this stability and reduce the hassel.
Since you did bring it up and I'm sure there are others out there who are thinking the same thing I'll toss in my two cents on the monitor/keyboar/mouse switches: get something powered. For example the black box stuff we use at work is great and it can handle sun (read 13w3) and PC (read SVGA) interchangly on the same box (you can program the switch with what type is plugged into it and what it needs to output). I thought I'd get a similar effect when I got a monitor/keyboard/mouse switch that was not powered - it works fine on systems where I used a 14" monitor, but for every video card/17" or greater monitor combo I tried I got some signal degradation (read fuzzyness) most likely due to the length of signal cable (and signal drop at the box itself). I tried loading the cable with ferites as well. If anyone has suggestions with my problem speak away - but if this is the case that the orig. questioner posed I don't see this as a cheap/benefitial option since he seems quite happy with his lack of head, sorry, headless system.
What's all this about MSNBC and wondering about their coverage and Internet support... I thought IBM was doing it.
See, Latin is on the rise again - everyone is speaking it now - even in Latin discussion panels. Now I guess I should brush up on my ero eris erit erimus eritus erunt. Sheesh, and I just had a good use for the pluperfect tense.
Oh, wait, you mean to tell me this has nothing to do with the Roman Language??? Stercus!
Extra Linux Non Es Vita!
Why would any selfrespecting linux user put AOL anything on his box?
It's not necessarily for linux addicts, but if granny talks to her family via AOL, and you want to setup a system for granny to use that she will be familiar with and you do not have to worry about paying an extra Franklin+ for an OS.
Anything that takes Linux a little closer to mainstream, anything that makes one more person standup and say "now linux has everything I use, I think I will try it," anything from a major internet company that makes people take notice of Linux is a good thing for the Linux community.
Who knows, this may attract the next Linus who currently is 8 years old using AOL to check email to let Daddy show them Linux and open their mind.
I really doubt I'm going to run out and sign up for AOL just because they have a linux product - but I will have a little more respect for them and I will definately consider them the lesser of two evils (in comparison to MSN).
Will this be the dawning of the age of aquarius?
Oh wait... you didn't say that Jupiter would align with mars... sorry.
Note: I'm not the orig. poster, but a little web surfing found these links that are probably what he or she was refering to:
c hoice (TM) (choices are things such as SkyBlaster, SkySurfer, WebSat, etc..)
gilat is gilat.com
and isky is isky.net.
I hope these are what the orig. poster inteded, but to help you out here I can tell you that isky is has no price on the site stating, "Exact pricing will be finalized nearer to our late 2001 service launch," but they have all sorts of neat info on their satilite locations in the sky so you'll know where to aim your playstation missle if you are upset at the service.
Gilat didn't jump up and hit me in the face with pricing or any ordering informaion for that matter, but I'm probably just not clicking on the right silly-sounding-word-that-sounds-like-every-other-
And another thing.... an inexpensive version of celeron - wasn't the celeron supposed to be an inexpensive alternative?
Here the article says:
For the budget segment, the company will come out with Timna, an inexpensive version of Celeron containing a built-in graphics chip and a memory controller. In the following quarter, the company will release a version of Timna for mobile computers, sources said.
But doesn't say *when* the sucker will be out - just that it will be mobile the following quarter.
Hmmm, the windows version I use from AOL allows me to setup individual sounds per person when they log in - however buddy pounce would sure be nice on windows. But what I miss most about AIM on windows - only running one instance of the buddy list - I like have a secret screen name where I can watch who blocks me to go online, or see if that person you don't want to talk to is waiting online for your *known* screen name to appear.
Any idea if it uses the all-too-comon "getting away message" message to IM someone just to see how they said they aren't around?
I found that all too anoying and I misunderstood it initially to mean that the other person was telling me automagically that they were going off-line...
I purchased an ISA card back in the 286 days that would allow PCs to read MAC disks and copy any disk - heck I used it to make perfect copies of my Atari stuff.
As I recall shortly after this product's release a suit was avoided by discontinuing this copy feature.
Back then software makers were fewer, and you had to pirate based on word of mouth not leaching from some FTP site somewhere - now companies want more money than ever and have more money at their disposal to go after (and here's the key word) specific copying tools.
By this I mean you can buy a CD Burner, and CDRs, and floppy disks by the arm-full and get really good at copying files (copy a:\. b: would be cleaner than the origonl poster, but as the one reply states diskcopy is cleaner), but those are all general purpose, multi-use types. When you start releasing software to copy a specific area of things (say Maxis' The Sims) you tend to set off the specific maker (Maxis) and they will most likely look at you in a less-than-positive way.
In this case the things up for grabs to be copied are more than just one title but it still pokes in the ribs of a single entity.
I was at a SUN course about a year or two ago and the representative was suggesting that admins move away from seperate partitions for everything and just have / and swap (prefer swap to be on a drive where the main executables don't live) and for big storage arrays just /export/home1 ... home10 ... etc depending on your physicaly drive layout.
/var
/usr
/tmp2
/tmp2 but /opt and the like are mounted remotely from file servers. However, we do use a different config for a group here doing some sort of Physical Design and Engineering work that needs a large /var/tmp
/var
/export
/usr
As for like everyone else is posting, we just jumpstat at work and here is an layout file for a typical system with a single 18g drive:
# sa_profile_4u_18g
# ONE 18 GIG drive with 2GIG of memory.. (swap = 2X memory)
install_type initial_install
system_type standalone
cluster SUNWCXall
partitioning explicit
filesys c0t0d0s0 500 /
filesys c0t0d0s4 1000
filesys c0t0d0s6 2000
filesys c0t0d0s3 10500
filesys c0t0d0s1 free swap
as you can see quite a wast to
# sa_profile_4u_18g
# ONE 18 GIG drive
install_type initial_install
system_type standalone
cluster SUNWCXall
partitioning explicit
filesys c0t0d0s0 600 /
filesys c0t0d0s4 2000
filesys c0t0d0s3 9000
filesys c0t0d0s6 900
filesys c0t0d0s1 free swap
As you can see we aren't even all that diligent about keeping root the same - and we feel we are making everything hudge so as it is!
But again, sun was telling us that it might be a good idea to re-think using complex layouts.
Is it me or does this seem easier to setup than editing /etc/vfs/vfstab to export /export/blah - now if only we could get NIS to adopt this for automounts we'd be set for NIS on a WAN !!! (except for the minor issue that anyone can read a file - but life has it's trade offs....)
Some of the thing that are fundamental to the ideal e-voting aren't yet developed. A basic idea is that a person who votes, puts their vote into a sealed evelope with carbon paper in it and a piece of card board. The voter signs their name to the envelope but no where the carbon paper is. This signed evelope (with vote inside) is sent to a voter registration person. They check that the name on the outside is a legitimate voter (legite implies registered and has not yet voted). This validator signs the envelope where the carbon paper is - thus signing the ballot inside as well verifying the ballot (and vote) as legitimate and countable. This envelope is sent back the voter where they can open the envelope (ie remove their name from it) and send the validated ballot to a vote counter.
This works great with signatures that can not be fordged, and carbon paper, and envelopes. Getting it to work as a system of encrypted transmissions and "signing" these gets a little tougher. Got a neat way of "signing" an encrypted vote to authenticate it and removing the signature of the voter completely, cleanly, and (preferably) eleganctly email me and we can go on tour!
I know everyone has already pointed out that home DSL setups are nothing new, but the discussion also seems to include some "how to get it to work under *nix" that I might be able to help with...
I'm using telocity as my provider, and they sent me a kit w/ lovely windows instructions for install/config. You use some form of DHCP to find out what IP you are assigned from the ISP, but since you have a static IP I just used a winbloze box (my neighbor's that I borrowed for a minute) to quickly change to DHCP and run winipcfg to find my static IP and DNS info. I then fired up my linux box, changed the IP info over to the stuff I just learned, set the router to that I of DSL modem and fired off IP masq for the rest of the network.
Looking back, I'm sure I could have had DHCP running under linux, but I had heard that needs a reboot to get the leasing.... and I'd hate to reboot.
It would take a tremendous amount of bouncing to generate something like what you suggest... but if you could there would be a major thing to learn from it - what is at the center of the earth?
I don't mean is it carmel or truffel, but liquid or solid? Eventhough there was "Journey to the Center of Earth" that didn't seem to help much. What has helped are major earthquakes on one side of the earth that can be measured on the other side in specific places, measure the time delay (and note any lack of sites to detect the quake) and ponder if the center of the earth is absorbing quakes or not...
I remember seeing online somewhere (link unknown right now) about a guy who made a special case and filled it with mineral oil, then used a pump to pump some of it up onto an air-conditioner's set of coils only to have the stuff then fall directly onto the CPU and get mixed in with the other mineral oil... pretty neat.
Anyone have any idea on the bogomip rating of this puppy?
I had the same problem on the main page:
Error:syntax error at (eval 9) line 2, at EOF
However, I don't know we should jump to conclusions as to the exact problem.