The thing that annoyed me with the XBOX drawing was they never said you had to be present to win - atleast that was the rule where I caught up with the traveling sales show. You had to "visit" all these demos and pretend to listen and then they signed your card thing-e so you would be able to win... but no where did they say you had to be there at the actual drawing to get something...
And dangit - I really wanted another one of those disk-on-key dealys for free to give to my dad...
At the recent SIGCSE conference of the ACM MS was there pushing the.NET handing out full copies of it and XP Pro as well as books on C# and things like that. I must admit I saw the add-on to.NET, the Live Wire product I think it's called, as a decent tool to teach non-cs majors an intro to programming course. Then I got home and talked about the product with some colleages and to my disgust one was using it to develop actual software.
It's one thing if a school jumps on board with this, but for the love of pudding, please mention there are other things out there, and what is sometimes just a teaching tool isn't always something for use in industry.
Not only that, but they state that if that one equation (the one in the episode) were true it would prove Fermat's entire theorem. What's this now - proof by ellegant example? Isn't that right up there with proof by lack of counter example, or proof by confusing picture?
Last time I checked microwaves were not made air-tight. Expanding air was able to freely leave the vessel. While I'm not going to even comment about your dipole argument, I will add that marshmellow does contain trapped pockets of air and in that way differs from a microwave.
Here in PA we have the PCN channle (PA Cable Network) and they give tours of different factories and meusems. Recently they toured a taxidermy school and they were demonstartating different techniques of removing the parts and sculpting the support structure, however, the funniest part was the host showing different anamals the school has worked on:
"What we have here is a life size elk that was done..."
"Oh, and here is a nice life size turkey..."
What taxidermy school works on carcasses and doesn't make them life size?
B) The real link to the zapatopi page returned this message to me: "Service Temporarily Unavailable The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."
C) The link in question is also on the bottom of the main story page (ie, the Tinfoil Hat Linux).
D) The site at zapatopi has a discussion about Tin vs. Aluminum as well as which direction you should point the shinny side.
You only have to keep those licenses if those are the ones for each box. I worked at a site where we had to destroy the incoming little NT kits since we had a site license for X number of machines and we were using that licensing for our workstations. It was a weird setup since we were supporting another company and that company had the X workstation license - they purchased new machines through us and some came with kits, some didn't (each manager selected what line of workstations they were going to get for the department from a list we approved covering many manufacturers).
oooo thanks for clearing that up - I thought it was going to be an automated thing to answer those A/S/L ? questions... but I couldn't figure out what that extra A was for.
But the real interesting thing is what will come of those who moderate him up as funny, then the commen it moderated down for being offtopic (heh, it's kinda both really) and then it hits metamoderation?
His Karma-Fire-Sale may call some moderators onto the floor.
Turning off SNMP was one of the strong recommendations in the Top 20 Internet Security Threats that the FBI's NIPC and SANS and the Federal CIO Council issued on October 1, 2001. If you didn't take that action then, now might be a good time to correct the rest of the top 20 as well as the SNMP problem. The Top 20 document is posted at http://www.sans.org/top20.htm
does anyone else have that faint voice in the back of their heads screaming something about bathtubs, blowdryers, and toasters that may have adaptable relevance to this situation...?
You mean you can hear them, too?? Do yours keep telling you about register 3 being open for 5 items or less?
Except my faint voice that screams isn't so faint.
With only one boxen, you only have to worry about one boxen failing! Now two people can't work! Woops!
With two people sharing one box you have one point of failure. With people sharing a server you have aswell a single point of failure. Now just to get your mind thinking, ponder some distributed systems (make lamport logical clocks and other fun things come to mind) and think about n points of failure...
Re:Overly simple solution... VNC
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Start a vncserver on the computer and go to another computer and use vncviewer. The other computer can even be a Windows box... or vice versa.
The problems here are many. One, your solution uses two computers and just shares some resources - the question was really a means to have one box that acts like two distinct computers. Secondly, for those who don't know nvc is like norton pc anywhere, only it's thinner, cross platform, java client, etc... - so, what you get with it is a server being controled by a client and thus you've turned two computers into.5 for one person (since their mouse, keyboard, etc..) is controled by someone else and 1.5 for that other person since they have the own computer and full control of someone else's.
Has anyone tried to make a Linux cluster on a typical company/school network?
Yes, and he was sued for it. Hopefully you have permission to do this.
There are several things wrong with that statement. First is that the application the guy was running without permission was just an application - not an entire boot device setup to perform a beo. Secondly the application the guy was running was using the hardware to caculate things that the institution really wasn't looking for. Now, I can not comment for the person who asked/. as I'm not them, but I suppose he is asking because he has calculations he would like to do and very likely can tie these in to a school project (speaking for myself I know what I have stated is something I've often considered for some sort of school project).
Ok, now is your (what I think was your) basic message that "you should have permission because in a slightly related case someone was sued [and ended up with $2,100 fine and serve 80 hours of community service]" still valid - you betcha. Just don't give the guy any ideas that there is some criminal on the run who has all the answers about making a nice clean redhat boot CD for beo'ing.
You should probably look at people who have set up diskless Linux systems. The root directory is NFS. You can even use a network device for swap space. You'll probably need some sort of network file system for doing your work anyway.
Yes, NFS would be needed for a distributed thing such as a beo since you need to maintain a shared storage for the applications to be run. However, you're going to have enough cross chatter on a decent network with this NFS and the beo already that adding the OS as an NFS thing would have a severe impact.
The advantage of booting off of NFS is that you don't have to burn new CDs when you udate the cluster.
Everything in life is a trade off - if you don't want the work of burning the disks, then you'll need the trade off of waiting extra long for a job to complete due to the network bottleneck.
I'm not sure either. So, when the foilage is nice here around the TMI neuclear reactor (as it offten is) I'll hop out onto the payment, past the windmeal, over to the libary.
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The thing that annoyed me with the XBOX drawing was they never said you had to be present to win - atleast that was the rule where I caught up with the traveling sales show. You had to "visit" all these demos and pretend to listen and then they signed your card thing-e so you would be able to win... but no where did they say you had to be there at the actual drawing to get something...
And dangit - I really wanted another one of those disk-on-key dealys for free to give to my dad...
At the recent SIGCSE conference of the ACM MS was there pushing the .NET handing out full copies of it and XP Pro as well as books on C# and things like that. I must admit I saw the add-on to .NET, the Live Wire product I think it's called, as a decent tool to teach non-cs majors an intro to programming course. Then I got home and talked about the product with some colleages and to my disgust one was using it to develop actual software.
It's one thing if a school jumps on board with this, but for the love of pudding, please mention there are other things out there, and what is sometimes just a teaching tool isn't always something for use in industry.
That's lovely until you get a few pages into it and are told:
"CREATED WITH UNREGISTERED VERSION"
I went to the hospital after a speed reading accident.
I hit a bookmark.
-- Steven Wright
Not only that, but they state that if that one equation (the one in the episode) were true it would prove Fermat's entire theorem. What's this now - proof by ellegant example? Isn't that right up there with proof by lack of counter example, or proof by confusing picture?
Last time I checked microwaves were not made air-tight. Expanding air was able to freely leave the vessel. While I'm not going to even comment about your dipole argument, I will add that marshmellow does contain trapped pockets of air and in that way differs from a microwave.
Here in PA we have the PCN channle (PA Cable Network) and they give tours of different factories and meusems. Recently they toured a taxidermy school and they were demonstartating different techniques of removing the parts and sculpting the support structure, however, the funniest part was the host showing different anamals the school has worked on:
..."
"What we have here is a life size elk that was done
"Oh, and here is a nice life size turkey..."
What taxidermy school works on carcasses and doesn't make them life size?
A) Your linkage is bad, you mean to go http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html
B) The real link to the zapatopi page returned this message to me: "Service Temporarily Unavailable The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."
C) The link in question is also on the bottom of the main story page (ie, the Tinfoil Hat Linux).
D) The site at zapatopi has a discussion about Tin vs. Aluminum as well as which direction you should point the shinny side.
I was a weird thing dealing with a company supporting another - the one we were supporting had no contract to us to provide licensing.
You only have to keep those licenses if those are the ones for each box. I worked at a site where we had to destroy the incoming little NT kits since we had a site license for X number of machines and we were using that licensing for our workstations. It was a weird setup since we were supporting another company and that company had the X workstation license - they purchased new machines through us and some came with kits, some didn't (each manager selected what line of workstations they were going to get for the department from a list we approved covering many manufacturers).
oooo thanks for clearing that up - I thought it was going to be an automated thing to answer those A/S/L ? questions... but I couldn't figure out what that extra A was for.
But the real interesting thing is what will come of those who moderate him up as funny, then the commen it moderated down for being offtopic (heh, it's kinda both really) and then it hits metamoderation?
His Karma-Fire-Sale may call some moderators onto the floor.
Turning off SNMP was one of the strong recommendations in the Top 20 Internet Security Threats that the FBI's NIPC and SANS and the Federal CIO Council issued on October 1, 2001. If you didn't take that action then, now might be a good time to correct the rest of the top 20 as well as the SNMP problem. The Top 20 document is posted at http://www.sans.org/top20.htm
does anyone else have that faint voice in the back of their heads screaming something about bathtubs, blowdryers, and toasters that may have adaptable relevance to this situation...?
You mean you can hear them, too?? Do yours keep telling you about register 3 being open for 5 items or less?
Except my faint voice that screams isn't so faint.
I should make up a linux box that uses an Athlon to power my lavalamp!
Oh wait, the iMacs don't have linux it's OSX, and they aren't Athlons and they are pixar lamps not lava lamps... so close!
What next? A device that runs Linux so that their toilet flushes? :-)
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Hmmm... will you settle for one running slackware here -
http://tbp.berkeley.edu/~harlan/projects/ToiletPa
The problem with the Slashdot polling engine is that CowboyNeal would be a candidate in every election...
Problem or feature?
Check that again, the original poster didn't say anything like that - Cliff did.
With only one boxen, you only have to worry about one boxen failing! Now two people can't work! Woops!
With two people sharing one box you have one point of failure. With people sharing a server you have aswell a single point of failure. Now just to get your mind thinking, ponder some distributed systems (make lamport logical clocks and other fun things come to mind) and think about n points of failure...
Start a vncserver on the computer and go to another computer and use vncviewer. The other computer can even be a Windows box... or vice versa.
.5 for one person (since their mouse, keyboard, etc..) is controled by someone else and 1.5 for that other person since they have the own computer and full control of someone else's.
The problems here are many. One, your solution uses two computers and just shares some resources - the question was really a means to have one box that acts like two distinct computers. Secondly, for those who don't know nvc is like norton pc anywhere, only it's thinner, cross platform, java client, etc... - so, what you get with it is a server being controled by a client and thus you've turned two computers into
Has anyone tried to make a Linux cluster on a typical company/school network?
/. as I'm not them, but I suppose he is asking because he has calculations he would like to do and very likely can tie these in to a school project (speaking for myself I know what I have stated is something I've often considered for some sort of school project).
Yes, and he was sued for it. Hopefully you have permission to do this.
There are several things wrong with that statement. First is that the application the guy was running without permission was just an application - not an entire boot device setup to perform a beo. Secondly the application the guy was running was using the hardware to caculate things that the institution really wasn't looking for. Now, I can not comment for the person who asked
Ok, now is your (what I think was your) basic message that "you should have permission because in a slightly related case someone was sued [and ended up with $2,100 fine and serve 80 hours of community service]" still valid - you betcha. Just don't give the guy any ideas that there is some criminal on the run who has all the answers about making a nice clean redhat boot CD for beo'ing.
You should probably look at people who have set up diskless Linux systems. The root directory is NFS. You can even use a network device for swap space. You'll probably need some sort of network file system for doing your work anyway.
Yes, NFS would be needed for a distributed thing such as a beo since you need to maintain a shared storage for the applications to be run. However, you're going to have enough cross chatter on a decent network with this NFS and the beo already that adding the OS as an NFS thing would have a severe impact.
The advantage of booting off of NFS is that you don't have to burn new CDs when you udate the cluster.
Everything in life is a trade off - if you don't want the work of burning the disks, then you'll need the trade off of waiting extra long for a job to complete due to the network bottleneck.
I'm not sure either. So, when the foilage is nice here around the TMI neuclear reactor (as it offten is) I'll hop out onto the payment, past the windmeal, over to the libary.
Where's that guy with the sig about his website, resume, and skill set?
Do you mean this guy?
This is the real link http://www.codeweavers.com/~jwhite/tunney.html. I'm sure the editors will fix this and I'll just labeled as a troll - oh boy...