You want a program like Origin -- a spreadsheet designed for scientific computing. While it's both very much not free and windows only, sometimes you just have to use the right tools for the job. A free or even just Un*x friendly replacement for Origin at its level of sophistication would be a very Good Thing. I'm hoping that there are other, similar software packages out there, but that's the one I'm most familiar with.
Well, if you were to stick say, 50,000 50Gb AIT tapes in a 737 (yeah, it's a lot, but they're small), and fly from LA to New York, figure six hours plus an hour at each end, call it 8 hours, that gives you a bandwidth on that link of 86Gb/sec... Not too shabby.
This policy really doesn't work. The problem is very straight forward -- when you have loads of these insecure systems around, and someone decides to crack one of them, two things happen. The first is that the cracker now has a nice comfortable fairly anonymous platform on the network that they can beat up other boxes on the network from. These boxes may not be student machines -- they might be after the campus webserver next. Now it most definitely is network operation's problem, and they have to go out, hunt down you box, turn it off, and try to clean up the mess. This takes time. Lots of time. Not to mention the other thing that is likely to happen is that the student/proffessor notices that their box is behaving wierdly, and runs for network operations, who now has to come and troubleshoot the machine (yes, has to, as tenured prof's don't take kindly to being told that "it's your problem"). If you want the school to allow you to run you linux box on a network without too many restrictions, you have a responsibility -- you have to make sure that your box, if not ridiculously secure, is at least decently well guarded. Do this, and you can keep your nice open network. Otherwise, expect to have the clamps put on, and tight.
I can't vouch for HP, Sun, etc., but I know that this would specifically exclude MIPS chips, as they all have serials in the CPU or CPU module. Really annoying when a chip blows and you have to not only wait for the new cpu but then also wait for new licenses for all of your nodelocked software...
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You want a program like Origin -- a spreadsheet designed for scientific computing. While it's both very much not free and windows only, sometimes you just have to use the right tools for the job. A free or even just Un*x friendly replacement for Origin at its level of sophistication would be a very Good Thing. I'm hoping that there are other, similar software packages out there, but that's the one I'm most familiar with.
Oops... Oh well. I was working mostly from memory.
Well, if you were to stick say, 50,000 50Gb AIT tapes in a 737 (yeah, it's a lot, but they're small), and fly from LA to New York, figure six hours plus an hour at each end, call it 8 hours, that gives you a bandwidth on that link of 86Gb/sec... Not too shabby.
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This policy really doesn't work. The problem is very straight forward -- when you have loads of these insecure systems around, and someone decides to crack one of them, two things happen. The first is that the cracker now has a nice comfortable fairly anonymous platform on the network that they can beat up other boxes on the network from. These boxes may not be student machines -- they might be after the campus webserver next. Now it most definitely is network operation's problem, and they have to go out, hunt down you box, turn it off, and try to clean up the mess. This takes time. Lots of time. Not to mention the other thing that is likely to happen is that the student/proffessor notices that their box is behaving wierdly, and runs for network operations, who now has to come and troubleshoot the machine (yes, has to, as tenured prof's don't take kindly to being told that "it's your problem"). If you want the school to allow you to run you linux box on a network without too many restrictions, you have a responsibility -- you have to make sure that your box, if not ridiculously secure, is at least decently well guarded. Do this, and you can keep your nice open network. Otherwise, expect to have the clamps put on, and tight.
/P.
I can't vouch for HP, Sun, etc., but I know that this would specifically exclude MIPS chips, as they all have serials in the CPU or CPU module. Really annoying when a chip blows and you have to not only wait for the new cpu but then also wait for new licenses for all of your nodelocked software...