It's called the PowerEdge 6950, it's a quad dual core AMD (8200 opteron series). There is also an entry level server (SC1435). I think the reason they sell the 6950 is that it runs on standard 110AC. The 4U Quad Xeon (6850) requires 220AC, which I find entertaining.:)
Too bad it's not open source. If you want Outlook/MAPI compatibility, you have to get the "Network Professional Edition" which has a per-user license fee.
Seriously, we know exactly what the effects of no/low gravity are. The Russians have developed workout/exercise regimes to mitigate the effects. The record for single longest human spaceflight was well over a year. Valeri Polyakov was on Mir for 437 days in the mid-90s.
Intentionally inflicting intense pain on a person to illicite a response is torture. Saying the pain is non-damaging and short term, doesn't change the fact that it's torture. This is a mass torture device.
In crowd control situations, I can't think of a scenario where this wouldn't also be collective punishment. It's like two Geneva Convention violations wrapped in one. Go USA!
About 5 years ago I attended a technical workshop at JPL in Pasadena, CA. One of the presentations I went to was on new features added to the GeoTIFF image format. It was given by a contract software engineer for the DoD. The part the made me raise an eyebrow was when he was discussing being able to create multi-petabyte geotiff images through virtuallization/referencing in the format. He made the off hand comment that the entire planet at 1cm resolution is about 1PB, and his geotiff extensions could handle it.
I agree, this Sun box is way over priced. In May, I received a simliar box for our lab from Atipa. Dual opteron, 24 x SATA II 500G SATA. I'm testing it in a RAID 60 configuration right now. I'm pulling over 350 MB/s at the application level. I'm using a pair of Areca raid 6 controllers (with real Open Source kernel support, thanks Eric Chen!) and striping them together with mdadm. It's amazingly fast. And with 500GB platters, I'm relieved to have N+2 redundency.
Here here! 'Catch-Up' AI drives me nuts. It's a total programming shortcut. It's especially bad in Double Dash. You're 10 yards from the finish line, everyone else is half a lap back and out of the blue you get pounded with tons of items. MORE THEN THERE ARE PLAYERS! It drives me nuts, it even does this in multi-player sometimes.
A game shouldn't violate it's own rules just to 'add suspense'
FC is a great distro, Ubuntu (and Gentoo) users like to lay on the FUD about it being a 'test' distro. Even though it's an upstream distro from RHEL, it's still great. I run several FC3 and FC4 production servers. The Fedora Legacy project makes this nice and easy, they support all the way back to RH7.3 if that's your thing.
I am rather disapointed with Ubuntu's (Breezy Badger) install options. The only network install option appears to be a PXE boot network install. I've fallen in love with FC/RHEL Network/Kickstart installs. I even made a custom ISO that will kickstart (or manually) install FC4, FC5, RHEL3, & RHEL4 for both i386 and x86_64 over the network (and it runs memtest of course). I'm working on a multi distro kickstart USB stick as well, but I don't have nearly enough hardware that boots off of USB.
I'm going to get flammed onto the other side of zero for this, but...
I think you're full of it. I have FC3 & FC4 production servers out on the Internet. It rocks. I even use it on weird/cutting edge hardware and am able to make to purr like a kitten. I've had more problems with my Ubuntu install (on my laptop) than any other distro lately, except maybe Gentoo on an old Alpha, but that's another story.
If the students can't get their stuff together with FC, then RHEL isn't going to help them. Although, I do really like RHEL. SELinux & RHN are my friends.
As an aside, FC/RHEL is great for linux on the desktop, my Mom has been using it since RH 7.2.
Full disclosure. My bias towards RedHat is obvious, I'm an RHCE.
I think it's hilarious that the first game I played on the Xbox 360 was Joust. JOUST! Damnit! The same game I played over 20 years ago on my fake wood veneer'ed Atari 2600. And it's still fun!
What I want from OS virtualization is to be able to run one guest OS on multiple hosts for redundency. I don't have (personally) much use for running multiple guest OSs on a host. I want to have a setup where if apache is in the middle of processing a request and a whole machine does, the request is still completed by the remaining machine. RAID1 for the whole damn machine. If you could do this will F/OSS on dirt cheap comodity hardware, the utility would be huge.
I don't care about those phones or that data network. When will they sanction my Treo 650 on the 1xRTT network? I don't think they'll have EV-DO where I'm at (Montana) for a long long time.
Last week I bought an Areca 1120 and battery module from the Tekram Online Store. It seems to work well, though my system bogs down on heavy writes. I'm using RHEL4u2 with a pre-built driver, I haven't tried the newer driver in the latest vanilla -mm kernel.
I have 6 Maxtor MaxLine Pro 500GB SATA-II drives connected to it and configured it in a hardware raid6 config. Writes are fairly slow (~32MB/s) while reads are not too shabby (200MB/s). The card does have some really nice features, cli and http tools for linux, online stripe size and raid level migration. I just hope I can clear up the system responsiveness issues.
I have two thoughts on ID and Genesis, but since I'm posting on the thread late, they'll probably get buried.
1) The label "Inteligent Design" was hijacked by the Young Earth Creations (those who believe that the years is no more than 10k years old and was created in a six literal 24 hour days. Inteligent design has its roots in Michael Behe's book, "Darwin's Black Box". Behe's purpose in this book is to provide counter examples to current evolutionary theory at the biochemical level. I think it's a great book and asks the right questions, scientifically, about evolutionary theory. Though I think his answers are weak. Basically his answer is: if current evolutionary theory can't explain a biochemical system, then God did it. Luckly, the book is mostly questions and counter-examples to evolution and a little of his answers. It is a very good read.
2) On the book of Genesis. Christian fundamentalists try to view Genesis from a western, scientific perspective. Which is why they try to see it as a scientific text. This view and culture is so different from the original intended audience that their interpretations are laughable. 15th century BC nomadic herbrew tribes were certainly not a scientific, post-enlightenment culture. The stories recorded in Genesis were intended, in my opinion, to give the hebrew tribes a perspective on who they were, who thier God was, and how they were different from the people around them. Whether the creation story in Gensis is literal or mythical isn't really knowable, and doesn't really matter. What mattered was what it meant spiritually to the ancient hebrew tribes. Anything more than that is speculation.
America is more than anti-science. American culture in the broadest terms has become very anti-intellectual, which is really a super-set of being anti-science.
I must admit, my favorite rides skew to the less predictable. At the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk, there is (was) a ferris wheel which consisted of little egg-shaped cages. The rider was given a bar they could pull on to lock the cages in relationship to the wheel, so that they would very slowly spin over the top. No seat belt, mind you, or safety bar or anything, just a little egg-shaped cage with a small bench and a rider flipping around inside, holding their head off the metal with a well-placed, frequently panicked arm.
That would be the "Rock-O-Plane". Over the years I've been able to con fewer and fewer people into riding that one with me. The best part about the brake bar is that if you got your orientation right and let the brake slip at the right rate, you got a great view of the ground as you came down head and face first. That's usually what kept people from riding a second time with me. I make it down to the Boardwalk about once a year, I'll have to take that ride for spin next month if it's still there.
One of the cafes I spend time at has a really nice way of limiting WiFi use. They have a little tape printer with three buttons, one for 30, 60, & 90 minutes. When you make a purchase, you ask for some wifi time, they hit a button and hand you a recipt. It has a randomly generated username and password that lasts for just the requested time. I rarely need more than 90 minutes (I usually hook up there before heading to the office). It's nice becuase it's still free, but they can still keep it reasonable with their business needs (only with a purchase, for limited time). This is by far the best setup I've found. Totally free and unlimited is nice, but if it's only on DSL and there are a bunch of WiFi campers, the throughput totally slows down. On the other hand some places charge hourly for wifi, even with a purchase, this just pisses me off.
The dumb theater in my town doesn't do any tickets before-hand. No internet ticket sales, no nothing. You have to buy them the morning of the show. So I'm getting in line Tuesday night so I can get tickets when the box office opens wednesday. Then I'll get right back in line for my seat. Tickets go on sale at 11am, so that's 13 hours just for a seat. Probably another 10-12 hours in line the night befor for tickets.
But as Tycho said, "no matter how painful, the circle must be complete." Though at least it wasn't as cold as camping out for tickets for LoTR. Sleeping on the sidewalk in Montana in December is Fscking cold.
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It's called the PowerEdge 6950, it's a quad dual core AMD (8200 opteron series). There is also an entry level server (SC1435). I think the reason they sell the 6950 is that it runs on standard 110AC. The 4U Quad Xeon (6850) requires 220AC, which I find entertaining. :)
Too bad it's not open source. If you want Outlook/MAPI compatibility, you have to get the "Network Professional Edition" which has a per-user license fee.
Seriously, we know exactly what the effects of no/low gravity are. The Russians have developed workout/exercise regimes to mitigate the effects. The record for single longest human spaceflight was well over a year. Valeri Polyakov was on Mir for 437 days in the mid-90s.
When people try to make the RPM vs Apt comparison, I usually correct them this way:
rpm vs dpkg
apt vs yum/up2date
I do like rpm/yum/up2date, mostly becuase I've used it for years and regularly roll my own rpms and yum repositories.
Intentionally inflicting intense pain on a person to illicite a response is torture. Saying the pain is non-damaging and short term, doesn't change the fact that it's torture. This is a mass torture device.
In crowd control situations, I can't think of a scenario where this wouldn't also be collective punishment. It's like two Geneva Convention violations wrapped in one. Go USA!
There are some who would consider these three words together to be... unnatural.
About 5 years ago I attended a technical workshop at JPL in Pasadena, CA. One of the presentations I went to was on new features added to the GeoTIFF image format. It was given by a contract software engineer for the DoD. The part the made me raise an eyebrow was when he was discussing being able to create multi-petabyte geotiff images through virtuallization/referencing in the format. He made the off hand comment that the entire planet at 1cm resolution is about 1PB, and his geotiff extensions could handle it.
Exactly. To quote Jonathan Gabriel, "It's not my fault you suck." T-shirt here.
I read articles like this just to make sure I have all the ads blocked by Adblock+. Seriously.
I agree, this Sun box is way over priced. In May, I received a simliar box for our lab from Atipa. Dual opteron, 24 x SATA II 500G SATA. I'm testing it in a RAID 60 configuration right now. I'm pulling over 350 MB/s at the application level. I'm using a pair of Areca raid 6 controllers (with real Open Source kernel support, thanks Eric Chen!) and striping them together with mdadm. It's amazingly fast. And with 500GB platters, I'm relieved to have N+2 redundency.
Here here! 'Catch-Up' AI drives me nuts. It's a total programming shortcut. It's especially bad in Double Dash. You're 10 yards from the finish line, everyone else is half a lap back and out of the blue you get pounded with tons of items. MORE THEN THERE ARE PLAYERS! It drives me nuts, it even does this in multi-player sometimes.
A game shouldn't violate it's own rules just to 'add suspense'
-JungleBoy
FC is a great distro, Ubuntu (and Gentoo) users like to lay on the FUD about it being a 'test' distro. Even though it's an upstream distro from RHEL, it's still great. I run several FC3 and FC4 production servers. The Fedora Legacy project makes this nice and easy, they support all the way back to RH7.3 if that's your thing.
I am rather disapointed with Ubuntu's (Breezy Badger) install options. The only network install option appears to be a PXE boot network install. I've fallen in love with FC/RHEL Network/Kickstart installs. I even made a custom ISO that will kickstart (or manually) install FC4, FC5, RHEL3, & RHEL4 for both i386 and x86_64 over the network (and it runs memtest of course). I'm working on a multi distro kickstart USB stick as well, but I don't have nearly enough hardware that boots off of USB.
I'm going to get flammed onto the other side of zero for this, but...
I think you're full of it. I have FC3 & FC4 production servers out on the Internet. It rocks. I even use it on weird/cutting edge hardware and am able to make to purr like a kitten. I've had more problems with my Ubuntu install (on my laptop) than any other distro lately, except maybe Gentoo on an old Alpha, but that's another story.
If the students can't get their stuff together with FC, then RHEL isn't going to help them. Although, I do really like RHEL. SELinux & RHN are my friends.
As an aside, FC/RHEL is great for linux on the desktop, my Mom has been using it since RH 7.2.
Full disclosure. My bias towards RedHat is obvious, I'm an RHCE.
I think it's hilarious that the first game I played on the Xbox 360 was Joust. JOUST! Damnit! The same game I played over 20 years ago on my fake wood veneer'ed Atari 2600. And it's still fun!
What I want from OS virtualization is to be able to run one guest OS on multiple hosts for redundency. I don't have (personally) much use for running multiple guest OSs on a host. I want to have a setup where if apache is in the middle of processing a request and a whole machine does, the request is still completed by the remaining machine. RAID1 for the whole damn machine. If you could do this will F/OSS on dirt cheap comodity hardware, the utility would be huge.
I don't care about those phones or that data network. When will they sanction my Treo 650 on the 1xRTT network? I don't think they'll have EV-DO where I'm at (Montana) for a long long time.
Last week I bought an Areca 1120 and battery module from the Tekram Online Store. It seems to work well, though my system bogs down on heavy writes. I'm using RHEL4u2 with a pre-built driver, I haven't tried the newer driver in the latest vanilla -mm kernel.
I have 6 Maxtor MaxLine Pro 500GB SATA-II drives connected to it and configured it in a hardware raid6 config. Writes are fairly slow (~32MB/s) while reads are not too shabby (200MB/s). The card does have some really nice features, cli and http tools for linux, online stripe size and raid level migration. I just hope I can clear up the system responsiveness issues.
I have two thoughts on ID and Genesis, but since I'm posting on the thread late, they'll probably get buried.
1) The label "Inteligent Design" was hijacked by the Young Earth Creations (those who believe that the years is no more than 10k years old and was created in a six literal 24 hour days. Inteligent design has its roots in Michael Behe's book, "Darwin's Black Box". Behe's purpose in this book is to provide counter examples to current evolutionary theory at the biochemical level. I think it's a great book and asks the right questions, scientifically, about evolutionary theory. Though I think his answers are weak. Basically his answer is: if current evolutionary theory can't explain a biochemical system, then God did it. Luckly, the book is mostly questions and counter-examples to evolution and a little of his answers. It is a very good read.
2) On the book of Genesis. Christian fundamentalists try to view Genesis from a western, scientific perspective. Which is why they try to see it as a scientific text. This view and culture is so different from the original intended audience that their interpretations are laughable. 15th century BC nomadic herbrew tribes were certainly not a scientific, post-enlightenment culture. The stories recorded in Genesis were intended, in my opinion, to give the hebrew tribes a perspective on who they were, who thier God was, and how they were different from the people around them. Whether the creation story in Gensis is literal or mythical isn't really knowable, and doesn't really matter. What mattered was what it meant spiritually to the ancient hebrew tribes. Anything more than that is speculation.
America is more than anti-science. American culture in the broadest terms has become very anti-intellectual, which is really a super-set of being anti-science.
That would be the "Rock-O-Plane". Over the years I've been able to con fewer and fewer people into riding that one with me. The best part about the brake bar is that if you got your orientation right and let the brake slip at the right rate, you got a great view of the ground as you came down head and face first. That's usually what kept people from riding a second time with me. I make it down to the Boardwalk about once a year, I'll have to take that ride for spin next month if it's still there.
Maybe I can find a new Favorite Google Maps Scene. My current favorite is the Nevada Nuclear Testing Grounds. In the upper left of that image is the Sedan Crater.
One of the cafes I spend time at has a really nice way of limiting WiFi use. They have a little tape printer with three buttons, one for 30, 60, & 90 minutes. When you make a purchase, you ask for some wifi time, they hit a button and hand you a recipt. It has a randomly generated username and password that lasts for just the requested time. I rarely need more than 90 minutes (I usually hook up there before heading to the office). It's nice becuase it's still free, but they can still keep it reasonable with their business needs (only with a purchase, for limited time). This is by far the best setup I've found. Totally free and unlimited is nice, but if it's only on DSL and there are a bunch of WiFi campers, the throughput totally slows down. On the other hand some places charge hourly for wifi, even with a purchase, this just pisses me off.
The dumb theater in my town doesn't do any tickets before-hand. No internet ticket sales, no nothing. You have to buy them the morning of the show. So I'm getting in line Tuesday night so I can get tickets when the box office opens wednesday. Then I'll get right back in line for my seat. Tickets go on sale at 11am, so that's 13 hours just for a seat. Probably another 10-12 hours in line the night befor for tickets.
But as Tycho said, "no matter how painful, the circle must be complete." Though at least it wasn't as cold as camping out for tickets for LoTR. Sleeping on the sidewalk in Montana in December is Fscking cold.