I don't doubt the usefulness of daemontools, it's just that if you haven't seen its unique way of doing things you wouldn't believe it. Who buries a service startup in a combination of inittab and the/srv (?) directory? Once you know, it isn't a problem, but when someone 'forgets' to tell you, it can be quite frustrating.
I was in a weird situation where there were two of us looking after a company part time. The other guy, a typical djb fanboy, replaced *most*[1] of exim with qmail, vpopmail, and daemontools. Oh what fun this was when he was 'unavailable.' The included 'docs' were garbage. Here's some fun questions for the audience: 1. How do you start / stop your MTA?/etc/init.d/... or delete a file and recreate it to restart. 2. How do you configure software? Config files or adding and removing files from a magic directory? 3. How do you kick the mail queue? Buggered if I can remember.
Having a few years of experience looking after various 'nixes is nothing to being thrown at djb's stuff without warning. Add to this the attitude from the fanboys I've met [2] and I hate anything touched by djb. The other fun thing I can remember from some doc was djb's suggested solution to one problem was to change fork().
[1] mailq ran, but obviously freaked out. [2] The worst examples of the stereotype, however, I've seen stuff posted online from some very nice people. My sample size was small but annoying.
I've heard the same, but most of the big shops still sell region 4 only players. It's usually not hard at all to buy one that can be unlocked. I've asked the sales droids for an unlocked player and they've given me codes for it.
The major reason to hate region locking is that we are in region 4 with the Kiwis and Central & South America. A lot of stuff will be produced for region 1 or 2 but will never be 're-coded' for region 4 because "it won't sell enough." (Although some of the smarter producers in the UK make their disks 2 and 4.) Thus, Australians have to get unlocked players to be able to see it, or they can learn Spanish and Portuguese. The ACCC sees this as an unfair restriction and has supposedly taken steps to fix it.
With all of this trouble, people wonder why we just download stuff.
To answer your original question, the ACCC says this.
The front end OS for these things is pretty meaningless. Being a Unix like will keep the programmers and admins happy. The front-end is only a shell for the code running on the back-end processing units. These do all of the work and rely on specific hardware, instructions, and libraries to do things in *actual* parallel. These things basically exist to run big number crunching tasks for mathematicians and mathematicians in disguise like physicists.:) These people will generally be running their own code with tweaks for the hardware. They see Intel's SIMD instructions and think it's 'cute' and wonder what it will be when it grows up.
Well, distributed is often seen as poor-mans parallel, but in this case they don't compare. Vector units have large arrays of data and perform the same operation on all of them at once. Think array or matrix operations being done in one step rather than needing loops. This is where a SIMD architecture takes off.
The only unit I ever got to play with had a 64x32 grid of processors, you could add a row of numbers in log2(n) steps instead on n. It was cool because you could tell each processor to grab a value from the guy next to him (or n steps in a given direction from him) and so on. You could calculate dot products of matrices very quickly.
The distributed stuff you mentioned is mostly farming. Take a big loop of independent steps, break them up and pass them out to a (possibly) heterogeneous collection of processing nodes. Collect the answers when they finish. Render farms work the same way. It's a good way to break up some problems, but it's not what a vector unit does.
Now, I haven't touched this stuff for eleven years so my facts are possibly wrong. I'm sure someone will be along to correct me.
I'll have some of what you're smoking, thanks. Are you just trolling? If not, I suggest you get a Resource Kit and read up on the boot sequence. You may also note that only one version I mentioned has WPA, so there is no 'registration' to repeat for the others.
Outlook calls them categories. You can edit views to group by them. This was in Outlook 2000. Newer versions let you save searches as separate folders. It is possible.
I used to just dump everything in a big folder and use find to locate it. Outlook is almost usable when you play to its strengths. Not being able to search hierarchies of public folders when somebody decided to create thousands of them is a royal PITA though.
FUD. I've swapped cards in machines running NT 3.51 to NT 5.1 (XP.) This is the function of/basevideo for NTLDR. It used to be called VGA mode but is now in the F8 Windows startup menu which you will get if you power down "cause the screen aint working."
Or Sydney, 20 years ago. Vehicle storage buildings are nothing new. People use them because they have a very low footprint. You can stack a lot of cars in a very small lot.
A company I worked for used to build them. They got out before I started because maintenance calls were a bitch. Imagine what happens when one of these jams and people *need* their car.
You use 'always' in a non-standard way. There were 36 and 60 bit processors available amongst others. 64 doesn't have to be the next number for processing. As someone else said 32->64 is due to postgreSQL. That, and the youngsters don't know any better. DB space is made by elves.
I have to wonder if they plan to buy up some OSS projects and then relicense them. They can then start with the patent FUD and hit any forks with MS lawyers.
Before anybody tells me that the law is on the side of OSS, consider how long the SCO case took. What if MS doesn't play to win but to not lose, allowing them to delay and cripple projects until they give up?
The fun game is then getting access to the material stored in the copier. This is the big list of things not to tell people. It's like having a what to hide from the cops list on your fridge.
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I don't doubt the usefulness of daemontools, it's just that if you haven't seen its unique way of doing things you wouldn't believe it. Who buries a service startup in a combination of inittab and the /srv (?) directory? Once you know, it isn't a problem, but when someone 'forgets' to tell you, it can be quite frustrating.
That would be too obvious and useful.
I was in a weird situation where there were two of us looking after a company part time. The other guy, a typical djb fanboy, replaced *most*[1] of exim with qmail, vpopmail, and daemontools. Oh what fun this was when he was 'unavailable.' The included 'docs' were garbage. Here's some fun questions for the audience: /etc/init.d/... or delete a file and recreate it to restart.
1. How do you start / stop your MTA?
2. How do you configure software? Config files or adding and removing files from a magic directory?
3. How do you kick the mail queue? Buggered if I can remember.
Having a few years of experience looking after various 'nixes is nothing to being thrown at djb's stuff without warning. Add to this the attitude from the fanboys I've met [2] and I hate anything touched by djb. The other fun thing I can remember from some doc was djb's suggested solution to one problem was to change fork().
[1] mailq ran, but obviously freaked out.
[2] The worst examples of the stereotype, however, I've seen stuff posted online from some very nice people. My sample size was small but annoying.
Don't look at the flash. Close your eyes and look away.
The major reason to hate region locking is that we are in region 4 with the Kiwis and Central & South America. A lot of stuff will be produced for region 1 or 2 but will never be 're-coded' for region 4 because "it won't sell enough." (Although some of the smarter producers in the UK make their disks 2 and 4.) Thus, Australians have to get unlocked players to be able to see it, or they can learn Spanish and Portuguese. The ACCC sees this as an unfair restriction and has supposedly taken steps to fix it.
With all of this trouble, people wonder why we just download stuff.
To answer your original question, the ACCC says this.
The front end OS for these things is pretty meaningless. Being a Unix like will keep the programmers and admins happy. The front-end is only a shell for the code running on the back-end processing units. These do all of the work and rely on specific hardware, instructions, and libraries to do things in *actual* parallel. These things basically exist to run big number crunching tasks for mathematicians and mathematicians in disguise like physicists. :) These people will generally be running their own code with tweaks for the hardware. They see Intel's SIMD instructions and think it's 'cute' and wonder what it will be when it grows up.
Well, distributed is often seen as poor-mans parallel, but in this case they don't compare. Vector units have large arrays of data and perform the same operation on all of them at once. Think array or matrix operations being done in one step rather than needing loops. This is where a SIMD architecture takes off.
The only unit I ever got to play with had a 64x32 grid of processors, you could add a row of numbers in log2(n) steps instead on n. It was cool because you could tell each processor to grab a value from the guy next to him (or n steps in a given direction from him) and so on. You could calculate dot products of matrices very quickly.
The distributed stuff you mentioned is mostly farming. Take a big loop of independent steps, break them up and pass them out to a (possibly) heterogeneous collection of processing nodes. Collect the answers when they finish. Render farms work the same way. It's a good way to break up some problems, but it's not what a vector unit does.
Now, I haven't touched this stuff for eleven years so my facts are possibly wrong. I'm sure someone will be along to correct me.
You should go back a few decades and look at how people thought satellites would replace undersea cables. It hasn't happened yet.
I'll have some of what you're smoking, thanks. Are you just trolling? If not, I suggest you get a Resource Kit and read up on the boot sequence. You may also note that only one version I mentioned has WPA, so there is no 'registration' to repeat for the others.
Outlook calls them categories. You can edit views to group by them. This was in Outlook 2000. Newer versions let you save searches as separate folders. It is possible.
I used to just dump everything in a big folder and use find to locate it. Outlook is almost usable when you play to its strengths. Not being able to search hierarchies of public folders when somebody decided to create thousands of them is a royal PITA though.
FUD. I've swapped cards in machines running NT 3.51 to NT 5.1 (XP.) This is the function of /basevideo for NTLDR. It used to be called VGA mode but is now in the F8 Windows startup menu which you will get if you power down "cause the screen aint working."
The way Microsoft markets it, I'd expect it to come back after three days. That I'd really notice.
Reverse patent trolling? What do we call it, a patent honey-pot?
Or Sydney, 20 years ago. Vehicle storage buildings are nothing new. People use them because they have a very low footprint. You can stack a lot of cars in a very small lot.
A company I worked for used to build them. They got out before I started because maintenance calls were a bitch. Imagine what happens when one of these jams and people *need* their car.
You use 'always' in a non-standard way. There were 36 and 60 bit processors available amongst others. 64 doesn't have to be the next number for processing. As someone else said 32->64 is due to postgreSQL. That, and the youngsters don't know any better. DB space is made by elves.
I have to wonder if they plan to buy up some OSS projects and then relicense them. They can then start with the patent FUD and hit any forks with MS lawyers.
Before anybody tells me that the law is on the side of OSS, consider how long the SCO case took. What if MS doesn't play to win but to not lose, allowing them to delay and cripple projects until they give up?
They might finally buy ActiveState. They fit nicely into the Windows Server market. It would be like buying sysinternals.
How about this for an on-topic link?
The warez site, er FileLibrary is better.
Ummm, hello RIAA, look what these tools are making available.
Their robots.txt says something different:
/Backup /Form /acl_users /MailHost /test /test1
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Is this a shopping list or what?
Does this mean clippy needs a security clearance? I can see that going well.
Put money on them. :)
The fun game is then getting access to the material stored in the copier. This is the big list of things not to tell people. It's like having a what to hide from the cops list on your fridge.