The purpose is quite easy and clear. Once there is a common set of words understood on both sides it becomes possible to ask simple questions of the dolphins. From that we will learn more about them from their own responses than by mere observation alone. This was the case with teaching apes sign language and it will be the case with any animal that we can develop a common language that allows simple questions to be asked.
The simple fact is that we don't have the ability yet to understand what they are saying... however we do have the ability to communicate in a common form with common words. Doesn't matter if its something new for both of us; just as long as both parties can really understand it.
Just because thats the way your HS wireless LAN is setup don't think its done like that in the business world. Every business WLAN I've seen has had WEP turned on, every transaction done over that network has been SSL or using a VPN package. Yes, this includes SSL for mail and even the corporate intranets...
What you said is also true of most every LAN I've seen... as in "let me just say that this (a LAN) is one of the most ridiculously insecure technologies in the world, just waiting for packets to be pulled off the wire...". The simple fact is most business WLANs are new enough to where security is a concern, most LANs aren't, and it shows.
This server didn't scale past that as you can guess... but the server in question was a two proc PII-350 with 1gig of ram, all UW2 scsi drives off a raid with 16M on board cache. Performance was fine for people with the small mailboxes, but for people with large (ie 500M+) it was quite slow.
Again with MBOX this wasn't even remotely possible, with MBX it just worked.
I use MBX... and have used it in a pretty decent sized IMAP implementation (120 users/average 180M INBOX). MBX simply adds a line at the start of every message telling the client exactly how long the message is. So instead of scanning until the next header it can just jump. Occasionally there are breaks but they are easily fixed with any text editor (well editors that can open really large text files).
I too was suprised by this. Maybe just maybe the slashdot editors do really still read the site.... miracles never cease.
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Nope. The simple fact is in today's internet if you are building a large commercial cluster of webservers you are doing two things: CGI and SSL.
You *need* a FPU. When I see people expounding the merits of non fpu boxes with a minimal amount of ram for a cluster it becomes obvious how many large clusters they have actually built. You want maximum ram on each box just for the disk caching alone... the goal is to make sure the network (& equipment) is your bottleneck.
... yet another example of the incredible lack of basic journalistic skills here at slashdot.
or
... yet again watching all the people jump and post from reading the subject line of the "news" item who agree with it without even bothering to read the link. God bless you slashdot for giving the truly stupid a place to call home.
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"Most servers don't need an FPU"?
... and just what kinda servers are you building?
Please don't answer web only and think you are safe. I'll let you figure out on your own why that is wrong.
Since slashdot is now part of a company that is traded on the public market... can't the shareholders demand that that Rob either get fired or take a class or two in remedial English?
Maybe he is just drunk or high when he posts this crap?
Asside from cubes all NeXTs had floppy drives. In fact most cubes came with external SCSI floppy drives as well, but since they had magneto optical drives no one used them (that is until the MO drive failed in the 1st year).
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Simple.
You have a jumpstart server around to jumpstart it. But of course you shouldn't need this, because the install does *not* require a GUI. If it detects no framebuffer it defaults to the text only install option, throughout.
then again is has also replaced every single remote control i have. ive tried lots of universal remotes and none of them were even close to how great this thing is. almost as important as its ability to let you hide all your other remotes is the somewhat powerful macro functions in it. ever always turn to audio track 2 and turn subtitles on when putting in a dvd? well make that a button. need to switch three components to the same set of inputs, one macro. need to dim your x10 lights, send a signal to play your jazz mp3 list, turn the stereo on to a preset volume, turn the tv off, all one button.
sorry but i just had to reply to this, have you actually played chuchu rocket with a group of four people? this game is party crack. girls love it. non games people love it. everyone loves it! its the best multiplayer at a single console crack to come along since bomberman. the only negative is the pacing; it can be way too fast for some people.
Who in the world really cares what Ballmer thinks are threats to microsoft? Okay thats a bad question. Who should really care?
Microsoft shareholders? Microsoft VARs? MCSEs?
Slashdot needs to grow up. Its about time to stop fueling these petty discussions. Nothing of merit ever comes out of them except a lot of AD impressions and a lot of people making asses of themselves (like this post Im making). I see the editors of slashdot go on weekly crusades against one innane thing or the other, or even better call for protests of sites. Well if you are adult enough to call for such actions you should be adult enough to not keep pushing this crap along.
Who in the world really cares what Ballmer thinks are threats to microsoft? Okay thats a bad question. Who should really care? Microsoft shareholders? Microsoft VARs? MCSEs?
Slashdot needs to grow up. Its about time to stop fueling these petty discussions. Nothing of merit ever comes out of them except a lot of AD impressions and a lot of people making asses of themselves (like this post Im making). I see the editors of slashdot go on weekly crusades against one innane thing or the other, or even better call for protests of sites. Well if you are adult enough to call for such actions you should be adult enough to not keep pushing this crap along.
I'll second the recommendation on the Energy speakers. Typically they are somewhat cheap for the quality you get and you may be able to find a full surround set for well less than thousand. They are perfect speakers if you want volume but live in a smaller place like an apartment in one of the big cities.
Maybe this time it will stick... most of you guys prolly don't recall but when NeXT machines first came out they had Magneto Optical disks on them.
At the time these were like 3-5k drives... but somehow Steve managed to confuse someone into selling them to him cheap enough to make them standard on Cubes. Now it looks as though he has done it again with DVD-RW. Hopefully this time it will stick around...
Slashdot has taken a dramatic downturn since it was "purchased". Having seen how this works from the inside I understand how it can happen. When a website is acquired there is a certain amount of traffic it is expected to drive to meet AD revenues (if thats the only source it has). This in itself is fair... the site was purchased to at the very least pay for itself and increase the mindshare of whoever owns it.
The problem is... the purchaser usually throws in weird conditions. Some slashdot conditions may have been, "a certain number of front page stories a day", "this many comments a week", or "this many less technical stories". I'm not saying this is the case here, but given some of the things we've seen over the past year its certainly plausible.
Then again its prolly just popularity, Slashdot is for all intents and purposes a BBS and just like any of the old dialup BBS's once they get to popular they lose their spark.
No you can't. I've heard lots of arguments about why this is the case but simply, no. I always carry a mini-din-->rca cable in my bag so wherever I end up the pjb can almost always be plugged in.
If you want somewhat cheap portable, use almost anywhere storage, I'd get a USB harddrive.
I second this. I've had a PJB for well over a year now; getting one right after the price was set and they opened for retail on the net. Its the best thing I've ever purchased. Yeah it is expensive but it handles everything thrown at it regardless of the bit rate (never tried more than 320), its tough and sturdy and the accessories that come with it are top notch. The headphones are some of the best you will ever hear that aren't monitor type. The battery life isn't a lie... I get above 9 hours per session everytime. Thats a mightly long time of uninterrupted music.
But most importantly they actually care about the product. I dropped the hell out of mine. Cracked the case, broke the battery clip and lost a screw. They fixed it for cost of parts and shipping.
The only draw back to the upgrade to 20 gig? You have to live without it for 3-5 business days.
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Is this a troll? Maybe I'm a fish...
The purpose is quite easy and clear. Once there is a common set of words understood on both sides it becomes possible to ask simple questions of the dolphins. From that we will learn more about them from their own responses than by mere observation alone. This was the case with teaching apes sign language and it will be the case with any animal that we can develop a common language that allows simple questions to be asked.
The simple fact is that we don't have the ability yet to understand what they are saying... however we do have the ability to communicate in a common form with common words. Doesn't matter if its something new for both of us; just as long as both parties can really understand it.
I am going to kill every single human.
Why 32bbp? And I assume you are talking about uncompressed frames to begin with?
Seems to me like it would be no more than 24bpp and at least MPEG1 if not something like motion JPEG.
Just because thats the way your HS wireless LAN is setup don't think its done like that in the business world. Every business WLAN I've seen has had WEP turned on, every transaction done over that network has been SSL or using a VPN package. Yes, this includes SSL for mail and even the corporate intranets...
What you said is also true of most every LAN I've seen... as in "let me just say that this (a LAN) is one of the most ridiculously insecure technologies in the world, just waiting for packets to be pulled off the wire...". The simple fact is most business WLANs are new enough to where security is a concern, most LANs aren't, and it shows.
This server didn't scale past that as you can guess... but the server in question was a two proc PII-350 with 1gig of ram, all UW2 scsi drives off a raid with 16M on board cache. Performance was fine for people with the small mailboxes, but for people with large (ie 500M+) it was quite slow.
Again with MBOX this wasn't even remotely possible, with MBX it just worked.
I use MBX... and have used it in a pretty decent sized IMAP implementation (120 users/average 180M INBOX). MBX simply adds a line at the start of every message telling the client exactly how long the message is. So instead of scanning until the next header it can just jump. Occasionally there are breaks but they are easily fixed with any text editor (well editors that can open really large text files).
I too was suprised by this. Maybe just maybe the slashdot editors do really still read the site.... miracles never cease.
Nope. The simple fact is in today's internet if you are building a large commercial cluster of webservers you are doing two things: CGI and SSL.
You *need* a FPU. When I see people expounding the merits of non fpu boxes with a minimal amount of ram for a cluster it becomes obvious how many large clusters they have actually built. You want maximum ram on each box just for the disk caching alone... the goal is to make sure the network (& equipment) is your bottleneck.
... yet another example of the incredible lack of basic journalistic skills here at slashdot.
or
... yet again watching all the people jump and post from reading the subject line of the "news" item who agree with it without even bothering to read the link. God bless you slashdot for giving the truly stupid a place to call home.
"Most servers don't need an FPU"?
... and just what kinda servers are you building?
Please don't answer web only and think you are safe. I'll let you figure out on your own why that is wrong.
Since slashdot is now part of a company that is traded on the public market... can't the shareholders demand that that Rob either get fired or take a class or two in remedial English?
Maybe he is just drunk or high when he posts this crap?
Asside from cubes all NeXTs had floppy drives. In fact most cubes came with external SCSI floppy drives as well, but since they had magneto optical drives no one used them (that is until the MO drive failed in the 1st year).
Simple.
You have a jumpstart server around to jumpstart it. But of course you shouldn't need this, because the install does *not* require a GUI. If it detects no framebuffer it defaults to the text only install option, throughout.
one of many...
how quickly everyone forgets the horror that was DIVX.
More NeXT machines? Is that a challenge? :)
I have 2 Cubes, one printer, 1 mono non turbo, 1 colour, and 5 turbo colours. Of course only one of them is on.
The cubes with a piece of glass on them make a nice endtable.
its expensive, big, and heavy
then again is has also replaced every single remote control i have. ive tried lots of universal remotes and none of them were even close to how great this thing is. almost as important as its ability to let you hide all your other remotes is the somewhat powerful macro functions in it. ever always turn to audio track 2 and turn subtitles on when putting in a dvd? well make that a button. need to switch three components to the same set of inputs, one macro. need to dim your x10 lights, send a signal to play your jazz mp3 list, turn the stereo on to a preset volume, turn the tv off, all one button.
doesnt seem silly to me, seems usefull as hell
sorry but i just had to reply to this, have you actually played chuchu rocket with a group of four people? this game is party crack. girls love it. non games people love it. everyone loves it! its the best multiplayer at a single console crack to come along since bomberman. the only negative is the pacing; it can be way too fast for some people.
*sheeh*
Who in the world really cares what Ballmer thinks are threats to microsoft? Okay thats a bad question. Who should really care?
Microsoft shareholders? Microsoft VARs? MCSEs?
Slashdot needs to grow up. Its about time to stop fueling these petty discussions. Nothing of merit ever comes out of them except a lot of AD impressions and a lot of people making asses of themselves (like this post Im making). I see the editors of slashdot go on weekly crusades against one innane thing or the other, or even better call for protests of sites. Well if you are adult enough to call for such actions you should be adult enough to not keep pushing this crap along.
(try #2)
*sheeh*
...
Who in the world really cares what Ballmer thinks are threats to microsoft? Okay thats a bad question. Who should really care? Microsoft shareholders? Microsoft VARs? MCSEs?
Slashdot needs to grow up. Its about time to stop fueling these petty discussions. Nothing of merit ever comes out of them except a lot of AD impressions and a lot of people making asses of themselves (like this post Im making). I see the editors of slashdot go on weekly crusades against one innane thing or the other, or even better call for protests of sites. Well if you are adult enough to call for such actions you should be adult enough to not keep pushing this crap along.
... rant over
I'll second the recommendation on the Energy speakers. Typically they are somewhat cheap for the quality you get and you may be able to find a full surround set for well less than thousand. They are perfect speakers if you want volume but live in a smaller place like an apartment in one of the big cities.
Maybe this time it will stick... most of you guys prolly don't recall but when NeXT machines first came out they had Magneto Optical disks on them.
At the time these were like 3-5k drives... but somehow Steve managed to confuse someone into selling them to him cheap enough to make them standard on Cubes. Now it looks as though he has done it again with DVD-RW. Hopefully this time it will stick around...
Prolly get modded down for this, but who cares?
Slashdot has taken a dramatic downturn since it was "purchased". Having seen how this works from the inside I understand how it can happen. When a website is acquired there is a certain amount of traffic it is expected to drive to meet AD revenues (if thats the only source it has). This in itself is fair... the site was purchased to at the very least pay for itself and increase the mindshare of whoever owns it.
The problem is... the purchaser usually throws in weird conditions. Some slashdot conditions may have been, "a certain number of front page stories a day", "this many comments a week", or "this many less technical stories". I'm not saying this is the case here, but given some of the things we've seen over the past year its certainly plausible.
Then again its prolly just popularity, Slashdot is for all intents and purposes a BBS and just like any of the old dialup BBS's once they get to popular they lose their spark.
By being called a "living breathing Katz character"?
I sure as hell would be.
No you can't. I've heard lots of arguments about why this is the case but simply, no. I always carry a mini-din-->rca cable in my bag so wherever I end up the pjb can almost always be plugged in.
If you want somewhat cheap portable, use almost anywhere storage, I'd get a USB harddrive.
I second this. I've had a PJB for well over a year now; getting one right after the price was set and they opened for retail on the net. Its the best thing I've ever purchased. Yeah it is expensive but it handles everything thrown at it regardless of the bit rate (never tried more than 320), its tough and sturdy and the accessories that come with it are top notch. The headphones are some of the best you will ever hear that aren't monitor type. The battery life isn't a lie... I get above 9 hours per session everytime. Thats a mightly long time of uninterrupted music.
But most importantly they actually care about the product. I dropped the hell out of mine. Cracked the case, broke the battery clip and lost a screw. They fixed it for cost of parts and shipping.
The only draw back to the upgrade to 20 gig? You have to live without it for 3-5 business days.