The best way to have access to have all that idea is to have a parallel filesystem. There are many type of parallel filessytems. Some are designed for certain types of files others for other sorts.
PVFS and GPFS can be said to be the two most useful type of filesystems to be in use. I would reccomend that you use somethng like attached storage through fibre or through a SCSI because if a part of the array goes down then you can jump start it by replacing the SCSI array or the storage node.
Make sure your data storage drives are raid 5 so if you have one disk that goes bad then you don't have to call the whole file system to do a recreate.
Making a large filesystem is expensive. But go with the parallel filesystem option you will see how fast and easy it is. And also try to use some 64 bit system so you can have larger ammounts of metadata etc..
And PS with such a large filesystem say bye bye to the inode problem.
Cellular phone calls have to go down in price.
Regular land phones are cheap but not everyone on the planet has them, because land lines are expensive.
Cheaper cell phones are great what about the price of the phone calls ?
And don't believe that crap on digital divide, its called the RICH AND THE POOR divide been there for a long time just labelling it won't change it.
What will Dell and windows do? Give out Dell computers for about 300$. And windows might get on them for free or something? I know it sounds crazy but maybe they can make a loss to turn around the market. ( Investment for the future ).
I don't know about Linspire but there has been great improvements in Linux desktops in the last couple of years. But for basic stuff it works, just wondering what will happen to all the apps the schools use to teach their students are there Linux ports or wine or vmware solutions that they are implementing ? One thing that will be great is that they will be able to manage these systems and have cleaner networks for there students. With the HALD and usb lot of students can bring in inexpensive memory sticks to save there work, web pages, documents etc...
I wonder how all this work out, will the school departments hire coders to write applications which will teach these new students. Or use 100s of highschool geeks to write GPL'ed educational tools:). Lot of cool things are happening and let's see what happens.
-A
The webserver hosting this information is able to handle the 20 meg file and also the webpage has some nice videos of some other shots of the rover.
Man this is a pretty cool toy, I bet people play with these robots once they get them made.
Anyway interesting story, will forward it to my robotically enthusiased friends:)
Pixar should invest in a Blue Gene. Secondly for some time now Pixar had there software running on linux x86 clusters. Before that they had some solution from Sun. Anyway but it looks like Linux is being pushed into the work horse area of the movie world. The only two movies that I know that are based on Linux are Toy Stories and Madagascar. They all have penguins and are big budget cartoons.
Try setting up a myth tv box it is pretty cool what Myth can do. Lot of youngsters and adults would like. It can be a commmunity project.
Get a normal ariel antenna, get a tv card ( get the one that works please no tv card hackin ) and a box that can hold all that stuff and an nvidia gfx card. Put it together. Tell people why you have the hardware you have. Get a good guide, and start getting the parts of mythtv installed. Make small groups and make everyone install a small portion. The zap2it direcotry services. One group does the mytht tv config, one group does the themes etc....
End result you will have people doign the samething at home. Sure Linux is free, only if your time is free. And if you get a community and each individual gives a small bit and talks what they have done then, you get a pretty fast application turn around. And mythtv is easy. Tiedious but with good instructions you got MythTV box ready to blow away the TiVo and that VCR.
PS nothing against Gentoo but please no gentoo distro because the time required to install would be too great. And yes Distcc is great but it doesn't work all the time etc... This is educational so use a binary disribution. Afterwards you will be set. Men will want to be you and women will want you and children will make you their idols. And slashdot users will slashdot your webpage.
Mythtv is fun try it:). Big project and each person can do a small bit. Lot of small parts but with enough guidance people can get all of it to work together.
This was on hackaday already, you can check it out at
http://www.hackaday.com/
Sorry slashdot, ain't the news site that it used to be.
Maybe tomorrow will be better
So we learned what the history of LDAP is and how easy it is on linux. But what about other systems etc... Not a good article. Slashdot has reached the prime of its peak and is now in its decline. This might be better Guy is strapped down into a pack of pressurized tanks and launched into the air. It is windows media file but xine and mplayer under linux (x86) can open it.
This was out on hackaday this morning... ahhh slashdot is falling behind must be the submissions from bankers from Africa offering the staff $35 MILLION DOLLARS.:) (15% handling fee not included )
Good pictures someone should make a flash slide show out of it.
Ok GPL is really a free socialist "copy-left". It is far from capitalistic you cannot capitalize on GPL based appilcations etc.. becasue it is almost free ( you must pass on what you recieved ).
Anyway besides all this jazz, I am just against building weapons for offensive strikes or actions that are made from GPL based products. Example cannot use Linux for the guidance computer of a missle that is used to strike civilian targets etc.. Or a robot that goes into battle using open source apps etc...
Science fiction is a review of the world we live in. It asks questions about our soical and moral and even ethical lives we live in. Star Trek is a fine example of the world we live in, with all the problems. Star Trek the Next Generation and even Star Gate seem to touch on this. Sure the technology is cool, but it is not an opiate. An opiate would be a sort of belief people will have saying everything will be alrite. Just like religion, where people think if they lead a certain life style there essence or soul will be saved. For geeks most probably the dynamic world of technology is there opiate. But not science fiction. Science fiction is a sort of technology mixed with a story line. Issac Assimov and Phillip K. Dick wrote stories about how our lives may change in the future because of non-moral and non-ethical uses of technology, even some Japanese Anime ( Mechs ) actually have some ammount of moral dialouge.
End result science fiction is a package of a medium, one can read Shakespere for the essence of a story or read Arthur C. Clarke for another lesson. They are all the same yet different.
This would be great if a lot of Tagore's poetry recitals could be converted to a digital medium. After all he was really 100 years before his time let's digitze his voice and keep it as true as we can to the essence of the man.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow
domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
This seems like a problem for BlueGene to solve, lets email the raw data input files to the group at LLNL they can do all the calculations in a matter of seconds and then tell us why the answer is 42...!
There seems to be too much data involved, seems like a plot by the storage companies to sell crapp SATA disks and bad RAID cards.
They should hold of on to the money ( put it in a saving account ) and then next summer have it go to sponsor 10 college students to work on a open source project that will benefit ONLY Linux.
10 college students at 4,000$ stipends is $40,000 and this will go a long way in starting and initating projects.
There are many projects scientific or otherwise, like gui design etc... so a summer intern can put in about 400 hours of work for 10 weeks that times 10 would be 4000 hours on a project, that would be great.
Maybe they can all get togehter and design a complex parallel application or a testing and benchamarking suite, or a voice operated GPS guidance system for people in cars. Or a night vision image filter for dealing with night vision data through a certain type of camera etc... The ideas are many but what ever it maybe, I think the youngsters of our society should get it to encourage the propogation of open source software and also in the development of new ideas and opportunities.
I say this should be done only for Linux is because that is what the money came from and should thus reflect some work to it. But if the application is OSS ( Which the app should be ).
This is it here is the solution. Every citizen get together chip in for a lobby. And have the MPAA dissolved, or rather just make them a small orginzation that does not have too much power. They are a headache. They are worried about profits from distribution rather than the quality of the stuff.
And we actually let these guys who make billions of dollars to make social decesions that will affect people through out our society ( and others ).
Crystallography requires the same sort of modelling. Will does not need but it is more helpful. Most crystallographers run Linux x86 with Nvidia Quadro cards , or Wildcats and do a lot of there modelling using a program called O. The stereo is great for seeing the electron density of a molecule. A friend of mine works at a robotics lab and the use stereo vision to control the robot from some sort of input device at a control station and they use LCD glasses but he says his eyes hurt because LCD does not refresh as fast as CRT.
I think the best one is Cross Eyed stereo where you cross your eyes and relax them till you get stereo. Because it is cheap and it works and you use it when you want to.
What do you guys think of 3-D porn, I wanted to open up a company that sold stereoscopic porn ?
I mean the technology exists, it was popular in the movies back in the 60's or something?
Once the porn catches on we can do stereoscopic gamming of our favorite shooters ( that would be just great).
What does the Slashdogs think?
Blue Gene is about 2.4 TFlops/ rack ( give or take half a terraflop ) . So room is a small kitchen closet then you have 5 Tflops in there. Most super computers are over engineered to be dynamically configurable, because they are so expensive but then you can add maybe 10% more cost of investment to have something that is even more dynamic.
But nowadays you can have a bedroom ( 20ftX20ft ) filled with a rack of bluegenes getting you about 36 Tflops +. Now with newer supercomputers with dual cores and QDR, and all the cool stuff you can most probably have maybe 6 Tflops per rack. And then with faster interconnects you can definately get a a 16% - 25% increase on that number. But those are the next generation supercomputers. What they will provide and do for us is another question, anybody got any ideas.
My friend Indians are a friendly sort of people. But they love there own culture and own languages. So just like in America people have different license plates from state to state in India they just have different languages. It is not that bad, and most of them all atleast understand and speak hindi. Unless you goto South India where one may need to speak english.
I think the BBC will be shut down or rather retract there story and have it said that.
Nuclear fusion reactore running on gum drops can now have there fuel recycled to make weapons using marshmallows and humus. Only one in 7 gum drops out of a 1000 are light enought to get above the marshmallow and humus mixture for actual usage.
I tried the same sort of migration in a research lab, and it failed miserably. We had people who used TeX, and Jot on SGI to people using MS Office on OSX. It was a simple pain, most of the people jsut wanted to get there work done and pick up there kids from school. They used Linux for all there research and stuff. But everyone had a laptop ( OSX and or windows XP), and it was a mess. End result too many smart scientist folks were pushing there weight around. In the end the SGI guy always did everything on the SGI and write papers on Word on his OSX box ( he ran the Word under OS 9 emmulator or a long long long time ).
Then one of the windows fan just tried to do science and research on windows but his laptop would barf and die at times making him loose his data. Then people wanted to get access to there files in this muti cultural environment and the windows guys were pissed at the OSX guys whou could nfs mount the directories etc.. Then they had printer problems. All the Linux boxes were pretty standard and could print ( except for the mail server ) to the 25 printer in the lab. But the windows guys and there laptops would never be able to print to these printers for what ever reason and they would make pdfs of there images and bring them over to Linux and print them but the OSX guys had it easy with the printers though. Then there were the vmware grad student using Linux nuts, that was another chapter in torture and instability.
End result controlled chaos. The whole place had a mixture of 6 different operating systems, scientists that were from back in the day when punch cards were cool, and way too powerful Linux boxen ( dual Opterons with 4GB of RAM) for the normal users. Who had the most complex screen savers ever running so the machine would be doing something...
One thing to learn from this story is that implementing open source ideas in an institution takes more than a Linux hippies zealousness. It requires good planning and the ability for the people to accept this change. It is more of a social problem than a technical problem. People are resiliant to change. They will fight it with a passion. But as Mahatma Gandhi says, " Be the change you wish to see in the world." My Linux nutness caused many of the users to switch to Open Office, ( I think it was 2 users ). But it was great fun all the time... trying to get nfs to work on XP:). Figruing out automounters on OSX. But the end result is that Open Souce software will be a gateway for people to use computers, maybe more effictively than before.
Slashdot Mirror
The best way to have access to have all that idea is to have a parallel filesystem. There are many type of parallel filessytems. Some are designed for certain types of files others for other sorts.
PVFS and GPFS can be said to be the two most useful type of filesystems to be in use. I would reccomend that you use somethng like attached storage through fibre or through a SCSI because if a part of the array goes down then you can jump start it by replacing the SCSI array or the storage node.
Make sure your data storage drives are raid 5 so if you have one disk that goes bad then you don't have to call the whole file system to do a recreate.
Making a large filesystem is expensive. But go with the parallel filesystem option you will see how fast and easy it is. And also try to use some 64 bit system so you can have larger ammounts of metadata etc..
And PS with such a large filesystem say bye bye to the inode problem.
Anyone here ever use bugxula what are the advantages of that over deskzilla.
Even though that Deskzilla is a cooler piece of software.
PS Are thier other pieces of software that are like deskzill but are freeee.
Cellular phone calls have to go down in price. Regular land phones are cheap but not everyone on the planet has them, because land lines are expensive. Cheaper cell phones are great what about the price of the phone calls ? And don't believe that crap on digital divide, its called the RICH AND THE POOR divide been there for a long time just labelling it won't change it.
What will Dell and windows do? Give out Dell computers for about 300$. And windows might get on them for free or something? I know it sounds crazy but maybe they can make a loss to turn around the market. ( Investment for the future ). I don't know about Linspire but there has been great improvements in Linux desktops in the last couple of years. But for basic stuff it works, just wondering what will happen to all the apps the schools use to teach their students are there Linux ports or wine or vmware solutions that they are implementing ? One thing that will be great is that they will be able to manage these systems and have cleaner networks for there students. With the HALD and usb lot of students can bring in inexpensive memory sticks to save there work, web pages, documents etc ...
I wonder how all this work out, will the school departments hire coders to write applications which will teach these new students. Or use 100s of highschool geeks to write GPL'ed educational tools :). Lot of cool things are happening and let's see what happens.
-A
The webserver hosting this information is able to handle the 20 meg file and also the webpage has some nice videos of some other shots of the rover. Man this is a pretty cool toy, I bet people play with these robots once they get them made. Anyway interesting story, will forward it to my robotically enthusiased friends :)
Pixar should invest in a Blue Gene. Secondly for some time now Pixar had there software running on linux x86 clusters. Before that they had some solution from Sun. Anyway but it looks like Linux is being pushed into the work horse area of the movie world. The only two movies that I know that are based on Linux are Toy Stories and Madagascar. They all have penguins and are big budget cartoons.
Try setting up a myth tv box it is pretty cool what Myth can do. Lot of youngsters and adults would like. It can be a commmunity project.
:). Big project and each person can do a small bit. Lot of small parts but with enough guidance people can get all of it to work together.
Get a normal ariel antenna, get a tv card ( get the one that works please no tv card hackin ) and a box that can hold all that stuff and an nvidia gfx card. Put it together. Tell people why you have the hardware you have.
Get a good guide, and start getting the parts of mythtv installed. Make small groups and make everyone install a small portion. The zap2it direcotry services. One group does the mytht tv config, one group does the themes etc....
End result you will have people doign the samething at home. Sure Linux is free, only if your time is free. And if you get a community and each individual gives a small bit and talks what they have done then, you get a pretty fast application turn around. And mythtv is easy. Tiedious but with good instructions you got MythTV box ready to blow away the TiVo and that VCR.
PS nothing against Gentoo but please no gentoo distro because the time required to install would be too great. And yes Distcc is great but it doesn't work all the time etc... This is educational so use a binary disribution. Afterwards you will be set. Men will want to be you and women will want you and children will make you their idols. And slashdot users will slashdot your webpage.
Mythtv is fun try it
There is a mirror at mirrordot.org4 8cef0c85b22/index.html
or at
http://mirrordot.org/stories/c1fca9cdd935e00a395d
This was on hackaday already, you can check it out at http://www.hackaday.com/ Sorry slashdot, ain't the news site that it used to be. Maybe tomorrow will be better
Yeah slashdot has fallen in stories, it might be the editors are going out and meeting peope ro something :)
So we learned what the history of LDAP is and how easy it is on linux. But what about other systems etc...
Not a good article. Slashdot has reached the prime of its peak and is now in its decline.
This might be better
Guy is strapped down into a pack of pressurized tanks and launched into the air.
It is windows media file but xine and mplayer under linux (x86) can open it.
http://www.lookatentertainment.com/v/v-1169.htm
This was out on hackaday this morning... ahhh slashdot is falling behind must be the submissions from bankers from Africa offering the staff $35 MILLION DOLLARS. :) (15% handling fee not included )
Good pictures someone should make a flash slide show out of it.
Ok GPL is really a free socialist "copy-left".
It is far from capitalistic you cannot capitalize on GPL based appilcations etc.. becasue it is almost free ( you must pass on what you recieved ).
Anyway besides all this jazz, I am just against building weapons for offensive strikes or actions that are made from GPL based products. Example cannot use Linux for the guidance computer of a missle that is used to strike civilian targets etc..
Or a robot that goes into battle using open source apps etc...
Science fiction is a review of the world we live in. It asks questions about our soical and moral and even ethical lives we live in. Star Trek is a fine example of the world we live in, with all the problems. Star Trek the Next Generation and even Star Gate seem to touch on this. Sure the technology is cool, but it is not an opiate. An opiate would be a sort of belief people will have saying everything will be alrite. Just like religion, where people think if they lead a certain life style there essence or soul will be saved. For geeks most probably the dynamic world of technology is there opiate. But not science fiction. Science fiction is a sort of technology mixed with a story line. Issac Assimov and Phillip K. Dick wrote stories about how our lives may change in the future because of non-moral and non-ethical uses of technology, even some Japanese Anime ( Mechs ) actually have some ammount of moral dialouge. End result science fiction is a package of a medium, one can read Shakespere for the essence of a story or read Arthur C. Clarke for another lesson. They are all the same yet different.
Lotus Notes, does the job gets me to schedule with my work colleagues. Also knows when I will be out too . . .
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Rabindranath Tagore
Where The Mind is Without Fear
Gitanjali
This seems like a problem for BlueGene to solve, lets email the raw data input files to the group at LLNL they can do all the calculations in a matter of seconds and then tell us why the answer is 42...! There seems to be too much data involved, seems like a plot by the storage companies to sell crapp SATA disks and bad RAID cards.
They should hold of on to the money ( put it in a saving account ) and then next summer have it go to sponsor 10 college students to work on a open source project that will benefit ONLY Linux. 10 college students at 4,000$ stipends is $40,000 and this will go a long way in starting and initating projects. There are many projects scientific or otherwise, like gui design etc... so a summer intern can put in about 400 hours of work for 10 weeks that times 10 would be 4000 hours on a project, that would be great. Maybe they can all get togehter and design a complex parallel application or a testing and benchamarking suite, or a voice operated GPS guidance system for people in cars. Or a night vision image filter for dealing with night vision data through a certain type of camera etc... The ideas are many but what ever it maybe, I think the youngsters of our society should get it to encourage the propogation of open source software and also in the development of new ideas and opportunities. I say this should be done only for Linux is because that is what the money came from and should thus reflect some work to it. But if the application is OSS ( Which the app should be ).
This is it here is the solution. Every citizen get together chip in for a lobby. And have the MPAA dissolved, or rather just make them a small orginzation that does not have too much power.
They are a headache. They are worried about profits from distribution rather than the quality of the stuff.
And we actually let these guys who make billions of dollars to make social decesions that will affect people through out our society ( and others ).
Crystallography requires the same sort of modelling. Will does not need but it is more helpful. Most crystallographers run Linux x86 with Nvidia Quadro cards , or Wildcats and do a lot of there modelling using a program called O. The stereo is great for seeing the electron density of a molecule. A friend of mine works at a robotics lab and the use stereo vision to control the robot from some sort of input device at a control station and they use LCD glasses but he says his eyes hurt because LCD does not refresh as fast as CRT. I think the best one is Cross Eyed stereo where you cross your eyes and relax them till you get stereo. Because it is cheap and it works and you use it when you want to. What do you guys think of 3-D porn, I wanted to open up a company that sold stereoscopic porn ? I mean the technology exists, it was popular in the movies back in the 60's or something? Once the porn catches on we can do stereoscopic gamming of our favorite shooters ( that would be just great). What does the Slashdogs think?
Blue Gene is about 2.4 TFlops/ rack ( give or take half a terraflop ) . So room is a small kitchen closet then you have 5 Tflops in there. Most super computers are over engineered to be dynamically configurable, because they are so expensive but then you can add maybe 10% more cost of investment to have something that is even more dynamic. But nowadays you can have a bedroom ( 20ftX20ft ) filled with a rack of bluegenes getting you about 36 Tflops +. Now with newer supercomputers with dual cores and QDR, and all the cool stuff you can most probably have maybe 6 Tflops per rack. And then with faster interconnects you can definately get a a 16% - 25% increase on that number. But those are the next generation supercomputers. What they will provide and do for us is another question, anybody got any ideas.
My friend Indians are a friendly sort of people. But they love there own culture and own languages. So just like in America people have different license plates from state to state in India they just have different languages. It is not that bad, and most of them all atleast understand and speak hindi. Unless you goto South India where one may need to speak english.
I think the BBC will be shut down or rather retract there story and have it said that.
Nuclear fusion reactore running on gum drops can now have there fuel recycled to make weapons using marshmallows and humus. Only one in 7 gum drops out of a 1000 are light enought to get above the marshmallow and humus mixture for actual usage.
I tried the same sort of migration in a research lab, and it failed miserably. We had people who used TeX, and Jot on SGI to people using MS Office on OSX. It was a simple pain, most of the people jsut wanted to get there work done and pick up there kids from school. They used Linux for all there research and stuff. But everyone had a laptop ( OSX and or windows XP), and it was a mess. End result too many smart scientist folks were pushing there weight around. In the end the SGI guy always did everything on the SGI and write papers on Word on his OSX box ( he ran the Word under OS 9 emmulator or a long long long time ).
... trying to get nfs to work on XP :). Figruing out automounters on OSX. But the end result is that Open Souce software will be a gateway for people to use computers, maybe more effictively than before.
Then one of the windows fan just tried to do science and research on windows but his laptop would barf and die at times making him loose his data. Then people wanted to get access to there files in this muti cultural environment and the windows guys were pissed at the OSX guys whou could nfs mount the directories etc.. Then they had printer problems. All the Linux boxes were pretty standard and could print ( except for the mail server ) to the 25 printer in the lab. But the windows guys and there laptops would never be able to print to these printers for what ever reason and they would make pdfs of there images and bring them over to Linux and print them but the OSX guys had it easy with the printers though.
Then there were the vmware grad student using Linux nuts, that was another chapter in torture and instability.
End result controlled chaos. The whole place had a mixture of 6 different operating systems, scientists that were from back in the day when punch cards were cool, and way too powerful Linux boxen ( dual Opterons with 4GB of RAM) for the normal users. Who had the most complex screen savers ever running so the machine would be doing something...
One thing to learn from this story is that implementing open source ideas in an institution takes more than a Linux hippies zealousness. It requires good planning and the ability for the people to accept this change. It is more of a social problem than a technical problem. People are resiliant to change. They will fight it with a passion. But as Mahatma Gandhi says, " Be the change you wish to see in the world." My Linux nutness caused many of the users to switch to Open Office, ( I think it was 2 users ). But it was great fun all the time
There are people who are blind what do they do ? Stare at the screen hoping there eye sight comes back?
Not a good over all solution, you need a seperate medium/channel to display such pictures.