Usually only if you do all the *other* updates along with iTunes. I know when I went to update iTunes ~15mins ago so I could update my phone to 5 it prompted me for the update. When Software Update came up it told me "you must restart your computer after the updates are installed". I clicked "Show Details" and unchecked the various other updates it wanted to do, including an HP printer update, a Lion recovery update, and the OSX Server update (which was what needed the reboot). Viola, iTunes updated without rebooting!
That's a ridiculous idea! Torvalds has never shown anything but contempt for Apple's products. When Torvalds started hacking together linux, Mac OS was still in version 7 (or was it even 6). Say what you like about the GUI, but under the hood, OS 7 was a complete mess, as were 8 and 9.
AFAIK for quite a while Torvald's personal workstation was a G5 tower. It was running Linux of course, but he was certainly using an Apple product.
That's just not true at all, particularly when you're talking about DDR and QDR infiniband (why yes, I do use software that does heavy internode communication on clusters, and am familiar with how performance scales with internode communication, in fact for a while it was a focal point of my research), not to mention 3D networks like BG's torus interconnect.
Simply put if you were involved in the HPC world you've been out of touch for a long time now in order to draw the distinction you're drawing. Yes, a gigE connected cluster is going to be outperformed by a shared memory system when nodal communication is an issue, but depending on the app that may go away at 10gigE and certainly fades completely as you get into higher speed infiniband. At that point it's a debate about implementation style, and will be based on specific targeted purpose of the machine, cost of equipment, and cost of operation of equipment available. An infiniband based cluster can and is comparable to a similarly priced and equipped shared mem machine.
1)You haven't been to any computer conference (like, say, SC) have you? or worked on a supercomputer? Most supercomputers these days are clusters, and hell, one of the most common interconnects is still gigE, not even 10gigE, though that's slowly changing (check the top500 stats if you don't believe me, but I've been at SC's top500 announcement every year for the past 4, and it's been mentioned each time. For that manner I run jobs on a gig based cluster everyday, and for many types of work it's not necessarily a hangup).
2)I'm going with "article is fake", no-one commits the resources to spec, build, and power a cluster of that size without a projected use. You should see the hoops you have to go to to spec machines a fraction of the size::shudders::
Slashdot's been an absurdly important portion of my life, from the geekery and tech to the reading the responses on voices from the hellmouth (I didn't even have an account yet, but I was here, lurking!) back at the beginning of HS.
It sounds weird to say it, but the internet's just going to be the same without Taco at the helm here!
Are you on the same slashdot I am? I see people cursing Intels monopoly and praying that AMD does well so we don't return to the Bad Old Days (tm) when Intel ruled CPU prices with a more iron fist than they do today all the time...
It's not as vitriolic at the telcos tend to get, but i that's a function of the fact that my tax dollars aren't being given to intel to support their monopoly (at least not in anywhere near the quantities the telcos get)
To be fair, *if* the GP were assuming that approx. 50% of the pop is male, 50% female, and that there are approximately similar numbers of gays and lesbians (no idea if that's in any way true or not), the comment would make perfect sense without being homophobic...
I'd argue that my car isn't secure, but I'm still going to make sure I lock the door when I park it. There's a difference between perfect, adequate, and "please break into my stuff". In everything.
I'm going to argue that Siemens created the problem by failing to secure their work against some rather embarrassing vulnerabilities. You think that if Stuxnet hadn't been created no-one would have eventually found these? Possible, I suppose, but doubtful, I mean someone had to be thinking along those lines in order to create stuxnet in the first place, and if one team can than so can another
It isn't exactly obscure information that Google is limiting the market app to devices linked to a cellular plan.
Not obscure, perhaps, but false nonetheless. My Galaxy Tab 10.1 uses the Android Market, and it's Wi-Fi only.
That's a feature specific to Honeycomb.
Whilst there is not as much demand for an Android powered media player as the whingers would make out, Google honestly did not anticipate any demand for one what so ever. Google thought most people would just use their phone for media purposes and for the most part they are right, however there is a small demand for them.
In any case, except that particular Honeycomb feature to make it's way to Ice Cream Sandwich.
The bulk of US debt is actually held domestically AFAIK, by an absolutely huge margin, with the fed marking up the single largest % of that. Japan and China *combined* finance about 20% of US debt.
A quick google gives me this: http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2011/06/09/the-fed-is-the-biggest-holder-of-us-debt/ though there are plenty of other sources too
When you have multiple admins on a system that can be a recipe for confusion, if nothing else sudo's logging is useful. Being able to restrict your users to be able to do *some* things as root is useful, and being able to allow them to do some things as another user, not necessarily root, is powerful sometimes - I had one project years ago I had to work around an old piece of library software with an utterly arcane user privilege setup. The simplest solution ended up being creating it its own user, where everyone who needed the software ran it as that user (transparently by opening it using a shell script I wrote). sudo is a very useful tool:-)
AIDS, like restless leg and chronic fatigue syndromes, is a myth.
...and there's a "dude, wait, what?" moment. Seriously, from what are you basing the concept that a condition with a truly massive amount of research into it from every sector, which millions die of, is a myth?
to play devils advocate for a sec, exposing such a breach means that pron.com *has* to notify their subscribers in addition to patching the vulnerability, whereas a similar breach using the same exploit for direct criminal reasons might get hushed up in order to avoid losing business
A lot of them know *literally* nothing about Macs before the training, Apple actually stresses that in their interviews these days, they hire for enthusiasm and charm first on the assumption that knowledge can be trained (I know a lot of people who work/worked at Apple stores). It's why geniuses are usually so myopic about computers and tech, they often only know what Apple tells them - as a recent conversation with a friend's "genius" coworker about servers and clusters revealed::shudder::
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Usually only if you do all the *other* updates along with iTunes. I know when I went to update iTunes ~15mins ago so I could update my phone to 5 it prompted me for the update. When Software Update came up it told me "you must restart your computer after the updates are installed". I clicked "Show Details" and unchecked the various other updates it wanted to do, including an HP printer update, a Lion recovery update, and the OSX Server update (which was what needed the reboot). Viola, iTunes updated without rebooting!
What, you think there won't be an article when Android ICS comes out? That's the equivalent....
That's a ridiculous idea! Torvalds has never shown anything but contempt for Apple's products. When Torvalds started hacking together linux, Mac OS was still in version 7 (or was it even 6). Say what you like about the GUI, but under the hood, OS 7 was a complete mess, as were 8 and 9.
AFAIK for quite a while Torvald's personal workstation was a G5 tower. It was running Linux of course, but he was certainly using an Apple product.
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Not that the c2050's drivers are optimized for gaming, but it certainly has the grunt to play games, I've done it on the one in my tower right now :-p
That's just not true at all, particularly when you're talking about DDR and QDR infiniband (why yes, I do use software that does heavy internode communication on clusters, and am familiar with how performance scales with internode communication, in fact for a while it was a focal point of my research), not to mention 3D networks like BG's torus interconnect.
Simply put if you were involved in the HPC world you've been out of touch for a long time now in order to draw the distinction you're drawing. Yes, a gigE connected cluster is going to be outperformed by a shared memory system when nodal communication is an issue, but depending on the app that may go away at 10gigE and certainly fades completely as you get into higher speed infiniband. At that point it's a debate about implementation style, and will be based on specific targeted purpose of the machine, cost of equipment, and cost of operation of equipment available. An infiniband based cluster can and is comparable to a similarly priced and equipped shared mem machine.
1)You haven't been to any computer conference (like, say, SC) have you? or worked on a supercomputer? Most supercomputers these days are clusters, and hell, one of the most common interconnects is still gigE, not even 10gigE, though that's slowly changing (check the top500 stats if you don't believe me, but I've been at SC's top500 announcement every year for the past 4, and it's been mentioned each time. For that manner I run jobs on a gig based cluster everyday, and for many types of work it's not necessarily a hangup).
::shudders::
2)I'm going with "article is fake", no-one commits the resources to spec, build, and power a cluster of that size without a projected use. You should see the hoops you have to go to to spec machines a fraction of the size
...is that to most people that's free.
Yup! http://slashdot.org/~CmdrTaco
Dammit, typo on *that*?
should read "internet's just *not* going to be the same without Taco at the helm here!"
*amen*
Slashdot's been an absurdly important portion of my life, from the geekery and tech to the reading the responses on voices from the hellmouth (I didn't even have an account yet, but I was here, lurking!) back at the beginning of HS.
It sounds weird to say it, but the internet's just going to be the same without Taco at the helm here!
Are you on the same slashdot I am? I see people cursing Intels monopoly and praying that AMD does well so we don't return to the Bad Old Days (tm) when Intel ruled CPU prices with a more iron fist than they do today all the time...
It's not as vitriolic at the telcos tend to get, but i that's a function of the fact that my tax dollars aren't being given to intel to support their monopoly (at least not in anywhere near the quantities the telcos get)
unless there's enough asexuals to cancel them out :-p
To be fair, *if* the GP were assuming that approx. 50% of the pop is male, 50% female, and that there are approximately similar numbers of gays and lesbians (no idea if that's in any way true or not), the comment would make perfect sense without being homophobic...
I always knew we needed an emoticon for "pwned!"
I'd argue that my car isn't secure, but I'm still going to make sure I lock the door when I park it. There's a difference between perfect, adequate, and "please break into my stuff". In everything.
I'm going to argue that Siemens created the problem by failing to secure their work against some rather embarrassing vulnerabilities. You think that if Stuxnet hadn't been created no-one would have eventually found these? Possible, I suppose, but doubtful, I mean someone had to be thinking along those lines in order to create stuxnet in the first place, and if one team can than so can another
It isn't exactly obscure information that Google is limiting the market app to devices linked to a cellular plan.
Not obscure, perhaps, but false nonetheless. My Galaxy Tab 10.1 uses the Android Market, and it's Wi-Fi only.
That's a feature specific to Honeycomb. Whilst there is not as much demand for an Android powered media player as the whingers would make out, Google honestly did not anticipate any demand for one what so ever. Google thought most people would just use their phone for media purposes and for the most part they are right, however there is a small demand for them. In any case, except that particular Honeycomb feature to make it's way to Ice Cream Sandwich.
Yeah.... still not true: Either way, it looks like this Android 2.2 player (it's upgradable to 2.3, by the way) with full Market access will be headed stateside sometime soon.
This is why QOS exists...
[citation needed]
The bulk of US debt is actually held domestically AFAIK, by an absolutely huge margin, with the fed marking up the single largest % of that. Japan and China *combined* finance about 20% of US debt. A quick google gives me this: http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2011/06/09/the-fed-is-the-biggest-holder-of-us-debt/ though there are plenty of other sources too
Either you're trolling or I want a hit of whatever you're smoking!
When you have multiple admins on a system that can be a recipe for confusion, if nothing else sudo's logging is useful. Being able to restrict your users to be able to do *some* things as root is useful, and being able to allow them to do some things as another user, not necessarily root, is powerful sometimes - I had one project years ago I had to work around an old piece of library software with an utterly arcane user privilege setup. The simplest solution ended up being creating it its own user, where everyone who needed the software ran it as that user (transparently by opening it using a shell script I wrote). sudo is a very useful tool :-)
AIDS, like restless leg and chronic fatigue syndromes, is a myth.
...and there's a "dude, wait, what?" moment. Seriously, from what are you basing the concept that a condition with a truly massive amount of research into it from every sector, which millions die of, is a myth?
to play devils advocate for a sec, exposing such a breach means that pron.com *has* to notify their subscribers in addition to patching the vulnerability, whereas a similar breach using the same exploit for direct criminal reasons might get hushed up in order to avoid losing business
A lot of them know *literally* nothing about Macs before the training, Apple actually stresses that in their interviews these days, they hire for enthusiasm and charm first on the assumption that knowledge can be trained (I know a lot of people who work/worked at Apple stores). It's why geniuses are usually so myopic about computers and tech, they often only know what Apple tells them - as a recent conversation with a friend's "genius" coworker about servers and clusters revealed ::shudder::