I would like to disagree with you. Google suggest is something like auto complete which is basically a convenience for anyone who doesn't want to type in long sentences. The search results also do supplement the user. What I mean is that even before seeing the results you know how many pages you have , so you have the ability to either be more specific or more general in your query.
I assume you haven't heard of this: distcc It does improve speed during compiling. Gentoo can be compiled using distcc and there is even a how to on the gentoo documentation page.
But on the other hand problems which require immense amount of calculations will exist and I don't see how advances in VLSI or some other technology will eliminate these kind of problems. So what I actually believe is that to some extent, yes we may go back to singular cores but imagine the power of those single cores together. In my opinion even if new technology does arrive, clusters are here to stay.
To reaffirm what the article said building linux clusters is very simple. In fact certain distributions such as bccd and cluster knoppix specifically for that. Although configuring clustering softwares such as pvm mpi lam mosix etc wouldn't be a problem, I prefer something which has almost everything build into one package thats why I like the above distros.
In fact I built a cluster (using BCCD) at home and used it to render images built from povray. I used pvmpov for the rendering on a cluster part. Although there were only four machines the speed difference was evident. And above all making clusters is extremely cool and shows the paradigm shift towards parallel computing.
I havent gone throught the list thoroughly but of the names I have seen I havent come to notice the names of emminent personalities from the academic world. Names like that of Donald E Knuth are missing from the list. The list consists of people who have made software which went on to become big. But that wouldn't have been possible without the academic research put in.
The green color really looks bad ( I hope the poor guys who downloaded it can change it). It really doesnt seem that too much effort has been put in this browser except adding extra menus and widgets and thus creating a crowd. In a bid to be different they even shifted the File Edit etc menus to the other side (which really doesn't make much sense). All in all there is nothing in it which will make Firefox users to switch to it or even IE users to switch to it;-)
What will be really nice is: if we can have read write support for NTFS. Right now (AFAIK) only read only support is there. Recently my friend had a virus in his computer and Norton couldn't remove it. So I booted his computer with Knoppix only to find that the filesystem was NTFS and thus I was unable to remove the infected file. NTFS rw support would surely aid in troubleshooting.
Is it the smart phone which is predicting the owner's behaviour? According to the article it seems that the smart phone just acts as an intermediary which sends data to a server for processing. So actually the real smart stuff is being done at a server by some other program rather than by the phone itself.
The article talks about very few foreigners coming to India and taking up jobs in call centres. Just one or two isolated incidents really dont show that people from europe are actually migrating to India. Also call centres dont offer too high pays as compared to the Indian IT companies and the work experience gained is also of little value. Also one doesnt know for how much time call centres will be around in India, so they are really thought of as temporary sources of income which mainly students use as a source of pocket money.
I experienced almost the same list of problems when I installed FC1. I couldnt get gaim working. I couldnt build mplayer with a gui. Kaffe also had its problems while building. I dont know about others but yum also seemed to be broken. But the major reason why I shifted distros was that it used to crash for no reason at all.
Okay so I set up my first cluster a few months back (nothing too much just 4 computers running BCCD) Now I did this for an exhibition. I found BCCD easily configurable (but it is like Knoppix.. so you have to configure everything again everytime you reboot). We ran some programs using PVM. Now PVM needs special coding but MOSIX (both PVM and MOSIX come with BCCD) need not (well I havent tried it out for myself but thats what the docs say). It can redistribute the work to other nodes based on the parent node's (which spawns the process) load. Now the question of whether we can have a plug and play computer is very valid one because all the plug and play apps are also CPU intensive and one could use the extra processing power of other idle CPUs. I, personally, would like to see some games running on a cluster (yeah, use the LAN for something else than the deathmatches). I see no reason why it shouldn't be possible.
Now, windows on the other hand has a variety of such applications. But one doesn't have any free software (well we do have PVM..but still) for clustering a set of computers all running windows. Unless Microsoft releases some Kernel source.. any progress in this direction is of no use.
.. But the excuse what those people amke is quite valid. A normal home user really doesnt want to be configuring drivers or building packages. Earlier the installation used to be an issue but now that has been taken care of for many distros. But the point is why is it odd to be satisfied with what one has.. I really dont think that one should go out and try convincing people that they should change their OS. If they are curious and interested enough then they will change on their own. But if they are not.. then they are bound to end up having some problem.. (which they didn't have in their previous OS) and end up changing back to their previous one (and not liking Linux).
What I believe is that the target audience for most softwares is getting far much greater than what was there a decade ago and more people are computer literate than say 5-6 years ago and the number is increasing. Some features cater to the needs of a certain group of people and some may to that of another. One just needs to learn those features that matter to them.
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I would like to disagree with you. Google suggest is something like auto complete which is basically a convenience for anyone who doesn't want to type in long sentences. The search results also do supplement the user. What I mean is that even before seeing the results you know how many pages you have , so you have the ability to either be more specific or more general in your query.
I think that they can be used to teach young children the basics of electronics. It will be fun as well as education.
I assume you haven't heard of this: distcc It does improve speed during compiling. Gentoo can be compiled using distcc and there is even a how to on the gentoo documentation page.
But on the other hand problems which require immense amount of calculations will exist and I don't see how advances in VLSI or some other technology will eliminate these kind of problems. So what I actually believe is that to some extent, yes we may go back to singular cores but imagine the power of those single cores together. In my opinion even if new technology does arrive, clusters are here to stay.
To reaffirm what the article said building linux clusters is very simple. In fact certain distributions such as bccd and cluster knoppix specifically for that. Although configuring clustering softwares such as pvm mpi lam mosix etc wouldn't be a problem, I prefer something which has almost everything build into one package thats why I like the above distros. In fact I built a cluster (using BCCD) at home and used it to render images built from povray. I used pvmpov for the rendering on a cluster part. Although there were only four machines the speed difference was evident. And above all making clusters is extremely cool and shows the paradigm shift towards parallel computing.
It will be nice to know that your child just broke the sound barrier ;-)
I havent gone throught the list thoroughly but of the names I have seen I havent come to notice the names of emminent personalities from the academic world. Names like that of Donald E Knuth are missing from the list. The list consists of people who have made software which went on to become big. But that wouldn't have been possible without the academic research put in.
I wonder on what basis do they order the suggestions as the number of total results for the query is not the criterion.
The green color really looks bad ( I hope the poor guys who downloaded it can change it). It really doesnt seem that too much effort has been put in this browser except adding extra menus and widgets and thus creating a crowd. In a bid to be different they even shifted the File Edit etc menus to the other side (which really doesn't make much sense). All in all there is nothing in it which will make Firefox users to switch to it or even IE users to switch to it ;-)
nice one :)
What will be really nice is: if we can have read write support for NTFS. Right now (AFAIK) only read only support is there. Recently my friend had a virus in his computer and Norton couldn't remove it. So I booted his computer with Knoppix only to find that the filesystem was NTFS and thus I was unable to remove the infected file. NTFS rw support would surely aid in troubleshooting.
Is it the smart phone which is predicting the owner's behaviour? According to the article it seems that the smart phone just acts as an intermediary which sends data to a server for processing. So actually the real smart stuff is being done at a server by some other program rather than by the phone itself.
The article talks about very few foreigners coming to India and taking up jobs in call centres. Just one or two isolated incidents really dont show that people from europe are actually migrating to India. Also call centres dont offer too high pays as compared to the Indian IT companies and the work experience gained is also of little value. Also one doesnt know for how much time call centres will be around in India, so they are really thought of as temporary sources of income which mainly students use as a source of pocket money.
I experienced almost the same list of problems when I installed FC1. I couldnt get gaim working. I couldnt build mplayer with a gui. Kaffe also had its problems while building. I dont know about others but yum also seemed to be broken. But the major reason why I shifted distros was that it used to crash for no reason at all.
Try searcfing for "search engine" at google.com. Oddly the first page doesnt have google's name on it.
Now, windows on the other hand has a variety of such applications. But one doesn't have any free software (well we do have PVM..but still) for clustering a set of computers all running windows. Unless Microsoft releases some Kernel source.. any progress in this direction is of no use.
.. But the excuse what those people amke is quite valid. A normal home user really doesnt want to be configuring drivers or building packages. Earlier the installation used to be an issue but now that has been taken care of for many distros. But the point is why is it odd to be satisfied with what one has..
I really dont think that one should go out and try convincing people that they should change their OS. If they are curious and interested enough then they will change on their own. But if they are not.. then they are bound to end up having some problem.. (which they didn't have in their previous OS) and end up changing back to their previous one (and not liking Linux).
Well if it is the fastest then what is this.. http://www.hpce.nec.com/445+M5043fbf9d60.0.html/ the NEC supercomputer does 65TFLOPS..
What I believe is that the target audience for most softwares is getting far much greater than what was there a decade ago and more people are computer literate than say 5-6 years ago and the number is increasing. Some features cater to the needs of a certain group of people and some may to that of another. One just needs to learn those features that matter to them.