I'm running FC2 with 2.6.10-rc1 kernel on the laptop. This kernel was a bit easier to get tuned for speed than the one that was shipped with FC2 and some user space code (gnome;-) that used to cause hard crash only crashes the window manager now.
Will be loading up FC3 in today or tomorrow to see how it runs.
I had a BIG problem with trying to install FC3 on the server. It seems the megaraid driver has been rewritten and no longer supports PERC2 and older. COnsidering that the server is a Dell 2450 built in 2000, this is NOT GOOD. Had to settle for FC2 for the server upgrade and all the messing around wasted a day.
I've got some problems with the decision to leave out standard unix utilities like uuencode-uudecode as well. WHY? Are there no more 7bit connections in the world? Of course they were gone in FC2 as well. Yes, I know I can add the stuff, but it should be part of the distributed package.
Other than that, I'm still keen on native transmeta arch. Where's the homage to diversity we expect from linux.
Exactly right. You're unique, just like everybody else. --- Ain't noting but a little vernacular. Yep, that's what the doc said. Rub a bit of this cream on it and you should be better in no time.
"I don't really think this sort of thing will stifle innovation -- people with great ideas will still want to see them become reality. What it will do is ensure that more of the beans end up in fewer people's piles"
It's a great idea. I'd have done it 20 year ago but have no taste or incoination for the salesmanship required to sell such an idea to the inventors. As long as they don't get a frigging pqatent on the business model, and I doubt they will be able to, success on their part will breed competition. Hell, the fact they are doing it may breed competition. This bears watching. If they actually start to buy or license patents, I may dust off some notebooks and put the old brain back in 'invent' gear and see about producing some of the 'product'that interests them. Historically a patent has only given one the right, not the ability, to enforce that right, to the fruits of ones creative labor. The fellow who invented intermittant windshield wipers spent 25 years fighting for compensation for his invention. The fellow who invented the underwater launched cruise missle dies in an old bus. Many are familiar with the Armstrong vs Sarnoff fights because it was played out in a documentary on TeeVee. Hell, look at Bell, DeForest, and thousands of others. Even my spouses uncle was screwed penniless and had his spirit crushed for over his IP by some big orange home improvement chain that decided his product could be made less exppensively, with a little lawyering and no royalties.
Now that there is a Gorilla on the IP protection side of things, because this is what it is, an IP protection racket. Imagine paying off the cops so you can sell liquor under the table in a dry county. Now all you need is someone to hook you up with the crooked cops.
There are plenty of fly by night companies who say they will get you a patent and protect your rights. They only want you money up front. Why? Because the majority of patents have always been viewed as junk and they want their money NOW. Here is a company that is going to use your patent, either to make something or more likely to bolster support for claims of ownership in related IP. Odds of getting paid,for the inventor, should increase substantially. Maybe no pot of gold, but the pot of gold is always tough to wrestle from the trolls.
Only thing I see missing from this picture, and maybe I didn't read carefully enough, is some support in getting the inventor his patent in the first place. Most uniersities do this for a cut of future royalties, if any. Some businesss actually let you keep a bit of you rwork as well. It owuld be nice to see an independent or two offer the same sort of deal.
endorsement and condemnation, I'm gonna shill a bit. Anyone out there in/. land needing VOIP to PSTN gateway with billing might contact my buddies at broadriver.com. 404 area code only, but reasonable prices for intra/inter lata, LD, and international. If you have a business overseas and would like an Atlanta GA phone number for USA sales, it's a hell of a deal.
I'll have to agree.
Personally I have little interest in purchasing an ipod or itune, precisely because of this 'lock-in'. I'm not a typical consumer though.
Yes, I get it
I's kind of like all thre world class runners that come from the countries (malaysia, korea, taiwan, indonesia, haiti) that manufacture most of the running shoes.
Thanks again.
Bought and read "On Intelligence"
Problem is that reading aroused a desire to do some software experiments that I've no time for.
About 1/3 way though Kalmans book. Man, he shoudl have co-authored with someone having a bit more writing experience. It's tedious. But, slowly coming around to relating to how he is thinking has helped a lot. It's still tedious though!
Individual building blocks and interconnects are easy to evaluate and once you've done them all you'll have a good idea of the sort of performance to expect. It takes an understanding of how all the pieces work, individually and togetner. It's more work for your brain than...
Brute force. Build it, exercise it, see where it breaks, swap out a block, rinse, repeat.
If you just want things that work, understanding them is the best approach. If you need to convince people with little knowledge and lots of prejudice, the brute force approach is best. Involving them in this manner is more conducive to check signing and referral work to other clueless clients and is, I suspect, the reason we see such idiocy as brute force testing when a little math would reveal.
IBM has kept itself 'sharp' through internal competition, which in the end is all focused on selling IBM in one way or another. Sun is struggling. At IBM, management directs factionalism toward the greater goal, selling. At Sun, it's more a domestic dispute. IMO this is g'rowing pains' for Sun and will require some savvy management. Especially difficult is managing internal competition in the smaller company of Sun.
Were telling us how wonderful telecommuting would be. How could the wise futurists fails to see that: If you can do your job form anywhere, so can anyone else!
OK, so I bought 'A New Kind of Science' and have been reading.
Wolfram says, "...from experience in practical computing one knows that it is very difficult to foresee what even a simple program will do. Indeed, that is why bugs in programs are so common." Granted, this is in the beginning of his book where he is presenting cellular atomata to 'the common man'. But for crying out loud Wolfram, the computer is doing just what you told it to. Your 'simple program' is deterministic. Sure, the result may be an unexpected pattern but it's reproducible and the pattern that emerges is always the same!
Wowsa!
Thanks.
Will try to scout a copy this afternoon (it's cold and wet and Friday traffic in Atlanta is a nightmare so I'm blowing off work)
I'm thinking it's about time to start playing with some mouse brains. Back in the early 70's I was the lowly mouse training, mouse decapitating, mouse skull peeling, lyopholizer running, dialysis sorting, 'memory collecting' lab assistant for an experiment looking at large molecules as constitutients of memory in the brain. Wrong track, but lots of fun at the time. Now it's looling like brain interfacing might be a lot of fun. The airplane flying mouse brain cell collection is pretty cool, but it's the I/O that's really got me excited.
I'm gonna have to speculate on kids. Mine are in larte teens and early 20's snd too busy with studies to have made any grandkids yet.
Before starting the list some don'ts.
Sea monkeys
mice without a snake
ant farm
0) Popgun
1) Slide whistle (wolf whistle but you can actually play songs on it, remember spike jones? didn't think so)
2) Slingshot
3) For little kids there is nothing better than a handful of big nuts, bolts, washers, wingnuts, and a bunch of angled bits of metal with holes in them. It's like an erector set for toddlers. The plastic crap nut and bolt stuff is BAD BAD BAD because it does not have the feel of real life hardware. As your child develops in dexterity he will learn to appreciate the feel of something that fits together as it sould as opposed to the binding that occurs with the plastic substitute. He'll also learn about dropping heavy things on his toes;-)
4)Animal trap.
5)Fishing pole, hooks, etc.
6)Gun or bow if he is old enough
7)Swiss army knife
8)leatherman
9)electronics tools and radio receiver kit.
I know you said toys, but classic tools are important too.
10)rubber band powered airplane.
11)kite
12)yo-yo
13)top
14)taxidermy kit
15)magic rocks
16)metal friction toys (plenty coming from china and cheap)
17)steam engine
18)two stroke engine from old lawnboy(tm) mower or if you can find one, small OMC wankle from snowmobile
"As a group, investors are just greedy."
Not necessarily a bad thing.
I see it more as a risk/reward relationship.
It's like independent contractors. Sure, they charge more, but they also take on risk that a cubical worker wouldn't dream of. The contractors customer is in the same boat. He may get more work for less $ because he isn't supporting a cube worker. The risk is in choosing the right contractor/contract work employer. Contractor might not get paid and employer might pay for 6 months work before realizing the worker doesn't have a clue in his area of claimed expertise.
Born in the early 50's with a hand in electronics since messing with old radios in my grandfathers chicken coup at age 4, I've never felt any 'magic' associated with computers. Adders, registers, programs 'written' in wire on a card were all easy to understand. I messed with early RTL IC's in high school and have played with computer hardware ever since. However, while computers are grand tools, they've never seemed 'magical'. Not like radio. Radio was and always has held a much greater fascination. I attribute this to the deterministic nature of the computer as opposed ot the 'fishing' aspect of radio. With radio, you never really know if it is going to do what you ask it to. A computer does exactly what you ask it to. Yet, I see this aura of magic in the eyes of others when they work with computers. Where does it come from? The humorous answer is that their computers don't seem to behave in a deterministic way (spare me the Mr. Softie humor). But, many postings on/., from people who appear to know how their computers work, reek of this sense of magic. What gives? Does one have to be born with a plutonium atom in the center of ones brain or am I misreading an enourmous appreciation for the power of the tool as a fascination with some quality that I fail to perceive?
These comments apply to digital electronic computers. I can't help but see some magic in wetware (mouse brains flying airplanes).
The market reacted negatively when AMD borrowed $600 million to fund growth. Dell doings suggest that there was good reason for borrowing these $.
Dell has been kicking ass in the market and Compaq 1U power supply fans appear to be dying like mayflies. I'm not in touch with large server farms so don't know how the product lines compare for reliability. I am familiar enough to know that a server that will run for 3 years, without attention to hardware, is well worth the hundreds of $ additional cost. Which raises another market related question. AMD processors have a reputation for being hot, in three senses of the word. Performance, temp, and sexy. I would like to hear from any/.er who runs a mess of AMD based, name brand, servers on the temp aspect of hot and how it affects your TCO.
Wonder how this will affect the market.
AMD 2 year chart.
I bought a little bit back when the Athlon 64 was announced. Trading volume has been up since. Opteron announcement didn't seem to make much of an impression on the market. Post election, the markets been up overall. Do you think we'll see a runup to $30 over the next couple of days? Now I'm feeling like I should have bought a bit more AMD but historically I've been bitten on almost every investment decision based on the techniclal merits of the product. WHat's the feeling out there in/. land? Does the big M$ gorilla's 'endorsement', Sun's decision to use opteron in their low end servers, AMD technical superiority, Intel's seeming 'mis-steps', the overall market upswing, the fact that A64 is a NICE piece of hardware, that AMD is NOT intel, and make AMD a very attractive investment? Whay about AMD taking on $600,000,000 debt the other day and adding a guy from Radio Shack (see latest SEC filing).
My favorite way of looking at stocks (useless for decisions as I still don't grok it) is the correlation between the analyst recommendations and price/volume. What sort of analysis do these guys do? Ouija board?
BUT wait. What I really want to know is how you/.'ers who invest are planning to react to this Intel news.
A implies B does not mean B implies A.
I said that the educated and intellectual pay for good science and journalism [respectively]. I did not say, "that 'good' science is what educated and intellectual demand and pay". I agree, it is "utterly BS". I'm fully aware that everyone pays for his share of crap. Be it junk science or the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Edgar Cayce was not a practitioner of 'good' science and there was plenty of WW1 reporting that was not 'good' journalism.
"He's got a woody that won't quit and the pain must be blinding,"
observes a CIA source who's been tracking what he terms "the strangest development yet" in America's war against terror.
solved. What benefit is there in continuing to report on problems with electronic voting machines that were recognized and corrected, without including this bit of critical information. Yes, the count was weird or wrong but investigation revealed why and the problem was either corrected or the discrepency explained.
jamie writes, "The scientist's job is to discover truth about the natural world, and the journalist's is to report the world's events accurately."
The scientists job is to get hissef compensated in exchange for modeling observation in a consistant manner.
The journalists job is to get hissef compensated for words.
There is a wide range of accuracy in science and journalism. The educated and intellectual demand and pay for a high degree of accuracy, thereby supporting what might be known as 'good' science and 'good' journalism. Although on the journalism front our intellectuals seem just as willing to support the journalist who is clever in the use of language. At the other end of the spectrum we have the likes of Archimedes Plutonium who tells us that nuclear fusion will never work and The Weekly World News where I just learned that Osama's penile implant is stuck in the 'ON' position!
SO there you have it. Another/. bit of news coming to us with false premise
Kazu tells the right and wrong of homebrew (building your own radio stuff). His comments apply to other technical endeavors. "Make the block one by one. And you must check the movement of the block one by one."
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I'm running FC2 with 2.6.10-rc1 kernel on the laptop. This kernel was a bit easier to get tuned for speed than the one that was shipped with FC2 and some user space code (gnome ;-) that used to cause hard crash only crashes the window manager now.
Will be loading up FC3 in today or tomorrow to see how it runs.
I had a BIG problem with trying to install FC3 on the server. It seems the megaraid driver has been rewritten and no longer supports PERC2 and older. COnsidering that the server is a Dell 2450 built in 2000, this is NOT GOOD. Had to settle for FC2 for the server upgrade and all the messing around wasted a day.
I've got some problems with the decision to leave out standard unix utilities like uuencode-uudecode as well. WHY? Are there no more 7bit connections in the world? Of course they were gone in FC2 as well. Yes, I know I can add the stuff, but it should be part of the distributed package.
Other than that, I'm still keen on native transmeta arch. Where's the homage to diversity we expect from linux.
I'm not a typical consumer though.
Exactly right. You're unique, just like everybody else.
---
Ain't noting but a little vernacular. Yep, that's what the doc said. Rub a bit of this cream on it and you should be better in no time.
"I don't really think this sort of thing will stifle innovation -- people with great ideas will still want to see them become reality. What it will do is ensure that more of the beans end up in fewer people's piles"
It's a great idea. I'd have done it 20 year ago but have no taste or incoination for the salesmanship required to sell such an idea to the inventors. As long as they don't get a frigging pqatent on the business model, and I doubt they will be able to, success on their part will breed competition. Hell, the fact they are doing it may breed competition. This bears watching. If they actually start to buy or license patents, I may dust off some notebooks and put the old brain back in 'invent' gear and see about producing some of the 'product'that interests them. Historically a patent has only given one the right, not the ability, to enforce that right, to the fruits of ones creative labor. The fellow who invented intermittant windshield wipers spent 25 years fighting for compensation for his invention. The fellow who invented the underwater launched cruise missle dies in an old bus. Many are familiar with the Armstrong vs Sarnoff fights because it was played out in a documentary on TeeVee. Hell, look at Bell, DeForest, and thousands of others. Even my spouses uncle was screwed penniless and had his spirit crushed for over his IP by some big orange home improvement chain that decided his product could be made less exppensively, with a little lawyering and no royalties.
Now that there is a Gorilla on the IP protection side of things, because this is what it is, an IP protection racket. Imagine paying off the cops so you can sell liquor under the table in a dry county. Now all you need is someone to hook you up with the crooked cops.
There are plenty of fly by night companies who say they will get you a patent and protect your rights. They only want you money up front. Why? Because the majority of patents have always been viewed as junk and they want their money NOW. Here is a company that is going to use your patent, either to make something or more likely to bolster support for claims of ownership in related IP. Odds of getting paid,for the inventor, should increase substantially. Maybe no pot of gold, but the pot of gold is always tough to wrestle from the trolls.
Only thing I see missing from this picture, and maybe I didn't read carefully enough, is some support in getting the inventor his patent in the first place. Most uniersities do this for a cut of future royalties, if any. Some businesss actually let you keep a bit of you rwork as well. It owuld be nice to see an independent or two offer the same sort of deal.
endorsement and condemnation, I'm gonna shill a bit. /. land needing VOIP to PSTN gateway with billing might contact my buddies at broadriver.com. 404 area code only, but reasonable prices for intra/inter lata, LD, and international. If you have a business overseas and would like an Atlanta GA phone number for USA sales, it's a hell of a deal.
Anyone out there in
I'll have to agree.
Personally I have little interest in purchasing an ipod or itune, precisely because of this 'lock-in'.
I'm not a typical consumer though.
Yes, I get it
I's kind of like all thre world class runners that come from the countries (malaysia, korea, taiwan, indonesia, haiti) that manufacture most of the running shoes.
Thanks again.
Bought and read "On Intelligence"
Problem is that reading aroused a desire to do some software experiments that I've no time for.
About 1/3 way though Kalmans book. Man, he shoudl have co-authored with someone having a bit more writing experience. It's tedious. But, slowly coming around to relating to how he is thinking has helped a lot. It's still tedious though!
Individual building blocks and interconnects are easy to evaluate and once you've done them all you'll have a good idea of the sort of performance to expect. It takes an understanding of how all the pieces work, individually and togetner. It's more work for your brain than...
Brute force. Build it, exercise it, see where it breaks, swap out a block, rinse, repeat.
If you just want things that work, understanding them is the best approach. If you need to convince people with little knowledge and lots of prejudice, the brute force approach is best. Involving them in this manner is more conducive to check signing and referral work to other clueless clients and is, I suspect, the reason we see such idiocy as brute force testing when a little math would reveal.
IBM has kept itself 'sharp' through internal competition, which in the end is all focused on selling IBM in one way or another.
Sun is struggling. At IBM, management directs factionalism toward the greater goal, selling. At Sun, it's more a domestic dispute. IMO this is g'rowing pains' for Sun and will require some savvy management.
Especially difficult is managing internal competition in the smaller company of Sun.
Were telling us how wonderful telecommuting would be.
How could the wise futurists fails to see that:
If you can do your job form anywhere, so can anyone else!
OK, so I bought 'A New Kind of Science' and have been reading.
Wolfram says, "...from experience in practical computing one knows that it is very difficult to foresee what even a simple program will do. Indeed, that is why bugs in programs are so common."
Granted, this is in the beginning of his book where he is presenting cellular atomata to 'the common man'. But for crying out loud Wolfram, the computer is doing just what you told it to. Your 'simple program' is deterministic. Sure, the result may be an unexpected pattern but it's reproducible and the pattern that emerges is always the same!
Wowsa!
Thanks.
Will try to scout a copy this afternoon (it's cold and wet and Friday traffic in Atlanta is a nightmare so I'm blowing off work)
I'm thinking it's about time to start playing with some mouse brains. Back in the early 70's I was the lowly mouse training, mouse decapitating, mouse skull peeling, lyopholizer running, dialysis sorting, 'memory collecting' lab assistant for an experiment looking at large molecules as constitutients of memory in the brain. Wrong track, but lots of fun at the time.
Now it's looling like brain interfacing might be a lot of fun. The airplane flying mouse brain cell collection is pretty cool, but it's the I/O that's really got me excited.
I'm gonna have to speculate on kids. Mine are in larte teens and early 20's snd too busy with studies to have made any grandkids yet.
;-)
Before starting the list some don'ts.
Sea monkeys
mice without a snake
ant farm
0) Popgun
1) Slide whistle (wolf whistle but you can actually play songs on it, remember spike jones? didn't think so)
2) Slingshot
3) For little kids there is nothing better than a handful of big nuts, bolts, washers, wingnuts, and a bunch of angled bits of metal with holes in them. It's like an erector set for toddlers. The plastic crap nut and bolt stuff is BAD BAD BAD because it does not have the feel of real life hardware. As your child develops in dexterity he will learn to appreciate the feel of something that fits together as it sould as opposed to the binding that occurs with the plastic substitute. He'll also learn about dropping heavy things on his toes
4)Animal trap.
5)Fishing pole, hooks, etc.
6)Gun or bow if he is old enough
7)Swiss army knife
8)leatherman
9)electronics tools and radio receiver kit.
I know you said toys, but classic tools are important too.
10)rubber band powered airplane.
11)kite
12)yo-yo
13)top
14)taxidermy kit
15)magic rocks
16)metal friction toys (plenty coming from china and cheap)
17)steam engine
18)two stroke engine from old lawnboy(tm) mower or if you can find one, small OMC wankle from snowmobile
"As a group, investors are just greedy."
Not necessarily a bad thing.
I see it more as a risk/reward relationship.
It's like independent contractors. Sure, they charge more, but they also take on risk that a cubical worker wouldn't dream of. The contractors customer is in the same boat. He may get more work for less $ because he isn't supporting a cube worker. The risk is in choosing the right contractor/contract work employer. Contractor might not get paid and employer might pay for 6 months work before realizing the worker doesn't have a clue in his area of claimed expertise.
PE is unstable for growth stocks. It's also a bad indicator for companies in decline.
Born in the early 50's with a hand in electronics since messing with old radios in my grandfathers chicken coup at age 4, I've never felt any 'magic' associated with computers. Adders, registers, programs 'written' in wire on a card were all easy to understand. I messed with early RTL IC's in high school and have played with computer hardware ever since. However, while computers are grand tools, they've never seemed 'magical'. Not like radio. Radio was and always has held a much greater fascination. I attribute this to the deterministic nature of the computer as opposed ot the 'fishing' aspect of radio. With radio, you never really know if it is going to do what you ask it to. A computer does exactly what you ask it to. Yet, I see this aura of magic in the eyes of others when they work with computers. Where does it come from? The humorous answer is that their computers don't seem to behave in a deterministic way (spare me the Mr. Softie humor). But, many postings on
These comments apply to digital electronic computers. I can't help but see some magic in wetware (mouse brains flying airplanes).
The market reacted negatively when AMD borrowed $600 million to fund growth. /.er who runs a mess of AMD based, name brand, servers on the temp aspect of hot and how it affects your TCO.
Dell doings suggest that there was good reason for borrowing these $.
Dell has been kicking ass in the market and Compaq 1U power supply fans appear to be dying like mayflies. I'm not in touch with large server farms so don't know how the product lines compare for reliability. I am familiar enough to know that a server that will run for 3 years, without attention to hardware, is well worth the hundreds of $ additional cost.
Which raises another market related question. AMD processors have a reputation for being hot, in three senses of the word. Performance, temp, and sexy. I would like to hear from any
Wonder how this will affect the market. /. land? Does the big M$ gorilla's 'endorsement', Sun's decision to use opteron in their low end servers, AMD technical superiority, Intel's seeming 'mis-steps', the overall market upswing, the fact that A64 is a NICE piece of hardware, that AMD is NOT intel, and make AMD a very attractive investment?
/.'ers who invest are planning to react to this Intel news.
AMD 2 year chart.
I bought a little bit back when the Athlon 64 was announced. Trading volume has been up since. Opteron announcement didn't seem to make much of an impression on the market.
Post election, the markets been up overall.
Do you think we'll see a runup to $30 over the next couple of days?
Now I'm feeling like I should have bought a bit more AMD but historically I've been bitten on almost every investment decision based on the techniclal merits of the product.
WHat's the feeling out there in
Whay about AMD taking on $600,000,000 debt the other day and adding a guy from Radio Shack (see latest SEC filing).
My favorite way of looking at stocks (useless for decisions as I still don't grok it) is the correlation between the analyst recommendations and price/volume.
What sort of analysis do these guys do? Ouija board?
BUT wait. What I really want to know is how you
All theemail addresses a spammer cares to swallow.
Wowsa! This is a big help. Thanks for info. While not the cashew I was groping for, it's still a very tasty nut.
A implies B does not mean B implies A.
I said that the educated and intellectual pay for good science and journalism [respectively]. I did not say, "that 'good' science is what educated and intellectual demand and pay". I agree, it is "utterly BS". I'm fully aware that everyone pays for his share of crap. Be it junk science or the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Edgar Cayce was not a practitioner of 'good' science and there was plenty of WW1 reporting that was not 'good' journalism.
"He's got a woody that won't quit and the pain must be blinding,"
observes a CIA source who's been tracking what he terms
"the strangest development yet"
in America's war against terror.
Read about it here.
solved. What benefit is there in continuing to report on problems with electronic voting machines that were recognized and corrected, without including this bit of critical information. Yes, the count was weird or wrong but investigation revealed why and the problem was either corrected or the discrepency explained.
jamie writes, "The scientist's job is to discover truth about the natural world, and the journalist's is to report the world's events accurately."
/. bit of news coming to us with false premise
The scientists job is to get hissef compensated in exchange for modeling observation in a consistant manner.
The journalists job is to get hissef compensated for words.
There is a wide range of accuracy in science and journalism. The educated and intellectual demand and pay for a high degree of accuracy, thereby supporting what might be known as 'good' science and 'good' journalism. Although on the journalism front our intellectuals seem just as willing to support the journalist who is clever in the use of language. At the other end of the spectrum we have the likes of Archimedes Plutonium who tells us that nuclear fusion will never work and The Weekly World News where I just learned that Osama's penile implant is stuck in the 'ON' position!
SO there you have it. Another
Kazu tells the right and wrong of homebrew (building your own radio stuff). His comments apply to other technical endeavors.
"Make the block one by one. And you must check the movement of the block one by one."
Wrong homebrew and right homebrew
Kazu's site.
Also good is Harry's site.
Reading will unveil a touch of irreverance. You probably expected that