Why should administration on 3000 unattended servers be hard? Servers are no different than any other electronic device, so that's not an issue. Where I work, both Linux and another brand of Unix are remotely administered without fuss. In fact, so are the Windowz (Win 2000 and XP) boxes.
I would be concerned with the scalability of the solution. I would be looking for an upgradable WiFi AP and I'd make plans for the next generation of WiFi.
LOL, that was good, very good. I wish I could have been the person who modded this on up for humor. It also give us guys a reason to start reading the manual, after we've assembled the product.
But this brings up a point; although I bet that useful products would result from this collaboration, I don't thing those products will be targeted at our markets. In the first place, we're too small a market for them to want to bother with. But the point is that we have expectations of quality that they might not want to cater to. They've got both India and China to sell to and the expectation of quality will be lower there. We may lose a small amount of market, but the margins for those markets are so small, it won't matter much.
So, in the immortal words of our President, 'bring 'em on'.
"Interstellar space is an arbitrary distinction. What, it crosses this boundary and all of a sudden the state of the universe massively changes?
I thought that interstellar space was where the solar wind from our sun was weaker than the ambient interstellar wind. Perhaps radio waves from other stars are a lot stronger out of our solar 'atmosphere'. We won't know anything until we actually go there and look. That's why it's important.
I mean, really, in a world of slick packaging and flashy colors, wouldn't there be something cool about duck-taping an HP LX-100 to an old Nokia phone and making a way cool PDA thingie? A grunge gadget.
I know that my eyes get tired from the flicker, and I'm sure that others experience the same. It seems to me that the high tech industry ought to start scrapping monitors wholesale to improve productivity - cheaper than outsourcing.
While I believe that Microsoft hacked as much of IBM OS/2 into their work as they could, I believe that the fundamental architecture is different. I believe that the MS kernel has drivers running in the supervisor level, where the OS/2 kernel didn't. The OS/2 operating system was vray stable and could run other operating systems as client programs. If they crash and burned, OS/2 would blithly keep running, never the worse for wear. Last night, when I couldn't sleep, I was considering getting out an old copy of OS/2 and loading it onto some new hardware to see what happened.
If there was a follow-on product that could automatically do group code reviews, complete with inane and gratutious remarks, truisms, and CS type boilerplate comments, I could really use that. Talks about eXtreme Programming!
I think the NT microkernel might be portable, but is it really worth porting? Seems like the worst of both worlds; an unstable, flaky kernel supporting an immature front-end. If the idea of an OS/2 kernel to support a GUI were to come up, that would be worth doing.
Microsoft finally realizes the potential for the XBox in the enterprise. Buried in this article, it mentions puts is SQL server on the XBox. Think of the possibilities!! Imagine a portable database. Incredible.
I'm concerned about the prospect of Microsoft getting into this business. In the past, they've tended to overpromise, and under-deliver. If/when they get into the adaptive food business, I suspect that they'll start serving Chinese food, leaving you hungry for more in an hour.
The impact on the US economy would be significant. Money diverted into this type of cyber-food would mean less money spent on essential things like gas.
Perhaps we should put a consumption tax on adaptive-cyber food to make up for the lost fuel tax revenue.
The people who insist on pointing out the obvious fact that these 'news articles' are in fact, gags, are lame. Not only are they humor impaired, they lack the wit to form a thoughtful criticizism of the gags. Please note that there is a difference between being discerning and being critical. Many don't get that disctinction and think themselves clever when they are able to find fault. It's too bad so many of us can't attempt even a minimal retort in the spirit that the slashdot admins are showing. Come on people, are we so weak minded we can't even think up a clever response to this stuff?
Yes, I've read the constitution and its amendments. Your argument about the 'right to privacy' is internally conflicting; it agrees that no such right is declared, yet it goes on to assert such a right. But the constitution does protect us from unreasonable search and seizure. I wonder what the framers of the constitution would have said about governmental record-keeping of citizen's identification. I don't think they would care for it.
Seems like what Kalifornia is proposing is unconstitutional. Althought there is no 'right to privacy', there is a right to protection from government searchs.
I aggree that people are often overreacting to privacy concerns, I also think we need to push back at government intrusion into our private affairs. Unfortunately, the current political environment is one of intrusion, invasion, interference.
The eventual solution to the issue will be political, not lega.
Apple and Linux are niche markets occupied by informed users. Most people, like my mom, would benefit from something that the cable company brings to you, requires no maintenance, and is easy to use. Many people, like my wife, have computers and can use the applications just fine, but don't want to bother with installing software and educating themselves about the hardware. This could be the answer; AJaX. Call the internet company and they bring you a box to connect to the wall, and it will do what you want it to do.
You say that the only crowd who would want this is the WebTV crowd. Is that a small crowd? No, that's the mainstream.
I think this is what they've been waiting for; a cheap, fast connection to the electronic world. It could use their home, HD-TV as a display when they want to game. It will use cell processors to speed the applications. It will self-configure. It will be the equivalent of a cell phone. Buy a new one every year, pay for enhanced services with your subscription.
Most importantly, it will break the strangle-hold that Microsoft has had on the net.
AJaX!! Cleansing the world of the scourge of monopolistic networking.
Don't fear, Google won't have to be the new monopoly. Any (Linux) server that can host AJaX services can compete. Distributed applications anyone?
There's a good question; why can't a person put two different processors into a system and expect it to work with an SMP OS? Really. Do that have to be exactly the same? Can you have a low-power laptop type processor paired with a full-bogey AMD as long as they're sharing the same system buss speed?
LOL, I'd forgotten about Micropolis disk drives. Yeah, we'd run them non-stop for months. Then when we'd shut down site power for maintenance, the heads would stick to the media as they cooled off - presto - 40% failure rate.
Good ideas here, and most of them free or very cheap. I, too, remove or cut off all grills. Also, adding a plenum (spacer) between the fan and the CPU's heat sink will help. You can use an old fan as a plenum by removing the inner fan and using the outer shell to put a spacer between the fan and the heat sink.
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The term is per se. It's Latin.
CSS 2 isn't ahead of
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time and...Since you started the grammar-cop OT, I'd like to point out three things;
For a long time, it has been bad netiquette to critisize other people's grammar and spelling.
The use of persay instead of per se is a play on words that is clever instead of being a cliche'
If you dare to attempt a grammar-cop role, it is best if you don't make grammatical errors yourself; Your use of it's was wrong.
Why should administration on 3000 unattended servers be hard? Servers are no different than any other electronic device, so that's not an issue. Where I work, both Linux and another brand of Unix are remotely administered without fuss. In fact, so are the Windowz (Win 2000 and XP) boxes.
I would be concerned with the scalability of the solution. I would be looking for an upgradable WiFi AP and I'd make plans for the next generation of WiFi.
LOL, that was good, very good. I wish I could have been the person who modded this on up for humor. It also give us guys a reason to start reading the manual, after we've assembled the product.
But this brings up a point; although I bet that useful products would result from this collaboration, I don't thing those products will be targeted at our markets. In the first place, we're too small a market for them to want to bother with. But the point is that we have expectations of quality that they might not want to cater to. They've got both India and China to sell to and the expectation of quality will be lower there. We may lose a small amount of market, but the margins for those markets are so small, it won't matter much.
So, in the immortal words of our President, 'bring 'em on'.
Yet Another Slashdotted Web Site.
I can't connect.
Reduce power consumption
Reduce heat in the server room
Improve reliability
"Interstellar space is an arbitrary distinction. What, it crosses this boundary and all of a sudden the state of the universe massively changes?
I thought that interstellar space was where the solar wind from our sun was weaker than the ambient interstellar wind. Perhaps radio waves from other stars are a lot stronger out of our solar 'atmosphere'. We won't know anything until we actually go there and look. That's why it's important.
Holy cats!! Do you call making musical instruments "real work"?? Wow, buddy, how about a reality check.
I mean, really, in a world of slick packaging and flashy colors, wouldn't there be something cool about duck-taping an HP LX-100 to an old Nokia phone and making a way cool PDA thingie? A grunge gadget.
I know that my eyes get tired from the flicker, and I'm sure that others experience the same. It seems to me that the high tech industry ought to start scrapping monitors wholesale to improve productivity - cheaper than outsourcing.
While I believe that Microsoft hacked as much of IBM OS/2 into their work as they could, I believe that the fundamental architecture is different. I believe that the MS kernel has drivers running in the supervisor level, where the OS/2 kernel didn't. The OS/2 operating system was vray stable and could run other operating systems as client programs. If they crash and burned, OS/2 would blithly keep running, never the worse for wear. Last night, when I couldn't sleep, I was considering getting out an old copy of OS/2 and loading it onto some new hardware to see what happened.
If there was a follow-on product that could automatically do group code reviews, complete with inane and gratutious remarks, truisms, and CS type boilerplate comments, I could really use that. Talks about eXtreme Programming!
The PHB wants to order these so he has a place to sit while micromanaging.
I think the NT microkernel might be portable, but is it really worth porting? Seems like the worst of both worlds; an unstable, flaky kernel supporting an immature front-end. If the idea of an OS/2 kernel to support a GUI were to come up, that would be worth doing.
Microsoft finally realizes the potential for the XBox in the enterprise. Buried in this article, it mentions puts is SQL server on the XBox. Think of the possibilities!! Imagine a portable database. Incredible.
I'm concerned about the prospect of Microsoft getting into this business. In the past, they've tended to overpromise, and under-deliver. If/when they get into the adaptive food business, I suspect that they'll start serving Chinese food, leaving you hungry for more in an hour. The impact on the US economy would be significant. Money diverted into this type of cyber-food would mean less money spent on essential things like gas. Perhaps we should put a consumption tax on adaptive-cyber food to make up for the lost fuel tax revenue.
The people who insist on pointing out the obvious fact that these 'news articles' are in fact, gags, are lame. Not only are they humor impaired, they lack the wit to form a thoughtful criticizism of the gags. Please note that there is a difference between being discerning and being critical. Many don't get that disctinction and think themselves clever when they are able to find fault. It's too bad so many of us can't attempt even a minimal retort in the spirit that the slashdot admins are showing. Come on people, are we so weak minded we can't even think up a clever response to this stuff?
Yes, I've read the constitution and its amendments. Your argument about the 'right to privacy' is internally conflicting; it agrees that no such right is declared, yet it goes on to assert such a right. But the constitution does protect us from unreasonable search and seizure. I wonder what the framers of the constitution would have said about governmental record-keeping of citizen's identification. I don't think they would care for it.
Seems like what Kalifornia is proposing is unconstitutional. Althought there is no 'right to privacy', there is a right to protection from government searchs. I aggree that people are often overreacting to privacy concerns, I also think we need to push back at government intrusion into our private affairs. Unfortunately, the current political environment is one of intrusion, invasion, interference. The eventual solution to the issue will be political, not lega.
Apple and Linux are niche markets occupied by informed users. Most people, like my mom, would benefit from something that the cable company brings to you, requires no maintenance, and is easy to use. Many people, like my wife, have computers and can use the applications just fine, but don't want to bother with installing software and educating themselves about the hardware. This could be the answer; AJaX. Call the internet company and they bring you a box to connect to the wall, and it will do what you want it to do.
You say that the only crowd who would want this is the WebTV crowd. Is that a small crowd? No, that's the mainstream. I think this is what they've been waiting for; a cheap, fast connection to the electronic world. It could use their home, HD-TV as a display when they want to game. It will use cell processors to speed the applications. It will self-configure. It will be the equivalent of a cell phone. Buy a new one every year, pay for enhanced services with your subscription. Most importantly, it will break the strangle-hold that Microsoft has had on the net.
AJaX!! Cleansing the world of the scourge of monopolistic networking. Don't fear, Google won't have to be the new monopoly. Any (Linux) server that can host AJaX services can compete. Distributed applications anyone?
There's a good question; why can't a person put two different processors into a system and expect it to work with an SMP OS? Really. Do that have to be exactly the same? Can you have a low-power laptop type processor paired with a full-bogey AMD as long as they're sharing the same system buss speed?
LOL, I'd forgotten about Micropolis disk drives. Yeah, we'd run them non-stop for months. Then when we'd shut down site power for maintenance, the heads would stick to the media as they cooled off - presto - 40% failure rate.
Actually, Hewlett-Packard was designing this hydro-dynamic bearing into their disk drives in the late 1980's.
Good ideas here, and most of them free or very cheap. I, too, remove or cut off all grills. Also, adding a plenum (spacer) between the fan and the CPU's heat sink will help. You can use an old fan as a plenum by removing the inner fan and using the outer shell to put a spacer between the fan and the heat sink.