480p on a 1080p TV is going to be a lot of upscaling - being on a 55 inch TV is just going to make this worse - I don't get why your surprised by this.
We have a 32 inch 720p TV and the Wii looks great on it - have no idea how it compares to 360 or PS3 on there as we don't have those.
I don't think that your Wii will ever look better on that TV as you simply have a huge resolution mismatch.
On the other hand, I am no Audio/Video-phile so someone else might know better.
To be fair though, this is really 32 cores doing fancy tricks to look like it's running 256 threads simultaneously. Of course I am jealous because I only have T2000s and T5220s;-)
Errrr - yeah, you can run VxVM and VCS if you like but they do have their own LVM and Clustering (MC-Serviceguard or whatever they're calling it these days.)
Interestingly enough Linux LVM looks just like HP-UX native LVM - even most of the commands are the same. I was once told that a bunch of HP engineeers wrote it in their spare time - never found out if that was true or not.
In the west, as you say - even the drunks and beggars speak english. If you head east though then it gets a bit different, less people speak english and the attitudes become a little less laid back. When I lived there I went out with a girl from that area (fairly close to Enschede) and if I hadn't taken the time to learn Dutch then I couldn't have conversed with half of here family.
Yeah - when I worked in Amsterdam I had lot's of weird conversations where I was speaking Dutch and getting replies in English. However once they realised that I could get along just fine in Dutch they were really happy that someone had bothered to learn Dutch.
I also lived in Germany but my experience there was of people repeatedly giving me Grammar corrections - their intentions were good, but I found it really frustrating. As long as the Dutch guys could understand me they just went with the flow.
Funniest thing is that in the Netherlands, the Belgians have a reputation for speaking with a strange dialect, so I was always getting asked if I was Belgian:-)
Voila: VNC connection, secured by SSH. When you are done just
killall ssh
.
Note that 5901 means the:1 VNC session, 5902 means:2, etc.
Leaving ssh open is *NOT* "pretty safe" unless you know exactly what versions of sshd you have running and how they are configured. Depending on what version of SSHD and SSL you have installed this could end in tears!
Hehehehe - yeah, about 7-8 years ago and that T3E was if my memory servers me correctly number 5 on the top500 at that time - we actually had two of them and the other one was about number 10 on the list. We also had a T90 and a J90 if the Vector guys are your thing. This will really date it - I was super excited to have an Alpha running Tru64 on my desk:-)
The way that I describe doing postdoc work to my colleagues these days is that it's like being a contactor but with crap money (ie short term 1-2 year positions at least in europe). I fell into doing a PhD and after that fell into doing a postdoc, scratched an itch and enjoyed what I did for that time but I think it is something that you have to have a vocation for and do it for the love of it.
I ended up enjoying the big iron more than the physics and ended up moving that way. Incidentally I am also a lot better at what I do now then I ever was at physics as well.
Like you say - I have a lot less freedom in deciding when and how I work now but strangely enough enjoy it a lot more and yes it does pay a good bit better.
Hope that answers the question:-)
Speaking as someone who used to do computational Physics research and now works as a sysadmin for a major Wall Street bank, I know a wee bit about this. The machines that you see on the Top500 aren't Mainframes - they are HPC boxes used mostly by Universities and other organisations to do numerical calculations. The Cray T3E that I used to use wasn't a mainframe it was a massively Parallel machine. They crap on Mainframes for raw CPU power but with the mainframe it's in the bandwidth, reliability and virtualisation features.
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launchd sounds conceptually similar to svc.startd under Solaris 10. A new way of managing startup doesn't stop something being a UNIX.
480p on a 1080p TV is going to be a lot of upscaling - being on a 55 inch TV is just going to make this worse - I don't get why your surprised by this. We have a 32 inch 720p TV and the Wii looks great on it - have no idea how it compares to 360 or PS3 on there as we don't have those. I don't think that your Wii will ever look better on that TV as you simply have a huge resolution mismatch. On the other hand, I am no Audio/Video-phile so someone else might know better.
To be fair though, this is really 32 cores doing fancy tricks to look like it's running 256 threads simultaneously. Of course I am jealous because I only have T2000s and T5220s ;-)
That an Itanium box or have I missed something?
Errrr - yeah, you can run VxVM and VCS if you like but they do have their own LVM and Clustering (MC-Serviceguard or whatever they're calling it these days.) Interestingly enough Linux LVM looks just like HP-UX native LVM - even most of the commands are the same. I was once told that a bunch of HP engineeers wrote it in their spare time - never found out if that was true or not.
In the west, as you say - even the drunks and beggars speak english. If you head east though then it gets a bit different, less people speak english and the attitudes become a little less laid back. When I lived there I went out with a girl from that area (fairly close to Enschede) and if I hadn't taken the time to learn Dutch then I couldn't have conversed with half of here family.
Yeah - when I worked in Amsterdam I had lot's of weird conversations where I was speaking Dutch and getting replies in English. However once they realised that I could get along just fine in Dutch they were really happy that someone had bothered to learn Dutch. I also lived in Germany but my experience there was of people repeatedly giving me Grammar corrections - their intentions were good, but I found it really frustrating. As long as the Dutch guys could understand me they just went with the flow. Funniest thing is that in the Netherlands, the Belgians have a reputation for speaking with a strange dialect, so I was always getting asked if I was Belgian :-)
This is what I do every morning to get into work.
Start up a VNC server on the remote box and leave it running. No need to open holes in your firewall except for SSH, which is pretty safe to do.
To tunnel through the firewall and log in, type these commands on your local machine:
Voila: VNC connection, secured by SSH. When you are done just
. Note that 5901 means the :1 VNC session, 5902 means :2, etc.
Leaving ssh open is *NOT* "pretty safe" unless you know exactly what versions of sshd you have running and how they are configured. Depending on what version of SSHD and SSL you have installed this could end in tears!
Hehehehe - yeah, about 7-8 years ago and that T3E was if my memory servers me correctly number 5 on the top500 at that time - we actually had two of them and the other one was about number 10 on the list. We also had a T90 and a J90 if the Vector guys are your thing. This will really date it - I was super excited to have an Alpha running Tru64 on my desk :-)
The way that I describe doing postdoc work to my colleagues these days is that it's like being a contactor but with crap money (ie short term 1-2 year positions at least in europe). I fell into doing a PhD and after that fell into doing a postdoc, scratched an itch and enjoyed what I did for that time but I think it is something that you have to have a vocation for and do it for the love of it.
I ended up enjoying the big iron more than the physics and ended up moving that way. Incidentally I am also a lot better at what I do now then I ever was at physics as well.
Like you say - I have a lot less freedom in deciding when and how I work now but strangely enough enjoy it a lot more and yes it does pay a good bit better.
Hope that answers the question :-)
Speaking as someone who used to do computational Physics research and now works as a sysadmin for a major Wall Street bank, I know a wee bit about this. The machines that you see on the Top500 aren't Mainframes - they are HPC boxes used mostly by Universities and other organisations to do numerical calculations. The Cray T3E that I used to use wasn't a mainframe it was a massively Parallel machine. They crap on Mainframes for raw CPU power but with the mainframe it's in the bandwidth, reliability and virtualisation features.
Even in the Intel world, HPs new DL785 can do 0.25 Tb now and soon to do 0.5Tb http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantdl785g5/index.html
We have an IBM P-series box with ~0.25Tb using about 80Gb of that for RAMdisks for DB temporary space.
I work for one of the organisations listed and I have to say that what they described sounds NOTHING like our infrastructure :-)