Some of the claims in the article were very far-fetched, such as the claim that it is "illegal" to say untrue things about someone else. AFAIK, &IANAL, you can't be put in jail for libel.
You can, however, be sued for a lot of money. To win, you would have to prove not only that the statement is false, but that it caused harm worthy of compensation.
This does raise the question of why they are suing the website. Don't these guys have some kind of disclaimer saying the site isn't responsible for user comments?
I don't know whether or not you simply want two SDSL connections, but you don't really need them both. All you have to do is set up Linux using IP Masquerading and give all the other machines 192.168.* addresses. You'll save the monthly fees for the connection and the static IP.
As for the wireless lan, I think all you have to do is stick a wireless card in the Linux box you're using as a router, along with a regular NIC, so it can access both the wireless and wired networks. Properly configured, it will be a gateway from one subnet (wireless) to the other (wired) and to the internet. Check out the IP Masq. mini howto for more info on IP masquerading, and the route manpage for how to configure the actual routing.
BTW, you can still use the Linux router as a normal desktop machine -- no need for a dedicated box unless you generate *lots* of traffic.
You may not agree with everything the ACLU fights for -- I know I don't -- but you must admire their consistency in that are willing to take sides based on principle, and not just what makes them look the best.
As I understand it, it is not easy to take full advantage of a Beowulf system. It's not like you just recompile netscape and run it on a 128 node cluster to get bitchin' performance. No, the app you're running must, first of all, be suited to parallel computing.
This means that it must have computation-intensive segments which need not be run in a sequential fashion. Anything with large amounts of number crunching is usually a candidate.
Second, you must rewrite the application using a parallel computing interface to take advantage of this. I've seen it done, and it's not exactly trivial.
Given all of this, however, I think a public Beowulf could be a wonderful way to introduce high-school students to parallel computing early on. Most high schools could not afford to dedicate even 16 machines to such a task, so having a public cluster available would make it easier. If there was an instructor who understood how to teach it, this could give students who are interested in scientific computing a great head start.
Having scored at a HS programming contest just yesterday, however, I realize that not all programming instructors are all that clued.
Seriously, though, this thing could be a very fast WORM system.Assuming they're smart (I think that's reasonable to assume), they will create a system whereby the laser is wide enough to read the entire width of the tape simultaneously. This will effectively make it a "drum", and will eliminate seek time latency, resulting in very fast access times.
It's the same as if your hard drive had a separate head for each cylinder -- there's no arm which has to travel back and forth, so then you only have to worry about rotational latency and normal i/o slowing you down.
However, by the time this thing would ever come to market, if that's even likely, 10GB will probably not be impressive for removable storage, and humans will have evolved far beyond the need for Scotch tape.
As you have probably guessed, I am referring to the creation of KARR, KITT's arch nemesis on Knight Rider. The flaw which led KARR to try and destroy humans was that it was programmed for self preservation. Ironically, this same flaw also brought about KARR's ultimate demise.
Not only that, the Win NT source is already provided to some academic institutions. I know a prof who has a copy. According to MS, it requires 6GB of disk space just to compile.
I'm sure they require some sort of nondisclosure agreement in these cases also.
Even if MS made the source to Win 98 available to everyone, it probably wouldn't be in directly compilable format, and if it was, the license would probably prohibit you from modifying the source in any way.
IMO, this would be a major ripoff for consumers if it was part of the settlement. I think the government should stick it out to the bitter end.
This is sort of offtopic, but would you be willing to make the finished product available publically? I've always thought medical office software would be an easy arena for Linux to excel in.
BTW, have you checked out Freemed? They are building free browswer based medical mgmt software based on MySQL, and have a demo for you to try.
I've always thought it was a shame that Netware lost market share to NT. Speaking from experience, in deploying many NT 4 (including SP's) and Netware 3.12 servers to some very high volume businesses, the NT boxowners were always the ones calling in with no system resources left. The Netware boxen just kept on working.
This, of course, is only anecdotal evidence, and should be taken as such.
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You can, however, be sued for a lot of money. To win, you would have to prove not only that the statement is false, but that it caused harm worthy of compensation.
This does raise the question of why they are suing the website. Don't these guys have some kind of disclaimer saying the site isn't responsible for user comments?
I don't know whether or not you simply want two SDSL connections, but you don't really need them both. All you have to do is set up Linux using IP Masquerading and give all the other machines 192.168.* addresses. You'll save the monthly fees for the connection and the static IP.
As for the wireless lan, I think all you have to do is stick a wireless card in the Linux box you're using as a router, along with a regular NIC, so it can access both the wireless and wired networks. Properly configured, it will be a gateway from one subnet (wireless) to the other (wired) and to the internet. Check out the IP Masq. mini howto for more info on IP masquerading, and the route manpage for how to configure the actual routing.
BTW, you can still use the Linux router as a normal desktop machine -- no need for a dedicated box unless you generate *lots* of traffic.
You may not agree with everything the ACLU fights for -- I know I don't -- but you must admire their consistency in that are willing to take sides based on principle, and not just what makes them look the best.
This means that it must have computation-intensive segments which need not be run in a sequential fashion. Anything with large amounts of number crunching is usually a candidate.
Second, you must rewrite the application using a parallel computing interface to take advantage of this. I've seen it done, and it's not exactly trivial.
Given all of this, however, I think a public Beowulf could be a wonderful way to introduce high-school students to parallel computing early on. Most high schools could not afford to dedicate even 16 machines to such a task, so having a public cluster available would make it easier. If there was an instructor who understood how to teach it, this could give students who are interested in scientific computing a great head start.
Having scored at a HS programming contest just yesterday, however, I realize that not all programming instructors are all that clued.
Seriously, though, this thing could be a very fast WORM system.Assuming they're smart (I think that's reasonable to assume), they will create a system whereby the laser is wide enough to read the entire width of the tape simultaneously. This will effectively make it a "drum", and will eliminate seek time latency, resulting in very fast access times.
It's the same as if your hard drive had a separate head for each cylinder -- there's no arm which has to travel back and forth, so then you only have to worry about rotational latency and normal i/o slowing you down.
However, by the time this thing would ever come to market, if that's even likely, 10GB will probably not be impressive for removable storage, and humans will have evolved far beyond the need for Scotch tape.
As you have probably guessed, I am referring to the creation of KARR, KITT's arch nemesis on Knight Rider. The flaw which led KARR to try and destroy humans was that it was programmed for self preservation. Ironically, this same flaw also brought about KARR's ultimate demise.
It's human preservation, stupid.
all the bad spellers out there. Add another TLD called .untie, as in, "Bad spellers of the world, untie!" -unknown
Not only that, the Win NT source is already provided to some academic institutions. I know a prof who has a copy. According to MS, it requires 6GB of disk space just to compile.
I'm sure they require some sort of nondisclosure agreement in these cases also.
Even if MS made the source to Win 98 available to everyone, it probably wouldn't be in directly compilable format, and if it was, the license would probably prohibit you from modifying the source in any way.
IMO, this would be a major ripoff for consumers if it was part of the settlement. I think the government should stick it out to the bitter end.
If reliability(NT) > reliability(Sun), does it then logically follow that reliability(Linux) > reliability(Sun)?
BTW, have you checked out Freemed? They are building free browswer based medical mgmt software based on MySQL, and have a demo for you to try.
Hope this helps.
This, of course, is only anecdotal evidence, and should be taken as such.