You are right. However, they say that images would make up a significant proportion of the data, and lacking more information, that's what I could say.
Images will make up a significant proportion of the data and during busy periods it is estimated that one 256 bit x 256 bit image could be received by UCLA every minute.
In 4 Gbytes of RAM there are 4.294.967.296 bytes =~ 52 weeks of images (1 year)
Each of the origin servers uses dual Pentium II 450 CPUs. They are equipped with 512MB RAM and approximately 20GB of internal storage. An external RAID5 system provides an additional 50GB of storage.
That storage would be nice to store the Apache logs, but it seems unnecessary, the images aren't bulky (4 Gb/year). However, they would not keep a year of images in memory, for speed.
Exactly, what are we supposed to learn about this configuration? It doesn't make sense to me.
TPN? What's that?? Telepath networking? My searches found nothing.
Is this proprietary technology? Are you trying to reinvent the wheel, lock us in your technology and decommoditizing the best communication protocol for parents and children, the ol' trusty IP? Did you know that if any member of the family stonewalls for any reason, IP can route around it ?:-) Did you know that IPv6 promises an address to every human on the planet, and also to their pets ?
OK, you can send samples, but make sure to include the source too!:-)
If a company is big, it always tramples on small ones, even without noticing. To compensate, it should bring big and positive changes. Cisco would be a worthwhile big company if it delivers this.
Of course, that would be awful, but what about the installation process? Everyone would want to improve it.
Currently, parents are forced to accept all the default values, and many are clamoring to get at least an installation menu, to be able to choose hair color, IQ and IP address:-)
Think about it, there is only one reason to buy these domain names:
Thousands of normal people are using the net for the first time every day, they don't know a thing about search engines and are told to type the name of the place they wish to visit in that little white box. Many of them try a common English word, with '.com' at the end.
And most of the English speakers in the world still haven't used the Web even once! www.business.com and several other names are one of the hottest investments, because they will definitely increase in value, and really fast. www.wallstreet.com sold for $1 million, and for the same reasons.
These days it is necessary to begin right after birth to compete, like the son of my friends.
They visited us when the kid was 18 months old. Trust me, that kid was seasoned. Just after his nap on the couch, he wandered off, managed to climb to my chair without anyone noticing, pounded on my keyboard and wrote a nice document that was something like this:
He really appreciated it when I switched the font size to 72 points:-)
Afterwards, he began pointing to the other monitors I have around, all of them turned off (but bigger than the one he has at home), and stared at me. I could see he was kind of asking me: 'Pleeze, turn them onn, wanna feeel how yourr iron rockks'
When he saw I was not doing it, he began touching the green LEDs in the monitors, to better explain himself.
It is taken for granted that the Open Source process would take out all the bugs in this, if enough people look at the code and contribute.
GPLTrans can be quite good, but imagine it's not (I still can't access). Let's suppose that its translation strategy is not very sophisticated and this system ends up being only marginally better than the others. Now, if somebody comes up with a great idea to improve the design of a machine translation system and wants it to be free, what is (s)he supposed to do?
post it here and hope for the best ?
report it as a bug fix ?
do the coding and contribute a patch ?
fork ?
start from scratch ?
try the first five options, in that order ?
Does the outcome depend on the people running the original project?
If they are closed to design improvements contributed by others, is their project truly Open?
George Russell dissapoints. He attacks Tom personally, instead of attacking his arguments. He seems to think Microsoft Windows GUI ideas are worth copying because they are graphical and many people are used to them, and most of the Unix ways are wrong because they are text-based, and old.
Tom is just asking for support of the UNIX ways, very useful to power users, but it seems KDE is for newbies only, by design. There is no room for Tom or every other 'outsider'. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.
Well, I think George is wrong. I have never tried KDE and now I won't bother. The Linux GUI that will rock is not yet written, apparently.
The original Chernobyl accident was triggered by a careless 'experiment', it did not blow up all by itself. It is unlikely that such disregard of security measures will take place again at the same place.
Not strictly necessary, but there would be lots of reasons to raise energy taxes (from the politicians' view, of course). They would be thinking like this:
"The government subsidized the research that gave you fusion, now we need to recover that dough".
"Now that we have fusion, energy is cheaper, so nobody will notice a little more tax. That would teach them not to waste energy".
"We need more money for defence|health care|education|whatever. Let's raise energy taxes. With fusion, energy consumption is rising, what a cash cow!".
Fusion would lower some costs and increase others, anyway:
"We need money to shut down all the useless coal mines, now that we have fusion. It's only natural to raise the price a little".
"You guys have fusion now. Guess who's paying to convert all your vehicles to electric power".
"Guess what, everybody wants to go electric, now that fusion is a reality. We need more money to install more power lines".
I wonder if the guy in the cage feels OK after the fact. It's like using thousands of mobile phones at the same time, in terms of electromagnetic radiation hammering your brain.
Yes, but if a group of people fork the Linux kernel, do they have the right to attach the Linux name to their new kernel and gain instant credibility and attention?
In my opinion, they should change the name a little. But that would be Linus' decision.
I can only talk about my experience. After trying many languages, I use Perl to do almost all my programming, not just CGI.
Why? Because Perl increases *my* efficiency. I can code faster, and the end result is shorter and easier to understand that code written in other languages. That's pretty important to me. And my customers are happier if I deliver ahead of time.
This is no accident. Perl was deliberately designed to achieve this. And it does, at least for me.
I have several other reasons to code in Perl:
Your only limit is your knowledge.
Everything is Open Source.
Most of the hard work is already done and wrapped up in free modules written in Perl (with source).
Perl regular expressions are a secret weapon that you can use to slain many ugly monster problems.
Many nifty features are being added to Perl, without making it much bigger or slower.
Is very portable (Microsoft gave money to enhance Perl in Windows).
With Perl, it is easy to generate code in any other programming language.
The only problem: you need *lots* of practice to become a Perl master.
For those interested, that long journey is more enjoyable if you understand the Perl culture (here it is, as explained by Larry Wall):
Finally, I believe that any language essentially should be out of control, because no one person or institution is capable of controlling a language (or a culture, for that matter) without destroying it. Living languages are always a cooperative effort, and I want Perl to be a living language.
I think that's another reason to use Perl: It's ALIVE.
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You are right. However, they say that images would make up a significant proportion of the data, and lacking more information, that's what I could say.
Oh, never mind.
Images will make up a significant proportion of the data and during busy periods it is estimated that one 256 bit x 256 bit image could be received by UCLA every minute.
65.536 bits/minute -> 94.371.840 bits/day -> 82.575.360 bytes/week
In 4 Gbytes of RAM there are 4.294.967.296 bytes =~ 52 weeks of images (1 year)
Each of the origin servers uses dual Pentium II 450 CPUs. They are equipped with 512MB RAM and approximately 20GB of internal storage. An external RAID5 system provides an additional 50GB of storage.
That storage would be nice to store the Apache logs, but it seems unnecessary, the images aren't bulky (4 Gb/year). However, they would not keep a year of images in memory, for speed.
Exactly, what are we supposed to learn about this configuration? It doesn't make sense to me.
TPN? What's that?? Telepath networking? My searches found nothing.
:-) Did you know that IPv6 promises an address to every human on the planet, and also to their pets ?
:-)
Is this proprietary technology? Are you trying to reinvent the wheel, lock us in your technology and decommoditizing the best communication protocol for parents and children, the ol' trusty IP? Did you know that if any member of the family stonewalls for any reason, IP can route around it ?
OK, you can send samples, but make sure to include the source too!
If a company is big, it always tramples on small ones, even without noticing. To compensate, it should bring big and positive changes. Cisco would be a worthwhile big company if it delivers this.
Of course, that would be awful, but what about the installation process? Everyone would want to improve it.
:-)
Currently, parents are forced to accept all the default values, and many are clamoring to get at least an installation menu, to be able to choose hair color, IQ and IP address
Soon we will be Open Source. I fear that the temptation to develop and try patches will be irresistible to many.
Think about it, there is only one reason to buy these domain names:
Thousands of normal people are using the net for the first time every day, they don't know a thing about search engines and are told to type the name of the place they wish to visit in that little white box. Many of them try a common English word, with '.com' at the end.
And most of the English speakers in the world still haven't used the Web even once!
www.business.com and several other names are one of the hottest investments, because they will definitely increase in value, and really fast.
www.wallstreet.com sold for $1 million, and for the same reasons.
These days it is necessary to begin right after birth to compete, like the son of my friends.
:-)
:-/
They visited us when the kid was 18 months old. Trust me, that kid was seasoned. Just after his nap on the couch, he wandered off, managed to climb to my chair without anyone noticing, pounded on my keyboard and wrote a nice document that was something like this:
fhdsjsdfm vfrwef
wreu2398zacx
asdh78yhvsabn
safh,..fsadf..................
He really appreciated it when I switched the font size to 72 points
Afterwards, he began pointing to the other monitors I have around, all of them turned off (but bigger than the one he has at home), and stared at me. I could see he was kind of asking me: 'Pleeze, turn them onn, wanna feeel how yourr iron rockks'
When he saw I was not doing it, he began touching the green LEDs in the monitors, to better explain himself.
Now, I am 32 and I'm scared
GPLTrans can be quite good, but imagine it's not (I still can't access). Let's suppose that its translation strategy is not very sophisticated and this system ends up being only marginally better than the others. Now, if somebody comes up with a great idea to improve the design of a machine translation system and wants it to be free, what is (s)he supposed to do?
- post it here and hope for the best ?
- report it as a bug fix ?
- do the coding and contribute a patch ?
- fork ?
- start from scratch ?
- try the first five options, in that order ?
Does the outcome depend on the people running the original project?If they are closed to design improvements contributed by others, is their project truly Open?
George Russell dissapoints. He attacks Tom personally, instead of attacking his arguments. He seems to think Microsoft Windows GUI ideas are worth copying because they are graphical and many people are used to them, and most of the Unix ways are wrong because they are text-based, and old.
Tom is just asking for support of the UNIX ways, very useful to power users, but it seems KDE is for newbies only, by design. There is no room for Tom or every other 'outsider'. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.
Well, I think George is wrong. I have never tried KDE and now I won't bother. The Linux GUI that will rock is not yet written, apparently.
The original Chernobyl accident was triggered by a careless 'experiment', it did not blow up all by itself. It is unlikely that such disregard of security measures will take place again at the same place.
And by the way, Roblimo:
$your_post =~ s/Ukranians/Ukrainians/g
- "The government subsidized the research that gave you fusion, now we need to recover that dough".
- "Now that we have fusion, energy is cheaper, so nobody will notice a little more tax. That would teach them not to waste energy".
- "We need more money for defence|health care|education|whatever. Let's raise energy taxes. With fusion, energy consumption is rising, what a cash cow!".
Fusion would lower some costs and increase others, anyway:- "We need money to shut down all the useless coal mines, now that we have fusion. It's only natural to raise the price a little".
- "You guys have fusion now. Guess who's paying to convert all your vehicles to electric power".
- "Guess what, everybody wants to go electric, now that fusion is a reality. We need more money to install more power lines".
And on, and onYou can get it dirt cheap, but won't be so cheap after taxes.
I wonder if the guy in the cage feels OK after the fact. It's like using thousands of mobile phones at the same time, in terms of electromagnetic radiation hammering your brain.
Humans come pretty well shielded, apparently.
Yes, but if a group of people fork the Linux kernel, do they have the right to attach the Linux name to their new kernel and gain instant credibility and attention?
In my opinion, they should change the name a little. But that would be Linus' decision.
Why? Because Perl increases *my* efficiency. I can code faster, and the end result is shorter and easier to understand that code written in other languages. That's pretty important to me. And my customers are happier if I deliver ahead of time.
This is no accident. Perl was deliberately designed to achieve this. And it does, at least for me.
I have several other reasons to code in Perl:
- Your only limit is your knowledge.
- Everything is Open Source.
- Most of the hard work is already done and wrapped up in free modules written in Perl (with source).
- Perl regular expressions are a secret weapon that you can use to slain many ugly monster problems.
- Many nifty features are being added to Perl, without making it much bigger or slower.
- Is very portable (Microsoft gave money to enhance Perl in Windows).
- With Perl, it is easy to generate code in any other programming language.
The only problem: you need *lots* of practice to become a Perl master.For those interested, that long journey is more enjoyable if you understand the Perl culture (here it is, as explained by Larry Wall):
http://www.perl.com/pub/c onference/1997/wall/keynote.html
Let me quote a paragraph from that speech:
Finally, I believe that any language essentially should be out of control, because no one person or institution is capable of controlling a language (or a culture, for that matter) without destroying it. Living languages are always a cooperative effort, and I want Perl to be a living language.
I think that's another reason to use Perl: It's ALIVE.