NONE of them. I stick to CD based maps and thus that's my main reason for sticking to Windows. Anyway it's not like Mapquest always updates there maps. They update once a year as well. Not to mention the fact that getting a map is WAYYY faster even then getting them off of a highspeed connection. Plus they work with GPS's also.
Now when cheap and fast GPRS comes to play, Mapquest will have to reinvent itself and provide the maps almost realtime...won't happen for a while yet but it could happen.
NO such menu item...I see convert to AAC but not the other way around. There are a few conversion programs out there but I just burned it and ripped it....sounds ok.
Some folks are laughing at the "weaker" Dell cluster costing more, but here's thigns taht you need to consider:
The per node cost (just the node, not dividing the cost by 600)is more. 4000-6000 is alot more then a run of the mill G5 costs. IF they maxed it out (and that's a big if!) they would have cost around 8000 a piece. They probably did not max it out as they may be using NAS for storage. Then the racks on the Macs were literally custom jobs due to the fact that G5's are not rack mountable.
Infrastructure is EVERYTHING on a supercomputer. Miranet ain't cheap. We are not talking gigabit ethernet here. The interconnects are very specialised. Granted, it COULD be ethernet, but it depends on what your calculating.
Redundant power means alot now adays and the G5's ain't got it.
Pluse there's the sys admin salaries, the programmers....etc etc. My bet is the G5 supercomputer did not divulge those costs.
Every Mac Head is so totally convinced that the cost of running a farm of Macs is cheaper and I am not so sure of that.
But here's the thing. My bet is that this Dell supercomputer may have more redudant items in each node then the G5 cluster does. The Poweredge 1750 has dual hot swappable power supplies. If one node looses a power supply, the other supply keeps this node up and running. G5's don't have this. You loose a power supply, the node is done. Depending on what you want your supercomputer for, you probably want a little redundancy in your setup!:) I'd take the redundancy over the power!:) But these and other server type redundacies is why the Dell cluster costs more. Each unit definitely cost more then a G5.
It's just too late now. The REAL problem with spam is that addresses get forged, and e-mail as it stands now is too insecure to be totally fixed. We'd need a new replacement for e-mail and I think that instant messaging could replace e-mail. Instant messaging can be set from the get go (easily) to ask permission before you get on the list. Once your added, you can send mail. If someone pisses you off too much, you yourself can ban em.
And then reality smacks you in the face. If your in a shop with a staff of 10 sysadmins and you have 2000 servers to look after, you NEED automation. Anyone who thinks automation puits sysadmins out of work is full of it. Who do you think has to write/customize these scripts? SYSADMINS! Do you as a sysadmin really have time to properly pour over the logs by hand or would writing a script to do this for you help you do the other things you need to do like:
Patching Fixing user passwords (unless you have a help desk) Working on upgrades and installs. Planning for future growth Work on your disaster recovery plan Possible Machine Room moves etc etc
Sysadmins do more then watch over a system. We need to realize that automation is NOT a panacea, but yet another tool in the sysadmin bag. Besides....if everything was supposed to be done by hand why was cron created??
This is not new...except that the code is running on top of PocketPC OS. Cactuscode.org used the 3600 series iPaqs, 340 MB microdrives, Linux and I am assuming a PC Card Ethernet connection for the networking. They actually have code on this site. So, the only thing new that Spb is doing is using the IR Ports and using Pocket PC as the os du jour. I would rather see BT connections being used for this and setting something up at a conference where nodes could be added as people walk in and out of an Expo hall. That would be mega cool and they could even have a node where you could look up and see what your machine was doing. Small devices such as these can do real work. They are no longer toy computers. Of course I know a mainframe guy who calls a RS/6000 a toy computer.
You do not need TweakUI to deactivate this. It's just easier using TweakUI.;) Actually, if you NEVER answer the question that pops up when you first put a CD in, it will then ask you what you want to do every time. This way you can play ones you know are safe or just have it do nothing (including NOT reading the autorun).
Yes but do you have proof about your discs getting stolen in the mail? Probably not. Your mail getting stolen from your building, well, that's a different story. First off, tampering and stealing mail is punishable by law. Intercepting e-mail probably is too, but it's MUCH more likely to happen without you knowing then your mail getting swiped.
My mail is curb delivered, yet I feel more comfortable getting stuff there then I do having this scan deal done. Sure there's a possibility of it getting picked up out of the box, but we usually have someone home and as soon as it gets there, my wife gets it. Never had a problem yet with it getting swiped but the first time I did I can put a mail box in that will let the mail man in and keep everyone else out. They have mailboxes that let the mail man open it once and then when he closes it, it locks. THere are also ways to work with your local post office on securing youe mail. You can have a lock on it if you can manage to set it up with your post master. In any case, I don't feel comfortable letting some mailroom dude scan my mail because he has to open it first. I don't care if the POPE is running the company, I still don't trust it.
As far as scanned travel documents go, I can set that up myself and there are almost always computers near locations you may need these papers.
Which is why I choose to go with X. X windows does just fine iand is fast enough. The only ones I hear bitching are the gamers and why the hell do you want to run X when your running a GAME! What is really needed is a non X lib that virtualizes the graphics and sound hardware but has no need for windowing and the like. This whay your game launch script can just launch the game on another VT and then switch back when the game exits. For 2D stuff it's fine.
Having the choice of running different widget sets when I want to and running KDE or GNOME environments when I want to is good. Tying the widget set into Y is not going to fix anything. It's going to make more FORKS of Y then anything (a GNOME fork, a KDE fork....etc etc). UNIX is and has always been about choice. People go with UNIX because there are less hoops to jump through when you decide OK I am going to use COBOL (Don't laugh...it's possible...well for non graphical stuff) to develop my APP. Your nto stuck with trying to find a compiler that will do what you want to do concerning the API. You don't HAVE to use a API if you don't want to and if you need to (can't find a API that does what you want), you can write your own API. That's the TRUE power of UNIX and why unless Y does something significant (and I mean REALLY significant), it's not going to up and displace X. X has been out there for MANY years. There's something to say about stability!
That said, Xfree is not the only choice when wanting X. Depending on what you run, you can rin AIXWindows (for AIX machines), Solaris's X engine for Solaris machines and of course there's Xouvert. There are also many Commercial X windows engines. If you don't like Xfree, noone is forcing you to use it.
Yes. Release security patches separately. IBM does it with APARS for AIX and I know Debian does it with apt. I bet Red Hat does this too. In any event, security patches are WAY too important to wait on enhancements like included in this 10.2.8 update.
First off, it's ugly. Second, how in the WORLD am I supposed to dial with one hand???? Third IT'S UGLY!
What's wrong Nokia? regular looking (and useful) keypad too good for you? No wonder many Nokia users have all of their numbers in the phone instead of thier head! It's faster to hit a speed dial then a 7 digit phone number.
While this is true, in this case, if you REALLY need a Serial Port, I am sure a Mini-PCI expansion port has been or will be developed. The arguement for on board Serial Ports is getting really small. Also, don't even think of using these MB's in a server. You buy SERVER Mb's for this and they usuall DO have a serial port. There's also a new protocol coming out soon which will let you serially connect devices with out need for device drivers. It's based on USB and for the life of me I canot figure out why
I had a 28s and a 48SX. I loved both. I think I am putting the 49g+ on my xmas list!;) I have not had a calculator for a while and beyond basic 4 banger use, I have not found a good program for my Pocket PC. This thing will be pretty cool. Wonder what I can make it do? Beyond the math things, the HP calcs were cool because you can do other things with them. Back on my 48sx, we used to store things like phone numbers and even write programs to draw pictures that did not look like a math problem!:) I also had a IR printer that printed out your results on thermal paper. Alas, my 48sx did not die, but it was lost out of a rip in my backpack back in college. I still remember annoying my classmates with the beeps when I first got it and could not figure out how to turn them off!;)
I have yet to meet a Comp Sci instructor that I thought was a computer expert...pr at least expert enough to know what was out there. Case in point, where I work, they choose to teach all MIcrosoft technology and I was like....WHAT? NO UNIX?
Below is a SHORT COBOL program...
$ SET SOURCEFORMAT"FREE" IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. ShortestProgram.
PROCEDURE DIVISION. DisplayPrompt.
DISPLAY "I did it".
STOP RUN.
Lessee.....IDENTIFICATION DIVISION is where the program identifies itself. PROCEDURE DIVISION is the main part of the program. The DISPLAY command just writes out to the screen. You can leave out the STOP RUN and it will still work. That's a Hello World program. It doesn't get much harder....PIC statements are used to set your variables. How many characters long each variable is is indicated by the number of characters......9999 is a 4 place number. XXXX is a 4 character alphanumeric field...example:
01 NUMBER PIC (9999). 01 CHARACTER PIC (XXXX).
One thing I will give you....COBOL is WORDY as hell, but it is EASY once you learn it and it does not take that long to learn it. CS is not CIS. It is a DIFFERENT academic program. CS is teaching nitty gritty and should be advanced stuff....CIS is teaching to get a job. That said, eventually, COBOL will die off....most COBOL jobs now are not necessarily new development but maintenance. To be honest, to a new grad, they would not be exciting. Most shops who still have alot of COBOL code want it only change it if they have to. Why change what is stable and works? COBOL can also be used to write PC apps as well as for cgi stuff on the web. Would it be MY first choice? No, but it's not as bad as you make it seem and it IS out there contrary to what academia tells you. The comments you make about COBOL are made with out knowing anything about it. Granted, I could be feeding a troll, but what your saying simply is not true if you look at newer COBOL code and compilers.
Maybe it isn't totally about the pedophila stuff. Maybe it's more about how INANE these chat rooms are. Have you ever been in one of these? Noone's talking....they are all whispering or sending pm's. IRC is the same way. Maybe on MSN chats it got to the point that noone wants to use it any more because of the SPAM and cruft that does fly. Yahoo chat rooms are even worse. You think you have seen stupid bots in IRC, try Yahoo chat rooms. ICK! Best chat room I was ever in was a local multiline MajorBBS chatroom.
Ok...let me see a PC that is capable of spooling 24 thousands PAGES or print with in a few minutes. Mainframes SLOWER then PC's huh? Mainframes CONTINUALLY whip PC's butts. The newest zSeries (IBM Speak for Mainframes) support IP, can have their own encryption processors (DEDICATED for encryption releasing the CP for bit pushing and running calculations). Just because mainframes typically do not have a nice gui interface does not mean they are slow in any respect.
There is probably more COBOL out there then there is Java. C is probably a close second. COBOL is EASY. It was developed with the same idea that SQL was developed for. COBOL was invented with the idea that executives would write their own programs and reports. When you see it, it's very english like. Only problem is executives as we all know looked at it and had sever PHB disease and said lets hire someone to do it or I can't understand this, let the MIS folks do it. That may not entirely be a true story, but compared to any other language, COBOL looks the most like english (with PERL looking the most like greek!;) ). There are ALOT of COBOL programmers and alot of lines of code. It is on it's way out, but for a long time to come it's still goiung to be relevant.
We had 701's (butterfly keyboards) and these were given to students to use and they surprisingly had more OTHER issues other then the keyboards breaking. More LCD's broke then any other item on the laptop. Care to try again? I can see why people might be concerned. Same concern came up with the iLamp iMac, but I have not heard alot about these breaking.
This is a cool idea. When I get to the hotel room, I can set this up desktop style and be comfortable, yet when I need to do a quick e-mail check befopre I get on the plane I can. Anyone who uses a laptop can vouch for this, but a laptop screen isn't exactly adjustable. The ways you need to move it sometimes won't work out with a straight laptop. This idea will put the screen where you need it when you have the space (when your in one place for a few days). It also allows you to use it as you would a normal laptop. It's a great idea. Lots of people panned IBM's 701 laptop (butterfly keyboard) because of it's keyboard design, but those who used it, loved it. IBM also still makes the most robust laptops I ahve seen.
And the hams that need the info have long ago been setup and no longer NEED to access this info. Besides, I have accessed this just now and it seems to be holding up to the slashdotting. I am actually kind of surprised that they are still up if these servers are in NC. It appears landfall is now happening. You should not worry about the slashdotting affecting the disaster relief. They're ok!
Slashdot Mirror
NONE of them. I stick to CD based maps and thus that's my main reason for sticking to Windows. Anyway it's not like Mapquest always updates there maps. They update once a year as well. Not to mention the fact that getting a map is WAYYY faster even then getting them off of a highspeed connection. Plus they work with GPS's also.
Now when cheap and fast GPRS comes to play, Mapquest will have to reinvent itself and provide the maps almost realtime...won't happen for a while yet but it could happen.
NO such menu item...I see convert to AAC but not the other way around. There are a few conversion programs out there but I just burned it and ripped it....sounds ok.
Um..what about Oracle? Oracle's installers are all Java based.
Which is exclusive and proprietary (not that MSN Messenger isn't). Most folks don't use Hotmail for anything but a spam dump.
I am surprised he did not try the American favorite watered down beer. Skittles and budweiser....well at least there would be SOME taste!
You know what they say about having sex in a canoe and Budweiser.....
Some folks are laughing at the "weaker" Dell cluster costing more, but here's thigns taht you need to consider:
The per node cost (just the node, not dividing the cost by 600)is more. 4000-6000 is alot more then a run of the mill G5 costs. IF they maxed it out (and that's a big if!) they would have cost around 8000 a piece. They probably did not max it out as they may be using NAS for storage. Then the racks on the Macs were literally custom jobs due to the fact that G5's are not rack mountable.
Infrastructure is EVERYTHING on a supercomputer. Miranet ain't cheap. We are not talking gigabit ethernet here. The interconnects are very specialised. Granted, it COULD be ethernet, but it depends on what your calculating.
Redundant power means alot now adays and the G5's ain't got it.
Pluse there's the sys admin salaries, the programmers....etc etc. My bet is the G5 supercomputer did not divulge those costs.
Every Mac Head is so totally convinced that the cost of running a farm of Macs is cheaper and I am not so sure of that.
But here's the thing. My bet is that this Dell supercomputer may have more redudant items in each node then the G5 cluster does. The Poweredge 1750 has dual hot swappable power supplies. If one node looses a power supply, the other supply keeps this node up and running. G5's don't have this. You loose a power supply, the node is done. Depending on what you want your supercomputer for, you probably want a little redundancy in your setup! :) I'd take the redundancy over the power! :) But these and other server type redundacies is why the Dell cluster costs more. Each unit definitely cost more then a G5.
It's just too late now. The REAL problem with spam is that addresses get forged, and e-mail as it stands now is too insecure to be totally fixed. We'd need a new replacement for e-mail and I think that instant messaging could replace e-mail. Instant messaging can be set from the get go (easily) to ask permission before you get on the list. Once your added, you can send mail. If someone pisses you off too much, you yourself can ban em.
And then reality smacks you in the face. If your in a shop with a staff of 10 sysadmins and you have 2000 servers to look after, you NEED automation. Anyone who thinks automation puits sysadmins out of work is full of it. Who do you think has to write/customize these scripts? SYSADMINS! Do you as a sysadmin really have time to properly pour over the logs by hand or would writing a script to do this for you help you do the other things you need to do like:
Patching
Fixing user passwords (unless you have a help desk)
Working on upgrades and installs.
Planning for future growth
Work on your disaster recovery plan
Possible Machine Room moves
etc
etc
Sysadmins do more then watch over a system. We need to realize that automation is NOT a panacea, but yet another tool in the sysadmin bag. Besides....if everything was supposed to be done by hand why was cron created??
This is not new...except that the code is running on top of PocketPC OS. Cactuscode.org used the 3600 series iPaqs, 340 MB microdrives, Linux and I am assuming a PC Card Ethernet connection for the networking. They actually have code on this site. So, the only thing new that Spb is doing is using the IR Ports and using Pocket PC as the os du jour. I would rather see BT connections being used for this and setting something up at a conference where nodes could be added as people walk in and out of an Expo hall. That would be mega cool and they could even have a node where you could look up and see what your machine was doing. Small devices such as these can do real work. They are no longer toy computers. Of course I know a mainframe guy who calls a RS/6000 a toy computer.
You do not need TweakUI to deactivate this. It's just easier using TweakUI. ;) Actually, if you NEVER answer the question that pops up when you first put a CD in, it will then ask you what you want to do every time. This way you can play ones you know are safe or just have it do nothing (including NOT reading the autorun).
Whups! Missed the line where it said it was his science advisor and not Bill himself.
What qualifies Bill Clinton to write an article in Physics today? Seriously....did he have a advanced science degree we did not know about???
Yes but do you have proof about your discs getting stolen in the mail? Probably not. Your mail getting stolen from your building, well, that's a different story. First off, tampering and stealing mail is punishable by law. Intercepting e-mail probably is too, but it's MUCH more likely to happen without you knowing then your mail getting swiped.
My mail is curb delivered, yet I feel more comfortable getting stuff there then I do having this scan deal done. Sure there's a possibility of it getting picked up out of the box, but we usually have someone home and as soon as it gets there, my wife gets it. Never had a problem yet with it getting swiped but the first time I did I can put a mail box in that will let the mail man in and keep everyone else out. They have mailboxes that let the mail man open it once and then when he closes it, it locks. THere are also ways to work with your local post office on securing youe mail. You can have a lock on it if you can manage to set it up with your post master. In any case, I don't feel comfortable letting some mailroom dude scan my mail because he has to open it first. I don't care if the POPE is running the company, I still don't trust it.
As far as scanned travel documents go, I can set that up myself and there are almost always computers near locations you may need these papers.
Which is why I choose to go with X. X windows does just fine iand is fast enough. The only ones I hear bitching are the gamers and why the hell do you want to run X when your running a GAME! What is really needed is a non X lib that virtualizes the graphics and sound hardware but has no need for windowing and the like. This whay your game launch script can just launch the game on another VT and then switch back when the game exits. For 2D stuff it's fine.
Having the choice of running different widget sets when I want to and running KDE or GNOME environments when I want to is good. Tying the widget set into Y is not going to fix anything. It's going to make more FORKS of Y then anything (a GNOME fork, a KDE fork....etc etc). UNIX is and has always been about choice. People go with UNIX because there are less hoops to jump through when you decide OK I am going to use COBOL (Don't laugh...it's possible...well for non graphical stuff) to develop my APP. Your nto stuck with trying to find a compiler that will do what you want to do concerning the API. You don't HAVE to use a API if you don't want to and if you need to (can't find a API that does what you want), you can write your own API. That's the TRUE power of UNIX and why unless Y does something significant (and I mean REALLY significant), it's not going to up and displace X. X has been out there for MANY years. There's something to say about stability!
That said, Xfree is not the only choice when wanting X. Depending on what you run, you can rin AIXWindows (for AIX machines), Solaris's X engine for Solaris machines and of course there's Xouvert. There are also many Commercial X windows engines. If you don't like Xfree, noone is forcing you to use it.
Y replace X?
Yes. Release security patches separately. IBM does it with APARS for AIX and I know Debian does it with apt. I bet Red Hat does this too. In any event, security patches are WAY too important to wait on enhancements like included in this 10.2.8 update.
First off, it's ugly. Second, how in the WORLD am I supposed to dial with one hand???? Third IT'S UGLY!
What's wrong Nokia? regular looking (and useful) keypad too good for you? No wonder many Nokia users have all of their numbers in the phone instead of thier head! It's faster to hit a speed dial then a 7 digit phone number.
While this is true, in this case, if you REALLY need a Serial Port, I am sure a Mini-PCI expansion port has been or will be developed. The arguement for on board Serial Ports is getting really small. Also, don't even think of using these MB's in a server. You buy SERVER Mb's for this and they usuall DO have a serial port. There's also a new protocol coming out soon which will let you serially connect devices with out need for device drivers. It's based on USB and for the life of me I canot figure out why
I had a 28s and a 48SX. I loved both. I think I am putting the 49g+ on my xmas list! ;) I have not had a calculator for a while and beyond basic 4 banger use, I have not found a good program for my Pocket PC. This thing will be pretty cool. Wonder what I can make it do? Beyond the math things, the HP calcs were cool because you can do other things with them. Back on my 48sx, we used to store things like phone numbers and even write programs to draw pictures that did not look like a math problem! :) I also had a IR printer that printed out your results on thermal paper. Alas, my 48sx did not die, but it was lost out of a rip in my backpack back in college. I still remember annoying my classmates with the beeps when I first got it and could not figure out how to turn them off! ;)
I have yet to meet a Comp Sci instructor that I thought was a computer expert...pr at least expert enough to know what was out there. Case in point, where I work, they choose to teach all MIcrosoft technology and I was like....WHAT? NO UNIX?
Below is a SHORT COBOL program...
$ SET SOURCEFORMAT"FREE"
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. ShortestProgram.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
DisplayPrompt.
DISPLAY "I did it".
STOP RUN.
Lessee.....IDENTIFICATION DIVISION is where the program identifies itself. PROCEDURE DIVISION is the main part of the program. The DISPLAY command just writes out to the screen. You can leave out the STOP RUN and it will still work. That's a Hello World program. It doesn't get much harder....PIC statements are used to set your variables. How many characters long each variable is is indicated by the number of characters......9999 is a 4 place number. XXXX is a 4 character alphanumeric field...example:
01 NUMBER PIC (9999).
01 CHARACTER PIC (XXXX).
One thing I will give you....COBOL is WORDY as hell, but it is EASY once you learn it and it does not take that long to learn it. CS is not CIS. It is a DIFFERENT academic program. CS is teaching nitty gritty and should be advanced stuff....CIS is teaching to get a job. That said, eventually, COBOL will die off....most COBOL jobs now are not necessarily new development but maintenance. To be honest, to a new grad, they would not be exciting. Most shops who still have alot of COBOL code want it only change it if they have to. Why change what is stable and works? COBOL can also be used to write PC apps as well as for cgi stuff on the web. Would it be MY first choice? No, but it's not as bad as you make it seem and it IS out there contrary to what academia tells you. The comments you make about COBOL are made with out knowing anything about it. Granted, I could be feeding a troll, but what your saying simply is not true if you look at newer COBOL code and compilers.
Maybe it isn't totally about the pedophila stuff. Maybe it's more about how INANE these chat rooms are. Have you ever been in one of these? Noone's talking....they are all whispering or sending pm's. IRC is the same way. Maybe on MSN chats it got to the point that noone wants to use it any more because of the SPAM and cruft that does fly. Yahoo chat rooms are even worse. You think you have seen stupid bots in IRC, try Yahoo chat rooms. ICK! Best chat room I was ever in was a local multiline MajorBBS chatroom.
Ok...let me see a PC that is capable of spooling 24 thousands PAGES or print with in a few minutes. Mainframes SLOWER then PC's huh? Mainframes CONTINUALLY whip PC's butts. The newest zSeries (IBM Speak for Mainframes) support IP, can have their own encryption processors (DEDICATED for encryption releasing the CP for bit pushing and running calculations). Just because mainframes typically do not have a nice gui interface does not mean they are slow in any respect.
;) ). There are ALOT of COBOL programmers and alot of lines of code. It is on it's way out, but for a long time to come it's still goiung to be relevant.
There is probably more COBOL out there then there is Java. C is probably a close second. COBOL is EASY. It was developed with the same idea that SQL was developed for. COBOL was invented with the idea that executives would write their own programs and reports. When you see it, it's very english like. Only problem is executives as we all know looked at it and had sever PHB disease and said lets hire someone to do it or I can't understand this, let the MIS folks do it. That may not entirely be a true story, but compared to any other language, COBOL looks the most like english (with PERL looking the most like greek!
We had 701's (butterfly keyboards) and these were given to students to use and they surprisingly had more OTHER issues other then the keyboards breaking. More LCD's broke then any other item on the laptop. Care to try again? I can see why people might be concerned. Same concern came up with the iLamp iMac, but I have not heard alot about these breaking.
This is a cool idea. When I get to the hotel room, I can set this up desktop style and be comfortable, yet when I need to do a quick
e-mail check befopre I get on the plane I can. Anyone who uses a laptop can vouch for this, but a laptop screen isn't exactly adjustable. The ways you need to move it sometimes won't work out with a straight laptop. This idea will put the screen where you need it when you have the space (when your in one place for a few days). It also allows you to use it as you would a normal laptop. It's a great idea. Lots of people panned IBM's 701 laptop (butterfly keyboard) because of it's keyboard design, but those who used it, loved it. IBM also still makes the most robust laptops I ahve seen.
And the hams that need the info have long ago been setup and no longer NEED to access this info. Besides, I have accessed this just now and it seems to be holding up to the slashdotting. I am actually kind of surprised that they are still up if these servers are in NC. It appears landfall is now happening. You should not worry about the slashdotting affecting the disaster relief. They're ok!