Comment Running out of credit card number (Score 1) 242
Wonder if we are going to run out of credit card numbers.
These virtual credit cards are the reverse of NAT.
Comment Patent Armageddon (Score 2, Funny) 222
So is this the start of Patent Armageddon we were told was coming.
See Apple, Nokia, and HTC lob patent nukes at each other is pretty interesting. Need to start stockpiling my old POTS phones. Maybe the owner of tone dialing will get into the fray as well.
I wonder if tapping out people's phone number via pulse dialing on my landline still works or did someone patent that too and is requesting royalties.
Comment Currently working on a similar project (Score 1) 261
Couple years ago I worked on a High Performance Cluster in Seattle. One of the things I did was create a modified version of Red Hat 7.3 that ran entirely in memory so I could ssh into a node and tar, dump, fdisk etc the hard drive.
Late last year I visited the site again and my former coworkers told me they still use that method, but in slightly different manner, they permanently run it in memory instead of using it to prepare the hard drive. So recently I redid the project it with CentOS 5.4 and got it to run entirely in memory on various types of hardware. No X though.
I took the CentOS 5.4 Live CD and made a custom bootable DVD with stuff I want in it and I did get it to run on various pieces of hardware with different hardware specs from a Laptop w/ wireless to a Desktop with an old video card.
It is an interesting project and it really a great way to learn how Linux works, from how it boots up, to initrd, how ldd works, and identifying hardware and getting firmware to load. My point is that I would not deny this opportunity to learn a lot of details of Linux from your students.
Comment Re:Leave it to the professionals (Score 1) 260
Like Fisher Plaza in Seattle
US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s 144
bleedingpegasus sends word that the US Air Force will be grabbing up 2,200 new PlayStation 3 consoles for research into supercomputing. They already have a cluster made from 336 of the old-style (non-Slim) consoles, which they've used for a variety of purposes, including "processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and 'neuromorphic computing.'" According to the Justification Review Document (DOC), "Once the hardware configuration is implemented, software code will be developed in-house for cluster implementation utilizing a Linux-based operating software."
Comment Bring it on (Score 1) 1316
If you know your stuff, I'd love to work with you.
But I've seen hotshots cut down to size and have been forced to bail Freshouts.
I keep my skills sharp and take a holistic view of the workplace environment. I know when to ask, what to ask and how to ask. Basically what I'm saying is that there are some skills not developed untill you put in a couple of years and you still need to keep up with technology to stay relevant.
