Posts by zooooooom

Re: Patents?

SGI's original NUMA directory stuff dates from the mid 90s - though they've continued to file patent apps on the subject as recently as 2013, its not clear whether they are just fluff or not.

Re: to conduct a little research on her husband...

But the article didn't say what she found out :-(

"That's the ideal, but good luck getting any information removed from some anonymous website based out of Kerplakistan."

I'm so looking forward to the new Kerplakistanian based search engine that indexes all of the internet.

Re: So what's the name in other languages?

> that's why C# is pronounced C-sharp, isn't it?

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

Re: @article author: reading comprehension FAIL

"So Google, and apparently you, think that it is OK to break W3C HTML5?"

Fuck yeah. Its a mark up language, not a contract.

As I understand it, Oracle own MySQL so they can license it how they like - it does not HAVE to be FOSS. If they adopt MariaDB code under the GPL, then they will no longer be able to license it in they way they choose and all downstream versions would be GPL.

Given that, they may as well just offer commercial support for MariaDB, and and retain ownership of the increasingly unpopular MySQL.

Re: HKU

Well... Its a spawn of DARPA, and what with all the bad publicity those friendly unmanned aircraft are getting these days....

"If you REALLY have something to hide from the NSA et al, you probably shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

That joint, hooker, tax dodge, transference of speeding ticket to spouse, or particularly distasteful porn - yes the one with the horse - probably isn't that much interest to the spooks - it would look really bad on them if they started sending that shit to the fuzz. OTOH, it might come in useful later so lets not be too hasty to delete it.

The reason this kind of thing is scary, is that if "The Government" knows more about you, than you know about them, your ability - everyone's ability - to enact democratic process is reduced - the material they have on file about you suddenly becomes useful for political reasons.

Re: jealous

Er well yeah - if he owned it!

Re: Apple Hate?

Mainly due to their control freakery

Re: And still

Implementing cache coherency over IB doesn't scream scaling. Not unless someone publishes the NUMA ratio to back it up.

Re: A fundamental problem with this...

"he West Coast Main Line could add 20% more capacity by the simple, cheap, and immediate measure of ripping out the first class Pendelino interiors and fitting all carriages out as standard class"

Yes, but the lack of 10 people being gouged for 300 quid in 1st would collapse the words economy.

Re: Drones are cowardly?

If using drones means 1000 enemy dies for every trooper you lose, thats a winning situation.

If using drones means 1000 enemy dies, well presumably enemy - we couldn't really tell on the monitor - they had trucks and stuff, which is usually a good enough sign - for every trooper, thats a winning situation. I mean if they weren't enemy before, they sure are now!

Re: Why oh why

Comparing like for like, the main thing 64 bit gives you is greater demand on the bus to load a pointer.

If you're allowed to swap instruction sets for a better one you aren't comparing like for like :-p

"The whole 'they have poor people but have a space programme too, bad kitty' arguement always annoys me. Poor farmers benefit from weather forecasts"

Yeah because you can't buy Sat data, you absolutely have to launch your own rockets amirite?

Re: No commodity Linux

"But Lars, the SGI server with 512 cpus or more, and Linux SGI Altix servers with 2048-8192 cores, are all clusters. They are running a software hypervisor tricking Linux into running single image. They are clusters, not a single fat SMP server."

Bollocks.

SGI have been doing large SMP for years .

Note the SMP == Shared Memory == ccNUMA

Re: ROFL

yeah but only 20 will ever be used.

ha 6 downvoters should lose their internet license :)

pffft I just thought she made a crap defense.

Re: Very convenient feature

To "al_qaeda_cell_247"? At least make them work for a living....

Re: Solar Panels

*Nope came back the reply. 'It is not proven technology'. I can't afford to appeal.*

I didn't think technology proveability was grounds for planning decisions. Just do it.

Re: Mad Mike AC Wake up and realize this is global.

"In both the US and the UK the laws are set by democratically elected officials except for those passed down by the unelected EU and UN beureaucrats"

But those laws often contain clauses exempting "national security". Thats the problem.

Right to Privacy:

There shall be no interference by a public authority with the

exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the

law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of

national security,

Translation:

We wont spy on you unless we do.

Re: why?

I don't think he originally intended to disclose his identity - then realised just how quickly they would work it out anyway.

Re: An overhaul/replacement of LinPack is long overdue

http://www.nas.nasa.gov/publications/npb.html

Re: Any rope is the problem

"This is why the rope-and-counterweight system was invented in the first place - the counterweight means that the only force that has to be overcome is the inertia of"

Yeah - but the irrelevence of the lift comapred to the cable is the point of TFA. All you're really looking for is a handy way to store your potential energy for recycling to recover this.

Re: International Outrage

"I mean surely the US government admitting to spying on your citizens in huge numbers is something that should worry any other government... right... right?"

They aren't spying... you put your data on their servers amirite?

Re: while we are bashing companies...

Well doh - they're cheaper.