Re: [Beowulf] openMosix ending

2007-07-16 Thread Greg Lindahl
> "Our BIOS supports both types of Linux, RHEL and SLES".. Count your blessings that they test with Linux at all. It's a huge advance. -- greg ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) vi

Re: [Beowulf] Sidebar: Vista Rant

2007-07-16 Thread Bruno Coutinho
2007/7/16, Jim Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: At 03:36 PM 7/16/2007, Robert G. Brown wrote: >On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Peter St. John wrote: > >Wrongo. Win2K was never REALLY pushed as a consumer product. But now >try getting a new system over the counter with anything but Vista on it. over the counter

Re: [Beowulf] openMosix ending

2007-07-16 Thread Chris Samuel
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Robert G. Brown wrote: > The real drivers will install into the BIOS and should stop being OS > specific at all Given the general quality of BIOS and ACPI implementations this somehow does not fill me with a warm glow... "Our BIOS supports both types of Linux, RHEL and SLE

Re: [Beowulf] Sidebar: Vista Rant

2007-07-16 Thread Jim Lux
At 03:36 PM 7/16/2007, Robert G. Brown wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Peter St. John wrote: Wrongo. Win2K was never REALLY pushed as a consumer product. But now try getting a new system over the counter with anything but Vista on it. over the counter "consumer" you're right. over the counter "b

Re: [Beowulf] Sidebar: Vista Rant

2007-07-16 Thread Brian Dobbins
> Wrongo. Win2K was never REALLY pushed as a consumer product. But now > try getting a new system over the counter with anything but Vista on it. > Sure, if you special order or buy online you can get XP -- probably at > full retail. But seriously, the market is being saturated with Vista > sys

Re: [Beowulf] Sidebar: Vista Rant

2007-07-16 Thread Joe Landman
Robert G. Brown wrote: Wrongo. Win2K was never REALLY pushed as a consumer product. But now W2k wasn't terrible. try getting a new system over the counter with anything but Vista on it. Sure, if you special order or buy online you can get XP -- probably at Dude, I bought a Dell. No kidd

Re: [Beowulf] Sidebar: Vista Rant

2007-07-16 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Peter St. John wrote: RGB asks, "...On my nice new dual core 2 GB laptop, Vista Home runs like -- what? What is a suitable metaphor for a system that can't even keep up with a moving mouse? ..." Jabba the Hutt. Evil, devious, immobile. I'm reluctant to say that MSWin(any)

[Beowulf] Sidebar: Vista Rant

2007-07-16 Thread Peter St. John
RGB asks, "...On my nice new dual core 2 GB laptop, Vista Home runs like -- what? What is a suitable metaphor for a system that can't even keep up with a moving mouse? ..." Jabba the Hutt. Evil, devious, immobile. I'm reluctant to say that MSWin(any) is badly designed; OS's are designed for pur

Re: [Beowulf] openMosix ending

2007-07-16 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Geoff Galitz wrote: The lack of kernel supported checkpointing capabilities in the linux kernel is something that has baffled me or a while. I wonder if it was ever submitted and then rejected? It seems a natural fit for many organizations. Are there hardware limitation

Re: [Beowulf] openMosix ending

2007-07-16 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote: Afternoon all, I don't know how many people this affects, but I thought it was worth posting in case people are using openMosix. The leader of openMosix, Moshe Bar, has announced that the openMosix project is ending. http://sourceforge.net/forum/fo

Re: [Beowulf] Re: power usage, Intel 5160 vs. AMD 2216

2007-07-16 Thread David Mathog
Jim Lux wrote: > Whoa there cowboy!! You're risking death, dismemberment, and > egregious excitement from the destruction of your datalogger. The > entire insides of the Kill-A-Watt are floated at line > potential. There's two sides to the line potential, and one is a lot worse than the ot

[Beowulf] openMosix ending

2007-07-16 Thread Jeffrey B. Layton
Afternoon all, I don't know how many people this affects, but I thought it was worth posting in case people are using openMosix. The leader of openMosix, Moshe Bar, has announced that the openMosix project is ending. http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=715406 While I haven't used op

Re: [Beowulf] Watts Up Pro

2007-07-16 Thread Lombard, David N
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 08:18:24PM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote: > > https://www.wattsupmeters.com/Communications_Protocol_v442-1.pdf > > I'm not familiar with usb serial devices but I don't think they're > that hard. They're almost always FTDI UARTS, and Just Work(TM) when you plug them in... If

Re: [Beowulf] Cluster Diagram of 500 PC

2007-07-16 Thread Ashley Pittman
On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 18:55 +0200, Daniel Navas-Parejo Alonso wrote: > > Problem was, as far as I remember, only specific versions of x86/ > x86_64 linux kernel were supported, don't know if this is gonna change > in the next future. SCore needs to intercept network packets in the kernel, 5.x ver