Re: [Beowulf] Linux laptops, and M$ advertisement

2007-04-17 Thread Jeffrey B. Layton
Peter St. John wrote: The ad is http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/facts/default.mspx?R=cf http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/facts/default.mspx?R=cf The testamonials all seem to be equivalent to Im a PhD in Rocket Science but setting up a Linux Cluster

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Linux laptops, and M$ advertisement

2007-04-17 Thread Peter St. John
David, Jim, On 4/16/07, David Mathog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Peter St. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote ...The testamonials all seem to be equivalent to Im a PhD in Rocket Science but setting up a Linux Cluster is too complex, so using MS saves me time to do Rocket Science. Then Dave:

[Beowulf] Re: Linux laptops, and M$ advertisement

2007-04-17 Thread Peter St. John
I was a little dismissive of the Emergency Stop topic. In an ideal world, a team from the law faculty and the engineering (both civil and electrical) and...yeah it's a mess. Peter On 4/17/07, David Mathog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter St. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. Physicist who

Re: [Beowulf] Linux laptops, and M$ advertisement

2007-04-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:20:03PM -0400, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote: _Real_ rocket scientists use a pencil, paper and slide rule if they don't have access to an analog artillery ranging computer :) (And possibly HTP and kerosene :) ) [My grandfather was a British rocket scientist and later a

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Linux laptops, and M$ advertisement

2007-04-17 Thread David Mathog
Jim Lux wrote: At 10:39 AM 4/17/2007, David Mathog wrote: Friend builds barn. different Inspector comes out to give cert of occupancy, makes EXACTLY THE SAME MEASUREMENT, and says, well.. you need an emergency water storage system... Difference in code interpretation.. Well, maybe (see

Re: [Beowulf] Re: Linux laptops, and M$ advertisement

2007-04-17 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, David Mathog wrote: The Buddhist nature of the electrical code is becoming more and more clear to me. See for instance this section from the Wikipedia article on koans: A related k#333;an in the Book of