captainhaggis

Are you trying to be funny-or are you seriosu?

That's right I do.

happy birthday!

Happy Birthday ;-)

Nice meeting you, and thanks for the beverage.

And then you'd end up with a replication infrastructure. Something that would keep multiple copy of important meta-date properly distributed in the cluster.

You can't have an app server without duplication of some metadata. Even if it's only {input} and {output} of modules to enable replayability of a transaction in the event of a failure.

You need to have a mechanism to handle failure of an individual step and failure of a transaction controller.

I.e.:

The server who'd been asked to provide a banner ad does not reply. The controller proceeds to ask a second server and then takes step to remediate the first servers' problem.

But then if the controller fails, everything must be either rolled back to the initial request or another controller must seemlessly take over and continue with the transaction.

File locking does not. You end up with either a small cluster of peers or a lock server. In either case, the latency around obtaining a lock becomes a significant factor.

Myrinet and InfiniBand can sort of solve that however.

With a girl? Cause if it's with a guy, I'd rather keep a couch ;-).

seattle is beautiful! i have been there once, and there was an earthquake...seriously! i 'm not used to that kind of thing in michigan, obviously.

well there's not a lot good you can say about my dad, but one thing is he did read to us- my younger sister and I- when we were kids. He read us the narnia stories, the Oz books, all of Heinlein's boyscout type era, and The hobbit. He also started out on the Fellowship, but I don't think we ever got much past rivendell. I went on to become a voracious reader of sci-fi and fantasy, though my sister never got into much outside of C.S.Lewis as an adult.

I went to my first science fiction convention with my dad when I was twelve or so. I think it was the worldcon in boston. It was awesome. It was very important to me as a kid to see positive freaky/geeky role models.

I read LOTR the first time through on my own at about that time. I didn't try the silmarillion until my twenties when I had stronger linguistic tendancies.

My apreciation of Tolkein has only grown the more interested in language and linguistics I've become.



Sound like you're getting a cold.
you know what Linus Pauling would say....
vitimin C
(hope I've remembered the right chemist's name...)

nice plan *shrugs*

uh- ooops. um. Retronerd meant geek as a compliment. This is what sucks about typing- you can't tell what tone people are using.

but i wasnt coming down on her at all bro! i was teasing her for being a computer geek. thats a good thing! we are friends silly

yum coffeeshop.
hmm arguments suck and so dows war...
yeah sleep. killer.
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spring break depresses me every year so many guys screwing so many hot chicks. its absurd!

I'm a big fan of learning. I have a restless mind. and a lot of interests.

however, I am not the next olivia. I'm not a programmer at all.

I've had a really slow learning curve with linux. I i'm really interested in operating systems. Since I'm totally self taught, this takes a lot of time. I love to play with computers. hell, I put together the one i'm using now.

what next? that's hard. Aside from beating my last kbounce score, I didn't have anything in mind beyond getting Yellow Dog Linux to go online.

a good next might be just learning more about linux. I have massive holes in my getting it.

Begs the question as to what your orkut name is.

OH! Look how cute you are!!! :wumpscut: