29 karma · joined December 21, 2017
The downside to running vis patched maps on a server is it used slightly more CPU than unpatched maps IIRC. Perhaps someone that ran more servers than I did (I ran two nodes on an Intergraph InterServe with dual P6-200s) could weigh in on what the impact was at scale.
Otherwise it just sounds like another pointless and BS use-case from another rando AI company to keep the money taps flowing.
Usually the RS232 was just on the terminal side. Somewhere along the path it got converted to twisted pair.
All the twisted pair serial lines congregated in the server room at a punch-down box. Eighteen year old me wasn't allowed to mess with anything past that point, but from what I can remember those lines were concentrated by a multiplexer (mux) and sent on to the minicomputer.
When NASA combined their disparate field center mail systems into one (OneNASA and later NOMAD) massive mail system in 2006-2008 they deployed everything that wasn't the squishy Exchange underbelly on SuSE Enterprise 10.
The field centers were very invested in RHEL. Mostly for scientific software and Oracle.
JPL has traditionally been separate from the rest of NASA and works with CalTech for their infrastructure.
For example fuzzywhatsit-3.0 in RHEL could be functionally equivalent to 3.5 in another distro.
This is starting to look like a repeat of Geforce FX vs Radeon 9700 Pro all over again.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1516/ConcDisSys/2015-Concu...
I remember running it on a DEC Alpha box with an AccelGraphics AG500 and being awed by it.
I think OP's article is talking about people between the ages of 35 and 60 not being able to see ads.
What is more likely is that more experienced workers have higher salary requirements and are less likely to work 90 hours a week.
Also what level of impairment are we talking about here? You make it sound like everyone over a certain age is a doddering old coot. :)