Re: one computer in a restaurant.

Post #172,019 by a6l6e6x 8/31/04 5:06:04 PM Reply	Re: one computer in a restaurant. Is this not the "single point of failure" then? When it dies, all terminals die! What, if anything, do you do to circumvent the problem? Alex "If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer
Post #172,026 by drewk 8/31/04 5:23:58 PM Reply	Re: single point of failure There's always the alternative: multiple points of failure. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #172,029 by a6l6e6x 8/31/04 5:26:19 PM Reply	There is also "graceful degradation". :) Alex "If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer
Post #172,032 by Reporter 8/31/04 5:34:03 PM Reply	Re: one computer in a restaurant. (new thread) Created as new thread #172031 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=172031\|Re: one computer in a restaurant.] viewtouch
Post #172,033 by Reporter 8/31/04 5:34:07 PM Reply	Re: one computer in a restaurant. aha. Yes. until openmosix arrived. Now all the processors are nodes on a single image supercomputing cluster. And moving the data storage to the network eliminates the single point of failure problem. every cpu would have to fail. or what if the router fails? Well, each CPU has 3 network ports, and can have 2 wireless network ports, so we can even make the network redundant. This is a great illustration of how using all gnu-free software components can easily solve a very nasty problem. viewtouch
Post #172,072 by a6l6e6x 8/31/04 8:53:38 PM Reply	Great! That's got to be a selling point. Alex "If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction writer
Post #172,120 by Reporter 9/1/04 1:23:37 AM Reply	Re: Great! That's got to be a selling point. Yes, it can be, if the prospect actually understands what an incredible achievement it is. It is usually the case, however, that a restaurant owner has plenty of homework getting his/her head around the idea that there even is such a thing as an information tool, much less that it is an essential component of doing business these days. I have so-called conversations with people that cannot be believed, as we all do.
Post #172,036 by Reporter 8/31/04 5:46:49 PM Reply	In other words, one cluster of nodes in a restaurant With a simple twist when compiling the kernel all the CPUs on the 10/100 network become nodes on the cluster, and the POS client application runs as a single image supercomputer. That's what openmosix does. It delivers a feature that Novell, for instance, sells for $10k, assuming you already have severak certain other licenses. It's a feature that Microsoft also is attempting to play catch up on, of course. Check out this Microsoft effort to try to keep up with what openmosix does ... "Microsoft will sell a version of Windows for high-performance computing -- a niche in which rival Linux is blossoming -- with a first version planned for the second half of 2005. [link\|http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/windows/0,39020396,39158501,00.htm\|http://news.zdnet.co...6,39158501,00.htm] viewtouch

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