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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: _kill__bill on 3 March 2006, 20:20

Title: US Army
Post by: _kill__bill on 3 March 2006, 20:20

http://www.toptechnews.com/news/U-S--Army-Lab-Moves-to-Linux-Clusters/story.xhtml?story_id=0020007B7E1S (http://www.toptechnews.com/news/U-S--Army-Lab-Moves-to-Linux-Clusters/story.xhtml?story_id=0020007B7E1S)
 
And there are those who say there is no progress... :thumbup: USA!
 

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A U.S. Army supercomputing center with a legacy that dates back to the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) launched in 1946 is moving to Linux-based clusters that will more than double its computing capability.

Title: Re: US Army
Post by: noob on 3 March 2006, 21:54

Yay

Title: Re: US Army
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 4 March 2006, 02:53

Why is there a 50% chance that that link doesn't take you to where it is supposed to ... this is the second time I clicked it and it took me to some IBM site

Title: Re: US Army
Post by: Lead Head on 4 March 2006, 03:46

Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H

Why is there a 50% chance that that link doesn't take you to where it is supposed to ... this is the second time I clicked it and it took me to some IBM site

:confused:
Works fine for me

Title: Re: US Army
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 4 March 2006, 04:54

Crap ... it must be firefox ... I mean ever since I switched to 1.5 I've had problems (well ... more problems than with 1.0). Lots of strange shit happening (pages fail to load, strange re-directs), and crashes too. :( Could it be firefox ?

Title: Re: US Army
Post by: Lead Head on 4 March 2006, 05:03

i am using FF 1.5.1 and everything is fine

Title: Re: US Army
Post by: Orethrius on 5 March 2006, 03:34

Those are called "ads" and they make the web go 'round.
Seriously, though, were I to guess, you're probably hitting up against a bad batch of ads that have been coded to redirect the viewer to the originating site.
If I were you, I'd bring that to the attention of TopTechNews, as I doubt their advertising programme allows such misbehaviour.

Title: Re: US Army
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 5 March 2006, 16:54

Could it be malware?

Title: Re: US Army
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 5 March 2006, 22:44

Quote from: Aloone_Jonez

Could it be malware?

On Linux ... I doubt it.

Title: Re: US Army
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 6 March 2006, 00:48

I wouldn't rule it out though.

Title: Re: US Army
Post by: inane on 6 March 2006, 08:58

Reinstall... if it keeps happening... I've also noticed that some extensions fuck with the ad blocking features in Firefox and other strange things like causing a click where you hadn't clicked.

Title: Re: US Army
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 6 March 2006, 20:46

Yeah ... there's a very good chance extention conflict is the cause of these problems. It doesn't happen that often, so it should be ok for now.