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  1. Off-topic (well, sort of) — The BSD Daemon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on FreeBSD 4.6

    Here's an interesting discussion about the Daemon FreeBSD logo and I would suggest to change the current BSD Slashdot topic image topicbsd.gif to something based on one of these: dbabe04.jpg, dbabe05.jpg, dbabe06.jpg dbabe07.jpg, CP63.gif, devilgirl-I.JPG, devilgirl-II.JPG, diavola.gif, xno_black_devil.jpg, purg1_006.jpg, or Devil2W.jpg. What do you think about it? Please post more suggestions so we could choose the best picture. Thanks.

  2. Re:what a fat pipe compared to Boeing 747 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on 2.56 Tb/s Transmission Record

    However, that also goes back to "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 with box of tapes on it".


    Following this
    page (google cached) the boeing 747 can take (full of fuel) about 200000kg at max distance 13000 km and at speed of 910 km/h

    I estime the DVD-ROM weight to 20g, and use the 17.1GB ones (=136.8Gb)

    so "data capacity of 747" is 200000 /(20/1000) * 136,8 ~= 1,400,000,000 Gb = 1.4Eb (exabit = 10^18 bits ;-)

    the time of the fly in the worst case is about 13000/910*3600 ~= 51000 seconds.

    let's divide 1.4Eb / 51000 ~= 27Tb/s ;-)

    So ower beloved 747 has only 10 times bigger data transfer capacity, but the Bell Labs solution must be much more than 10 times cheeper

    (And we have not discused the latency yet ;-)
  3. Re:A printer and human friendly version by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll · on Understanding NFS

    don't listen to him!!! read the story on google.

  4. Is Google blocked? by Shiny+Metal+S. · · Score: 2 · on Americans And Chinese Internet Censorship

    What about Google? Is it blocked as well? Because you can see cached cnn.com or any inconvenient geocities content there.

  5. Is Google blocked? by Shiny+Metal+S. · · Score: 2 · on Americans And Chinese Internet Censorship

    What about Google? Is it blocked as well? Because you can see cached cnn.com or any inconvenient geocities content there.

  6. Parrot, Python and Perl 6 by Shiny+Metal+S. · · Score: 3, Informative · on FSF Awards Guido van Rossum For Python
    Seeing as how parrot is being developed pretty much entirely by Perl developers (heck, the development is being done on the perl6-internals mailing list), I think it's unlikely that it'll ever be adopted by the Python community.
    Given that a Google search for "Parrot" on the Python.org shows 570 matches, I don't think so.
    Does Parrot even support real type systems, or does it only support Perl's broken "scalars are scalars" type system?
    If you had ever clicked one of the links in my post, you'd have known that. There are these basic data types:
    • IV (integer)
    • NV (floating-point)
    • STRING (encoding-independent string)
    • PMC (Parrot Magic Cookie)
    Parrot Magic Cookie type is the whole magic here. Let me quote Simon Cozens' article Parrot: Some Assembly Required , emphasis is mine:
    Vtable Datatypes

    The next major thing that Parrot needs to implement is PMCs; these are almost like Perl 5's SVs, only more so. A PMC is an object of some type, which can be instructed to perform various operations. So when we say

    inc P1
    to increment the value in PMC register 1, the increment method is called on the PMC - and it's up to the PMC how it handles that method.

    PMCs are how we plan to make Parrot language-independent - a Perl PMC would have different behavior from a Python PMC or a Tcl PMC. The individual methods are function pointers held in a structure called a vtable, and each PMC has a pointer to the vtable which implements the methods of its "class." Hence a Perl interpreter would link in a library full of Perl-like classes and its PMCs would have Perl-like behavior.

    [ read more ]

    And about ``Perl's broken "scalars are scalars" type system''. I won't argue with you, as you obviously have no idea what are you talking about, but other people may be interested in this subject as well, so I'll point out where to find informations on how these things are going to change in Perl 6: For a good introduction to Perl 6 in current shape read Larry Wall's Apocalypses and Damian Conway's Exegeses: For more detailed info, join the mailing lists and read the archives: There's more info about in on dev.perl.org - the Perl 6 homepage.
  7. Re:Where to buy CHEAP mini PCs? by Shiny+Metal+S. · · Score: 2 · on Digital-Logic Microspace Mini-PCs
    32M 4xAGP VooDoo is way to much for me. It won't generate accelerated 3D graphics, so the memory for textures would be wasted anyway. 1024x768@16bpp, which is more than enough for me, fits in 2MB of video RAM. The gigabit ethernet is unfortunately not an option for me because of hubs prices, so I'll stick for 100Mb for some time.

    The NIC, which AC told me about, is currently the best box of this kind to my knowledge. I would prefer, however, if it had no CD/modem/flashdisk and was cheaper without any stuff I don't need. I would love to see a box which is able to act as an X terminal, booting from network, without any moving parts, for something like $100. If the NIC cos ts $200 with all of the features, it would be possible to build a stripped version for $100.

    I generally nead exactly TCSX-1, but four times cheaper... If only there was a TCSX-1 priced as optimally as the NIC, it would cost below $100... Oh, well... I'll try to find out where and for how much I can buy parts which they use. If anyone has any experience with buying and using such integrated board, similar to this board (I don't know what exactly it is, they only say in the spec what it has, not what model it is), please let me know. Thanks.

    Another related topics,
    What are the cheapest stand-alone:

    • x86 processors (50+ MHz)
    • mainboards
    • ethernet adapters (100 Mb/s)
    • VGAs (1+ MB)
    • sound cards
    available to buy as new today?
    How does it compare to the same stuff integrated on one board?

    It's very hard to find a low-end PC parts today, they don't sell processors with clock rates not measured in GHz in computer stores, you know...

    After a quick Google search, I see there are lots of different single board PCs. I'll try to read about them and post the most interesting suff. If you know any of these boards, especially if you have used one of them with Linux Terminal Server or something similar (generally the most important is if you can run Linux on them without any problems) then please post it here. Btw, are there any cases available for them?