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Alan Cox on a Chip
Azar writes "Beware Intel. Be afraid AMD. Transmeta has an ace up there sleeve. After perusing the net I came across an amusing satire of Transmeta and the Linux guru, Alan Cox. With proper homage being paid to the man that does so much for the Linux kernel, Alan Cox on a Chip is good for a quick laugh. Be ready to be amazed at "The ultimate Linux platform... it writes drivers for *and* debugs itself!"."
I never claimed that Windows 2000 is immune to crashes. Hell, even Linux will core dump if you run it with shitty drivers. All I'm saying is: that particular picture is not of a Windows 2000 box.
I'm sorry to hear about your computer problems. Have tried calling technical support? :p
Despite what EULAs say, most software is sold, not licensed.
Just Imagine a Beowolf cluster of these.... :P
Pedro Côrte-Real.
Other things on a chip. I especially like tux on a chip.
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The behavior of MS is irrelevant to this discussion. You cannot take the moral high ground against MS when you are using the same tactics.
:P) testified that video evidence was unaltered - a recorded display of exactly what happened. However, the video HAD been altered - icons could be seen to have moved/disappeared.
:) Or combinations of the above.
>>Anybody remember Microsoft attempting to fool the judge with falsified evidence?
No.
Because it didn't happen.
Allchin (remember him
However, nothing was falsified. The changes were determined to be trivial rather than attempting to mislead the court. No evidence was made up - in fact, the video evidence was _not_ thrown out.
That incident wasn't important because of the evidence, it was important because Allchin claimed the video was unaltered - casting doubt over the rest of his testimony.
Either he was poorly informed, or he is incompetent. Or a GNU/mole
It's a lot like engrish (see "all your base are belong to us"): If you think in Japanese, the English will become Engrish; if you think in C, the architecture will become englisH.
Being an AnonCow shouldn't exempt you from being whined at.
Now, since I'm taking the time to pick on an AnonCow, I'm going to throw in my massive list of Slashdot sigs and odd comments. As an experiment, I wanted to see what I could find in one half hour. I'm amazed Jon's slashdot sig's section isn't twenty pages long; based on my success, it should be eighty by this point in time.
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the skunks, on the other hand, are graffiti bastards.
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Ah! A Moderator in the wild. Look at it! I'll stick my thumb up its ass. That'll really piss it off!
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DOS is dead, and no one cares...
If there's a Bourne Shell, I'll see you there
Linux has no chance to survive make your time
"just connect this to..."
BZZT.
"ahrg! You didn't unplug it?"
They fsck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
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Time to die, nerd-boy!
All buffers are full
Your message can not be posted
Base directories have no inode reference
Are you irratable
Belong to a group of people who care
To whine now is a little late
US residents encouraged to run away
Someone should pay me.
Set the dogs on these dotheads
Up your own A*!
US president Bush died today..dreams, man, dreams
The stuff after the enter is mine.
Bomb the Canadians!
"Yeah...it was the numbers that were irrational, not the murderous cult of vegetarians...." -- Hippasus of Metapontum
Let loose the pornographic joke floods...
"And like that
Hmmm. Microsoft must have said that a gazillion times therefore everyone at Microsoft is incredibly insane including bill gates.
Woohoo! We now have definate proof! Lock them up!
"just connect this to..."
BZZT.
Liberty.
Like I said, *nobody* claimed it was stable. (Read: tooting ones own horn doesn't count as being somebody)
Despite what EULAs say, most software is sold, not licensed.
"just connect this to..."
BZZT.
Liberty.
You know, whining at AnonCows may be my new hobby. I've refused to do now as I did in...the account before this...
Anywho, whine, B*, complain
Now, Who wants to this AnonCow find his head with both hands? Don't point out where to look, thank you.
"Yeah...it was the numbers that were irrational, not the murderous cult of vegetarians...." -- Hippasus of Metapontum
I have not bothered to track BSODs -- I don't think I need explain why.
... and besides, they never claimed it was stable in the same sense that NT or UN*X was stable... just that it was more stable than Win3.x
Despite what EULAs say, most software is sold, not licensed.
I think 0E is Integer overflow... or was that 0D or 0C, it think its 0E
Also note that user friendlyness != technical superiority or helpfulness. User friendly = Joe Idiot can sit down and start doing basic things without RTFMing. Linux is not 'user' friendly. It's operator friendly. Big freakin' difference.
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In what way is this insane? Downloading a large file is insane? Even if it takes a long time, it's still sane, and definately not a 'stunt'.
that would work for a time. though you'd have to keep it fed fairly well or you would get the jitters. Quake framerates would have sudden spikes and such. Though eventually he'd build an amunity to caffeine and you'd half to either cut him off and let him loose the imunity or up the dosage. I would prefer the first method my self, because after he's clean and past the jitters you could give him your Bawls and he would have a massive boost in OC capabilities.
Computational Madness in a round package.
How does falsifying evidence de-stabilize Windows 2000? I don't follow your logic.
Despite what EULAs say, most software is sold, not licensed.
Yes, but regardless of your high moral ground and karma-whoring, it's a really funny picture.
Also--as anyone with experience diagnosing Windows problems can tell you--simply because Windows says that you have a hardware problem does not necessarily mean that one has a hardware problem.
Not really... might be interesting to see if NVidia would care about getting a video card that's almost three years old to work better on Widnows 2000...
"just connect this to..."
BZZT.
Liberty.
Whois info for, ALANCOXONACHIP.COM:
Registrant:
Goat Engineering Genetics LTD
532 Monroe St.
Santa Clara, CA 95050
US
Domain Name: ALANCOXONACHIP.COM
Record last updated on 27-Feb-2001.
Record expires on 15-Feb-2003.
Record Created on 15-Feb-2000.
Domain servers in listed order:
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NS2.GIMP.ORG 195.92.249.252
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== It's a "white" paper... get it?
very droll
They lied to the judge, and got caught red-handed. No amount of hand-waving will make that go away.
> Every version of Windows has BSOD's.
But Windows NT 4.0 / 2000 BSODs are much rarer, and look very different (scarier) than Windows 9x.
According to Microsoft, Fatal Exception 0E means invalid page fault. a bsod with fatal exception 0e should mean that a critical system raised an invalid page fault.
#define F(x) int main(){printf(#x,10,#x);}
F(#define F(x) int main(){printf(#x,10,#x);}%cF(%s))
linux...? that's how important this news is... this open source information is killing our kids' brain cells. They might as well watch the TV (webTV that is)
What very likely happened was the individual came through and simply relabeled the image to update the spoof page to make it 'modern' so as to increase the humor...
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...We could call it Cox in a box.
"Hardly used" will not fetch you a better price for your brain.
lordriff, you am dumb.
WHERE AM THY FREIGHTOR?
It looks to me like a software failure, as in a 16bit OS failure. Look up 'windows sucks' on napster and you will find Billy's personal BSOD from Comedex.
Face it, windows isn't stable. Its a 16bit outdated load of crap.
M$ stock dropped in 1/2 since last year. If you are a MCSE, you will be broke.
My guess is that it's that screensaver in Linux.
Gerb
There's no place like 127.0.0.1
well, there is the badmem kernel patch that allows the kernel to find bad memory and remember what sections not to use. it was in Linux Journal last month(?) wasn't it? Linux may not perform any better when the RAM craps out, but it won't do it twice.
Customer (over telephone) "Hello, do you have Alan Cox on a chip"
Salesmen "Why yes we do"
Customer "Well, YOU BETTER LET IM' OUT!!!!"
hehehehe
win9x doesn't execute the HLT instruction when the cpu is idle. Linux (and NT and BeOS and...etc) does. On modern CPU's, the HLT instruction puts the CPU in a state of reduced power consumption (= heat output).
He's right!
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Where have I seen this before..?
Oh, yes, I remember now. It was in a quickie quite a while ago.
There isn't even much at the site to warrent a whole article for it.
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All I can say to people in your situation is you must have either:
A) shitty components or
B) good components that conflict with each other
*ALL* of my win2k, linux and BSD boxes are rock solid and will stay up indefinitely (until i reboot them manually).
Don't blame your poor choice in hardware on the OS. That's what compatibility lists are for.... oh wait tho, then you would have nothing to complain about.
- Toby
Good thing there are no bugs in linux
- Toby
Amen brother,
but remember.... this is the fansite of all fansites so asskissing abounds. I'm seeing less and less intelligent material on here an more and more "j34h m4nG, m1cr050ft 5uxX! 10X!!! L1nuX r00lZ!"
- Toby
I want Bill Gates on a chip...so I can overclock the hell out of it and watch it go up in smoke.
That's debatable. They both sucked ass, but 9x was probably more stable considering it had a real kernel with genuine protected mode support instead of that bullshit 386-enhanced layer on top of a shell layer on top of DOS.
Despite what EULAs say, most software is sold, not licensed.
...and we should stop using it as evidence of Linux/*BSD stability.
Look close enough and you'll see that the fault number is the one meaning "hardware failure," specifically bad RAM. I don't believe that Linux performs any better when the RAM suddenly craps out.
I like the 8-bit version of Cox-on-a-chip though. :-)
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
I've just remembered who Alan Cox reminds me of.
"Adam Douglas" in Gary Spencer Milledge's "STRANGEHAVEN" comic.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
"Information wants to be paid"
Hate to point it out but their little Windows 2000 snapshot is actually a Windows 9x snapshot. I dislike Big Business just as much as the next guy, but that kind of unfair anti-Windows 2000 propaganda is only stooping down to the same low level.
Despite what EULAs say, most software is sold, not licensed.
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All buffers are full
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Are you irratable
Belong to a group of people who care
To whine now is a little late
US residents encouraged to run away
"Yeah...it was the numbers that were irrational, not the murderous cult of vegetarians...." -- Hippasus of Metapontum
I was reading the article on the Alan Cox chip and someone walks by and asks (obivously reading over my shoulder) if i think the chip will work well and when it's going to be released! I assumed that he uses Winblows and try to explain to him that Aln Cox is a major conribtor to the devlopment of the Linux Kernel at which point he asks me the same question again! People are funny arn't they!
No but it will write the driver for it!
Every version of Windows has BSOD's.
I have seen (and caused) BSOD's on Ick2K.
Wanna try?
Get to a java-heavy site with multiple windows of (your favorite/forced choice browser) and switch between them.
Download an ISO image of a CD through a 56K modem.
Or some other such insane stunt.
I have - and can - pull off stunts like these in Linux without crashing the OS.
Amen.
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Real life is underrated.
WELL...you'd better let him OUT!
..........wait a minute, nevermind, sorry.
bash$ echo 'Finger me for my public key' > ~/.signature
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Except perhaps lose some weight and get a haircut.
- I don't care if they globalize against free speech. All my best free thoughts are done in my head.
That does paint AlChin's comments in a better light...
But still, perjury is perjury; looks bad on a resume
Heh...
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
LOL
.sig's are belong to Bob
That's going into my list of "interesting comments"
All your
"Yeah...it was the numbers that were irrational, not the murderous cult of vegetarians...." -- Hippasus of Metapontum
Maybe the site is so "in", you have to wake up next to Cox to appreciate little gems like "Temperature control using Beard(tm) technology"?
Maybe Cox himself came up with a new take on the Resume format - "capable of handling practically infinite tasks at a time while churning them all out without a hitch"? What a guy!
Seriously, I haven't seen such an overtly fawning fansite since Ready,steadman,go.
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It is actually white papers :)
But, if ugly bearded guys is what the
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Read your own post "They place America at the bottom, Did they use reverse alpha order or place US on a list of Importance"
US stupid. Your country is called United States of America in case you hadn't noticed and comes just before Venezula and just after Uganda in any alpha list.
Next time there is a drop box in an address form that defaults to USA try dropping it and you will see that even American sites have USA near the bottom of the list.
And you wonder why we get frustrated with americans.
If you people would just do as you're told, everything would be OK.
An ace up where sleeve?
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Someone get rid of the slashdot story posting newbies, alan cox on a chip was a quickie a while back. You think they could atleast check and search to see if what they are posting has been posted before.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
What do you do to overclock it, drip-feed it espresso?