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Alan Cox on a Chip

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the prince-albert-in-a-can dept.

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!"."

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  1. Cocks on a Chip by tswinzig · · Score: 3

    Let loose the pornographic joke floods...

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  2. Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... by denshi · · Score: 2
    I'm forced to dual boot b between Linux and Windows, and I have *never* had the Linux kernel die on me.
    I've been keeping track of kernel panics I've had on Linux. Since 1.4, I'm up to 5. And I think 3 of them (on 2.1) are attributable to a bad motherboard. (It had a tiny crack in it, I found later. A few rare times, thermal changes opened it while my machine was running.)

    I have not bothered to track BSODs -- I don't think I need explain why.

  3. Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... by heinzkeinz · · Score: 4

    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.

  4. Check out the Registrant Company by jjr · · Score: 4

    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


    1. Re:Check out the Registrant Company by Skynet · · Score: 2

      goatse.cx on a chip?


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  5. Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... by Saint+Nobody · · Score: 3

    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.

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  6. a what? by Little+Billy+Gates · · Score: 2

    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)

  7. Hrm... by Ig0r · · Score: 3

    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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  8. The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... by devphil · · Score: 3


    ...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. :-)

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    1. Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... by Omnifarious · · Score: 2

      I have a similar problem with my Matrox card and 3D accelerated games. But, it's a very predictable crash.

      I don't ever run NT at home, and when I've run it at work a Windows BSOD is a very, very rare event (though less rare than a Linux crash. I've never had Linux crash at work). I think it requires certain kinds of load, certain software, or certain hardware to make your machine BSOD prone. The thing is, from what I can tell, it's very difficult to tell exactly what it is that's doing it when it happens. It's very rarely an obvious cause and effect relationship.

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    2. Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... by devphil · · Score: 2


      So ironic... I ask people to behave fairly, and it's a high moral ground. Somebody out there raises the article by *one* point, and it's karma whoring. Oh well, gotta get the minimum flame quotas in for the day, I guess.

      I never said it wasn't a funny picture. I was one of the first to send it around. :-) It was even better since I had just flown a long trip when the picture was taken and released, but that's another story.

      Also -- as anyone with experience diagnosing any kind of hardware problems can tell you -- simply because <random flavor of Unix> says that you have a hardware problem does not necessarily mean that it's true. When it comes to hardware problems, Unix ain't all that much better at self-diagnosis.

      For software problems, of course, Unix kicks ass. :-)

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    3. Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... by Diabolus · · Score: 2

      Linux has support for bad RAM modules, and has for a while. See this HOWTO for how to do it. Windows has no such support.

    4. Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... by slcdb · · Score: 2

      I believe 0E can be any number of general failures, not necessarily hardware failure.

      But it's a Win9x bluescreen anyway, and nobody ever claimed that was stable.

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    5. Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... by tempest303 · · Score: 3
      Well, BSODs aren't FUD for me; they're quite factual. I'm forced to dual boot b between Linux and Windows, and I have *never* had the Linux kernel die on me. I can't, however, say the same thing for the Win2k side of things. While it's light years beyond NT in terms of stability, it's still not the rock that Linux is and has been, at least for me.

      As for Linux performing better when RAM craps out? I beg to differ! Check out BadRAM. (that's http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/ for the goatsex-wary) While it won't prevent problems from crashing if some addresses go bad while the machine is booted, after the very next reboot, the RAM you have will be "good" all over again!

      BadRAM was featured in a /. article a while back as well http://www.slashdot.org/articles/00/10/25/1448233. shtml

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  9. Haircut by Fervent · · Score: 2
    "The ultimate Linux platform... it writes drivers for *and* debugs itself!"."

    Except perhaps lose some weight and get a haircut.

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  10. They forgot... by schmack · · Score: 3
    ..the one golden rule of Satire - make it funny!

    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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  11. Alan Cox? by big_groo · · Score: 2
    Personally, I'd rather see Courteney Cox on a chip...


    But, if ugly bearded guys is what the /. crowd wants to see... (Sorry Alan) :) so be it!

  12. Hardware entusiasts will be pleased by kwerkey · · Score: 2

    What do you do to overclock it, drip-feed it espresso?