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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 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.

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

    Whois info for, ALANCOXONACHIP.COM:
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    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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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 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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  7. 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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