...until your PSU shorts out and dumps 120V AC onto the 12V rail as happened recently in my brother's computer. He lost almost every component in the system. He nearly lost a lot of data too, but fortunately swapping logic boards on the drives got it back.
A really good power supply would have a very unlikely chance of failing in this manner though. There is always something to be said for buying quality power supplies even if you don't want to spring for redundant units, etc, though so many people overlook it.
It's worth it to note that there are a couple of products out such as the Spatz DVIMAGIC that simply remove the HDCP protection from the stream, similar to the macrovision removing boxes that you can still buy. At $500 it's a little steep, but it beats buying a new $3000 display (or in some peoples' cases a $30,000 projector).
What really gets me is that while products like this exist and are tolerated simply because they are "high end" (expensive), the simple existence of them negates all of the real protections that HDCP is supposed to provide -- for everybody.
If one of these things exists somewhere in the world, an unencumbered copy of whatever media is trying to be protected is going to exist and be duplicated, distributed, and probably sold, which is really what the studios need to stop. There is no doubt that movie and music studios, software companies, etc. lose potentially billions of dollars in sales to counterfit copies produced and sold mostly in the eastern world. It's a much harder argument to make that they lose anywhere close to the same amount of money from the casual CD or DVD burner in the US. Yet as the artifical technical hurdles increase, it will only be these counterfiters that have the monetary means to circumvent the protections and make the copies. Consumers will be hurt by this, and consumers looking for a copy of the movie they want that actually *plays* on their TV will make a very attractive market for the bootleg copies.
I find the argument for all of this crap harder and harder to swallow. It's currently cheaper to buy a DVD of a film than for two people (and in some places a single person) to go to the local theater where you have to deal with a sticky floor and a crying baby. So now that you burned me out on going to the movies, Hollywood, now you are going to burn me out on buying them too? Where do you expect me to go from here?
Here's the idea for the day: Start a filesharing network that only accepts media that has been liberated from a DRM encumbered format such as DeCSS'd DVD's, mp3's taken from "copy protected" CD's, etc. Encrypt all said media using the original DRM encumbered media as a decryption key. You should use a simple format such as XOR that could require the entire piece of original media and not just a hash or checksum of it to use as a key.
1920x1080 (1080p) and 1920x1200 (15:9 aspect ratio, usually used on computer monitors) is supported under single link DVI and HDMI at least at 60Hz. Resolutions higher than this or framerates higher than 60Hz at this resolution require dual link DVI (supported on many newer video cards) or HDMI 2.0.
The main problem here is that unlike NiCad and NiMH (or rather to a much greater extent) lithium ion rechargables start to lose their life the second they are manufactured. This is why you can always find a set of retailers selling them at a high price and another set selling them at a low price. If you buy a battery that has been sitting on the shelf a couple of years, it's going to have a dramatically lower capacity than a brand new one.
I must say that I got a good feeling seeing an install on slashdot that my own install helped in part to inspire; although I did pretty much give up on Linux on the EPIA board for my install despite getting everything set up and configured correctly (Including LinuxBIOS, mind you, which was no easy chore) Good job on the install and good job sticking through on the software side!
I'm sorry but I looked all over for information about H.264 regarding the NVIDIA chipsets and all I found was references to MPEG2 and WMV9 -- can you point me to anything more specific? I can already take advantage of HD MPEG2 acceleration even with my lowly FX5200, but now that I've got a HD camcorder and I'm starting to do some HD production work on the desktop, the lack of H.264 acceleration is a pretty big drawback. I find it funny that the only device I have capable of playing H.264 without enormous amouts of processing power is my PSP...
I'd buy this thing in a second if it did HW accelerated H.264 decoding. I have heard detonator 80.40 includes the features on the 7800 series. Anyone know if this is true or if there is a software player or codec that can take advantage of this?
I am curious if you can tell us a little bit more about where you got your z-wave products and how your system is set up. For various reasons, X-10 is not a viable option for me and I'm sick of waiting for zigbee for the last two years.
There are other nice alternatives such as hard-wired systems or ethernet systems, but they cost a fortune!
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Upon investigation, I found that the powerbook and probably the mini also are capable of MPEG2 1920x1080... probably because the graphics cards can accelerate the decoding. They aren't particularly fast enough to do deinterlacing though, so you'll have to rely on the monitor to do that part. ATI has H.264 acceleration in their next chipset, but it's still up in the air as to whether or not current ATI chipsets will get any H264 accleleration or whether or not quicktime will end up taking advantage of it.
I am pretty sure that the 1.42GHz mini could do the 480p H264; my 1.5GHz powerbook does fine with it.
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I just bought this monitor a few days ago and finally hooked it up last night. It works great with my powerbook, and the picture is fantastic.
If you are going to use it with the mac mini, you might consider attaching the mac mini itself to the back of the display. If you use a wall bracket to mount the display to the wall, there would be sufficient space. You can bolt a piece of metal between the monitor and the mounting bracket to serve as a mounting plate for the mac mini.
Incidentally, as far as choice of computer goes.. the mac mini will drive the display fine at native resolution (so long as you use the DVI 1 input) and is a fairly cheap alternative way to watch DVD at 1080p, as an external scaler capable of doing this runs about $2000. It also makes a great display for photo slideshows as the resolution is fantastic.
It's also worth noting that the display itself has a pretty decent scaler in it as well. If you attach a decent progressive scan player to the screen via component, the picture you get will be very good - I found it's at least as good as the picture from the powerbook playing a DVD.
The one drawback for using a mac mini on this display is that you won't have anywhere close to the horsepower needed to play any HD content. I doubt the mini is capable of playing 1080i MPEG2 TS much less H.264 at 720p or 1080p. My powerbook is a 1.4ghz G4 like the mini though, and I have an HDV camcorder that I can get 1080i MPEG2 TS from, so if you want to know the results of my testing on the mac's ability to do MPEG2 HD, drop me a line.
Perhaps you did not already know this, but at least someone understands how to decrypt the PSAR files containing the firmware as it's possible to disassemble the update application. (Also the decrypted firmware images of 1.51 and 1.52 firmwares have been floating around, so it has been done.) It's also known how to write to all of the flash memory in the PSP.
While it would not be possible to reencrypt the PSAR and re-sign the updater PBP so that it would run like the original, it would be possible to modify the decyrpted firmware then write an application that flases said modified firmware to a PSP in order to create a PSP with 2.0 firmware features that can still load unsigned code.
However, as I said before, the ability to do this to your own PSP means that you will have to begin with a PSP capable of executing unsigned code in the first place (currently 1.0 or 1.5) in order to run the hacked flashing utility and write the unencrypted and unsigned hacked-up firmware image to flash. Thus, if you update to 2.0 now you will perhaps not be able to install a hacked 2.0 that can run homebrew code IF such a thing is created and IF no exploit is found in 2.0.
As no one seems to have pointed out yet, it's likely that someone will release a modified 2.0 that will give you all the new features AND let you run homebrew apps.. But if you upgrade to 2.0 now, you'll lock yourself out of the ability to run the upgrader for any hacked version. This is pretty typical of 'softmod' style hacks; being an early adpoter is not the wisest course of action.
Unless of course there is a vulnerability in 2.0 that will let you run homebrew... If you want to bank on that, be my guest.
I don't know that I was suggesting anything, acutally. If I were to suggest something, I'd suggest that:
1) This type of ramdisk approach is not necessary for capturing compressed video such as consumer DV (25mbps), HDV (25mbps), or even professionally used compression codecs such as HDCAM (144mbps), DVCPRO, DVCPRO-HD for which regular disks (even single drives) can easily keep up.
2) This particular product lacks the capacity to catpure decent lengths of uncompressed video. At standard television resolution a RAID array of 32 of these things (at a cost of somewhere near $20,000) would give you 128GB of storage: enough to caputre a mere 42 minutes of uncompressed SD video before you'd have to offload it. There exist plenty of capture solutions for uncompressed or losslessly compressed SD video that cost a lot less than $20,000 and have much larger capacities.
3) You can forget about capturing uncompressed HD video with this thing also because it lacks BOTH the capacity and the speed. In a RAID configuration, you might get the speed up to do it but you are looking at a $20K solution to capture about 10 minutes of video at a time... your money is best spent elsewhere.
4) For an NLE system, the thing would probably see its best use as a scratch or cache disk for which one (or more of these in a stripe set) would probably help out.
Remember that for consumer and even low-end professional video shot on DV (and now HDV), the datarate is only 25megabits which is manageable as-is by pretty much any consumer computer sold these days. The only thing you need amazing amounts of speed for in video capture is capturing uncompressed frames, for which 4GB isn't going to get you very far. 4GB is only about 18 minutes of DV/HDV, but only about 3 minutes of (raw) uncompressed SD and 30-45 seconds of HD. And at ~30s/4GB, we are far beyond the capacity of this card anyway.
USB on the Go does not provide provision for power, thus it would not be able to drive a standard usb keyboard. It also doesn't really provide provision for 'becoming a master' either -- it only can communicate with another usb-on-the-go device. Moreover, there exists no keyboard that is USB-To-Go compatible.
Are you that desperate to justify this for some reason?
Yes, that little USB port on the PSP can be used to connect peripherals, but no you can't just plug anything USB into it and expect it to work.
The PSP's USB port is a slave port. It could not by default supply power to an attached keyboard. It has been surmised that the port CAN be used as a master to talk to an attached device or peripheral; to prevent any damage to a computer or the like attached when this is done, the port is likely unable to supply power. The screw terminals on either side of the USB port are reported to supply power to an attached peripheral (or the peripheral can use its own internal power supply)
This configuration as shown relies on the PSP's USB port being able to supply 5V to the keyboard, which is highly unlikely according to people who know a lot more about it than I do. If the guy wanted to make a better 'fake, he should have run some dummy wires over to the screw terminals or mentioned something about supplying power to the keyboard or talked about USB master vs slave.. The absense of him addressing any of these problems makes the thing smell very much like a crappy hoax.
The only reason people do this stupid stuff is because idiotic editors REPORT IT.
Even more complicated would be using a single NIC to connect two operating systems to the same network. Unless someone came up with a clever solution, each OS would need its own IP address. However, routers and switches outside the computer would become immensely confused when a single NIC and a single MAC address belong to two IP addresses, since most routers/switches only have a one-to-one correlation between MAC addresses and IP addresses.
Even if firmware could solve the problem by implementing all the low-level drivers, the single-NIC, multiple-IP problem is one that cannot be solved at the firmware level, and would require massive modifications at both the OS and application level to get multiple OSes running various services running on a single IP using a single NIC.
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You have a sig like this, yet you lack basic understanding of networking and the OSI model? This is like saying that TCP cannot handle more than one port or protocol without everything "getting confused."
Multiple IP's on one interface is no big deal. Pretty much every modern OS supports it and the NIC has nothing to do with it. Click on that "Advanced" button on your TCP/IP settings sometime and add all the IP's you can stand. Even assigning multiple DHCP addresses to one interface (where HW address actually does matter) is no big deal with the right software (dhcpxd in Linux can do this).
BTW you have to buy a pretty expensive router or switch before you can even force one to have a problem with one-to-many Layer 2 to Layer 3 address mappings. Or I guess you could run static ARP if you are masochistic beyond belief. Before you counter with some garbage about how your cable modem only allows you to have one IP, please remember that this is limited by the way the cable company has DHCP set up in conjunction with DOCSIS; it's not because the hardware doesnt support it.
You are right about bus contention etc in trying to run multiple OS's directly on hardware without some sort of intermediary hypervisor software like Xen or VMWare ESX.
This is covered as well; If you do this, you are allowed to keep the Debian name but you cannot use the "Official" logo with it. They have a second version for unofficial use.
Well, I did not know this, but in the past they had publiclly declared that they would not touch Mario. The statement even appeared in their Wired magazine interview. Have lyhe minibosses jumped the shark?:) I'll have to see if I can find a recording of their PAX show(s) -- I'd like to hear them, especially if they did Mario.
Speaking of Mario medleys... I saw a saxiphone quartet (composed of a couple of people I know even) perform at a local college's music showcase recently. Out of 20 or so performances in an audience of several thousand people, they were the only ones to get a standing ovation. They really deserved it too. It was the most fantastic assembly of live performance Mario I've ever heard -- and on top of that they were dressed in costume -- Mario, Luigi, Koopa, and a Goomba!
Console sales have not been a loss leader for some time. This practice and the reporting of it as a kind of 'console truism' are way out of date. While hardware sales seldom recover the full costs of engineering, tooling, etc that have gone into their design, they tend to recover the costs of manufacturing the units themselves. Consider that you can buy a new computer for $300 including all the basic goodies -- monitor, cd burner, etc, it's not unrealistic to assume that the PSP is sold at a marginal profit relative to unit manufacturing cost.
Remember back in the early 80's a computer with barely 2-3x the processing power of a NES was, what, at least $3000 and you could buy a NES for $199? That is loss leader. It was widely reported that the XBox was initially sold at [slight] loss as well, but considering their careful entry into the market, they were probably right to take the hit there rather than ramp production to the point where they were making a profit on the hardware at the same price point but would have lost even more money having 5 million unsold XBox's hanging around. In any case, they certainly are making money on selling you the XBox hardware nowadays.
It's kind of like the difference between purchasing a Chevy Cavalier or a Honda Civic.
Which one would be the mac and which one the PC?:) I'd think a better comparison would be Ford (anything) vs Volvo (anything). I saw two people from the same family drive up and park yesterday in two volvo's.. I tried to figure out which one was older based on the body styles, but I couldn't remember back that far (I think they were both from the 70's)
If you go through life always buying the least expensive product, you will have nothing but cheap crap when you die. If you truly follow this philosophy then take a look at that jicky pressed wood desk (or similar junk furniture) that your keyboard is sitting on and tell me that will still be there looking good in 10 years -- if it's not already looking like crap, that is. How many cars have you been through in the last 30 years (since you bought a VW Beetle, Yugo, Geo Metro etc. after previous vehicles did themselves in)
The point is that the best solution is seldom the cheapest. This holds true for many things including the purchase decision for computers. If you want to download OS X and run it on your dell laptop, be my guest, but it's really tough to argue your point about 'whichever is cheaper' when you are stealing one of them. If you stole yourself a mac computer too it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper than any Dell!
This was one of those rumors that seemed too implausible to ever happen, but look at that -- it did!
Hopefully they do it right and produce a BIOS-less really sweet piece of hardware. The SGI Visual Workstation was an example of an X86 machine done right; so at least it can be done.
Will be interesting to see their PPC emulation layer -- that's goign to be a monumental challenge... Maybe Intel will taylor them an X86 with some more registers or something to make it easier.
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...until your PSU shorts out and dumps 120V AC onto the 12V rail as happened recently in my brother's computer. He lost almost every component in the system. He nearly lost a lot of data too, but fortunately swapping logic boards on the drives got it back.
A really good power supply would have a very unlikely chance of failing in this manner though. There is always something to be said for buying quality power supplies even if you don't want to spring for redundant units, etc, though so many people overlook it.
It's worth it to note that there are a couple of products out such as the Spatz DVIMAGIC that simply remove the HDCP protection from the stream, similar to the macrovision removing boxes that you can still buy. At $500 it's a little steep, but it beats buying a new $3000 display (or in some peoples' cases a $30,000 projector).
What really gets me is that while products like this exist and are tolerated simply because they are "high end" (expensive), the simple existence of them negates all of the real protections that HDCP is supposed to provide -- for everybody.
If one of these things exists somewhere in the world, an unencumbered copy of whatever media is trying to be protected is going to exist and be duplicated, distributed, and probably sold, which is really what the studios need to stop. There is no doubt that movie and music studios, software companies, etc. lose potentially billions of dollars in sales to counterfit copies produced and sold mostly in the eastern world. It's a much harder argument to make that they lose anywhere close to the same amount of money from the casual CD or DVD burner in the US. Yet as the artifical technical hurdles increase, it will only be these counterfiters that have the monetary means to circumvent the protections and make the copies. Consumers will be hurt by this, and consumers looking for a copy of the movie they want that actually *plays* on their TV will make a very attractive market for the bootleg copies.
I find the argument for all of this crap harder and harder to swallow. It's currently cheaper to buy a DVD of a film than for two people (and in some places a single person) to go to the local theater where you have to deal with a sticky floor and a crying baby. So now that you burned me out on going to the movies, Hollywood, now you are going to burn me out on buying them too? Where do you expect me to go from here?
Here's the idea for the day: Start a filesharing network that only accepts media that has been liberated from a DRM encumbered format such as DeCSS'd DVD's, mp3's taken from "copy protected" CD's, etc. Encrypt all said media using the original DRM encumbered media as a decryption key. You should use a simple format such as XOR that could require the entire piece of original media and not just a hash or checksum of it to use as a key.
1920x1080 (1080p) and 1920x1200 (15:9 aspect ratio, usually used on computer monitors) is supported under single link DVI and HDMI at least at 60Hz. Resolutions higher than this or framerates higher than 60Hz at this resolution require dual link DVI (supported on many newer video cards) or HDMI 2.0.
The main problem here is that unlike NiCad and NiMH (or rather to a much greater extent) lithium ion rechargables start to lose their life the second they are manufactured. This is why you can always find a set of retailers selling them at a high price and another set selling them at a low price. If you buy a battery that has been sitting on the shelf a couple of years, it's going to have a dramatically lower capacity than a brand new one.
I must say that I got a good feeling seeing an install on slashdot that my own install helped in part to inspire; although I did pretty much give up on Linux on the EPIA board for my install despite getting everything set up and configured correctly (Including LinuxBIOS, mind you, which was no easy chore) Good job on the install and good job sticking through on the software side!
I'm sorry but I looked all over for information about H.264 regarding the NVIDIA chipsets and all I found was references to MPEG2 and WMV9 -- can you point me to anything more specific? I can already take advantage of HD MPEG2 acceleration even with my lowly FX5200, but now that I've got a HD camcorder and I'm starting to do some HD production work on the desktop, the lack of H.264 acceleration is a pretty big drawback. I find it funny that the only device I have capable of playing H.264 without enormous amouts of processing power is my PSP...
I'd buy this thing in a second if it did HW accelerated H.264 decoding. I have heard detonator 80.40 includes the features on the 7800 series. Anyone know if this is true or if there is a software player or codec that can take advantage of this?
I am curious if you can tell us a little bit more about where you got your z-wave products and how your system is set up. For various reasons, X-10 is not a viable option for me and I'm sick of waiting for zigbee for the last two years.
There are other nice alternatives such as hard-wired systems or ethernet systems, but they cost a fortune!
Upon investigation, I found that the powerbook and probably the mini also are capable of MPEG2 1920x1080 ... probably because the graphics cards can accelerate the decoding. They aren't particularly fast enough to do deinterlacing though, so you'll have to rely on the monitor to do that part. ATI has H.264 acceleration in their next chipset, but it's still up in the air as to whether or not current ATI chipsets will get any H264 accleleration or whether or not quicktime will end up taking advantage of it.
I am pretty sure that the 1.42GHz mini could do the 480p H264; my 1.5GHz powerbook does fine with it.
I just bought this monitor a few days ago and finally hooked it up last night. It works great with my powerbook, and the picture is fantastic.
If you are going to use it with the mac mini, you might consider attaching the mac mini itself to the back of the display. If you use a wall bracket to mount the display to the wall, there would be sufficient space. You can bolt a piece of metal between the monitor and the mounting bracket to serve as a mounting plate for the mac mini.
Incidentally, as far as choice of computer goes.. the mac mini will drive the display fine at native resolution (so long as you use the DVI 1 input) and is a fairly cheap alternative way to watch DVD at 1080p, as an external scaler capable of doing this runs about $2000. It also makes a great display for photo slideshows as the resolution is fantastic.
It's also worth noting that the display itself has a pretty decent scaler in it as well. If you attach a decent progressive scan player to the screen via component, the picture you get will be very good - I found it's at least as good as the picture from the powerbook playing a DVD.
The one drawback for using a mac mini on this display is that you won't have anywhere close to the horsepower needed to play any HD content. I doubt the mini is capable of playing 1080i MPEG2 TS much less H.264 at 720p or 1080p. My powerbook is a 1.4ghz G4 like the mini though, and I have an HDV camcorder that I can get 1080i MPEG2 TS from, so if you want to know the results of my testing on the mac's ability to do MPEG2 HD, drop me a line.
Perhaps you did not already know this, but at least someone understands how to decrypt the PSAR files containing the firmware as it's possible to disassemble the update application. (Also the decrypted firmware images of 1.51 and 1.52 firmwares have been floating around, so it has been done.) It's also known how to write to all of the flash memory in the PSP.
While it would not be possible to reencrypt the PSAR and re-sign the updater PBP so that it would run like the original, it would be possible to modify the decyrpted firmware then write an application that flases said modified firmware to a PSP in order to create a PSP with 2.0 firmware features that can still load unsigned code.
However, as I said before, the ability to do this to your own PSP means that you will have to begin with a PSP capable of executing unsigned code in the first place (currently 1.0 or 1.5) in order to run the hacked flashing utility and write the unencrypted and unsigned hacked-up firmware image to flash. Thus, if you update to 2.0 now you will perhaps not be able to install a hacked 2.0 that can run homebrew code IF such a thing is created and IF no exploit is found in 2.0.
As no one seems to have pointed out yet, it's likely that someone will release a modified 2.0 that will give you all the new features AND let you run homebrew apps.. But if you upgrade to 2.0 now, you'll lock yourself out of the ability to run the upgrader for any hacked version. This is pretty typical of 'softmod' style hacks; being an early adpoter is not the wisest course of action.
Unless of course there is a vulnerability in 2.0 that will let you run homebrew... If you want to bank on that, be my guest.
I don't know that I was suggesting anything, acutally. If I were to suggest something, I'd suggest that:
1) This type of ramdisk approach is not necessary for capturing compressed video such as consumer DV (25mbps), HDV (25mbps), or even professionally used compression codecs such as HDCAM (144mbps), DVCPRO, DVCPRO-HD for which regular disks (even single drives) can easily keep up.
2) This particular product lacks the capacity to catpure decent lengths of uncompressed video. At standard television resolution a RAID array of 32 of these things (at a cost of somewhere near $20,000) would give you 128GB of storage: enough to caputre a mere 42 minutes of uncompressed SD video before you'd have to offload it. There exist plenty of capture solutions for uncompressed or losslessly compressed SD video that cost a lot less than $20,000 and have much larger capacities.
3) You can forget about capturing uncompressed HD video with this thing also because it lacks BOTH the capacity and the speed. In a RAID configuration, you might get the speed up to do it but you are looking at a $20K solution to capture about 10 minutes of video at a time... your money is best spent elsewhere.
4) For an NLE system, the thing would probably see its best use as a scratch or cache disk for which one (or more of these in a stripe set) would probably help out.
Remember that for consumer and even low-end professional video shot on DV (and now HDV), the datarate is only 25megabits which is manageable as-is by pretty much any consumer computer sold these days. The only thing you need amazing amounts of speed for in video capture is capturing uncompressed frames, for which 4GB isn't going to get you very far. 4GB is only about 18 minutes of DV/HDV, but only about 3 minutes of (raw) uncompressed SD and 30-45 seconds of HD. And at ~30s/4GB, we are far beyond the capacity of this card anyway.
USB on the Go does not provide provision for power, thus it would not be able to drive a standard usb keyboard. It also doesn't really provide provision for 'becoming a master' either -- it only can communicate with another usb-on-the-go device. Moreover, there exists no keyboard that is USB-To-Go compatible.
Are you that desperate to justify this for some reason?
Yes, that little USB port on the PSP can be used to connect peripherals, but no you can't just plug anything USB into it and expect it to work.
The PSP's USB port is a slave port. It could not by default supply power to an attached keyboard. It has been surmised that the port CAN be used as a master to talk to an attached device or peripheral; to prevent any damage to a computer or the like attached when this is done, the port is likely unable to supply power. The screw terminals on either side of the USB port are reported to supply power to an attached peripheral (or the peripheral can use its own internal power supply)
This configuration as shown relies on the PSP's USB port being able to supply 5V to the keyboard, which is highly unlikely according to people who know a lot more about it than I do. If the guy wanted to make a better 'fake, he should have run some dummy wires over to the screw terminals or mentioned something about supplying power to the keyboard or talked about USB master vs slave.. The absense of him addressing any of these problems makes the thing smell very much like a crappy hoax.
The only reason people do this stupid stuff is because idiotic editors REPORT IT.
Even more complicated would be using a single NIC to connect two operating systems to the same network. Unless someone came up with a clever solution, each OS would need its own IP address. However, routers and switches outside the computer would become immensely confused when a single NIC and a single MAC address belong to two IP addresses, since most routers/switches only have a one-to-one correlation between MAC addresses and IP addresses.
Even if firmware could solve the problem by implementing all the low-level drivers, the single-NIC, multiple-IP problem is one that cannot be solved at the firmware level, and would require massive modifications at both the OS and application level to get multiple OSes running various services running on a single IP using a single NIC.
`echo p e ! ^ p r ! | sed -e 's#[[:space:]]\+##g' -e 'y#raped!^#forms -#' -e 's#$#/#g'`
You have a sig like this, yet you lack basic understanding of networking and the OSI model? This is like saying that TCP cannot handle more than one port or protocol without everything "getting confused."
Multiple IP's on one interface is no big deal. Pretty much every modern OS supports it and the NIC has nothing to do with it. Click on that "Advanced" button on your TCP/IP settings sometime and add all the IP's you can stand. Even assigning multiple DHCP addresses to one interface (where HW address actually does matter) is no big deal with the right software (dhcpxd in Linux can do this).
BTW you have to buy a pretty expensive router or switch before you can even force one to have a problem with one-to-many Layer 2 to Layer 3 address mappings. Or I guess you could run static ARP if you are masochistic beyond belief. Before you counter with some garbage about how your cable modem only allows you to have one IP, please remember that this is limited by the way the cable company has DHCP set up in conjunction with DOCSIS; it's not because the hardware doesnt support it.
You are right about bus contention etc in trying to run multiple OS's directly on hardware without some sort of intermediary hypervisor software like Xen or VMWare ESX.
This is covered as well; If you do this, you are allowed to keep the Debian name but you cannot use the "Official" logo with it. They have a second version for unofficial use.
Well, I did not know this, but in the past they had publiclly declared that they would not touch Mario. The statement even appeared in their Wired magazine interview. Have lyhe minibosses jumped the shark? :) I'll have to see if I can find a recording of their PAX show(s) -- I'd like to hear them, especially if they did Mario.
Speaking of Mario medleys... I saw a saxiphone quartet (composed of a couple of people I know even) perform at a local college's music showcase recently. Out of 20 or so performances in an audience of several thousand people, they were the only ones to get a standing ovation. They really deserved it too. It was the most fantastic assembly of live performance Mario I've ever heard -- and on top of that they were dressed in costume -- Mario, Luigi, Koopa, and a Goomba!
Mr. Bungle also covered the Mario theme.
The Minibosses, of course, cover tons of old Nintendo games, though they will refuse to touch Mario.
Console sales have not been a loss leader for some time. This practice and the reporting of it as a kind of 'console truism' are way out of date. While hardware sales seldom recover the full costs of engineering, tooling, etc that have gone into their design, they tend to recover the costs of manufacturing the units themselves. Consider that you can buy a new computer for $300 including all the basic goodies -- monitor, cd burner, etc, it's not unrealistic to assume that the PSP is sold at a marginal profit relative to unit manufacturing cost.
Remember back in the early 80's a computer with barely 2-3x the processing power of a NES was, what, at least $3000 and you could buy a NES for $199? That is loss leader. It was widely reported that the XBox was initially sold at [slight] loss as well, but considering their careful entry into the market, they were probably right to take the hit there rather than ramp production to the point where they were making a profit on the hardware at the same price point but would have lost even more money having 5 million unsold XBox's hanging around. In any case, they certainly are making money on selling you the XBox hardware nowadays.
It's kind of like the difference between purchasing a Chevy Cavalier or a Honda Civic.
:) I'd think a better comparison would be Ford (anything) vs Volvo (anything). I saw two people from the same family drive up and park yesterday in two volvo's.. I tried to figure out which one was older based on the body styles, but I couldn't remember back that far (I think they were both from the 70's)
Which one would be the mac and which one the PC?
If you go through life always buying the least expensive product, you will have nothing but cheap crap when you die. If you truly follow this philosophy then take a look at that jicky pressed wood desk (or similar junk furniture) that your keyboard is sitting on and tell me that will still be there looking good in 10 years -- if it's not already looking like crap, that is. How many cars have you been through in the last 30 years (since you bought a VW Beetle, Yugo, Geo Metro etc. after previous vehicles did themselves in)
The point is that the best solution is seldom the cheapest. This holds true for many things including the purchase decision for computers. If you want to download OS X and run it on your dell laptop, be my guest, but it's really tough to argue your point about 'whichever is cheaper' when you are stealing one of them. If you stole yourself a mac computer too it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper than any Dell!
This was one of those rumors that seemed too implausible to ever happen, but look at that -- it did!
Hopefully they do it right and produce a BIOS-less really sweet piece of hardware. The SGI Visual Workstation was an example of an X86 machine done right; so at least it can be done.
Will be interesting to see their PPC emulation layer -- that's goign to be a monumental challenge... Maybe Intel will taylor them an X86 with some more registers or something to make it easier.
Wow; that is one hell of an obscure reference. I salute you, sir! I'd put you on my friends list if you weren't Anonymous Coward.