Newer celerons will migrate to a 100Mhz Front-Side Bus as the "Standard" Pentium III processors move to the 133Mhz FSB. Since all of Intel's new processors are very securely multiplier-locked, the 8x multiplier isn't exactly limiting. It means the fastest "standard" Celeron that the bord will take will be 800Mhz, but by the time the celeron makes it to 800Mhz, Intel will probably have changed the bloody socket again. At any rate, the board supports a wide selection of FSB speeds, which is how Intel's are overclocked these days. A technician at work has his Celeron 366 running at 550 (100x5.5) with only the standard cooling fan. It's been over a week, and his processor is probably slowly melting, but nonetheless the Celeron is still an overclocking dandy.
I know several software companies that if they adopted this policy, they would probably make more money as exterminators than software vendors.
Microsoft on the other hand could probably consume insects at a great enough rate to stop bug problems on the scale of the great locust plague in biblical Egypt.
~GoRK
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Apologies. I hit "reply" and typed my reply. I got off coding some other thing and went on my lunchbreak. When I got back from lunch, I hit submit. Maybe if you click on my user info and check some of the other comments I have written in the past, you'd find that they tend to be fairly relevent. At any rate, thanks for the flamebait! To all: sorry for having to post this here, as I seem to be lacking an E-Mail address to send this message privately.
This news item has appeared 3 or 4 times now on slashdot! Remember that stupid commercial for "Triples" cereal where the people did a "triple-take"... ? Kind of like what I feel like!!!
Given X10's stance regarding Linux (as evidenced by the firecracker promotions in the past) would it be logical to assume that we just might see support for their MP3 Anywhere device under Linux (or even their DVD Anywhere -- basiclly the same thing w/ video). Has anyone out there had any success hacking out Linux software for these things? Do you think there is a possibility of another X10 promotion for the Linux community here? It seems that these devices would be highly suited canidates for the Video4Linux project.
So when might we expect to see some clothing that incorporates radar stealth? I don't imagine the things would be able to pick up many female supervillians posessing "continuous curvature"
When I first saw this article, I intended to post something about Tierra. A very OLD (read: pre-buyout good) Wired magazine ran an article on this once, so I downloaded it and fired it up. I let it run for days and days and days and watched my population go up and down and all that fun stuff. I was really after getting to see the parasites that some Tierra users report (those programs that are so small they can't copy themselves that they "borrow" reproductive code from other entities) but since I didn't know asm, I couldnt tell what was going on. My only advice to prospective Tierra users is that it isn't going to be really helpful/interesting to you people unless you know assembly language!!
Are you forgetting that you yourself were touting this movie as a revolution in filmmaking only a week or so ago? Why do you fuel the hype then feel it necessary to criticize major publications for publishing what (in theme) is very similar to your original article about the movie? Sure, I think the media is putting too much emphasis and importance on this movie (which I didn't find particularly revolutionary, ingenious, or frightening) but I'd rather read about the success of the Blair Witch Project rather than most of the other trash that magazines publish!
I assume the reason it failed to detect it (based on other comments) is that each linux box is running its own caching nameserver, preventing any 'extra' traffic especially during the DNS tests, which is really what AntiSniff looks for.
Programs that detect network cards that are in promiscous mode aren't anything new. The detection isn't very reliable either. Often these programs show false alarms or miss the boat. In particular, the l0pht program failed to detect tcpdump on any machine I tried it on, and I tried running tcpdump from several linux boxen and tried AntiSniff on several windows machines. Hmm....
Indy filmmakers have been using age-old (read: cheap) film techniques, innovative ideas, and good stories to make good movies for a long time. That doesn't that there's anything lo-tech about it. The Blair Witch Project people used the most hi-tech tools available for their budget. Have you checked the prices of all that stuff in the credits? I am glad that The Blair Witch project got the recognition (and the money) it deserved, but to think that it hails some kind of a 'lo-tech' revolution in cinema is a bit effrontery. I very seriously doubt that any major movie studios will begin producting movies with digital camcorders and cutting them on Media100 workstations because of the success of this one movie. Maybe now the studios will take a more serious look at indy films, indy screenplays, and more traditional moviemaking techniques. Hopefully we'll get to see a few more decent movies in the theaters.
Honestly, though, password list management programs are out there in droves. The problem with them though is that they are inherently insecure. E.G. one global password reveals all other passwords...
I'd like to see a password management system with a physical level of security. For example, you insert your smartcard or HASP key into a reader or the computer's serial, parallel, or usb port and then whammo your list is decrypted based on the private key in your physical device (or using the device itself in the case of smartcards)
I wrote a 4 frame grayscale movie of bevis and butthead headbanging for the TI-85. This was before ZShell was officially released. I came up with the way to do grayscale when the screen only could show B&W and Dan Eble wrote most of the ASM code. Dan's work eventually led to the creation of 4 and 16 shade libraries that ASM developers could use just as if the screen were a 2/4 bit display! All the TI-Calcs use this method for grayscale.
Next I wrote a generic wireframe 3D rendering library. Scale+Rotate+Translate objects in the world, specify camera angle & position, then draw it. It was probably the only programming project I ever did that I thought would become popular. Then some asshole spammed it all over usenet and the Calc-TI/Graph-TI/Zshell mailing lists claiming he wrote it (Coz it was so 31337) I abandoned because of it and the library died, sadly.
The yellow thing you see at the top of the device is not a rechargable battery. It is a capacitor. Wireless transmission (and simeotaneously running the computing functions, screen, serial port, etc.) from the Palm device requires more current than the batteries can provide on a constant basis. To preserve battery life and improve performance, this capacitor is charged during normal use, much like the capacitor that drives the high-current xenon strobes in point-and-shoot cameras. If the device is transmitting lots of data it will actually tell you that it needs to recharge the transmission circut and make you wait.
As far as I know, the Palm VII does not support battery charging through the cradle as the Palm V does.
On a side note, the communications frequencies used by the Palm VII are in the FCC licensed frequencies for cell phones and/or pagers. You won't see a way to connect the Palm VII to your local network with it's built in wireless without either illegal equipment or internal modification. Besides, hardware options already exist to connect Palm Pilot/Pro/III/IIIx/VII to wireless LAN's.
To clarify the point, software RAID under Linux (any mode) does not absolutely require that each hard disk be on a seperate controller. I have had plenty of success using Software RAID on drives on the same controller. I haven't seen system performance bog down too much with this configuration either. On the newer bus-mastering Ultra33/Ultra66 controllers, CPU time for IDE access isn't really as big a problem as it used to be. So, if you're just talking three drives for a test machine, I don't know that the extra expense for a slick PCI IDE controller is going to be all that justified. Try it with your onboard controllers and then upgrade if you decide you need it.
Another question is this: Is there any support in Linux for IDE Hardware RAID controllers like the Promise FastTrack, FastSwap Pro, or SuperTrak? Obviously, Hardware IDE RAID solutions are much less expensive than traditional SCSI RAID controllers and drives and can offer comparable performance on smaller workstations or smaller workgroup servers.
This new "copyright" could actually benifit domain registrants, since I know a lot of the spam I am always recieving comes to the address I use for domain registration. I know this is true because it is the only time I have ever used that E-mail address for anything. What NSOL has essentially done is make it illegal for spammers to harvest e-mail or postal addresses and phone numbers from the whois database. Personally, I think this is the way things should be. Let's just hope that they don't decide to sell the list, and let's hope that they grant permission to reproduce the data for nonprofit use such as Internet statistics/research, etc. I do think that any registrant should have the option of making a domain record public though.
I have one of the "30 GB" models in my system here. It's actually 15GB uncompressed and it's phenominally slow since it *is* a tape drive with a *very* long tape. It comes included with software that makes it work like a normal drive. Every time you access it this way it takes up to 5 minutes to open the file you want.
No, I haven't been able to get it to work with linux yet, but it does back up our entire windows network and seems pretty reliable.
Hmm.. actually I would have to say that Japanese is about the easiest language in the world as far as spelling goes. German spelling is not as difficult as English spelling either. You are operating under the assumption that Japanese and German just look more difficult because you have absolutely no understanding of them.
Also, as a linguist, I must argue your statement about the human race defining itself by American English, and as for the anymore/any more question, both are correct.
Adobe's unix codebase, as you put it, is way behind the windows/mac versions. For example, Photoshop 3.0 and Illustrator 6.0 are all that is available for the unix flavors that adobe supports (Sun and SGI) In other words, they haven't done much development on it in a long time. If wine would run Photoshop 5, Illustrator 8, and Corel Draw 8 without crashing, I'd delete windows immediately.
Corel draw is for vector graphics. Photoshop is for raster graphics. Both programs actually blur the vector/raster line a little bit. Draw has bitmap filters and Photoshop has paths. *Shrug* I'm very happy though that they are finally bringing the most current Corel Draw to Linux. I find that Corel Draw files tend to be over ten times smaller than Adobe Illustrator files (not to mention that the program is easier and has more features)... I really wish they'd drop that whole photo-paint fiasco though and write some code that makes draw work better with photoshop... hrm.. oh yeah also Corel needs to make sure that bitmap masks and postscript fills get exported to Illustrator. what a pain.
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Newer celerons will migrate to a 100Mhz Front-Side Bus as the "Standard" Pentium III processors move to the 133Mhz FSB. Since all of Intel's new processors are very securely multiplier-locked, the 8x multiplier isn't exactly limiting. It means the fastest "standard" Celeron that the bord will take will be 800Mhz, but by the time the celeron makes it to 800Mhz, Intel will probably have changed the bloody socket again.
At any rate, the board supports a wide selection of FSB speeds, which is how Intel's are overclocked these days. A technician at work has his Celeron 366 running at 550 (100x5.5) with only the standard cooling fan. It's been over a week, and his processor is probably slowly melting, but nonetheless the Celeron is still an overclocking dandy.
~GoRK
I know several software companies that if they adopted this policy, they would probably make more money as exterminators than software vendors.
Microsoft on the other hand could probably consume insects at a great enough rate to stop bug problems on the scale of the great locust plague in biblical Egypt.
~GoRK
Apologies. I hit "reply" and typed my reply. I got off coding some other thing and went on my lunchbreak. When I got back from lunch, I hit submit. Maybe if you click on my user info and check some of the other comments I have written in the past, you'd find that they tend to be fairly relevent. At any rate, thanks for the flamebait!
To all: sorry for having to post this here, as I seem to be lacking an E-Mail address to send this message privately.
~GoRK
This news item has appeared 3 or 4 times now on slashdot! Remember that stupid commercial for "Triples" cereal where the people did a "triple-take" ... ? Kind of like what I feel like!!!
~GoRK
Given X10's stance regarding Linux (as evidenced by the firecracker promotions in the past) would it be logical to assume that we just might see support for their MP3 Anywhere device under Linux (or even their DVD Anywhere -- basiclly the same thing w/ video). Has anyone out there had any success hacking out Linux software for these things? Do you think there is a possibility of another X10 promotion for the Linux community here? It seems that these devices would be highly suited canidates for the Video4Linux project.
~GoRK
So when might we expect to see some clothing that incorporates radar stealth? I don't imagine the things would be able to pick up many female supervillians posessing "continuous curvature"
!GoRK
When I first saw this article, I intended to post something about Tierra. A very OLD (read: pre-buyout good) Wired magazine ran an article on this once, so I downloaded it and fired it up. I let it run for days and days and days and watched my population go up and down and all that fun stuff. I was really after getting to see the parasites that some Tierra users report (those programs that are so small they can't copy themselves that they "borrow" reproductive code from other entities) but since I didn't know asm, I couldnt tell what was going on. My only advice to prospective Tierra users is that it isn't going to be really helpful/interesting to you people unless you know assembly language!!
~GoRK
Mr. Katz,
Are you forgetting that you yourself were touting this movie as a revolution in filmmaking only a week or so ago? Why do you fuel the hype then feel it necessary to criticize major publications for publishing what (in theme) is very similar to your original article about the movie? Sure, I think the media is putting too much emphasis and importance on this movie (which I didn't find particularly revolutionary, ingenious, or frightening) but I'd rather read about the success of the Blair Witch Project rather than most of the other trash that magazines publish!
~GoRK
I assume the reason it failed to detect it (based on other comments) is that each linux box is running its own caching nameserver, preventing any 'extra' traffic especially during the DNS tests, which is really what AntiSniff looks for.
Programs that detect network cards that are in promiscous mode aren't anything new. The detection isn't very reliable either. Often these programs show false alarms or miss the boat. In particular, the l0pht program failed to detect tcpdump on any machine I tried it on, and I tried running tcpdump from several linux boxen and tried AntiSniff on several windows machines. Hmm....
Indy filmmakers have been using age-old (read: cheap) film techniques, innovative ideas, and good stories to make good movies for a long time. That doesn't that there's anything lo-tech about it. The Blair Witch Project people used the most hi-tech tools available for their budget. Have you checked the prices of all that stuff in the credits? I am glad that The Blair Witch project got the recognition (and the money) it deserved, but to think that it hails some kind of a 'lo-tech' revolution in cinema is a bit effrontery.
I very seriously doubt that any major movie studios will begin producting movies with digital camcorders and cutting them on Media100 workstations because of the success of this one movie. Maybe now the studios will take a more serious look at indy films, indy screenplays, and more traditional moviemaking techniques. Hopefully we'll get to see a few more decent movies in the theaters.
~John
Well, you password-protect it, of course.
Honestly, though, password list management programs are out there in droves. The problem with them though is that they are inherently insecure. E.G. one global password reveals all other passwords...
I'd like to see a password management system with a physical level of security. For example, you insert your smartcard or HASP key into a reader or the computer's serial, parallel, or usb port and then whammo your list is decrypted based on the private key in your physical device (or using the device itself in the case of smartcards)
~GoRK
I wrote a 4 frame grayscale movie of bevis and butthead headbanging for the TI-85. This was before ZShell was officially released. I came up with the way to do grayscale when the screen only could show B&W and Dan Eble wrote most of the ASM code. Dan's work eventually led to the creation of 4 and 16 shade libraries that ASM developers could use just as if the screen were a 2/4 bit display! All the TI-Calcs use this method for grayscale.
Next I wrote a generic wireframe 3D rendering library. Scale+Rotate+Translate objects in the world, specify camera angle & position, then draw it. It was probably the only programming project I ever did that I thought would become popular. Then some asshole spammed it all over usenet and the Calc-TI/Graph-TI/Zshell mailing lists claiming he wrote it (Coz it was so 31337) I abandoned because of it and the library died, sadly.
GoRK
Remember, the only problem with this is that you aren't in the To: line if you are on the Cc: line or the Bcc: line!
~GoRK
9 out of 10 Lucasfilms Lawyers agree!
Jar Jar still sucks!
~GoRK
At around 150 feet transmission radius, you're going to have a hard time going all the way down the street.
~GoRK
The yellow thing you see at the top of the device is not a rechargable battery. It is a capacitor. Wireless transmission (and simeotaneously running the computing functions, screen, serial port, etc.) from the Palm device requires more current than the batteries can provide on a constant basis. To preserve battery life and improve performance, this capacitor is charged during normal use, much like the capacitor that drives the high-current xenon strobes in point-and-shoot cameras. If the device is transmitting lots of data it will actually tell you that it needs to recharge the transmission circut and make you wait.
As far as I know, the Palm VII does not support battery charging through the cradle as the Palm V does.
On a side note, the communications frequencies used by the Palm VII are in the FCC licensed frequencies for cell phones and/or pagers. You won't see a way to connect the Palm VII to your local network with it's built in wireless without either illegal equipment or internal modification. Besides, hardware options already exist to connect Palm Pilot/Pro/III/IIIx/VII to wireless LAN's.
~GoRK
To clarify the point, software RAID under Linux (any mode) does not absolutely require that each hard disk be on a seperate controller. I have had plenty of success using Software RAID on drives on the same controller. I haven't seen system performance bog down too much with this configuration either. On the newer bus-mastering Ultra33/Ultra66 controllers, CPU time for IDE access isn't really as big a problem as it used to be. So, if you're just talking three drives for a test machine, I don't know that the extra expense for a slick PCI IDE controller is going to be all that justified. Try it with your onboard controllers and then upgrade if you decide you need it.
Another question is this: Is there any support in Linux for IDE Hardware RAID controllers like the Promise FastTrack, FastSwap Pro, or SuperTrak? Obviously, Hardware IDE RAID solutions are much less expensive than traditional SCSI RAID controllers and drives and can offer comparable performance on smaller workstations or smaller workgroup servers.
~GoRK
Remember, it's spelled Athlon, but it's pronounced "K7"
That's Athlon as in Pentium.
~GoRK
This new "copyright" could actually benifit domain registrants, since I know a lot of the spam I am always recieving comes to the address I use for domain registration. I know this is true because it is the only time I have ever used that E-mail address for anything. What NSOL has essentially done is make it illegal for spammers to harvest e-mail or postal addresses and phone numbers from the whois database. Personally, I think this is the way things should be. Let's just hope that they don't decide to sell the list, and let's hope that they grant permission to reproduce the data for nonprofit use such as Internet statistics/research, etc. I do think that any registrant should have the option of making a domain record public though.
~GoRK
I have one of the "30 GB" models in my system here. It's actually 15GB uncompressed and it's phenominally slow since it *is* a tape drive with a *very* long tape. It comes included with software that makes it work like a normal drive. Every time you access it this way it takes up to 5 minutes to open the file you want.
No, I haven't been able to get it to work with linux yet, but it does back up our entire windows network and seems pretty reliable.
Hmm.. actually I would have to say that Japanese is about the easiest language in the world as far as spelling goes. German spelling is not as difficult as English spelling either. You are operating under the assumption that Japanese and German just look more difficult because you have absolutely no understanding of them.
Also, as a linguist, I must argue your statement about the human race defining itself by American English, and as for the anymore/any more question, both are correct.
Adobe's unix codebase, as you put it, is way behind the windows/mac versions. For example, Photoshop 3.0 and Illustrator 6.0 are all that is available for the unix flavors that adobe supports (Sun and SGI) In other words, they haven't done much development on it in a long time. If wine would run Photoshop 5, Illustrator 8, and Corel Draw 8 without crashing, I'd delete windows immediately.
GoRK
Corel draw is for vector graphics. Photoshop is for raster graphics. Both programs actually blur the vector/raster line a little bit. Draw has bitmap filters and Photoshop has paths. *Shrug* I'm very happy though that they are finally bringing the most current Corel Draw to Linux. I find that Corel Draw files tend to be over ten times smaller than Adobe Illustrator files (not to mention that the program is easier and has more features)... I really wish they'd drop that whole photo-paint fiasco though and write some code that makes draw work better with photoshop... hrm.. oh yeah also Corel needs to make sure that bitmap masks and postscript fills get exported to Illustrator. what a pain.
GoRK