Sorry to reply about Linux under Mac OS X article, but there is a FUD everywhere...
When Linux went 64 bit 12 YEARS ago (it was ported to Alpha in 1995) not many drivers broke. Over following years there were sometimes not 64 bit clean drivers, but they are seldom. And mostly fixed at code review stage. There wasn't any driver breaking in Linux.
In fact, not long ago 32 and 64 PPC kernel sources were unified. And just recently, similar unification merged i386 and x86_64 sources. No driver was broken.
There must be something very wrong with tested system or Ubuntu configuration. 30 watts idle consumption is very, very wrong. My Thinkpad z61t idles at 13-14W with Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. I expect lower value after upgrading to 7.10. And maybe even lower when I roll my own latest kernel with patches from lesswatts.org. I would be happy to go to 10W on idle, it would match advertised 6.25 hr worktime with 65Wh battery I have.
Uh? Don't you know that 802.1x, used to secure wifi, was developed for wired networks? That's where notion of "ports" came from. Algorithmically, wired and wireless have identical security.
Well, you are not alone. First thing I see on Lenovo's support page is " Downgrading from Windows Vista to Windows XP 2007-08-29" document. Vista->XP must be a really often asked question.
A sad detail is that updating an AAK disk to other firmware is impossible, due to physical differences of the two disks. (emph. mine) Different disks have different performance. News at 11.
Huh? What's next, Fujitsu-Siemens buying Dell? Or Packard Bell buying HP? It pretty funny when company generally known for producing inferior products buys company producing higher quality stuff. But it happens. Apple, maker of punny Xservers and gadgets could easily buy Sun Microsystems with their powerful 16-Opteron cores servers and massively multithreaded CPUs.
Just scroll bit down to GNOME Online Desktop. Open Source desktop guys are talking about this idea for a long time. They want to build interface with contacts list as central place. People (online presences) are to become major pivot point. Telepathy, Galago, Decibel, KIMProxy gave application access to uniform online connectivity and presence information. Additionally, projects like Stateless Linux break ties between user's documents and his computer. User's desktop moves with him when changing laptops etc. They even built,,aggregator for popular online sites and social notworking websites'' -- check Mugshot.
Reviewers are important. Just about anyone can write code. It takes much more skill to analyze somebody's else writing, think about impacts, possible bugs etc. Reiser4fs was stalled so long because there was no person simultanously fluent in filesystem and willing to review its codebase.
Reviewers are often unrewarded for their work. At the end of the day, person who wrote code takes credit, not all those nitpickers who helped raise the code quality.
Problem number one: CPU crippled by Lenovo. Is this model also affected? (Short story: Lenovo disabled hardware virtualization in BIOS, one of selling point of Core processors)
I haven't read TFA, but based on blurb it will be horrible.
Compound TCP is not a TCP/IP stack! It's congestion avoidance/recovery algorithm for TCP streams. It's one of many (Vega, Reno, BIC, CUBIC etc. etc.). It's also available for Linux (but was removed from standard kernel some time ago).
Other things mentioned are parts of Network Access Control, which is already deployed in many companies. There are many software and hardware solutions available, Vista isn't special. It becoming must-have in corporate environment, praising Vista for having it is like claiming that DHCP client in OS is innovation.
Yes, it needs processor with Intel VT-x (Vanderpool) or AMD SVM (Pacifica). So Pentium 4/D (available since 2005), most of Core Duos, Core 2 or AMD CPUs sold since August this year (Socket F/1207 and AM2) qualify.
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Sorry to reply about Linux under Mac OS X article, but there is a FUD everywhere...
When Linux went 64 bit 12 YEARS ago (it was ported to Alpha in 1995) not many drivers broke. Over following years there were sometimes not 64 bit clean drivers, but they are seldom. And mostly fixed at code review stage. There wasn't any driver breaking in Linux.
In fact, not long ago 32 and 64 PPC kernel sources were unified. And just recently, similar unification merged i386 and x86_64 sources. No driver was broken.
Remember, that sphere is geometrical object which is hollow. So everyone proudly claiming he is part of blogosphere is empty inside.
They only missing BitTorrent plugin to actually play those recommendations.
There must be something very wrong with tested system or Ubuntu configuration. 30 watts idle consumption is very, very wrong. My Thinkpad z61t idles at 13-14W with Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. I expect lower value after upgrading to 7.10. And maybe even lower when I roll my own latest kernel with patches from lesswatts.org. I would be happy to go to 10W on idle, it would match advertised 6.25 hr worktime with 65Wh battery I have.
Uh? Don't you know that 802.1x, used to secure wifi, was developed for wired networks? That's where notion of "ports" came from. Algorithmically, wired and wireless have identical security.
5TB is 5120GB.
Makes that roughly 85333 seconds -- 24 hours of copying.
Well, you are not alone. First thing I see on Lenovo's support page is " Downgrading from Windows Vista to Windows XP 2007-08-29" document. Vista->XP must be a really often asked question.
From TFA page 6:
A sad detail is that updating an AAK disk to other firmware is impossible, due to physical differences of the two disks.
(emph. mine)
Different disks have different performance. News at 11.
Huh? What's next, Fujitsu-Siemens buying Dell? Or Packard Bell buying HP?
It pretty funny when company generally known for producing inferior products buys company producing higher quality stuff. But it happens. Apple, maker of punny Xservers and gadgets could easily buy Sun Microsystems with their powerful 16-Opteron cores servers and massively multithreaded CPUs.
Will XP even be supported in 2008?
So they run out of scale in less than a year? Vista don't look future-proof enough.
Just scroll bit down to GNOME Online Desktop. Open Source desktop guys are talking about this idea for a long time. They want to build interface with contacts list as central place. People (online presences) are to become major pivot point. Telepathy, Galago, Decibel, KIMProxy gave application access to uniform online connectivity and presence information. ,,aggregator for popular online sites and social notworking websites'' -- check Mugshot.
Additionally, projects like Stateless Linux break ties between user's documents and his computer. User's desktop moves with him when changing laptops etc.
They even built
Reviewers are important. Just about anyone can write code. It takes much more skill to analyze somebody's else writing, think about impacts, possible bugs etc. Reiser4fs was stalled so long because there was no person simultanously fluent in filesystem and willing to review its codebase.
Reviewers are often unrewarded for their work. At the end of the day, person who wrote code takes credit, not all those nitpickers who helped raise the code quality.
It is not feature complete. ZFS support is read-only.
The article talks about Solaris 10 u1 released in 2005. The latest thing is u3, which has two things:
1) this attack does not work:
Escape character is '^]'.
Not on system console
Connection closed by foreign host.
2) when installing U3 one can opt to close most services. This could be also done after installation with "netservices limited" command.
CFQ is default since 2.6.18, released back in September 2006.
That's what TPM chips are for. Happily, they currently have too low bandwidth to decrypt HD stream in realtime.
Microsoft Vista Family Pack. Buy one Ultimate and get next licenses for $50 or $100.
There's excellent analysis of this incidents. Monocultures are bad.
Problem number one: CPU crippled by Lenovo. Is this model also affected?
(Short story: Lenovo disabled hardware virtualization in BIOS, one of selling point of Core processors)
1. Didn't even read the article
I was commenting blurb, not article itself.
2. What does the design of the tcp/ip stack in any other OS have anything to do with this?
Compund TCP is not stack design. It's one of congestion algorithms for TCP.
Actually, after reading TFA, it look pretty good. Only submitter f**ked up blurb :/
I haven't read TFA, but based on blurb it will be horrible.
Compound TCP is not a TCP/IP stack! It's congestion avoidance/recovery algorithm for TCP streams. It's one of many (Vega, Reno, BIC, CUBIC etc. etc.). It's also available for Linux (but was removed from standard kernel some time ago).
Other things mentioned are parts of Network Access Control, which is already deployed in many companies. There are many software and hardware solutions available, Vista isn't special. It becoming must-have in corporate environment, praising Vista for having it is like claiming that DHCP client in OS is innovation.
"vmx". Don't get fooled by "vme" -- that's something other.
Yes, it needs processor with Intel VT-x (Vanderpool) or AMD SVM (Pacifica). So Pentium 4/D (available since 2005), most of Core Duos, Core 2 or AMD CPUs sold since August this year (Socket F/1207 and AM2) qualify.