This sounds very much like a good thing; arla works okay as a client, but not great, and it's probably the least stable thing I have running under 2.4 right now.
I do have a few questions, though:
1) Does IBM own Transarc? What's the deal here?
2) What are the extra restrictions on the "IPL"? (Like we need YAOSSL (-> another license...)) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Well, my point was, sometimes it isn't that easy to turn something on or get it working after it has been secured. I don't necessarily like it, but that's the rationale, and it isn't so hard to run something like Bastille, either.
It would be nice if the default installs were more secure, though, and it sounds like Mandrake tries to give people that option upon installation.
The hardest thing to do is to make something like this easy and smart; any distro vendor who can do that gets my vote of confidence as well. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
First, if you want a default installation that's "hardened from the get-go", either run OpenBSD, or a non-UNIX that has no services.
However, I don't see why this is really necessary. It's the sysadmin's job to secure his boxes, which is generally done after installation. First, you only select the services you need, then you tighten things up. Bastille just speeds this process up, and helps out novices a lot. Also, the OpenWall security patches (for the Linux kernel) are quite nifty; also, on ext2, chattr is pretty sweet if you're really paranoid.:)
It would be nice if a distro had a "Secure" option during installation, but basically they're just catering to the masses. Maybe you want to run 'ping'; maybe you're behind a firewall. Maybe you're not on the internet. Maybe you want to have all your services running in default configurations at startup, so you can tweak them later...
Basically, it's just easier to let the admin decide what to do with the box, and making it less secure makes that process easier for them as well. Most people don't know or care about security. And remember, just as the best form of birth control is still abstinence, the best form of network security is still the 'air-gap'. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Yeah; actually, read my reply to the pico post, I've got a little code for you (linked from my User Info page as well)... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
If the patent office didn't pipeline the applications, could they possibly be any slower?
Oh, and the purpose behind those applications is to see if you can claim a patent on some inane obfuscation process to later sue IOCCC entrants, even if they're (probably) not writing in assembler.
Excellent; they've got an editor with your name written all over it!
I used to know all the keys in TP5.0; they're the same, and I'm only 22...
I *love* rectangular cut-and-paste! That's why I tried to edit stuff in "The Draw" in the first place!
I type in shell script with 'cat'. If it's really complicated, well, I use pico!:)
Heh.
(a) paste them with cat (Unix: just cat and paste!)
(b) run pico as 'pico -w' (just alias it to 'pico -wb', actually...)
(c) use bash. Oh man do I hate tcsh; and we can't change it, either. At least I'm writing a simple shell for Operating Systems; I implemented pipes tonight!
(d) '/bin/vi' vs. '/usr/bin/pico'? Too scary for me...
(e) That code you sent me was demented. Now I have to replace the typedefs... TELL me no-one writes unions like that!
(f) Go to my SID and tell me what my demented code does, and why, and how. Bonus points if you find that it actually might do something else. (hey, what do I know?)
(g) I had to edit a passwd file once in vi on a hosed system. Yuck! Deleting the end of a line is seriously broken; I'm just going to shut up about "HJKL", too. Now I probably would just use sed; it's easier.
First, I understand the argument that benchmarks aren't necessarily relevant. I can only type so fast in Microsoft Word, so provided it runs at a decent speed, I'm happy. For the user who just wants a cheap laptop, these might provide adequated performance coupled with a long battery life; that's just great.
But I'm a nerd, and I want to see the benchmarks. First, I remember reading *another* article about this from Slashdot, where they claimed that the Crusoe really shined at memory bandwidth, perhaps because it had so much integrated on the chip. That's really important nowadays, and people tend to ignore it.
Also, if anyone has one of these, could you please post results for the BYTEMarks? The Unix port includes numbers for memory bandwidth as well as integer and floating point, and the benchmark statistically repeats the tests until it gets a steady-state result for performance, which means that the Crusoe would get to optimize them after the first few passes through, and therefore this test should be more than fair to the Crusoe.
Also, the Crusoe should be compared against an equivalent (specced or priced) *laptop* configuration; remember that. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
If 100k of us put up a few bucks, we'd still be off by a factor of 10, and there aren't even that many of us.
I think that's a very cool idea, but you'd probably need a wider base of people to sponsor it.
Also, who would we donate it to? And couldn't we contact the museums about it first? Maybe they could help... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I thought you could do that, but you just had to type in "Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-Select- Start" or something first. Wasn't that on Slashdot a while back? --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Yeah, it reminded me too much of Episode I, but with the villian from Howard The Duck. (I'm sure he isn't the same guy, but he has the annoying grating cheesy villian voice down pat)
I'll reserve judgement until I see it, and forgive me, osm, but it looks like Thora Birch will be the next Natalie Portman...:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Re:QuickTime in Linux? (off topic)
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Sure.
Oh.... you mean the Sorensen codec.
Never mind...
Someone please convert this to an mpeg instead... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
As far as I can tell, what this will mean for Sony is that the first games for the Playstation II will be impressive, and it will have much room to grow, especially as the programmers get smarter about using the beast.
Whatever else people might say about Sony, the PSX2 is here now, and the X-Box isn't. Once it comes out, sure they'll have some competition, but I think a lot of people will just stick to using their PC's. As long as Square sticks with Sony, I'll be interested.;)
However, what I really wanted to play was Metroid 64. And for that I'll probably have to wait for the 'Dolphin' or whatever. BAH. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I remember being SO disappointed with the X-Men NES game. (and SO happy with the Arcade game! X-Men Rule!)
If that isn't enough to convince you to mod the review up, read the bit on Ninjas from "The Legend of Kage". Having a random rating category in a review of bad games rules, and Ninjas are Slashdot tradition as well.
Ninja Rating: 7
While most ninjas are notorious for being silent assassins of the night, it's nice to see one who's not afraid to climb trees and wear neon dresses. The only thing that could make this ninja cooler is a big sombrero and a Tonka Truck t-shirt. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
When WILL you people get it right? It's an OS that's JUST for HACKERS which is WHY it's pronounced LIGNUX!!!
Yes, that's for "LIGNUX Inside GNU's Not UniX" => "LIGNUX Inside GNU's Not UniX Inside Gnu's Not Unix Not UniX" => "LIGNUX Inside GNU's Not UniX Inside GNU's Not Unix Not UniX Inside GNU's Not Unix Not Unix Not UniX"...
I leave the finished expansion to the reader.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
What's this with having parts of the contract blacked out? I've never heard of this. Is this a common practice?
I've heard a few too many stories about heavy-handed tactics by Intel when dealing with their employees, or other corporations, so somehow it does not sadden me to see them trapped by RAMBUS. Maybe this will be a welcome breather to get some competition back into the industry.
In any case, I'm pretty happy with my Athlon.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Linux has support for this, actually; there are diagrams for it in the Documentation section, and drivers in the Joystick section of the kernel configuration.
I haven't tried it, mind you, because that's a hardware problem.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
It sounds like this will compete with the Playstation and the X-Box, going after people who are too cheap to buy real PC's or real consoles.
But people always get upset about other systems playing their games, especially when they have protection built into the CD's to stop stuff just like this.
Of course it's all just competition, but it starts to get unfair when one corporation gets significantly large... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Because of my corruption into DOS at an early age, I'm used to EDIT-style editors, (edlin really sucked) and PICO is the only standard one on UNIX. For coding, I like RHIDE, but it isn't terribly stable on Linux.
For a slightly better PICO-style editor, I'll use nano. For scripting, I'll just use the shell, you freak!:)
Try it out; I've used Quicken 5 on wine, and it's emulated almost perfectly. I don't know if wine will handle the installation correctly, but it should run Quicken. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I've gotten Photoshop 3.0 to work. I like a lot of the features The GIMP has, but I must say that Photoshop is *much* faster. Especially old versions of Photoshop...:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
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This sounds very much like a good thing; arla works okay as a client, but not great, and it's probably the least stable thing I have running under 2.4 right now.
I do have a few questions, though:
1) Does IBM own Transarc? What's the deal here?
2) What are the extra restrictions on the "IPL"? (Like we need YAOSSL (-> another license...))
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Well, my point was, sometimes it isn't that easy to turn something on or get it working after it has been secured. I don't necessarily like it, but that's the rationale, and it isn't so hard to run something like Bastille, either.
It would be nice if the default installs were more secure, though, and it sounds like Mandrake tries to give people that option upon installation.
The hardest thing to do is to make something like this easy and smart; any distro vendor who can do that gets my vote of confidence as well.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
First, if you want a default installation that's "hardened from the get-go", either run OpenBSD, or a non-UNIX that has no services.
:)
However, I don't see why this is really necessary. It's the sysadmin's job to secure his boxes, which is generally done after installation. First, you only select the services you need, then you tighten things up. Bastille just speeds this process up, and helps out novices a lot. Also, the OpenWall security patches (for the Linux kernel) are quite nifty; also, on ext2, chattr is pretty sweet if you're really paranoid.
It would be nice if a distro had a "Secure" option during installation, but basically they're just catering to the masses. Maybe you want to run 'ping'; maybe you're behind a firewall. Maybe you're not on the internet. Maybe you want to have all your services running in default configurations at startup, so you can tweak them later...
Basically, it's just easier to let the admin decide what to do with the box, and making it less secure makes that process easier for them as well. Most people don't know or care about security. And remember, just as the best form of birth control is still abstinence, the best form of network security is still the 'air-gap'.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Yeah; actually, read my reply to the pico post, I've got a little code for you (linked from my User Info page as well)...
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
If the patent office didn't pipeline the applications, could they possibly be any slower?
Oh, and the purpose behind those applications is to see if you can claim a patent on some inane obfuscation process to later sue IOCCC entrants, even if they're (probably) not writing in assembler.
later...
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Excellent; they've got an editor with your name written all over it!
:)
I used to know all the keys in TP5.0; they're the same, and I'm only 22...
I *love* rectangular cut-and-paste! That's why I tried to edit stuff in "The Draw" in the first place!
I type in shell script with 'cat'. If it's really complicated, well, I use pico!
Heh.
(a) paste them with cat (Unix: just cat and paste!)
(b) run pico as 'pico -w' (just alias it to 'pico -wb', actually...)
(c) use bash. Oh man do I hate tcsh; and we can't change it, either. At least I'm writing a simple shell for Operating Systems; I implemented pipes tonight!
(d) '/bin/vi' vs. '/usr/bin/pico'? Too scary for me...
(e) That code you sent me was demented. Now I have to replace the typedefs... TELL me no-one writes unions like that!
(f) Go to my SID and tell me what my demented code does, and why, and how. Bonus points if you find that it actually might do something else. (hey, what do I know?)
(g) I had to edit a passwd file once in vi on a hosed system. Yuck! Deleting the end of a line is seriously broken; I'm just going to shut up about "HJKL", too. Now I probably would just use sed; it's easier.
later...
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Thanks for telling me, Michael! I was going to mark it as 'Insightful' by mistake...
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
First, I understand the argument that benchmarks aren't necessarily relevant. I can only type so fast in Microsoft Word, so provided it runs at a decent speed, I'm happy. For the user who just wants a cheap laptop, these might provide adequated performance coupled with a long battery life; that's just great.
But I'm a nerd, and I want to see the benchmarks. First, I remember reading *another* article about this from Slashdot, where they claimed that the Crusoe really shined at memory bandwidth, perhaps because it had so much integrated on the chip. That's really important nowadays, and people tend to ignore it.
Also, if anyone has one of these, could you please post results for the BYTEMarks? The Unix port includes numbers for memory bandwidth as well as integer and floating point, and the benchmark statistically repeats the tests until it gets a steady-state result for performance, which means that the Crusoe would get to optimize them after the first few passes through, and therefore this test should be more than fair to the Crusoe.
Also, the Crusoe should be compared against an equivalent (specced or priced) *laptop* configuration; remember that.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
If 100k of us put up a few bucks, we'd still be off by a factor of 10, and there aren't even that many of us.
I think that's a very cool idea, but you'd probably need a wider base of people to sponsor it.
Also, who would we donate it to? And couldn't we contact the museums about it first? Maybe they could help...
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I thought you could do that, but you just had to type in "Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-Select- Start" or something first. Wasn't that on Slashdot a while back?
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Yeah, it reminded me too much of Episode I, but with the villian from Howard The Duck. (I'm sure he isn't the same guy, but he has the annoying grating cheesy villian voice down pat)
:)
I'll reserve judgement until I see it, and forgive me, osm, but it looks like Thora Birch will be the next Natalie Portman...
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Sure.
Oh.... you mean the Sorensen codec.
Never mind...
Someone please convert this to an mpeg instead...
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Ok, now call it a PSX2.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Let me stop this right here. For my sake, please:
Don't call it a PS2!!!
I prefer PSX2, but realize that PS2 -> PS/2, which is much closer to the X-Box, but rather dated.
Ok?
Thanks.
Any game with Spiderman in it has to be awesome!
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
As far as I can tell, what this will mean for Sony is that the first games for the Playstation II will be impressive, and it will have much room to grow, especially as the programmers get smarter about using the beast.
;)
Whatever else people might say about Sony, the PSX2 is here now, and the X-Box isn't. Once it comes out, sure they'll have some competition, but I think a lot of people will just stick to using their PC's. As long as Square sticks with Sony, I'll be interested.
However, what I really wanted to play was Metroid 64. And for that I'll probably have to wait for the 'Dolphin' or whatever. BAH.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Hell YEAH, mod that UP!
I remember being SO disappointed with the X-Men NES game. (and SO happy with the Arcade game! X-Men Rule!)
If that isn't enough to convince you to mod the review up, read the bit on Ninjas from "The Legend of Kage". Having a random rating category in a review of bad games rules, and Ninjas are Slashdot tradition as well.
Ninja Rating: 7
While most ninjas are notorious for being silent assassins of the night, it's nice to see one who's not afraid to climb trees and wear neon dresses. The only thing that could make this ninja cooler is a big sombrero and a Tonka Truck t-shirt.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
When WILL you people get it right? It's an OS that's JUST for HACKERS which is WHY it's pronounced LIGNUX!!!
:)
Yes, that's for "LIGNUX Inside GNU's Not UniX" => "LIGNUX Inside GNU's Not UniX Inside Gnu's Not Unix Not UniX" => "LIGNUX Inside GNU's Not UniX Inside GNU's Not Unix Not UniX Inside GNU's Not Unix Not Unix Not UniX"...
I leave the finished expansion to the reader.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
What's this with having parts of the contract blacked out? I've never heard of this. Is this a common practice?
:)
I've heard a few too many stories about heavy-handed tactics by Intel when dealing with their employees, or other corporations, so somehow it does not sadden me to see them trapped by RAMBUS. Maybe this will be a welcome breather to get some competition back into the industry.
In any case, I'm pretty happy with my Athlon.
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Linux has support for this, actually; there are diagrams for it in the Documentation section, and drivers in the Joystick section of the kernel configuration.
:)
I haven't tried it, mind you, because that's a hardware problem.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
It sounds like this will compete with the Playstation and the X-Box, going after people who are too cheap to buy real PC's or real consoles.
But people always get upset about other systems playing their games, especially when they have protection built into the CD's to stop stuff just like this.
Of course it's all just competition, but it starts to get unfair when one corporation gets significantly large...
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
It sounds great to me, but...
I see a pissed-off Sony Corporation in their future.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Hi, Joe!
:)
Because of my corruption into DOS at an early age, I'm used to EDIT-style editors, (edlin really sucked) and PICO is the only standard one on UNIX. For coding, I like RHIDE, but it isn't terribly stable on Linux.
For a slightly better PICO-style editor, I'll use nano. For scripting, I'll just use the shell, you freak!
later,
Peter
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Pico rules! I'm sorry it's *just* a simple, friendly, modeless text editor, but that's all it ever wanted to be.
;)
But if you want another editor to hate, use Nano; it's even better!
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Try it out; I've used Quicken 5 on wine, and it's emulated almost perfectly. I don't know if wine will handle the installation correctly, but it should run Quicken.
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I've gotten Photoshop 3.0 to work. I like a lot of the features The GIMP has, but I must say that Photoshop is *much* faster. Especially old versions of Photoshop... :)
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.