Jeez -- you insult the poster, *and* you are wrong *and* manage a +5!
Way to go, dawg!
PS. The Niagra implements both "hyperthreading" and "multiple cores".
Hyperthreading IS a good idea -- read the article (or any of the Intel papers). Throughput is the word; most users who disable the feature, do so to improve latency (which may suffer)
I don't get this one. Media organizations want to, what, limit the venue here?
The damage occured in Ontario, the Post is international. It has an office in Toronto, and subscribers, and an INTERNET site that continued to publish the material.
There is no connection between most of the defendents and Ontario, but they don't have a connection with Washington either. It's a push.
The damage, however, occured in Ontario. And so Ontario gets jurisdiction.
Of course, the ruling may not be enforced in the U.S. But it isn't about money, its about reputation. The Post may well find themselves in contempt of Court here in Ontario. Wouldn't be good for their reputation. ("Blame it on Canada")
What I use it for (beyond names/addresses and calendar):
Lists and tracking Dive Logging Graphing Calculator Encrypted Password Storage and generation Drafting simple circuits Note taking, including simple illustrations Electronic books Project Management Email SSH access to servers "Simple programs" - LISP and C
It has pretty much replaced a laptop. The only thing that I don't do is on-line web browsing. Instead, I use something called "Plucker" to retrieve and convert web pages, and then peruse them off-line. But I do wish that the particular Palm I use would be powerful enough to do MP3s (its not).
Now, form factor (size) is important to me -- I find the Sharp Zaurus (and, yes, I have one) to be too large.
It would be interesting, but pointless to try that here.
Specifically, THERE IS NO UNAUTHORIZED DOWNLOADING here.
Yes, there may be penalties for (say) putting a song on a "BBS", but there is *no* problem downloading.
Since there is no such thing as "unauthorized download of music" in Canada, I wonder what kind of crack is being smoked at this conference. 5 cents a song? I pay a surcharge on blank media already. It probably amounts to "5 cents a song", so you are NOT getting it again.
You (the record industry) LIKED getting a surcharge on media put into the Copyright Law here in Canada; I am serious when I say you are NOT getting another automatic fee.
I would be willing to accept ANY implementation, as long as it *is* an ASIC (no fair giving me an ASIC that itself must be programmed), and does compile at least K&R C (there you go, I've simplified your life).
WHEN (if) you come back (it'll be a few years -- possibly decades), we'll talk again about the equivalence and practicality of applying ASIC rules to software.
Isn't the promise of C# to allow you to develop using Windows and deploy on Linux?
And, if that's the case, why bother with a "Mono IDE"?
Honestly curious here -- I am more in the Java camp - develop on Linux, Windows, or Solaris, and deploy J2ME on Cell Phones. Also, develop on Linux, and deploy on Windows.
I have been thinking about the whole C# and Mono thing; and am almost ready to give it a whirl.
I would STILL buy hardware -- in fact I require that any hardware I buy be supported by open systems. No support == no sale.
I really, truly, don't want the hardware vendor writing drivers. (except as an example of how the hardware is EXPECTED to be used).
Take Intel as an example. Intel supplies some proto-code to illustrated how protected mode works. But Intel does NOT supply Windows, BSD, Linux etc with the processor chip.
Does the GPL hurt at all under these rules? Perhaps a company is afraid that simply having access to the register specs is going to allow a competitor to build a compatible chip and sell it for less money.
Figure 6 months to tape out, test, write documentation, market -- and think about the cycle on existing chips! It won't make any difference, unless the original chip is SO simple that it is trivial and not worth the purchase price.
Also, patents on chip algo implementations can be obtained (I even have some, so it 'aint that difficult!)
Perhaps you want me to believe that Intel can compete whilst opening a register spec on the processor itself, while NVIDIA and ATI can't compete? I'll even grant you that... but, personally, I only use open drivers. (more secure, crashes can be dealt with, and have a future). Even if the open driver solution costs WAY more.
For example, I use the DLink 800+ Ethernet to Wireless Bridge, rather than a closed-source 802.11b solution. Cost? $20 vs. $100. Benefit? The open solution will work with any platform (PC, SPARC, Windows, Solaris, BSD,...). Yup, DLink is now $80 ahead (at least on me).
Oh, and the software within the 800 isn't even `GPL'! Its simply a bridge from 802.11b standard and Ethernet standard.
As to software - low level OS and driver and commodity software must be open source. Specific applications may be distributed in a more rigid manner (although I STILL prefer source distribution, not knowing if the vendor is going out of business, or what her plans are -- escrow would work as well).
First, you point to the source installation for ALSA. Is it *possible* to do a source installation of your sound driver on Windows? Just wondering.
As to patching. Ok, you get to patch XP (and, no, it HASN'T been around for 5 years. That would be W2K). And you get to patch Linux distributions (and Solaris), and...
You are right, its a push.
Basic functionality? You mean, VGA 16 colour, and SoundBlaster emulation, right? So what, Linux has VGA and SoundBlaster as well.
Now, these argugments are NOT meant to persuade you to use Linux. If you were ready, or had a reason, you would know. Since you like Microsoft Windows, and you have ALREADY paid for it, go ahead and knock yourself out.
Back to the "Will Microsoft kill Linux?" point, "Linux Rules"/"Microsoft is Better" point/counterpoint --
There are two major camps; those that desire a good, solid, standards-conformning base, with the advantages conferred by Open Software, and those that really couldn't care (at least about the standards, and the Open) -- but do care about the "look and feel" style interactions. You know what camp you are in, and when/if you want to come to the other side.
Personally, people who stick with Proprietary Solutions make me happy; they have provided me with a much increased income over the years. And I hold Microsoft shares. They haven't done as well as ATI since the bust, but have certainly out-performed Red Hat, HP, SUN. On the other hand, I like Open Software, so my own gear runs it. Suit yourself.
Yes, and most people use systems from the 20 top vendors. That would be why they are the top 20 (by definition?).
Yes, and the systems are "pre-activated". If Windows is re-installed after format, activation is needed. (Hard drive failure would count, as well, as would putting in the latest&greatest video card for gaming).
Yes, and Microsoft has avowed that this policy will be extended.
Which part the the fine article did you read?
As to non-transferrable OEM copy... Do you mean to imply that *if* I purchase a PC on the used market, that the OS is *not* transferred? That I do not have normal copyright rights?
a and b are references, which are pointers in the C sense:
So the C code would be:
int *a, *b;...
if (a != b) {... }
The extension to C++ usage is obvious to a skilled practioner.
And the (new, patent pending or granted?) Microsoft BASIC approach is:
if a isNot b then...
The equivalence is EXACT between != and isNot. I am a skilled at programming, and I find it obvious.
Microsoft will NEVER defend this patent. 'Cause they will lose.
PS. Object equality vs. Value equality is carefully delineated in "Smalltalk, The Language and Its Implementation" (just the reference I had at hand, there are HUNDREDS of other discussions -- usually for stuff a bit more interesting though).
I mount NFS home directories with automount on Red Hat 9.
So, I push an auto.master using NIS. Works peachy. I've never tried it -- but I think that using an SMB share as a home directory would be as simple as changing the automount specification? This doesn't work?
As to NIS: its what I use, and RH9 is happy with it.
However, RH9 does offer "NIS", "LDAP", "Kerberos 5", "SMB" authentication schemes on installation.
Note that autofs uses/etc/auto.master, or NIS to get the auto.master. No biggy -- isn't updating/etc/auto.master easy enough (assuming you don't push it with NIS)?
A rootkit can be installed on any OS that can be rooted in the first place. To root a box requires two things:
An attack vector that gives access
A method to escalate to root.
On Windows, typically, user runs as "admin", which means only the first need be found. Any convenient buffer overflow will do.
On Unix, typically, services are not run as "root", meaning local priviledge escalations are useful. (suid programs, etc.)
In general, its easier with Windows.
HOWEVER, the art of writing the rest of the rootkit is better understood under Unix -- the common services are clearly documented. Under Windows, the rootkit author needs to expend more work in the kit itself. Before Windows, PC-DOS rootkits were quite common.
As to "probable"? If you find *any* trojan software that has *ever* had root, its over. Same for viruses. Note that its very difficult to determine if root was ever aquired, as this means the software can have made itself invisible.
So, the machine must be booted from clean (unwritable) media to find any "spyware", "viruses", etc. The rest of the discussion doesn't matter. A clean boot is needed. (and, even this is hard -- now that BIOS is flashable, the kit could hide there instead; which is why is I DON'T like flashable BIOS, and favour a simple bootloader).
YMMV Ratboy (and, yes, I *have* been rootkitted; now I am just a paranoid)
Not so good -- most of these are SOC, and contain LCD controllers, bus controllers, net controllers, etc. on the same die.
You want MIPS core on a chip, without the extras. I don't think that this is (commonly) available; the MIPS core is generally dropped into other designs.
Beg to differ -- but it doesn't. We use (by fiat) Word and Visio at work.
Put a Visio picture in -- an outside company gets it and prints it: two of the boxes are BLACK, whereas on our printer they are WHITE. And, there is a blue bit which prints as a half-tone for the outside company that doesn't print AT ALL on our printer (but is visible on the screen). So, Visio "doesn't get printing".
As to the rest of Word? Generally works. But, you need the correct printer driver. Whereas with Unix, you send around PostScript (and don't need a stinkin driver). I tend to prefer the PostScript solution.
PS. The difference between ourselves and the outside company? We use PostScript printers; they don't.
Yes, but violation of patents has NOTHING to do with what platform you are on...
Eg. MP3 usage. Patent is "free", even for commercial programs, until you sell 10,000 units a year. At that point, it will cost you. Doesn't matter whether is Windows or Linux, or XXX.
And, I read the EULA; it allows transfer (under certain conditions).
So, you trump the EULA?
Anyway, I have NO idea what an "MMORPG" actually is (well, it's a game program or system of some kind). So, the only way I would ever be introduced to this is via the second-hand market.
So, in a sick, twisted, way, you are right.
I will never know, because I will not participate in "beta"s, and I won't buy a fresh one, if I don't know what it is.
Good job alienating the (rest of the) market, son.
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Jeez -- you insult the poster, *and* you are wrong *and* manage a +5!
Way to go, dawg!
PS. The Niagra implements both "hyperthreading" and "multiple cores".
Hyperthreading IS a good idea -- read the article (or any of the Intel papers). Throughput is the word; most users who disable the feature, do so to improve latency (which may suffer)
Ratboy.
Palm M505 with Xircom 802.11b sled. 512MB SD card.
http://trikuare.cx/code/AudioCompress.html
Works with most players -- xmms plugin as well.
Ratboy
I don't get this one. Media organizations want to, what, limit the venue here?
The damage occured in Ontario, the Post is international. It has an office in Toronto, and subscribers, and an INTERNET site that continued to publish the material.
There is no connection between most of the defendents and Ontario, but they don't have a connection with Washington either. It's a push.
The damage, however, occured in Ontario. And so Ontario gets jurisdiction.
Of course, the ruling may not be enforced in the U.S. But it isn't about money, its about reputation. The Post may well find themselves in contempt of Court here in Ontario. Wouldn't be good for their reputation. ("Blame it on Canada")
Ratboy.
Sure. I have a Palm (sorry), with 802.11b.
What I use it for (beyond names/addresses and calendar):
Lists and tracking
Dive Logging
Graphing Calculator
Encrypted Password Storage and generation
Drafting simple circuits
Note taking, including simple illustrations
Electronic books
Project Management
Email
SSH access to servers
"Simple programs" - LISP and C
It has pretty much replaced a laptop. The only thing that I don't do is on-line web browsing. Instead, I use something called "Plucker" to retrieve and convert web pages, and then peruse them off-line. But I do wish that the particular Palm I use would be powerful enough to do MP3s (its not).
Now, form factor (size) is important to me -- I find the Sharp Zaurus (and, yes, I have one) to be too large.
Ratboy
Ok, I live in Canada.
It would be interesting, but pointless to try that here.
Specifically, THERE IS NO UNAUTHORIZED DOWNLOADING here.
Yes, there may be penalties for (say) putting a song on a "BBS", but there is *no* problem downloading.
Since there is no such thing as "unauthorized download of music" in Canada, I wonder what kind of crack is being smoked at this conference. 5 cents a song? I pay a surcharge on blank media already. It probably amounts to "5 cents a song", so you are NOT getting it again.
You (the record industry) LIKED getting a surcharge on media put into the Copyright Law here in Canada; I am serious when I say you are NOT getting another automatic fee.
Ratboy
Ok, I'll give you a simple task:
Please design an ASIC that can run C code.
I would be willing to accept ANY implementation, as long as it *is* an ASIC (no fair giving me an ASIC that itself must be programmed), and does compile at least K&R C (there you go, I've simplified your life).
WHEN (if) you come back (it'll be a few years -- possibly decades), we'll talk again about the equivalence and practicality of applying ASIC rules to software.
Ratboy.
Isn't the promise of C# to allow you to develop using Windows and deploy on Linux?
And, if that's the case, why bother with a "Mono IDE"?
Honestly curious here -- I am more in the Java camp - develop on Linux, Windows, or Solaris, and deploy J2ME on Cell Phones.
Also, develop on Linux, and deploy on Windows.
I have been thinking about the whole C# and Mono thing; and am almost ready to give it a whirl.
Ratboy.
Companies sell me hardware.
...). Yup, DLink is now $80 ahead (at least on me).
Not (commodity) driver software.
I would STILL buy hardware -- in fact I require that any hardware
I buy be supported by open systems. No support == no sale.
I really, truly, don't want the hardware vendor writing drivers.
(except as an example of how the hardware is EXPECTED to be used).
Take Intel as an example. Intel supplies some proto-code to illustrated
how protected mode works. But Intel does NOT supply Windows, BSD, Linux
etc with the processor chip.
Does the GPL hurt at all under these rules? Perhaps a company is afraid
that simply having access to the register specs is going to allow
a competitor to build a compatible chip and sell it for less money.
Figure 6 months to tape out, test, write documentation, market -- and
think about the cycle on existing chips! It won't make any difference,
unless the original chip is SO simple that it is trivial and not worth
the purchase price.
Also, patents on chip algo implementations can be obtained (I even
have some, so it 'aint that difficult!)
Perhaps you want me to believe that Intel can compete whilst opening
a register spec on the processor itself, while NVIDIA and ATI can't compete?
I'll even grant you that... but, personally, I only use open drivers.
(more secure, crashes can be dealt with, and have a future). Even if the
open driver solution costs WAY more.
For example, I use the DLink 800+ Ethernet to Wireless Bridge, rather than
a closed-source 802.11b solution. Cost? $20 vs. $100. Benefit? The open
solution will work with any platform (PC, SPARC, Windows, Solaris, BSD,
Oh, and the software within the 800 isn't even `GPL'! Its simply a bridge
from 802.11b standard and Ethernet standard.
As to software - low level OS and driver and commodity software must
be open source. Specific applications may be distributed in a more rigid
manner (although I STILL prefer source distribution, not knowing if the
vendor is going out of business, or what her plans are -- escrow would
work as well).
Ratboy
Lets take this a piece at a time...
...
First, you point to the source installation for ALSA. Is it *possible* to do a source installation of your sound driver on Windows? Just wondering.
As to patching. Ok, you get to patch XP (and, no, it HASN'T been around for 5 years. That would be W2K). And you get to patch Linux distributions (and Solaris), and
You are right, its a push.
Basic functionality? You mean, VGA 16 colour, and SoundBlaster emulation, right? So what, Linux has VGA and SoundBlaster as well.
Now, these argugments are NOT meant to persuade you to use Linux. If you were ready, or had a reason, you would know. Since you like Microsoft Windows, and you have ALREADY paid for it, go ahead and knock yourself out.
Back to the "Will Microsoft kill Linux?" point, "Linux Rules"/"Microsoft is Better" point/counterpoint --
There are two major camps; those that desire a good, solid, standards-conformning base, with the advantages conferred by Open Software, and those that really couldn't care (at least about the standards, and the Open) -- but do care about the "look and feel" style interactions. You know what camp you are in, and when/if you want to come to the other side.
Personally, people who stick with Proprietary Solutions make me happy; they have provided me with a much increased income over the years. And I hold Microsoft shares. They haven't done as well as ATI since the bust, but have certainly out-performed Red Hat, HP, SUN. On the other hand, I like Open Software, so my own gear runs it. Suit yourself.
Ratboy.
Do you mean that a hard drive failure or a video card change does not constitute a major hardware change?
Please note that I specifically cited these two cases.
Ratboy.
Yes, and most people use systems from the 20 top vendors. That would be why they are the top 20 (by definition?).
Yes, and the systems are "pre-activated". If Windows is re-installed after format, activation is needed. (Hard drive failure would count, as well, as would putting in the latest&greatest video card for gaming).
Yes, and Microsoft has avowed that this policy will be extended.
Which part the the fine article did you read?
As to non-transferrable OEM copy... Do you mean to imply that *if* I purchase a PC on the used market, that the OS is *not* transferred? That I do not have normal copyright rights?
---
Ratboy
Any list that includes the POPEIL POCKET FISHERMAN in a list of greatest gadgets is priceless!
Ratboy
Actually, the grandparent post was right...
...
...
...
a and b are references, which are pointers in the C sense:
So the C code would be:
int *a, *b;
if (a != b) {
}
The extension to C++ usage is obvious to a skilled practioner.
And the (new, patent pending or granted?) Microsoft BASIC approach is:
if a isNot b then
The equivalence is EXACT between != and isNot. I am a skilled at programming, and I find it obvious.
Microsoft will NEVER defend this patent. 'Cause they will lose.
PS. Object equality vs. Value equality is carefully delineated in "Smalltalk, The Language and Its Implementation" (just the reference I had at hand, there are HUNDREDS of other discussions -- usually for stuff a bit more interesting though).
Ratboy.
Back to the question...
Yes, I agree that "Catalyst" or whatever makes routing decisions very fast. And ASICs can help.
But... How does this accelerate "scp" (just an example). The data has to be read, has to be encrypted, and then has to be sent.
What fraction of this does your blessed "Catalyst" or ANY special-purpose ASIC accelerate? Checksums - check. Possibly a single buffer copy - check.
In other words - YOU WILL NOT SEE MORE THAN 2X IMPROVEMENT.
Ok, maybe... because its scp. Ok, try with FTP.. What!?! The results are the same!?!
Pick an example that HAS TO DEAL WITH THE DATA, and illustrate how that is improved.
You do get the idea. To quote you: "but that flexibility comes with a price".
Ratboy
Just want to know -- how is aquiring MAME and insignia as a trademark relevent to stopping "illegal" trade of games and ROMs?
Oh, and the "illegal" part -- maybe in the US. Other jurisdictions, not so clear.
Can't be done on a a copyright basis -- MAME doesn't conflict. And there IS substantial non-infringing use -- so you can't go down that avenue either.
As to trademark; its established already. Nothing you can do EVEN if you aquire it (which would be bizzare).
The problem is the "illegal ROM trade" wrt US jurisdiction. So why not take that on directly?
Ratboy
Something I find fascinating is that x86 is a "de facto" standard.
The IEEE standard for microprocessor is the SPARC core.
So, why does the "de facto" win over the real standard?
Marketing, I guess. Not many techies are even AWARE that the there is a processor standard, let alone what it is.
Pity, that.
Ratboy
I mount NFS home directories with automount on Red Hat 9.
/etc/auto.master, or NIS to get the auto.master. No biggy -- isn't updating /etc/auto.master easy enough (assuming you don't push it with NIS)?
So, I push an auto.master using NIS. Works peachy. I've never tried it -- but I think that using an SMB share as a home directory would be as simple as changing the automount specification? This doesn't work?
As to NIS: its what I use, and RH9 is happy with it.
However, RH9 does offer "NIS", "LDAP", "Kerberos 5", "SMB" authentication schemes on installation.
Note that autofs uses
What are you trying to do?
Ratboy
A rootkit can be installed on any OS that can be rooted in the first place. To root a box requires two things:
An attack vector that gives access
A method to escalate to root.
On Windows, typically, user runs as "admin", which means only the first need be found. Any convenient buffer overflow will do.
On Unix, typically, services are not run as "root", meaning local priviledge escalations are useful. (suid programs, etc.)
In general, its easier with Windows.
HOWEVER, the art of writing the rest of the rootkit is better understood under Unix -- the common services are clearly documented. Under Windows, the rootkit author needs to expend more work in the kit itself. Before Windows, PC-DOS rootkits were quite common.
As to "probable"? If you find *any* trojan software that has *ever* had root, its over. Same for viruses. Note that its very difficult to determine if root was ever aquired, as this means the software can have made itself invisible.
So, the machine must be booted from clean (unwritable) media to find any "spyware", "viruses", etc. The rest of the discussion doesn't matter. A clean boot is needed. (and, even this is hard -- now that BIOS is flashable, the kit could hide there instead; which is why is I DON'T like flashable BIOS, and favour a simple bootloader).
YMMV
Ratboy
(and, yes, I *have* been rootkitted; now I am just a paranoid)
Not so good -- most of these are SOC, and contain LCD controllers, bus controllers, net controllers, etc. on the same die.
You want MIPS core on a chip, without the extras. I don't think that this is (commonly) available; the MIPS core is generally dropped into other designs.
Ratboy.
Off topic, but its germane to your comment:
Beg to differ -- but it doesn't. We use (by fiat) Word and Visio at work.
Put a Visio picture in -- an outside company gets it and prints it: two of the boxes are BLACK, whereas on our printer they are WHITE. And, there is a blue bit which prints as a half-tone for the outside company that doesn't print AT ALL on our printer (but is visible on the screen). So, Visio "doesn't get printing".
As to the rest of Word? Generally works. But, you need the correct printer driver. Whereas with Unix, you send around PostScript (and don't need a stinkin driver). I tend to prefer the PostScript solution.
PS. The difference between ourselves and the outside company? We use PostScript printers; they don't.
Ratboy.
Yes, but violation of patents has NOTHING to do with what platform you are on...
Eg. MP3 usage. Patent is "free", even for commercial programs, until you sell 10,000 units a year. At that point, it will cost you. Doesn't matter whether is Windows or Linux, or XXX.
Ratboy
How am I to know this? Oh, you said so....
And, I read the EULA; it allows transfer (under certain conditions).
So, you trump the EULA?
Anyway, I have NO idea what an "MMORPG" actually is (well, it's a game program or system of some kind). So, the only way I would ever be introduced to this is via the second-hand market.
So, in a sick, twisted, way, you are right.
I will never know, because I will not participate in "beta"s, and I won't buy a fresh one, if I don't know what it is.
Good job alienating the (rest of the) market, son.
Ratboy.
Read the EULA. The contract can be transferred. Making it (if the transfer was valid), between the new owner and Blizzard.
Ratboy.
Since when is a license NOT a contract? (Governments aside).
Since when have there been terms to USE a copyrighted work? (pedantic -- yes I know there are restrictions on performance).
Ratboy.