You ACTUALLY believe OSX is right around the corner? What a sad, sad existance you Mac users lead.
Tell me something. How many times has Apple promised to revolutionize MacOS, and how many times have they shelved the revolutionary version in favor of hacking up the old 1980's technology again?
It's odd that they didn't roll over the old customers. When all the little isps out here were getting bought out, they at least kept the customer base.
You paint the picture like they're all good operations tho. My isp (xmission.com) is an indepdent isp that just managed to be an excellent source of internet service, and is now the largest and oldest in the state. Quality persists. Companies get bought out for one of two reasons: They wanted to get bought out, or they had no choice but to get bought out. Greed or incompetence, either way.
I've seen a lot of little ISPs go down the toilet, and that's where most of them belonged.
Case in point: an outfit called Legacy Internet. These guys used to rent an office in a building i used to work in. My employer owned the whole building, and, being less than 100 yards from the CO, and with a frame relay circuit undernieth the parking lot (with conduit direct to the CO), you could have considered the building extremely wired. So a lot of ISPs rented unused office and closet space from us.
Legacy Internet advertised on their flyers that they would "Bring you the internet with the technology of Windows NT". Basically, they had two generic PCs in their office, one of them aparantly a web server, the other one with a big MUX next to it and a huge stack of loose generic modems. Oh, and a gigantic pile of NT how-to books next to the desk.
Legacy Internet was literally a mom&pop. A literal mom and a literal pop. They may have even been retired.
Almost invariably, if i was working late, they'd show up at about 6:30pm, with tired, frustrated faces, and groan over their how-to books and NT boxes.
For some reason they didn't have an actual phone in there, even though they had a great bundle of POTS lines. We had configured the phone in the lobby to have no dial tone. It worked fine if you dialed on it, it just had no dial tone. This was a surprisingly effective cost cutting measure. Before we did this, people would wander over from other businesses in the building and make long distance calls after hours.
So, anyway, one night I'm working late, and they're sweating over half a dozen NT How-To books, and it turns out they want to order a pizza.
One of them spent ten or fifteen minutes puzzling over the phone in the lobby. I walked past a few times picking up stuff from the printer. Finally, she asks me how to use the phone. So I say "Just select a line and dial" "But there's no dial tone" "There won't be a dial tone. Just select a line and dial" "What?" "It works fine, just select a line and dial your number"
Ten minutes later, utterly frustrated, she decided to walk out and get the pizza in person. Sad, sad, sad.
Legacy Internet is long gone, absorbed by a bigger, more competent company. Good riddance.
In comparison, the two other ISPs renting from us at the time, Aros.net and concentric.net, had far fewer troubles. Every three or four months some boxes would show up via FedEx for Concentric, a half hour later a technician would show up, install whatever was in the boxes, and leave. Aros was just using us as a backup emergency POP, and would send a technician out to manually busy-out a malfunctioning modem from time to time. Aros is still going strong, and everyone knows concentric.
It all boils down to competence, whether that's financial or technical. An independently owned ISP *can survive, if it has the requisite skill, and honestly wants to.
I know there's a lot of hype behind supermicro, I know they have really cool feature lists.
But I know too many people who have paid a premium to own a supermicro product only to find that they were slightly flaky, that the super nifty features didn't work properly, and that the boards were quickly orphaned (support discontinued) when newer boards were released.
Well, the issue is, the APM specification does not cover multiple cpu systems.
As Alan Cox said, "If making that APM call reformats your disk and plays tetris on an SMP box the bios vendor is within spec (if a little peculiar). No APM call of any kind is SMP safe."
Oh, Idunno, I'd bet money that some company has been selling thousands and thousands of a box that's all that and more running linux, and with additional capabilities like vpn support, ipsec, etc, and making oodles of real money off it while the entire/. community wasn't looking.
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This Is Not A Flame. That being said . . .
I don't like the new design. And it's not just the selection boxes.
The first time freshmeat was redesigned, there was a long "WTF?!" moment caused both by the unfamiliarity and by the way some things were in places that just didn't make sense.
But over all, it was clear that a lot of time and effort went into the visual design, and it worked out quite well once the functional problems were fixed. Even if it did take forever to render all those boxes.
This time, I can understand why he got rid of the boxes, but he seems to have forgotten what they were for. The last time it was re-worked, it was easier to browse than the original layout. This time, it's harder to browse than the original layout.
And for some very specific reasons.
The boxes were good because they visually grouped everything belonging to a particular item. There is no longer a visual grouping.
Try this - grab the scroll bar with your mouse, close your eyes, scroll up and down a few times until you're sure you're not where you used to be in the page, then glance at the page for a fraction of a second and close your eyes again - Can you remember how many items there were on the screen? Probably not. With the old design, you could have, because the boxes made it very clear, without having to pay attention to detail and repetition of a pattern, what belonged to what.
The black text in the titles right above the light blue text in the by-line is a big mistake. The blue text is more eye-catching, and takes your attention away from the important information: the project you were looking for.
The blue bar on the side is superfluous, but that's just a matter of personal preference.
The selection boxes are inexcusable, even if he's already apologized and promised to take them away. If you add more clicks to a process than there were before, you will invariably annoy your users. This should have been totally obvious, but clearly it wasn't.
The grey bar on the right isn't differentiated enough from the center, which makes the page harder to read. The text is far too close together, it's distracting.
It can be fixed. I understand that the big deal was the back-end. But I *really hope the front end does get fixed.
You can fit quite a bit of linux into the 4 meg flash, if you can get linux to handle the flash. cramfs is perfect for this sort of thing.
There are a lot of misconceptions about the TiVo. The 133mhz Elan in this box beats the tar out of the cpu in a TiVo - a PowerPC 403 at 50mhz - way slower than anything ever put in a macintosh. IBM puts them on RAID controllers. they are Low End ppc. Embedded class. Wimps.
The major reason the tivo works so well is because of all the dedicated hardware in it. With a tweaked kernel, a hardware mpeg encoder, and a hardware mpeg decoder, there's no reason this box couldn't do something similar - but without a couple of open PCI slots and a considerable development effort i don't see it happening.
PilotLink doesn't contain support for MAL, but it's not the right app to support it.
When i saw this article, my first reaction was "Great, now it'll be *another lengthy wait for linux to catch up"
Aparantly most people don't know, Linux does support MAL. You can even hotsync avantgo with linux.
You'll need PilotLink (of course), jpilot (curiously enough, the j doesn't mean it's written in java - it's written with gtk+), MALSync (http://www.tomw.org/malsync/) and the jpilot-syncmal plugin from http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/jpilot.html. Get the source for everything but pilot-link, because you will be compiling stuff differently from the standard installation.
Works pretty well here, except i still have to sync with windows to drop channels from avantgo, and you will still need to sync with windows to install and configure avantgo. But follow the instructions in the jpilot-syncmal documentation or it'll be a lot harder than it should be.
Face it. IRC is the universal home of Those Who Have No Hope Of Ever Having Sex.
Efnet, undernet, chatnet, all the big nets. the PFY's known as scriptkiddies (some of them not even youthful pimple faced youths anymore) go to IRC because it's somewhere that magically makes their penis extend two or three whole inches, just because they can find some person or some group of persons, cause them a great deal of displeasure, and say "Look what i did!" to their buddies.
What these twits would realize, if they had grey matter operating above the brainstem, is that by doing this, they're making everyone who has donated equipment and bandwidth to IRC networks question whether or not that was a good idea.
IRC networks are going to go away because of scriptkiddies, unless these kiddies, some of them over 20 these days (get a life, folks), knock it off.
Would YOU run a public irc server if it ment you were going to get DoSed into the stone age twice a week? I sure as hell wouldn't. Maybe that's why chatnet only has 4 servers in the US these days.
All that being said, undernet has always been a haven for oversexed, underage wankers anyway.
Go ahead, moderate this post as a flame. I'm just upset because my home channel, which has existed in one form or another since the previous bush administration, has been moving around from network to network lately trying to find one that doesn't get shut down constantly by angry users, or worse yet, angry ircops who are scriptkiddies themselves.
Nah, the cable modem is technically "on loan" to you and can only legally be used with Windows95 or 98. Oh, and all your packets will be routed through a logging facility, for market analysis.:)
I'm a lifetime resident of Happy Valley. I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head.
Fact is, orrin wins by such wide margins that we're probably stuck with him until he dies anyhow. So many people here vote republican without even thinking about it that it's frightening.
Personally I'm a libertarian, one of 506 in happy valley according to the vote talleys. So I have the luxury of living in a state where my vote doesn't matter. You'd be surprised how relaxing that is. People don't ask or care who you support politically, presuming that they can spot a liberal at about a hundred yards, and just presume you're a republican. Makes it pretty easy to insert dissenting opinions into an argument without getting them stamped with a political affiliation before you're even finished stating them. Most people don't even understand what a libertarian is anyhow.
Orrin's been a mixed bag. He pulls some well meaning but incredibly badly executed stuff sometimes. Like the DMCA, which was written in order to fulfill the terms of an international treaty, but which is worded so poorly that it can be interpreted in some incredibly nefarious ways.
Over all I don't think he's done a bad job, but I wouldn't say I like him. Even considering that there's a shot of him standing next to my mother on his website.
Basically, so many people just vote republican across the board here that short of him getting caught in a motel room with some farm animals there's basically no way the nation will ever be rid of him, so your best bet is to never cut him any slack and get in his face whenever he annoys you.
Depends on how you propose to fix the problem. Maybe it might be possible to presume the cpu is an i386 with no floating point if there's not a full database match, but that might piss off a lot of people, or it might not work at all anyway. I'm not sure how detailed the cpuid list is.
AMD Athlons had a similar problem. In kernels before i think 2.2.13, if you enabled the MTRR driver (needed to enable write-combining on video adapters, etc) and booted it on an athlon, it would erroniously detect the cpu as a K6 and promply panic when the MTRRs in the cpu didn't react the way K6's do.
It's not really surprising. But if Intel knew a year ago what changes would need to be made to the cpuid list, and didn't tell kernel developers well in advance of product release, it's their own fault. If it required a kernel developer getting his or her hands on an actual P4, that's not the linux communities fault.
what happened to the moderation on this one? Or am I just too stupid to find it funny? Somebody make this thing interesting or insightful or something, unless I'm just too much of a dimwit to catch the humor, and then reply to this and list in careful detail what's supposed to be funny about this so I know what to laugh at.
I agree with you completely, actually. I found that pretty odd. My best guess is that someone thought they detected thickly-veiled sarcasm towards the end. Who knows.
Sony is probably selling these things at a loss. That's generally the way with game consoles, with the presumption that they can make up for it in licensing when everybody buys the games.
But as we've all read before, there just aren't many PS2 games out there. And they aren't very good. Mostly because the SDK isn't really ready for primetime.
DVD laser heads are in somewhat short supply, according to various industrial news sources. If that's true, Sony had to make a decision.
DVD video is main-stream this holiday season. Sony has a good name in video systems, and an intense rivalry with Toshiba, who aparantly has a very good name in DVD players.
The DVD players are sold with a good margin, and make good money. This is more than likely where Sony believes they can make big money this season.
So, what would you do, given a limited supply of a component, needed for the construction of two devices, both in very high demand, both involving equally heated competition, where one of them probably won't make any money?
It's unfortunate that the PS2 isn't yet everything they told us it would be, but it's not, and they have to go with what's going to increase the bottom line.
There are definately more than three enigma machines. In fact, they only go for a few thousand dollars on the antiques market.
There are probably only three of this particular model, but there are way more than three worldwide, and most people who own them are neither museums nor governments.
These guys aren't the first, or even the second company to propose this sort of pointing system.
The Nod was a pointing device developed by Sage/Stride in the pre-ibmpc dawn of computing that worked by sticking a reflective dot to your forehead and standing a sensor on your monitor.
It didn't sell well, because people felt silly sticking a reflective dot on their forehead and wiggling their head around to move the pointer.
"My hardware is flaky, why do I have trouble compiling?!"
Because your hardware is flaky. Some cheapie motherboards don't do well. Or maybe your processor is faulty. I've had no trouble with a K6-450 and a K6-500 on linux here. Including compiling all sorts of things.
I have a Toshiba ultraportable. Nice little box, 3 pounds, magnesium case, didn't cost a whole lot, nice bright screen, 96 megs of ram (maxed out)
64 of that 96 megs of ram are on an add-on card. For whatever reason, the cost of this proprietary memory card for this particular notebook has skyrocketed.
I've had the notebook about 10 months when, out of the blue, it starts rebooting spontaniously. I fire up memtest86, there's a few chunks of bad ram.
I take it out and start frantically searching for a source of a replacement. Currently, Kingston is the only manufacturer i can find shipping it, and they want 1/2 what the whole notebook goes for on eBay, including the memory card. About $350 for 64 megs of ram. No Effin Way. Just not going to happen. I'm not poor but that's just plain stupid. I'd be disgusted with myself if i spent that much on that little memory when i'd be better off selling the whole notebook and buying another.
So i found the badram patch. Patched my kernel. Found that my lilo was too old to allow the whole commandline. Downloaded and installed new lilo.
And, it doesn't work.
Well, it sortof works. Now, with that ram, it randomly locks up, instead of randomly reboots. Big improvement, right? Wrong.
I don't know what the problem is. A friend with a background in the semiconductor industry says that memtest86 is written from an outsider's point of view regarding memory, but that he's under a prior NDA, and Motorola would probably be Quite Upset if he leaked old documents that would tell the author how to improve it. Maybe i just need a better memtest86. Maybe i ought to expand the ranges so that an area around the affected areas are also blocked out. I don't know.
All I know is, in my case, it didn't really help. And that a notebook with 32 megs of ram and a really slow harddrive is useful for little more than an xterminal.
It's Camper Van Beethoven. And it's not "They," it's "He".
Lowery left CvB some years back to persue a career as a media whore after the somewhat mainstream success of Key Lime Pie. As you can see, it didn't quite pan out, and he's a bit bitter.
The rest of CvB attracted one or two other members and formed a new band, The Monks of Doom.
The Monks of Doom aren't as funny as CvB, but there was more to CvB than humor. If you liked CvB for the music, you'll like the Monks of Doom. I sure do.
I *Highly recommend the Monks of Doom. Cracker had maybe two good songs, and they sound alike. MoD retains all the creativity and virtuosity that was CvB.
Despite the availablility of multiprocessor Mips32 and Mips64 systems, there is currently no support for SMP in the Mips kernel tree.
This is becase where the ia32 archetecture has a common and well-documented SMP method, APIC, Mips does not. Each vendor seems to do their own proprietary thing.
This would definately be cool but I'll believe it when i see it.
You are sorely mistaken with regards to the purpose and functionality of switched ethernet.
Being "switched" does not guarantee you any ammount of bandwidth. Nobody ever even claimed it would, except maybe you.
It's like this. A switch prevents traffic which does not need to be broadcasted from being broadcasted. By broadcasted i mean, on an unbridged, unswitched network, that is, an ethernet network with only repeaters, when machine E communicates with machine W, all machines from A to Z get a copy of what they said.
A switch minimizes that so that only traffic which is of unknown destination or that is specifically broadcasted (ARP requests, etc) get repeated to every station.
A switch is useful in only two situations. One, where you want to be reasonably assured that morons won't be able to sniff other peoples traffic, and Two, where you wish to minimize the ammount of broadcast radiation between segments of a network. But don't be suckered into believing that it is a panacea for either application.
Furthermore, on homogenous switched networks, ANY one user can prevent ALL OTHER users from communicating with upstream parts of the network by flooding the uplink.
Guaranteeing bandwidth on ethernet based networks is exceptionally difficult and involves exotic, expensive hardware.
ATM PVC's used by DSL lines are an entirely different situation but I fear that i would be casting pearls before swine to attempt to explain it.
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You ACTUALLY believe OSX is right around the corner? What a sad, sad existance you Mac users lead.
Tell me something. How many times has Apple promised to revolutionize MacOS, and how many times have they shelved the revolutionary version in favor of hacking up the old 1980's technology again?
It's odd that they didn't roll over the old customers. When all the little isps out here were getting bought out, they at least kept the customer base.
You paint the picture like they're all good operations tho. My isp (xmission.com) is an indepdent isp that just managed to be an excellent source of internet service, and is now the largest and oldest in the state. Quality persists. Companies get bought out for one of two reasons: They wanted to get bought out, or they had no choice but to get bought out. Greed or incompetence, either way.
I've seen a lot of little ISPs go down the toilet, and that's where most of them belonged.
Case in point: an outfit called Legacy Internet. These guys used to rent an office in a building i used to work in. My employer owned the whole building, and, being less than 100 yards from the CO, and with a frame relay circuit undernieth the parking lot (with conduit direct to the CO), you could have considered the building extremely wired. So a lot of ISPs rented unused office and closet space from us.
Legacy Internet advertised on their flyers that they would "Bring you the internet with the technology of Windows NT". Basically, they had two generic PCs in their office, one of them aparantly a web server, the other one with a big MUX next to it and a huge stack of loose generic modems. Oh, and a gigantic pile of NT how-to books next to the desk.
Legacy Internet was literally a mom&pop. A literal mom and a literal pop. They may have even been retired.
Almost invariably, if i was working late, they'd show up at about 6:30pm, with tired, frustrated faces, and groan over their how-to books and NT boxes.
For some reason they didn't have an actual phone in there, even though they had a great bundle of POTS lines. We had configured the phone in the lobby to have no dial tone. It worked fine if you dialed on it, it just had no dial tone. This was a surprisingly effective cost cutting measure. Before we did this, people would wander over from other businesses in the building and make long distance calls after hours.
So, anyway, one night I'm working late, and they're sweating over half a dozen NT How-To books, and it turns out they want to order a pizza.
One of them spent ten or fifteen minutes puzzling over the phone in the lobby. I walked past a few times picking up stuff from the printer. Finally, she asks me how to use the phone. So I say "Just select a line and dial" "But there's no dial tone" "There won't be a dial tone. Just select a line and dial" "What?" "It works fine, just select a line and dial your number"
Ten minutes later, utterly frustrated, she decided to walk out and get the pizza in person. Sad, sad, sad.
Legacy Internet is long gone, absorbed by a bigger, more competent company. Good riddance.
In comparison, the two other ISPs renting from us at the time, Aros.net and concentric.net, had far fewer troubles. Every three or four months some boxes would show up via FedEx for Concentric, a half hour later a technician would show up, install whatever was in the boxes, and leave. Aros was just using us as a backup emergency POP, and would send a technician out to manually busy-out a malfunctioning modem from time to time. Aros is still going strong, and everyone knows concentric.
It all boils down to competence, whether that's financial or technical. An independently owned ISP *can survive, if it has the requisite skill, and honestly wants to.
that's the *text of the kernel, not a map of the kernel.
I know there's a lot of hype behind supermicro, I know they have really cool feature lists.
But I know too many people who have paid a premium to own a supermicro product only to find that they were slightly flaky, that the super nifty features didn't work properly, and that the boards were quickly orphaned (support discontinued) when newer boards were released.
I won't buy 'em, and don't recommend 'em.
Well, the issue is, the APM specification does not cover multiple cpu systems.
As Alan Cox said, "If making that APM call reformats your disk and plays tetris on an SMP box the bios vendor is within spec (if a little peculiar). No APM call of any kind is SMP safe."
Oh, Idunno, I'd bet money that some company has been selling thousands and thousands of a box that's all that and more running linux, and with additional capabilities like vpn support, ipsec, etc, and making oodles of real money off it while the entire /. community wasn't looking.
This Is Not A Flame. That being said . . .
I don't like the new design. And it's not just the selection boxes.
The first time freshmeat was redesigned, there was a long "WTF?!" moment caused both by the unfamiliarity and by the way some things were in places that just didn't make sense.
But over all, it was clear that a lot of time and effort went into the visual design, and it worked out quite well once the functional problems were fixed. Even if it did take forever to render all those boxes.
This time, I can understand why he got rid of the boxes, but he seems to have forgotten what they were for. The last time it was re-worked, it was easier to browse than the original layout. This time, it's harder to browse than the original layout.
And for some very specific reasons.
The boxes were good because they visually grouped everything belonging to a particular item. There is no longer a visual grouping.
Try this - grab the scroll bar with your mouse, close your eyes, scroll up and down a few times until you're sure you're not where you used to be in the page, then glance at the page for a fraction of a second and close your eyes again - Can you remember how many items there were on the screen? Probably not. With the old design, you could have, because the boxes made it very clear, without having to pay attention to detail and repetition of a pattern, what belonged to what.
The black text in the titles right above the light blue text in the by-line is a big mistake. The blue text is more eye-catching, and takes your attention away from the important information: the project you were looking for.
The blue bar on the side is superfluous, but that's just a matter of personal preference.
The selection boxes are inexcusable, even if he's already apologized and promised to take them away. If you add more clicks to a process than there were before, you will invariably annoy your users. This should have been totally obvious, but clearly it wasn't.
The grey bar on the right isn't differentiated enough from the center, which makes the page harder to read. The text is far too close together, it's distracting.
It can be fixed. I understand that the big deal was the back-end. But I *really hope the front end does get fixed.
You can fit quite a bit of linux into the 4 meg flash, if you can get linux to handle the flash. cramfs is perfect for this sort of thing.
There are a lot of misconceptions about the TiVo. The 133mhz Elan in this box beats the tar out of the cpu in a TiVo - a PowerPC 403 at 50mhz - way slower than anything ever put in a macintosh. IBM puts them on RAID controllers. they are Low End ppc. Embedded class. Wimps.
The major reason the tivo works so well is because of all the dedicated hardware in it. With a tweaked kernel, a hardware mpeg encoder, and a hardware mpeg decoder, there's no reason this box couldn't do something similar - but without a couple of open PCI slots and a considerable development effort i don't see it happening.
PilotLink doesn't contain support for MAL, but it's not the right app to support it.
When i saw this article, my first reaction was "Great, now it'll be *another lengthy wait for linux to catch up"
Aparantly most people don't know, Linux does support MAL. You can even hotsync avantgo with linux.
You'll need PilotLink (of course), jpilot (curiously enough, the j doesn't mean it's written in java - it's written with gtk+), MALSync (http://www.tomw.org/malsync/) and the jpilot-syncmal plugin from http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/jpilot.html. Get the source for everything but pilot-link, because you will be compiling stuff differently from the standard installation.
Works pretty well here, except i still have to sync with windows to drop channels from avantgo, and you will still need to sync with windows to install and configure avantgo. But follow the instructions in the jpilot-syncmal documentation or it'll be a lot harder than it should be.
Face it. IRC is the universal home of Those Who Have No Hope Of Ever Having Sex.
Efnet, undernet, chatnet, all the big nets. the PFY's known as scriptkiddies (some of them not even youthful pimple faced youths anymore) go to IRC because it's somewhere that magically makes their penis extend two or three whole inches, just because they can find some person or some group of persons, cause them a great deal of displeasure, and say "Look what i did!" to their buddies.
What these twits would realize, if they had grey matter operating above the brainstem, is that by doing this, they're making everyone who has donated equipment and bandwidth to IRC networks question whether or not that was a good idea.
IRC networks are going to go away because of scriptkiddies, unless these kiddies, some of them over 20 these days (get a life, folks), knock it off.
Would YOU run a public irc server if it ment you were going to get DoSed into the stone age twice a week? I sure as hell wouldn't. Maybe that's why chatnet only has 4 servers in the US these days.
All that being said, undernet has always been a haven for oversexed, underage wankers anyway.
Go ahead, moderate this post as a flame. I'm just upset because my home channel, which has existed in one form or another since the previous bush administration, has been moving around from network to network lately trying to find one that doesn't get shut down constantly by angry users, or worse yet, angry ircops who are scriptkiddies themselves.
Nah, the cable modem is technically "on loan" to you and can only legally be used with Windows95 or 98. Oh, and all your packets will be routed through a logging facility, for market analysis. :)
I'm a lifetime resident of Happy Valley. I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head.
Fact is, orrin wins by such wide margins that we're probably stuck with him until he dies anyhow. So many people here vote republican without even thinking about it that it's frightening.
Personally I'm a libertarian, one of 506 in happy valley according to the vote talleys. So I have the luxury of living in a state where my vote doesn't matter. You'd be surprised how relaxing that is. People don't ask or care who you support politically, presuming that they can spot a liberal at about a hundred yards, and just presume you're a republican. Makes it pretty easy to insert dissenting opinions into an argument without getting them stamped with a political affiliation before you're even finished stating them. Most people don't even understand what a libertarian is anyhow.
Orrin's been a mixed bag. He pulls some well meaning but incredibly badly executed stuff sometimes. Like the DMCA, which was written in order to fulfill the terms of an international treaty, but which is worded so poorly that it can be interpreted in some incredibly nefarious ways.
Over all I don't think he's done a bad job, but I wouldn't say I like him. Even considering that there's a shot of him standing next to my mother on his website.
Basically, so many people just vote republican across the board here that short of him getting caught in a motel room with some farm animals there's basically no way the nation will ever be rid of him, so your best bet is to never cut him any slack and get in his face whenever he annoys you.
I mean, whatcha gonna do?
Depends on how you propose to fix the problem. Maybe it might be possible to presume the cpu is an i386 with no floating point if there's not a full database match, but that might piss off a lot of people, or it might not work at all anyway. I'm not sure how detailed the cpuid list is.
AMD Athlons had a similar problem. In kernels before i think 2.2.13, if you enabled the MTRR driver (needed to enable write-combining on video adapters, etc) and booted it on an athlon, it would erroniously detect the cpu as a K6 and promply panic when the MTRRs in the cpu didn't react the way K6's do.
It's not really surprising. But if Intel knew a year ago what changes would need to be made to the cpuid list, and didn't tell kernel developers well in advance of product release, it's their own fault. If it required a kernel developer getting his or her hands on an actual P4, that's not the linux communities fault.
what happened to the moderation on this one? Or am I just too stupid to find it funny? Somebody make this thing interesting or insightful or something, unless I'm just too much of a dimwit to catch the humor, and then reply to this and list in careful detail what's supposed to be funny about this so I know what to laugh at.
I agree with you completely, actually. I found that pretty odd. My best guess is that someone thought they detected thickly-veiled sarcasm towards the end. Who knows.
Sony is probably selling these things at a loss. That's generally the way with game consoles, with the presumption that they can make up for it in licensing when everybody buys the games.
But as we've all read before, there just aren't many PS2 games out there. And they aren't very good. Mostly because the SDK isn't really ready for primetime.
DVD laser heads are in somewhat short supply, according to various industrial news sources. If that's true, Sony had to make a decision.
DVD video is main-stream this holiday season. Sony has a good name in video systems, and an intense rivalry with Toshiba, who aparantly has a very good name in DVD players.
The DVD players are sold with a good margin, and make good money. This is more than likely where Sony believes they can make big money this season.
So, what would you do, given a limited supply of a component, needed for the construction of two devices, both in very high demand, both involving equally heated competition, where one of them probably won't make any money?
It's unfortunate that the PS2 isn't yet everything they told us it would be, but it's not, and they have to go with what's going to increase the bottom line.
There are definately more than three enigma machines. In fact, they only go for a few thousand dollars on the antiques market.
There are probably only three of this particular model, but there are way more than three worldwide, and most people who own them are neither museums nor governments.
These guys aren't the first, or even the second company to propose this sort of pointing system.
The Nod was a pointing device developed by Sage/Stride in the pre-ibmpc dawn of computing that worked by sticking a reflective dot to your forehead and standing a sensor on your monitor.
It didn't sell well, because people felt silly sticking a reflective dot on their forehead and wiggling their head around to move the pointer.
"My hardware is flaky, why do I have trouble compiling?!"
Because your hardware is flaky. Some cheapie motherboards don't do well. Or maybe your processor is faulty. I've had no trouble with a K6-450 and a K6-500 on linux here. Including compiling all sorts of things.
Well, here's my story.
I have a Toshiba ultraportable. Nice little box, 3 pounds, magnesium case, didn't cost a whole lot, nice bright screen, 96 megs of ram (maxed out)
64 of that 96 megs of ram are on an add-on card. For whatever reason, the cost of this proprietary memory card for this particular notebook has skyrocketed.
I've had the notebook about 10 months when, out of the blue, it starts rebooting spontaniously. I fire up memtest86, there's a few chunks of bad ram.
I take it out and start frantically searching for a source of a replacement. Currently, Kingston is the only manufacturer i can find shipping it, and they want 1/2 what the whole notebook goes for on eBay, including the memory card. About $350 for 64 megs of ram. No Effin Way. Just not going to happen. I'm not poor but that's just plain stupid. I'd be disgusted with myself if i spent that much on that little memory when i'd be better off selling the whole notebook and buying another.
So i found the badram patch. Patched my kernel. Found that my lilo was too old to allow the whole commandline. Downloaded and installed new lilo.
And, it doesn't work.
Well, it sortof works. Now, with that ram, it randomly locks up, instead of randomly reboots. Big improvement, right? Wrong.
I don't know what the problem is. A friend with a background in the semiconductor industry says that memtest86 is written from an outsider's point of view regarding memory, but that he's under a prior NDA, and Motorola would probably be Quite Upset if he leaked old documents that would tell the author how to improve it. Maybe i just need a better memtest86. Maybe i ought to expand the ranges so that an area around the affected areas are also blocked out. I don't know.
All I know is, in my case, it didn't really help. And that a notebook with 32 megs of ram and a really slow harddrive is useful for little more than an xterminal.
It's Camper Van Beethoven. And it's not "They," it's "He".
Lowery left CvB some years back to persue a career as a media whore after the somewhat mainstream success of Key Lime Pie. As you can see, it didn't quite pan out, and he's a bit bitter.
The rest of CvB attracted one or two other members and formed a new band, The Monks of Doom.
The Monks of Doom aren't as funny as CvB, but there was more to CvB than humor. If you liked CvB for the music, you'll like the Monks of Doom. I sure do.
I *Highly recommend the Monks of Doom. Cracker had maybe two good songs, and they sound alike. MoD retains all the creativity and virtuosity that was CvB.
Despite the availablility of multiprocessor Mips32 and Mips64 systems, there is currently no support for SMP in the Mips kernel tree.
This is becase where the ia32 archetecture has a common and well-documented SMP method, APIC, Mips does not. Each vendor seems to do their own proprietary thing.
This would definately be cool but I'll believe it when i see it.
You are sorely mistaken with regards to the purpose and functionality of switched ethernet.
Being "switched" does not guarantee you any ammount of bandwidth. Nobody ever even claimed it would, except maybe you.
It's like this. A switch prevents traffic which does not need to be broadcasted from being broadcasted. By broadcasted i mean, on an unbridged, unswitched network, that is, an ethernet network with only repeaters, when machine E communicates with machine W, all machines from A to Z get a copy of what they said.
A switch minimizes that so that only traffic which is of unknown destination or that is specifically broadcasted (ARP requests, etc) get repeated to every station.
A switch is useful in only two situations. One, where you want to be reasonably assured that morons won't be able to sniff other peoples traffic, and Two, where you wish to minimize the ammount of broadcast radiation between segments of a network. But don't be suckered into believing that it is a panacea for either application.
Furthermore, on homogenous switched networks, ANY one user can prevent ALL OTHER users from communicating with upstream parts of the network by flooding the uplink.
Guaranteeing bandwidth on ethernet based networks is exceptionally difficult and involves exotic, expensive hardware.
ATM PVC's used by DSL lines are an entirely different situation but I fear that i would be casting pearls before swine to attempt to explain it.
Linux *HAS* been ported to the palm. A LONG time ago in net terms.
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See http://slashdot.org/articles/99/11/11/0850205.sht
So why would it matter if they bought a company that makes low-end intel hardware??
See my point?
he stresses the predominance of Intel hardware and somehow gives the impression tha the is unaware of Solaris/x86.