You make a good point but I believe the title refers to the fact that this is a "transgenic" engineering. That is a different ballpark that cross-breeding.
From m-w.com: transgenic - Having chromosomes into which one or more heterologous genes have been incorporated either artificially or naturally
heterologous - derived from a different species
The article says: "a tropical zebra fish infused with the gene of a sea anemone that makes it glow fluorescent red." Im no fish expert but i dont think you can breed fish with sea anemones.
For your analogy to work, you would have to say something like english bulldogs received genes from a silk spider and now has silky smooth dog turds and can walk up walls.
I thought this part was very significant. Its starting to exploit the idea of the whole operating system as an object system. I think microsoft has hired away so many academic researchers, that their imput into the windows code base is to turn it into lisp. Im sure the shell has many built-ins and other imerative style libraries, but have command line access to objects I feel qualifies it as a "next generation shell".
The Linux kernel is a product of the c language with c-style function calls and c-style data structures. For any larger OO application, written in C++ for instance, I find myself wrapping many linux system calls into objects which takes a lot of work. GTKmm and glibmm go a long way but I havent found a linuxmm.
If the linux folks think there is something to be gain by making heavier use of objects, I think linux has already got a huge head start. Make use of the huge object system effort of CORBA. GNOME uses ORBit for interobject communication.
Does this boil down to a theme from the spiderman movie?
"With great power comes great responsibility" That's the catch phrase of old Uncle Ben If you missed it, don't worry, they'll say the line Again and again and again"
http://www.com-www.com/weirdal/odetoasuperhero.h tm l
CxC is a closed, expensive software platform written by one company. Everything that open source software exists to prevent. Lets see an OpenGridChallenge and lets not make it War. Lets make it competitive, but make it a constructive challenge. Like an Earth Weather simulator, Maintaining the structure of an underwater skyscraper built with proactive energized joints, or a biological process simulator. The project with the most efficiency in some given resepect wins.
thats what their angle is. dont have enough admin skills to install samba on your linux box? buy our box and plug it into your ethernet network. Need a DNS server? there's a box for that too. Google sells its search server in a rack mount box. just plug it in and go. if unix was made of many command line programs that could be piped together, the thinking at this company is that server should be purchased in pieces - one service per piece. I hate to think of the wasted coal exhaust or force of a mighty river that is slowed a bit for each 400W the power supply that is powering a cpu/mobo/hd to be idle 99% of the time.
when i first read the article, judging by the specs i thought they were describing a product that was esentially an iPod with out the mp3 player. that would be somewhat interesting.
Did cowboyneal even try to load the URL? http://www.3dcenter.org/artikel/cinefx/index _e.php www.3dcenter.org does not resolve and whois shows no registration for 3dcenter.org. googling for 3dcenter shows no entry that looks like the right site.
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LinuxISO.org has been around for a long time. They dont burn CDs, they just provide a place to d/l ISOs from.
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT TEXTMODE QUAKE^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCURSED GTK
"people are starving to death in this world... and somebody had time for this....."
"This is the greatest *sniff* I'm too broken up...I can't believe how wonderful this is. I can't stop the tears streaming down my face. Oh the humanity!!"
"This is seriously, extremely perverse. I'm impressed."
"This is quite possibly the most inherently wrong thing in the world today."
"I can now die. This totally, totally, totally rules."
"I would need serious tylenol 3's after playing this for more than 2 seconds. My eyes are still hurting from looking at it!"
"Rarely do I see something on the web that makes me scream OUT LOUD, but I saw this page and yelled, "Oh Jesus God, NO!" like I had just seen Rosemary's Baby. I don't know what the contest was, but YOU WIN!"
hey thats good. as the virus spreads, it builds a network of linked nodes. its up to the author to watch the spread of the virus throught maybe the news media. Then cryptographically sign part 2 and feed it to any known infected machine. that machine distributes it to all the others.
not only is the insertion point completely unknown, but the insertion time is completely up to the author.
I agree. The subject line idea and the signed updates are a great idea.
The unstructured network is a good idea except for one flaw: previously infected machines dont have part 2 of the virus. Part 2 is not part of the sobig.f virus. Part 2 was kept hidden on the 20 machines, or at least the 20 machines knew what other machine kept part 2.
PDAs are amazing powerful. So much so that "embedded" standards, in my opinion, serve to confuse and muddle a software system more than anything else.
If you look at J2ME, the MIDP profile is somewhat useful on phones from the 90s that had next to zero ram and UI options. Phones arent like that any more and all the other J2ME profiles such at CLDC and "PersonalJava" are running on platforms that, I believe, are capable of running a full Java implementation, even the swing UI. Why not provide the real J2SE if the PDA is capable of it?
I'd like to see the full OpenGL implemented, or at least OpenGL with some sections taken out.
thats an excellent summary of firewire, and its very well written. thanks for the post! I was sorely disappointed when I found out USB was a PC-to-device-only technology.
having the metadata in the file seems to be the best way to go.
opening a file called/path/filename/attribute would look inside the/path/filename file for attribute data. The file could be built like a zip file and the attribute could be a text file in the zip, or the file could be built as a reiser4 filesystem that gets mounted on the fly, or the metadata could be held as XML in the file.
Either way, if a program were to cat/path/filename, they would not get the contents of the file as expected, but the contents and all the metadata that goes along with it. That may be a problem. I suppose for compatibilty, opening/path/filename and writing to it would really be opening/path/filename/contents and writing to that. But the filesize would be wrong if the program wrote 5k and the filesystem added 1k of metadata but the program goes to check the size and thinks something is wrong because the file is now 6k. the stat() call would have to be changed to return the size of the contents only to keep some backwards compatibility. now for a filesystem dump utility, if it were to add up all the stat() sizes of each file, it would still be underestimating the amount of data stored. a utility like that would have to be aware of the extensions of the filesystem.
The scenery and the freedom of movement in Ultima IV immersed me in that world like no other game has. Sometimes I am reminded of the Brittania countryside when Im walking in the woods.
HE.net seems pretty sweet because they are the first ISP i have come across that uses native IPv6. Im thinking of switching my DSL line to them just to be native IPv6.
A earlier post talking about triangulation the location of wireless users. Note that AP Radar does not do spacial positioning of an access point. The 'Radar' part of the name is just a name:)
A new style of network discovery is available in the linux 2.5 kernel and in 2.4.20. Jean Tourrilhes' Wireless Extensions for Linux version 14 and later contains a method to scan all channels for access points for a short period of time, then return to the wireless card's original state. This is implemented in the wireless drivers themselves so it works with any model of card. The 'iwlist' utility in the newer wireless tools suite will show this functionality.
There is a GTK+ application I have written called AP Radar that also makes use of this functionality. This utility has just reached a point where it can replace the need to run iwconfig and a dhcp client. Start the application and click on the ESSID that you want to associate to. AP Radar will set the ESSID and Mode of the wireless card, and launch a DHCP client (pump). Its meant as an end-user tool to simplify the process of connecting to an access point rather than a full featured net stumbler.
The advantage to using AP Radar over a full blown net stumbler like kismet is that you stay associated with the access point you are using, while still scanning for new APs in the area. With kismet and the others, your association is lost and you must reconnect after you're done scanning.
dou! ive had postings killed due to weird things like a pet as well.
wow. thanks for the info. I went to Costco yesterday and i saw a 32" HDTV set for $900. Thats the lowest price ive seen. The image wasnt that much better on that set but the larger DTV sets were jaw-droppers. the source was DirecTV.
My observations: DTV is still an ambigious standard - the story implies the audio portion is still not defined. Walk into a TV store and I dont see any TV makers pushing HDTV capable TVs that are under $2000. In Portland Oregon, there are three broadcast TV channels using HDTV out of 6 major channels here. Portland is a 'large market' i wonder how many smaller cities have no broadcast HDTV - probably a lot. Ive never seen AT&T cable advertise that they have HDTV capable channels.
Its my feeling that the nationwide HDTV rollout is many years behind schedule - at some point all stations had to have X percentage of broadcasts in HDTV by 2001 or something and they had to roll thhe date back because there was no demand to justify the local broadcaster's investment. If the delays and ambiguity is due to trying to profit off of spectrum sales or undue corporate influence, then Id call that bungled.
"It's lucky 3G spectrum wasn't available earlier in the United States or cell carriers would be dropping like flies. The bungled DTV system saved their ass.
The FCC assigned a royalty sharing organization, ATSC, to deliver a "unified" Digital Television system. But ATSC had no motivation to use the improved European-developed COFDM DTV system now the world-wide DTV standard. Unlike ATSC, it works. You can get it free over the air or in a bus. I believe former FCC director William Kennard is to blame. He didn't want to slow down the "lucrative" 3G auctions. Now we're stuck with a broken DTV system, the VHF auctions are delayed (again), and everyone lost...except the cellular carriers.
In the UK, all you need is a $99 box with rabbit ears. US broadcasters are stuck. They may eventually be forced into PPV and soft porn since only rooftop antennas can pick up ATSC. The FCC let this happen. It's criminal negligence."
The Ericsson P800 is trying to be such a device. A moblie phone/PDA/MP3 Player. it has Java and Bluetooth. It has a headphone jack and uses mini-memorysticks (MemoryStick Duo) to hold mp3s or whatever. It runs the Symbian operating system. Its also not for sale yet, supposedly its coming out in January 2003.
Although I actually dont mind reading about it again. The ISS is a facinating project. I believe its the mark of a new era of human development. Forever on will we have a permantly occupied 100% human-built living environment in space. Our children will only know of a planet that actually has orbiting space stations, like some of us dreamed about usually while watching star trek.
Thanks for the link. those heatsinks are very interesting. Although i think the site is a little misleading.
" 1) Zalman's CPU Coolers do not generate noise and vibration in Silent Mode."
Then it goes on to say that in silent mode, the fan rotation speed is 1600RPMs @ 20dB. I think 20dB is pretty quiet, but there is still a fan involved. Id like to be truely fanless. It seems to work well to just cut the powersupply fan and run the computer with the case off, i just need to eliminate the CPU fan.
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You make a good point but I believe the title refers to the fact that this is a "transgenic" engineering. That is a different ballpark that cross-breeding.
From m-w.com:
transgenic - Having chromosomes into which one or more heterologous genes have been incorporated either artificially or naturally
heterologous - derived from a different species
The article says: "a tropical zebra fish infused with the gene of a sea anemone that makes it glow fluorescent red." Im no fish expert but i dont think you can breed fish with sea anemones.
For your analogy to work, you would have to say something like english bulldogs received genes from a silk spider and now has silky smooth dog turds and can walk up walls.
I thought this part was very significant. Its starting to exploit the idea of the whole operating system as an object system. I think microsoft has hired away so many academic researchers, that their imput into the windows code base is to turn it into lisp. Im sure the shell has many built-ins and other imerative style libraries, but have command line access to objects I feel qualifies it as a "next generation shell".
The Linux kernel is a product of the c language with c-style function calls and c-style data structures. For any larger OO application, written in C++ for instance, I find myself wrapping many linux system calls into objects which takes a lot of work. GTKmm and glibmm go a long way but I havent found a linuxmm.
If the linux folks think there is something to be gain by making heavier use of objects, I think linux has already got a huge head start. Make use of the huge object system effort of CORBA. GNOME uses ORBit for interobject communication.
ps. I hope someone starts a GNU/GONAD project.
Does this boil down to a theme from the spiderman movie?
h tm l
"With great power comes great responsibility"
That's the catch phrase of old Uncle Ben
If you missed it, don't worry, they'll say the line
Again and again and again"
http://www.com-www.com/weirdal/odetoasuperhero.
CxC is a closed, expensive software platform written by one company. Everything that open source software exists to prevent. Lets see an OpenGridChallenge and lets not make it War. Lets make it competitive, but make it a constructive challenge. Like an Earth Weather simulator, Maintaining the structure of an underwater skyscraper built with proactive energized joints, or a biological process simulator. The project with the most efficiency in some given resepect wins.
Globus is an open-source grid computing project based on the Open Grid Services Architecture. Start with that.
thats what their angle is. dont have enough admin skills to install samba on your linux box? buy our box and plug it into your ethernet network. Need a DNS server? there's a box for that too. Google sells its search server in a rack mount box. just plug it in and go. if unix was made of many command line programs that could be piped together, the thinking at this company is that server should be purchased in pieces - one service per piece. I hate to think of the wasted coal exhaust or force of a mighty river that is slowed a bit for each 400W the power supply that is powering a cpu/mobo/hd to be idle 99% of the time.
when i first read the article, judging by the specs i thought they were describing a product that was esentially an iPod with out the mp3 player. that would be somewhat interesting.
i did not know that. thanks for the info. also, the hostname suddenly started resolving. weird.
Did cowboyneal even try to load the URL?x _e.php
http://www.3dcenter.org/artikel/cinefx/inde
www.3dcenter.org does not resolve and whois shows no registration for 3dcenter.org. googling for 3dcenter shows no entry that looks like the right site.
LinuxISO.org has been around for a long time. They dont burn CDs, they just provide a place to d/l ISOs from.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT TEXTMODE QUAKE^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCURSED GTK
"people are starving to death in this world... and somebody had time for this....."
"This is the greatest *sniff* I'm too broken up...I can't believe how wonderful this is. I can't stop the tears streaming down my face. Oh the humanity!!"
"This is seriously, extremely perverse. I'm impressed."
"This is quite possibly the most inherently wrong thing in the world today."
"I can now die. This totally, totally, totally rules."
"I would need serious tylenol 3's after playing this for more than 2 seconds. My eyes are still hurting from looking at it!"
"Rarely do I see something on the web that makes me scream OUT LOUD, but I saw this page and yelled, "Oh Jesus God, NO!" like I had just seen Rosemary's Baby. I don't know what the contest was, but YOU WIN!"
hey thats good. as the virus spreads, it builds a network of linked nodes. its up to the author to watch the spread of the virus throught maybe the news media. Then cryptographically sign part 2 and feed it to any known infected machine. that machine distributes it to all the others.
not only is the insertion point completely unknown, but the insertion time is completely up to the author.
I agree. The subject line idea and the signed updates are a great idea.
The unstructured network is a good idea except for one flaw: previously infected machines dont have part 2 of the virus. Part 2 is not part of the sobig.f virus. Part 2 was kept hidden on the 20 machines, or at least the 20 machines knew what other machine kept part 2.
PDAs are amazing powerful. So much so that "embedded" standards, in my opinion, serve to confuse and muddle a software system more than anything else.
If you look at J2ME, the MIDP profile is somewhat useful on phones from the 90s that had next to zero ram and UI options. Phones arent like that any more and all the other J2ME profiles such at CLDC and "PersonalJava" are running on platforms that, I believe, are capable of running a full Java implementation, even the swing UI. Why not provide the real J2SE if the PDA is capable of it?
I'd like to see the full OpenGL implemented, or at least OpenGL with some sections taken out.
thats an excellent summary of firewire, and its very well written. thanks for the post! I was sorely disappointed when I found out USB was a PC-to-device-only technology.
having the metadata in the file seems to be the best way to go.
/path/filename/attribute would look inside the /path/filename file for attribute data. The file could be built like a zip file and the attribute could be a text file in the zip, or the file could be built as a reiser4 filesystem that gets mounted on the fly, or the metadata could be held as XML in the file.
/path/filename, they would not get the contents of the file as expected, but the contents and all the metadata that goes along with it. That may be a problem. I suppose for compatibilty, opening /path/filename and writing to it would really be opening /path/filename/contents and writing to that. But the filesize would be wrong if the program wrote 5k and the filesystem added 1k of metadata but the program goes to check the size and thinks something is wrong because the file is now 6k. the stat() call would have to be changed to return the size of the contents only to keep some backwards compatibility. now for a filesystem dump utility, if it were to add up all the stat() sizes of each file, it would still be underestimating the amount of data stored. a utility like that would have to be aware of the extensions of the filesystem.
opening a file called
Either way, if a program were to cat
The scenery and the freedom of movement in Ultima IV immersed me in that world like no other game has. Sometimes I am reminded of the Brittania countryside when Im walking in the woods.
I can rent terminator 2 for a lot less than $26 billion dollars. How about $26 billion for global no-cost healthcare and food? THATs futuristic!
HE.net seems pretty sweet because they are the first ISP i have come across that uses native IPv6. Im thinking of switching my DSL line to them just to be native IPv6.
A earlier post talking about triangulation the location of wireless users. Note that AP Radar does not do spacial positioning of an access point. The 'Radar' part of the name is just a name :)
A new style of network discovery is available in the linux 2.5 kernel and in 2.4.20. Jean Tourrilhes'
Wireless Extensions for Linux version 14 and later contains a method to scan all channels for access points for a short period of time, then return to the wireless card's original state. This is implemented in the wireless drivers themselves so it works with any model of card. The 'iwlist' utility in the newer wireless tools suite will show this functionality.
There is a GTK+ application I have written called AP Radar that also makes use of this functionality. This utility has just reached a point where it can replace the need to run iwconfig and a dhcp client. Start the application and click on the ESSID that you want to associate to. AP Radar will set the ESSID and Mode of the wireless card, and launch a DHCP client (pump). Its meant as an end-user tool to simplify the process of connecting to an access point rather than a full featured net stumbler.
The advantage to using AP Radar over a full blown net stumbler like kismet is that you stay associated with the access point you are using, while still scanning for new APs in the area. With kismet and the others, your association is lost and you must reconnect after you're done scanning.
dou! ive had postings killed due to weird things like a pet as well.
wow. thanks for the info. I went to Costco yesterday and i saw a 32" HDTV set for $900. Thats the lowest price ive seen. The image wasnt that much better on that set but the larger DTV sets were jaw-droppers. the source was DirecTV.
My observations: DTV is still an ambigious standard - the story implies the audio portion is still not defined. Walk into a TV store and I dont see any TV makers pushing HDTV capable TVs that are under $2000. In Portland Oregon, there are three broadcast TV channels using HDTV out of 6 major channels here. Portland is a 'large market' i wonder how many smaller cities have no broadcast HDTV - probably a lot. Ive never seen AT&T cable advertise that they have HDTV capable channels.
Its my feeling that the nationwide HDTV rollout is many years behind schedule - at some point all stations had to have X percentage of broadcasts in HDTV by 2001 or something and they had to roll thhe date back because there was no demand to justify the local broadcaster's investment. If the delays and ambiguity is due to trying to profit off of spectrum sales or undue corporate influence, then Id call that bungled.
"It's lucky 3G spectrum wasn't available earlier in the United States or cell carriers would be dropping like flies. The bungled DTV system saved their ass.
The FCC assigned a royalty sharing organization, ATSC, to deliver a "unified" Digital Television system. But ATSC had no motivation to use the improved European-developed COFDM DTV system now the world-wide DTV standard. Unlike ATSC, it works. You can get it free over the air or in a bus. I believe former FCC director William Kennard is to blame. He didn't want to slow down the "lucrative" 3G auctions. Now we're stuck with a broken DTV system, the VHF auctions are delayed (again), and everyone lost...except the cellular carriers.
In the UK, all you need is a $99 box with rabbit ears. US broadcasters are stuck. They may eventually be forced into PPV and soft porn since only rooftop antennas can pick up ATSC. The FCC let this happen. It's criminal negligence."
The Ericsson P800 is trying to be such a device. A moblie phone/PDA/MP3 Player. it has Java and Bluetooth. It has a headphone jack and uses mini-memorysticks (MemoryStick Duo) to hold mp3s or whatever. It runs the Symbian operating system. Its also not for sale yet, supposedly its coming out in January 2003.
This article has been posted just 3 days ago..
Although I actually dont mind reading about it again. The ISS is a facinating project. I believe its the mark of a new era of human development. Forever on will we have a permantly occupied 100% human-built living environment in space. Our children will only know of a planet that actually has orbiting space stations, like some of us dreamed about usually while watching star trek.
Thanks for the link. those heatsinks are very interesting. Although i think the site is a little misleading.
" 1) Zalman's CPU Coolers do not generate noise and vibration in Silent Mode."
Then it goes on to say that in silent mode, the fan rotation speed is 1600RPMs @ 20dB. I think 20dB is pretty quiet, but there is still a fan involved. Id like to be truely fanless. It seems to work well to just cut the powersupply fan and run the computer with the case off, i just need to eliminate the CPU fan.