Seems like Intel did the Right Thing about an error this time: Admit and fix. Any product can have errors (and most do), the question is how the company reacts to the errors. Some previous bugs were poorly handled, this one (but maybe only because it's not that expensive) is handled well. Or is there a darker side to this story that we haven't heard (cue ominous music!)?
How much can you restrict the use of a term you've trademarked? This isn't a publication or anything else 'for sale' -- it's even less 'for sale' than a newspaper article. Could M$ sue me if I wrote a newspaper article with the title 'Microsoft Smurf' or something? I hope not!
These prefixes are horribly inflated. There is nowhere near a factor 1000 between nanosatellites and picosatellites. Won't be long before we get femtosatellites now.
I have nothing deep to add, I just want to say I'm sorry to see society where such measures are needed.
Coming from Denmark, I haven't heard of a single school there where any of these measures were used, or would even be considered. This is very frightening to me. Especially since this is the environment that the future people of the strongest nation in the world grows up in.
Rather than doing an enormous diff and browsing through thousands of changes to see if the problems we *do* have on our server might be fixed, is there a place where a ChangeLog can be found? The Documentation/Changes file is just changes for 2.2 in general.
> But I gotta ask, why do all these trendy new boxes have crazy lights on 'em?
I wish more boxen had lights on them. I really love the lights on the HP's, giving heartbeat and I/O and stuff. If I got to design a box, it would have lights for
- Power - Idleness - Disk I/O (several) - Net I/O (several) - n kernel programmable lights - Supervisor mode - Any other hardware-detectable useful thing I can think of.
I've been going through some of the some alienation as these letters describe, though on a much smaller scale, and I noticed it had scared some from going on to a university. Don't let the bullies do that! From my experience, the universities allow much more diversity, and let you meet many more people like yourself. Plus, there are challenges for all levels of smartness. (And free net access!:) Go for it!
You compare the bombings in Serbia with the bombings of Germany during WWII. There is an important difference in that most of the bombings during WWII were against civilian targets (cities), hoping to demoralize the population. That turned out not to work. Late in the war, they started concentrating on the factories and oil depots, which gave a much larger bang for the buck (pun intended). Another interesting difference between WWII bombings and these hi-tech weapons is that in this case the weapons used to destroy a target may be many times more expensive than the target itself. Granted, the US has a lot of money, but will it really pump that much into a war?
...that this should happen today -- same day as/. starts having cookies with 'sexual orientation', 'religion', 'high school gpa' and 'mothers maiden name'. What surprises me the most is how they got my high school GPA, since there is no translation from Danish to US grading systems. I'd better stop before I make a fool of myself. After all, we wouldn't want to start a new month that way, would we?
We ought to have some kind of automatic mirror system at slashdot -- if just to take any page directly pointed at and have it at slashdot for a day or so.
> Let's figure the bandwidth of a station wagon of magnetic tape
I've seen a couple of these over the years (I personally prefer a Hercules filled with CD-ROMs (nice and flat thingies)). What you have to remember is the time to actually feed the data onto whatever storage you use. You'd have to have some kind of massive writing equipment ready, which in itself should have a pretty high bandwidth. And -- what exactly is it that you want to send that takes up 150 TB?
Slashdot Mirror
> Example: stuff.com points to 192.168.323.864 Your MX record points to 324.53.6.211
:)
Look! He's solved the 32-bit limitation on IPv4! Gazillions of IP numbers are ours! Hooray!
-Lars
s/shrinks/drinks/
-Lars
Seems like Intel did the Right Thing about an error this time: Admit and fix. Any product can have errors (and most do), the question is how the company reacts to the errors. Some previous bugs were poorly handled, this one (but maybe only because it's not that expensive) is handled well. Or is there a darker side to this story that we haven't heard (cue ominous music!)?
-Lars
How much can you restrict the use of a term you've trademarked? This isn't a publication or anything else 'for sale' -- it's even less 'for sale' than a newspaper article. Could M$ sue me if I wrote a newspaper article with the title 'Microsoft Smurf' or something? I hope not!
-Lars
These prefixes are horribly inflated. There is nowhere near a factor 1000 between nanosatellites and picosatellites. Won't be long before we get femtosatellites now.
-Lars
I have nothing deep to add, I just want to say I'm sorry to see society where such measures are needed.
Coming from Denmark, I haven't heard of a single school there where any of these measures were used, or would even be considered. This is very frightening to me. Especially since this is the environment that the future people of the strongest nation in the world grows up in.
-Lars
Rather than doing an enormous diff and browsing through thousands of changes to see if the problems we *do* have on our server might be fixed, is there a place where a ChangeLog can be found? The Documentation/Changes file is just changes for 2.2 in general.
-Lars
> But I gotta ask, why do all these trendy new boxes have crazy lights on 'em?
I wish more boxen had lights on them. I really love the lights on the HP's, giving heartbeat and I/O and stuff. If I got to design a box, it would have lights for
- Power
- Idleness
- Disk I/O (several)
- Net I/O (several)
- n kernel programmable lights
- Supervisor mode
- Any other hardware-detectable useful thing I can think of.
How do I make this?
-Lars
> You proabley ran the glibc 2.1 binary and only have glibc 2.0 (or vice versa)
I saw the same problem, but when I tried the other binary, it got stuck already at the bungie intro. And it takes a -9 to kill it.
-Lars
I've been going through some of the some alienation as these letters describe, though on a much smaller scale, and I noticed it had scared some from going on to a university. Don't let the bullies do that!
From my experience, the universities allow much more diversity, and let you meet many more people like yourself. Plus, there are challenges for all levels of smartness. (And free net access!:) Go for it!
-Lars
For those of you who (like me) can hardly find the Polar Star, here's a nice constellation-browsing site:
http://www.stargaze.force9.co.uk/.
-Lars
You compare the bombings in Serbia with the bombings of Germany during WWII. There is an important difference in that most of the bombings during WWII were against civilian targets (cities), hoping to demoralize the population. That turned out not to work. Late in the war, they started concentrating on the factories and oil depots, which gave a much larger bang for the buck (pun intended).
Another interesting difference between WWII bombings and these hi-tech weapons is that in this case the weapons used to destroy a target may be many times more expensive than the target itself. Granted, the US has a lot of money, but will it really pump that much into a war?
-Lars
...that this should happen today -- same day as /. starts having cookies with 'sexual orientation', 'religion', 'high school gpa' and 'mothers maiden name'.
What surprises me the most is how they got my high school GPA, since there is no translation from Danish to US grading systems.
I'd better stop before I make a fool of myself. After all, we wouldn't want to start a new month that way, would we?
-Lars thinks it's overdone
We ought to have some kind of automatic mirror system at slashdot -- if just to take any page directly pointed at and have it at slashdot for a day or so.
-Lars
> Let's figure the bandwidth of a station wagon of magnetic tape
I've seen a couple of these over the years (I personally prefer a Hercules filled with CD-ROMs (nice and flat thingies)). What you have to remember is the time to actually feed the data onto whatever storage you use. You'd have to have some kind of massive writing equipment ready, which in itself should have a pretty high bandwidth. And -- what exactly is it that you want to send that takes up 150 TB?
-Lars