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Didn't you hate when you'd run the program through the reader for the umpteenth time, and one corner was just a little frayed, and it would jam? Or it wouldn't register properly?
I hated that. Almost as much as someone messing up my cards! Nearly went to jail for homicide once;-)
I remember booting 8080 prototype boards, with jumpers in octal too. Ahhhh, the good old days!
Code morphing is an achievement in itself! If they want to keep the native instructions as a trade secret, that's cool.
But what else can they make it do? Do they have other code morphing technologies that we can download to this puppy and *poof*(tm) it's a Power PC? Or an Alpha?
If it's possible to emulate an x86 in software, what about other platforms?
Having this kind of portable longevity with the ability to be other machines would be tres cool! It would mean not having to buy an x86 laptop, an iBook and a Palm. Just initialize it with the proper interpreter code, and voila! The best of all worlds! [pardon the poor Borg reference:-)]
It's been a while since my University days - please forgive the equation errors:-(
But I was right in part! No one - being a person - has travelled at any velocity reasonabally approaching the speed of light, to experience the time-dialation effect!
These are very tough. They are generally accepted as true, but no one has been able to prove/disprove them yet using a general all-encompassing proof. Like we take Einstien's General relativity as true, yet no one has travelled at the speed of light to see if he was right.
Anyone has a shot at solving them. The problem is creativity. Feremat's theory [X^2+Y^2=Z^2] was proven by a mathmetician by relating two previously unrelated theories and blending them to prove Feremat's Theory. His effort was most creative, and a little mind wobbling.
The only problem for proving them is coming up with the right blend of other proofs and combining them in such a way that has never been done before. Or in being able to come up with your own, right out of the blue, such as Sir Isacc Newton did when he tried to study gravity, and had to invent Calculus!
I just want to be able to prove (or disprove) that the amount I think is in my chequing account has a direct relationship to the amount that is actually in the account.
Sure, in a battery holder,.00005 tolerance is nuts!
But when it comes to heat transfer, metal on metal is better, yes? Especially compared to metal near metal with air in between.
Thermal grease was invented to fill in those gaps with a solid, heat transferring substance, rather than air, which tends to hold heat when placed between two 'uneven' slabs of metal.
If you can reduce the 6/10 of a thou that the thermal grease would occupy by even 1/10 thou, that gives more metal to metal contact, improving the efficency of the heat transfer. As you say, the fabricator in Taiwan isn't going to make it that accurate. They only make it accurate enough to justify costs, and within tolerances.
If we go and make the tolerances a little tighter, so they work better under our heavy heat stress, it's woth it to us.
In Slashdot's response to Microsoft, they informed Microsoft that the letters from both sides would be published here. That doesn't mean Microsoft will allow their responses to be published in the future!
Let's not forget, all Microsoft has to do in their response is state something like "Private and Confidential, this may not be made public" and we'll never know Microsoft's responses until they are in court!
They may even be able to convince a Judge to have/. temporarally disable that story, and all it's responses.
I would like to see this battle as it unfolds too, but I always side with the immortal 'Murphy' and his view of the law.
If Bell hadn't been broken up, would we now have cheap cell phone airtime? Would we have wireless PDA's and Cell phone browsers?
If Henry Ford only made model T's, year in and year out, what kind of a world would that be? If he had managed to 'patent' the motor car, and squash all the competition, that's the way it would be!!
It's because of Microsoft that we realize that we have it so good with the Mac OS, BeOS, BSD's Linux's, OS/2 etc.
Microsoft drove the market for many years, making use of every possible CPU cycle that drove manufacturers to hold to Moore's law. What if '640k was enough' for everybody? What if our O/S still fit on a 320k 5 1/4" floppy?
Thank Microsoft, because we don't have to have it "...in any colour so long as it's black".
I tried to use 10.10.10.0/24, but it just wasn't, ya know, elegant. Kind of flat.
I like the idea of 192.168.192.0/24, but I don't know about the extra power consumption needed for those extra bits. It would keep the electrons from being bored though.
Sorry, I'm without a binary capable calculator right now, or I'd calculate the extra power needed over a year to maintain those extra bits, with an average network load of 5%...
You can connect two NIC's with a "crossover cable". Get one where you normally buy cables. Typical brands are those blue CAT5 cables, but have one red shroud on the end. It's also the same kind of cable that you would use to connect a cable modem/dsl to a NIC.
If you like you can also build your own, but the required tools are fairly expensive, unless you plan to make a living at it;-)
No software required, other than networking protocols...
Once again I appaud Mr. Chaney for his act of selflessness at trying to resolve a conflict between parties. IMHO, it's no different that helping a stranded motorist change a flat tire. An act that in itself expects no rewards. Just the feeling of doing something right for your own piece of mind. The only trouble is, you're dealing with Microsoft here. During that selfless act, you never expect that motorist to hit you over the head with a tire iron and steal your wallet and car:-) I truly hope they get themselves out of the corner they've painted themselves into. It would save them face, Slashdot lawyers fees and us techs quite a few headaches in trying to get this to interoperate with standard versions of Kerberos.
Perhaps Win2k SP2 will include changes to Kerberos to put it back to the standard operability that it was designed for.
Why do we put up with this carp?
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"Software is different. It is sold without any claims whatsoever. Your word processor can accidentally corrupt your files and you have no recourse. it's your fault. Microsoft fielded Hotmail with a bug and never bothered to apologize. "
"According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are harmless. They're never discovered by users, and they don't affect performance. It's much cheaper to release buggy software and fix the 5% to 10% of bugs people find and complain about."
This brings up some good points! Why do we put up with this from software companies?
I expect my car to run right whenever I need it. I expect mechanical failures once in a while, but with proper maintainence, any mechanical system can be kept running properly. But if the airbags deploy when I tune the radio to a certain frequency, I'd get a little miffed!
I shouldn't have to try many products out because; "oh, Lotus Notes has better security that Outlook, but Outlook is free.." or "Star Office is free, but Management wants Office,r even though it creates more down time..." Software isn't perfect, but it should be a matter of pride, whether it's free or not, that is works as advertised. I already vote with my wallet. I don't use Microsoft at home, and since I make decisions for my companies choice of software, we don't use IE or Outlook. And recently I converted several servers from NT to RH. I prefer software that people take a little pride in.
Great article! And a few ideas for polls in it too!
"What are your pet projects?" 1) Mouse support for vi 2) Making the world safe for pee cees 3) Petrefing household pets 4) Studing the Zen wisdom of CowboyNeal
"How many hours each day do you spend at work?" 1) 8 2) 10 3) 12 4) 23.5
What's your work space like? 1) Cubicle 2) Janitor closet 2.0 3) Basement ("Maybe I should burn the place down") 4) I decorate with a hand grenade..like it?
"(Number of Linux computers, number of computers without a case, number of Windows machines (and why), number of monitors, etc.)"
[I'll let the hungry masses fill in that one..]
How about favorite beers? 1) Bud 2) Coors 3) Anything German 4) Anything Microbrewed 5) Whatever CmdrTaco is ordering
Understandably, Microsoft must object to this material, or I beleive under US law they lose their copyright to it.
But too bad. Under fair use, IMHO, it is legal. No one agreed to the license agreement before posting it. You didn't secure it well enough, it was available to be extracted by a demo program without agreeing to any license agreements.
And any comments I made I refuse to have censored, removed, edited or changed. They are copyright ME (C) 2000. They are also subject to the laws of the country I was in when I posted them, which has no form of DCMA, thank God! And sending me a note as to your objections will only be good for a laugh! Sendto: Anon_Coward@hotmail.com. Ha!!
Sorry MS, but your options are limited. Andover and Slashdot didn't post those comments, it was us, and we refuse to be silenced!
As for Cmdr Taco et al, someone has to take a stand! Someone has to fight DMCA. There must be a test case! Why not this one! All the rules were followed, IMHO. Slashdot did nothing wrong, but they are being made scapegoats anyhow. Didn't some court somewhere already absolve ISP's from the content of their users??
You guys know the community is behind you, in any way you need us, right!?!
I run an Asus board, Athlon 700. Here's a couple ways to tell what you are running, without voiding the warranty:
(1)If you have an ASUS board, you can run the PC Probe utility that came with the board. It will give you info like: (under the info tab, DMI Explorer...)
Version: Athlon
External Clock: 100Mhz
Max Speed: 800Mhz
Current Speed: 700Mhz
(2) If you have a program like Intel LAN Desk, you can use the DMI Explorer to get the same information.
(3) Machines such as Compaq's and HP's come with diagnostic utilities that also explore this information...
This should match what you see on the case of the processor. If they don't match, or your clock frequency is running over 100Mhz, be suspicious!!
I am from where you're from. I lost my legs in an industrial accident, and as a result had to learn how to code.
I am plain old tired of seeing this kind of crap here. This is supposed to be a forum for intellectual conversation, an exchange of informed opinions. Hatred or intolerance in any form, even jokingly, detracts from it.
In my country, we'd call you Red Neck, and promply you would be involved in a 'pedestrian accident'.
In the movie, Duncan Idaho (pronounced "I Da 'Ho"), is killed. In the books, he is the only character to survive the 10 or 12 thousand year span of the book series.
They have to go to the small screen because they screw up the movie and have to start over:-)
It is my favorite book and series of SF books, and I hope they do it right! Get George Lucas to do set design! It should have the pagentry and costumes of TPM, the extras cast of Ben Hur and the special FX of Star Wars!
I'm going to gut my new Mustang Cobra and stuff all the parts into the shell of an old Pinto because of the nostalga value!
Little kids and mid-life yuppies will all swoon at this frankenbox I have created! And just think the look on their faces when this ~$60k machine cum ~$500.00 fishtank gets rear-ended!
How the skies will glow! Aaaaa...
Puuuhlease! I shoved 68040 25's into Amiga 1000's and 2500's too. They were cooler factory spec. Other than that, drill 5/8" holes in the case. That'll help them sink faster and be better boat anchors.
Moderate me down because my opinion differs from the norm.
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I hated that. Almost as much as someone messing up my cards! Nearly went to jail for homicide once ;-)
I remember booting 8080 prototype boards, with jumpers in octal too. Ahhhh, the good old days!
But what else can they make it do? Do they have other code morphing technologies that we can download to this puppy and *poof*(tm) it's a Power PC? Or an Alpha?
If it's possible to emulate an x86 in software, what about other platforms?
Having this kind of portable longevity with the ability to be other machines would be tres cool! It would mean not having to buy an x86 laptop, an iBook and a Palm. Just initialize it with the proper interpreter code, and voila! The best of all worlds! [pardon the poor Borg reference :-)]
But I was right in part! No one - being a person - has travelled at any velocity reasonabally approaching the speed of light, to experience the time-dialation effect!
Do I get a copy of the board game? ;-)
These are very tough. They are generally accepted as true, but no one has been able to prove/disprove them yet using a general all-encompassing proof. Like we take Einstien's General relativity as true, yet no one has travelled at the speed of light to see if he was right.
Anyone has a shot at solving them. The problem is creativity. Feremat's theory [X^2+Y^2=Z^2] was proven by a mathmetician by relating two previously unrelated theories and blending them to prove Feremat's Theory. His effort was most creative, and a little mind wobbling.
The only problem for proving them is coming up with the right blend of other proofs and combining them in such a way that has never been done before. Or in being able to come up with your own, right out of the blue, such as Sir Isacc Newton did when he tried to study gravity, and had to invent Calculus!
I'll stick to trying to balance my chequebook...
I'd pay good money for that!
Motorola/IBM own the copper technology, and Intel is severly lagging in developing it.
AMD Licenses it from IBM, rather that re-invent the wheel.
But when it comes to heat transfer, metal on metal is better, yes? Especially compared to metal near metal with air in between.
Thermal grease was invented to fill in those gaps with a solid, heat transferring substance, rather than air, which tends to hold heat when placed between two 'uneven' slabs of metal.
If you can reduce the 6/10 of a thou that the thermal grease would occupy by even 1/10 thou, that gives more metal to metal contact, improving the efficency of the heat transfer. As you say, the fabricator in Taiwan isn't going to make it that accurate. They only make it accurate enough to justify costs, and within tolerances.
If we go and make the tolerances a little tighter, so they work better under our heavy heat stress, it's woth it to us.
Happy overclocking! I've got my Athlon "700" running at 900, and it maintains 30c!
A bit of advice - always spring for a 300W+ power supply with Athlons...400W if you plan to use the Peltier!
Let's not forget, all Microsoft has to do in their response is state something like "Private and Confidential, this may not be made public" and we'll never know Microsoft's responses until they are in court!
They may even be able to convince a Judge to have /. temporarally disable that story, and all it's responses.
I would like to see this battle as it unfolds too, but I always side with the immortal 'Murphy' and his view of the law.
If Henry Ford only made model T's, year in and year out, what kind of a world would that be? If he had managed to 'patent' the motor car, and squash all the competition, that's the way it would be!!
It's because of Microsoft that we realize that we have it so good with the Mac OS, BeOS, BSD's Linux's, OS/2 etc.
Microsoft drove the market for many years, making use of every possible CPU cycle that drove manufacturers to hold to Moore's law. What if '640k was enough' for everybody? What if our O/S still fit on a 320k 5 1/4" floppy?
Thank Microsoft, because we don't have to have it "...in any colour so long as it's black".
I like the idea of 192.168.192.0/24, but I don't know about the extra power consumption needed for those extra bits. It would keep the electrons from being bored though.
Sorry, I'm without a binary capable calculator right now, or I'd calculate the extra power needed over a year to maintain those extra bits, with an average network load of 5%...
l8er!
You're not gonna blame me for that are you???
If you like you can also build your own, but the required tools are fairly expensive, unless you plan to make a living at it ;-)
No software required, other than networking protocols...
Although I hate hearing things like "Oooooh you dislocated my hip....oooooh you broke my pelvis..." ;-)
Get some meat on dem bones!
And "the parking lot is full!" Wicked stuff!!
IMHO, it's no different that helping a stranded motorist change a flat tire. An act that in itself expects no rewards. Just the feeling of doing something right for your own piece of mind.
The only trouble is, you're dealing with Microsoft here. During that selfless act, you never expect that motorist to hit you over the head with a tire iron and steal your wallet and car
I truly hope they get themselves out of the corner they've painted themselves into. It would save them face, Slashdot lawyers fees and us techs quite a few headaches in trying to get this to interoperate with standard versions of Kerberos.
Perhaps Win2k SP2 will include changes to Kerberos to put it back to the standard operability that it was designed for.
"According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are harmless. They're never discovered by users, and they don't affect performance. It's much cheaper to release buggy software and fix the 5% to 10% of bugs people find and complain about."
This brings up some good points! Why do we put up with this from software companies?
I expect my car to run right whenever I need it. I expect mechanical failures once in a while, but with proper maintainence, any mechanical system can be kept running properly. But if the airbags deploy when I tune the radio to a certain frequency, I'd get a little miffed!
I shouldn't have to try many products out because; "oh, Lotus Notes has better security that Outlook, but Outlook is free.." or "Star Office is free, but Management wants Office,r even though it creates more down time..."
Software isn't perfect, but it should be a matter of pride, whether it's free or not, that is works as advertised.
I already vote with my wallet. I don't use Microsoft at home, and since I make decisions for my companies choice of software, we don't use IE or Outlook. And recently I converted several servers from NT to RH. I prefer software that people take a little pride in.
"What are your pet projects?"
1) Mouse support for vi
2) Making the world safe for pee cees
3) Petrefing household pets
4) Studing the Zen wisdom of CowboyNeal
"How many hours each day do you spend at work?"
1) 8
2) 10
3) 12
4) 23.5
What's your work space like?
1) Cubicle
2) Janitor closet 2.0
3) Basement ("Maybe I should burn the place down")
4) I decorate with a hand grenade..like it?
"(Number of Linux computers, number of computers without a case, number of Windows machines (and why), number of monitors, etc.)"
[I'll let the hungry masses fill in that one..]
How about favorite beers?
1) Bud
2) Coors
3) Anything German
4) Anything Microbrewed
5) Whatever CmdrTaco is ordering
And who says polls are getting stale!
"Microsoft has no comment at this time," said a Microsoft public relations spokesperson.
Doesn't that tickle you pink! Bwaaahahahahahaha!
But too bad. Under fair use, IMHO, it is legal. No one agreed to the license agreement before posting it. You didn't secure it well enough, it was available to be extracted by a demo program without agreeing to any license agreements.
And any comments I made I refuse to have censored, removed, edited or changed. They are copyright ME (C) 2000. They are also subject to the laws of the country I was in when I posted them, which has no form of DCMA, thank God! And sending me a note as to your objections will only be good for a laugh! Sendto: Anon_Coward@hotmail.com. Ha!!
Sorry MS, but your options are limited. Andover and Slashdot didn't post those comments, it was us, and we refuse to be silenced!
As for Cmdr Taco et al, someone has to take a stand! Someone has to fight DMCA. There must be a test case! Why not this one! All the rules were followed, IMHO. Slashdot did nothing wrong, but they are being made scapegoats anyhow. Didn't some court somewhere already absolve ISP's from the content of their users??
You guys know the community is behind you, in any way you need us, right!?!
Or are you guys lucky enough to have a a a a *looks around* Vending Machine!!
Remember! Don't turn the old box into scrap just yet! Been there, done that, wasn't pretty.
Congrats on a sucessful implementation! Place a little check in the box beside "Successful" on the change management form!
Shit eating moron because of a speling mistake. You must be one of those people that cut me off in traffic just because I drive slow in the left lane.
Just for that, I'm not changing it.
Post your e-male, coward!
(1)If you have an ASUS board, you can run the PC Probe utility that came with the board. It will give you info like: (under the info tab, DMI Explorer...)
Version: Athlon
External Clock: 100Mhz
Max Speed: 800Mhz
Current Speed: 700Mhz
(2) If you have a program like Intel LAN Desk, you can use the DMI Explorer to get the same information.
(3) Machines such as Compaq's and HP's come with diagnostic utilities that also explore this information...
This should match what you see on the case of the processor. If they don't match, or your clock frequency is running over 100Mhz, be suspicious!!
I am plain old tired of seeing this kind of crap here. This is supposed to be a forum for intellectual conversation, an exchange of informed opinions. Hatred or intolerance in any form, even jokingly, detracts from it.
In my country, we'd call you Red Neck, and promply you would be involved in a 'pedestrian accident'.
In the movie, Duncan Idaho (pronounced "I Da 'Ho"), is killed. In the books, he is the only character to survive the 10 or 12 thousand year span of the book series.
They have to go to the small screen because they screw up the movie and have to start over :-)
It is my favorite book and series of SF books, and I hope they do it right! Get George Lucas to do set design! It should have the pagentry and costumes of TPM, the extras cast of Ben Hur and the special FX of Star Wars!
I'm going to gut my new Mustang Cobra and stuff all the parts into the shell of an old Pinto because of the nostalga value!
Little kids and mid-life yuppies will all swoon at this frankenbox I have created! And just think the look on their faces when this ~$60k machine cum ~$500.00 fishtank gets rear-ended!
How the skies will glow! Aaaaa...
Puuuhlease! I shoved 68040 25's into Amiga 1000's and 2500's too. They were cooler factory spec. Other than that, drill 5/8" holes in the case. That'll help them sink faster and be better boat anchors.
Moderate me down because my opinion differs from the norm.