HPUX is already running on Itanium, and they said that (eventually) they will incorporate OSF/1's...hehe oops, I mean Digital Unix's...erm...I mean Tru64's very excellent clustering technology. Also, since HP owns both PA-RISC and the Alpha, the better tech of those should trickle into the Itanium (actaully, it should be happaning now since Compaq sold a lot of the tech to Intel a year or so ago).
So it still very much remains to be seen whether Itanium will kill ass or not.
But perhaps he has a digicam and he needs something to dump pix too. And while i can see most places in south america beeing within range of power, I wouldn't be able to say the same in the middle of Africa.
I never said it came from version 7 (i used an x because i didn't know which it forked from off the top of my head). According to the timeline you provided, BSD first came off of timesharing version 6, with multiple "syncs/forks" with various UNIX versions over time.
I should have been more specific, i guess. What I meant to say was 4.4BSD-lite had every single piece of code rewritten by the folks at berkley after the lawsuit, while previous versions were "enhancements/modifications" of the origional UNIX source.
but linux isn't SVR4, it was coded from the ground up. BSD was sort of forked from SVRx, but had every single piece of code rewritten by the folks at berkley.
Do you really think enough XBoxes were sold for linux hackers that it would actually undercut Microsoft that much? Most of their losses are probably from MOD chips (once you have those installed you don't have to pay for games and Microsoft loses out on licensing) and the expensive R&D costs of starting in this market from scratch. Nintendo is really the only company immune (right now) as they use completely proprietary discs.
But AOL CDs are unsolicited, and under that laws of most western countrise, if you recive anything unsolicited, its yours to do with as you please. You DON'T have to even RTS it.
I bet you say open source, open source, open source just as much.
Listen to yourself for a moment. Not all companies (outside of the oil industry anyways;-) are evil spawns of satan. Many slashdotters are now apple fans,./ is now just cattering to them. And I'd also like to point out that a DVD burner in a freekin' laptop IS news worthy of slashdot
I'm not sure about the laptops, but the desktop apple screens are supplied by LG electronics and you can order PC versions of them, though they don't have the same case as the Mac...
USB 2.0 has a PEAK transfer of 480 mbps, whilst firewire has a SUSTAINED transfer of 400 mbps. As the other poster at my level also stated, firewire also chains better, is more consistent in its speed and generally is better for high bandwidth purposes. USB 2, while it has gained some support in external hard drives and CD-Rs, is still an inferior product that was created more for political reasons.
USB belongs on the low bandwidth end (mice, webcams, keyboards) whilst higher transfer devices should be firewire (digital camcorders, iPod, hard drives).
Heh, I don't even own a Mac and I'm praising firewire, lol!
now I find that very hard to believe. The government of canada has some very powerfull supercomputers used for weather. Also, I know for a fact that the Nortel labs in Ottawa have some very powerfull supercomputers. I think it is just plain ignorance that you would say someting like that. Plus, there are millions of personal computers in Canada. Well I can certainly believe that there are bigger supercomputers in the US, not even ten US universities come even close achieving your statement.
Further, I think MS will hang themselves. No, I'm serious here. Oppressive corporate strategies - both licensing and DRM sorts of things will get them eventually.
This may be true, but I don't think that anybody can predict exactly what will happen. Look at IBM, fifteen years ago THEY were the Microsoft of the computing world. Everybody hated them, but they used them because there was no real alternative.
Now IBM is still a HUGE company, but we no longer consider them "evil". My opinion is that is where Microsoft will eventually head. A big company that still has a lot of clout, but will no longer be the defacto company that nobody can challenge.:-/
-Change the date for your system to something high like the year 2020.
-Open Quicktime, select "Upgrade Later"
-Change the date back to the present day
-Never see those nags again...
because each replicates its data set to all other Root servers, catastrophic failure of one would bring down all of the other
Nonononono, that would be extremely stupid. If one of the root servers went down, the others would pick up the slack, that is part of the redundancy.
If that ever happens, you can pretty much say goodbye to the Net, at least temporarily.
Not exactly. Even if all the root DNS servers were wipped from the face of the earth, the caches of all the local DNS servers would still know the addresses for any sites that were recently visited by its clients. So as long as the IPs of the sites didn't change, it would be ok as the local DNS servers would still know where to look. Now if you made a request to a site that the DNS server has never been to before, it would look up to higher DNS servers. If none of them, all the way back to the root servers, knew the answer, you wouldn't be able to get at those sites.
I'm not sure about the Mac version of foolproof, but the Windows version SUCKS (or at least sucked, its been 3 years since i graduated from HS).
Firstly, it was way to easy to get around. Just boot off a DOS floppy and move foolproofs exexutable. Oops, "cannont find foolp.exe" (or whatever it was called). Secondly, it had this REALLY annoying bug, where you could move the taskbar out of the way, but you could not bring it back up, needless to say, the punk kids had a ball with this one...
Linux is for those who love UNIX. BSD is for those who hate Linux.
I believe the statment really goes:
Linux is for those who hate Microsoft, BSD is for those who love UNIX.
Considering that BSD origonates from the origional UNIX, that makes more sense...but then again you are probably a linux zealot who thinks RMS is some sort of man god...
...if students have to install a Java V, a C++/C/ObjC/Python compiler...
But You'll still have to install an (expensive) Mircorsoft compiler. You think they're gonna give that away for free? Development tools are a big money maker for MS, I don't think they're gonna stop now:-/
As for VB script, we know how useless it is. It was supposed to be the Java killer as far as the web was concerned, that never materialized.
and 2 flavors of Unix (HPUX and one more, though I can't remember which one).
Solaris. But the UNIX IEs are sorely out of date and even when they were released they were no good. All they really could do was basic web site rendering. No flash (not such a bad thing), java, media player, etc. The only good modern browsers on non windows/mac systems are open source.
Kinda ironic considering how proprietary and closed most comercial UNIX apps were just a few years ago. You're best off just using Konquerer or Mozilla if you are using a commercial UNIX as a desktop.
But you at lease don't find this a little interesting? How about the fact that it has taken this long for them to finnaly formally end the run for BETAMAX? I have an idea for you, if you don't like a story that/. posted, just skip it and read on. If you don't like any of the stories, go away and never come back.
Actually, they aren't the ones running the box. openbsd.org and openssh.org (including the main ftp servers) are run on Solaris at the University of Alberta in Calgary. This is because the Universtity has offered free bandwidth, and for projects as large as openbsd/openssh, free bandwidth is a godsend.
So what are you saying? You're saying that companies should track you as you browse the internet so that they can bombard you with targeted advertising instead of non-targeted? Carefull what you wish for, my friend!;-)
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So it still very much remains to be seen whether Itanium will kill ass or not.
HPUX has already been ported to Itanium, you can buy them right now! :-)
But perhaps he has a digicam and he needs something to dump pix too. And while i can see most places in south america beeing within range of power, I wouldn't be able to say the same in the middle of Africa.
I should have been more specific, i guess. What I meant to say was 4.4BSD-lite had every single piece of code rewritten by the folks at berkley after the lawsuit, while previous versions were "enhancements/modifications" of the origional UNIX source.
but linux isn't SVR4, it was coded from the ground up. BSD was sort of forked from SVRx, but had every single piece of code rewritten by the folks at berkley.
Do you really think enough XBoxes were sold for linux hackers that it would actually undercut Microsoft that much? Most of their losses are probably from MOD chips (once you have those installed you don't have to pay for games and Microsoft loses out on licensing) and the expensive R&D costs of starting in this market from scratch. Nintendo is really the only company immune (right now) as they use completely proprietary discs.
But AOL CDs are unsolicited, and under that laws of most western countrise, if you recive anything unsolicited, its yours to do with as you please. You DON'T have to even RTS it.
Listen to yourself for a moment. Not all companies (outside of the oil industry anyways ;-) are evil spawns of satan. Many slashdotters are now apple fans, ./ is now just cattering to them. And I'd also like to point out that a DVD burner in a freekin' laptop IS news worthy of slashdot
I'm not sure about the laptops, but the desktop apple screens are supplied by LG electronics and you can order PC versions of them, though they don't have the same case as the Mac...
USB 2.0 has a PEAK transfer of 480 mbps, whilst firewire has a SUSTAINED transfer of 400 mbps. As the other poster at my level also stated, firewire also chains better, is more consistent in its speed and generally is better for high bandwidth purposes. USB 2, while it has gained some support in external hard drives and CD-Rs, is still an inferior product that was created more for political reasons.
USB belongs on the low bandwidth end (mice, webcams, keyboards) whilst higher transfer devices should be firewire (digital camcorders, iPod, hard drives).
Heh, I don't even own a Mac and I'm praising firewire, lol!
Windows XP was codenamed Whistler when it was still in alpha.
now I find that very hard to believe. The government of canada has some very powerfull supercomputers used for weather. Also, I know for a fact that the Nortel labs in Ottawa have some very powerfull supercomputers. I think it is just plain ignorance that you would say someting like that. Plus, there are millions of personal computers in Canada. Well I can certainly believe that there are bigger supercomputers in the US, not even ten US universities come even close achieving your statement.
HAVING a monopoly is NOT illegal. Having a monopoly AND using your position to prevent new competition IS.
This may be true, but I don't think that anybody can predict exactly what will happen. Look at IBM, fifteen years ago THEY were the Microsoft of the computing world. Everybody hated them, but they used them because there was no real alternative.
Now IBM is still a HUGE company, but we no longer consider them "evil". My opinion is that is where Microsoft will eventually head. A big company that still has a lot of clout, but will no longer be the defacto company that nobody can challenge. :-/
-Open Quicktime, select "Upgrade Later"
-Change the date back to the present day
-Never see those nags again...
Though this may not work with 6.0.2...
Nonononono, that would be extremely stupid. If one of the root servers went down, the others would pick up the slack, that is part of the redundancy.
If that ever happens, you can pretty much say goodbye to the Net, at least temporarily.
Not exactly. Even if all the root DNS servers were wipped from the face of the earth, the caches of all the local DNS servers would still know the addresses for any sites that were recently visited by its clients. So as long as the IPs of the sites didn't change, it would be ok as the local DNS servers would still know where to look.
Now if you made a request to a site that the DNS server has never been to before, it would look up to higher DNS servers. If none of them, all the way back to the root servers, knew the answer, you wouldn't be able to get at those sites.
Firstly, it was way to easy to get around. Just boot off a DOS floppy and move foolproofs exexutable. Oops, "cannont find foolp.exe" (or whatever it was called). Secondly, it had this REALLY annoying bug, where you could move the taskbar out of the way, but you could not bring it back up, needless to say, the punk kids had a ball with this one...
I believe the statment really goes:
Linux is for those who hate Microsoft, BSD is for those who love UNIX.
Considering that BSD origonates from the origional UNIX, that makes more sense...but then again you are probably a linux zealot who thinks RMS is some sort of man god...
But You'll still have to install an (expensive) Mircorsoft compiler. You think they're gonna give that away for free? Development tools are a big money maker for MS, I don't think they're gonna stop now :-/
As for VB script, we know how useless it is. It was supposed to be the Java killer as far as the web was concerned, that never materialized.
Opps, sorta forgot about Opera, but it only runs on linux, not Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, etc. Does Opera run on non-x86 linux?
Solaris. But the UNIX IEs are sorely out of date and even when they were released they were no good. All they really could do was basic web site rendering. No flash (not such a bad thing), java, media player, etc. The only good modern browsers on non windows/mac systems are open source.
Kinda ironic considering how proprietary and closed most comercial UNIX apps were just a few years ago. You're best off just using Konquerer or Mozilla if you are using a commercial UNIX as a desktop.
But you at lease don't find this a little interesting? How about the fact that it has taken this long for them to finnaly formally end the run for BETAMAX? I have an idea for you, if you don't like a story that /. posted, just skip it and read on. If you don't like any of the stories, go away and never come back.
Actually, they aren't the ones running the box. openbsd.org and openssh.org (including the main ftp servers) are run on Solaris at the University of Alberta in Calgary. This is because the Universtity has offered free bandwidth, and for projects as large as openbsd/openssh, free bandwidth is a godsend.
So what are you saying? You're saying that companies should track you as you browse the internet so that they can bombard you with targeted advertising instead of non-targeted? ;-)
Carefull what you wish for, my friend!
www.monkey.org heh, i guess the monkies read it ;-)