Linux's SMP support is in its infancy- Solaris, HPUX, AIX etc have been hammering it for YEARS.
You can't just expect Linux to instantly be equal to those OSes in that regard. (INsert obligatory "without illegal insertion os SCO-owned SMP code in to Linux by IBM blah blah blah:p )
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As others have stated, current VW TDIs routinely get 50mpg. Shit- my 198x Audi 4000 has a 1.6 Diesel- I get ~65mpg. Of course, it's slow as fuck cause it only has ~6x hp or so, but whatever.
Myabe he doesnt "own" it. Maybe he rented it, leased it, or maybe it's "owned" by his parents, and he just uses it while at school. I don't fucking know- the point of my post is that just because hes away in romania doesnt mean he couldnt have been sharing files.
Hmmm- so every MIT-Dorm computer is directly accessible from a public IP?
I don't really know the answer to that question but I'm guessing it's "no"
My point being that any organization larger than a fe people is likely to have a firewall doing NAT- Meaning that *only* the orginization itself will be able to see mac addresses and be able to tie them to individual users.
Contrast to "no nat", and the ISP would be able to see thse things.
The RIAA is suing people who are *sharing* files, not *downloading* files.
Get that through your head.
It's entirely conceivable that this guy left Kazaa running while going away to Romania, with all his stuff shared. I dunno- that's kinda how the shit works when you've got a permanent connection. To give back, you leave the stuff running even while you're not there.
that's ridiculous- any organization of any small size is going to have everything behind NAT, so nobody is going to be doing any MAC-address *anything*
The only thing here that seems like it would be genuinely useful is HTML compression... surely there is/will-be an Open Source solution for this. Maybe a new MIME type, e.g. text/html.compressed? Then it could be implemented on both the browser and server side, and this would have far greater impact. This could be implemented either in the browser itself or in a lightweight proxy like Proxomitron. Anyone? Anyone?
Browsers have supported gzip compression since IIRC the 2.0 days... See mod_gzip for apache.
I've got a crisp $50 that says you're looking at the "memory usage" from top or gkrellm or something like that. That includes the system cache and disk buffers, so it's not an accurate measure of how much RAM is actually being used by programs.
Try "free" at a shell prompt...
What about the earth-based railgun?
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What happened to this idea? Very long railgun on the ground, gently ascending up a hill?
Sure its a big initial capital investment, but after that you're just paying for the power. And the vehicles can then basically just be gliders.
> So the only reason you would consider a desktop operating system, is if it was tuned to be a server?
Of course that's not the only criteria, but if it's networking and stability aren't even up to the simple simple task of serving HTTP, what am I really going to do with it?
And you don't eat your own dogfood either:
> The site www.openbeos.org is running Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.2.3 mod_perl/1.26 on Linux.
That said, there is definitely something to be said for the "original" "perfect" version. After everything has been tweaked to perfection and finally laid down in to it's finished form.
I identify nuances in music, and they're usually my favorite parts in songs.
The nuances in "Wish You Were Here" for example can not be reproduced in any sort of live format. It's simply impossible to play that many guitars at once.
Also- the "feel" of a song sometimes is very dependant upon it's position on the album. The context of it. You hear the song before song X and after song Y, and if you don't it just doesn't have the same feel.
This is what content management systems are for- the access control, modification rights, etc etc.
There are already many many systems out there that provide this functionality.
One feature that would be "good" IMO is immutability. (like how you can lock down a PDF so no changes can be made) Of course, robust encryption would be a good thing too, nobody wants anymore European hackers being arrested at presentations they're giving:)
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Linux's SMP support is in its infancy- Solaris, HPUX, AIX etc have been hammering it for YEARS.
You can't just expect Linux to instantly be equal to those OSes in that regard.
(INsert obligatory "without illegal insertion os SCO-owned SMP code in to Linux by IBM blah blah blah
I dunno- it sure doesn't "feel" faster to me on my Transmeta (2.4.20 VS 2.6B9)
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> If you drive aggressively (say, 65-70mpg constant), you get around 47-48mpg.
65-70mph is "aggressively"?
Good god- you dont live in the bay area do you.
Often I am doing 90 and passing *nobody*
Biodiesel is the answer-
As others have stated, current VW TDIs routinely get 50mpg.
Shit- my 198x Audi 4000 has a 1.6 Diesel- I get ~65mpg.
Of course, it's slow as fuck cause it only has ~6x hp or so, but whatever.
MIT student doesnt have a computer... right.
Myabe he doesnt "own" it.
Maybe he rented it, leased it, or maybe it's "owned" by his parents, and he just uses it while at school.
I don't fucking know- the point of my post is that just because hes away in romania doesnt mean he couldnt have been sharing files.
Open-source or not...
I would say just get a bigger box for your PostgreSQL solution and do semi-realtime remote replication on the tables you dont want to lose.
I mean- if they're leaving the company, maybe it's because they realize that what SCO is doing is baseless, and they want no part of it.
Hmmm- so every MIT-Dorm computer is directly accessible from a public IP?
I don't really know the answer to that question but I'm guessing it's "no"
My point being that any organization larger than a fe people is likely to have a firewall doing NAT-
Meaning that *only* the orginization itself will be able to see mac addresses and be able to tie them to individual users.
Contrast to "no nat", and the ISP would be able to see thse things.
The RIAA is suing people who are *sharing* files, not *downloading* files.
Get that through your head.
It's entirely conceivable that this guy left Kazaa running while going away to Romania, with all his stuff shared.
I dunno- that's kinda how the shit works when you've got a permanent connection.
To give back, you leave the stuff running even while you're not there.
that's ridiculous- any organization of any small size is going to have everything behind NAT, so nobody is going to be doing any MAC-address *anything*
I dont follow- "space" is ~6 miles up-
todays rockets accelerate to 18k mph well within that 6 miles while remaining below 9g
The only thing here that seems like it would be genuinely useful is HTML compression... surely there is/will-be an Open Source solution for this. Maybe a new MIME type, e.g. text/html.compressed? Then it could be implemented on both the browser and server side, and this would have far greater impact. This could be implemented either in the browser itself or in a lightweight proxy like Proxomitron. Anyone? Anyone?
Browsers have supported gzip compression since IIRC the 2.0 days...
See mod_gzip for apache.
come on- how many of you are over dial-up *right now*?
that's what i thought...
They sued people who are *sharing* songs, not people who are *downloading* songs.
I've got a crisp $50 that says you're looking at the "memory usage" from top or gkrellm or something like that.
That includes the system cache and disk buffers, so it's not an accurate measure of how much RAM is actually being used by programs.
Try "free" at a shell prompt...
What happened to this idea?
Very long railgun on the ground, gently ascending up a hill?
Sure its a big initial capital investment, but after that you're just paying for the power.
And the vehicles can then basically just be gliders.
No, it's just bad spelling- "innocence"
> So the only reason you would consider a desktop operating system, is if it was tuned to be a server?
Of course that's not the only criteria, but if it's networking and stability aren't even up to the simple simple task of serving HTTP, what am I really going to do with it?
And you don't eat your own dogfood either:
> The site www.openbeos.org is running Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.2.3 mod_perl/1.26 on Linux.
Huh?
FreeDOS has nothing to do whatsoever with "the ability to buy a PC without Windows preinstalled"
Buy a PC with a blank disk-
Boot off CD to install whatever OS you want.
done...
FreeDOS doesn't "enable" this by any means.
Weak.
> The site www.freedos.org is running Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 PHP/4.3.2 on Linux.
Come on now- what possible use is there for this?
It sounds about as useful to me as that ~4.xxMB Win95 distribution...
I agree wholeheartedly-
That said, there is definitely something to be said for the "original" "perfect" version.
After everything has been tweaked to perfection and finally laid down in to it's finished form.
I identify nuances in music, and they're usually my favorite parts in songs.
The nuances in "Wish You Were Here" for example can not be reproduced in any sort of live format.
It's simply impossible to play that many guitars at once.
Also- the "feel" of a song sometimes is very dependant upon it's position on the album.
The context of it.
You hear the song before song X and after song Y, and if you don't it just doesn't have the same feel.
Whatever- food for thought...
Yeah!
Aren't these theories and this research in violation of the DMCA?!?!?!?
This is what content management systems are for- the access control, modification rights, etc etc.
:)
There are already many many systems out there that provide this functionality.
One feature that would be "good" IMO is immutability. (like how you can lock down a PDF so no changes can be made)
Of course, robust encryption would be a good thing too, nobody wants anymore European hackers being arrested at presentations they're giving