Seriously, if things were as our forefathers had intended the people behind this type of legislation wouldn't want to leave their house without bodyguards.
I'm still amazed that Ken Lay and his Enron buddies haven't been shot yet; what was it, 150,000 retirements they destroyed?
I think the higher-ups (in gov't and corporations) would be a LOT more responsible if they feared for their lives a bit more.
Portage never blows away MY config files. do you have CONFIG_PROTECT="" exported? that's what makes portage blow config files away, it's part of the install process to export that, but after you reboot it shouldn't be an issue.
I'd like to see Gentoo's Portage move onto BSD, it was originally inspired by the BSD ports system, but has become very easy to use and refined. It's time for a BSD to try out Portage (Mac OS X is geting Portage soon!)
I went to Northeastern and it was so lame. I guess I partied hard enough in high school that college seemed stupid.
I didn't end up staying long and I have to say that part of the reason was that I felt like I was herded with a bunch of idiots who knew how to play school, whereas I was smart but didn't care for academia. All the 'go party! get laid!' was bullshit, it was easier to get drunk and have deviant sex when I was in high school, and all the girls at university seemed either really dirty or really bitchy. The parties had no class, the booze was always of the cheapest variety, and dorm life was mind-numbing.
I'd rather be stuck playing pong for eternity than go back to living at school.
Microsoft doesn't play well with others, they go OUT OF THEIR WAY to not interoperate. Trust me, you COULD write a FS-layer plugin for NT/2000/XP, but it would certainly run slowly and not work properly unless it had MS-blessing (and access to Microsoft source). Apple might be more open to the idea of embracing other FSs' but the angle-of-attack for that would be to get support into Darwin, and the boot partition would probably have to remain HFS+.
The problem is that the FS is one of the MOST important aspects of an OS, and no vendor is going to stick to the 'standard' if they can squeeze out more performance by bending or breaking it. There would be massive embrace/extend breakage. The security models for entire operating systems would have to bend over backwards to support some universal ACLs and behaviors. See the documentation for the UFS module in the Linux Kernel for an example.
If you want an FS that works accross the board for your go-between drive, I suggest FAT32 or ISO9660 (cd-rom). In a few years maybe we can switch over the read-only end to UDF. Until then, set up that NFS/Samba/NetAtalk server!
I used to live like that, then I took my big hard drive, slapped it into a linux box and shared it out with NFS, Samba, and NetAtalk. Now I can access all my files, which automagically get backed-up, from any machine on my LAN. Stop waiting for the 'universal' FS to show up, it'll never happen.
Man, before I was all 'boyfriend' I was such a fun-loving punk-assed drunk of a geek, and it was FUN! I'd pop pills and drink all the time and geek for days on end. I learned so much back then, it would take me a decade to learn now what took only twoi years when I had that sort of... un-focus in my life.
Now I'm so tired from the commute and the 9-to-5 and I have to pay attention to all this other shit (cats, girlfriend, email, bills, car care, lawn, landlord) I don't have any room left for being creative.
Also remember that digital cable TV can afford to drop at least a few percent of the data and just 'play through' without a hitch. There are no data timing issues, no packets, no ACKS on data, no CRCs, no headers or addressing, and it only goes one way.
(most) IP data, on the other hand has all of those things that end up making the data stream very compute-and-wire intensive. 5% data loss on the TV is a skipped frame every few minutes or some 'blocking' pictures, on your data line it would be totally unacceptable, and you would FEEL it.
Saying that the cable companies are just capping you at the very bottom of their capacity is like saying you can transfer 170KB/sec over your headphones, because the sound coming from them is CD-quality stereo; you DO hear the sound, and it is high-quality, but it's not digital, 'exact', or 'guaranteed' once it hits the stereo plug.
It won't DO anything though. Automotive 'coolant' is no better than water at conducting heat. What it's for is to RAISE the boiling point for the water so the water doesn't evaporate (engines run at above 100C/boiling pt.). Adding salt to your 'laptop water' would do more for it than pumping in ethelyne glycol (car coolant).
'Coolant' is a total misnomer, all it does in a car is flow in a circle from the engine (heat generated) to the radiator (heat expelled to air) and back again. The green stuff (artificially dyed to let you know it's poisonous/leaking) just keeps the water from boiling in the process (and inhibits some corrosion by balancing out the acid in the water).
Deep-sixing the world's old cities and buildings (crowded at every coastline) might actually be pretty cool in the long run, a totally 'fresh start' for humanity requiring new architecture and transport designs.
Also, the excess heat would allow for enhanced agriculture in the temperate and arctic zones (where most of the stuff I actually care about exists). The tropics might be reduced to deserts, but they will anyway after a few decades.
On the other hand, with 'infinite' energy it would become economically viable to build (mylar?) reflectors in space to shield us from some sunlight, so we might not have to endure intense global warming after all.
Actually, I think you CAN put a barton into an older system, it will just underclock it based on tyou'r board's FSB. I could slap a barton 3200+ in my KT266A machine but it will only get to 1.8Ghz, but you still geet the advantage of the bigger cache (and it will run cooler and with less juice)
I agree, but one need not LOSE their email when switching profiles. I just did that last night, I had a profile since 1.0 that needed a total rework, I saved the 'Mail' directory and bookmarks, blasted the profile, configured everything, and then dropped the 'Mail' and bookmarks back on. Worked like a charm.
The number-one thing mozilla CAN use is geeks testing all the features and filing bugs. I like Moz because I can access my mail from my windows profile and my Linux profile, I can't find another email client that will let me do that.
I was wondering how that worked. iexplore.exe is just a front-end to mshtml.dll (and others) right?
Couldn't you just rename the iexplore.exe file after installing the latest SP and 'hiding' IE? Programs that use the MSIE libraries will still work, but Internet Explorer itself will not. Am I totally wrong here?
As far as I can tell, you could use our old friend gravity to return to earth on a budget. All you have to do is slow down your revolution around the sun and you'll start falling closer to earth's orbit.
There would be timing issues, but what interplanetary expedition wouldn't?
Whoops! I just got to thinking. I may be wron in the above post.
The G4 is going away, it won't clock-up enough, and Apple pays through the nose for them. The IBM 970 is a power/heat hog (compared to the G3 and G4) because it's based on the POWER4 chips. IBM has the G3, which is low power and heat, but a bit feature-starved. I don't think the 970 will ever scale down well for laptop usage, it's from a family of CPUs with no power considerations to worry of.
IBM could certainly reengineer the G3 line with some SIMD stuff from their 970, not an 'AltiVec unit' but just add some SIMD instructions to the CPU. You wouldn't even need the full set of SIMD instructions, just get the core features in. The resulting CPU would be very attractive for Apple and DVR manufacturers (for video compression).
I hope they juice up the bus if they do this, maybe they can put the memory controller/ethernet/usb2/firewire onto the chip as well (in the package, but not on-die), since those are all features that I'll bet most of their target market will want.
But adding AltiVec to the G3 would negate all the advantages of the G3 that keep it alive. Altivec is really 80% useless, it accelerates a few media operations at the expense of power consumption, die size, and cost to produce.
Remember that the G3 chip is primarily marketed for use in big routers and other embedded applications, where altivec is useless. Apple uses it because it works well and costs very little.
Adding AlitVec to the G3 would be like adding SSE to the PII, but even more so.
Now, if IBM has an alternative to AltiVec (which they seem to for the 970) maybe PARTS of it can be backported to the 750, but I don't expect that to happen as it would cost a lot and it would not increase the chip's marketability much.
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Seriously, if things were as our forefathers had intended the people behind this type of legislation wouldn't want to leave their house without bodyguards.
I'm still amazed that Ken Lay and his Enron buddies haven't been shot yet; what was it, 150,000 retirements they destroyed?
I think the higher-ups (in gov't and corporations) would be a LOT more responsible if they feared for their lives a bit more.
Portage never blows away MY config files. do you have CONFIG_PROTECT="" exported? that's what makes portage blow config files away, it's part of the install process to export that, but after you reboot it shouldn't be an issue.
I'm crossing my fingers that this comes out with Portage as the package manager...
I'd like to see Gentoo's Portage move onto BSD, it was originally inspired by the BSD ports system, but has become very easy to use and refined. It's time for a BSD to try out Portage (Mac OS X is geting Portage soon!)
I went to Northeastern and it was so lame. I guess I partied hard enough in high school that college seemed stupid.
I didn't end up staying long and I have to say that part of the reason was that I felt like I was herded with a bunch of idiots who knew how to play school, whereas I was smart but didn't care for academia. All the 'go party! get laid!' was bullshit, it was easier to get drunk and have deviant sex when I was in high school, and all the girls at university seemed either really dirty or really bitchy. The parties had no class, the booze was always of the cheapest variety, and dorm life was mind-numbing.
I'd rather be stuck playing pong for eternity than go back to living at school.
Microsoft doesn't play well with others, they go OUT OF THEIR WAY to not interoperate. Trust me, you COULD write a FS-layer plugin for NT/2000/XP, but it would certainly run slowly and not work properly unless it had MS-blessing (and access to Microsoft source). Apple might be more open to the idea of embracing other FSs' but the angle-of-attack for that would be to get support into Darwin, and the boot partition would probably have to remain HFS+.
The problem is that the FS is one of the MOST important aspects of an OS, and no vendor is going to stick to the 'standard' if they can squeeze out more performance by bending or breaking it. There would be massive embrace/extend breakage. The security models for entire operating systems would have to bend over backwards to support some universal ACLs and behaviors. See the documentation for the UFS module in the Linux Kernel for an example.
If you want an FS that works accross the board for your go-between drive, I suggest FAT32 or ISO9660 (cd-rom). In a few years maybe we can switch over the read-only end to UDF. Until then, set up that NFS/Samba/NetAtalk server!
And I'm running it on a 500MHz laptop and it's zippy.
I used to live like that, then I took my big hard drive, slapped it into a linux box and shared it out with NFS, Samba, and NetAtalk. Now I can access all my files, which automagically get backed-up, from any machine on my LAN. Stop waiting for the 'universal' FS to show up, it'll never happen.
Man, before I was all 'boyfriend' I was such a fun-loving punk-assed drunk of a geek, and it was FUN! I'd pop pills and drink all the time and geek for days on end. I learned so much back then, it would take me a decade to learn now what took only twoi years when I had that sort of... un-focus in my life.
Now I'm so tired from the commute and the 9-to-5 and I have to pay attention to all this other shit (cats, girlfriend, email, bills, car care, lawn, landlord) I don't have any room left for being creative.
Also remember that digital cable TV can afford to drop at least a few percent of the data and just 'play through' without a hitch. There are no data timing issues, no packets, no ACKS on data, no CRCs, no headers or addressing, and it only goes one way.
(most) IP data, on the other hand has all of those things that end up making the data stream very compute-and-wire intensive. 5% data loss on the TV is a skipped frame every few minutes or some 'blocking' pictures, on your data line it would be totally unacceptable, and you would FEEL it.
Saying that the cable companies are just capping you at the very bottom of their capacity is like saying you can transfer 170KB/sec over your headphones, because the sound coming from them is CD-quality stereo; you DO hear the sound, and it is high-quality, but it's not digital, 'exact', or 'guaranteed' once it hits the stereo plug.
It won't DO anything though. Automotive 'coolant' is no better than water at conducting heat. What it's for is to RAISE the boiling point for the water so the water doesn't evaporate (engines run at above 100C/boiling pt.). Adding salt to your 'laptop water' would do more for it than pumping in ethelyne glycol (car coolant).
'Coolant' is a total misnomer, all it does in a car is flow in a circle from the engine (heat generated) to the radiator (heat expelled to air) and back again. The green stuff (artificially dyed to let you know it's poisonous/leaking) just keeps the water from boiling in the process (and inhibits some corrosion by balancing out the acid in the water).
Deep-sixing the world's old cities and buildings (crowded at every coastline) might actually be pretty cool in the long run, a totally 'fresh start' for humanity requiring new architecture and transport designs.
Also, the excess heat would allow for enhanced agriculture in the temperate and arctic zones (where most of the stuff I actually care about exists). The tropics might be reduced to deserts, but they will anyway after a few decades.
On the other hand, with 'infinite' energy it would become economically viable to build (mylar?) reflectors in space to shield us from some sunlight, so we might not have to endure intense global warming after all.
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So mark that down as 1984.
The Mac OS has been 32-bit from day one, AFAIK. The memory addressing was 24-bit until the Mac II series, but the CPU and OS were always 32-bit.
Actually, I think you CAN put a barton into an older system, it will just underclock it based on tyou'r board's FSB. I could slap a barton 3200+ in my KT266A machine but it will only get to 1.8Ghz, but you still geet the advantage of the bigger cache (and it will run cooler and with less juice)
I agree, but one need not LOSE their email when switching profiles. I just did that last night, I had a profile since 1.0 that needed a total rework, I saved the 'Mail' directory and bookmarks, blasted the profile, configured everything, and then dropped the 'Mail' and bookmarks back on. Worked like a charm.
The number-one thing mozilla CAN use is geeks testing all the features and filing bugs. I like Moz because I can access my mail from my windows profile and my Linux profile, I can't find another email client that will let me do that.
I was wondering how that worked. iexplore.exe is just a front-end to mshtml.dll (and others) right?
Couldn't you just rename the iexplore.exe file after installing the latest SP and 'hiding' IE? Programs that use the MSIE libraries will still work, but Internet Explorer itself will not. Am I totally wrong here?
As far as I can tell, you could use our old friend gravity to return to earth on a budget. All you have to do is slow down your revolution around the sun and you'll start falling closer to earth's orbit.
There would be timing issues, but what interplanetary expedition wouldn't?
Let's let PowerLogix know that we'd buy a 750GX upgrade (as opposed to their current FX offering)!
Thank you for the clarification. I was actually curious about OS X and the resource fork.
And the best thing about the G3 instead of the G4? NO FAN NEEDED! What could improve reliability more than reduced number of moving parts?
I know I don't lose any sleep over my G3, it's only got one big low-RPM fan in the case and I expect it to last a decade.
Whoops! I just got to thinking. I may be wron in the above post.
The G4 is going away, it won't clock-up enough, and Apple pays through the nose for them. The IBM 970 is a power/heat hog (compared to the G3 and G4) because it's based on the POWER4 chips. IBM has the G3, which is low power and heat, but a bit feature-starved. I don't think the 970 will ever scale down well for laptop usage, it's from a family of CPUs with no power considerations to worry of.
IBM could certainly reengineer the G3 line with some SIMD stuff from their 970, not an 'AltiVec unit' but just add some SIMD instructions to the CPU. You wouldn't even need the full set of SIMD instructions, just get the core features in. The resulting CPU would be very attractive for Apple and DVR manufacturers (for video compression).
I hope they juice up the bus if they do this, maybe they can put the memory controller/ethernet/usb2/firewire onto the chip as well (in the package, but not on-die), since those are all features that I'll bet most of their target market will want.
They should call it the G3se, Special Edition. Why not? It works for cars.
But adding AltiVec to the G3 would negate all the advantages of the G3 that keep it alive. Altivec is really 80% useless, it accelerates a few media operations at the expense of power consumption, die size, and cost to produce.
Remember that the G3 chip is primarily marketed for use in big routers and other embedded applications, where altivec is useless. Apple uses it because it works well and costs very little.
Adding AlitVec to the G3 would be like adding SSE to the PII, but even more so.
Now, if IBM has an alternative to AltiVec (which they seem to for the 970) maybe PARTS of it can be backported to the 750, but I don't expect that to happen as it would cost a lot and it would not increase the chip's marketability much.