I don't think that's true. I used to work at URI and traceroute showed that traffic to other universities was going through I2. I2 connects all the I2 clients , which happen to be universities. It's not just for dudes wearing labcoats, I2 handles a HUGE portion of college P2P and various other traffic. There are QoS facilities to keep the kiddies at a lower priority than the labcoats though. I2 is nothing super-special, it's not elite, it's mostly just a bunch of schools connected via 155MBit ATM.
I think a PCI card with a celeron or ultra-lowvolt PIII and a way to mount a 'DOS' disk from an image file on the HFS drive should do the trick. This is what they used to do when CPUs were way too slow to emulate well. Either that or a web-appliance that runs a VNC-compatible protocol, an x86 PC in a box with a 'virtual framebuffer' video driver pumping out VNC-compatible screen over ethernet, configurable with a browser. hmm. I've got something like that here, but it's more crude. It works quite well.
Whoops! Forgot that you will lose a LOT of your acceleration if you do that. XFree86 has to draw to an abstracted FB device instead of a more complete interface when you force the fbdev driver.
I don't understand, are you asking if you can run xfree-4.3.0 on the kernel-provided framebuffer (/dev/fbX)? Because you can, use the fbdev driver instead of the one for your video card in/etc/X11/XF86Config.
The same way showing a valid drivers licensce prevents me from strapping dynamite to my chest and taking out some infidels. Nobody who passes the driving test can be against us!
It's important community service, have you seen the filthy ID3 tags on the P2P networks? Somebody has to do this or else we'll all be listening to Mariah Carey when we were looking for Beastie Boys.
Well I know of at least one board that outputs PC ATX power from a 12V DC input. I use it here in my VIA EPIA 800. I think it tops out at 75W or something, but that's enough for a slimmed-down system with a throttled-down CPU and laptop drive.
all the 68K CPUs were 32-bit, the memory address lines were only 24-bit on some macs, limiting the addressable virtual memory to 16MB. The Macintosh hasn't seen a 'bit shift' ever in its life.
IANAEE but shouldn't some configuration of capacitors and or resistors be able to smooth out spikes and sags on a DC line? I recall my father building a "Capacitance UPS" for his Timex Sinclair in the early '80s when we moved to a house with flaky power.
I don't know if advising people to just pirate commercial software does anybody any help. We all know there's ways to get this done with money, we want to know if there's a native way to do it inside the OSS framework.
A lot of us have an old windows machine laying around just to handle a special app for work (I VNC to one here just to do my timesheets every week). Getting a windows app to output onto my X Server would be the single most convenient addition to my system to date, and I don't feel like breaking the law to get it done, thank you very much.
Until there's a kernel slashbox I thik slashdot is EXACTLY the place new kernels should be advertised. The kernel benefits from people testing it, and advertising direct to millions of geeks that their favorite chunk of code has been updated is a great way to get more testing done on it. Also, when a lot of people are running nasty kernels that have big bugs it's important to let the community know that fixes are available.
There oughtta be a slashbox though, or an option to disable kernel announcements.
Chips based on Itanium will be 4 inches square and suck 120 watts of juice. Intel consistently designs CPUs that are big, hot, and inelegant. Intel produces the 'combustion engine' of the CPU market, it's big, inefficient, and uses a lot of juice. The P4 puts out more heat than a comparable athlon, and it needs a giant dumb heat sink.
Look at the PowerPC architecture, you can run a G4 without a fan and get great performance. The PPC 970 (based on Power4) will be a seriously smooth CPU, trust me. And AMD is heading in that direction, with more ops/cycle and more elegant design since the Athlon came out.
Intel suffers from CPU-Design bloat, if you ask me. They're more concerned with selling it than getting it right.
4GB figure is for total virtual memory (RAM + SWAP) not just RAM. Currently in Linux I have to change kernel parameters to get over 960MB addressable RAM. I can think of a LOT of ways to use that memory up, and the software of the next few years will definitely hit that wall.
Servers need over 4GB -RIGHT NOW- and having an architecture rift between server and PC is moving in the opposite direction we want to. A single arch is much easier to handle within the borders of a company (less middleware and support), and it reduces costs across the board (see volume pricing and combined R&D costs). If the servers are going to need 64-bit addressing and 64-bit binaries, so ought the PCs they serve.
Jue Sixpack doesn't care though. The only people who know about SCSI are geeks and computer folks. Joe Sixpack just wants the 'most GB for the lowest price' which is why you've seen a dramtic reduction in warranty for drives. The modern consumer cares very little about quality, value, and performance, and cares very much about price, style, and ease-of-use.
Everyone I work with (computer company) wants SCSI. But nobody else could give a damn, it seems.
Remember that SCSI and ATA were much closer in price a decade ago (when apple was all-SCSI and volume was high), the vast majority of PC users opted for ATA (major performance/reliability hit) for a small price reduction.
It will, watch. This drive has ONE platter. I think they could pack 4 or 6 platters in there if they tried. This is a toe testing the water for 10k RPM ATA drives.
I worry that MS will 'embed' pocketed developers into the OSS movement to 'leak' MS code into core OSS software. After a while MS will pull the rug out from several projects (KDE, Gnome, Mozilla, Samba, LinuxKernel, etc.) all at once and completely screw us. There needs to be some way to protect ourselves from this. Is there a legal way to write into the GPL that adding copyrighted code from another product voids your right to the source? That way skeevy OSS developers who embed copyrighted code have their OSS licence terminated automatically.
Wait. You forget that SCSI drives are totally unsellable in the consumer market. If the manufacturer drops the price on a SCSI product to really low levels (but still higher than ATA) they STILL WON'T SELL because Joe Sixpack wants a drive that's super cheap and JUST WORKS in his PC. If an ATA drive gets overproduced it gets marked down until it sells out, SCSI is a niche market that I don't think works this way.
When I move someone over to Linux I give them WindowMaker. It seems strange, but because it is so different it forces users to abandon what they think they know and switch into a more ready-to-learn mode.
Whenever I set someone up with KDE they ask where the 'big blue E' is.
With Windowmaker they see a blank screen with a paperclip and have to find out for themselves. once they right-click they can see all their programs.
Exactly, it was cool, but fixing/upgrading them all day became old VERY quick. The enduser would have quite a time trying to do their own hard drive upgrade.
I like Apple's solution, big flash ROM with a bootloading OS on it (OpenFirmware) completely hidden from user. Also, now days you could have a 16MB disk-on-chip Setup or a compressed Setup that takes a chunk out of RAM to decompress and run when you need it.
OpenFirmware does NOT live on the Hard Drive, it lives in Flash ROM so it's semi-permanent. Compaq tried putting a BIOS Setup program on a 'secret' partition on the old Deskpro 2/4/6XXX machines and it was a total hassle to fix them if the drive died or somrthing happened to the partition, you had to load the BIOS Setup from _DISKETTES_. It was cool to have a GUI Setup with full diagnostics, but when the drive died so did the convenience. Don't even get me started on upgrading hard disks on those things.
But considering the cost of Windows compared to the hardware it's like saying that when you buy the truck you are required to get it with a jetski in the bed. A stereo is 2% of the total cost, windows costs a heck of a lot more than that (proportionately).
That's evidence that the system has broken down. It costs more to buy a product WITHOUT the monopoly OS than with it. You have to pay a premium to get a machine with Linux (a free OS) or no OS at all. The ill effects of a monopoly are starting to really show through now, and we're all just sitting here TAKING it and SUPPORTING it with every x86 PC purchase.
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I don't think that's true. I used to work at URI and traceroute showed that traffic to other universities was going through I2. I2 connects all the I2 clients , which happen to be universities. It's not just for dudes wearing labcoats, I2 handles a HUGE portion of college P2P and various other traffic. There are QoS facilities to keep the kiddies at a lower priority than the labcoats though. I2 is nothing super-special, it's not elite, it's mostly just a bunch of schools connected via 155MBit ATM.
Do you restore from /dev/zero or /dev/random? Zero is faster, but I heard random is more secure.
I think a PCI card with a celeron or ultra-lowvolt PIII and a way to mount a 'DOS' disk from an image file on the HFS drive should do the trick. This is what they used to do when CPUs were way too slow to emulate well. Either that or a web-appliance that runs a VNC-compatible protocol, an x86 PC in a box with a 'virtual framebuffer' video driver pumping out VNC-compatible screen over ethernet, configurable with a browser. hmm. I've got something like that here, but it's more crude. It works quite well.
Whoops! Forgot that you will lose a LOT of your acceleration if you do that. XFree86 has to draw to an abstracted FB device instead of a more complete interface when you force the fbdev driver.
I don't understand, are you asking if you can run xfree-4.3.0 on the kernel-provided framebuffer (/dev/fbX)? Because you can, use the fbdev driver instead of the one for your video card in /etc/X11/XF86Config.
The same way showing a valid drivers licensce prevents me from strapping dynamite to my chest and taking out some infidels. Nobody who passes the driving test can be against us!
It's important community service, have you seen the filthy ID3 tags on the P2P networks? Somebody has to do this or else we'll all be listening to Mariah Carey when we were looking for Beastie Boys.
I addition to that, I can hear my fanless router work. It makes little teeny buzzes and clicks whenever there's data pumping through it. Strange.
Since you bought an Athlon three years ago, or a PowerMac G3 at the same time.
Well I know of at least one board that outputs PC ATX power from a 12V DC input. I use it here in my VIA EPIA 800. I think it tops out at 75W or something, but that's enough for a slimmed-down system with a throttled-down CPU and laptop drive.
all the 68K CPUs were 32-bit, the memory address lines were only 24-bit on some macs, limiting the addressable virtual memory to 16MB. The Macintosh hasn't seen a 'bit shift' ever in its life.
:-)
endothermic = eats heat
exothermic = generates heat
Sorry, I feel like being a jerk tonight.
IANAEE but shouldn't some configuration of capacitors and or resistors be able to smooth out spikes and sags on a DC line? I recall my father building a "Capacitance UPS" for his Timex Sinclair in the early '80s when we moved to a house with flaky power.
I don't know if advising people to just pirate commercial software does anybody any help. We all know there's ways to get this done with money, we want to know if there's a native way to do it inside the OSS framework.
A lot of us have an old windows machine laying around just to handle a special app for work (I VNC to one here just to do my timesheets every week). Getting a windows app to output onto my X Server would be the single most convenient addition to my system to date, and I don't feel like breaking the law to get it done, thank you very much.
Until there's a kernel slashbox I thik slashdot is EXACTLY the place new kernels should be advertised. The kernel benefits from people testing it, and advertising direct to millions of geeks that their favorite chunk of code has been updated is a great way to get more testing done on it. Also, when a lot of people are running nasty kernels that have big bugs it's important to let the community know that fixes are available.
There oughtta be a slashbox though, or an option to disable kernel announcements.
Chips based on Itanium will be 4 inches square and suck 120 watts of juice. Intel consistently designs CPUs that are big, hot, and inelegant. Intel produces the 'combustion engine' of the CPU market, it's big, inefficient, and uses a lot of juice. The P4 puts out more heat than a comparable athlon, and it needs a giant dumb heat sink.
Look at the PowerPC architecture, you can run a G4 without a fan and get great performance. The PPC 970 (based on Power4) will be a seriously smooth CPU, trust me. And AMD is heading in that direction, with more ops/cycle and more elegant design since the Athlon came out.
Intel suffers from CPU-Design bloat, if you ask me. They're more concerned with selling it than getting it right.
4GB figure is for total virtual memory (RAM + SWAP) not just RAM. Currently in Linux I have to change kernel parameters to get over 960MB addressable RAM. I can think of a LOT of ways to use that memory up, and the software of the next few years will definitely hit that wall.
Servers need over 4GB -RIGHT NOW- and having an architecture rift between server and PC is moving in the opposite direction we want to. A single arch is much easier to handle within the borders of a company (less middleware and support), and it reduces costs across the board (see volume pricing and combined R&D costs). If the servers are going to need 64-bit addressing and 64-bit binaries, so ought the PCs they serve.
Jue Sixpack doesn't care though. The only people who know about SCSI are geeks and computer folks. Joe Sixpack just wants the 'most GB for the lowest price' which is why you've seen a dramtic reduction in warranty for drives. The modern consumer cares very little about quality, value, and performance, and cares very much about price, style, and ease-of-use.
Everyone I work with (computer company) wants SCSI. But nobody else could give a damn, it seems.
Remember that SCSI and ATA were much closer in price a decade ago (when apple was all-SCSI and volume was high), the vast majority of PC users opted for ATA (major performance/reliability hit) for a small price reduction.
It will, watch. This drive has ONE platter. I think they could pack 4 or 6 platters in there if they tried. This is a toe testing the water for 10k RPM ATA drives.
I worry that MS will 'embed' pocketed developers into the OSS movement to 'leak' MS code into core OSS software. After a while MS will pull the rug out from several projects (KDE, Gnome, Mozilla, Samba, LinuxKernel, etc.) all at once and completely screw us. There needs to be some way to protect ourselves from this. Is there a legal way to write into the GPL that adding copyrighted code from another product voids your right to the source? That way skeevy OSS developers who embed copyrighted code have their OSS licence terminated automatically.
Wait. You forget that SCSI drives are totally unsellable in the consumer market. If the manufacturer drops the price on a SCSI product to really low levels (but still higher than ATA) they STILL WON'T SELL because Joe Sixpack wants a drive that's super cheap and JUST WORKS in his PC. If an ATA drive gets overproduced it gets marked down until it sells out, SCSI is a niche market that I don't think works this way.
When I move someone over to Linux I give them WindowMaker. It seems strange, but because it is so different it forces users to abandon what they think they know and switch into a more ready-to-learn mode.
Whenever I set someone up with KDE they ask where the 'big blue E' is.
With Windowmaker they see a blank screen with a paperclip and have to find out for themselves. once they right-click they can see all their programs.
Exactly, it was cool, but fixing/upgrading them all day became old VERY quick. The enduser would have quite a time trying to do their own hard drive upgrade.
I like Apple's solution, big flash ROM with a bootloading OS on it (OpenFirmware) completely hidden from user. Also, now days you could have a 16MB disk-on-chip Setup or a compressed Setup that takes a chunk out of RAM to decompress and run when you need it.
OpenFirmware does NOT live on the Hard Drive, it lives in Flash ROM so it's semi-permanent. Compaq tried putting a BIOS Setup program on a 'secret' partition on the old Deskpro 2/4/6XXX machines and it was a total hassle to fix them if the drive died or somrthing happened to the partition, you had to load the BIOS Setup from _DISKETTES_. It was cool to have a GUI Setup with full diagnostics, but when the drive died so did the convenience. Don't even get me started on upgrading hard disks on those things.
But considering the cost of Windows compared to the hardware it's like saying that when you buy the truck you are required to get it with a jetski in the bed. A stereo is 2% of the total cost, windows costs a heck of a lot more than that (proportionately).
That's evidence that the system has broken down. It costs more to buy a product WITHOUT the monopoly OS than with it. You have to pay a premium to get a machine with Linux (a free OS) or no OS at all. The ill effects of a monopoly are starting to really show through now, and we're all just sitting here TAKING it and SUPPORTING it with every x86 PC purchase.
I'm moving to PPC/Linux.