Yes the ACPI comment was a little ambigious but I think the issue is more of choice. I would like to make my own descisions about what is best for my particular situations.
Sure ACPI is open. So is Kerberos but Microsoft has managed to put enough of their extensions into it to make life a little hairy in a mixed enterprise enviroment. Go on over to the World Wide Web Consortium page and look at the standards. Now go look at how IE enhances it.
If you think Microsoft plays well with standards then I will have to disagree on several counts.
I thought there was some kind of OSX client for an @home cable network going under.
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This looks pretty interesting to me. My wife has a biology degree (among others) and I remember this stuff from her bio-chem days. I used to help her study and this goes way beyond that but still interests me anyway.
How many computers do you have plugged into that 8 port hub?
The network here has 1500 devices plugged into it. We minimize where we can (switches, vlans, etc.) but all the protocols, etc that you have to run on a network of this size can bog things down with excessive broadcasts, etc.
why is a "chatty" network a bad thing?
You can only hear one thing at a time (you talk at the same if you are full-duplex). You can't hear much data if someone is constantly interuppting with "HERE I AM" "LOOK AT ME" "OVER HERE" "LOOK AT ME". I agree that you would want to be using as much capacity as possible. I think actual data across the wire is better than excessive broadcasts/etc.
I know it isn't popular but games and movies do influence people (including youth). Maybe most of us can tell the difference between a minigun and a minimart. Don't underestimate the power of suggestion on an individual who is under a pressure situation or lives in an environment without consequences
Bitch all you want. When I plug my iBook into the network at the office, I see all the printers and servers. Immediately. They're just there, you know?
That is a result of all the chatter that comes with Appletalk. A lot of networks have become less "saturated" when Appletalk goes of the wire. I don't mind it near as bad as I hate NetBEUI on the wire. That really drags performance down on a network.
But you do not need to have each phone with a real ip
Let's take the largest "reserved" private address block 10.x.x.x.
255*255*254=16,516,350 addresses
I guess we are going to need multiple real IPs to hide behind for NATing. We need 37 IPs to get enough to do 6 billion phones. I realize that all 6 billion people don't need a phone today but they will want one soon and population growth will get it there soon enough. We are going to need many more for the communications servers, routers, switches, etc. to make it all run.
Why would you want to make it so complicated? IPv6 can make it a lot easier.
My skill would probably dictate that I get the pre made ones. You can take the sides off and polish the color off. Then you can put what ever color/texture on it you like. Since you are painting the inside, the finish is real hard to mess up. You can also get a clear skin from Appleskinz if you are looking for your own style.
Funny, I would love to get a Dual 1Ghz G4 with one these. Fast and cool. I have a 867 G4 right now but the college owns it and I will have to give back at some point when my "testing" is over.
You can metamod once day as long as you haven't been seriously trolling. Check the FAQ. You do need to manually goto the metamod page once to get it started. As for being a moderator, you have to get postive points and sit tight until it happens. I read/. for quite awhile before I ever got moderator points to use. Sometimes I get them back to back and other times I go a long time without any.
To be fair to the moderators, you were doing a little trolling. 1. You post offtopic without reading article 2. Complain that you can't read article 3. Speculate and then complain about what the guy in the article might have done. These kinds of things are used to start arguements all the time here on/. and moderators are trying to minimize it as much as they can. I would suggest waiting until you can read the article, someone mirrors it or you find the google cache of the page that you refrain from posting judgements about the article.
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I don't own an SGI box but I was on ebay looking for one right before the article was posted. I would love to have one up and running but would settle for a gutted Indigo with an athlon in it over an athlon in a beige box.
I have a couple Powermac 8600s that have been stripped of memory and hd. I'm thinking about putting a ATA100 controller and a hd and running LinuxPPC on them to replace my boring P3 450 box.
Maya isn't magic, you can make pictures just as good with less expensive tools
True, but Maya does make it a lot faster to get good results. My brother-in-law went from Lightwave to Maya. I watched him do stuff with Maya in minutes that used to take hours with Lightwave. He got a good job doing animations for a client that only uses Lightwave. They had already built the models, textures, etc. They just needed a good animator. He bought Lightwave just for this job (it is a long term thing). Lightwave is better than it used to be (from 5.x to 6.x) but it's still no Maya.
I downloaded it last night and burned this morning. I have a 333 iMAC and a 867 G4 w/ Gf2 mx to try this out on. I've had some problems with MD8.0 and have played a bit with the cooker. I've been working on some integration with OSX at work so I've spent most of my time in OSX lately.
The different here would be no licensing costs, open standards, full source, etc.
It does seem like a lot of work but it does help transistion a lot of people over. It what it takes to get my wife moved over. She wouldn't move if she wasn't comfortable and could do all the things she wants to do. I personally have been happy with blackbox but everybody has their own opinion.
You could have mentioned some of XP's other problems too. I have a test partition with XP pro on it and have not run into this particular issue yet. I hope I never do. Makes a crash a little more serious.
Most schools already have a site license so the licensing is already covered. The college I work at does. I supposed you could say we have Linux and FreeBSD site licenses too:). But the real question should be the performance overhead of Win2k vs Linux/FreeBSD/Etc. Sure you could do it but how much ram, cpu, etc is going to the OS and how much is going to the computing?
Let's just leave BSODs out of it. Maybe an issue but not always. Some people can get BSODs down to near nil and others can't but it is always the OS's fault. Hmmmm.
Considering we already had Alpha and MIPS, why did we need one from Intel??
They are all desgined from a different perspective with different goals in mind. I'm sure there are some applications where one will excel over the others.
A simple but effective thing to do is to/dev/null anything that doesn't explictly have the correct email address on the TO:. I did this on a Communigate Pro server and I killed 80% of those porn, viagra, etc. emails. It was a lot easier to filter the remaining ones to a spam box to be checked and deleted.
Pick one or the other. You can send mass email to people who want it or you can send unsolicited emails to 1 or 2 people at a time. Just don't do both at the same time.
I would suggest that blackhole that idiot on your router/firewall.
I've tried DOSing him several times and my system keeps going down before I get too far. We need to get a large DDOS going. Anyone else willing to help?
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Great point. There is way too much valuable info that could be snagged on these "non-critical" Win-whatever machines.
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I was a network admin at a 1/2 billion dollar bank (not too big as banks go). I went to quite a few banking technology meetings and the push has been to Windows based for a while now but terminals are starting to come back into favor. At least a couple of the mainframe software vendors use a proprietary communication software that runs on Windows. They have been migrating to web based apps so you could use whatever you want. I was a little concerned when the new sorter was running off an NT box that was communicating to a dedicated NT server. There were some issues at first but it actually has run well otherwise.
I live in the Midwest and 90% of the banks that I have had interaction with have used MS based computers across the board with a mainframe running the critical stuff. I found out that a lot of banks were running online banking services with little or no firewall protection. At first I thought it was a fluke but I quickly found out it was fairly common in the smaller banks. These institutions would be fairly easy prey for someone with a little knowledge that wouldn't be hard to obtain. I admit I have limited experience in a specific locale so do what you want with my stats.
That's a pretty nice watch. I really like the looks of it.
The thing I've liked about my Seiko Kinetic is that it's electrical and not mechnical. The pendulum turns a generator which charges a capacitor that can hold a charge for over a week without being worn. There are a lot of the mechnical watches that have problems with over-winding but there are some out there that don't have the problem.
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Sure ACPI is open. So is Kerberos but Microsoft has managed to put enough of their extensions into it to make life a little hairy in a mixed enterprise enviroment. Go on over to the World Wide Web Consortium page and look at the standards. Now go look at how IE enhances it.
If you think Microsoft plays well with standards then I will have to disagree on several counts.
Back OT
This looks pretty interesting to me. My wife has a biology degree (among others) and I remember this stuff from her bio-chem days. I used to help her study and this goes way beyond that but still interests me anyway.
The network here has 1500 devices plugged into it. We minimize where we can (switches, vlans, etc.) but all the protocols, etc that you have to run on a network of this size can bog things down with excessive broadcasts, etc.
why is a "chatty" network a bad thing?
You can only hear one thing at a time (you talk at the same if you are full-duplex). You can't hear much data if someone is constantly interuppting with "HERE I AM" "LOOK AT ME" "OVER HERE" "LOOK AT ME". I agree that you would want to be using as much capacity as possible. I think actual data across the wire is better than excessive broadcasts/etc.
I know it isn't popular but games and movies do influence people (including youth). Maybe most of us can tell the difference between a minigun and a minimart. Don't underestimate the power of suggestion on an individual who is under a pressure situation or lives in an environment without consequences
That is a result of all the chatter that comes with Appletalk. A lot of networks have become less "saturated" when Appletalk goes of the wire. I don't mind it near as bad as I hate NetBEUI on the wire. That really drags performance down on a network.
Of course we could go the other way and say that we don't need NAT because we have anycast. I think that we will need both depending on the situations
Let's take the largest "reserved" private address block 10.x.x.x.
255*255*254=16,516,350 addresses
I guess we are going to need multiple real IPs to hide behind for NATing. We need 37 IPs to get enough to do 6 billion phones. I realize that all 6 billion people don't need a phone today but they will want one soon and population growth will get it there soon enough. We are going to need many more for the communications servers, routers, switches, etc. to make it all run.
Why would you want to make it so complicated? IPv6 can make it a lot easier.
My skill would probably dictate that I get the pre made ones. You can take the sides off and polish the color off. Then you can put what ever color/texture on it you like. Since you are painting the inside, the finish is real hard to mess up. You can also get a clear skin from Appleskinz if you are looking for your own style.
Funny,
I would love to get a Dual 1Ghz G4 with one these. Fast and cool. I have a 867 G4 right now but the college owns it and I will have to give back at some point when my "testing" is over.
To be fair to the moderators, you were doing a little trolling. /. and moderators are trying to minimize it as much as they can. I would suggest waiting until you can read the article, someone mirrors it or you find the google cache of the page that you refrain from posting judgements about the article.
1. You post offtopic without reading article
2. Complain that you can't read article
3. Speculate and then complain about what the guy in the article might have done.
These kinds of things are used to start arguements all the time here on
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I don't own an SGI box but I was on ebay looking for one right before the article was posted. I would love to have one up and running but would settle for a gutted Indigo with an athlon in it over an athlon in a beige box.
I have a couple Powermac 8600s that have been stripped of memory and hd. I'm thinking about putting a ATA100 controller and a hd and running LinuxPPC on them to replace my boring P3 450 box.
True, but Maya does make it a lot faster to get good results. My brother-in-law went from Lightwave to Maya. I watched him do stuff with Maya in minutes that used to take hours with Lightwave. He got a good job doing animations for a client that only uses Lightwave. They had already built the models, textures, etc. They just needed a good animator. He bought Lightwave just for this job (it is a long term thing). Lightwave is better than it used to be (from 5.x to 6.x) but it's still no Maya.
I downloaded it last night and burned this morning. I have a 333 iMAC and a 867 G4 w/ Gf2 mx to try this out on. I've had some problems with MD8.0 and have played a bit with the cooker. I've been working on some integration with OSX at work so I've spent most of my time in OSX lately.
It does seem like a lot of work but it does help transistion a lot of people over. It what it takes to get my wife moved over. She wouldn't move if she wasn't comfortable and could do all the things she wants to do. I personally have been happy with blackbox but everybody has their own opinion.
Then why are you posting on /.?
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1: seperate kernel and linux stories
2: leave it alone
3: seperate Katz from his mouth
4: more coyboyneal update stories instead
You could have mentioned some of XP's other problems too. I have a test partition with XP pro on it and have not run into this particular issue yet. I hope I never do. Makes a crash a little more serious.
Let's just leave BSODs out of it. Maybe an issue but not always. Some people can get BSODs down to near nil and others can't but it is always the OS's fault. Hmmmm.
They are all desgined from a different perspective with different goals in mind. I'm sure there are some applications where one will excel over the others.
Larger Routers, Core switches, Stateful inspection firewalls, NetBSD powered toasters, Tickle-me Elmo and whatever else you don't have the vision for.
A simple but effective thing to do is to /dev/null anything that doesn't explictly have the correct email address on the TO:. I did this on a Communigate Pro server and I killed 80% of those porn, viagra, etc. emails. It was a lot easier to filter the remaining ones to a spam box to be checked and deleted.
"Mass unsolicitated email is illegal"
Pick one or the other. You can send mass email to people who want it or you can send unsolicited emails to 1 or 2 people at a time. Just don't do both at the same time.
I've tried DOSing him several times and my system keeps going down before I get too far. We need to get a large DDOS going. Anyone else willing to help?
Great point. There is way too much valuable info that could be snagged on these "non-critical" Win-whatever machines.
I live in the Midwest and 90% of the banks that I have had interaction with have used MS based computers across the board with a mainframe running the critical stuff. I found out that a lot of banks were running online banking services with little or no firewall protection. At first I thought it was a fluke but I quickly found out it was fairly common in the smaller banks. These institutions would be fairly easy prey for someone with a little knowledge that wouldn't be hard to obtain. I admit I have limited experience in a specific locale so do what you want with my stats.
The thing I've liked about my Seiko Kinetic is that it's electrical and not mechnical. The pendulum turns a generator which charges a capacitor that can hold a charge for over a week without being worn. There are a lot of the mechnical watches that have problems with over-winding but there are some out there that don't have the problem.