My cheapo Apex DVD player that I got at Circuit City has a NTSC/PAL button on the remote, even... I've played PAL discs on my NTSC TV without any problems.
SLASHDOT ALWAYS HAS AND ALWAYS WILL(probably) REPORT ON SOFTWARE. Yes, even patchlevel releases.
Well, not software in general... slashdot reports on patchlevel releases of the Linux kernel. Other OSes or software rarely get mention unless it's a major release (and sometimes not even then).
I should try submitting an article each time NetBSD's kernel version number changes or something and see if I ever get accepted... "NetBSD 1.5ZB Released!"
Bah, another moderator on crack... I know it's too much to ask for posters to read the article, but shouldn't the moderators read the article before moderating? My post was not off topic. If you would bother to read the email:
No, the attachment bug is far more subtle than that. It
doesn't happen based on headers, which are rightfully the section of
an e-mail that mail readers are SUPPOSED to process.
Instead, the bug
is that any message that has the word "begin" at the beginning of a
line will be treated as a garbled attachment from that point on.
Now, moderators are free to mod this post down (-1, Whining about moderation). But I hope whoever modded the parent down gets screwed in M2.
While floppies aren't an ideal medium, they are a fast and convenient way to move relatively small quantities of data conveniently.
I use a CompactFlash card and one of those pocket USB CF readers for that. USB mass storage drivers are included in various recent OSes (i.e., no, I can't use my CF card on some 6-year-old Win95 machine, but I don't care to either). If you want to get fancy, you can get one of those little keychain USB flash drives.
Some Swedish guys were crossposting between a Swedish newsgroup and one of the microsoft.public newsgroups for some reason... I have no idea how the thread started; by the time I saw it, it had degenerated into a bunch of Microsofties flaming this Swedish guy who had something like this in his signature:
beginhappy99.exe
This is a.signature virus! Please copy me into your.signature!
See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information.
end
First people were telling him that he had a virus, then people were telling him that he was being a jerk, etc... was extremely amusing:)
I need to do that next time I post to a MS newsgroup:)
No it doesn't; MyParty is a plain old uuencoded attachment. (It's improperly encoded though... the line immediately before the "end" line in a properly uuencoded file is supposed to be a single ` or a single space, which signifies a line with 0 bytes).
Apparently the GART is cacheable on pentium systems?
There are Pentium systems with an AGP port? If you mean the Pentium II and up, I don't see why the GART would be cacheable there either; I don't know if the P4 chipsets have changed things, but with the PII and PIII, here's what Intel had to say about the subject:
For current hardware implementations,
the OS will make AGP memory (like other video memory) non-cacheable, so that there is no coherency problem between the CPU caches and the data that the graphics controller uses. Otherwise, graphics controller accesses to AGP memory would require "snooping" the CPU caches, which would cause delays in execution in some cases.
(Emphasis added). As for why the bug doesn't happen on Intel CPUs, it sounds like the Athlon has more aggressive speculative writes and can change memory that wasn't explicitly written to, dirtying the cache. But in any case, even on Intel CPUs, the AGP area is supposed to be mapped non-cacheable.
Why does disabling large pages fix the problem?
Don't know about that one; I haven't read the various tech docs for the Athlon. Perhaps the cache works slightly differently with 4MB pages vs 4KB pages?
How did AMD know that Windows-* was doing the bad things?
Maybe because Microsoft reported the problem to them and asked for help?
Perhaps I worded my question poorly--why would AMD even think that Linux had the same bug as Windows 2000? Whenever you see a Windows bug, do you usually wonder if Linux has the same bug? They're completely different codebases, and there's no reason to think that a bug in one OS would be present in the other.
Actually, it isn't embarassing at all. It wasn't the "Linux Community"'s fault. This is the fault of AMD who anounced/classified the bug as a Windows 2000 issue instead of a hardware issue.
If you read the technical writeup on LKML, you'll see that it's not a hardware issue, but a software bug. Which is why AMD announced the bug as a Windows 2000 issue--it is one. Linux also happens to have the same bug (it's a subtle issue and an easy mistake to make, IMO), but how was AMD supposed to know that Linux was doing the same bad thing--mapping the AGP GART area cacheable, when the GART is non-cacheable?
The point at hand was not "why choose the BSD", but rather "why are BSDer's typically so GPL hostile?"
'cuz GPL advocates love to trumpet how GPLed software is so free, when its viral nature puts restrictions on that freedom, making it less free than BSD licensed software. Nobody wants to catch a nasty virus... Public domain is more free than BSD, which is more free than GPL.
Re:how is it GNU-based if it has a _BSD_ kernel?
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Actually, it runs perfectly fine. Nothing in gnusrc is critical, and depending on what you want to use the system for, gnusrc might be completely useless. The only thing GNU I have on my Compaq IA-1 is grep, and it's running NetBSD without any problems at all.
If I really wanted to, I could probably ditch grep and replace it with awk to be completely GNU-free. But I deleted the GNU stuff (and a bunch of BSD stuff too) for space reasons, not anti-GNU reasons.
Re:I would prefer the other way around
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personally, I would like to see a BSD distro with ports and all, but with a linux kernel.
Me too, but only to annoy the FSF zealots who keep insisting on GNU/this and GNU/that:) LinuxBSD would be funny--nothing GNU except for the toolchain and a few other utilities. I don't actually see a real advantage of a system like that over a standard Linux distro, but the idea amuses me:)
"Years ago" is technically accurate, I suppose, but just barely... OpenSSH 2.3.0 was released around November 2000--1.2 years ago. And all of the holes I listed have been fixed. That wasn't the point though; the point is that OpenBSD has security holes just like every other OS.
Heck, you don't even have to install third-party software--just enable the stuff that comes bundled with the system. E.g. lpd, ftpd, sshd (OpenSSH), dhclient, et cetera, et cetera...
OpenBSD's just got good marketing... as you say, their security's on par with the other *BSDs and the better Linux distros.
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My cheapo Apex DVD player that I got at Circuit City has a NTSC/PAL button on the remote, even... I've played PAL discs on my NTSC TV without any problems.
Well, not software in general... slashdot reports on patchlevel releases of the Linux kernel. Other OSes or software rarely get mention unless it's a major release (and sometimes not even then).
I should try submitting an article each time NetBSD's kernel version number changes or something and see if I ever get accepted... "NetBSD 1.5ZB Released!"
You're my hero :)
I use a CompactFlash card and one of those pocket USB CF readers for that. USB mass storage drivers are included in various recent OSes (i.e., no, I can't use my CF card on some 6-year-old Win95 machine, but I don't care to either). If you want to get fancy, you can get one of those little keychain USB flash drives.
Has CmdrTaco been making extra money on the side by writing MS KB articles? Wonderful grammar on that one :)
beginhappy99.exe .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature!
This is a
See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information.
end
First people were telling him that he had a virus, then people were telling him that he was being a jerk, etc... was extremely amusing :)
I need to do that next time I post to a MS newsgroup :)
No it doesn't; MyParty is a plain old uuencoded attachment. (It's improperly encoded though... the line immediately before the "end" line in a properly uuencoded file is supposed to be a single ` or a single space, which signifies a line with 0 bytes).
The W3C should threaten them with copyright infringement until one of those two things happen :)
One of my machines is like that, with the exception of GNU grep. It's nice; I love the feeling of being free from the tendrils of the FSF :)
Or moderate, for that matter... yup, you're now banned from moderating or metamoderating for life. Thanks Slashdot!
There are Pentium systems with an AGP port? If you mean the Pentium II and up, I don't see why the GART would be cacheable there either; I don't know if the P4 chipsets have changed things, but with the PII and PIII, here's what Intel had to say about the subject:
(Emphasis added). As for why the bug doesn't happen on Intel CPUs, it sounds like the Athlon has more aggressive speculative writes and can change memory that wasn't explicitly written to, dirtying the cache. But in any case, even on Intel CPUs, the AGP area is supposed to be mapped non-cacheable.Why does disabling large pages fix the problem?
Don't know about that one; I haven't read the various tech docs for the Athlon. Perhaps the cache works slightly differently with 4MB pages vs 4KB pages?
Maybe because Microsoft reported the problem to them and asked for help?
Perhaps I worded my question poorly--why would AMD even think that Linux had the same bug as Windows 2000? Whenever you see a Windows bug, do you usually wonder if Linux has the same bug? They're completely different codebases, and there's no reason to think that a bug in one OS would be present in the other.
If you read the technical writeup on LKML, you'll see that it's not a hardware issue, but a software bug. Which is why AMD announced the bug as a Windows 2000 issue--it is one. Linux also happens to have the same bug (it's a subtle issue and an easy mistake to make, IMO), but how was AMD supposed to know that Linux was doing the same bad thing--mapping the AGP GART area cacheable, when the GART is non-cacheable?
1^3 + 1^3 != 1^3.
'cuz GPL advocates love to trumpet how GPLed software is so free, when its viral nature puts restrictions on that freedom, making it less free than BSD licensed software. Nobody wants to catch a nasty virus... Public domain is more free than BSD, which is more free than GPL.
Sorry, no scholarship for you!
Actually, it runs perfectly fine. Nothing in gnusrc is critical, and depending on what you want to use the system for, gnusrc might be completely useless. The only thing GNU I have on my Compaq IA-1 is grep, and it's running NetBSD without any problems at all. If I really wanted to, I could probably ditch grep and replace it with awk to be completely GNU-free. But I deleted the GNU stuff (and a bunch of BSD stuff too) for space reasons, not anti-GNU reasons.
Me too, but only to annoy the FSF zealots who keep insisting on GNU/this and GNU/that :) LinuxBSD would be funny--nothing GNU except for the toolchain and a few other utilities. I don't actually see a real advantage of a system like that over a standard Linux distro, but the idea amuses me :)
"Years ago" is technically accurate, I suppose, but just barely... OpenSSH 2.3.0 was released around November 2000--1.2 years ago. And all of the holes I listed have been fixed. That wasn't the point though; the point is that OpenBSD has security holes just like every other OS.
An IDE card has been available for the Apple II for a few years now... see the Turbo IDE from SHH Systeme. Dated October '94...
Then there's GNO (GNO's Not Orca), a preemptively multitasking Unix-like environment. Was fun to play MODs while IRCing and such :)
OpenBSD's just got good marketing... as you say, their security's on par with the other *BSDs and the better Linux distros.
Isn't there also some stuff written in a Qix or something like that... ISTR it came from Qantas, hence the Q.
The conspiracy theorists say that there hasn't been a manned mission to the moon, not that nothing's ever been put on the moon via an unmanned craft.
Occasionally, yeah... although Google serves pretty much all of my needs these days. I use ftpsearch.ntnu.no as the server.