I think it was quite effective. I've never heared about EDS before, now I even visited their web site. EDS is not the only.com name I remember, but it was so far the only address I actually typed into my browser. What's more effective than that?
> Probably the reason why they used core temp was the numbers looked better.:)
Actually the core temperature is the only one that makes sense. Everything else depends on packaging of the chip, the cooling mechanism and the environment. So in order to come up with the necessary cooling strategy you have to know the max core temp and then go from there.
> Probably the reason why they used core temp was the numbers looked better.:)
Actually the core temperature is the only one that makes sense. Everything else depends on packaging of the chip, the cooling mechanism and the environment. So in order to come up with the necessary cooling strategy you have to know the max core temp and then go from there.
If you read the comments posted by the participants of the poll then the stopy looks different.
The general opinion is that Linux is the best OS! I guess that somebody from the Evil Empire run a bot that scored Linux down - or we are dealing with a bad case of Y2K bug:-)
I've done more than my share of pencil and paper work in order to configure X11 (even before the days of XFree86). What still puzzles me is that for Windows you get some.inf files with your monitor that contains everything there is to know about it (at least I assume that's what these files are for, I acutally never opened one).
Would it be possible to just use these.inf files and extract just the information XFree86 needs to configure the monitor?
Old kernel? 2.2.10 was the latest and greatest of the non-development kernels until only eight days ago. 2.2.11 was released on 10-Aug-1999. If you take into account that the German version of SuSE 6.2 is shipping since the 12th they had no time to update the kernel, retest it and burn a few holes into the already manufactured CDs...
With this new technology you can start viewing a show that is still being recorded: Let's say you are "taping" a program, and arrive at home just about 10 minutes into the two hour movie. Now with a "real" tape you have to wait until the show's over to rewind and watch the tape. With the new technology it's possible to start watching right away. while the rest of the program is still written to disk.
Or even better: You don't want to miss a second of a show, but you run out of beer in the fridge next to your sofa. So you have to get up, go to the kitchen and get a new sixpack. In this situation you just press some buttons on this new device and it starts recording. Once youre back you can jump into the movie right away.
The mousepad was not really necessary. When I was working with the old Motorola powered Sun3 and the SPARCstation1/2 I had some PostScript files which would produce the grids for the optical mice. You just printed out a page and used it as a very thin mouse pad when the original one got lost.
And it was even possible to use the LCD display of a wrist watch as a mouse pad. We had one customer where we removed the mouse pad so that they were not able to do any damage to the software that was running. So one of the guys working new the workstation figured out that he could move the mouse by using his watch as a very small mouse pad. So we got rid of the mouse completely:-)
Anyway: Every ethernet card has a kind of serial number in it. This could also be used to track users - and it's used for copy protection already. Will Arizona ban all ethernet cards as well?
I hate when this happens... Why does this form always react to , just because I want to finish the Subject line?
Anyway: Every ethernet card has a kind of serial number in it. This could also be used to track users - and it's used for copy protection already. Will Arizona ban all ethernet cards as well?
Just follow the link on the page to www.jumptec.de, then go to the components link at the top of the page and select Price List... After a couple other links you will find the data sheet with price list: 599.- DM (the manufacturer is in Germany) for one board.
No, your coffee machine is probably very quiet as far as internet traffic is concerned, but your network card and your networking software do "broadcast" quite a bit of information with every packet you put out to the internet.
And you first need software that will take your CPU ID and send it out to the net.
I don't know what Microsoft will do about this, but I can tell you that this never was a problem with software for Sun machines. Every sun has an unique hostid (which can be changed, but if you don't do anything to your machine, it's unique). Now when you buy software that is node locked or otherwise protected, you usually have a license daemon running, that checks the license number against your hostid and gives the OK to run the software.
Whenever you upgrade your machine, or the CPU or just the NVRAM chip you just submit a change request to customer servervice and you get a new license.
No problem and usually no big deal to get it done in a timely manner.
I don't see a problem with this CPU ID thing at all. And BTW if you have a network adapter in your computer, you already have a sort of hardware ID. Every ethernet card has it's very own ethernet address, which is unique and can be used for software licensing as well.
Wrong! When I submitted the story I found the new source package _AND_ patch on the US mirror (ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org). Actually I went there to get the pre2 version which I had no chance so far to look into. Imagine my surprise as I found an even newer version.
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I think it was quite effective. I've never .com name
heared about EDS before, now I even visited
their web site. EDS is not the only
I remember, but it was so far the only address
I actually typed into my browser. What's more
effective than that?
> Probably the reason why they used core temp was the numbers looked better. :)
Actually the core temperature is the only one that makes sense. Everything else depends on packaging of the chip, the cooling mechanism and the environment. So in order to come up with the necessary cooling strategy you have to know the max core temp and then go from there.
> Probably the reason why they used core temp was the numbers looked better. :)
Actually the core temperature is the only one that makes sense. Everything else depends on packaging of the chip, the cooling mechanism and the environment. So in order to come up with the
necessary cooling strategy you have to know the
max core temp and then go from there.
The general opinion is that Linux is the best OS! I guess that somebody from the Evil Empire run a bot that scored Linux down - or we are dealing with a bad case of Y2K bug :-)
Let me guess: You've never done filed a US tax return. I've done both and my opinion is that the US system is worse than the German tax system.
I've done more than my share of pencil and paper work in order to configure X11 (even before the days of XFree86). What still puzzles me is that for Windows you get some .inf files with your monitor that contains everything there is to know about it (at least I assume that's what these files are for, I acutally never opened one).
Would it be possible to just use these .inf files and extract just the information XFree86 needs to configure the monitor?
Old kernel? 2.2.10 was the latest and greatest of
the non-development kernels until only eight days
ago. 2.2.11 was released on 10-Aug-1999. If you
take into account that the German version of
SuSE 6.2 is shipping since the 12th they had
no time to update the kernel, retest it and
burn a few holes into the already manufactured
CDs...
... and buying beer and getting into bars and ...
chashing checks and
So it's a little more than just the license
to drive. How often do you use your drivers
license for other purposes?
With this new technology you can start viewing a show that is still being recorded: Let's say you are "taping" a program, and arrive at home just about 10 minutes into the two hour movie. Now with a "real" tape you have to wait until the show's over to rewind and watch the tape. With the new technology it's possible to start watching right away. while the rest of the program is still written to disk.
Or even better: You don't want to miss a second of a show, but you run out of beer in the fridge next to your sofa. So you have to get up, go to the kitchen and get a new sixpack. In this situation you just press some buttons on this new device and it starts recording. Once youre back you can jump into the movie right away.
I think this is cool.
The mousepad was not really necessary. When I was working with the old Motorola powered Sun3 and the SPARCstation1/2 I had some PostScript files which would produce the grids for the optical mice. You just printed out a page and used it as a very thin mouse pad when the original one got lost.
:-)
And it was even possible to use the LCD display of a wrist watch as a mouse pad. We had one customer where we removed the mouse pad so that they were not able to do any damage to the software that was running. So one of the guys working new the workstation figured out that he could move the mouse by using his watch as a very small mouse pad. So we got rid of the mouse completely
... And they announced to support Linux ... Now if they would just create a driver for the touchpad on their natural keyboard.
And most of the time it't this guy Anonymous Coward that tries to bash C++...
Anyway: Every ethernet card has a kind of serial number in it. This could also be used to track users - and it's used for copy protection already. Will Arizona ban all ethernet cards as well?
I hate when this happens... Why does this form
always react to , just because I want to
finish the Subject line?
Anyway: Every ethernet card has a kind of serial number in it. This could also be used to track users - and it's used for copy protection already. Will Arizona ban all ethernet cards as well?
Just follow the link on the page to www.jumptec.de, then go to the components link at the top of the page and select Price List... After a couple other links you will find the data sheet with price list: 599.- DM (the manufacturer is in Germany) for one board.
No, your coffee machine is probably very quiet as far as internet traffic is concerned, but your network card and your networking software do "broadcast" quite a bit of information with every packet you put out to the internet.
And you first need software that will take your CPU ID and send it out to the net.
I don't know what Microsoft will do about this, but I can tell you that this never was a problem with software for Sun machines. Every sun has an unique hostid (which can be changed, but if you don't do anything to your machine, it's unique). Now when you buy software that is node locked or otherwise protected, you usually have a license daemon running, that checks the license number against your hostid and gives the OK to run the software.
Whenever you upgrade your machine, or the CPU or just the NVRAM chip you just submit a change request to customer servervice and you get a new license.
No problem and usually no big deal to get it done in a timely manner.
I don't see a problem with this CPU ID thing at all. And BTW if you have a network adapter in your computer, you already have a sort of hardware ID. Every ethernet card has it's very own ethernet address, which is unique and can be used for software licensing as well.
Wrong! When I submitted the story I found the
new source package _AND_ patch on the US mirror
(ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org). Actually I went there
to get the pre2 version which I had no chance so far to look into. Imagine my surprise as I found an even newer version.