Aside from the obvious joy of scientific advancement, specifically what has been accomplished is growing material native to ones insides on the outside... material that won't make your body go into rejection and shock if you put it back IN.
Yes, it's just a membraneous mass... yes, it's just a bladder, etc.
But it's a bladder that will survive as your own body's tissue, with NO rejection possibilities, thereby avoiding stress on your system, and allowing you to avoid those nasty anti-rejection, immunity supressing drugs... Many deaths are caused by post-operative infections. Anything to make your body achieve full health after an operation is a Very Good Thing(tm).
Bear also in mind that, nine times out of ten, one DOESN'T NEED a full organ to replace an existing one. Partial organs, specific valuable membranes, or even just sufficient mass to 'patch up' a damaged organ is a big step forward... and with the amazing advances in cloning and genetic manipulation already in progress, the day won't be far when you'll be able to plug a quarter into the heart-o-matic and have it spit out a throbbing, fully formed bundle of heart muscle at you.
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It'd be nice to do an apples to apples comparison when delivering dynamic content via CGI/PHP/ASP/Whatever, but there are too many variables to account for to give a clear picture of how well a server might respond.
Probably the best you could hope for is a very very minimal one-liner 'hello world!' program executed in the various different platforms to check how well the web server speeds through the calling process... 'best' here wouldn't describe very accurate results of course, just the best you could hope for.;)
When it comes right down to it, nothing beats full scale implementation and use in the target environment... and if you REALLY want to have that comparitive execution thing going, get the same developer to create multiple versions of your program, run them all in parallel on equivalent hardware, and measure away. The numbers won't be terribly accurate, but for the price of multiply redundant programs you can have the luxury of choosing which one feels the best.
The samba printing test would be interesting. I've run SMB in corporate environments and have had very little complaint, but it'd be nice to see how well it'd work under a heavy-duty printer workload (Say, running a linux box as a rasterizer/spooler pushing 2400dpi 11x17 lino pages in a newspaper or printhouse somewhere). Anyone in the printing industry willing to fess up to a linux rasterizer box in the closet?;)
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The idea that someone could embed a trojan, backdoor, or otherwise manevolent code into some publicly available app has been around for quite a long time now. Of course, when someone brings that idea up around a group of OSS advocates, the immediate response is "They'll be found out almost instantly."
As far as I'm aware, this is the first incident where some deliberate foul play was detected and handled. Guess those wacky OSS advocates were right. =)
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... return my win95, I can't. I require it for the sole purposes of running Half-Life and You Don't Know Jack.
Hmmm... well, and Quicken (tax time, y'know;). I suppose I could do that in linux, but my accountant likes things in Quicken, and I figure I can suffer through a little windows use better than I can suffer through an audit...;)
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Well, lets see here now... in the past, I've seen Berst
Determinedly and repeatedly denigrate Linux (and other OSes) as inferior and unusable products
Make statements about Linux et al that were either misleading or just plain wrong, either relying on anecdotal pro-MS propoganda or simply turning his opinions into his own personal 'truth'
... now do a complete about face on his Linux stance for no definite reason (though I'm sure we can all guess at a few!), a history of which is plainly summarized on the linux timeline.
If we extrapolate from his prior examples, it's reasonable to assume that nothing will change except his supposed stance on Linux... that is, there will be steaming piles of mis- and dis-information spread around, cheap shots taken at other OSes, and general 'mindless advocacy'.
Yes, it's nice to see mainstream press go pro-linux, but a mindless and inaccurate pro-linux stance is just as unacceptable as a mindless and inaccurate pro-MS stance. It's a pity that some anonymous-cowardly linux advocates see that 'any press is better than none', rather than 'good press is better than tripe'.
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Hey Jesse, if you read this forum (unlikely), do us a favor and stay pandering to your pro-MS lackeys. We don't want, nor need, someone of your extremely dubious 'journalistic' talents writing about Linux.
<Conspirisii>Unless, of course, you're part of a Microsoft conspiracy to make people abandon linux, out of disgust of the things we read at ZDNet. I know the thought of you suddenly jumping on the bandwagon fills ME with revulsion.</Conspirisii>
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If this is the real 2.2.0...
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Then the kernel delivery time was slightly less than a month later than its original estimates. That's fairly impressive, especially considering the substantial buglist that was resolved to get it to this point.
Good job Linus, Alan et al! Keep up the good work! And start buildin' them cool fiddlybits for 2.3.x;)
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Hair halfway down to my butt when let loose, and I'm 6'1" so that's a fair ways...;)
... and is it just me, or does everything Kubrick make indicate that he's Schizophrenic? Tunnel vision, stark contrasting colors (everything he does is predominantly white, black and red)...
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Quake has had a long-standing problem with kernels around 2.1.115 or so and later. Probably the best solution (seeing how everything else works okay) would be to get the latest driver from Id Software. Quake 2 is currently at rev 2.30.
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The/proc stuff has been changed slightly which will require a new set of tools. Download the latest procps tools (1.2.8) Here.
I strongly suggest that everyone also visit www.linuxhq.com and look at the CHANGES area under the 2.1.x kernel area. Upgrading to those packages will solve a lot of problems before they arise.
FWIW - I'm running 2.2.0pre2 at present, and the only complaint I have is that lockd seems to crap out and not let/usr get unmounted on reboot. =(
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Strange... not only did my SB16 work out of the box (errr, out of the compile?;) But that nasty noise burst problem that plagued Quake2 in the 2.1.1xx versions has resolved itself.
Of course, I picked up the 3.20 version of the quake driver, so that might have something to do with it too...
What sort of problems are you encountering with yours? I saw some chatter on Linux kernel earlier about specifying IRQ, DMA and DMA16 specs during the modprobe stage.
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Yes, it's just a membraneous mass... yes, it's just a bladder, etc.
But it's a bladder that will survive as your own body's tissue, with NO rejection possibilities, thereby avoiding stress on your system, and allowing you to avoid those nasty anti-rejection, immunity supressing drugs... Many deaths are caused by post-operative infections. Anything to make your body achieve full health after an operation is a Very Good Thing(tm).
Bear also in mind that, nine times out of ten, one DOESN'T NEED a full organ to replace an existing one. Partial organs, specific valuable membranes, or even just sufficient mass to 'patch up' a damaged organ is a big step forward... and with the amazing advances in cloning and genetic manipulation already in progress, the day won't be far when you'll be able to plug a quarter into the heart-o-matic and have it spit out a throbbing, fully formed bundle of heart muscle at you.
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Probably the best you could hope for is a very very minimal one-liner 'hello world!' program executed in the various different platforms to check how well the web server speeds through the calling process... 'best' here wouldn't describe very accurate results of course, just the best you could hope for. ;)
When it comes right down to it, nothing beats full scale implementation and use in the target environment... and if you REALLY want to have that comparitive execution thing going, get the same developer to create multiple versions of your program, run them all in parallel on equivalent hardware, and measure away. The numbers won't be terribly accurate, but for the price of multiply redundant programs you can have the luxury of choosing which one feels the best.
The samba printing test would be interesting. I've run SMB in corporate environments and have had very little complaint, but it'd be nice to see how well it'd work under a heavy-duty printer workload (Say, running a linux box as a rasterizer/spooler pushing 2400dpi 11x17 lino pages in a newspaper or printhouse somewhere). Anyone in the printing industry willing to fess up to a linux rasterizer box in the closet? ;)
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As far as I'm aware, this is the first incident where some deliberate foul play was detected and handled. Guess those wacky OSS advocates were right. =)
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Hmmm... well, and Quicken (tax time, y'know ;). I suppose I could do that in linux, but my accountant likes things in Quicken, and I figure I can suffer through a little windows use better than I can suffer through an audit... ;)
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Determinedly and repeatedly denigrate Linux (and other OSes) as inferior and unusable products
Make statements about Linux et al that were either misleading or just plain wrong, either relying on anecdotal pro-MS propoganda or simply turning his opinions into his own personal 'truth'
... now do a complete about face on his Linux stance for no definite reason (though I'm sure we can all guess at a few!), a history of which is plainly summarized on the linux timeline.
If we extrapolate from his prior examples, it's reasonable to assume that nothing will change except his supposed stance on Linux... that is, there will be steaming piles of mis- and dis-information spread around, cheap shots taken at other OSes, and general 'mindless advocacy'.
Yes, it's nice to see mainstream press go pro-linux, but a mindless and inaccurate pro-linux stance is just as unacceptable as a mindless and inaccurate pro-MS stance. It's a pity that some anonymous-cowardly linux advocates see that 'any press is better than none', rather than 'good press is better than tripe'.
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<Conspirisii>Unless, of course, you're part of a Microsoft conspiracy to make people abandon linux, out of disgust of the things we read at ZDNet. I know the thought of you suddenly jumping on the bandwagon fills ME with revulsion.</Conspirisii>
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Good job Linus, Alan et al! Keep up the good work! And start buildin' them cool fiddlybits for 2.3.x ;)
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Quake has had a long-standing problem with kernels around 2.1.115 or so and later. Probably the best solution (seeing how everything else works okay) would be to get the latest driver from Id Software. Quake 2 is currently at rev 2.30.
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He was on a radio talk show in California a couple months back, I heard 'em. Hawking new 'n improved "toys".
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I strongly suggest that everyone also visit www.linuxhq.com and look at the CHANGES area under the 2.1.x kernel area. Upgrading to those packages will solve a lot of problems before they arise.
FWIW - I'm running 2.2.0pre2 at present, and the only complaint I have is that lockd seems to crap out and not let /usr get unmounted on reboot. =(
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Of course, I picked up the 3.20 version of the quake driver, so that might have something to do with it too...
What sort of problems are you encountering with yours? I saw some chatter on Linux kernel earlier about specifying IRQ, DMA and DMA16 specs during the modprobe stage.
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