This is true - MACH kernel underneath, but alot of the stuff about the relatively small kernel is 5.x based, more than the pure userland stuff.
The MACH kernel is very small is needs alot more 'support' from userland stuff than GNU/linux or FreeBSD does. I guess it depends on where the code breaks are for MACH and how much of the 5.x kernel is added on to it in terms of drivers etc.
If you look at the video, as soon as the rocket is lit, the thing starts to roll one way then the other by about 30-4 degrees before finally hitting complete 360's.
Makes you wonder if the tail fins need to the larger to give better stability when in a more vertical flight?????
I wonder how they'll handle the Unix(TM) code in there and all the various other contributed stuff from Samsung etc.
I guess it's easier if they forget about CDE/X11 etc but it will be interesting to see what open source licence they use and how they handle 'other peoples' code in SOlaris 10.
Of course they could have removed all the Sys V R5.4 code, but without doing this unsing clean room conditions SCO could have a wondrful time in court.
Ok I mean there is the potential for 32 bit issues, depending on how well the DNS servers (bind, tinyDNS etc) handle the serial number once its converted from a text string to a number..
just means one more risk/piece we have to check for when the epoch time rolls over the 32nd bit...
In comparision to the Gameboy, probably not that much....
looking at the relevant page of the FAQ the last model (PDP-11/94) got above 18mhz...which was approx 4x the original speed.
Looking the specs on the link mentioned in the article the GBA has a 16.76 mhz ARM processor (no memory management or cache in this model) *and* a 4mhz or 8mhz Z80 to run the old GB games.
As to your point about NetBSD, the arm port26 runs on the very earliest commericial ARM machines so I see no reason why it couldn't run on a GBA........
ooh now I do, the arm26 port needs 8MB ram.....only 256k on a GBA........but if you can use gampak ram that will give you plenty..
But from what I understand it alot of the Xfree86 guys are part of the X.Org group after a falling out and X.org going quiet for some time..
ie the code forked from X.org to Xfree86, but people *moved* from Xfree86 to X.Org
who forked from who..
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I thought Xfree86 was a fork of the original X11 development camp and that X.org is a refounding of the original X11 camp after lots of splits, esp with alot of Xfree86 dev guys getting annoyed and going 'back to their roots' as it where..
used is last night - 225kbs and it make the video stream look very nice - almost TV like. Unlike the normal 90kb or so I normally get which looks like one of those video phones TV journo's use today.
More people need to get this stuff going, it will really help people adopt high bandwidth connections.
Of course if they streamed in MP4 it would be nicer:-), but this sort of connection stream (>200kbs) really looks nice.
Not sure about ones from Redmond..XP's got save points I guess, which helps.
But given the amount of messing with your system a windows patch can do (registry mods etc) I guess it's non-trivial (like most things Windows admin), hence the many years before XP's save points arrived.
why do think alot of these don't outside a broadband connected home??? prob 'cos of change management within companies so they turn it off, but then they don't have a decent test/patch system to replace it...
of course that assumes the patch doesn't break your favourite application.
Again the problem isn't so much patching the holes (which is a problem with any piece of software) as the massive *monoculture* (sorry market dominance) of WIndows and it's security issues that's the issue. Sure
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honest we deactivated it and aren't using them for tracking people.....honest.
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Great, so I'll have no choice in carrying an RFID around (de-activated or not).
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This is true - MACH kernel underneath, but alot of the stuff about the relatively small kernel is 5.x based, more than the pure userland stuff.
The MACH kernel is very small is needs alot more 'support' from userland stuff than GNU/linux or FreeBSD does. I guess it depends on where the code breaks are for MACH and how much of the 5.x kernel is added on to it in terms of drivers etc.
Looking at the 5.3 issues on questions@freebsd.org most people wouldn't trust 5 as stable yet, and on a uniprocessor most say 5 is slower than 4.x.
I do note there are tentative plans for a 4.11 release, but as most of the work is concentrating on 5.x it's existence maybe a still birth.
BTW MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger) is based on 5.x rather than 4.x technology so someone's trusting enough..
And yes 5.2.1 is definitely fast on SMP systems then 4.10.
There'll still be Unix (tm) based systems and Mainframe/OS390 stuff lying about.
The amount of spend required to redo all the m/f stuff etc won't be done, esp for all t he big boys with terrabyte size DB's...
If you look at the video, as soon as the rocket is lit, the thing starts to roll one way then the other by about 30-4 degrees before finally hitting complete 360's.
Makes you wonder if the tail fins need to the larger to give better stability when in a more vertical flight?????
as I'm only in LA till Wed 8pm when my plane leaves for the UK..
Oh well, will prob be on in the UK in a few months anyhow..
tell about the command line, shells etc and how much more powerful they are over a WIMP interface.
Well if no have no data protection laws, people (and the govmt) can do what they want...
Maybe about time someone with a clue started banging on about all this at Capitol Hill.
Mind you with November creeping up I doubt they'd get much airspace..
Accorinding to section 2.1 of the Unix trademark use document this is not the case.
I can use a initial capital letters if I wish. *Their* convention is wholely capital letters.
I wonder how they'll handle the Unix(TM) code in there and all the various other contributed stuff from Samsung etc.
I guess it's easier if they forget about CDE/X11 etc but it will be interesting to see what open source licence they use and how they handle 'other peoples' code in SOlaris 10.
Of course they could have removed all the Sys V R5.4 code, but without doing this unsing clean room conditions SCO could have a wondrful time in court.
Just wondering??????
fair enough...that'll be the reason why they didn't use that method then!
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My point is that the 2038 issue now has the *potential* to effect DNS more than it did before..
Of course in the next 34 years we'll be using 128 bit (or larger) numbers anyhow
Ok I mean there is the potential for 32 bit issues, depending on how well the DNS servers (bind, tinyDNS etc) handle the serial number once its converted from a text string to a number..
just means one more risk/piece we have to check for when the epoch time rolls over the 32nd bit...
Oh great so now DNS gets potential issues with 32 bit time-since-epoch problem
Brilliant move...:-(
What was wrong with sticking extra hour/minutes digits in the serial number - no y2k style problems at all....?!?
ie YYYYMMDDHHmmNN ??
yeah I think the clever bit was the SIHM bit just worked (after some small tweaking).
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Surpised NetBSD hasn't been ported to this though - everything seems to run NetBSD!!
In comparision to the Gameboy, probably not that much....
looking at the relevant page of the FAQ the last model (PDP-11/94) got above 18mhz...which was approx 4x the original speed.
Looking the specs on the link mentioned in the article the GBA has a 16.76 mhz ARM processor (no memory management or cache in this model) *and* a 4mhz or 8mhz Z80 to run the old GB games.
As to your point about NetBSD, the arm port26 runs on the very earliest commericial ARM machines so I see no reason why it couldn't run on a GBA........
ooh now I do, the arm26 port needs 8MB ram.....only 256k on a GBA........but if you can use gampak ram that will give you plenty..
NO, not Unix 5th Edition, should have used NetBSD, mind you probably already been done so....
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hmm apparently not, but lots of ARM ports should be doable..
The problem is the NDA the guy had to sign with Philips (I guess, he makes no mention of this).
The kernel maintainers are just obeying the GPL which stakes that they can't link GPL code to non-GPL code (if memory serves right).
So the problem is Philips (or whoever the guys gets the info/code from) and their closed source code.
what I meant,
But from what I understand it alot of the Xfree86 guys are part of the X.Org group after a falling out and X.org going quiet for some time..
ie the code forked from X.org to Xfree86, but people *moved* from Xfree86 to X.Org
I thought Xfree86 was a fork of the original X11 development camp and that X.org is a refounding of the original X11 camp after lots of splits, esp with alot of Xfree86 dev guys getting annoyed and going 'back to their roots' as it where..
Could be wrong (and frequently am)..
used is last night - 225kbs and it make the video stream look very nice - almost TV like. Unlike the normal 90kb or so I normally get which looks like one of those video phones TV journo's use today.
:-), but this sort of connection stream (>200kbs) really looks nice.
More people need to get this stuff going, it will really help people adopt high bandwidth connections.
Of course if they streamed in MP4 it would be nicer
Just look at the problem that have have from malware.
One mydoom varient (or was it blaster, anyway) nearly knocked the whole country off the internet.
technology without knowledge/education is a bad thing (tm)
you should come over the UK....we pay in UK pounds what you pay in US dollars and 1 UKP ~ 1.9 USD.
Don't complain, everthing I know of cheaper in the US compared to UK/Europe...food, petrol(gas), electronics, clothes....
Most do and work well.
Not sure about ones from Redmond..XP's got save points I guess, which helps.
But given the amount of messing with your system a windows patch can do (registry mods etc) I guess it's non-trivial (like most things Windows admin), hence the many years before XP's save points arrived.
you mean like windows autoupdater???
why do think alot of these don't outside a broadband connected home??? prob 'cos of change management within companies so they turn it off, but then they don't have a decent test/patch system to replace it...
of course that assumes the patch doesn't break your favourite application.
Again the problem isn't so much patching the holes (which is a problem with any piece of software) as the massive *monoculture* (sorry market dominance) of WIndows and it's security issues that's the issue. Sure
Oh yeah somelike this you mean?????