I remember reading about nt needing a complete overhaul to be 64bit clean. I think the basic problem is that the win32 api dictates the use of types such as WORD or DWORD for a whole mess of types. In the unix world we have things like uid_t or pid_t so if you want to increase something from 32bits to 64bits you just change the typedef and hope that all of the apps used the types correctly, and fix the ones that didn't. On NT you have to change EVERYTHING that used a 32bit value to now use a 64bit value, which won't work right, or you have to rewrite all of the apps to use the new types, ie pids change to 64bit but uids stay 32bit. Now you need to change everything that used pids from a DWORD to a DDWORD (if that exists). But what if someone was using the same DWORD for both a pid and a uid. It gets very messy. What I'm guessing will probally happen is we'll see a win64 api in the not too distant future, but that assumtion is based on nothing at all.
(BTW, take this whole post w/ a shaker of salt, I'm by no means an expert when it comes to NT, I try to restrict my windows using habbits to watching dvds.)
What about portability? The kernel itself might be portable, but win32 is very unportable. Atleast to 64bit architectures. That's what you get for using things like DWORD and WORD for uid and pid instead of uid_t and pid_t.
I must say the "interview" wasn't all that great. Seemed to be more of a marketing peice than an informative interview. The whole thing was spent going on about NT's suburb design and how it's completely crash-proof (I guess that's why I've never been able to keep my box at work up for more than 2 days). The concept for the interview had potential; it ended up sounding more like a 5th grader's report on the day he met . A little less fluf, and a lot more content and it would have been an excellent peice.
I can't give you a url, but the setup's been around for a while. Pretty much if you see "(Score: 2)" instead of "(Score: 2, Funny)" it means it was automatic.
Yes but atleast fixes were released in a timely fasion. Microsoft's method seems to be deny deny deny for 3 or 4 months then release a service pack that creates just as many bugs as it fixes, then deny deny deny for the next 3 or 4 months, and so on. Sure linux has bugs, but they also get stomped on quickly.
See the 6th sense. The kid in that movie is one of the best actors I've ever seen child or adult. He was truely believable and didn't say "yipee" once the entire movie.
Or "Mr. qui-gon sir, I heard yoda talking about midichlorians and i was wondering, what are midichlorians?" I don't know what to think of Jake's acting abilities because his character was awful from the start. I don't think anyone could have done a decent job with that part, mainly because the lines were unbelievable and plain stupid. A good example of how writing is more important than acting is matrix. It was, IMHO, an excellent film, even though keanu(sp?) hasn't had a believable performance since Bill and Ted's excellent adventure, and I'm willing to bet he wasn't even acting in that movie.
If the CBT can't plan ahead and shell out a little extra cash so they can be multihomed, they deserve whatever crap they get. I wonder what happens to them when NT crashes. Does the whole place go belly up or do they actually have some kind of HA setup.
Ok, christianity helped science by persecuting people who said anything that disagreed with the catholic church? I'm sorry but that makes no sense. Also, evolution in no way denies the existance of god. It does deny the accuracy of genesis, however, which IMHO was never meant to be taken litterally in the first place. Evolution (and science in generally) do not deny the existance of god, they just assume that god doesn't interfere in the way things work. Besides, do you really think that if god created man and all and it was such a huge party for him, that he would have put us on the 3rd planet from an insignificant star, in the arm of a rather unimpressive galaxy?
Evolution may not be fact, but it's the closest thing we have to fact.
P.S. the gaps in the fossil record are do to the fact that fossilization only occurs in very specific and rather rare circumstances.
It's people like you who give the religious-supremists reasons to yell. Maybe in your opinion religion is stupid. I personally am an athiest too, but I don't think religious types are stupid. They just have a different belief set than I do, I hope most religious feel the same way about me. Live and let live.
As an atheist I have to say I've never felt any persecution for my beliefs (or lack there of). Maybe that's because I am very quiet about my beliefs because I normally think that they really aren't anyone else's business and that no one else gives a crap. I have met my share of athiest-supremisists who feel all things religious are inheirently dumb. These people, imho, are no better than the christian-supremists who feel that it's their mission to save the world or destroy it trying.
Being an athiest wasn't a choice I came to easily, I actually thought about it, and in my mind there is no such thing as any type of god. Could I be wrong? Definately, but I also happen to believe that if there is a god, he's not going to damn someone an eternity of suffering just because that person didn't believe in him. I prefer to think that he would look at the person's character and how he lived his life.
Maybe there is a god, maybe there isn't, but in the end does it really matter what I believe or what you believe? Maybe if people spent a little less time praying for the homeless and went out and made sandwiches for the poor, or donated clothing to the salvation army, the world would be a better place. I once heard a catholic preist say something along the lines of "prayer is only the begining" meaning that, yes you should pray for people, but god isn't going to help them for you, you have to do that yourself. I also once heard a catholic priest say that if you help the homeless because it makes you feel good then you are doing it for the wrong reason, and that you should only help the homeless because god wants you to. Now if you ask me, if helping the homeless makes you feel good, you are a generally good person.
I read this off of a teacher's wall. It was written by a Protestant minister about WWII. It's been a while so it's not perfect:
"In Germany, first the Nazis came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then, when they came for me, no one was left to speak up."
Basically you can't just say, "Well I don't use drugs or collect kiddie porn, so it's ok." Someday you just might be the one who is subject to persecution.
AOL released the specs to TOC, a text-based slimmed down version of their binary OSCAR protocol. Microsoft is using OSCAR, not TOC. This probally is illegal, if EULAs are enforcable, since I'm guessing the aim EULA comes with the standard no-reverse-engineering clause, and I strongly doubt Microsoft pulled the specs for the protocol out of it's proverbial ass.
The way I read the article was that the *client* sends back more information than the server expects, to receive. So the "buffer overflow" is actually on the server, which I'm certain AOL has fixed (if it ever was a security issue to begin with). Also, IRC servers will ban based on clients too. Does anyone remember IPhone? The client would connect to an IRC server and from there connect to other clients. Now the people who made IPhone had their own servers, which were modified with a very poor method of locking out irc clients. It wasn't long before IPhone users started using standard IRC servers, and then not long before patches were available to IRC servers to block IPhone users.
The way I see this whole situation is that AOL owns the servers, they can dictate whatever rules they want for accessing the servers. If they want to say, "You MUST use our software if you are going to access our servers using the OSCAR protocol!" that's fine. I'd say the same thing if the situation were reversed.
Ok, why do some people feel the need to type in all caps? Caps are more difficult to read, and they don't make you right or more important. They just make you look like a twit. Also, please re-read your posts for grammar(sp) and punctuation. They are both our friends and help others understand the ideas in your head.
I'd really love to see someone who is baked attempt to rob someone, it would be extremely funny. I fully agree that pot should be legal. Alchohol impairs your judgement / reaction time more severely, and you can easily O.D. on alchohol. From what I've heard it would take over 100 joints to O.D. on pot, and i imagine that by that time the smoke itself would have killed you. Not to mention, that by your 100th joint, do you really think you'd even be able to roll/smoke a joint? You'd be too gone. In short, viva pot!
I believe you are thinking of AMD's curent offerings, the K6, etc. They will do SMP but it's based on OpenPIC instead of APIC. The problem is no motherboard supports OpenPIC. The K7 will very definately do SMP, and I think the current limit is 14 cpus, compared to 4 with a Xeon. Also, do to the bus design of the K7 they will do SMP *MUCH* nicer.
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Actually the CORBA stuff will make your computer nicer to use. It will allow full embedding of applications inside others. For example, in KWord, you can embed a spreadsheet in a document. When you click on the spreadsheet, KWord's menubars and all disapear and you get KSpreadSheet's (or whatever the real name is). Essentially KWord will function as KSpreadSheet until you click outside of the spreadsheet. For KDE 2.0 everything will be able to fully interact with everything else. Also, I think that java support is being done as a KPart, so you could easily add java support to any app you wanted. All in all KDE 2.0 is going to be a very productive, powerful, and pretty desktop.
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Yes and no. KDE themes are faster than GTK themes since GTK only supports pixmap theming. GNOME will let you code your own widgets if you desire. It's just that pixmap themes are easier to write so that's what most themes are. KDE supports coded widgets, you can have a pixmap based widget set as well. So far they are the same. The difference is that KDE supports things like gradients etc. w/o having to write code or fall back on pixmaps. That way you can have pretty and fast widgets. Also, KDE allows you to re-arange the way widgets work (I don't know if GNOME does). This way you can have the little triangle buttons on a scroll bar right next to each other, instead of at opposite ends, which IMHO makes much more sense.
Not 100% true. Linux is in real mode for a little bit during it's initilization, but by the time it spawns init, it's in protected mode and it's staying there.
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Yah only the military has ever benifated from space research. They are the only ones with access to them new fangled computers. And that teflon coating on their pans, why should the be the only ones who get stick proof pans? And those suits that fire-men wear to keep them safe inside burning buildings, it's not like their a direct off shoot of the space program or anything. In the future I sugest that you think a bit before you post. The space program has had countless benifates for man kind. Just because they don't send homer simpson into space doesn't mean he hasn't benifated from it.
BTW, from what I understand NASA rejected solar power because at the time it was not viable, and on a long journey you have a huge chance of those panels being destroyed by space debris. Don't you think NASA would rather use solar power? Which do you think is cheaper, 75 pounds of plutonium, or sun light?
The two guys who did "The Last Broadcast" were on a local radio station this morning talking about it. The movie will be available soon to purchase, amazon.com supposedly has it available for pre-order, just go there and seard for "The Last Broadcast"
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I remember reading about nt needing a complete overhaul to be 64bit clean. I think the basic problem is that the win32 api dictates the use of types such as WORD or DWORD for a whole mess of types. In the unix world we have things like uid_t or pid_t so if you want to increase something from 32bits to 64bits you just change the typedef and hope that all of the apps used the types correctly, and fix the ones that didn't. On NT you have to change EVERYTHING that used a 32bit value to now use a 64bit value, which won't work right, or you have to rewrite all of the apps to use the new types, ie pids change to 64bit but uids stay 32bit. Now you need to change everything that used pids from a DWORD to a DDWORD (if that exists). But what if someone was using the same DWORD for both a pid and a uid. It gets very messy. What I'm guessing will probally happen is we'll see a win64 api in the not too distant future, but that assumtion is based on nothing at all.
(BTW, take this whole post w/ a shaker of salt, I'm by no means an expert when it comes to NT, I try to restrict my windows using habbits to watching dvds.)
On the UltraSparc only the kernel is 64bit, the apps are still 32, but I think that's changing so UltraSparc will be fully 64bit.
What about portability? The kernel itself might be portable, but win32 is very unportable. Atleast to 64bit architectures. That's what you get for using things like DWORD and WORD for uid and pid instead of uid_t and pid_t.
I must say the "interview" wasn't all that great. Seemed to be more of a marketing peice than an informative interview. The whole thing was spent going on about NT's suburb design and how it's completely crash-proof (I guess that's why I've never been able to keep my box at work up for more than 2 days). The concept for the interview had potential; it ended up sounding more like a 5th grader's report on the day he met . A little less fluf, and a lot more content and it would have been an excellent peice.
I can't give you a url, but the setup's been around for a while. Pretty much if you see "(Score: 2)" instead of "(Score: 2, Funny)" it means it was automatic.
Yes but atleast fixes were released in a timely fasion. Microsoft's method seems to be deny deny deny for 3 or 4 months then release a service pack that creates just as many bugs as it fixes, then deny deny deny for the next 3 or 4 months, and so on. Sure linux has bugs, but they also get stomped on quickly.
See the 6th sense. The kid in that movie is one of the best actors I've ever seen child or adult. He was truely believable and didn't say "yipee" once the entire movie.
Or "Mr. qui-gon sir, I heard yoda talking about midichlorians and i was wondering, what are midichlorians?" I don't know what to think of Jake's acting abilities because his character was awful from the start. I don't think anyone could have done a decent job with that part, mainly because the lines were unbelievable and plain stupid. A good example of how writing is more important than acting is matrix. It was, IMHO, an excellent film, even though keanu(sp?) hasn't had a believable performance since Bill and Ted's excellent adventure, and I'm willing to bet he wasn't even acting in that movie.
I must say that after watching the 6th sense I was amazed at that kid's acting ability. How old is he anyway?
If the CBT can't plan ahead and shell out a little extra cash so they can be multihomed, they deserve whatever crap they get. I wonder what happens to them when NT crashes. Does the whole place go belly up or do they actually have some kind of HA setup.
Ok, christianity helped science by persecuting people who said anything that disagreed with the catholic church? I'm sorry but that makes no sense. Also, evolution in no way denies the existance of god. It does deny the accuracy of genesis, however, which IMHO was never meant to be taken litterally in the first place. Evolution (and science in generally) do not deny the existance of god, they just assume that god doesn't interfere in the way things work. Besides, do you really think that if god created man and all and it was such a huge party for him, that he would have put us on the 3rd planet from an insignificant star, in the arm of a rather unimpressive galaxy?
Evolution may not be fact, but it's the closest thing we have to fact.
P.S. the gaps in the fossil record are do to the fact that fossilization only occurs in very specific and rather rare circumstances.
It's people like you who give the religious-supremists reasons to yell. Maybe in your opinion religion is stupid. I personally am an athiest too, but I don't think religious types are stupid. They just have a different belief set than I do, I hope most religious feel the same way about me. Live and let live.
As an atheist I have to say I've never felt any persecution for my beliefs (or lack there of). Maybe that's because I am very quiet about my beliefs because I normally think that they really aren't anyone else's business and that no one else gives a crap. I have met my share of athiest-supremisists who feel all things religious are inheirently dumb. These people, imho, are no better than the christian-supremists who feel that it's their mission to save the world or destroy it trying.
Being an athiest wasn't a choice I came to easily, I actually thought about it, and in my mind there is no such thing as any type of god. Could I be wrong? Definately, but I also happen to believe that if there is a god, he's not going to damn someone an eternity of suffering just because that person didn't believe in him. I prefer to think that he would look at the person's character and how he lived his life.
Maybe there is a god, maybe there isn't, but in the end does it really matter what I believe or what you believe? Maybe if people spent a little less time praying for the homeless and went out and made sandwiches for the poor, or donated clothing to the salvation army, the world would be a better place. I once heard a catholic preist say something along the lines of "prayer is only the begining" meaning that, yes you should pray for people, but god isn't going to help them for you, you have to do that yourself. I also once heard a catholic priest say that if you help the homeless because it makes you feel good then you are doing it for the wrong reason, and that you should only help the homeless because god wants you to. Now if you ask me, if helping the homeless makes you feel good, you are a generally good person.
I think there was a point somewhere in there...
I read this off of a teacher's wall. It was written by a Protestant minister about WWII. It's been a while so it's not perfect:
"In Germany, first the Nazis came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then, when they came for me, no one was left to speak up."
Basically you can't just say, "Well I don't use drugs or collect kiddie porn, so it's ok." Someday you just might be the one who is subject to persecution.
AOL released the specs to TOC, a text-based slimmed down version of their binary OSCAR protocol. Microsoft is using OSCAR, not TOC. This probally is illegal, if EULAs are enforcable, since I'm guessing the aim EULA comes with the standard no-reverse-engineering clause, and I strongly doubt Microsoft pulled the specs for the protocol out of it's proverbial ass.
The way I read the article was that the *client* sends back more information than the server expects, to receive. So the "buffer overflow" is actually on the server, which I'm certain AOL has fixed (if it ever was a security issue to begin with). Also, IRC servers will ban based on clients too. Does anyone remember IPhone? The client would connect to an IRC server and from there connect to other clients. Now the people who made IPhone had their own servers, which were modified with a very poor method of locking out irc clients. It wasn't long before IPhone users started using standard IRC servers, and then not long before patches were available to IRC servers to block IPhone users.
The way I see this whole situation is that AOL owns the servers, they can dictate whatever rules they want for accessing the servers. If they want to say, "You MUST use our software if you are going to access our servers using the OSCAR protocol!" that's fine. I'd say the same thing if the situation were reversed.
Ok, why do some people feel the need to type in all caps? Caps are more difficult to read, and they don't make you right or more important. They just make you look like a twit. Also, please re-read your posts for grammar(sp) and punctuation. They are both our friends and help others understand the ideas in your head.
I'd really love to see someone who is baked attempt to rob someone, it would be extremely funny. I fully agree that pot should be legal. Alchohol impairs your judgement / reaction time more severely, and you can easily O.D. on alchohol. From what I've heard it would take over 100 joints to O.D. on pot, and i imagine that by that time the smoke itself would have killed you. Not to mention, that by your 100th joint, do you really think you'd even be able to roll/smoke a joint? You'd be too gone. In short, viva pot!
I believe you are thinking of AMD's curent offerings, the K6, etc. They will do SMP but it's based on OpenPIC instead of APIC. The problem is no motherboard supports OpenPIC. The K7 will very definately do SMP, and I think the current limit is 14 cpus, compared to 4 with a Xeon. Also, do to the bus design of the K7 they will do SMP *MUCH* nicer.
Actually the CORBA stuff will make your computer nicer to use. It will allow full embedding of applications inside others. For example, in KWord, you can embed a spreadsheet in a document. When you click on the spreadsheet, KWord's menubars and all disapear and you get KSpreadSheet's (or whatever the real name is). Essentially KWord will function as KSpreadSheet until you click outside of the spreadsheet. For KDE 2.0 everything will be able to fully interact with everything else. Also, I think that java support is being done as a KPart, so you could easily add java support to any app you wanted. All in all KDE 2.0 is going to be a very productive, powerful, and pretty desktop.
Yes and no. KDE themes are faster than GTK themes since GTK only supports pixmap theming. GNOME will let you code your own widgets if you desire. It's just that pixmap themes are easier to write so that's what most themes are. KDE supports coded widgets, you can have a pixmap based widget set as well. So far they are the same. The difference is that KDE supports things like gradients etc. w/o having to write code or fall back on pixmaps. That way you can have pretty and fast widgets. Also, KDE allows you to re-arange the way widgets work (I don't know if GNOME does). This way you can have the little triangle buttons on a scroll bar right next to each other, instead of at opposite ends, which IMHO makes much more sense.
Not 100% true. Linux is in real mode for a little bit during it's initilization, but by the time it spawns init, it's in protected mode and it's staying there.
Yah only the military has ever benifated from space research. They are the only ones with access to them new fangled computers. And that teflon coating on their pans, why should the be the only ones who get stick proof pans? And those suits that fire-men wear to keep them safe inside burning buildings, it's not like their a direct off shoot of the space program or anything. In the future I sugest that you think a bit before you post. The space program has had countless benifates for man kind. Just because they don't send homer simpson into space doesn't mean he hasn't benifated from it.
BTW, from what I understand NASA rejected solar power because at the time it was not viable, and on a long journey you have a huge chance of those panels being destroyed by space debris. Don't you think NASA would rather use solar power? Which do you think is cheaper, 75 pounds of plutonium, or sun light?
Now that the actors are doing interviews maybe he'll believe you. It's kinda hard to do an interview from beyond the grave, right?
The two guys who did "The Last Broadcast" were on a local radio station this morning talking about it. The movie will be available soon to purchase, amazon.com supposedly has it available for pre-order, just go there and seard for "The Last Broadcast"