Memory is only defective if it doesn't return what you earlier put into it... With this patch the memory _will_ return what was put into it. Hence, the memory is _not_ defective under Linux with this patch.
This type of thing is done with every hard drive in existance today (even production hard drives) and is such a non-issue that most people aren't even aware of the problem. Running scandisk under windows will show you the blocks that are currently mapped out. Running mkfsck with the -c flag will map out bad blocks during formatting under Linux.
This is a great patch! Good job.
The only improvement that I can see is if it could add additional addresses to map out "on the fly" as they are found to be bad during operation.
This would kill the program that hit the bad memory, but would otherwise let the computer keep running.
It would actually be trivial for MS to write an API that runs on top of Linux and provides all the normal W2K services to Windows programs... Wine has been trying to do this for years, but never had the documentation to get everything perfect.
This way Windows apps would all still run just fine on their OS, as well as all the Linux binaries.
Kinda like the way that Apple is running freebsd under their OS X.
No thanks, GNU Huuuurl is an over designed system that will never be used in an actual production environment. It turns out that micro kernels really suck and take about 30 years to write.
I don't want my schedualler to run in user space, I want it to run in protected mode.
Oh yeah, the Huuuurl isn't even Linux binary compatible... the new standard for UNIX systems...
Linux is just going to get more and more modular over time... At some point you will be able to load whatever memory manager or schedualler the same way you load a network code driver now.
When Linux becomes this modular, then having a custom modual to process certain resources a certain way will no longer require a fork. At this point companies will be able to totally customize Linux for their environment and still be running Linux.
Standard Linux with custom moduals equals best of breed performance, wholesale price!
The chip runs an x86 platform, which one I don't know.
It only takes a minute to boot. I have left mine running for a couple of months now, so you don't have to reboot if you don't want to reboot.
The machine has no fan, and the CDROM is very quiet. It only makes a little noise and only when it is loading a program.
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The screen only supports 800x600, and I am spoiled by a 1280x1024 resolution on my main computer, but it is usable and the fonts look good.
The CDROM which the system boots from has over 400MB free, so it should be trivial to copy the CDROM to a directory, add in a bunch of programs and then make a new CDROM image with an autoboot image. Should even be able to modify the init files to run the emulator that I want upon booting, or maybe even give a choice of what to do when booting... If I hold down the C key it will boot into C64 mode.
The dream system, of course, would be to boot from the 4MB Flash card, mount a network file system and then use the CD drive as a CD/MP3/DIVIX player and gaming console.
And I will instantly be able to turn my ThinkNIC into a C64, with 500 MB of games - all on one CDROM.
The same thing can be done with lots of other old gaming platforms too, turning the ThinkNIC into a gaming console that can play _any_ game.
I am going to aim at the ThinkNIC because it is a standard platform with know hardware across the board, so it should be easy to load the correct drivers for any ThinkNIC.
Is it illegle to make a key for your _own_ house? If I have bought a device then I have to right to use it however I want, as long as I don't violate copyright laws. (i.e. make a bunch of copies and sell them)
Stealing services is already against the law. That is why there is a little FBI warning at the beginning of every Movie that you rent.
However, I don't consider bypassing a lock that prevents me from using a DVD I bought in India on my american made DVD player to be stealing. If you do, then you probably work for the companies that are trying to rip me off, and are only in here Astroturfing.
This may sound shocking, but I don't care about the trade secrets of a company where I don't work. I never signed a non disclosure agreement with the company, so I never agreed not to disclose trade secrets.
Patents are designed to give the company a limited monopoly in exchange for them providing the rest of humanity with the information on how that device or procedure works... This is considered _good_ by most because it prevents knowledge from being lost.
However, a company has _no_ such protection for information that they don't share with humanity. Companies who wish to keep their information away from everyone employ a tactic know as trade secrets. This means that they try to keep information secret so that others can't do what they can do.
However this tactic has one serious drawback, other people can learn your secrets through looking at your products, or by simply watching your procedures... Then those other people can compete against you with your own information... We can't have that now!
If something isn't protected by a patent, it is fair game to be reverse engineered and that information used against them in a competetive market... If they feel like sharing then our society will reward them with a 17 year monopoly. Their choice...
Only the whiners go crying to court when their secrets become public knowledge... As if the court can somehow make everyone forget the truth... *laughs* No court is _that_ powerful.
I am running a C64 emulator and playing some of the hundreds of games that I used to own. I hadn't played them for years, now they are all on their own CDROM with the emulator installed on the CDROM as well.
Now, when I want to play I pop in the CDROM and jump back to the 1980's back to the time when there were more than 1st person shooters, karate games and vehical sims... Games like M.U.L.E., Elite, Boulder Dash, and hundreds of others really bring back the memories... Those games were fun to play.
I would love to pop a CDROM into my ThinkNIC and have it come up looking like an old C-64. Then I could load a program that would allow me to drill down through catagories until I found the program I wanted and load and run that program.
The same thing could be done for other old gaming systems as well, like the TI-99, T/S 1000 (FX-81), Atari, and even relativitely new games like Nintendo, Gameboy and others...
It would be cool to target these autobooting emulator CDROM disks at the ThinkNIC because you know the hardware that is installed in that box. It should be trivial to use their boot CDROM as the basis of our own emulator CDROM project. Other people could mount the CDROM under their OS and run the games the same as I do now.
Actually I think that the best joke is the one that you read and go, huh?
Then that night when you sit down after super and start watching TV and it finally sinks in and you find yourself smiling, then giggling, and then finally rolling on the floor laughing...
And when I was growing up they kept on telling me that the only thing you should put in your ear was your elbow...
I can just see all the emergency rooms all over the US already. You go to hang up after an hour long call and realize that your index finger is firmly wedged to the second knuckle in your ear canal.
Wow, I am amazed that my response got marked troll. I reread my comments to see if I inadvertantly insulted the pope or RMS or something, but no, I only stated my own beliefs as to why I think that the current redhat release should have been labelled 6.3 rather than 7.0.
I am grateful to those who marked it up as underrated. This has taught me a lot about the underlying fairness of the slashdot site.
I want everyone to know that I use redhat, have for years, I got my information about rh7.0 from several close friends who tried it out and told me what they had found.
I will listen to my friends evaluation of rh7.1 as well and pass it along at the proper time. If they say it is good, I will try it too. I would try every distribution that comes out, but I am too busy actually using my computers to get work done (including GPL projects on source forge) to install a new distribution every weekend.
I saw no one give any convincing arguments as to why this shouldn't have been released as rh6.3. I have used the international security patch for years, And have used both the open SSL and open ssh packages for a while now as well. USB is being included in the 2.2 series of kernels, installing XFree86 4.0.1 on a computer is as easy as downloading the X packages from XFree.org and installing them. I have been running XFree 4.0.x for the past three months on a rh6.1 installation.
The linux2.4.0-test2 kernel worked perfectly with rh6.2, but the later 2.4 kernels have a different structure to their modules directory and you have to run insmod with the path to the module that needs loading. Evidently fixing this problem is as easy as loading a new mod utils package.
All in all this has been a learning experience. But I do think that in the end my voice was heard on this site, even if my voice was labelled as a troll. So I know that I was heard, but have a strange feeling that my voice was promptly ignored.
Yeah, I have no hardware knowledge... That is right. You just keep on believing whatever you want to believe. I never built my own cheesy processor out of timer parts and discrete components. I never programmed it to do accumulator math by hard wiring instructions into the memory. So of course I think that the computer works with "Magic." I never hand assembled my own Z80 assembler code and ran it on a ZX/80.
Funny the PPC, MIPS and Alpha where all 64 bit back in 1995 and they all seemed to do well in the workstation market... But no, I must be mistaken, because world expert that you are, you claim that there were no 64 bit workstations in 1995, so I _must_ be wrong.
The Pentium4 is _not_ that different than the Pentium 3, for the same MHz the processors will process nearly the same amount of information... How is this a great leap forward? All I really care about is results, I don't really care that the pipeline architecture is fuscia this year.
It is technologically much easier to double the bus width than it is to double the speed at which a processor runs. Effectively a 64 bit bus running at 500MHz is the same as a 32bit bus running at 1GHz, all other things being the same. Except the 500MHz chip is much easier to design. And if you design a much simplier RISC type chip you can actually use a lot less die space and save a lot of heat buildup. This is what the Cauruso chip did and how it can run at such a high speed with so little heat generation. Such a chip is actually much _easier_ to manufacture than the complex x86 series of chips.
So yes, I stick with my original point that Intel is building another chip that is only an incremental upgrade. I don't care how hard the marketing people are selling the fact that they are trying to cram even more instructions into the processor at the same time, thereby making the processor draw twice as much power and generate twice the heat for only a small amount of performance gain. Imagine if they were using all these snazzy performance enhancements _and_ the bus width was currently 128 bits.
Imagine that for a minute. The processor would be running at 1GHz, and have a 128 bit bus. So, it would be equivilant to a 4GHz P4. Which we won't see for many years...
Yes, I think that it is nice of them to wring out the last few bits of performance from the x86 architecture, but they should have moved on to wider busses years ago instead of going for ever higher bus speeds.
Probably has something to do with the fact that most desktops run Windows 9x, and Windows 9x only supports 32bit Intel machines. It is a shame that Intel and Windows have conspired together for so long to hold back the performance of the desktop computer market.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think they did it on purpose, they just got trapped in a situation and never really tried to get out, as long as they were making money. And did they both ever make some money.
a) You are forgetting network appliances running Linux.
b) No software is installed on the box. It is all preloaded.
c) Run office java clones off the internet, same for tax and personel finace software. Works great, less filling.
d) A version of AOL will come on the netappliance very soon.
e) Use email to send/recieve files... Too bad that their old software doesn't work, but they can upload all their old files to the internet and autoconvert them to the new formats.
f) You forgot that they can goto the store and buy a scanner that might not work with their hardware, but what if the netappliance manufacturer had a complete line of accessories at a fair price that are guaranteed to work with the netappliance?
Do we really need the next generation of Intel's overpriced processor/heat plate or is this merely an attempt by Intel for Yet Another Incremental Upgrade(YAIU).
Now that I have your attention, and before you call me flaimbait, hear me out.
The only truely revolutionary changes that Intel has ever done is the 386 and the Pentium. Every other design that they did was a simple upgrade to already existing chips.
Call me crazy, but I think that Intel should have released a 64 bit chip about 5 years ago. Now that would have been as revolutionary as going from the 286 to the 386, or from the 486 to the Pentium.
Why didn't they? Because they had already paid a fortune developing the existing technology and they wanted to milk it for another few years. Intel is a big believer in the incremental upgrade. They want users to pay a premium for basically the same chip three or four times while spending the money that should be going to research into the "Intel Inside" marketing campaign.
By this time Intel should have been releasing chips with 128 bit busses. Instead we are stuck with a chip whose basic design hasn't changed in many years. And the 64 bit chip is delayed yet again. Is it really going to be out at the end of next year. Sadly not.
*sighs*
I guess I just don't understand how to make money.
This is nearly the same release as RH 6.2 with the updates added. Why not just call it 6.3? The only thing new is that they released a buggy non standard version of gcc that they labled 2.96 themselves. In the real world, GNU hasn't released a production version of their compiler called 2.96. If they do then this will cause all sorts of weird conflicts.
I think that the only reason that RH7.0 was released is because the marketing department saw that other companies where releasing 7.x versions of their Linux distributions and RedHat didn't want to be left behind in the computer super stores.
I wish that they had waited two more months and released Redhat 7.0 with a more reliable installation program, Linux 2.4 and KDE 2.0. But they will probably have to fix these defects with the release of RedHat 7.1.
Show your boss that Linux has twice the performance of Windows.
Tux is a kernel module that integrates the html protocol directly into the kernel. It can serve static as well as dynamic web pages and can be integrated with Apache.
I like to think of this as RMS having prepared a garden by hand starting the previous year, preparing the soil, adding compost, protecting it over the winter, turning the soil in the spring, smoothing it out, planting the plants, watering the garden when it was too dry, weeding the garden, putting in the paving stones for people to walk on, and guarding the garden at night from the rabbits and hooligans.
The next summer is when people are awed by the beauty of the garden, when the garden has fully flowered.
True, he did the work in the eighties, but his work didn't flower until the nineties. Most of us never even heard of RMS until we looked at Linux and found all the GNU tools there and wanted to know who to thank.
Many villages in the Middle Ages tried an experiment in which the entire village shared a single large green space between dozens of herds. In the end the experiment failed because a few of the herd owners overgrazed the commons, leaving no food for the rest.
This is also called zero sum gaming in which everyone wins a little if they all play fair, but the first one to cheat will win everything and the rest will lose.
If all universities equally share their computers, then they all win a little. But if my university scrimps on their computer budget then I can save a lot of money, and still get all my computing done using other peoples computers. My university wins a lot.
Also people will be lazy in writing their algorithms because they know that their code will still run, it will just need more processors on more machines to execute.
Eventually it is possible that all universities stop paying for a computer budget, every thinking that they can save money by using other peoples computers, but in the end there is not enough computing power to share.
A more fair system would be similar to how your electric meter works. The university reimburses those other computer systems based on how many cycles of processing are used. This would also tend to force people who want to do this work to use efficient code algorithms thus saving even more money overall.
Was it Heinlein that said There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (TINSTAAFL)?
Why should Universities stop an internet service that has valid uses? After all, there are a lot of people's music available online that isn't under the copyright of a record company. Some people are actually using this new way to distribute music as a new way to distribute music.
King needs to lighten up and realize that people aren't going to pay 3 times to get the same text download in 3 different formats. Just because several different companies have different formats for their text files doesn't mean that we should have to pay multiple times for the same content. This is not the same as buying a book and a cassette, because you should be using a format like sgml that can be transformed into any other text format and then let people download this master format and allow them to translate it into the format of their choice. It's not like you can read more than one format at the same time.
As far as record companies suing their own musicians, it is the musicians own fault for signing an unfair contract. Musicians should form a guild and hire the record companies to produce recordings for them, not the other way around. Until musicians organise, they are going to be pushed around by the record companies.
This violation of ethics is so severe that the man should step down. Judges should never rule in a case that even has the _appearance_ of a conflict of interest.
This goes well beyond appearance.
It doesn't matter how the other judges voted or whether they chose to vote or not. Although, many judges do have a lot of Microsoft stock. All that matters is that _this_ one judge voted in _this_ one case when he shouldn't have and that calls the entire legal system into question.
One of the first things that I learned in a graphics design class in college was that fonts are just little pictures that stand for sounds.
Unless your dumb terminal used sound to tell you the letters on the screen, a la "War Games," then you used a graphical terminal when you used a dumb terminal. The only difference is that the graphics displayed were little pictures that represent sounds.
The capital letter A is an example of this. Draw a bulls head with a large set of horns, now turn your drawing upside down. Looks a little like the letter A, doesn't it? So anytime you see an A on the screen you are looking at the picture of a cow. Each letter can be traced back to similar little pictures over the course of thousands of years.
Even dumb terminals are pretty smart. Dumb terminals need to process their input in order to properly display the characters in the correct positions, and with the proper attributes. Not to mention keep track of where the cursor is on the screen. Each terminal type used different control characters embedded into the text stream in order to accomplish this processing. Anyone who has ever tried to use the wrong terminal type or had their shell set to the wrong terminal size knows how screwed up your terminal could get if you sent the wrong characters.
So, fonts are graphics and dumb terminals are clients that process their input. Things just aren't as clear as those patent people would like us to believe.
Any program that accessed any collection of data and then used the curses library to display to a terminal should meet his needs...
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Memory is only defective if it doesn't return what you earlier put into it... With this patch the memory _will_ return what was put into it. Hence, the memory is _not_ defective under Linux with this patch.
This type of thing is done with every hard drive in existance today (even production hard drives) and is such a non-issue that most people aren't even aware of the problem. Running scandisk under windows will show you the blocks that are currently mapped out. Running mkfsck with the -c flag will map out bad blocks during formatting under Linux.
This is a great patch! Good job.
The only improvement that I can see is if it could add additional addresses to map out "on the fly" as they are found to be bad during operation.
This would kill the program that hit the bad memory, but would otherwise let the computer keep running.
It would actually be trivial for MS to write an API that runs on top of Linux and provides all the normal W2K services to Windows programs... Wine has been trying to do this for years, but never had the documentation to get everything perfect.
This way Windows apps would all still run just fine on their OS, as well as all the Linux binaries.
Kinda like the way that Apple is running freebsd under their OS X.
I expect to see MS do this around 2003.
No thanks, GNU Huuuurl is an over designed system that will never be used in an actual production environment. It turns out that micro kernels really suck and take about 30 years to write.
I don't want my schedualler to run in user space, I want it to run in protected mode.
Oh yeah, the Huuuurl isn't even Linux binary compatible... the new standard for UNIX systems...
No, that is why Linux is designed in layers with clear API's between the layers.
That way you can change the schedualling without having to rewrite your device drivers!
Linux is just going to get more and more modular over time... At some point you will be able to load whatever memory manager or schedualler the same way you load a network code driver now.
When Linux becomes this modular, then having a custom modual to process certain resources a certain way will no longer require a fork. At this point companies will be able to totally customize Linux for their environment and still be running Linux.
Standard Linux with custom moduals equals best of breed performance, wholesale price!
No Forking Allowed!!!
The chip runs an x86 platform, which one I don't know.
It only takes a minute to boot. I have left mine running for a couple of months now, so you don't have to reboot if you don't want to reboot.
The machine has no fan, and the CDROM is very quiet. It only makes a little noise and only when it is loading a program.
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The screen only supports 800x600, and I am spoiled by a 1280x1024 resolution on my main computer, but it is usable and the fonts look good.
The CDROM which the system boots from has over 400MB free, so it should be trivial to copy the CDROM to a directory, add in a bunch of programs and then make a new CDROM image with an autoboot image. Should even be able to modify the init files to run the emulator that I want upon booting, or maybe even give a choice of what to do when booting... If I hold down the C key it will boot into C64 mode.
The dream system, of course, would be to boot from the 4MB Flash card, mount a network file system and then use the CD drive as a CD/MP3/DIVIX player and gaming console.
And I will instantly be able to turn my ThinkNIC into a C64, with 500 MB of games - all on one CDROM.
The same thing can be done with lots of other old gaming platforms too, turning the ThinkNIC into a gaming console that can play _any_ game.
I am going to aim at the ThinkNIC because it is a standard platform with know hardware across the board, so it should be easy to load the correct drivers for any ThinkNIC.
Cool!
Is it illegle to make a key for your _own_ house? If I have bought a device then I have to right to use it however I want, as long as I don't violate copyright laws. (i.e. make a bunch of copies and sell them)
Stealing services is already against the law. That is why there is a little FBI warning at the beginning of every Movie that you rent.
However, I don't consider bypassing a lock that prevents me from using a DVD I bought in India on my american made DVD player to be stealing. If you do, then you probably work for the companies that are trying to rip me off, and are only in here Astroturfing.
This may sound shocking, but I don't care about the trade secrets of a company where I don't work. I never signed a non disclosure agreement with the company, so I never agreed not to disclose trade secrets.
Patents are designed to give the company a limited monopoly in exchange for them providing the rest of humanity with the information on how that device or procedure works... This is considered _good_ by most because it prevents knowledge from being lost.
However, a company has _no_ such protection for information that they don't share with humanity. Companies who wish to keep their information away from everyone employ a tactic know as trade secrets. This means that they try to keep information secret so that others can't do what they can do.
However this tactic has one serious drawback, other people can learn your secrets through looking at your products, or by simply watching your procedures... Then those other people can compete against you with your own information... We can't have that now!
If something isn't protected by a patent, it is fair game to be reverse engineered and that information used against them in a competetive market... If they feel like sharing then our society will reward them with a 17 year monopoly. Their choice...
Only the whiners go crying to court when their secrets become public knowledge... As if the court can somehow make everyone forget the truth... *laughs* No court is _that_ powerful.
I am running a C64 emulator and playing some of the hundreds of games that I used to own. I hadn't played them for years, now they are all on their own CDROM with the emulator installed on the CDROM as well.
Now, when I want to play I pop in the CDROM and jump back to the 1980's back to the time when there were more than 1st person shooters, karate games and vehical sims... Games like M.U.L.E., Elite, Boulder Dash, and hundreds of others really bring back the memories... Those games were fun to play.
I would love to pop a CDROM into my ThinkNIC and have it come up looking like an old C-64. Then I could load a program that would allow me to drill down through catagories until I found the program I wanted and load and run that program.
The same thing could be done for other old gaming systems as well, like the TI-99, T/S 1000 (FX-81), Atari, and even relativitely new games like Nintendo, Gameboy and others...
It would be cool to target these autobooting emulator CDROM disks at the ThinkNIC because you know the hardware that is installed in that box. It should be trivial to use their boot CDROM as the basis of our own emulator CDROM project. Other people could mount the CDROM under their OS and run the games the same as I do now.
Actually I think that the best joke is the one that you read and go, huh?
Then that night when you sit down after super and start watching TV and it finally sinks in and you find yourself smiling, then giggling, and then finally rolling on the floor laughing...
THAT is the best kind of joke.
And when I was growing up they kept on telling me that the only thing you should put in your ear was your elbow...
I can just see all the emergency rooms all over the US already. You go to hang up after an hour long call and realize that your index finger is firmly wedged to the second knuckle in your ear canal.
And for the humor impared... This was funny!
Wow, I am amazed that my response got marked troll. I reread my comments to see if I inadvertantly insulted the pope or RMS or something, but no, I only stated my own beliefs as to why I think that the current redhat release should have been labelled 6.3 rather than 7.0.
I am grateful to those who marked it up as underrated. This has taught me a lot about the underlying fairness of the slashdot site.
I want everyone to know that I use redhat, have for years, I got my information about rh7.0 from several close friends who tried it out and told me what they had found.
I will listen to my friends evaluation of rh7.1 as well and pass it along at the proper time. If they say it is good, I will try it too. I would try every distribution that comes out, but I am too busy actually using my computers to get work done (including GPL projects on source forge) to install a new distribution every weekend.
I saw no one give any convincing arguments as to why this shouldn't have been released as rh6.3. I have used the international security patch for years, And have used both the open SSL and open ssh packages for a while now as well. USB is being included in the 2.2 series of kernels, installing XFree86 4.0.1 on a computer is as easy as downloading the X packages from XFree.org and installing them. I have been running XFree 4.0.x for the past three months on a rh6.1 installation.
The linux2.4.0-test2 kernel worked perfectly with rh6.2, but the later 2.4 kernels have a different structure to their modules directory and you have to run insmod with the path to the module that needs loading. Evidently fixing this problem is as easy as loading a new mod utils package.
All in all this has been a learning experience. But I do think that in the end my voice was heard on this site, even if my voice was labelled as a troll. So I know that I was heard, but have a strange feeling that my voice was promptly ignored.
Yeah, I have no hardware knowledge... That is right. You just keep on believing whatever you want to believe. I never built my own cheesy processor out of timer parts and discrete components. I never programmed it to do accumulator math by hard wiring instructions into the memory. So of course I think that the computer works with "Magic." I never hand assembled my own Z80 assembler code and ran it on a ZX/80.
Funny the PPC, MIPS and Alpha where all 64 bit back in 1995 and they all seemed to do well in the workstation market... But no, I must be mistaken, because world expert that you are, you claim that there were no 64 bit workstations in 1995, so I _must_ be wrong.
The Pentium4 is _not_ that different than the Pentium 3, for the same MHz the processors will process nearly the same amount of information... How is this a great leap forward? All I really care about is results, I don't really care that the pipeline architecture is fuscia this year.
It is technologically much easier to double the bus width than it is to double the speed at which a processor runs. Effectively a 64 bit bus running at 500MHz is the same as a 32bit bus running at 1GHz, all other things being the same. Except the 500MHz chip is much easier to design. And if you design a much simplier RISC type chip you can actually use a lot less die space and save a lot of heat buildup. This is what the Cauruso chip did and how it can run at such a high speed with so little heat generation. Such a chip is actually much _easier_ to manufacture than the complex x86 series of chips.
So yes, I stick with my original point that Intel is building another chip that is only an incremental upgrade. I don't care how hard the marketing people are selling the fact that they are trying to cram even more instructions into the processor at the same time, thereby making the processor draw twice as much power and generate twice the heat for only a small amount of performance gain. Imagine if they were using all these snazzy performance enhancements _and_ the bus width was currently 128 bits.
Imagine that for a minute. The processor would be running at 1GHz, and have a 128 bit bus. So, it would be equivilant to a 4GHz P4. Which we won't see for many years...
Yes, I think that it is nice of them to wring out the last few bits of performance from the x86 architecture, but they should have moved on to wider busses years ago instead of going for ever higher bus speeds.
Probably has something to do with the fact that most desktops run Windows 9x, and Windows 9x only supports 32bit Intel machines. It is a shame that Intel and Windows have conspired together for so long to hold back the performance of the desktop computer market.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think they did it on purpose, they just got trapped in a situation and never really tried to get out, as long as they were making money. And did they both ever make some money.
a) You are forgetting network appliances running Linux.
b) No software is installed on the box. It is all preloaded.
c) Run office java clones off the internet, same for tax and personel finace software. Works great, less filling.
d) A version of AOL will come on the netappliance very soon.
e) Use email to send/recieve files... Too bad that their old software doesn't work, but they can upload all their old files to the internet and autoconvert them to the new formats.
f) You forgot that they can goto the store and buy a scanner that might not work with their hardware, but what if the netappliance manufacturer had a complete line of accessories at a fair price that are guaranteed to work with the netappliance?
Do we really need the next generation of Intel's overpriced processor/heat plate or is this merely an attempt by Intel for Yet Another Incremental Upgrade(YAIU).
Now that I have your attention, and before you call me flaimbait, hear me out.
The only truely revolutionary changes that Intel has ever done is the 386 and the Pentium. Every other design that they did was a simple upgrade to already existing chips.
Call me crazy, but I think that Intel should have released a 64 bit chip about 5 years ago. Now that would have been as revolutionary as going from the 286 to the 386, or from the 486 to the Pentium.
Why didn't they? Because they had already paid a fortune developing the existing technology and they wanted to milk it for another few years. Intel is a big believer in the incremental upgrade. They want users to pay a premium for basically the same chip three or four times while spending the money that should be going to research into the "Intel Inside" marketing campaign.
By this time Intel should have been releasing chips with 128 bit busses. Instead we are stuck with a chip whose basic design hasn't changed in many years. And the 64 bit chip is delayed yet again. Is it really going to be out at the end of next year. Sadly not.
*sighs*
I guess I just don't understand how to make money.
This is nearly the same release as RH 6.2 with the updates added. Why not just call it 6.3? The only thing new is that they released a buggy non standard version of gcc that they labled 2.96 themselves. In the real world, GNU hasn't released a production version of their compiler called 2.96. If they do then this will cause all sorts of weird conflicts.
I think that the only reason that RH7.0 was released is because the marketing department saw that other companies where releasing 7.x versions of their Linux distributions and RedHat didn't want to be left behind in the computer super stores.
I wish that they had waited two more months and released Redhat 7.0 with a more reliable installation program, Linux 2.4 and KDE 2.0. But they will probably have to fix these defects with the release of RedHat 7.1.
The current WebSpec99 numbers for Linux and Tux blows away all other competitors.
Look at: http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/r esu lts/res2000q2/
Show your boss that Linux has twice the performance of Windows.
Tux is a kernel module that integrates the html protocol directly into the kernel. It can serve static as well as dynamic web pages and can be integrated with Apache.
Check it out at: http://www.redhat.com/tux/
I like to think of this as RMS having prepared a garden by hand starting the previous year, preparing the soil, adding compost, protecting it over the winter, turning the soil in the spring, smoothing it out, planting the plants, watering the garden when it was too dry, weeding the garden, putting in the paving stones for people to walk on, and guarding the garden at night from the rabbits and hooligans.
The next summer is when people are awed by the beauty of the garden, when the garden has fully flowered.
True, he did the work in the eighties, but his work didn't flower until the nineties. Most of us never even heard of RMS until we looked at Linux and found all the GNU tools there and wanted to know who to thank.
I agree.
Without the GPL, Linus and Linux wouldn't be where they are today.
Please moderate the above post up.
Many villages in the Middle Ages tried an experiment in which the entire village shared a single large green space between dozens of herds. In the end the experiment failed because a few of the herd owners overgrazed the commons, leaving no food for the rest.
This is also called zero sum gaming in which everyone wins a little if they all play fair, but the first one to cheat will win everything and the rest will lose.
If all universities equally share their computers, then they all win a little. But if my university scrimps on their computer budget then I can save a lot of money, and still get all my computing done using other peoples computers. My university wins a lot.
Also people will be lazy in writing their algorithms because they know that their code will still run, it will just need more processors on more machines to execute.
Eventually it is possible that all universities stop paying for a computer budget, every thinking that they can save money by using other peoples computers, but in the end there is not enough computing power to share.
A more fair system would be similar to how your electric meter works. The university reimburses those other computer systems based on how many cycles of processing are used. This would also tend to force people who want to do this work to use efficient code algorithms thus saving even more money overall.
Was it Heinlein that said There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (TINSTAAFL)?
Why should Universities stop an internet service that has valid uses? After all, there are a lot of people's music available online that isn't under the copyright of a record company. Some people are actually using this new way to distribute music as a new way to distribute music.
King needs to lighten up and realize that people aren't going to pay 3 times to get the same text download in 3 different formats. Just because several different companies have different formats for their text files doesn't mean that we should have to pay multiple times for the same content. This is not the same as buying a book and a cassette, because you should be using a format like sgml that can be transformed into any other text format and then let people download this master format and allow them to translate it into the format of their choice. It's not like you can read more than one format at the same time.
As far as record companies suing their own musicians, it is the musicians own fault for signing an unfair contract. Musicians should form a guild and hire the record companies to produce recordings for them, not the other way around. Until musicians organise, they are going to be pushed around by the record companies.
This violation of ethics is so severe that the man should step down. Judges should never rule in a case that even has the _appearance_ of a conflict of interest.
This goes well beyond appearance.
It doesn't matter how the other judges voted or whether they chose to vote or not. Although, many judges do have a lot of Microsoft stock. All that matters is that _this_ one judge voted in _this_ one case when he shouldn't have and that calls the entire legal system into question.
One of the first things that I learned in a graphics design class in college was that fonts are just little pictures that stand for sounds.
Unless your dumb terminal used sound to tell you the letters on the screen, a la "War Games," then you used a graphical terminal when you used a dumb terminal. The only difference is that the graphics displayed were little pictures that represent sounds.
The capital letter A is an example of this. Draw a bulls head with a large set of horns, now turn your drawing upside down. Looks a little like the letter A, doesn't it? So anytime you see an A on the screen you are looking at the picture of a cow. Each letter can be traced back to similar little pictures over the course of thousands of years.
Even dumb terminals are pretty smart. Dumb terminals need to process their input in order to properly display the characters in the correct positions, and with the proper attributes. Not to mention keep track of where the cursor is on the screen. Each terminal type used different control characters embedded into the text stream in order to accomplish this processing. Anyone who has ever tried to use the wrong terminal type or had their shell set to the wrong terminal size knows how screwed up your terminal could get if you sent the wrong characters.
So, fonts are graphics and dumb terminals are clients that process their input. Things just aren't as clear as those patent people would like us to believe.
Any program that accessed any collection of data and then used the curses library to display to a terminal should meet his needs...
Funny, everytime I see a NASA terminal on the news it looks like they are running X to me. They were looking at pictures of Mars with xv.
Of course, those are the engineers, the office workers are probably still running Windows...