Is that just to keep people from applying for their own "personal"/32 address space?
I think you got it right there. The policy for IPv6 is that huge ISPs get space from the RIRs and sublet it to their customers. For a huge ISP, $2500/year is not a big deal. If the address blocks were free they'd have to wade through zillions of invalid requests from mom-and-pop ISPs.
But there's something a bit more fundamental that I want people to be aware of. In the past we would never have tackled something as massive and invasive as a new threads implementation just after a ".0" release (in this case, 8.0). We were able to do this, and bring this great new technology to a mass audience, because we've changed the way we consider technology to incorporate in Red Hat Linux. In the past we would have felt it necessary to wait a while for a ".0" release because we had to support a series of releases for years.
With the introduction of the full family of Red Hat Enterprise Linux product we now have the flexibility to incorporate the best technology that both the Open Source communities and Red Hat have to offer when they're ready, instead of having to hold back.
You're right; Sun can't compete with cheap PC hardware. That's why Mad Hatter will be built on cheap PC hardware. The only thing "Sun" about it will be the purple case and the software.
One chipset != one chip. The article is a little poorly written since it starts off talking about TI's single-chip cell phone announcement which is unrelated to WANDA but that's still no excuse.
AMD has only developed a single CPU, and it will only manufacture a single CPU. It will market this as the most expensive Opteron. All the other versions are simply failed versions of this, with the broken parts disabled.
I don't think this is true. I guess in September we can pop off the heat spreaders and compare die sizes.
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Being unable to even record your own media on these formats, will scare people away from accepting it.
.wmv file on a DVD. So download Windows Media Encoder, encode your content, and burn it to a DVD.
This new format is basically a
It's possible. People in the "open spectrum" movement have proposed similar ideas.
How are they going to build 106 cpu boxes with opterons?
They're not. Sun will probably use Opterons in their x86 servers, but there's no way they'll drop SPARC.
Hotspots are a red herring; the article only mentions them because that's the latest hype wave.
802.16 is a wireless competitor to DSL and cable modems.
Of course, most deployments will use much smaller (1-5 mile radius) cells. Also keep in mind that the cells are sectored.
802.16 can run in pretty much any band. Some ISPs will use licensed (e.g. 3GHz) spectrum; some will use the unlicensed 5GHz band.
I don't think range is as bad in the 5GHz unlicensed band as people say; there's already equipment out there that gets multi-mile range.
802.16 has good security. IIRC all endpoints are authenticated and all traffic is (correctly) encrypted.
No license is required to play DVDs on a linux computer.
MPEG-2 is patented. If they don't support MP3 because of patents, then they shouldn't support MPEG-2 either.
JPEG 2000 is patented out the wazoo, but you can get a free license to the patents if you implement the spec correctly.
Danny Hillis designed the Clock of the Long Now to keep time accurate to the second for 10,000 years, and it's completely mechanical.
Theater resolution is 1280x1024, although it will catch up to HDTV soon enough.
The article isn't completely clear, but it looks like RIAA is suing the students, not the universities.
If you want a single NIC to appear on multiple VLANs, then you need VLAN support.
Is that just to keep people from applying for their own "personal" /32 address space?
I think you got it right there. The policy for IPv6 is that huge ISPs get space from the RIRs and sublet it to their customers. For a huge ISP, $2500/year is not a big deal. If the address blocks were free they'd have to wade through zillions of invalid requests from mom-and-pop ISPs.
Don't hold your breath for everybody to implement IPv6, IETF is already planning the next generation of IP without (hopefully) all the problems.
What's the working group called?
You can get free IPv6 subnets using the much more efficient 6to4. 6bone isn't needed any more; that's why it's being phased out.
The ZapStation is probably a bit more than you need, but I find it works pretty well.
OTOH, there are plenty of Red Hat mirrors out there, and I haven't seen Red Hat try to shut them down.
You're right; Sun can't compete with cheap PC hardware. That's why Mad Hatter will be built on cheap PC hardware. The only thing "Sun" about it will be the purple case and the software.
One chipset != one chip. The article is a little poorly written since it starts off talking about TI's single-chip cell phone announcement which is unrelated to WANDA but that's still no excuse.
WANDA has GPRS.
802.11/Bluetooth interference is a problem for some wireless chips and not a problem for others; it's not clear why.
The submitter didn't even RTFA. WANDA (there's the link that the submitter was too lazy to give you) is at least 7 chips.
Is there an equivalent of Wine for running Mac OS X applications on Linux/PowerPC?
No, although Mac-on-Linux is similar to VMware: it allows you to run Mac OS itself on Linux.
How many of the libraries in Mac OS X have equivalents in Linux (how close is GNUstep to Apple's stuff, etc)?
Not very many.
At the minimum, is it possible to run Darwin/PowerPC binaries on Linux/PowerPC?
Not that I've heard, and it's hard to imagine why you'd want to. Why not just recompile?
AMD has only developed a single CPU, and it will only manufacture a single CPU. It will market this as the most expensive Opteron. All the other versions are simply failed versions of this, with the broken parts disabled.
I don't think this is true. I guess in September we can pop off the heat spreaders and compare die sizes.