In a palladium pc, the bios serves as part of the Core Trusted Root for Measurement...
This is true for TCPA, but I don't think it's true for Palladium. So you ought to be able to use Palladium on LinuxBIOS machines. (I can't imagine who'd want to, though.)
TCPA requires BIOS support, but I don't think Palladium does. One of the touted benefits of Palladium is that you can boot in normal mode and load the nub later.
In presentations, Brewster says his policy is to take out the complainers. So if you think having your site in the Wayback Machine is a copyright infringement, he'll just take it out. Meanwhile he's taking the Napster approach: assume what you're doing is legal until someone tells you to stop. Hopefully that day won't arrive.
It's pretty simple. HBO doesn't want digital outputs on cable boxes, so they make this clear to the cable companies, who make this clear to Moxi, and you don't get VGA.
Both Ethernet and Quadrics attach to the PCI bus, so the article is a bit misleading. The reduction in latency is just because Quadrics has lower latency than Ethernet; it has nothing to do with PCI.
But if that software uses Linux-only APIs, it won't compile on Solaris. If Solaris adopts LSB, most Linux apps will compile without needing to be ported.
IIRC the partition size limit is due to the fact that the filesystem server mmaps the partition; on 32-bit systems there isn't enough address space for large partitions.
As for benchmarks, I think the answer is "don't ask".
RTOSes are slow, because they trade off speed for determinism. Also, most RTOSes are optimized for resource-starved embedded systems, so they can't fit or just don't care about many features that benefit desktops and servers. For example, QNX tends to have poor I/O performance because it only supports primitive filesystems and it lacks a unified page cache.
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Because it's Not Invented Here (where "here" = Intel). Intel's ripoff of OF which is used for IA-64 is called EFI.
In a palladium pc, the bios serves as part of the Core Trusted Root for Measurement...
This is true for TCPA, but I don't think it's true for Palladium. So you ought to be able to use Palladium on LinuxBIOS machines. (I can't imagine who'd want to, though.)
Will Microsoft, in its zeal to maintain some semblance of control, seek to disable Windows from using motherboards with this bios?
Why would they? How does LinuxBIOS hurt MS? (Keep in mind that MS doesn't make BIOSes.)
Since this appears to be a government-funded project, will Microsoft scream that this is unfair?
Why would they?
TCPA requires BIOS support, but I don't think Palladium does. One of the touted benefits of Palladium is that you can boot in normal mode and load the nub later.
I meant that he takes the data out, but I got a good laugh out of the alternative.
"Brewster says you want out. He also says nobody goes against the archive..."
The Wayback Machine uses IDE. Even in quantity, SCSI drives aren't as cheap as IDE drives in the same quantity.
In presentations, Brewster says his policy is to take out the complainers. So if you think having your site in the Wayback Machine is a copyright infringement, he'll just take it out. Meanwhile he's taking the Napster approach: assume what you're doing is legal until someone tells you to stop. Hopefully that day won't arrive.
Reality check: you can't legislate technology into existence.
No problem; 802.11 and 802.16 are already here. All they need is more bandwidth.
Convincing ISPs to offer last-mile wireless access will be a bit tougher, though.
Good point. It's probably high-resolution enough that the paranoid entertainment cabal still won't allow it.
It's pretty simple. HBO doesn't want digital outputs on cable boxes, so they make this clear to the cable companies, who make this clear to Moxi, and you don't get VGA.
Of course it's not open source. Legal DVD players cannot be open source, period.
Moxi probably wrote their own legal DVD player app.
HyperThreading reduces my kernel compile time from about 1:10 to about 1:00; it's not a big deal, but it's free so I'll take it.
Both Ethernet and Quadrics attach to the PCI bus, so the article is a bit misleading. The reduction in latency is just because Quadrics has lower latency than Ethernet; it has nothing to do with PCI.
Based on the link provided in another post, it looks like Quadrics.
It looks like the 3900 is just a repackaging of the 3800, so the benchmarks should be the same.
I was able to get a GPRS connection through my P280 to my Mac over IR, so it's not Windows-only. Finding the right modem script is impossible, though.
But if that software uses Linux-only APIs, it won't compile on Solaris. If Solaris adopts LSB, most Linux apps will compile without needing to be ported.
Absolutely. Now that Linux is taking over the Unix market, nobody cares about Posix compatibility any more; LSB is the new de facto Unix API standard.
If you were that rich you could just buy a motherboard that has 8 DIMM slots.
All these comments and I haven't seen a single cold war joke.
IIRC the partition size limit is due to the fact that the filesystem server mmaps the partition; on 32-bit systems there isn't enough address space for large partitions.
As for benchmarks, I think the answer is "don't ask".
The smaller form factors are PCMCIA and CompactFlash. Toshiba makes a laptop with a 20GB PCMCIA drive (the same one that's in the iPod).
RTOSes are slow, because they trade off speed for determinism. Also, most RTOSes are optimized for resource-starved embedded systems, so they can't fit or just don't care about many features that benefit desktops and servers. For example, QNX tends to have poor I/O performance because it only supports primitive filesystems and it lacks a unified page cache.
Aqua is the OS X windowing system.
Quartz is the OS X windowing system.