Apple doesn't care what kind of machine you run Darwin on... and if you can make a machine that runs Darwin and doesn't require licensing anything from Apple, then you are home free, no?
No, because no one wants to run Darwin. People want machines with OS X preinstalled, and Apple controls that.
If they stuck with standards like ISMA MPEG-4 instead of hacks like DivX, devices wouldn't become obsolete as quickly.
(Before someone whines, DivX is not standard MPEG-4. The standard specifies MPEG-4 video and AAC audio in a.mp4 container, while DivX is MPEG-4 video and MP3 audio in an AVI container.)
AFAIK BladeCenter is not based on AdvancedTCA, so I assume the original poster must have meant some other new Intel server blade standard. (I already have the AdvancedTCA spec.)
The next gen of blade servers will have at least 3X the current density of cpus (1K cpus per 42U rack) while still using Xeon and other x86 processors that produce over 60W of heat each.
And how do you propose to get the heat out? Water cooling? People moved away from water cooling for a reason.
Well, I'm not the only one that calls it 1.5 Gb/s. The serial ATA website [serialata.org] often refers to it as 1.5 Gb/s.
That's what you get when you don't keep a tight leash on the marketing folks. InfiniBand is guilty of the same thing.
Also, signalling bits that are thrown away are often counted. Otherwise we would have 98 Mb/s ethernet instead of 100:)
No, you've got it backwards. Fast Ethernet runs at 125MHz, so it would be 125Mbps if you count overhead and 100Mbps if you don't count the overhead. Guess which number people use.
A virus/trojan that trades stock thereby disrupting the market A trojan that activates and places an order on Amazon.com A virus that publishes sensitive information such as private tax records
All of these problems can be better solved using a secure OS that implements confinement, such as EROS. Confinement, secure boot, and attestation are orthogonal features, but MS is presenting an all-or-nothing choice in Palladium. Any system that truly has users' best interests in mind will offer only features that benefit users (confinement, maybe smart cards) and not features that are primarily useful for oppressing users (attestation).
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Apple doesn't care what kind of machine you run Darwin on... and if you can make a machine that runs Darwin and doesn't require licensing anything from Apple, then you are home free, no?
No, because no one wants to run Darwin. People want machines with OS X preinstalled, and Apple controls that.
No, address lines are not just address lines. Things worked that way in the early 80s, but these days CPUs use complex, custom bus protocols.
No, becuse Quartz, Carbon, and Cocoa are shipped as PowerPC binaries.
If they stuck with standards like ISMA MPEG-4 instead of hacks like DivX, devices wouldn't become obsolete as quickly.
.mp4 container, while DivX is MPEG-4 video and MP3 audio in an AVI container.)
(Before someone whines, DivX is not standard MPEG-4. The standard specifies MPEG-4 video and AAC audio in a
AFAIK BladeCenter is not based on AdvancedTCA, so I assume the original poster must have meant some other new Intel server blade standard. (I already have the AdvancedTCA spec.)
The next gen of blade servers will have at least 3X the current density of cpus (1K cpus per 42U rack) while still using Xeon and other x86 processors that produce over 60W of heat each.
And how do you propose to get the heat out? Water cooling? People moved away from water cooling for a reason.
So where do I download the spec for this "new Intel server blade standard"?
No, because honestly the question didn't make any sense.
Usually the shared components are redundant. So instead of 20 power supplies for 10 machines, you have 2.
No, Apple's VM is a port of Sun's HotSpot.
TiBook battery life?
Ah, give me Pismo battery life.
TiBook operating temperature?
I hope not; my TiBook almost burned me the other day!
A paper from the upcoming SC2002 conference has even more details.
Well, I'm not the only one that calls it 1.5 Gb/s. The serial ATA website [serialata.org] often refers to it as 1.5 Gb/s.
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That's what you get when you don't keep a tight leash on the marketing folks. InfiniBand is guilty of the same thing.
Also, signalling bits that are thrown away are often counted. Otherwise we would have 98 Mb/s ethernet instead of 100
No, you've got it backwards. Fast Ethernet runs at 125MHz, so it would be 125Mbps if you count overhead and 100Mbps if you don't count the overhead. Guess which number people use.
We have a winner. Macs use USB for keyboards and mice.
Serial ATA connectors are keyed and designed for hot-swap.
I don't have any of those ports on my computer; it's got USB and DVI instead.
A virus/trojan that trades stock thereby disrupting the market
A trojan that activates and places an order on Amazon.com
A virus that publishes sensitive information such as private tax records
All of these problems can be better solved using a secure OS that implements confinement, such as EROS. Confinement, secure boot, and attestation are orthogonal features, but MS is presenting an all-or-nothing choice in Palladium. Any system that truly has users' best interests in mind will offer only features that benefit users (confinement, maybe smart cards) and not features that are primarily useful for oppressing users (attestation).
Putting public domain words into a new format does not suddenly make them copyrightable, nor mean that you own the copyright to it.
IANAL, but WestLaw does exactly that, and there have been court cases supporting them.
A lot of people are confusing issue width with pipeline depth. It's 8-issue superscalar and most likely a 14-stage pipeline.
For security, you need to have a root "key" that decrypts all others. However, this key has to go over an unsecure bus (typically LPC bus).
Nope; the key will never leave the Fritz chip, which will eventually be integrated with the CPU.
Sure, I've read the articles too. The bottom line is that in reality UFS does not work with all apps.
If I can't run unsigned apps, how will I run my own code?
If you can't run unsigned apps it must be your own fault, because that's not the default in Palladium (so far).
How can user written software run on a 'trusted' system?
This has already been answered in the various online articles about Palladium.
RAID provides a lot more benefit than journaling.
UFS is not really usable under OS X since it doesn't support Mac metadata.