...I have noticed no difference in using Yenc over traditional binary encoding.
Did you read the article? One of its major points was that traditional binary encoding sucks, and instead of yEnc, people should come up with something better.
The marketplace can and will arrive at a solution by itself.
Like the solution Intel and AOL Time Warner are working on? Notice how they keep saying things like "some narrowly focused government regulation will be necessary". Even an opponent of the SSSCA is still in favor of legislation, because they realize that the free market does not want and will not provide a good enough solution.
Optimizing software for slower machines has a cost. Just like many other aspects of open source (documentation comes to mind), if there's no incentive for the hackers to do it, it's just not going to get done. My reccomendation for people with old hardware is to run correspondingly old software; usually it's almost as good as the newest version.
IIRC this was covered on/. already, but I'll give you a recap. The manufacturer of these machines buys a regular Power Mac, takes out the motherboard, and puts it in a rackmount case. So it's a real Mac, not a clone.
NXHosting worked on an app/window level, while Remote Desktop works on the whole screen. Also, Remote Desktop has a bunch of management features that aren't mentioned in this thread.
This howto is all about using OS X with LDAP servers. Since eDirectory is an LDAP server, it shouldn't bee too hard to modify the instructions to work with it.
"Be will continue to exist for three years after the dissolution becomes effective... solely for the purposes of prosecuting and defending lawsuits (including but not limited to pursuing its antitrust case against Microsoft)..."
"Given the strong representation of consumer electronics companies on the steering committee roster, the door is likely closed to proprietary schemes like Microsoft's Windows Media codec, code-named Corona."
Sure MPEG-4 decoding requires more transistors than MPEG-2, but Moore's law will take care of that. The money saved by having only one (cheap) red laser instead of a red laser and an expensive blue laser makes up for more money spent on the decoder chip.
Why do you assume that ClawHammer will cost more than Athlon? The roadmaps I've seen show that Athlon will be discontinued soon after ClawHammer is released.
Also, Hammer is supposed to give the same performance in 32-bit mode as in 64-bit mode.
Of course the new AMD chip ClawHammer, will be able to support current x86 instructions, but it won't really help you much to run it that way.
Sure it will. When the fastest Pentium 4 is 3GHz, the fastest Athlon is "2600+", and the fastest ClawHammer is "3400+", people will happily buy the ClawHammer and run Windows XP in 32-bit mode.
(Those numbers are made up; I'm too lazy to check the latest leaked roadmaps.)
A wireless mouse is a good example. Sure it could encrypt its communication with my computer, but how are the keys exchanged? How do I know that my mouse is only talking to my computer? Will this problem be multiplied by 100 when every device has some kind of radio in it?
The higher the radio density, the lower the power (and thus range) you need. For example, Bluetooth has very short range (30 feet), so a large number of Bluetooth devices can operate in a certain area. We can imagine these future devices might use adaptive transmit power to lower their range to the absolute minimum (e.g. those Bluetooth headsets for cell phones could probably work just fine with a range of 4 feet).
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Why use Usenet for binaries at all? Why not some kind of more efficient P2P system?
...I have noticed no difference in using Yenc over traditional binary encoding.
Did you read the article? One of its major points was that traditional binary encoding sucks, and instead of yEnc, people should come up with something better.
OK, so J2EE 1.5 will fall under the new rules; when will that be? One year from now?
Intel opposes the SSSCA, but they are still in favor of DRM and legislation mandating DRM. I don't know about you, but the enemy of my enemy is not my friend.
The marketplace can and will arrive at a solution by itself.
Like the solution Intel and AOL Time Warner are working on? Notice how they keep saying things like "some narrowly focused government regulation will be necessary". Even an opponent of the SSSCA is still in favor of legislation, because they realize that the free market does not want and will not provide a good enough solution.
Optimizing software for slower machines has a cost. Just like many other aspects of open source (documentation comes to mind), if there's no incentive for the hackers to do it, it's just not going to get done. My reccomendation for people with old hardware is to run correspondingly old software; usually it's almost as good as the newest version.
Too bad the SyncMaster 240T doesn't support 1920x1200 in DVI mode.
The front-side bus is 133MHz, so faster RAM won't help.
IIRC this was covered on /. already, but I'll give you a recap. The manufacturer of these machines buys a regular Power Mac, takes out the motherboard, and puts it in a rackmount case. So it's a real Mac, not a clone.
I believe that they should let you flash the board's rom with a Mac ROM.
That won't work, because the Eyetech board has a different northbridge than Macs, so Apple's ROM wouldn't know how to initialize it.
The PowerPC 750's front-side bus is only ~1GB/s; using faster DDR memory wouldn't help because the FSB is the bottleneck.
NXHosting worked on an app/window level, while Remote Desktop works on the whole screen. Also, Remote Desktop has a bunch of management features that aren't mentioned in this thread.
What is the model number of a G4 without AltiVec?
GCJ generates native code; Jikes doesn't.
What if all the passwords go over SSL?
Some apps can't take advantage of 2 CPUs.
This howto is all about using OS X with LDAP servers. Since eDirectory is an LDAP server, it shouldn't bee too hard to modify the instructions to work with it.
From the latest press release:
... solely for the purposes of prosecuting and defending lawsuits (including but not limited to pursuing its antitrust case against Microsoft)..."
"Be will continue to exist for three years after the dissolution becomes effective
"Given the strong representation of consumer electronics companies on the steering committee roster, the door is likely closed to proprietary schemes like Microsoft's Windows Media codec, code-named Corona."
Sure MPEG-4 decoding requires more transistors than MPEG-2, but Moore's law will take care of that. The money saved by having only one (cheap) red laser instead of a red laser and an expensive blue laser makes up for more money spent on the decoder chip.
Why do you assume that ClawHammer will cost more than Athlon? The roadmaps I've seen show that Athlon will be discontinued soon after ClawHammer is released.
Also, Hammer is supposed to give the same performance in 32-bit mode as in 64-bit mode.
Of course the new AMD chip ClawHammer, will be able to support current x86 instructions, but it won't really help you much to run it that way.
Sure it will. When the fastest Pentium 4 is 3GHz, the fastest Athlon is "2600+", and the fastest ClawHammer is "3400+", people will happily buy the ClawHammer and run Windows XP in 32-bit mode.
(Those numbers are made up; I'm too lazy to check the latest leaked roadmaps.)
So far only server/workstation chipsets support dual DDR channels, but VIA has plans to push this down to the desktop.
A wireless mouse is a good example. Sure it could encrypt its communication with my computer, but how are the keys exchanged? How do I know that my mouse is only talking to my computer? Will this problem be multiplied by 100 when every device has some kind of radio in it?
The higher the radio density, the lower the power (and thus range) you need. For example, Bluetooth has very short range (30 feet), so a large number of Bluetooth devices can operate in a certain area. We can imagine these future devices might use adaptive transmit power to lower their range to the absolute minimum (e.g. those Bluetooth headsets for cell phones could probably work just fine with a range of 4 feet).