I think you mean unless they get hacked again, and their private key leaks...
But there's a much easier way. Just edit your copy of Windows and replace MS's public key with yours, so your copy of Windows will now only run code signed by you.
The Pentium 4 doesn't even support SMP, and considering how expensive it is, a dual-PIII system with ServerWorks chipset would probably be cheaper and faster.
Maybe they do a reverse DNS of several of the hops near you to get better information. For example, if you did a reverse DNS lookup on my IP address you'd just know what city I live in. If you did a reverse DNS lookup on the next hop, you'd find out what street I live on.
A lot of comments are saying "who needs xanim?", but right now it looks like the only player that supports RTSP+RTP+H.263, the only documented and standardized way to do streaming video.
I think SawMill (no, not the window manager) is more interesting than the Hurd. It seems more developed (since it borrows lots of code from Linux) and runs on a faster kernel (L4).
The only way to make the thing really secure is to have the BIOS do the certification check and refuse to boot from uncertified DVDs. Of course, when you do that, you make it impossible to install another OS on the box without Indrema's consent.
Maybe the IES doesn't boot from DVD. Maybe it boots from the internal HD (with the BIOS checking a signature on the kernel) and just runs games off the DVD under restricted permissions so they can't modify anything on the HD. This would pretty much eliminate any software "chipping".
There are still some benefits from open source; the Indrema libraries will probably get integrated in desktop Linux distributions so that IES games can be easily ported to desktop Linux.
The IES won't run anything that isn't certified by Indrema, and they'll use that to get a royalty on every game. (Unless your game is gratis, because a fraction of nothing is still nothing.)
I agree completely. I'd also like to see the JCK available to anyone and the Java Compatible(TM) certification opened up to VMs that don't contain any Sun code.
Java VMs are becoming a vital piece of computing infrastructure (for many organizations at least), so I think the industry would benefit from having multiple, independent, compatible implementations.
I don't know enough about Groove to know if it would be helpful for MMORPGs or not. But some of the protocol auto-negotiation stuff that sneaks through NATs and firewalls might be helpful.
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There are some people working on this:
http://www.erights.org/
http://www.eros-os.org/
It's pretty far from something you could run on your desktop, though.
I think you mean unless they get hacked again, and their private key leaks...
But there's a much easier way. Just edit your copy of Windows and replace MS's public key with yours, so your copy of Windows will now only run code signed by you.
grrr, accidentally mismoderated a post, so I'm posting to undo it.
SGI/Crays, Starfires, RS/6000s, etc. are SIMD? Under what definition?
The Pentium 4 doesn't support SMP; you'll have to wait for the Pentium 4 Xeon (Foster) for that.
Yep, it looks like Intel is screwed on the chipset issue. Maybe they will give the necessary licenses to VIA who can get a DDR chipset out sooner.
The Pentium 4 doesn't even support SMP, and considering how expensive it is, a dual-PIII system with ServerWorks chipset would probably be cheaper and faster.
What protocol does the online storage service use? Is it WebDAV or something else? How secure is it?
I also notice that Arlo doesn't use Linux; I'm surprised to see a vanilla Platinum screen shot on those pages...
They will probably require games to be cryptographically signed to run, so if you put in a non-certified game it will just spit it out.
Shared libraries aren't just shared on disk, they're shared in memory. Or at least they used to be until MS decided to "fix" things in Whistler.
Maybe they do a reverse DNS of several of the hops near you to get better information. For example, if you did a reverse DNS lookup on my IP address you'd just know what city I live in. If you did a reverse DNS lookup on the next hop, you'd find out what street I live on.
It really is that bad, but it's optional. IIRC you can use 64 random bits instead of your MAC address if you want.
Hmmm, are you a clueless AC or intentionally trolling?
Anyway, OpenType (a font format) is orthogonal to ClearType (a font rendering algorithm tweak), so one can't be better than the other.
Mac OS X has no network servers enabled by default. (Although it still includes things like telnetd and ftpd, which is a bit disappointing.)
I checked out XMPS, but it didn't have RTSP, RTP, or H.263, so I don't get the point behind your post.
Some more good rants on this topic:
Ellen Ullman in Salon - The Dumbing Down of Programming
Peter Merholz in Stating the Obvious - Whose "My" Is It Anyway?
If anybody wants to check out (or make fun of) the new "flat" theme in Whistler, head over to Paul Thurrott's Windows SuperSite. He also has pictures of an older build.
A lot of comments are saying "who needs xanim?", but right now it looks like the only player that supports RTSP+RTP+H.263, the only documented and standardized way to do streaming video.
But it's too bad it won't be Open Source.
Did he mean X as in the windowing system, or X as in a free variable?
I think SawMill (no, not the window manager) is more interesting than the Hurd. It seems more developed (since it borrows lots of code from Linux) and runs on a faster kernel (L4).
The Darwin kernel is monolithic, so that 5% slowdown must be coming from somewhere else.
Since Linux was written by obsessive cycle-counting hackers instead of grad students, it seems fairer to compare it to L4 or EROS than Mach.
The only way to make the thing really secure is to have the BIOS do the certification check and refuse to boot from uncertified DVDs. Of course, when you do that, you make it impossible to install another OS on the box without Indrema's consent.
Maybe the IES doesn't boot from DVD. Maybe it boots from the internal HD (with the BIOS checking a signature on the kernel) and just runs games off the DVD under restricted permissions so they can't modify anything on the HD. This would pretty much eliminate any software "chipping".
There are still some benefits from open source; the Indrema libraries will probably get integrated in desktop Linux distributions so that IES games can be easily ported to desktop Linux.
The IES won't run anything that isn't certified by Indrema, and they'll use that to get a royalty on every game. (Unless your game is gratis, because a fraction of nothing is still nothing.)
I agree completely. I'd also like to see the JCK available to anyone and the Java Compatible(TM) certification opened up to VMs that don't contain any Sun code.
Java VMs are becoming a vital piece of computing infrastructure (for many organizations at least), so I think the industry would benefit from having multiple, independent, compatible implementations.
The Groove Transceiver is not Open Source.
I don't know enough about Groove to know if it would be helpful for MMORPGs or not. But some of the protocol auto-negotiation stuff that sneaks through NATs and firewalls might be helpful.