it looks nice and this is what people need to manage large systems
but RMI is in my opinion a bad choice and is the sun cut down corba it would be nice to use corba as the interconnect and it would allow codeing to be done in python/C/C++ for connecting to existing managment apps easly of which there are lots
replication of services and information to allow fail over and increase speed (I do my admin on the UK server the austin branch on the US server and they keep each other info and replicate) AND this means that if one falls over or the link goes down we dont lose the ability to manage systems
this is well addressed in lotus notes add on products
yes they pay a fee to intel you can see it in their books that you recive if you attend an AGM
cross licenceing certain parts they just have to pay a fee others only if intel let them e.g. MMX and the whole national debarcle about chipsets
fun and games
funny thing is old reactors are all around us
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reactors are all around us
they built a reactor here in cambridge (UK) in a squash court
(its covered in concreate now it was an experiment)
there is an old reactor just under the street in Greenwich mark thomas product did a show on it and opened up a art gallery across the road showing what it could do (this was the same guy who got up in a baloon and sailed over the NSA station(you arnt allowed to fly over resticted airspace) muttering about bombs and couter threats and drugs to his mum who asked him if he was on drugs because of the conversation )
but the really funny thing is no one really seemed to care !
yep radtion makes you impotent so think of the nurse next time you go to the hospital for an X ray
(yeah yeah cost but look @ the convenice as well such as haveing one in the office instead of paying for phone lines to connect)
most crpto cards have assureances that they cant be pheaked (they enclose it to some degree in in a faraday cage) but lets face it its lame
the main reason is you have crypto for everything so instead of just a few keys this becomes the workload of the PC now it pays to have speailized hardware just like it pays to have nice graphics
AES is quite intensive and I am waiting for good implementations of this to come out (DES sucks in my eyes)
Serpent is nice as well
hey you are in the US where they dont even do ANY crpto on your phones let alone weak so its a start
phones and PDA's are where most crpto hardware will end up IHO
regards
john jones
yes the instruction set is what they own
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AMD pay intel roylties
you can not reverse engineer a patented system because thats the point of patents open it up make it non secret and allow the people who did the work to get paid for their inventions
the IBM BIOS is differant beacuse they gave out docs and then took them away (they never patended it ) this enabled people to do clean room because IBM took away the docs
ARM provide LOTS of documentation and stangely its COPYRIGHT ARM same as the GDB stubs and emulation in GDB
this means that doing emulation/chips that are compatable with the ARM whithout a licence from them is illegal
any GBA emulator can be sued !
why do this just use the GDB emulation and GPL your program no probs there !
make money from your app then you have to pay ARM !
ok ?
regards
john jones
nitendo use GCC and GDB for dev taget=arm-elf
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ok I got a look @ the early GBA dev kit
you needed @ N64 to output to screen so that was fun (-;
but you basically got the GCC and GDB for ARM
basically it was insight and cygnus aka redhat now had done some of the work for them
but an intresting point is this is NOT LEGAL beacuse ARM has the IP rights and even emulateing it is against the law patents and such protect them IP is how ARM make money
what about GDB it emulates the ARM7 ?
Ah you want to check who wrote and has COPYRIGHT on that little venture basically ARM was nice and donated it and gave an implementation of the their debug as well (I like redboot & GD stubs better tho)
so this will be intresting if ARM cant keep copyright then they will go up in smoke because this is where the majority of revenue comes from
personaly its very much better design wise than reiserfs for mission critical apps and although reiserfs has some nice points it lacks in some areas being a new FS I mean the screw up over NFS servering and such
now XFS has proved its scaleable in real envs e.g. video server tends to have ALOT of data and SGI systems power most cable operators somewhere along the line
redhat should in MHO use XFS in 8.0 with the release of GCC 3.0
I used it but it was a pain that it was not in the kernel so went back to ext2
regards
john jones
p.s. oh please sort out rawIO linus please pretty please sugar on top
it looks to be DirectX because of the curves to me but might be done in OpenGL realistically porting a DirectX game is so much hassle that it wont be done for Linux
and people didnt see this comeing
standard practice make it incompatitable if you dont like your comptition
like the word formats
keeps linux distros playing catchup and not IMPROVEING
but one thing that linux has got is the ability to run on many differant CPU Arch
but they are lagging behind come on linus sort out the patchs I only see mr cox doing this (ARM/S390 merges) please this has got to get better
regards
john jones
hey with the upcaomeing 3.0 release of GCC this becomes important because of ABI changes
or wether it will use DRI or what video card (hope its ATI)
or what file system they use (ext2 prob but hey fsck times arnt great for the user I love XFS)
or how the IEE1394 software works wether I can record with it ?/can I roll my own ?
its all a bit iffy I would recomend GCC 3.0
regards
john jones
p.s. here is part of the GCC 3.0 news (-;
"The release will be made on or before 11:59PM GMT -8 (Pacific Daylight Time) June 15th, 2001 A.D. Because otherwise I will commit suicide at 12:00 AM on June 16th, and you will all feel very, very bad.
"
personally I think what matters is the structure of the test cases and the attitude of the engineers writeing them
write your test cases/tool in python and pull the information from a DB (python can use free ones and oracle/sybase/DB2)
python is nice because it has regexpression built in(nice for compareing text files)
can be compiled to java byte code (run on any java VM)
and is READABLE & CLEAR + STANDARD
its not going to fade away or a company take it in a bizare direction
use the money you spent on other tools to get the customiseation you want in your test env(such as web reporting & emails bugging engineers when they break something) i.e good consultants
take your time and SPEC it right worry about this and the inferstucture not actual tools
this has been done so many time before you should realy do some research first !
personally what has worked best for me has been 2 vid cards one wich is the main display and a old one (1024x768 does not need much) running the projector
then I simply write my presentation in lynx or nowadays openoffice(staroffice) presentor and send it to the X display 1 (the projector) on my machine you can also run moveis this way, any app that can run in X can be sent to display on 1 simple realy we run this method on plasma screens.
not that hard realy oh and projectors suck what would be cool is if you could get a card with digital out(ATI/matrox both do nice cards plus alot of speialized OEM's have linux/BSD support) and a projector with digital in !!! then running hundred feet away would not be a prob oh and get a creative sound card and register it as linux as these have the best sound support I have found
before anyone posts a rant saying they cant get hold of stuff
apples are Power systems and your local electronics shop are able to order them from MOT and IBM (at least they where here in the UK via RS electronics ) and thats with a ATX board
IBM has released some nice docs and BOM's on building the hardware you can find it on the semi page
MOT seem to want to push the Power Arch hard and have seen various roadshows and freebees to entice developers
you can find alot of people useing it e.g. TIVO
and lineo likes it alot
what I would like is for GCC to get sorted because the code output is not as optermised as it could be personaly I just cant wait for GCC 3.0
but IBM keep the powerPC code under bitkeeper wich is a bit (haha) strange at first but works well try it out
ok good points but the stats about day traders is wrong because of how you define day traders
ALOT of people call themselves day traders are people who have a bit of money(some people call this alot of money) and want to invest it they have a stack of saveing and they want to do something with the rest so they kit themselves out with an account on what seems to be an ebay lookalike for shares and start tradeing
old skool traders work for banks they have fund mangers who ask them to get prices on this that and the other
they have research people to produce graphs look up stats they then armed with this trade share hedgeing their bets and takeing risks but they ALWAYS make money
thats why they are employed by the bank
yeah sure sometimes they make losses but that is soaked up by profits (except for Nick who was a silly boy)
the size of the bonus depends on your profits !
these people are makeing you profits from buying good stocks and waiting for the dividends as well selling
oh and please dont play Jim Clark creation of weath by engineers card like its new its been going on since the 1870
please try and have some experance before you tell me "oh just apt/download rpm from here" you have not downloaded them with this version or you would get errors !
oh and linux 2.4.3 has massive probs with FS cruption but hey that dont matter !
XFS i hope will be in the kernel soon
(please linus )
intresting though is SGI released their trusted IRIX stuff and want a trusted linux
hope this does not clash with NSA stuff
(finaly the NSA doing their job of protecting people(US))
but how long are we going to have to wait until I can ditch my solaris boxen and say to the boss yes this is secure and supported AND from a company with nice PR people to keep him happy ?
when you are doing your dev work you dont want a GUI in the way so you have a machine dedicated to the BUILD !
and that is dawin for the apples you just set up you mozilla tools and do your master builds each night !
thank you apple for our new build machine
DP4 was a nightmare to build on because of the differances in the build between it and darwin
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ok well done !!
it looks nice and this is what people need to manage large systems
but RMI is in my opinion a bad choice and is the sun cut down corba it would be nice to use corba as the interconnect and it would allow codeing to be done in python/C/C++ for connecting to existing managment apps easly of which there are lots
replication of services and information to allow fail over and increase speed (I do my admin on the UK server the austin branch on the US server and they keep each other info and replicate) AND this means that if one falls over or the link goes down we dont lose the ability to manage systems
this is well addressed in lotus notes add on products
this kind of rocks so well done to all !!!!!
regards
john jones
yes they pay a fee to intel you can see it in their books that you recive if you attend an AGM
cross licenceing certain parts they just have to pay a fee others only if intel let them e.g. MMX and the whole national debarcle about chipsets
fun and games
reactors are all around us
they built a reactor here in cambridge (UK) in a squash court
(its covered in concreate now it was an experiment)
there is an old reactor just under the street in Greenwich mark thomas product did a show on it and opened up a art gallery across the road showing what it could do (this was the same guy who got up in a baloon and sailed over the NSA station(you arnt allowed to fly over resticted airspace) muttering about bombs and couter threats and drugs to his mum who asked him if he was on drugs because of the conversation )
but the really funny thing is no one really seemed to care !
yep radtion makes you impotent so think of the nurse next time you go to the hospital for an X ray
get over it
regards
john jones
do you remeber the DEC minis ?
why do that when you had a mainframe ?
(yeah yeah cost but look @ the convenice as well such as haveing one in the office instead of paying for phone lines to connect)
most crpto cards have assureances that they cant be pheaked (they enclose it to some degree in in a faraday cage) but lets face it its lame
the main reason is you have crypto for everything so instead of just a few keys this becomes the workload of the PC now it pays to have speailized hardware just like it pays to have nice graphics
AES is quite intensive and I am waiting for good implementations of this to come out (DES sucks in my eyes)
Serpent is nice as well
hey you are in the US where they dont even do ANY crpto on your phones let alone weak so its a start
phones and PDA's are where most crpto hardware will end up IHO
regards
john jones
AMD pay intel roylties
you can not reverse engineer a patented system because thats the point of patents open it up make it non secret and allow the people who did the work to get paid for their inventions
the IBM BIOS is differant beacuse they gave out docs and then took them away (they never patended it ) this enabled people to do clean room because IBM took away the docs
ARM provide LOTS of documentation and stangely its COPYRIGHT ARM same as the GDB stubs and emulation in GDB
this means that doing emulation/chips that are compatable with the ARM whithout a licence from them is illegal
any GBA emulator can be sued !
why do this just use the GDB emulation and GPL your program no probs there !
make money from your app then you have to pay ARM !
ok ?
regards
john jones
ok I got a look @ the early GBA dev kit
you needed @ N64 to output to screen so that was fun (-;
but you basically got the GCC and GDB for ARM
basically it was insight and cygnus aka redhat now had done some of the work for them
but an intresting point is this is NOT LEGAL beacuse ARM has the IP rights and even emulateing it is against the law patents and such protect them IP is how ARM make money
what about GDB it emulates the ARM7 ?
Ah you want to check who wrote and has COPYRIGHT on that little venture basically ARM was nice and donated it and gave an implementation of the their debug as well (I like redboot & GD stubs better tho)
so this will be intresting if ARM cant keep copyright then they will go up in smoke because this is where the majority of revenue comes from
regards
john jones
look people XFS is not going anywhere soon
personaly its very much better design wise than reiserfs for mission critical apps and although reiserfs has some nice points it lacks in some areas being a new FS I mean the screw up over NFS servering and such
now XFS has proved its scaleable in real envs e.g. video server tends to have ALOT of data and SGI systems power most cable operators somewhere along the line
redhat should in MHO use XFS in 8.0 with the release of GCC 3.0
I used it but it was a pain that it was not in the kernel so went back to ext2
regards
john jones
p.s. oh please sort out rawIO linus please pretty please sugar on top
hopes of linux port
it looks to be DirectX because of the curves to me but might be done in OpenGL realistically porting a DirectX game is so much hassle that it wont be done for Linux
regards
john jones
and people didnt see this comeing standard practice make it incompatitable if you dont like your comptition like the word formats keeps linux distros playing catchup and not IMPROVEING but one thing that linux has got is the ability to run on many differant CPU Arch but they are lagging behind come on linus sort out the patchs I only see mr cox doing this (ARM /S390 merges) please this has got to get better
regards
john jones
hey with the upcaomeing 3.0 release of GCC this becomes important because of ABI changes
or wether it will use DRI or what video card (hope its ATI)
or what file system they use (ext2 prob but hey fsck times arnt great for the user I love XFS)
or how the IEE1394 software works wether I can record with it ?/can I roll my own ?
its all a bit iffy I would recomend GCC 3.0
regards
john jones
p.s. here is part of the GCC 3.0 news (-;
"The release will be made on or before 11:59PM GMT -8 (Pacific Daylight Time) June 15th, 2001 A.D. Because otherwise I will commit suicide at 12:00 AM on June 16th, and you will all feel very, very bad.
"
please redhat is built useing the nortel thing and they have mereged with CTP alot of work and its closed buggy and they dont own the core
caldera wrote volution you can run it on your own and it WORKS
http://www.caldera.com/products/volution/
try it out
regards
john jones
personally I think what matters is the structure of the test cases and the attitude of the engineers writeing them
/tool in python and pull the information from a DB (python can use free ones and oracle/sybase/DB2)
write your test cases
python is nice because it has regexpression built in(nice for compareing text files)
can be compiled to java byte code (run on any java VM)
and is READABLE & CLEAR + STANDARD
its not going to fade away or a company take it in a bizare direction
use the money you spent on other tools to get the customiseation you want in your test env(such as web reporting & emails bugging engineers when they break something) i.e good consultants
take your time and SPEC it right worry about this and the inferstucture not actual tools
regards
john jones
Ok
this has been done so many time before you should realy do some research first !
personally what has worked best for me has been 2 vid cards one wich is the main display and a old one (1024x768 does not need much) running the projector
then I simply write my presentation in lynx or nowadays openoffice(staroffice) presentor and send it to the X display 1 (the projector) on my machine you can also run moveis this way, any app that can run in X can be sent to display on 1 simple realy we run this method on plasma screens.
not that hard realy oh and projectors suck what would be cool is if you could get a card with digital out(ATI/matrox both do nice cards plus alot of speialized OEM's have linux/BSD support) and a projector with digital in !!! then running hundred feet away would not be a prob oh and get a creative sound card and register it as linux as these have the best sound support I have found
regards
john jones
before anyone posts a rant saying they cant get hold of stuff
apples are Power systems and your local electronics shop are able to order them from MOT and IBM (at least they where here in the UK via RS electronics ) and thats with a ATX board
IBM has released some nice docs and BOM's on building the hardware you can find it on the semi page
MOT seem to want to push the Power Arch hard and have seen various roadshows and freebees to entice developers
you can find alot of people useing it e.g. TIVO
and lineo likes it alot
what I would like is for GCC to get sorted because the code output is not as optermised as it could be personaly I just cant wait for GCC 3.0
but IBM keep the powerPC code under bitkeeper wich is a bit (haha) strange at first but works well try it out
just a couple of veiws
regards
john jones
ok good points but the stats about day traders is wrong because of how you define day traders
ALOT of people call themselves day traders are people who have a bit of money(some people call this alot of money) and want to invest it they have a stack of saveing and they want to do something with the rest so they kit themselves out with an account on what seems to be an ebay lookalike for shares and start tradeing
old skool traders work for banks they have fund mangers who ask them to get prices on this that and the other
they have research people to produce graphs look up stats they then armed with this trade share hedgeing their bets and takeing risks but they ALWAYS make money
thats why they are employed by the bank
yeah sure sometimes they make losses but that is soaked up by profits (except for Nick who was a silly boy)
the size of the bonus depends on your profits !
these people are makeing you profits from buying good stocks and waiting for the dividends as well selling
oh and please dont play Jim Clark creation of weath by engineers card like its new its been going on since the 1870
regards
john jones
where did the fund come from and who where the fund managers ?
was this a fund that people bought into or a VC setup ?
good companys are listed but GNU cash has a FO ?
I dont think so they are all FO's (-;
geed like the Bonds Brokers in the 80's
but this time we cant blame the fed its ALL the VC's fault and the so called analysts on bloomberg
regards
john jones
markets may go up as well as down
SUN like things to be in java because its their tech
Java is surposed distributed processing easyer
but I have done some Corba 3 and RMI and it does not seem any easyer than tradional c and RPC
BUT is JAXTA serializeable ?
if this is the case then maybe it has a future
just museing
regards
john jones
I thought that DVD's needed UDF suport ?
so thats complete in linux and IBM done all the debugging ?
strange I thought that this was sort of shaky in linux with SUSE doing most of the work
regards
john jones
like I said they ship 4.0.2 and redhat ship 4.0.3
so which has the more up to date ?
work it out this was said in my first post
regards
john jones
erm I know you dont provide them
/usr/bin/cut not found
/download rpm from here" you have not downloaded them with this version or you would get errors !
theyll work without a problem NOPE
error
please try and have some experance before you tell me "oh just apt
oh and linux 2.4.3 has massive probs with FS cruption but hey that dont matter !
regards
john jones
java also seems not to install !
I had problems with the redhat betas and this mandrake boxen is really takeing the p^&*
IBM will sort it out though dont trust Sun is what I have learnt in doing java on linux
(havent tryed the 1.3.1 tho will have a look soon)
why has mandrake fallen behind
did they bais what they did not what redhat was doing in the betas ?
redhat seem to have newer versions of things like XFree86 and the only thing that makes mandrake good id the KDE support
also the download cypto option has gone that was in 7
so what gives ?
regards
john jones
one of the SAMBA team lives @ SGI
XFS i hope will be in the kernel soon
(please linus )
intresting though is SGI released their trusted IRIX stuff and want a trusted linux
hope this does not clash with NSA stuff
(finaly the NSA doing their job of protecting people(US))
but how long are we going to have to wait until I can ditch my solaris boxen and say to the boss yes this is secure and supported AND from a company with nice PR people to keep him happy ?
regards
john jones
hey do you get the munchies in the US ?
not such a daft question there is a sweet called the munchies here in the UK, is that what the BBC is talking about ?
(-;
hey this is good
when you are doing your dev work you dont want a GUI in the way so you have a machine dedicated to the BUILD !
and that is dawin for the apples you just set up you mozilla tools and do your master builds each night !
thank you apple for our new build machine
DP4 was a nightmare to build on because of the differances in the build between it and darwin
$makeworld -sunsparc -linuxi386 -darwinppc
(-;
regards
john jones