Who the HECK puts cpus in a toaster?!? I've heard of toasters every time 'embedded' is mentioned, but it defies logic. My toaster just mechanically pops toast after it has been toasted. Hardly a reason to use up a 32-bit chip running on 40,000 transistors and a quartz crystal.
x86 assembly is more useful than most other assembly. Once you learn it you can further learn x64, MMX etc and make fast drivers and codecs that you can (1) sell (2) get a job through.
I learned x86 asm around 1994 mainly because there was nothing else for a 15 yr old with a PC, and because x86 even back then was pervasive enough.
I was trying to build a boot code virus using instructions and code taken from a BBS server.
MIPS was great and still has life left in it. However ARM has been bulldozing its way through recently in the higher embedded markets where MIPS was strong. Even AMD sold Alchemy eventually.
The embedded market was getting crowded, which is a good thing. The survival of the fittest gave us ARM instead of us being stuck with assembly codes like the PIC and x86.
Alpha was a lost cause, but much of Tru64 was incorporated into HPUX.
Some good stuff from IRIX like XFS and OpenGL was shared, but IRIX may never be shared. As much as I want it to be opensourced, I dont think I'll spend more than a day on it. I'm still waiting for opensolaris' complete sources to go through, and solaris is far more usable, in our company at home and elsewhere than IRIX.
Makes me wonder. Is there a group of people from the OSS community, possibly funded by IBM or whoever, to help with the legal stuff when companies want to opensource their assets but cant pay for it?
It sounds like a good idea initially, have the best beef and chicken, and the best-of-breed pets in the house. But they would all be equally vulnerable to an outbreak of a disease. Imagine if the entire bovine population of a country is wiped out.
Thats less scary than the entire crops of several countries wiped out, but either would trigger some starvation. Not only that, the genetic variation would irretrievably be lost (unless someone starts cataloging samples now) and after a major outbreak we might never have beef again!
Lets just take urban locations then, you know, places with lots of apartment blocks. Places where the population density is similar to the more dense parts of Scandinavia. Think of NYC New Jersey and LA. The lines already exist, and American telecom companies are already producing all the hardware (routers/switches) required.
I remember when Sun's grid was out. I tried for days to get pricing, and eventually I was quoted something like $1000 per hour, except I couldnt get one hour.
I was trying out different parameter combinations in the uCLinux kernel to check compile sizes and functionality, and wanted horsepower to compile every iteration of the kernel. But The Sun deal was a joke, I could build a few Athlon beige boxes and do it cheaper.
This deal sounds good enough for me to take it out on a spin of a day or two, but I really need to check the bandwidth (both the speed and allowance). Despite this, for bigger tasks, I think its still more feasible to just build beige machines using Core Duo CPUs, some ram and disk and just use those.
When I was at college, I had an idea of putting up a bootp server in the library, getting all the machines to boot the linux image at night, and just using those machines for fun. All 100+ of them. I just didnt have the need for so much horsepower.
I've seen many bad cases which bend when pressed on one side and which dont let PCI cards and their brackets align properly. When you screw them in the top of the bracket is either higher pulling the card out a little, or to one side. I just have that paranoia where I have to press the PCI card in and jiggle it to make sure the connector pins in the slot arent bent and touch the right pads.
I also tend to blow on the data surface of CDs, even really clean ones. Especially when I pull them out of paper envelopes, I suspect particles on that surface and tend to just blow on in before using the CD. I know the fast spin cleans it but.... I just have to.
But I never smack the monitor. What good will that do?
You can have remote profiles, and even link the desktop, my documents etc to remote folders. Why go through the overhead of a VM? Citrix is one idea, but the most efficient thing is to just make their profiles remote.
I was looking for a USB cam that would do 640x480 at 30fps at least. I was trying to put it on an RC airplane with a PC104 computer, drive and battery. Never did find a camera that did this native res at this speed. But I didnt look hard enough either.
Maybe the other poster meant the Power3 or Power4 CPUs in RS6000 machines. They have the same hypervisor technology and run multiple LPARs on the same CPU, have been doing it for a while. This alone should take it away from vmware.
I just wondered where is Java coming from in there. And why not C/C++?
In fact the God's programming language is second only to Unix.
Also in place of MacOS, I'd really choose BeOS. Bummer most people havent even TRIED BeOS. It gave me the same feeling I got the first time I tried Linux.
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Who the HECK puts cpus in a toaster?!?
I've heard of toasters every time 'embedded' is mentioned, but it defies logic. My toaster just mechanically pops toast after it has been toasted. Hardly a reason to use up a 32-bit chip running on 40,000 transistors and a quartz crystal.
x86 assembly is more useful than most other assembly. Once you learn it you can further learn x64, MMX etc and make fast drivers and codecs that you can (1) sell (2) get a job through.
I learned x86 asm around 1994 mainly because there was nothing else for a 15 yr old with a PC, and because x86 even back then was pervasive enough.
I was trying to build a boot code virus using instructions and code taken from a BBS server.
I failed to infect my own computer.
MIPS was great and still has life left in it. However ARM has been bulldozing its way through recently in the higher embedded markets where MIPS was strong. Even AMD sold Alchemy eventually.
The embedded market was getting crowded, which is a good thing. The survival of the fittest gave us ARM instead of us being stuck with assembly codes like the PIC and x86.
Alpha was a lost cause, but much of Tru64 was incorporated into HPUX.
Some good stuff from IRIX like XFS and OpenGL was shared, but IRIX may never be shared. As much as I want it to be opensourced, I dont think I'll spend more than a day on it. I'm still waiting for opensolaris' complete sources to go through, and solaris is far more usable, in our company at home and elsewhere than IRIX.
Makes me wonder. Is there a group of people from the OSS community, possibly funded by IBM or whoever, to help with the legal stuff when companies want to opensource their assets but cant pay for it?
Hmm so youre leaving Earth because its putting on too much CO2, and going to Mars, because it has CO2 and its good for you?
Sure can if they work them to death fast enough.
Look, 12 more open positions!
(1) Send out spam using a new technique
(2) Post on slashdot telling people about the spam
(3) Get enormous viewership
(4) Profit!
Just wait for the new Viagra technologies slashdot articles.
The i means a little weaker than the regular.
But the e standard for exceptionally lousy, as in Ultrasparc IIe
Dont buy it.
Core Duo?
You havent used the laptop long enough.
Yeah but it doesnt give you the full spectrum.
This incredibly annoying ad is following me everywhere. Its right up there with the 'who let the dogs out' song, thank god thats over.
The person who made this ad should never EVER mention it on their resume.
Bretheren doesnt necessarily mean they're both Arab. Persians arent Arab but arent as different as Indonesians either. They're both Middle Eastern.
Iranians are Arabs?
You need to spend quality time with Wikipedia.
It sounds like a good idea initially, have the best beef and chicken, and the best-of-breed pets in the house. But they would all be equally vulnerable to an outbreak of a disease. Imagine if the entire bovine population of a country is wiped out.
Thats less scary than the entire crops of several countries wiped out, but either would trigger some starvation. Not only that, the genetic variation would irretrievably be lost (unless someone starts cataloging samples now) and after a major outbreak we might never have beef again!
Lets just take urban locations then, you know, places with lots of apartment blocks. Places where the population density is similar to the more dense parts of Scandinavia. Think of NYC New Jersey and LA. The lines already exist, and American telecom companies are already producing all the hardware (routers/switches) required.
Its still stuck at 1997 prices.
I remember when Sun's grid was out. I tried for days to get pricing, and eventually I was quoted something like $1000 per hour, except I couldnt get one hour.
I was trying out different parameter combinations in the uCLinux kernel to check compile sizes and functionality, and wanted horsepower to compile every iteration of the kernel. But The Sun deal was a joke, I could build a few Athlon beige boxes and do it cheaper.
This deal sounds good enough for me to take it out on a spin of a day or two, but I really need to check the bandwidth (both the speed and allowance). Despite this, for bigger tasks, I think its still more feasible to just build beige machines using Core Duo CPUs, some ram and disk and just use those.
When I was at college, I had an idea of putting up a bootp server in the library, getting all the machines to boot the linux image at night, and just using those machines for fun. All 100+ of them. I just didnt have the need for so much horsepower.
I've seen many bad cases which bend when pressed on one side and which dont let PCI cards and their brackets align properly. When you screw them in the top of the bracket is either higher pulling the card out a little, or to one side. I just have that paranoia where I have to press the PCI card in and jiggle it to make sure the connector pins in the slot arent bent and touch the right pads.
I also tend to blow on the data surface of CDs, even really clean ones. Especially when I pull them out of paper envelopes, I suspect particles on that surface and tend to just blow on in before using the CD. I know the fast spin cleans it but.... I just have to.
But I never smack the monitor. What good will that do?
You can have remote profiles, and even link the desktop, my documents etc to remote folders.
Why go through the overhead of a VM? Citrix is one idea, but the most efficient thing is to just make their profiles remote.
I was looking for a USB cam that would do 640x480 at 30fps at least. I was trying to put it on an RC airplane with a PC104 computer, drive and battery. Never did find a camera that did this native res at this speed. But I didnt look hard enough either.
I should have posted on slashdot.
Whoa hold it. You want him to mention myspace and youtube as well?
I'll throw up if I read another article on myspace.
One word:
Civilization!
Wow.
Come to think of it. Wasnt Lotus 123 there first? Wasnt excel just a copy of it?
Maybe the other poster meant the Power3 or Power4 CPUs in RS6000 machines. They have the same hypervisor technology and run multiple LPARs on the same CPU, have been doing it for a while. This alone should take it away from vmware.
I just wondered where is Java coming from in there. And why not C/C++?
In fact the God's programming language is second only to Unix.
Also in place of MacOS, I'd really choose BeOS. Bummer most people havent even TRIED BeOS. It gave me the same feeling I got the first time I tried Linux.
I just received the same mouse.
The packaging is just theft proof, cant hide it under your shirt and cant break it easily.
I almost lost the blade on my box cutter, and still had to wrestle the mouse out of it.