LiveCDs make for quick evaluations. I dont have the partition for openbsd, so I installed it in vmware to check out the ospfd, how to start it and what can it do. I'll continue to spend time on it, to see if I can port ospfd to other unixen, and even cygwin, my eventual goal.
Now if I had a livecd, I'd use that instead to get full CPU on my side.
Now before you call me a newbie, search my name on google, and maybe visit me sometimes. I have stacks of sparc, hp, rs6000 and alpha machines in my room to play with (just enjoy trying out unixen and porting stuff in between). But I highly value liveCD, since you can download the latest version, plop it into any machine and off you go for the more basic stuff.
Try knoppix sometime. "knoppix 2" gives you just the command line.
What improvements? OpenOSPFD has not been released yet. I cant download it from anywhere. I cant find it.
I'd really like to take a copy of its zipped file, try to compile it for mingw and linux and solaris and install it on ALL my systems. I'd like to make MSI files of it and roll it out on all the WindowsXP machines here. Being OpenBSD, it must be reliable, portable and simple......if it existed.
So one guy is immune to HIV. We use virus carriers to alter our DNA to include that particular gene. Another guy is immune to so and so cancer. We all get that gene too, the way we get flu shots.
So in a few decades, do we all look alike? Do we all become equally vulnerable to a new strain?
I have seen sample multithreaded apps, and they look crazy at times.
Why not allow different processes to run on different cores? why not add an extra parameter to exec and fork so the child process is 'related' to the parent process and is run simultaneously or in close proximity with the parent, on another core?
I think the libraries make things complex, in an attemp to stay posix compliant. Heck I dont know if posix is broken if exec("helloworld",JUSTANOTHERTHREAD); is valid, provided exec("helloworld"); is also valid. When you make developers do
#define _THREADY_APP_ _init_lib_threads(); _init_thread(THREADTYPE,THREADNICE,"thread",THREAD OPTIONS); _enable_thread(); _execute_thread(); _clean_junk();..instead, youre asking them to just buy faster single cores to work with. Hence the sale of the Athlon FX-57 and P4 EE, rather than the latest Tyan Quad-cpu board.
I was looking at their grid some time ago for some compilations. I wanted to build crosscompilers for other architectures (GCC ARM). There were several options and compilations took too much time including GCC, UCLIBC and the kernel itself, so I wanted to compile every iteration of the arguments in question (a selected list of options from the 3 packages).
Therefore I needed lots of CPU power. I browsed around their site, no way to just BUY something and start using it. I emailed them. They answered with something like $1000 per hour per CPU.... dont remember but it was just not worth it..
I got myself a remote server at serverpronto.com, at $30 per month with an Athlon CPU. Left compile batch files on it for a couple o weeks and I got what I wanted (wasnt a blazing success, but I got the files on the cheap). Next I bought an Athlon64 mobo + cpu and used my scsi disk on it to get the compiles much faster.
Sun has abandoned the smallscale hacker community and they still have a LOT to learn. Nobody will pay $1000 for a service theyve never used before, and dont know how to use. Setup server farms with Ultrasparc4 cpus and Linux/Solaris running and offer them for a few bucks an hour, or a $100 per month including high intenet bandwidth. Heck even I can make a profit from THAT.
Well they DO have other options. FLTK and QT both are close to native in speed of usage. (I havent checked what they use). I wonder if the GUI can be easily changed to some other API, so people could download the version thats fastest for them (OpenGL anyone?).
It doesnt seem to be the GUI thats slow. Once it starts, its fast enough. Its the loading part.
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I dont know how you got the opposite results.
I installed OO 2.0 on my machine to check the updates, and to see if its speed is up to snuff. Issues with compatibility are gone but it is more than twice as slow while opening files. (I'm not using quickstarters for OO or MSO).
Heck since I'm reporting these results, I MUST be a microsoft shill too I guess.
This map can also show the human family tree, which originates from 1000-odd individuals around 200,000 years ago. It can also explain if we have Neanderthal genes, and if there were other ancestors of ours we dont know about.
16MB ram in the requirements... all I can say is WOW.
This is supposed to be a simple OS, much simpler than the first version of Linux.
ucLinux can run on 1MB. Older versions can be trimmed enough to run in 200kb even but thats pushing it. Minix now requires 16MB!!! Thats more than ANY BSD out there.
I was interested in running it on MCUs with small ram and flash. Trimming down uCLinux to the extreme uses 200kb of ram by the kernel and one shell. eCos requires under 64kb for simple compilations. eCos is POSIX for the most part, but theres hardly any schedulers in there, and no real filesystem drivers or calls.
Minix is a full OS, but being that simple, I expected the kernel to fit in 64kb ram. I guess I'll use NetBSD as a simpler OS to study before graduating on to Minix 3.
I used to play Quake II with the keyboard keys alone just like in doom and quake1. A friend showed me the mouse+keyboard control and I thought it was silly. Then he kicked my ass.
Years on playing counterstrike source, I really wonder what can be more optimum for FPS than keyboard+mouse. I've swung between a mouse and a good trackball (logitech marble), and am currently using a mouse. Using the keyboard alone is unthinkable. Using a gamepad is as funny a joke as using the atari joysticks for a drawing program.
If youre wondering whats best to control FPS games, just play head to head with friends using different controls. The control that always wins is best for FPS.
Cameras dont require an ARM9. The difference between ARM7 and ARM9 cores given general MCUs is about $10. They also take slightly more power... adding to the cost.
...is to keep up with the changes of architectures and OSes. I imagine moving flash player to x64 is tougher than moving it from Windows ME to Windows XP, since it contains multimedia codecs using at least some assembly language.
That oughtta force them to move the core of the player to opensource so people would do most of the porting jobs for new OSes, while they just build on that code to make it a 'professional' version for selling.
And the full set too. We want to be able to compile windows overnight.
We want to copy the HAL over a virtual Linux target, so the Linux kernel could natively execute win32 binaries unlike the way it does WINEX. We want to properly and reliably port directx 9.0 to WINEX.
Even better we want to boost ReactOS to the point of being usable as a desktop. Just as Captive-NTFS uses NTFS drivers, we want to be able to use windows drivers in Linux for products that dont have Linux drivers (still). Would be more cool to port Windows XP to Alpha, SPARC and PowerPC. Who wants to port WindowsXP to the minimac first?
A bridge must be built from both site of the river, and the Linux-windows bridge is badly needed to allow the plethora of win32-only apps to move over. Theyre the reason MSFT has 90% of the market. Are you reading this MSFT developers wasting time on slashdot?
The DNS system will break apart. That will be the best news for nerds in years. Nerds will be required to type in the IP addresses of the servers everywhere. This will be more fun if ipv6 is implemented everywhere at the same time.
Different groups will create their own DNS trees. There will also be spam DNS trees of course. The DNS trees will be updated not through bind, but through P2P mechanisms, run only with the help of slashdotters everywhere.
You'll see IP addresses on billboards everywhere. The structure of people's email addresses will change. Such pressure will finally usher in the widespread use of mbone, and alternate decentralized DNS systems. Each country will have their own DNS tree, and will import DNS entries from other trees where they will see fit. Universities will all have microsoft.com pointed to goatse.cx, and hotmail.com pointed to gmail.com.
The destruction caused by the addresses of windowsupdate.microsoft.com will also finally bring Linux to the desktop, and long with it, Duke Nukem Forever since their developers will finally be able to stop playing WoW III, and get back to developing.
I'll just browse the various BBS servers in the city through my 9600 baud modem using telix, and play doom on dialup.
when they guarantee or claim stability. should an OS developer claim 99.9999% uptime, they should be liable if the OS is 95% up. 'Stable' should also have a legal definition, and it should be better than Windows95 connected directly to the internet.
It is not 'reverse engineering' if you already have the code. So you'll be reverse engineering the part that you dont have a code for, and making sense out of the code that you do have.
Draw flow charts. Then assign a seperate person for each module to make sense out of it. Next you'll do what you plan to do....
Make mods for it? Make a clone? Rewrite the code and sell the code? Recompile and port to Linux?
I just dont goto sites that are ad-heavy. I just use sites that are not.
Some time ago the Toronto Star site had giant popups that took half the page and even walked around the page. Somewhere in the popup there was a "X close" button that was really hard to find, so I had to scan through the flashy casino ad to figure out how to close it and read the news behind it.
I sent a complaint and stopped reading the Star for some time, checking CP24, BBC etc. I dont watch CNN videos for the same reason.
However I always saw the polar bear as the most lethal killer (of humans). It is the only animal that sees humans as food. Big cats attack people when theyre starving, sick/old or protecting their young (bears). Or if youre in their territory or threatening their kill (cats/wolves). Or if they confuse you for something else (sharks). But the polar bears will simply kill you. Theyre too big to be scared. They dont look scary only because of their chubby teddy looks.
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LiveCDs make for quick evaluations. I dont have the partition for openbsd, so I installed it in vmware to check out the ospfd, how to start it and what can it do. I'll continue to spend time on it, to see if I can port ospfd to other unixen, and even cygwin, my eventual goal.
Now if I had a livecd, I'd use that instead to get full CPU on my side.
Now before you call me a newbie, search my name on google, and maybe visit me sometimes. I have stacks of sparc, hp, rs6000 and alpha machines in my room to play with (just enjoy trying out unixen and porting stuff in between). But I highly value liveCD, since you can download the latest version, plop it into any machine and off you go for the more basic stuff.
Try knoppix sometime. "knoppix 2" gives you just the command line.
So now I can have a cool new project where I port FreeBSD to the 386!!
I'll setup a sourceforge webpage including full toolchains and a weblog on how I did it.
And of course, I'll sell the mandatory T-shirts.
" some improvements to the OSPF daemon"
What improvements? OpenOSPFD has not been released yet. I cant download it from anywhere. I cant find it.
I'd really like to take a copy of its zipped file, try to compile it for mingw and linux and solaris and install it on ALL my systems. I'd like to make MSI files of it and roll it out on all the WindowsXP machines here. Being OpenBSD, it must be reliable, portable and simple...
So one guy is immune to HIV. We use virus carriers to alter our DNA to include that particular gene. Another guy is immune to so and so cancer. We all get that gene too, the way we get flu shots.
So in a few decades, do we all look alike? Do we all become equally vulnerable to a new strain?
Yeah. He could never do that monkey dance.
I have seen sample multithreaded apps, and they look crazy at times.
D OPTIONS); ..instead, youre asking them to just buy faster single cores to work with. Hence the sale of the Athlon FX-57 and P4 EE, rather than the latest Tyan Quad-cpu board.
Why not allow different processes to run on different cores? why not add an extra parameter to exec and fork so the child process is 'related' to the parent process and is run simultaneously or in close proximity with the parent, on another core?
I think the libraries make things complex, in an attemp to stay posix compliant. Heck I dont know if posix is broken if exec("helloworld",JUSTANOTHERTHREAD); is valid, provided exec("helloworld"); is also valid. When you make developers do
#define _THREADY_APP_
_init_lib_threads();
_init_thread(THREADTYPE,THREADNICE,"thread",THREA
_enable_thread();
_execute_thread();
_clean_junk();
I was looking at their grid some time ago for some compilations. I wanted to build crosscompilers for other architectures (GCC ARM). There were several options and compilations took too much time including GCC, UCLIBC and the kernel itself, so I wanted to compile every iteration of the arguments in question (a selected list of options from the 3 packages).
Therefore I needed lots of CPU power. I browsed around their site, no way to just BUY something and start using it. I emailed them. They answered with something like $1000 per hour per CPU.... dont remember but it was just not worth it..
I got myself a remote server at serverpronto.com, at $30 per month with an Athlon CPU. Left compile batch files on it for a couple o weeks and I got what I wanted (wasnt a blazing success, but I got the files on the cheap). Next I bought an Athlon64 mobo + cpu and used my scsi disk on it to get the compiles much faster.
Sun has abandoned the smallscale hacker community and they still have a LOT to learn. Nobody will pay $1000 for a service theyve never used before, and dont know how to use. Setup server farms with Ultrasparc4 cpus and Linux/Solaris running and offer them for a few bucks an hour, or a $100 per month including high intenet bandwidth. Heck even I can make a profit from THAT.
Well they DO have other options. FLTK and QT both are close to native in speed of usage. (I havent checked what they use). I wonder if the GUI can be easily changed to some other API, so people could download the version thats fastest for them (OpenGL anyone?).
It doesnt seem to be the GUI thats slow. Once it starts, its fast enough. Its the loading part.
I dont know how you got the opposite results.
I installed OO 2.0 on my machine to check the updates, and to see if its speed is up to snuff. Issues with compatibility are gone but it is more than twice as slow while opening files. (I'm not using quickstarters for OO or MSO).
Heck since I'm reporting these results, I MUST be a microsoft shill too I guess.
This map can also show the human family tree, which originates from 1000-odd individuals around 200,000 years ago. It can also explain if we have Neanderthal genes, and if there were other ancestors of ours we dont know about.
I just built a new octa-Xeon laptop with 15k cheetah x5 raid drives. Also built the hurricane transducer to power it.
Now I'll wait for Wilma...
16MB ram in the requirements... all I can say is WOW.
This is supposed to be a simple OS, much simpler than the first version of Linux.
ucLinux can run on 1MB. Older versions can be trimmed enough to run in 200kb even but thats pushing it. Minix now requires 16MB!!! Thats more than ANY BSD out there.
I was interested in running it on MCUs with small ram and flash. Trimming down uCLinux to the extreme uses 200kb of ram by the kernel and one shell. eCos requires under 64kb for simple compilations. eCos is POSIX for the most part, but theres hardly any schedulers in there, and no real filesystem drivers or calls.
Minix is a full OS, but being that simple, I expected the kernel to fit in 64kb ram. I guess I'll use NetBSD as a simpler OS to study before graduating on to Minix 3.
I used to play Quake II with the keyboard keys alone just like in doom and quake1. A friend showed me the mouse+keyboard control and I thought it was silly. Then he kicked my ass.
Years on playing counterstrike source, I really wonder what can be more optimum for FPS than keyboard+mouse. I've swung between a mouse and a good trackball (logitech marble), and am currently using a mouse. Using the keyboard alone is unthinkable. Using a gamepad is as funny a joke as using the atari joysticks for a drawing program.
If youre wondering whats best to control FPS games, just play head to head with friends using different controls. The control that always wins is best for FPS.
And it WONT be the D-pad from nintendo.
Cameras dont require an ARM9. The difference between ARM7 and ARM9 cores given general MCUs is about $10. They also take slightly more power... adding to the cost.
so
What about cellphones crashing on halloween?
...is to keep up with the changes of architectures and OSes. I imagine moving flash player to x64 is tougher than moving it from Windows ME to Windows XP, since it contains multimedia codecs using at least some assembly language.
That oughtta force them to move the core of the player to opensource so people would do most of the porting jobs for new OSes, while they just build on that code to make it a 'professional' version for selling.
Have a large number of individual characters rather than a few characters than can be combined in many ways?
Why you sound like youre in favor of CISC.
you mean you can play dvds in other media players than videolan?
We want source code leaks!
And the full set too. We want to be able to compile windows overnight.
We want to copy the HAL over a virtual Linux target, so the Linux kernel could natively execute win32 binaries unlike the way it does WINEX. We want to properly and reliably port directx 9.0 to WINEX.
Even better we want to boost ReactOS to the point of being usable as a desktop. Just as Captive-NTFS uses NTFS drivers, we want to be able to use windows drivers in Linux for products that dont have Linux drivers (still). Would be more cool to port Windows XP to Alpha, SPARC and PowerPC. Who wants to port WindowsXP to the minimac first?
A bridge must be built from both site of the river, and the Linux-windows bridge is badly needed to allow the plethora of win32-only apps to move over. Theyre the reason MSFT has 90% of the market. Are you reading this MSFT developers wasting time on slashdot?
The DNS system will break apart. That will be the best news for nerds in years. Nerds will be required to type in the IP addresses of the servers everywhere. This will be more fun if ipv6 is implemented everywhere at the same time.
Different groups will create their own DNS trees. There will also be spam DNS trees of course. The DNS trees will be updated not through bind, but through P2P mechanisms, run only with the help of slashdotters everywhere.
You'll see IP addresses on billboards everywhere. The structure of people's email addresses will change. Such pressure will finally usher in the widespread use of mbone, and alternate decentralized DNS systems. Each country will have their own DNS tree, and will import DNS entries from other trees where they will see fit. Universities will all have microsoft.com pointed to goatse.cx, and hotmail.com pointed to gmail.com.
The destruction caused by the addresses of windowsupdate.microsoft.com will also finally bring Linux to the desktop, and long with it, Duke Nukem Forever since their developers will finally be able to stop playing WoW III, and get back to developing.
I'll just browse the various BBS servers in the city through my 9600 baud modem using telix, and play doom on dialup.
when they guarantee or claim stability. should an OS developer claim 99.9999% uptime, they should be liable if the OS is 95% up. 'Stable' should also have a legal definition, and it should be better than Windows95 connected directly to the internet.
It is not 'reverse engineering' if you already have the code. So you'll be reverse engineering the part that you dont have a code for, and making sense out of the code that you do have.
Draw flow charts. Then assign a seperate person for each module to make sense out of it. Next you'll do what you plan to do....
Make mods for it? Make a clone? Rewrite the code and sell the code? Recompile and port to Linux?
I just dont goto sites that are ad-heavy. I just use sites that are not.
Some time ago the Toronto Star site had giant popups that took half the page and even walked around the page. Somewhere in the popup there was a "X close" button that was really hard to find, so I had to scan through the flashy casino ad to figure out how to close it and read the news behind it.
I sent a complaint and stopped reading the Star for some time, checking CP24, BBC etc. I dont watch CNN videos for the same reason.
Good comment.
However I always saw the polar bear as the most lethal killer (of humans). It is the only animal that sees humans as food. Big cats attack people when theyre starving, sick/old or protecting their young (bears). Or if youre in their territory or threatening their kill (cats/wolves). Or if they confuse you for something else (sharks). But the polar bears will simply kill you. Theyre too big to be scared. They dont look scary only because of their chubby teddy looks.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
I tried "1 microsoft in googles" in google to see if they will convert. Seems like their calculator isnt up to snuff.
Do you think these will be signed values like celsuis or unsigned like the Kelvin?