BSDs in their most basic are all the same. NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD are like different distros. The only difference will be felt when compiling the kernel or system, in which NetBSD will feel different.
It really depends on what the BSD is destined to do. For learning any one of those three will do really. The effective differences between their CLI, commands, toolbox, kernel interface and compilations, networking etc are negligible. In networking, well, OpenBSD has the excellent pf instead of the ipf, but for learning will feel the same nevertheless.
If used for anything beside learning, well, FreeBSD is featureful, and can make excellent use of your hardware, OpenBSD is extremely secure and simple, and makes for great firewalls and VPN servers, NetBSD is also real simple, and porting it around is easier than Linux, easiest among all OSes.
But even those differences are negligible. FreeBSD and NetBSD are also very secure, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are also portable etc. FreeBSD has the largest base and some apps will run natively on it but not the other BSDs. I think FreeBSD alone has nVidia drivers available for it among all BSDs. If you plan to encrypt the filesystem, encrypt data structures in the ram, keep code and data seperate in the ram enforced by the OS, use encryptions of many more bits, do fancy VPNNing, use OpenBSD. I personally have difficulty in choosing a BSD for any specific task because they are so similar despite what the developers say. So I just use OpenBSD because I'm Canadian.
Choosing a Linux distro is usually a better conversation with more reasons to choose one over the other. Please dont bring up Linux vs BSD, just search that term on google and read for the rest of your days.
Who says any company has to be the enemy to get bashed? Heck we bash Redhat at times like it was situated in Redmond.
We bash companies till they're all about opensourced and GPLed software. Companies with high-stakes software like Sun with Java being the extremely high-stake, will be bashed excessively till they give in. Sure we love Sun for not being Microsoft, and Sun will be praised in Microsoft-related articles, but the larger IT companies, Sun, IBM, nVidia and ATI, Adobe, Dell etc all know they will be armtwisted into opensourcing software and selling nothing but Debian Linux.
Sun is not the enemy but its not a 100% GPL software house, and who cares if they need to make paychecks.
The article was interesting, but we dont have to read it twice.
Maybe slashcode should have a link repository, if someone adds a new story with a link, they get a warning another story pointing to the same link was posted 18 hours ago...
Logitech marble mouse is $18 CDN. Its the best and most comfy trackball out there. Why do you need wireless?
a good keyboard ($200-$1000+)
Good keyboards are IBM and Dell keyboards. Among IBM keyboard contenders are the newer heavy keyboards that come with servers like xSeries 206, and the much older M-series. None costs more than $10. You must be talking about shipment to the north pole.
Microsoft Natural Keyboard
Please. The lack of symmetry itself will give you carpel tunnel. its designed for precisely four-fingers-on-the-left-four-fingers-on-the-right typing, and you wont do that in UNIX or programming in perl. Save yourself trouble and get model M keyboards or if someone needs to sleep in the same room while you type, even the imacs newer keyboards arent bad.
In my opinion the single most important factor is the chair, seconded by the monitor. Get a flat panel so its easy on the eyes, shouldnt be smaller than 15" or larger than 17", image should be extremely clear, and keep refresh rates above 75Hz. Will also help not to have tubelights in the room interfering with the monitors refresh rates giving you a headache. Speaking of room lights, should be a source of white noise lights like halogens or even mercury, certainly not florescent lights.
That brings up an important question. Can parts of hubble be run without sending up a service rocket? Say we do not service it but try to keep using it, what would go wrong?
any company can start taking ground photos etc from hubble and make things profitable.
would be fun to buy space junk and run linux on their CPUs..... http://hubblecontrol.sf.net...
We were also looking to build 1TB+, sata raid based nas server with a pcix gigabit eth card...
So far it seems its gonna be fedora core, on an ibm xseries 206 (real cheap in canada), with an adaptec sata raid card (8 or 16 connectors) and maxtor maxlineii drives (300gb). we'll get 5 drives first.. to make 1.2tb with raid5, and the onboard drive will just host the os in 80gb. we have a spare gigabit nic...
total price $2000 CDN or so..
the only downside for now is its only possible to put 4 additional drives in the 206, removing the floppy, and using the 5.25" bay somehow. if we can remove the cdrom drive, or use the little space in the bottom, we can put 2 more disks and we have it made.
it beats all other NAS servers' price/performance ratios by a wide margin and we'd know we dont have crap hardware....
oh one more downside. the 206's power supply is only rated at 250W.
Maybe something a little like Dune or Command and Conquer as well, to send spaceships and start harvesting spice (or something).
Given it has oceans and hills, rendering it all into something like the Giants citizen kabuto engine would be perfect and beautiful.... if they can optimize the engine just a little bit.
We are four brothers and a sister. She grew up similarly, and has a similar attitude and hobbies as boys than girls.
However two of us in the family are pseudo mathematicians and shes always failed in math, or otherwise found math, physics, CS, economics etc extremely boring. She like my mom, has no problems quickly calculating something when its about her paycheck.
In all simplicity, I think girls use math much more internally and subconsciously, to get things done. They are not motivated by math alone, and simply dont see the 'beauty' of these disciplines, just as slashdotters dont see the 'beauty' of getting out and meeting people.
Each gender has a slightly different 'goal in life' to aim for and to position themselves for, subjects like these are only tools.
IPv4 simply routes data. Its not supposed to be secure, at least until IPSec. Usually for electromagnetic waves the layer 2 protocol provides the encryption, and everything above it works as normal. Thats the simplest and most reliable implementation. Trying to encapsulate routed packets, setting up routing rules to work with it etc gets more complex than defining one layer 2 channel, encrypting it, and letting all layer3 packets route themselves over it.
Thats Why IPSec isnt used much, except in VPNs.
Just encrypt the EM waves, like the military has since WWII. The digital data in the waves can also be encrypted as a part of the layer 2, above of which everything becomes normally routable without much configuration and the device(s) used in such communication can easily be deployed everywhere without fat manuals explaining tunnelling, IP headers, routing rules and the likes.
I was expecting to see ICs, what MCU is used, the type of amplifiers and how the capacitors are arranged. Maybe they have a custom IC. Maybe they used a transistor for an amplifier, or no amplification at all. Maybe its a 4-bit MCU + MP3 decoder, or maybe its a 16-bit.
It might have even corrected the Earths spin to closely match our watches.
I used to hate the time standard, it should be fixed to the earths rotation in days rather than adjusting with leap seconds, but we know the Earths rotation is not universal and we cant replace the clock chips of all GPS satellites, SONET routers and communication equipment.
Physics has a LOT of cool factor. The whole hacker crowd of computers used to be unified with the physics crowd early 80s.
Physics itself is very cool, people only dont join because the cold war is over and there arent too many obvious physicist jobs out there. Most guys find something technical cool. All technical things are eventually a part of physics itself.... but theres something else....
If you go beyond the 'boring' linear local physics of Newton... you'll see Quantum Physics. Teach the basics of Quantum physics, using Feynman's text or videos to any teenage kid, and youve got him hooked. Any reality that doesnt make sense is cool. Any reality that cannot and should not be imagined, and dealt with only through mathematics, is cool. Think Matrix the movie. Think of many other sci fi movies with basis in higher physics theories like the many worlds theory.... so much of 20th century's technologies are based on this kind of physics which really 'doesnt make sense'. Explain 4 dimensions, then 26 dimensions, and finally a hilbert space to anyone and youve entered philosophy.
Making any subject cool by infiltrating street culture and other coolfactor stuff in peoples lives always backfires. You always attract the wrong people, who will leave and the reputation of the subject grows worse.
Leave Physics as an elitist subject and only the brightest minds will be attracted. Another idea is to get pretty scientists like that italian girl at Waterloos Perimeter Institute whatshername?
The GPU is used to render 3D. The framebuffer is used to render 2D. Theres a difference.
Microsoft is planning to use the GPU for windows. Instead of simple blitting support, which most 2d chips already have, microsoft will be using a fat GPU, which intakes 3 coordinates (and some) rather than 2. There goes the IO for one...
The GPU will be required. So they wont just use the 2d hardware assist logic, which can draw windows with only data input from the CPU, they'll be using the GPUs power for something, otherwise its like taking a helicopter to take your kids to school, its a major waste. They might shove pretty graphics down peoples throats, like they have in the recent past with a few things. Or they might just be making their DirectX and windowing operatins unified, which results in wasted GPU if 3d rendering in windows is needed (fullscreen could still take all of the GPU I imagine). They'd also be leaving out people without graphics cards, which is very good news for pro-Linux/BSD people.
I have a question about Lotus. Why is there no Linux version? Do you know our company (~80 boxes) is entirely windows, due only to lotus notes (6.5.3) and ERP system being Windows only. Lotus is even part of IBM now, which spends over $1 billion on Linux annually.
Domino runs on Linux, great. But we use Notes quite heavily, lots of custom databases, pda apps, custom apps etc, so iNotes is out of the question. We really are paying alotta microsoft tax only because of the ERP system which is 'promising' linux binaries, and lotus, which claims no plans yet. Its mostly java-based anyway, just compile it for Linux for each version minor number, its not too much work.
They claim it 'fits the market'. I really do not understand that.
So they're willing to pay programmers to put in work hours to cripple an OS.. so it 'fits' the market. Why not... NOT put in those programming hours, and use something that is based on the generic XP kernel, but without IE and other heavyweight processes? Making it should be simple.
And other limitations will ensure people will buy the real thing when they've had enough of this.
A PC, when bought in poorer countries is used through and through. People put pirated copies of all games they can lay their hands on, and the numerous children will learn the PC and use it nonstop as soon as the dad purchases it. If anything, SE fits more of the 'retired' markets in western countries where people do not have kids and grandkids around to fix the computer problems, and where they just need to send emails and see pictures.
So anyone with a brand new PC with XPSE will think this is crap, get out and get a pirated copy of XP or 2000 and try to run that. Even better, if the PC is too slow for 2000 or XP, all market forces will push them to Linux. This is where marketing will be most useful. After a million PCs with XPSE are sold in a certain country, a Linux company like Lindows or Mandrake should launch a marketing campaign... for $10 replace your crippled OS with something faster, many more apps, no process limitation, better resolution, and something that will run just fine on a 200-300MHz Celeron PC.
That reminds me... if a few Linux-based companies agree on a machine spec, and produce something ARM7 or ARM9-based, and applications to go with it, beating the price of almost any x86-based machine, the markets will accept it. All we need is the threshold number of units produced to make it cheap but fast enough, and Wintel will be in trouble.
I had a similar problem as that guy, also caused by immoral use of the dd command. Testing another OS and its partition, I was playing with dd, and had images of other small partitions as gzipped files so I could dd them into the standard 10mb partition I had.
But I misfired and did dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1, and things deteriorated. This XFS drive had all my collected files, years worth of data, so for the next week I embarked on educating myself about XFS's structures.
The XFS partition had two superblocks and the first one was deleted. I had to find the second one, and grep its signature. Use that superblock, overwrite the first (repaired) one, then run xfs_repair to bring the system back to life.
My backups were in a.tar.bz2 file in the root folder, and existed in pieces in other folders. I never could recover data from the / folder, but pieced data from others. Also, all folders somehow appeared in the root folder so an 'ls/' showed a large number of random-string directories, but they had good filenames inside them. So a whole lotta grepping and searching, and reconstructing the filelist.
The very first task I did after the 'mistake' was to get a larger disk, dd the crashed partition into a file, and then start fixing the partition. Any mistake I made, I could undo simply by dding back the partition from the file. But I learned new respect for dd. Its a loaded gun with a loose trigged, so NEVER point it anywhere you dont intend to shoot.
The 386 went from 16-bit to 32, taking all 16-bit apps with it, but there was also the very little known 80376, all 32-bit none of the 16-bit parts.
The same can be made of the Athlon64, simiar to the Itanium, being 64bit only. I know, that'd be a disaster, but now that we have binaries, linux binaries, and possibly windows, such a chip would be cheap, powerful, cool and welcome by some.
Would you buy a cheap laptop that will run AMD64 binaries real fast, but none of the 32-bit x86?
The internal bandwidth of machines will always be faster than the externel pipes. The cpu - memory speed will always be faster than your connection to the Internet.
All that means local applications will outperform hosted apps. Given applications will always push the limits, the execution of most graphic apps, and apps that require more interaction than is possible through a terminal services screen, will always be slower from a remote station.
That and our tendancy to OWN everything onto our desktop, similar to getting satellite dishes than pulling a cable and being at the mercy of cable companies. If most desktops are laptops in the future, its hard to believe any procssing will be offloaded killing the mobolity of the laptop.
Both iSCSI and FC are networked version of SCSI, and all 3 technologies are much faster than their respective disks, thereby not being the bottleneck at all. After Ultra160, the standard PCI channel is saturated, and 64-bit PCI like PCIX is needed for Ultra320, all the while usually even in the burst mode ( from cache) disks cant saturate this available bandwidth, say 6x RAID5 15K RPM disks in read mode.
FC and iSCSI are much more expensive than SCSI Ultra320, which is commodity hardware now. FC just sends the data in optic to outside the system, where larger datawarehouses can be managed instead of getting bigger and bigger Unisys boxen.
So if you need terabytes of data all in one place (I mean at least 10 terabytes), consider iSCSI and FC and putting the disks outside the system for better management. We are getting a NAS solution to replace our backup tapes, requirement was 1.2TB. We will get 4x 300GB Maxtor Maxline II SATA disks... the slow cheap ones, and put them in an IBM xSeries 206 which are going at $500 CDN, with an Adaptec RAID card.
Upto 16 SATA 400GB disks can be managed by a simple adaptec raid card, beyond that, think FC arrays.
There was a way to open a link in a new window without displaying the window's address bar. Couple that with putting up a link like so: iexplore.exe http://site.com
And removing all links to iexplore.exe elsewhere...
And a better example: enforce proxy servers (setup as admin in win2k, and leave the users unprivileged), setup a squid proxy server that only allows the site, and do not setup any proxies for firefox...
How about this one: Hack a spyware and find out how they redirect people's URLs. use that and infect your own machines, so any address in IE takes them to that website. Use firefox for everywhere else.
Someone mentioned in a reply to my previous post, that its scheduled to hit the Eastern Hemisphere. Say it was headed for Beijing, will the US help with sending nukes to the asteroid? Or will they be like.... go ask North Korea?
What if it were to hit central Africa? "All those AIDS people were gonna die anyway". Or what about the Arctic? "Who cares about Eskimos, Canadians and Russians?".
I think the best place for the asteroid to aim would be north Atlantic ocean. With the stakes high for US and Europe, we might finally see a withdrawal from Iraq, unless the president is still Bush, in which case, invading Iran would be a higher priority. "We suspect the Iranians are steering an asteroid... terrorists!".
I wonder if its big enough to alter the Earths orbit, or rotation. If the days will be 24.01 hours instead of 24 hours, or heck we might even be rid of the leap year. Maybe we should aim for that and change the course of the asteroid...
What if there were two asteroids headed for Earth, one coming real close, the next definitely hitting the Earth? Would you invest in an orbital rocket, and try to hitch a ride on the first one to survive? (much less fuel than going to Mars).
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BSDs in their most basic are all the same. NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD are like different distros. The only difference will be felt when compiling the kernel or system, in which NetBSD will feel different.
It really depends on what the BSD is destined to do. For learning any one of those three will do really. The effective differences between their CLI, commands, toolbox, kernel interface and compilations, networking etc are negligible. In networking, well, OpenBSD has the excellent pf instead of the ipf, but for learning will feel the same nevertheless.
If used for anything beside learning, well, FreeBSD is featureful, and can make excellent use of your hardware, OpenBSD is extremely secure and simple, and makes for great firewalls and VPN servers, NetBSD is also real simple, and porting it around is easier than Linux, easiest among all OSes.
But even those differences are negligible. FreeBSD and NetBSD are also very secure, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are also portable etc. FreeBSD has the largest base and some apps will run natively on it but not the other BSDs. I think FreeBSD alone has nVidia drivers available for it among all BSDs. If you plan to encrypt the filesystem, encrypt data structures in the ram, keep code and data seperate in the ram enforced by the OS, use encryptions of many more bits, do fancy VPNNing, use OpenBSD. I personally have difficulty in choosing a BSD for any specific task because they are so similar despite what the developers say. So I just use OpenBSD because I'm Canadian.
Choosing a Linux distro is usually a better conversation with more reasons to choose one over the other. Please dont bring up Linux vs BSD, just search that term on google and read for the rest of your days.
Who says any company has to be the enemy to get bashed? Heck we bash Redhat at times like it was situated in Redmond.
We bash companies till they're all about opensourced and GPLed software. Companies with high-stakes software like Sun with Java being the extremely high-stake, will be bashed excessively till they give in. Sure we love Sun for not being Microsoft, and Sun will be praised in Microsoft-related articles, but the larger IT companies, Sun, IBM, nVidia and ATI, Adobe, Dell etc all know they will be armtwisted into opensourcing software and selling nothing but Debian Linux.
Sun is not the enemy but its not a 100% GPL software house, and who cares if they need to make paychecks.
The article was interesting, but we dont have to read it twice.
Maybe slashcode should have a link repository, if someone adds a new story with a link, they get a warning another story pointing to the same link was posted 18 hours ago...
We've even seen triple-dupes.
A good chair (which costs right around $1000)
t typing, and you wont do that in UNIX or programming in perl. Save yourself trouble and get model M keyboards or if someone needs to sleep in the same room while you type, even the imacs newer keyboards arent bad.
What? Are you talking about USD?
A good trackball (approx $100)
Logitech marble mouse is $18 CDN. Its the best and most comfy trackball out there. Why do you need wireless?
a good keyboard ($200-$1000+)
Good keyboards are IBM and Dell keyboards. Among IBM keyboard contenders are the newer heavy keyboards that come with servers like xSeries 206, and the much older M-series. None costs more than $10. You must be talking about shipment to the north pole.
Microsoft Natural Keyboard
Please. The lack of symmetry itself will give you carpel tunnel. its designed for precisely four-fingers-on-the-left-four-fingers-on-the-righ
In my opinion the single most important factor is the chair, seconded by the monitor. Get a flat panel so its easy on the eyes, shouldnt be smaller than 15" or larger than 17", image should be extremely clear, and keep refresh rates above 75Hz. Will also help not to have tubelights in the room interfering with the monitors refresh rates giving you a headache. Speaking of room lights, should be a source of white noise lights like halogens or even mercury, certainly not florescent lights.
Sell it on eBay.
I have a drawer full of 72-PIN SIMMs I dont know what to do with. They might be a grand total of 256MB or so... some simms have 2MB ram.
What should I do with those?
That brings up an important question. Can parts of hubble be run without sending up a service rocket? Say we do not service it but try to keep using it, what would go wrong?
any company can start taking ground photos etc from hubble and make things profitable.
would be fun to buy space junk and run linux on their CPUs..... http://hubblecontrol.sf.net...
We were also looking to build 1TB+, sata raid based nas server with a pcix gigabit eth card...
So far it seems its gonna be fedora core, on an ibm xseries 206 (real cheap in canada), with an adaptec sata raid card (8 or 16 connectors) and maxtor maxlineii drives (300gb). we'll get 5 drives first.. to make 1.2tb with raid5, and the onboard drive will just host the os in 80gb. we have a spare gigabit nic...
total price $2000 CDN or so..
the only downside for now is its only possible to put 4 additional drives in the 206, removing the floppy, and using the 5.25" bay somehow. if we can remove the cdrom drive, or use the little space in the bottom, we can put 2 more disks and we have it made.
it beats all other NAS servers' price/performance ratios by a wide margin and we'd know we dont have crap hardware....
oh one more downside. the 206's power supply is only rated at 250W.
So how long till a Titan MMORPG is released?
Maybe something a little like Dune or Command and Conquer as well, to send spaceships and start harvesting spice (or something).
Given it has oceans and hills, rendering it all into something like the Giants citizen kabuto engine would be perfect and beautiful.... if they can optimize the engine just a little bit.
This word is very commonly used for hobbyists, sounds a little derogatory. Sounds a little like Immature.
What it really means is the guy isnt getting paid, or rather, he/she has higher motivations than the weekends paycheck.
What do you call the Amateurs who built a product that beat the flagship product of the worlds richest corporation?
We are four brothers and a sister. She grew up similarly, and has a similar attitude and hobbies as boys than girls.
However two of us in the family are pseudo mathematicians and shes always failed in math, or otherwise found math, physics, CS, economics etc extremely boring. She like my mom, has no problems quickly calculating something when its about her paycheck.
In all simplicity, I think girls use math much more internally and subconsciously, to get things done. They are not motivated by math alone, and simply dont see the 'beauty' of these disciplines, just as slashdotters dont see the 'beauty' of getting out and meeting people.
Each gender has a slightly different 'goal in life' to aim for and to position themselves for, subjects like these are only tools.
Is that why the Internet works?
IPv4 simply routes data. Its not supposed to be secure, at least until IPSec. Usually for electromagnetic waves the layer 2 protocol provides the encryption, and everything above it works as normal. Thats the simplest and most reliable implementation. Trying to encapsulate routed packets, setting up routing rules to work with it etc gets more complex than defining one layer 2 channel, encrypting it, and letting all layer3 packets route themselves over it.
Thats Why IPSec isnt used much, except in VPNs.
Just encrypt the EM waves, like the military has since WWII. The digital data in the waves can also be encrypted as a part of the layer 2, above of which everything becomes normally routable without much configuration and the device(s) used in such communication can easily be deployed everywhere without fat manuals explaining tunnelling, IP headers, routing rules and the likes.
I was expecting to see ICs, what MCU is used, the type of amplifiers and how the capacitors are arranged. Maybe they have a custom IC. Maybe they used a transistor for an amplifier, or no amplification at all. Maybe its a 4-bit MCU + MP3 decoder, or maybe its a 16-bit.
Slashdot demands more.
It might have even corrected the Earths spin to closely match our watches.
I used to hate the time standard, it should be fixed to the earths rotation in days rather than adjusting with leap seconds, but we know the Earths rotation is not universal and we cant replace the clock chips of all GPS satellites, SONET routers and communication equipment.
Physics has a LOT of cool factor. The whole hacker crowd of computers used to be unified with the physics crowd early 80s.
Physics itself is very cool, people only dont join because the cold war is over and there arent too many obvious physicist jobs out there. Most guys find something technical cool. All technical things are eventually a part of physics itself.... but theres something else....
If you go beyond the 'boring' linear local physics of Newton... you'll see Quantum Physics. Teach the basics of Quantum physics, using Feynman's text or videos to any teenage kid, and youve got him hooked. Any reality that doesnt make sense is cool. Any reality that cannot and should not be imagined, and dealt with only through mathematics, is cool. Think Matrix the movie. Think of many other sci fi movies with basis in higher physics theories like the many worlds theory.... so much of 20th century's technologies are based on this kind of physics which really 'doesnt make sense'. Explain 4 dimensions, then 26 dimensions, and finally a hilbert space to anyone and youve entered philosophy.
Making any subject cool by infiltrating street culture and other coolfactor stuff in peoples lives always backfires. You always attract the wrong people, who will leave and the reputation of the subject grows worse.
Leave Physics as an elitist subject and only the brightest minds will be attracted. Another idea is to get pretty scientists like that italian girl at Waterloos Perimeter Institute whatshername?
The GPU is used to render 3D. The framebuffer is used to render 2D. Theres a difference.
Microsoft is planning to use the GPU for windows. Instead of simple blitting support, which most 2d chips already have, microsoft will be using a fat GPU, which intakes 3 coordinates (and some) rather than 2. There goes the IO for one...
The GPU will be required. So they wont just use the 2d hardware assist logic, which can draw windows with only data input from the CPU, they'll be using the GPUs power for something, otherwise its like taking a helicopter to take your kids to school, its a major waste. They might shove pretty graphics down peoples throats, like they have in the recent past with a few things. Or they might just be making their DirectX and windowing operatins unified, which results in wasted GPU if 3d rendering in windows is needed (fullscreen could still take all of the GPU I imagine). They'd also be leaving out people without graphics cards, which is very good news for pro-Linux/BSD people.
Therefore the OT was right and you are wrong.
I have a question about Lotus. Why is there no Linux version? Do you know our company (~80 boxes) is entirely windows, due only to lotus notes (6.5.3) and ERP system being Windows only. Lotus is even part of IBM now, which spends over $1 billion on Linux annually.
Domino runs on Linux, great. But we use Notes quite heavily, lots of custom databases, pda apps, custom apps etc, so iNotes is out of the question. We really are paying alotta microsoft tax only because of the ERP system which is 'promising' linux binaries, and lotus, which claims no plans yet. Its mostly java-based anyway, just compile it for Linux for each version minor number, its not too much work.
I can volunteer time.
They claim it 'fits the market'. I really do not understand that.
So they're willing to pay programmers to put in work hours to cripple an OS.. so it 'fits' the market. Why not... NOT put in those programming hours, and use something that is based on the generic XP kernel, but without IE and other heavyweight processes? Making it should be simple.
And other limitations will ensure people will buy the real thing when they've had enough of this.
A PC, when bought in poorer countries is used through and through. People put pirated copies of all games they can lay their hands on, and the numerous children will learn the PC and use it nonstop as soon as the dad purchases it. If anything, SE fits more of the 'retired' markets in western countries where people do not have kids and grandkids around to fix the computer problems, and where they just need to send emails and see pictures.
So anyone with a brand new PC with XPSE will think this is crap, get out and get a pirated copy of XP or 2000 and try to run that. Even better, if the PC is too slow for 2000 or XP, all market forces will push them to Linux. This is where marketing will be most useful. After a million PCs with XPSE are sold in a certain country, a Linux company like Lindows or Mandrake should launch a marketing campaign... for $10 replace your crippled OS with something faster, many more apps, no process limitation, better resolution, and something that will run just fine on a 200-300MHz Celeron PC.
That reminds me... if a few Linux-based companies agree on a machine spec, and produce something ARM7 or ARM9-based, and applications to go with it, beating the price of almost any x86-based machine, the markets will accept it. All we need is the threshold number of units produced to make it cheap but fast enough, and Wintel will be in trouble.
I had a similar problem as that guy, also caused by immoral use of the dd command. Testing another OS and its partition, I was playing with dd, and had images of other small partitions as gzipped files so I could dd them into the standard 10mb partition I had.
.tar.bz2 file in the root folder, and existed in pieces in other folders. I never could recover data from the / folder, but pieced data from others. Also, all folders somehow appeared in the root folder so an 'ls /' showed a large number of random-string directories, but they had good filenames inside them. So a whole lotta grepping and searching, and reconstructing the filelist.
But I misfired and did dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1, and things deteriorated. This XFS drive had all my collected files, years worth of data, so for the next week I embarked on educating myself about XFS's structures.
The XFS partition had two superblocks and the first one was deleted. I had to find the second one, and grep its signature. Use that superblock, overwrite the first (repaired) one, then run xfs_repair to bring the system back to life.
My backups were in a
The very first task I did after the 'mistake' was to get a larger disk, dd the crashed partition into a file, and then start fixing the partition. Any mistake I made, I could undo simply by dding back the partition from the file. But I learned new respect for dd. Its a loaded gun with a loose trigged, so NEVER point it anywhere you dont intend to shoot.
The 386 went from 16-bit to 32, taking all 16-bit apps with it, but there was also the very little known 80376, all 32-bit none of the 16-bit parts.
The same can be made of the Athlon64, simiar to the Itanium, being 64bit only. I know, that'd be a disaster, but now that we have binaries, linux binaries, and possibly windows, such a chip would be cheap, powerful, cool and welcome by some.
Would you buy a cheap laptop that will run AMD64 binaries real fast, but none of the 32-bit x86?
The internal bandwidth of machines will always be faster than the externel pipes. The cpu - memory speed will always be faster than your connection to the Internet.
All that means local applications will outperform hosted apps. Given applications will always push the limits, the execution of most graphic apps, and apps that require more interaction than is possible through a terminal services screen, will always be slower from a remote station.
That and our tendancy to OWN everything onto our desktop, similar to getting satellite dishes than pulling a cable and being at the mercy of cable companies. If most desktops are laptops in the future, its hard to believe any procssing will be offloaded killing the mobolity of the laptop.
Both iSCSI and FC are networked version of SCSI, and all 3 technologies are much faster than their respective disks, thereby not being the bottleneck at all. After Ultra160, the standard PCI channel is saturated, and 64-bit PCI like PCIX is needed for Ultra320, all the while usually even in the burst mode ( from cache) disks cant saturate this available bandwidth, say 6x RAID5 15K RPM disks in read mode.
FC and iSCSI are much more expensive than SCSI Ultra320, which is commodity hardware now. FC just sends the data in optic to outside the system, where larger datawarehouses can be managed instead of getting bigger and bigger Unisys boxen.
So if you need terabytes of data all in one place (I mean at least 10 terabytes), consider iSCSI and FC and putting the disks outside the system for better management. We are getting a NAS solution to replace our backup tapes, requirement was 1.2TB. We will get 4x 300GB Maxtor Maxline II SATA disks... the slow cheap ones, and put them in an IBM xSeries 206 which are going at $500 CDN, with an Adaptec RAID card.
Upto 16 SATA 400GB disks can be managed by a simple adaptec raid card, beyond that, think FC arrays.
Either that or they build rockets that dont kill people. Russia has proven its worth in aerospace design with very little funding.
Which would you buy for your own country, the Eurofighter or the Su-37?
There was a way to open a link in a new window without displaying the window's address bar. Couple that with putting up a link like so:
iexplore.exe http://site.com
And removing all links to iexplore.exe elsewhere...
And a better example:
enforce proxy servers (setup as admin in win2k, and leave the users unprivileged), setup a squid proxy server that only allows the site, and do not setup any proxies for firefox...
How about this one:
Hack a spyware and find out how they redirect people's URLs. use that and infect your own machines, so any address in IE takes them to that website. Use firefox for everywhere else.
And make sure you disable activex!!!
You missed winzip and winrar.
I've recently been impressed with Solarwinds network utilities...
Someone mentioned in a reply to my previous post, that its scheduled to hit the Eastern Hemisphere. Say it was headed for Beijing, will the US help with sending nukes to the asteroid? Or will they be like.... go ask North Korea?
What if it were to hit central Africa? "All those AIDS people were gonna die anyway". Or what about the Arctic? "Who cares about Eskimos, Canadians and Russians?".
I think the best place for the asteroid to aim would be north Atlantic ocean. With the stakes high for US and Europe, we might finally see a withdrawal from Iraq, unless the president is still Bush, in which case, invading Iran would be a higher priority. "We suspect the Iranians are steering an asteroid... terrorists!".
I wonder if its big enough to alter the Earths orbit, or rotation. If the days will be 24.01 hours instead of 24 hours, or heck we might even be rid of the leap year. Maybe we should aim for that and change the course of the asteroid...
What if there were two asteroids headed for Earth, one coming real close, the next definitely hitting the Earth? Would you invest in an orbital rocket, and try to hitch a ride on the first one to survive? (much less fuel than going to Mars).