I own my own domain, and maintain my own mailserver. Who will levy this tax on me? Who will monitor my traffic? What if I set up an IPSec tunnel to Sealand, then route my mail out of there? This is one of the most idiotic things I've read in a while.
IPSec traffic OFTEN looks like "hack" attacks - weird, short packets, protocol 50 and (sometimes 51), streams of UDP 500, etc. Because it's all binary, its more likely to trigger the "shellcode" sort of alerts. An IDS will see the binary stream "F00F" in your payloads and assume you're doing a DoS attack or something. Trust me, I know - I helped build the first version of Guardent'sIDS solution.
Lets make sure we're comparing apples to apples. The 400 MHz bus on the Athlon is a DDR doublepumped bus, so its really 200 MHz. The 800 MHz FSB on the P4 is a quadpumped bus, so its really 200 MHz.
My Zaurus 5500 does all these things, with the exeption of WinXP, although it DOES run bochs.. For $178 + $16 for screen protectors + $51 for a 10/100 card, and flashing with OpenZaurus 3.2, I get:
206 MHz CPU, 64MB of RAM, 16 MB flash (you can even create swap to increase RAM) Linux 320x240 full color GUI SSH client and server VNC client and server SMB client and server Apache MySQL Perl serial terminal Word/Excel compatibility Full functionality web browser IMAP/SSL email wireless, bluetooth or ethernet up to 1+ GB of directly accessible storage keyboard handwriting recognition Oggs/MP3s/_MPEGS_
and it's about 1.5x the size (mostly increased length) of a Palm. Why do I need WinXP, or x86 compatibility? Am I going to develop for Win32 on this thing?
It's all about what you need, and what tool will get you there.
Which would you prefer, this underhanded scheming, where it may happen de facto, or the above-the-table, over-the-counter socialization of the industries, where it happens de jure? At least this can be auditted, flamed, possibly changed. The market isn't broken by design.
Why are 'social coordination' skills going to be most needed in the near future? Perhaps because you're smuggling in the premise that the world at large is turning more socialized and more statist? Nice try, but some people can read between the lines of your post.
Why do we keep feeding page hits to this bitch? Everyone complains how she's terrible, but we link to, and read her articles. Starve her of hits, she'll dry up and blow away...
It already exists, and it's called... [drumroll here]...
RAM!
Load your system with RAM, and it will never swap. Problem solved. If you can't fit your working set into RAM, and you have a modern system board that can take 1 or 2 GB of it, then you have other optimizations to worry about.
This is the way that you should your outbound email configured anyway, you're incorrectly configured if you're not passing mail upstream through your ISP. This is one of the more assinine, non-troll comments that I've read here. But wait, you're an AC... How did you become authoritative on SMTP policy for the Internet-at-large? How are you an authority on the ins and outs of his ToS with his ISP?
You mention the 'fetchyahoo' package. THAT violates the Yahoo ToS - one could argue, using your loging that 'you're incorrectly configured'.
How is modern genetic engineering different then selective breeding? When farmers bred the two best cows or sheep, and then bred THOSE offspring, wasn't that genetic engineering of the breed? What about when you marry someone who looks a certain way? Are your children "genetically engineered" ?
No matter how many MHz you have, broken Java code, lame screen redraws in your browser, compiles set to use "make -j4" and countless other programming adventures can pin the CPU at 100%. I want good, cheap, 2 or 4 way SMP on my desktop. I don't want one app to wait for another, and I don't want to have to wait for any of them. I switched to a dual Celeron board some years ago, and there's really no going back once you've gone duallie.
This is called fraud, and already unethical and illegal. If you own a piece of hardware, sitting in your hand, then you own it, not some subset of its functionality deemed 'acceptable' by its manufacturer.
What ethical issues are there relating to overclocking? Overclocking a chip, and selling it at a higher speed is already called "fraud". There's nothing ethical or unethical about overclocking. Is redlining your car's engine unethical? Stupid maybe, but that's about it...
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I own my own domain, and maintain my own mailserver. Who will levy this tax on me? Who will monitor my traffic? What if I set up an IPSec tunnel to Sealand, then route my mail out of there? This is one of the most idiotic things I've read in a while.
Tell those ISPs to go fsck themselves.
IPSec traffic OFTEN looks like "hack" attacks - weird, short packets, protocol 50 and (sometimes 51), streams of UDP 500, etc. Because it's all binary, its more likely to trigger the "shellcode" sort of alerts. An IDS will see the binary stream "F00F" in your payloads and assume you're doing a DoS attack or something. Trust me, I know - I helped build the first version of Guardent'sIDS solution.
I wrote a patch to this filesystem which implements lzip compression at the block layer... much better capacity and throughput!
Lets make sure we're comparing apples to apples. The 400 MHz bus on the Athlon is a DDR doublepumped bus, so its really 200 MHz. The 800 MHz FSB on the P4 is a quadpumped bus, so its really 200 MHz.
Sorry, too scared to click the link.
I get > 300 KB/sec (yes, kilobytes) from some RedHat mirrors, and thats the limit (roughly) of my cable modem. There is no bandwidth crunch.
Except that Sauron doesn't have a face. The silly "flaming cat's eye" in the movies doesn't count.
My Zaurus 5500 does all these things, with the exeption of WinXP, although it DOES run bochs.. For $178 + $16 for screen protectors + $51 for a 10/100 card, and flashing with OpenZaurus 3.2, I get:
206 MHz CPU, 64MB of RAM, 16 MB flash
(you can even create swap to increase RAM)
Linux
320x240 full color GUI
SSH client and server
VNC client and server
SMB client and server
Apache
MySQL
Perl
serial terminal
Word/Excel compatibility
Full functionality web browser
IMAP/SSL email
wireless, bluetooth or ethernet
up to 1+ GB of directly accessible storage
keyboard
handwriting recognition
Oggs/MP3s/_MPEGS_
and it's about 1.5x the size (mostly increased length) of a Palm.
Why do I need WinXP, or x86 compatibility? Am I going to develop for Win32 on this thing?
It's all about what you need, and what tool will get you there.
You idiot, burning NOx is an endothermic reaction, you'd piss away more power burning it than you'd get. What's next, lets store energy as oxygen?
Which would you prefer, this underhanded scheming, where it may happen de facto, or the above-the-table, over-the-counter socialization of the industries, where it happens de jure? At least this can be auditted, flamed, possibly changed. The market isn't broken by design.
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This is just a followup to yesterday's article about Solid State Disks. Geesh.
Why are 'social coordination' skills going to be most needed in the near future? Perhaps because you're smuggling in the premise that the world at large is turning more socialized and more statist? Nice try, but some people can read between the lines of your post.
Why do we keep feeding page hits to this bitch? Everyone complains how she's terrible, but we link to, and read her articles. Starve her of hits, she'll dry up and blow away...
RAM!
Load your system with RAM, and it will never swap. Problem solved. If you can't fit your working set into RAM, and you have a modern system board that can take 1 or 2 GB of it, then you have other optimizations to worry about.
Try coding for auto line-wrap first.
This is the way that you should your outbound email configured anyway, you're incorrectly configured if you're not passing mail upstream through your ISP.
This is one of the more assinine, non-troll comments that I've read here. But wait, you're an AC... How did you become authoritative on SMTP policy for the Internet-at-large? How are you an authority on the ins and outs of his ToS with his ISP?
You mention the 'fetchyahoo' package. THAT violates the Yahoo ToS - one could argue, using your loging that 'you're incorrectly configured'.
grub has been crawling my site for weeks if not months now. How is this news? Because someone at Wired wrote about it? Geesh.
Wasn't he a sailor?
If you get this, etc. etc.
You're thinking of the clipper chip, which was already thrown out due to uproar.
How is modern genetic engineering different then selective breeding? When farmers bred the two best cows or sheep, and then bred THOSE offspring, wasn't that genetic engineering of the breed? What about when you marry someone who looks a certain way? Are your children "genetically engineered" ?
Dumbass, how often do you put "make -j4" in a Makefile on Windows. Obviously I'm using Linux.
No matter how many MHz you have, broken Java code, lame screen redraws in your browser, compiles set to use "make -j4" and countless other programming adventures can pin the CPU at 100%. I want good, cheap, 2 or 4 way SMP on my desktop. I don't want one app to wait for another, and I don't want to have to wait for any of them. I switched to a dual Celeron board some years ago, and there's really no going back once you've gone duallie.
This is called fraud, and already unethical and illegal. If you own a piece of hardware, sitting in your hand, then you own it, not some subset of its functionality deemed 'acceptable' by its manufacturer.
What ethical issues are there relating to overclocking? Overclocking a chip, and selling it at a higher speed is already called "fraud". There's nothing ethical or unethical about overclocking. Is redlining your car's engine unethical? Stupid maybe, but that's about it...