And you actually could do it pretty quick too with this setup they're getting;)
just 'emerge distcc' and you can harness the collective power of the boxes by automatically farming out the steps of the compile jobs to them all. Can make a big difference to building stuff like KDE under Gentoo, espcially if you're building it for a slow machine and you've got a powerful PC hooked up to the same network.
For those who've never seen it, distcc is a distributed gcc compiler which works pretty well, and takes very little effort to set up.
"Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection." --- David Wheeler, chief programmer for the EDSAC project in the early 1950s.
If you want to quickly turn an old box into a dedicated and very secure firewall, then Smoothwall and a fork of it, IPCop are fine GPL examples. Smoothwall also sells a non-GPL version of their firewall with extra custom functions, but the basic Smoothwall is still GPL.
Both of the above support a load of network cards, and even USB-based ADSL (like the Speedtouch) right out of the box and are an absolute cinch to get running, even if you only have limited networking knowledge. They also provide a simple but powerful browser interface for administration (port forwarding, dyndns registration, squid caching web proxy, etc.).
If you want to add a firewall to an exising Linux box, then a good recommendation is ShoreWall which I've just recently set up on a Mandrake box and been very pleased with. It uses the kernel's Netfilter (iptables) support to do its thing, and is the best option if you want a multi-function firewall/router, etc., since both smoothwall/ipcop are designed to be more restrictive 'all in one' firewall distros where it can get tricky to do things like recompile the kernel without it breaking. Smoothwall and IPCop do provide regular security patches which are very easy to install via the browser admin interface (which even warns you when new ones have become available).
Smoothwall are usually a little quicker than IPCop at getting new patches out. Shorewall is a standalone firewall so it's up to you to keep the other apps updated.
If you look at the presentation, you'll see the current site already consists of 3 million lines of perl code (on top of the 8M C/C++), so clearly they ARE using perl, and think they can improve things...
It won't buy them any real advantage in the future market place. They're not going to be able to squeeze this in and suddenly make money from it.
As many people have said, IBM want this in simply because a lot of their customers need it in and t the end of the day, it saves customers effort.
IBM probably gain relatively little from this change themselves, but without it they'll have a lot of mainframe customers complaining - that's all they're trying to avoid.
You should note that it's NOT just IBM and its customers who'll benefit. Anyone who needs to develop products which interoperate with mainframes will be happy to see this happen.
Maybe it doesn't sound like a huge amount, but over, say, three years that's a tasty $180 million... Not too shabby, eh? Getting on for a quarter of a billion dollars (and that doesn't take into account the cash they made from selling the boxes to start with)...
TiVo always have been focussed on the software side since day one! They've never sold any hardware made by themselves which is why you buy Sony, Philips, or (in the UK) Thomson branded recorders with the TiVo service.
The difference was that the hardware manufacturers mostly took TiVo's reference design and implemented it (much like video card manufacturers do with nVidia's graphics chips). This new deal will mean that Sony will have free reign to implement the TiVo service in any device they like.
TiVo comes with a small IR controller on a wire which you place in front of the set top box or it can 'blast' the signal from the front of the TiVo and it'll bounce back to the set top box (if your room is not too big, etc.)
Pop along to here if you're interested in discussing TiVo in the UK.
Without a good understanding of the security in place, the best you can do is presumably minimize the risk. Only shop with places where your credit card details are NOT stored on their systems, and if they give you the option, remove them.
Personally I think the online world will be a much safer place once we have 'one-time' transaction numbers for specific amounts, much like American Express are apparantly introducing. Instead of giving any old company your full and 'permanent' credit card details, you go to your bank and ask them to provide you with a unique number for that individual transaction for a particular amount. It's then impossible for th company to store your details, mischarge you or charge you again in the future. Of course, we'd have to be confident that the credit card companies security is good, but I'd rather trust them than some merchant who's just about managed to get a Java e-commerce app running on his shared server.
What are you talking about? The linked article has a date of 20001112. At the top of this (new) aticle, the guy refers to a previous article he wrote back in July...
You're not necessarily risking anything. In a given week AMD might make (say) 100000 processors. Having lots of lines producing various speeds would be expensive so the make 100000 of the best quality then can at the time (it varies from chip to chip). They test them and the top few % become, say the 1Ghz badged versions. The worst few might be sold of as 650Mhz versions. The rest they might label at different speeds depending on market needs etc (what's selling well, etc.)
This is a greatly simplified version but you get the idea - That 900Mhz Athlon you just paid $300 for is the same basic chip as the $100 750 I just bought and I can 'overclock' my 750 to 900 and run as reliably as you do.....
I know Xeon's are generally only used in server apps and not on the desktop. They also cost a heck of a lot more. Can anybody explain to me what's so 'good' about them that justifies the cost...
Yeah, I saw somebody else mentioned this and submitted an 'Ask Slashdot' myself asking how the music industry might react to these 'waiting-to-be-abused' online libraries.
Apparantly on doing its pre-Y2K tests, one major UK bank found that financial reports ran after 01/01/2000 would attempt to display the results in pounds, shillings, and pence (i.e. the 'bizarre' monetary system used before decimalisation in 1972)
Since the Y2k rollover the cashless vending machines at our workplace (in UK) have stopped working! We're here on site (it's now 2:10am)providing Y2K support and if you insert your smartcard they say 'General Error - Date not set'!
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And you actually could do it pretty quick too with this setup they're getting ;)
just 'emerge distcc' and you can harness the collective power of the boxes by automatically farming out the steps of the compile jobs to them all. Can make a big difference to building stuff like KDE under Gentoo, espcially if you're building it for a slow machine and you've got a powerful PC hooked up to the same network.
For those who've never seen it, distcc is a distributed gcc compiler which works pretty well, and takes very little effort to set up.
"Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection."
--- David Wheeler, chief programmer for the EDSAC project in the early 1950s.
Scarily, it's still just as true today...
If you want to quickly turn an old box into a dedicated and very secure firewall, then Smoothwall and a fork of it, IPCop are fine GPL examples. Smoothwall also sells a non-GPL version of their firewall with extra custom functions, but the basic Smoothwall is still GPL.
Both of the above support a load of network cards, and even USB-based ADSL (like the Speedtouch) right out of the box and are an absolute cinch to get running, even if you only have limited networking knowledge. They also provide a simple but powerful browser interface for administration (port forwarding, dyndns registration, squid caching web proxy, etc.).
If you want to add a firewall to an exising Linux box, then a good recommendation is ShoreWall which I've just recently set up on a Mandrake box and been very pleased with. It uses the kernel's Netfilter (iptables) support to do its thing, and is the best option if you want a multi-function firewall/router, etc., since both smoothwall/ipcop are designed to be more restrictive 'all in one' firewall distros where it can get tricky to do things like recompile the kernel without it breaking. Smoothwall and IPCop do provide regular security patches which are very easy to install via the browser admin interface (which even warns you when new ones have become available).
Smoothwall are usually a little quicker than IPCop at getting new patches out. Shorewall is a standalone firewall so it's up to you to keep the other apps updated.
I was gonna call 911... but I was downloading a file
:)
Shamelessly stolen from bash.org top IRC quotes
If you look at the presentation, you'll see the current site already consists of 3 million lines of perl code (on top of the 8M C/C++), so clearly they ARE using perl, and think they can improve things...
It won't buy them any real advantage in the future market place. They're not going to be able to squeeze this in and suddenly make money from it.
As many people have said, IBM want this in simply because a lot of their customers need it in and t the end of the day, it saves customers effort.
IBM probably gain relatively little from this change themselves, but without it they'll have a lot of mainframe customers complaining - that's all they're trying to avoid.
You should note that it's NOT just IBM and its customers who'll benefit. Anyone who needs to develop products which interoperate with mainframes will be happy to see this happen.
Thirteen Thousands?!
;)
I just sit here and *dream* of having an ID in the thirteen thousands...
A N00b.
"Ubiquity now, revenue later"...
Else you just get today's comic and you won't 'get it' :)
Maybe it doesn't sound like a huge amount, but over, say, three years that's a tasty $180 million... Not too shabby, eh? Getting on for a quarter of a billion dollars (and that doesn't take into account the cash they made from selling the boxes to start with)...
Well if you didn't get the reference, you'll just think I'm insulting you :)
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Maybe :)
But if everyone said "I don't know" to everything they see but don't understand, we'd still be living in caves and saying "Ugg!" a lot...
A world without Human curiosity would be so very different to the life we know...
;)
See this.
TiVo always have been focussed on the software side since day one! They've never sold any hardware made by themselves which is why you buy Sony, Philips, or (in the UK) Thomson branded recorders with the TiVo service.
The difference was that the hardware manufacturers mostly took TiVo's reference design and implemented it (much like video card manufacturers do with nVidia's graphics chips). This new deal will mean that Sony will have free reign to implement the TiVo service in any device they like.
TiVo comes with a small IR controller on a wire which you place in front of the set top box or it can 'blast' the signal from the front of the TiVo and it'll bounce back to the set top box (if your room is not too big, etc.) Pop along to here if you're interested in discussing TiVo in the UK.
The quick response was referring to the message posted, not the code.
For the record, once a TiVo has been upgraded it is NOT possible to downgrade again as the upgrade is one way.
Neil.
Personally I think the online world will be a much safer place once we have 'one-time' transaction numbers for specific amounts, much like American Express are apparantly introducing. Instead of giving any old company your full and 'permanent' credit card details, you go to your bank and ask them to provide you with a unique number for that individual transaction for a particular amount. It's then impossible for th company to store your details, mischarge you or charge you again in the future. Of course, we'd have to be confident that the credit card companies security is good, but I'd rather trust them than some merchant who's just about managed to get a Java e-commerce app running on his shared server.
What are you talking about? The linked article has a date of 20001112. At the top of this (new) aticle, the guy refers to a previous article he wrote back in July...
You're not necessarily risking anything. In a given week AMD might make (say) 100000 processors. Having lots of lines producing various speeds would be expensive so the make 100000 of the best quality then can at the time (it varies from chip to chip). They test them and the top few % become, say the 1Ghz badged versions. The worst few might be sold of as 650Mhz versions. The rest they might label at different speeds depending on market needs etc (what's selling well, etc.)
This is a greatly simplified version but you get the idea - That 900Mhz Athlon you just paid $300 for is the same basic chip as the $100 750 I just bought and I can 'overclock' my 750 to 900 and run as reliably as you do.....
I know Xeon's are generally only used in server apps and not on the desktop. They also cost a heck of a lot more. Can anybody explain to me what's so 'good' about them that justifies the cost...
Yeah, I saw somebody else mentioned this and submitted an 'Ask Slashdot' myself asking how the music industry might react to these 'waiting-to-be-abused' online libraries.
Apparantly on doing its pre-Y2K tests, one major UK bank found that financial reports ran after 01/01/2000 would attempt to display the results in pounds, shillings, and pence (i.e. the 'bizarre' monetary system used before decimalisation in 1972)
FOr me it shows:
"by xneilj on Saturday January 01, @02:08 BST (#583)"
Yours is:
"by notrocketscience on Saturday January 01, @02:22 BST (#588)"
Dunno why Slashdot can't figure out that 00:00 BST = 00:00 GMT during the winter.......
Since the Y2k rollover the cashless vending machines at our workplace (in UK) have stopped working! We're here on site (it's now 2:10am)providing Y2K support and if you insert your smartcard they say 'General Error - Date not set'!