You know that there is a company selling solarpanels for Apple Powerbooks?
And that folded those fit nicely in every computer bag?
I had one for my Pb 145b.
Have you ever been in a third-world country? My friends have, some are in the Peace Corps. Yes, they have starving people, but so do we. Why don't we feed our homeless before we spend a penny on things like NASA?
Well, money spent on NASA is a lot more practical than money spent on the army..
With that money you can feed the whole world population.
On any hardware device, especially one with analog circuits (like a cell phone) there can be plenty of sources of randomness: background static in the microphone, fluctuations of the RF signal. It should be quite easy to seed a random number generator from these sources. Even if the random number generator is known, it is not always possible to even remotely guess at what the next numbers will be without knowing the seed and internal state.
An analogue cellphone?
Do they still make them?
In Europe, Asia and Afrika we all use digital cellphones.
This is called GSM.
And this system already uses encryption.
Between the phone and the tower...
The data streaming between the phones and towers of a GSM network is already encrypted with one of two algorithms, A5/1 and A5/2. A5/1, the "stronger" variant, is in use in virtually every GSM network currently operating.
Yup, the data is encrypted between the towers and the phone.
But not between the towers and the switch!!
So, it is very easy for any government agency to listen in on a conversation.
Because there is no encryption between the tower and the central switch!!
being a european car, I thought they would be using imperial gallons.
Nope, we use liters, kilo's and meters
The only country in Europe where they use gallons and miles is Great-Britain and Ireland.
And this means that a liter of petrol is around 1,16 euro a liter for euro unleaded.
Diesel is around 0,73 euro a liter.
And biodiesel around 0,59 euro a liter.
Compare this with the fuel prices in the USA.
Says it all.
If you look with google for regionhacks you get lot's of sites with ways to play all regiondisks on your DVD player.
When I bought my DVD-player the first thing I did before buying it was to look how easy it was to make it play all regioncode disks.
Of course, once all the Australian electronics shops sell multi-region players, those players will catch on elsewhere...
Contrary to the US it ins't illegal to sell region-code free players or modification kits in most of Europe.
It is possible to buy a regioncode free players from most larger shops here in the Netherlands.
For instance, mediamarkt which has shops in four large cities sells four models of DVD players which can play all regioncode DVD's.
That makes it highly likely that a dual Athlon will significantly outperform the dual Xeon, does it not?
Well, according to www.spec.org the fastest processor at the market is the Alpha 21264 at 833 Mhz..
It runs rounds around any PIII or Athlon on the market today.
Second, there are already logicboard with an AMD 760 and a 21264 processor.
Yes, it uses DDram without any problems.
Guess what happens if you have logicboards which can support two 21264 processors and DDram..
Who needs an Intanium anymore?
And this processor is available for at least a year now.
And 64 bits.
I like to see a kernelcompile on a dual 21264 machine.....
Check your math. The G4 listed is only 29% faster than the PIII listed, not 75% or 50% in terms of keys/sec.
Jup, a 450 Mhz G4 is about 29 faster than a Pentium/// 1 Ghz.
If we compare a theoretical G4 1 Ghz with the same Pentium/// 1 Ghz then the G4 will outrun it almost 2,5 times.
A fully loaded G4 733 Mhz. with a DVD/CD burner, 256 Mb of memomy and standard gigabit ethernet is around $ 3499-.
But you can get a dual G4 533 for around $ 2049- which isn't expensive.
A dual Pentium/// 1 Ghz. with firewire, gigabit ethernet and 128 Mb of memory cost almost the same.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to do this with a bunch of PC's in stead? Not as pretty but it's someones tax dollars that pay for these...
Well, due to the fact that the PPC7400 has an Altivec unit it is much faster than any comparable Intel processor.
To get the same speed from Intel hardware you need something like 50 dual Pentium/// computers.
And the price for rackmount computers is almost comparable with the Apple G4 dual 450.
Second, gigabit ethernet is standard on those machines.
If they want to they can replace the 100baseT switch with a gigabit switch.
The problem with that is that MS licenses are generally not transferable from one PC to another, regardless of whether you have OEM or retail licenses. The license is tied to the specific machine.
Not the old licenses.
That's why I keep our old NT 4.0 licenses.
802.11 is a wireless replacement for ethernet. Bluetooth is a replacement for short-haul cable like serial cables, wireless phones, and such. They are not in direct competition, but complement each other. 802.11 is high speed, but expensive and power-hungry, while bluetooth is short range, low speed, cheap and power efficient (an important requirement for PDA:s, phone handsets and other gadgets with a limited battery life). You wouldn't use Bluetooth as a replacement for cable networks, and you won't want to use 802.11 as a replacement for serial or parallel cable.
Doesn't surprise me at all.
Windows 2000 doesn't support IrDA.
At least, not the old way.
And Apple is working to support Bluetooth with MacOS X.
Second, IBM has made a small Bluetooth transceiver which fits into an USB-plug.
The "Cult of greed" has lost some courtcases in the Netherlands too.
And contrary to the USA the "cult of greed" has lots of problems here in Europe.
And we don't have something like the DMCA here in Europe too. (lucky us).
..that Apple may port OSX to the Pentium platform, but pre-G3 Powermac users have to buy a whole new system.
Well, the beta runs fine on my Powermac 7500.
I had to recompile the kernel but after doing so it runs perfect.
Only problem is, that the first generation aren't capable of running MacOS X due to the fact that those are using NuBUS instead of PCI.
MacOS X runs pretty good on every TNT/Nitro or Tsunami based Mac.
The Umax J700 uses the tsunami design and can run MacOS X.
The problem is not the processor (a G3 is an 603ev with a builtin cache controller) but the chipset.
And because Apple made the source of the kernel available (darwin) it isn't very difficult to compile a new kernel with support for other chipsets.
Because if I need to I have all the support in the world to add extra functionality to the pc be it extra processors or a new fpu. Try doing that with apple.
Well, it is easier to upgrade a CPU from a mac than from a PC.
I have upgraded a 9500 with an 132 Mhz 604 to a G4 running at 400 MHz..
Why can't I plugin a Pentium/// or Pentium 4 in an Pentium socket7 mainboard?
Even the newest G4's have the processorboard in a ZIF-socket.
No problem at all.
And about clockspeed..
MacOS X with a G4-processor beats the hell out of a Pentium 4 with Windows.
MacOS X use the Altivec unit for almost everything.
This means video, graphics and sound are much faster than without Altivec.
Apple has a basestation with an internal 56 K modem and ethernet + airport.
Yes, it does NAT and DHCP.
So, nice but I rather buy an Apple airport basestation.
MS's DNS service is actually just an enhanced Bind + GUI management. It *IS* vulenerable to the TSIG bug
To make things worse :
The DNS in WindowsNT is based on BIND 4.*.
And the DNS of Windows2000 is based on bind 8.1.*.
And M$ still haven't put out a security bulletin about the issue.
So, with any luck in about 2 months M$ will issue a warning on this problem.
dont judge these things by their x86 emulation, benchmark them against a similarly clocked (or similarly priced) alpha, that is when we can discount this chip.
Well, the only reason that it took Intel more than five years to release this chip is the Alpha.
The first version was withdrawn affter two years because a 800 Mhz. version was about 20% slower than a 21164 at 600 Mhz..
This version is almost as fast as a 21164 with similar clockspeeds.
Only problem is, that Digital/Compaq has the 21264 processor and are working at the 21364 processor.
Both processors are faster and cheaper than the Itanium.
One of the reasons it took so long was that HP didn't put much resources into it.
Their PArisc chips are much faster now than the itanium.
T
>not that the communist government would give a damn about environment anyway
unlike the new leader of the free world....
Let me think.
The new leader of the free world, and they think about the enviroment.
Must be the EC, because the US is one of the largest poluters on earth.
When Apple was sued for using the word Sagan as a code-name for a project, Apple rename it Butt-Head Astronomer.
Ehh, the story was a little different.
Apple had a project called Carl Sagan.
Carl Sagan sued Apple and lost.
Apple changed the project name to BHA which was short for "ButtHead Astronomer".
Carl Sagan again sued Apple and lost.
Apple then changed the projectname to "LAW", short for Lawyers Are Whimps.
They didn't changed the name of this project again.
My brother, who IS a lawyer, told me that the reason why whenever you go to a restaurant where they serve Pepsi and you ask for a Coke they ask you "Is Pepsi okay?" is because of the Coke Lawyers.
They actually send associates around when they're on travels to various restaurants and check the responses. Those who don't clarify are asked (politely, according to my brother) to correctly phrase the question, and the store goes in the big bad offenders database.
It's their way of preserving the fact that a Coke is their particular beverage. They (the brand owners) really DO take this stuff seriously.
One simple solution to it.
Ask for a cola.
And US law makes me laugh.
How stupid can you be.
I'm glad i'm living in the EC.
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You know that there is a company selling solarpanels for Apple Powerbooks?
And that folded those fit nicely in every computer bag?
I had one for my Pb 145b.
Have you ever been in a third-world country? My friends have, some are in the Peace Corps. Yes, they have starving people, but so do we. Why don't we feed our homeless before we spend a penny on things like NASA?
Well, money spent on NASA is a lot more practical than money spent on the army..
With that money you can feed the whole world population.
On any hardware device, especially one with analog circuits (like a cell phone) there can be plenty of sources of randomness: background static in the microphone, fluctuations of the RF signal. It should be quite easy to seed a random number generator from these sources. Even if the random number generator is known, it is not always possible to even remotely guess at what the next numbers will be without knowing the seed and internal state.
An analogue cellphone?
Do they still make them?
In Europe, Asia and Afrika we all use digital cellphones.
This is called GSM.
And this system already uses encryption.
Between the phone and the tower...
The data streaming between the phones and towers of a GSM network is already encrypted with one of two algorithms, A5/1 and A5/2. A5/1, the "stronger" variant, is in use in virtually every GSM network currently operating.
Yup, the data is encrypted between the towers and the phone.
But not between the towers and the switch!!
So, it is very easy for any government agency to listen in on a conversation.
Because there is no encryption between the tower and the central switch!!
being a european car, I thought they would be using imperial gallons.
Nope, we use liters, kilo's and meters
The only country in Europe where they use gallons and miles is Great-Britain and Ireland.
And this means that a liter of petrol is around 1,16 euro a liter for euro unleaded.
Diesel is around 0,73 euro a liter.
And biodiesel around 0,59 euro a liter.
Compare this with the fuel prices in the USA.
Okay, now I know why there is a preview button.
http://www.dvdscene.co.uk/regionhacks/
Sorry for the mistake.
Says it all.
If you look with google for regionhacks you get lot's of sites with ways to play all regiondisks on your DVD player.
When I bought my DVD-player the first thing I did before buying it was to look how easy it was to make it play all regioncode disks.
Of course, once all the Australian electronics shops sell multi-region players, those players will catch on elsewhere...
Contrary to the US it ins't illegal to sell region-code free players or modification kits in most of Europe.
It is possible to buy a regioncode free players from most larger shops here in the Netherlands.
For instance, mediamarkt which has shops in four large cities sells four models of DVD players which can play all regioncode DVD's.
That makes it highly likely that a dual Athlon will significantly outperform the dual Xeon, does it not?
Well, according to www.spec.org the fastest processor at the market is the Alpha 21264 at 833 Mhz..
It runs rounds around any PIII or Athlon on the market today.
Second, there are already logicboard with an AMD 760 and a 21264 processor.
Yes, it uses DDram without any problems.
Guess what happens if you have logicboards which can support two 21264 processors and DDram..
Who needs an Intanium anymore?
And this processor is available for at least a year now.
And 64 bits.
I like to see a kernelcompile on a dual 21264 machine.....
Check your math. The G4 listed is only 29% faster than the PIII listed, not 75% or 50% in terms of keys/sec.
Jup, a 450 Mhz G4 is about 29 faster than a Pentium
If we compare a theoretical G4 1 Ghz with the same Pentium
A fully loaded G4 733 Mhz. with a DVD/CD burner, 256 Mb of memomy and standard gigabit ethernet is around $ 3499-.
But you can get a dual G4 533 for around $ 2049- which isn't expensive.
A dual Pentium
Wouldn't it be cheaper to do this with a bunch of PC's in stead? Not as pretty but it's someones tax dollars that pay for these...
Well, due to the fact that the PPC7400 has an Altivec unit it is much faster than any comparable Intel processor.
To get the same speed from Intel hardware you need something like 50 dual Pentium
And the price for rackmount computers is almost comparable with the Apple G4 dual 450.
Second, gigabit ethernet is standard on those machines.
If they want to they can replace the 100baseT switch with a gigabit switch.
The point of having an army (if I may carry the analogy a little farther) is to keep the enemy away from civilization.
In case of the US army it is the other way round.
To keep civilization away from the USA.
Sorry, BSDi.
What the hell? AOL uses Unix systems. Most of their network is based around Unix servers.
Yep NSDi.
The problem with that is that MS licenses are generally not transferable from one PC to another, regardless of whether you have OEM or retail licenses. The license is tied to the specific machine.
Not the old licenses.
That's why I keep our old NT 4.0 licenses.
802.11 is a wireless replacement for ethernet. Bluetooth is a replacement for short-haul cable like serial cables, wireless phones, and such. They are not in direct competition, but complement each other. 802.11 is high speed, but expensive and power-hungry, while bluetooth is short range, low speed, cheap and power efficient (an important requirement for PDA:s, phone handsets and other gadgets with a limited battery life). You wouldn't use Bluetooth as a replacement for cable networks, and you won't want to use 802.11 as a replacement for serial or parallel cable.
Doesn't surprise me at all.
Windows 2000 doesn't support IrDA.
At least, not the old way.
And Apple is working to support Bluetooth with MacOS X.
Second, IBM has made a small Bluetooth transceiver which fits into an USB-plug.
The "Cult of greed" has lost some courtcases in the Netherlands too.
And contrary to the USA the "cult of greed" has lots of problems here in Europe.
And we don't have something like the DMCA here in Europe too. (lucky us).
..that Apple may port OSX to the Pentium platform, but pre-G3 Powermac users have to buy a whole new system.
Well, the beta runs fine on my Powermac 7500.
I had to recompile the kernel but after doing so it runs perfect.
Only problem is, that the first generation aren't capable of running MacOS X due to the fact that those are using NuBUS instead of PCI.
MacOS X runs pretty good on every TNT/Nitro or Tsunami based Mac.
The Umax J700 uses the tsunami design and can run MacOS X.
The problem is not the processor (a G3 is an 603ev with a builtin cache controller) but the chipset.
And because Apple made the source of the kernel available (darwin) it isn't very difficult to compile a new kernel with support for other chipsets.
Because if I need to I have all the support in the world to add extra functionality to the pc be it extra processors or a new fpu. Try doing that with apple.
Well, it is easier to upgrade a CPU from a mac than from a PC.
I have upgraded a 9500 with an 132 Mhz 604 to a G4 running at 400 MHz..
Why can't I plugin a Pentium
Even the newest G4's have the processorboard in a ZIF-socket.
No problem at all.
And about clockspeed..
MacOS X with a G4-processor beats the hell out of a Pentium 4 with Windows.
MacOS X use the Altivec unit for almost everything.
This means video, graphics and sound are much faster than without Altivec.
Apple has a basestation with an internal 56 K modem and ethernet + airport.
Yes, it does NAT and DHCP.
So, nice but I rather buy an Apple airport basestation.
MS's DNS service is actually just an enhanced Bind + GUI management. It *IS* vulenerable to the TSIG bug
To make things worse :
The DNS in WindowsNT is based on BIND 4.*.
And the DNS of Windows2000 is based on bind 8.1.*.
And M$ still haven't put out a security bulletin about the issue.
So, with any luck in about 2 months M$ will issue a warning on this problem.
dont judge these things by their x86 emulation, benchmark them against a similarly clocked (or similarly priced) alpha, that is when we can discount this chip.
Well, the only reason that it took Intel more than five years to release this chip is the Alpha.
The first version was withdrawn affter two years because a 800 Mhz. version was about 20% slower than a 21164 at 600 Mhz..
This version is almost as fast as a 21164 with similar clockspeeds.
Only problem is, that Digital/Compaq has the 21264 processor and are working at the 21364 processor.
Both processors are faster and cheaper than the Itanium.
One of the reasons it took so long was that HP didn't put much resources into it.
Their PArisc chips are much faster now than the itanium.
T
>not that the communist government would give a damn about environment anyway
unlike the new leader of the free world....
Let me think.
The new leader of the free world, and they think about the enviroment.
Must be the EC, because the US is one of the largest poluters on earth.
When Apple was sued for using the word Sagan as a code-name for a project, Apple rename it Butt-Head Astronomer.
Ehh, the story was a little different.
Apple had a project called Carl Sagan.
Carl Sagan sued Apple and lost.
Apple changed the project name to BHA which was short for "ButtHead Astronomer".
Carl Sagan again sued Apple and lost.
Apple then changed the projectname to "LAW", short for Lawyers Are Whimps.
They didn't changed the name of this project again.
My brother, who IS a lawyer, told me that the reason why whenever you go to a restaurant where they serve Pepsi and you ask for a Coke they ask you "Is Pepsi okay?" is because of the Coke Lawyers.
They actually send associates around when they're on travels to various restaurants and check the responses. Those who don't clarify are asked (politely, according to my brother) to correctly phrase the question, and the store goes in the big bad offenders database.
It's their way of preserving the fact that a Coke is their particular beverage. They (the brand owners) really DO take this stuff seriously.
One simple solution to it.
Ask for a cola.
And US law makes me laugh.
How stupid can you be.
I'm glad i'm living in the EC.