Of course it's "stuff that matters"! Without BIND how will I ever be able to log into my box as root? I'd have to do something silly like install SU or use/etc/securetty
Lends more credibility to the disposable credit card concept.
the whole system is screwed. which idiot decided that a merchant should be given authority by the customer to charge their bank account? bah
BPay rules. You tell your BANK to pay the money to the merchant. A payment consists of Biller Code (the company to pay) and the Customer Reference (your customer/account/bill # with the merchant).
Online ordering is easy - either you open an account with the company and all your purchases are pooled together and get paid for under your Customer #, or the website gives you a unique bill number after you confirm your order, and you pay for each individual purchase. Once you have your customer #/bill # you head over to your bank's website, log in, type in the details and your bill is paid.
AFAIK, it's only debit at the moment, but there's no reason it can't be extended into credit. It's no substitute for an in-person credit card, but for online shopping, it can't be beat, IMO.
Heaven forbid that somebody build a scalable, basically object-oriented hardware solution
yer, so? we're talking MEAT SPACE here. OO works for software cos disk, memory and CPU overhead are pretty much nil on todays hardware, but you can't upgrade meatspace - only so much fits in a case. And being PCs, scalability means jack. We want small AND fast...
all barcode scanners must read across (either way) the barcode - the difference in supermarkets and such, is they normally have at least two and usually more beams (either separate or via mirror/prism) that cross each other so the code can be read at any angle.
And this is the flawed reasoning that will kill a lot of "free/cheap hardware, but buy our service" businesses
easy way around that - the hardware belongs to the company, period. At the end of say 2 years of service from said company, they offer to sell you the hardware for a dollar. It's probably out of date by then anyway so the company doesn't lose much.
er, single user input thread, or single message queue? or both?
don't have the stats handy, but if you wanna go ask Dale in OS-DEBATE on Fidonet (yes, it still exists and we're still at it) I'm sure he'll give you either the stats or the program used to to test it.
basically it just writes randomly to 1,000,000 memory locations it doesn't own, and checks how many produce a GPF. Win9x sucks bad, OS/2 and NT whip it's arse, but NT comes out ahead of OS/2 by double (though the difference of a few dozen in a million attemps is jack all really).
eh? Solaris sucks (IMO) cos all the tools are 10 years out of date. Windows/Linux are more on the bleeding/cuttingedge, although stability suffers a lot/little.
# ppptime
Online for 48 days 1 hours 57 minutes and 54 seconds
secure
mwahahaha, don't even go there.
supported
by ameteurs
Win2k
uptime approaching 2 days
try 2 months and counting..
a script kiddy's dream
My Linux box is the only machine I've ever had h4x0r3d (via DNS server). Luckily I was playing with my firewall rules at the time so I caught the bastard.
backed by the world class "we'll fix that when we feel like it" ms support model
as opposed to "we'll release it as stable when we feel like it"
Nor does Windows 3.x, 9x. It doesn't support true preemptive multitasking
3.x doesn't, Win9x does. You may be thinking of the GDI - which isn't the OS, just part of the interface.
a real memory protection model in order to maintain backward compatibility; everything runs in ring 0
ring 0 goes wayyyy beyond memory access (which IS protected), while most core OS functions are ring 0, you apps are not, so it's hardly 'everything'
FWIW, NT performs better at protecting memory than OS/2 does, and based on the praise of OS/2, that's gotta be some solid protection. Of course, stability of an OS is more than memory protection.
what I hope for is that everyone gets their own complete network, no more single IP/subnet nonsense... by segmenting it, only the world unique portion is assigned by your provider, the rest you assign yourself...
is there any reason (other than giving the power mongers a reason to get up in the morning) for flat address space?
eg. instead of every host having a world unique address, eg. 64.28.67.48 why not segment it, like 1.2.3.4:209.207.165.16? ie. 209.207.165.16 is the world unique address, any packet directed to ?.?.?.?:209.207.165.16 is sent to 209.207.165.16, once there, 209.207.165.16 decides where internally to route the packet.
like a user@hostname kinda thing, except with IPs.
How many SysOps trashed thier BBSes when they shut down?
mine's still going, thank you:)
although the filebase has been archived to CD and wiped, with the exception of BBS support files, since anything worth d/l'ing can be had off the net (and up to date) without tying up my phone lines. Fidonet and online games are what it's all about anyway
pity Telescum/Craptus can't offer me a cable/asl service cheap enough to run a telnet board.
He's so annoying that whenever he says anything I agree with, I seriously consider changing my opinion just so I'm not in the same boat with him
I felt the same way the entire time I used OS/2 (which was up until about 3 months ago). The worst part of OS/2 was always the other users one had to invariably put up with in order to get support for anything to work...
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Which of course has to do with the fact that most Europeans are racist
how does that have anything at all to do with the fact the people in question can't speak the language required?
people like you just make the situation worse. go crawl back under your rock and stay there.
an asteroid coming within 25,000m of us hasn't missed - 25k is plenty within our atmosphere.
perhaps you meant 25,000 kilometers?
got any links for industrial units?
mmm, is that RAIE (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Electrons)?
Of course it's "stuff that matters"! Without BIND how will I ever be able to log into my box as root? I'd have to do something silly like install SU or use /etc/securetty
2 x 500mhz processors is NOT 1Ghz
Multiple processors is not about running the same stuff faster, it's about running MORE at the same speed.
so what did they do with the rind? do apple sell iFruit mobos without pulp now?
Lends more credibility to the disposable credit card concept.
the whole system is screwed. which idiot decided that a merchant should be given authority by the customer to charge their bank account? bah
BPay rules. You tell your BANK to pay the money to the merchant. A payment consists of Biller Code (the company to pay) and the Customer Reference (your customer/account/bill # with the merchant).
Online ordering is easy - either you open an account with the company and all your purchases are pooled together and get paid for under your Customer #, or the website gives you a unique bill number after you confirm your order, and you pay for each individual purchase. Once you have your customer #/bill # you head over to your bank's website, log in, type in the details and your bill is paid.
AFAIK, it's only debit at the moment, but there's no reason it can't be extended into credit. It's no substitute for an in-person credit card, but for online shopping, it can't be beat, IMO.
Heaven forbid that somebody build a scalable, basically object-oriented hardware solution
yer, so? we're talking MEAT SPACE here. OO works for software cos disk, memory and CPU overhead are pretty much nil on todays hardware, but you can't upgrade meatspace - only so much fits in a case. And being PCs, scalability means jack. We want small AND fast...
all barcode scanners must read across (either way) the barcode - the difference in supermarkets and such, is they normally have at least two and usually more beams (either separate or via mirror/prism) that cross each other so the code can be read at any angle.
And this is the flawed reasoning that will kill a lot of "free/cheap hardware, but buy our service" businesses
easy way around that - the hardware belongs to the company, period. At the end of say 2 years of service from said company, they offer to sell you the hardware for a dollar. It's probably out of date by then anyway so the company doesn't lose much.
er, single user input thread, or single message queue? or both?
don't have the stats handy, but if you wanna go ask Dale in OS-DEBATE on Fidonet (yes, it still exists and we're still at it) I'm sure he'll give you either the stats or the program used to to test it.
basically it just writes randomly to 1,000,000 memory locations it doesn't own, and checks how many produce a GPF. Win9x sucks bad, OS/2 and NT whip it's arse, but NT comes out ahead of OS/2 by double (though the difference of a few dozen in a million attemps is jack all really).
eh? Solaris sucks (IMO) cos all the tools are 10 years out of date. Windows/Linux are more on the bleeding/cuttingedge, although stability suffers a lot/little.
of course. you just watch those comment counters (and therefore ad view counters) tick over on any MS/flame war article.
Linux
stable
# uptime
5:16am up 97 days, 11:11, 2 users, load average: 0.33, 0.17, 0.11
# ppptime
Online for 48 days 1 hours 57 minutes and 54 seconds
secure
mwahahaha, don't even go there.
supported
by ameteurs
Win2k
uptime approaching 2 days
try 2 months and counting..
a script kiddy's dream
My Linux box is the only machine I've ever had h4x0r3d (via DNS server). Luckily I was playing with my firewall rules at the time so I caught the bastard.
backed by the world class "we'll fix that when we feel like it" ms support model
as opposed to "we'll release it as stable when we feel like it"
as a client, not a server. read what he said.
Nor does Windows 3.x, 9x. It doesn't support true preemptive multitasking
3.x doesn't, Win9x does. You may be thinking of the GDI - which isn't the OS, just part of the interface.
a real memory protection model in order to maintain backward compatibility; everything runs in ring 0
ring 0 goes wayyyy beyond memory access (which IS protected), while most core OS functions are ring 0, you apps are not, so it's hardly 'everything'
FWIW, NT performs better at protecting memory than OS/2 does, and based on the praise of OS/2, that's gotta be some solid protection. Of course, stability of an OS is more than memory protection.
the MacOS had something like 'nice' though so to do that, MacOS would have to be a preemptive multitasker, which it's not.
what I hope for is that everyone gets their own complete network, no more single IP/subnet nonsense... by segmenting it, only the world unique portion is assigned by your provider, the rest you assign yourself...
is there any reason (other than giving the power mongers a reason to get up in the morning) for flat address space?
eg. instead of every host having a world unique address, eg. 64.28.67.48 why not segment it, like 1.2.3.4:209.207.165.16? ie. 209.207.165.16 is the world unique address, any packet directed to ?.?.?.?:209.207.165.16 is sent to 209.207.165.16, once there, 209.207.165.16 decides where internally to route the packet.
like a user@hostname kinda thing, except with IPs.
I spent a week listening to CNN & NYT reporters et al. trying to pronounce "schadenfreude"
:)
mwahaha, you win
How many SysOps trashed thier BBSes when they shut down?
:)
mine's still going, thank you
although the filebase has been archived to CD and wiped, with the exception of BBS support files, since anything worth d/l'ing can be had off the net (and up to date) without tying up my phone lines. Fidonet and online games are what it's all about anyway
pity Telescum/Craptus can't offer me a cable/asl service cheap enough to run a telnet board.
and easily pronounced across other languages
you gotta be joking? ever heard an American try to speak English properly, let alone Abo?
yo, yankees... record yourself saying "Wagga Wagga" and send it to Geeks In Space for us to have a laugh at
I rest my case.
He's so annoying that whenever he says anything I agree with, I seriously consider changing my opinion just so I'm not in the same boat with him
I felt the same way the entire time I used OS/2 (which was up until about 3 months ago). The worst part of OS/2 was always the other users one had to invariably put up with in order to get support for anything to work...
exactly which politicians set out to create an omlette of the legal system? we need to have words...