What we need here is some sort of (cheap) IP connectivity for our Linux PDAs. What could be better than having a PDA running linux that you can use to ping, traceroute, ssh, read and send mail, send first posts and trolls to slashdot and so on...
There are so many times when it is neccessary and sensible to exceed the speed limit by ten or more km/h. Passing traffic is one obvious eg, but what about the rare cases where you NEED to get to the hospital NOW, and so on...
Of course, there's a lot here that is being missed, even apart from the -j3 debacle...
The disk itself will be doing more caching on the second time through, as will the RAM disk cache, and various other caches (even the caching of gcc itself...) Also, does a `make clean` _really_ clean the tree back to pre-compile stage?
To do this properly would require two separate kernel trees to compile, and a reboot in the middle, and preferably SMP kernel vs non-SMP kernel in the reboot... The other way, which is more practical in the circumstances, could be to try doing a `make -j1; make clean; time make -j1` followed by a `make -j2; make clean; time make -j2`... That would be closer to reality, but still not quite...
are there Debian apt sources for these? Could someone post them? ta
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It's not about speed, it's about marketing. x86s are easier to market (you don't need to explain to plebs that a 500MHz g4 is faster than a 800MHz PIII oe whatever), and the market is bigger... Businesses don't (and really, shouldn't) care about technical superiority unless their marketing departments can _market_ this effectively.
cases in point: VHS vs BetaMax, x86 vs {PPC|SPARC|Alpha|etc}, Windows vs Unix, most MS products vs larger competitors early on (IE 2 vs Netscape), RedHat vs Debian (*GRIN*), and so on. It's all about Marketing, folks, because marketing makes more money than engineering...
This doesn't really affect the hacker populace, as we (they) tend to like their emacs/vi and gcc. However, it will really speed adoption of Linux in banks, so their developtrons can churn out data-aware GUI applications... woo
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It was founded by an Italian physician, Dr Severino Antinori, whose work includes trying to help post-menopausal women to become pregnant.
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Of course, the thing I forgot to mention (the main point) is that the email appears to come from _YOUR_ account, not theirs... really rude and presumptuous of them, I thought, not to mention potentially illegal...
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If you sign up friends to be notified about this site (at the end of the petition), they get sent a really gumby sounding email:
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This website is an online petition trying to get Mac OS X ported to the
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I recommend that you write your own messages, if you don't want to sound like that -- otherwise you end up having to write explanatory messages to your friends to tell them that no, you didn't write that email, but it's a good site anyway...
Also, I would think that making it look as though the referrer is the sender and writer of the email is actually fraudulent, because I most certainly did NOT write that, yet it has been made to appear that I did.
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Why wouldn't Apple apply their brilliant industrial design and marketing skills to producing x86s that would seduce the same market that the iMac (and friends) do? I know a _lot_ of people who would love a G4 cube or iMac running Windows or Linux. In fact, I'd love a single computer that could do Linux, Windows _and_ OSX. Love it, I say! -- What they may lose when they cease to lock people in to Apple, they will gain (and more) when they cease to lock people _out_ of Apple...
So they would get all three groups -- OS interface junkies, Media workers, _and_ industrial design fetishers... In fact, I'd really like to see more of Apple's industrial design in the x86 world, and I'd like to use a good Unix/MacOS cross (OSX), so I'd certainly be a willing customer for both the hardware and the software.
TupperWare to merge with IBM...
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The next generation of chips in the PowerPC range will be dishwasher-safe and airtight, and will outperform the next generation of intel chips by an order of magnitude. Intel, however, have developed their own plactic chip technology, and are partnering with Plastic Surgeons across the nation...
Put your face close to the hard drive, and stare straight ahead. Move the hard drive away from your head slowly, focusing beyond the drive. a 3 dimensional pattern of bits will emerge before your eyes...
While I still use Yahoo occasionally, I find that (assumedly) unwallable things like Google are far better for my purposes... However, I think that we will find more and more that walls will appear, but they will only affect users who are willing to be hoodwinked -- the stereotypical AOLers and their MSN and Yahoo counterparts... Those of use on the outside of commercial walls (most/. readers) will remain outside the walls, and will wander in and out of the walls without restriction. Of course, the AOLers will be unrestricted too, but there will be nary a link outside, so they will just never even notice the rest of the web...
PS: In fact, it would be interesting to see what would happen to link-counting search engines like Google if this walling were to happen. Would they be able to tell what side of the wall a link was on? hmm...
Surely, in 20 years time, it would be conceivable that rather than China being the major threat, it could be a MegaCorporation? I forsee mass consolidation across markets untill the MegaCorporation becomes more powerful than the country. This won't happen by force initially, but will happen by stealth. AOL/TimeWarner will merge with McDonalds, DaimlerChrysler, IBM, Boeing, a major financial institution, a Pharmaceuticals giant, and so on, as will their competitors. We will end up with five major corporations, covering every area of business, and which one you are employed by will become far more important than which country you are a citizen of.
At some stage, one of these MegaCorporations (Red)will decide that it wants a country, probably the brown one. China (Blue) will be the most powerful nation left, as the USA will have been sued by Red and will have to give all it's weapons as payment. The people, and their skills, will be sent to China in order to protect the world from the spread of UltraCapitalism...
Hmm... Looks like the start of a Bruce Willis blockbuster:)
Surely there is some move underway to replace BIND with something more inherently secure? It seems surprising to me that such a fundamental piece of software suffers from so many holes. Perhaps it doesn't need to run as root -- maybe it should run as nobody and sit behind a simple dummy process that binds to the relevant port number and passes requests on -- sort of port masquerading... I don't know, but it's a mess as it is... anyone got any better ideas?
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If it's neccessary in some cases, then you can't make it impossible in all cases.
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The disk itself will be doing more caching on the second time through, as will the RAM disk cache, and various other caches (even the caching of gcc itself...) Also, does a `make clean` _really_ clean the tree back to pre-compile stage?
To do this properly would require two separate kernel trees to compile, and a reboot in the middle, and preferably SMP kernel vs non-SMP kernel in the reboot... The other way, which is more practical in the circumstances, could be to try doing a `make -j1; make clean; time make -j1` followed by a `make -j2; make clean; time make -j2`... That would be closer to reality, but still not quite...
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cases in point: VHS vs BetaMax, x86 vs {PPC|SPARC|Alpha|etc}, Windows vs Unix, most MS products vs larger competitors early on (IE 2 vs Netscape), RedHat vs Debian (*GRIN*), and so on. It's all about Marketing, folks, because marketing makes more money than engineering...
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It was founded by an Italian physician, Dr Severino Antinori, whose work includes trying to help post-menopausal women to become pregnant.
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Hey there,
This website is an online petition trying to get Mac OS X ported to the intel platform. Go check it out at http://www.osxonintel.com I signed it and you should too!
*Your Name*
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I recommend that you write your own messages, if you don't want to sound like that -- otherwise you end up having to write explanatory messages to your friends to tell them that no, you didn't write that email, but it's a good site anyway...
Also, I would think that making it look as though the referrer is the sender and writer of the email is actually fraudulent, because I most certainly did NOT write that, yet it has been made to appear that I did.
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So they would get all three groups -- OS interface junkies, Media workers, _and_ industrial design fetishers... In fact, I'd really like to see more of Apple's industrial design in the x86 world, and I'd like to use a good Unix/MacOS cross (OSX), so I'd certainly be a willing customer for both the hardware and the software.
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Hey -- isn't space that _lack_ of matter? So if we put compounds into space, it ceaces to be space? hmmm.... :)
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PS: In fact, it would be interesting to see what would happen to link-counting search engines like Google if this walling were to happen. Would they be able to tell what side of the wall a link was on? hmm...
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At some stage, one of these MegaCorporations (Red)will decide that it wants a country, probably the brown one. China (Blue) will be the most powerful nation left, as the USA will have been sued by Red and will have to give all it's weapons as payment. The people, and their skills, will be sent to China in order to protect the world from the spread of UltraCapitalism...
Hmm... Looks like the start of a Bruce Willis blockbuster :)
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Go Corel!
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