What will I need to upgrade? A new motherboard, since surely the northbridge-less model will not appreciate the northbridge currently present. Ok, a new morbo is like, 90 euros, I can handle that.
I was told not to feed the trolls, but I guess you could feed this one to
Morbo.
Not quite, he does raise the valid question of why spacetime curves, something which I've never seen answered anywhere. It can't be gravity causing the curve, as gravity is the curve, so what causes it is a good question. Obviously the answer is mass, but why and how that mass curves spacetime is still a good question...
I've been wondering about the same thing, particularly when it comes to the marbles-on-a-rubber-sheet analogy. The sheet is obviously curved because our familiar Newtonian gravity pulls the ball/marble downwards. But that curvature then becomes Einsteinian gravity. So the analogy is a prime example of circular reasoning.
A somewhat related issue is, why is the speed of light constant? Special relativity seems merely an observation of how the universe works, not a particular insight as it doesn't explain the basic premise.
Nice post. I've often considered the Internet as the natural extension of human intellectual history, where major advances were often linked to information dispersal. The library of Alexandria and the printing press, for examples. There's also a tendency for cultures to want to spread their kind of information to others. It's like the intellectual version of the male sex drive to spread his genetic data. It's weird that modern people have traded the maximal spread of their information to others, for profit and control.
I look at the history of mankind as the quest to build a universal library, where everyone can access any information. Now that we actually have that library, it's being outlawed. Silly humans.
Obviously, gravity and other kinds of non-steady motion are good targets for acceleration. And because of NVidia's evil closed source drivers, the best way to accelerate your GeForce is at 9.81 m/s**2.
If anything replaced the joystick it's the mouse, not the analog stick. It's much more comfortable to use, requires less effort to achieve the same sensitivity, and is much more ubiquitous (imagine trying to use a joystick to move the Windows mouse).
I use one every day, it's called TrackPoint. Not with Windows though:)
There was a breakfast television crew wandering around filming and some hot blonde TV presenter was being shown said spitfire and helped to climb into it. Upon trying to sit down down in the cockpit she suddenly finds her way impeded and asks the cadet sergeant "Oops! What's this between my legs?"
Cadet Sergeant, with big grin: "That's the joy stick". Cue red-faced presenter and much laughter.
"And that's why they call it the cock-pit." -- Ron Jeremy
I've been wondering, does there exist hardware accelerators usable by OpenSSL or GnuTLS? I work in embedded systems, and our chip includes a crypto and hash processor. I'm surprised nothing equivalent exists on modern PCs, or have I just not been looking in the right places?
The VIA C7 processor has hardware crypto acceleration (AES and some helper functions) that's supported by OpenSSL out of the box. Applications still require some patching, for example OpenSSH. The reason seems to be that the application has to choose the encryption engine used by OpenSSL.
The parent post, and its accompanying +5 insightful are a prime example of how far/. has fallen.
Do you really want people to switch to Linux because the competition is crap? Or would you rather people switch because Linux can stand on its own two feet as a superior operating system? I chose the latter.
What's the difference? "Crap" and "superior" are just relative terms. I don't see how Linux can be "superior" on its own, without comparison.
But no matter how evil they are, copyright infringement is still copyright infringement. Why don't you write a song or book or create a painting, and I'll copy it.
That's extra funny, given that Windows NT acutally is a microkernel architecture. As opposed to, say, Linux, where Monolithic kernel was a specfically made design choice.
There are probably some technical definitions, but to my ears "micro" sounds like it refers to something small (such as my Gentoo installation running on 8 MB of memory). Why is the Redmond company called "micro"soft anyway?-)
These VIA CPUs and their motherboards would do a lot more good if their nVidia drivers were completely open.
What nVidia? All of the Mini-ITX motherboards with VIA processors that I know of, have VIA chipset and graphics as well. Including boards made by other companies like Jetway. Anyway, there are no complete open drivers for these chips either (which is unfortunate -- see my other post on C7 performance).
but as the article said, this time it's more powerful. The C7 is not particularly strong because of its in-order execution core, and the new CPU appears to fix this.
For the record, my 2 GHz C7 machine can play a 720p h.264 video smoothly, but only without sound:) This is using MPlayer, no hardware acceleration except Xvideo.
Is there an active and/or "official" Bittorrent site for Linux kernels? The local mirrors take some time to update, so global torrents would make more sense. Besides, people who download kernel sources are usually the kind that appreciate the benefits of BT and know how to use it.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, too much of those Latter Day Saints can really ruin your life.
I was told not to feed the trolls, but I guess you could feed this one to Morbo.
I've been wondering about the same thing, particularly when it comes to the marbles-on-a-rubber-sheet analogy. The sheet is obviously curved because our familiar Newtonian gravity pulls the ball/marble downwards. But that curvature then becomes Einsteinian gravity. So the analogy is a prime example of circular reasoning.
A somewhat related issue is, why is the speed of light constant? Special relativity seems merely an observation of how the universe works, not a particular insight as it doesn't explain the basic premise.
Have you ever opened a hard drive case? Mmmm, shiny disks. Where did you say you store your files?
Nice post. I've often considered the Internet as the natural extension of human intellectual history, where major advances were often linked to information dispersal. The library of Alexandria and the printing press, for examples. There's also a tendency for cultures to want to spread their kind of information to others. It's like the intellectual version of the male sex drive to spread his genetic data. It's weird that modern people have traded the maximal spread of their information to others, for profit and control.
I look at the history of mankind as the quest to build a universal library, where everyone can access any information. Now that we actually have that library, it's being outlawed. Silly humans.
Obviously, gravity and other kinds of non-steady motion are good targets for acceleration. And because of NVidia's evil closed source drivers, the best way to accelerate your GeForce is at 9.81 m/s**2.
I use one every day, it's called TrackPoint. Not with Windows though :)
Cadet Sergeant, with big grin: "That's the joy stick". Cue red-faced presenter and much laughter.
"And that's why they call it the cock-pit." -- Ron Jeremy
The VIA C7 processor has hardware crypto acceleration (AES and some helper functions) that's supported by OpenSSL out of the box. Applications still require some patching, for example OpenSSH. The reason seems to be that the application has to choose the encryption engine used by OpenSSL.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162967
I'd rather be crippled than dead.
You're about to experience the awe and mystery, that reaches from the deepest inner mind, to, the outer limits.
a.k.a. forcin' democracy into the developin' countries.
Wouldn't that be a five-core machine?
Or, instead, prepare for a really big OOPS.
Actually, for a typical slashdotter, it is.
Or, for another British fiction reference, I suggest Parseltongue.
Also think about LAN - Wires == WLAN. Now that's logical.
Do you really want people to switch to Linux because the competition is crap? Or would you rather people switch because Linux can stand on its own two feet as a superior operating system? I chose the latter.
What's the difference? "Crap" and "superior" are just relative terms. I don't see how Linux can be "superior" on its own, without comparison.
Please do: http://iki.fi/teknohog/music/
You mean you replied to all the spam, and it worked?
That's extra funny, given that Windows NT acutally is a microkernel architecture. As opposed to, say, Linux, where Monolithic kernel was a specfically made design choice.
There are probably some technical definitions, but to my ears "micro" sounds like it refers to something small (such as my Gentoo installation running on 8 MB of memory). Why is the Redmond company called "micro"soft anyway?-)
What nVidia? All of the Mini-ITX motherboards with VIA processors that I know of, have VIA chipset and graphics as well. Including boards made by other companies like Jetway. Anyway, there are no complete open drivers for these chips either (which is unfortunate -- see my other post on C7 performance).
but as the article said, this time it's more powerful. The C7 is not particularly strong because of its in-order execution core, and the new CPU appears to fix this.
For the record, my 2 GHz C7 machine can play a 720p h.264 video smoothly, but only without sound :) This is using MPlayer, no hardware acceleration except Xvideo.
Is there an active and/or "official" Bittorrent site for Linux kernels? The local mirrors take some time to update, so global torrents would make more sense. Besides, people who download kernel sources are usually the kind that appreciate the benefits of BT and know how to use it.