So uh... you're a "card carrying Mensa member", and you're asking for a link to the Changelog when there's one in the article? Does Mensa list literacy as a requirement for membership?
I believe one of AMD's biggest struggles has been in gaining the respect of consumers... maybe even more with "geeks" than everyday PC buyers. Until fairly recently, AMD CPUs and VIA chipsets made people think "crap." AMD's image has improved greatly more recently. Doing something like this implies AMD has something to hide or is feeling inferior. I think they would be better off poking fun at Intel's "faster but slower CPUs."
One of the captions on page 3 of the PDF datasheet says "Create sophisticated Linux applications with Kylix's visiual design environment." I realize this thing is free, but still... it seems difficult to get any credibility if they're misspelling stuff in the datasheet.
If you think about it, it really doesn't matter who has seen the source for a truly secure kernel. If I'm using a secure OS, I won't care who knows how it works because I'm confident they won't get in. The fact that they released the source speaks very well for the NSA's confidence in their OS. They think people will read the source and still be unable to get in.
Uh... if you read the article, it sounds like this is a kernel, not an entire distribution. This is something you could download and build on a RedHat or Debian (or other) system. It would replace your existing Linux kernel.
It's Mandrake's "convention" because it's RedHat's convention. Don't forget that Mandrake is simply a tweaked and repackaged RedHat. They generally follow the RedHat version numbers.
You can't buy Whistler at Fry's or anywhere else. You'll never be able to buy Whister... only Windows XP. Unless you're using some weird pre-alpha, Whistler builds haven't even been around for 342 days.
The Makefile uses/bin/sh, which is a symlink to bash on a RedHat 6.2 system. Bash doesn't understand shopt, but bash2 does. Assuming you have bash2 installed, login as root and change the/bin/sh symlink so it points to/bin/bash2. That should make things work under RH 6.2.
That's correct... the only exception is the VIA KT133A Athlon/Duron chipset, which also supports asnchyronously clocked RAM. On that chipset, the system RAM can be clocked at either 100 or 133 independant from the CPU. So, memory bus MHz could be either 100 or 133 for an Athlon or Duron... and DDR throughput could be 200 or 266 MHz.
Again... not exactly. The CPU, a Duron in this case, "talks" to system memory over a bus with an actual clock rate of 100 Mhz. To effectively double the data transfer rate over the bus, the CPU reads and writes two bits per clock cycle rather than one. The memory and CPU "talk" over one bus (not two), and the bus has a clock rate of 100 Mhz. The only change is the amount of data transferred per clock cycle.
Not exactly... the Duron and Thunderbird are capable of using Double Data Rate memory. Basically, the memory clock cycle has peaks and valleys. Rather than reading one bit for every peak, the chips can read one bit for every rising and falling edge of the clock cycle. That means that the frequency is still 100 Mhz, but the chips handle twice the amount of data.
Goose poo isn't really bad... I've gone diving for golf discs in a lake with around six inches of goose poo at the bottom. It's really squishy. Sometimes rocks and stuff cut my feet. The goose poo didn't help wound cleanliness much.
As a few posters above have noted, France was invaded and captured by Nazi Germany approximately 60 years ago. Emotions related to WWII are still very strong in most of Europe. In France, censorship is apparently far less terrible than remembering WWII and Nazi Germany. I don't think it's possible for US citizens to make comparisons here... we simply don't have any similar events. As time passes, the emotional pendulum may swing back... censorship may become worse than information related to WWII. For now, I don't think this decision should be criticized.
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Actually, it's a recycling/enviro initiative rather than a company. Duales System Deutschland AG has a similar logo also... but that's not the point.
So uh... you're a "card carrying Mensa member", and you're asking for a link to the Changelog when there's one in the article? Does Mensa list literacy as a requirement for membership?
So, uh... anyone living in the UK is a member of a different race from those in the US?
I believe one of AMD's biggest struggles has been in gaining the respect of consumers... maybe even more with "geeks" than everyday PC buyers. Until fairly recently, AMD CPUs and VIA chipsets made people think "crap." AMD's image has improved greatly more recently. Doing something like this implies AMD has something to hide or is feeling inferior. I think they would be better off poking fun at Intel's "faster but slower CPUs."
I truly hope you're both joking.
One of the captions on page 3 of the PDF datasheet says "Create sophisticated Linux applications with Kylix's visiual design environment." I realize this thing is free, but still... it seems difficult to get any credibility if they're misspelling stuff in the datasheet.
Internet2 is restricted to academic sites (universities) and scientific research facilities. Its purpose is not extra bandwidth for consumer ISPs.
The Quicktime plugin works in IE6... if that means that the NS-plugin interface is present, then it probably is.
You know... in the time you spent typing this post, you could have simply clicked on the link and learned for yourself what Nautilus is.
Do you always need someone to hold your hand?
If you think about it, it really doesn't matter who has seen the source for a truly secure kernel. If I'm using a secure OS, I won't care who knows how it works because I'm confident they won't get in. The fact that they released the source speaks very well for the NSA's confidence in their OS. They think people will read the source and still be unable to get in.
Uh... if you read the article, it sounds like this is a kernel, not an entire distribution. This is something you could download and build on a RedHat or Debian (or other) system. It would replace your existing Linux kernel.
It's Mandrake's "convention" because it's RedHat's convention. Don't forget that Mandrake is simply a tweaked and repackaged RedHat. They generally follow the RedHat version numbers.
Bullshit.
You can't buy Whistler at Fry's or anywhere else. You'll never be able to buy Whister... only Windows XP. Unless you're using some weird pre-alpha, Whistler builds haven't even been around for 342 days.
The Makefile uses /bin/sh, which is a symlink to bash on a RedHat 6.2 system. Bash doesn't understand shopt, but bash2 does. Assuming you have bash2 installed, login as root and change the /bin/sh symlink so it points to /bin/bash2. That should make things work under RH 6.2.
That's correct... the only exception is the VIA KT133A Athlon/Duron chipset, which also supports asnchyronously clocked RAM. On that chipset, the system RAM can be clocked at either 100 or 133 independant from the CPU. So, memory bus MHz could be either 100 or 133 for an Athlon or Duron... and DDR throughput could be 200 or 266 MHz.
Again... not exactly. The CPU, a Duron in this case, "talks" to system memory over a bus with an actual clock rate of 100 Mhz. To effectively double the data transfer rate over the bus, the CPU reads and writes two bits per clock cycle rather than one. The memory and CPU "talk" over one bus (not two), and the bus has a clock rate of 100 Mhz. The only change is the amount of data transferred per clock cycle.
Not exactly... the Duron and Thunderbird are capable of using Double Data Rate memory. Basically, the memory clock cycle has peaks and valleys. Rather than reading one bit for every peak, the chips can read one bit for every rising and falling edge of the clock cycle. That means that the frequency is still 100 Mhz, but the chips handle twice the amount of data.
Hmm... maybe that's why it's called firing.
Yeah... that idea is very similar to an episode of "Seinfeld." I wonder if the article's author watched it...
Goose poo isn't really bad... I've gone diving for golf discs in a lake with around six inches of goose poo at the bottom. It's really squishy. Sometimes rocks and stuff cut my feet. The goose poo didn't help wound cleanliness much.
Uh... the .pl means Poland, not Perl.
It doesn't have a ball... read the article, dumbass.
the available bandwidth will decrease even more as sites in Australia are Slashdotted by everyone checking this out.
As a few posters above have noted, France was invaded and captured by Nazi Germany approximately 60 years ago. Emotions related to WWII are still very strong in most of Europe. In France, censorship is apparently far less terrible than remembering WWII and Nazi Germany. I don't think it's possible for US citizens to make comparisons here... we simply don't have any similar events. As time passes, the emotional pendulum may swing back... censorship may become worse than information related to WWII. For now, I don't think this decision should be criticized.
and it doubles as my keyboard.