I remember a story when the first Pentiums came out, and they had the FPU bug. A guy wanted to swap his chip out, but couldn't. They had glued the processor in. Turns out his comp maker had found out that Zero Insertion Force also meant Zero Removal Force and people were swiping the chips fairly often.
So the guy's pissed, wondering how he's gonna get the offending non-dividing Pentium out. Then he realizes, hey it's a Pentium. He took off the heat sink, ran his comp for a while. It did it's impression of an Easy-Bake oven and generated enough heat to melt the glue. He then removed it and got his replacement.
So is he the Weakest Link, is he first voted off the island, is he the first shot in Manhunt, is he The Mole, did he lose a contest in Big Brother,did he not eat his bugs in Fear Factor...
I for one would like to know about all the tech that never went anywhere.
I remember when MacOS System 7 (code named Blue) came out (91, 92 or so, I forget when) there were parallel OS teams, working on Pink and Red. Pink was supposed to be near term ideas, a brand new OS based on Object technologies. Red was supposed to be long term groovy stuff, really whizbang.
Now close to 10 years later MacOS 9 is obviously an updated and freshened Sys 7 with no cutting edge stuff (where is OpenDoc and Cyberdog), Taligent a distant memory, and Red never heard from again. Microsoft must have similar killed R & D (you think Bob was the only GUI idea they ever came up with, it's just the one you know about). What ideas are lurking someplace needing a better processor and some code spit and polish?
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Minor quibbling.
New filesystems have been added to 5.1L (/opt,/proc)
/opt is an SVR4ism, not a Linuxism. Linux copied it from SVR4, and AIX probbaly copied it from SVR4. I know old versions of AIX weren't SVR4 compatible, maybe 5L is. Also/proc is something of a standard now as well. Linux uses it more than other UNIXen, using it for setting where other OSes like Solaris would use ndd or other tools, but everybody has/proc now. Not sure if it's required for SVR4, but everybody uses it. Anybody know if AIX5L is SVR4?
I could search and find counterexamples to this. But that would be debating in the argument in the context the previous poster franed it, and I think it's an invalid one.
What contest is FreeBSD in? What makes a good OS? Is it market share? If it is, DOS would be the best OS ever. There are still plenty of DOS-only machines out there and it still forms a decent core of current consumer Windows products. There still are a great deal of Windows 3.1 machines out there, which probably pisses Bill off plenty.
What is this zero-sum game battle that Linux and {Free,Net,Open}BSD are in? I'm tired of the Linux rulez BSD sucks wars, on Slashdot and everywhere else on the net. They have two different philosophies. Linux has the advantage of multiple distributions giving you multiple sources. FreeBSD has the advantage of being from a single source. It's cleaner. If you notice, these are opposite sides of the same coin. And they're both FREE dammit. You can choose. Choose the best tool for the job, not because you have some religion that requires you to go on some holy crusade, trying to get converts.
Odd in this age of an embarrassment of riches, where we have multiple free OSs - Linux, the BSDs, Atheos, Plan 9 (free, though not Open Source, corrections?) - we have to get into "sucks/rulez/rockz" debates.
And what is your definition of *BSD's "death"? As long as people want to work on the BSDs, it will not die. As long as the code is available, and it is Open Source, it will not die. Even if none of the code is ever used, it is teaching code. As an OS, if it only meets the needs of the developers, and no one outside of the development group uses it, it's a success. Knowing the quality of the code (I'm a FreeBSD fan), I'm sure others will also use it.
One thing I'm currently semi-involved with is writing some UDI drivers.
UDI is a driver environment that abstracts normal system services and makes them consistent across multiple operating systems. A conformant driver is source compatible across all systems and binary compatible across systems with the same ABI. Low penetration platforms (like Be and others) if they created the environment, could use something like this to boost their driver availability.
The environment itself is a bit strange at first, most functions are asynchronous and have callbacks, so you rely a lot more on state information. It's very modular, and the APIs to other modules are function vectors called metalanguages. But once your in your in a call in your module, it's serialized so you have no synchronization issues - the environment handles this. The modules can run anywhere, on multiple cpus, or even (in theory) on multiple machines in a cluster.
T1 made good use of the time travel. Reese falls in love with the pic, he wonders what she was thinking. Well, turns out she was thinking about him (Yeah, sappy sappy, but still tied together).
T2 had a bunch of violations of that. Sara was hard core, which was cool, but still I was bugged by it.
Uhm. Wachowski? They're from the Chicago suburbs. If you know Chicago, the street names are from downtown. Purposely jumbled, with some impossible combinations such as La Salle and Wabash (which run parallel) or somthing like that.
Anybody remember the dumb V TV movies that got turned into a series. Us humans won, engineering a superbacteria. Yeah!!! Then once the TV series came out, het, guess what, it can't survive winters dammit. Most contrived plot I've seen. Well, next to Batman having his Bat-Thermal underwear on whenver he went against Mr. Freeze. He had on tights, how did he hide thermals?
If stuff happens automagically, people won't know that there was a problem. I mean if folks didn't patch they're servers after all the news that was around on this, they're not going to know. Sure you patch this one, but what about the next one, and the one after? They need to know that their server as part of the Internet also can affect the Internet, and they need to keep it reasonably secure.
The problem is that the person with a rooted server now is someone who doesn't know what's going on. They don't know what they're running, they don't know they're running IIS they don't know that they're running the indexing server, something. This person is also likely to have other services that may be rooted. Patch this one secretly and they'll never know. The best suggestion I've seen is collect firewall logs and send mail to the webmaster. This won't work for all cases because a bunch of people will have a web server and not a mail server.
Since the only CD's with this protection are country
Us'm Rednecks don't know nuthin' bout rippin no CDs, thems CDs is plasticky and don't rip too nice. June Bug tried rippin one and got lil' pieces of plastic in his tooth. Shure is good fer shootin tho'.
Was Sigourney Weaver involved in testing?
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So the guy's pissed, wondering how he's gonna get the offending non-dividing Pentium out. Then he realizes, hey it's a Pentium. He took off the heat sink, ran his comp for a while. It did it's impression of an Easy-Bake oven and generated enough heat to melt the glue. He then removed it and got his replacement.
There are lies, damn lies, and benchmarks.
FreeBSD - Balls out performance on x86
NetBSD - Ported to everything with 32 bits.
OpenBSD - Best on default security.
There are other differences obviously such as ported software and the like, but at a high level, these are the major diffs.
Besides a bad joke, I thnk in the Dilbert he said he had to bend the 1s also.
So instead of "fire rearward missile" the pilot will have to think "launch rearward roasted almonds?"
damn there are too many "reality" game shows.
Me wonders will this be +1 Funny or -1 Flamebait?
Called the "lameness" filter, Slashdot adds these to long words or so. I forgot the reasoning on this. any help here?
I remember when MacOS System 7 (code named Blue) came out (91, 92 or so, I forget when) there were parallel OS teams, working on Pink and Red. Pink was supposed to be near term ideas, a brand new OS based on Object technologies. Red was supposed to be long term groovy stuff, really whizbang.
Now close to 10 years later MacOS 9 is obviously an updated and freshened Sys 7 with no cutting edge stuff (where is OpenDoc and Cyberdog), Taligent a distant memory, and Red never heard from again. Microsoft must have similar killed R & D (you think Bob was the only GUI idea they ever came up with, it's just the one you know about). What ideas are lurking someplace needing a better processor and some code spit and polish?
all your webmasterbase.com are belong to us?
/opt is an SVR4ism, not a Linuxism. Linux copied it from SVR4, and AIX probbaly copied it from SVR4. I know old versions of AIX weren't SVR4 compatible, maybe 5L is. Also
Anybody know if AIX5L is SVR4?
Damn, and I blew my mod by posting. SOMEONE MOD THIS UP
What contest is FreeBSD in? What makes a good OS? Is it market share? If it is, DOS would be the best OS ever. There are still plenty of DOS-only machines out there and it still forms a decent core of current consumer Windows products. There still are a great deal of Windows 3.1 machines out there, which probably pisses Bill off plenty.
What is this zero-sum game battle that Linux and {Free,Net,Open}BSD are in? I'm tired of the Linux rulez BSD sucks wars, on Slashdot and everywhere else on the net. They have two different philosophies. Linux has the advantage of multiple distributions giving you multiple sources. FreeBSD has the advantage of being from a single source. It's cleaner. If you notice, these are opposite sides of the same coin. And they're both FREE dammit. You can choose. Choose the best tool for the job, not because you have some religion that requires you to go on some holy crusade, trying to get converts.
Odd in this age of an embarrassment of riches, where we have multiple free OSs - Linux, the BSDs, Atheos, Plan 9 (free, though not Open Source, corrections?) - we have to get into "sucks/rulez/rockz" debates.
And what is your definition of *BSD's "death"? As long as people want to work on the BSDs, it will not die. As long as the code is available, and it is Open Source, it will not die. Even if none of the code is ever used, it is teaching code. As an OS, if it only meets the needs of the developers, and no one outside of the development group uses it, it's a success. Knowing the quality of the code (I'm a FreeBSD fan), I'm sure others will also use it.
One thing I'm currently semi-involved with is writing some UDI drivers.
UDI is a driver environment that abstracts normal system services and makes them consistent across multiple operating systems. A conformant driver is source compatible across all systems and binary compatible across systems with the same ABI. Low penetration platforms (like Be and others) if they created the environment, could use something like this to boost their driver availability.
The environment itself is a bit strange at first, most functions are asynchronous and have callbacks, so you rely a lot more on state information. It's very modular, and the APIs to other modules are function vectors called metalanguages. But once your in your in a call in your module, it's serialized so you have no synchronization issues - the environment handles this. The modules can run anywhere, on multiple cpus, or even (in theory) on multiple machines in a cluster.
Sorry, temporarily humor impaired. We return you to our programmed normal schedule.
Bork Bork Bork!
As a game? Nothing.
As an example of open source, a clone of a game that's quite old may be seen as not a great example.
T2 had a bunch of violations of that. Sara was hard core, which was cool, but still I was bugged by it.
Uhm. Wachowski? They're from the Chicago suburbs. If you know Chicago, the street names are from downtown. Purposely jumbled, with some impossible combinations such as La Salle and Wabash (which run parallel) or somthing like that.
Anybody remember the dumb V TV movies that got turned into a series. Us humans won, engineering a superbacteria. Yeah!!! Then once the TV series came out, het, guess what, it can't survive winters dammit. Most contrived plot I've seen. Well, next to Batman having his Bat-Thermal underwear on whenver he went against Mr. Freeze. He had on tights, how did he hide thermals?
Because it works with libpr0n
Damn I miss this album, someone stole it from me. Bastards
The problem is that the person with a rooted server now is someone who doesn't know what's going on. They don't know what they're running, they don't know they're running IIS they don't know that they're running the indexing server, something. This person is also likely to have other services that may be rooted. Patch this one secretly and they'll never know. The best suggestion I've seen is collect firewall logs and send mail to the webmaster. This won't work for all cases because a bunch of people will have a web server and not a mail server.
Us'm Rednecks don't know nuthin' bout rippin no CDs, thems CDs is plasticky and don't rip too nice. June Bug tried rippin one and got lil' pieces of plastic in his tooth. Shure is good fer shootin tho'.
Yeah, redundant, I know...