I'm sick of government-coverup paranoia over cold fusion. If you've developed cold fusion, here's how to make everyone acknowledge your genius:
Create a working, power-producing reactor (should be easy--after all, you have the fusion, just dump water through some turbines).
Sell the power generated to the power company. As a condition of their monopoly, they have to buy back as much power as you can produce--and at good prices, too.
Take all this money and buy a scientist. Prof. David van Baak has publicly announced his availability for one million dollars, Nobel Prize winners will probably be a little more expensive.
I have to agree. I'm a framerate junkie--a game feels choppy to me at 20fps. Anything less, I can't play, and I really need 30 to be happy (at 60, I'm in heaven).
The point? Movies in the theatre make me physically ill. I'm usually motion sick, with a slight headache, for the first 10 minutes or so (thank God for previews which help me adjust). That low framerate on that big screen...ugh.
"Freeze" means different things to different people, but the general idea is to "solidify" the distribution--i.e., we're almost done here, so don't add any more stuff and only change that which is essential, so we don't screw up.
Basically it's the beginning of the home stretch towards final release.
other distributions having to rely on Redhat or Debian for their package management systems.
This really isn't the case; there's no "reliance" going on here. Think of the extension as "the package management system developed by the Debian group". Other people are free to use the format and tools, not to mention modifying the tools (standard free/open source spiel...)
In simple words: run the DVD, and copy it on a VHS. You'll lose these fancy functions, but the essence of the DVD is still there: a copyrighted movie.
The problem is, most DVD's have been macrovisioned. They mess up the video signal so that there's "minimal" loss in quality, but it wreaks havoc with the AGC of a VCR. VHS tapes are being macrovisioned now, too. 13th Floor, for example.
Remember the side effects: possible haloes or star-shapes at night. Do you need to drive at night? (What about if the server goes down at 1am?) Do you need high-detail work? Microscopy might be affected. Astronomical telescopy would definitely be affected. Remember: haloes from contacts, take out the contacts. Haloes from corrective surgery--take out your corneas?!
Even more than that: Control registers generally show up in the X memory footprint. I belive that Daryll said there's something like 48MB of control registers on the Banshee, for example.
You do know that D1X has been ported, don't you? Check out the Descent Network, they should have a link. When/if the D2 source is released, it will probably be ported quite quickly as well.
Linux right now doesn't scale horribly well to huge enterprise servers. But it still manages to replace them fairly effectively, by allowing scalability on the level of the machine instead of components.
If I can do the work of a big enterprise server on four P75's, that's still a savings. Linux is proving that for some tasks, a cluster of small machines works just as well as one huge machine. And there's reliability projects in the works as well based on the same principle: have an extra cheap machine which grabs the load if your main server goes down.
Everybody seems to be gushing how "this means Amiga will run Linux apps out of the box." Of course, that won't happen unless they're using X, the same libraries, etc., etc.--in other words, if it is "just another distribution." The best info I can garner is that the Amiga will just be running the kernel, although nobody's clearly stated that yet. Does anyone know?
These people are "very excited" to be working with GPL'd software. On the whole, this looks like a Good Thing. Checking the company website, it looks like a pair of university students who are into free software. Hope they can make a go of it.
Summer of 1997. Iowa State University Entomology dept. is going into videoconferencing in a big way (we were driving all over the state to install stuff at the extension offices). Running the White Pine CuSeeMe reflector under Digital UNIX. Sucks. Royally. Can connect from PC's, or up to one Mac, but more than one mac, and you can't see anyone anymore. And slooooow.
Turns out they took their HP-SUX binary and ran it through a translator. With the next release, they dropped Digital UNIX support.
This isn't necessarily a condemnation of everything the company does; things may be very different this time around. But let it serve as a warning before anyone gets too enthusiastic.
My main gripe is in grouping folks like cDc and Phrack in with the black hats; not even mentioning that Back Orifice serves two legit purposes: demonstrating the problems in MS security and doing remote admin. And more recent (last few years) issues of Phrack are actually quite interesting and useful.
Some groups and people are grey hats; shady characters, but still make useful contributions. I wonder what they'd say about L0pht...
Whatever you use, please choose an existing license if it suits your needs (or try to make it suit your needs, or your needs suit it). This reduces your headaches in figuring out what code from other projects you can use. It also saves potential developers from figuring out exactly what this new license is trying to do and whether you're shafting them somewhere. Especially when a company is mentioned by name in the license--that raises all sorts of red flags for me.
Using known licenses encourages developers--there's a trust of what's known. Plus, I'd rather code than read licenses.
As I recall, Diffie-Hellman has a rather serious vulnerability in it, rendering it far less secure than it was supposed to be.
Short story is that the DH encryption problem really isn't the same as the knapsack problem--some unimportant simplifications turned out to be important.
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I learned to harden myself and I pushed all of those emotions down deep. It never affected me and I didn't think it would because, like I told everyone "I don't care what people think about me." After such a long time of keeping that burden pushed down inside of me I thought nothing of it.
I've been there too. I didn't realize how hardened I had become until about a week ago, when a very good friend cared enough to yell and coax and plead and accuse me enough until I found it.
Thanks for sharing. This whole affair is making a lot of us think about ourselves and how much many out there are like us.
Um, how can Tux be argued to make sense? Linus was bitten by a fairy penguin about the time people started to discuss the idea of a mascot. There's also the fact that penguins look cute and cuddly until they charge you at 100mph.
From the linux-kernel list: Mindcraft also used the v0.92 MegaRAID driver. An SMP race condition was fixed in v0.93 which was almost certainly available from the AMI web site long before the Mar 10-13 test. So SMP NT "beat" a non-SMP Linux on a quad-Xeon server. Big hairy deal. Original poster is "Doc" Savage. Original post 14 Apr 99.
However, I DON'T trust Joe Public. I have no assurances that anyone holding a gun really understands what it is he's holding. Cops do, soldiers do, but I don't think guys like ESR do - and that scares me. I think guys like ESR have more of an idea than a lot of people. I believe the solution is simple: to get a driver's license and you're young, you need a class. Hunting license? Hunter's safety class. It's simple: Require a license. And require training. Which would include more than just "point here;" we need psychological evaluations, too.
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IIRC, these are the same guys who did "Bambi Meets Godzilla"
The point? Movies in the theatre make me physically ill. I'm usually motion sick, with a slight headache, for the first 10 minutes or so (thank God for previews which help me adjust). That low framerate on that big screen...ugh.
Basically it's the beginning of the home stretch towards final release.
This really isn't the case; there's no "reliance" going on here. Think of the extension as "the package management system developed by the Debian group". Other people are free to use the format and tools, not to mention modifying the tools (standard free/open source spiel...)
The problem is, most DVD's have been macrovisioned. They mess up the video signal so that there's "minimal" loss in quality, but it wreaks havoc with the AGC of a VCR. VHS tapes are being macrovisioned now, too. 13th Floor, for example.
Remember the side effects: possible haloes or star-shapes at night. Do you need to drive at night? (What about if the server goes down at 1am?) Do you need high-detail work? Microscopy might be affected. Astronomical telescopy would definitely be affected. Remember: haloes from contacts, take out the contacts. Haloes from corrective surgery--take out your corneas?!
It would be much easier to take Harriman to court for the price of those stamps which never actually flew. Might win that way.
login: uncle_duke
password: trudeau
And of course the country is American Samoa!
Even more than that: Control registers generally show up in the X memory footprint. I belive that Daryll said there's something like 48MB of control registers on the Banshee, for example.
I think this distro is done by the people in your beloved Taiwan
Which makes it China according to both China and the US.
You do know that D1X has been ported, don't you? Check out the Descent Network, they should have a link. When/if the D2 source is released, it will probably be ported quite quickly as well.
Ethereal is nice. Tcpdump is sorta the old standby. freshmeat should have links to both.
If I can do the work of a big enterprise server on four P75's, that's still a savings. Linux is proving that for some tasks, a cluster of small machines works just as well as one huge machine. And there's reliability projects in the works as well based on the same principle: have an extra cheap machine which grabs the load if your main server goes down.
Everybody seems to be gushing how "this means Amiga will run Linux apps out of the box."
Of course, that won't happen unless they're using X, the same libraries, etc., etc.--in other words, if it is "just another distribution."
The best info I can garner is that the Amiga will just be running the kernel, although nobody's clearly stated that yet. Does anyone know?
These people are "very excited" to be working with GPL'd software. On the whole, this looks like a Good Thing. Checking the company website, it looks like a pair of university students who are into free software. Hope they can make a go of it.
Turns out they took their HP-SUX binary and ran it through a translator. With the next release, they dropped Digital UNIX support.
This isn't necessarily a condemnation of everything the company does; things may be very different this time around. But let it serve as a warning before anyone gets too enthusiastic.
Some groups and people are grey hats; shady characters, but still make useful contributions. I wonder what they'd say about L0pht...
Using known licenses encourages developers--there's a trust of what's known. Plus, I'd rather code than read licenses.
Short story is that the DH encryption problem really isn't the same as the knapsack problem--some unimportant simplifications turned out to be important.
I believe the scheduler updates did make it.
I've been there too. I didn't realize how hardened I had become until about a week ago, when a very good friend cared enough to yell and coax and plead and accuse me enough until I found it.
Thanks for sharing. This whole affair is making a lot of us think about ourselves and how much many out there are like us.
Um, how can Tux be argued to make sense?
Linus was bitten by a fairy penguin about the time people started to discuss the idea of a mascot.
There's also the fact that penguins look cute and cuddly until they charge you at 100mph.
From the linux-kernel list:
Mindcraft also used the v0.92 MegaRAID driver. An SMP race condition was fixed in v0.93 which was almost certainly available from the AMI web site long before the Mar 10-13 test. So SMP NT "beat" a non-SMP Linux on a quad-Xeon server. Big hairy deal.
Original poster is "Doc" Savage. Original post 14 Apr 99.
However, I DON'T trust Joe Public. I have no assurances that anyone holding a gun really understands what it is he's holding. Cops do, soldiers do, but I don't think guys like ESR do - and that scares me.
I think guys like ESR have more of an idea than a lot of people. I believe the solution is simple: to get a driver's license and you're young, you need a class. Hunting license? Hunter's safety class. It's simple: Require a license. And require training. Which would include more than just "point here;" we need psychological evaluations, too.