Say, I like Hummers (or HMMMV's, whatever you want to call them), but this one is pretty far over the edge. Besides, if you really want a Hummer, you can get a new one for about the same price as the initial bid, with more features (did you see that? Vinyl seats! Yuck).
That we should buy Intel only for the low end, as there is where the x86 architecture's better price/performance ratio resides. If you want real kick-ass speed that's worthy of the price, look somewhere else.
I viewed both pages with NS4.05 under NT running on a P5/233, and they displayed almost instantly. Freshmeat is a much bigger load for the browser than that table.
They did that with Aldus before. You know, Aldus, the ones who created PageMaker and gave a boost to the Macintosh desktop publishing market, who also had worthy competitors to Illustrator (Freehand) and Photoshop (PhotoStyler). So they took over PageMaker and dumped PhotoStyler and Freehand. And now Adobe doesn't have a clue. Monopolies suck.
At least this VMware stuff sounds better than that big load of bollocks about the reconfigurable supercomputer we had yesterday. It even seems quite plausible (remember that you can achieve a similar effect with OS/2, which can load another operating system while it is running, although only those that don't attempt to run in ring 0, like DOS, CP/M-86, Xenix, and the Win95 setup disk). We'd still have to see how this how this software would manage sharing of hardware resources (how can both OS's talk to the SCSI controller or Ethernet card at the same time?), and how it would compare to hardware partitioning a la IBM ES/9000.
Yet another t.o article pops up on/. Now, if OctoberX were posting article on other subjects, and he weren't the one posting about t.o, all would be fine and dandy, but no, he's not doing anything but advertising his website. It's starting to suck already.
I've tried to connect to it for hours, to no avail. SSC should know better and do something about it, or ask Rob to please stop posting articles about us in Slashdot thank you.
It's supposed to be "ununquadium." The most-recently developed elements have so far been named after the number of protons in their nuclei. Like unnilquadium (104), unnilhexium (106), and unnilpentium (104.99997568... hehe).
And then you got a bunch of people who don't know a bit of what's inside the computer, let alone use it adequately, and the salespeople who plug the computers into their arses and don't know any better. The kind of people who form the bread and butter of Internet e-commerce because they are more eager to click on a link without knowing what it is for. Kinda like the average AOL customer. These people would buy said chip if it's offered in an actractive way, unless they're told what's wrong with it. So, we can't just stand still and wait til the market settles, we must go and spread the word.
If they know that tapes have such a short life span (for their purposes, at least), why do they want to transfer their old data from tapes to *shudder* more tapes? Geez... BTW, there are storage devices intended specifically for long-term storage, and they happen to be based on optical storage. WORM and COLD are but a few of many. If DVD weren't such a mess of a "standard", they could use 4-layer double-sided disks to store the data. In short, optical storage is the best candidate for such a task (but many of you already knew that:).
I was sending a computer (mistake #1) fro Puerto Rico to Pennsylvania. So I packed it up, took it to the post office (mistake #2), and sent it via Priority Mail, along with some other stuff in a separate box. When the computer arrived, its case had snapped off, the front plate was hanging from a few cables, the expansion cards were out of the slots, and one of the harddrives died. Fortunately, I had paid for insurance. So when the computer was taken back to the destination post office to claim the insurance payment, they said they had to send the computer to St. Louis (from PA), and had to wait two months to get any results.
The USPS definitely deserves the qualification of SHIT, tops.
Yep, both USPS and FedEx deliver on Saturdays. Only UPS does Mon. to Fri. only.
On another point, it's interesting that sending a package to Canada via Global Priority Mail takes about 5 days to reach its destination, yet regular mail on the way back takes 7 days. Hmmm...
The next part would be to make it easy for vendors to hook their applications into my installation system. That would encourage them to write applications for my version of Linux first.
What the author means by "installation system" is not clear; an InstallShield for Linux, perhaps? RPM and Debian already do an excellent job about installing and removing packages, within the limitations of user interface variety and such (e.g., KDE or GNOME or whatever integration). This in the end would wind down into another UI debate.
Fundamentally, I'm betting that I not only have a superior feature set in my "frosting," but that I can execute better than anyone who tries to copy me. (In the case of offering help, there are ways around the GNU license as well, such as separating the code from the text and copyrighting the text. Not recommended, but it would probably work.)
This is only one of five or six possible value-adds to Linux. In order to make them work, I don't have to violate the GNU license. All I have to do is make the frosting on my cake more attractive -- and sufficiently different -- so people will choose me and it won't be as easy for those who choose someone else.
So all this sounds like "bastardising" Linux in some way, doesn't it? That "frosting" comment reminds me so much of the Halloween documents it gives me shivers. If such a thing were to be made, it better be just as open as Linux. Even better, make it part of the LSB or some other similar standard.
I remember that holographic storage uses lasers to store "stuff" in little crystal-like thingees. Since halving the wavelength allows us to store four times the same amount of data on a flat surface, how much increase do you get from a tridimensional storage medium?... I can imagine future MP3 players that play the music from small storage cubes attached to my keychain...:o)
Tried it, and got the same every time. Setup here is an AST Premmia GX P/100 in single-processor mode (has a 82430LX/NX Mercury/Neptune chipset and PCI and EISA buses), 32MB no-parity RAM, kernel 2.0.35, Western Digital WDAC1600 disk, and a *shudder* CMD 646 rev 1 controller. Well, actually, the disk mentioned above is connected to the second channel, which uses a different controller that gives me problems when I configure it to do IRQ unmasking and 32-bit transfers (the CMD646 does that fine here). I recommend you to try tuning your disk setup with hdparm and try again.
There is work in progress to develop a binary tree-based filesystem for Linux, which is currently on second beta. The paper and source files are located at http://idiom.com/~beverly/reiserfs.html . It is supposedly faster than ext2, and might be better suited for gigantic partitions, although I cannot attest to that, as I have no experience with it. Does anyone here know anything about this?
Imagine being able to listen to your favourite music without the bulky headphones. Just upload the MP3s, and tag along. - And make sure you're not thinking hard about anything else when you do, lest you don't mind having the music skip frames during "high brain utilisation" -. Heh.
Just to clear up: modern pacemakers do have a good deal of data processing capabilities in them. New models have a feature (not of the MS kind) that let them adjust the hearbeat rate according to physical activity, so that the heart behaves more like a normal heart, instead of sending a fixed signal.
Another difference is that you can only rotate images in multiples of 90 degrees (at least in 0.99 it was so). I grew used to PhotoStyler's rotation options, where you could rotate the image interactively, enter the rotation amount, or level horizontally or vertically. Hey, even XV allows you to rotate the image freely!
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Say, I like Hummers (or HMMMV's, whatever you want to call them), but this one is pretty far over the edge. Besides, if you really want a Hummer, you can get a new one for about the same price as the initial bid, with more features (did you see that? Vinyl seats! Yuck).
I know I saw this patent previously here in Slashdot. Why, I printed it and had it posted on the bulletin board!
^D
And to think that I had an old Seagate HD spindle which I used as a stress relief toy... well, not everyone is as creative, methinks.
That we should buy Intel only for the low end, as there is where the x86 architecture's better price/performance ratio resides. If you want real kick-ass speed that's worthy of the price, look somewhere else.
I viewed both pages with NS4.05 under NT running on a P5/233, and they displayed almost instantly. Freshmeat is a much bigger load for the browser than that table.
Sorry, couldn't resist... :op
^D
They did that with Aldus before. You know, Aldus, the ones who created PageMaker and gave a boost to the Macintosh desktop publishing market, who also had worthy competitors to Illustrator (Freehand) and Photoshop (PhotoStyler). So they took over PageMaker and dumped PhotoStyler and Freehand. And now Adobe doesn't have a clue. Monopolies suck.
At least this VMware stuff sounds better than that big load of bollocks about the reconfigurable supercomputer we had yesterday. It even seems quite plausible (remember that you can achieve a similar effect with OS/2, which can load another operating system while it is running, although only those that don't attempt to run in ring 0, like DOS, CP/M-86, Xenix, and the Win95 setup disk). We'd still have to see how this how this software would manage sharing of hardware resources (how can both OS's talk to the SCSI controller or Ethernet card at the same time?), and how it would compare to hardware partitioning a la IBM ES/9000.
Yet another t.o article pops up on /. Now, if OctoberX were posting article on other subjects, and he weren't the one posting about t.o, all would be fine and dandy, but no, he's not doing anything but advertising his website. It's starting to suck already.
I've tried to connect to it for hours, to no avail. SSC should know better and do something about it, or ask Rob to please stop posting articles about us in Slashdot thank you.
^D
Or 'pico', if Emacs is still too much for them. :op
It's supposed to be "ununquadium." The most-recently developed elements have so far been named after the number of protons in their nuclei. Like unnilquadium (104), unnilhexium (106), and unnilpentium (104.99997568... hehe).
And then you got a bunch of people who don't know a bit of what's inside the computer, let alone use it adequately, and the salespeople who plug the computers into their arses and don't know any better. The kind of people who form the bread and butter of Internet e-commerce because they are more eager to click on a link without knowing what it is for. Kinda like the average AOL customer.
These people would buy said chip if it's offered in an actractive way, unless they're told what's wrong with it. So, we can't just stand still and wait til the market settles, we must go and spread the word.
I like what they say about Linux:
:o)
"We also like it a lot, and worship Linus on a daily basis at our own personal shrine."
Methinks we should all do this.
If they know that tapes have such a short life span (for their purposes, at least), why do they want to transfer their old data from tapes to *shudder* more tapes? Geez... BTW, there are storage devices intended specifically for long-term storage, and they happen to be based on optical storage. WORM and COLD are but a few of many. If DVD weren't such a mess of a "standard", they could use 4-layer double-sided disks to store the data. In short, optical storage is the best candidate for such a task (but many of you already knew that :).
Definitely. My case follows.
I was sending a computer (mistake #1) fro Puerto Rico to Pennsylvania. So I packed it up, took it to the post office (mistake #2), and sent it via Priority Mail, along with some other stuff in a separate box. When the computer arrived, its case had snapped off, the front plate was hanging from a few cables, the expansion cards were out of the slots, and one of the harddrives died. Fortunately, I had paid for insurance. So when the computer was taken back to the destination post office to claim the insurance payment, they said they had to send the computer to St. Louis (from PA), and had to wait two months to get any results.
The USPS definitely deserves the qualification of SHIT, tops.
Yep, both USPS and FedEx deliver on Saturdays. Only UPS does Mon. to Fri. only.
On another point, it's interesting that sending a package to Canada via Global Priority Mail takes about 5 days to reach its destination, yet regular mail on the way back takes 7 days. Hmmm...
I thought they were working with Venix (or some similarly-named thing), but then it coould've been an older project.
The next part would be to make it easy for vendors to hook their applications into my installation system. That would encourage them to write applications for my version of Linux first.
What the author means by "installation system" is not clear; an InstallShield for Linux, perhaps? RPM and Debian already do an excellent job about installing and removing packages, within the limitations of user interface variety and such (e.g., KDE or GNOME or whatever integration). This in the end would wind down into another UI debate.
Fundamentally, I'm betting that I not only have a superior feature set in my "frosting," but that I can execute better than anyone who tries to copy me. (In the case of offering help, there are ways around the GNU license as well, such as separating the code from the text and copyrighting the text. Not recommended, but it would probably work.)
This is only one of five or six possible value-adds to Linux. In order to make them work, I don't have to violate the GNU license. All I have to do is make the frosting on my cake more attractive -- and sufficiently different -- so people will choose me and it won't be as easy for those who choose someone else.
So all this sounds like "bastardising" Linux in some way, doesn't it? That "frosting" comment reminds me so much of the Halloween documents it gives me shivers. If such a thing were to be made, it better be just as open as Linux. Even better, make it part of the LSB or some other similar standard.
^D
I remember that holographic storage uses lasers to store "stuff" in little crystal-like thingees. Since halving the wavelength allows us to store four times the same amount of data on a flat surface, how much increase do you get from a tridimensional storage medium? ... I can imagine future MP3 players that play the music from small storage cubes attached to my keychain... :o)
Tried it, and got the same every time. Setup here is an AST Premmia GX P/100 in single-processor mode (has a 82430LX/NX Mercury/Neptune chipset and PCI and EISA buses), 32MB no-parity RAM, kernel 2.0.35, Western Digital WDAC1600 disk, and a *shudder* CMD 646 rev 1 controller. Well, actually, the disk mentioned above is connected to the second channel, which uses a different controller that gives me problems when I configure it to do IRQ unmasking and 32-bit transfers (the CMD646 does that fine here). I recommend you to try tuning your disk setup with hdparm and try again.
There is work in progress to develop a binary tree-based filesystem for Linux, which is currently on second beta. The paper and source files are located at http://idiom.com/~beverly/reiserfs.html . It is supposedly faster than ext2, and might be better suited for gigantic partitions, although I cannot attest to that, as I have no experience with it. Does anyone here know anything about this?
Imagine being able to listen to your favourite music without the bulky headphones. Just upload the MP3s, and tag along. - And make sure you're not thinking hard about anything else when you do, lest you don't mind having the music skip frames during "high brain utilisation" -. Heh.
Just to clear up: modern pacemakers do have a good deal of data processing capabilities in them. New models have a feature (not of the MS kind) that let them adjust the hearbeat rate according to physical activity, so that the heart behaves more like a normal heart, instead of sending a fixed signal.
Another difference is that you can only rotate images in multiples of 90 degrees (at least in 0.99 it was so). I grew used to PhotoStyler's rotation options, where you could rotate the image interactively, enter the rotation amount, or level horizontally or vertically. Hey, even XV allows you to rotate the image freely!