I think you're right to a point. If the Queen just up and decided to become an autocrat the people wouldn't stand for it. On the other hand, if the Queen dismisses a Parliament because they're becoming totalitarian themselves the people might appreciate it... as long as new elections were called right away.
The Queen of England (United Kingdom actually, there hasn't been a Queen of England since Queen Anne) has no power in Canada. The Queen of Canada does. Yes, they are the same person, but they don't have to be.
The Queen of the United Kingdom doesn't appoint our Governor General, the Queen of Canada does, on the advice of the Canadian Prime Minister and Privy Council.
Why would your instructor ask to to use a particular editor? I understand compiler, and teaching how to use one editor, but requiring a particular text editor? It almost sound like he just wanted to keep you away from vim.
All the computer science printers on our campus are accessible using CUPS. Unfortunately the ones for the other labs are currently only available using CIFS.
CUPS is great, because all I need to do is turn on printer sharing and give it my username and password and the printers magically work from both Linux and Mac OS X.
Give it a little time. SaskTel, Telus, MTS, Bell, Shaw, Yak, and I think a few others are all building GSM networks. Rogers didn't get offered iPhone exclusivity in Canada, so soon there will be several carriers with iPhone plans.
Yes. The invasion of Poland is largely considered to be the start of the Second World War, beginning 1 Sept 1939. The United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand declared war on 3 September 1939, and Canada on 10 Sept 1939.
The Americans think of Pearl Harbour being the start of the Second World War, 7 Dec, 1941, but the fighting in Europe had been going on for two years already.
Oh, I know. That's why I used the word "official":)
Now, I do one of a few things happening: the SPARC getting nixed, with PowerPC replacing it, IBM adopting Sun's low power SPARC technology for some of its own products, or Solaris supporting PowerPC, AMD64, and SPARC officially.
Is it proper to refer to it as a "Unix" or is it a "Unix clone" or "Unix-like system" like Linux? OS X is a certified UNIX.
I'd also be interested in anything explaining why they went with a Mach microkernel and whether that has any non-negligible impact on performance (i.e. message-passing overhead, switching from kernel to userspace, etc). I'd appreciate anything you are able to explain since I'm honestly rather ignorant about OSX.
The message passing overhead is fairly high compared to other systems like Linux or other BSDs. Unlike monolithic kernels, the Mach based one that Darwin (The UNIX part of OS X) uses actually has to do a full context switch when one makes a system call. That can be slow, especially with TLB flushes and such.
Wikipedia and Apple have some pretty good docs on how it works.
The provider information is now often wrong. It just looks up the NXX, and tells you its code holder, but thanks to WNP it isn't guaranteed to be accurate.
Heh. I used to work for SaskTel, I did when they started to offer it.
It probably depends on which service reps you talk to. They don't always train them on new services before they're launched. A friend of mine had a really hard time porting his cell phone number to a landline. It can be frustrating, but on the other hand they offer new services as soon as they're technically ready. But I remember because SaskTel had wanted to offer the service, but weren't allowed to because the cable companies couldn't offer cable internet without basic cable until DOCSIS cam out. Then DOCSIS came out and dry DSL was offered.
The phone company I used to work for kept hot spares of DSLAMs available, I think it was two at any given time. I remember about 6 months ago a drunk driver smashed one to smithereens and they had it back up and running in under four hours. I was pretty impressed because it looked like the underground cable was damaged too.
This is why I think Microsoft has been pushing.Net so hard for the last few years. Get a decent new API ready for the eventual replacement of the existing system. It'd also make it possible to switch architectures if needed.
Is there no USB 2.0, which is nearly equal and has the huge advantage of being more mainstream?
Well, even considering that Firewire 400 is noticeably faster than USB 2.0 it can not be considered to be a replacement until I can take a USB cable, plug one end into my my machine, and the other end into another machine, restart, hold down 'T', and have it appear to the other computer as an external hard drive. An incredibly useful feature if you ever hose the OS.
All my PC motherboards have Firewire, and apparently newer Asus ones can boot off it. My last Asus motherboard was an A7N8X-Deluxe, it couldn't, but supposedly the new ones will. My newer DFI (nf4 SLI-DR) won't.
Just a cursory look at www.asus.com, I can't find an Intel based board that doesn't have at least 1394a. Some uATX AM2 boards don't have it. As for MSI I have no idea, I've never owned one of their boards.
Surely you mean "downgrade", no? Firewire 400 is better than USB 2.0 for what I use (external hard drives). Until USB 3 comes out Firewire wins, and it may still win if USB 3 has the same CPU issues USB 2.0 does.
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I think you're right to a point. If the Queen just up and decided to become an autocrat the people wouldn't stand for it. On the other hand, if the Queen dismisses a Parliament because they're becoming totalitarian themselves the people might appreciate it... as long as new elections were called right away.
An "entertainer" with more power in her pinky in her country than the President of the United States in his.
The Prime Minister is not obligated to do anything the Queen says, because the Prime Minister has no power that the Queen doesn't grant him.
Everything the government does is done with the authority of the Queen. In theory she can take it away with no notice.
The Queen of England (United Kingdom actually, there hasn't been a Queen of England since Queen Anne) has no power in Canada. The Queen of Canada does. Yes, they are the same person, but they don't have to be.
The Queen of the United Kingdom doesn't appoint our Governor General, the Queen of Canada does, on the advice of the Canadian Prime Minister and Privy Council.
Why would your instructor ask to to use a particular editor? I understand compiler, and teaching how to use one editor, but requiring a particular text editor? It almost sound like he just wanted to keep you away from vim.
All the computer science printers on our campus are accessible using CUPS. Unfortunately the ones for the other labs are currently only available using CIFS.
CUPS is great, because all I need to do is turn on printer sharing and give it my username and password and the printers magically work from both Linux and Mac OS X.
Give it a little time. SaskTel, Telus, MTS, Bell, Shaw, Yak, and I think a few others are all building GSM networks. Rogers didn't get offered iPhone exclusivity in Canada, so soon there will be several carriers with iPhone plans.
Yay competition.
Yes. The invasion of Poland is largely considered to be the start of the Second World War, beginning 1 Sept 1939. The United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand declared war on 3 September 1939, and Canada on 10 Sept 1939.
The Americans think of Pearl Harbour being the start of the Second World War, 7 Dec, 1941, but the fighting in Europe had been going on for two years already.
You kid, but there are blade systems based on the PowerPC 970. Other than that for the most part PowerPC is now an embedded architecture.
Oh, I know. That's why I used the word "official" :)
Now, I do one of a few things happening: the SPARC getting nixed, with PowerPC replacing it, IBM adopting Sun's low power SPARC technology for some of its own products, or Solaris supporting PowerPC, AMD64, and SPARC officially.
So, does this mean we'll see official Solaris on Power or PowerPC machines?
Do you know whether it's POSIX-compliant?
Yes.
Is it proper to refer to it as a "Unix" or is it a "Unix clone" or "Unix-like system" like Linux?
OS X is a certified UNIX.
I'd also be interested in anything explaining why they went with a Mach microkernel and whether that has any non-negligible impact on performance (i.e. message-passing overhead, switching from kernel to userspace, etc). I'd appreciate anything you are able to explain since I'm honestly rather ignorant about OSX.
The message passing overhead is fairly high compared to other systems like Linux or other BSDs. Unlike monolithic kernels, the Mach based one that Darwin (The UNIX part of OS X) uses actually has to do a full context switch when one makes a system call. That can be slow, especially with TLB flushes and such.
Wikipedia and Apple have some pretty good docs on how it works.
The provider information is now often wrong. It just looks up the NXX, and tells you its code holder, but thanks to WNP it isn't guaranteed to be accurate.
Well my laptop is running a 2.2 Ghz Core2 Duo with 4mb L2, 4 GB of ram, and the Nvidia Geforce 8400m mobile graphics card.
So are you at least using the x64 version of XP? Or are you wasting a good chunk of your RAM?
That's because by 22 you had several years to get over the "gotta have alcohol to have fun" mentality :)
Heh. I used to work for SaskTel, I did when they started to offer it.
It probably depends on which service reps you talk to. They don't always train them on new services before they're launched. A friend of mine had a really hard time porting his cell phone number to a landline. It can be frustrating, but on the other hand they offer new services as soon as they're technically ready. But I remember because SaskTel had wanted to offer the service, but weren't allowed to because the cable companies couldn't offer cable internet without basic cable until DOCSIS cam out. Then DOCSIS came out and dry DSL was offered.
How do you figure? Every phone company in Canada is required to provide dry DSL. As far as I know, every cableco is required to do the same.
Not where I live, they don't. I can only get dial up from them.
The phone company I used to work for kept hot spares of DSLAMs available, I think it was two at any given time. I remember about 6 months ago a drunk driver smashed one to smithereens and they had it back up and running in under four hours. I was pretty impressed because it looked like the underground cable was damaged too.
I'm American you insensitive clod, our beer is water!
I'd mod you up if I hadn't already posted on this thread. Anyway, as a Canadian I must tell you that I have seen solid beer too.
Water is a liquid.
I'm Canadian, you insensitive clod!
This is why I think Microsoft has been pushing .Net so hard for the last few years. Get a decent new API ready for the eventual replacement of the existing system. It'd also make it possible to switch architectures if needed.
Is there no USB 2.0, which is nearly equal and has the huge advantage of being more mainstream?
Well, even considering that Firewire 400 is noticeably faster than USB 2.0 it can not be considered to be a replacement until I can take a USB cable, plug one end into my my machine, and the other end into another machine, restart, hold down 'T', and have it appear to the other computer as an external hard drive. An incredibly useful feature if you ever hose the OS.
All my PC motherboards have Firewire, and apparently newer Asus ones can boot off it. My last Asus motherboard was an A7N8X-Deluxe, it couldn't, but supposedly the new ones will. My newer DFI (nf4 SLI-DR) won't.
Just a cursory look at www.asus.com, I can't find an Intel based board that doesn't have at least 1394a. Some uATX AM2 boards don't have it. As for MSI I have no idea, I've never owned one of their boards.
Surely you mean "downgrade", no? Firewire 400 is better than USB 2.0 for what I use (external hard drives). Until USB 3 comes out Firewire wins, and it may still win if USB 3 has the same CPU issues USB 2.0 does.