From the future-letter-from-myself dept.:
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A Letter from 2020
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Today, I installed Linux 4.8.11 on my photo-electric 1THz computer with the quantum-infinite storage. It took the machine 1 microsecond to boot and I was quite happy.
Yep, *NIX took over last decade and Microsoft was forced into the the open source business. Suprisingly, they are doing very well, and regained their trust in the UNIX world. Windows turned obsolete and Microsoft invested in Linux to make it more user-friendly. So, I'm now using OpenMicrosoft Linux 2020.
Every OS that has implementation of *printf() is vulnerable at that point, and that's almost every OS.
Problems with *printf() only occur when the programmer is not careful. Anyone who worries about his code can use stuff like PScan to automatically find any format mismatch. Even gcc itself is smart enough to warn about these kind of errors.
More like a waste of time to write such an article, not only
because it have totally misguided by false assumptions, that
we can never know what new technology may pop
up the day after today, that could change everything.
1. The Hard Drive:
Non-solid state hard drives in 2010? Give me a break.
remember that 18TB solid state storage device that was
slashdotted? It exists today.
Only 1TB? heh. In the current rate of development,
we will almost certainly reach 1000TB (=1PB) by the
year 2010.
2. The CPU:
Will be SMP certainly! No reason to think otherwise.
3. RAM
The RAM and the hard drive could be both the same device.
Well, that's pretty much what I have to say.
Been there, done that, still waiting
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Linux In A Box
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It's always good to hear about more projects to miniturize Linux and personal computers, but what is the use of a small little box with no keyboard? Am I supposed to telepathically communicate with the box (although that would be kinda cool). I am really waiting for: Linux in a pin head, or having Linux run in a 1-inch by 1-inch by 4 millimeters hand watch.
FM says "If you look this list over, and measure each system's number of vulnerabilities against the number of its customers, Linux is arguably the worst operating-system product in history, and Microsoft's the best."
This is probably the worst idea of a ratio comparision I have ever seen. You can't compare the quality of Linux users against Windows users just by the number, and you can't compare the number of vulnerabilities against an a closed source operation system, it could be that Windows itself and all the software that goes around it have tons vulnerabilities - if you don't know about them, it doesn't mean they don't exist. It is better to know about the vulnerability than to hide it.
Also, Fred Moody doesn't take into account that any vulnerability discovered in Linux (or one of the software that runs on Linux, for example, the well known vulnerable QPOP), can be fixed immediately by replacing the potentially riskful software by another - something that cannot be done in Windows since almost every Windows software costs money, the amount of good freeware is neglectable, and businesses sometimes cannot afford running to buy software everytime a vulnerability is discovered.
Microsoft, and all other closed-source companies redefine the word "vulnerability", by closing the source code - which is the vulnerability - because this way you have no idea what the software is doing and it might as well send your private data to a dark server somewhere on the Internet.
Come on, Fred Moody wrote a book titled "I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier" which suggest he is surely a Microsoft-assimiliated drone.
Maybe block holes suck matter at one point in space and blow that same matter out from another block hole, like some sort of a StarGate? Point for thought.
I was amazed to hear about the fire at Los Alamos, thinking it might help to uncover one of the great mysteries. Los Alamos was a key in the story of the infamous Area 51 back in 1989.
A material, element 115, the only available physical proof for the existance of aliens, is stored in Los Alamos. More info
About the power consumption: Remeber that this hard drive is very small, it doesn't consume much of power like the normal IDE hard drive does. In fact, it is written that with a voltage supply of +3.3V in its idle state, it consumes only 0.21W. Secondly, this hard drive was *especially* designed to resists shock. I've read the PDF describing all the technical details about this drive. It can resist 1ms of 1500G and 2ms of 150G, which is quite impressive.
32MB is just not enough. That's what kept me from buying, not to mention assembling these kind of MP3 players. For people who like to have a lot of MP3s portable with them, an alternative must be offered.
IBM has developed a very small hard drive which is intended for PDAs. But what if a company decides to put it inside an MP3 player? The size of this hard drive is one inch, and the amount of space is 340MB, enough to put 5 discs in it!
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Yep, *NIX took over last decade and Microsoft was forced into the the open source business. Suprisingly, they are doing very well, and regained their trust in the UNIX world. Windows turned obsolete and Microsoft invested in Linux to make it more user-friendly. So, I'm now using OpenMicrosoft Linux 2020.
Problems with *printf() only occur when the programmer is not careful. Anyone who worries about his code can use stuff like PScan to automatically find any format mismatch. Even gcc itself is smart enough to warn about these kind of errors.
Check what you're running, top secret intelligent dudes.
Just a lesson to be learned.
1. The Hard Drive:
Non-solid state hard drives in 2010? Give me a break. remember that 18TB solid state storage device that was slashdotted? It exists today.
Only 1TB? heh. In the current rate of development, we will almost certainly reach 1000TB (=1PB) by the year 2010.
2. The CPU:
Will be SMP certainly! No reason to think otherwise.
3. RAM
The RAM and the hard drive could be both the same device.
Well, that's pretty much what I have to say.
It's always good to hear about more projects to miniturize Linux and personal computers, but what is the use of a small little box with no keyboard? Am I supposed to telepathically communicate with the box (although that would be kinda cool). I am really waiting for: Linux in a pin head, or having Linux run in a 1-inch by 1-inch by 4 millimeters hand watch.
Microsoft is trying to get into Open Source, check this.
This is probably the worst idea of a ratio comparision I have ever seen. You can't compare the quality of Linux users against Windows users just by the number, and you can't compare the number of vulnerabilities against an a closed source operation system, it could be that Windows itself and all the software that goes around it have tons vulnerabilities - if you don't know about them, it doesn't mean they don't exist. It is better to know about the vulnerability than to hide it.
Also, Fred Moody doesn't take into account that any vulnerability discovered in Linux (or one of the software that runs on Linux, for example, the well known vulnerable QPOP), can be fixed immediately by replacing the potentially riskful software by another - something that cannot be done in Windows since almost every Windows software costs money, the amount of good freeware is neglectable, and businesses sometimes cannot afford running to buy software everytime a vulnerability is discovered.
Microsoft, and all other closed-source companies redefine the word "vulnerability", by closing the source code - which is the vulnerability - because this way you have no idea what the software is doing and it might as well send your private data to a dark server somewhere on the Internet.
Come on, Fred Moody wrote a book titled "I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier" which suggest he is surely a Microsoft-assimiliated drone.
Maybe block holes suck matter at one point in space and blow that same matter out from another block hole, like some sort of a StarGate? Point for thought.
A material, element 115, the only available physical proof for the existance of aliens, is stored in Los Alamos. More info
In second thought, the computer inside your brain may still operate after you get killed. Something like a black box.
But make sure you have no security leaks, otherwise someone could crack into your brain, if your brain has a permanent IP ...
An MP3 player with IBM's Microdrive will be much cheaper, I suppose.
About the power consumption: Remeber that this hard drive is very small, it doesn't consume much of power like the normal IDE hard drive does. In fact, it is written that with a voltage supply of +3.3V in its idle state, it consumes only 0.21W. Secondly, this hard drive was *especially* designed to resists shock. I've read the PDF describing all the technical details about this drive. It can resist 1ms of 1500G and 2ms of 150G, which is quite impressive.
IBM has developed a very small hard drive which is intended for PDAs. But what if a company decides to put it inside an MP3 player? The size of this hard drive is one inch, and the amount of space is 340MB, enough to put 5 discs in it!
Think about it.