Did it re-compile a nice tight quick Kernel to match you configuration?
I have working everything using a Mandrake distro, I had to take apart my Adsl modem and search for a driver for the chipset and get the latest version of the USB drivers to stop gphoto2 crashing.
1: Run the kernel configuration program. 2: Select detect my harware option.... It sets up a 'default' configuration for you. 3: You can then go through and select/de-select anything you want.
You don't have to run step 2 if you don't want to you still have the choice you had before.
Now on the auto detection thing, if the script is wrong you can correct it, report a bug or whatever, just like you can with kudzu or USB driver autoloading.
It could even notify you that you hardware isn't fully supported and look here for an updated driver.
Mozilla's tabbed browsing isn't MDI in the clasical sense.
You can open in another window if you want. With tabs all pages are always full window.
MDI is ok if you're only going to look at one thing at once and it's full screened. MDI in visuaila studio and Microsoft management consol is just plain evil, like trying to find the buttons on a straight jacket.
Well I don't know all the chipsets i have and exactly what i need to get my IDE up, etc... Do i want framebuffer? do i need it... Oh and I forgot scsi-cdrom support for my CD-RW.
I do know more-or-less what hardware I have, hardware detection can be a lot better under Linux than windows, a lot of USB devices auto load the drivers based on vendor ID/product ID.
A lot of the Linux drivers are generic for XYZ chipset, under windows you need the exact driver. I should imagine that Linux also detects what hardware you have when binding devices.
I takes a short while to select all the default hardware for your system, and sometimes you might miss something. Why not automate this process.
Does it scan your hardware and create a default kernel configuration with all ther drivers for your hardware pre-selected.
It could even ask if you running a desktop or server machine and turn on/off low latency, pre-emtion and supermount for the desktop.
I usually have to enable evrything to get X piece of hardware working corrctly and then disable stuff to find out what the correct drivers/modules were.
I once had 'ONCE', a cooker that could only have been designed by a left handed person.
the dials were left handed (clockwise i think), and the four dials didn't operate the expected plates on the hob.
As you can imagine, a could of nobs were broken by somoen turing them the wrong way, and somone finilly killed the cooker by turning on the wrong hob plate and setting somthing alight (no more cooker).
I'd rather have 4 1GHz Processers with decient memory handeling than 1 4Ghz processor, and my 4 1GHz machine should be quicker and have lower latancy.
If you're wrapping up data-packets for security, you should also be able to use the same information to thread and distribute workloads based on the packets.
Well the windows style interface, I can't remenber the name of the first windowing interface I used,was about 13 years ago on a 286, a bit like windows, b+w i think. Had a few applications and a graphics viewer. It was very easy to use.
Anyone got any ideas, it'd be nice to dig up again.
"LJ What has been your exposure to, or experience with, free software?
Villanueva I've kept up with the Free Software movement in Peru for several years. Both the philosophy that drives it and the fact that, for technical and economic reasons, this software allows the implementation of solutions for a range of organizations.
LJ There are a number of other countries considering proposals similar to 1609, from Asia to Europe to Latin America. Are you familiar with these? If so, are there parts of your proposed bill that make it unique?
Villanueva Bill number 1609 has now been improved and is currently in the committee stage with number 2485, which is also signed by Congressman Jacques Rodrich. Congressman Daniel Estrada has presented a similar bill that is based on the same free software spirit. Among other countries, the closest are Brazil and Argentina; for Europe, we know about the law passed by the German parliament, as well as the proposal in France and the study presented to the English parliament. In Asia, above all there are the actions of the Chinese Government. All these bills are essentially similar, but in ours, like the Argentinian one, we claim exclusivity in all state bodies. Obviously putting this exclusivity into practice will need a whole process, which will take some time, because there are state bodies that are working well with proprietary software and would only choose free software for their future requirements, assuming it's available on the market. That applies quite generally to any institution. I'm only mentioning it because I'm convinced of how critical migration is, the importance of careful planning, and the availability of the necessary resources to cover the time and the risks that you take. "
I'd say that the main issue is that Linux doesn't relly have a COM/OLE type model(pipes don't count!), and Jesus it needs one.
The kernel could be written more modular and I could get binary drivers that work with different kernel builds!. I could re-use all of that great code out there very easily becasue it would be encapsulated and modular. I could do things like COM+ and Longhorn for no-coding-required multi-threading. Unless SUN HP Linux etc... start thinking towards the multi (10 or more) processor as standard world there going to get left behind.
Smaller != faster if you generate a page fault because your data or a function weren't byte aligned then you app will run slow as a dog.
Unrolled loops have a larger footprint but have a smaller execution path.
It's always a good idea to try and make core functionality run compleatly in the CPU cache, if an unrolled loop takes the application core out of cache then don't unroll it, this is were hand assembled code can outstrip compiled code.
If you wan't really fast code then write it in decent Java and have a profilling just-in-time compiler.
You may think this is a troll but some of the ideas behind Palladium and that longhorn thing? might just blow any competition away. (kinda like BeOS but more so)
Security is run at data packet level not just the application/user, providing identified data packets in this way not give incredable security, but allows the OS/cluster of OS's to thread and distribute workloads seamlessly. In 5 years time linux and probably Sun/HP &co. won't be able to compeate with that level of natrual paralisation(or maybe not?)
Your 'fighting chance' is exactly why people should learn ASM so they know whats going on.
Frequently it's hard to see how a complicated algorythm can be optimised, until you hand convert it to ASM. (there's no need to convert to ASM realy, but it's an easy way to make sure you've been thorough)
Is equivelent to a 250Mhz processor with 128MB of ram, running only code writen in ASM.
ASM can often make applications hundreds of time faster so you 2.5Ghz processor running Joes bloaty crapware is like my P100 running ollies carefully crafted and optimized assembler.
Thats a great suggestion, all the low level documenation is downloadable from Intel's site in PDF format. You can also request a free CD with everything you'd need on it.
AMD also have documentation up on there site and I think the x86-64 documentation is also available for free on a CD.
If there 38% thinner I would expect there 30%+ less massive, Less weight can increase speed, reduce noise, power consumption and heat. So 38% thinner could help solve most of you problems.
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Did it re-compile a nice tight quick Kernel to match you configuration?
I have working everything using a Mandrake distro, I had to take apart my Adsl modem and search for a driver for the chipset and get the latest version of the USB drivers to stop gphoto2 crashing.
Here's how it works.
1: Run the kernel configuration program.
2: Select detect my harware option.... It sets up a 'default' configuration for you.
3: You can then go through and select/de-select anything you want.
You don't have to run step 2 if you don't want to you still have the choice you had before.
Now on the auto detection thing, if the script is wrong you can correct it, report a bug or whatever, just like you can with kudzu or USB driver autoloading.
It could even notify you that you hardware isn't fully supported and look here for an updated driver.
Mozilla's tabbed browsing isn't MDI in the clasical sense.
You can open in another window if you want.
With tabs all pages are always full window.
MDI is ok if you're only going to look at one thing at once and it's full screened.
MDI in visuaila studio and Microsoft management consol is just plain evil, like trying to find the buttons on a straight jacket.
Well I don't know all the chipsets i have and exactly what i need to get my IDE up, etc...
Do i want framebuffer? do i need it...
Oh and I forgot scsi-cdrom support for my CD-RW.
I do know more-or-less what hardware I have, hardware detection can be a lot better under Linux than windows, a lot of USB devices auto load the drivers based on vendor ID/product ID.
A lot of the Linux drivers are generic for XYZ chipset, under windows you need the exact driver. I should imagine that Linux also detects what hardware you have when binding devices.
I takes a short while to select all the default hardware for your system, and sometimes you might miss something. Why not automate this process.
Well the site is /.ed so what i want to know is.
Does it scan your hardware and create a default kernel configuration with all ther drivers for your hardware pre-selected.
It could even ask if you running a desktop or server machine and turn on/off low latency, pre-emtion and supermount for the desktop.
I usually have to enable evrything to get X piece of hardware working corrctly and then disable stuff to find out what the correct drivers/modules were.
I once had 'ONCE', a cooker that could only have been designed by a left handed person.
the dials were left handed (clockwise i think), and the four dials didn't operate the expected plates on the hob.
As you can imagine, a could of nobs were broken by somoen turing them the wrong way, and somone finilly killed the cooker by turning on the wrong hob plate and setting somthing alight (no more cooker).
1: always use the users default colours and fonts
don't use things like:
body BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" ALINK="#008000" VLINK="#800080" LINK="#000099" MARGINHEIGHT="0" MARGINWIDTH="0" TEXT="#000000" TOPMARGIN="0" LEFTMARGIN="0"
2: avoid making you windows fixed width.
3: aviod using graphics to represent text (expecially in menus)
I may not agree with Apples 'legendary design' but the windows to mac porting document seems quite good (even if it's poorly designed)
I believe that QT has a equivilent document
oh an 4: never spell check, it hides you thought pattern.
I'd rather have 4 1GHz Processers with decient memory handeling than 1 4Ghz processor, and my 4 1GHz machine should be quicker and have lower latancy.
If you're wrapping up data-packets for security, you should also be able to use the same information to thread and distribute workloads based on the packets.
I had a bit of a search and found
GEM
by digital research, very easy to use, back in the 80's!
Well the windows style interface, I can't remenber the name of the first windowing interface I used,was about 13 years ago on a 286, a bit like windows, b+w i think. Had a few applications and a graphics viewer.
It was very easy to use.
Anyone got any ideas, it'd be nice to dig up again.
You are greed pasonified and that is the reason that free is, free as in speech. free speech is a moral constuct, free beer is just your luck.
That doesn't meen you can't nominate him, don't forget it the thought that counts.
I thought he was in Peru?
any-how free software isn't about money.
it's free as in speech no free as in beer.
For a bunch of people all advocating freedome your being very materialistic.
So I nominate RMS for the GPL and the ideas behind free software.
For all the GNU tools.
and for being able to stir up an argument like no-one else.
some people might think he's a big anal, but so was Einestine, he didn't 'believe' in qauntum physics.
A quick quote from linuxjournal
"LJ What has been your exposure to, or experience with, free software?
Villanueva I've kept up with the Free Software movement in Peru for several years. Both the philosophy that drives it and the fact that, for technical and economic reasons, this software allows the implementation of solutions for a range of organizations.
LJ There are a number of other countries considering proposals similar to 1609, from Asia to Europe to Latin America. Are you familiar with these? If so, are there parts of your proposed bill that make it unique?
Villanueva Bill number 1609 has now been improved and is currently in the committee stage with number 2485, which is also signed by Congressman Jacques Rodrich. Congressman Daniel Estrada has presented a similar bill that is based on the same free software spirit. Among other countries, the closest are Brazil and Argentina; for Europe, we know about the law passed by the German parliament, as well as the proposal in France and the study presented to the English parliament. In Asia, above all there are the actions of the Chinese Government. All these bills are essentially similar, but in ours, like the Argentinian one, we claim exclusivity in all state bodies. Obviously putting this exclusivity into practice will need a whole process, which will take some time, because there are state bodies that are working well with proprietary software and would only choose free software for their future requirements, assuming it's available on the market. That applies quite generally to any institution. I'm only mentioning it because I'm convinced of how critical migration is, the importance of careful planning, and the availability of the necessary resources to cover the time and the risks that you take.
"
I'd say that the main issue is that Linux doesn't relly have a COM/OLE type model(pipes don't count!), and Jesus it needs one.
The kernel could be written more modular and I could get binary drivers that work with different kernel builds!. I could re-use all of that great code out there very easily becasue it would be encapsulated and modular. I could do things like COM+ and Longhorn for no-coding-required multi-threading. Unless SUN HP Linux etc... start thinking towards the multi (10 or more) processor as standard world there going to get left behind.
Smaller != faster if you generate a page fault because your data or a function weren't byte aligned then you app will run slow as a dog.
Unrolled loops have a larger footprint but have a smaller execution path.
It's always a good idea to try and make core functionality run compleatly in the CPU cache, if an unrolled loop takes the application core out of cache then don't unroll it, this is were hand assembled code can outstrip compiled code.
If you wan't really fast code then write it in decent Java and have a profilling just-in-time compiler.
You may think this is a troll but some of the ideas behind Palladium and that longhorn thing? might just blow any competition away. (kinda like BeOS but more so)
Security is run at data packet level not just the application/user, providing identified data packets in this way not give incredable security, but allows the OS/cluster of OS's to thread and distribute workloads seamlessly. In 5 years time linux and probably Sun/HP &co. won't be able to compeate with that level of natrual paralisation(or maybe not?)
Personally I don't believe that this was a BUG, do you trust mr X who verisign trusts less than you truct verisign?
You should always check certificates and always save that certificate for that person.
Your 'fighting chance' is exactly why people should learn ASM so they know whats going on.
Frequently it's hard to see how a complicated algorythm can be optimised, until you hand convert it to ASM.
(there's no need to convert to ASM realy, but it's an easy way to make sure you've been thorough)
debug
A
xor ax,ax
ret
[esc]
R CX
3
N tiny.com
W
Q
tiny.com
I can make one 3 bytes!
Is equivelent to a 250Mhz processor with 128MB of ram, running only code writen in ASM.
ASM can often make applications hundreds of time faster so you 2.5Ghz processor running Joes bloaty crapware is like my P100 running ollies carefully crafted and optimized assembler.
Thats a great suggestion, all the low level documenation is downloadable from Intel's site in PDF format.
You can also request a free CD with everything you'd need on it.
AMD also have documentation up on there site and I think the x86-64 documentation is also available for free on a CD.
If there 38% thinner I would expect there 30%+ less massive, Less weight can increase speed, reduce noise, power consumption and heat.
So 38% thinner could help solve most of you problems.
No i ment that he brought the furniture for Birds to put up, not the men only hard wood.