You can find out for yourself. That's essentially what a microkernel operating system does.
There are exceptions, understand this, I don't need a bunch of "no, it's called a microkernel because it has a small kernel," replies.
Anyway, in general, the design philosphy on a microkernel OS has been to provide as much separation as possible between programs running on the OS. A quick run thorugh of the literature will show you this design philosophy, and point you to plenty of operating systems that follow it.
DARPA funds tons of unclassified research. Why would they classify something like this, only to not classify the research funding given to hundreds of professors and graduate students (including me).
You can strip the DRM on the iTunes music. I probably shouldn't admit to it, but this is how I listen to music under Linux. I should mention that I don't share the music after stripping the DRM and that, if there were a way to do this without stripping the DRM, I would.
I use iTunes under Windows, then JHymn (http://www.hymn-project.org/). The unencrypted files will play problem-free under Linux and can translated into MP3s without issue as well.
When people would rather astroturf about how they hate Bush than astroturf about how they hate vi (or emacs if they're vi users), things have gone downhill on a "tech" site, however much I enjoy this place.
That's a weak argument. It's fine to argue that politcs belong on the site (as they relate to technology). It's stupid to argue that nobody on a tech site should be interested in technology anymore, because they've all become politicians.
There is a paper where the authors used Xen in a manner in which they copied the image of the running OS. A copy on write police was implemented, so RAM usage would be minimal. They got Xen to scale to thousands of virtual servers on some form of relatively reasonable hardware.
It is worth noting, though, that this is part of the point of what Xen is. Xen is a VMM, and part of the point is that you virtualize the machinery so you can run multiple OS's and such. This really is the direction that everything is going. The technologies that you can build on top of this are very... convenient.
It can take a couple of forms. In one form, it would be hooks for a VMM requiring a host OS.
In another form (which I know that Xen supports) it provides ways for the VMM to have control over the host OS, though Xen supposedly supports a number of these methods though ways not requiring modification to the source code.
There are others too (IE, replicating an image of a running OS, snapshotting the OS).
The article doesn't really tell you what they mean at all. I've seen all of these discussed in the context of Linux and Xen before. In fact, I thought that most of those were implemented.
Either people have actually begun reading the articles thorougly before posting, nobody is interested in technology on this site anymore... opting for politics.
Like most new forms of artistic expression that have come before (music, novels, movies), the primary critics of video games are the people that do not play them.
Isn't that kind of a truism? I hear that those who criticize gambling also abstrain from gambling and that those who criticize Steven Spielberg movies... oh, they went anyway since everyone else was.
They won't really be worried about Iran's opinion until the US bombs them. However, you can take comfort in knowing that you're the trend setter, and can claim to have been sensitive to the Iranians years before it was cool to do so.
That was pretty much what he said. Sheesh, you know Slashdot's gone down the toilet when an anti-Bushism nagging that another Anti-Bushism wasn't quite anti-Bush enough gets modded insightful.
I wonder if we'll ever talk about technology on this site again.
That may be so, but I think that it's a myth old enough to be attributed to the sort of crufy way that such stories build up, rather than any attempt from a community of thought police. I mean, Ada was named after her, were we already embroiled in this culture war in the early 80's?
It really is a pain in the ass when people offer more bandwidth, isn't it? Just yesterday, I was looking at my 1200 baud modem, thinking to myself, "I have no idea why people are pulling ethernet cable in their homes, when 1200 baud is enough for anyone."
There are 11 whole posts (so far) on a story where geeks get to stroke their egos by showing their ignorance and calling everything in sight a version of Unix.
Heck, I didn't even see anybody post a *BSD is Dying troll.
There sure do seem to be a lot of creative people doing projects on the web today. What do you folks think of this?
I think that looking where everyone else is looking is the surest way not to find disruptive change. If you want to invent a disruptive technology, the last place to look is where everyone else is.
Actually, I don't think that it's so much that it's actually ambiguous as it is that people are willing to nod to some imbiguity to keep their corporate funding sources out of hot water. Simple fact, a megabyte is 1024k, and a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, and a byte is 8 bits. Any other definition only allows you to pass of cheap hardware as if it were a more expensive counterpart.
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I eat unfrosted cake all day. I like it that way, it's called work. When I get home, gun porn sounds cool, and fully destructible terrain makes the game that much more interesting, since, believe it or not, the real world is fully destructible.
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You can find out for yourself. That's essentially what a microkernel operating system does.
There are exceptions, understand this, I don't need a bunch of "no, it's called a microkernel because it has a small kernel," replies.
Anyway, in general, the design philosphy on a microkernel OS has been to provide as much separation as possible between programs running on the OS. A quick run thorugh of the literature will show you this design philosophy, and point you to plenty of operating systems that follow it.
DARPA funds tons of unclassified research. Why would they classify something like this, only to not classify the research funding given to hundreds of professors and graduate students (including me).
You can strip the DRM on the iTunes music. I probably shouldn't admit to it, but this is how I listen to music under Linux. I should mention that I don't share the music after stripping the DRM and that, if there were a way to do this without stripping the DRM, I would.
I use iTunes under Windows, then JHymn (http://www.hymn-project.org/). The unencrypted files will play problem-free under Linux and can translated into MP3s without issue as well.
When people would rather astroturf about how they hate Bush than astroturf about how they hate vi (or emacs if they're vi users), things have gone downhill on a "tech" site, however much I enjoy this place.
That's a weak argument. It's fine to argue that politcs belong on the site (as they relate to technology). It's stupid to argue that nobody on a tech site should be interested in technology anymore, because they've all become politicians.
There is a paper where the authors used Xen in a manner in which they copied the image of the running OS. A copy on write police was implemented, so RAM usage would be minimal. They got Xen to scale to thousands of virtual servers on some form of relatively reasonable hardware.
It is worth noting, though, that this is part of the point of what Xen is. Xen is a VMM, and part of the point is that you virtualize the machinery so you can run multiple OS's and such. This really is the direction that everything is going. The technologies that you can build on top of this are very... convenient.
Ahh, that makes more sense. I remember that Xen had natively compiled OS's in order to make use of some of its features.
It can take a couple of forms. In one form, it would be hooks for a VMM requiring a host OS.
In another form (which I know that Xen supports) it provides ways for the VMM to have control over the host OS, though Xen supposedly supports a number of these methods though ways not requiring modification to the source code.
There are others too (IE, replicating an image of a running OS, snapshotting the OS).
The article doesn't really tell you what they mean at all. I've seen all of these discussed in the context of Linux and Xen before. In fact, I thought that most of those were implemented.
Either people have actually begun reading the articles thorougly before posting, nobody is interested in technology on this site anymore... opting for politics.
Like most new forms of artistic expression that have come before (music, novels, movies), the primary critics of video games are the people that do not play them.
Isn't that kind of a truism? I hear that those who criticize gambling also abstrain from gambling and that those who criticize Steven Spielberg movies... oh, they went anyway since everyone else was.
...if BusinessWeek authors read Slashdot
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500 years from now, I may be 6 feet under (though, more likely, I'll be a frozen carcass awaiting reanimation), but I'll still be 526 years old.
They won't really be worried about Iran's opinion until the US bombs them. However, you can take comfort in knowing that you're the trend setter, and can claim to have been sensitive to the Iranians years before it was cool to do so.
Offer null and void if they nuke us.
That was pretty much what he said. Sheesh, you know Slashdot's gone down the toilet when an anti-Bushism nagging that another Anti-Bushism wasn't quite anti-Bush enough gets modded insightful.
I wonder if we'll ever talk about technology on this site again.
That may be so, but I think that it's a myth old enough to be attributed to the sort of crufy way that such stories build up, rather than any attempt from a community of thought police. I mean, Ada was named after her, were we already embroiled in this culture war in the early 80's?
I'm surprised that you're informative rather than funny.
Just think of all of the Slashdot readers who don't realize that a year from now, they'll be a year older.
It really is a pain in the ass when people offer more bandwidth, isn't it? Just yesterday, I was looking at my 1200 baud modem, thinking to myself, "I have no idea why people are pulling ethernet cable in their homes, when 1200 baud is enough for anyone."
Many in the movie industry hope digital cinema will help revive theater attendance, which fell 9 percent in 2005 in the United States.
My guess is that releasing movies that don't suck would increase movie attendance.
45 posts (and you know most people don't RTFA)... my assumption is that that server was built on one of the original IBM PCs.
Yeah, but it lives on through OS X and all of the its bastard children, or something.
Have they said anything about Slashdot dying?
There are 11 whole posts (so far) on a story where geeks get to stroke their egos by showing their ignorance and calling everything in sight a version of Unix.
Heck, I didn't even see anybody post a *BSD is Dying troll.
There sure do seem to be a lot of creative people doing projects on the web today. What do you folks think of this?
I think that looking where everyone else is looking is the surest way not to find disruptive change. If you want to invent a disruptive technology, the last place to look is where everyone else is.
Actually, I don't think that it's so much that it's actually ambiguous as it is that people are willing to nod to some imbiguity to keep their corporate funding sources out of hot water. Simple fact, a megabyte is 1024k, and a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, and a byte is 8 bits. Any other definition only allows you to pass of cheap hardware as if it were a more expensive counterpart.
I eat unfrosted cake all day. I like it that way, it's called work. When I get home, gun porn sounds cool, and fully destructible terrain makes the game that much more interesting, since, believe it or not, the real world is fully destructible.
Well, life is a pain in the ass like that, isn't it?
You want to use Google's products, you're going to do it on their terms. Don't like their terms? Use a different solution.