This is an Ugly day for SUN. A sad day. Enjoy your ride on the FUD train because it will not last.
No one is going move from one closed, proprietary solution to another one. So if this is your strategy to get some MS customers, you are fried.
You have/had an opportunity to be part of something great. This is your response? Bad leadership kills companies quickly. You are barely holding your own because you still choose to follow the old proprietary model for UNIX failures. Why? Scared?
The world came together to build a free unix clone because it didnt trust either MS or the proprietary unix vendors. And having tasted freedom, it will never allow one company to dictate terms to them again.
You have embarrassed your company and its stock-holders. I only hope you find your way before your company folds.
You cannot compete with your attitude. You dont support as many devices, software platforms, or computer platforms as either Windows or Linux or Mac.
An encrypted communication could look suspicious or be made to look suspicious. Have him use a series of code phrases agreed to in advance with the other party to send coded messages in the clear.
If he really needs to have privacy, arent there embassy resources he could use?
Re:Performance doesn't come directly from 64 bits
on
Is Prescott 64-bit?
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P.S. Clearly 32 bits can only address 4GB of RAM
at one time....
In a segmented memory architecture, you can address a lot more than that. Not that I love segment registers. Just being picky.
You might want to research the SEA/PK thing a little. It gives unfortunate insight into what might happen to Linux. PK took the arc source and re-implemented some of it in assembly language. That made it faster, but did not make it his.
SEA was a very small company (husband and wife). This was not the David and Goliath battle we were led to believe so long ago.
I got a good laugh out of it with the crew at work when we saw it. We just went into bios and set it to boot from cdrom and installed RH9. Worked like a charm. Interesting thing is: Much of the software did NOT come shrink wrapped.
Its all nonsense anyway. You could be blind, drunk, underage, senile and still hit a key.
Whats galling is having to PAY for the stuff. Even in a small way. They shouldnt charge me for it. And those companies should not be able to count me as customers. And then they send to BSA and other lobbys to find other ways to MAKE me pay for something I dont want and will never use.
I'm laughing so hard my liver is bruising! Say it for us Darl, please with the fingers: "I am not a crook". Come on, you know you have been practicing!
and line numbers. Just make them take a current source distribution and document exactly what line numbers they say are theirs and why they think its theirs. They cannot claim that by releasing the filenames and line numbers of code that is already public they are in any way weakening their rights over code or ideas. Then the industry can look at their claim and put it to rest.
If they are unwilling to even release the filenames/line numbers of the code they claim is theirs, then how can anyone possible take them seriously?
Has this already been proposed? What was their response?
Windows is listening on about 6 ports. What services can I safely turn off so that those 6 ports are closed? These machines are simple TCP/IP client machines that do not need/want/use any Microsoft "innovations". I just need to be able to get to www and pop servers.
The alternative is not all that pleasant...applications that become over-developed and bogged down with EVERY feature that ANYONE wants. MySQL has fewer features compared with some other databases. But I know many companies that are being destroyed by the cost and poor quality of the biggest named ones. ENDLESS patches, never ending increases in processing requirements for the same workload, and ever escalating costs on ever changing license requirements.
Some open-source packages seem unfinished? Perhaps its time to step up and finish them yourself. Give something back to the group besides your thanks.
The radio stations are sooo damn crappy now that I can barely leave one tuned in for a couple of minutes. Advertisements are not the problem. If they would simply advertise products and then get back to the music, that would be acceptible. Now, there is so much "How great a radio station we are, we are so great we dont even need to be playing music now". Play the music, play some ads, play more music and shut the hell up people! Sound samples, fart jokes, and useless DJs that dont even tell you what they played are a great reason why people don't buy a song they want on their way home. BECAUSE THEY NEVER GET TO HEAR THE FREAKING SONG!
First: Setup network installation servers and perform as many installs as you can via ethernet.
Second, try to install the machines that HAVE cd burners first, then use those machines to burn cds for the machines that cant be installed via the network.
Third, call a competitor for the company you are having problems with and give them an opportunity to gain some ground on their rival.
Welcome the challenge and have fun with it. The more you let these fools drag you down, the more you let them win. They don't deserve to win.
64 bit means numbers can be bigger, and address sizes can be bigger. But numbers and addresses must still occupy contiguous bytes in memory, so there is no provision for multiple instances. Now, the OS may provide as many instances of itself as it wants providing that the OS is written to do this.
Oh, and Boromir was Faramir's Brother. Not his son. Denethor was their father.
What happened to the super-large, flexible, "I can staple it to my livingroom wall" displays that they said were "just around the corner". Organic transistors or light-emitting-polymers or whatever.
When can I expect to be able to equip my house with a display that is 120 inches without using projection?
What we need is for the ISPs to take some leadership on this issue and either enhance the current SMTP protocol or replace it and use a ISP-ISP protocol between themselves. The protocol should include a lot more information regarding who sent the email and if some sender becomes a problem, then that sender is blacklisted. If the sending ISP is non-compliant, then the entire ISP is blacklisted until they comply. If the sender or the ISP cannot conduct business, then they will mend their ways or THEIR customers will leave them. Their customers will remove the money from the spammers pockets. That is the right way to do it.
The tax idea is stupid on the face of it. It deserves no discussion. Lets just fix the problem.
DSL is just too unreliable. Think about it..there is a direct connection between your dsl modem and a dsl modem at the phone company. If the modem at the phone company dies, then you and just you are out of luck until they fix it. Cable on the otherhand is more group oriented. If the cable goes down, then everyone is affected and thats better for you because someone else will probably notice it first and report it. You may not see the downtime. Certainly they will hear about it and fix it. Sure, you share your bandwidth with other people. But DSL users all share bandwidth from the bank of modems on up.
I personally dont see how the Bells can survive. The product is just silly. Now, if they changed the last mile to digital and handed everyone a free internet connection but made you pay to rent little boxes to strip off packets for a handset, then they might survive. Otherwise I dont think they can. I no longer have a phone line at all. My friends are doing the same. Time for the bells to go for the long pass. They have no time left in the game.
All of these are series. Only the first book is listed.
Robin Hobb, Assassins Apprentice. Guilty Pleasures, Laurell K Hamilton Lord Valentines Castle, Robert Silverberg Enders Game, Orson Scott Card Jhereg, Steven Brust A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursulla LeGuin
You also have to get everyone who calls you to Opt-out as well. Obviously you can't.
What you can do is tell your cell phone company that you do not want your information sold and do not want SPAM to come to you over their network. I dont think cell phone companies have to obey public access rules. They are private companies that can choose the traffic they want to carry. Let them know that you will stay with them if they keep your information private and the spammers out.
So the major OS's in the world that are NOT dying are VM, MVS, VSE, OS/390. I guess we all have to learn SNA, VTAM, and JCL to make our way in the world.
I agree that all permanent drives in a system
should reflect one distributed pool of space.
Partition and drive boundrys are no longer
necessary with a LVM to manage the space for us.
I differ regarding the desktop "space" metaphor
however. I think different desktops should
reflect different cpu realms. I should be able
to open a desktop icon and execute applications
on other computers on the network. Switching
between desktops means switching between computers.
Yes I know this is possible with X. But it is
not easy and rights management is a pain.
And it has not been integrated into the
desktop.
And I dont like most filemanagers I have used.
Windows or Unix. They could be reworked.
Make it a law that the ISP's have to validate that a packet coming from their network out to the Internet has a valid source address that originates from within their network. This will make it much more difficult for DOS attacks to take place anonymously. They should block and log all packets with source addresses that are RFC Private source addresses or addresses that could not have originated on their network.
This is a simple thing for any ISP to do.
This will allow the ISPs to work together to
quell DOS attacks when they take place and
track down machines that have DOS trojans so
they can be cleaned.
There are programs in/usr/bin that should never
be called by a person. They are backend routines
that are called by some other program in/usr/bin or elsewhere.
So put things in/usr/bin that should be called
and are safe to call by a user from the command
line. Put the backend programs that are not
user-interface programs ( slave programs for
other programs ) into/usr/lib somewhere.
Look how many programs in/usr/bin have no
man page!
The KDE backround apps and screen savers are
an easy example and there are plenty of others.
The boot up time of current computer systems takes a long time because it is doing a lot of different things:
1. Power On Self Test
2. Memory Test
3. Waiting for Devices to power up and "settle"
4. Finding first available device
5. IPL from first available device
6. Setup the processor and address spaces
7. Switch to protected mode ( Intel )
8. Search for more devices
9. Wait for devices to settle / initialize
10. Start initial program loader
11. Run startup scripts
12. Run network startup ( wait for dhcp )
13. Initialize Graphics System
A reboot would still have to perform many
of these steps whether or not the Ram
remembered the previous state.
Since whats in Ram is dependent on what
devices are present and what addreses
are assigned, you would probably have
to wipe the ram on each boot anyway.
Is there a way that you can check to see how your
vote was counted (ie. who you voted for)? It
would go a long way toward stopping fraud if
there was a feedback system where you got some
kind of confirmation that your vote was cast
and how it was recorded.
It would even be better if letters were mailed
out confirming your vote. That way, if huge
numbers of letters showed up at the PostOffice
with no forwarding address, then we could see
if a large scale fraud attempt was underway.
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This is an Ugly day for SUN. A sad day. Enjoy your ride on the FUD train because it will not last.
No one is going move from one closed, proprietary solution to another one. So if this is your strategy to get some MS customers, you are fried.
You have/had an opportunity to be part of something great. This is your response? Bad leadership kills companies quickly. You are barely holding your own because you still choose to follow the old proprietary model for UNIX failures. Why? Scared?
The world came together to build a free unix clone because it didnt trust either MS or the proprietary unix vendors. And having tasted freedom, it will never allow one company to dictate terms to them again.
You have embarrassed your company and its stock-holders. I only hope you find your way before your company folds.
You cannot compete with your attitude. You dont support as many devices, software platforms, or computer platforms as either Windows or Linux or Mac.
Come with us if you want to live.
An encrypted communication could look suspicious or be made to look suspicious. Have him use a series of code phrases agreed to in advance with the other party to send coded messages in the clear.
If he really needs to have privacy, arent there embassy resources he could use?
P.S. Clearly 32 bits can only address 4GB of RAM
at one time....
In a segmented memory architecture, you can address a lot more than that. Not that I love segment registers. Just being picky.
You might want to research the SEA/PK thing a little. It gives unfortunate insight into what might happen to Linux. PK took the arc source and re-implemented some of it in assembly language. That made it faster, but did not make it his.
SEA was a very small company (husband and wife). This was not the David and Goliath battle we were led to believe so long ago.
Its all on the web. Google for it and learn.
I got a good laugh out of it with the crew at work when we saw it. We just went into bios and set it to boot from cdrom and installed RH9. Worked like a charm. Interesting thing is: Much of the software did NOT come shrink wrapped.
Its all nonsense anyway. You could be blind, drunk, underage, senile and still hit a key.
Whats galling is having to PAY for the stuff. Even in a small way. They shouldnt charge me for it. And those companies should not be able to count me as customers. And then they send to BSA and other lobbys to find other ways to MAKE me pay for something I dont want and will never use.
I'm laughing so hard my liver is bruising! Say it for us Darl, please with the fingers: "I am not a crook". Come on, you know you have been practicing!
Oh, and, we dont mind if you hate us back!
and line numbers. Just make them take a current source distribution and document exactly what line numbers they say are theirs and why they think its theirs. They cannot claim that by releasing the filenames and line numbers of code that is already public they are in any way weakening their rights over code or ideas. Then the industry can look at their claim and put it to rest.
If they are unwilling to even release the filenames/line numbers of the code they claim is theirs, then how can anyone possible take them seriously?
Has this already been proposed? What was their response?
Thank you for your help. A friend sent me one link which is pretty detailed: http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm
But, this does not tell what ports belong to what service.
Windows is listening on about 6 ports. What services can I safely turn off so that those 6 ports are closed? These machines are simple TCP/IP client machines that do not need/want/use any Microsoft "innovations". I just need to be able to get to www and pop servers.
Any help would be appreciated.
The alternative is not all that pleasant...applications that become over-developed and bogged down with EVERY feature that ANYONE wants. MySQL has fewer features compared with some other databases. But I know many companies that are being destroyed by the cost and poor quality of the biggest named ones. ENDLESS patches, never ending increases in processing requirements for the same workload, and ever escalating costs on ever changing license requirements.
Some open-source packages seem unfinished? Perhaps its time to step up and finish them yourself. Give something back to the group besides your thanks.
The radio stations are sooo damn crappy now that I can barely leave one tuned in for a couple of minutes. Advertisements are not the problem. If they would simply advertise products and then get back to the music, that would be acceptible. Now, there is so much "How great a radio station we are, we are so great we dont even need to be playing music now". Play the music, play some ads, play more music and shut the hell up people! Sound samples, fart jokes, and useless DJs that dont even tell you what they played are a great reason why people don't buy a song they want on their way home. BECAUSE THEY NEVER GET TO HEAR THE FREAKING SONG!
First: Setup network installation servers and perform as many installs as you can via ethernet.
Second, try to install the machines that HAVE cd burners first, then use those machines to burn cds for the machines that cant be installed via the network.
Third, call a competitor for the company you are having problems with and give them an opportunity to gain some ground on their rival.
Welcome the challenge and have fun with it. The more you let these fools drag you down, the more you let them win. They don't deserve to win.
64 bit means numbers can be bigger, and address sizes can be bigger. But numbers and addresses must
still occupy contiguous bytes in memory, so there is no provision for multiple instances. Now, the OS may provide as many instances of itself as it wants providing that the OS is written to do this.
Oh, and Boromir was Faramir's Brother. Not his son.
Denethor was their father.
What happened to the super-large, flexible, "I can staple it to my livingroom wall" displays that they said were "just around the corner". Organic transistors or light-emitting-polymers or whatever.
When can I expect to be able to equip my house with a display that is 120 inches without using projection?
What we need is for the ISPs to take some leadership on this issue and either enhance the current SMTP protocol or replace it and use a ISP-ISP protocol between themselves. The protocol should include a lot more information regarding who sent the email and if some sender becomes a problem, then that sender is blacklisted. If the sending ISP is non-compliant, then the entire ISP is blacklisted until they comply. If the sender
or the ISP cannot conduct business, then they will mend their ways or THEIR customers will leave them. Their customers will remove the money from the spammers pockets. That is the right way to do it.
The tax idea is stupid on the face of it. It deserves no discussion. Lets just fix the problem.
DSL is just too unreliable. Think about it..there is a direct connection between your dsl modem and a dsl modem at the phone company. If the modem at the phone company dies, then you and just you are out of luck until they fix it. Cable on the otherhand is more group oriented. If the cable goes down, then everyone is affected and thats better for you because someone else will probably notice it first and report it. You may not see the downtime. Certainly they will hear about it and fix it. Sure, you share your bandwidth with other people. But DSL users all share bandwidth from the bank of modems on up.
I personally dont see how the Bells can survive. The product is just silly. Now, if they changed the last mile to digital and handed everyone a free internet connection but made you pay to rent little boxes to strip off packets for a handset, then they might survive. Otherwise I dont think they can. I no longer have a phone line at all. My friends are doing the same. Time for the bells to go for the long pass. They have no time left in the game.
All of these are series. Only the first book is listed.
Robin Hobb, Assassins Apprentice.
Guilty Pleasures, Laurell K Hamilton
Lord Valentines Castle, Robert Silverberg
Enders Game, Orson Scott Card
Jhereg, Steven Brust
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursulla LeGuin
You also have to get everyone who calls you
to Opt-out as well. Obviously you can't.
What you can do is tell your cell phone
company that you do not want your information
sold and do not want SPAM to come to you
over their network. I dont think cell phone
companies have to obey public access rules.
They are private companies that can choose
the traffic they want to carry. Let them
know that you will stay with them if they
keep your information private and the spammers
out.
So the major OS's in the world that are NOT dying
are VM, MVS, VSE, OS/390. I guess we all have to
learn SNA, VTAM, and JCL to make our way in the
world.
and going away....
I agree that all permanent drives in a system
should reflect one distributed pool of space.
Partition and drive boundrys are no longer
necessary with a LVM to manage the space for us.
I differ regarding the desktop "space" metaphor
however. I think different desktops should
reflect different cpu realms. I should be able
to open a desktop icon and execute applications
on other computers on the network. Switching
between desktops means switching between computers.
Yes I know this is possible with X. But it is
not easy and rights management is a pain.
And it has not been integrated into the
desktop.
And I dont like most filemanagers I have used.
Windows or Unix. They could be reworked.
Make it a law that the ISP's have to validate that a packet coming from their network out to the Internet has a valid source address that originates from within their network. This will make it much more difficult for DOS attacks to take place anonymously. They should block and log all packets with source addresses that are RFC Private source addresses or addresses that could not have originated on their network.
This is a simple thing for any ISP to do.
This will allow the ISPs to work together to
quell DOS attacks when they take place and
track down machines that have DOS trojans so
they can be cleaned.
There are programs in
be called by a person. They are backend routines
that are called by some other program in
So put things in
and are safe to call by a user from the command
line. Put the backend programs that are not
user-interface programs ( slave programs for
other programs ) into
Look how many programs in
man page!
The KDE backround apps and screen savers are
an easy example and there are plenty of others.
examples:
The boot up time of current computer systems takes a long time because it is doing a lot of different things: 1. Power On Self Test 2. Memory Test 3. Waiting for Devices to power up and "settle" 4. Finding first available device 5. IPL from first available device 6. Setup the processor and address spaces 7. Switch to protected mode ( Intel ) 8. Search for more devices 9. Wait for devices to settle / initialize 10. Start initial program loader 11. Run startup scripts 12. Run network startup ( wait for dhcp ) 13. Initialize Graphics System A reboot would still have to perform many of these steps whether or not the Ram remembered the previous state. Since whats in Ram is dependent on what devices are present and what addreses are assigned, you would probably have to wipe the ram on each boot anyway.
Is there a way that you can check to see how your
vote was counted (ie. who you voted for)? It
would go a long way toward stopping fraud if
there was a feedback system where you got some
kind of confirmation that your vote was cast
and how it was recorded.
It would even be better if letters were mailed
out confirming your vote. That way, if huge
numbers of letters showed up at the PostOffice
with no forwarding address, then we could see
if a large scale fraud attempt was underway.