Too bad I'll never trust another Honda product again.
Too bad my '89 Acura Legend has 300k miles on it.
Too bad no one has ever had to lay a finger on a single component of the power train.
Companies change. Get used to the idea. If pimp-co X puts out a piece of shit product next year, I'm not gonna buy it. Even if it's from pimp-co. If shit-co Y puts out a pimp product next year, I'll buy it and live with the lack of brand name. Even Microsoft once built quality software. That doesn't mean that I'll put up with NT 4.
from the link: The first time I tried it, I was flabbergasted; they somehow managed to shoehorn not only the core OS and windowing system onto a floppy, but also a small web browser!
Let's see, QNX has support for what, ONE network board? ONE scsi adaptor? And just try to do remote display with QNX's windowing system, I dare you. Linux kernels tend to be big because they support (you guessed it) more hardware! Besides, LIJAK (Linux is just a kernel). Don't confuse Linux with RedHat.
The evils of a client-client distributed system are rearing their ugly heads. Napster, while indeed very cool, was never a "big jump in technology" or the "end all internet file solution" that many people said it was. It's all about trust. This is where ftp reigns supreme.
If KDE can come such a long way in two years, where the hell is Harmony at?! I mean, come on, all it does is replace Qt! Incompatible licenses are annoying, but something has to be done about them nonetheless. I would _really_ like to see the whole Qt/KDE/GPL issue go away sometime soon.
Every disc you buy, blank or filled, contributes to Sony's Evil Empire, whether it's direct or not. No single, overstuffed corporation profits from every CD sold.
I'm sorry, but MD needs to die. And soon. Please. Same with those silly clik drives. I don't trust any media deployed by a single company. What happens when your backups where stored on this "oh so cool" media, and right when you need it, your drive for this media dies. Well, you buy a new drive. Except that the media is no longer supported. Granted, server backups are slightly more important than MP3 collections, but still. Proprietary media is only a solution for the company who manufactures it.
There's no way to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks with a truly anonymous protocol as there is no way to verify the authenticity of the server.
It is possible, although a trusted third party would be required. Kind of like a publically acessable Kerberos server for all of the network. However, once the server is this big and widely used, I doubt it would remain a "trusted" server. Also, this sort of doesn't fit with the "nobody owns the network" philosophy of the internet.
We love to bash M$ because we are visibly affected by their evilness on a daily basis, but I think most people would be suprised by the kind of nasty stuff that Intel gets away with (just ask intergraph!)
Exactly the reason I have a SPARC on my desk and an Alpha in my server closet.
IPv6 is designed with an incredible amount of compadibility with IPv4, in order to make the transition as painless as possible for admin types, and as invisible as possible for consumer types.
I hope this will also help out SMP on OpenBSD... just think... one processor handling the OS and the other processor handling all of the encryption calls!!!
No no no. That's what encryption accelorator cards are for. And OpenBSD already supports them. Besides, that isn't semetric, and thus, is not SMP.
Contrary to what many may say, FreeBSD does NOT have SMP. It does in fact have multiprocessor support, but it is not at all SMP. It is of the "giant kernel lock" form, meaning that one processor handles all of the kernel time, and the other handles all of the userland time. This is not at all symetric, and thus, not SMP. It seems to actually work quite well on dual board systems, but it certainly would not scale well to a quad or higher configuration (only the first two processors can be used).
Wasn't this the stuff that Cray was using _years_ ago? Seems like an awfully long time for a substance to trickle down into the consumer market. Then again, Cray was a pretty good distance from the consumer market to begin with.
Right now, gcc spits out terrible alpha and powerpc code. I sure wish we could get some of them alpha optimizations out of the hands of the pgcc (is that the compaq compiler) writers. Not that it would help out the powerpc code, but I'd love to see an efficient, free, 64bit compiler, whether it spits out alpha, amd, or ia64 code.
Seriously, not to knock on people for caring, but trade shows are just that. A place for marketing. A place to say, "hey check out our cool shit". Of course most of it is hardware and commercial software. There's not that much of a financial push from Linux Corporation's marketing department, now is there?
Considering the rate at which such "wireless lans" are gaining range, we absolutly need an international equivalent of the FCC. If not to regulate who uses which spectrums, than to simply regulate range. If not, all sorts of Bad Things(tm) will occur.
How is this any different from that of Windows lovers? "Ohh, look, pertty GUI!"... Can you say Xerox? Mice aren't new and neither are buttons. Why do people like old technology? Probably because most of the useful "new technology" is merely updates and improvements to the old technology.
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Not all performance numbers rise with the same rate of x86's clock speeds.
Too bad I'll never trust another Honda product again.
Too bad my '89 Acura Legend has 300k miles on it.
Too bad no one has ever had to lay a finger on a single component of the power train.
Companies change. Get used to the idea. If pimp-co X puts out a piece of shit product next year, I'm not gonna buy it. Even if it's from pimp-co. If shit-co Y puts out a pimp product next year, I'll buy it and live with the lack of brand name. Even Microsoft once built quality software. That doesn't mean that I'll put up with NT 4.
Maybe it's a good thing we don't have people living in the international space station yet ;)
from the link: The first time I tried it, I was flabbergasted; they somehow managed to shoehorn not only the core OS and windowing system onto a floppy, but also a small web browser!
Let's see, QNX has support for what, ONE network board? ONE scsi adaptor? And just try to do remote display with QNX's windowing system, I dare you. Linux kernels tend to be big because they support (you guessed it) more hardware! Besides, LIJAK (Linux is just a kernel). Don't confuse Linux with RedHat.
The evils of a client-client distributed system are rearing their ugly heads. Napster, while indeed very cool, was never a "big jump in technology" or the "end all internet file solution" that many people said it was. It's all about trust. This is where ftp reigns supreme.
If KDE can come such a long way in two years, where the hell is Harmony at?! I mean, come on, all it does is replace Qt! Incompatible licenses are annoying, but something has to be done about them nonetheless. I would _really_ like to see the whole Qt/KDE/GPL issue go away sometime soon.
Every disc you buy, blank or filled, contributes to Sony's Evil Empire, whether it's direct or not. No single, overstuffed corporation profits from every CD sold.
I'm sorry, but MD needs to die. And soon. Please. Same with those silly clik drives. I don't trust any media deployed by a single company. What happens when your backups where stored on this "oh so cool" media, and right when you need it, your drive for this media dies. Well, you buy a new drive. Except that the media is no longer supported. Granted, server backups are slightly more important than MP3 collections, but still. Proprietary media is only a solution for the company who manufactures it.
There's no way to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks with a truly anonymous protocol as there is no way to verify the authenticity of the server.
It is possible, although a trusted third party would be required. Kind of like a publically acessable Kerberos server for all of the network. However, once the server is this big and widely used, I doubt it would remain a "trusted" server. Also, this sort of doesn't fit with the "nobody owns the network" philosophy of the internet.
We love to bash M$ because we are visibly affected by their evilness on a daily basis, but I think most people would be suprised by the kind of nasty stuff that Intel gets away with (just ask intergraph!)
Exactly the reason I have a SPARC on my desk and an Alpha in my server closet.
IPv6 is designed with an incredible amount of compadibility with IPv4, in order to make the transition as painless as possible for admin types, and as invisible as possible for consumer types.
I hope this will also help out SMP on OpenBSD... just think... one processor handling the OS and the other processor handling all of the encryption calls!!!
No no no. That's what encryption accelorator cards are for. And OpenBSD already supports them. Besides, that isn't semetric, and thus, is not SMP.
FreeBSD has had SMP for quite a while as well.
Contrary to what many may say, FreeBSD does NOT have SMP. It does in fact have multiprocessor support, but it is not at all SMP. It is of the "giant kernel lock" form, meaning that one processor handles all of the kernel time, and the other handles all of the userland time. This is not at all symetric, and thus, not SMP. It seems to actually work quite well on dual board systems, but it certainly would not scale well to a quad or higher configuration (only the first two processors can be used).
Wasn't this the stuff that Cray was using _years_ ago? Seems like an awfully long time for a substance to trickle down into the consumer market. Then again, Cray was a pretty good distance from the consumer market to begin with.
Right now, gcc spits out terrible alpha and powerpc code. I sure wish we could get some of them alpha optimizations out of the hands of the pgcc (is that the compaq compiler) writers. Not that it would help out the powerpc code, but I'd love to see an efficient, free, 64bit compiler, whether it spits out alpha, amd, or ia64 code.
...they've removed the ability to cheat like one could in Diablo I. Then I might just have to play this beast.
...will the FPU be as powerfull as that of the Alpha? DAMN that would be one quick, all-purpose chip!
Seriously, not to knock on people for caring, but trade shows are just that. A place for marketing. A place to say, "hey check out our cool shit". Of course most of it is hardware and commercial software. There's not that much of a financial push from Linux Corporation's marketing department, now is there?
Considering the rate at which such "wireless lans" are gaining range, we absolutly need an international equivalent of the FCC. If not to regulate who uses which spectrums, than to simply regulate range. If not, all sorts of Bad Things(tm) will occur.
...that Jon Katz is still a fucking moron.
Hey, when I submitted it, it was "today"... Just not by the time the had actually posted it ;)
It's all about MicroChannel, isn't it ;)
How is this any different from that of Windows lovers? "Ohh, look, pertty GUI!" ... Can you say Xerox? Mice aren't new and neither are buttons. Why do people like old technology? Probably because most of the useful "new technology" is merely updates and improvements to the old technology.
Besides, the best solution for telecom on PowerPC is AIX.
;)
Merge the two, then we can say "smit g4card"
I don't know about ARM stuff, but if you want to tinker, get ahold of a SPARC IPC. 25mhz SPARC for about 10 bucks.