What OS ran Tanenbaum's www.electoralvote.com? Linux!
How many microkernel os's do you see today? Besides MacOSX none! Sure there are proprietary embedded ones that are very tiny in marketshare.
I am not saying Monolithic kernels are better. I am just saying there are pros and cons with both and Linux actually did grow. In my mind Linus won the flamewar.
"is that every microkernel, kernel, etc. is a piece of shit."
What a truly ignorant statement. Microkernels are more stable than macro's (theoretically) but come at the cost of speed.
Its a tradeoff.
I know shit about kernel design as well but the arguments I see are as follows....
With kernels getting huge, microkernels could be easier to write and maintain since they have to be bugfree and stable. Macrokernels are easier to write generally but when huge can lead to problems. A kernel that has a bug brings down a machine unlike a userspace app. What is Linux? 70 million lines??
In this day and age of fast hardware and very bloated software and kernels, the argument to use a microkernel is quite strong. More userspace and less code touching the hardware can make sense. Also the speed difference is less and less of an issue today.
Qnx is a microkernel and so is AIX. Both are the most stable operating systems out there besides OS/390.
The previous post which had a +4 I can see would be appropriate if it were a mere rant, but facts show the whitehouse had a role.
There was a story on slashdot a year ago about this subject. No rish analysis even attempted for a paranoid department like Nasa shows its true intentions were never saving it.
I just wonder how they will de-orbit it? This is a very large and potentially dangerous object.
Actually if you remember Bush kicked off his campaing with a new mission for Nasa on mars exploration and congress introduced bills making Nasa do this.
They are now servely cash stripped and its impossible with a mere 8 billion dollar budget to put man on mars. The figure could be ten times that.
But yes this killed Hubble since it would make it expensive and distract for Nasa's new mission.
Nasa does risk assesments for everything. Its odd nasa would make such a quick decision if it were not political.
I remember reading an earlier story here about the estimated cost to send humans to mars in the 70-90 billion dollar range. Bush during re-election pledged about a 3 billion dollar increase and a new long term mission.
Obviously funding to fix hubble had to be cut to pay for the shoe string budgeted mars exploration.
The safety hazard is really a coverup.
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" SCO does not have any "willing" customers - they are basically extorting people. Paying a company money so they DON'T sue you is not a people-friendly way to conduct business"
Then explain why there are countless lawyers in every phonebook?
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Corporations were formed squarely to be immune officers from litigation. I do not know if this is still true but it was an early loophole in the 19th century.
Typically only companies and not their executives are responsible for their civil actions. Unless McBride clearly broke the law legaiily with a huge paper trail pointing to him it will be very difficult if not impossible to convict him.
As much as we hate to admit it, Unix is still more of a server OS more than a workstation or PC OS.
Multitasking benchmarks with mysql, oracle, postgresql, jboss, apache, and Tomcat would be nice since that is what linux based computers typically run.
Of course Oracle is only 32 bits and the java is 32-bit as well since its closed source.
if you want to play doom3 or UT use Windows.
I noticed something also strange. Look at the sysperf benchmarks and cad/3d modeling? Intel smokes AMD. Why is that?
Is the code optimized only for Intel or does bandwith and not latency determine performance? I imagine for a server bandwith might be more important as well but I dont know.
I find many apps like Kdevelop turn horrible and confusing to operate. This is from a seasoned pc user. I admit I use Windows more and more and I am not super familiar with kdevelop but using all the tabs and menu's to find documentation and code was confusing and uncomfortable compared to VS.NET and earlier versions of KDEvelop.
Gnome is finally getting usable so the competition is certainly improving.
Also what about gnome/kde look and feel integration? I thought you guys were working with them for a unified look?
A speed boast wouldn't be bad either as macos and OS/2 has similiar features with processor speeds of a pentium.
First it was you are buying an IBM! Then, but you are buying a SGI! Then sun.... etc
Look where they are now? IBM just sold their whole PC business away.
Brand names only get you so far in the long term. HP right now is begining to lose its once huge brand name image and Dell will too as the other former giants listed above.
In the pc world you innovate or you die. Brand name will give you more breathing space but you end up at the same place. \
Those statistics he cited I saw back in 2000 from some Intel promotional video.
I believe today its more around 25% AMD adn 75% intel.
Also I think IBM fabs some of the athlons but I am not to sure on this. They could have the production available if IBM loanded them the fabrication plants.
This is looking kind of fishy if you ask me and strange. Sure a company has the right to ship whichever chips its wants but it surely does not make business sense right now for Dell.
Price conscience IT departments wont like the price for a SMP Xeon server compared to an SMP Opteron.
I was not referring to terrorists but countries like North Korea and Iran.
Yes building a laser that can zap something almost 300 miles away is hard but surely easier than building an atomic bomb, which both of the countries listed above are already doing.
Spy sattelites are quite problematic for countries that dont want to piss the US off but at the same time want to hide stuff from the UN. Spy satelites are what is used to obtain the data besides drones.
Satalites are visible to the naked eye if you go out into the country at night. They are only a around 200 miles away.
A portable laser with a super concentrated beam that is large with a precise aiming is surely possible with enough resources.
Rootkit makers are spyware makers. Sadly spyware/malware are worms and trojan horses. Rootkits are the only way to hide and protect spyware from programs like adaware.
Its getting insane and I favor criminal rather than civil charges if spyware makers began to make trojan horse rootkits. Its sabatage and if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck then its a duck, regardless if a cracker has written it or an emarketing company.
All the device manufactors paid millions to redesign their products for it by June. Infact I bet all of them are already mass producting the flagged units as I type this to have on the shelves.
So in effect its already here and its too little too late.
Any manufactor not doing the broadcast flag will risk being sued or not being able to view content since media companies will see that 98% of all devices in 2 years will have flags by default since they already invested in the R&D/design to use them.
Wasn't there some strange theories based on string theory that explain dark matter?
I remember reading it a few years ago on here. Basically time and space is warped and wrapped in layers like a folded piece of fabric. When light or energy passes through the folds the wave length slightly shifts. This would explain the inaccuracies of the readings which astronomers believe are dark matter.
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I wonder if IBM donated teh mac to him?
IBM wants to replace AIX and powerpc linux is lacking behind x86.
What I hope is that Linux will be less buggy on non x86 hardware which is a good thing if Linus works on him version of Linux.
Keep in mind I am sure he still has his x86 boxes and maybe an old sgi's and sun's in his house to find bugs in the kernel on those machines as well.
Monolithic kernels have alot of hardware specific code in the kernel that can not be ported which needs to be rewritten for each platform.
Microkernels won?
What OS ran Tanenbaum's www.electoralvote.com? Linux!
How many microkernel os's do you see today? Besides MacOSX none! Sure there are proprietary embedded ones that are very tiny in marketshare.
I am not saying Monolithic kernels are better. I am just saying there are pros and cons with both and Linux actually did grow. In my mind Linus won the flamewar.
"is that every microkernel, kernel, etc. is a piece of shit."
What a truly ignorant statement. Microkernels are more stable than macro's (theoretically) but come at the cost of speed.
Its a tradeoff.
I know shit about kernel design as well but the arguments I see are as follows....
With kernels getting huge, microkernels could be easier to write and maintain since they have to be bugfree and stable. Macrokernels are easier to write generally but when huge can lead to problems. A kernel that has a bug brings down a machine unlike a userspace app. What is Linux? 70 million lines??
In this day and age of fast hardware and very bloated software and kernels, the argument to use a microkernel is quite strong. More userspace and less code touching the hardware can make sense. Also the speed difference is less and less of an issue today.
Qnx is a microkernel and so is AIX. Both are the most stable operating systems out there besides OS/390.
If the url is identicall how would a normal person know they are being phished?
They are not stupid at all. DNS wildcards are a bitch and many banks use long obfuscated urls because they are applet based websites.
Still if I had kids I would be thinking about suing the company who planned to put in a cell phone tower. I would not live their if I had kids.
Too risky and the cell towers admit a ton of radiation if a cell signal is weak. A handheld does not do this.
Studies showing DNA damage are still scary and would not want this near my home.
But light from a fire does not damage your DNA
The previous post which had a +4 I can see would be appropriate if it were a mere rant, but facts show the whitehouse had a role.
There was a story on slashdot a year ago about this subject. No rish analysis even attempted for a paranoid department like Nasa shows its true intentions were never saving it.
I just wonder how they will de-orbit it? This is a very large and potentially dangerous object.
Actually if you remember Bush kicked off his campaing with a new mission for Nasa on mars exploration and congress introduced bills making Nasa do this.
They are now servely cash stripped and its impossible with a mere 8 billion dollar budget to put man on mars. The figure could be ten times that.
But yes this killed Hubble since it would make it expensive and distract for Nasa's new mission.
Nasa does risk assesments for everything. Its odd nasa would make such a quick decision if it were not political.
I remember reading an earlier story here about the estimated cost to send humans to mars in the 70-90 billion dollar range. Bush during re-election pledged about a 3 billion dollar increase and a new long term mission.
Obviously funding to fix hubble had to be cut to pay for the shoe string budgeted mars exploration.
The safety hazard is really a coverup.
" SCO does not have any "willing" customers - they are basically extorting people. Paying a company money so they DON'T sue you is not a people-friendly way to conduct business"
Then explain why there are countless lawyers in every phonebook?
Corporations were formed squarely to be immune officers from litigation. I do not know if this is still true but it was an early loophole in the 19th century.
Typically only companies and not their executives are responsible for their civil actions. Unless McBride clearly broke the law legaiily with a huge paper trail pointing to him it will be very difficult if not impossible to convict him.
So I am sure I can stop buy at a local Walmart supercenter and buy Ground Sirlion and Wine from Nappa valley for $2.00.
Does this make it a fine meal on the same scale as a french restuarant? Of course not.
People can use and claim what they want.
As much as we hate to admit it, Unix is still more of a server OS more than a workstation or PC OS.
Multitasking benchmarks with mysql, oracle, postgresql, jboss, apache, and Tomcat would be nice since that is what linux based computers typically run.
Of course Oracle is only 32 bits and the java is 32-bit as well since its closed source.
if you want to play doom3 or UT use Windows.
I noticed something also strange. Look at the sysperf benchmarks and cad/3d modeling? Intel smokes AMD. Why is that?
Is the code optimized only for Intel or does bandwith and not latency determine performance? I imagine for a server bandwith might be more important as well but I dont know.
Are you guys also testing some of the KDE apps?
I use to love KDe back in the 1.x days!
I find many apps like Kdevelop turn horrible and confusing to operate. This is from a seasoned pc user. I admit I use Windows more and more and I am not super familiar with kdevelop but using all the tabs and menu's to find documentation and code was confusing and uncomfortable compared to VS.NET and earlier versions of KDEvelop.
Gnome is finally getting usable so the competition is certainly improving.
Also what about gnome/kde look and feel integration? I thought you guys were working with them for a unified look?
A speed boast wouldn't be bad either as macos and OS/2 has similiar features with processor speeds of a pentium.
That is at least what I would want for kde 4.0
I heard this argument before.
First it was you are buying an IBM! Then, but you are buying a SGI! Then sun.... etc
Look where they are now? IBM just sold their whole PC business away.
Brand names only get you so far in the long term. HP right now is begining to lose its once huge brand name image and Dell will too as the other former giants listed above.
In the pc world you innovate or you die. Brand name will give you more breathing space but you end up at the same place.
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Those statistics he cited I saw back in 2000 from some Intel promotional video.
I believe today its more around 25% AMD adn 75% intel.
Also I think IBM fabs some of the athlons but I am not to sure on this. They could have the production available if IBM loanded them the fabrication plants.
I can not figure out how this makes good business sense?
Dell was correct back in 1999 to turn down the Athlon due to instability issues with some early chipsets.
But today the chipsets (excluding VIA) are fairly reliable. Does serverworks have a chipset for the Opteron?
Maybe that could be the reason?
But AMD chips are now reliable and alot cheaper and could save Dell a ton of money. Especially this is true in the server arena.
Does Intel own Dell stock or vice versa?
This is looking kind of fishy if you ask me and strange. Sure a company has the right to ship whichever chips its wants but it surely does not make business sense right now for Dell.
Price conscience IT departments wont like the price for a SMP Xeon server compared to an SMP Opteron.
Easy tiddy from w3c reports 60 errors te last time I looked.
What do you think the chances of this guy selling sensitive homeland security secrets and private data on citizens to Claria?
After all many companies would pay a premium price for such data mining information.
I was not referring to terrorists but countries like North Korea and Iran.
Yes building a laser that can zap something almost 300 miles away is hard but surely easier than building an atomic bomb, which both of the countries listed above are already doing.
Spy sattelites are quite problematic for countries that dont want to piss the US off but at the same time want to hide stuff from the UN. Spy satelites are what is used to obtain the data besides drones.
Satalites are visible to the naked eye if you go out into the country at night. They are only a around 200 miles away.
A portable laser with a super concentrated beam that is large with a precise aiming is surely possible with enough resources.
Weatherbug from aim for example has no mention its spyware in the EULA. Is htat legal?
Go read slashdot's last week edition?
Rootkit makers are spyware makers. Sadly spyware/malware are worms and trojan horses. Rootkits are the only way to hide and protect spyware from programs like adaware.
Its getting insane and I favor criminal rather than civil charges if spyware makers began to make trojan horse rootkits. Its sabatage and if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck then its a duck, regardless if a cracker has written it or an emarketing company.
All the device manufactors paid millions to redesign their products for it by June. Infact I bet all of them are already mass producting the flagged units as I type this to have on the shelves.
So in effect its already here and its too little too late.
Any manufactor not doing the broadcast flag will risk being sued or not being able to view content since media companies will see that 98% of all devices in 2 years will have flags by default since they already invested in the R&D/design to use them.
Wasn't there some strange theories based on string theory that explain dark matter?
I remember reading it a few years ago on here. Basically time and space is warped and wrapped in layers like a folded piece of fabric. When light or energy passes through the folds the wave length slightly shifts. This would explain the inaccuracies of the readings which astronomers believe are dark matter.