The machines were originally built as networked boxen that lived on the network and could be produced for much less than the "mainframes" or whatever of the time. Ironic that many SUN workstations are now being replaced by Linux and (sadly) NT workstations because they are cheaper..
Well, with this site as slow as it is, it took me a couple minutes to find the link to the first posting. Sorry if that offended your primitive cerebrum. Now get back to posting "first posts" you silly AC.
An open patent pool could be made to work, if there are rules such as: you can use all the pool's patents of a specific type (e.g. software patents) only if you give all your patents of that type to the pool. That way your patents are still a defense against others' patents.
Maybe, but they could still release programming information. Or (and no I don't like this) they could release a driver with hooks to a closed source CSS file they would also release. (and we would replace by an open source version:) I think that they're just trying to sell more products -- why give away Linux support now when you can use it to sell something in the future?
AMR stands for Audio Modem Riser. Since it seems to exist on boards with built-in sound support, it probably provides the regular ISA services plus some sort of direct connection to the mobo's sound chip, which could be useful to a winmodem.
There has been discussion of this on the LiViD mailing list for quite some time. What gets me is that Sigma Designs could easily release the specs and allow Linux to be supported in their current product, but instead they're making Linux users buy a whole new card.
Their website doesn't give any email addresses (as far as I can see), but there's always their 1-800 number, shown on just about all Star Wars merchandise: 1-800-TRUE-FAN. I know I'll be calling them tomorrow morning to ask why they're doing this!
What ESR wrote was a good, well-written summary of many peoples' thoughts on the DeCSS issue, telling a fairly complete version of "our side" of the DeCSS story. He made several arguments in his article and supported them with relevant facts. Had you written a similarly good article and submitted it to LWN, Slashdot, or a similar magazine, I would expect it to also receive a fair bit of attention. Maybe not as much as something coming from ESR, but he has a history of producing good, well-written summaries, so we know to expect something worthwhile.
With your attitude, I could reduce "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" to "a summary of everything I have been saying about open source software ever since I heard of the concept". I like giving credit where credit is due: ESR did a good job with this article.
Sure, but it was a Windows NT forum. Besides which I really don't care if it's statistically valid. I just posted it there to give both sides a reasonably equal opportunity. Of course all that has now gone to pot given my posting here..
One of these days I might do a more detailed analysis on the results page, like where the voters came from, and vote vs. browser/os.. So far, approximately, voters have come from:
In an article on Linux Today, someone commented that Linux would win even a poll with just two buttons: "Linux" and "Microsoft". To test this, I setup a poll. The only place I have advertized it is in a Linux Today comment, and (for fairness) a ZDNET NT forum.
Note: my DNS is currently down. Use my IP address.
cypherpunks/cypherpunks or cypherpunks/cypherpunk has long been the de facto standard. Since NY Times has cracked down on that, use combos. cypherp/cypherp currently works.
Try either TCFS, CFS, or loopback encryption. I currently use loopback, but am going to check out CFS and TCFS in the near future. TCFS claims to be an extended, improved CFS.
Patches also exist to auto-mount your home directory on login if it exists on a loopback encrypted filesystem.
...and Giganet Inc. of Concord,Mass., for ``VI'' software that allows the cluster nodes to communicate with minimal overhead on the processors.
Wow. VI has always been my choice for situations when I didn't want the overhead of EMACS, but I didn't know it did clustering! :):) And who are these Giganet people? Is that like nvi or vim?
I have noticed that you often promote BO as a "remote administration tool". How do you respond to allegations (mainly in the "popular" computer press) that it is potentially full of back doors, and therefore not suitable as such a tool?
The Turtle Beach Montego has a digital S/PDIF connector on a dongle, whose output can be converted to optical fairly easily. Also some Soundblasters (AWE32/64 Gold) have a twisted-pair S/PDIF connector on the card its self.
My friend's Sony receiver (not sure the model number) has a "coax in" port that can talk S/PDIF, and Toslink (optical) outputs to connect to his minidisc. We are planning on connecting his AWE32 to his receiver via this input, email me if you want to know how it turns out. (remove the nospam and spamsux:)
Can they even use ATMs now? I don't see how someone without eyes (and therefore necessarily blind) could use an ATM even today. But the question remains about people with one glass eye. I'd expect it only to scan one eye simply because it's cheaper to do so.
What gets to me more is when the person in front of you takes too long.. "What are you doing, playing Tetris on that thing?" People shouldn't pay bills on the ATM, at least at my bank which gives everyone free telephone and Internet banking.
And I don't think I want my ATM talking to me. "You have requested to withdraw.. one.. thousand.. dollars. Please press OK.." You might as well wear a sign that says MUG ME. Or more likely in my case, the embarassment of "Your account balance is.. three.. dollars and.. forty.. two.. cents."
What happens if you have some sort of eye infection? A few weeks ago I sneezed wrong and both of my eyeballs filled up with blood, which took about a week to go away. Would this mess up such a machine?
Hi there.. you may remember me from such ill-guided critiques as "AIX==LAME".. But this time I do know what I am talkig about.:)
I have worked with X10 before, and it is not a particularity well-designed system. Here's why: It relies on waiting for the zero crossing (AC power is sinusoidal, and so spends a bit of time every cycle fairly near zero volts) and then sends "spikes" to indicate the command. The problems with this are that
Bandwidth is extremely limited and
Noisy equipment on the line can either prevent the transmitting X10 module from seeing the zero crossing, or obscure the codes being sent.
I installed some X10 modules in my house last year, and they wouldn't work when one of my housemates had his computer on. I checked using an oscilloscope and discovered that the X10 module was unable to detect the zero crossing reliably. I tried several modules on both the transmitting and receiving end with the same result.
There's also the whole issue of patents. X10 modules must be licensed, which makes them extremely expensive.
I think it makes far more sense to add a small RF carrier to the AC signal and modulate your signal onto that. In fact I am designing such a system and will release the plans under something GPL-like when (if:) I get it working. I am thinking make it an Ethernet-like protocol with lookahead collision avoidance/etc. Something I can run IP on anyways.. But don't hold your breath waiting for it:)
I agree that AIX is stable, but my main complaint is that it does things in weird/nonstandard ways. I can login to pretty well any Linux, *BSD, Solaris, or Digital Unix box and know that the basic admin commands and how they work, with few exceptions, are more or less the same. AIX and HPUX seem completely different.
Also the fact that you can't, (or at least it wouldn't work for me) do things like add a user by adding them to/etc/passwd and/etc/shadow. You have to use their tool (SMIT).
Oh yeah, and I saw a few weird errors and inconsistencies that had no apparent explaination, and hours talking to IBM's tech support (at least their tech support is good:) to find the solution. Like a machine that "forgot" its partition table. Not fun to restore.
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Cool! But be sure to stay away from Sendai eyes; everyone knows they cause permanent nerve damage.
The machines were originally built as networked boxen that lived on the network and could be produced for much less than the "mainframes" or whatever of the time. Ironic that many SUN workstations are now being replaced by Linux and (sadly) NT workstations because they are cheaper..
Well, with this site as slow as it is, it took me a couple minutes to find the link to the first posting. Sorry if that offended your primitive cerebrum. Now get back to posting "first posts" you silly AC.
Already posted. See this article.
An open patent pool could be made to work, if there are rules such as: you can use all the pool's patents of a specific type (e.g. software patents) only if you give all your patents of that type to the pool. That way your patents are still a defense against others' patents.
Maybe, but they could still release programming information. Or (and no I don't like this) they could release a driver with hooks to a closed source CSS file they would also release. (and we would replace by an open source version :) I think that they're just trying to sell more products -- why give away Linux support now when you can use it to sell something in the future?
Do you have a link for these drivers? The only thing I can find on their page is a promise that drivers will be available "by late February".
AMR stands for Audio Modem Riser. Since it seems to exist on boards with built-in sound support, it probably provides the regular ISA services plus some sort of direct connection to the mobo's sound chip, which could be useful to a winmodem.
And we're supposed to be pleased with this?
Their website doesn't give any email addresses (as far as I can see), but there's always their 1-800 number, shown on just about all Star Wars merchandise: 1-800-TRUE-FAN. I know I'll be calling them tomorrow morning to ask why they're doing this!
With your attitude, I could reduce "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" to "a summary of everything I have been saying about open source software ever since I heard of the concept". I like giving credit where credit is due: ESR did a good job with this article.
Sure, but it was a Windows NT forum. Besides which I really don't care if it's statistically valid. I just posted it there to give both sides a reasonably equal opportunity. Of course all that has now gone to pot given my posting here..
One of these days I might do a more detailed analysis on the results page, like where the voters came from, and vote vs. browser/os.. So far, approximately, voters have come from:
Note: my DNS is currently down. Use my IP address.
cypherpunks/cypherpunks or cypherpunks/cypherpunk has long been the de facto standard. Since NY Times has cracked down on that, use combos. cypherp/cypherp currently works.
Patches also exist to auto-mount your home directory on login if it exists on a loopback encrypted filesystem.
Wow. VI has always been my choice for situations when I didn't want the overhead of EMACS, but I didn't know it did clustering! :) :) And who are these Giganet people? Is that like nvi or vim?
I have noticed that you often promote BO as a "remote administration tool". How do you respond to allegations (mainly in the "popular" computer press) that it is potentially full of back doors, and therefore not suitable as such a tool?
My friend's Sony receiver (not sure the model number) has a "coax in" port that can talk S/PDIF, and Toslink (optical) outputs to connect to his minidisc. We are planning on connecting his AWE32 to his receiver via this input, email me if you want to know how it turns out. (remove the nospam and spamsux :)
Here are some links you may find useful:
Can they even use ATMs now? I don't see how someone without eyes (and therefore necessarily blind) could use an ATM even today. But the question remains about people with one glass eye. I'd expect it only to scan one eye simply because it's cheaper to do so.
It was an honest mistake :)
And I don't think I want my ATM talking to me. "You have requested to withdraw.. one.. thousand.. dollars. Please press OK.." You might as well wear a sign that says MUG ME. Or more likely in my case, the embarassment of "Your account balance is.. three.. dollars and .. forty.. two.. cents."
What happens if you have some sort of eye infection? A few weeks ago I sneezed wrong and both of my eyeballs filled up with blood, which took about a week to go away. Would this mess up such a machine?
I have worked with X10 before, and it is not a particularity well-designed system. Here's why: It relies on waiting for the zero crossing (AC power is sinusoidal, and so spends a bit of time every cycle fairly near zero volts) and then sends "spikes" to indicate the command. The problems with this are that
I installed some X10 modules in my house last year, and they wouldn't work when one of my housemates had his computer on. I checked using an oscilloscope and discovered that the X10 module was unable to detect the zero crossing reliably. I tried several modules on both the transmitting and receiving end with the same result.
There's also the whole issue of patents. X10 modules must be licensed, which makes them extremely expensive.
I think it makes far more sense to add a small RF carrier to the AC signal and modulate your signal onto that. In fact I am designing such a system and will release the plans under something GPL-like when (if :) I get it working. I am thinking make it an Ethernet-like protocol with lookahead collision avoidance/etc. Something I can run IP on anyways.. But don't hold your breath waiting for it :)
I agree that AIX is stable, but my main complaint is that it does things in weird/nonstandard ways. I can login to pretty well any Linux, *BSD, Solaris, or Digital Unix box and know that the basic admin commands and how they work, with few exceptions, are more or less the same. AIX and HPUX seem completely different.
Also the fact that you can't, (or at least it wouldn't work for me) do things like add a user by adding them to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. You have to use their tool (SMIT).
Oh yeah, and I saw a few weird errors and inconsistencies that had no apparent explaination, and hours talking to IBM's tech support (at least their tech support is good :) to find the solution. Like a machine that "forgot" its partition table. Not fun to restore.