Heh. For once you guys in the US are suffering the consequences of this stupid region coding which was forced into the DVD standard. Now see how it feels to be on the other side of the atlantic for a change.
It's so often us (outside the US) which suffer from region coding, since virtually everything comes on region 1 before other regions, when at all.
I've had a dual CPU computer for some years now; I ran 2.0.x all the way till 2.4.x on it with great success.
I must say that the difference (apparent response time you get while at the console) between 2.2.x and 2.4.x is huge for SMP machines. I'm not going back to 2.2.x
On a totally unrelated matter, fishy hardware makes sometimes people believe that `Linux' hangs. Hardware issues are hard to troubleshoot. My 4-years old PC can take 2 attempts before cold-booting up in the morning (the first time it typically hangs after POST and keep the floppy drive LED active). This morning again, I suddenly heard the fans drop in rpm and the PC hung shortly after... this is when I decided it was about time to leave the house and go to work:)
My point : for average users, the 2.4.x series is just fine; when it's not there are other issues at stake.
Their press release ends with the following fine print. Enjoy!
This press release may contain forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking
statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, financing, completion of technology
development, product demand, competition, and other risks and uncertainties.
This sounds of course like complete hot air to me. I wonder what the guys at random.org think.
> If there's a time zone difference, you can turn that to your advantage and literally work around the clock
I am working for a large organization outsourcing most of their software development and providing support to our customers 24/7. We do this by having set up various development and support teams around the globe, eg. in the US, APAC and EMEA theaters.
While the concept is clever, and it somewhat works, in reality there are some trade-offs which make working around the clock impractical:
Passing a task from one engineer to another in the next time zone or theater involves a big overhead. In Operating Systems terms, you may call this context switching.
It is not pleasant to continue somebody else's efforts, therefore some/most engineers might sometime ignore the call or make it a low priority, until someone else decides that he wants to speak to another engineer (more overhead).
Decentralized teams aren't effective as a team where members can freely interact with each other because they share the same office space. While video conferencing, email etc. can provide alternative ways of communication, nothing really is like meeting a collegue in the corridor for a quick chat or question.
This is even more true for Development and Software Engineering: I for one can barely read my own code a week from today, let alone somebody else's. And what about bugs, and who ultimately bares responsibility for the code ?
If you want the job done faster, just add more people working together as a team at the same location. This is equivalent in staffing to adding more people to a remote location supposedly around the clock, but you get the job done faster and without all the overhead mentionned here and in other comments.
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Obviously there is a certain economic cost to supporting and using several different languages. It has always been there! The scope of the € simply will make people from other EU country understand when prices are differently when they travel abroad, and save us all a lot of headache.
Virtually all UNIX platforms out there are compliant to some POSIX standards to some degree. Linux is, and Windows NT and derivatives are.
With POSIX and ANSI C, you should get 95% of the portability issues out of the way. Keep the 5% remaining in architecture-specific files through a common API, and you're done.
The Linux Kernel is a prime example of ANSI C code which works on a multitude of very different hardware platfoms.
If you have a 12000 or some of the higher end routers, you can ssh to it. Lesser routers, such as anything less than a 7500 can only use telnet. This sucks, but it is what cisco offers.
You are so wrong with the above statement. Provided you have an encryption Feature Set (IPSEC 3DES or IPSEC 56) you can ssh to your router. No matter if it's a 801, a 12416 or anything else in between.
Read more about requirements + configuration of ssh on IOS routers here and for further ssh-related reading on Cisco platforms, go here.
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Total Annihilation remains my favorite and is still running regularely (skirmish and network) here. Still an awesome game after 3+ years !!
Surprisingly enough, this comes only 1 day after Cisco's similar announcement, recalling power supplies for their 826, 827, 827-4V and SOHO 77 routers.
I'm comtemplating the fortunes that were made by those who bought stock at the IPO from IBM, Cisco and the likes... Certainely some of these guys are now enjoying a quiet retirement time in some villa by the coast !
It's funny that no-one has mentionned the Tokai 715 model yet. It's fairly popular in Europe, reads everything except CD-RW, and its firmware can be grabbed all over the internet to get rid of the mechanisms in place (regions, etc.) that spoil the untouched commercial version.
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You're meant to wait until the region 1 DVD is released.
Heh. For once you guys in the US are suffering the consequences of this stupid region coding which was forced into the DVD standard. Now see how it feels to be on the other side of the atlantic for a change.
It's so often us (outside the US) which suffer from region coding, since virtually everything comes on region 1 before other regions, when at all.
rotfl :->
I've had a dual CPU computer for some years now; I ran 2.0.x all the way till 2.4.x on it with great success.
I must say that the difference (apparent response time you get while at the console) between 2.2.x and 2.4.x is huge for SMP machines. I'm not going back to 2.2.x
On a totally unrelated matter, fishy hardware makes sometimes people believe that `Linux' hangs. Hardware issues are hard to troubleshoot. My 4-years old PC can take 2 attempts before cold-booting up in the morning (the first time it typically hangs after POST and keep the floppy drive LED active). This morning again, I suddenly heard the fans drop in rpm and the PC hung shortly after... this is when I decided it was about time to leave the house and go to work :)
My point : for average users, the 2.4.x series is just fine; when it's not there are other issues at stake.
I pretty much agree on this, I'm no fan of SAMS either. Seems we're not the only ones...
From the various replies to my question, you appear to be are right.
God it feels good to know that I'm not the only one without a clue here :-)
The Unified Modelling Language provides ways of modelling every sort of system that you can imagine...
Isn't this the reason why XML was designed for ? If someone would care explain the difference between the two...
...it will compile this time. I tend to only get lucky every few kernel versions. Or is that all the bloat I try to compile in *grin*
Their press release ends with the following fine print. Enjoy!
This press release may contain forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, financing, completion of technology development, product demand, competition, and other risks and uncertainties.
This sounds of course like complete hot air to me. I wonder what the guys at random.org think.
> If there's a time zone difference, you can turn that to your advantage and literally work around the clock
I am working for a large organization outsourcing most of their software development and providing support to our customers 24/7. We do this by having set up various development and support teams around the globe, eg. in the US, APAC and EMEA theaters.
While the concept is clever, and it somewhat works, in reality there are some trade-offs which make working around the clock impractical:
If you want the job done faster, just add more people working together as a team at the same location. This is equivalent in staffing to adding more people to a remote location supposedly around the clock, but you get the job done faster and without all the overhead mentionned here and in other comments.
Obviously there is a certain economic cost to supporting and using several different languages. It has always been there! The scope of the € simply will make people from other EU country understand when prices are differently when they travel abroad, and save us all a lot of headache.
It is indeed a play on word on the authors' names: Vincent Rijmen and Joan Daemen
heh, at least he's posting unlike you just fucking moaning like a sissy. If you disagree, just skip the article you fuck.
Virtually all UNIX platforms out there are compliant to some POSIX standards to some degree. Linux is, and Windows NT and derivatives are.
With POSIX and ANSI C, you should get 95% of the portability issues out of the way. Keep the 5% remaining in architecture-specific files through a common API, and you're done.
The Linux Kernel is a prime example of ANSI C code which works on a multitude of very different hardware platfoms.
Thank you Linus.
You are so wrong with the above statement. Provided you have an encryption Feature Set (IPSEC 3DES or IPSEC 56) you can ssh to your router. No matter if it's a 801, a 12416 or anything else in between.
Read more about requirements + configuration of ssh on IOS routers here and for further ssh-related reading on Cisco platforms, go here.
Emperor: Battle for Dune is nice also but obviously won't qualify as a Relic just yet ;o)
I never was a fan of the Ultima games, but this is of course my humble taste.
No you don't.
Your comments record with all those -1 scores indicate that you're just a lameass.
In fact I don't even know why I am wasting my time replying to this. Gotta go, see you never.
Surprisingly enough, this comes only 1 day after Cisco's similar announcement, recalling power supplies for their 826, 827, 827-4V and SOHO 77 routers.
Plus if you're logging in as root and then run that executable, then you really ought to be shot in the head.
Bottom line: this will never spread like good'old MS-DOS virus days :-)
Did I mention people who bought MSFT and SUNW as well? :)
I'm comtemplating the fortunes that were made by those who bought stock at the IPO from IBM, Cisco and the likes... Certainely some of these guys are now enjoying a quiet retirement time in some villa by the coast !
Count me in for Google's move !
It's funny that no-one has mentionned the Tokai 715 model yet. It's fairly popular in Europe, reads everything except CD-RW, and its firmware can be grabbed all over the internet to get rid of the mechanisms in place (regions, etc.) that spoil the untouched commercial version.
printf owns me. Never used something else. Debuggers are for tarts.
Don't like printf ? #ifdef DEBUG it !
:->
That's right. They also had a NT version called, surprise surprise, 4NT.
I just wish they'd license 4DOS, to have the best damn DOS shell available.
As far as I know, the above should work... Now, there is only one way to find out for sure 8-)