BSD was a better server. I have always regarded it as the best "under heavy load" server out there. I think that they are about equal now. Linux is currently about the fastest moving target of any major OS. From this I can infer that Linux will be the superior server OS in the near future.
I actually don't know if the above it true, but it seems resonable. I welcome informed flames.
I always wondered why nobody ever put 1000 transmeta processors in a shoebox and called it a really compact, cheap to run, rackmount system. They might not be really quick, but the power/instruction is much lower thus, cooling problems and space problems associated with large racks would all but go away.
IIRC, they also have a really small die size and so could be mass produced cheaply. IBM?
It's pretty and it works like Windows. That won't get it much admiration in this crowd, but normal people will like it better. They already know how to use it.
CMOS only consumes power on state changes. DRAM needs to be refreshed every few ms. Thus, the battery power required for DRAM would be much greater than that used to hold you CMOS settings in BIOS.
If the RIAA actually makes CD unrippable, I'm going to be really pissed.
CDs are bulky, damage easily, are difficult to keep organized and are difficult to search through.
I just bought a Rio and ripped all of my music (that I leagally own). The CDs are in a closet. If I can't buy a CD, rip it, and put it in the closet, I AM GOING TO BE VERY ANGRY.
Maya for Linux is here. I have already switched to it (from IRIX) as my primary Maya development platform. It is basically complete; only lacks a couple of odd features from the IRIX or win32 version like quicktime movie generation.
In making a secure OS, FreeBSD is a good base to start from. Security is only as good as the software running and configuration used.
Throwing FreeBSD on to Mach and then piling NeXT, a new GUI, compat layers, an A LOT of other subsystems creates a complicated, new system with lots of room for crackers to play.
Some of OSX' problems in common with *BSD, Linux and the UNIX's. ie an hole in BIND.
The big (easy) holes will probably be Apple's problems alone. ie forgetting to delete a temp file crated by some GUI library
Just like every other field in this world. There are alot of people called admins that are very bad a their job...this is doubly true for managers and hiring personnel.
The pdksh page refers to this difference and seems to suggest that they are working on getting the correct (ksh) behavior.
Check it out.
pdksh home page
I remember NT when it first cam out. They had POSIX, OS/2 a bunch of interoperatibility stuff. They were trying to take over UNIX ans so they tried to make stuff easy. They even made a free X11R5 client.
Then, they began to win the war and promptly dropped all of that stuff.
Concerning your camera.......Have you tried to use the usb-storage driver in 2.4.0. It was able to map my USB Camera (HP 315) to a scsi device.
Summary;
1. Make sure that you have the usb-storage module compiled in and scsi support. I think its experimental still.
2. modprobe usb-storage.
3. plug in camera
4. read console output and find out what scsi dev it was mapped to.
5. Mount that device.
Does the last paragraph of Reuters article seem a bit strange to anyone but me? I think that a random (and misleading) comment about the power consumption of mobile Intel chips is a wierd "by the way" to throw in at the end of two screens of a Transmeta story.
Transmeta screwed up today...Oh and Intel has chips that make Transmeta pointless anyway.
What's there angle? I'm not a Transmeta fan, but come on.
MS has too many people to please. They still have a Win16/DOS subsystem in the OS because people want to run WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. Microsoft couldn't get away with rejecting software at the OS level. Some they'd get too many calls saying:
"How come the (insert rare program here) is being rejected by your os. It used to work before I upgraded. I just wanted my internet to be faster, I didn't want to break all my software."
They would if they could but they can't so they won't.
I'll admit that my desktop is crowded with apps and terminals and the extra dimension would give my alot more room to work. At the same time, I constantly loose stuff on my 'real' 3D desktop. I would be really pissed off to search for my email client for 10 minutes only to find it minimized in the far corner behind Mozilla.
I think the Crusoe could be a great desktop chip
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Crusoe and Benchmarks
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As I understand it, this chip:
-Takes x86 instructions and decodes them to its own ISA and executes it.
-Runs very cool.
-Is a pretty simple chip.
-Runs at about 70% of the equiv. Pentium III.
What's to stop Transmeta from tweaking the software a bit and slapping 4 of these cores on a single chip. Heat? Gate density?
They might end up with a CPU that burns 4 watts, is a little bit warm, and runs at about 280% the equivalent Pentium III.
Ok it's been a while since looked at this so take it with a gain of salt.
Under the console setkeycodes(8) can be used to map the scancodes to key codes. Key codes are what the kernel uses to interpret keys. showkey(8) can be used to get the scan code for a key.
In X (as of XFree 3.3.6) everything is fine accept that XFree86 (selectively) ignors the key code tables provided by the kernel so the key code event can never get generated and thus X never sees the key.
It might be different in XFree 4.
look at the statistics reported. They change as the timeline progresses. IANAS (I am not a statistitian) but this doesn't seem like a good way to prove a point. If you don't report the same data over time, can any real correlation be suggested from the data?
Because titanium can be used in place of steel in many applications, it would make a great car body. It doesn't rust.
Even if you can't stamp it using a press (remember the huge elastic region) it would be great for an exhaust or a radiator. I'm sure that mfg. processes can be worked out for using it in just about anything. Alunimum is completely different from steel, but we've figured that one out.
Those of you who live in a place where they salt the roads in the winter or live on the ocean can appreciate this most.
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This is going to piss some BSD fan off....
BSD was a better server. I have always regarded it as the best "under heavy load" server out there. I think that they are about equal now. Linux is currently about the fastest moving target of any major OS. From this I can infer that Linux will be the superior server OS in the near future.
I actually don't know if the above it true, but it seems resonable. I welcome informed flames.
I always wondered why nobody ever put 1000 transmeta processors in a shoebox and called it a really compact, cheap to run, rackmount system. They might not be really quick, but the power/instruction is much lower thus, cooling problems and space problems associated with large racks would all but go away.
IIRC, they also have a really small die size and so could be mass produced cheaply. IBM?
It's pretty and it works like Windows. That won't get it much admiration in this crowd, but normal people will like it better. They already know how to use it.
CMOS only consumes power on state changes. DRAM needs to be refreshed every few ms. Thus, the battery power required for DRAM would be much greater than that used to hold you CMOS settings in BIOS.
If the RIAA actually makes CD unrippable, I'm going to be really pissed.
CDs are bulky, damage easily, are difficult to keep organized and are difficult to search through.
I just bought a Rio and ripped all of my music (that I leagally own). The CDs are in a closet. If I can't buy a CD, rip it, and put it in the closet, I AM GOING TO BE VERY ANGRY.
Am I alone in this?
Maya for Linux is here. I have already switched to it (from IRIX) as my primary Maya development platform. It is basically complete; only lacks a couple of odd features from the IRIX or win32 version like quicktime movie generation.
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Alias/Wavefront
In making a secure OS, FreeBSD is a good base to start from. Security is only as good as the software running and configuration used.
Throwing FreeBSD on to Mach and then piling NeXT, a new GUI, compat layers, an A LOT of other subsystems creates a complicated, new system with lots of room for crackers to play.
Some of OSX' problems in common with *BSD, Linux and the UNIX's. ie an hole in BIND.
The big (easy) holes will probably be Apple's problems alone. ie forgetting to delete a temp file crated by some GUI library
Just like every other field in this world. There are alot of people called admins that are very bad a their job...this is doubly true for managers and hiring personnel.
The pdksh page refers to this difference and seems to suggest that they are working on getting the correct (ksh) behavior. Check it out. pdksh home page
I remember NT when it first cam out. They had POSIX, OS/2 a bunch of interoperatibility stuff. They were trying to take over UNIX ans so they tried to make stuff easy. They even made a free X11R5 client.
Then, they began to win the war and promptly dropped all of that stuff.
If linux wins the war, Win32 will die.
Emulate the standard until you are the standard.
Concerning your camera.......Have you tried to use the usb-storage driver in 2.4.0. It was able to map my USB Camera (HP 315) to a scsi device.
Summary;
1. Make sure that you have the usb-storage module compiled in and scsi support. I think its experimental still.
2. modprobe usb-storage.
3. plug in camera
4. read console output and find out what scsi dev it was mapped to.
5. Mount that device.
Does the last paragraph of Reuters article seem a bit strange to anyone but me? I think that a random (and misleading) comment about the power consumption of mobile Intel chips is a wierd "by the way" to throw in at the end of two screens of a Transmeta story.
Transmeta screwed up today...Oh and Intel has chips that make Transmeta pointless anyway.
What's there angle? I'm not a Transmeta fan, but come on.
MS has too many people to please. They still have a Win16/DOS subsystem in the OS because people want to run WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. Microsoft couldn't get away with rejecting software at the OS level. Some they'd get too many calls saying:
"How come the (insert rare program here) is being rejected by your os. It used to work before I upgraded. I just wanted my internet to be faster, I didn't want to break all my software."
They would if they could but they can't so they won't.
I'll admit that my desktop is crowded with apps and terminals and the extra dimension would give my alot more room to work. At the same time, I constantly loose stuff on my 'real' 3D desktop. I would be really pissed off to search for my email client for 10 minutes only to find it minimized in the far corner behind Mozilla.
As I understand it, this chip:
-Takes x86 instructions and decodes them to its own ISA and executes it.
-Runs very cool.
-Is a pretty simple chip.
-Runs at about 70% of the equiv. Pentium III.
What's to stop Transmeta from tweaking the software a bit and slapping 4 of these cores on a single chip. Heat? Gate density?
They might end up with a CPU that burns 4 watts, is a little bit warm, and runs at about 280% the equivalent Pentium III.
Ok it's been a while since looked at this so take it with a gain of salt. Under the console setkeycodes(8) can be used to map the scancodes to key codes. Key codes are what the kernel uses to interpret keys. showkey(8) can be used to get the scan code for a key. In X (as of XFree 3.3.6) everything is fine accept that XFree86 (selectively) ignors the key code tables provided by the kernel so the key code event can never get generated and thus X never sees the key. It might be different in XFree 4.
look at the statistics reported. They change as the timeline progresses. IANAS (I am not a statistitian) but this doesn't seem like a good way to prove a point. If you don't report the same data over time, can any real correlation be suggested from the data?
Because titanium can be used in place of steel in many applications, it would make a great car body. It doesn't rust.
Even if you can't stamp it using a press (remember the huge elastic region) it would be great for an exhaust or a radiator. I'm sure that mfg. processes can be worked out for using it in just about anything. Alunimum is completely different from steel, but we've figured that one out.
Those of you who live in a place where they salt the roads in the winter or live on the ocean can appreciate this most.