Any one those cheap Linksys / D-Link routers will be limited to 30-40mbs because there is really only one 100mbps MII interface to the CPU. The uplink and LAN interfaces are separated out through VLANing with the built-in switch. So basically, all traffic has to go over the same 100mbps interface *twice*, thus halving the throughput. You can get an old Sun Netra X1 with dual NICs off of eBay for like $50.
I think that he hadn't implemented file permissions into the kernel yet, and this incident was what prompted him to do so. If there were no file permissions, then he could have done this as a normal user.
Where does that leave "Applications?"
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The author states that "An operating system is the software that comes with a computer (or OS distribution) that programmers and users need to make themselves productive." So then where does that leave the definition of an Application? Although the line between what is an Application and what is a part of the OS is not always clear; the author's definition pushes the line to an extreme, and completely obliterates the concept of an application. The foolishness of his definition can be illustrated as follows: If I'm a graphic designer, and I purchase OS X from Apple, then by his definition of an OS, I can reasonably expect to find Adobe Photoshop bundled on the distributionn CD. Or any other high-priced piece of software that I need to be "productive. I think that this is pretty shaky ground for Apple to be treading on.
I dunno, but maybe they're abandoning the classic Von Neuman architecture here, and heading towards something more like a neural net. Such an architecture might be more efficient for the interaction between molecules.
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Any one those cheap Linksys / D-Link routers will be limited to 30-40mbs because there is really only one 100mbps MII interface to the CPU. The uplink and LAN interfaces are separated out through VLANing with the built-in switch. So basically, all traffic has to go over the same 100mbps interface *twice*, thus halving the throughput. You can get an old Sun Netra X1 with dual NICs off of eBay for like $50.
I think that he hadn't implemented file permissions into the kernel yet, and this incident was what prompted him to do so. If there were no file permissions, then he could have done this as a normal user.
The author states that "An operating system is the software that comes with a computer (or OS distribution) that programmers and users need to make themselves productive." So then where does that leave the definition of an Application? Although the line between what is an Application and what is a part of the OS is not always clear; the author's definition pushes the line to an extreme, and completely obliterates the concept of an application. The foolishness of his definition can be illustrated as follows: If I'm a graphic designer, and I purchase OS X from Apple, then by his definition of an OS, I can reasonably expect to find Adobe Photoshop bundled on the distributionn CD. Or any other high-priced piece of software that I need to be "productive. I think that this is pretty shaky ground for Apple to be treading on.
I dunno, but maybe they're abandoning the classic Von Neuman architecture here, and heading towards something more like a neural net. Such an architecture might be more efficient for the interaction between molecules.
I haven't been keeping up to date on millenium, but the original post says that it maintains backwards campatibility.