Since the chip is 18 inches on each side - which is about the same size as a flat planel display - they'll probably just build this video card *into* tft screens. Imagine how fast and clean the picture will be with the graphics card so close to the display.
Okay. He doesn't use the words "poor hack", but the freenet faq does say it's use will "...prevent DNS-style abuse of the mechanism."
DNS wasn't designed with true builtin redundancy in mind, which was the whole point of DARPA. Freenet attempts to add redundancy in addition to privacy.
As Ian Clarke of the Freenet project has said, the whole DNS system is a poor hack that reduces the strength of the internet. Using a distributed system like Freenet will make DDOS inconsequential.
It is not an acceptable license due to these statements from the faq:
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5.Can I modify the source and distribute it to someone else?
Yes, but you need to package the modifications separately, usually as a patch file.
6.Why must the original source be kept separate?
We want everyone who receives the source to know what we have done vs. what changes have been done by others that we have not yet approved. This is primarily an issue of quality assurance.
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Put bluntly, only paranoid control freaks put these type of clauses in their licenses (which is probably AT&T's fault). Nobody ever wants to work with such software because of the hoops you have to jump through to improve and maintain it.
With the GPL, a programmer is say he/she wants *all* users of that software to have the right to use and modify the source code. With the BSD licence, not all users have that right.
How about if the ISC holds on to the mailing list archives and releases them, say 6 months after they're sent. Then we could be sure there is no monkey business going on and "they" could pay for their special attention.
Except that CDs are not at all convenient. They get scratched once in the wrong place - you lose data. They're phsically too big. And you can't do random writes to them.
Yeah. That souns good until they come out wuth SDMI music that delivers 24bit/96KHz/5.1channel sound. And it cost the same as a CD. And you get something extra, like say all the lyrics to display as the song is playing.
Personally, I think Itanium will come out (June/July) before 760MP (August). There have been Athlon delays for over a year and all they're showing now are a couple of prototypes.
Well Itanium prototypes have been around a lot longer than these dual Athlon prototypes and Itanium still has a ways to go!
djb doesn't release his work under a proper opensource license, so most distributions want nothing to do with his software. Thus djbdns is not a viable alternative.
No, Debian/Woody won't get linux-2.4. But Sarge will, which will probably be released in a year. But I really have no idea what I'm talking about, so who knows?
Naah, let's move to PPC instead
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The PPC boxes that Apple is building these days are very high quality boxes (if only they could pump out the GHz). I've already decided that my next computer (within 6 months) will be a Mac running Debian. Those Titanium Powerbooks are amazing machines for an amazing price. I've had a fun stint with x86 for the past 3 years, but I'm ready to move back to PPC with a real OS.
It's not Linux, it's GNU/Linux. Linux is only the kernel and all of these journalists like to pretend Linux is the entire operating system. There are many other pieces of software that come into play to make GNU/Linux a fully functioning OS. These have been in development since the mid-1980's, which allowed for the "rapid ascension" of GNU/Linux that has "surprised" many industry analysts.
The gravity isn't strong enough. We've been designed to develop in a 1G environment over billions of years. I'd hate to see the freaks that would develop after being conceived and born there - all kinds of heart and bone deformities. They'd probably have a life span of 1 month with good intensive care.
The mass of earth is 5.98E24 while mars is 6.42E23. Earth is 9.3 times more massive than mars!
So until our understands of physics allows us to alter gravity fields, we will be stuck on earth or on giant orbiting gravitrons a la 2001.
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Since the chip is 18 inches on each side - which is about the same size as a flat planel display - they'll probably just build this video card *into* tft screens. Imagine how fast and clean the picture will be with the graphics card so close to the display.
DNS wasn't designed with true builtin redundancy in mind, which was the whole point of DARPA. Freenet attempts to add redundancy in addition to privacy.
As Ian Clarke of the Freenet project has said, the whole DNS system is a poor hack that reduces the strength of the internet. Using a distributed system like Freenet will make DDOS inconsequential.
Remember: "i" before "e" except after "c" except for the word "weird."
It is not an acceptable license due to these statements from the faq:
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5.Can I modify the source and distribute it to someone else?
Yes, but you need to package the modifications separately, usually as a patch file.
6.Why must the original source be kept separate?
We want everyone who receives the source to know what we have done vs. what changes have been done by others that we have not yet approved. This is primarily an issue of quality assurance.
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Put bluntly, only paranoid control freaks put these type of clauses in their licenses (which is probably AT&T's fault). Nobody ever wants to work with such software because of the hoops you have to jump through to improve and maintain it.
Once you become aware of the truth that emacs is an operating system and that lisp commands are your "unix tools" you will see the true light.
Emacs makes all other editors worthless.
What do you mean "Not really"?
With the GPL, an author forces all derivatives to be equally open: everyone can read, modify and distribute the source.
With the BSD licence, incompatible changes may be made which no one may ever see. This is what the GPL prevents.
The rebuttal is quite simple:
With the GPL, a programmer is say he/she wants *all* users of that software to have the right to use and modify the source code. With the BSD licence, not all users have that right.
How about if the ISC holds on to the mailing list archives and releases them, say 6 months after they're sent. Then we could be sure there is no monkey business going on and "they" could pay for their special attention.
Which is why we need a tcp/ip stack built into the bios. Then you *could* boot off the internet. How cool would that be?
Doesn't sun build something like this into their computers?
Quite correct.
According to ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/config.txt
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wcarchive.cdrom.com is an Intel architecture PC machine running the FreeBSD
operating system.
Its configuration is as follows:
Micron NetFRAME 9201 system, consisting of:
One 500MHz Intel Pentium-III Xeon CPU w/512K L2 cache
4GB of main memory (16 * 256MB 50ns ECC EDO DIMMs)
1 Adaptec AHA-2940U2W PCI single-channel wide Ultra-2 SCSI controller
2 Adaptec AHA-3940AUW PCI dual-channel wide UltraSCSI controller
1 Intel Pro/100+ PCI 100Mbps Fast Ethernet controller
1 Bay Networks Netgear GA620 Gigabit Ethernet adapter
Please visit http://www.micronpc.com/web/walnutcreek.html for more
information on the NetFRAME 9201 system.
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That micronpc link seems to be busted though.
A picture of the beast is here: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/archive-info/wcarchive.jpg
Except that CDs are not at all convenient. They get scratched once in the wrong place - you lose data. They're phsically too big. And you can't do random writes to them.
Yeah. That souns good until they come out wuth SDMI music that delivers 24bit/96KHz/5.1channel sound. And it cost the same as a CD. And you get something extra, like say all the lyrics to display as the song is playing.
/.ers won't buy SDMI.
Then see how many
I wonder what kind of fuel efficiency these things will have. Must be pretty low to develop 335000hp.
And we thought we would run out of fossil fuel in 2050. Ha! Better make that 2025.
Personally, I think Itanium will come out (June/July) before 760MP (August). There have been Athlon delays for over a year and all they're showing now are a couple of prototypes.
Well Itanium prototypes have been around a lot longer than these dual Athlon prototypes and Itanium still has a ways to go!
I don't read posts in that stupid font no matter how highly you get noterated. So don't use it unless you are simulating the COMMAND LINE
djb doesn't release his work under a proper opensource license, so most distributions want nothing to do with his software. Thus djbdns is not a viable alternative.
Simply set up some high powered RF transmitters in GPS range and the entire system is DOSd. Or better yet DDOS it with multiple sources.
No, Debian/Woody won't get linux-2.4. But Sarge will, which will probably be released in a year. But I really have no idea what I'm talking about, so who knows?
The PPC boxes that Apple is building these days are very high quality boxes (if only they could pump out the GHz). I've already decided that my next computer (within 6 months) will be a Mac running Debian. Those Titanium Powerbooks are amazing machines for an amazing price. I've had a fun stint with x86 for the past 3 years, but I'm ready to move back to PPC with a real OS.
Not just IBM, but SGI, CRAY, Compaq, VA and Penguin are all hardware vendors putting serious resources to making linux better.
It's not Linux, it's GNU/Linux. Linux is only the kernel and all of these journalists like to pretend Linux is the entire operating system. There are many other pieces of software that come into play to make GNU/Linux a fully functioning OS. These have been in development since the mid-1980's, which allowed for the "rapid ascension" of GNU/Linux that has "surprised" many industry analysts.
Oh btw, those mass values are kilograms.
Got the numbers at http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/
The gravity isn't strong enough. We've been designed to develop in a 1G environment over billions of years. I'd hate to see the freaks that would develop after being conceived and born there - all kinds of heart and bone deformities. They'd probably have a life span of 1 month with good intensive care.
The mass of earth is 5.98E24 while mars is 6.42E23. Earth is 9.3 times more massive than mars!
So until our understands of physics allows us to alter gravity fields, we will be stuck on earth or on giant orbiting gravitrons a la 2001.
Thank you. You said that much better than I could. I'm sure those thoughts echo how many GNU/Linux users feel.