I would assume, for the wireless card, its to avoid access to the 802.11 MAC Layer. They probably also cant legally allow access to the radio; FCC prohibits the use of equipment in that band that has a radiating output of more than 100mW. Its the same reason we dont have Atheros drivers- you can bump up your output levels since most functions of the card are controlled by the driver, not the firmware. Atheros at least released a binary HAL with some of those values hardcoded so we could at least get wifi access in linux with their cards.
"If by "efficient" you mean "more instructions per clock" than yes, UltraSPARC is more efficient."
SUN use RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) Processors.
x86 (which is really just the 386 instruction set with extensions...which is really just the 8086 instruction set with some changes) is a CISC ( Complex Instruction Set Computer).
Obviously a SUN would require more instructions per cycle (not necessarily clock) to do the same task. Efficeincy can not be compared by architecture, but by the amount of time it takes to complete said tasks. In that case, "x86" (I really hate that term, its misleading) is the winner...until you SMP them. SUN then wins hands down.
Also insane memory bandwidth is required when 6 fetch operations are required on a RISC environment when the same operation can be done in 2 on a CISC.
It should be noted that the "high quality SCSI drives" are still rebranded Seagates.
Strong words for someone who posted AC. Its apparent you missed my point. Then again from your retort, I doubt you're capable of forming any determined conclusion about anything.
I could name a few. There is always an engineer involved.
btw, geek != race.
My family has an arabic last name and my father travels alot...for Uncle Sam. He's over fifty, has been working for the gov't for over 25 years and he STILL gets checked. He doesnt complain about the extra half hour to an hour he has to spend waiting in another line to be "screened". I think geek boy can take it.
This technology, destined to eventually replace most reporters with very small shell scripts, is thankfully still in its infancy.
Considering how much bad news there is today, it would be nice to have a completely unbiased point of view. I dont trust CNN as they seem to be driven by politics behind the cameras as well as in front, dont trust MSNBC (or whatever its called) because you dont really know who is paying who to cover the story, and FOX is..well...FOX. Everyone has a slant, itd be nice to have something free of this. This is why I like slashdot; even if you have a slant, your story is treated like everyone elses.
I actually agree with the hacker scenario. I would go on IRC, start a bot that greets all new logins with all the necessary company security info and wait for the phone to ring.
My current boss knows of 3 insecurities to our network and I know of at least 6. He is reluctant to let me go, not because I would use them against the instituition, but because I know how to AVOID problems caused by these issues. If you're good at your job, you're more of an asset than a liability. And if the people with the wallets dont see it that way, give them a little example of why they should keep you around.
As always, mind the caveat; DONT GET CAUGHT. The ramifications are obvious. I think if it not as retaliation, but more like helping Murphy speed things up a bit.
"Can I borrow your calculator?" "Oh, its not a calculator. Its now a portable computer." "Can it minimize this equation for me?" "No" "What can it do?" "Well....it has a console...and it can add/subtract/multiply....." "Nevermind."
The guys at RedHat didnt write the code, they just packaged it*.
*Im talking about most packages. I understand that there are a few projects that are funded by RedHat and others done in house. The rest (and there are alot) are all open source developers.
I personally would rather send the Samba guys pizza myself.
Cant someone just post the updates on a public ftp server, then add an apt for rpm type script in the cron job? Would save us all a few bucks this way.
I still dont understand why we cannot distribute the cds. If Redhat does have an 18 month product release cycle, why cant someone just post the ISO? I thought the GPL allowed for that kind of thing.
I agree, what really sets this distribution apart from any other distribution besides the obvious bootup and daemon start up tweaks?
Most of the benchmarks on this review are all kernel dependant. Wouldnt it be safe to say that the same numbers can be found in any modern distribution if they use the same kernel patches/optimizations?
This leads me to my next question. Its true not all distributions are created equall and all distro maintainers do their own black magic to tweak their kernels. But, rarely do I see these optimizations published; as in a list form or even a howto. I am a longtime Slackware fanatic (circa slack2.1 to present) and have always swore by it if for nothing more than the fact that its kernels are straight vanilla with no patches. Now here comes VL which is said to be "faster". How? If i were to remove all running daemons that I dont use (which I do upon a knee-jerk reflex response after a fresh install anyway), wouldnt I get the same speed ups? What did they do to their kernels? How do I find out?
I switched from Slackware to Debian last week (oh how painful it was...really) on my desktop and I am keeping slack on my laptop. All my development is done on the laptop and Id rather not have to figure out why code I wrote last week no longer wants to work because of some strange header problem between distros. First thing I did was install a vanilla kernel since I really dont trust any distribution's kernel unless I KNOW its vanilla. Anyway, I notice no speed difference. What does the slackware world think about this? Am I missing out by using the vanilla sources? Are there some optimizations that the rest of the world swears by that may increase my speed somewhat?
College students ard hard to reach with classes running at odd ball hours and all night coding sessions. A cell phone number that doesnt change is great in that it allows perspective employers a stable place to reach you and allows your family to have your number on hand without the hassle of locating "this years number". I use my cell for business and pleasure and its nice to know a resume I sent out a year ago to an employer that wasnt hiring and now is has a dependable medium to contact me. Sometimes emails just arent appropriate.
Number portability would allow me to move to a new provider and not abandon the number I've had for 4+ years now. Not to mention the fact that in New Jersey, most exchanges are filled to the point that most new cell phones are now based in areas that may be considered long distance from the town you bought it in.
The only thing I used the internet for in highschool was to download music/pr0n and talk to my friends....about music and pr0n. I dont see how having a wifi setup at HS would have made my life any more fruitful.
Sorry, perhaps more effort in expanding the curriculum would be better use of funds.
Im just waiting for some odd ball catastrophe to happen and some crazy soccer mom blame the ubiquitous internet at the highschool. Then Wifi will be branded as a sin.
SUVs? The complaining parents dont understand physics which would explain their use of SUVs. If 100mW is enough to get their attention, why doesnt the byproduct of 9 miles per gallon? Sure, sue the school over something trivial and neglect their own affect on their children and the health of everyone around them.
The program, dubbed 'Icarus' not only detects P2P applications but viruses, worms, and other trojans. If a P2P application is found then an e-mail is sent to the user, a message is popped up on their screen, and their internet connection is disconnected.
So they are going to turn off my firewall, turn on ssh, then echo "BUSTED!" >/dev/pts/2 just for running bittorent? Sounds like they have too much time on their hands.
Does anyone else have problems building the modules? I have the newest verion of modutils and pretty much everything else (slackware-current) and every time i build something as a module, it has dependancy errors during make modules_install. Is it just me?
Im a struggling engineering student who cant spell and have a hard time learning math. Great comobo over all but I digress.
What gets me through it is knowing that if I slip, I will have to find a new line of work. Considering the current market, that doesnt sound too bad, but when weighing the other options, nothing else will make me as happy. So when its a rock or a hard place, choose the one that hurts less.
"It doesnt matter how you do it. Get it done."
Once the weight of your work dawns upon you and you realize you are playing with the rest of your life, motivation and concentration wont be an issue. Its your life, time to work hard.
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I would assume, for the wireless card, its to avoid access to the 802.11 MAC Layer. They probably also cant legally allow access to the radio; FCC prohibits the use of equipment in that band that has a radiating output of more than 100mW. Its the same reason we dont have Atheros drivers- you can bump up your output levels since most functions of the card are controlled by the driver, not the firmware. Atheros at least released a binary HAL with some of those values hardcoded so we could at least get wifi access in linux with their cards.
"If by "efficient" you mean "more instructions per clock" than yes, UltraSPARC is more efficient."
SUN use RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) Processors.
x86 (which is really just the 386 instruction set with extensions...which is really just the 8086 instruction set with some changes) is a CISC ( Complex Instruction Set Computer).
Obviously a SUN would require more instructions per cycle (not necessarily clock) to do the same task. Efficeincy can not be compared by architecture, but by the amount of time it takes to complete said tasks. In that case, "x86" (I really hate that term, its misleading) is the winner...until you SMP them. SUN then wins hands down.
Also insane memory bandwidth is required when 6 fetch operations are required on a RISC environment when the same operation can be done in 2 on a CISC.
It should be noted that the "high quality SCSI drives" are still rebranded Seagates.
Maybe if they didn't spend R&D time and money on useless features, their products would be more affordable.
Seems like no one reads the articles these days. The article was about conterfeitting money, NOT PS.
Strong words for someone who posted AC. Its apparent you missed my point. Then again from your retort, I doubt you're capable of forming any determined conclusion about anything.
When's the last time a geek blew up an airplane?
I could name a few. There is always an engineer involved.
btw, geek != race.
My family has an arabic last name and my father travels alot...for Uncle Sam. He's over fifty, has been working for the gov't for over 25 years and he STILL gets checked. He doesnt complain about the extra half hour to an hour he has to spend waiting in another line to be "screened". I think geek boy can take it.
This technology, destined to eventually replace most reporters with very small shell scripts, is thankfully still in its infancy.
Considering how much bad news there is today, it would be nice to have a completely unbiased point of view. I dont trust CNN as they seem to be driven by politics behind the cameras as well as in front, dont trust MSNBC (or whatever its called) because you dont really know who is paying who to cover the story, and FOX is..well...FOX. Everyone has a slant, itd be nice to have something free of this. This is why I like slashdot; even if you have a slant, your story is treated like everyone elses.
I actually agree with the hacker scenario. I would go on IRC, start a bot that greets all new logins with all the necessary company security info and wait for the phone to ring.
My current boss knows of 3 insecurities to our network and I know of at least 6. He is reluctant to let me go, not because I would use them against the instituition, but because I know how to AVOID problems caused by these issues. If you're good at your job, you're more of an asset than a liability. And if the people with the wallets dont see it that way, give them a little example of why they should keep you around.
As always, mind the caveat; DONT GET CAUGHT. The ramifications are obvious. I think if it not as retaliation, but more like helping Murphy speed things up a bit.
Lets hope you dont go on to code/design/build medical equipment or bridges. ...i weep for the future.
"Can I borrow your calculator?"
"Oh, its not a calculator. Its now a portable computer."
"Can it minimize this equation for me?"
"No"
"What can it do?"
"Well....it has a console...and it can add/subtract/multiply....."
"Nevermind."
The guys at RedHat didnt write the code, they just packaged it*. *Im talking about most packages. I understand that there are a few projects that are funded by RedHat and others done in house. The rest (and there are alot) are all open source developers. I personally would rather send the Samba guys pizza myself.
Cant someone just post the updates on a public ftp server, then add an apt for rpm type script in the cron job? Would save us all a few bucks this way.
I still dont understand why we cannot distribute the cds. If Redhat does have an 18 month product release cycle, why cant someone just post the ISO? I thought the GPL allowed for that kind of thing.
There is in Mandrake and since you're using XDMCP, there is on all of your clients.
Wait until all 50 of those workstations press the "mozilla" button in gnome. XDMCP with 50 clients sounds like mortal sin to me. Good luck.
Itd be a joke if it wasnt true.
"#apt-get install flame-armor increased-karma"
I agree, what really sets this distribution apart from any other distribution besides the obvious bootup and daemon start up tweaks?
Most of the benchmarks on this review are all kernel dependant. Wouldnt it be safe to say that the same numbers can be found in any modern distribution if they use the same kernel patches/optimizations?
This leads me to my next question. Its true not all distributions are created equall and all distro maintainers do their own black magic to tweak their kernels. But, rarely do I see these optimizations published; as in a list form or even a howto. I am a longtime Slackware fanatic (circa slack2.1 to present) and have always swore by it if for nothing more than the fact that its kernels are straight vanilla with no patches. Now here comes VL which is said to be "faster". How? If i were to remove all running daemons that I dont use (which I do upon a knee-jerk reflex response after a fresh install anyway), wouldnt I get the same speed ups? What did they do to their kernels? How do I find out?
I switched from Slackware to Debian last week (oh how painful it was...really) on my desktop and I am keeping slack on my laptop. All my development is done on the laptop and Id rather not have to figure out why code I wrote last week no longer wants to work because of some strange header problem between distros. First thing I did was install a vanilla kernel since I really dont trust any distribution's kernel unless I KNOW its vanilla. Anyway, I notice no speed difference. What does the slackware world think about this? Am I missing out by using the vanilla sources? Are there some optimizations that the rest of the world swears by that may increase my speed somewhat?
A pencil. Its easier to do math with pencil and paper than in your head. And sometimes MatLab is just overkill.
Does ayone else find it odd that the favorite window manager isnt included with the favorite distribution?
Last time I checked, KDE3 wasnt stable on debian. You were stuck with KDE2.something.
I could be wrong.
College students ard hard to reach with classes running at odd ball hours and all night coding sessions. A cell phone number that doesnt change is great in that it allows perspective employers a stable place to reach you and allows your family to have your number on hand without the hassle of locating "this years number". I use my cell for business and pleasure and its nice to know a resume I sent out a year ago to an employer that wasnt hiring and now is has a dependable medium to contact me. Sometimes emails just arent appropriate.
Number portability would allow me to move to a new provider and not abandon the number I've had for 4+ years now. Not to mention the fact that in New Jersey, most exchanges are filled to the point that most new cell phones are now based in areas that may be considered long distance from the town you bought it in.
The only thing I used the internet for in highschool was to download music/pr0n and talk to my friends....about music and pr0n. I dont see how having a wifi setup at HS would have made my life any more fruitful.
Sorry, perhaps more effort in expanding the curriculum would be better use of funds.
Im just waiting for some odd ball catastrophe to happen and some crazy soccer mom blame the ubiquitous internet at the highschool. Then Wifi will be branded as a sin.
SUVs? The complaining parents dont understand physics which would explain their use of SUVs. If 100mW is enough to get their attention, why doesnt the byproduct of 9 miles per gallon? Sure, sue the school over something trivial and neglect their own affect on their children and the health of everyone around them.
The program, dubbed 'Icarus' not only detects P2P applications but viruses, worms, and other trojans. If a P2P application is found then an e-mail is sent to the user, a message is popped up on their screen, and their internet connection is disconnected. So they are going to turn off my firewall, turn on ssh, then echo "BUSTED!" > /dev/pts/2 just for running bittorent? Sounds like they have too much time on their hands.
Does anyone else have problems building the modules? I have the newest verion of modutils and pretty much everything else (slackware-current) and every time i build something as a module, it has dependancy errors during make modules_install. Is it just me?
IBM puts SCO on Double Secret Probation!
Film at 11.
Im a struggling engineering student who cant spell and have a hard time learning math. Great comobo over all but I digress.
What gets me through it is knowing that if I slip, I will have to find a new line of work. Considering the current market, that doesnt sound too bad, but when weighing the other options, nothing else will make me as happy. So when its a rock or a hard place, choose the one that hurts less.
"It doesnt matter how you do it. Get it done."
Once the weight of your work dawns upon you and you realize you are playing with the rest of your life, motivation and concentration wont be an issue. Its your life, time to work hard.