Don't link to The Register unless you want your karma to shoot through the floor. I first heard about this story there, but I didn't even bother submitting it because I know it would be rejected as "garbage from The Register". Some people 'round here have strange convictions. --
You need wireless electricity? There are these neat things called batteries that you can put into laptops so that you can carry and run them just about anywhere for several hours without being plugged in. Ever heard of 'em? They're really neat. --
But then you're dealing with X, which is neither stripped down nor low on resource utilization. A bootable version of BeOS would be the very best, but like Windows, it isn't free (as in speech) for redistribution. --
If you could get Microsoft to allow you to distribute Windows like that on the cheap, much less keep Windows within a reasonable memory footprint so the CD-ROM drive didn't need to be thrashed so hardly, it could be done, but I don't think either will happen because 1. M$ is greedy, and 2. MS is making the X-box, which precludes any other Windows based console options. --
No matter what engine you put in, and no matter how much you trick it out, you can never turn a Camaro into a Corvette. 3dfx and NVIDIA are the Vettes, ATi is the Camaro, and S3 is... oh, let's say an Escort? --
I think I missed something -- why are you talking about Sharky?
Nobody is interested in ATi. With the exception of their TV output, which I hear is excellent, their products are passable at best. ATi is what you throw into a cheap machine, or into a server that won't be running X (or any other GUI).
And speaking of flakiness, ATi is the king. They have awful, awful drivers for Windows, and if their open source X servers are stable, it means some small group of hacker hobbyists are better than the ATi programmers, and/or that the server uses limited acceleration features.
The AiW series doesn't support Linux.
More pages = more ad impressions.
More ad impressions = More money. --
I use SSH for my personal email as well. For me, the primary upshot was that it was secure, but there was the added benefit of not needing to use the crappy Windows telnet client. Using puTTY is almost as good as having an xterm, anyway. --
It's probably the same BT lamebrain that modded me down, too. I'd still like to find the Sony loyalist that modded me as flamebait for accurately describing the gait of an AIBO as being slower than a bowling ball rolling uphill. --
I suppose it doesn't matter when those gigabytes are used, either? You could download Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian, and Slackware over the course of a few nights without chewing up anyone's bandwidth and still use 60% of your quota.
I have been an advocate for DSL over cable not because of its perceived networking advantages, but because of its choice -- it's very unfortunate that you don't have any. --
I'm laughing as we speak. I got downward moderation for my reply to this comment about "the meaning of hack", and how alt.hackers wasn't like the group you described before. --
of SHITE, especially since I had to look up Exile on Main Street to know that it was a Stones album. I'd say OS X is more like Spiceworld -- I remember a time when the "experts" said The Spice Girls would be here to stay... --
If the 2000 model is twice as advanced as the 1999, and last year's model was twice as advanced as the 1998, this year's model is 4x more advanced than than the one from two years ago, is it not?
The advancement of 1.5 generations could easily work out to be 3x ahead of what's out there now. Maybe the marketriod was misquoted, or maybe it was stated incorrectly -- whether the statement was incorrect on purpose or not is another issue. If you've been reading Hard|OCP, you'll find some pretty negative views of Derek Perez, NVIDIA's PR guy. --
Well, that link is good enough for most of us to remember, but for the benefit of the/. crew, I think it ought to be posted twice (since everything else is lately):
Maybe I don't understand what you're describing in ext3, but I thought that the point of a journalled filesystem was that in the worst case scenario, the system could be powered off and turned back on without having to scan for drive integrity. ext3 doesn't sound like that at all.
Do you really mean that JFS doesn't support mixed case filenames, ot did you intend to say that JFS is case insensitive? I know I'm not the only one who thinks that case sensitivity is something that should be reserved for the written word and passwords. Mixed case filenames are fine, just don't force me to use them -- C makes it really easy to shift a byte's value by 64... --
Who said they were porting anything? Solaris runs on x86, too -- they could either use Solaris x86, or the low power Sparc they recently announced.
Besides, Solaris on Alpha would be more atractive than Solaris on MIPS -- who even cares about MIPS anymore? The only thing I see MIPS doing nowadays is powering those awesome mice. --
Who cares if it runs on MIPS, Sparc, PPC, Z-80, or x86? If you're in that 1% of the market that needs XYZ functionality from their Web server and it isn't offered in a Cobalt, DON'T USE A COBALT. The minute you start hacking on one, it ceases to be an appliance. --
I'll ignore things like SETI@HOME / Distributed.net here 'cos noone buys a machine for that, right?....Right?
Umm, yeah. A little more than a year ago, I only had a Celeron 366.
When the Athlon came out, I had to get one so I could support AMD "even if nobody else would".
The Athlon wasn't very stable, and I couldn't go back to a 366 after that, so I upgraded the 366 to a 450 and delegated the Athlon to a life of Windows 98 and games, which it ably handles.
The 366 started looking really sad just sitting there without a motherboard, case, hard drive, CD-ROM, or floppy, so how could you NOT cobble together some parts and make the thing run BIND, squid, and Apache?
So here I am with systems that perform within a few percentage poins of each other. I have a Celeron 366@458, a PII 450@510, and an unstable Athlon 500 that would be faster, cheaper, and more reliable if replaced, rather than OC'd. They all run SETI@home, but I SWEAR it wasn't meant like that... --
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Don't link to The Register unless you want your karma to shoot through the floor. I first heard about this story there, but I didn't even bother submitting it because I know it would be rejected as "garbage from The Register". Some people 'round here have strange convictions.
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You need wireless electricity? There are these neat things called batteries that you can put into laptops so that you can carry and run them just about anywhere for several hours without being plugged in. Ever heard of 'em? They're really neat.
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But then you're dealing with X, which is neither stripped down nor low on resource utilization. A bootable version of BeOS would be the very best, but like Windows, it isn't free (as in speech) for redistribution.
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If you could get Microsoft to allow you to distribute Windows like that on the cheap, much less keep Windows within a reasonable memory footprint so the CD-ROM drive didn't need to be thrashed so hardly, it could be done, but I don't think either will happen because 1. M$ is greedy, and 2. MS is making the X-box, which precludes any other Windows based console options.
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That's old news. Last decade, the record industry was our ally and Tipper Gore was the enemy. Now, the record industry is the enemy.
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If you really want to get into cube warfare, you have to try this prank while your victim is away.
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No matter what engine you put in, and no matter how much you trick it out, you can never turn a Camaro into a Corvette. 3dfx and NVIDIA are the Vettes, ATi is the Camaro, and S3 is... oh, let's say an Escort?
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I think I missed something -- why are you talking about Sharky?
Nobody is interested in ATi. With the exception of their TV output, which I hear is excellent, their products are passable at best. ATi is what you throw into a cheap machine, or into a server that won't be running X (or any other GUI).
And speaking of flakiness, ATi is the king. They have awful, awful drivers for Windows, and if their open source X servers are stable, it means some small group of hacker hobbyists are better than the ATi programmers, and/or that the server uses limited acceleration features.
The AiW series doesn't support Linux.
More pages = more ad impressions.
More ad impressions = More money.
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I use SSH for my personal email as well. For me, the primary upshot was that it was secure, but there was the added benefit of not needing to use the crappy Windows telnet client. Using puTTY is almost as good as having an xterm, anyway.
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It's probably the same BT lamebrain that modded me down, too. I'd still like to find the Sony loyalist that modded me as flamebait for accurately describing the gait of an AIBO as being slower than a bowling ball rolling uphill.
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I suppose it doesn't matter when those gigabytes are used, either? You could download Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian, and Slackware over the course of a few nights without chewing up anyone's bandwidth and still use 60% of your quota.
I have been an advocate for DSL over cable not because of its perceived networking advantages, but because of its choice -- it's very unfortunate that you don't have any.
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I'm laughing as we speak. I got downward moderation for my reply to this comment about "the meaning of hack", and how alt.hackers wasn't like the group you described before.
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of SHITE, especially since I had to look up Exile on Main Street to know that it was a Stones album. I'd say OS X is more like Spiceworld -- I remember a time when the "experts" said The Spice Girls would be here to stay...
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The advancement of 1.5 generations could easily work out to be 3x ahead of what's out there now. Maybe the marketriod was misquoted, or maybe it was stated incorrectly -- whether the statement was incorrect on purpose or not is another issue. If you've been reading Hard|OCP, you'll find some pretty negative views of Derek Perez, NVIDIA's PR guy.
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That's exactly what I was thinking when I made that comment.
I know that moderation is a game. You can't take it seriously, and that's why I'm laughing -- why did someone even BOTHER to moderate that comment?
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Who would care about gcc if there wasn't an OS that used it?
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Article: Statement on IPv6 Privacy Concerns .
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Err, that should be "crackers", not "hackers"... :)
(someone had to say it...
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Do you really mean that JFS doesn't support mixed case filenames, ot did you intend to say that JFS is case insensitive? I know I'm not the only one who thinks that case sensitivity is something that should be reserved for the written word and passwords. Mixed case filenames are fine, just don't force me to use them -- C makes it really easy to shift a byte's value by 64...
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Looks like we got a copy of the backup database, which is made daily, and accessible by (God/Pete) -- oops...
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Besides, Solaris on Alpha would be more atractive than Solaris on MIPS -- who even cares about MIPS anymore? The only thing I see MIPS doing nowadays is powering those awesome mice.
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Who cares if it runs on MIPS, Sparc, PPC, Z-80, or x86? If you're in that 1% of the market that needs XYZ functionality from their Web server and it isn't offered in a Cobalt, DON'T USE A COBALT. The minute you start hacking on one, it ceases to be an appliance.
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That's good, but there aren't any pictures. Is there a specific filename I can search for on Gnutella/Freenet/Scour?
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Umm, yeah. A little more than a year ago, I only had a Celeron 366.
When the Athlon came out, I had to get one so I could support AMD "even if nobody else would".
The Athlon wasn't very stable, and I couldn't go back to a 366 after that, so I upgraded the 366 to a 450 and delegated the Athlon to a life of Windows 98 and games, which it ably handles.
The 366 started looking really sad just sitting there without a motherboard, case, hard drive, CD-ROM, or floppy, so how could you NOT cobble together some parts and make the thing run BIND, squid, and Apache?
So here I am with systems that perform within a few percentage poins of each other. I have a Celeron 366@458, a PII 450@510, and an unstable Athlon 500 that would be faster, cheaper, and more reliable if replaced, rather than OC'd. They all run SETI@home, but I SWEAR it wasn't meant like that...
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