Is there SMP support in the kernel used for this "test"? You can -j3 and Dual-whatever all you want but the test won't be accurate if the test machine itself isn't running a SMP enabled kernel.
Also more info on the hardware would be nice. For example what is the board layout, are the chip/slot next to each other? What about cooling solution? Two Athlons means 142% more heat perhaps?:-)
I for one prefer Slackware over these other distros of yours because I don't need all the bloated and useless crap like a fancy GUI to do everything for me.
Shock! Horror! I think a lot of desktop/GUI oriented distributions are misunderstood as bloated by some power users. Is it possible to install a GUI-less box from a RedHat CD? YES!
It is true that the default installation contains lots of GUI based tools that may not be needed by experienced users, but it is just as easy to fully customise your installation using the Expert or similar mode.
Before I am mod down to OT, here is a though about "lean" distros like Slackware: GUI-less does not necessary means more powerful. I ofen find it useful to have a single Mandrake CD (the best Desktop distro?) that I can use to setup a fullly loaded desktop box "down" to a console-only server. This is what Linux is about, customisation.
While Slackware is one of the few non-profile distro, if in the future they want to increase their "market shares" they need to pay more attentions to the Desktop market since there are more PCs out there than all other platforms combined. Not that I have anything against the Alphas:-)
Mozilla browser - enhanced for PAL/NTSC screen displays
HTML, HTTP, JavaScript, DVB and ATVEF compliant
Support for GIF, JPEG, MIDI, PDF, MACROMEDIA, etc
Now just what the hack is "MACROMEDIA"? Is it some sort of file format, transport protocol or something with holes in it... Perhaps the user interface is written with Director?
And don't forget, just because it runs Linux doesn't mean it is automatically cheap or hackable. Nokia can charge you whatever they want and "hack prove" it.
One more (slightly OT) thing, lets hope http://www.gnu.org/encyclopedia/ is just a temporary address and is not the project official site.
I just don't understandard why they don't have sites like http://encyclopedia.gnu.org? There must be some reasons why the GNU people don't create more virtual domains, is this mentioned anywhere.
"As you can see, the working method is very simple. People send us articles, and we add them to the enclopedia. That's all."
I hope this is just an oversight, but it seems they don't plan to edit/moderate the articles. I bet you end up with hundreds of submissions on hot topics and nothing on less well know subjects.
Speaking of moderations, may they should use Bender! I think it is about time Slashdot contribute something to make up for all those sites we/.ed;-)
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No, do it Starship Troopers style!
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Well no one mentioned it yet, but I think slamming into earth in sub-sonic speed inside a power armour will be cool.
Okay, in the book they don't actually "slam", but imagine the fun:-)
First, lets get this get of the way: I use an Athlon at home and a Pentium at work.
Many people (including myself) like Anthon because it is cheap and fast, more bangs for your bucks and all that; this is ideal for home user. However I see two things against using Athlon as a server: it uses more power and generates more heat.
Now in a serious server environment, it seems to me that money is probably not as big an issue, so this kind of negated one of Anthlon's main advantage over a Intel chip right off.
Secondly, assuming you have lots of servers in an enclosed area, heat is a big deal; you want good air condition system. A room full of Athlons is HOT. This further offset the "true" cost of using Athlon servers
Also since Athlons use more energy, it stands to reason that your UPS system will not last as long as a similar number of Pentiums if there is a problem. Now for servers, up time is very important (unless you run WinXX;-), so this seems another strike against Athlon.
And finally like the article said (you did read it right?), Ahtlon don't have multi-processors support yet so that is another strike...
Don't get me wrong, I love my Athlon. But server may not be the right application for *this* generation of AMD chips. But AMD did promise support for multi-processors, low-energy chips soon, so there is still hope.
This kind of thinking from xenoweeno must go. Just because some company came up with something doesn't mean they are automatically good! We need to have more faith in our brothers and sisters that create truly great open source works.
At the very least we can do is to wait til the darn thing actually came out before crying "Uncle"...
Just how long do you keep a secret on stuff like Tempest? You may think theses are 20yr old and no harm could come from them... I think it is reasonable to except that some, if not most, of the current technology are still based on these earlier works. And so is it no possible to "forward" engeering these earlier design decisions to provide a better guess on the latest security system?
On the other hand, the early design could be just that, design, and not actual implementations. Like we should have a system that do X, Y and Z back in the 80s. Doesn't mean X, Y and Z are now possible.
I have to admit that I don't know enough to comment on this...;-) Anyone?
It should be Clark and Kubrick's 2001, as Clark stated in the forward of one reprint edition (of the novel) that the book changed quite a bit from his original vision once he started working with Kubrick.
Also with no disrespect to the late Mr Kubrick, the movie version of 2001 is way too long and boring, especially for today viewers. The main problem is probably the outdated visual effects. But the openning scene remains one of the most powerful openning scene of all time! It is too bad no one is planning a remake next year.
And finally if I remember correctly it is one of the first (if not THE first) movie to use classical scores extensively.
Is that really that difficult? Do we no longer have the ability to write and read something in just plain text? For those who have read a standard document lately (eg HTML spec, RFCs) there is nothing in there that *require* fancy formatting, fonts and what not. It is just pages and pages of TEXT descipting some problems and their solutions.
If you want spelling or grammer checks (god know I *need* them:-), fine, use a WP of your choice but just save the document as plain text. Want diagrams? It wouldn't kill you to say "Refer to Diagram A1" which is attached separately.
Send me you DOC not.doc!
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Now that I have read the article... ;-)
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Okay the data is publicly available (with some restrictions) for peer review and further research. So Science (the mag) is not a (complete?) sold-out.
However I stand by my point that more money are needed for science in schools and universities. Where, hopefully, the free (beer and freedom) and open exchanges of idea are real and with no string attached in anyway.
BTW, I am sorry for the rush comment. (But hey this is slashdot;-)
Peer review is an essential part of all science researches. Period.
If Celera is not providing the whole pictures how do the readers/other researchers know the values of their works? Their "publications" could be misleading either by accidents or intentional bias in their raw data. Without full peer reviews, there is no way to tell. This is completely against the spirit of science.
Science mag needs to be careful that Celera is not just publishing FUD to enhance their stock values. On the other hand, maybe, just maybe, some of the information they are going to publish could be usefull for some other real scientists.
This is what happens when science is being treated like the plague by many, especially the sport-crazied Americans (sorry guys). Be the sport guy/gal not the science nerd. More fundings are needed for science in schools and universities, where the open exchange of ideas is the main goal, not making money.
Remeber way back then when digital watches were so new and wonderful? And they start adding more and more features on it...
Games. (who needs Gameboy)
annoying beeps and "music" (sort of like the today's cute ring tones for cellphones)
Stop watch (okay this makes sense)
Calculator (with all the big @$$ keys)
Radio (ookay)
Heart monitor (....)
Some other crazy stuff I can't remember any more.
Who knows, any day now someone may create an all-in-one watch that is also a video camera, mp3 player, web server, phone, razor (just rub it on your face) and whatever!
I, like a lot of/. readers, dismissed Mozilla after I tried one of the earlier, bulky build and discovered numerous problems. Just recently I have downloaded the latest milestone build M18 (Linux i586) and it is good.
The Mozilla hackers are not kidding when they said the next releases are going to be optimisation only, because Mozilla is ready to go forth and take over the world!
Amongs many goodies in M18: themes are now fully functional, you can choose NOT to install the news/mail/chat clients, memory footprint is more or less the same as Netscape 4.75.
You own it to yourself to at least download the ~8MB binary and give it a try. (You can install the whole thing under a standard account if you don't want to mess with your/usr/local/:-)
Some guy worked hard on a project and shared his stuff on the web, what does he get? Personal attacks and a couple of borderline racist jokes about the Japaness people? (Mod up as Funny I may add)
I guess next you are going to make fun of some Fin recreating UNIX on his 386! Think about it and be ashame of yourself.
One of the best thing I like about Bastille is that it provides a very detailed, step by step explanation of what is going on.
As many security experts stated, the weakest link is always the people. Bastille not only harden your Linux box, it also helps the inexperienced sysadmin/home user to learn more about their systems.
After running Bastille on several sytems, I am confident enough to manually harden distros that are not supported by Bastille (yet:-).
So my question is what prompt you guys to spend so much time on the document side, which is often the last thing most developers do (if at all)?
Bastille is truly a useful and educational tool. Well done and thank you guys.
This post is purely based on Intel POV and is in no way reflects the views of this author.
For Intel, with AMD breathing down their necks, filing more patents is the smart thing to do. Anything you can do to slow down the other guy will enhance shareholders values, that is what this is all about. It is after all their R&D money and their researchers. As we saw time and again the USPTO is dumb enough to allow this sort of thing, so why not?
Remember, all corporations are out to make money, anything else are just unforeseen side effects.
"We start seeing these new accounts being created, but that could be an
anomaly of the system," Rick Miller (MS spokeperson) said. "After a day or
two, we realized it was someone hacking into the system."
[The Truth]
What software was stolen/looked at? Paperclip 2001, "I can't let you do
that, Dave".
[The Lesson]
And yes we only have one copy of our source code and we don't believe in
backups or checksums, so code tempering is a very serious problem.
Slashdot Mirror
Is there SMP support in the kernel used for this "test"? You can -j3 and Dual-whatever all you want but the test won't be accurate if the test machine itself isn't running a SMP enabled kernel.
Also more info on the hardware would be nice. For example what is the board layout, are the chip/slot next to each other? What about cooling solution? Two Athlons means 142% more heat perhaps? :-)
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I for one prefer Slackware over these other distros of yours because I don't need all the bloated and useless crap like a fancy GUI to do everything for me.
Shock! Horror! I think a lot of desktop/GUI oriented distributions are misunderstood as bloated by some power users. Is it possible to install a GUI-less box from a RedHat CD? YES!
It is true that the default installation contains lots of GUI based tools that may not be needed by experienced users, but it is just as easy to fully customise your installation using the Expert or similar mode.
Before I am mod down to OT, here is a though about "lean" distros like Slackware: GUI-less does not necessary means more powerful. I ofen find it useful to have a single Mandrake CD (the best Desktop distro?) that I can use to setup a fullly loaded desktop box "down" to a console-only server. This is what Linux is about, customisation.
While Slackware is one of the few non-profile distro, if in the future they want to increase their "market shares" they need to pay more attentions to the Desktop market since there are more PCs out there than all other platforms combined. Not that I have anything against the Alphas :-)
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Now just what the hack is "MACROMEDIA"? Is it some sort of file format, transport protocol or something with holes in it... Perhaps the user interface is written with Director?
And don't forget, just because it runs Linux doesn't mean it is automatically cheap or hackable. Nokia can charge you whatever they want and "hack prove" it.
====
One more (slightly OT) thing, lets hope http://www.gnu.org/encyclopedia/ is just a temporary address and is not the project official site.
I just don't understandard why they don't have sites like http://encyclopedia.gnu.org? There must be some reasons why the GNU people don't create more virtual domains, is this mentioned anywhere.
====
"As you can see, the working method is very simple. People send us articles, and we add them to the enclopedia. That's all."
I hope this is just an oversight, but it seems they don't plan to edit/moderate the articles. I bet you end up with hundreds of submissions on hot topics and nothing on less well know subjects.
Speaking of moderations, may they should use Bender! I think it is about time Slashdot contribute something to make up for all those sites we /.ed ;-)
====
Well no one mentioned it yet, but I think slamming into earth in sub-sonic speed inside a power armour will be cool.
Okay, in the book they don't actually "slam", but imagine the fun :-)
====
First, lets get this get of the way: I use an Athlon at home and a Pentium at work.
Many people (including myself) like Anthon because it is cheap and fast, more bangs for your bucks and all that; this is ideal for home user. However I see two things against using Athlon as a server: it uses more power and generates more heat.
Now in a serious server environment, it seems to me that money is probably not as big an issue, so this kind of negated one of Anthlon's main advantage over a Intel chip right off.
Secondly, assuming you have lots of servers in an enclosed area, heat is a big deal; you want good air condition system. A room full of Athlons is HOT. This further offset the "true" cost of using Athlon servers
Also since Athlons use more energy, it stands to reason that your UPS system will not last as long as a similar number of Pentiums if there is a problem. Now for servers, up time is very important (unless you run WinXX ;-), so this seems another strike against Athlon.
And finally like the article said (you did read it right?), Ahtlon don't have multi-processors support yet so that is another strike...
Don't get me wrong, I love my Athlon. But server may not be the right application for *this* generation of AMD chips. But AMD did promise support for multi-processors, low-energy chips soon, so there is still hope.
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This kind of thinking from xenoweeno must go. Just because some company came up with something doesn't mean they are automatically good! We need to have more faith in our brothers and sisters that create truly great open source works.
At the very least we can do is to wait til the darn thing actually came out before crying "Uncle"...
====
Just how long do you keep a secret on stuff like Tempest? You may think theses are 20yr old and no harm could come from them... I think it is reasonable to except that some, if not most, of the current technology are still based on these earlier works. And so is it no possible to "forward" engeering these earlier design decisions to provide a better guess on the latest security system?
On the other hand, the early design could be just that, design, and not actual implementations. Like we should have a system that do X, Y and Z back in the 80s. Doesn't mean X, Y and Z are now possible.
I have to admit that I don't know enough to comment on this... ;-) Anyone?
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"If we did our jobs right, they will never know."
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It should be Clark and Kubrick's 2001, as Clark stated in the forward of one reprint edition (of the novel) that the book changed quite a bit from his original vision once he started working with Kubrick.
Also with no disrespect to the late Mr Kubrick, the movie version of 2001 is way too long and boring, especially for today viewers. The main problem is probably the outdated visual effects. But the openning scene remains one of the most powerful openning scene of all time! It is too bad no one is planning a remake next year.
And finally if I remember correctly it is one of the first (if not THE first) movie to use classical scores extensively.
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Is that really that difficult? Do we no longer have the ability to write and read something in just plain text? For those who have read a standard document lately (eg HTML spec, RFCs) there is nothing in there that *require* fancy formatting, fonts and what not. It is just pages and pages of TEXT descipting some problems and their solutions.
If you want spelling or grammer checks (god know I *need* them :-), fine, use a WP of your choice but just save the document as plain text. Want diagrams? It wouldn't kill you to say "Refer to Diagram A1" which is attached separately.
Send me you DOC not
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Okay the data is publicly available (with some restrictions) for peer review and further research. So Science (the mag) is not a (complete?) sold-out.
However I stand by my point that more money are needed for science in schools and universities. Where, hopefully, the free (beer and freedom) and open exchanges of idea are real and with no string attached in anyway.
BTW, I am sorry for the rush comment. (But hey this is slashdot ;-)
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Peer review is an essential part of all science researches. Period.
If Celera is not providing the whole pictures how do the readers/other researchers know the values of their works? Their "publications" could be misleading either by accidents or intentional bias in their raw data. Without full peer reviews, there is no way to tell. This is completely against the spirit of science.
Science mag needs to be careful that Celera is not just publishing FUD to enhance their stock values. On the other hand, maybe, just maybe, some of the information they are going to publish could be usefull for some other real scientists.
This is what happens when science is being treated like the plague by many, especially the sport-crazied Americans (sorry guys). Be the sport guy/gal not the science nerd. More fundings are needed for science in schools and universities, where the open exchange of ideas is the main goal, not making money.
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Why is the official Wine logo (a wine glass) not used here? The current windows icon is just horrible!
A quick look to recent headlines shows that slashdot is using the offical logos for Gnome, KDE, Apache and more. So why not Wine?
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Remeber way back then when digital watches were so new and wonderful? And they start adding more and more features on it...
Who knows, any day now someone may create an all-in-one watch that is also a video camera, mp3 player, web server, phone, razor (just rub it on your face) and whatever!
Wait, didn't IBM put Linux on a watch?
"My watch has better uptime then your server!"
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For the record, I use Mozilla on Linux and Opera on Windows.
It seems strange that no one is discussing the new features of Opera 5.... so here they are:
All theses and the full installer is only 2MB? AOL/Netscape/Mozilla/Microsoft are you listening?
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Anyone read this thing? Their site clearly stated it costs $US39. I hope you are not paying the extra $11 for shipping and handling. :-)
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I, like a lot of /. readers, dismissed Mozilla after I tried one of the earlier, bulky build and discovered numerous problems. Just recently I have downloaded the latest milestone build M18 (Linux i586) and it is good.
The Mozilla hackers are not kidding when they said the next releases are going to be optimisation only, because Mozilla is ready to go forth and take over the world!
Amongs many goodies in M18: themes are now fully functional, you can choose NOT to install the news/mail/chat clients, memory footprint is more or less the same as Netscape 4.75.
You own it to yourself to at least download the ~8MB binary and give it a try. (You can install the whole thing under a standard account if you don't want to mess with your /usr/local/ :-)
====
Some guy worked hard on a project and shared his stuff on the web, what does he get? Personal attacks and a couple of borderline racist jokes about the Japaness people? (Mod up as Funny I may add)
I guess next you are going to make fun of some Fin recreating UNIX on his 386! Think about it and be ashame of yourself.
====
One of the best thing I like about Bastille is that it provides a very detailed, step by step explanation of what is going on.
As many security experts stated, the weakest link is always the people. Bastille not only harden your Linux box, it also helps the inexperienced sysadmin/home user to learn more about their systems.
After running Bastille on several sytems, I am confident enough to manually harden distros that are not supported by Bastille (yet :-).
So my question is what prompt you guys to spend so much time on the document side, which is often the last thing most developers do (if at all)?
Bastille is truly a useful and educational tool. Well done and thank you guys.
====
For Intel, with AMD breathing down their necks, filing more patents is the smart thing to do. Anything you can do to slow down the other guy will enhance shareholders values, that is what this is all about. It is after all their R&D money and their researchers. As we saw time and again the USPTO is dumb enough to allow this sort of thing, so why not?
Remember, all corporations are out to make money, anything else are just unforeseen side effects.
====
[The Quote]
"We start seeing these new accounts being created, but that could be an anomaly of the system," Rick Miller (MS spokeperson) said. "After a day or two, we realized it was someone hacking into the system."
[The Truth]
What software was stolen/looked at? Paperclip 2001, "I can't let you do that, Dave".
[The Lesson]
And yes we only have one copy of our source code and we don't believe in backups or checksums, so code tempering is a very serious problem.
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