First I'm not a pc lover, i'd love an Alpha if obtaining one did not require selling all of my organs.
Alphas have gone down in price significantly. You could get one and some rather nice peripherals for a mere kidney nowadays.
Second I don't run windows, My dual pII box, dual boots linux and beos.
Well, that's two good things.
Okay; now why do mac lovers always defend apple? Apple is a closed, proprietary company that controls hardware and software. They over charge and squeeze money out of mac people. In my opinion apple has made some really dumbass mistakes; for instance BEos was going to be apples new os, Jobs came back and blew BE off, very dumb. BEos is far more advanced than the MACos. BE is fully smp(up tp 8 processors), fully multi-threaded, and has a journaled file system. The MACos has none of these. Now apple won't even let BE port BEos to the new macs. Apple knows that BEos is way better than the MACos and they are trying to prevent it from running on the new Gx processors.
Where does any of this fit into the subject at hand? Apple's proprietary nature, its past corporate mismanagement, its hardware pricing, its sloughing-off of Be, and the Mac OS all have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO with the problems that the current batches of G4s are having. NOTHING AT ALL.
Bash Intel all you want but Intel sent a whole gang of engineers over to BE to help get BEos running on Intel silicon.
Rather unimpressive silicon, at that. For somebody as concerned about performance as you claim to be, you sure seem to love that cluttered Intel mess-disguised-by-marketing-hoopla.
As for the Gx processors; If they were as cheap as Intel or AMD silicon i would use them
What would you use them for? Your beloved BeOS doesn't run on them. Apple did not tell Be that Be could not port the BeOS to its new computers (as you claimed above). Apple merely refused Be access to all of the technical details of the motherboards. Apple is a corporation, and it is required by law to look out for its own interests (and, by extension, the interests of its shareholders). Apple has no obligation to assist a competitor. M. Gassé has been crying sour grapes ever since Apple bought NeXT instead of Be and has been whining like an annoying toddler in Wal*Mart about Apple's unwillingness to hold Be's hand. Be's unbridled non-success in getting marketshare in its target markets (digital audio/video editing) is proof that nobody really cares.
Maybey now that IBM is giving the specs away for a Gx processor motherboard that fits standard atx cases i might get the chance(assuming that BE is able to then port to the Gx processors)
Already addressed--nobody's stopping Be from porting. Nobody's helping either. When did corporate laziness become so chic?
Oh yeah one more thing, for editing video or audio BEos beats the MACos.
But still...if they have that dedicated fiber for authentication and they know as a certainty that the party at the other end of it is who they're trying to send the message to and nobody else, why don't they just send the transmission over that?:P
Typical local bandwidth is about 10Mbps, or slightly more than two T3s.
Errr...no. A single T3 is either 43 or 45Mbps. Therefore a single T3 is either 4.3 or 4.5 times as fast as your "typical local bandwidth." So that makes it about 11.36363636363636...% the bandwidth of two T3s.
I'm thinking of a rewind button for my PC. I can execute some application and if I screw up, I can "rewind" back to where I was before. This sounds kind of stupid, but I can see consumer devices eating this up. It would also make it easier to replay that last death in Quake without having to go back to your last saved game.
Nay, not stupid. Just not quite feasible.
Most applications (Quake, by your example) process millions of instructions per second. Millions. All of these instructions play with memory, registers, disk, peripherals, etc. So to "replay that last death" in Quake, you would need to store several million instructions AND a picture of the state of the registers, memory, peripherals, etc AT EACH INSTRUCTION. The difficulties involved and the resource utilization and engineering necessary just make it not worth it.
could a corporation *cough*Microsoft*cough* be sentenced to the Death Penalty ? >:->
If it committed a capital crime (e.g., murder in a state that allows the death penalty, treason against the United States, etc.) then it *might* be able to be.
That's my non-law-degree answer. Give me money to go to law school and I'll give you a better one, if you want.:-)
Hmmm, let's see, the busiest site running freebsd is yahoo.com, famous for fast downloads....the busiest site running linux is slashdot.org - famous for either being down, or so slow that it isn't worth the wait.
You neglect to mention, however, that Yahoo outsources all of its inline image transfers to Akamai and pays a pretty penny for it, too.
Also, if Slashdot is so slow it isn't worth the wait, why is it that you deigned to wait long enough to post a half-baked comment while hiding behind an anonymous pseudonym? Hmmm?
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Here is a good document that cleared up a number of false things I was told about IPv6.
I would like to clear up a false thing that article states about IPv4: The IANA, NOT the InterNIC, hands out IP address blocks. What a gauche statement. You'd expect Bay Networks to know better.
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Wouldn't a company love it if they could use ip to tell how full a soda machine was?
Coca Cola already does this, but not using IP. They use a different sort of protocol. Dunno how it works exactly, but I know it's implemented widely enough that it made its way up to Northern Maine a couple of years ago.
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San Jose is overlaying a new area code (669) over 408 and is making 10 digit dialing mandatory for both area codes starting October 2nd of this year.
When NYNEX bought New England Telephone, ten-digit dialling became mandatory up here in Maine (only one Area code--207--for the whole state still) for all non-local (i.e., toll) calls. People complained, so when Bell Atlantic bought NYNEX and wanted to raise rates, the Maine Public Utilities Commision told them that they'd have to reallow state-wide 7-digit dialling.
They want to make a new area code soon, though. People are complaining about this too. It'll be entertaining to see how it turns out.
This is a perfect example of GNU and the open source community. We provide free alternatives to commercial products that are available, and as an added bonus, it has no export restrictions!
Clarification: It has no export restrictions because it was developed outside the United States, NOT because it is open-sourced.
I'd encrypt / sign all my mail if it were easier... I guess I'm way too lazy to type a message, run it through GNUpg, then replace the text in the email all by hand... I've seen some decent apps for Win32 that do nice things (e.g. adding a right click option on text to do PGP encryption / signing)...
AFAIK, mutt has gpg integration. Dunno exactly how it works, but I'm told it's there. At least that's what somebody told me the last time he tried to convert me from pine.:P
Since the Mach parts have the source released in Darwin, and apparently the x86 stuff is in there.
Dunno 'bout that. I read some mails from the Darwin-Development mailing list today, and it appears that x86 stuff is not in Darwin, due to "legal restrictions and encumberances," according to Creed Erickson. Here's the thread.
Apple is the A in AIM. Apple may not own the fabs but they are involved in the chip design.
I am aware of that, but I'm not exactly sure why. What part of the chip design is Apple involved in? Does Apple actually contribute engineering work into the architecture? I was under the impression that Apple was part of AIM so that the PowerPC architecture would be adopted more rapidly.
With the growing popularity of Linux and other operating systems (NetBSD is a good example, although NetBSD runs on everything but the Altair--and there's a port in progress for that. Be OS used to be, but is essentially withdrawing from the platform.) for the PowerPC platform, it seems as though Apple is a boon to the platform, but not the only game in town.
Since then, there've been rumors that apple's been keeping OS-X development syncronized on x86 and PowerPC, but Apple's kept completely mum on the subject.
Remember: Rhapsody/OS X is built on Mach. According to a friend who works in the Apple Enterprise Whatever (The Division Formerly Known As NeXT), all they'd have to do to "synchronize" development is to keep the x86 Mach bits updated. He refused to comment as to whether they were actually doing this, though.
I dunno 'bout that. I work for an insurance company. They buy just about everything from IBM. They have two AS/400s (production and Y2K test--they write their own AS/400 software, BTW) and several large IBM laser printers.
They broke their software during a major upgrade a few months ago, and guys from IBM came up to fix the problem.
Yes, buying everything (computers, printers, service, tech support, etc.) from IBM (in this case) appears to cost more. That's before you take into consideration the rapport developed between the company and IBM (VPs of divisions are calling the MIS to explain why a problem with a model of printer hasn't been fixed yet) and how it has a way of expediting matters.
Corporations tend to have money. That's why they can piss millions away on such sundries as Windows 2000 and new versions of Office. It's far easier for accounting to keep track of ONE BILL from ONE COMPANY than it is to keep several different vendors straight. Yes, it costs more, but corporations are dumping enough money in IS today to afford it.
Hm. My name is Kyle. Does that mean I can sue them for the defamatory act of calling my mother a big fat bitch? Or would I have to play with my own feces first?
Network Solutions, Inc. is ANYTHING but a non-profit organization. I'm sorry, but I'd rather not have my domain name registrations subsidize their sad little "GET YOUR OWN DAWT CAWM!!!!" television/magazine advertisements.
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First I'm not a pc lover, i'd love an Alpha if obtaining one did not require selling all of my organs.
Alphas have gone down in price significantly. You could get one and some rather nice peripherals for a mere kidney nowadays.
Second I don't run windows, My dual pII box, dual boots linux and beos.
Well, that's two good things.
Okay; now why do mac lovers always defend apple? Apple is a closed, proprietary company that controls hardware and software. They over charge and squeeze money out of mac people. In my opinion apple has made some really dumbass mistakes; for instance BEos was going to be apples new os, Jobs came back and blew BE off, very dumb. BEos is far more advanced than the MACos. BE is fully smp(up tp 8 processors), fully multi-threaded, and has a journaled file system. The MACos has none of these. Now apple won't even let BE port BEos to the new macs. Apple knows that BEos is way better than the MACos and they are trying to prevent it from running on the new Gx processors.
Where does any of this fit into the subject at hand? Apple's proprietary nature, its past corporate mismanagement, its hardware pricing, its sloughing-off of Be, and the Mac OS all have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO with the problems that the current batches of G4s are having. NOTHING AT ALL.
Bash Intel all you want but Intel sent a whole gang of engineers over to BE to help get BEos running on Intel silicon.
Rather unimpressive silicon, at that. For somebody as concerned about performance as you claim to be, you sure seem to love that cluttered Intel mess-disguised-by-marketing-hoopla.
As for the Gx processors; If they were as cheap as Intel or AMD silicon i would use them
What would you use them for? Your beloved BeOS doesn't run on them. Apple did not tell Be that Be could not port the BeOS to its new computers (as you claimed above). Apple merely refused Be access to all of the technical details of the motherboards. Apple is a corporation, and it is required by law to look out for its own interests (and, by extension, the interests of its shareholders). Apple has no obligation to assist a competitor. M. Gassé has been crying sour grapes ever since Apple bought NeXT instead of Be and has been whining like an annoying toddler in Wal*Mart about Apple's unwillingness to hold Be's hand. Be's unbridled non-success in getting marketshare in its target markets (digital audio/video editing) is proof that nobody really cares.
Maybey now that IBM is giving the specs away for a Gx processor motherboard that fits standard atx cases i might get the chance(assuming that BE is able to then port to the Gx processors)
Already addressed--nobody's stopping Be from porting. Nobody's helping either. When did corporate laziness become so chic?
Oh yeah one more thing, for editing video or audio BEos beats the MACos.
Oh, yeah, one more thing:
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Ah. Okay. I get what you're saying.
:P
But still...if they have that dedicated fiber for authentication and they know as a certainty that the party at the other end of it is who they're trying to send the message to and nobody else, why don't they just send the transmission over that?
If you have two channels of communication, one secure, and one insecure, you can transmit the key using the secure channel.
If you have a secure channel of communication, why aren't you transmitting the message itself via that as well?
Typical local bandwidth is about 10Mbps, or slightly more than two T3s.
Errr...no. A single T3 is either 43 or 45Mbps. Therefore a single T3 is either 4.3 or 4.5 times as fast as your "typical local bandwidth." So that makes it about 11.36363636363636...% the bandwidth of two T3s.
I'm thinking of a rewind button for my PC. I can execute some application and if I screw up, I can "rewind" back to where I was before. This sounds kind of stupid, but I can see consumer devices eating this up. It would also make it easier to replay that last death in Quake without having to go back to your last saved game.
Nay, not stupid. Just not quite feasible.
Most applications (Quake, by your example) process millions of instructions per second. Millions. All of these instructions play with memory, registers, disk, peripherals, etc. So to "replay that last death" in Quake, you would need to store several million instructions AND a picture of the state of the registers, memory, peripherals, etc AT EACH INSTRUCTION. The difficulties involved and the resource utilization and engineering necessary just make it not worth it.
could a corporation *cough*Microsoft*cough* be sentenced to the Death Penalty ? >:->
:-)
If it committed a capital crime (e.g., murder in a state that allows the death penalty, treason against the United States, etc.) then it *might* be able to be.
That's my non-law-degree answer. Give me money to go to law school and I'll give you a better one, if you want.
Hmmm, let's see, the busiest site running freebsd is yahoo.com, famous for fast downloads....the busiest site running linux is slashdot.org - famous for either being down, or so slow that it isn't worth the wait.
You neglect to mention, however, that Yahoo outsources all of its inline image transfers to Akamai and pays a pretty penny for it, too.
Also, if Slashdot is so slow it isn't worth the wait, why is it that you deigned to wait long enough to post a half-baked comment while hiding behind an anonymous pseudonym? Hmmm?
Here is a good document that cleared up a number of false things I was told about IPv6.
I would like to clear up a false thing that article states about IPv4: The IANA, NOT the InterNIC, hands out IP address blocks. What a gauche statement. You'd expect Bay Networks to know better.
Wouldn't a company love it if they could use ip to tell how full a soda machine was?
Coca Cola already does this, but not using IP. They use a different sort of protocol. Dunno how it works exactly, but I know it's implemented widely enough that it made its way up to Northern Maine a couple of years ago.
San Jose is overlaying a new area code (669) over 408 and is making 10 digit dialing mandatory for both area codes starting October 2nd of this year.
When NYNEX bought New England Telephone, ten-digit dialling became mandatory up here in Maine (only one Area code--207--for the whole state still) for all non-local (i.e., toll) calls. People complained, so when Bell Atlantic bought NYNEX and wanted to raise rates, the Maine Public Utilities Commision told them that they'd have to reallow state-wide 7-digit dialling.
They want to make a new area code soon, though. People are complaining about this too. It'll be entertaining to see how it turns out.
According to the current information from Intel and companies working with them, Merced is "only" 1 year away, not 2.
Haven't both Merced and NT 5^H^H^H^HWindows 2000 been "only one year away!!!!!" for a few years now?
"But we're serious this time!"
Uh huh.
Well, isn't the Wassenaar restriction avoided because it's free (beer)? I _suppose_ you could do a binary implementation and give it away for free...
PGP is free. They gave the source out. Still do for the old (2.6.2 and older) versions. Dunno what effect the RSAREF licensing has on that, though.
I've seen people use closed-source crypto products, and I wonder when someone is going to discover a backdoor that was put there by some government.
Somebody already did.
This is a perfect example of GNU and the open source community. We provide free alternatives to commercial products that are available, and as an added bonus, it has no export restrictions!
Clarification: It has no export restrictions because it was developed outside the United States, NOT because it is open-sourced.
AFAIK, mutt has gpg integration. Dunno exactly how it works, but I'm told it's there. At least that's what somebody told me the last time he tried to convert me from pine. :P
Dunno 'bout that. I read some mails from the Darwin-Development mailing list today, and it appears that x86 stuff is not in Darwin, due to "legal restrictions and encumberances," according to Creed Erickson. Here's the thread.
Apple is the A in AIM. Apple may not own the fabs but they are involved in the chip design.
I am aware of that, but I'm not exactly sure why. What part of the chip design is Apple involved in? Does Apple actually contribute engineering work into the architecture? I was under the impression that Apple was part of AIM so that the PowerPC architecture would be adopted more rapidly.
With the growing popularity of Linux and other operating systems (NetBSD is a good example, although NetBSD runs on everything but the Altair--and there's a port in progress for that. Be OS used to be, but is essentially withdrawing from the platform.) for the PowerPC platform, it seems as though Apple is a boon to the platform, but not the only game in town.
Clarification:
Intel makes the Pentium processor. Apple does not make the G4 processor.
Since then, there've been rumors that apple's been keeping OS-X development syncronized on x86 and PowerPC, but Apple's kept completely mum on the subject.
Remember: Rhapsody/OS X is built on Mach. According to a friend who works in the Apple Enterprise Whatever (The Division Formerly Known As NeXT), all they'd have to do to "synchronize" development is to keep the x86 Mach bits updated. He refused to comment as to whether they were actually doing this, though.
Yes, abstraction IS a Good Thing(TM).
I dunno 'bout that. I work for an insurance company. They buy just about everything from IBM. They have two AS/400s (production and Y2K test--they write their own AS/400 software, BTW) and several large IBM laser printers.
They broke their software during a major upgrade a few months ago, and guys from IBM came up to fix the problem.
Yes, buying everything (computers, printers, service, tech support, etc.) from IBM (in this case) appears to cost more. That's before you take into consideration the rapport developed between the company and IBM (VPs of divisions are calling the MIS to explain why a problem with a model of printer hasn't been fixed yet) and how it has a way of expediting matters.
Corporations tend to have money. That's why they can piss millions away on such sundries as Windows 2000 and new versions of Office. It's far easier for accounting to keep track of ONE BILL from ONE COMPANY than it is to keep several different vendors straight. Yes, it costs more, but corporations are dumping enough money in IS today to afford it.
Hm. My name is Kyle. Does that mean I can sue them for the defamatory act of calling my mother a big fat bitch? Or would I have to play with my own feces first?
It just seems like yesterday that they released the original Quake and I was hooked. Now Quake 3 is coming along nicely.
How time flies. Good work, Carmack, et al!
Just out of curiosity, how do you "sink to new heights?" Do you do it in the same manner by which you "center around?"
Network Solutions, Inc. is ANYTHING but a non-profit organization. I'm sorry, but I'd rather not have my domain name registrations subsidize their sad little "GET YOUR OWN DAWT CAWM!!!!" television/magazine advertisements.