Yeah, but are they available on Linux/SPARC? I highly doubt that IBM has SPARC binaries of these programs.
They can and will probably run just fine on Solaris 10 for x86, but Sun is going to be far more concerned about Solaris 10 for SPARC. And they are concerned about there being official support for Solaris, instead of the binaries merely running.
Better yet, a browser that gets a certificate mismatch could check a couple of other DNS sources before assuming that it has the correct site. If both the DNS servers and certificates don't agree, then there is a big problem.
Of course that assumes that sites transferring secure data use SSL, which is not always true. But I'm not sure whether adding even more DNS queries for every lookup is a good idea, since there is already more DNS traffic on the wire than there needs to be.
I know, we could write a program that stores known IPs for our favorite sites in a local database, then shares that information with anyone who wishes to use it. If you don't have the IP in your local cache, you can go to one of these other places to get it. If we wanted to get real fancy, we could arrange these "IP caches" in a hierarchy, and provide mechanisms to store mailserver IPs.
True, but many novices can't get things to work b/c of bad jumper settings.
I do think he's right that EIDE is normally biggest gotcha for the budding do-it-yourself PC hardware person. Either the cable is the wrong way, or the jumpers are wrong, yet it all appears to be plugged in just fine. Thankfully SATA will get rid of these problems.
Those old AT power supplies with 2 different identically shaped plugs were also a brilliant way to screw up a system. ATX's single, non-reversable plug is much better.
I heard about that problem, since my university hosted part of the Mountain region's ACM programming contest.
I think the Linux machines here and the Solaris machines at other sites returned different results, due to the differences in the architectures and their math libraries.
This SBC looks really great for a project I might be taking up, but there is one problem.
I need it to be able to withstand operating temperatures as low as -40C, since it will be outside in the winter (and later this week, it will be -38C here, so it really does need to handle -40C).
I suppose some sort of heater in the enclosure would be one way to deal with it, but I'd love to know if this board or a similar one could handle the temps without any extra effort.
Me too on the Tandy, although it had the 286 processor card that let you switch between 8088 and 80286 on the fly. It also had a 20Mb card slot hard drive. So I guess it was even more pimped out than the norm.
Eventually I replaced one of the 5.25" 360Kb drives with a 3.5" 720Kb drive. That was the only upgrade it was to see before the monitor died, and I eventually sold the HD to some guy at Radio Shack.
I also remember Stacker - the damn thing eventually wrecked my filesystem. Boo Stacker.
Eventually replaced the Tandy with another 286, and then many years later with a Pentium 200MMX. Jumping from 286 to Pentium was quite a change.
I don't think most people here think that the developers at MS are evil (well maybe some do, but they're just zealots). What most people have a problem with is the company's business practices. Usually those are not decided by the software developers; they're set out by the upper managers and businessmen at MS.
It is a well known fact that there are a lot of smart people working for MS in the research and development groups, and that MS generally is smart enough to treat those people quite well. But unfortunately it is also well known that MS's business practices are illegal in most countries, and most would say quite unethical.
Many would also argue that despite the many smart people working there, much of the software sold to consumers simply sucks. And I believe the business side is mostly to blame for this. Only Windows and Office really make the company any money, so the business is built around selling those two cash cows, and then dominating every other area in computing they can get their hands and somehow tying it to those two products. There is little motive to come out with anything truly innovative. For all I know, you developers at MS might be creating the worlds greatest applications (and maybe a version of IE that doesn't suck), but the consumers won't see it for a while, or may never see some of it at all.
Now I'm not saying MS's business people are the dumb ones in the company. In fact, many business people could claim that MS must have smart managers to be pursuing this strategy. One look at their balance sheets probably makes it pretty clear what they have to do on the business side. To stray their focus away from the only 2 products making them money would be suicide.
Maybe one day the business side will not be able to rely entirely on Office and Windows, and therefore will have incentive to act differently. Hopefully (for them) they'd be able to make great use of their researchers and software developers at that point. And maybe, if at that point they learned to play nice with others, I'd stop hating them. Given enough years, even the "MS is evil" zealots might come around. Or maybe I'll quit dreaming and go back to work supporting the multi-OS crapshoot that is my world.
I'm not having my birthday on a Wednesday every frickin year. And having April fools day on a Sunday is useless - how are you supposed to pull pranks on co-workers if you never go into work that day?
Also notice he put Christmas on a Sunday? I'm sure the Christians would be quite happy about that, but would other countries would be happy to adopt a calender that puts one of our biggest religious holidays on a Sunday, but (likely) doesn't take into account their holidays?
Plus, how is coding for an extra Month/Week every X years supposed to be easier? The whole concept of changing the calender to help coders is bizarre to begin. How many of us are excited about having to rewrite all of our date handling code? Sounds like a computing nightmare to me. Does this guy remember a little thing called Y2K?
On many Linux distros, the Firefox binary in the package system will be signed by the distro's packager. So I guess to get around this particular issue with trusting Firefox installs, all one has to do is ditch Microsoft Windows. Funny that the MS blog didn't mention that possibility.
3) there was not enough time to finish the assignment
You do have to remember that these students probably have at least 4 more 400 level classes, all with very high workloads. Some will have jobs as well, or will be busy applying for them. And many students may actually wish to do things like sleep, and (GASP!) maybe even have a bit of a life outside of school.
I imagine if these students actually put in the time to finish the assignment, they would have failed all of their other classes. It seems most of them were smart enough to put in enough effort that they'd learn something, but not sacrifice their entire semester for this one class.
Except that NHL 2005 is already out. I guess if you want to replay the World Cup over and over, or want to play the non-existant 2005 season, it'd be a blast.
If you want to simulate this season, you need NHL 2004 with some of the European teams, so that you can move your favorite NHLers over there.
I'm quite sure I ran Tom Landry football in dosbox. It seemed to work well when I tried it, but I didn't do a whole lot of testing.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that loved that game. The game engine was wonderful, and produced quite realistic results as far as stats and seasons went. I'd love to get my hands on the code for that game.
And don't forget water polo. I've heard it said many times that the best conditioned athletes in the world (as far as team sports go) are water polo players. Unfortunately for them, they're not exactly the best paid athletes in the world.
Could be a good opportunity for the CFL. They're thinking about having a CFL video game anyhow, and now they'll be less competition for it.
But I wonder if the NFL-CFL deal would prohibit the CFL from licensing a game through anyone other than EA? I know the CFL replaced Spalding with Wilson as a football supplier when they signed the deal, and the CFL just recently switched to Reebok gear as well. So I wonder if it'd have to be EA CFL Football, or whether it could be someone else.
Some of the credit unions here already offer them. It is possible other banks are too. They were calling them "Payment Cards" or something like that. You use it like a debit card or credit card, and it takes money straight from your bank account. I think you can also set up a line of credit if you want, people who get them often do so to avoid getting themselves in debt with their CC.
But as to the death penalty argument and the cost savings, I've heard it is actually more expensive to put people to death than keep them in prison for life. If this is true, then the death penalty is really just kept in place to scare people.
Personally I'd prefer to see it go away. If even one innocent person is given the death penalty, too much harm is done by it. At least the said innocent person has their life while in prison, no matter how shitty it is.
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To be fair, Bill's assets probably aren't quite as liquid as yours (ie. he couldn't just cash out that 50 billion).
But it is interesting to put it in perspective.
Yeah, but are they available on Linux/SPARC? I highly doubt that IBM has SPARC binaries of these programs.
They can and will probably run just fine on Solaris 10 for x86, but Sun is going to be far more concerned about Solaris 10 for SPARC. And they are concerned about there being official support for Solaris, instead of the binaries merely running.
Better yet, a browser that gets a certificate mismatch could check a couple of other DNS sources before assuming that it has the correct site. If both the DNS servers and certificates don't agree, then there is a big problem.
Of course that assumes that sites transferring secure data use SSL, which is not always true. But I'm not sure whether adding even more DNS queries for every lookup is a good idea, since there is already more DNS traffic on the wire than there needs to be.
I know, we could write a program that stores known IPs for our favorite sites in a local database, then shares that information with anyone who wishes to use it. If you don't have the IP in your local cache, you can go to one of these other places to get it. If we wanted to get real fancy, we could arrange these "IP caches" in a hierarchy, and provide mechanisms to store mailserver IPs.
Now if only FireFox supported such a system...
Hence why cataloging part numbers is a good idea.
Much better than locking your customers out of their own cases.
Good point.
Although maybe it is there as a tool to put excessive amounts of stress on the system. It certainly tortured my hardware when I last tried to run it.
Thank you all for the replies.
Power isn't too big of a concern. I'm just wanting to keep costs down.
True, but many novices can't get things to work b/c of bad jumper settings.
I do think he's right that EIDE is normally biggest gotcha for the budding do-it-yourself PC hardware person. Either the cable is the wrong way, or the jumpers are wrong, yet it all appears to be plugged in just fine. Thankfully SATA will get rid of these problems.
Those old AT power supplies with 2 different identically shaped plugs were also a brilliant way to screw up a system. ATX's single, non-reversable plug is much better.
I heard about that problem, since my university hosted part of the Mountain region's ACM programming contest.
I think the Linux machines here and the Solaris machines at other sites returned different results, due to the differences in the architectures and their math libraries.
This SBC looks really great for a project I might be taking up, but there is one problem.
I need it to be able to withstand operating temperatures as low as -40C, since it will be outside in the winter (and later this week, it will be -38C here, so it really does need to handle -40C).
I suppose some sort of heater in the enclosure would be one way to deal with it, but I'd love to know if this board or a similar one could handle the temps without any extra effort.
Me too on the Tandy, although it had the 286 processor card that let you switch between 8088 and 80286 on the fly. It also had a 20Mb card slot hard drive. So I guess it was even more pimped out than the norm.
Eventually I replaced one of the 5.25" 360Kb drives with a 3.5" 720Kb drive. That was the only upgrade it was to see before the monitor died, and I eventually sold the HD to some guy at Radio Shack.
I also remember Stacker - the damn thing eventually wrecked my filesystem. Boo Stacker.
Eventually replaced the Tandy with another 286, and then many years later with a Pentium 200MMX. Jumping from 286 to Pentium was quite a change.
I don't think most people here think that the developers at MS are evil (well maybe some do, but they're just zealots). What most people have a problem with is the company's business practices. Usually those are not decided by the software developers; they're set out by the upper managers and businessmen at MS.
It is a well known fact that there are a lot of smart people working for MS in the research and development groups, and that MS generally is smart enough to treat those people quite well. But unfortunately it is also well known that MS's business practices are illegal in most countries, and most would say quite unethical.
Many would also argue that despite the many smart people working there, much of the software sold to consumers simply sucks. And I believe the business side is mostly to blame for this. Only Windows and Office really make the company any money, so the business is built around selling those two cash cows, and then dominating every other area in computing they can get their hands and somehow tying it to those two products. There is little motive to come out with anything truly innovative. For all I know, you developers at MS might be creating the worlds greatest applications (and maybe a version of IE that doesn't suck), but the consumers won't see it for a while, or may never see some of it at all.
Now I'm not saying MS's business people are the dumb ones in the company. In fact, many business people could claim that MS must have smart managers to be pursuing this strategy. One look at their balance sheets probably makes it pretty clear what they have to do on the business side. To stray their focus away from the only 2 products making them money would be suicide.
Maybe one day the business side will not be able to rely entirely on Office and Windows, and therefore will have incentive to act differently. Hopefully (for them) they'd be able to make great use of their researchers and software developers at that point. And maybe, if at that point they learned to play nice with others, I'd stop hating them. Given enough years, even the "MS is evil" zealots might come around. Or maybe I'll quit dreaming and go back to work supporting the multi-OS crapshoot that is my world.
I'm not having my birthday on a Wednesday every frickin year. And having April fools day on a Sunday is useless - how are you supposed to pull pranks on co-workers if you never go into work that day?
Also notice he put Christmas on a Sunday? I'm sure the Christians would be quite happy about that, but would other countries would be happy to adopt a calender that puts one of our biggest religious holidays on a Sunday, but (likely) doesn't take into account their holidays?
Plus, how is coding for an extra Month/Week every X years supposed to be easier? The whole concept of changing the calender to help coders is bizarre to begin. How many of us are excited about having to rewrite all of our date handling code? Sounds like a computing nightmare to me. Does this guy remember a little thing called Y2K?
On many Linux distros, the Firefox binary in the package system will be signed by the distro's packager. So I guess to get around this particular issue with trusting Firefox installs, all one has to do is ditch Microsoft Windows. Funny that the MS blog didn't mention that possibility.
There is one more possibility:
3) there was not enough time to finish the assignment
You do have to remember that these students probably have at least 4 more 400 level classes, all with very high workloads. Some will have jobs as well, or will be busy applying for them. And many students may actually wish to do things like sleep, and (GASP!) maybe even have a bit of a life outside of school.
I imagine if these students actually put in the time to finish the assignment, they would have failed all of their other classes. It seems most of them were smart enough to put in enough effort that they'd learn something, but not sacrifice their entire semester for this one class.
Except that NHL 2005 is already out. I guess if you want to replay the World Cup over and over, or want to play the non-existant 2005 season, it'd be a blast.
If you want to simulate this season, you need NHL 2004 with some of the European teams, so that you can move your favorite NHLers over there.
Actually Bob Young has been pushing for this, and supposedly it is in the works.
mr_angry is correct about dosbox
I'm quite sure I ran Tom Landry football in dosbox. It seemed to work well when I tried it, but I didn't do a whole lot of testing.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that loved that game. The game engine was wonderful, and produced quite realistic results as far as stats and seasons went. I'd love to get my hands on the code for that game.
And don't forget water polo. I've heard it said many times that the best conditioned athletes in the world (as far as team sports go) are water polo players. Unfortunately for them, they're not exactly the best paid athletes in the world.
Yeah, why don't they do best of 7 series in the NFL anyways?
Even better, have a NCAA football tournament just like the basketball one. That'd solve the BCS mess.
I'm sure they wouldn't mind having multiple games in one day. Yeah, I think we need more football double-headers and tournaments.
I can see it now, 100+ man rosters just to get through the week...
Could be a good opportunity for the CFL. They're thinking about having a CFL video game anyhow, and now they'll be less competition for it.
But I wonder if the NFL-CFL deal would prohibit the CFL from licensing a game through anyone other than EA? I know the CFL replaced Spalding with Wilson as a football supplier when they signed the deal, and the CFL just recently switched to Reebok gear as well. So I wonder if it'd have to be EA CFL Football, or whether it could be someone else.
Some of the credit unions here already offer them. It is possible other banks are too. They were calling them "Payment Cards" or something like that. You use it like a debit card or credit card, and it takes money straight from your bank account. I think you can also set up a line of credit if you want, people who get them often do so to avoid getting themselves in debt with their CC.
I agree with you that prison should be tougher.
But as to the death penalty argument and the cost savings, I've heard it is actually more expensive to put people to death than keep them in prison for life. If this is true, then the death penalty is really just kept in place to scare people.
Personally I'd prefer to see it go away. If even one innocent person is given the death penalty, too much harm is done by it. At least the said innocent person has their life while in prison, no matter how shitty it is.
Probably, but maybe they're just sending it home so they can keep working on their projects after work. Geeks are sometimes like that.