A great lie is the supposed "MicroKernel" Windows NT.
In NT4 it even got graphics engine part of the kernel IIRC
One of the advantage of a microkernel is easy portability. Ha! Can't wait to run an IIS server on my Dreamcast!!! Hey dude what's that new awesome game?
Thats the newest hit from Microsoft, it's called Code Red!
It's a peer-to-peer game. We have to avoid getting caught in distributed.NETs
because all the things you disliked makes me want to buy this book actually! Looks like inerresting geek food. I don't know nothin about T1s but I guess that if I want
to configure / test / manage them I'll have read the Manuals that come with the routers / switches / testers / whatever anyway??
0K, so you like the Windows point-and-click configuration tools better.
It may be easier for basic setups, but for clever setups that require various
tweaks and specialized option, you are going to be much more successful if you
RTFM'ed in the first place. The problem under Windows software is that
those interresting options aren't accessible throught point-and-click. They
will often require nasty undocumented registry tweaks. Needless to say that the
power is also greatly enhanced when using open source software. Now you can change
everything you want!!
I agree with you.
It is amazing because just 2 days ago, walking to school, I asked myself the exact same question: Is Evolution Over In Humans?
My conclusion was that all our knowledge and intelligence kicked natural selection out,
and that we will only grow weaker. Sorry, no alien-looking
big-head no-hair humans in 500000 years from now, like they used
to teach in grade 7 history courses.
But maybe we'd better continue that way because we cannot always trust natural selection;
many animal species have disappeared in the past.
That same day I had a thought about what modernized events could help
natural selection: AID? WW III? Hitler / Bin-Laden / EvilMan ? BillG?
MS should be liable to the claims they make about their software. For example, telling that XP is the most secure OS ever, when they were aware of the UPNP bug, should make em prone to lawsuits, IMHO...
Also for Open Source, if we make explicit disclaimers ala debian (i.e. NO WARRANTY etc.) I think it'll be fair enough for anybody with common sense to understand noone can be taken to be responsible for thy problems.
If they won't detect it my bet is they're not going to tell us...
I wonder why it wouldn't be possible to create viruses that change their signature as they copy themselves around... I guess I would need more knowledge about how virii detection works...
Many comments suggests using fishing wire to pull the cables into conduits etc.
My advise is that this is a good idea, but once you've finished with pulling copper leave the fishing wire there and voila, you've got a cheap optical fiber ready to go!
I'd say use around 20 pounds tested wires to get a clean signal;-)
I am not a real audiophile, but I'm often disapointed from the sound coming off of a CD. I don't have a 100 000$ sound sytem at home or high quality professional CD-player / amplifiers / speakers, but DENON makes pretty good quality products for the price. Anyway, I claim you can notice imperfections in CD sound using any decent player/speakers.
In my opinion, the problem is not the media by itself. In theory, it can reproduce sounds so precisely that only experts could find imperfections. I think the problem comes from "mastering", when they take all the clean tracks from the DAT or something, and they channel it to a single track, distorting the original work. When mastering isn't a big deal, like for techno music, the sound produced can be very clean. For rock, pop and common analogly-produced music, the result is often a disaster.
What I would really like is to have multi-track CDs. How many tracks? Ideally as many as there is instruments, signers... in fatc one track for every "noise" source would be ideal (but impractical). Let's take an example for a rock band. You would need 1 track for the signer, 2 back vocals, 1 bass guitar, 2 guitars, and let say 5 tracks for the different frequency range a drummer can produce. Total: a dozen of tracks.
How would it be useful? In a standard system the "mastering" could be done on the fly. In a good system, you can have different set of speakers / amplifiers for each track. Deep subs for the bass guits, high-spl subs for the base drums, big midrange for the guits, etc... This means you get rid of the distortion from mastering, and now you can elimitate listen-time distortion created by putting a too wide range of frequencies through crossovers,amplifiers and speakers!!! You want to get rid of the stupid keyboard? Don't play the track and voila!
Do I need to say that I don't like the sound produced by mp3's? Even the CD is dead, bring us the multi-track CD!!
If we take the "partition" word by it's definition, a hard drive partition would be a way to separate the hard drive into one or more distinct parts. Now, those parts aren't called "partitions"; they are part of the hard drive partition scheme if you like. But we often refer to those parts as partitions which is wrong: a hard drive can be partitionned in only one way at any given time.
My question is how then should we call those "parts" ?
Now to answer the filesystem question I would suggest using ReiserFS. I used it for a couple of months with good results and without any problem. It works well also on software raid1...
From the same R/C store one can also get a peak charger that will charge up your batteries in like 15 minutes without capping, overcharging, overheating them. Such a charger is probably as expensive as your mp3 player but I find it very useful;-)
Absolutely right. And moreover look at the very first sentence of the paper: OneEighty Software Ltd announced a major technological breakthrough which will, for the first time ever, extend full Java capabilities to eight-bit processors using ultra-compact coding.
I almost laught my head off. Java, eight-bits, turing machine, ultra-compact... mwaheaheahea!! Is it just me or all these words cannot fit in the same text?? If all this is a true story, I guess they meant "stripped down version supporting primitive features" instead of "ultra-compact Java implementation based on turing machines" Haha;-)
I strongly believe that the best strenght of the GNU/Linux OS is that pepole using it are not clueless endusers. We are definitely different users, using a different OS. We build good/stable/secure linux systems because we know what we are doing. The reputation of linux is strongly based on that fact.
As linux will gain shares of the desktop markets, I fear this reputation will dissapear...
Furthermore, because of the graphic/multimedia nature of the BeOS I think it would be a much better fit for the desktop, especially if it become open source!
Just installed it for 2.4.0-test8
You are right, it copied itself as "misc" under/lib/modules/2.4.0...
I just renamed it monte.o, created the directory misc, mv it there, did a depmod and loaded it with a modprobe without any problem.
Running monte is similar to/sbin/reboot -f.
You should unmount (or remount read-only) and sync all your file systems before using monte.
In my opinion just the fact that you're changing the kernel means you just rebooted. Whats the difference between "loading" a new kernel and "booting" a new kernel? All the initialization (bios, pci, scsi, etc.) maybe?
Running monte in its default mode is preferable since the setup code performs some important functions like video detection/initialization and APM bios initialization.
Changing the OS (kernel), re-initializing some things here and there, 0.k. at best this is half of a reboot. You may choose to call this a "reb", a "oot" or any C(6, 3) conbinations;-p
Personnaly, I do not have spam problems. I owned the same email address for years now and I don't remember receiving an unsolicited message. Obviously, I keep my email address as secret as possible and I do not have a "spam dedicated"@hotmail.com address. I feel this kind of mail box is useless since you will have to read it anyway to make sure no important mail has been routed there.
The same thing apply for my "real" mail; it is not filled with loads of unwanted samples/tryouts/adds. Ok, maybe just a little bit of junk that has not been personally addressed but put in every citizen mailboxes of the small town I live in.
I realise that the Average Slashdotter is against Government interferance, and rightly, but in some instances it is better to have a government body, as I'm sure everyone agrees. Driving Licenses and Food Indpection agencies spring to mind.
I strongly agree with that, in theory. It would be nice if some agencies could punish or regulate spam. I consider spam to be a virus whose goal is to waste bandwith and people time. Based on that it may be possible to bring spammers to justice?
There's also ICQ spam; lot of people scan for online people to send them spam, often of the form of pr0n site advertisement. Same thing for IRC but it is not really a problem there since it is easy to get rid of 'em.
The better solutions would be to ensure that spammers don't make money out of spamming. I wonder if ipv6 would make life easier in tracking spammers?
The philosophical differences revolve around the terms open source and free. Java is neither, all claims to the contrary. Linux, at least in theory, is both.
I simply don't understand the authors "at least in theory" part. Hell, what means the word "Linux" for him??
Actually I don't use open source. I use Winword, Excel, IE, etc.
Still, I'm sure you don't have all the licenses for Windows/Office and all the MS stuff you use. Be honest. Do you?
I don't think I know somebody who uses Windows and actually pay for the product and are fully legal. The last time I paid for a MS product was for the Win95 upgrade, and now I found a solution to the problem: use free OS/tools.
Even more, I prefer open source. And yes I'm glad to be fully functionnal/legal/independant/free/happy
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A great lie is the supposed "MicroKernel" Windows NT. .NETs
In NT4 it even got graphics engine part of the kernel IIRC
One of the advantage of a microkernel is easy portability. Ha! Can't wait to run an IIS server on my Dreamcast!!!
Hey dude what's that new awesome game?
Thats the newest hit from Microsoft, it's called Code Red!
It's a peer-to-peer game. We have to avoid getting caught in distributed
because all the things you disliked makes me want to buy this book actually! Looks like inerresting geek food. I don't know nothin about T1s but I guess that if I want to configure / test / manage them I'll have read the Manuals that come with the routers / switches / testers / whatever anyway??
Does standard onboard cheap IDE controllers provide hot-swapability?
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0K, so you like the Windows point-and-click configuration tools better. It may be easier for basic setups, but for clever setups that require various tweaks and specialized option, you are going to be much more successful if you RTFM'ed in the first place. The problem under Windows software is that those interresting options aren't accessible throught point-and-click. They will often require nasty undocumented registry tweaks. Needless to say that the power is also greatly enhanced when using open source software. Now you can change everything you want!!
Congrats!
Besides, is this story setting a new record on the number of comments?
I agree with you.
It is amazing because just 2 days ago, walking to school, I asked myself the exact same question: Is Evolution Over In Humans?
My conclusion was that all our knowledge and intelligence kicked natural selection out, and that we will only grow weaker. Sorry, no alien-looking big-head no-hair humans in 500000 years from now, like they used to teach in grade 7 history courses.
But maybe we'd better continue that way because we cannot always trust natural selection; many animal species have disappeared in the past.
That same day I had a thought about what modernized events could help natural selection: AID? WW III? Hitler / Bin-Laden / EvilMan ? BillG?
MS should be liable to the claims they make about their software. For example, telling that XP is the most secure OS ever, when they were aware of the UPNP bug, should make em prone to lawsuits, IMHO...
Also for Open Source, if we make explicit disclaimers ala debian (i.e. NO WARRANTY etc.) I think it'll be fair enough for anybody with common sense to understand noone can be taken to be responsible for thy problems.
be the king of MineSweeper
If they won't detect it my bet is they're not going to tell us...
I wonder why it wouldn't be possible to create viruses that change their signature as they copy themselves around... I guess I would need more knowledge about how virii detection works...
Many comments suggests using fishing wire to pull the cables into conduits etc.
;-)
My advise is that this is a good idea, but once you've finished with pulling copper leave the fishing wire there and voila, you've got a cheap optical fiber ready to go!
I'd say use around 20 pounds tested wires to get a clean signal
I am not a real audiophile, but I'm often disapointed from the sound coming off of a CD. I don't have a 100 000$ sound sytem at home or high quality professional CD-player / amplifiers / speakers, but DENON makes pretty good quality products for the price. Anyway, I claim you can notice imperfections in CD sound using any decent player/speakers.
In my opinion, the problem is not the media by itself. In theory, it can reproduce sounds so precisely that only experts could find imperfections. I think the problem comes from "mastering", when they take all the clean tracks from the DAT or something, and they channel it to a single track, distorting the original work. When mastering isn't a big deal, like for techno music, the sound produced can be very clean. For rock, pop and common analogly-produced music, the result is often a disaster.
What I would really like is to have multi-track CDs. How many tracks? Ideally as many as there is instruments, signers... in fatc one track for every "noise" source would be ideal (but impractical). Let's take an example for a rock band. You would need 1 track for the signer, 2 back vocals, 1 bass guitar, 2 guitars, and let say 5 tracks for the different frequency range a drummer can produce. Total: a dozen of tracks.
How would it be useful? In a standard system the "mastering" could be done on the fly. In a good system, you can have different set of speakers / amplifiers for each track. Deep subs for the bass guits, high-spl subs for the base drums, big midrange for the guits, etc... This means you get rid of the distortion from mastering, and now you can elimitate listen-time distortion created by putting a too wide range of frequencies through crossovers,amplifiers and speakers!!! You want to get rid of the stupid keyboard? Don't play the track and voila!
Do I need to say that I don't like the sound produced by mp3's? Even the CD is dead, bring us the multi-track CD!!
If we take the "partition" word by it's definition, a hard drive partition would be a way to separate the hard drive into one or more distinct parts. Now, those parts aren't called "partitions"; they are part of the hard drive partition scheme if you like. But we often refer to those parts as partitions which is wrong: a hard drive can be partitionned in only one way at any given time.
My question is how then should we call those "parts" ?
Now to answer the filesystem question I would suggest using ReiserFS. I used it for a couple of months with good results and without any problem. It works well also on software raid1...
AS: supports up to 8-way SMP and 8 GB of RAM (compared to DC's 32-way and 64GB)
Isn't those limitations just about which license you have? Like they do with MSSQL Server and the per-CPU licensing scheme?
Most people who are in the know download it off the net.
Most people who are in the know probably wont use Corel linux at all and directly use Debian linux on which Corels is based?
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From the same R/C store one can also get a peak charger that will charge up your batteries in like 15 minutes without capping, overcharging, overheating them. Such a charger is probably as expensive as your mp3 player but I find it very useful ;-)
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Absolutely right. And moreover look at the very first sentence of the paper:
;-)
OneEighty Software Ltd announced a major technological breakthrough which will, for the first time ever, extend full Java capabilities to eight-bit processors using ultra-compact coding.
I almost laught my head off. Java, eight-bits, turing machine, ultra-compact... mwaheaheahea!! Is it just me or all these words cannot fit in the same text??
If all this is a true story, I guess they meant "stripped down version supporting primitive features" instead of "ultra-compact Java implementation based on turing machines"
Haha
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I strongly believe that the best strenght of the GNU/Linux OS is that pepole using it are not clueless endusers. We are definitely different users, using a different OS. We build good/stable/secure linux systems because we know what we are doing. The reputation of linux is strongly based on that fact.
As linux will gain shares of the desktop markets, I fear this reputation will dissapear...
Furthermore, because of the graphic/multimedia nature of the BeOS I think it would be a much better fit for the desktop, especially if it become open source!
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Just installed it for 2.4.0-test8 /lib/modules/2.4.0...
You are right, it copied itself as "misc" under
I just renamed it monte.o, created the directory misc, mv it there, did a depmod and loaded it with a modprobe without any problem.
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Running monte is similar to /sbin/reboot -f.
You should unmount (or remount read-only) and sync all your file systems before using monte.
;-p
In my opinion just the fact that you're changing the kernel means you just rebooted. Whats the difference between "loading" a new kernel and "booting" a new kernel? All the initialization (bios, pci, scsi, etc.) maybe?
Running monte in its default mode is preferable since the setup code performs some important functions like video detection/initialization and APM bios initialization.
Changing the OS (kernel), re-initializing some things here and there, 0.k. at best this is half of a reboot. You may choose to call this a "reb", a "oot" or any C(6, 3) conbinations
Great work anyways Erik! I'll try it ASAP!
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I guess they call it "Real-Time Linux" and not "Real-Time GNU/Linux" because everything in the RTOS is very much about the kernel itself, Linux.
Personnally I rarely put GNU in front of Linux but it's just a bad habit...
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Personnaly, I do not have spam problems. I owned the same email address for years now and I don't remember receiving an unsolicited message. Obviously, I keep my email address as secret as possible and I do not have a "spam dedicated"@hotmail.com address. I feel this kind of mail box is useless since you will have to read it anyway to make sure no important mail has been routed there.
The same thing apply for my "real" mail; it is not filled with loads of unwanted samples/tryouts/adds. Ok, maybe just a little bit of junk that has not been personally addressed but put in every citizen mailboxes of the small town I live in.
I realise that the Average Slashdotter is against Government interferance, and rightly, but in some instances it is better to have a government body, as I'm sure everyone agrees. Driving Licenses and Food Indpection agencies spring to mind.
I strongly agree with that, in theory. It would be nice if some agencies could punish or regulate spam. I consider spam to be a virus whose goal is to waste bandwith and people time. Based on that it may be possible to bring spammers to justice?
There's also ICQ spam; lot of people scan for online people to send them spam, often of the form of pr0n site advertisement. Same thing for IRC but it is not really a problem there since it is easy to get rid of 'em.
The better solutions would be to ensure that spammers don't make money out of spamming. I wonder if ipv6 would make life easier in tracking spammers?
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The philosophical differences revolve around the terms open source and free. Java is neither, all claims to the contrary. Linux, at least in theory, is both.
I simply don't understand the authors "at least in theory" part. Hell, what means the word "Linux" for him??
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I like the fact that it looks more like english than C
;-)
I like COBOL better because "I like the fact that it looks more like english than Java"
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Actually I don't use open source. I use Winword, Excel, IE, etc.
Still, I'm sure you don't have all the licenses for Windows/Office and all the MS stuff you use. Be honest. Do you?
I don't think I know somebody who uses Windows and actually pay for the product and are fully legal. The last time I paid for a MS product was for the Win95 upgrade, and now I found a solution to the problem: use free OS/tools.
Even more, I prefer open source. And yes I'm glad to be fully functionnal/legal/independant/free/happy
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