oh oh oh! Another useful thing is that people developing things inside the kernel would be able to test them out a lot faster. Perhaps a first step modification to this would be some way to save the state of the system (at least the executeables running and their parameters) and make an attempt to restore it.. then you could, as a developer, wire up a quick shell script to compile your development kernel, monte over to it, with much less wait time than the complete and total reboot. Also, looking at the docs, I see that it says that it's preferable to have the system go back to real_mode and run the linux init code all over again, but it has the option of starting right out in protected mode.
This gives me the idea that with some kernel modifications behind this module, it could well be possible to just kickstart a new kernel while one is running, and just transfer control to the new one... hmm... if I understood how the modern internals of Linux worked, this would be something I would look into.. but i'm about 8 years out of it, so I'll leave it up to the younger hackers with more stamina than me.
Well, if nothing else, it does eliminate some of the time spent during a reboot process. And I could be wrong, but even on a warm reboot when the PC does BIOS init, doesn't that cause the hard drives to reset, thereby losing their internal read cache? so, no BIOS init, and your hard drive caches are still nice and full and stuff like that. Anyway, I think it sounds just as useless as everyone else, except to speed boot time barely. (back in the OS/2 days I used to sit on #os/2 on one puter and reboot the other one over and over after changing various configurations to see how to make booting faster. man that was dumb!)
Seriously, I'd be willing to bet that some smart induhvidual out there will take this and maybe combine something like the kernel module concept, and the concept of being able to dynamically load parts of executeables (what is that, dload()? i only remember dealing with it while working with MudOS on Linux), merge it all together, and come up with a kernel that you can reload 99% of the whole thing without disturbing other pieces of it. Sounds like an interesting beginning.
Remember, all the useful projects have humble beginnings. Just like when Linux started, it was a boot block program that could print "A" and "B" simultaneously to the screen. LOL
This movie did NOT suck. If you think it sucks, you're on crack. Or maybe you're not on crack, and that is the problem. But, if you look at the articles earlier today in/. you can go buy some crack(.com).
It was actually a rather decent film, as far as fantasy type films go. I found myself after it was over saying "wow, it's over already??" and looking down and being shocked that it had gone on for closer to two hours!
It was a pretty good film as far as fantasy type films go, although yes the development was lacking.. a bit more action, less plot development than it should've been, IMHO. But at least you get the idea of what's going on, and the special effects were nothing short of "cooler than I expected them to be".. the dragon fight was incredible. It's unfortunate that they didn't have enough cash to keep the action going on that one for longer! That could've been quite a beautiful scene.
Anyway, it doesn't suck. It's pretty good. And the fact that you finally get to see how the designers envision a lot of stuff in live motion is pretty freakin awesome, and I hope that they make another movie.
fact of the matter is, for a lot of us, particularly those of us in the heavy metal stereotypes, the other people around in my high school were so fucking scared of even looking at me, unless they knew they had the muscle to back themselves up, that social ineptness didn't even play a part. No one wanted to be involved.
I don't know that Jon ever got the 32K email that I typed the night the first Hellmouth appeared on Slashdot. If he did, I don't know that any part of it will ever be seen, or what not. But it's all real.. and no matter how a person tolerates it, it seems there's only one way to make it stop: fight back. And fighting back is so against some of our ideals, that it's virtually impossible. It took me 11 years to finally stand up and fight back, because I am SO against violence as a way to solve your problems!
Now why the fuck does it seem that everyone has a problem with JonKatz? Answer me this, someone.
I want a glow-in-the-dark-brain, and a flip-top head, kind of like in the Reach Toothbrush commercials here in the U.S... but with the fliptop up a bit higher. Imagine that trick at parties... Hey everyone, turn out the lights, and check out my brain!
Yes, this is true, but the DTC-100 RCA receiver has both a Satellite and two regular over-the-air broadcast antenna inputs. It seems a bit overkill, but then so is the TV - over 40 inputs on it!!!!!
Yes sir, you need to invest in a TV tuner card. At bare minimum. Get a TV tuner card that has record to disk options, plug your VCR into it, and start archiving your oldest data onto CD-R. If you've got stuff that's as old as the first Simpson's broadcasts, you aren't kidding that it's slowly degrading into noise. The lifetime of videotape is supposed to be around 7 years, for the recorded data, if I remember corruptly. (pun intended)
Yes, it will take a long time, but you sir, sound like a serious videophile. My parents have huge, incredibly huge archives of stuff that I'm sure has degraded into nothingness by now, also. So you're certainly not the only one.
if you just want to be able to view the digital signal on a standard video device, such as a normal TV, you can pick up a decoder at RadioShack for $649. (the RCA DTC-100, I believe is the model number) It's quite a nice box, really. DirecTV satellite tuner, plus the ability to pull in from two seperate antenna resources (that I have no idea why.. maybe someone might have a seperate UHF or VHF antenna, or two full function antennas pointed in different directions to avoid using a rotor.. or, hell, you could just plug in your PS/2 to it)
Well, where I work we sell a 36" digital-READY TV. It can be used as a computer monitor. It doesn't have an HDTV tuner built into it, so it only receives normal broadcasts unless you combine it with an HDTV tuner box. This is the first alternative I've heard to that box!! This is great news, IMO.
$1999 for a 36" standard aspect-ratio digital TV, that can be used as an 800x600 monitor. Then no need for the $700 receiver! Sounds good to me! Plus I'm sure the software that comes with the card can handle the conversion to letterbox format or stretching the letterbox format out to fit the whole screen. I'd be quite surprised if it didn't. That sure beats full-spec HDTV setups, IMO. And honestly, although there's a lot that's broadcast right now in digital, there's almost nothing broadcast in full HDTV.
While this is true, and it's also true that slashdot probably has a disproportionate amount of non-United States users, look at it this way: Slashdot is an awesome communication forum for the most intelligent and brightest people, not only in the U.S., but all across the world.
I would love to see Slashdot cover the elections elsewhere in the world, although I would have absolutely nothing that I could contribute to it, whatsoever, and probably wouldn't even have the basic understanding of what's going on. It's not that SLASHDOT is covering these topics, this is what the people who USE slashdot want to talk about. And considering that all the U.S. presidential topics on here in recent history have >1K comments on them, I'd say it's a pretty popular thing. Not that Slashdot has ever really catered to the popular, more usually the bizarre, but even with a disproportionate number of international users using slashdot, when compared to other things, I imagine CNN and such don't have very many European customers... the vast majority of slashdot readers and contributors are most likely in the U.S..
So, if you want to see things about your governments election, I would like to point you to the upper left hand corner of your monitor, where it says "Submit Story". Click there.
>Republicans worry that Gore will hurt their livelihoods. Democrats are terrified that Bush with destroy their lives. And that is the reason Democratic voters turned out, and the story no media will report.
I personally worry that a Bush-run administration will cause extreme harm to the economy that is bringing me, through my hard work and devotion, into this category of people making a shiploadd of money. I'm sick of making sub $30k/year. If the stock market holds, and if the economy stays high, if people continue buying my products at the incredible rates they are compared to 8 years ago, I'll be a millionaire in 5 years. That's my short term dream. I'm seriously frightened that Bush is going to fuck it up.
Alright, you people, stop insulting people that work for my company. I don't care WHAT your personal experiences are, -I- at least am well respected by my clientele, and I try to keep all of my employees on that end of the spectrum too.
On topic:
You want to hack with the system? Great. Plunk down the $1249 for the full set of equipment, after it's installed and running, open up your shiny new Compaq, yank out the transmit and receive cards, put them in whatever box you choose. Or just install Linux onto your shiny new Compaq. Import Alan Cox to come and hack up some drivers for it. I'm all for it! StarBand doesn't care, really, that you are using it specifically with Windows, RadioShack could care less that you are using it with Windows, Microsoft might care, but I highly doubt that StarBand or RadioShack could care less.
Now the system uses MSN as your ISP. That's the way it works. I'm sorry if that's unacceptable, but that's the way it is. Would you -rather- wait until 2002 and have DirecPC 2-way using AOL as your ISP? I didn't think so.
As I've said many times before, particularly in the article specifically about StarBand, do whatever the hell you want with the equipment - it's YOUR equipment! Just don't expect that StarBand is going to go out and offer tech support for those cards installed in a machine that hasn't been certified for use with those cards!
Why on earth would a company touting a brand new set of hardware and services go out on a total limb to try and provide support for 025742057 different hardware and software combinations? It doesn't make sense!
They are not trying to exclude Linux, or exclude non-Compaq hardware. Compaq, MSN, and RadioShack have all invested money into this service. RadioShack gets to be the primary retailer, MSN gets to be the ISP, and Compaq gets first dibs on certified hardware to run the T/R cards on. Can any one of you tell me just what is wrong with this? Anything?
OK, here's the deal: The hardware at RS only runs on satellite in about 240 of the 7000 stores. (If anyone near Michigan wants a demonstration, my store in Waterford runs it - this is not a sales pitch) Most of the stores have SDSL installed. No secret: Good DSL service is better. No secret: Good DSL service is not available the the large majority of people.
On a perfectly clear day, my system at work will hit up to 600k/sec. In Michigan,the weather is rarely like that, and I'm normally around 350k/sec. I think a lot of that though is bottlenecks on the Internet side of the connection, not in the satellite use itself. I've had speed tests which I run daily range from 280k/sec down to 750k/sec down, with my receiver hardware set to receive at a maximum of 800k/sec (go figure). I've had one complete outage on the system, and that outage also took out my DirecTV satellite system, and my phone lines at the store - It rained so hard my parking lot had water over 6 inches deep standing, in under 15 minutes.
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oh oh oh! Another useful thing is that people developing things inside the kernel would be able to test them out a lot faster. Perhaps a first step modification to this would be some way to save the state of the system (at least the executeables running and their parameters) and make an attempt to restore it.. then you could, as a developer, wire up a quick shell script to compile your development kernel, monte over to it, with much less wait time than the complete and total reboot. Also, looking at the docs, I see that it says that it's preferable to have the system go back to real_mode and run the linux init code all over again, but it has the option of starting right out in protected mode.
This gives me the idea that with some kernel modifications behind this module, it could well be possible to just kickstart a new kernel while one is running, and just transfer control to the new one... hmm... if I understood how the modern internals of Linux worked, this would be something I would look into.. but i'm about 8 years out of it, so I'll leave it up to the younger hackers with more stamina than me.
Well, if nothing else, it does eliminate some of the time spent during a reboot process. And I could be wrong, but even on a warm reboot when the PC does BIOS init, doesn't that cause the hard drives to reset, thereby losing their internal read cache? so, no BIOS init, and your hard drive caches are still nice and full and stuff like that. Anyway, I think it sounds just as useless as everyone else, except to speed boot time barely. (back in the OS/2 days I used to sit on #os/2 on one puter and reboot the other one over and over after changing various configurations to see how to make booting faster. man that was dumb!)
Seriously, I'd be willing to bet that some smart induhvidual out there will take this and maybe combine something like the kernel module concept, and the concept of being able to dynamically load parts of executeables (what is that, dload()? i only remember dealing with it while working with MudOS on Linux), merge it all together, and come up with a kernel that you can reload 99% of the whole thing without disturbing other pieces of it. Sounds like an interesting beginning.
Remember, all the useful projects have humble beginnings. Just like when Linux started, it was a boot block program that could print "A" and "B" simultaneously to the screen. LOL
This movie did NOT suck. If you think it sucks, you're on crack. Or maybe you're not on crack, and that is the problem. But, if you look at the articles earlier today in /. you can go buy some crack(.com).
.. the dragon fight was incredible. It's unfortunate that they didn't have enough cash to keep the action going on that one for longer! That could've been quite a beautiful scene.
It was actually a rather decent film, as far as fantasy type films go. I found myself after it was over saying "wow, it's over already??" and looking down and being shocked that it had gone on for closer to two hours!
It was a pretty good film as far as fantasy type films go, although yes the development was lacking.. a bit more action, less plot development than it should've been, IMHO. But at least you get the idea of what's going on, and the special effects were nothing short of "cooler than I expected them to be"
Anyway, it doesn't suck. It's pretty good. And the fact that you finally get to see how the designers envision a lot of stuff in live motion is pretty freakin awesome, and I hope that they make another movie.
fact of the matter is, for a lot of us, particularly those of us in the heavy metal stereotypes, the other people around in my high school were so fucking scared of even looking at me, unless they knew they had the muscle to back themselves up, that social ineptness didn't even play a part. No one wanted to be involved.
The guy that wrote this article has some damn fine writing skills. Someone should recruit him to come work for /.
I don't know that Jon ever got the 32K email that I typed the night the first Hellmouth appeared on Slashdot. If he did, I don't know that any part of it will ever be seen, or what not. But it's all real.. and no matter how a person tolerates it, it seems there's only one way to make it stop: fight back. And fighting back is so against some of our ideals, that it's virtually impossible. It took me 11 years to finally stand up and fight back, because I am SO against violence as a way to solve your problems!
Now why the fuck does it seem that everyone has a problem with JonKatz? Answer me this, someone.
I want a glow-in-the-dark-brain, and a flip-top head, kind of like in the Reach Toothbrush commercials here in the U.S... but with the fliptop up a bit higher. Imagine that trick at parties... Hey everyone, turn out the lights, and check out my brain!
Allowing the telco's in the U.S. to control --anything-- is just plain Bad Mojo.
>Two independent groups of researchers applied percolation theory. Percolation theory deals with systems containing points ("sites") and
The Internet is so loaded up on caffeine, it doesn't sweat -- It percolates!
Although I agree that this is a great novel, why are we bringing up an ages old novel here on slashdot?
First, there was alt.pave-the-earth.
Now, we should seperate that.
alt.pave
alt.pave.earth
alt.pave.moon
alt.pave.other-orbiting-objects
Yes, this is true, but the DTC-100 RCA receiver has both a Satellite and two regular over-the-air broadcast antenna inputs. It seems a bit overkill, but then so is the TV - over 40 inputs on it!!!!!
Yes sir, you need to invest in a TV tuner card. At bare minimum. Get a TV tuner card that has record to disk options, plug your VCR into it, and start archiving your oldest data onto CD-R. If you've got stuff that's as old as the first Simpson's broadcasts, you aren't kidding that it's slowly degrading into noise. The lifetime of videotape is supposed to be around 7 years, for the recorded data, if I remember corruptly. (pun intended)
Yes, it will take a long time, but you sir, sound like a serious videophile. My parents have huge, incredibly huge archives of stuff that I'm sure has degraded into nothingness by now, also. So you're certainly not the only one.
if you just want to be able to view the digital signal on a standard video device, such as a normal TV, you can pick up a decoder at RadioShack for $649. (the RCA DTC-100, I believe is the model number) It's quite a nice box, really. DirecTV satellite tuner, plus the ability to pull in from two seperate antenna resources (that I have no idea why.. maybe someone might have a seperate UHF or VHF antenna, or two full function antennas pointed in different directions to avoid using a rotor.. or, hell, you could just plug in your PS/2 to it)
Well, where I work we sell a 36" digital-READY TV. It can be used as a computer monitor. It doesn't have an HDTV tuner built into it, so it only receives normal broadcasts unless you combine it with an HDTV tuner box. This is the first alternative I've heard to that box!! This is great news, IMO.
$1999 for a 36" standard aspect-ratio digital TV, that can be used as an 800x600 monitor. Then no need for the $700 receiver! Sounds good to me!
Plus I'm sure the software that comes with the card can handle the conversion to letterbox format or stretching the letterbox format out to fit the whole screen. I'd be quite surprised if it didn't.
That sure beats full-spec HDTV setups, IMO. And honestly, although there's a lot that's broadcast right now in digital, there's almost nothing broadcast in full HDTV.
Open your eyes, bud, it said 100k DOWN.
While this is true, and it's also true that slashdot probably has a disproportionate amount of non-United States users, look at it this way: Slashdot is an awesome communication forum for the most intelligent and brightest people, not only in the U.S., but all across the world.
I would love to see Slashdot cover the elections elsewhere in the world, although I would have absolutely nothing that I could contribute to it, whatsoever, and probably wouldn't even have the basic understanding of what's going on.
It's not that SLASHDOT is covering these topics, this is what the people who USE slashdot want to talk about. And considering that all the U.S. presidential topics on here in recent history have >1K comments on them, I'd say it's a pretty popular thing.
Not that Slashdot has ever really catered to the popular, more usually the bizarre, but even with a disproportionate number of international users using slashdot, when compared to other things, I imagine CNN and such don't have very many European customers... the vast majority of slashdot readers and contributors are most likely in the U.S..
So, if you want to see things about your governments election, I would like to point you to the upper left hand corner of your monitor, where it says "Submit Story". Click there.
>Republicans worry that Gore will hurt their livelihoods. Democrats are terrified that Bush with destroy their lives. And that is the reason Democratic voters turned out, and the story no media will report.
I personally worry that a Bush-run administration will cause extreme harm to the economy that is bringing me, through my hard work and devotion, into this category of people making a shiploadd of money. I'm sick of making sub $30k/year. If the stock market holds, and if the economy stays high, if people continue buying my products at the incredible rates they are compared to 8 years ago, I'll be a millionaire in 5 years. That's my short term dream. I'm seriously frightened that Bush is going to fuck it up.
Hey now. Don't be getting on Dvorak. That man was a legend in the computing industry when I started in 1980.
Alright, re-read the article, and then go catch the article from yesterday right here on /. about 2-way satellite. Duh.
Alright, you people, stop insulting people that work for my company. I don't care WHAT your personal experiences are, -I- at least am well respected by my clientele, and I try to keep all of my employees on that end of the spectrum too.
On topic:
You want to hack with the system? Great. Plunk down the $1249 for the full set of equipment, after it's installed and running, open up your shiny new Compaq, yank out the transmit and receive cards, put them in whatever box you choose. Or just install Linux onto your shiny new Compaq. Import Alan Cox to come and hack up some drivers for it. I'm all for it!
StarBand doesn't care, really, that you are using it specifically with Windows, RadioShack could care less that you are using it with Windows, Microsoft might care, but I highly doubt that StarBand or RadioShack could care less.
Now the system uses MSN as your ISP. That's the way it works. I'm sorry if that's unacceptable, but that's the way it is. Would you -rather- wait until 2002 and have DirecPC 2-way using AOL as your ISP? I didn't think so.
As I've said many times before, particularly in the article specifically about StarBand, do whatever the hell you want with the equipment - it's YOUR equipment! Just don't expect that StarBand is going to go out and offer tech support for those cards installed in a machine that hasn't been certified for use with those cards!
Why on earth would a company touting a brand new set of hardware and services go out on a total limb to try and provide support for 025742057 different hardware and software combinations? It doesn't make sense!
They are not trying to exclude Linux, or exclude non-Compaq hardware. Compaq, MSN, and RadioShack have all invested money into this service. RadioShack gets to be the primary retailer, MSN gets to be the ISP, and Compaq gets first dibs on certified hardware to run the T/R cards on.
Can any one of you tell me just what is wrong with this? Anything?
Just 100k? Are you bandwidth capped as a beta tester, or do you have some software issues?
OK, here's the deal: The hardware at RS only runs on satellite in about 240 of the 7000 stores. (If anyone near Michigan wants a demonstration, my store in Waterford runs it - this is not a sales pitch) Most of the stores have SDSL installed. No secret: Good DSL service is better. No secret: Good DSL service is not available the the large majority of people.
Care to support your comments?
On a perfectly clear day, my system at work will hit up to 600k/sec. In Michigan ,the weather is rarely like that, and I'm normally around 350k/sec. I think a lot of that though is bottlenecks on the Internet side of the connection, not in the satellite use itself. I've had speed tests which I run daily range from 280k/sec down to 750k/sec down, with my receiver hardware set to receive at a maximum of 800k/sec (go figure). I've had one complete outage on the system, and that outage also took out my DirecTV satellite system, and my phone lines at the store - It rained so hard my parking lot had water over 6 inches deep standing, in under 15 minutes.