When I was working in computer repair, I heard so many people refer to the computer (chassis and enclosed parts) as the "hard drive", that I'd call it common usage, as well. I will not, however, acknowledge that meaning of the term "hard drive" as legitimate.
The one I commonly heard was "CPU" referring to the entire computer. And that is often from people who work on helpdesks.
That is the nature of language though. It always falls to the lower common denominator. If everyone decides that a printer is called a "toaster" then that's what it'll become.
At first glance it is, but it has some advantages from the normal handset with bluetooth headset support. For one, say I have my phone in my bag and my headset in my shirt pocket. If I receive a call I'd like to see who's calling before answering... rather than fishing for my phone while driving it would be way more handy to just glance at my watch(phone) at the caller ID.
Well, you could achieve the same thing by creating a watch that is bluetooth enabled so that it is able to recieve the caller ID information from the phone. That way the same watch could be used for varying phones, and it would probably use far less battery life.
I haven't actually used MOSIX, but the impression that I've gotten from reading about it is that MOSIX deals with process migration among nodes. My guess would be that if a process needs to switch nodes, it's memory is probably copies to the new node rather than being used across the link, which would be relatively high latency.
This sounds damn good to me. In fact, they can come get me if they want. What we need is a good arrest to make people realise how absurd the current legislation is.
So go ahead, arrest me. I can be the next Kevin Mitnick, and perhaps we can get people to get off their asses and protest laws that are obviously designed to promote big business at the expense of consumers.
Well, IBM is being sued because SCO thinks that they may have let people who have read the Unix source code contribute to the linux kernel, which was against the license agreement.
Sun & HP's licenses could have similiar agreements in them. Both companies are contributing to the Linux kernel (I believe), so there could be potential for violation of their perpetual license.
This makes me start to wonder if this might be the start of the finish for the Unix codebases.
SCO is threatening to cancel IBM's license to distribute AIX. They have the ability to do this since they own the rights to the original Unix codebase. Could it be very long before they start going after the other Unix vendors?
Sun, SGI, IBM, and other Unix vendors are already throwing their support behind Linux in a lot of ways. Perhaps this will give them the added incentive to finally throw full support into Linux, in order to avoid being subject to the whim of a failing company that may or may not decide to blackmail them.
Of course, the end of Unix has been predicted for many years now, so maybe this will turn out to be nothing.
If the code is new, then we don't have to worry about it breaking distributions. If the code is old, then they've been distributing it themselves under the GPL.
I don't think it's going to be that big of a deal.
In the article they talk about the bandwith tracking being router based. It sounds like they should be able to track traffic between machines on the network separately from traffic off net.
If so, then this could be a big incentive for people to start creating on campus mirrors for large content that is often retrieved.
Of course, this could be good or bad depending on what is being mirrored. I personally would mirror linux distros, or similiar things, but people could start mirroring movies, music and pirated software as well.
Or just plug it into another computer. Somehow I doubt anyone out there has a single openbsd box as their only computer, and would need to hire someone to assist in a password change.
Then again, maybe they can't be trusted to detatch and reconnect a hard drive.
You'd be surprised the number of people out there on the net still using age old web browsers. For the most part an ftp client is an client, while there are large differences of downloads on netscape 1-7, the various versions of IE, and AOL web browsers from older releases.
I know this is probably a bit off topic, but why is it necessary to take anything that has storage, and turn it into an mp3 player?
There are portable mp3 players. PDAs that play mp3s. Phones that play mp3s. Digital cameras that play mp3s. And now camcorders too. And I'm probably leaving out entire groups of items.
Hey, sometimes I'm cooking and want to listen to music. Where's my mp3 playing stove, fridge or toaster?
Right now we have companies that practially (or actually) have monopolies in various industries.
With this change, you will have your Microsoft TV Channel, Microsoft radio station, Microsoft Newspaper, Microsoft Internet access, Microsoft Movies. (Or insert your other favorite Conglomerate. ATT or Disney perhaps?)
Then again, we've got MSN and MSNBC already, so we're pretty close already.
I just installed the new 8.1 beta, and it's pretty impressive so far. The entire system seems a lot faster overall, even on my laptop, which is the lowest end machine I usually use.
The release is VERY buggy, but that's what a beta is for. The network configuration seems to die horribly when wireless is being used. ACPI is the default instead of APM, but most of the modules aren't loaded. Attempting to load the battery module causes a kernel panic. Hopefully I'll have time soon to check for existing bug reports and open a few up.
And I'm surprised to see that they haven't taken advantage of XFree86 4.3's ability to change resolutions on the fly and have it change the desktop size. Then again, maybe I just didn't find the option.
I've had the same problem on three machines, one running an ATI Rage Mobility, one with a Revolution IV card, and one with a Radeon All-In-Wonder. All with the same problem.
I'm not sure if time would catch the difference since it's a difference in the time taken to display rather than time taken to execute.
Do you see any sort of noticable speed differences?
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When I was working in computer repair, I heard so many people refer to the computer (chassis and enclosed parts) as the "hard drive", that I'd call it common usage, as well. I will not, however, acknowledge that meaning of the term "hard drive" as legitimate.
The one I commonly heard was "CPU" referring to the entire computer. And that is often from people who work on helpdesks.
That is the nature of language though. It always falls to the lower common denominator. If everyone decides that a printer is called a "toaster" then that's what it'll become.
At first glance it is, but it has some advantages from the normal handset with bluetooth headset support. For one, say I have my phone in my bag and my headset in my shirt pocket. If I receive a call I'd like to see who's calling before answering... rather than fishing for my phone while driving it would be way more handy to just glance at my watch(phone) at the caller ID.
Well, you could achieve the same thing by creating a watch that is bluetooth enabled so that it is able to recieve the caller ID information from the phone. That way the same watch could be used for varying phones, and it would probably use far less battery life.
I haven't actually used MOSIX, but the impression that I've gotten from reading about it is that MOSIX deals with process migration among nodes. My guess would be that if a process needs to switch nodes, it's memory is probably copies to the new node rather than being used across the link, which would be relatively high latency.
A 2 CPU hyperthreading xeon machine is still a 2 CPU machine, and Windows not recognizing that should be considered a bug (Now fixed, I believe).
Of course no one knows what he did. They won't even tell him why he's being detained.
No matter what he has or hasn't done, it is wrong to detain someone without due process.
I don't believe that was his point.
The article indicated that apache "displaced" IIS, meaning that it took IIS's lead away from it. Meanwhile, IIS never had a lead.
Who knows, maybe IIS will take the lead some day, but for now that statement is misleading at best.
This sounds damn good to me. In fact, they can come get me if they want. What we need is a good arrest to make people realise how absurd the current legislation is.
So go ahead, arrest me. I can be the next Kevin Mitnick, and perhaps we can get people to get off their asses and protest laws that are obviously designed to promote big business at the expense of consumers.
Well, IBM is being sued because SCO thinks that they may have let people who have read the Unix source code contribute to the linux kernel, which was against the license agreement.
Sun & HP's licenses could have similiar agreements in them. Both companies are contributing to the Linux kernel (I believe), so there could be potential for violation of their perpetual license.
This makes me start to wonder if this might be the start of the finish for the Unix codebases.
SCO is threatening to cancel IBM's license to distribute AIX. They have the ability to do this since they own the rights to the original Unix codebase. Could it be very long before they start going after the other Unix vendors?
Sun, SGI, IBM, and other Unix vendors are already throwing their support behind Linux in a lot of ways. Perhaps this will give them the added incentive to finally throw full support into Linux, in order to avoid being subject to the whim of a failing company that may or may not decide to blackmail them.
Of course, the end of Unix has been predicted for many years now, so maybe this will turn out to be nothing.
If the code is new, then we don't have to worry about it breaking distributions. If the code is old, then they've been distributing it themselves under the GPL.
I don't think it's going to be that big of a deal.
Forget jumper. How about configurable in software?
I believe that the speed/noise tradeoffs are configurable in hdparm.
In the article they talk about the bandwith tracking being router based. It sounds like they should be able to track traffic between machines on the network separately from traffic off net.
If so, then this could be a big incentive for people to start creating on campus mirrors for large content that is often retrieved.
Of course, this could be good or bad depending on what is being mirrored. I personally would mirror linux distros, or similiar things, but people could start mirroring movies, music and pirated software as well.
BSD is Unix. Based off of the original Berkley Unix code.
It could also allow people to play burned copies of games as well, which would count as piracy.
I'd be surprised if that's what most people used them for though.
Or just plug it into another computer. Somehow I doubt anyone out there has a single openbsd box as their only computer, and would need to hire someone to assist in a password change.
Then again, maybe they can't be trusted to detatch and reconnect a hard drive.
You'd be surprised the number of people out there on the net still using age old web browsers. For the most part an ftp client is an client, while there are large differences of downloads on netscape 1-7, the various versions of IE, and AOL web browsers from older releases.
I know this is probably a bit off topic, but why is it necessary to take anything that has storage, and turn it into an mp3 player?
There are portable mp3 players. PDAs that play mp3s. Phones that play mp3s. Digital cameras that play mp3s. And now camcorders too. And I'm probably leaving out entire groups of items.
Hey, sometimes I'm cooking and want to listen to music. Where's my mp3 playing stove, fridge or toaster?
Well, the score was a bit off, but it did get the winner.
Well, QT and GTK are already available for win32, and often will allow you to just recompile programs.
I doubt that Microsoft would try to get the compatability on their own. That would eat into the sales of their programming suites.
They already exist. Not for every modem, but a number of more common ones.
IBM even provides links to some of the drivers I believe.
The smaller the holes, the more you can fit in the same sized space.
The post about this on LKML indicates that the memory bits that end up getting sent out are typically snippets of network traffic.
/ archive /2003-Week-01/0821.html
So the chances of it getting a private key from user space are pretty slim.
The LKML post and Alan Cox's reply are available here:
http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel
Right now we have companies that practially (or actually) have monopolies in various industries.
With this change, you will have your Microsoft TV Channel, Microsoft radio station, Microsoft Newspaper, Microsoft Internet access, Microsoft Movies. (Or insert your other favorite Conglomerate. ATT or Disney perhaps?)
Then again, we've got MSN and MSNBC already, so we're pretty close already.
I just installed the new 8.1 beta, and it's pretty impressive so far. The entire system seems a lot faster overall, even on my laptop, which is the lowest end machine I usually use.
The release is VERY buggy, but that's what a beta is for. The network configuration seems to die horribly when wireless is being used. ACPI is the default instead of APM, but most of the modules aren't loaded. Attempting to load the battery module causes a kernel panic. Hopefully I'll have time soon to check for existing bug reports and open a few up.
And I'm surprised to see that they haven't taken advantage of XFree86 4.3's ability to change resolutions on the fly and have it change the desktop size. Then again, maybe I just didn't find the option.
I can't wait to see the final release.
I've had the same problem on three machines, one running an ATI Rage Mobility, one with a Revolution IV card, and one with a Radeon All-In-Wonder. All with the same problem.
I'm not sure if time would catch the difference since it's a difference in the time taken to display rather than time taken to execute.
Do you see any sort of noticable speed differences?