I used to like William Gibson's stuff. I loved the Neuromancer-Counter Zero-Mona Lisa series. I even like Virtual Light a bit. But I guess it's true what they say: Past results are no gurantee of future performance.
What was it about that game that required an AI? The game was basically "Duck Hunt" with bigger guns and better graphics. The computer thugs on cycles drove in exactly the same pattern and started shooting at the same place every time they were shown. That's not AI, that's just a script.
And, how is shutting down a running program going to destroy it? Hello? Backups anyone? So we're supposed to believe that a company that's going to revolutionize the entertainment industry as we know it has the most incompetant IT people in history. Okay...
Same goes for the girl, what was her name... oh, yeah... Phoebe. So she's brilliant enough to create indepently thinking digital oraganism, but too stupid to, say, make a copy to a Zip disk every once in a while?
The worst part about this episode was that I missed 2 episodes of a Red Dwarf marathon on the local PBS station. Smegheads.
You'll have to excuse me now, Lara Croft seems to have disappeared from Tomb Raider and she's now running amok on my Quake server. It's a real bloodbath there now...
Suspention of disbelief my ass..
Don't even get me started on how the hell a computer generated image inflicts real wounds or where the hell Scully and Mulder werer when they were "sucked into" the game. Or how they go back out. Though Scully in armor was kinda cool, it certainly won't make up for that hour of my life that I will never get back.
There are different types of 900MHz phones. The cheap ones a re 900MHz analog which are easy to snoop in on - they work just like the old cordless phones just at a higher frequency. The other two types are 900Mhz digital and 900MHz digital spread spectrum (DSS). I wouldn't claim that either digital or DSS is secure, but snooping them could only be done with a deliberate act, there is no way you could accidently pick those up on a baby monitor.
The USB stack from 2.3 has been back ported to 2.2. It's not integrated with the kernel, it's a separate patch. The last time I looked into it, there were a couple of device level drivers that wouldn't work with it because they used other 2.3 specific features, but it was otherwise complete. Wish I could find the URL again.
Since a lot of use Linux boxes to serve files for Windows machines, yes, a virus scanner that can identify and remove Windows viruses is a good thing to have. And there are already several available.
However, if CA really wanted to impress me, they would make a virus scanner that integrated in to samba so that it could scan files as they are sent out and received in.
The amount of load USB puts on the CPU depends heavily on the implementation of the adapter chipset. The ones used in PCs are pretty efficent as they are PCI busmaster capable devices. That means that to xfer a block of data, the CPU only has to tell the USB adapter where in memory and how big the block is, the rest happens without CPU intervention.
However, that doesn't stop poorly designed USB devices from requiring undo amounts CPU power. (eg. USB winmodem)
Personally, I think RAID is overkill when you are just starting
I disagree - RAID doesn't just give you data protection, it also buys you availablity. A hard drive failure in a non-RAID system will take your server down temporarily. Even if you didn't lose any data, it still sucks. If a drive fails at 3am, what would you rather do: get paged ("Hey! the server is down. Go fix it."), drive in, swap hard drives, restore server, try to get back to sleep - or - drop in a fresh hot-swapable drive when you get in the next morning? I think you can guess my answer.
Disclaimer: RAID is not a substitute for load balanceing on multiple servers and/or proper network design
I also have an OmniCube. At first I had some severe image clarity problems - I though it was going to be wasted money. After a lot of experimenting with shielded cables I realized that the Matrox Mystique in one box was illegible at 1024x768, while the Voodoo Banshee card in my other box was crystal clear at 1280x1024. I determined that the problem was due to signal strength, and my old Mystique just wasn't putting out enough signal to counter the attenuation of the KVM switch. That machine now has a Riva TNT2 board that is crystal clear at 1600x1200.
Those numbers sound impressive until you find out that being dropped from 12 inches onto a hard surface is nearly a 50G shock with several 20-30G shocks as it bounces. A 120G shock would probably be a fall from about 20 inches.
For the record, it only seems to trip if you search for just "excite." Anything more to the query and you get real results (ie. "lasers excite atoms" will pass normally).
Oddly enough, seaching for just "google" gives you a link to Google. Go figure.
Back in the bad old days of VL-bus boards and cranky 486 systems, having XFree lock up hard while switching between it and a text console was a weekly occurance. But, I think it was more of a case of "some video cards just suck".
Well, since it isn't "officially" released yet, you probably won't find an whats-new list from Red Hat util it is. Suppposedly that will happen on Monday. However, if you search you can find a whats-new list for the Beta release (code named Lorax) and extrapolate from there.
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I have to agree. In the long list of mythos, stories and movies that The Matrix begged, borrowed and stole from Neuromancer is near the bottom.
I used to like William Gibson's stuff. I loved the Neuromancer-Counter Zero-Mona Lisa series. I even like Virtual Light a bit. But I guess it's true what they say: Past results are no gurantee of future performance.
What was it about that game that required an AI? The game was basically "Duck Hunt" with bigger guns and better graphics. The computer thugs on cycles drove in exactly the same pattern and started shooting at the same place every time they were shown. That's not AI, that's just a script.
And, how is shutting down a running program going to destroy it? Hello? Backups anyone? So we're supposed to believe that a company that's going to revolutionize the entertainment industry as we know it has the most incompetant IT people in history. Okay...
Same goes for the girl, what was her name... oh, yeah... Phoebe. So she's brilliant enough to create indepently thinking digital oraganism, but too stupid to, say, make a copy to a Zip disk every once in a while?
The worst part about this episode was that I missed 2 episodes of a Red Dwarf marathon on the local PBS station. Smegheads.
You'll have to excuse me now, Lara Croft seems to have disappeared from Tomb Raider and she's now running amok on my Quake server. It's a real bloodbath there now...
Suspention of disbelief my ass..
Don't even get me started on how the hell a computer generated image inflicts real wounds or where the hell Scully and Mulder werer when they were "sucked into" the game. Or how they go back out. Though Scully in armor was kinda cool, it certainly won't make up for that hour of my life that I will never get back.
There are different types of 900MHz phones. The cheap ones a re 900MHz analog which are easy to snoop in on - they work just like the old cordless phones just at a higher frequency. The other two types are 900Mhz digital and 900MHz digital spread spectrum (DSS). I wouldn't claim that either digital or DSS is secure, but snooping them could only be done with a deliberate act, there is no way you could accidently pick those up on a baby monitor.
The USB stack from 2.3 has been back ported to 2.2. It's not integrated with the kernel, it's a separate patch. The last time I looked into it, there were a couple of device level drivers that wouldn't work with it because they used other 2.3 specific features, but it was otherwise complete. Wish I could find the URL again.
The OS Yahoo uses is irrelevant in this case. The attack was focused on a router, not the web servers.
Infact, that date format is formally known as ISO 8601.
Since a lot of use Linux boxes to serve files for Windows machines, yes, a virus scanner that can identify and remove Windows viruses is a good thing to have. And there are already several available.
However, if CA really wanted to impress me, they would make a virus scanner that integrated in to samba so that it could scan files as they are sent out and received in.
What ever happened to the answers from the interview with Larry Augustine? The second half of the interview seems to be MIA.
The amount of load USB puts on the CPU depends heavily on the implementation of the adapter chipset. The ones used in PCs are pretty efficent as they are PCI busmaster capable devices. That means that to xfer a block of data, the CPU only has to tell the USB adapter where in memory and how big the block is, the rest happens without CPU intervention.
However, that doesn't stop poorly designed USB devices from requiring undo amounts CPU power. (eg. USB winmodem)
Tiome to dig out the one book of his I still have: Don Martin Forges A Head.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein. The latest reprint has ISBN # 0312863551. Check it out here.
I think Sir MEEPT!!!! meant "Outside the Wall", which is the little song that plays at the very beginning and very end of "The Wall".
Enough said.
Yes, MS's gelding mouse works very well with Linux. Even the wheel button works with just a little effort.
I disagree - RAID doesn't just give you data protection, it also buys you availablity. A hard drive failure in a non-RAID system will take your server down temporarily. Even if you didn't lose any data, it still sucks. If a drive fails at 3am, what would you rather do: get paged ("Hey! the server is down. Go fix it."), drive in, swap hard drives, restore server, try to get back to sleep - or - drop in a fresh hot-swapable drive when you get in the next morning? I think you can guess my answer.
Disclaimer: RAID is not a substitute for load balanceing on multiple servers and/or proper network design
I also have an OmniCube. At first I had some severe image clarity problems - I though it was going to be wasted money. After a lot of experimenting with shielded cables I realized that the Matrox Mystique in one box was illegible at 1024x768, while the Voodoo Banshee card in my other box was crystal clear at 1280x1024. I determined that the problem was due to signal strength, and my old Mystique just wasn't putting out enough signal to counter the attenuation of the KVM switch. That machine now has a Riva TNT2 board that is crystal clear at 1600x1200.
You'll be waiting a long time for Sun's XFS.
Perhaps you were thinking of SGI's XFS.
Those numbers sound impressive until you find out that being dropped from 12 inches onto a hard surface is nearly a 50G shock with several 20-30G shocks as it bounces. A 120G shock would probably be a fall from about 20 inches.
For the record, it only seems to trip if you search for just "excite." Anything more to the query and you get real results (ie. "lasers excite atoms" will pass normally).
Oddly enough, seaching for just "google" gives you a link to Google. Go figure.
What we need really need is the translucent iMammoth, available in 5 "flavors".
Or a 340MB detailed area map and an interface to a GPS receiver.
Two observations:
What does that mean? no freaking clue.
Back in the bad old days of VL-bus boards and cranky 486 systems, having XFree lock up hard while switching between it and a text console was a weekly occurance. But, I think it was more of a case of "some video cards just suck".
Well, since it isn't "officially" released yet, you probably won't find an whats-new list from Red Hat util it is. Suppposedly that will happen on Monday. However, if you search you can find a whats-new list for the Beta release (code named Lorax) and extrapolate from there.