Common bacteria have been knwo to survive some incredibly exteme environments. During the Apollo program, a technician with a cold sneezed near the camera that went up on Apollo 11. During a later Apollo mission, the camera was retreived and the bacteria were still alive, surviving almost 3 years on the moon's surface.
There is a strain of bacteria here on earth, deinococcus radiodurans that is known to be able to survive megarad doses of ionizing radiation because it can repair it's own DNA.
I'm posting this question here because it's likely that a few FreeBSD experts will be reading this story.
But to make a long story short, I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a machine with a diamond monster fusion (Voodoo Banshee based) video card. I'm using FreeBSD 3.2, but I added the XFree 3.3.5 packages. Everything is happy until I exit X, which totally hangs the machine (well, at least the console and networking are dead). Erg.
I remember seeing an episode of Nova or something on that very project. The system was supposed to learn to identify friendly and enemy tanks visually. However, all of the training photos of friendly tanks were taken on a sunny day, and the photos of enemy tanks were taken on a cloudy day. So, consequently, the neural net really learned only to distingush sunny vs. cloudy.
And that just goes to show that the problem with neural nets is that you never really know exactly what they are learning.
Certain CPUs(1) have 36 address lines instead of the usual 32. The extra 4 address lines are controlled by registers from the MMU, effectly giving you an maximum address space of 16 4GB segments. This, however requires operating system support to manage the extra 4 address lines.
(1) PPro and Xenon for sure. Dunno about PII and PIII. Certain PowerPCs also have this.
No, Socket 370 and Socket 423 in this context only refer to the physical connector, not the signals that pass through it.
Once Intel and AMD are using the same socket type, it would be theoretically possible for a mothboard to support both Intel's bus and EV6, but I personally doubt it will be practical.
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Umm... No. GPS Week 0 started 7 January 1980, not 1 January 1980. That's where the extra comes from.
It shouldn't be a concern. When the FAA Ok'd GPS for IFR equipment, part of the testing that GPS manufacturers had to perform was for proper handling of the EOW rollover. And there are only a handful of IFR certified aircraft that use GPS as the only means of radionavigation, and I don't think that there are any in commercial service. Your airliner will most likely be using standard VOR/DME (VHF omnidirectional radio/distance measuring equipment) for navigation, and GPS only as a backup.
Argh. I guess I just repeated the link at in the story, but my point was the link cleary states that the rollever happens on 21-22 August, not 20-21 August.
the desktop itself is one of the windows it cycles through
The context menu key, and Win-D, are very handy if you are forced to navigate without a mouse. It's only way to get at several functions that are only present in those #$%^& right-click menus. It's also somewhat useful in Word with the spelling highhight on - you can get at the suggested spellings of a misspelled word without touching the mouse.
What I really want is a Win-key combo to bring up the control panel. Oh wait, actually what I really want is to never touch Windows again, but the control panel key would be nice until then.
Seriously, it's just an enhanced MediaGX chip( (read: x86 clone). There might not be a driver for the MPEG decoder or the TV stuff yet, but the rest should work like any other Intel/AMD/Cyrix/etc chip.
Why on earth would you want to do DSM in software anyway? It might be an interesting experiment, but:
Traditonal networks are prone to packet loss, so in order to keep decent performance you'll have to use a non-traditional network (VG-AnyLAN, ATM, Myrinet, token ring, etc) that has guaranteed packet delivery.
If you are going to the trouble of using special hardware, why not implement the whole DSM system in hardware.
Well, E has no problems running on the 4-color grayscale Sun box I have here. It's not pretty, but it works.
As for Gimp in 16-colors - why?!? For Gimp to be useful, it has to be able to render a graphic at least somewhat realistically, and that's just not possible with 16-colors (esp. as I suspect that by 16 color you mean VGA, which has an unchangeable palette). It would be like driving blindfolded, unless your were only trying to create a 16-color graphic - in which case Gimp is the wrong tool.
Well, the alternative is to have the graphics drivers in a privledged user space program (X), which is just as capabable of bringing down the whole OS. Pick your poison.
I know that Linux's TCP/IP stack is not BSD-derived. That's not the point. The point is that it's not BSD derived is not a problem, which is what the article a was quoting from was stating.
A big problem is that the TCP/IP code in Linux is not BSD-derived
I can't even dignify that with a response. Arguing with people like this is a waste of effort.
The only valid point he makes is that there isn't enough parallelism going on in Linux's network stack to scale well beyond 4 CPU's. But, he only touches on that briefly before spewing all sorts of bile about how Linux is holding back new protocols and "curbing performance on the Internet". Note to self: find out what this guy is smoking, and avoid it all costs.
BTW, comp.sys.amiga.sys isn't even a valid newsgroup on my ISP's server. But, that's just my ISP being stupid, perhaps not a lot of people are arguing with this guy because the people who could argue are over in comp.sys.linux.*, or even avoiding the Usenet wasteland altogether.
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-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1888809 Aug 2 1995 linux-1.2.13.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6099082 Jun 14 05:15 linux-2.0.37.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11235732 May 13 23:54 linux-2.2.9.tar.bz2
First of all, you shouldn't do this comparison with compressed files.
And even then the file size does not tell the full story. You have to consider:
How many architectures does 1.2.13 support vs. 2.2.9
How many device drivers are present in 1.2.13 vs. 2.2.9. You can't really count device drivers as bloat, since all but a very small number are optional or modular.
The only fair comparison is between the sizes of the most minimal kernel you can build. And while 2.2.9 while be larger here than 1.2.13, it's not 500% larger - more like 30%.
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Actually, no. Red Hat has been on a six month (give or take a week or two) release cycle for a few years now. This release is right on schedule.
Actually, the Transmeta page is very high quality:
What's wrong with it, exactly?
On the other hand, if you had just typed in "q3test", the first four links would have been:
QED
Reminds me of a usenet .signature I saw a while ago:
"Given enough time and money, eventually Microsoft will re-invent UNIX."
I have just two things to add to this:
Actually, it is just FreeBSD that's having the problem. The machine in question hosts Win95, BeOS, Linux and FreeBSD. XFree 3.3.5 under linux is okay.
I'm posting this question here because it's likely that a few FreeBSD experts will be reading this story.
But to make a long story short, I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a machine with a diamond monster fusion (Voodoo Banshee based) video card. I'm using FreeBSD 3.2, but I added the XFree 3.3.5 packages. Everything is happy until I exit X, which totally hangs the machine (well, at least the console and networking are dead). Erg.
I remember seeing an episode of Nova or something on that very project. The system was supposed to learn to identify friendly and enemy tanks visually. However, all of the training photos of friendly tanks were taken on a sunny day, and the photos of enemy tanks were taken on a cloudy day. So, consequently, the neural net really learned only to distingush sunny vs. cloudy.
And that just goes to show that the problem with neural nets is that you never really know exactly what they are learning.
This looks like Intel is just catching up to Red Creek's VPN adapter.
Well, sooner or later they're going to have to sell something. They can't live on venture capital forever.
Certain CPUs(1) have 36 address lines instead of the usual 32. The extra 4 address lines are controlled by registers from the MMU, effectly giving you an maximum address space of 16 4GB segments. This, however requires operating system support to manage the extra 4 address lines.
(1) PPro and Xenon for sure. Dunno about PII and PIII. Certain PowerPCs also have this.
No, Socket 370 and Socket 423 in this context only refer to the physical connector, not the signals that pass through it.
Once Intel and AMD are using the same socket type, it would be theoretically possible for a mothboard to support both Intel's bus and EV6, but I personally doubt it will be practical.
Umm... No. GPS Week 0 started 7 January 1980, not 1 January 1980. That's where the extra comes from.
It shouldn't be a concern. When the FAA Ok'd GPS for IFR equipment, part of the testing that GPS manufacturers had to perform was for proper handling of the EOW rollover. And there are only a handful of IFR certified aircraft that use GPS as the only means of radionavigation, and I don't think that there are any in commercial service. Your airliner will most likely be using standard VOR/DME (VHF omnidirectional radio/distance measuring equipment) for navigation, and GPS only as a backup.
Argh. I guess I just repeated the link at in the story, but my point was the link cleary states that the rollever happens on 21-22 August, not 20-21 August.
Subject says it. The GPS EOW rollover happens midnight UTC, tomorrow - not tonight. More info here.
Win-D is kind of like alt-tab except that:
The context menu key, and Win-D, are very handy if you are forced to navigate without a mouse. It's only way to get at several functions that are only present in those #$%^& right-click menus. It's also somewhat useful in Word with the spelling highhight on - you can get at the suggested spellings of a misspelled word without touching the mouse.
What I really want is a Win-key combo to bring up the control panel. Oh wait, actually what I really want is to never touch Windows again, but the control panel key would be nice until then.
I think the missing word is wireless. Most other wireless home network gear is 1 or 2 Mbps, making this thing 5-10 times faster.
Already there. Try ftp.kernel.org.
Seriously, it's just an enhanced MediaGX chip( (read: x86 clone). There might not be a driver for the MPEG decoder or the TV stuff yet, but the rest should work like any other Intel/AMD/Cyrix/etc chip.
Why on earth would you want to do DSM in software anyway? It might be an interesting experiment, but:
Well, E has no problems running on the 4-color grayscale Sun box I have here. It's not pretty, but it works.
As for Gimp in 16-colors - why?!? For Gimp to be useful, it has to be able to render a graphic at least somewhat realistically, and that's just not possible with 16-colors (esp. as I suspect that by 16 color you mean VGA, which has an unchangeable palette). It would be like driving blindfolded, unless your were only trying to create a 16-color graphic - in which case Gimp is the wrong tool.
Well, the alternative is to have the graphics drivers in a privledged user space program (X), which is just as capabable of bringing down the whole OS. Pick your poison.
I know that Linux's TCP/IP stack is not BSD-derived. That's not the point. The point is that it's not BSD derived is not a problem, which is what the article a was quoting from was stating.
This guy is basically full of shit.
I can't even dignify that with a response. Arguing with people like this is a waste of effort.
The only valid point he makes is that there isn't enough parallelism going on in Linux's network stack to scale well beyond 4 CPU's. But, he only touches on that briefly before spewing all sorts of bile about how Linux is holding back new protocols and "curbing performance on the Internet". Note to self: find out what this guy is smoking, and avoid it all costs.
BTW, comp.sys.amiga.sys isn't even a valid newsgroup on my ISP's server. But, that's just my ISP being stupid, perhaps not a lot of people are arguing with this guy because the people who could argue are over in comp.sys.linux.*, or even avoiding the Usenet wasteland altogether.
First of all, you shouldn't do this comparison with compressed files.
And even then the file size does not tell the full story. You have to consider:
The only fair comparison is between the sizes of the most minimal kernel you can build. And while 2.2.9 while be larger here than 1.2.13, it's not 500% larger - more like 30%.