You do know that the Z80 has 16-bit memory access and is thus limited to 64 kilobyte banks, and more than 4 banks (with the right extenders and drivers!) is unheard-of? PolarSSL would just fit in 2 banks, though someone might prune it down to work better.
Ahem...what about Somalia? (Yes, they nominally have one. But when it lacks the power to actually enforce anything, I'd say that nominal is pretty close nonexistent)
FOSS video decoder (minimal!): https://github.com/iainb/open_cdxalloc Also CedarX source code is available, though not Free. The GPU stuff is in progress, though not yet functional...
The real pain is if you need IE ("IE6 or later":-/), but you need a browser that handles FTP uploads. (Now I know about FTP clients; I wish I did then).
For those who haven't experienced this: IE7 (and I assume everything since) has no way of entering FTP password and username except in the URL. It just tries to log in anonymously, and fails if it can't. Which can be a problem if you're dealing with a company (*cough* Aquaspy *cough*) that makes a product with perpetually broken automatic uploads, and quickly accumulates too much data to send as an email attachment.
"The concept of "natural" rights is a nonsense, but this right is something required for lasting freedom, at least without a thorough rethinking of how our society works. And that's a not new concept: for example, the original Sikh gurus realised the need, and disallowed their worshipper to go around without a sword. The gurus failed to envision the need for an upgrade clause, and worshippers follow the letter rather than the spirit,..."
Agree with your analysis, but you might be interested in Khalsa v California [religionclause.blogspot.com].
That's a Sikh claiming that they are required to be "FULLY prepared to defend themselves and others"...with semi-auto "assault weapons", if that's what is required. (He also invokes the Second Amendment)
I owned a ~1999 600 series Thinkpad (64 MB ram, 550 MHz PIII) once. I bought it used in 2006 with Dapper preinstalled, and it held out 3 more years. The trackpoint was dying but still better than a mouse, the keyboard was better than any other keyboard that I've used. The trackpoint giving out is what killed it, though.
I currently have an X100e, which once seemed to be the most miserable Thinkpad in more than name (the SL series I don't consider Thinkpads). After two years of use, it seems much better. The keyboard sucks compared to the old style, but it's better than any on machines I could buy (a Precision may be good, but it's out of my budget). The trackpoint hasn't gotten worse, but having a trackpad is pretty annoying. OTOH, it's a better trackpad than most PC manufacturers make. And I can drop it on the floor without having a reason to worry, or stand on it without a problem.
All told, a little worse than my old one, but (a) it's a lower-end line than what it replaced (600 series ~= T series, IIRC, and I paid ~$400 for the new one vs the thousands that the old one would have cost new). (b) it's intended for "portability" and is still pretty durable, so I guess there's some justification for the lighter case.
(c) Lenovo support is still pretty good: BIOS updates as ISO images (for Linux users). Also, call up and tell them on Monday that you have a problem with it booting but no shipping box (not my own experience but a friend's), and they ship you a new box that arrives the next day, you send the laptop back, and get it back working on Thursday.
(d) it's still far better than a comparably priced laptop from another company would be.
Now, if someone were to offer a laptop in that price range that offered what the old Thinkpad did, Lenovo wouldn't have a chance.
Notwithstanding all the rumors, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee has this to say: "Chimpanzees and humans are closely related (95% of their DNA sequence, and 99% of coding DNA sequences are in common), leading to contested speculation that a hybrid is possible...
However, despite speculation, no case of a human-chimpanzee cross has ever been confirmed to exist." And no, that article about "specificity of human spermatazoa" (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Far.1091880407) does not mean that a gibbon-human cross is necessarily possible: the test described is simply whether the sperm can attach. From the abstract, even monkey sperm could attach to human oocytes: "For the failure of human spermatozoa to attach to the zona surface of all non-hominoid oocytes stands in contrast to the behaviour of spermatozoa of the several other mammals studied which, in most combinations, adhered readily to foreign oocytes, including those of man."
Go ahead, it's at http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/i915?id=HEAD...and there's about 19,000 lines in that particular directory (find drivers/ -name i915*|xargs cat|grep -ve '^[/ ]\*' -e ^$ |wc -l), and it depends very heavily on a few other modules (agp, ~2kloc for intel-*; there's a couple more I think...) That's 21kloc right there, or 3 years if you have the same team that reviewed L4...and almost all of that's changed in the year from 3.4 to 3.8, if I read the output of git diff properly. Meanwhile, Intel's working on a couple new gpus.
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You do know that the Z80 has 16-bit memory access and is thus limited to 64 kilobyte banks, and more than 4 banks (with the right extenders and drivers!) is unheard-of?
PolarSSL would just fit in 2 banks, though someone might prune it down to work better.
Hey, it's the original spaghetti code!
Ahem...what about Somalia?
(Yes, they nominally have one. But when it lacks the power to actually enforce anything, I'd say that nominal is pretty close nonexistent)
Enable squeeze-backports.
Look for a new kernel.
OR
get vanilla kernel source, make localmodconfig | oldconfig, make menuconfig | nconfig | ... to adjust, make deb-pkg. dpkg -i ../linux**.deb
You probably want to enable "build firmware".
(I'm currently on a Lucid system that's still on 2.6.32, but my main system is Squeeze with 3.4 and 3.8)
Just time for fact checking...
>Do closed source people share code with BSD people? Nope.
Hmm. Strange, I'm guessing that means Apple doesn't release any source from what they do with BSD source, and BSDI never contributed SMP or anything like that to FreeBSD, and Juniper never contributed anything back.
Read the links, especially the last one.
> Do GPL people? Nope.
For the most part, correct...although there are a few who insist on not converting permissive source code (Luis Rodriguez is the main one .
>Are BSD users against closed code? Obviously not...
http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#43
Start with bad data, you'll get bad results.
> He looked at BSD (back when there was really just the BSD). It was in a lawsuit, so he didn't want to mess with that.
That wasn't the explanation I heard (though I can't seem to find the quote...)--could you provide a reference?
The rest of your comment is pretty accurate.
Similarly, I have a rule of thumb: if the license is longer than the software, something's wrong.
Thanks for the links.
You probably know that means "DANGER! DO NOT TOUCH THIS WITH A 10-FOOT POLE!"
But the Alchemy processors (formerly Netlogic, now Broadcom) sounded interesting...
Ah, they seem to have vanished, but the Broadcom BRCM 5000 (dual issue 1.3 GHz MIPS32) sounds good.
And http://pmcs.com/products/processors/mips_printer_chips/ (Sierra PMC MIPS64 chips) are interesting, as well.
These especially:
http://pmcs.com/products/processors/mips_printer_chips/rm7965/ -64 bit MIPS just shy of 1 GHz
http://pmcs.com/products/processors/mips_printer_chips/rm7935/ - roughly the same but 32-bit memory
FOSS video decoder (minimal!):
https://github.com/iainb/open_cdxalloc
Also CedarX source code is available, though not Free.
The GPU stuff is in progress, though not yet functional...
The real pain is if you need IE ("IE6 or later" :-/), but you need a browser that handles FTP uploads. (Now I know about FTP clients; I wish I did then).
For those who haven't experienced this:
IE7 (and I assume everything since) has no way of entering FTP password and username except in the URL. It just tries to log in anonymously, and fails if it can't.
Which can be a problem if you're dealing with a company (*cough* Aquaspy *cough*) that makes a product with perpetually broken automatic uploads, and quickly accumulates too much data to send as an email attachment.
In other words:
Those who can, do.
Those who can't, teach.
Those who haven't a clue, hire.
No, Scientific Linux.
+1 informative, in my book...
I guess BSD is immune :P
(because they didn't add a case for it).
Not they're, not there, but "their ... friends".
If you are going to correct someone's grammar, at least do it right.
Not to mention vacuum cleaners. Microsoft is missing a massive opportunity there.
After all, they have unparalleled experience in making products that suck.
Any way this could be used to circumvent Secure Boot?
Not a fork of GCC, but of Open64, which is the old SGI MipsPRO backend plus a GCC frontend.
Agree with the post, though.
You got it backwards.
They're using it to benefit the blacks, which must mean desegregation.
Agree with your analysis, but you might be interested in Khalsa v California [religionclause.blogspot.com].
That's a Sikh claiming that they are required to be "FULLY prepared to defend themselves and others"...with semi-auto "assault weapons", if that's what is required. (He also invokes the Second Amendment)
I owned a ~1999 600 series Thinkpad (64 MB ram, 550 MHz PIII) once. I bought it used in 2006 with Dapper preinstalled, and it held out 3 more years.
The trackpoint was dying but still better than a mouse, the keyboard was better than any other keyboard that I've used. The trackpoint giving out is what killed it, though.
I currently have an X100e, which once seemed to be the most miserable Thinkpad in more than name (the SL series I don't consider Thinkpads). After two years of use, it seems much better. The keyboard sucks compared to the old style, but it's better than any on machines I could buy (a Precision may be good, but it's out of my budget).
The trackpoint hasn't gotten worse, but having a trackpad is pretty annoying. OTOH, it's a better trackpad than most PC manufacturers make. And I can drop it on the floor without having a reason to worry, or stand on it without a problem.
All told, a little worse than my old one, but
(a) it's a lower-end line than what it replaced (600 series ~= T series, IIRC, and I paid ~$400 for the new one vs the thousands that the old one would have cost new).
(b) it's intended for "portability" and is still pretty durable, so I guess there's some justification for the lighter case.
(c) Lenovo support is still pretty good: BIOS updates as ISO images (for Linux users). Also, call up and tell them on Monday that you have a problem with it booting but no shipping box (not my own experience but a friend's), and they ship you a new box that arrives the next day, you send the laptop back, and get it back working on Thursday.
(d) it's still far better than a comparably priced laptop from another company would be.
Now, if someone were to offer a laptop in that price range that offered what the old Thinkpad did, Lenovo wouldn't have a chance.
Notwithstanding all the rumors, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee has this to say:
"Chimpanzees and humans are closely related (95% of their DNA sequence, and 99% of coding DNA sequences are in common), leading to contested speculation that a hybrid is possible...
However, despite speculation, no case of a human-chimpanzee cross has ever been confirmed to exist."
And no, that article about "specificity of human spermatazoa" (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Far.1091880407) does not mean that a gibbon-human cross is necessarily possible: the test described is simply whether the sperm can attach. From the abstract, even monkey sperm could attach to human oocytes:
"For the failure of human spermatozoa to attach to the zona surface of all non-hominoid oocytes stands in contrast to the behaviour of spermatozoa of the several other mammals studied which, in most combinations, adhered readily to foreign oocytes, including those of man."
Go ahead, it's at http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/i915?id=HEAD ...and there's about 19,000 lines in that particular directory (find drivers/ -name i915*|xargs cat|grep -ve '^[/ ]\*' -e ^$ |wc -l), and it depends very heavily on a few other modules (agp, ~2kloc for intel-*; there's a couple more I think...)
That's 21kloc right there, or 3 years if you have the same team that reviewed L4...and almost all of that's changed in the year from 3.4 to 3.8, if I read the output of git diff properly.
Meanwhile, Intel's working on a couple new gpus.
One or the other's trying to end that, from what I understand. Or at least make it a bottleneck/reduce reliance on Samsung.
Verbing weirds words.