I can attest to an Athlon 1.4 GHz @266FSB not burning when booted with an improperly fitted heat sink. It failed at / didn't make it to POST. However, fitting a heatsink properly, the machine worked fine. Tests in bios, when I made it, showed the system getting up to 75oC before locking (hard!). Much research into this, prior to refitting my heatsink (using acetone to take off heatsink thermal pasted and replacing it with a good silver compound), showed that Athlon 1.4's do get up to 60oC at operating temperature. Mine operates around 50oC, with an ambient temperature of around 27oC. Indeed, these machines heat the room they are in.
Yes, well, it's not like we hold the media liable for the damages they cause or even the validity of their statements. As a worst case scenario they have to put a little rebuttle in the corner of the 3rd page, that states that their entire front page article released the day prior was completely false and utterly incompetent.
I live in a small city in Canada, and every single news article to which I've had insider information has been totally botched to the point of being unrecognizable. Out of dozens of verbatim quotes, I've never seen one that someone never said "that's not what I actually said". I've more faith in the regularity of earthquakes than I do in the validity of the media.
Not to sound like a specialist luddite or paranoid conspirator theorist, but I think the news media is only a pawn of corporate media and corporate media a pawn of political and corporate interests.
This answer is not for everyone. Leave your draconian country while you can. Few countries permit such embarassing yet incredibly futile actions. Much less condone them. Look to Amnesty International for a list of countries with human rights violations and campaigns they have engaged in; their largest human rights campaign was directed against the US rights violations.
Be thankful you still have your free speech and freedom to leave. You've exercised the prior, now I suggest you exercise the latter. You can rest assured that things will get worse before they get better. You can grin and bear it. I would leave. But that's not the answer for everyone. The alternatives will be listed here; contact your society-altering hooks: lawyers and politicans. Start a riot. Get noticed.
But it is obvious that he is using his public role (in the kernel and in usenix) to achieve a political end: namely, the repeal of the DMCA.
Funny, I thought he was obeying the law.
Political ends are may be a side effect of that, and indeed this has all the writings of a political snub, but it's nevertheless undeniable that he would be commiting criminal acts by not making this pointed omission.
hehe, yes and no. The help I was talking about was how to install the C2 orange book certification on NT, how to reduce the transaction latency in COM, such as removing unexplained and arbitrary DNS lookups in COM, how to format dates in VB Script, how to do regular expressions in VB, how to keep Visual source safe from regressing for no apparent reason, how to interface IDL's for VB encryption with CryptAPI, etc, etc. Agreed, there are two sets of problems here: administration and development.
I was responding to both concurrently. The problem is this: If MS *chooses* to give you the documentation, then you get the documentation. If Microsoft does not so choose, you do not get the documentation, and you are shit out of luck.
Linux administration has its problems as well, but I'm more inclined to complain about MS since I use Debian for Linux and OpenBSD/FreeBSD ports, which have given me little-if-any real problems compared to NT/2000/etc. As for development, it's pretty hard to beat the standard C libraries, QT, and even relatively esoteric libraries such as OpenSSL, which range from fairly well documented to idiot-proof; is ample support and public documentation.
The problem is not with administering or developing on MS. The problem is the discourse through which MS provides its information; I may have geared my post towards administration, but I can safely assure you that development is no better.
I must completely disagree with your assessment of MSDN as compared to OSS documentation. I've installed everything from enterprise level packet filters right up to desktops and application servers on OSS. I've always encountered instances of scarce documentation while doing so, but I've always been able to solve the problem, or even in some instances contact the author, all of whom have been helpful to date.
On the other hand, I've encountered issues with MS COM, IIS, NT, 2000, SMB, Outlook, Word, Office, IE (IE,IE,IE!), where I've uncovered problems that are totally undocumented and completely impede progress. My company has spent MONTHS reverse engineering MS crap to get it to work, only to discover that it is some totally publicly undocumented registry hack, or worse, the multimillion dollar company down the road who paid $115,000 per year for documentation and is a certified MS partner had the documentation anyway.
So OSS or MS? I'd choose OSS anyday; it might have it's weak points, but across the board, it's got support. As for the MS documentation? I say fuck it; it's not there when you need it, never has been, and never will be, unless you've got brown-nose money.
We used to get 8 Mbit/s in New Brunswick/Vibe, but that's capped at 2Mbit/s due to backbone limitations now. Not such a pipe dream, though. We're still laughing with 2 Mbit/s.
Actually, given the current state of the vm parameters set almost exclusively for a workstation (since bdflush chokes a server real good), would seem to dictate that you have to tinker with the kernel anyway and that forking the kernel itself wouldn't necessarily help since the number of forks for each configuration of properly scalable high intensity server would be enormous. It works good for a workstation, and perhaps preemption should be default on a workstation (I use Love's patch on mine), but splitting the kernel between workstations and servers is probably not the best way to go about making servers customized to their personal best performance level since the configuration is quite sticky anyway.
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Then Torvalds is perhaps fighting the war against a derth of good software, not against other operating systems.
Indeed, Linux as a revolution or whatever you wish to call it, is a movement that attacks very well formed enemies: the media, the corporations, the government. Linux as a movement has no form, but is rather a collage of microcapillaries of force acted on and acting on people who believe in this 'revolution'. Torvalds is not guiding this revolution, it is a self defined and evolving collection of similar interests, both blind and educated, that seeks to preserve itself in whatever manner it can, for that is its only real interest.
No, not Shadowbane (but that's neat too:)). It has not made it beyond the drawing board yet. That's one of the main advantages of that design, though, saving bandwidth. The other is offline playing, or even sub-universes. "Germ warfare", in the duely literal sense of it, was not entirely out of the question, so long as it was fun. The right choice of fractal would yield the sort of information right down to that nitty-gritty, where human-sponsored/played germs could have plausible effects on larger creatures.
Thanks to chaos, one could insert minor changes into the variables, so a line of a lorenz equation could be completely changed down the road by adding small (read: negligable) attractors. Lorenz isn't a good choice, IMHO, but it's an example of a simple, obvious case where small attractors would change things invariably. People adding attractors to a game universe fractal is a much niftier idea; just much more complex.
Not really that impressive:) (tongue in cheek). I worked on the preliminary part of a massive multiplayer online game whose universe was a fractal, containing data right down to the shape and size of trees at every point on the planet. The interesting thing was that the modeled universe took time as a variable, and it evolved gradually with small increments of time, thus the universe (which was ultimately nearly infinite from the human perspective), right now was not the same as the universe yesterday, but very similar so those places / things you've become familiar with are still present, but have evolved slightly.
Planets would move, trees would grow, forests and deserts would change shape, oceans would rise and recede, etc. (Taking into account that the planet is of the type to support something like forests and oceans). The variables that define a "place" as a human looking onto the universe were coordinates and time, and a perspective (direction/angle) from which to project back information. Yet the visual perspective was only minor compared to the actual number of calculable variables, like temperature, and the like. Of course, strange things like density has to be accounted for with Newtonian physics, but that was ironically easy. Choosing what was the cause (is temperature random, ie. fractalish, or a product of Newtonian; really it's a combination; random in a Newtonian'ish thermodynamic space, but random only because we wouldn't actually want to calculate that sort of thing) and what was an effect was the hard part.
It is an interesting premise, isn't it? Taking a mathematical curiosity (the fractal) and doing something useful with it like creating a universe, or planet in this case. Somewhat matrix'ish.
Xkill doesn't kill the process owner; you will also notice that a zombied konqueror session will start up again the next time you start KDE. A problem with kdekillall is also that one generally doesn't want to kill everything, only selective unresponsive processes.
It would be nice if xkill did kill the window owner's process, but with Konq, for example, it does not appear to.
Yes, a pre-linker is what is being done with GCC. You might notice that kdeinit may run everything in KDE, from konqueror through konsole; that's because kdeinit is already linked. This is annoying when looking at the actual processes running. They're all kdeinit. Especially annoying for killing those zombieish konqueror sessions.
The pre-linking relies on the fact that once libraries are loaded, they never move in memory. That could be a false assumption, but the gcc team is going to great ends to make sure it isn't. The issue as demonstrated is that 'helloworld' will be much larger, and much slower to load when it links against the QT libraries (or any large set of libraries). Thus, similar performance is lost when starting KDE applications linked against the QT libraries simply because they are all loading the QT library linkages.
1. So how should artists afford to prosecute multi-million dolar VC funded companies like Napster or companies that are outside the United?
A pro bono class action by a first rate lawyer would set a lovely precedent. As for international torts, I'd say deal with them on a case by case instance. For the most part, the problem is US-centric.
If you are an artist with the choice of getting a major label deal and maybe making a profit if you sell over a million copies (or being in debt otherwise) or making no money from the spread of your music while being popular among the fans that don't pay for your music, what would you choose?
It would really depend on what was important in my life. Personally, and I can say this because I'm not in the said predicament of choosing this, I would want my artistic work to be free for everyone to experience, but I wouldn't want or expect to make a living off of it. That's a personal perspective, but a rational one.
Eventually, when CD burners, Minidiscs and car MP3 players become cheap and popular enough, how do you propose artists make a living in this new world order?
The number of artists that could be employed in the industries is phenominal, but they aren't because the markets have been saturated with megalabels and uberdraconian principles of selection that prohibit any entry. It's an arisocracy now anyway, and 99.9% of artists are dropped by the wayside and barely scrape a living. Getting rid of the megalabels would certainly create more demand for smaller bands, and maybe bring the success rate for lesser known artists up to 99.8%, which is a difference of millions of people.
To give an economical perspective, a concert band or symphony orchestra employs up to 120 people (iirc, London Symphony Orchetsra), rarely if ever releases CD's, has huge overhead in musical instruments, and still turns a profit in the majority of large cities. Surely God a band of 4 people with mass produced musical equipment can fabricate a decent profit from live concerts.
Actually, that attitude is common among the vast majority of undereducated Americans that give the USA a bad name. You belong to a country that has states that make it legal to rape your wife (Tenn.). It is the only country in the world not to have ratified the Rights of the Child. (Somalia was the 2nd last, in 1996, iirc) Sure the USA innovates a lot, but a fraction compared to the rest of the world anymore.
The sad thing about this attack on the US is that nothing good will come of it. You'll have less freedom now, which is exactly what the terrorists wanted. You will not be able to cross borders into free countries, or pass through your airports unchecked. And yet, terrorism will still slip through, despite the seeds of a totalitarian regime that represents your government. The USA is not a free country. It never has been; it sponsors the illusion of freedom to promote corporate interests of exploitation and slavery. Your President was appointed by your judicial system. A democratic country elects its government, in case you weren't aware.
Ask yourself what you cannot do today that you could do before the towers came crashing down. I pity every American that will lose a little more of their freedom, in much the same way they have lost their digital rights with DMCA et al., and the way they sponsor monopolistic anti-capitalistic companies, like Microsoft and RIAA and Exxon, with impunity and even legislative backing.
You are hippocrittical and ignorant; you wish death upon others for their arbitrary beliefs. This is not uncommon. Few Americans believe that the US prison system is 3rd world, and that it is constantly chastized by NGO's such as Amnesty - in fact there was a whole campaign by Amnesty International dedicated to nothing but human rights violations in the USA. Think, and educate yourself, before you post your opinion. You probably won't understand most of this post, but many will, and it is something that should be stated in the case that it does open your eyes.
Agreed. Few countries have committed the atrocities that can be pinpointed on the US. Especially in terms of their indirect involvement in other nations by supplying arms and munitions for guerilla warfare especially.
The irony is that the most devastating weapon from war-making facilities of a suicidal culture is from the civilians: suicidal bombers.
Yes, I'm sure that killing hundreds if not thousands of a repressed society that knowingly breeds fanatics would only breed more suicidal fanatics. Fanatics and freedom and security: choose two. The price of freedom is eternal vigilence - in this we will see the price of freedom, and the choice of the democratic countries to undermine that freedom and return to a draconian culture for the sake of security. (Fanatics are a constant here; few, if any, real actions have been taken to prevent fanatics.)
Hate to be the one to point this out, but the people who actually perpetrated this are quite dead now. Freedom and fanatics don't get along, and these were fanatics. There is an endless supply of those. The thing is that it is possible that it was perpetrated by Americans. What are you going to do then?
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Well, I know Bruce is a regular here, and will probably have some feedback somewhere:), but I'm wondering if this will provide more corporate level exposure to Linux with the modus operandi of "challenge the executive", IIRC, in the Compaq ranks as well as the HP. The actual merging of two companies of this size is rare and hard to predict, but in the fray sometimes new ideas come up that are entertained that might not otherwise be. I am curious as to how this will affect Bruce Peren's (et al) influence on HP and Compaq, but I don't want to speculate on it.
Interestingly, I find that the staroffice fonts are top-knotch. It's too bad that they're not part of the regular distributions, since I use them quite a bit, especially arioso and other esoteric fonts which are very pleasing to the eye, but not cookie-cutter. AA makes all the difference in the world for these fonts in KDE, especially arioso in kmail.
But I guess the point would be that there are more fonts out there beyond MS-Verdana and Times New Roman (but I admit to using these heavily), and Sun for one has provided fonts of very high quality with their StarOffice distribution. I won't speculate on the license of said fonts, however.
Sony charges stiff fees for Playstation (2) development licenses. Was one of the primary focuses of SDL a way to circumvent these fees, broaden the PS2 platform, broaden the SDL platform, or broaden Linux as a viable game platform?
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I can attest to an Athlon 1.4 GHz @266FSB not burning when booted with an improperly fitted heat sink. It failed at / didn't make it to POST. However, fitting a heatsink properly, the machine worked fine. Tests in bios, when I made it, showed the system getting up to 75oC before locking (hard!). Much research into this, prior to refitting my heatsink (using acetone to take off heatsink thermal pasted and replacing it with a good silver compound), showed that Athlon 1.4's do get up to 60oC at operating temperature. Mine operates around 50oC, with an ambient temperature of around 27oC. Indeed, these machines heat the room they are in.
I live in a small city in Canada, and every single news article to which I've had insider information has been totally botched to the point of being unrecognizable. Out of dozens of verbatim quotes, I've never seen one that someone never said "that's not what I actually said". I've more faith in the regularity of earthquakes than I do in the validity of the media.
Not to sound like a specialist luddite or paranoid conspirator theorist, but I think the news media is only a pawn of corporate media and corporate media a pawn of political and corporate interests.
Slashdot excluded.
Be thankful you still have your free speech and freedom to leave. You've exercised the prior, now I suggest you exercise the latter. You can rest assured that things will get worse before they get better. You can grin and bear it. I would leave. But that's not the answer for everyone. The alternatives will be listed here; contact your society-altering hooks: lawyers and politicans. Start a riot. Get noticed.
Funny, I thought he was obeying the law.
Political ends are may be a side effect of that, and indeed this has all the writings of a political snub, but it's nevertheless undeniable that he would be commiting criminal acts by not making this pointed omission.
I was responding to both concurrently. The problem is this: If MS *chooses* to give you the documentation, then you get the documentation. If Microsoft does not so choose, you do not get the documentation, and you are shit out of luck.
Linux administration has its problems as well, but I'm more inclined to complain about MS since I use Debian for Linux and OpenBSD/FreeBSD ports, which have given me little-if-any real problems compared to NT/2000/etc. As for development, it's pretty hard to beat the standard C libraries, QT, and even relatively esoteric libraries such as OpenSSL, which range from fairly well documented to idiot-proof; is ample support and public documentation.
The problem is not with administering or developing on MS. The problem is the discourse through which MS provides its information; I may have geared my post towards administration, but I can safely assure you that development is no better.
On the other hand, I've encountered issues with MS COM, IIS, NT, 2000, SMB, Outlook, Word, Office, IE (IE,IE,IE!), where I've uncovered problems that are totally undocumented and completely impede progress. My company has spent MONTHS reverse engineering MS crap to get it to work, only to discover that it is some totally publicly undocumented registry hack, or worse, the multimillion dollar company down the road who paid $115,000 per year for documentation and is a certified MS partner had the documentation anyway.
So OSS or MS? I'd choose OSS anyday; it might have it's weak points, but across the board, it's got support. As for the MS documentation? I say fuck it; it's not there when you need it, never has been, and never will be, unless you've got brown-nose money.
We used to get 8 Mbit/s in New Brunswick/Vibe, but that's capped at 2Mbit/s due to backbone limitations now. Not such a pipe dream, though. We're still laughing with 2 Mbit/s.
Actually, given the current state of the vm parameters set almost exclusively for a workstation (since bdflush chokes a server real good), would seem to dictate that you have to tinker with the kernel anyway and that forking the kernel itself wouldn't necessarily help since the number of forks for each configuration of properly scalable high intensity server would be enormous. It works good for a workstation, and perhaps preemption should be default on a workstation (I use Love's patch on mine), but splitting the kernel between workstations and servers is probably not the best way to go about making servers customized to their personal best performance level since the configuration is quite sticky anyway.
Indeed, Linux as a revolution or whatever you wish to call it, is a movement that attacks very well formed enemies: the media, the corporations, the government. Linux as a movement has no form, but is rather a collage of microcapillaries of force acted on and acting on people who believe in this 'revolution'. Torvalds is not guiding this revolution, it is a self defined and evolving collection of similar interests, both blind and educated, that seeks to preserve itself in whatever manner it can, for that is its only real interest.
Done Tzu. Try Foucault.
Thanks to chaos, one could insert minor changes into the variables, so a line of a lorenz equation could be completely changed down the road by adding small (read: negligable) attractors. Lorenz isn't a good choice, IMHO, but it's an example of a simple, obvious case where small attractors would change things invariably. People adding attractors to a game universe fractal is a much niftier idea; just much more complex.
Planets would move, trees would grow, forests and deserts would change shape, oceans would rise and recede, etc. (Taking into account that the planet is of the type to support something like forests and oceans). The variables that define a "place" as a human looking onto the universe were coordinates and time, and a perspective (direction/angle) from which to project back information. Yet the visual perspective was only minor compared to the actual number of calculable variables, like temperature, and the like. Of course, strange things like density has to be accounted for with Newtonian physics, but that was ironically easy. Choosing what was the cause (is temperature random, ie. fractalish, or a product of Newtonian; really it's a combination; random in a Newtonian'ish thermodynamic space, but random only because we wouldn't actually want to calculate that sort of thing) and what was an effect was the hard part.
It is an interesting premise, isn't it? Taking a mathematical curiosity (the fractal) and doing something useful with it like creating a universe, or planet in this case. Somewhat matrix'ish.
It would be nice if xkill did kill the window owner's process, but with Konq, for example, it does not appear to.
The pre-linking relies on the fact that once libraries are loaded, they never move in memory. That could be a false assumption, but the gcc team is going to great ends to make sure it isn't. The issue as demonstrated is that 'helloworld' will be much larger, and much slower to load when it links against the QT libraries (or any large set of libraries). Thus, similar performance is lost when starting KDE applications linked against the QT libraries simply because they are all loading the QT library linkages.
In the comments it's noted that the tests were done on Win2k Advanced Server. Just a FYI. :)
A pro bono class action by a first rate lawyer would set a lovely precedent. As for international torts, I'd say deal with them on a case by case instance. For the most part, the problem is US-centric.
It would really depend on what was important in my life. Personally, and I can say this because I'm not in the said predicament of choosing this, I would want my artistic work to be free for everyone to experience, but I wouldn't want or expect to make a living off of it. That's a personal perspective, but a rational one.
The number of artists that could be employed in the industries is phenominal, but they aren't because the markets have been saturated with megalabels and uberdraconian principles of selection that prohibit any entry. It's an arisocracy now anyway, and 99.9% of artists are dropped by the wayside and barely scrape a living. Getting rid of the megalabels would certainly create more demand for smaller bands, and maybe bring the success rate for lesser known artists up to 99.8%, which is a difference of millions of people.
To give an economical perspective, a concert band or symphony orchestra employs up to 120 people (iirc, London Symphony Orchetsra), rarely if ever releases CD's, has huge overhead in musical instruments, and still turns a profit in the majority of large cities. Surely God a band of 4 people with mass produced musical equipment can fabricate a decent profit from live concerts.
You've thought about this way too much. And it shows. ;)
you didn't get the libpam-so bug that disabled logins. ;-)
The sad thing about this attack on the US is that nothing good will come of it. You'll have less freedom now, which is exactly what the terrorists wanted. You will not be able to cross borders into free countries, or pass through your airports unchecked. And yet, terrorism will still slip through, despite the seeds of a totalitarian regime that represents your government. The USA is not a free country. It never has been; it sponsors the illusion of freedom to promote corporate interests of exploitation and slavery. Your President was appointed by your judicial system. A democratic country elects its government, in case you weren't aware.
Ask yourself what you cannot do today that you could do before the towers came crashing down. I pity every American that will lose a little more of their freedom, in much the same way they have lost their digital rights with DMCA et al., and the way they sponsor monopolistic anti-capitalistic companies, like Microsoft and RIAA and Exxon, with impunity and even legislative backing.
You are hippocrittical and ignorant; you wish death upon others for their arbitrary beliefs. This is not uncommon. Few Americans believe that the US prison system is 3rd world, and that it is constantly chastized by NGO's such as Amnesty - in fact there was a whole campaign by Amnesty International dedicated to nothing but human rights violations in the USA. Think, and educate yourself, before you post your opinion. You probably won't understand most of this post, but many will, and it is something that should be stated in the case that it does open your eyes.
The irony is that the most devastating weapon from war-making facilities of a suicidal culture is from the civilians: suicidal bombers.
Yes, I'm sure that killing hundreds if not thousands of a repressed society that knowingly breeds fanatics would only breed more suicidal fanatics. Fanatics and freedom and security: choose two. The price of freedom is eternal vigilence - in this we will see the price of freedom, and the choice of the democratic countries to undermine that freedom and return to a draconian culture for the sake of security. (Fanatics are a constant here; few, if any, real actions have been taken to prevent fanatics.)
Hate to be the one to point this out, but the people who actually perpetrated this are quite dead now. Freedom and fanatics don't get along, and these were fanatics. There is an endless supply of those. The thing is that it is possible that it was perpetrated by Americans. What are you going to do then?
Well, I know Bruce is a regular here, and will probably have some feedback somewhere :), but I'm wondering if this will provide more corporate level exposure to Linux with the modus operandi of "challenge the executive", IIRC, in the Compaq ranks as well as the HP. The actual merging of two companies of this size is rare and hard to predict, but in the fray sometimes new ideas come up that are entertained that might not otherwise be. I am curious as to how this will affect Bruce Peren's (et al) influence on HP and Compaq, but I don't want to speculate on it.
But I guess the point would be that there are more fonts out there beyond MS-Verdana and Times New Roman (but I admit to using these heavily), and Sun for one has provided fonts of very high quality with their StarOffice distribution. I won't speculate on the license of said fonts, however.
I dunno, given RMS's attitude towards paying for software, he might be one of the few to actually send a cheque back ...
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Sony charges stiff fees for Playstation (2) development licenses. Was one of the primary focuses of SDL a way to circumvent these fees, broaden the PS2 platform, broaden the SDL platform, or broaden Linux as a viable game platform?