I disagree. Everybody would then be busy mining minerals and vespene gas for raw materials to feed the replicators. It's the battle for survival all over again!
No they won't, but i hear they're planning to acquire this dinky little startup called UAC that's going to handle the space creatures side of the business. Should be cool!:-)
Correct me if i'm wrong, and maybe i'm missing something here, but i think it's possible to simulate this kind of functionality on Linux with a script. Cores 2 to N are taken offline (echo 0 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu/offline), the "performance" governor is used for cpu0 (which causes it to run at full clock), then the script monitors usage of cpu0 and brings the other cores online as load on cpu0 goes up. When load goes down then the other cores can be taken offline again.
If boss kid has a technical nature to some degree i doubt he would argue against a technical solution. Just tell him you need bigger, faster storage that's network-connected, etc. and i think the OP would be fine. Boss kid wouldn't necessarily see it as a challenge.
Mod parent up. Not only that, drills are used for reshaping teeth, breaking up large impacted molars, chipping away dental cement, making waiting patients cringe, etc.
I have a fairly midrange Asus laptop running Linux that is underclocked most of the time (running at only 800 Mhz!) That's from the normal clock speed of 1.86 Ghz. When i compile programs that's when the governor (conservative) clocks up the CPUs. What's interesting i found is that running VMs in Virtualbox doesn't cause the CPU to clock up when idle; just like a natively running OS should. Cool stuff.
As for controlling the power of the other subsystems, if your wifi chipset supports it, iwconfig can manage power of the radio with the txpower parameter.
Novell Netware isn't open source. I'm not sure about Novell Zenworks, Groupwise, eDirectory, Identity Services, etc. I think those are Novell's "main" products. As for Sun, Solaris isn't 100% open source. Also Sun is largely a hardware company.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't IBM put a lot of focus on developing and promoting open source? And last i checked they're a bigger company than Sun and Novell combined. As for Novell, who takes their open source work seriously in light of their ties with Microsoft and the associated legal landmine?
Linus started out with Minix as a foundation but the OS we know today as Linux turned out to be worlds different from Minix. Linus wanted to create a replacement for Minix; he wanted to create "a better Minix than Minix." And as Linus himself posted on comp.os.minix: "I'm working on a free version of a Minix-lookalike for AT-386 computers."
Linux just didn't grow out from scratch out of thin air.
If you worry about us, a bunch of tech geeks, not having heard about them, they haven't made a huge impact, have they?
Probably not to you and me, but from what i understand some of ast's works have a good following in academic and research circles. Personally i believe academic and research environments are where the Real Fun happens. I should know; i wish i was doing that kind of hardcore research. And who knows, maybe ast's ideas are just way ahead of their time?
Right. If AST is the hot shot writing OSes, why aren't we all using GNU/Minix? The answer is in the flamefest: Minix is meant to be a teaching tool, not a production OS.
I think Linus learned most of the things he needed to know to create Linux from the book. The rest is history. When i first read the OS book Linux hadn't been invented yet. And when Linux came along and i found out it was based on Minix, my love of the book took on an even greater sense of awe in knowing that its contents became the seed of a most remarkably revolutionary OS.
So Andy Tanenbaum is now a mere "tech expert"? That's a big step down from "CS god."
For the uninformed, ast wrote a kinda good book on operating systems called "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation." I believe this one guy from Finland wrote an OS called Linux based on another OS called Minix discussed in that book (and even got into the flamefest of the century with the Finnish guy!). And then there's a bunch of other stuff you may or may not know about, such as the Amoeba distributed OS, a free anonymous p2p network called Turtle, and probably a few other knick-knacks along the way.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but didn't he sell mysql to Sun way before there was even the slightest hint of an acquisition by Oracle? In fact, i don't think anybody even saw the Oracle-Sun deal coming.
My experience with listening to music at the workplace has been more positive than negative. Only one employer (NEC) actively prohibited listening to personal music, while others allowed it. One other employer in particular (Epson) even had music streamed non-stop over a PA. (Granted, when management realized more people were listening to personal players instead, they discontinued the use of the PA.)
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You said it man. It simply isn't 1337 enough.
I disagree. Everybody would then be busy mining minerals and vespene gas for raw materials to feed the replicators. It's the battle for survival all over again!
No they won't, but i hear they're planning to acquire this dinky little startup called UAC that's going to handle the space creatures side of the business. Should be cool! :-)
Correct me if i'm wrong, and maybe i'm missing something here, but i think it's possible to simulate this kind of functionality on Linux with a script. Cores 2 to N are taken offline (echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu/offline), the "performance" governor is used for cpu0 (which causes it to run at full clock), then the script monitors usage of cpu0 and brings the other cores online as load on cpu0 goes up. When load goes down then the other cores can be taken offline again.
He was doing it wrong.
Simple: phone calls, visits, get-togethers, parties.
I like this.
You're an excellent slashdotter.
If boss kid has a technical nature to some degree i doubt he would argue against a technical solution. Just tell him you need bigger, faster storage that's network-connected, etc. and i think the OP would be fine. Boss kid wouldn't necessarily see it as a challenge.
no balls to gum up with hand lotion and
You're doing it wrong.
Mod parent up. Not only that, drills are used for reshaping teeth, breaking up large impacted molars, chipping away dental cement, making waiting patients cringe, etc.
I have a fairly midrange Asus laptop running Linux that is underclocked most of the time (running at only 800 Mhz!) That's from the normal clock speed of 1.86 Ghz. When i compile programs that's when the governor (conservative) clocks up the CPUs. What's interesting i found is that running VMs in Virtualbox doesn't cause the CPU to clock up when idle; just like a natively running OS should. Cool stuff.
As for controlling the power of the other subsystems, if your wifi chipset supports it, iwconfig can manage power of the radio with the txpower parameter.
Novell Netware isn't open source. I'm not sure about Novell Zenworks, Groupwise, eDirectory, Identity Services, etc. I think those are Novell's "main" products. As for Sun, Solaris isn't 100% open source. Also Sun is largely a hardware company.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't IBM put a lot of focus on developing and promoting open source? And last i checked they're a bigger company than Sun and Novell combined. As for Novell, who takes their open source work seriously in light of their ties with Microsoft and the associated legal landmine?
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Perhaps you mean a Firefox plugin for Emacs?
Linus started out with Minix as a foundation but the OS we know today as Linux turned out to be worlds different from Minix. Linus wanted to create a replacement for Minix; he wanted to create "a better Minix than Minix." And as Linus himself posted on comp.os.minix: "I'm working on a free version of a Minix-lookalike for AT-386 computers."
Linux just didn't grow out from scratch out of thin air.
If you worry about us, a bunch of tech geeks, not having heard about them, they haven't made a huge impact, have they?
Probably not to you and me, but from what i understand some of ast's works have a good following in academic and research circles. Personally i believe academic and research environments are where the Real Fun happens. I should know; i wish i was doing that kind of hardcore research. And who knows, maybe ast's ideas are just way ahead of their time?
Right. If AST is the hot shot writing OSes, why aren't we all using GNU/Minix? The answer is in the flamefest: Minix is meant to be a teaching tool, not a production OS.
I think Linus learned most of the things he needed to know to create Linux from the book. The rest is history. When i first read the OS book Linux hadn't been invented yet. And when Linux came along and i found out it was based on Minix, my love of the book took on an even greater sense of awe in knowing that its contents became the seed of a most remarkably revolutionary OS.
So Andy Tanenbaum is now a mere "tech expert"? That's a big step down from "CS god."
For the uninformed, ast wrote a kinda good book on operating systems called "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation." I believe this one guy from Finland wrote an OS called Linux based on another OS called Minix discussed in that book (and even got into the flamefest of the century with the Finnish guy!). And then there's a bunch of other stuff you may or may not know about, such as the Amoeba distributed OS, a free anonymous p2p network called Turtle, and probably a few other knick-knacks along the way.
Seriously, give the Man due credit.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but didn't he sell mysql to Sun way before there was even the slightest hint of an acquisition by Oracle? In fact, i don't think anybody even saw the Oracle-Sun deal coming.
My experience with listening to music at the workplace has been more positive than negative. Only one employer (NEC) actively prohibited listening to personal music, while others allowed it. One other employer in particular (Epson) even had music streamed non-stop over a PA. (Granted, when management realized more people were listening to personal players instead, they discontinued the use of the PA.)
I don't have S(ATA|CSI) you insensitive clod!
He should nuke his head from orbit. That's the only way to be sure.
I'm a one-man orchestra with my skinflute.
"English Shell Code Could Make Security Harder"
I was disappointed to find after reading the summary and article that english shell code doesn't improve security after all. What a misleading title.