That is probably encouraged, because this mean that MS people are more efficent that way.
However, in MS, there is someone that can step into the room, say: "I want it that way, make it so!" and everyone will do it.
Nothing like that in AOL-TimeWarner Sony partnership.
That SGI Machine is actually 4 machines.
4CPUs per machine, that makes it 16 CPUs in a clusters.
And Win2K is *still* the price/performance record holder.
The average PHB will look at the price tag *first*.
Then he will ask for a couple of other results, and see that the second runner up cost 1/4, *then* he will start to compare performance per dollar.
How man KLOC there are in RH even a strip down distribution?
To read the kernel alone would takes a long time.
Then you've all of POSIX's applications, bash, X, favoraite WM of choice, browser, email client, etc.
Coding can be *boring*.
I don't see it as a hard thing to convince a couple of programmers to code a flight simulator into a spread sheet.
It's a way to relax, and take a look at Apple's previous bug fixed, they were *filled* with such easter eggs.
I do find it hard to concive a way to make dev team agree to enter a backdoor.
BTW, easter eggs are fun, get them here:
http://www.mysteries-megasite.com/eastereggs/egg -1.html
If MS decide to plant a back door in IIS, you wouldn't know about it.
It would be something totally innocent looking, so even if you *did* discover it, it would look like a bug, not a back door.
It's going to fail.
They can't sell it like other consoles, because it's open, so they won't make up their loses from the games.
And the hardware is going to be changed quite often, so here goes the other advantage of the console.
Open platform is against what consoles *are*, too.
You are supposed to sell the box at a loss, and make up for it in games.
How are you going to do that with an open platform?
You can't. So you need to make profit from the *boxes*.
That mean that the Nokia box would cost much more the Xbox, frex.
Not to mention that an open platform mean unstable hardware (unstable meaning that not everything is the same), which takes away much of the advantages of console.
There are two advantages of a gaming console.
From the consumer point of view, they are cheap, compare to PCs. 300$ is the going rate, I believe.
And they manage selling the consoles at a loss because they can charge *software developers* to make up the money.
Will Nokia be able to do this? No. You will have to pay *real* price, plus profit for Nokia.
So, would you take XBox @ 300$, or NokiaBox @ 750$ ?
Well, you are reading slashdot, so the naswer is pretty clear, but what would the average consumer buy?
Second, and more important, is hardware stability.
If you write to a console, you know that all other consoles of the same type are *identical*. So you can max out performance by depending on stuff that you can't depend on being present on PCs.
Nokia's plane to have an open platform, meaning clones, meaning mixed hardware.
So, the games wouldn't be as good, and it would cost more. Oh, joy, let's all go and get it because it's running Linux.
Sorry, this sound like a vastly inferior product to me.
The Linux security model is really a disaster when the root password is found out by a regular user.
Duh! If you know the password, then there is no security. It's *your* job to keep the password safe.
Database: Windows comes with ODBC, and drivers for couple of stuff, so you don't need Access for it.
If you want a database access UI, then it's a different matter, but most people don't need this.
Err on the small side, it's a plug & play system, after all.
Regedit is a tool to browse the registry, nothing more.
BTW, I wouldn't be surprised if this is by design behaviour, to speed up recognizing hardware that you took off the computer.
Beside, registry reading is *very* fast.
Funny, isn't it? That I can burn CDs on my Whistler beta (early one, to boot) and using Whistler's CD-Burner, too.
And at the same time, Mac OS X can't, even though it's released?
Slashdot Mirror
Troll?!
Here is the link to NASA's research:
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/PAO/html/warp/
They list several ways to do it.
My spelling is not to be trusted :-)
Alcubierre's warp drive
And here is the link to NASA's research:
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/PAO/html/warp/
Go to Ideas based on what we'd like to achieve to read about it.
I think that this would be noticable to observations in the solar system if it was so.
That is probably encouraged, because this mean that MS people are more efficent that way.
However, in MS, there is someone that can step into the room, say: "I want it that way, make it so!" and everyone will do it.
Nothing like that in AOL-TimeWarner Sony partnership.
God, guard me from my friends, I'll guard against my foes myself.
That SGI Machine is actually 4 machines.
4CPUs per machine, that makes it 16 CPUs in a clusters.
And Win2K is *still* the price/performance record holder.
The average PHB will look at the price tag *first*.
Then he will ask for a couple of other results, and see that the second runner up cost 1/4, *then* he will start to compare performance per dollar.
But it isn't a single server, it's four machines clustered.
And it cost 4x then the CompaQ result.
MS-SQL can certainly handle this, and much larger data sets.
Just check TCP-C, where it *rules*.
Did you mean MySQL?
Yes, RIGHT!
How man KLOC there are in RH even a strip down distribution?
To read the kernel alone would takes a long time.
Then you've all of POSIX's applications, bash, X, favoraite WM of choice, browser, email client, etc.
You are *never* going to get through everything.
Because if you want system level granularity, you don't set the group policies to prevent it.
The point in group policies is that you set it up in one place, and it override anything else.
search: linux apache security hole
How many?
No, it doesn't.
Apache on Win32 is a joke.
Coding can be *boring*.
g -1 .html
I don't see it as a hard thing to convince a couple of programmers to code a flight simulator into a spread sheet.
It's a way to relax, and take a look at Apple's previous bug fixed, they were *filled* with such easter eggs.
I do find it hard to concive a way to make dev team agree to enter a backdoor.
BTW, easter eggs are fun, get them here:
http://www.mysteries-megasite.com/eastereggs/eg
If MS decide to plant a back door in IIS, you wouldn't know about it.
It would be something totally innocent looking, so even if you *did* discover it, it would look like a bug, not a back door.
It's going to fail.
They can't sell it like other consoles, because it's open, so they won't make up their loses from the games.
And the hardware is going to be changed quite often, so here goes the other advantage of the console.
Open platform is against what consoles *are*, too.
You are supposed to sell the box at a loss, and make up for it in games.
How are you going to do that with an open platform?
You can't. So you need to make profit from the *boxes*.
That mean that the Nokia box would cost much more the Xbox, frex.
Not to mention that an open platform mean unstable hardware (unstable meaning that not everything is the same), which takes away much of the advantages of console.
There are two advantages of a gaming console.
From the consumer point of view, they are cheap, compare to PCs. 300$ is the going rate, I believe.
And they manage selling the consoles at a loss because they can charge *software developers* to make up the money.
Will Nokia be able to do this? No. You will have to pay *real* price, plus profit for Nokia.
So, would you take XBox @ 300$, or NokiaBox @ 750$ ?
Well, you are reading slashdot, so the naswer is pretty clear, but what would the average consumer buy?
Second, and more important, is hardware stability.
If you write to a console, you know that all other consoles of the same type are *identical*. So you can max out performance by depending on stuff that you can't depend on being present on PCs.
Nokia's plane to have an open platform, meaning clones, meaning mixed hardware.
So, the games wouldn't be as good, and it would cost more. Oh, joy, let's all go and get it because it's running Linux.
Sorry, this sound like a vastly inferior product to me.
The Linux security model is really a disaster when the root password is found out by a regular user.
Duh! If you know the password, then there is no security. It's *your* job to keep the password safe.
Thinking about it, it wouldn't work without some major redesign in Windows' COM Server, so it's a no-no
The BIND bug was for how long?
Sendmail? wu-ftp?
Database: Windows comes with ODBC, and drivers for couple of stuff, so you don't need Access for it.
If you want a database access UI, then it's a different matter, but most people don't need this.
Err on the small side, it's a plug & play system, after all.
Regedit is a tool to browse the registry, nothing more.
BTW, I wouldn't be surprised if this is by design behaviour, to speed up recognizing hardware that you took off the computer.
Beside, registry reading is *very* fast.
Funny, isn't it? That I can burn CDs on my Whistler beta (early one, to boot) and using Whistler's CD-Burner, too.
And at the same time, Mac OS X can't, even though it's released?
Windows XP can.
It would be quite trivial to do the same on Linux.