I remember reading an article on this technology about 15 years ago. The article said it would hold a few terabytes non-volitile in the size of a sugar-cube
Holographic memory. Problem is growing pure, uniform crystals in 1G. Access times were supposed to be on the order of 1ns. And no bus contention or wait states.
If it could be used for primary memory, what happens to files and how they are viewed (logistically not physically). Would we need 'virtual' files on a RAM-disk or something more abstract?
Initially the RAM disk idea would work. Most modern OSes have RAM disk capability, so there wouldn't really need to be major modifications.
" The binary switchover happened as a marketing scheme sometime between 100MB and 1GB - it was at one of those two milestones, as one of the major manufacturers wanted bragging rights getting there first, as I recall. Since then, "
That's correct. MFM and RLL drives weren't marketed with the "new" definition. The first HD I remember using the "new" def was the 540MB IDE drive. It was actually a 528MB (real MB) and the BIOSes of the day could only address 512MB (real MB), so you needed a device driver to access the whole thing.
Have you contacted the developers at www.winehq.org or www.transgaming.com (winex) about this?
You say the Star Reading and Star Math programs run on Mac. Mac OS X is BSD based, which is a *nix. I know almost nothing about Macs, but that should make it fairly easy to port to X11 on GNU/Linux.
For the Mac people, is Mac OS X a superset of X11? (I.e., can you run X11 binaries) If so then having this company that makes Star [Reading|Math] change to X11 would give them the best of both worlds...
I used to use DOSMax, SHELLMax and ENVMax. Don't have any memory stats, but google found this. QEMM386.SYS + DOXMax and friends gave him 644,384 (629K) conventional memory free. And he has a ton of stuff loaded high. (SMARTDRV? GAG!!)
I think I once got a SVGA system to recognize 704KB. I must have been able to use the A000 segment somehow. Some programs that played around a bit with memory (there were many back then) freaked on that setup.
Second, clicking 3 times (Windows Update, Scan for Patches, Install) is a lot simpler than the 10 or so that Red Hat requires. (I only have Red Hat Network to compare to, so if there's any better way to update RH8, someone let me know.)
OK. From a mostly default install of RH7.1 on my Dell Inspiron 5000e laptop (which installed flawlessly btw):
1) I click the little red circle with the '!' on the task bar. This opens the "Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool".
2)Click "Launch Up2date"
3)Enter root password
4)Next
5)Next
6)Click "Select all packages"
7)Next
8)Next
9)Next
10)Finish
11)Close the "Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool"
See, that easy. 11 easy steps instead of 3 for Windows.
Uh, shit...
(Non-gamer, so no Windows machine. Is it really just 3 clicks to update Windows? Probably needs at least 1 reboot though. HAH!)
The other twist would be the built-in firewall software.
Uncle Bill will have the firewall built into the OS, just like his browser. (a.k.a., "tying", antitrust trial, part 2?) Achieved, what, 90%+ usage of IE which has resulted in quite a mess. Probably use Passport and.Net, too...
Maybe not. If we get all 50 U.S. states to pass different anti-spam laws, plus lots of other countries, it will become very difficult for spammers to follow this tangle of laws.
Two things that need to be done though. First we need anti-spam laws to target more than just porn. I don't read my spam, but most of it doesn't appear to be porn. Viagra, second mortgage, ink jet refills, that kind of crap. Might not be able to drill down and target everything.
Second we need to make it illegal to spoof *ANY* email headers. Valid return email, originating IP, everything.
The only thing that will seriously hurt spam will be opt-out lists, just like the new one with the telemarketers. All spammers must check the list before each spam run and clean their databases of those that opt-out.
This would be a great case mod. Software controlled pyro or smoke generation built into the case. Freak out your mom (most of you guys still live at home right), impress your geek friends (all two of them)!!
The source code for which Caldera International, Inc. grants rights are limited to the following Unix Operating Systems that operate on the 16-Bit PDP-11 CPU and early versions of the 32-Bit Unix Operating System, with specific exclusion of Unix System III and Unix System V and successor operating systems:...
This is the very old codebase, just when 32-bit CPUs started showing up. And they specifically exclude Sys III and Sys V, which are the modern incantations of Unix.
That's called getting "booked", as in "Book 'em, Dano!" from the '70s show _Hawaii 5-0_. On the Valley/Tornado foosball table 5 points wins, so a shutout means the score is 5-0.
No spinning. There are various rule books about, mostly associated with a specific table. Checkoutthesesites for more info on foos and foos rules in the USA. Also read the Usenet Newsgroup rec.sport.table-soccer.
Sorry, don't have links to Euro-foosin' or elsewhere. Anyone?
A Better Way(TM), but more involved, would be to eat up their server bandwidth instead of thier (and your) IP bandwidth.
I don't know enough about HTML/perl/etc., but there must be a way to set up a script to submit queries to the "Search this site" box that most websites have. Vary the query so it cannot be cached. Doesn't really matter if the search terms are meaningful./dev/random even. Just make thier Win2K/IIS server farm chug away on thousands of searches for hours.
And before PL/1 there was Algol60. I remember reading algorithms from ACM that were all Algol60 or psuedo-code. I actually wrote some code in both PL/1 and Algol60 on the big iron I had accounts on in college.
Also, I took a simulation class where we used GPSS-V (General Purpose Simulation System, Ver 5 ??). Enterpreted language, at least on IBM 370s running VM/CMS. Had to have a "special account" since my simulation was of nuclear events. It sucked 100% of available CPU cycles for hours. Our sysadmin made me agree to not do test runs except at the wee hours on weekends...:-)
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Anybody got one for SovietRussiaSCSI? (I just woke up...)
NataliePortmanSCSI?
I, for one, welcome my new SCSI overlords!
I remember reading an article on this technology about 15 years ago. The article said it would hold a few terabytes non-volitile in the size of a sugar-cube
Holographic memory. Problem is growing pure, uniform crystals in 1G. Access times were supposed to be on the order of 1ns. And no bus contention or wait states.
If it could be used for primary memory, what happens to files and how they are viewed (logistically not physically). Would we need 'virtual' files on a RAM-disk or something more abstract?
Initially the RAM disk idea would work. Most modern OSes have RAM disk capability, so there wouldn't really need to be major modifications.
Unfortunately Cox Cable hasn't fixed this.
" The binary switchover happened as a marketing scheme sometime between 100MB and 1GB - it was at one of those two milestones, as one of the major manufacturers wanted bragging rights getting there first, as I recall. Since then, "
That's correct. MFM and RLL drives weren't marketed with the "new" definition. The first HD I remember using the "new" def was the 540MB IDE drive. It was actually a 528MB (real MB) and the BIOSes of the day could only address 512MB (real MB), so you needed a device driver to access the whole thing.
1994/5?
Have you contacted the developers at www.winehq.org or www.transgaming.com (winex) about this?
You say the Star Reading and Star Math programs run on Mac. Mac OS X is BSD based, which is a *nix. I know almost nothing about Macs, but that should make it fairly easy to port to X11 on GNU/Linux.
For the Mac people, is Mac OS X a superset of X11? (I.e., can you run X11 binaries) If so then having this company that makes Star [Reading|Math] change to X11 would give them the best of both worlds...
I used to use DOSMax, SHELLMax and ENVMax. Don't have any memory stats, but google found this. QEMM386.SYS + DOXMax and friends gave him 644,384 (629K) conventional memory free. And he has a ton of stuff loaded high. (SMARTDRV? GAG!!)
I think I once got a SVGA system to recognize 704KB. I must have been able to use the A000 segment somehow. Some programs that played around a bit with memory (there were many back then) freaked on that setup.
1) Next time your PHB "needs" a new PC get one of these factory mod cases with a window.
2) Install these fancy new RAM modules with the blinking lights as well as some of the other things you can see at any LAN party.
3) Profit!
Note: ALL PHBs love blinking lights.
...own this company?
"I've been playing with/testing - our sister"
We report, you decide...
Chief Software Architect (or whatever he calls himself) Uncle Bill is too busy plotting the next SCO press release.
Second, clicking 3 times (Windows Update, Scan for Patches, Install) is a lot simpler than the 10 or so that Red Hat requires. (I only have Red Hat Network to compare to, so if there's any better way to update RH8, someone let me know.)
OK. From a mostly default install of RH7.1 on my Dell Inspiron 5000e laptop (which installed flawlessly btw):
1) I click the little red circle with the '!' on the task bar. This opens the "Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool".
2)Click "Launch Up2date"
3)Enter root password
4)Next
5)Next
6)Click "Select all packages"
7)Next
8)Next
9)Next
10)Finish
11)Close the "Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool"
See, that easy. 11 easy steps instead of 3 for Windows.
Uh, shit...
(Non-gamer, so no Windows machine. Is it really just 3 clicks to update Windows? Probably needs at least 1 reboot though. HAH!)
The other twist would be the built-in firewall software.
.Net, too...
Uncle Bill will have the firewall built into the OS, just like his browser. (a.k.a., "tying", antitrust trial, part 2?) Achieved, what, 90%+ usage of IE which has resulted in quite a mess. Probably use Passport and
Maybe not. If we get all 50 U.S. states to pass different anti-spam laws, plus lots of other countries, it will become very difficult for spammers to follow this tangle of laws.
Two things that need to be done though. First we need anti-spam laws to target more than just porn. I don't read my spam, but most of it doesn't appear to be porn. Viagra, second mortgage, ink jet refills, that kind of crap. Might not be able to drill down and target everything.
Second we need to make it illegal to spoof *ANY* email headers. Valid return email, originating IP, everything.
The only thing that will seriously hurt spam will be opt-out lists, just like the new one with the telemarketers. All spammers must check the list before each spam run and clean their databases of those that opt-out.
This would be a great case mod. Software controlled pyro or smoke generation built into the case. Freak out your mom (most of you guys still live at home right), impress your geek friends (all two of them)!!
From the .pdf you linked to:
...
The source code for which Caldera International, Inc. grants rights are limited to the following Unix Operating Systems that operate on the 16-Bit PDP-11 CPU and early versions of the 32-Bit Unix Operating System, with specific exclusion of Unix System III and Unix System V and successor operating systems:
This is the very old codebase, just when 32-bit CPUs started showing up. And they specifically exclude Sys III and Sys V, which are the modern incantations of Unix.
Wow.
Or here or buy some tapes from here.
That's called getting "booked", as in "Book 'em, Dano!" from the '70s show _Hawaii 5-0_. On the Valley/Tornado foosball table 5 points wins, so a shutout means the score is 5-0.
No spinning. There are various rule books about, mostly associated with a specific table. Checkout these sites for more info on foos and foos rules in the USA. Also read the Usenet Newsgroup rec.sport.table-soccer.
Sorry, don't have links to Euro-foosin' or elsewhere. Anyone?
I'd love to play foos against you 1-on-1 some time. You would never call my 5-man hack "cheap". I shoot it in doubles, also.
20+ years playing pro tournament foos...
A Better Way(TM), but more involved, would be to eat up their server bandwidth instead of thier (and your) IP bandwidth.
/dev/random even. Just make thier Win2K/IIS server farm chug away on thousands of searches for hours.
I don't know enough about HTML/perl/etc., but there must be a way to set up a script to submit queries to the "Search this site" box that most websites have. Vary the query so it cannot be cached. Doesn't really matter if the search terms are meaningful.
Well, for one thing, guys wouldn't need so much hand lotion.
A Korean man named Kim...that certainly narrows it down!
But when you consider this line from the article:
"He then went to the toilet where he later was found dead..."
I'll bet his first name is Elvis...
That would explain Thomas A. Edison, no?
And before PL/1 there was Algol60. I remember reading algorithms from ACM that were all Algol60 or psuedo-code. I actually wrote some code in both PL/1 and Algol60 on the big iron I had accounts on in college.
:-)
Also, I took a simulation class where we used GPSS-V (General Purpose Simulation System, Ver 5 ??). Enterpreted language, at least on IBM 370s running VM/CMS. Had to have a "special account" since my simulation was of nuclear events. It sucked 100% of available CPU cycles for hours. Our sysadmin made me agree to not do test runs except at the wee hours on weekends...