RMS hits the nail on the head. Part of what he said, relating to programs having to be signed to run on a box, goes back to the whole X-Box situation. Microsoft uses software royalties to subsidize the cost of the hardware, so they think they should be able to tell people that they can't run unsigned content.
Consumers shouldn't have to accept restrictive licensing terms to use consumer electronics. Moreover, the government shouldn't get in the business of requiring Palladium-type software in electronics -- that would mean that the government is validating or endorsing their business model, which it shouldn't be in the business of doing.
The crux is that glass's structure is not clearly solid or clearly liquid. The explanation for the windows that have thicker bottoms than tops is that the old processes for making glass involved blowing a large bubble and then spinning it. The glass had non-uniform thickness, and was typically installed with the heavy end down.
They used to do that repackaging thing, but nowadays, they're more like a fork. They'll try to maintain RedHat compatibility, but they're not simply repackaging RedHat anymore. They're more like a fork.
Regarding MySQL not starting on startup, I found that for some reason, Mandrake put the kill script (K90mysql instead of S90mysql) in runlevel 5. Go to/etc/rc5.d and change the name to S90mysql and you should be good to go.
My wheel mouse requires moving the mouse wheel a lot, with the cursor jumping all over the screen. Then it suddenly gets everything reinitialized and it starts working properly.
It's been that way in Mandrake since 6.0ish. Not one iota of difference in this bug in all that time.
The AS/400s and iSeries, like the Cray you mentioned, have I/O processors that offload most of the grunt work from the main processor. They even have crypto cards available.
IBM's idea will take these I/O processors and put them into the processor module.
Onus is on you to prove the positive. It's not like there are no reasons for Apple to move to Intel hardware, but the fact of the matter is that if they move to standard white box PCs, a lot of their hallmark strengths (true Plug 'n Play being primary) will completely vanish.
It's no secret that OS X has been in parallel development on Intel boxes from day 1.
The PowerPC architecture was an offshoot of the Power architecture used in IBM's RS/6000s. There's actually a pretty interesting history to all this mess, but the upshot is that the 64-bit "PowerPC" architecture has been in use since 1995 in AS/400s. Actual PowerPC has been 32-bit all along, and will be until the 1.8GHz chip comes out next year.
Here's a reference by one of the guys involved in the design of the chip (Frank Soltis, original architect of the S/38, AS/400, and iSeries): When is PowerPC not PowerPC?
Heh, some of IBM's work in PowerPC-related design already does this. The Power4 chip, which is used in the pSeries (RS/6000+) and iSeries (AS/400+) hosts 5 different architectures in the core, 2 of these are 32-bit (32-bit Power and PowerPC) and 3 of these are 64-bit (64-bit Power, PowerPC, and "Amazon"). If they put their mind to it (but I doubt they would), it wouldn't be hard.
--rdean
p.s.--"Amazon" was a codename for the chip architecture that was going to merge the AS/400 and RS/6000 lines in the early 90s. The project was scrapped, but the resulting instruction set was used in the AS/400 line during its migration from CISC to RISC architecture.
Since Southwest has an 800 number for getting tickets, isn't this a bit like a parapalegic suing to make the stairs accessible when the elevator is right around the corner?
If this goes to trial, it seems like that would be a good legal theory to try out.
Whether he deserved it or not depends totally on the context. If he brought it to their attention "as a concerned citizen", knowing that insecurities of wireless networks can be exploited intentionally or accidentally, then they should have heard him out and then fixed it. However, if he brought it to their attention in more of a "look what I can do" fashion, then he deserved what he got.
While it's good to have more and more foolproof encryption methods, the problem is there's an evil element out there that will make use of this for their planning.
Of course, it's not like it does us a lot of good even when we are able to intercept these messages, with the long-term ineptitude of the FBI and CIA.
Depends on the data you're storing and your methods of accessing said data. If you're doing a bunch of record-at-a-time retrievals, then latency is going to bite you in the bum. However, if you're doing a bunch of large scale operations (such as queries that return lots of results), then the latency won't matter as much.
Of course, I'd like to see some numbers working on IBM's X-architecture, which essentially brings mainframe and AS/400 technology to the xSeries Intel server.
Are they planning to do anything to recycle these discs? I'm not an environmental nut, but I don't like the idea of entertainment designed to become garbage after its used, especially when there are alternatives.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking that man is the sole cause of global warming. While it is foolish to think that we don't have *any* effect on global warming, it is perhaps even more foolish to think that we are the sole cause of it.
If you take away the entirety of the world's industrial production, you're still going to have global warming long after the "industrial" gases are gone.
What I'm concerned about is that when you're talking about mozilla on linux, you're talking about a GCC-compiled application calling GCC-compiled libraries. Differences in optimization efficiency between GCC and VC++ could lead to large disparities in performance.
The question was really about how well GCC optimizes code and if that could be a contributing (not sole) factor to Mozilla/linux's performance woes.
1) the respondents in the survey were executives. While they may generally know what's going on, they often don't know specifically. I know many of the biggest companies already have Linux deployed, and these companies are big enough that the CIO's might not even known most of the OS's they run. This leads into a second point...
2) the survey is about spending priorities. That Linux isn't a spending priority doesn't mean that corporations won't adopt it. My take is that a) Linux is low-cost, so the spending levels for it are minimal, b) the top spending priority, Windows, is still a "requirement" for most companies because Office doesn't run natively on Linux, and StarOffice isn't good enough yet.
"No amount of technology will turn a bad story into a good one."
Having seen all four of their films, I have to say that they do a marvelous job of holding to that. Start with a great story, and the animation is just the icing on the cake.
Umm....that's not true. AOL lets you use any IMAP-enabled mail client (e.g., I got hooked into one of those sign up for 3 years and we'll give you $400 to spend deals, and I haven't logged into the AOL client in over a year). I use mozilla for my AOL mail.
...if this is some type of way for Oracle/Sun to head off part of Passport's raison d'etre. With a national ID card registry, building services on top of that database would be easier than building against a proprietary.Net architecture.
I think there are a lot more applets on the net, getting a lot more hits, than most people think. If you go to many of the major games sites that offer things like spades online, you'll notice that their games are most often implemented in Java (shockwave being the likely second). There are a lot of people playing these games, and it makes sense that the IE users will eventually upgrade to IE6, and they'll go get Sun's Java plug-in so they can continue playing their games.
I think the biggest thing Sun could do to get people to keep using Java is to raise the awareness of these sites, so that people use them and keep a Java-enabled browser around.
Actually TokenRing tops out in the gigabit range, although Fast TR implementations will probably only be seen in those installations that are so heavily reliant on ring topologies that Ethernet would kill their bandwidth.
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RMS hits the nail on the head. Part of what he said, relating to programs having to be signed to run on a box, goes back to the whole X-Box situation. Microsoft uses software royalties to subsidize the cost of the hardware, so they think they should be able to tell people that they can't run unsigned content.
Consumers shouldn't have to accept restrictive licensing terms to use consumer electronics. Moreover, the government shouldn't get in the business of requiring Palladium-type software in electronics -- that would mean that the government is validating or endorsing their business model, which it shouldn't be in the business of doing.
Look here for a discussion...Is glass liquid or solid?
The crux is that glass's structure is not clearly solid or clearly liquid. The explanation for the windows that have thicker bottoms than tops is that the old processes for making glass involved blowing a large bubble and then spinning it. The glass had non-uniform thickness, and was typically installed with the heavy end down.
They used to do that repackaging thing, but nowadays, they're more like a fork. They'll try to maintain RedHat compatibility, but they're not simply repackaging RedHat anymore. They're more like a fork.
Regarding MySQL not starting on startup, I found that for some reason, Mandrake put the kill script (K90mysql instead of S90mysql) in runlevel 5. Go to /etc/rc5.d and change the name to S90mysql and you should be good to go.
My wheel mouse requires moving the mouse wheel a lot, with the cursor jumping all over the screen. Then it suddenly gets everything reinitialized and it starts working properly.
It's been that way in Mandrake since 6.0ish. Not one iota of difference in this bug in all that time.
The AS/400s and iSeries, like the Cray you mentioned, have I/O processors that offload most of the grunt work from the main processor. They even have crypto cards available.
IBM's idea will take these I/O processors and put them into the processor module.
Onus is on you to prove the positive. It's not like there are no reasons for Apple to move to Intel hardware, but the fact of the matter is that if they move to standard white box PCs, a lot of their hallmark strengths (true Plug 'n Play being primary) will completely vanish.
It's no secret that OS X has been in parallel development on Intel boxes from day 1.
The PowerPC architecture was an offshoot of the Power architecture used in IBM's RS/6000s. There's actually a pretty interesting history to all this mess, but the upshot is that the 64-bit "PowerPC" architecture has been in use since 1995 in AS/400s. Actual PowerPC has been 32-bit all along, and will be until the 1.8GHz chip comes out next year.
Here's a reference by one of the guys involved in the design of the chip (Frank Soltis, original architect of the S/38, AS/400, and iSeries): When is PowerPC not PowerPC?
Heh, some of IBM's work in PowerPC-related design already does this. The Power4 chip, which is used in the pSeries (RS/6000+) and iSeries (AS/400+) hosts 5 different architectures in the core, 2 of these are 32-bit (32-bit Power and PowerPC) and 3 of these are 64-bit (64-bit Power, PowerPC, and "Amazon"). If they put their mind to it (but I doubt they would), it wouldn't be hard.
--rdean
p.s.--"Amazon" was a codename for the chip architecture that was going to merge the AS/400 and RS/6000 lines in the early 90s. The project was scrapped, but the resulting instruction set was used in the AS/400 line during its migration from CISC to RISC architecture.
Since Southwest has an 800 number for getting tickets, isn't this a bit like a parapalegic suing to make the stairs accessible when the elevator is right around the corner?
If this goes to trial, it seems like that would be a good legal theory to try out.
Whether he deserved it or not depends totally on the context. If he brought it to their attention "as a concerned citizen", knowing that insecurities of wireless networks can be exploited intentionally or accidentally, then they should have heard him out and then fixed it. However, if he brought it to their attention in more of a "look what I can do" fashion, then he deserved what he got.
While it's good to have more and more foolproof encryption methods, the problem is there's an evil element out there that will make use of this for their planning.
Of course, it's not like it does us a lot of good even when we are able to intercept these messages, with the long-term ineptitude of the FBI and CIA.
Depends on the data you're storing and your methods of accessing said data. If you're doing a bunch of record-at-a-time retrievals, then latency is going to bite you in the bum. However, if you're doing a bunch of large scale operations (such as queries that return lots of results), then the latency won't matter as much.
Of course, I'd like to see some numbers working on IBM's X-architecture, which essentially brings mainframe and AS/400 technology to the xSeries Intel server.
Are they planning to do anything to recycle these discs? I'm not an environmental nut, but I don't like the idea of entertainment designed to become garbage after its used, especially when there are alternatives.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking that man is the sole cause of global warming. While it is foolish to think that we don't have *any* effect on global warming, it is perhaps even more foolish to think that we are the sole cause of it.
If you take away the entirety of the world's industrial production, you're still going to have global warming long after the "industrial" gases are gone.
What I'm concerned about is that when you're talking about mozilla on linux, you're talking about a GCC-compiled application calling GCC-compiled libraries. Differences in optimization efficiency between GCC and VC++ could lead to large disparities in performance.
The question was really about how well GCC optimizes code and if that could be a contributing (not sole) factor to Mozilla/linux's performance woes.
One thing I've always been curious about is the effect of the compiler on performance. VC++ produces fairly quick code. How does GCC code compare?
1) the respondents in the survey were executives. While they may generally know what's going on, they often don't know specifically. I know many of the biggest companies already have Linux deployed, and these companies are big enough that the CIO's might not even known most of the OS's they run. This leads into a second point...
2) the survey is about spending priorities. That Linux isn't a spending priority doesn't mean that corporations won't adopt it. My take is that a) Linux is low-cost, so the spending levels for it are minimal, b) the top spending priority, Windows, is still a "requirement" for most companies because Office doesn't run natively on Linux, and StarOffice isn't good enough yet.
"No amount of technology will turn a bad story into a good one."
Having seen all four of their films, I have to say that they do a marvelous job of holding to that. Start with a great story, and the animation is just the icing on the cake.
Umm....that's not true. AOL lets you use any IMAP-enabled mail client (e.g., I got hooked into one of those sign up for 3 years and we'll give you $400 to spend deals, and I haven't logged into the AOL client in over a year). I use mozilla for my AOL mail.
...if this is some type of way for Oracle/Sun to head off part of Passport's raison d'etre. With a national ID card registry, building services on top of that database would be easier than building against a proprietary .Net architecture.
Dragonballs are members of the 68K family (e.g., 68EZ328).
You're 50% right. They are not different architectures, but they don't have the same ISA.
Power has a larger instruction set, including 64-bit support (been there since 1994ish, when AS/400 went 64-bit RISC).
I think there are a lot more applets on the net, getting a lot more hits, than most people think. If you go to many of the major games sites that offer things like spades online, you'll notice that their games are most often implemented in Java (shockwave being the likely second). There are a lot of people playing these games, and it makes sense that the IE users will eventually upgrade to IE6, and they'll go get Sun's Java plug-in so they can continue playing their games.
I think the biggest thing Sun could do to get people to keep using Java is to raise the awareness of these sites, so that people use them and keep a Java-enabled browser around.
Actually TokenRing tops out in the gigabit range, although Fast TR implementations will probably only be seen in those installations that are so heavily reliant on ring topologies that Ethernet would kill their bandwidth.