NSS is not based on OpenSSL, it is derived from the first set of Netscape SSL libraries. SSLeay and OpenSSL have re-implemented what was in NSS (although with a different API) to provide the same functionality and interoperablity. The good reason not to use OpenSSL is that they have wrote this software and have used it and have tailored the browser to use it long before it could of been released, along with the fact that the code is in C++, the same language as Mozilla. The code is secure enough, it is what sun and netscape use in there iPlanet servers and it is what you use right now in-order to surf the web in a secure fasion under netscape.
Q. Wasn't the i860 a graphics processor at one time?
I think it was later included as an motherboard co-processor much like the x87, but never really did much. The only intel graphics processors I know of was the i740 and the new i810 and i815 chipsets. Intel didn't do much with graphics until the bought chips and technologies in the mid -90's.
I don't disagree with the NewJersey principle at all, but Intel has tried to replace x86 with the iAPX432 and the i860. (I can't recall the other attempt, I want to say the i960, but that wasn't a general purpose processor) The press releases and company touted both as a replacement for the even then aging x86, but since the customers wanted the x86 they kept pushing the instruction set, even if they knew it was begining to show its age. I wasn't blaming them at all, for trying. But quite simply they are not starting over, and never will. The failures of the previous attempts (since they were not x86 compatible) have bogged down the IA-64 architecture. It was never inteded to have x86 instructions when it was created by HP. HP intended to have the PA-RISC emmulated in software and thought Intel would do the same with the x86. Intel was unwilling to break with x86 and had everything redesigned to include x86 instrucitons where they didn't belong, in the next generation chip. HP was willing to break with its PA-RISC series, so why couldn't Intel? Intel will never have a clean break. Again, because they know all the customer's want it x86. They've done an admirable job of bringing it into today. All in all though, I'm suprised they didn't start a Sledgehammer x86-64 project of their own.
By that logic, the PPC or the Alpha or even the 68000 should of displaced the x86 along time ago.
But every attempt by Intel to replace the x86 has failed. x86 was a stop gap, it was to give the market something before 8800 was to come out. 8800 failed badly becuase the x86 was so popular. The 8800 was a much better solution, but it still failed. Intel tried 3 other times to replace the x86 but each time they failed due to lack of compatibility. With the x86's installed base, it won't be replaced.
Whether we like it or not, the stop gap known as x86 will be around for pretty much ever for pretty much the same reasons that what ever microsoft will do, they can never completely kill off dos. It will always be needed for backwards compatibilty. Why does the transmeta chip emmulate x86? All the software is already made for the x86 architecture. The IA-64, which you imply can fix all this (with the PPC) will still be x86 compatible. And when have you last coded in assembly, and not in a higher langauge like C, Java, etc. Assembly in IA-64 will be next to impossible. As for true x86 chips coming to market, the last one was the Pentium. Since this time all chips have been risc, even the Pentium Pro, Pentium 4, and Athlon They've just had x86 translators on to provide what the customer wants, x86.
NATs are not VPNs.
NATs are used to connect more than one computer to the internet using something like Windows Connection Sharing or IPMasq or Netfilter. A VPN is connection of two computer using authentication and encryption. Each of the computers has its own IP numbers, but all traffic is encrypted. FreeSWAN and Compaq Tunnel are examples of this as well as IPSec. VPNs are really useful in talking to a private network at work. Tunnel into the network and you can work on you stuff without a reasonable fear that it is being sniffed. Whay they would want to prevent this I do not know? Maybe they don't like people working from home and think everyone should just work from work. Probably they'd want to raise prices for people to work at home and make them sign up for @work. Or they could just be confused. It happens.
Apache has been ported to NT, by IBM. There is nothing unusually about it. It's sort of neat to run Apache on NT. Confuses people to no end. Check apache for the binaries and try it yourself.
it's more of along the lines is that we're carbon based and need water, so a reasonable place to start looking for life would be to search for carbon based life that needs water. You've got to start somewhere, and it seems as logical as any other place. Silcon is also popular for life based, because it shares a lot of properties with carbon.
The Magellan Venus orbiter was sent in an "aerobrake test" that burned it up - but what if it had detected changes on the surface of Venus on a second mapping run, which would have meant the HUGE discovery of active volcanism there. The Aerobreaking maneover was a success. It put Magellan in a better orbit to view even more of the planet. Stop speaking unless you know what is actually happening. Besides, Magellean had already mapped/viewed everything it could from it's old orbit (it was rather escentric) so it need to move. It worked for another two years before it finally went dead. Sometimes NASA needs to take some risks with extraterrestally probes. The shutting down of Voyager 2 was discussed because they didn't think that they could get to the other two planets before they really thought about it. And Iridium will come down anyway, regardless of what Motorola does. The orbits are degrading such that they'll all be down in three years anyway. Motorola just doesn't want them to come down on someone's house. I also do see how the satalite was destroyed in an SDI test, since to my knowledge all SDI tests have been on earth and none in space. And further more the satalites belong to them. You wouldn't want someone comming in and taking your stuff, just because you we're finished with them.
The Sprint/Worldcom merger would of been bad. They would of controlled 60%-70%, all the backbone access points to Europe and Africa and a good chuck of the access points to Asia, and on top of that a huge chunk of the wireless market as well. AT&T may be leading in the market, but it doesn't mean that one should automatticly let all the other companies do as they damn well please. It was to stop this merged company from becoming a royal pain in everyone's ass.
That's why it's critically important that reiser fs not only get into the kernel, but into the distributions as a default fs option.
Aren't you being a little presumpsious here? It would be silly for the distrubutions to move to ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, etc. for a long time. Remeber most all of the linux partitions out there are still ext2 and will be for some time. Should all the distributions all of a sudden stop? Be an option maybe (Isn't it already in Suse though?), be the default no. You have decided to live on the bleeding edge. Non support from more "traditional" orignizations should be expected. Remeber no one forced you to use ReiserFS. It was your choice, you should of been prepared to deal with inconviences like upgrading, non-support, etc.
And is there any reason you can't update your machine using apt or RPM when the system is running? All the install/updater does run those two programs.
I know this sounds a little trite... I'm sorry for that.
So what if Rambus becomes fat and happy off licencing, then maybe the users can see a cut in RDRAM prices, and an increase in PC performance. If they don't sit still and stagnate technology I don't care if its not too expensive and it runs fast. Something I think RDRAM has the capability of. Licencing Fees have little to do with the current cost problems with RDRAM (they have something, but not entirely the problem.) The main problem is that the fabs have to retool to produce this new type of RAM and that the number of devices per wafer is much larger than for regular RDRAM. Added to the fact the demand isn't there (chicken and egg) there is no incentive to lower costs.
The FreeS/WAN developers aren't really moving to and any other support other than 3DES. They haven't even added DES support, but for that I can't blame them (Even though DES is in the spec, if it's too weak it shouldn't be there.) They're for the moment trying to keep it as simple as possible.
This warning is pretty standard. It basicly says that this computer isn't yours and if you don't like it go away. It sounds a little harsh, but it does allow site operators to monitor and stop harmful behavior on their systems. If it wasn't there the legal paperwork would be a nightmare. If you have a legitimate reason form using the resources these restrictions are harmless. It is only around for those who have no reason for using the resources what so ever.
Were there any other supporters of this connection tech other than Number Nine? I've been wanting to move off this card, but the sgi flat pannel only comes with an OpenLDI connector. Oh well. The card wasn't all that bad, I just couldn't play quake 3 under it.
It means that I won't have to buy a playstation, yet I can play twisted metal to my hearts content. There are good games for the playstation that I currently cannot play. Anything to save me money and to reduce the things I have to connect to my TV. Which currently number 3. It would be less money that I would have to spend. Besides, the playstation will be phased out once the playstation2 comes out. (Which will be able to play playstation games. I think that it is basicly the same emulation process as the Dreamcast will/would use. Although the implementation will be vastly different.) For the record I do not own a playstation, but I do own a DC so this does save me money. If you owned a playstation then, I agree it would be silly to buy. But don't just write it off as silly because you already own a the playstation.
It will probably be like the dreamcast, where the modem is easily removable, (just one button) and can be replaced with an eithernet at anytime. Also most people at home DO NOT have ethernet, but do have a dial in connection. Cable modems and xDSL are becoming popular, but still most people connect to the internet at ~56k baud and will for the next 2-5 years. An ethernet only system would make no economic sense for them, as a modem would probably make no sense you.
Celerons can only come in pairs. If you want more than two processors, you're going to get only the Pentium Pros or Pentium II/III Xeons. And pay a small fortune. We'll see Athons with 4 processors, but not for some time off.
The sites have been more or less overwelmed since yesterday. Posting it now really doesn't mean anything new. Even if it wasn't posted on slashdot the site would still be overwelmed today.
It is not so much the EM feilds themselves, but the machinery used to generate them. (The superconductors have to be cooled somehow.) and just other general vibrations due to EM feilds being generated at such power. (Similar to the noise a transformer makes. There are no moving parts, but somehow it generates noise just the same.)
But if the idea is to replace maglevs then noice isn't that big of a problem. The magnets in a maglev put out a lot of noise as well, even when the train isn't around. The fans would probably be a blessing to the neighbors.
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NSS is not based on OpenSSL, it is derived from the first set of Netscape SSL libraries. SSLeay and OpenSSL have re-implemented what was in NSS (although with a different API) to provide the same functionality and interoperablity. The good reason not to use OpenSSL is that they have wrote this software and have used it and have tailored the browser to use it long before it could of been released, along with the fact that the code is in C++, the same language as Mozilla. The code is secure enough, it is what sun and netscape use in there iPlanet servers and it is what you use right now in-order to surf the web in a secure fasion under netscape.
Q. Wasn't the i860 a graphics processor at one time? I think it was later included as an motherboard co-processor much like the x87, but never really did much. The only intel graphics processors I know of was the i740 and the new i810 and i815 chipsets. Intel didn't do much with graphics until the bought chips and technologies in the mid -90's.
I don't disagree with the NewJersey principle at all, but Intel has tried to replace x86 with the iAPX432 and the i860. (I can't recall the other attempt, I want to say the i960, but that wasn't a general purpose processor) The press releases and company touted both as a replacement for the even then aging x86, but since the customers wanted the x86 they kept pushing the instruction set, even if they knew it was begining to show its age. I wasn't blaming them at all, for trying. But quite simply they are not starting over, and never will. The failures of the previous attempts (since they were not x86 compatible) have bogged down the IA-64 architecture. It was never inteded to have x86 instructions when it was created by HP. HP intended to have the PA-RISC emmulated in software and thought Intel would do the same with the x86. Intel was unwilling to break with x86 and had everything redesigned to include x86 instrucitons where they didn't belong, in the next generation chip. HP was willing to break with its PA-RISC series, so why couldn't Intel? Intel will never have a clean break. Again, because they know all the customer's want it x86. They've done an admirable job of bringing it into today. All in all though, I'm suprised they didn't start a Sledgehammer x86-64 project of their own.
By that logic, the PPC or the Alpha or even the 68000 should of displaced the x86 along time ago.
But every attempt by Intel to replace the x86 has failed. x86 was a stop gap, it was to give the market something before 8800 was to come out. 8800 failed badly becuase the x86 was so popular. The 8800 was a much better solution, but it still failed. Intel tried 3 other times to replace the x86 but each time they failed due to lack of compatibility. With the x86's installed base, it won't be replaced.
Whether we like it or not, the stop gap known as x86 will be around for pretty much ever for pretty much the same reasons that what ever microsoft will do, they can never completely kill off dos. It will always be needed for backwards compatibilty. Why does the transmeta chip emmulate x86? All the software is already made for the x86 architecture. The IA-64, which you imply can fix all this (with the PPC) will still be x86 compatible. And when have you last coded in assembly, and not in a higher langauge like C, Java, etc. Assembly in IA-64 will be next to impossible. As for true x86 chips coming to market, the last one was the Pentium. Since this time all chips have been risc, even the Pentium Pro, Pentium 4, and Athlon They've just had x86 translators on to provide what the customer wants, x86.
Sorry for the rant.
Just because its in java, doesn't mean it won't be overhacked.
NATs are not VPNs.
NATs are used to connect more than one computer to the internet using something like Windows Connection Sharing or IPMasq or Netfilter. A VPN is connection of two computer using authentication and encryption. Each of the computers has its own IP numbers, but all traffic is encrypted. FreeSWAN and Compaq Tunnel are examples of this as well as IPSec. VPNs are really useful in talking to a private network at work. Tunnel into the network and you can work on you stuff without a reasonable fear that it is being sniffed. Whay they would want to prevent this I do not know? Maybe they don't like people working from home and think everyone should just work from work. Probably they'd want to raise prices for people to work at home and make them sign up for @work. Or they could just be confused. It happens.
So there making you pay for someting you can get for free from cygnus? I have all that stuff under NT. Cygwin is great!.
Apache has been ported to NT, by IBM. There is nothing unusually about it. It's sort of neat to run Apache on NT. Confuses people to no end. Check apache for the binaries and try it yourself.
it's more of along the lines is that we're carbon based and need water, so a reasonable place to start looking for life would be to search for carbon based life that needs water. You've got to start somewhere, and it seems as logical as any other place. Silcon is also popular for life based, because it shares a lot of properties with carbon.
Free SWAN can't do this yet. It still needs to be manually configured. Although they're trying.
The Magellan Venus orbiter was sent in an "aerobrake test" that burned it up - but what if it had detected changes on the surface of Venus on a second mapping run, which would have meant the HUGE discovery of active volcanism there.
The Aerobreaking maneover was a success. It put Magellan in a better orbit to view even more of the planet. Stop speaking unless you know what is actually happening. Besides, Magellean had already mapped/viewed everything it could from it's old orbit (it was rather escentric) so it need to move. It worked for another two years before it finally went dead. Sometimes NASA needs to take some risks with extraterrestally probes. The shutting down of Voyager 2 was discussed because they didn't think that they could get to the other two planets before they really thought about it. And Iridium will come down anyway, regardless of what Motorola does. The orbits are degrading such that they'll all be down in three years anyway. Motorola just doesn't want them to come down on someone's house. I also do see how the satalite was destroyed in an SDI test, since to my knowledge all SDI tests have been on earth and none in space. And further more the satalites belong to them. You wouldn't want someone comming in and taking your stuff, just because you we're finished with them.
The Sprint/Worldcom merger would of been bad. They would of controlled 60%-70%, all the backbone access points to Europe and Africa and a good chuck of the access points to Asia, and on top of that a huge chunk of the wireless market as well. AT&T may be leading in the market, but it doesn't mean that one should automatticly let all the other companies do as they damn well please. It was to stop this merged company from becoming a royal pain in everyone's ass.
That's why it's critically important that reiser fs not only get into the kernel, but into the distributions as a default fs option.
Aren't you being a little presumpsious here? It would be silly for the distrubutions to move to ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, etc. for a long time. Remeber most all of the linux partitions out there are still ext2 and will be for some time. Should all the distributions all of a sudden stop? Be an option maybe (Isn't it already in Suse though?), be the default no. You have decided to live on the bleeding edge. Non support from more "traditional" orignizations should be expected. Remeber no one forced you to use ReiserFS. It was your choice, you should of been prepared to deal with inconviences like upgrading, non-support, etc.
And is there any reason you can't update your machine using apt or RPM when the system is running? All the install/updater does run those two programs.
I know this sounds a little trite... I'm sorry for that.
So what if Rambus becomes fat and happy off licencing, then maybe the users can see a cut in RDRAM prices, and an increase in PC performance. If they don't sit still and stagnate technology I don't care if its not too expensive and it runs fast. Something I think RDRAM has the capability of.
Licencing Fees have little to do with the current cost problems with RDRAM (they have something, but not entirely the problem.) The main problem is that the fabs have to retool to produce this new type of RAM and that the number of devices per wafer is much larger than for regular RDRAM. Added to the fact the demand isn't there (chicken and egg) there is no incentive to lower costs.
The FreeS/WAN developers aren't really moving to and any other support other than 3DES. They haven't even added DES support, but for that I can't blame them (Even though DES is in the spec, if it's too weak it shouldn't be there.) They're for the moment trying to keep it as simple as possible.
This warning is pretty standard. It basicly says that this computer isn't yours and if you don't like it go away. It sounds a little harsh, but it does allow site operators to monitor and stop harmful behavior on their systems. If it wasn't there the legal paperwork would be a nightmare. If you have a legitimate reason form using the resources these restrictions are harmless. It is only around for those who have no reason for using the resources what so ever.
Were there any other supporters of this connection tech other than Number Nine? I've been wanting to move off this card, but the sgi flat pannel only comes with an OpenLDI connector. Oh well. The card wasn't all that bad, I just couldn't play quake 3 under it.
It means that I won't have to buy a playstation, yet I can play twisted metal to my hearts content. There are good games for the playstation that I currently cannot play. Anything to save me money and to reduce the things I have to connect to my TV. Which currently number 3. It would be less money that I would have to spend. Besides, the playstation will be phased out once the playstation2 comes out. (Which will be able to play playstation games. I think that it is basicly the same emulation process as the Dreamcast will/would use. Although the implementation will be vastly different.) For the record I do not own a playstation, but I do own a DC so this does save me money. If you owned a playstation then, I agree it would be silly to buy. But don't just write it off as silly because you already own a the playstation.
It will probably be like the dreamcast, where the modem is easily removable, (just one button) and can be replaced with an eithernet at anytime. Also most people at home DO NOT have ethernet, but do have a dial in connection. Cable modems and xDSL are becoming popular, but still most people connect to the internet at ~56k baud and will for the next 2-5 years. An ethernet only system would make no economic sense for them, as a modem would probably make no sense you.
Celerons can only come in pairs. If you want more than two processors, you're going to get only the Pentium Pros or Pentium II/III Xeons. And pay a small fortune. We'll see Athons with 4 processors, but not for some time off.
The sites have been more or less overwelmed since yesterday. Posting it now really doesn't mean anything new. Even if it wasn't posted on slashdot the site would still be overwelmed today.
I don't know about the german ones, but the japanese ones do.
It is not so much the EM feilds themselves, but the machinery used to generate them. (The superconductors have to be cooled somehow.) and just other general vibrations due to EM feilds being generated at such power. (Similar to the noise a transformer makes. There are no moving parts, but somehow it generates noise just the same.)
But if the idea is to replace maglevs then noice isn't that big of a problem. The magnets in a maglev put out a lot of noise as well, even when the train isn't around. The fans would probably be a blessing to the neighbors.