Maybe I can get our incoming Suns to be "accidentally" preloaded with RH 6.1 instead of (old) Solaris (mostly 2.6, but we still get 2.5.x hand-me-downs from other sites!). Joy!
Anybody know which machines this entails, only the PCI bus "Darwin" machines (Ultra 5/10) or some heftier boxen (450, 3000, 10000/Starfire (dream on....)?) From the announcement wording it looks like only Darwins, unfortunately.
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I like your idea on first glance, but it has some problems. I agree something must be done, but what is the solution is very debatable.
1. Whatever the threshold is (10000, 1000 or 100) there will be many politicians tempted to abuse it by getting donations just under the threshold, many times over, from the same people or groups. This is similar to having dead people vote in corrupt party primaries, etc. Of course, that means we would need more teeth in election commissions - tough to get in the current corrupt system.
2. How do you ensure the contributor is a "natural person?" Driver's license, SSN, voter registration (sounds like the best alternative - although some people might consider a hefty campaign contribution far more effective than one measly vote;-p ), etc? Plus, there are some corporate "rights" to free speech (fewer than real people, but out there nevertheless), and freedom of assembly (what about non-profit "voter's clubs" (e.g. League of Women Voters), current-day PACs, or the membership of the political parties themselves?) which might run afoul of that restriction - I think that's part of what allows attack ads funded by PACs in the first place.
3. How does this control unions or corp's who merely "facilitate" their members/employees making individual contributions? E.g. all the union rank and file are "encouraged" to contribute to Democrat X, and since nobody knows anything but their names and the amounts (maybe not even that much if they are under the reporting threshold) there is no way to tell who really "bought" Dem X - the union. (Substitute corporation, employees and Republican Y for other side of the coin - equal time eh?). Who would bother to track down 10000's of 100-dollar donations from Joe Average people to find out what axes they have to grind? And who would want that invasion of privacy?
4. BillG could surely afford a senator or two (at least for the next few years). No campaign spending limits essentially means creeping plutocracy, as the rich get richer & more in control, and the rest get poorer & more apathetic about politics. Of course, cynical people (like me) think that's what we have always had anyway, more or less, with some "democracy" sugar coating to appease the masses.
Lawyers, guns and money will get you real power and influence every time. The more you have of the last two, the less you need the first. (FYI: IAAL [I am a lawyer] although I am currently non-practicing).
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Why lump all the MS OS'es into the same company, just because they (purportedly) support the same Win32 API's? In that regard, MS has struggled mightily over the last several years to try to merge their code base onto the NT/2000 kernel, and has failed to the extent that they are still extending Win98 into the new "Millennium" (heh) in order to keep DOS/games compatibility for the home market - something most business buyers could care less about. However, I think one of the main vicious circles of MS's monopoly power is the effect of having consumer mindshare - folks want what they have at home (Win95/98) at work (NT4/2000) & vice-versa. Note this is really only similar GUI look-and-feel and binary app compatibility - if a Corel-type Linux distro with fully working 32-bit WINE could sufficiently clone Windows, as might happen if the "hidden" API's were disclosed or disappeared, then a REAL MS-killer might finally be out there. If we split up the consumer (98/Millennium/MS Works?), business desktop (NT/2000/Office), business server (NT Enterprise/Clusters/SQL/Exchange/Backoffice) and embedded (CE/Pocket apps/????) markets into different "Baby Bills", along with an MSN/other online services spinoff since that is totally unrelated, doesn't that reduce the monopoly power a lot more, without massive disruptions in the MS business model? Basically this just puts each existing MS division into its own company, with some minimal regulatory & competitive oversight. Plus - the incentive is then to have at least publishable API's since they would have to in order to interoperate and gain other customers/market share. In other words, split up the MS OSes and Win32 API among 3-4+ companies, and no more closed-code incestuous optimizations should happen. Or is this too likely to fracture the APIs as a "horizontal" solution? (And probably the CE company would quickly die, unless the new settop boxes really take off, but good riddance if they can't compete on the merits with Palm, Sega, Nintendo etc.). #include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
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#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Seems that this is good news for Andover and Slashdot. For a while now it seemed that/. was getting an undeserved rap as merely regurgitating Wired, c|net et al. Now it looks like the shoe's on the other foot.... One question, since the copyright/licensing of Slashdot seems to be pretty freewheeling, how would they (trad. media outlets) properly attribute quotes (especially AC's) - look up every User Info page? #include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Maybe they can use Esperanto as the basis for the intermediate translation language. IIRC that's what Esperanto was invented for in the first place (not to mention it's supposed to be logically consistent in grammar and pronunciation, unlike "natural" languages - surely a great boon to implementation). #include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Re: One-time pad IS practically unbreakable....
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If the book was truly used only once and then discarded as an encryption key, then it is a true "one-time pad" and practically unbreakable. Other than by brute-forcing the encrypted data stream until it makes sense; (un)fortunately, if the message is long enough and encoding is done right (randomly enough), there will be several incompatible "sensible" translations! Hopefully they included garbage, punctuation chars, etc. - but still, cracking this is hardly done "without breaking a sweat." The minimal requirement for a one-time pad is that the number of letters circled in the one-time pad key book must be equal to or (preferably, much) greater than the length of the encoded message. And you can only use it once. And both ends have to have the same book with the same letters circled, with all the physical security risks that entails (better burn it and stir the ashes after you have sent that one message). That's why one-time pads, though very secure from decryption, are not often used.... #include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
IT'S A JOKE!!!! Believe me, I am not trying to start a flamewar (did you read #3?). Just FYI, I used to work at Apple Tech Support, have supported NT/95/98 (gag), and am now a UNIX sysadmin (Solaris, SunOS, AIX, DG/UX, HP/UX, and Linux (yippee)). All this in the last 5 years. Generalized enough for ya?;-) P.S. I did quote the Woz in my sig, didn't I?
Seriously, I know #2 is a sweeping generalization, but first Apple and then M$ have been marketed more and more to the "average" person who is not supposed to be intelligent enough to RTFM, much less want/need access to command lines or *gasp* source code. I couldn't be more thrilled if Macs all came with MacsBug and ResEdit pre-installed, hell even throw in MPW since its free nowadays; I know AppleScript is a good thing, but is often not enough. Same goes for windoze, if a REAL POSIX environment (a la Interix OpenNT, which M$ just bought out, I believe) and C compiler (e.g. Cygnus) were standard on NT, then it would be a lot less reviled by many. But Linux and BSD would still trump all by virtue of being truly OPEN and FREE.
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
1. Linux and BSD gurus know this will all be easily spoofed. That plus multi-homing (multiple IP addresses on a single physical NIC) tends to mitigate fears. 2. Windozers and Mac-heads don't know or care about the nitty gritty. Just insert AOL disk here... 3. By the time IPv6 gets widely implemented on client machines we will all be part of the Borg collective anyway.... #include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I agree that OM blows if you are only used to sendmail and Internet-compliant mail; however, it is X.400 based and apparently quite popular for directory services integration (X.500) & with Europeans. I used to admin several boxes for a company here in Houston that ran onGO, a weird British package (basically a CLI terminal front-end for OpenMail). The boxes were an old RS/6000 (probably a 60 MHz PPC) with 64 MB RAM, and an old Data General M88k 8500 with about 256 MB RAM and 80 GB CLARiiON SCSI-attached. This ran reasonably well for over 750 heavy users (biggest problem was lack of storage). This was several years ago, however, and probably used a really old version of OM. We also used sendmail 8.x as our MTA (the AIX box was the internet mail gateway and hosted the aliases file) which might explain the better performance we got. The main problem was when the company was bought out, we had to migrate to Lotus Notes 4.5. We ended up telling people to send all their important mail to themselves from the old OM account to the new Notes ID, because IBM didn't provide any migration tools at the time from OpenMail. D'oh! Now they do, though, says IBM, at least for Notes 5. P.S. I would imagine the newer OM revs have at least hopped on the LDAP bandwagon as well.... #include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Actually, you can turn lead to gold, if I remember my particle fizziks correctly. Just bombard it with heavy particles until the lead nuclei absorb enough protons and neutrons to become unstable, and decay (through a convoluted chain of decays) into gold nuclei. Of course, then you have a tiny amount of expensive, unstable, radioactive gold. It's still cheaper at this point in time to dig it out of the ground.
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Have a new "World Cup of Women's Robotic Soccer" and hold it in Pasadena. Then at the end have the robot whose penalty kick shot ices the win whip off its jersey showing a jog-bra underneath.
Yes, it's a joke. But how else will the winners get on the covers of Time, Newsweek et al.? #include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I know that NASA has been using Linux a lot, but couldn't they save a good bit of this cut by more completely booting out M$, NT and closed-source Unices? Software costs have got to be a huge part of their budget....
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
First off, the title to this piece is essentially a tautology - bulk tech will have to be what leads us to nanotech, since bulk tech is all we had to start out with (unless you include natural bionanotech such as DNA - but there again, we discovered and until recently manipulated all such molecular-level structures with bulk tech).
Second, the practical limits to computing power (i.e. bang for the buck) as opposed to speed (pure MIPS/GIPS (?) or what have you) are what most people are really concerned about. There are many factors - pure clock speed (GHz, THz (?)), instructions/clock cycle (e.g. Intel's EPIC - sort of MPP on a single chip, AFAIK), instruction length/information density (32, 64, 128... bits cram more data into each instruction). So what if you have a multi-THz processor, if it only runs 4-bit instructions through 1 register! (Of course, this could accurately describe DNA....) Theoretical limits are fine, and can be measured by the application of quantum physics to information theory. But again, the lower limits such as network speed, memory/storage speed and bus/crossbar speed will hamper our current architectures for the near future. Sorry if it seems like I'm pointing out the obvious....
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
What are they teaching these kids? Obviously this goes way beyond shop class.... Supposedly, young kids are much better at learning new concepts (especially languages) than disgruntled, addle-pated teens. Tech worker shortage - hah! This could be the wave of the future!
"Forget Montessori, Mommy and Daddy are sending you to DeVry PreSchool"
Plus they taught him proper U.S. driving etiquette:
"I told him he was going to get hurt, he'd better get out of the road - and he told me to shut up."
Wonder if he flipped her the bird?
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Anybody know if BMC is releasing a Linux Patrol port for general consumption? This would be very tempting. I have even thought about sending my resume to BMC but never knew they had any interest in Linux.... #include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Let's hope they cover Linux, Mac, Be, etc. as viable game development and deployment platforms instead of just TV consoles and Win9x. Otherwise they could be churning out degrees not worth the paper they're written on;-)
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Overall, seems a lot better than the status quo, but several problems remain:
1. The bill seems to have an NSA/FBI/CIA inspired loophole - it only relaxes standards on user-"inaccessible" or non-"end-to-end user encryption" products. In other words, you can use whatever you want to connect securely to your ISP, but not to use strongly encrypted VPN tunnels, or send encrypted messages via PGP/voice scramblers/whatever. The intent seems to be that the powers-that-be will still be able to tap your cleartext (presumably only by warrant, but what about the NSA's reputed ubiquitous taps?) at the first unencrypted hop. Of course, with PGP et al. already out of the bag, this may be a moot point anyway.
2. The tack-on penalties for using encryption in the furtherance of a crime, seem like they might run afoul of the Fourth and/or Fifth Amendment. Of course, our current batch of Supremes will likely not see it that way, especially if drug dealers and kiddie porners are the ones being prosecuted for encrypting the evidence. Besides, the cops will only be able to tell if the encrypted stuff was related to the bad stuff if they follow their current routine - seize everything that even looks like a computer, and try to crack all of it. This bill merely encourages that kind of overreaching behavior. More martyred Mitnicks to come? Start generating those 2048-bit keys now... maybe the statute of limitations on your crime will run out before they can decrypt your data. Does "self-incrimination" cover giving up your PGP pass-phrase?
3. It still has to make it past the Senate.... and judging from our enlightened members of both houses ("Ten Commandments" in every school, anyone?) a lot more could go wrong from here.
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1. Their Linux supported hardware (Express 5800) are actually relabeled Zenith Data Systems (a.k.a. Euro-Packard Bell/NEC) Intel server systems. Their link from the main Bull Linux page was broken, so try this one: Express5800 HX4600. No word on PPC systems yet.
2. They seem to be leaning heavily toward RedHat, but also include SuSE, Caldera and Pacific Hi-Tech in their announcements. Their European customer base might prefer SuSE. This also might impact their ability to get strong crypto tools installed worldwide without US intervention.
3. They mention porting OpenMaster to Linux; anybody have any comments on that tool set? It seems like it competes in the Tivoli/Unicenter/OpenView/Patrol/etc. systems management arena.
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Looks like only the German site has the news, the U.S. site still has 5.0 only. From what I can make out using BabelFish (ugh! too many friggin' frames!), the English port is still not available yet. #include "disclaim.h"
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe I can get our incoming Suns to be "accidentally" preloaded with RH 6.1 instead of (old) Solaris (mostly 2.6, but we still get 2.5.x hand-me-downs from other sites!). Joy!
Anybody know which machines this entails, only the PCI bus "Darwin" machines (Ultra 5/10) or some heftier boxen (450, 3000, 10000/Starfire (dream on....)?) From the announcement wording it looks like only Darwins, unfortunately.
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I like your idea on first glance, but it has some problems. I agree something must be done, but what is the solution is very debatable.
;-p ), etc? Plus, there are some corporate "rights" to free speech (fewer than real people, but out there nevertheless), and freedom of assembly (what about non-profit "voter's clubs" (e.g. League of Women Voters), current-day PACs, or the membership of the political parties themselves?) which might run afoul of that restriction - I think that's part of what allows attack ads funded by PACs in the first place.
1. Whatever the threshold is (10000, 1000 or 100) there will be many politicians tempted to abuse it by getting donations just under the threshold, many times over, from the same people or groups. This is similar to having dead people vote in corrupt party primaries, etc. Of course, that means we would need more teeth in election commissions - tough to get in the current corrupt system.
2. How do you ensure the contributor is a "natural person?" Driver's license, SSN, voter registration (sounds like the best alternative - although some people might consider a hefty campaign contribution far more effective than one measly vote
3. How does this control unions or corp's who merely "facilitate" their members/employees making individual contributions? E.g. all the union rank and file are "encouraged" to contribute to Democrat X, and since nobody knows anything but their names and the amounts (maybe not even that much if they are under the reporting threshold) there is no way to tell who really "bought" Dem X - the union. (Substitute corporation, employees and Republican Y for other side of the coin - equal time eh?). Who would bother to track down 10000's of 100-dollar donations from Joe Average people to find out what axes they have to grind? And who would want that invasion of privacy?
4. BillG could surely afford a senator or two (at least for the next few years). No campaign spending limits essentially means creeping plutocracy, as the rich get richer & more in control, and the rest get poorer & more apathetic about politics. Of course, cynical people (like me) think that's what we have always had anyway, more or less, with some "democracy" sugar coating to appease the masses.
Lawyers, guns and money will get you real power and influence every time. The more you have of the last two, the less you need the first. (FYI: IAAL [I am a lawyer] although I am currently non-practicing).
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Why lump all the MS OS'es into the same company, just because they (purportedly) support the same Win32 API's? In that regard, MS has struggled mightily over the last several years to try to merge their code base onto the NT/2000 kernel, and has failed to the extent that they are still extending Win98 into the new "Millennium" (heh) in order to keep DOS/games compatibility for the home market - something most business buyers could care less about. However, I think one of the main vicious circles of MS's monopoly power is the effect of having consumer mindshare - folks want what they have at home (Win95/98) at work (NT4/2000) & vice-versa. Note this is really only similar GUI look-and-feel and binary app compatibility - if a Corel-type Linux distro with fully working 32-bit WINE could sufficiently clone Windows, as might happen if the "hidden" API's were disclosed or disappeared, then a REAL MS-killer might finally be out there. If we split up the consumer (98/Millennium/MS Works?), business desktop (NT/2000/Office), business server (NT Enterprise/Clusters/SQL/Exchange/Backoffice) and embedded (CE/Pocket apps/????) markets into different "Baby Bills", along with an MSN/other online services spinoff since that is totally unrelated, doesn't that reduce the monopoly power a lot more, without massive disruptions in the MS business model? Basically this just puts each existing MS division into its own company, with some minimal regulatory & competitive oversight. Plus - the incentive is then to have at least publishable API's since they would have to in order to interoperate and gain other customers/market share. In other words, split up the MS OSes and Win32 API among 3-4+ companies, and no more closed-code incestuous optimizations should happen. Or is this too likely to fracture the APIs as a "horizontal" solution? (And probably the CE company would quickly die, unless the new settop boxes really take off, but good riddance if they can't compete on the merits with Palm, Sega, Nintendo etc.).
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"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
1.0 Prerequisites
This edition of VisualAge for Java, has the following hardware and software prerequisites:
* Linux - RedHat 6.0, Caldera 2.2 or SuSE 6.1
* TCP/IP installed and configured
* Pentium (R) processor or higher recommended
* SVGA (800x600) display or higher
* 120 MB disk space (minimum)
* Frames-capable browser, such as Netscape Navigator Version 4.04 or higher. Recommend browser is Netscape Navigator 4.6
* Java Development Kit (JDK) (TM) 1.1.7 for deploying all applications
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Seems that this is good news for Andover and Slashdot. For a while now it seemed that /. was getting an undeserved rap as merely regurgitating Wired, c|net et al. Now it looks like the shoe's on the other foot.... One question, since the copyright/licensing of Slashdot seems to be pretty freewheeling, how would they (trad. media outlets) properly attribute quotes (especially AC's) - look up every User Info page?
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Here's what http://www.netcraft.com spits out for http://usvms.gpo.gov
usvms.gpo.gov is running Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP2 on DIGITAL UNIX
And here I thought it was a VMS box... I guess Netcraft hasn't converted to "Compaq Tru64" either...
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Maybe they can use Esperanto as the basis for the intermediate translation language. IIRC that's what Esperanto was invented for in the first place (not to mention it's supposed to be logically consistent in grammar and pronunciation, unlike "natural" languages - surely a great boon to implementation).
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If the book was truly used only once and then discarded as an encryption key, then it is a true "one-time pad" and practically unbreakable. Other than by brute-forcing the encrypted data stream until it makes sense; (un)fortunately, if the message is long enough and encoding is done right (randomly enough), there will be several incompatible "sensible" translations! Hopefully they included garbage, punctuation chars, etc. - but still, cracking this is hardly done "without breaking a sweat." The minimal requirement for a one-time pad is that the number of letters circled in the one-time pad key book must be equal to or (preferably, much) greater than the length of the encoded message. And you can only use it once. And both ends have to have the same book with the same letters circled, with all the physical security risks that entails (better burn it and stir the ashes after you have sent that one message). That's why one-time pads, though very secure from decryption, are not often used....
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IT'S A JOKE!!!! Believe me, I am not trying to start a flamewar (did you read #3?). Just FYI, I used to work at Apple Tech Support, have supported NT/95/98 (gag), and am now a UNIX sysadmin (Solaris, SunOS, AIX, DG/UX, HP/UX, and Linux (yippee)). All this in the last 5 years. Generalized enough for ya? ;-) P.S. I did quote the Woz in my sig, didn't I?
Seriously, I know #2 is a sweeping generalization, but first Apple and then M$ have been marketed more and more to the "average" person who is not supposed to be intelligent enough to RTFM, much less want/need access to command lines or *gasp* source code. I couldn't be more thrilled if Macs all came with MacsBug and ResEdit pre-installed, hell even throw in MPW since its free nowadays; I know AppleScript is a good thing, but is often not enough. Same goes for windoze, if a REAL POSIX environment (a la Interix OpenNT, which M$ just bought out, I believe) and C compiler (e.g. Cygnus) were standard on NT, then it would be a lot less reviled by many. But Linux and BSD would still trump all by virtue of being truly OPEN and FREE.
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1. Linux and BSD gurus know this will all be easily spoofed. That plus multi-homing (multiple IP addresses on a single physical NIC) tends to mitigate fears.
2. Windozers and Mac-heads don't know or care about the nitty gritty. Just insert AOL disk here...
3. By the time IPv6 gets widely implemented on client machines we will all be part of the Borg collective anyway....
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Should be either dark green (Slashdot's default: link="#006666" would work) or black (as in hole).
Seriously, I bet it looks like one of those fractal generators. Any mirrors out there yet?
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Sorry, couldn't resist!
(Hormel SPAM = Shoulder of Pork and hAM)
P.S. speaking of, anybody seen the new Muppet movie? Any reviews? I always knew Gonzo had to be an alien....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I agree that OM blows if you are only used to sendmail and Internet-compliant mail; however, it is X.400 based and apparently quite popular for directory services integration (X.500) & with Europeans. I used to admin several boxes for a company here in Houston that ran onGO, a weird British package (basically a CLI terminal front-end for OpenMail). The boxes were an old RS/6000 (probably a 60 MHz PPC) with 64 MB RAM, and an old Data General M88k 8500 with about 256 MB RAM and 80 GB CLARiiON SCSI-attached. This ran reasonably well for over 750 heavy users (biggest problem was lack of storage). This was several years ago, however, and probably used a really old version of OM. We also used sendmail 8.x as our MTA (the AIX box was the internet mail gateway and hosted the aliases file) which might explain the better performance we got. The main problem was when the company was bought out, we had to migrate to Lotus Notes 4.5. We ended up telling people to send all their important mail to themselves from the old OM account to the new Notes ID, because IBM didn't provide any migration tools at the time from OpenMail. D'oh! Now they do, though, says IBM, at least for Notes 5. P.S. I would imagine the newer OM revs have at least hopped on the LDAP bandwagon as well....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Actually, you can turn lead to gold, if I remember my particle fizziks correctly. Just bombard it with heavy particles until the lead nuclei absorb enough protons and neutrons to become unstable, and decay (through a convoluted chain of decays) into gold nuclei. Of course, then you have a tiny amount of expensive, unstable, radioactive gold. It's still cheaper at this point in time to dig it out of the ground.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Have a new "World Cup of Women's Robotic Soccer"
and hold it in Pasadena. Then at the end have the
robot whose penalty kick shot ices the win whip off
its jersey showing a jog-bra underneath.
Yes, it's a joke. But how else will the winners
get on the covers of Time, Newsweek et al.?
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I know that NASA has been using Linux a lot, but couldn't they save a good bit of this cut by more completely booting out M$, NT and closed-source Unices? Software costs have got to be a huge part of their budget....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
First off, the title to this piece is essentially a tautology - bulk tech will have to be what leads us to nanotech, since bulk tech is all we had to start out with (unless you include natural bionanotech such as DNA - but there again, we discovered and until recently manipulated all such molecular-level structures with bulk tech).
Second, the practical limits to computing power (i.e. bang for the buck) as opposed to speed (pure MIPS/GIPS (?) or what have you) are what most people are really concerned about. There are many factors - pure clock speed (GHz, THz (?)), instructions/clock cycle (e.g. Intel's EPIC - sort of MPP on a single chip, AFAIK), instruction length/information density (32, 64, 128... bits cram more data into each instruction). So what if you have a multi-THz processor, if it only runs 4-bit instructions through 1 register! (Of course, this could accurately describe DNA....) Theoretical limits are fine, and can be measured by the application of quantum physics to information theory. But again, the lower limits such as network speed, memory/storage speed and bus/crossbar speed will hamper our current architectures for the near future. Sorry if it seems like I'm pointing out the obvious....
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"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Sorry. Just wanted to get that straight.
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"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
What are they teaching these kids? Obviously this goes way beyond shop class.... Supposedly, young kids are much better at learning new concepts (especially languages) than disgruntled, addle-pated teens. Tech worker shortage - hah! This could be the wave of the future!
"Forget Montessori, Mommy and Daddy are sending you to DeVry PreSchool"
Plus they taught him proper U.S. driving etiquette:
"I told him he was going to get hurt, he'd better get out of the road - and he told me to shut up."
Wonder if he flipped her the bird?
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"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Anybody know if BMC is releasing a Linux Patrol port for general consumption?
This would be very tempting. I have even thought about sending my resume to BMC
but never knew they had any interest in Linux....
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Let's hope they cover Linux, Mac, Be, etc. as viable game development and deployment platforms instead of just TV consoles and Win9x. Otherwise they could be churning out degrees not worth the paper they're written on ;-)
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Overall, seems a lot better than the status quo, but several problems remain:
1. The bill seems to have an NSA/FBI/CIA inspired loophole - it only relaxes standards on user-"inaccessible" or non-"end-to-end user encryption" products. In other words, you can use whatever you want to connect securely to your ISP, but not to use strongly encrypted VPN tunnels, or send encrypted messages via PGP/voice scramblers/whatever. The intent seems to be that the powers-that-be will still be able to tap your cleartext (presumably only by warrant, but what about the NSA's reputed ubiquitous taps?) at the first unencrypted hop. Of course, with PGP et al. already out of the bag, this may be a moot point anyway.
2. The tack-on penalties for using encryption in the furtherance of a crime, seem like they might run afoul of the Fourth and/or Fifth Amendment. Of course, our current batch of Supremes will likely not see it that way, especially if drug dealers and kiddie porners are the ones being prosecuted for encrypting the evidence. Besides, the cops will only be able to tell if the encrypted stuff was related to the bad stuff if they follow their current routine - seize everything that even looks like a computer, and try to crack all of it. This bill merely encourages that kind of overreaching behavior. More martyred Mitnicks to come? Start generating those 2048-bit keys now... maybe the statute of limitations on your crime will run out before they can decrypt your data. Does "self-incrimination" cover giving up your PGP pass-phrase?
3. It still has to make it past the Senate.... and judging from our enlightened members of both houses ("Ten Commandments" in every school, anyone?) a lot more could go wrong from here.
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This is a big win, but with some caveats:
1. Their Linux supported hardware (Express 5800) are actually relabeled Zenith Data Systems (a.k.a. Euro-Packard Bell/NEC) Intel server systems. Their link from the main Bull Linux page was broken, so try this one: Express5800 HX4600. No word on PPC systems yet.
2. They seem to be leaning heavily toward RedHat, but also include SuSE, Caldera and Pacific Hi-Tech in their announcements. Their European customer base might prefer SuSE. This also might impact their ability to get strong crypto tools installed worldwide without US intervention.
3. They mention porting OpenMaster to Linux; anybody have any comments on that tool set? It seems like it competes in the Tivoli/Unicenter/OpenView/Patrol/etc. systems management arena.
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Looks like only the German site has the news, the U.S. site still has 5.0 only. From what I can make out using BabelFish (ugh! too many friggin' frames!), the English port is still not available yet.
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