The current list of drivers is for Voodoo cards and Matrox cards, both of which also have Open Source drivers for OS's like NetBSD. ATI won't support Be because they are devoting their attention to Open Source drivers. nVidia support hasn't been determined yet.
No - I disagree. While I don't know what a 'teh shell' is, I can assure you that NetBSD stands out as a platform. While FreeBSD is the OS of choice for ProprietarySystems, NetBSD provides honest-to-goodness Open Source software on almost every platform - and we don't need to hide in Canada either.
The problem with this is that BeOS hard acceleration only exists on Intel. What about the lonely other platforms? With NetBSD, you can get pure Open Source hard acceleration on any of NetBSD's ports. Intel not good enough for you? Hard acceleration rocks on an Alpha. Want some Apple-quality OpenGL goodness? Run it on macppc! Furthermore, tying OpenGL to a specific processor for performace with SIMD is silly. Why not give your software to all architectures? NetBSD is the solution.
Only NetBSD can take advantage of high-quality Open Source OpenGL hard acceleration for a truly embedded gaming experience. Because of the BSD licence, game companies can embed NetBSD into their games to produce a bootable gaming disc. Put the disc in, reboot, and you're playing the game!
Why do people care so much about Linux games? Could it be because they can't see the ultamite solution in PC gaming - the NetBSD bootable game disk! That's right, an embedded NetBSD kernel on a CD-Rom boots the game. Data files are conviently stored on your Win9x partition for you. The user doesn't have to mess with installing software, but can choose to copy files over to the hard drive for performance. All open-sourced 3D drivers are integrated. (Remember, we don't write open-source software just so it can stay on Linux.) Gives the user the stability of a superior platform without having to deal with setting up their 3d drivers, getting their joystick to work, performing exorcisms on the sound drivers, mounting the CD-Rom, etc. Why not NetBSD?
This all plays right into the hands of Microsoft. Y'see, they're going to be introducing the X-Box in 2001, and dollars to donuts it's going to be using RDRAM given the intel chip inside. What Microsoft knows is that any competing prodcut to the X-Box will have to use RDRAM or DDR SDRAM for the speed. By forcing manufacturers to pay rediculous licensing fees to Rambus corporation (with help of Intel, Microsoft's partner in the X-Box project) for RDRAM or DDR SDRAM Microsoft can ensure that any competing product to the X-Box is overpriced, and thus fails.
The articles say different things. It looks like another journalist wasn't listening to what was being said.
The Yahoo article: They also said the attack is relatively benign, as it does not destroy computer files but merely delivers a message disparaging the Spanish telephone company Telefonica.
The MSNBC story: The virus has a nasty payload, as well - it attempts to delete all files on the victim's hard drive and performs several other operations that makes restoration difficult.
My personal favorite is BubbleGum Crisis. Its one of those semi-cyberpunk anime's
essentially 4 women dress up in "hardsuits" and fight "boomers" (ala Bladerunner's Replicants) and the behind the scenes villian "Genom Corp." to save MegaTokyo.
The original series was cooler than the new "2040" series, however, both are cool and 2040 is for those who like a little more character development.
Theres some allusions to lesbianism in the 2040 ones and other stuff that didn't need to be in there, but its till cool nonetheless.
The storyline steals alot from the Bladerunner/Do Androids Dream... PKD type storyline, but definitely a "must see".
Although i am a passionate mac advocate, i think Becky's a fuckin liar.
mac os DOES NOT have built in virtual desktop although you can download shareware and install.
also, mac didn't have usb support before windows.
however, i feel that cnet's review of hardware compatibility fails to recognize that the number of devices support be xfree86 is less than that of total windows supported devices. Linux drivers are less than perfect.
NetInfo was also the biggest piece of doggie-doodoo to ever come down the pike.
I was a NeXT network admin, and netinfo was a pain in my arse, the database got corrupted WAY too often. I hope Fred and the rest of the guys at apple have fixed those problems.
The PIX was bought before I got here, thinking that it could do what we needed it to. However I'm not sure the network architect knew that it wouldn't fit into the network.
His design (I should mention Martin here) was damn near flawless. Some changes made while building by yours truly...but most of the idea was Martin.
We were so hot on getting things running we didn't know that the PIX would not just drop in and bridge, that it needed a clearly subnetted DMZ.
In the emergency (OH I should mention, Liz, who's a really good net eng., came aboard the Monday preceding this, the PIXen are her domain) we needed somethin g up fast, and since I'm generally the tactician around here...I told her what we needed. She attempted to get the PIX to do it, and then realized that it just won't;)
I made the decision to throw the BSD box in there.
(for those who had questions, its a type I box with FreeBSD instead of Linux)
The PIXen will be used, probably here at the office... but I think we found something thats working really well.
what people negelect to realize is that the arrowpoint mediates the connections btwn the world and the machines...on layer 5...while it solves the fact that SYN flooding never reaches the host (not that linux couldn;t handle it, or *BSD for that matter) but that the little CS-100 couldn;t handle it, the CS-800 will though =)
This type of solution is currently being looked at, it was in the original spec, however we didn't have the support needed at the time, but we will soon =)
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Posted by 11223:
Sparc. Ha!
Posted by 11223:
The current list of drivers is for Voodoo cards and Matrox cards, both of which also have Open Source drivers for OS's like NetBSD. ATI won't support Be because they are devoting their attention to Open Source drivers. nVidia support hasn't been determined yet.
Posted by 11223:
No - I disagree. While I don't know what a 'teh shell' is, I can assure you that NetBSD stands out as a platform. While FreeBSD is the OS of choice for Proprietary Systems, NetBSD provides honest-to-goodness Open Source software on almost every platform - and we don't need to hide in Canada either.
The problem with this is that BeOS hard acceleration only exists on Intel. What about the lonely other platforms? With NetBSD, you can get pure Open Source hard acceleration on any of NetBSD's ports. Intel not good enough for you? Hard acceleration rocks on an Alpha. Want some Apple-quality OpenGL goodness? Run it on macppc! Furthermore, tying OpenGL to a specific processor for performace with SIMD is silly. Why not give your software to all architectures? NetBSD is the solution.
Only NetBSD can take advantage of high-quality Open Source OpenGL hard acceleration for a truly embedded gaming experience. Because of the BSD licence, game companies can embed NetBSD into their games to produce a bootable gaming disc. Put the disc in, reboot, and you're playing the game!
Posted by 11223:
It utilizes a virus approach - it simply ports itself to the penguin in question, and eats itself from the inside.
Posted by 11223:
Here at NetBSD we've been alpha testing a new feature that does penguin-eating.
Posted by 11223:
Why do people care so much about Linux games? Could it be because they can't see the ultamite solution in PC gaming - the NetBSD bootable game disk! That's right, an embedded NetBSD kernel on a CD-Rom boots the game. Data files are conviently stored on your Win9x partition for you. The user doesn't have to mess with installing software, but can choose to copy files over to the hard drive for performance. All open-sourced 3D drivers are integrated. (Remember, we don't write open-source software just so it can stay on Linux.) Gives the user the stability of a superior platform without having to deal with setting up their 3d drivers, getting their joystick to work, performing exorcisms on the sound drivers, mounting the CD-Rom, etc. Why not NetBSD?
Posted by 11223:
Hehe - I'm just a giant karma sink. This is just great!!!!!!
Posted by 11223:
Last Post given how much discussion there%is...
Posted by 11223:
This all plays right into the hands of Microsoft. Y'see, they're going to be introducing the X-Box in 2001, and dollars to donuts it's going to be using RDRAM given the intel chip inside. What Microsoft knows is that any competing prodcut to the X-Box will have to use RDRAM or DDR SDRAM for the speed. By forcing manufacturers to pay rediculous licensing fees to Rambus corporation (with help of Intel, Microsoft's partner in the X-Box project) for RDRAM or DDR SDRAM Microsoft can ensure that any competing product to the X-Box is overpriced, and thus fails.
Posted by serpens:
The articles say different things. It looks like another journalist wasn't listening to what was being said.
The Yahoo article:
They also said the attack is relatively benign, as it does not destroy computer files but merely delivers a message disparaging the Spanish telephone company Telefonica.
The MSNBC story:
The virus has a nasty payload, as well - it attempts to delete all files on the victim's hard drive and performs several other operations that makes restoration difficult.
Do journalists get anything right anymore???
serpens`
Also from the factbook this time for Australia,
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 100%
male: 100%
female: 100% (1980 est.)
Click here to see it for yourself, I know this is not the case, so does this mean anything?
Also it's using 1980 data??
Posted by BSD-Pat:
My personal favorite is BubbleGum Crisis. Its one of those semi-cyberpunk anime's
essentially 4 women dress up in "hardsuits" and fight "boomers" (ala Bladerunner's Replicants) and the behind the scenes villian "Genom Corp." to save MegaTokyo.
The original series was cooler than the new "2040" series, however, both are cool and 2040 is for those who like a little more character development.
Theres some allusions to lesbianism in the 2040 ones and other stuff that didn't need to be in there, but its till cool nonetheless.
The storyline steals alot from the Bladerunner/Do Androids Dream... PKD type storyline, but definitely a "must see".
Posted by Nr9:
Although i am a passionate mac advocate, i think Becky's a fuckin liar.
mac os DOES NOT have built in virtual desktop although you can download shareware and install.
also, mac didn't have usb support before windows.
however, i feel that cnet's review of hardware compatibility fails to recognize that the number of devices support be xfree86 is less than that of total windows supported devices. Linux drivers are less than perfect.
Posted by BSD-Pat:
NetInfo was also the biggest piece of doggie-doodoo to ever come down the pike.
I was a NeXT network admin, and netinfo was a pain in my arse, the database got corrupted WAY too often. I hope Fred and the rest of the guys at apple have fixed those problems.
-Pat
Posted by BSD-Pat:
nope, don't own us yet =)
in a few weeks though.....
-Pat
Posted by BSD-Pat:
;)
The PIX was bought before I got here, thinking that it could do what we needed it to. However I'm not sure the network architect knew that it wouldn't fit into the network.
His design (I should mention Martin here) was damn near flawless. Some changes made while building by yours truly...but most of the idea was Martin.
We were so hot on getting things running we didn't know that the PIX would not just drop in and bridge, that it needed a clearly subnetted DMZ.
In the emergency (OH I should mention, Liz, who's a really good net eng., came aboard the Monday preceding this, the PIXen are her domain) we needed somethin g up fast, and since I'm generally the tactician around here...I told her what we needed. She attempted to get the PIX to do it, and then realized that it just won't
I made the decision to throw the BSD box in there.
(for those who had questions, its a type I box with FreeBSD instead of Linux)
The PIXen will be used, probably here at the office... but I think we found something thats working really well.
-Pat
Posted by BSD-Pat:
It was mroe or less tweaking that, and the number of threads available to MySQL....
nothing real complicated... =)
Posted by BSD-Pat:
;)
The web servers are running mod_perl, each process takes up alot of RAM (hrrrm...something to streamline with mod_perl/slash?)
So as a result, the machines that need the most amount of RAM are the webservers and MySQL machines.
essentially we need enough RAM to run up to the MaxClients set in apache *and* have file cache
-Pat
Posted by BSD-Pat:
Essentially the CS-100 had content checking on, combined with the SYN (and the fact it was a loaner unit/refurb until the 800 came) it died.
Arrowpoint is doing a post-mortem now.
-Pat
Posted by BSD-Pat:
what people negelect to realize is that the arrowpoint mediates the connections btwn the world and the machines...on layer 5...while it solves the fact that SYN flooding never reaches the host (not that linux couldn;t handle it, or *BSD for that matter) but that the little CS-100 couldn;t handle it, the CS-800 will though =)
Posted by BSD-Pat:
This type of solution is currently being looked at, it was in the original spec, however we didn't have the support needed at the time, but we will soon =)
Posted by BSD-Pat:
/24 (0-255)
Actually,
its the number of bits in the netmask, an IPv4 net address has 32 bits (4 octets)
essentially its how many bits is turned on in the netmask, determins the number of IP addresses in anetwork
255.255.255.0 is 24 bits and therefore we have 256 IP addresses (254 usable) in a
Posted by BSD-Pat:
even more wacky, we were getting stuff from 0.0.0.0/8 (gee, how the F#@% do you filter that??!?!) lets filter the equivalent of "any", gee...
we have been talking to Exodus to get this problem resolved.
Posted by BSD-Pat:
;)
We have been bitching