I read the article (!). And it didnt say anything about area codes. It just said it would be easier to get phone numbers for VOIP phones.
Here in the UK you can now relatively easily get VOIP terminated phone numbers but only in the area code where you live (you need a billing address there). Now within the UK long distance calls are barely priced differently from local calls any more so this is ok.
What we actualyl need is a decent secondary market in VOIP phone numbers terminated in other countries...
I will exchange a London number for a New York number... any takers...
Seeders arent interested in what you have so they cant base their upload to you on what you are giving them, so working out a good strategy for how they serve up stuff is much harder.
That is what they said last time I read this story, oh a couple of years ago. As they are cubes you can route the network around anything, and there is enough redundacy in the data (and you can move stuff) to allow for failures. It was entirely based on the fact that maintainance is mroe expensive than not maintaining. (something the hard drive manufacturers will like as they will no longer need warranties at all... oh yes IBM no longer make hard drives).
It was an interesting lab project but still no closer to a product.
nested conditionals, well yes, you should use case statements anyway. But then I program in C like a functional programmer anyway to a large extent. Everyone should learn a functional language, just to help you think about things in different ways. And Haskell does have the best type system of any language I have used.
They are therefor talking about 2007 before there is a supported stable version for amd64, just for reasons of (basically) the LSB's strange arguments about backwards compatibility. The multiarch stuff is a bit of a red herring, its a nice idea but not that important. Running 64 bit code on what will be the dominant architecture (probably) well before 2007 is. I dont expect to have many 32 bit machines after the middle of next year, except a few still running.
Lots of people are moving to Gentoo. I am using Fedora at the moment, as my main machine is amd64.
I really admire all these coders who code software for people who cant or wont use a command line. Much of it is getting quite good now. If that has the byproduct that people who dont understand what the point of Linux is then that cant be helped (well its free software). But personally I think people should always leave out features (not being able to record mp3s is a great one), so the users find out that there is a command line, there is a bug tracking process, and there is the source code so they can fix these problems. Engage them in the community.
SO developers, remember to leave out features. Just design a great infrastructure and really good core code, but leave out feautres...
Actually its not because it is white and sparkling, its more because it is acidic and not overtly fruity that it goes with many foods. A dry Riesling will also go with any food that Champagne goes with, as will some other wines. Some red wines do go well with fish but you have to pick carefully. And ales go well with food but again you have to pick and choose a bit. Though something like Adnams goes with a lot of different foods too.
The people who say has DirectX destroyed OpenGL generally dont know what they are talking about. Basically both give you an interface to the graphics hardware and some legacy stuff (eg Direct X has a fairly complete software implementation of most stuff although many programs test the hardwre capabilities directly so this becomes irrelevant). There are a couple of problems with the GL interface (render to texture mainly). But there is also the "traditional" OpenGl interface, which is what most people learned, and the fixed function extensions. The traditional interface is basically the hardware stuff that SGI implemented (the stack based renderer). It is basically obsolete except as a teaching tool and for legacy code, because the hardware really doesnt look like that any more. The extensions are basically the same in many cases although some expose bits of hardware that are basically existing low level bits.
And OpenGl is falling behind in one sense: the Direct X process is the process by which there is a (moderate) amount of standardisation of what the raw hardware capabilities of different manufacturers cards are. OpenGl has no influence on this.
Neither are necessary or ideal, but things will only stabilise when the hardware designs do.
Actually this isnt really true. Redhats history of involvement with the community is really bad (they basically canned contribNet for example). Maybe they will get it right this time, but given the move to community support it is a good time to consider which community supported ditro to work with, and debian seems the obvious alternative rather than Fedora.
actually you could run 64 bit Linux on both of them, and benchmark some real apps... I also dont care about 32 bit benchmarks, I want 64 bit machines for the address space, and the Athlon 64 for its extra registers and so forth. compatibility really doesnt matter.
The thing to remember is that there may never be a 64 bit MacOS X, because unlike the athlon the ppc64 cannot run 32 bit and 64b bit applications at the same time, so the transition is going to be very very difficult for apple. Maybe they will try it in a few years when they stop supporting 32 bit machines.
last time I looked at it (a while back) none of ther performance figures were over gigabit. Or that recent. The question is can you run a tcp like protocol over ethernet that is more efficient than tcp (which is optimised by lots of kernel hackers)? nfs tried to run over udp, and on a modern os tcp gives much better performance than anything they came up with. ALthough there are interesting developments like the fact that gigabit optionally has flow control which could help if the protocol was aware of it (which I dont think hyperscsi is).
First, the CRC32 problems only put it on par with ssh 1. Which is still in use by many people I suspect. ok it should have been fixed.
The padding iisue just means that aes cant be used. afaik cipe doesnt let you change ciphers anyway. Its not that bad - the algorithms it uses are probably safe for a few more years. Plaintext size leaks small amounts of information, so it is not best practise, but not fatal. aes would be nice though.
The message sequence issue (replay etc) is on the face of it rather bad, except that cipe is designed for carrying ip traffic. Repeating or removing udp messages is fine, and tcp messages do have sequence numbers. So I fail to see how that is a problem.
And the key exchange is fairly irrelevant as it is basically a private key protocol. They key exchange stuff was an afterthought and I doubt if anyone uses it. Designing public key encryption is much harder and cipe should have stuck to private key.
Actually I worry about this. I seem to remember that the template system is in fact turing complete and you can write your entire program in it, making the language unnecessary. Compile time is run time.
actually the post above may have been referring to my post about Europe. Which has a very mixed bag of marijuana laws.
No country has legal marijuana because of the US. except... parts of India and Nepal on certain days. Mind you possession in Italy is pretty close under certain amounts. and Pulp Fiction summarised the dutch situation.
hmm, drugs are a vital part of the economy. The global drugs industry is not far off oil in value and larger than many others (the price hike from prohibition helps - free market prices would shrink its value in the global economy a lot).
And drugs arent designed to cause death and injury, just altered states of mind.
nor are cigarrettes, just an accidental by product.
Europe will get you away from most of this. The beer is much better, and in most places the marijuana situation is better. and the conscription situation.
though for some of these it helps to be an EU citizen as they are not all harmonised and a bit of flexibility depending on what you are avoiding or trying to find helps...
reply actually at least you might be able to tell which chip is bad when running memtest. Though my current problem is knowing which one is bad for dual channel chipsets, as I dont know what width they are interleaved on (64 bits?) and how that corresponds to the physical locations.
Most of 2D GUIs are a waste of space. What use is a folder full of little icons (actually, usually quite big icons) compared to a nice list. The advantages are usually for quicly selecting common objects (ie things you keep on the desktop/toolbar) so you can just go click, and for browsing pictures or other graphical objects, but anyone who does serious work with these has too many - my directories either have 10 or so things in or several thousand. Putting either on a ferris wheel is pointless, as is putting them in a 2D interface. And no file manager I have met can cope with displaying thumnails of 1500 3MB images.
Thats not to say that 3D couldnt be useful, its just that it is a potential tool, but making something that really works as a user interface is the hard problem. And the answer may be closer to the command line than to the ferris wheel.
you dont know or care? Have you ever looked at the profitability of the nuclear industry? It has lost huge amounts of money. Show me the evidence that anyone is going to build 4 nuclear power plants in the uk.
bankrupt: http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/art icle/0,2763,1 007746,00.html On Wednesday, the European commission decided to mount an in-depth probe into state aid for British Energy, the near-insolvent nuclear operator that almost sank into administration last September, losing 4.3bn in 2002. The EU's competition authorities must now decide whether that aid is legal. The government said it expected this and was confident its case would be approved eventually. Nobody apart from green campaigners and one or two newspapers, including the Guardian, paid any attention.
non replacement: http://www.bellona.no/en/energy/nucl ear/sellafield/28047.html
The British government has been working for a long time on an Energy White Paper, expected to be published in the next few weeks. The decision not to replace the country's ageing nuclear power plants will form the centrepiece of this Paper.
Britains largest nuclear energy producer, British Energy (BE), was on the brink of bankruptcy the last year. BE, which owes creditors 1bn, is being kept afloat by a 650m emergency government loan which runs out on March 9--the deadline set by the European commission for submitting an agreed restructuring plan. BE was privatised in 1996, but the government is now under pressure to put it back under administration.
The other British nuclear company, the state owned British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL), is also struggling with financial problems. The company's annual balance sheet for 2001 disclosed a deficit amounting to as much as 1.9bn, which make up the greatest deficit in the company's history. The total costs of the company's clean-up operation are estimated to be 40.5bn.
By establishing a Liabilities Management Authority, the government will transfer 7.1bn in liabilities to the British taxpayer, and the Treasury is understood to be sceptical about financing more nuclear power.
No, no countries have breeder reactors. The uk claimed they were going to be profitable but this was in fact admitted not to be the case. They can be used to produce more nuclear bombs though. There is no country with a working breeder program.
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I read the article (!). And it didnt say anything about area codes. It just said it would be easier to get phone numbers for VOIP phones.
Here in the UK you can now relatively easily get VOIP terminated phone numbers but only in the area code where you live (you need a billing address there). Now within the UK long distance calls are barely priced differently from local calls any more so this is ok.
What we actualyl need is a decent secondary market in VOIP phone numbers terminated in other countries...
I will exchange a London number for a New York number... any takers...
Seeders arent interested in what you have so they cant base their upload to you on what you are giving them, so working out a good strategy for how they serve up stuff is much harder.
That is what they said last time I read this story, oh a couple of years ago. As they are cubes you can route the network around anything, and there is enough redundacy in the data (and you can move stuff) to allow for failures. It was entirely based on the fact that maintainance is mroe expensive than not maintaining. (something the hard drive manufacturers will like as they will no longer need warranties at all... oh yes IBM no longer make hard drives).
It was an interesting lab project but still no closer to a product.
nested conditionals, well yes, you should use case statements anyway. But then I program in C like a functional programmer anyway to a large extent. Everyone should learn a functional language, just to help you think about things in different ways. And Haskell does have the best type system of any language I have used.
They are therefor talking about 2007 before there is a supported stable version for amd64, just for reasons of (basically) the LSB's strange arguments about backwards compatibility. The multiarch stuff is a bit of a red herring, its a nice idea but not that important. Running 64 bit code on what will be the dominant architecture (probably) well before 2007 is. I dont expect to have many 32 bit machines after the middle of next year, except a few still running.
Lots of people are moving to Gentoo. I am using Fedora at the moment, as my main machine is amd64.
I really admire all these coders who code software for people who cant or wont use a command line. Much of it is getting quite good now. If that has the byproduct that people who dont understand what the point of Linux is then that cant be helped (well its free software). But personally I think people should always leave out features (not being able to record mp3s is a great one), so the users find out that there is a command line, there is a bug tracking process, and there is the source code so they can fix these problems. Engage them in the community.
SO developers, remember to leave out features. Just design a great infrastructure and really good core code, but leave out feautres...
Actually its not because it is white and sparkling, its more because it is acidic and not overtly fruity that it goes with many foods. A dry Riesling will also go with any food that Champagne goes with, as will some other wines. Some red wines do go well with fish but you have to pick carefully. And ales go well with food but again you have to pick and choose a bit. Though something like Adnams goes with a lot of different foods too.
Yes but some of us install a lot of machines, and mostly new ones without support. Simply updating the kernels in the install images would help a lot.
The people who say has DirectX destroyed OpenGL generally dont know what they are talking about. Basically both give you an interface to the graphics hardware and some legacy stuff (eg Direct X has a fairly complete software implementation of most stuff although many programs test the hardwre capabilities directly so this becomes irrelevant). There are a couple of problems with the GL interface (render to texture mainly). But there is also the "traditional" OpenGl interface, which is what most people learned, and the fixed function extensions. The traditional interface is basically the hardware stuff that SGI implemented (the stack based renderer). It is basically obsolete except as a teaching tool and for legacy code, because the hardware really doesnt look like that any more. The extensions are basically the same in many cases although some expose bits of hardware that are basically existing low level bits.
And OpenGl is falling behind in one sense: the Direct X process is the process by which there is a (moderate) amount of standardisation of what the raw hardware capabilities of different manufacturers cards are. OpenGl has no influence on this.
Neither are necessary or ideal, but things will only stabilise when the hardware designs do.
Actually this isnt really true. Redhats history of involvement with the community is really bad (they basically canned contribNet for example). Maybe they will get it right this time, but given the move to community support it is a good time to consider which community supported ditro to work with, and debian seems the obvious alternative rather than Fedora.
actually you could run 64 bit Linux on both of them, and benchmark some real apps... I also dont care about 32 bit benchmarks, I want 64 bit machines for the address space, and the Athlon 64 for its extra registers and so forth. compatibility really doesnt matter.
The thing to remember is that there may never be a 64 bit MacOS X, because unlike the athlon the ppc64 cannot run 32 bit and 64b bit applications at the same time, so the transition is going to be very very difficult for apple. Maybe they will try it in a few years when they stop supporting 32 bit machines.
last time I looked at it (a while back) none of ther performance figures were over gigabit. Or that recent. The question is can you run a tcp like protocol over ethernet that is more efficient than tcp (which is optimised by lots of kernel hackers)? nfs tried to run over udp, and on a modern os tcp gives much better performance than anything they came up with. ALthough there are interesting developments like the fact that gigabit optionally has flow control which could help if the protocol was aware of it (which I dont think hyperscsi is).
ah yes, very respectable domains that set an example to us all. at the cutting edge of internet technology
hmm, not so sure.
First, the CRC32 problems only put it on par with ssh 1. Which is still in use by many people I suspect. ok it should have been fixed.
The padding iisue just means that aes cant be used. afaik cipe doesnt let you change ciphers anyway. Its not that bad - the algorithms it uses are probably safe for a few more years. Plaintext size leaks small amounts of information, so it is not best practise, but not fatal. aes would be nice though.
The message sequence issue (replay etc) is on the face of it rather bad, except that cipe is designed for carrying ip traffic. Repeating or removing udp messages is fine, and tcp messages do have sequence numbers. So I fail to see how that is a problem.
And the key exchange is fairly irrelevant as it is basically a private key protocol. They key exchange stuff was an afterthought and I doubt if anyone uses it. Designing public key encryption is much harder and cipe should have stuck to private key.
Actually I worry about this. I seem to remember that the template system is in fact turing complete and you can write your entire program in it, making the language unnecessary. Compile time is run time.
actually the post above may have been referring to my post about Europe. Which has a very mixed bag of marijuana laws.
No country has legal marijuana because of the US. except... parts of India and Nepal on certain days. Mind you possession in Italy is pretty close under certain amounts. and Pulp Fiction summarised the dutch situation.
hmm, drugs are a vital part of the economy. The global drugs industry is not far off oil in value and larger than many others (the price hike from prohibition helps - free market prices would shrink its value in the global economy a lot).
And drugs arent designed to cause death and injury, just altered states of mind.
nor are cigarrettes, just an accidental by product.
Europe will get you away from most of this. The beer is much better, and in most places the marijuana situation is better. and the conscription situation.
though for some of these it helps to be an EU citizen as they are not all harmonised and a bit of flexibility depending on what you are avoiding or trying to find helps...
funny your email ends in .us
a bit recursive.
It would be better if you could software select which colour led flashed for each location range, so you could colour buffer cache, code etc.
reply actually at least you might be able to tell which chip is bad when running memtest. Though my current problem is knowing which one is bad for dual channel chipsets, as I dont know what width they are interleaved on (64 bits?) and how that corresponds to the physical locations.
Most of 2D GUIs are a waste of space. What use is a folder full of little icons (actually, usually quite big icons) compared to a nice list. The advantages are usually for quicly selecting common objects (ie things you keep on the desktop/toolbar) so you can just go click, and for browsing pictures or other graphical objects, but anyone who does serious work with these has too many - my directories either have 10 or so things in or several thousand. Putting either on a ferris wheel is pointless, as is putting them in a 2D interface. And no file manager I have met can cope with displaying thumnails of 1500 3MB images.
Thats not to say that 3D couldnt be useful, its just that it is a potential tool, but making something that really works as a user interface is the hard problem. And the answer may be closer to the command line than to the ferris wheel.
no, render farms dont use graphics cards. the genlock is for when you have multiple machines rendering the same image eg on multiple projectors
you dont know or care? Have you ever looked at the profitability of the nuclear industry? It has lost huge amounts of money. Show me the evidence that anyone is going to build 4 nuclear power plants in the uk.
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bankrupt:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/ar
On Wednesday, the European commission decided to mount an in-depth probe into state aid for British Energy, the near-insolvent nuclear operator that almost sank into administration last September, losing 4.3bn in 2002. The EU's competition authorities must now decide whether that aid is legal. The government said it expected this and was confident its case would be approved eventually. Nobody apart from green campaigners and one or two newspapers, including the Guardian, paid any attention.
non replacement:
http://www.bellona.no/en/energy/nuc
The British government has been working for a long time on an Energy White Paper, expected to be published in the next few weeks. The decision not to replace the country's ageing nuclear power plants will form the centrepiece of this Paper.
Britains largest nuclear energy producer, British Energy (BE), was on the brink of bankruptcy the last year. BE, which owes creditors 1bn, is being kept afloat by a 650m emergency government loan which runs out on March 9--the deadline set by the European commission for submitting an agreed restructuring plan. BE was privatised in 1996, but the government is now under pressure to put it back under administration.
The other British nuclear company, the state owned British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL), is also struggling with financial problems. The company's annual balance sheet for 2001 disclosed a deficit amounting to as much as 1.9bn, which make up the greatest deficit in the company's history. The total costs of the company's clean-up operation are estimated to be 40.5bn.
By establishing a Liabilities Management Authority, the government will transfer 7.1bn in liabilities to the British taxpayer, and the Treasury is understood to be sceptical about financing more nuclear power.
No, no countries have breeder reactors. The uk claimed they were going to be profitable but this was in fact admitted not to be the case. They can be used to produce more nuclear bombs though. There is no country with a working breeder program.