Put that into a mac cube and you've got a completely silent, completely beautiful little device. remove the monitor & kb, pop on os x, and you've got a fileserver that can also be you're little apple alter:-)
you've got replies telling you that the difference is that userspace threads are mapped into linux threads...
The real cost of linux threads is that they're almost real processes, with almost the same costs involved. In reality, all you need is a register context and a stack... Thread creation costs are much higher than absolutely necessary.
Linus was just saying that *NON-INFORMATIONAL* messages are just a waste, and that they shouldn't be done. Information related to DEBUGGING is logged. Error messages are still printed. Relax and get over it.
I'm really glad to hear about the new C++ libraries. The compiler's been pretty good about compliance so far, but the libraries have sucked for quite a while now. Glad to see the improvement...
Though they haven't been very public about it, GM has been investing in fuel cells for years. They've been sponsering student competitions for more environmentally friendly cars (not just solar ones), and footing the bill for those who used fuel cells. Also, they've been making their own fuel cell vehicle prototypes for years now, and some of them even work.
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Hmm, I think you forget, Apple is a Personal Computer company. They really don't care too much about the enterprise. They'll sell clients and mid range servers, but they don't have or want to have enterprise level servers; they just don't care. Hell that's why webobjects runs on Solaris!
As for the 'commodity pricing,' support costs completely override any benefit in having cheaper hardware. Macs just work.
And finally, what's this 'integration with the rest of the business world'? The truth is, almost all people use 90% of the same applications, with some small utilities to fill in the gaps. Those 90% are usually what one can find in an office suite, and some custom enterprise applications. Custom enterprise apps written in Java will work without a hitch, and VB people deserve to wallow in the shithole they have created for themselves (but just run a PC emulator)... As for the rest of the apps, you'll find an equivalent in the Mac world.
Final question is, why would one switch? Simple: the unconscious 'pain in the ass' factor. Windows is just not human friendly. It's designed to look easy to use, but nothing really makes true sense. The errors like 'SQL Server had an error:Success,' the dialog boxes that just forget what you're doing, the menus that keep changing on you, the stupid paper clip, the start menu with a 'Programs' list taller than your screen (does EVERY application need it's own damn program group?)... Just a big, useless mess by people who couldn't care less how the user interacts with the system, just how the user pays for the software.
In that way, UNIX and Macs are similar: they're written for the user. In UNIX land, the software and the user environment are written for the traind professional who just wants to get their work done. In Mac land, the software and user environment are written for basically anybody with 10 minutes of experience to get their work done. Suddenly, with OS X, both types of users are accommodated (that's why I switched from Linux to Mac OS X: I wasn't into free sofware because it was inexpensive, I was into it because it was the best. Now I have a fantastic GUI on top of it).
How come Windows is the only platform where there isn't a user group, who, having seen the rest of the options (with their own eyes, not the FUD MS puts out), chooses it and stays loyal to it with love? I only hear complaints about Windows, and I only hear adoration and caring for UNIX and Mac.
May ask for a moment of silence for the CPU? First IDE, now CPU heavy filesystems? Also, one of my first questions is, how do you compress a filesystem without having problems with either:
Making seeks tough to calculate, or worse, requiring many disk accesses to get the right address
Performance problems with things like writes in the middle of the file, causing the dictionary for that part of the file to overfill and the whole portion of the file to need recompression
Perhaps I'm just not up on the latest compression techniques (most likely), but those questions just popped in my head.
Either way, this is just further down the road of increasing CPU requirements just to drive the friggin disk. Ick. I miss SCSI.
Simple really. The graphics card is the one that handles drawing to the frame buffer, and hence all the results of the graphics card are visible by inspecting the frame buffer, which is accessable through the OpenGL API
try c++ -v:
Reading specs from/usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/2.95.2/specs
Apple Computer, Inc. version gcc-926, based on gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
Besides, did you read the note at the bottom of the lrand48 manpage? "These functions are declared obsolete by SVID 3, which states that rand(3) should be used instead."
odd, worked for me. Only problem I've had is end-of-line interpretation, which a quick pipe through tr fixed for me. Hell after that, vim compiled and ran perfectly.
have you tried reinstalling sendmail? Oh, and it's (an admittedly broken version of) php4 that ships with OS X. nobody seems to know why it doesn't work.
Actually, it can probably be faster than windows. WineLib will basically wrap the traditional Linux APIs for anything it needs. Linux tends to be so much faster than windows that it overcomes the slowdowns caused by the wrappers. Remember that WABI was faster than windows on the same hardware, and netraverse's Win4Lin is also faster on the same hardware, and they're doing alot more wrapping.
So, it may very well be that the best gaming solution for the hardcore gamer may very well be a ported windows game running atop of WINE.
Platform independance is necessary to prevent vendor lock in. Also, if I find that a solaris box can do better DB I/O than any NT box, and that a Linux box running khttpd is fastest for static pages, and FreeBSD fastest for general dynamic content, then I can freely mix the three together to get literally an 'optimal' solution.
If you put them on a screen, LCD or otherwise, wouldn't you have a vacuum of air pulling the speaker back? That seems like it would create a lot of distortion. Also, even if that part was fixed, wouldn't the sound itself cause distortion on an LCD screen? When I lightly touch my LCDs, they change colors in that area. Imagine a speaker as big as the screen in close contact with an LCD screen playing your matrix dvd...
Your best bet is definately fiber. Invest some money now, and watch that money come back at you when you sell the house. Anything slower than *fucking*fast* will be more of a burden than anything else when you plan to sell your house. Fiber will most likely add twice to three times its value to your home's resale value (unless you mess it up..:-). High tech is in, and many new home builders are adding stuff like fiber into the better homes just because of market demand.
Oh, and on another note. Who's four year old kid did the web design on X10's site?
One big reason video phones didn't make it was because there was never enough bandwidth to make the image not suck. Internet2 doesn't have that problem:-)
How it'll work on the Internet1 won't really be known, but I doubt it matters. This kind of data will probably be sent via private corporate VPNs anyways.
Besides, seeing the person you're talking to is very important. If you're in business, you want to be personal when you negotiate, instead of memo or phonecall. Eye to eye communication is very important. Not even to mention the sentimental reason.. Parents will love the ability to look for themselves to see if their 18 year old college freshman has been eating enough.
I was talking to a recruiter for a contractor,
and he mentioned that Linux is also used in
some of the same type of command & control
warfare stuff. He told me it was in a tank (I
forget which),
and I'll assume that since we were in a bigass
auditorium, that fact isn't classified:-)
Hopefully they don't try the next BIND exploit
in desert storm II....;-)
Slashdot Mirror
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As for the 'commodity pricing,' support costs completely override any benefit in having cheaper hardware. Macs just work.
And finally, what's this 'integration with the rest of the business world'? The truth is, almost all people use 90% of the same applications, with some small utilities to fill in the gaps. Those 90% are usually what one can find in an office suite, and some custom enterprise applications. Custom enterprise apps written in Java will work without a hitch, and VB people deserve to wallow in the shithole they have created for themselves (but just run a PC emulator)... As for the rest of the apps, you'll find an equivalent in the Mac world.
Final question is, why would one switch? Simple: the unconscious 'pain in the ass' factor. Windows is just not human friendly. It's designed to look easy to use, but nothing really makes true sense. The errors like 'SQL Server had an error:Success,' the dialog boxes that just forget what you're doing, the menus that keep changing on you, the stupid paper clip, the start menu with a 'Programs' list taller than your screen (does EVERY application need it's own damn program group?)... Just a big, useless mess by people who couldn't care less how the user interacts with the system, just how the user pays for the software.
In that way, UNIX and Macs are similar: they're written for the user. In UNIX land, the software and the user environment are written for the traind professional who just wants to get their work done. In Mac land, the software and user environment are written for basically anybody with 10 minutes of experience to get their work done. Suddenly, with OS X, both types of users are accommodated (that's why I switched from Linux to Mac OS X: I wasn't into free sofware because it was inexpensive, I was into it because it was the best. Now I have a fantastic GUI on top of it).
How come Windows is the only platform where there isn't a user group, who, having seen the rest of the options (with their own eyes, not the FUD MS puts out), chooses it and stays loyal to it with love? I only hear complaints about Windows, and I only hear adoration and caring for UNIX and Mac.
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Perhaps I'm just not up on the latest compression techniques (most likely), but those questions just popped in my head.
Either way, this is just further down the road of increasing CPU requirements just to drive the friggin disk. Ick. I miss SCSI.
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try c++ -v: Reading specs from /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/2.95.2/specs
Apple Computer, Inc. version gcc-926, based on gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
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Besides, did you read the note at the bottom of the lrand48 manpage? "These functions are declared obsolete by SVID 3, which states that rand(3) should be used instead."
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So, it may very well be that the best gaming solution for the hardcore gamer may very well be a ported windows game running atop of WINE.
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Oh, and on another note. Who's four year old kid did the web design on X10's site?
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How it'll work on the Internet1 won't really be known, but I doubt it matters. This kind of data will probably be sent via private corporate VPNs anyways.
Besides, seeing the person you're talking to is very important. If you're in business, you want to be personal when you negotiate, instead of memo or phonecall. Eye to eye communication is very important. Not even to mention the sentimental reason.. Parents will love the ability to look for themselves to see if their 18 year old college freshman has been eating enough.
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Hopefully they don't try the next BIND exploit in desert storm II.... ;-)
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