Is this an idea so that they could compile code to a RISC like instruction set running on a GPU like architecture with many simple parallel CPU like cores? GPUs have WIDE address buses, and this is logically an extension of NVidia's CUDA.
Thats may be what is going on. Given NVidia's positioning in business wih regard to Intel and ATI/AMD, maybe this is their ace os spades play with MS.
I was on OS X and had OSS HELL for getting things going for the stuff I work on - changing boot functionality for starting stuff I have to hand install is not good.
went back to amd 64 and Ubuntu Linux
Tell him to go and get an SBLive of some sort - once you get it going, this cheap card has 32 hardware stereo input channels!
Someone distribution should also get jack working in behind whatever ausio hook up they use...
Apple NEED to integrate the X11.org desktop standards more with OS X. The X11 server they provide gives you the equivalent of an X11 desktop running FVWM in terms of integrating the X11 apps with the rest of the desktop.
The desktop.org standards cover file type to application relations, clipboard, menu itmes. If Apple would implement them, X11 Apps under OS X would be a lot more useful. As it is I have to fight the system to make them work better.
Also, could Apple turn on the Freetype font smoothing/rendering fully? Make Open Office.org look way better
I used to develop for LRP, but stoped as I found that 75% of my time was spent porting samba, exim, etc and fixing mount bugs for NFS as people wanted this for security.....
I moved on to base all my work round an HD based system as this meant that I could concentrate on thenetworkign and routing software.
Unlike Dave Cinege, I am still using Debian Route Project in my job. You can find it up at http://debian-router.anathoth.gen.nz/
It is still alive and kicking, and I have just submitted the iptables/etnwork setup package netscript-2.4 to Debian Sid as I am a Debian Developer. this ontains the sum total of my experience as a professional router developer, security neworking specialist etc. More of the Debian Router project will be merged as they are ready and the base parts of it end up in Debian.
The stuff on my site would be a good match for Trusted Debian as well.
Others have alluded to the fact that solutions to similar or the same problem tendto generate uncannily similar code. This seems to be a fact.
As well as the above, the Linux kernel contains substantial amounts of code from the *BSD code base as well, and thereis boundto be code cutansd pasted from *BSD as well. Unixware has probably also drawn from the same well in places given the *BSD license, from FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. Not to mention the portions AT&T codebase that are in *BSD and Unixware, and which probably got into Linux from *BSD, thus generally sorting licensing and IP issues.
There are also complete drivers and compresion libraries (PPP compression) present in different major versions of Linux, with perfectly legitimacy
SCO will have to cross check all relevant source portions against *BSD to make sure they really have a case. Also, they have released new versions of Caldera Linux since the court filing with GPLed Linux kernels, thus GPLing the bits of the kernel that they claim were plagarised.
Somehow if they have a case I don't think they are after the retraction of that source, but they just wantto get the people who did it in the first place.
Iy your expansion cards are not full height or SCSI with the cables coming out the top, you can do this. I used to have a '486DX66/2 in an XT case - only problem is that the drive cage makes for hours of messing about to get any drives in and out. You could easily get a K6-3 AT board into one of these, only thing being to move the MB post holes, which just requires a little redrilling. Clone XT power supplies could easily do 200W, maybe 250W.
On that old case I even inserted a colling fan in the front of it blowing over the DX2/66 heatsink (with no CPU fan). Back then I found that most cheap CPU fans are not good for anything more than 6 months.
But with something like this going 100,000 RPM when it may only be designed for 7,000-10,000 RPM
- It could easily fly apart with deadly fragments flying through the air, with the energy of something approaching a hand grenade, not to mention the danger when this happens of the LPG tank going up and taking the garage with it in a big fireball.
I will say that again -
THIS IS PROBABLY DANGEROUS
Approach carefully and with caution.
PS: I laughed a lot and thought it cool, but I would not like to see any one hurt by doing things like this.
True. when ppeople talk about apt-get they are talking about the whole Debian experience, the thousands of packages that are built and all made to work together and work properly, the thought and setup work that has gone into setting up the groups and permissions on the system, the lenght of time it remains stable, and its clean upgrade to the next stable version and its easy maintenance that can keep the server secure. If Debian had redHat's postion, the script kiddes out there wouled have a lot harder time to 0wn a Linux box. All this means that commercially when you install Debian for a server, you end up wasting a lot less time than with other Linux distributions, and other services that were not possible become possible due to their ease of installation. debian is really the way most of the distros should be going.
With the core of Debian, the patch count is very simialr to that of Open BSD. Debian is the Open BSD of the Linux distros.
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Linux IP masquerade predates the NAT RFC, and includes behaviour that is definitely the equivalent of stateful filtering, due to its masquerading of FTP and HTTP sessions from one IP number. This is done by using lookup tables based on the TCP sessions port numbers, and special case reverse TCP session mapping for the FTP (I believe this also uses mathing based on port numbers). Check out the 1.1? dvelopment kernels, and some of the 1.2.x ones. This was about 1994/1995. There are also probably patches that predate this.
Then there is also the BSD netfilter which maybe precedes this work.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
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Can one of those community Beowulf projects give them some time so they can compute solutions more accurately?
Any Volunteers?
Could be great publicity for Linux and the Beowulf Cluster used.
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Is this an idea so that they could compile code to a RISC like instruction set running on a GPU like architecture with many simple parallel CPU like cores? GPUs have WIDE address buses, and this is logically an extension of NVidia's CUDA.
Thats may be what is going on. Given NVidia's positioning in business wih regard to Intel and ATI/AMD, maybe this is their ace os spades play with MS.
I was on OS X and had OSS HELL for getting things going for the stuff I work on - changing boot functionality for starting stuff I have to hand install is not good.
went back to amd 64 and Ubuntu Linux
Tell him to go and get an SBLive of some sort - once
you get it going, this cheap card has 32 hardware stereo input channels!
Someone distribution should also get jack working in behind whatever ausio hook up they use...
Just pointing this out. Sun OO.org have been quite helpful on this accepting patches to make sure this can be done.
Article is not well researched, and sounds like scaremongering.
Apple NEED to integrate the X11.org desktop standards more with OS X. The X11 server they provide gives you the equivalent of an X11 desktop running FVWM in terms of integrating the X11 apps with the rest of the desktop.
The desktop.org standards cover file type to application relations, clipboard, menu itmes. If Apple would implement them, X11 Apps under OS X would be a lot more useful. As it is I have to fight the system to make them work better.
Also, could Apple turn on the Freetype font smoothing/rendering fully? Make Open Office.org look way better
I used to develop for LRP, but stoped as I found that 75% of my time was spent porting samba, exim, etc and fixing mount bugs for NFS as people wanted this for security.....
/etnwork setup package netscript-2.4 to Debian Sid as I am a Debian Developer. this ontains the sum total of my experience as a professional router developer, security neworking specialist etc. More of the Debian Router project will be merged as they are ready and the base parts of it end up in Debian.
I moved on to base all my work round an HD based system as this meant that I could concentrate on thenetworkign and routing software.
Unlike Dave Cinege, I am still using Debian Route Project in my job. You can find it up at http://debian-router.anathoth.gen.nz/
It is still alive and kicking, and I have just submitted the iptables
The stuff on my site would be a good match for Trusted Debian as well.
Enjoy!!
Others have alluded to the fact that solutions to similar or the same problem tendto generate uncannily similar code. This seems to be a fact.
As well as the above, the Linux kernel contains substantial amounts of code from the *BSD code base as well, and thereis boundto be code cutansd pasted from *BSD as well. Unixware has probably also drawn from the same well in places given the *BSD license, from FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. Not to mention the portions AT&T codebase that are in *BSD and Unixware, and which probably got into Linux from *BSD, thus generally sorting licensing and IP issues.
There are also complete drivers and compresion libraries (PPP compression) present in different major versions of Linux, with perfectly legitimacy
SCO will have to cross check all relevant source portions against *BSD to make sure they really have a case. Also, they have released new versions of Caldera Linux since the court filing with GPLed Linux kernels, thus GPLing the bits of the kernel that they claim were plagarised.
Somehow if they have a case I don't think they are after the retraction of that source, but they just wantto get the people who did it in the first place.
Iy your expansion cards are not full height or SCSI with the cables coming out the top, you can do this. I used to have a '486DX66/2 in an XT case - only problem is that the drive cage makes for hours of messing about to get any drives in and out. You could easily get a K6-3 AT board into one of these, only thing being to move the MB post holes, which just requires a little redrilling. Clone XT power supplies could easily do 200W, maybe 250W.
On that old case I even inserted a colling fan in the front of it blowing over the DX2/66 heatsink (with no CPU fan). Back then I found that most cheap CPU fans are not good for anything more than 6 months.
Some will say "That's the point!!!"
But with something like this going 100,000 RPM when it may only be designed for 7,000-10,000 RPM
- It could easily fly apart with deadly fragments flying through the air, with the energy of something approaching a hand grenade, not to mention the danger when this happens of the LPG tank going up and taking the garage with it in a big fireball.
I will say that again -
THIS IS PROBABLY DANGEROUS
Approach carefully and with caution.
PS: I laughed a lot and thought it cool, but I would not like to see any one hurt by doing things like this.
True. when ppeople talk about apt-get they are talking about the whole Debian experience, the thousands of packages that are built and all made to work together and work properly, the thought and setup work that has gone into setting up the groups and permissions on the system, the lenght of time it remains stable, and its clean upgrade to the next stable version and its easy maintenance that can keep the server secure. If Debian had redHat's postion, the script kiddes out there wouled have a lot harder time to 0wn a Linux box. All this means that commercially when you install Debian for a server, you end up wasting a lot less time than with other Linux distributions, and other services that were not possible become possible due to their ease of installation. debian is really the way most of the distros should be going.
With the core of Debian, the patch count is very simialr to that of Open BSD. Debian is the Open BSD of the Linux distros.
Linux IP masquerade predates the NAT RFC, and includes behaviour that is definitely the equivalent of stateful filtering, due to its masquerading of FTP and HTTP sessions from one IP number. This is done by using lookup tables based on the TCP sessions port numbers, and special case reverse TCP session mapping for the FTP (I believe this also uses mathing based on port numbers). Check out the 1.1? dvelopment kernels, and some of the 1.2.x ones. This was about 1994/1995. There are also probably patches that predate this.
Then there is also the BSD netfilter which maybe precedes this work.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Can one of those community Beowulf projects give them some time so they can compute solutions more accurately?
Any Volunteers?
Could be great publicity for Linux and the Beowulf Cluster used.