Imagine you wrote 10,000 lines of code, 99.9% of which is completely bug-free, and then somebody comes along and finds the 10 lines that you wrote at 11pm on a Friday.
More like...
Imagine you've written 10,000 hours of code, 99.9% of which is dependent on APIs you didn't write, and then somebody comes along and points out fundamental security flaws in the design that the APIs you use is based on.
that there are plenty of phrases that are typically Indian (and are considered perfectly normal there), which may be hard to understand.. or just plain annoying like
How many dual-core AMD Athlon64 machines will Dell sell this year?
A lot of that depends on how many of Dell's enterprise customers start buying AMD64 servers from other hardware vendors.
Allegiance to Intel loses importance if Dell is losing customers.
I predict all it will take for Dell to sell AMD is for Dell to slip to #2 PC vendor.
So, computer that plays MP3s = ~$5/gb of disk tax?
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I can play mp3s on every single computer I have, and collectively, my computers have over 1tb of disk. Does that mean that if I lived in The Netherlands, I'd need to pay US$5000 in *TAX* to the recording industry on my *COMPUTER* storage?!?
Next, someone will propose a tax on raw hard drives just because someone might put MP3s on it???
I've run nearly every version of Redhat Linux since 4.0. I've run every version of Redhat Enterprise Linux. I've run every version of Solaris on SPARC.
I've used UNIX as a desktop since early CDE/VUE days.
I have to say that Ubuntu has done a great job of integration and taking 'best of breed' opensource, making some hard choices about standards (namely GNOME desktop), filled in a lot of missing pieces, and come up with something free that is amazingly good out of the box.
Honestly, Ubuntu has much of the appeal that MAC OSX has -- it's 'different', not a resource hog, doesn't require you to PAY FOR PATCHES AND SECURITY UPDATES (ahem... Redhat!), and it just works.
Best of all, it's CURRENT! You know how us slashdotters like our fresh code... well Ubuntu has been so current that I hardly have time to go to freshmeat and find new stuff to compile.
If you've never used anything but an RPM distro, carefully read 'man dpkg' and you'll be okay. Then enable the metaverse and universe repositories and run synaptic.
Posting this from my Toshiba Tecra 8200 running Ubuntu 5.04 - with suspend to RAM working just fine, thank you!:)
My home machine's webserver gets regularly punished by bots that are sending buffer overflow URLs. I only have port 80 open, too. I use my home machine for mythtv, and I certainly notice when the bots start attacking me.
It's really annoying. I've thought about what I can do to shut down bots that are annoying me with excess traffic...
Does anyone have some good suggestions for keeping zombie PC traffic off of linux webservers either via firewall rules, apache config files, or ?
Perhaps a more interesting question is... if your machines is being attacked by a zombie PC, is it okay to attack it back (and try to take it offline?) - Isn't this sort of like 'self defense'?
I agree completely. Any switch from analog TV to HDTV will be like trying to force everyone to get rid of their old polluting cars and buy new environmentall friendly cars -- it will take **DECADES**
I'm not going to buy a new TV just to watch HDTV, and I think I'm in the majority
Analog TV broadcasts are good enough for me.
Cable companies will find a huge sustained demand for HTDV to analog converter boxes that people will not be willing to pay extra for - they'll eventually have to give them away and charge more for premium services.
If enough people do not buy new TVs, the whole house of cards starts to fall down.
Did redhat go after $ in the enterprise and lose sight of Linux developers? I'd say yes.
They co-opted the fedora project,gave it ver little resources and virtually *NO* promotion, and tried to downplay it's even existence to all the corporate customers that they are pitching yearly per-server RHN contracts to.
People who had used SuSE before went back and tried SuSE and discovered that SuSE had newer software versions than Redhat
People who might have thought that Debian was only for masochists discovered Ubuntu and decided it was fast, easy, and didn't become "legacy" in 12 months
People who wanted more updated packages and hated breaking RPM dependencies and like to occasionally build things from source or optomize their packages found Gentoo and decided that rebuilding their entire OS could be fun, easy, and that their OS didn't need to become Legacy in 12 months.
Personally, I think that Gentoo is probably the purest Linux distribution, and that if you want the stability of a tried and true distribution that Ubuntu is the best Debian I've seen.
More developers have shifted away from Redhat, and they in turn have been influencing many other people's choice of distribution, and ultimately they are losing mindshare.
I think Redhat has finally realized that they *need* those developers and they're now doing a strange dance to try to pump up Fedora enough to excite the development community, but not enough to dissuade corpoprate customers for paying them for access to patches for RHEL.
I've definitely blurred the lines between games and reality a few times.
I played so much tetris in college, that I started to look at *EVERYTHING* around me as a tetris object falling downward and analyzing how I could rotate them and stack them to make them go away.
but the craziest thing for me has to be when I played nearly a week straight of multiplayer Doom 2 (back in the day, of course). I finally was overcome with hunger pains and had to go out for food. As I went outside, I wanted to hold my hands up to support my gun, and every time I approached the corner of a building, I wanted to sneak a peek around before I went around corner. These feelings persisted for a number of hours and all I wanted to do was get back "in the game"
Then of course, there is the wacky ending of the movie "The Beach". I know a lot of people who thought that was stupid and didn't add anything to the movie, but I could relate just a little bit...:)
I would *not* call EFI anything close to aesthetic... it's an OS that manages itanium hardware based on 64-bit Windows PE, or more appropriately... it's 64-bit DOS except there are only a few very limited commands.
I don't need an OS to boot my OS, and I don't want to waste space on my boot drive for EFI.
BIOS sucks, but we all know it and are used to it. If Intel tries to bring EFI to x86 and x86-64, I predict it will fail.
Taiwan has been remarking CPUs for at least 10 years. I remember back in the days of the 486 chips with multipliers... most of the chips available were remarked chips, and all anyone cared about was: (1) "can I actually run it at that frequency?" and (2) how much?
well, if you have a *hardware* mpeg encoder card, it will record a *.nuv file that is actually a mpeg2 file (or is supposed to be at least), but if you transcode it down, you can end up with a *.nuv file that isn't an mpeg2 file.
There are many TV cards that aren't mpeg2 hardware encoders.
My point is/was that Linux and mplayer provide extremely good codec and format coverage.
Along similar lines, I find that the cheapie DVD players can play any VCD, DVD, DVD+R DVD-R, DVCD, KVCD, XVCD or whatever file format I can throw at them, whereas the name brand players choke on far too many of the "somewhat unusual" formats.
I seriously hope they use mplayer and add support for all of the file formats that mplayer can handle.
Why?
Well... mythtv records in this crazy format called NUV. It's opensource, but it's not in any top ten codecs list. But... mplayer supports it just fine.
I sure would like to have a portable media player that supported "raw" mythtv recordings
Okay, so we now have a large majority of data *not* going across phone lines and being digital all the way.
What good are the phone lines nowadays? I'd rather have wireless internet.
Let's look at current pricing structures:
rip of the customer pricing
long distance - charged per call based on distance and time (could be $$/min!!)
cellular phone - charged per call based on estimated number of minutes and plan (could be $$$/min or >$200/mo)
cellular data plans - very few are all-you-can-eat - most cost about $40/month or could be much more for essentially transfers of a "few" megabytes of data
ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT
Dial up internet (Digital -> analog -> digital) = all-you-can eat for about $20/month
universal phone service for local calls - (analog --> analog) - local only calling for about $15/month all-you-can eat (or whatever)
Cable modem/DSL - (digital-->digital) - all-you-can eat for about $50/month
wireless access - (not many subscription wireless plans yet with any sort of wide range, but they're effective all-you-can eat, too)
Does anyone else see that cell phones could eventually be completely replaced with Wireless and VoIP? In that world, we could all pay flat rates to talk with people all around the world.
Don't most phone companies already use VoIP already? They just don't want to lose their cash cow!... and can anyone explain to me why cellular data services remain so costly? There ought to be some law..
Both are true. Xine, Ogle, and mplayer *can* play dvds on Linux, but none of them are technically "legal" dvd players in every country.
It's a whole big STUPID thing that points out how DRM and Opensource clash at a very fundamental level. Sort of like when hardware companies charge companies for access to their hardware specs. Who in "Linux" is going to pay 10 or 20 grand for hardware specs? How can a developer sign an NDA and then write opensource drivers?
Anyway, more info about "Legal DVDs under Linux" here: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/09/xine_dvd.htm l
From the Xine FAQ:
To be able to play back encrypted DVDs you need to have libdvdcss installed on your system (please check if this is legal where you live). If you do not understand what the term "encrypted DVD" means here: As a rule of thumb, every DVD you have to pay money for is most likely encrypted.
http://www.xinehq.de/index.php/faq
Isn't it mind-blowing that there is no truly legitimate DVD player for Linux? Anyone from the MPAA that wants to do something about "fixing" the current state of affairs could make sure that Linux distros have some way to ship an actual legitimate DVD player.
Helixplayer would be nice if is supported any formats I actually cared about...
- Provide a true serial console solution for x86 hardware that enables everything from BIOS changes to OS install on bare metal - this would bring the X86 platform up to where UNIX was 20 years ago (and don't tell me about IPMI until there's hardware using the 2.0 spec)
- redo the whole privileged port thing. When only root could become UID 0 and start a process on a port under 1024, maybe this meant something. Today, it's a joke
- kill the GNU info format. Could anything possibly be less useful that INFO pages?!? Sheesh. Manpages have become a standard - Everything should have a manpage.
- Manpages must provide at least 5 example command strings for sample usage with description of what those options do.
- In the days of UNIX, we all knew what were system binaries and what was GNU/other. We used/usr/local/ for that. Nowadays, Linux treats everything like it belongs in/usr. What exactly is *not* a system binary or library in a linux distribution?
- Central area for Internet-based config files. Try to set web/ftp proxy information in a single location and have it honored by more than one or two programs
- Strict adherence to commonly used environment variables like HTTP_PROXY, NO_PROXY by any internet-enabled app. There should be more like NNTPSERVER, SMTPSERVER, IMAPSERVER, POPSERVER
- Do we really need/sbin and/usr/sbin? - Give me *one* - how about only/usr/sbin so we can keep / with fewer entries?
- Do we really need/bin and/usr/bin? How about only/usr/bin.
- for application foo, what should go in/usr/share/foo vs./usr/lib/foo vs./etc/foo vs./var/lib/foo vs./opt/foo vs/usr/local/share/foo vs./usr/local/lib/foo vs./usr/local/etc/foo.... Kill me now, please!
- sar was great, but I need a year's worth of data, and I would really like to have some trend analysis automatically done and know that my bottleneck over the past week has been XXX and was due to process YYY
- mail programs should all be able to default to using/etc/mailcap if it exists and is properly configured. Write a simple GUI to configure/etc/mailcap and then all mail apps will be happy
- Make X11 session state transportable. I want t o be able to transport my entire X session from one Xserver to another Xserver without losing the state of any apps. (not just a view via VNC... the whole GUI app)
why would they want to have 2 different 64-bit extentions on the market competing?
Why would *Intel* want to sell two different 64-bit chips? (Hint... why did they try to make the name ia32e stick?)
Then, Intel made chips that aren't 100% instruction set compatible with amd64 so that customers have to suffer with two different implementations. I suspect they thought everyone would just go with the Intel solution... and then say, AMD's chip isn't compatible with Intel?!? (that's right... for many linux distributions on x86-64, you need a different kernel and kernel modules for em64t and amd64 -- the binary-only driver suppliers are going to *love* that!)
[tinfoil hat] Also, why isn't anyone asking *MICROSOFT* about why the release of Windows for x86-64 is taking so long when AMD has been shipping the chips for a long time and Microsoft *does* have Windows for IA64. Could it be that Intel asked Microsoft for a favor to delay this release until they saturate the market with em64t chips? [/tinfoil hat]
Worldwind is great if you don't want to get high-res data, and if you don't need to polish of keyhole viewer.
Landsat 7 servers are almost never reachable, so you end up downloading 5gb of cache data to your drive and they you still don't have the high-res data you want when you zoom in.
But... if you want to view different maps on the world to visualize different data, it's a good framework.
Personally, I wish worldwind would roll their support and development behind celestia (which runs on all platforms) and stop using.NET.
That said, there's nothing available for $30/year that even comes close to Keyhole
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Imagine you wrote 10,000 lines of code, 99.9% of which is completely bug-free, and then somebody comes along and finds the 10 lines that you wrote at 11pm on a Friday.
More like...
Imagine you've written 10,000 hours of code, 99.9% of which is dependent on APIs you didn't write, and then somebody comes along and points out fundamental security flaws in the design that the APIs you use is based on.
that there are plenty of phrases that are typically Indian (and are considered perfectly normal there), which may be hard to understand .. or just plain annoying like
"Please do the needful"
Redhat still trying to figure out how to lure the opensource community back.
How many dual-core AMD Athlon64 machines will Dell sell this year?
A lot of that depends on how many of Dell's enterprise customers start buying AMD64 servers from other hardware vendors.
Allegiance to Intel loses importance if Dell is losing customers.
I predict all it will take for Dell to sell AMD is for Dell to slip to #2 PC vendor.
I can play mp3s on every single computer I have, and collectively, my computers have over 1tb of disk. Does that mean that if I lived in The Netherlands, I'd need to pay US$5000 in *TAX* to the recording industry on my *COMPUTER* storage?!?
Next, someone will propose a tax on raw hard drives just because someone might put MP3s on it???
Come on!
acrobat 7 for Linux is definitely an improvement, but after *not* having it and using xpdf, I'm not sure which one I like better.
I've run nearly every version of Redhat Linux since 4.0. I've run every version of Redhat Enterprise Linux. I've run every version of Solaris on SPARC.
:)
I've used UNIX as a desktop since early CDE/VUE days.
I have to say that Ubuntu has done a great job of integration and taking 'best of breed' opensource, making some hard choices about standards (namely GNOME desktop), filled in a lot of missing pieces, and come up with something free that is amazingly good out of the box.
Honestly, Ubuntu has much of the appeal that MAC OSX has -- it's 'different', not a resource hog, doesn't require you to PAY FOR PATCHES AND SECURITY UPDATES (ahem... Redhat!), and it just works.
Best of all, it's CURRENT! You know how us slashdotters like our fresh code... well Ubuntu has been so current that I hardly have time to go to freshmeat and find new stuff to compile.
If you've never used anything but an RPM distro, carefully read 'man dpkg' and you'll be okay. Then enable the metaverse and universe repositories and run synaptic.
Posting this from my Toshiba Tecra 8200 running Ubuntu 5.04 - with suspend to RAM working just fine, thank you!
I have a cron entry that runs a script to examine /var/log/http/access_log for any obviously abusive requests
:)
Care to share your script?
My home machine's webserver gets regularly punished by bots that are sending buffer overflow URLs. I only have port 80 open, too. I use my home machine for mythtv, and I certainly notice when the bots start attacking me.
It's really annoying. I've thought about what I can do to shut down bots that are annoying me with excess traffic...
Does anyone have some good suggestions for keeping zombie PC traffic off of linux webservers either via firewall rules, apache config files, or ?
Perhaps a more interesting question is... if your machines is being attacked by a zombie PC, is it okay to attack it back (and try to take it offline?) - Isn't this sort of like 'self defense'?
I agree completely. Any switch from analog TV to HDTV will be like trying to force everyone to get rid of their old polluting cars and buy new environmentall friendly cars -- it will take **DECADES**
I'm not going to buy a new TV just to watch HDTV, and I think I'm in the majority
Analog TV broadcasts are good enough for me.
Cable companies will find a huge sustained demand for HTDV to analog converter boxes that people will not be willing to pay extra for - they'll eventually have to give them away and charge more for premium services.
If enough people do not buy new TVs, the whole house of cards starts to fall down.
Did redhat go after $ in the enterprise and lose sight of Linux developers? I'd say yes.
They co-opted the fedora project,gave it ver little resources and virtually *NO* promotion, and tried to downplay it's even existence to all the corporate customers that they are pitching yearly per-server RHN contracts to.
People who had used SuSE before went back and tried SuSE and discovered that SuSE had newer software versions than Redhat
People who might have thought that Debian was only for masochists discovered Ubuntu and decided it was fast, easy, and didn't become "legacy" in 12 months
People who wanted more updated packages and hated breaking RPM dependencies and like to occasionally build things from source or optomize their packages found Gentoo and decided that rebuilding their entire OS could be fun, easy, and that their OS didn't need to become Legacy in 12 months.
Personally, I think that Gentoo is probably the purest Linux distribution, and that if you want the stability of a tried and true distribution that Ubuntu is the best Debian I've seen.
More developers have shifted away from Redhat, and they in turn have been influencing many other people's choice of distribution, and ultimately they are losing mindshare.
I think Redhat has finally realized that they *need* those developers and they're now doing a strange dance to try to pump up Fedora enough to excite the development community, but not enough to dissuade corpoprate customers for paying them for access to patches for RHEL.
"Hey everyone (except corporate customers), look Fedora's great!"
"Hey everyone (except developers), Fedora's unstable and unsupported, use RHEL!"
I've definitely blurred the lines between games and reality a few times.
:)
I played so much tetris in college, that I started to look at *EVERYTHING* around me as a tetris object falling downward and analyzing how I could rotate them and stack them to make them go away.
but the craziest thing for me has to be when I played nearly a week straight of multiplayer Doom 2 (back in the day, of course). I finally was overcome with hunger pains and had to go out for food. As I went outside, I wanted to hold my hands up to support my gun, and every time I approached the corner of a building, I wanted to sneak a peek around before I went around corner. These feelings persisted for a number of hours and all I wanted to do was get back "in the game"
Then of course, there is the wacky ending of the movie "The Beach". I know a lot of people who thought that was stupid and didn't add anything to the movie, but I could relate just a little bit...
I would *not* call EFI anything close to aesthetic... it's an OS that manages itanium hardware based on 64-bit Windows PE, or more appropriately... it's 64-bit DOS except there are only a few very limited commands.
I don't need an OS to boot my OS, and I don't want to waste space on my boot drive for EFI.
BIOS sucks, but we all know it and are used to it. If Intel tries to bring EFI to x86 and x86-64, I predict it will fail.
C'mon, I can't be the only one who saw this and had to read the parent post simply because I *thought* it said Yankerville, can I?
Hey Lady, I'm gonna charge my laptop! Yaay!
Taiwan has been remarking CPUs for at least 10 years. I remember back in the days of the 486 chips with multipliers... most of the chips available were remarked chips, and all anyone cared about was: (1) "can I actually run it at that frequency?" and (2) how much?
Has anything changed?
well, if you have a *hardware* mpeg encoder card, it will record a *.nuv file that is actually a mpeg2 file (or is supposed to be at least), but if you transcode it down, you can end up with a *.nuv file that isn't an mpeg2 file.
There are many TV cards that aren't mpeg2 hardware encoders.
My point is/was that Linux and mplayer provide extremely good codec and format coverage.
Along similar lines, I find that the cheapie DVD players can play any VCD, DVD, DVD+R DVD-R, DVCD, KVCD, XVCD or whatever file format I can throw at them, whereas the name brand players choke on far too many of the "somewhat unusual" formats.
I seriously hope they use mplayer and add support for all of the file formats that mplayer can handle.
Why?
Well... mythtv records in this crazy format called NUV. It's opensource, but it's not in any top ten codecs list. But... mplayer supports it just fine.
I sure would like to have a portable media player that supported "raw" mythtv recordings
What good are the phone lines nowadays? I'd rather have wireless internet.
Let's look at current pricing structures:
rip of the customer pricing
long distance - charged per call based on distance and time (could be $$/min!!)
cellular phone - charged per call based on estimated number of minutes and plan (could be $$$/min or >$200/mo)
cellular data plans - very few are all-you-can-eat - most cost about $40/month or could be much more for essentially transfers of a "few" megabytes of data
ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT
Dial up internet (Digital -> analog -> digital) = all-you-can eat for about $20/month
universal phone service for local calls - (analog --> analog) - local only calling for about $15/month all-you-can eat (or whatever)
Cable modem/DSL - (digital-->digital) - all-you-can eat for about $50/month
wireless access - (not many subscription wireless plans yet with any sort of wide range, but they're effective all-you-can eat, too)
... and can anyone explain to me why cellular data services remain so costly? There ought to be some law..
Does anyone else see that cell phones could eventually be completely replaced with Wireless and VoIP? In that world, we could all pay flat rates to talk with people all around the world.
Don't most phone companies already use VoIP already? They just don't want to lose their cash cow!
Anyone who subscribes to a *website* digest mailing is really living in the past.
You should really look into an RSS reader.
For windows, try Awasu
What, you say? No viruses for Linux? If a rootkit doesn't count as "spyware", I don't know what does...
Do you have any exposed ports to the internet leading back to your UNIX box? Do you run old versions of php and apache?
Do the following:
Download ROOTKIT HUNTER now.
run 'rkhunter --update'
run 'rkhunter -c' and scan your system
when rootkit is found, reinstall OS, and restore critical data from backups
>> And Legally play DVDS?
...
m l
> You can play DVDs now on MythTV
Both are true. Xine, Ogle, and mplayer *can* play dvds on Linux, but none of them are technically "legal" dvd players in every country.
It's a whole big STUPID thing that points out how DRM and Opensource clash at a very fundamental level. Sort of like when hardware companies charge companies for access to their hardware specs. Who in "Linux" is going to pay 10 or 20 grand for hardware specs? How can a developer sign an NDA and then write opensource drivers?
Anyway, more info about "Legal DVDs under Linux" here: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/09/xine_dvd.ht
From the Xine FAQ:
To be able to play back encrypted DVDs you need to have libdvdcss installed on your system (please check if this is legal where you live). If you do not understand what the term "encrypted DVD" means here: As a rule of thumb, every DVD you have to pay money for is most likely encrypted.
http://www.xinehq.de/index.php/faq
Isn't it mind-blowing that there is no truly legitimate DVD player for Linux? Anyone from the MPAA that wants to do something about "fixing" the current state of affairs could make sure that Linux distros have some way to ship an actual legitimate DVD player.
Helixplayer would be nice if is supported any formats I actually cared about...
- Provide a true serial console solution for x86 hardware that enables everything from BIOS changes to OS install on bare metal - this would bring the X86 platform up to where UNIX was 20 years ago (and don't tell me about IPMI until there's hardware using the 2.0 spec)
/usr/local/ for that. Nowadays, Linux treats everything like it belongs in /usr. What exactly is *not* a system binary or library in a linux distribution?
/sbin and /usr/sbin? - Give me *one* - how about only /usr/sbin so we can keep / with fewer entries?
/bin and /usr/bin? How about only /usr/bin.
/usr/share/foo vs. /usr/lib/foo vs. /etc/foo vs. /var/lib/foo vs. /opt/foo vs /usr/local/share/foo vs. /usr/local/lib/foo vs. /usr/local/etc/foo .... Kill me now, please!
/etc/mailcap if it exists and is properly configured. Write a simple GUI to configure /etc/mailcap and then all mail apps will be happy
- redo the whole privileged port thing. When only root could become UID 0 and start a process on a port under 1024, maybe this meant something. Today, it's a joke
- kill the GNU info format. Could anything possibly be less useful that INFO pages?!? Sheesh. Manpages have become a standard - Everything should have a manpage.
- Manpages must provide at least 5 example command strings for sample usage with description of what those options do.
- In the days of UNIX, we all knew what were system binaries and what was GNU/other. We used
- Central area for Internet-based config files. Try to set web/ftp proxy information in a single location and have it honored by more than one or two programs
- Strict adherence to commonly used environment variables like HTTP_PROXY, NO_PROXY by any internet-enabled app. There should be more like NNTPSERVER, SMTPSERVER, IMAPSERVER, POPSERVER
- Do we really need
- Do we really need
- for application foo, what should go in
- sar was great, but I need a year's worth of data, and I would really like to have some trend analysis automatically done and know that my bottleneck over the past week has been XXX and was due to process YYY
- mail programs should all be able to default to using
- Make X11 session state transportable. I want t o be able to transport my entire X session from one Xserver to another Xserver without losing the state of any apps. (not just a view via VNC... the whole GUI app)
Propietary format, DRM, and force-fed advertising (to be rolled out in future "enhancements" a la tivo) are *features* of Windows Media Center.
Silly consumer, you are not allowed to use video anywhere you want. The music/video/broadcast agencies OwnZ J00!
You may, however use Windows Media Center on any version of Windows you want as long as it is Windows XP or newer.
Tune-in. apt-get mythtv-suite. Drop out.
http://mythtv.org
why would they want to have 2 different 64-bit extentions on the market competing?
Why would *Intel* want to sell two different 64-bit chips? (Hint... why did they try to make the name ia32e stick?)
Then, Intel made chips that aren't 100% instruction set compatible with amd64 so that customers have to suffer with two different implementations. I suspect they thought everyone would just go with the Intel solution... and then say, AMD's chip isn't compatible with Intel?!? (that's right... for many linux distributions on x86-64, you need a different kernel and kernel modules for em64t and amd64 -- the binary-only driver suppliers are going to *love* that!)
[tinfoil hat]
Also, why isn't anyone asking *MICROSOFT* about why the release of Windows for x86-64 is taking so long when AMD has been shipping the chips for a long time and Microsoft *does* have Windows for IA64. Could it be that Intel asked Microsoft for a favor to delay this release until they saturate the market with em64t chips?
[/tinfoil hat]
Worldwind is great if you don't want to get high-res data, and if you don't need to polish of keyhole viewer.
.NET.
Landsat 7 servers are almost never reachable, so you end up downloading 5gb of cache data to your drive and they you still don't have the high-res data you want when you zoom in.
But... if you want to view different maps on the world to visualize different data, it's a good framework.
Personally, I wish worldwind would roll their support and development behind celestia (which runs on all platforms) and stop using
That said, there's nothing available for $30/year that even comes close to Keyhole