The mailbox contains a small figurine of some sort. Upon closer inspection, it appears to be constructed of some sort of fossilized wood, depicting a once-popular actress alongside a popular southern state hot grain product.
I do the same thing that you do even though I can get new hardware easily. It's just in my nature, I guess. Do more with less.
Here's what I do:
Pull it all apart and clean it with a compressed air canister. Clean the case with hot water and a sponge.
Take note of the exact specs of the machine. Locate the motherboard manual. Skim it.
Note the BIOS version. Look at every single BIOS setting. Usually there's something wrong. Make the appropriate changes. If there are any BIOS updates available, apply them.
Go to crucial.com and try to locate the system in their database. Note the system's maximum RAM amount as well as the type of RAM used. Very this against the motherboard manual.
Get on EBay. Bid on the cheapest setup that will max out the motherboard's RAM. Just pay for it yourself. If you quit your job, take both the PC (it was going to be thrown out, remember? You saved it and by law it's now yours) and the memory.
Put a decent HD or two in it. Any setup totaling 100GB or so makes a nice little server for something. If it's a relatively recent machine, stick a PCI SATA card in it and some cheap SATA drives from Ebay (I saw a 120GB SATA drive for $20 a couple days ago).
Put DSL with the 2.4 kernel or any of the BSDs on it. I put NetBSD on a P3 laptop maxed out with a GB of RAM and it absolutely screamed. If it's a decent box, throw an extra NIC in it. Put OpenBSD on it and make it your head-end router/firewall for the rest of the frankenboxen.
I have no formal CS education, nor I know low-level languages, so I naively ask: can you explain thoroughly what makes impossible/impractical for a high level language like Python or C# to be used for a kernel OS? It's sincere curiosity, not trolling or what. Thanks.
That's actually a fairly difficult question to answer in this context. It's fairly obvious to anyone that has to regularly deal with this kind of thing, but difficult to explain for the same reason-- it can be hard to figure out why it's not obvious to the person asking the question.
Simply put, most high-level languages presuppose support for the features they would need to be implementing. What is a Python dictionary? A hash table. Where does the memory this hash table use come from? The Python Object allocator, which sits atop the Python raw memory allocator, which sits atop the C library allocator, which sits atop the OS virtual memory implementation, which sits atop the OS kernel implementation of memory page management, which sits atop the code that talks to the hardware MMU (memory management unit), which sits atop the hardware memory itself. Typically all of this couples with the CPU and the low-level hardware cache management and/or chipset in myriad unholy ways.
Now I ask you: if simply declaring Python ints or strings or dicts requires all of this, how do you expect to be able to write an OS using these ints, strings, and dicts?
Does that make any sense? Concrete is a great tool for building foundations, but not so great for building bookshelves or kitchen tables with.
The assumption of all of this is that the "encryption" lies in the source code. What if we were to write a programming language that interpreted the biblical (note lower case;-) book of genesis as a usable RSA algorithm implementation? Would it be illegal to export the book of genesis then? It all comes down to the gov't restricting speech.
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The slashdot community doesn't want it.
The mailbox contains a small figurine of some sort. Upon closer inspection, it appears to be constructed of some sort of fossilized wood, depicting a once-popular actress alongside a popular southern state hot grain product.
Further, this is not exactly complicated shit. It's a discussion web site for Christ's sake.
You are a fucking retard. The point is precisely that the posters of good comments are themselves planning to go away.
Says "nope"
SONY SELLS BETA FOR UNDISCLOSED FEE
Dice touched my pee pee now it burns help me digg you have to
/rioting in the streets/
Dare I say that such a thing might be properly termed a "pussy riot"
Beta = female genital mutilation
I lost my both of my arms in an armed robbery, you insensitive clod!
I do the same thing that you do even though I can get new hardware easily. It's just in my nature, I guess. Do more with less.
Here's what I do:
As well as this one...
I, for one, welcome our new moon raping overlords.
Remember the trolltalk sid by any chance?
That's actually a fairly difficult question to answer in this context. It's fairly obvious to anyone that has to regularly deal with this kind of thing, but difficult to explain for the same reason-- it can be hard to figure out why it's not obvious to the person asking the question.
Simply put, most high-level languages presuppose support for the features they would need to be implementing. What is a Python dictionary? A hash table. Where does the memory this hash table use come from? The Python Object allocator, which sits atop the Python raw memory allocator, which sits atop the C library allocator, which sits atop the OS virtual memory implementation, which sits atop the OS kernel implementation of memory page management, which sits atop the code that talks to the hardware MMU (memory management unit), which sits atop the hardware memory itself. Typically all of this couples with the CPU and the low-level hardware cache management and/or chipset in myriad unholy ways.
Now I ask you: if simply declaring Python ints or strings or dicts requires all of this, how do you expect to be able to write an OS using these ints, strings, and dicts?
Does that make any sense? Concrete is a great tool for building foundations, but not so great for building bookshelves or kitchen tables with.
Would you like some pancakes?
Ding Ding Ding. We have a winner. You are absolutely correct.
The assumption of all of this is that the "encryption" lies in the source code. What if we were to write a programming language that interpreted the biblical (note lower case ;-) book of genesis as a usable RSA algorithm implementation? Would it be illegal to export the book of genesis then? It all comes down to the gov't restricting speech.
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