if you have a connection machine do you have access to the source of that AI paint program that is demoed on it ? can you upload it someplace if you do ? Thinking Machines Inc. is pretty dead so it shouldnt matter.
Running Debian 2.2r3 on a CF-47 panasonic toughbook. Everything works fine in debian other than the Hauppage WinTV+FM video input. It has a lucent winmodem which is ok with the binary only driver, XFree works great (1024x768,24bpp, 14.1 inch LCD) on the Neomagic Magicmedia 256AV video chipset, The system uses standard PC-100 SDRAM and a TI PCMCIA chipset. I use a dongle-less xircom ethernet card which works great with the xirc2ps driver, the standard dvd hack for the RPC-1 regionless toshiba DVD drive for playing movies and full stereo sound is provided by alsa drivers (ymfpci) for the onboard YMF-744B sound chipset. My CDRW (Acer 4406EU) also works great with mkisofs/cdrecord. Hard drive is standard fujitsu and works nicely with DMA enabled. LS-120 floppy also works well. In other words -- fully supported except for my add-on Hauppage Wintv+FM board which i use win2k for. Make sure you get a WARRANTY though -- very few people repair toughbooks and they are fairly rare. The fantastically mindblowing construction (its incredible to see how well they're made when you open em up and see the titanium housing, gell mounted spring loaded hard drive and mobo enclosure etc etc) makes up for it.
hey..it happens to everyone of us even those writing free software. most simply ignore it and hit delete if its a flame mail. ive been flamed at various times for [1] writing code that was not indented or commented. well...duh...do i look like i care? [2] writing code that crashed someones machine when it explicitly stated on the page : BETA RELEASE: FOR PROGRAMMERS ONLY. WILL CRASH. [3] flamed for the lack of features [4] flamed for having too many features [5] flamed for a sucky interface [6] flamed for having too nice an interface. do i care ? nope. i just move on and hit delete. and my projects arent really that popular...i cant imagine what the popular projects get. usually anyone posting stuff on the net gets a thick skin after a while. its no big deal.
hmm...i dont agree. Java has speed problems with apps but i think java is going to go the way of COBOL. C# will dominate the market eventually. why? simple - micro$oft is going to start writing apps in C#. they're going to start writing web services in C#. they've already started hyping C# from the rooftops. all desktops will eventually run C# CLR's once games are available which work only with the CLR installed (i.e. M$ pushes the CLR into DirectX 9.0 or later). C++ will be phased out just like C is phased out on win32 (do you really think the majority develop with C on win32 right now? its either VB or C++). note that all the other languages will continue to be used but the vast majority is going to switch to C#. VB.NET and other languages which end with.NET are just skinnable C# langauges so they're one and the same anyway..the syntax is hardly different.
the main problem is that sun shoots itself in the foot. examples: 1. Microsoft releases C# with large amounts of adverts. Sun goes off and releases Java 1.4 with non blocking i/o and ssl support (both advertised loudly) and then ensures that the ssl stuff doesnt work with the non blocking i/o due to the bugs present in java 1.4 which was rushed to the door too early... Result? people look at C#. 2. Ximian goes off and announces Mono which is the open sourced C# clone. Sun proceeds to piss off the apache group in a very public way who then complain loudly that java is a proprietary language. Result? people look at C#. 3. Sun announces linux support on an expanded cobalt line and drop x86 solaris in favour of linux. Sun then decides to have their cheif competitive officer write a very anti linux article. Result? linux community is pissed. sun customers look away from the cobalt line. sun customers are confused. sun customers start looking at ibm. 4. Sun announces that it is open sourcing staroffice. Linux community is really happy. sun customers start to look at replacing NT with linux and staroffice on PCs. Sun decides to charge for startoffice for linux. Result? sun customers go - huh? linux community hates sun and starts using the open source LGPLed code and ignores staroffice and sun.
yup. i believe staroffice had a proprietary spellchecker and database functionality. openoffice has made enough progress to eliminate most of those extensions however...
hmm..i dont know about that. in general if you watch ebay for about 6 weeks before you actually bid you will be able to get the stuff really cheap with no problems. i've spent over $5000 on ebay out of which $0 went to scam artists. and i used money orders with no hope of getting anything back and no escrow. it just takes practice to sniff out the scams and gut instinct.
i dont know how i do it but i can tell a fake auction from a real one. although this guy wouldve probably got me had i been interested in collectibles...but he's a very rare case.
yes it is legal. reverse engineering (for anything other than interoperability for non commercial gain) is illegal under the DMCA so your "its reverse engineered so its legal" theory doesnt hold water. if the DMCA had been around when cars were fitted with wheels someone making a wheel would be classified as a pirate if he/she reverse- engineered the axle of a car to fit the wheel onto it. the act of making a wheel is allowed, fitting it to the proprietary axle of a proprietary car design is piracy under the DMCA.
it wont cause interference because its spread over the whole spectrum just like noise. the interference to any *one* particular frequency is negligible (it just raises the noise floor slightly) although if you add up the interference over the whole EM spectrum it is not negligible (i.e. one UWB device will interfere with another UWB device but both of them wont interfere with a normal cellphone). sprint is just whining.
umm...the whole point of UWB is that you use ALL frequencies at once. increases the noise floor for everyone but doesnt intefere with any ONE frequency.
UWB aint gonna make anything worse other than increase the local noise threshhold slightly.
doesnt help with deep pits of corrosion which is what this is talking about. heat treatment or improvements in the forming process are the only things that help. the main problem is uneven distribution of chromium.
you can dump most of the libraries tho...its not a requirement to load up on libraries. java bytecode is still small.
that said -- im more worried about the thread handling and JVM crapping out (i had to even reqrite synchronize cause it acted like a atomic spinlock under heavy load....i used a customised dekkers implementation to get around that). i do wish sun would fix the damn java multithreading and socket bugs.
Java supports skinnable look and feel "themes" with the AWT. my guess is that the windows theme requires some windows code emulated on UNIX boxes.
just a guess tho.
no. the NT BSOD is always due to buggy drivers SHIPPED WITH THE OPERATING SYSTEM. IF the stable 2.4.x kernel foobared on you, you have grounds to whine about it even if it is the result of buggy drivers. but saying NT is stable when the default drivers shipped with the OS are unstable is bullshit.
That said - ive BSODed NT,2K,XP with default drivers shipped with the OS but ive never been able to crash linux with a stable kernel (2.2.19 is my current stable kernel).
nope. here's the official list :
Herc/MDA 80 x 25 text
CGA 320 x 200
EGA 640 x 350
VGA 640 x 480
SVGA 800 x 600
XGA 1024 x 768
SXGA 1280 x 1024
UXGA 1600 x 1200
i get around 120 gigs/hr *sustained* (that includes the time to change AIT2 tapes using the robotic arm) using 4 sony AIT-2 tape drives (i.e. saturating all four drive slots on my AIT-2 library) while writing 2.75TB in one go with hardware compression on using amanda for the backup software. peak writing capacity is well over 160Gigs per hour or more with hardware compression switched off.
each ait-2 tape is the size of a small pack of cigarettes and really cheap. the tape library itself with 30 tapes loaded can be carried fairly easily under your arm if you want to go lugging it around as a portable device. its about as heavy as a computer monitor and about as bulky.
get ait-3/4 which will double or quadriple the capacity per tape while retaining the same tape size if you have the budget for it. AIT3/4 should also give you around 200 gigs per hour or more.
BTW, i use an sun E420R to whack data across to the library.
my high end spectralogic AIT-2 tape library can handle it easily. newer AIT-3/4 should be able to do it too. i can backup around 2.75TB with hardware compression before it runs outta space (30 catridges each with around 50GB uncompressed).
528MB/sec ? hello ? on gigabit ethernet you can maybe get 70% of max throughput if your lucky. 1000Mbits/sec works out to 125MBytes/sec and thats sustained which you aint gonna get.
You would be lucky to get 100MB/sec which your current setup delivers anyway.
My advice : get a copy of oracle or some other non crappy database (postgresql), optimise the heck out of your queries (use a connection pool dammit), get 2-3 $50 100Mb/sec network cards and drop them in the server (i use 3com 3c905b's...accept no substitutes...the 905c's are crappy). Then do ip traffic load balancing across the ethernet cards (linux can do it easily with a kernel compile, solaris needs sun trunking software, all other OSes are irrelevant to me). and please tell me you tuned the OS properly (especially that damn SYN packet problem which i keep seeing other clueless admin whine about) for large numbers of connections.
use corel wordperfect for linux. its stable and it can do most of what framemaker does (maybe more). its payware. the other alternative is TeX with maybe Lyx. TeX will do much more than framemaker does but since LyX is a subset it wont do it all.
NO. the CLR is NOT a Virtual Machine. its NOT a JVM. there is no complete virtualised 32 bit or 64 bit processor defining the CLR.
you *do* need to redesign languagues to work with the cLR making them bastardised versions of C#. and thats the worrying part of it.
im not too bothered about C# or Java since they are both rapidly prototyped modern languages which allow me to write code like a breeze but im worried about the soon to be lack of choice when the world stops using regular languages and everyone switches to C# (ETA: 18 months, its unstoppable and coming, you heard it here first).
i want books in both dead tree AND electronic format. why not bundle a nice CDROM with the book which gives it in an easy electronic reference ? im paying 50 bucks for the book...do me a favour and slip it in a $1 cdrom too.
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if you have a connection machine do you have access to the source of that AI paint program that is demoed on it ?
can you upload it someplace if you do ? Thinking Machines Inc. is pretty dead so it shouldnt matter.
Running Debian 2.2r3 on a CF-47 panasonic toughbook. Everything works fine in debian other than the Hauppage WinTV+FM video input. It has a lucent winmodem which is ok with the binary only driver, XFree works great (1024x768,24bpp, 14.1 inch LCD) on the Neomagic Magicmedia 256AV video chipset, The system uses standard PC-100 SDRAM and a TI PCMCIA chipset. I use a dongle-less xircom ethernet card which works great with the xirc2ps driver, the standard dvd hack for the RPC-1 regionless toshiba DVD drive for playing movies and full stereo sound is provided by alsa drivers (ymfpci) for the onboard YMF-744B sound chipset. My CDRW (Acer 4406EU) also works great with mkisofs/cdrecord. Hard drive is standard fujitsu and works nicely with DMA enabled. LS-120 floppy also works well.
In other words -- fully supported except for my add-on Hauppage Wintv+FM board which i use win2k for.
Make sure you get a WARRANTY though -- very few people repair toughbooks and they are fairly rare. The fantastically mindblowing construction (its incredible to see how well they're made when you open em up and see the titanium housing, gell mounted spring loaded hard drive and mobo enclosure etc etc) makes up for it.
hey..it happens to everyone of us even those writing free software. most simply ignore it and hit delete if its a flame mail. ive been flamed at various times for [1] writing code that was not indented or commented. well...duh...do i look like i care? [2] writing code that crashed someones machine when it explicitly stated on the page : BETA RELEASE: FOR PROGRAMMERS ONLY. WILL CRASH. [3] flamed for the lack of features [4] flamed for having too many features [5] flamed for a sucky interface [6] flamed for having too nice an interface.
do i care ? nope. i just move on and hit delete. and my projects arent really that popular...i cant imagine what the popular projects get.
usually anyone posting stuff on the net gets a thick skin after a while. its no big deal.
hmm...i dont agree. Java has speed problems with apps but i think java is going to go the way of COBOL. C# will dominate the market eventually. why? simple - micro$oft is going to start writing apps in C#. they're going to start writing web services in C#. they've already started hyping C# from the rooftops. all desktops will eventually run C# CLR's once games are available which work only with the CLR installed (i.e. M$ pushes the CLR into DirectX 9.0 or later). C++ will be phased out just like C is phased out on win32 (do you really think the majority develop with C on win32 right now? its either VB or C++). .NET are just skinnable C# langauges so they're one and the same anyway..the syntax is hardly different.
note that all the other languages will continue to be used but the vast majority is going to switch to C#. VB.NET and other languages which end with
the main problem is that sun shoots itself in the foot. examples :
1. Microsoft releases C# with large amounts of adverts. Sun goes off and releases Java 1.4 with non blocking i/o and ssl support (both advertised loudly) and then ensures that the ssl stuff doesnt work with the non blocking i/o due to the bugs present in java 1.4 which was rushed to the door too early... Result? people look at C#.
2. Ximian goes off and announces Mono which is the open sourced C# clone. Sun proceeds to piss off the apache group in a very public way who then complain loudly that java is a proprietary language. Result? people look at C#.
3. Sun announces linux support on an expanded cobalt line and drop x86 solaris in favour of linux. Sun then decides to have their cheif competitive officer write a very anti linux article. Result? linux community is pissed. sun customers look away from the cobalt line. sun customers are confused. sun customers start looking at ibm.
4. Sun announces that it is open sourcing staroffice. Linux community is really happy. sun customers start to look at replacing NT with linux and staroffice on PCs. Sun decides to charge for startoffice for linux. Result? sun customers go - huh? linux community hates sun and starts using the open source LGPLed code and ignores staroffice and sun.
yup. i believe staroffice had a proprietary spellchecker and database functionality. openoffice has made enough progress to eliminate most of those extensions however...
hmm..i dont know about that. in general if you watch ebay for about 6 weeks before you actually bid you will be able to get the stuff really cheap with no problems. i've spent over $5000 on ebay out of which $0 went to scam artists. and i used money orders with no hope of getting anything back and no escrow. it just takes practice to sniff out the scams and gut instinct.
i dont know how i do it but i can tell a fake auction from a real one. although this guy wouldve probably got me had i been interested in collectibles...but he's a very rare case.
yes it is legal. reverse engineering (for anything other than interoperability for non commercial gain) is illegal under the DMCA so your "its reverse engineered so its legal" theory doesnt hold water. if the DMCA had been around when cars were fitted with wheels someone making a wheel would be classified as a pirate if he/she reverse- engineered the axle of a car to fit the wheel onto it. the act of making a wheel is allowed, fitting it to the proprietary axle of a proprietary car design is piracy under the DMCA.
yep thats pretty much it. it was supposed to feed by wandering around the bottom and scooping food into its jaws.
yep but its also mostly faster than a human cashier...specially when there are loong lines at the tills and everyone is too scared of the machine.
it wont cause interference because its spread over the whole spectrum just like noise. the interference to any *one* particular frequency is negligible (it just raises the noise floor slightly) although if you add up the interference over the whole EM spectrum it is not negligible (i.e. one UWB device will interfere with another UWB device but both of them wont interfere with a normal cellphone). sprint is just whining.
umm...the whole point of UWB is that you use ALL frequencies at once. increases the noise floor for everyone but doesnt intefere with any ONE frequency.
UWB aint gonna make anything worse other than increase the local noise threshhold slightly.
doesnt help with deep pits of corrosion which is what this is talking about. heat treatment or improvements in the forming process are the only things that help. the main problem is uneven distribution of chromium.
you can dump most of the libraries tho...its not a requirement to load up on libraries. java bytecode is still small.
that said -- im more worried about the thread handling and JVM crapping out (i had to even reqrite synchronize cause it acted like a atomic spinlock under heavy load....i used a customised dekkers implementation to get around that). i do wish sun would fix the damn java multithreading and socket bugs.
Java supports skinnable look and feel "themes" with the AWT. my guess is that the windows theme requires some windows code emulated on UNIX boxes.
just a guess tho.
no. the NT BSOD is always due to buggy drivers SHIPPED WITH THE OPERATING SYSTEM. IF the stable 2.4.x kernel foobared on you, you have grounds to whine about it even if it is the result of buggy drivers. but saying NT is stable when the default drivers shipped with the OS are unstable is bullshit.
That said - ive BSODed NT,2K,XP with default drivers shipped with the OS but ive never been able to crash linux with a stable kernel (2.2.19 is my current stable kernel).
so what did you use ?
hmm..it doesnt work on anything but windows NT (even win95/98/ME are not supported) but at least its free.
nope. here's the official list :
Herc/MDA 80 x 25 text
CGA 320 x 200
EGA 640 x 350
VGA 640 x 480
SVGA 800 x 600
XGA 1024 x 768
SXGA 1280 x 1024
UXGA 1600 x 1200
i get around 120 gigs/hr *sustained* (that includes the time to change AIT2 tapes using the robotic arm) using 4 sony AIT-2 tape drives (i.e. saturating all four drive slots on my AIT-2 library) while writing 2.75TB in one go with hardware compression on using amanda for the backup software. peak writing capacity is well over 160Gigs per hour or more with hardware compression switched off.
each ait-2 tape is the size of a small pack of cigarettes and really cheap. the tape library itself with 30 tapes loaded can be carried fairly easily under your arm if you want to go lugging it around as a portable device. its about as heavy as a computer monitor and about as bulky.
get ait-3/4 which will double or quadriple the capacity per tape while retaining the same tape size if you have the budget for it. AIT3/4 should also give you around 200 gigs per hour or more.
BTW, i use an sun E420R to whack data across to the library.
my high end spectralogic AIT-2 tape library can handle it easily. newer AIT-3/4 should be able to do it too. i can backup around 2.75TB with hardware compression before it runs outta space (30 catridges each with around 50GB uncompressed).
528MB/sec ? hello ? on gigabit ethernet you can maybe get 70% of max throughput if your lucky. 1000Mbits/sec works out to 125MBytes/sec and thats sustained which you aint gonna get.
You would be lucky to get 100MB/sec which your current setup delivers anyway.
My advice : get a copy of oracle or some other non crappy database (postgresql), optimise the heck out of your queries (use a connection pool dammit), get 2-3 $50 100Mb/sec network cards and drop them in the server (i use 3com 3c905b's...accept no substitutes...the 905c's are crappy). Then do ip traffic load balancing across the ethernet cards (linux can do it easily with a kernel compile, solaris needs sun trunking software, all other OSes are irrelevant to me). and please tell me you tuned the OS properly (especially that damn SYN packet problem which i keep seeing other clueless admin whine about) for large numbers of connections.
use corel wordperfect for linux. its stable and it can do most of what framemaker does (maybe more). its payware. the other alternative is TeX with maybe Lyx. TeX will do much more than framemaker does but since LyX is a subset it wont do it all.
NO. the CLR is NOT a Virtual Machine. its NOT a JVM. there is no complete virtualised 32 bit or 64 bit processor defining the CLR.
you *do* need to redesign languagues to work with the cLR making them bastardised versions of C#. and thats the worrying part of it.
im not too bothered about C# or Java since they are both rapidly prototyped modern languages which allow me to write code like a breeze but im worried about the soon to be lack of choice when the world stops using regular languages and everyone switches to C# (ETA: 18 months, its unstoppable and coming, you heard it here first).
i want books in both dead tree AND electronic format. why not bundle a nice CDROM with the book which gives it in an easy electronic reference ? im paying 50 bucks for the book...do me a favour and slip it in a $1 cdrom too.