no..as a developer i have to say it is VERY robust. the OS is a piece of shit and crashes every 10 seconds but the database is rock solid. its also a binary database with 4K fixed length records which are binaries..not a flat file. the database will NOT allow you to corrupt it even if you try VERY hard. the palm memory is built the same way... unfortunately threading is non existant. its a weird platform but damn good for what it does. could do with thread protection tho.
I work 10-5..granted that i dont make that much...50K/yr after taxes. my company owes me security. you know why ? becuase i run the systems and i wrote the software they sell...and none of the other developers understand how to keep it running anyway. without me == no company. boo hoo.:) needless to say, you *make* your own security. new deal or not.
*sigh* you dumbarse. suns debut of its 700+ MHz US-iii's was reported on/. nearly THREE MONTHS AGO. when it was relevant and sun was pushing alpha copies out to customers. not now when theyre announcing it to the rest of the planet. go back to reading cnet or whatever crap you read.
the laptop wouldnt actually be controlling the craft dumbass. it would be mechanical controls..prolly a joystick or equivalent with the laptop used for navigation and course calculation mainly. just like the shuttle.
actually having been one of the few people who actually used a crusoe laptop i can say it KICKS ARSE. it's as fast as my desktop (650MHz PIII) and video playback is *really* smooth. unfortunately i only tested it on win95 for a brief period at the crusoe booth runing on an ibm thinkpad. i cant compare the power savings but its no different than a piii 650 laptop.
just set up a single server with a firewall/linux and allow only ssh connections in. then people can ssh in from OS and use the regular unix talk command for better than instant instant messages. you can even encapsulate it into a newbie friendly menu like shell. you control the server and its all ssh encrypted anyway.
anyone wanna take john and build a distributed password cracker from it ? john's still single threaded and single cpu based...and the hacks that turn it into distributed are fairly shitty and crash a lot.
they havent include sourceforges stuff which is a LOT. metalab and gnu dont have everything. it would be kewl to have a DVD pack with metalab+gnu+sourceforge+freshmeat.
hey...at least the guy did try. and he did finally build it and it was more entertaining than the bullshit television we see most of the time. i'll vote for cringley over the average whining celebrities we see on tv anyday.
notice that the judged banned DeCSS but he didnt ban the DeCSS whitepaper which showed how to crack the algorithm. The whitepaper was the equivalent of a functional representation of DeCSS. in general judges favour a text like presentation or a whitepaper to actual working code.
while i dont discount what you have said and i do run an AS/400 in house so i know what the capabilities of a midrange/mainframe system are (huge bandwidth), any PC can kick a mainframes arse when it does CPU bound processing.
And to discount some others :
VMWARE does the same for PCs - run mulltiple OSes concurrently.
Sun sparc boxen (ok not PCs) can allow you to hot swap processors. i believe motorola has introduced the ability for linux to hot swap processors on specialised motorola PC compatible hardware
If you have a MOSIX cluster you can sperate the CPUs out across the planet..or any SSI based clustering technology.
Crypto copro cards arte available for PCs.
im not discounting mainframes--just that PCs are getting there and will catch up eventually and surpass mainframes since the sheer CPU/$ rating of PCs cant be beat.
UNIX books are a *great* place to start...dont go for any new ones..the old ones really had it right. I learnt from the mentoring system myself and A Practical guide to UNIX (very old book..dont know the author)..thats really the only way to learn. that and practical experience.
yes. im an idiot. i never saw any ship. however, if you would like to contact the Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, US Navy, im sure you can tell him that he's an idiot too. Oh and dont forget to tell him that http://www.ditcjp.disa.mil/pcy22/it21lnk.html the IT-21 policy for deploying windows NT controlled weapons systems is stupid as well. http://www.chips.navy.mil/chips/archives/97_jul/fi le1.htm...read down for the statement that NT 4.0 is now the standard fleet NOS. you might want to look at the OC-3 and ATM fiber internetowrking standards proposed on the page so you can tell me how wrong i was about the fiber links. *sigh* not everyone is a troll y'know.
i went aboard an Aegis guided missile cruiser once and in the CIC ( thats where all the navigation/targetting/missile tracking stuff goes on ) i saw 5 NT 3.51 boxes hooked up to a fibre optic connection..that i was told was where the entire ship was controlled from...and they were all *gasp* showing NT login prompts...when i guy i was with logged in i could see the real time nav displays all hooked up to a standalone win32 application running on NT. evidently they cant navigate or fire weapons if the thing BSODs. and they dont have an off switch to do a hard reboot either..the ship has to go back to the shipyard.
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its not more freedom its less. does your KDE app work on windoze ? you wrote it right ? can you make it run ? nope. can you do the same with a GNOME/GTK app ? yup. i'd rather have software I can run on any platform i choose without some company having a say in the matter...or do you prefer the old ibm mainframe platform where you couldnt even make the machine boot without paying $$$ to ibm ?
yeah..just try it and watch trolltech sue you into oblivion. they tried to kill harmony for that reason...it would allow KDE apps to run on windoze platforms which is their main revenue model.
you can recompile your code with the new Xlib stuff right away..of course the features of the new stuff will not show up if it requires too many changes to the X Server...in most cases the new stuff works even with the old X servers...just make sure you upgrade your X libraries and headers.
i have an EE degree too so i understand some of the stuff ( i work in microwave/optical so its slightly different than designing cpus ) but consider this :
If youre given a team of 50 engineers in a physical and logical design team, unlimited budget, all the tools you need, a lot of time and a fab plant could you design a cpu ? I'd be willing to put a firm bet on yes.
M$ right now has 50 engineers working on a chip with 9 million transistors (equivalent to the PIII). They arent stating what its going to be used for (no relation to the solo 2 in this article which has 2.2 million transistors). since they cranked out a chip with 2.2mil i'm willing to bet they could crank out a cpu. hell, if cyrix, amd, via and transmeta can do it..why not m$ ? and transmeta had fewer people.
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i hate to rain on your parade but i know for a fact that DeCSS most definitely did not come from a 16 year old norwegian kid.
no..as a developer i have to say it is VERY robust. the OS is a piece of shit and crashes every 10 seconds but the database is rock solid. its also a binary database with 4K fixed length records which are binaries..not a flat file. the database will NOT allow you to corrupt it even if you try VERY hard. the palm memory is built the same way ... unfortunately threading is non existant. its a weird platform but damn good for what it does. could do with thread protection tho.
I work 10-5 ..granted that i dont make that much...50K/yr after taxes. my company owes me security. you know why ? becuase i run the systems and i wrote the software they sell...and none of the other developers understand how to keep it running anyway. without me == no company. boo hoo. :) needless to say, you *make* your own security. new deal or not.
take em to these guys, get em translated. http://www.wirednews.com/wired/archive/7.03/punchc ards_pr.html
*sigh* you dumbarse. suns debut of its 700+ MHz US-iii's was reported on /. nearly THREE MONTHS AGO. when it was relevant and sun was pushing alpha copies out to customers. not now when theyre announcing it to the rest of the planet. go back to reading cnet or whatever crap you read.
the laptop wouldnt actually be controlling the craft dumbass. it would be mechanical controls..prolly a joystick or equivalent with the laptop used for navigation and course calculation mainly. just like the shuttle.
yeah. i couldnt tell the difference. i work on a 650MHz piii daily along with a 500 and i can definitely tell the difference between a 650 and 500.
FHS FHS FHS. Redhat 7.0 is now Linux Standard Base - FHS compliant. woo hoo. thats good enough for me. plus rpm v4 is miles better than v3.
no...from the (admittedly little) experience i had using one of these its more like a 700Mhz TM performs like a 650MHz PIII.
actually having been one of the few people who actually used a crusoe laptop i can say it KICKS ARSE. it's as fast as my desktop (650MHz PIII) and video playback is *really* smooth. unfortunately i only tested it on win95 for a brief period at the crusoe booth runing on an ibm thinkpad. i cant compare the power savings but its no different than a piii 650 laptop.
just set up a single server with a firewall/linux and allow only ssh connections in. then people can ssh in from OS and use the regular unix talk command for better than instant instant messages. you can even encapsulate it into a newbie friendly menu like shell. you control the server and its all ssh encrypted anyway.
anyone wanna take john and build a distributed password cracker from it ? john's still single threaded and single cpu based...and the hacks that turn it into distributed are fairly shitty and crash a lot.
they havent include sourceforges stuff which is a LOT. metalab and gnu dont have everything. it would be kewl to have a DVD pack with metalab+gnu+sourceforge+freshmeat.
hey...at least the guy did try. and he did finally build it and it was more entertaining than the bullshit television we see most of the time. i'll vote for cringley over the average whining celebrities we see on tv anyday.
notice that the judged banned DeCSS but he didnt ban the DeCSS whitepaper which showed how to crack the algorithm. The whitepaper was the equivalent of a functional representation of DeCSS. in general judges favour a text like presentation or a whitepaper to actual working code.
the same reason your machine doesnt have 5 small 200MHz processors instead of a 1 GHz one.
while i dont discount what you have said and i do run an AS/400 in house so i know what the capabilities of a midrange/mainframe system are (huge bandwidth), any PC can kick a mainframes arse when it does CPU bound processing.
And to discount some others :
VMWARE does the same for PCs - run mulltiple OSes concurrently.
Sun sparc boxen (ok not PCs) can allow you to hot swap processors. i believe motorola has introduced the ability for linux to hot swap processors on specialised motorola PC compatible hardware
If you have a MOSIX cluster you can sperate the CPUs out across the planet..or any SSI based clustering technology.
Crypto copro cards arte available for PCs.
im not discounting mainframes--just that PCs are getting there and will catch up eventually and surpass mainframes since the sheer CPU/$ rating of PCs cant be beat.
UNIX books are a *great* place to start...dont go for any new ones..the old ones really had it right. I learnt from the mentoring system myself and A Practical guide to UNIX (very old book..dont know the author)..thats really the only way to learn. that and practical experience.
use mozilla...M17 has had the ad suppression system re-instated plus its a bit more secure..bugs notwithstanding.
yes. im an idiot. i never saw any ship. however, if you would like to contact the Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, US Navy, im sure you can tell him that he's an idiot too. Oh and dont forget to tell him that http://www.ditcjp.disa.mil/pcy22/it21lnk.html the IT-21 policy for deploying windows NT controlled weapons systems is stupid as well. http://www.chips.navy.mil/chips/archives/97_jul/fi le1.htm ...read down for the statement that NT 4.0 is now the standard fleet NOS. you might want to look at the OC-3 and ATM fiber internetowrking standards proposed on the page so you can tell me how wrong i was about the fiber links. *sigh* not everyone is a troll y'know.
i went aboard an Aegis guided missile cruiser once and in the CIC ( thats where all the navigation/targetting/missile tracking stuff goes on ) i saw 5 NT 3.51 boxes hooked up to a fibre optic connection..that i was told was where the entire ship was controlled from...and they were all *gasp* showing NT login prompts...when i guy i was with logged in i could see the real time nav displays all hooked up to a standalone win32 application running on NT. evidently they cant navigate or fire weapons if the thing BSODs. and they dont have an off switch to do a hard reboot either..the ship has to go back to the shipyard.
its not more freedom its less. does your KDE app work on windoze ? you wrote it right ? can you make it run ? nope. can you do the same with a GNOME/GTK app ? yup. i'd rather have software I can run on any platform i choose without some company having a say in the matter...or do you prefer the old ibm mainframe platform where you couldnt even make the machine boot without paying $$$ to ibm ?
yeah..just try it and watch trolltech sue you into oblivion. they tried to kill harmony for that reason...it would allow KDE apps to run on windoze platforms which is their main revenue model.
you can recompile your code with the new Xlib stuff right away..of course the features of the new stuff will not show up if it requires too many changes to the X Server...in most cases the new stuff works even with the old X servers...just make sure you upgrade your X libraries and headers.
i have an EE degree too so i understand some of the stuff ( i work in microwave/optical so its slightly different than designing cpus ) but consider this :
If youre given a team of 50 engineers in a physical and logical design team, unlimited budget, all the tools you need, a lot of time and a fab plant could you design a cpu ? I'd be willing to put a firm bet on yes.
M$ right now has 50 engineers working on a chip with 9 million transistors (equivalent to the PIII). They arent stating what its going to be used for (no relation to the solo 2 in this article which has 2.2 million transistors). since they cranked out a chip with 2.2mil i'm willing to bet they could crank out a cpu. hell, if cyrix, amd, via and transmeta can do it..why not m$ ? and transmeta had fewer people.