running trusted code on untrusted systems is currently impossible to solve..which is exactly the problem dnet faces. theres no solution in sight other than security thru obscurity and currently this is in the academic research state (read : years from any possible solution).
nope. they didnt. ever notice M$ never lets an idea go ? in this case they want to converge the PC, TV, MP3 player, handheld, Palm, pocketPC and *everything* in between to form a seamless ASP.
bullshit. slashdot *is* an ASP. data is being passed untrusted from client to server. and it works. as does hotmail or any other webmail provider. they're ALL ASPs.
dont count on it. computers crash ( or at least most windoze machines do ) so people are used to downtime. if the OS gets corrupted and your system is down you send it to the computer repair shop which means a coupla days off for joe random luser. with the ASP model, if your PC dies, you buy a new one and your connected 24/7 again. or if your network link is clogged plug into a cybercafe and youre online. its much easier..just like electricity. are you held hostage by your electricity/gas company ? sure. but you tolerate it because the alternative is costlier (gas generator etc). think about maintaining the computer...most people have no clue. in the ASP model data is backed up, stored in a safe place etc etc. how many people rely on webmail ? how many run their own mail server ? the ASP model *does* work for email - what makes you think applications like office are so different ? micro$hit *is* going to win this one if we dont watch it - the ASP model is superior and M$ is banking big time on it. and no - joe random hacker running linux isnt going to be able to participate -- and theres nothing you can do about it.
sparc hardware sucks at number crunching. what youre looking for is I/O where sun can kick the pants off everyone. althons are roughly equivalent to sparcs at the same clock speed and since you cant get a 1Ghz sparc, my althon box will kick your ultras butt.
not to mention that most of us who have credit cards would *never* give them out online....d'you really think people are stupid enough to give out cc's for *age verification* ???
ext2fs at this point is linuxes equivalent of a one true FS(TM). the problem is the VFS favours it over anything else. that requirement should be removed IMHO...a VFS should be a generic interface and not biased towards one FS. data corruption is another problem - with the VFS changing and hacks being added data corruption is more and more likely. how bout writing up docs (or at least a summary) of the current architecture of the VFS (and being open to debate on it) ? its clear that very few filesystem maintainers understand it...and its a BIG pain when only you understand the VFS.
with PC Expo and other shows on the horizon, no wonder its a flop. also, whats the cost for a booth ? too high a price and no one will come. never heard of this show before today so..
and what exactly IS he doing ? sucking his thumb and coding enlightenment or yet another window manager ? sawmill replaced E anyway. The AC was right - linux has a long way to go and the sooner we get there the better. GNOME vs KDE wars are just *stupid*. If the KDE developers dont want to interoperate just because theyre against GNOME for political reasons i can only conclude theyre just braindead. unfortunately the huge amount of wasted talent for silly things like eyecandy and fancy backgrounds leads to losses in more critical areas (seamless desktops as in winxx or macos, directX compatibility, usability etc etc).
the MIT one not the half assed win2k one. but kerberos should do it and its a token based authentication protocol too. just kerberise your gateway and network and no one should be able to get in without authenticating to your server.
cos its fun and it teaches you something. It may be routine for lab folks but it isnt for the average/. reader (who's not a biochemist). plus, more people working with DNA can lead to some serious breakthroughs, given enough time. A coupla $100K labs avaiable to the general public would be nice, but isnt going to happen. A few hours or days and a $1000 budget is ok for most/. readers working in hitech anyway...and tinkering is a natural reaction with most of us. they have packed most of the stuff together..check out the link at the bottom of the article.
i agree but IBM shoots itself in the foot a *lot* of times with regards to Java. Heck, IBMs DB/2 database doesnt even include a type 4 JDBC driver...anyone at IBM wanna tell me why ? The only JDBC driver (type 4) is for AS/400s.
pushing video is just pushing a lot of pixels. you dont *have* to have a PDF based GUI. all you need is X. acceleration and fancy GUI stuff doesnt help with video...and i dont think anyones going to make QT aqua specific.
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the fact is that java code is very similar to C code. the good stuff ( like preventing buffer overflows, automatic unallocation of memory etc ) are worthwhile things to have anyway. if youre writing any kind of a decent server based system - javas the way to go. on a server you can throw CPU and memory at it without any problems..for standalone apps java is not there yet tho. linux also has built in kernel support for java binaries BTW.
please dont tell us that crap. the "no os" option on a dell is only because the linux community has been bitching to dell for a loong time. when was the first time you saw that option on a dell ? only when linux was also being offered as an option. the micro$hit tax was *mandatory* as little as 2 years ago and all of us know it.
actually the reason its gibberish was because the PTO DEMANDS a one liner to describe your invention. most poeple want to go around this loophole and patent attorneys simply make that line several pages long. that said, this patent is NOT covering GET/POST...its patenting client server models...GET/POST witha database backend.
what i'd really like to see is a strongarm based laptop - less power consumption than the crusoe and a nice chipset compared to the ugly hack that is x86. who need VLIW when you got a clean RISC with less power consumption ? Linux/ARM rocks too.
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running trusted code on untrusted systems is currently impossible to solve..which is exactly the problem dnet faces. theres no solution in sight other than security thru obscurity and currently this is in the academic research state (read : years from any possible solution).
nope. they didnt. ever notice M$ never lets an idea go ? in this case they want to converge the PC, TV, MP3 player, handheld, Palm, pocketPC and *everything* in between to form a seamless ASP.
bullshit. slashdot *is* an ASP. data is being passed untrusted from client to server. and it works. as does hotmail or any other webmail provider. they're ALL ASPs.
dont count on it. computers crash ( or at least most windoze machines do ) so people are used to downtime. if the OS gets corrupted and your system is down you send it to the computer repair shop which means a coupla days off for joe random luser. with the ASP model, if your PC dies, you buy a new one and your connected 24/7 again. or if your network link is clogged plug into a cybercafe and youre online.
its much easier..just like electricity. are you held hostage by your electricity/gas company ? sure. but you tolerate it because the alternative is costlier (gas generator etc).
think about maintaining the computer...most people have no clue. in the ASP model data is backed up, stored in a safe place etc etc. how many people rely on webmail ? how many run their own mail server ? the ASP model *does* work for email - what makes you think applications like office are so different ?
micro$hit *is* going to win this one if we dont watch it - the ASP model is superior and M$ is banking big time on it. and no - joe random hacker running linux isnt going to be able to participate -- and theres nothing you can do about it.
sparc hardware sucks at number crunching. what youre looking for is I/O where sun can kick the pants off everyone. althons are roughly equivalent to sparcs at the same clock speed and since you cant get a 1Ghz sparc, my althon box will kick your ultras butt.
not to mention that most of us who have credit cards would *never* give them out online....d'you really think people are stupid enough to give out cc's for *age verification* ???
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try sentinel..i released it a while back and its got an rpm based install. http://zurk.sourceforge.net or freshmeat.
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ext2fs at this point is linuxes equivalent of a one true FS(TM). the problem is the VFS favours it over anything else. that requirement should be removed IMHO...a VFS should be a generic interface and not biased towards one FS. ...and its a BIG pain when only you understand the VFS.
data corruption is another problem - with the VFS changing and hacks being added data corruption is more and more likely. how bout writing up docs (or at least a summary) of the current architecture of the VFS (and being open to debate on it) ? its clear that very few filesystem maintainers understand it
try this : http://hemos.net/wedding/DSC_0202.JPG
not if youre using Java, bub.
no. only portability will be. ever tried directX on NT ?
vodka. dunk em in vodka.nothing like a good vodka to clean yer stuff. and you can drink it later too.
with PC Expo and other shows on the horizon, no wonder its a flop. also, whats the cost for a booth ? too high a price and no one will come. never heard of this show before today so..
the network IS the computer. nuf sed.
and what exactly IS he doing ? sucking his thumb and coding enlightenment or yet another window manager ? sawmill replaced E anyway.
The AC was right - linux has a long way to go and the sooner we get there the better. GNOME vs KDE wars are just *stupid*. If the KDE developers dont want to interoperate just because theyre against GNOME for political reasons i can only conclude theyre just braindead.
unfortunately the huge amount of wasted talent for silly things like eyecandy and fancy backgrounds leads to losses in more critical areas (seamless desktops as in winxx or macos, directX compatibility, usability etc etc).
the MIT one not the half assed win2k one. but kerberos should do it and its a token based authentication protocol too. just kerberise your gateway and network and no one should be able to get in without authenticating to your server.
yes. they can. look at who they hired : http://www.monox.com/scimain.html ...its a company full of lawyers and nothing else.
cos its fun and it teaches you something. It may be routine for lab folks but it isnt for the average /. reader (who's not a biochemist). plus, more people working with DNA can lead to some serious breakthroughs, given enough time. /. readers working in hitech anyway...and tinkering is a natural reaction with most of us.
A coupla $100K labs avaiable to the general public would be nice, but isnt going to happen. A few hours or days and a $1000 budget is ok for most
they have packed most of the stuff together..check out the link at the bottom of the article.
This of course is what youre looking for. Of course a rack wil do nicely too.
i agree but IBM shoots itself in the foot a *lot* of times with regards to Java. Heck, IBMs DB/2 database doesnt even include a type 4 JDBC driver...anyone at IBM wanna tell me why ? The only JDBC driver (type 4) is for AS/400s.
pushing video is just pushing a lot of pixels. you dont *have* to have a PDF based GUI. all you need is X. acceleration and fancy GUI stuff doesnt help with video...and i dont think anyones going to make QT aqua specific.
the fact is that java code is very similar to C code. the good stuff ( like preventing buffer overflows, automatic unallocation of memory etc ) are worthwhile things to have anyway. if youre writing any kind of a decent server based system - javas the way to go. on a server you can throw CPU and memory at it without any problems..for standalone apps java is not there yet tho. linux also has built in kernel support for java binaries BTW.
please dont tell us that crap. the "no os" option on a dell is only because the linux community has been bitching to dell for a loong time. when was the first time you saw that option on a dell ? only when linux was also being offered as an option. the micro$hit tax was *mandatory* as little as 2 years ago and all of us know it.
actually the reason its gibberish was because the PTO DEMANDS a one liner to describe your invention. most poeple want to go around this loophole and patent attorneys simply make that line several pages long. that said, this patent is NOT covering GET/POST...its patenting client server models...GET/POST witha database backend.
what i'd really like to see is a strongarm based laptop - less power consumption than the crusoe and a nice chipset compared to the ugly hack that is x86. who need VLIW when you got a clean RISC with less power consumption ? Linux/ARM rocks too.