Because the kernel is getting so large to maintain, it is quite difficult to keep a handle of all the changes in the system, to make sure that the code segments are adequate for release. If Linus does not think the code is soundly developed, he will not apply it to the kernel. There are tons of patches to the kernel that have nothing to do with the architecture, but the instability or design incompatabilities with them.
The PPC port of linux may have suffered the same fate as the ARM port. The ARM port is very diffferent from the baseline kernel. Despite the fact that nothting will 'break' having it there, it still makes the kernel messier because of the differences how they were developed.
Also, the ARM port allows new features that are not exactly stable, but puts them in if nothing serious breaks. This is not quite mainstream kernel acceptable, but to the ARM developers that use it, they can get a big boost. That is why they are patches.
>These people had been working with UNIX for 10-15 years but knew nothing about computer security, Apache, HTML, SMTP, TCP/IP, Perl,C etc.. They were dumb.
Go figure why they hated you...
Security for UNIX was concidered unsecurable for a reason 10 years back. I have to guess at the business you are in, but unless you are working for a web hosting company or ISP, not all sysadmins should know how apache, HTML, or perl works. (Perl has other uses, but not as generally used as normal shell scripts). C is for programmers, and touched very little for admins. That is what shell scripts are for. SMTP, you threw that in. TCP/IP, if your companies entire network uses it, maybe they should pick up a core protocols book, but they probably know enough to get the job done even if you think they don't know anything. PS: Upgrade your firewall to support ecn you l00ser. hehe jk.
I have similar yet slightly differeny experiences..
I worked for a large company where my manager was over 40, and I was just 20. They treated me with the upmost respect and always credited my work, becasue I believe they respected me as a person, and they knew I could do the work.
I think it isn't just age, but attitude. I think despite my limited education and work experience, I still acted in a professional manner. I wouldn't have been treated the same if I always stormed off whenever I didn't get my (the best) way. Otherwise, I would have deserved to be stepped on because of my immaturity.
You may have been working for 1 or 10 years, if you don't know how to act around the business, don't be surprised if you get passed by.
Umm.. Are you unhappy knowing that life is unfair? I think that the best thing to do is to teach your children that not everyone is a winner in this world, because otherwise they will live with a disillusionate prospective on the way things really are in the world. It is a gental lesson in development in saying sometimes you win, and sometimes you loose.
I am happy in knowing the way things are, not the fantasy world of univeral benefit, although I would really like the world to be like that some day.
1:
Just because someone is cloned, does not make them more / less likely to become effected by a bacteria strain. Without mutation in the birth process, they will have about the same resistance to foreign entities. Now, the argument that a bacteria could take over the world in a cloned world vs a bacteria not taking over the world in a non cloned society means that the entire society would have to be cloned or be offspring of this clone.
2:
We all came from somewhere, and assumably it can be assumed that the evolution of the human being all started with a male and a female. If we all started from them, then in your eyes, we should have the same strengths / resistances as eachother. As we have seen tough, we have mutated to contain different traits, effectively making us the different people that we are.
3:
You say that we are not as cleaver as nature.. I would ask you to define nature's intelegence... Nature is not defined by intelegence, but by random acts that cause random effects. The averages of these events is what I see as nature. In us changing the way nature has worked is not counter to nature, it is changing nature to adapt to our changes. An example of this is artificial selection, a deviation from natural selection which we cause. Nature is not an all encompasing static entity, but dynamic and changing. This is the foundation of evolutionary thinking.
Does not work. There is no foundation that the "greats" are able top repeat themselves, because the brain would develop in a different manner, even if someone lived the identical life of their host, there is no guarantee that the mind would develop the same. As for say a Michael Jordan, probably since it is a physical quality which can be passed in genes.
AOL has already abused their powers. I don't know how they can say Filtering all instant messaging protocols except their own is NOT an anti-trust violation.
Just to get by this "snag", they now have to allow ONE instant messagiong protocol into their network. What is your bet that it won't be MSN messanger, or the protocol I wrote in school;) I can imagine maybe SNPP, it is archaic, but it can still be called an instant messaging protocol. I mean, even SMTP can be delivered to an active user, and not just a mailbox...
I think he meant a data structure with the option of function pointers. I mean, even objects don't really NEED methods, although unless it is a primitive in a purely OO language, you probably want them for decent OO.
You forgot to mention their coverage.
http://www.ricochet.com/about_us/coverage_maps/i nd ex.html
Puke! Their speeds are only 128kbps, which is the lowest of the 3G protocols.
Plus, the biggest advantage of 3G is that most carriers actually seem eager to embrace it, which means that we could actually have a unified wireless system.
Respecting our fellow man? Isn't that sort of ambiguous in this context? I mean, there are few people that would spit than shake yours or my hand.
It is not that we have lost respect for people in general, but due to our own feeling of helplesness, it is easier to vilianize those that are in positions of power.
As for the "me" culture, this may have a little meritt concidering that capitalism tends to bring out the worst in people, and our youth at large have had no real exposure to anything else, at lease since the end of the cold war.
Although, I am curious if anyone else wants to concider arguments for why we have a selfish society.
I think many people do give a damn, and think for one reason or another that they are doing a bad job.
They also know that other parties have burned them just as bad in the past.
Basically we are looking at a population that hates their government (except when the president goes commando in some movie), but are toofrustrated with the entire process, that they would settle for lousy representation so that the greater evil at the time will not.
It will not be so likely to have MS change the format of the doc in the near future. Since they are getting horrible Office 2000 and Windows 2000 sales, any "Enhancements" to the format would give IT shops more reason NOT to migrate, unless they are doing every single Windows machine they have, because who saves to Office 95 formatted docs anymore;)
Now on the other angle, they are targeting a more profitable line of business of charging a subscription for using office. This is a great choice for them to go, since they are not able to make their products innovative enough to warrent people spending $xxx on upgrading to the latest version of their product.
Yeah, just like how the guy that wrote the book I was forced to buy was writen by a guy who wrote the OS in Java. That does not mean that it is a good language to be programming operating systems in.
Obviously, I didn't buy the book, and get a better Modern Operating Systems, by Tanenbaum. The book was about 8 years older, but still covered 90% of the course content.
Sometimes you just can't beat the oldies, like Tanenbaum or Stevens... ahh...
On point 2:
The digital medium still uses circuit switching techniques in North America for most digital protocols.. CDMA, TDMA, GSM, and many of the soon to bees like GPRS. The only commin packet based digital networks are Mobitex, and CDPD, which are both archaic 20+ year old protocols, soon to hit the dust. This is another reason why TCP/IP and wireless do not mix well, simply because they are not packet, but circuit switched.
On point 4:
Any standard modem does not change speeds because the standard modem protocols do not have alternating speeds in the protocols. The wireless networks that you talk of probably wouldn't simply "switch" the speed of the connection.
The 957 has the same screen size as the Palm, but BETTER resolutions. The 950 is half that size, but even with that, it is still large enough to read comfortably.
As for which are better, I know from my experiences in this emerging (consumer wireless) industry that all the product offerings lack badly in some way or another.
Hasn't been implemented yet? Are you on crack? IPv6 implementations have been around for a couple years on machines like solaris, and even Micosoft has released an IPv6 beta implementation.
There are MANY private IPv6 networks already out there, and there are ways for "normal" people to tunnel IPv6 over IPv4.
Now, you have stumbbled on to another issue. If we start yanking IP's from some people to give to others, we have the potential of adding more routes to the tables, hence, not fixing this artical's problem.
The only way we are going to clean up the routing issue is by wiping the slate clean on routing tables in general, and start building them from a more distributed tier of opertations, like LARGE geographic areas.
Let us say there are root servers to IP routing, like there is to DNS.
Each of these servers are responsible for knowing the routing of packets from a certain range, which lies within a geographic region, like a state or provice in a country.
Now, everyone who connects directly to this root IP routing server gets a contiguous segment of the IP pool for the root server. This segment can shrink and grow depending on the usage of this upstream carrier. This carrier then performs the same act with ISP's, only allowing contiguous strands of IP's to bve given out, per ISP or company, etc...
In this way, the routing tables will forever remain manageable, unless, say one server gets stuck in a really big switch, like having an upstream provider handling 10000000 ISP's, etc..
This will of course never fly, because people are married to their IP's, and this system would mean that IP's are only semi-permanent.
Routing has nothing to do with the number of people online but mearly the poor distributions of IP's that the internet address supporting organizations used a long long time ago.
As to the comment, below, I am a Canadian, and the provinces DON'T have nearly the power of US states.
I think the the decentralization of power throughout a country using the US and Canada as an example, hurts the better good.
The administrative aspects of having social power over each region does not take "too" much to handle, but there is just one thing that decentralization.
Decentralization gives the power to small regions to make social decisions as to how their regions are run. It gives more power to the people, but because they are mroe localizwed than the general whole, they are more influenced to choose one point of view, than a multiphasited view chosen by many.
Forgive me for taking such a blunt example, but I think that it would help clerify the ideal. In Germany right now, there are many neo-nazi groups making a comeback. It is generally conceded that most of these groups are in the old East Germany.
Now lets say these people have a good deal of power in the region. A man decides that he doesn't want his son or daughter to attend a school with a jewish child, or and foreign born children. The region has control over their schools, so with a majority vote in a school board, there is now a segrigated school system.
Not only would such a thing effect the region that the law was passed, but the whole of Germany would take recourse for such a decision made by a small segment of the entire population.
Once again, this situation is not based on facts, but is merly a situation to proove the irrelevance of the system.
Also, the US has the death penalty in some states, and not in others. Canda does not have the death penalty at all. I concider this a good decision to keep morally effective issues, and thwe like in a centralized form, for people who represent the entire country.
The VPN side is part of it, but it is more like developing a routing scheme between seperate public like VPN nodes, and having the actual source of the transmission blocked, just a next hop type of thing.
I know it would be a lot of work, but I see it having great potential...
Certainly. Although I am not a working to directly compete with the established community, I still like to develop possible technologies that may parallel or run over them.
If you need an (unfortunately slow)cable connection in Canada, just give me an email at the dchemko of feelthegrey.com, and I will see to it that you have another node in the wall.
Now that you have set up a fairly open system, have you put any thought to transport anonymity, or are you just aiming at decentralized control from ICANN?
North America can only let three people into the ballot, so if four people ran, and I got 20% of the electorate to vote for me, I still might not get a space on the ballot of the three others got 25% each.
It is even worse in Europe. They only have two spaces on the ballot open!!
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Because the kernel is getting so large to maintain, it is quite difficult to keep a handle of all the changes in the system, to make sure that the code segments are adequate for release. If Linus does not think the code is soundly developed, he will not apply it to the kernel. There are tons of patches to the kernel that have nothing to do with the architecture, but the instability or design incompatabilities with them.
The PPC port of linux may have suffered the same fate as the ARM port. The ARM port is very diffferent from the baseline kernel. Despite the fact that nothting will 'break' having it there, it still makes the kernel messier because of the differences how they were developed.
Also, the ARM port allows new features that are not exactly stable, but puts them in if nothing serious breaks. This is not quite mainstream kernel acceptable, but to the ARM developers that use it, they can get a big boost. That is why they are patches.
>These people had been working with UNIX for 10-15 years but knew nothing about computer security, Apache, HTML, SMTP, TCP/IP, Perl,C etc.. They were dumb.
Go figure why they hated you...
Security for UNIX was concidered unsecurable for a reason 10 years back. I have to guess at the business you are in, but unless you are working for a web hosting company or ISP, not all sysadmins should know how apache, HTML, or perl works. (Perl has other uses, but not as generally used as normal shell scripts). C is for programmers, and touched very little for admins. That is what shell scripts are for. SMTP, you threw that in. TCP/IP, if your companies entire network uses it, maybe they should pick up a core protocols book, but they probably know enough to get the job done even if you think they don't know anything. PS: Upgrade your firewall to support ecn you l00ser. hehe jk.
I have similar yet slightly differeny experiences..
I worked for a large company where my manager was over 40, and I was just 20. They treated me with the upmost respect and always credited my work, becasue I believe they respected me as a person, and they knew I could do the work.
I think it isn't just age, but attitude. I think despite my limited education and work experience, I still acted in a professional manner. I wouldn't have been treated the same if I always stormed off whenever I didn't get my (the best) way. Otherwise, I would have deserved to be stepped on because of my immaturity.
You may have been working for 1 or 10 years, if you don't know how to act around the business, don't be surprised if you get passed by.
Umm.. Are you unhappy knowing that life is unfair? I think that the best thing to do is to teach your children that not everyone is a winner in this world, because otherwise they will live with a disillusionate prospective on the way things really are in the world. It is a gental lesson in development in saying sometimes you win, and sometimes you loose.
I am happy in knowing the way things are, not the fantasy world of univeral benefit, although I would really like the world to be like that some day.
1:
Just because someone is cloned, does not make them more / less likely to become effected by a bacteria strain. Without mutation in the birth process, they will have about the same resistance to foreign entities. Now, the argument that a bacteria could take over the world in a cloned world vs a bacteria not taking over the world in a non cloned society means that the entire society would have to be cloned or be offspring of this clone.
2:
We all came from somewhere, and assumably it can be assumed that the evolution of the human being all started with a male and a female. If we all started from them, then in your eyes, we should have the same strengths / resistances as eachother. As we have seen tough, we have mutated to contain different traits, effectively making us the different people that we are.
3:
You say that we are not as cleaver as nature.. I would ask you to define nature's intelegence... Nature is not defined by intelegence, but by random acts that cause random effects. The averages of these events is what I see as nature. In us changing the way nature has worked is not counter to nature, it is changing nature to adapt to our changes. An example of this is artificial selection, a deviation from natural selection which we cause. Nature is not an all encompasing static entity, but dynamic and changing. This is the foundation of evolutionary thinking.
Does not work. There is no foundation that the "greats" are able top repeat themselves, because the brain would develop in a different manner, even if someone lived the identical life of their host, there is no guarantee that the mind would develop the same. As for say a Michael Jordan, probably since it is a physical quality which can be passed in genes.
AOL has already abused their powers. I don't know how they can say Filtering all instant messaging protocols except their own is NOT an anti-trust violation.
;) I can imagine maybe SNPP, it is archaic, but it can still be called an instant messaging protocol. I mean, even SMTP can be delivered to an active user, and not just a mailbox...
Just to get by this "snag", they now have to allow ONE instant messagiong protocol into their network. What is your bet that it won't be MSN messanger, or the protocol I wrote in school
I think he meant a data structure with the option of function pointers. I mean, even objects don't really NEED methods, although unless it is a primitive in a purely OO language, you probably want them for decent OO.
You forgot to mention their coverage.i nd ex.html
http://www.ricochet.com/about_us/coverage_maps/
Puke! Their speeds are only 128kbps, which is the lowest of the 3G protocols.
Plus, the biggest advantage of 3G is that most carriers actually seem eager to embrace it, which means that we could actually have a unified wireless system.
Respecting our fellow man? Isn't that sort of ambiguous in this context? I mean, there are few people that would spit than shake yours or my hand.
It is not that we have lost respect for people in general, but due to our own feeling of helplesness, it is easier to vilianize those that are in positions of power.
As for the "me" culture, this may have a little meritt concidering that capitalism tends to bring out the worst in people, and our youth at large have had no real exposure to anything else, at lease since the end of the cold war.
Although, I am curious if anyone else wants to concider arguments for why we have a selfish society.
I think many people do give a damn, and think for one reason or another that they are doing a bad job.
They also know that other parties have burned them just as bad in the past.
Basically we are looking at a population that hates their government (except when the president goes commando in some movie), but are toofrustrated with the entire process, that they would settle for lousy representation so that the greater evil at the time will not.
Ever thought that it was a landslide majority because the people are not regressive biggots? The reform makes me feel dirty living in the west.
Was this supposed to be a hit against big business in Toronto?
It will not be so likely to have MS change the format of the doc in the near future. Since they are getting horrible Office 2000 and Windows 2000 sales, any "Enhancements" to the format would give IT shops more reason NOT to migrate, unless they are doing every single Windows machine they have, because who saves to Office 95 formatted docs anymore ;)
Now on the other angle, they are targeting a more profitable line of business of charging a subscription for using office. This is a great choice for them to go, since they are not able to make their products innovative enough to warrent people spending $xxx on upgrading to the latest version of their product.
Yeah, just like how the guy that wrote the book I was forced to buy was writen by a guy who wrote the OS in Java. That does not mean that it is a good language to be programming operating systems in.
Obviously, I didn't buy the book, and get a better Modern Operating Systems, by Tanenbaum. The book was about 8 years older, but still covered 90% of the course content.
Sometimes you just can't beat the oldies, like Tanenbaum or Stevens... ahh...
On point 2: The digital medium still uses circuit switching techniques in North America for most digital protocols.. CDMA, TDMA, GSM, and many of the soon to bees like GPRS. The only commin packet based digital networks are Mobitex, and CDPD, which are both archaic 20+ year old protocols, soon to hit the dust. This is another reason why TCP/IP and wireless do not mix well, simply because they are not packet, but circuit switched. On point 4: Any standard modem does not change speeds because the standard modem protocols do not have alternating speeds in the protocols. The wireless networks that you talk of probably wouldn't simply "switch" the speed of the connection.
3 lines? Have actually seen a rim Blackberry?
The 957 has the same screen size as the Palm, but BETTER resolutions. The 950 is half that size, but even with that, it is still large enough to read comfortably.
As for which are better, I know from my experiences in this emerging (consumer wireless) industry that all the product offerings lack badly in some way or another.
Blackberry != Phone
Palm + Omnisky == Blackberry - nice email
handspring == palm
iPaq != wireless
WAP Phone != Uasability + Email + Everythign else.
The only hope is to either to modularly seperate the wireless protocol aspect from the handheld, or to make a unified wireless protocol.
Both of these seem VERY unlikely in North Amarica.
Not just you.
Hasn't been implemented yet? Are you on crack? IPv6 implementations have been around for a couple years on machines like solaris, and even Micosoft has released an IPv6 beta implementation.
There are MANY private IPv6 networks already out there, and there are ways for "normal" people to tunnel IPv6 over IPv4.
Now, you have stumbbled on to another issue. If we start yanking IP's from some people to give to others, we have the potential of adding more routes to the tables, hence, not fixing this artical's problem.
The only way we are going to clean up the routing issue is by wiping the slate clean on routing tables in general, and start building them from a more distributed tier of opertations, like LARGE geographic areas.
Let us say there are root servers to IP routing, like there is to DNS.
Each of these servers are responsible for knowing the routing of packets from a certain range, which lies within a geographic region, like a state or provice in a country.
Now, everyone who connects directly to this root IP routing server gets a contiguous segment of the IP pool for the root server. This segment can shrink and grow depending on the usage of this upstream carrier. This carrier then performs the same act with ISP's, only allowing contiguous strands of IP's to bve given out, per ISP or company, etc...
In this way, the routing tables will forever remain manageable, unless, say one server gets stuck in a really big switch, like having an upstream provider handling 10000000 ISP's, etc..
This will of course never fly, because people are married to their IP's, and this system would mean that IP's are only semi-permanent.
Routing has nothing to do with the number of people online but mearly the poor distributions of IP's that the internet address supporting organizations used a long long time ago.
As to the comment, below, I am a Canadian, and the provinces DON'T have nearly the power of US states.
I think the the decentralization of power throughout a country using the US and Canada as an example, hurts the better good.
The administrative aspects of having social power over each region does not take "too" much to handle, but there is just one thing that decentralization.
Decentralization gives the power to small regions to make social decisions as to how their regions are run. It gives more power to the people, but because they are mroe localizwed than the general whole, they are more influenced to choose one point of view, than a multiphasited view chosen by many.
Forgive me for taking such a blunt example, but I think that it would help clerify the ideal. In Germany right now, there are many neo-nazi groups making a comeback. It is generally conceded that most of these groups are in the old East Germany.
Now lets say these people have a good deal of power in the region. A man decides that he doesn't want his son or daughter to attend a school with a jewish child, or and foreign born children. The region has control over their schools, so with a majority vote in a school board, there is now a segrigated school system.
Not only would such a thing effect the region that the law was passed, but the whole of Germany would take recourse for such a decision made by a small segment of the entire population.
Once again, this situation is not based on facts, but is merly a situation to proove the irrelevance of the system.
Also, the US has the death penalty in some states, and not in others. Canda does not have the death penalty at all. I concider this a good decision to keep morally effective issues, and thwe like in a centralized form, for people who represent the entire country.
Why not just dig up Musolini and put him into office, you ignorant facist?
Arr.. you people make me sick!!
Hey, I agree with most of the things you said, but why did you have to pick on Cromwell?
He finally dethroned the royal family from absolute power (dictators, not autocrats)
He could have been like Lenin, and shot the entire royal family (except anastasia.. hehe).
The VPN side is part of it, but it is more like developing a routing scheme between seperate public like VPN nodes, and having the actual source of the transmission blocked, just a next hop type of thing.
I know it would be a lot of work, but I see it having great potential...
Certainly. Although I am not a working to directly compete with the established community, I still like to develop possible technologies that may parallel or run over them.
If you need an (unfortunately slow)cable connection in Canada, just give me an email at the dchemko of feelthegrey.com, and I will see to it that you have another node in the wall.
Now that you have set up a fairly open system, have you put any thought to transport anonymity, or are you just aiming at decentralized control from ICANN?
It hasn't loosened up. It has gotten worse.
North America can only let three people into the ballot, so if four people ran, and I got 20% of the electorate to vote for me, I still might not get a space on the ballot of the three others got 25% each.
It is even worse in Europe. They only have two spaces on the ballot open!!