A while ago I tried to install RedHat 6.0 by FTP. The computer was in a subnet with a netmask of 255.255.254.0, let's say 111.222.100.x and 111.222.101.x. So the broadcast address is 111.222.101.255, and I would think that 111.222.100.255 would be a legal address. However, giving that as the IP address, I couldn't get FTP working. Changing the.255 into something else solved the problem. So is.255 really illegal in all cases?
Nowadays,.nl is approx. 16 million. And.be should be close to 10.
Anyway, if I think of kernel developers, I think of:
Linus Torvalds (Finnish) Alan Cox (British) David Miller (USA) Stephen Tweedie (sp?) (USA, I think) Ingo Molnar (Hungarian?) Andrea Arcangeli (Italian) Alexander Viro (has a US address, but sounds Russian to me)
And now I've forgotten the names of LOTS of important people. I'm sorry, these were just the first few that came to mind. But it's obvious that the USA as a whole is just one of the countries that is contributing.
Actually... (this is a wild guess...) since the BSD's originated at Berkeley, and they are a lot less willing to accept patches from outsiders, it might the case that the majority of BSD developers are from the USA, and that is whole bunch of potential developers that probably would have contributed to Linux had they been European.
At least in some cultures they are. I guess the trick is to bake them well. I'm not kidding! This guy is called Jason Wong... now I'm no antropologist, but it could just be that he wouldn't mind a few crispy bugs.
For the International Olympiads in Informatics, we Dutch require our team to consist of two boys and two girls. The girls are selected from the 2 or 3 female contenstants that take part in the prelimary rounds. (And of course the boys from the hundreds of male contestants.) If you want to see what happens at the international competitions, read this and search for "logo" and "zero points".
1. There have always been more male programmers than female programmers (except for the first few years of the computer era when the hardware was guy's stuff and programming was seens as a woman's job, just like all the human calculators of the pre-computer era were female). Online porn is something of the last 5 years.
2. If you're online for porn you have no time to learn to program.
It can't possibly have been 256Kb. The Commodore 64 came out in 1982 with 64Kb, which was "more than any home user would ever need".
But sure, 256 bytes is not much if you really want to use it for your business. I guess this Altair might have come originally with 256 bytes, and it got expanded a bit over the years. And it might have some additional ROM.
Pocket calculators usually have 4-bits CPUs and probably less than 256 bytes of RAM, and they can be very useful.
This story is at least a week old. For Belgium, Dell has a contract with Microsoft saying that Dell will install an OS on each computer sold. This can be Windows 98 or Linux or whatever they like, but 'technical reasons' have forced Dell to limit themselves to Windows.
So whatever it is, it's a decision by Dell to not preinstall Linux. Selling a bare computer would violate their contract with Microsoft, but selling with Linux installed would not. It's pretty weird or course. Illegal? I don't know.
What do you mean? There is no trojan in the linux kernel? Phew. Anyway, can you point at where I attack anyone? Maybe you should learn to read (and write, or find a place where euthanasia is cheap).
I'm sure that first release had much much less than half a million lines of code. In fact, linux-0.01.tar.gz is just 73091 bytes in size. The current linux-2.2.11.tar.gz has 14506239 bytes.
Oh, but I always read your Kernel Newsflash, so nothing can happen to me!!
But somehow I don't you've signed with your real name.
Anyway, I do have a clue about the Linux kernel, and no, I haven't read the patch. For whatever reason, I do trust that Alan Cox did check all of it.
Sure, one day a stable kernel will come out with a bug that will cause filesystem corruption for lots of people. It'll catch a few hundred people. And one day my harddisk will crash as well.
But a trojan in the stable kernel is just totally unlikely. Trojans are much more likely to show up in the huge amounts of other software that can be grabbed from the net. And do you think that kernel developers check all the (non-kernel related) sources that they compile?
There's absolutely nothing in science that requires this. The only thing that matters is that people know what is meant. If we all accept a pite (314159 bytes) to be the new unit of storage space and work with that, then everything will be just fine.
I bet it's more likely that one of the thousands of anonymous Microsoft employees puts a Trojan in Windows 2000 than that Linus and/or Alan put one in a kernel.
This is not a 2.2.11-ac12 type of release, but the release of stable kernel that has had weeks of testing. Not incredibly big news, but still noteworthy. The last stable release was about 8 weeks ago.
This release has had a lot of prereleases, so it should be pretty well tested. If you missed those prereleases it's probably because they weren't announced here.
Anyway, I know Fermi perfectly well. He just doesn't know me. And in hindsight I did know Salk. Haven't met anyone who knows Viktor Hambardzumian though.
I just did a search on Hambardzumian. Altavista returns 6 results, one of which refers to a scientist, but that one is Valeri Hambardzumian. So unless there's a typo in the name, this Hambardzumian with it's half million votes is a hoax.
(And how is someone supposed to learn about scientists if they shouldn't read about them... hmmm... I just proved your remark is dumb... therefore you're the dumbass... QED)
Unless they've changed their mind again, the new Amiga will be using X.
X was designed to run over a (fairly high bandwidth) network. It is really fast over a LAN. The client/server model causes a bit of an overhead when running locally. Also, the X protocol wasn't designed with accelerated 3D cards in mind.
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A while ago I tried to install RedHat 6.0 by FTP. The computer was in a subnet with a netmask of 255.255.254.0, let's say 111.222.100.x and 111.222.101.x. So the broadcast address is 111.222.101.255, and I would think that 111.222.100.255 would be a legal address. However, giving that as the IP address, I couldn't get FTP working. Changing the .255 into something else solved the problem. So is .255 really illegal in all cases?
Ha! After a few lines I recognized the style... the style used by people who tend to prove Fermat and square circles in their spare time.
Nowadays, .nl is approx. 16 million. And .be should be close to 10.
Anyway, if I think of kernel developers, I think of:
Linus Torvalds (Finnish)
Alan Cox (British)
David Miller (USA)
Stephen Tweedie (sp?) (USA, I think)
Ingo Molnar (Hungarian?)
Andrea Arcangeli (Italian)
Alexander Viro (has a US address, but sounds Russian to me)
And now I've forgotten the names of LOTS of important people. I'm sorry, these were just the first few that came to mind. But it's obvious that the USA as a whole is just one of the countries that is contributing.
Actually... (this is a wild guess...) since the BSD's originated at Berkeley, and they are a lot less willing to accept patches from outsiders, it might the case that the majority of BSD developers are from the USA, and that is whole bunch of potential developers that probably would have contributed to Linux had they been European.
At least in some cultures they are. I guess the trick is to bake them well. I'm not kidding! This guy is called Jason Wong... now I'm no antropologist, but it could just be that he wouldn't mind a few crispy bugs.
For the International Olympiads in Informatics, we Dutch require our team to consist of two boys and two girls. The girls are selected from the 2 or 3 female contenstants that take part in the prelimary rounds. (And of course the boys from the hundreds of male contestants.) If you want to see what happens at the international competitions, read this and search for "logo" and "zero points".
1. There have always been more male programmers than female programmers (except for the first few years of the computer era when the hardware was guy's stuff and programming was seens as a woman's job, just like all the human calculators of the pre-computer era were female). Online porn is something of the last 5 years.
2. If you're online for porn you have no time to learn to program.
3. There are as many woman online as men.
It can't possibly have been 256Kb. The Commodore 64 came out in 1982 with 64Kb, which was "more than any home user would ever need".
But sure, 256 bytes is not much if you really want to use it for your business. I guess this Altair might have come originally with 256 bytes, and it got expanded a bit over the years. And it might have some additional ROM.
Pocket calculators usually have 4-bits CPUs and probably less than 256 bytes of RAM, and they can be very useful.
A bug that everyone "seems to know about".
Did you actually report it?
I take your bet :)
This story is at least a week old. For Belgium, Dell has a contract with Microsoft saying that Dell will install an OS on each computer sold. This can be Windows 98 or Linux or whatever they like, but 'technical reasons' have forced Dell to limit themselves to Windows.
So whatever it is, it's a decision by Dell to not preinstall Linux. Selling a bare computer would violate their contract with Microsoft, but selling with Linux installed would not. It's pretty weird or course. Illegal? I don't know.
next time try to click on the right link to reply to???
What do you mean? There is no trojan in the linux kernel? Phew. Anyway, can you point at where I attack anyone? Maybe you should learn to read (and write, or find a place where euthanasia is cheap).
I'm sure that first release had much much less than half a million lines of code. In fact, linux-0.01.tar.gz is just 73091 bytes in size. The current linux-2.2.11.tar.gz has 14506239 bytes.
1783115 lines of C (.c and .h files), and 76885 lines of assembly (.s and .S files). Adds up nicely :)
Sorry if I forgot any extensions, I didn't check the whole tree.
Oh, but I always read your Kernel Newsflash, so nothing can happen to me!!
But somehow I don't you've signed with your real name.
Anyway, I do have a clue about the Linux kernel, and no, I haven't read the patch. For whatever reason, I do trust that Alan Cox did check all of it.
Sure, one day a stable kernel will come out with a bug that will cause filesystem corruption for lots of people. It'll catch a few hundred people. And one day my harddisk will crash as well.
But a trojan in the stable kernel is just totally unlikely. Trojans are much more likely to show up in the huge amounts of other software that can be grabbed from the net. And do you think that kernel developers check all the (non-kernel related) sources that they compile?
There's absolutely nothing in science that requires this. The only thing that matters is that people know what is meant. If we all accept a pite (314159 bytes) to be the new unit of storage space and work with that, then everything will be just fine.
They'd say you lose 1.475GB :)
So from now on, ads will talk about 64MB RAM and 6.4GB harddisks, instead of 64MB RAM and 6.4GB harddisks.
I bet it's more likely that one of the thousands of anonymous Microsoft employees puts a Trojan in Windows 2000 than that Linus and/or Alan put one in a kernel.
This is not a 2.2.11-ac12 type of release, but the release of stable kernel that has had weeks of testing. Not incredibly big news, but still noteworthy. The last stable release was about 8 weeks ago.
This release has had a lot of prereleases, so it should be pretty well tested. If you missed those prereleases it's probably because they weren't announced here.
Oh well, I'm a scientist myself.
Anyway, I know Fermi perfectly well. He just doesn't know me. And in hindsight I did know Salk. Haven't met anyone who knows Viktor Hambardzumian though.
I just did a search on Hambardzumian. Altavista returns 6 results, one of which refers to a scientist, but that one is Valeri Hambardzumian. So unless there's a typo in the name, this Hambardzumian with it's half million votes is a hoax.
(And how is someone supposed to learn about scientists if they shouldn't read about them... hmmm... I just proved your remark is dumb... therefore you're the dumbass... QED)
Berlin is supposed to get an X emulation layer. But it's a long way from being finished.
Unless they've changed their mind again, the new Amiga will be using X.
X was designed to run over a (fairly high bandwidth) network. It is really fast over a LAN. The client/server model causes a bit of an overhead when running locally. Also, the X protocol wasn't designed with accelerated 3D cards in mind.
That sounds like the problem I have with floppies. Once in a while I need them to transfer some files to and from a laptop.