Say you have 10 connections to an apache server. That means there will be at least 10 apache processes running. It's up to the OS to distribute CPU time among those processes.
Like any other program, Apache does not have to know or care about SMP at all. It just has to divide up work that can be done concurrently into threads or subprocesses.
NU is great for data recovery (easy GUI-based sector-by-sector view of the filesystem, unerase utility, etc.). Great when you lose that important paper and you're in panic mode. fsck is closer to Scandisk or chkdsk than NU.
WinFax
Hylafax is unreasonably hard to use for office managers, secretaries, etc.
Incidentally, using a telnet server is a fantastically stupid thing to do, especially on a cable modem. [...] Somebody sitting on the same cable modem segment as you can sniff those passwords as you type them.
Bullshit. Your cable modem will filter out all packets not destined for your computer's MAC address.
Also, your cable modem has a private key and everything between you and the bridge for your segment is encrypted. So, even if you designed your own cable modem-like device that did not filter packets based on MAC address, you would not be able to decrypt anything but the traffic destined for you anyway.
There should be a FAQ about this shit.
[...] You do realise that telnet doesn't encrypt passwords, right? [...] Use ssh.
You have a point there. ssh is a good idea in general, but don't get too paranoid about it unless you're sharing a LAN with people you don't trust (that includes remote users) or if you don't trust your upstream provider.
The accepted definition of 'American' is a ciziten of the United States.
When communicating with the rest of the world, you have to realize what each of your words mean to everyone else, and not impose your own definition. It does not matter how correct or incorrect you think everyone else is.
North America and South America are two distinct continents. America is a country in North America. Is that so hard to understand? Are the names confusing to you?
Something like Tux could certainly run on the BSDs. Tux itself exists partially as a kernel module, which would have to be rewritten from scratch for each BSD- the end product would not be Tux.
As for IE, Microsoft had to port a lot of COM and the Shell API to Unix (see this article). AFAIK, IE for Mac was mostly a rewrite. I don't know the status of IE for Win16.
After having browsed the C# Language Reference PDF I believe they have made some mistakes that Java thankfully avoids.
Do you have any evidence _at all_ to back that statement up?
Looks like Microsoft is building a language that fits much better with MFC than C++. No more building elaborate wrappers around COM objects. Everything is garbage collected, so there's no confusion as to what you have to clean up and what's destroyed automatically by the framework. Creating controls could be as easy as it is in Java or VB.
Sounds like being an MS developer just got way closer to being tolerable, unless you're afraid to learn a new language...
Real nice to DEC? IIRC, Microsoft dumped support for most DEC hardware with Win2k (including the entire Alpha platform). I have some DE205 shared-memory ether cards that worked fine with NT4, but are unsupported by Win2k.
Take a look under DEC in the Win2k hardware compatibility guide. You'll find 2 FDDI cards and little else.
Reiser: It's an enormous advantage for us. We need a large user base. Our business model is based upon us giving the software away for free then users want more features. So they pay for us to add more features. Then we give those features away for free. That makes more users want to use our software which means the whole thing snowballs. Getting into 2.4 gives us a chance to snowball for 18 months or so.
The more features he puts in now, the more chance ReiserFS has of being accepted as a standard. But this business model is fucked because the pressure is on to not incorporate features his team can charge for further down the road.
All I can say is, I hope Reiser succeeds and sets a precedent for this business.
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What proof do you have that that's actually CmdrTaco?
Say you have 10 connections to an apache server. That means there will be at least 10 apache processes running. It's up to the OS to distribute CPU time among those processes.
Like any other program, Apache does not have to know or care about SMP at all. It just has to divide up work that can be done concurrently into threads or subprocesses.
I agree with most of what you're saying, however:
Norton Utilities
NU is great for data recovery (easy GUI-based sector-by-sector view of the filesystem, unerase utility, etc.). Great when you lose that important paper and you're in panic mode. fsck is closer to Scandisk or chkdsk than NU.
WinFax
Hylafax is unreasonably hard to use for office managers, secretaries, etc.
After dealing with MFC, Qt is a dream. I know a few Windows developers who have gone in that direction.
UMSDOS supports permissions and POSIX filenames, which are important for any secure system (does VFAT honour setuid/gid bits?)
If the disk-on-a-chip supports VFAT, it will support UMSDOS perfectly well.
Bullshit. Your cable modem will filter out all packets not destined for your computer's MAC address.
Also, your cable modem has a private key and everything between you and the bridge for your segment is encrypted. So, even if you designed your own cable modem-like device that did not filter packets based on MAC address, you would not be able to decrypt anything but the traffic destined for you anyway.
There should be a FAQ about this shit.
[...] You do realise that telnet doesn't encrypt passwords, right? [...] Use ssh.
You have a point there. ssh is a good idea in general, but don't get too paranoid about it unless you're sharing a LAN with people you don't trust (that includes remote users) or if you don't trust your upstream provider.
Also kill portmap and lpd if you're running it - lpd is not started by inetd.
I didn't install NFS, so why the hell does Debian install portmap by default? Grr
The accepted definition of 'American' is a ciziten of the United States.
When communicating with the rest of the world, you have to realize what each of your words mean to everyone else, and not impose your own definition. It does not matter how correct or incorrect you think everyone else is.
North America and South America are two distinct continents. America is a country in North America. Is that so hard to understand? Are the names confusing to you?
"If not, smart companies everywhere will start mailing them job offers right about now!"
Any ass can make a website that serves high-bandwidth content. What makes these guys different is that they ran out of money doing it.
Why will "smart companies" want to hire these geeks, again?
You still need to register a domain name (in this case, mydnstunnel.org), and you need a DNS server with a permanent connection.
These things cost money.
Thanks for finding that link. Although if I learned INTERCAL I'm sure I'd still hate COBOL more.
i820 + P3/1133 + Windows 98
Like Mac 'n Cheese.
I have BETA 3 from my MSDN subscription. It's win.com and a DOS kernel, just like Win 95 and 98.
Anyway, we'll know soon enough if that works. Retail WinME will be released in September.
PC timers have always been 1.19 MHz, since 1979 or whenever IBM started cranking them out.
Although the default resolution for the timer interrupt set by the BIOS was (is still) 18.2 Hz (1.19MHz / 65536) on bootup.
PS: 4.77 = 1.19 * 4
Jon Katz? Didn't I killfile that fucker?
As for IE, Microsoft had to port a lot of COM and the Shell API to Unix (see this article). AFAIK, IE for Mac was mostly a rewrite. I don't know the status of IE for Win16.
Tux uses features of the Linux kernel. IE uses features of the Windows shell and COM framework (both of which are portable, though not easily).
Beveled, bubbly plastic edges and a brightly coloured 4.
It's about as inspiring as SGI's new logo.
Do you have any evidence _at all_ to back that statement up?
Looks like Microsoft is building a language that fits much better with MFC than C++. No more building elaborate wrappers around COM objects. Everything is garbage collected, so there's no confusion as to what you have to clean up and what's destroyed automatically by the framework. Creating controls could be as easy as it is in Java or VB.
Sounds like being an MS developer just got way closer to being tolerable, unless you're afraid to learn a new language...
Make a beautiful musical team. Just watch out for head knocking on the 1541.
...or he's French. There's no other word for Byte in French.
1,44 Mo => 1.44 MB
and so on.
No more tftpd or bootp for diskless booting.
But you'd still need dhcp (or rarp) and bootparam to configure the network and find a place to NFS mount / from.
Can the kernel do this?
Take a look under DEC in the Win2k hardware compatibility guide. You'll find 2 FDDI cards and little else.
The more features he puts in now, the more chance ReiserFS has of being accepted as a standard. But this business model is fucked because the pressure is on to not incorporate features his team can charge for further down the road.
All I can say is, I hope Reiser succeeds and sets a precedent for this business.