Seems to me that moving the boot ROM onto the proc card could actually make it easier to add a 3rd party proc upgrade. Granted, you would have to write your own boot ROM, but from my experience (and I admit I know NOTHING of apple/PPC boot ROMS)that shouldn't be too painful.
I think you are probably correct. I know that they have an option to do a thesis or just more courses. (whatever it's called, I can't remember now...) I always, for some undefined reason, thought that if you took the thesis option you were OK, but if you didn't you were screwed for a phd. I'm probably wrong.
You may want to look at the distance learning thing. I work full time, but attend grad school part time (6 credits a term) via the NTU (www.ntu.edu) satellite network. They get classes from MIT, U of I, U Mass, University of Arizona, Purdue, etc. Lots of schools. You get some of the best instructors from some of the best schools.
I was pretty skeptical at first, but tried it (cause lockmart is paying for it:-)... and found that I acually like it. You can get the classes taped and watch when you want, or go live on some of them. The don't do phd, only masters, but it's something else to think about. Lets you work full time and make some decent money while going to school.
and it's the Valentine 1. I would rather give Mike Valentine 500 bucks once than pay out the nose to the damned "law" enforcement psychos in texas forever. (gotta drive through some hick trailer park town that shall remain nameless..cough.. white settlement..cough.. on my way to work each day. they must make millions off of us poor suckers by making up tickets and paying off judges.)
Don't treat this as flamebait. It's not. I just don't understand why everyone CARES whether or not linux makes it big in the commercial/enduser/desktop market. The only reason that I care in the least is hardware support. Other than that, whay would you give a crap? It works great for me. I could care less if joe user down the street doesn't like it because it isn't as "user friendly" as his mac. That's his problem. So what if this kind of issue does cause the "community" to fragment? Will that stop people from improving the environment? No. Will it slow down development. Maybe, but so what. Nobody is paying for it, and the best stuff is just written for fun anyway. my $0.02
OK enough rambling, I suppose I should go hack on some firmware or something.
Hello!!! The PPro was not the main deal here. If an array of Ti DSPs isn't serious CPU throughput, I really would like to know what YOUR definition of throughput is...:-)
It's not strong crypto. It's a MD5 based thingy. It DOES beat the hell out of the piece of crap base 64 wannabe encoinf used right now. I wrote a server that supported it a while back... but for some reason cannot remeber how it works right now. Bummer. Go get the RFC.
"Excuse me, but you realize, of course, that you're just helping to make Windows `better' in the long run?"
Yeah, so? Do you have a problem with that? I sure as hell don't use windows when I don't have to, but since it is forced on me as an email machine at work, I would sure like it to be secure.
If you have a problem with MS fixing their own OS due to security concerns I think you need to step back and think about your views. Why do you care so much about it?
As I recall DigiPen is in canada. It looked to be a really cool school and I damn near ended up there after I finished my EE, but alas it was in canada...:-)
As I recall, from the RAID I looked at in th 2.0.x kernels, it works on a partition level. If you go and use it with two drives on the same IDE "chain" it's gonna be slow, (due to IDE's request limitation) but I would think it should still work. This would allow you to screw around with it, but I can imagine a working system would be pretty painful to use...
My advice is try it and see. You are gonna buy the extra disk anyway, so it's not going to cost you anything. Maybe even save you from having to screw with another controller if it works fast enough for your needs.
You know what? I think people are way taking life for granted. They don't take *any* precautions against snipers at all. Well, terrorists and criminals can shoot you anytime, and just because they can do (which is illegal of course), doesn't mean they should be allowed to do so, right? Going with your line of argument, they would point out that it's YOUR problem to protect yourself, get an armor suite,bodyguards, don't go out at all.
It is your problem to protect yourself. The government doesn't protect you. They only step in after you catch the terminal end of a 7.62x54R boat tail round to the head, by trying to apprehend the schumck who pulled the trigger. If you think the government protects you sir, you need a reality check. And that people don't take any precautions against snipers, speak for your self, I work underground.:-) (of course on a day like today I would gladly trade my at-work-sniper-protection-system(tm) for a nice large window, but alas it can never be...)
Now, you have only the rights you were nerously allocated by the current democratic system, not what you think you have, no matter how these rights sound reasonable it sounds for your mind. By not appreciating the written law, your gnorance would end you up in jail. There are no slashdot, computers, the Internet, girls, cinema, good food and many many other useful things there. Take it easy.
You are quite WRONG. A right is NOT granted by the government. That would imply it could be taken away by the government. A right is something you are born with. (Like life, liberty, etc. you see where this is going? You can go look it up yourself. The document is rather well known.)
I've also seen it argued that a law that can never be enforced (pretty hard to reliably monitor who's receiving what) isn't really a law, but that gets rather messy.
Back to the body armor thing for just a moment. Most types of ballistic armor are rendered useless by a broadhead hunting arrow. A steel.308 or 30-06 rifle bullet will also punch right through most types of body armor. Even if it doesn't make it through it would probably shatter your ribs and puncture a lung anyway.
Unless of course you are lucky that day and that.308 smacks into your spiffy level IV trauma plate. Of course it's still gonna smart a little. Anywthing with more energy that a NATO 308 round, well...
If that radio signal passes through my body I have a right to receive it (bcause I'm already receiving it.), I don't give a crap WHAT the law says. If you want to keep your conversation private, that's YOUR problem. Go digital, go analog scramble, I don't care. It's your problem.
... from a technical standpoint. I think it would be a blast to engineer.
However I know that I sure as heck don't want a database of every advertisement I have ever seen in my life. Ugh! (although some other companies would proabbly love to have it...) I think of all of that brain space that is already wasted by jingles and other ad crap and it astounds me. and I don't even own a tv. (I can't imagine how much space is wasted by all of you that watch all of that video advertising on a daily basis. shudder)
Sooooo I sure don't want to start wasting disk space for ad data too..
Do I sense a flame war? Or was That on usenet? I forget. Anyway this is quite cool. People have been talking about doing this for a long time and I'm glad to see someone finally walking the walk instead of just talking the talk.
There is a reason that until now all DoD work was required to be done in ada. The strong typing and wanna be object orientation (in ada83 anyway, ada95 really is OO) make for some pretty stable software.
There is nothing inherantly (sp) better about ada, when compared to C for example, but the way it tends to work is that if your ada software makes it past that %$#@$#@* compiler it will more or less do what you wanted. usually. well sometimes anyway. Overindexing arrays and such is harher to do in ada. If you use a real ada run time it's really hard, but full blown run times are slow and eat eeprom like popcorn.
The catch is that it is easier to really tweak out your software in C. I'm fighting a problem right now at work where I could do something in C with extreme ease and effiency, but in ada it's very very hard to even come to the same elegant solution. Granted some of this is due to the DoD coding standards where I'm at being kinda strict. (read as kind of freaking brain dead is many ways!) But these do tend to lead to more reliable software, and lord knows when you creating a product that has destructive potential you want it to be reliable.
I'll shutup now. gotta go barf out some more ada code on my super duper VAXStation 4000-60. fun fun.
I really want a ada code browser/IDE. Something that will let me click a symbol and see the definition, etc. Lots of editors support ada for syntax highlighting. (Although most don't run on VAX VMS... so i'm still screwed. just gotta live with EDT and LSE I guess)
I couldn't agree with you more that is is evil. Bad is debatable. However some of us poor bastards are stuck with it... and will be stuck with it for some time.
I agree that it was in bad taste, and maybe a fine was in order, but jail time? This guy is now fscked for life. He's never going to be able to land a decent job.
Why doesn't anyone make and IDE or code browser that supports ada!!!! Source Navigator from cygnus rules, but still doesn't support ada. Life is unfair.
Hah! You are just a little naive. This should be stuck down in a hurry, but then again some poor schmuck just got put in jail for swearing in public, so don't count on it.
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Seems to me that moving the boot ROM onto the proc card could actually make it easier to add a 3rd party proc upgrade. Granted, you would have to write your own boot ROM, but from my experience (and I admit I know NOTHING of apple/PPC boot ROMS)that shouldn't be too painful.
Interesting move by apple in anycase.
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I would bet that the damn thing probably runs fairly hot ... and yes, It would be pretty slick to put a cluster in a briefcase. :-)
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I think you are probably correct. I know that they have an option to do a thesis or just more courses. (whatever it's called, I can't remember now ...) I always, for some undefined reason, thought that if you took the thesis option you were OK, but if you didn't you were screwed for a phd. I'm probably wrong.
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You may want to look at the distance learning thing. I work full time, but attend grad school part time (6 credits a term) via the NTU (www.ntu.edu) satellite network. They get classes from MIT, U of I, U Mass, University of Arizona, Purdue, etc. Lots of schools. You get some of the best instructors from some of the best schools.
:-) ... and found that I acually like it. You can get the classes taped and watch when you want, or go live on some of them. The don't do phd, only masters, but it's something else to think about. Lets you work full time and make some decent money while going to school.
I was pretty skeptical at first, but tried it (cause lockmart is paying for it
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and it's the Valentine 1. I would rather give Mike Valentine 500 bucks once than pay out the nose to the damned "law" enforcement psychos in texas forever. (gotta drive through some hick trailer park town that shall remain nameless ..cough.. white settlement ..cough.. on my way to work each day. they must make millions off of us poor suckers by making up tickets and paying off judges.)
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Don't treat this as flamebait. It's not. I just don't understand why everyone CARES whether or not linux makes it big in the commercial/enduser/desktop market. The only reason that I care in the least is hardware support. Other than that, whay would you give a crap? It works great for me. I could care less if joe user down the street doesn't like it because it isn't as "user friendly" as his mac. That's his problem. So what if this kind of issue does cause the "community" to fragment? Will that stop people from improving the environment? No. Will it slow down development. Maybe, but so what. Nobody is paying for it, and the best stuff is just written for fun anyway. my $0.02
OK enough rambling, I suppose I should go hack on some firmware or something.
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Hello!!! The PPro was not the main deal here. If an array of Ti DSPs isn't serious CPU throughput, I really would like to know what YOUR definition of throughput is ... :-)
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Gee .. make me feel stupid for not posting a link!
Sorry.
http://siesta.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
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is ACE. Period. (at least I think so :-)
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You noted the same thing I did ... the person who wrote the article was rather clueless about the whole issue.
My impression was that this article said a lot without saying anything.
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It's not strong crypto. It's a MD5 based thingy. It DOES beat the hell out of the piece of crap base 64 wannabe encoinf used right now. I wrote a server that supported it a while back ... but for some reason cannot remeber how it works right now. Bummer. Go get the RFC.
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Yeah, so? Do you have a problem with that? I sure as hell don't use windows when I don't have to, but since it is forced on me as an email machine at work, I would sure like it to be secure.
If you have a problem with MS fixing their own OS due to security concerns I think you need to step back and think about your views. Why do you care so much about it?
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As I recall DigiPen is in canada. It looked to be a really cool school and I damn near ended up there after I finished my EE, but alas it was in canada ... :-)
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My advice is try it and see. You are gonna buy the extra disk anyway, so it's not going to cost you anything. Maybe even save you from having to screw with another controller if it works fast enough for your needs.
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It is your problem to protect yourself. The government doesn't protect you. They only step in after you catch the terminal end of a 7.62x54R boat tail round to the head, by trying to apprehend the schumck who pulled the trigger. If you think the government protects you sir, you need a reality check. And that people don't take any precautions against snipers, speak for your self, I work underground. :-) (of course on a day like today I would gladly trade my at-work-sniper-protection-system(tm) for a nice large window, but alas it can never be ...)
Now, you have only the rights you were nerously allocated by the current democratic system, not what you think you have, no matter how these rights sound reasonable it sounds for your mind. By not appreciating the written law, your gnorance would end you up in jail. There are no slashdot, computers, the Internet, girls, cinema, good food and many many other useful things there. Take it easy.
You are quite WRONG. A right is NOT granted by the government. That would imply it could be taken away by the government. A right is something you are born with. (Like life, liberty, etc. you see where this is going? You can go look it up yourself. The document is rather well known.)
I've also seen it argued that a law that can never be enforced (pretty hard to reliably monitor who's receiving what) isn't really a law, but that gets rather messy.
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gotta go hack some 1750A, till later
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Unless of course you are lucky that day and that .308 smacks into your spiffy level IV trauma plate. Of course it's still gonna smart a little. Anywthing with more energy that a NATO 308 round, well ...
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If that radio signal passes through my body I have a right to receive it (bcause I'm already receiving it.), I don't give a crap WHAT the law says. If you want to keep your conversation private, that's YOUR problem. Go digital, go analog scramble, I don't care. It's your problem.
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However I know that I sure as heck don't want a database of every advertisement I have ever seen in my life. Ugh! (although some other companies would proabbly love to have it ...) I think of all of that brain space that is already wasted by jingles and other ad crap and it astounds me. and I don't even own a tv. (I can't imagine how much space is wasted by all of you that watch all of that video advertising on a daily basis. shudder)
Sooooo I sure don't want to start wasting disk space for ad data too ..
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anyway
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Do I sense a flame war? Or was That on usenet? I forget. Anyway this is quite cool. People have been talking about doing this for a long time and I'm glad to see someone finally walking the walk instead of just talking the talk.
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There is a reason that until now all DoD work was required to be done in ada. The strong typing and wanna be object orientation (in ada83 anyway, ada95 really is OO) make for some pretty stable software.
There is nothing inherantly (sp) better about ada, when compared to C for example, but the way it tends to work is that if your ada software makes it past that %$#@$#@* compiler it will more or less do what you wanted. usually. well sometimes anyway. Overindexing arrays and such is harher to do in ada. If you use a real ada run time it's really hard, but full blown run times are slow and eat eeprom like popcorn.
The catch is that it is easier to really tweak out your software in C. I'm fighting a problem right now at work where I could do something in C with extreme ease and effiency, but in ada it's very very hard to even come to the same elegant solution. Granted some of this is due to the DoD coding standards where I'm at being kinda strict. (read as kind of freaking brain dead is many ways!) But these do tend to lead to more reliable software, and lord knows when you creating a product that has destructive potential you want it to be reliable.
I'll shutup now. gotta go barf out some more ada code on my super duper VAXStation 4000-60. fun fun.
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I really want a ada code browser/IDE. Something that will let me click a symbol and see the definition, etc. Lots of editors support ada for syntax highlighting. (Although most don't run on VAX VMS ... so i'm still screwed. just gotta live with EDT and LSE I guess)
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I couldn't agree with you more that is is evil. Bad is debatable. However some of us poor bastards are stuck with it ... and will be stuck with it for some time.
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You have an interesting take on it ...
I agree that it was in bad taste, and maybe a fine was in order, but jail time? This guy is now fscked for life. He's never going to be able to land a decent job.
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Why doesn't anyone make and IDE or code browser that supports ada!!!! Source Navigator from cygnus rules, but still doesn't support ada. Life is unfair.
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Hah! You are just a little naive. This should be stuck down in a hurry, but then again some poor schmuck just got put in jail for swearing in public, so don't count on it.
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