My dad worked with Kilby at TI in the early 60s, when the integrated circuit development was really hopping. My dad has a couple of patents on early ICs - but he had to sell them to TI for one cent. It was part of the employment contract.
Sanford ('Spamford') Wallace and Cyber Promotions.... they certainly affected the course of the Internet during the late 90's, regardless of how low and turd-like you think he might be.
I think I read somewhere he's planning a comeback....
I suppose a company could certify and test their product on whatever the current kernel is at the time of product release, but a website that says "We found our XYZ widget to be completely compatible with the 2.0.36 kernel" doesn't help me much _now_. Hardware product lifecycles are sufficiently long to make "Supported in Linux" a dicey proposition without qualifications on just what is supported.
The commercial OS'es release updates so slowly it doesn't hurt hardware certifications as much - but doesn't anyone remember how long it took some hardware companies to get Win95 hardware support really right? In some cases, they had a year to prepare, and still had to scramble - I remember having to run DOS drivers for my SCSI card for almost 6 months before the real support got there.
Yup, we have a DSCD770 megapixel, which uses a PCMCIA-to-memory stick adapter. I got the floppy adapter, and can now pop a 128mb memory stick into the floppy drive on my PC and read it. The new Mavicas are able to use the floppy-to-memory stick adapter too, AFAIK.
The down side is Windows-only software support for the adapter (for now). Anybody working on Linux or *BSD support for these widgets?
Open Source help is a good way to expand the possibilites... how about thin client / NC for connection to M$ terminal server, Citrix, and Sun's NetRay stuff. Most of the current clients for these are pricey ($500 and up without monitor!)
A $250 - $300 thin client terminal has BIG possibilities. Needs a pointing device, though.
Alternatively, you could sell the thing for one price, and kick back a "rebate" after being on the service for a period of time. Same difference.
I wonder if anyone has figured out what the cost basis on these boxen are? You got a 10 inch LCD display, and a very integrated motherboard, some ram, a Winchip. Plastic skins, packaging. Maybe $250 all told in large volumes?
Why is a guy with a Thai name and address, studying abroad in Springfield (lives next to Homer I guess) reserving a Swiss domain name which only loosely refers to the proposed subject matter, and then only in certain countries (Thailand isn't one of them).
Something smells here. You usually get that when someone has been "squatting" nearby. The result is squishy and steaming on that domain name.
In the illustration given of a tax exempt firm in PA, one can reasonably expect a second 'dot com', Company 'C' to appear, running at maximum efficiency and selling the same product at a 1% discount to company 'A'. Of course, Company 'B' is still SOL, but it is unwise to expect taxation (or the lack thereof) to mask production inefficiencies, _unless_ some other externality exists to support the inefficiency. For instance, Company 'A' has exclusive sales contract for said product, or PA has high startup costs for new company 'C', etc. Don't expect tax inconsistencies to hide unreasonable profits or production inefficiency for long!
One other observation: it wasn't that long ago that we thought of taxes as the added distortion in a market. It's interesting to see the _lack_ of taxes considered as another kind of market distortion - a subsidy. How the world has changed in 50 years!
Bob Young was on Public Interest yesterday (that's an NPR talk radio show in Washington DC), and the whole time he went on about how Open Source was the only way to get anything done these days, and the RH business model was to sell support - he used IBM as an example, indicating that IBM pretty much sells all its iron at cost, and makes the bucks on support and implementation.
Here's the Real Audio link: http://www.wamu.org/ram/2000/p2000111.ram
His one-song Open Source repetoire from yesterday doesn't square with them taking the company proprietary.
Don't forget Hitler _was_ Time's Man of the Year back in '36 (I think that year is right....)
I agree that innovation isn't the deciding factor in "Man of the Year" - making; rather it's _influence_ on the world. Gates has certainly influenced the world! Good or bad, you decide. Hey - how about Alan Greenspan (Fed Chair) for Man of the Decade? Makes sense to me...
I think Time's selection of Bezos is more of the dot-com millionaire hype, as printed matter tries to assert validity in the Internet age.
ADS Environmental (www.adsenv.com) has been putting 8088's and i960's with BASIC in ROM in sewers for almost 20 years now. The design: milled aluminum "can", water and air tight, with a slight positive pressure applied to the inside after sealing (they have a nipple like a bicycle tire). I have seen these things withstand weeks of submersion in flooded sewer systems.
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I've read through the posts, and I see a few complaints about the number of disks required. For those of us spreading Linux to less-than-up-to-date machines, the Debian floppy install is a godsend. I had a Sparc IPC which was old, old, old - the only way Linux was going on that thing (version 1.OLD prom) was Debian's 8-disk install. Only recently have the RedHat Sparc images become palatable to that old machine.
Only NetBSD seems to exceed Debian in its cross-platform projects. If the floppy disk images are included in the commercial distro, they can advertise compatibility with machines below the latest pentium 3, and even hold out the promise of Linux on old 486's without a CD. I think that's at least worth considering...
Not to split hairs, but the Intel description seems to indicate that the encryption is actually a chipset taking the IPSec encrypt/decrypt load off the OS and CPU, but that would be more network-layer stuff, not physical. Perhaps the title should be "Firmware-based encryption"?
The VME bus is not supported. I don't think Debian supports it either (it's a kernel-level limitation).
Other comments: yes, you do have to have a whole-disk partition, even with linux. And if you have a pre-2.0 prom, you can still boot a cdrom: usually they are on ID 6 on a Sun box, so at >
I can't let this go without commenting - drug tests examine your behavior both on and off the job, while the mail scan is only investigating activity on the job. There's a big difference as far as privacy rights are concerned. On to the next point -
There's nothing "gleeful" about a company protecting itself from activities that could affect it financially, be it drug-addled delivery truck drivers or weirdos downloading and posting kiddie porn. It is a fiduciary responsibility - officers of a company are required to protect the assets of the firm, including "sue-able" assets, and the auditors would find them legally negligent if they didn't do this!
I would concur, and add that the incoming cable feed should be checked for an adequate ground. I often ran into this when installing home theatre systems - there is a terminal block for the cable mounted somewhere in the basement or outside the house, grounded to a water pipe (or to a metal rod in the ground). If this ground is insufficient or broken, a nasty ground loop can result.
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Glad to know somebody else noticed the bluetooth - enabled beer opener. Now my life is complete!
My dad worked with Kilby at TI in the early 60s, when the integrated circuit development was really hopping. My dad has a couple of patents on early ICs - but he had to sell them to TI for one cent. It was part of the employment contract.
He certainly runs the biggest non-profit charitable concern on record....
Sanford ('Spamford') Wallace and Cyber Promotions.... they certainly affected the course of the Internet during the late 90's, regardless of how low and turd-like you think he might be.
I think I read somewhere he's planning a comeback....
"......the earlier posters analogy of the masque ball is, in this light, entirely appropriate."
Actually, on-line chat seems more like those 80's disco "meatmarkets."
Oh, yeah - everyone is required to wear blindfolds, not masks. And no touching.
Yeah, they had cherry preserves, but it seemed a little late for that......
I suppose a company could certify and test their product on whatever the current kernel is at the time of product release, but a website that says "We found our XYZ widget to be completely compatible with the 2.0.36 kernel" doesn't help me much _now_. Hardware product lifecycles are sufficiently long to make "Supported in Linux" a dicey proposition without qualifications on just what is supported.
The commercial OS'es release updates so slowly it doesn't hurt hardware certifications as much - but doesn't anyone remember how long it took some hardware companies to get Win95 hardware support really right? In some cases, they had a year to prepare, and still had to scramble - I remember having to run DOS drivers for my SCSI card for almost 6 months before the real support got there.
Actually, I had a "Blue Burger" just the other night - with red onions, blue cheese, and bacon. Delicious!
Check the Sony web page for info on the new 85 and 95 Mavicas, they are compatible with the floppy - memory stick adapter.
Yup, we have a DSCD770 megapixel, which uses a PCMCIA-to-memory stick adapter. I got the floppy adapter, and can now pop a 128mb memory stick into the floppy drive on my PC and read it. The new Mavicas are able to use the floppy-to-memory stick adapter too, AFAIK.
The down side is Windows-only software support for the adapter (for now). Anybody working on Linux or *BSD support for these widgets?
Rapist: I raped person, and want to make money from the story of the crime.
Mitnick: I cracked into systems, and want to make money off my knowledge of computer security.
See the difference?
Open Source help is a good way to expand the possibilites... how about thin client / NC for connection to M$ terminal server, Citrix, and Sun's NetRay stuff. Most of the current clients for these are pricey ($500 and up without monitor!)
A $250 - $300 thin client terminal has BIG possibilities. Needs a pointing device, though.
Alternatively, you could sell the thing for one price, and kick back a "rebate" after being on the service for a period of time. Same difference.
I wonder if anyone has figured out what the cost basis on these boxen are? You got a 10 inch LCD display, and a very integrated motherboard, some ram, a Winchip. Plastic skins, packaging. Maybe $250 all told in large volumes?
Why is a guy with a Thai name and address, studying abroad in Springfield (lives next to Homer I guess) reserving a Swiss domain name which only loosely refers to the proposed subject matter, and then only in certain countries (Thailand isn't one of them).
Something smells here. You usually get that when someone has been "squatting" nearby. The result is squishy and steaming on that domain name.
In the illustration given of a tax exempt firm in PA, one can reasonably expect a second 'dot com', Company 'C' to appear, running at maximum efficiency and selling the same product at a 1% discount to company 'A'. Of course, Company 'B' is still SOL, but it is unwise to expect taxation (or the lack thereof) to mask production inefficiencies, _unless_ some other externality exists to support the inefficiency. For instance, Company 'A' has exclusive sales contract for said product, or PA has high startup costs for new company 'C', etc. Don't expect tax inconsistencies to hide unreasonable profits or production inefficiency for long!
One other observation: it wasn't that long ago that we thought of taxes as the added distortion in a market. It's interesting to see the _lack_ of taxes considered as another kind of market distortion - a subsidy. How the world has changed in 50 years!
Bob Young was on Public Interest yesterday (that's an NPR talk radio show in Washington DC), and the whole time he went on about how Open Source was the only way to get anything done these days, and the RH business model was to sell support - he used IBM as an example, indicating that IBM pretty much sells all its iron at cost, and makes the bucks on support and implementation.
Here's the Real Audio link: http://www.wamu.org/ram/2000/p2000111.ram
His one-song Open Source repetoire from yesterday doesn't square with them taking the company proprietary.
Don't forget Hitler _was_ Time's Man of the Year back in '36 (I think that year is right....)
I agree that innovation isn't the deciding factor in "Man of the Year" - making; rather it's _influence_ on the world. Gates has certainly influenced the world! Good or bad, you decide.
Hey - how about Alan Greenspan (Fed Chair) for Man of the Decade? Makes sense to me...
I think Time's selection of Bezos is more of the dot-com millionaire hype, as printed matter tries to assert validity in the Internet age.
ADS Environmental (www.adsenv.com) has been putting 8088's and i960's with BASIC in ROM in sewers for almost 20 years now. The design: milled aluminum "can", water and air tight, with a slight positive pressure applied to the inside after sealing (they have a nipple like a bicycle tire). I have seen these things withstand weeks of submersion in flooded sewer systems.
I've read through the posts, and I see a few complaints about the number of disks required. For those of us spreading Linux to less-than-up-to-date machines, the Debian floppy install is a godsend. I had a Sparc IPC which was old, old, old - the only way Linux was going on that thing (version 1.OLD prom) was Debian's 8-disk install. Only recently have the RedHat Sparc images become palatable to that old machine.
Only NetBSD seems to exceed Debian in its cross-platform projects. If the floppy disk images are included in the commercial distro, they can advertise compatibility with machines below the latest pentium 3, and even hold out the promise of Linux on old 486's without a CD. I think that's at least worth considering...
Not to split hairs, but the Intel description seems to indicate that the encryption is actually a chipset taking the IPSec encrypt/decrypt load off the OS and CPU, but that would be more network-layer stuff, not physical. Perhaps the title should be "Firmware-based encryption"?
The VME bus is not supported. I don't think Debian supports it either (it's a kernel-level limitation).
Other comments: yes, you do have to have a whole-disk partition, even with linux. And if you have a pre-2.0 prom, you can still boot a cdrom: usually they are on ID 6 on a Sun box, so at >
b sd(0,6,0) linux (or whatever)
I have a Mac SE that I use for a dumb terminal at work. Self contained, small footprint, CHEAP ($30 on ebay) and it does the job.
I can't let this go without commenting - drug tests examine your behavior both on and off the job, while the mail scan is only investigating activity on the job. There's a big difference as far as privacy rights are concerned. On to the next point -
There's nothing "gleeful" about a company protecting itself from activities that could affect it financially, be it drug-addled delivery truck drivers or weirdos downloading and posting kiddie porn. It is a fiduciary responsibility - officers of a company are required to protect the assets of the firm, including "sue-able" assets, and the auditors would find them legally negligent if they didn't do this!
I would concur, and add that the incoming cable feed should be checked for an adequate ground. I often ran into this when installing home theatre systems - there is a terminal block for the cable mounted somewhere in the basement or outside the house, grounded to a water pipe (or to a metal rod in the ground). If this ground is insufficient or broken, a nasty ground loop can result.