Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing. In the first paragraph on the second page, they just blacked out words seemingly at random. The only thing I can think is that the document used the word CPU (referring to a whole box) and the FBI has some secret CPUs (chips) for specialized processing that they don't want us to know about.
In the 2nd paragraph on the 2nd page, they marked out what appear to be either the bandwidth or the capacity of the storage media. Hardly secret information. The last mark-outs may be the times of day that they move data, so that I can understand keeping hidden.
I wonder if the FOI Act has any penalties for blocking out information that has no reason to be kept secret. Unfortunately, I doubt that the Act has any teeth in that regard.
If you want idiots to be able to run your servers, you will get what you deserve: idiots running your servers. Why managers think this is a good idea, I'll never understand. I guess the point is that idiots are much cheaper to employ. Unfortunately, they're also more expensive to clean up after when they screw up your servers.
Really, I think that most UNIX administrators know more about what they are doing than NT administrators. I consider that a Good Thing.
It will generate a much much more powerful shockwave which it will then have to overcome once it approaches the speed of sound. A single human woman isn't going to have this problem.
Once again, please? What is the text missing before "This make kernel modules faster"?
Running things from within the kernel is faster because you don't have to do any context switches. A context switch is when the CPU swaps in a different process. This includes restoring all the CPU registers and doing some record-keeping. That's one of the major reasons that microkernels are generally slower -- drivers and file systems have to be swapped in before they can do their work.
Isn't this the same thing as a Mr. Microphone? They used to advertise them on TV for kids. It was a microphone attached to a small transmitter that you could pick up on a regular FM radio between normal stations.
I noticed it's spec'd as having built-in MP3 Jukebox capabilities - this might be the killer app.
Actually, the Personal TV may be the killer app, assuming that it is something like TiVo or ReplayTV. Although they'll need a bigger hard drive for it to have decent capacity. A game machine and a TiVo in one box would be pretty cool.
I've been wondering the same thing for quite a while now, especially since GTK+ is object-oriented and written in a non-OO language. It seems like the ideal way to use an existing OO framework of sorts and get free easy language bindings. Right now they've got some custom Lisp-like description language that several languages use to create bindings, but the description has to be modified somewhat for each binding.
The only answer I can come up with is that CORBA is too big and would slow things down too much. But Orbit is supposed to be light-weight, so I'd like to see them put their money where their mouth is and implement CORBA bindings.
Perhaps Sun should buy them. They already have SPARC, so why not PARC?
Or maybe HP should buy them. Then they could change the name of their PA-RISC chip to PARC.
Seriously, whoever buys them would probably be someone large like Sun or HP who could eventually use the technology. Although HP has already spun off most of their R&D to Agilent.
Alternatively, they might be able to spin PARC off as a separate company. Look at Lucent and Agilent. They don't really need to sell anything as long as they have a large enough patent portfolio.
Not completely. They cannot vote, and I'm sure that there are other rights that they do not have. I once considered starting a corporation and demanding its right to vote to show the stupidity of it being a "person".
The Congress is supposed to represent the people of this country, yet in recent decades it seems to represent the large corporations that have enough money to entice them with "contributions" or lobbying. Would you support a bill making it treason for members of Conress to represent the interests of corporations when it is in direct conflict with the interests of the people?
I know my O'Reilly book covered apache-ssl, but all the current online info I found referenced mod_ssl.
That's probably because the author of Apache-SSL is also one of the authors of the O'Reilly Apache book. I've used mod_ssl, and it was pretty easy to use. It also seems to be the more popular choice.
DoCoMo is the wireless arm of NTT, Nippon Telephone, the largest telephone company in Japan. In fact, I think DoCoMo is the largest wireless company in the world. Don't be surprised if you start seeing them more in the US. I know they have started advertising in Newsweek, but I don't know if they are selling anything in the US yet. DoCoMo's wireless phones in Japan are very popular and much more featureful than anything you can find in the US.
Bonus points to anyone who can explain what the abbreviation DoCoMo stands for.
Damn, it really is hard to come up with a new idea. However, my idea is different, since it uses web technology, and not Windows technology. I guess I have to rename the patent "Web-based Drag-n-Drop Shopping".
A method for shopping on the World Wide Web whereby the user need not click on the items to be purchased. Instead, icons representing the items to be purchased are dragged into an iconic representation of a shopping cart. When the user is ready to check out, they drag the shopping cart icon to the icon of the checkout register.
Implementation can be done using JavaScript, Dynamic HTML, or various other dynamic web-based technologies.
TiVo (some people may prefer ReplayTV)
Playstation 2
portable MP3 player (Diamond Rio or others)
MP3/CD player for car
X10 remote control devices for home automation
Aibo
Lego Mindstorms
DV video camera and FireWare card to hook it to a PC
USB radio device
TV receiver card for PC
latest PC video card (with nVidia GTS2 or MX chip)
Yopy (ifit ever comes out) or iPaq handheld
Actually, the standard will not be complete after they select the algorithm. Once they make the selection, they have to draft the standard and then submit it for public review. It will take almost a year before it officially becomes a standard.
Still, it would be cool to put it in GPG before anyone else implements it.
You can set up Squid to filter them out. I'm not sure of the details, but I know that it isn't too difficult. As an added bonus, Squid also speeds up many web pages, because its primary function is as a web cache and proxy.
You can also set up ipchains to filter out certain IP addresses.
Wow, this could make radio stations obsolete. Instead of having to call the radio station to ask the name and artist of the song playing, you could have a hand-held device that will generate the fingerprint and look it up on the Internet.
If you are looking for software to create a cluster, there are several, depending upong what type of cluster you are trying to create. If you are creating a service-based cluster, check out TurboLinux Cluster Server, Linux Virtual Servers, PolyServe Understudy, and Legato. There are many others available, including hardware solutions from Cisco, F5, and Alteon. I'm not too familiar with Beowulf-type clusters.
If you are looking for software to manage groups of systems, that's a whole different story. You might look into Enlighten DSM, Tivoli, or OpenNMS. I'm sure there's a lot of competition in that field as well, but I don't have any experience with those products.
If these guys worked on NetWare, how can they create a competing OS without violating trade secret and copyright laws? Every other OS built to directly compete with another commercial OS uses clean-room techniques to ensure that the code is not tainted.
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Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing. In the first paragraph on the second page, they just blacked out words seemingly at random. The only thing I can think is that the document used the word CPU (referring to a whole box) and the FBI has some secret CPUs (chips) for specialized processing that they don't want us to know about.
In the 2nd paragraph on the 2nd page, they marked out what appear to be either the bandwidth or the capacity of the storage media. Hardly secret information. The last mark-outs may be the times of day that they move data, so that I can understand keeping hidden.
I wonder if the FOI Act has any penalties for blocking out information that has no reason to be kept secret. Unfortunately, I doubt that the Act has any teeth in that regard.
It would be stupid for any district to use Microsoft Vote v2.04. Everyone knows that Microsoft products are never stable until version 3.1.
The claims must be true, since people pay thousands of dollars to Gartner to recieve these reports.
If you want idiots to be able to run your servers, you will get what you deserve: idiots running your servers. Why managers think this is a good idea, I'll never understand. I guess the point is that idiots are much cheaper to employ. Unfortunately, they're also more expensive to clean up after when they screw up your servers.
Really, I think that most UNIX administrators know more about what they are doing than NT administrators. I consider that a Good Thing.
Why does it matter if she is single or married?
Hmm, if today were October 1 instead of November 1, I'd say that it was the southern hemisphere equivalent of April Fools Day.
I think QNX is an excellent RTOS, and the modularity of the system makes it much more stable and flexible than other systems.
But where the heck is the symbiosis? QNX gets plenty of software from the Open Source community, but what does the Linux community get from QNX?
Running things from within the kernel is faster because you don't have to do any context switches. A context switch is when the CPU swaps in a different process. This includes restoring all the CPU registers and doing some record-keeping. That's one of the major reasons that microkernels are generally slower -- drivers and file systems have to be swapped in before they can do their work.
Isn't this the same thing as a Mr. Microphone? They used to advertise them on TV for kids. It was a microphone attached to a small transmitter that you could pick up on a regular FM radio between normal stations.
"Hey good lookin! Be back to pick you up later."
I've been wondering the same thing for quite a while now, especially since GTK+ is object-oriented and written in a non-OO language. It seems like the ideal way to use an existing OO framework of sorts and get free easy language bindings. Right now they've got some custom Lisp-like description language that several languages use to create bindings, but the description has to be modified somewhat for each binding.
The only answer I can come up with is that CORBA is too big and would slow things down too much. But Orbit is supposed to be light-weight, so I'd like to see them put their money where their mouth is and implement CORBA bindings.
Perhaps Sun should buy them. They already have SPARC, so why not PARC?
Or maybe HP should buy them. Then they could change the name of their PA-RISC chip to PARC.
Seriously, whoever buys them would probably be someone large like Sun or HP who could eventually use the technology. Although HP has already spun off most of their R&D to Agilent.
Alternatively, they might be able to spin PARC off as a separate company. Look at Lucent and Agilent. They don't really need to sell anything as long as they have a large enough patent portfolio.
Not completely. They cannot vote, and I'm sure that there are other rights that they do not have. I once considered starting a corporation and demanding its right to vote to show the stupidity of it being a "person".
The Congress is supposed to represent the people of this country, yet in recent decades it seems to represent the large corporations that have enough money to entice them with "contributions" or lobbying. Would you support a bill making it treason for members of Conress to represent the interests of corporations when it is in direct conflict with the interests of the people?
That's probably because the author of Apache-SSL is also one of the authors of the O'Reilly Apache book. I've used mod_ssl, and it was pretty easy to use. It also seems to be the more popular choice.
DoCoMo is the wireless arm of NTT, Nippon Telephone, the largest telephone company in Japan. In fact, I think DoCoMo is the largest wireless company in the world. Don't be surprised if you start seeing them more in the US. I know they have started advertising in Newsweek, but I don't know if they are selling anything in the US yet. DoCoMo's wireless phones in Japan are very popular and much more featureful than anything you can find in the US.
Bonus points to anyone who can explain what the abbreviation DoCoMo stands for.
I know that it is nowhere near April, but I keep getting the feeling that some of the recent posts on Slashdot are April Fool's jokes.
Damn, it really is hard to come up with a new idea. However, my idea is different, since it uses web technology, and not Windows technology. I guess I have to rename the patent "Web-based Drag-n-Drop Shopping".
A method for shopping on the World Wide Web whereby the user need not click on the items to be purchased. Instead, icons representing the items to be purchased are dragged into an iconic representation of a shopping cart. When the user is ready to check out, they drag the shopping cart icon to the icon of the checkout register.
Implementation can be done using JavaScript, Dynamic HTML, or various other dynamic web-based technologies.
TiVo (some people may prefer ReplayTV)
Playstation 2
portable MP3 player (Diamond Rio or others)
MP3/CD player for car
X10 remote control devices for home automation
Aibo
Lego Mindstorms
DV video camera and FireWare card to hook it to a PC
USB radio device
TV receiver card for PC
latest PC video card (with nVidia GTS2 or MX chip)
Yopy (ifit ever comes out) or iPaq handheld
Actually, the standard will not be complete after they select the algorithm. Once they make the selection, they have to draft the standard and then submit it for public review. It will take almost a year before it officially becomes a standard.
Still, it would be cool to put it in GPG before anyone else implements it.
You can also set up ipchains to filter out certain IP addresses.
Wow, this could make radio stations obsolete. Instead of having to call the radio station to ask the name and artist of the song playing, you could have a hand-held device that will generate the fingerprint and look it up on the Internet.
If you are looking for software to create a cluster, there are several, depending upong what type of cluster you are trying to create. If you are creating a service-based cluster, check out TurboLinux Cluster Server, Linux Virtual Servers, PolyServe Understudy, and Legato. There are many others available, including hardware solutions from Cisco, F5, and Alteon. I'm not too familiar with Beowulf-type clusters.
If you are looking for software to manage groups of systems, that's a whole different story. You might look into Enlighten DSM, Tivoli, or OpenNMS. I'm sure there's a lot of competition in that field as well, but I don't have any experience with those products.
If these guys worked on NetWare, how can they create a competing OS without violating trade secret and copyright laws? Every other OS built to directly compete with another commercial OS uses clean-room techniques to ensure that the code is not tainted.