When you spend hundreds of thousands to millions for custom software running on a mainframe, you arent going to be replacing the hardware every year.
And if Dell can convince you not to do this because UNIX is dead, then maybe you will replace your hardware every year. And guess who sells that kind of hardware?
Why is it that it seems these days every new distro is based upon Slackware?!?!
Maybe because Slackware is just that cool?
I started playing around with Linux From Scratch. I realized that most of the things I wanted to customize to suit my tastes are exactly the things Slackware does, the difference being that with Slackware it's already done for me so I don't have to.
It exploits redundancy in the i386 instruction set by defining sets of functionally equivalent instructions.
Can someone explain to me exactly what this means? Will all i386 executable binaries have unnecessary redundancy? Could the size of the binary be harmlessly reduced by removing it? If so, then why isn't this done?
If a message is embedded in a binary with this method, can another message be embedded in the resulting binary the same way, or has the required redundancy already been eliminated?
You obviously weren't very high up in the department. A registrar still has to pay Verisign for the privilege of being able to register and keep registered.com and.net TLDs.
Yes, but it's only $6 (might be different for different TLDs, I'm not sure).
You also have to pay an entrance fee to become accredited to register domains.
I'm sure they figure they can make it back over time. Besides, this probably sounds good on Wall Street.
Yes, it's probably less money than doing it through another company. But not free.
Well, since RTs aren't needed under 15,000-18,000 feet, you're looking at at least 5km, or $95,000 US. And the phone company sells these lines for $30/month. Assuming no other costs, with 16 customers on that RT they'll be losing money for over 15 years, by which time the technology will be obsolete anyway. Not an investment I'd want to make!
Where RTs really make sense is where there's already a fiber line going to the neighborhood and everybody's phone line is converted to digital at that point, instead of running copper to the CO. Throw an RT in the existing box, use the existing fiber line, and you've got DSL for all of those customers.
C64 was my next guess; I used to know those addresses for background and border colors, and should have recognized them. It's been a long time.
I'm not seeing a bug, unless you mean that it won't clear the screen and the word READY will be printed after it finishes? Just add some line numbers and make it a program you can run, and start by printing the inverse-heart character to clear the screen, and end with an infinite loop waiting for a keystroke.
ANY ISP should be CACHING on their nameservers, so there should not be _that_ much traffic from them.
How do you suppose that cache gets refreshed? You wouldn't want to change the IP address of your web server and have no AOL users able to reach it for a month, would you?
This puts a fairly heavy damper on line-shared ADSL services, but you know what? The incumbants still CAN NOT provided end user dsl services.
Huh? Each ILEC has its own ISP - it's a different division of the same company, and technically they're supposed to compete fairly, and some of them have sold out (SBC to Yahoo, Qwest to MSN), but what do you think Verizon Online and BellSouth.net are? And what do you think Qwest.net (previously USWest.net) was before they sold it to Microsoft?
However.. I suspect if the phone company offered DSL locally, in this way "You buy the modem for 49.95 (making them a profit on the modem) and pay 9.95 a month for the DSL service" they would make a HELL of a lot more money than Covad is currently making in my area billing me 49.95 a month for my DSL.
Uhh, sorry dude, but it's not that cheap. I'm sure they could get the cost of the modem down to $100 for a crappy-ass one, but they wouldn't be making much of a profit if they sold it to you for that price. My Cisco 678 costs about $200, and I think the retail price is $300.
$9.95/month is also not profitable for them - phone companies currently charge $30/month for the line (just to connect from you to your ISP, not connecting you to the Internet or anything). Yes, this should be cheaper. Remember, though, that the people who live near their CO are effectively subsidizing the service for people who live farther away and need a Remote Terminal - RTs are quite expensive to buy, install (did I mention digging up the street to run a new fiber line?) and maintain. Not that DSLAMs are cheap, but DSLAMs support far more customers.
Since I don't have any numbers, let's make some up at random. Let's say an RT costs $5000 to buy and install. Let's say 5 customers in that neighborhood actually have DSL. At 5*$30=$150/month, how long will it take the phone company to recover their $5000 investment? About three years, and that's assuming no other costs. That's also assuming all five customers keep their service for 3 years.
I believe and they run circles around the 3Ghz P4.
Not that I'd heard - if the Itanic ran circles around anything, Intel wouldn't be saying nobody needs 64-bit yet. They'd just double the clock speed (with no performance change) for marketing reasons. No, Itanic is slow and has been doomed to fail for some time now - thus the name.
I am all for space exploration, and sending probes out on new fact finding missions. Why do we need to send one all the way to Pluto? Is it that much of a concern to us? We know it is a barren icy wasteland, what more do we need? Not to mention it will take it 12 yeaars to get there! I am sure there is much more closer objects and items we could explore that would be more cost effective.
Perhaps this is why NASA was opposed to the idea? The politicians who pushed it forward weren't necessarily thinking about the best thing for science, but rather the best thing for politics.
the article did't state any objection of nasa other than "the timing is not right".
taking that statment and adding some speculation, i take it to mean that maybe something might be in the path of pluto, or maybe Nasa can't get the flight path presise enough....
I'd bet the timing issue is political, not technical.
I'd guess NASA has an idea for something else that they'd much rather spend money on, and they were planning on asking Congress for money, but now they can't because they've already been given this.
I wonder what Virtual PC sends, whether it sends only the info in the Windows Drive image or everything on the Mac.
When Windows Update runs inside of VirtualPC on a Mac, it doesn't know it's running inside of VirtualPC on a Mac, it thinks it's running on a real PC. Of course, this PC may appear a little unusual - the CPU reports itself as running at 0 MHz and the hard drive is manufactured by Connectix Corp - but software running on the virtual machine doesn't know it's virtual.
I see all of the top results to be links to your username, like http://slashdot.org/~autopr0n. If you didn't use that username, there wouldn't be so many autopr0n links that don't point to autopr0n.com.
Slashdot Mirror
Computers crash, it's a fact of life...
Been listening to Microsoft too much lately, eh? It shouldn't be something we take for granted.
When you spend hundreds of thousands to millions for custom software running on a mainframe, you arent going to be replacing the hardware every year.
And if Dell can convince you not to do this because UNIX is dead, then maybe you will replace your hardware every year. And guess who sells that kind of hardware?
Wow. Yeah, if their web site is built by the same people who built their Linux distro, I'd avoid it too.
How hard is it to at least deny any path containing a slash? Sheesh.
Why do you think Slackware's package system is not reliable? Certainly it has its faults, but from my experience it has been quite reliable.
Why is it that it seems these days every new distro is based upon Slackware?!?!
Maybe because Slackware is just that cool?
I started playing around with Linux From Scratch. I realized that most of the things I wanted to customize to suit my tastes are exactly the things Slackware does, the difference being that with Slackware it's already done for me so I don't have to.
It exploits redundancy in the i386 instruction set by defining sets of functionally equivalent instructions.
Can someone explain to me exactly what this means? Will all i386 executable binaries have unnecessary redundancy? Could the size of the binary be harmlessly reduced by removing it? If so, then why isn't this done?
If a message is embedded in a binary with this method, can another message be embedded in the resulting binary the same way, or has the required redundancy already been eliminated?
interesting that amazon.com itself is still registered at network solutions.
Have you ever tried to transfer a domain between registrars? Would you bet your business on Verisign not messing it up?
You obviously weren't very high up in the department. A registrar still has to pay Verisign for the privilege of being able to register and keep registered .com and .net TLDs.
Yes, but it's only $6 (might be different for different TLDs, I'm not sure).
You also have to pay an entrance fee to become accredited to register domains.
I'm sure they figure they can make it back over time. Besides, this probably sounds good on Wall Street.
Yes, it's probably less money than doing it through another company. But not free.
Agreed.
this part: IF A$<>"" GOTO 60 (I'm assuming Slashdot ate your <>) isn't needed at all.
I ususually use THEN rather than GOTO; I believe either works.
Ugly? I can't think of a better way.
Well, since RTs aren't needed under 15,000-18,000 feet, you're looking at at least 5km, or $95,000 US. And the phone company sells these lines for $30/month. Assuming no other costs, with 16 customers on that RT they'll be losing money for over 15 years, by which time the technology will be obsolete anyway. Not an investment I'd want to make!
Where RTs really make sense is where there's already a fiber line going to the neighborhood and everybody's phone line is converted to digital at that point, instead of running copper to the CO. Throw an RT in the existing box, use the existing fiber line, and you've got DSL for all of those customers.
C64 was my next guess; I used to know those addresses for background and border colors, and should have recognized them. It's been a long time.
I'm not seeing a bug, unless you mean that it won't clear the screen and the word READY will be printed after it finishes? Just add some line numbers and make it a program you can run, and start by printing the inverse-heart character to clear the screen, and end with an infinite loop waiting for a keystroke.
If there's some other bug, I'm not getting it.
From the efficient screensaver dept.: POKE 53281,0:POKE 53280,0:POKE 646,0
I have to ask, what system is that from, and what does it do? My first instinct says Apple II...
ANY ISP should be CACHING on their nameservers, so there should not be _that_ much traffic from them.
How do you suppose that cache gets refreshed? You wouldn't want to change the IP address of your web server and have no AOL users able to reach it for a month, would you?
Thanks, I knew I'd seen it on The Register but wasn't sure if that's where it started.
This puts a fairly heavy damper on line-shared ADSL services, but you know what? The incumbants still CAN NOT provided end user dsl services.
Huh? Each ILEC has its own ISP - it's a different division of the same company, and technically they're supposed to compete fairly, and some of them have sold out (SBC to Yahoo, Qwest to MSN), but what do you think Verizon Online and BellSouth.net are? And what do you think Qwest.net (previously USWest.net) was before they sold it to Microsoft?
However.. I suspect if the phone company offered DSL locally, in this way "You buy the modem for 49.95 (making them a profit on the modem) and pay 9.95 a month for the DSL service" they would make a HELL of a lot more money than Covad is currently making in my area billing me 49.95 a month for my DSL.
Uhh, sorry dude, but it's not that cheap. I'm sure they could get the cost of the modem down to $100 for a crappy-ass one, but they wouldn't be making much of a profit if they sold it to you for that price. My Cisco 678 costs about $200, and I think the retail price is $300.
$9.95/month is also not profitable for them - phone companies currently charge $30/month for the line (just to connect from you to your ISP, not connecting you to the Internet or anything). Yes, this should be cheaper. Remember, though, that the people who live near their CO are effectively subsidizing the service for people who live farther away and need a Remote Terminal - RTs are quite expensive to buy, install (did I mention digging up the street to run a new fiber line?) and maintain. Not that DSLAMs are cheap, but DSLAMs support far more customers.
Since I don't have any numbers, let's make some up at random. Let's say an RT costs $5000 to buy and install. Let's say 5 customers in that neighborhood actually have DSL. At 5*$30=$150/month, how long will it take the phone company to recover their $5000 investment? About three years, and that's assuming no other costs. That's also assuming all five customers keep their service for 3 years.
Anybody have some real numbers?
I believe and they run circles around the 3Ghz P4.
Not that I'd heard - if the Itanic ran circles around anything, Intel wouldn't be saying nobody needs 64-bit yet. They'd just double the clock speed (with no performance change) for marketing reasons. No, Itanic is slow and has been doomed to fail for some time now - thus the name.
Anyone know who came up with that name first?
I am all for space exploration, and sending probes out on new fact finding missions. Why do we need to send one all the way to Pluto? Is it that much of a concern to us? We know it is a barren icy wasteland, what more do we need? Not to mention it will take it 12 yeaars to get there! I am sure there is much more closer objects and items we could explore that would be more cost effective.
Perhaps this is why NASA was opposed to the idea? The politicians who pushed it forward weren't necessarily thinking about the best thing for science, but rather the best thing for politics.
It seems like Bush wants to be remembered for something more than just Iraq.
We've forgotten about Afghanistan already?
the article did't state any objection of nasa other than "the timing is not right".
taking that statment and adding some speculation, i take it to mean that maybe something might be in the path of pluto, or maybe Nasa can't get the flight path presise enough....
I'd bet the timing issue is political, not technical.
Did Congress have to force money on NASA? It must be the last sign. I'm going to the bomb shelter.
Congress is probably doing this to boost morale after the shuttle disaster, and NASA has other priorities.
NASA _fought_ this? WTF?!
I'd guess NASA has an idea for something else that they'd much rather spend money on, and they were planning on asking Congress for money, but now they can't because they've already been given this.
I wonder what Virtual PC sends, whether it sends only the info in the Windows Drive image or everything on the Mac.
When Windows Update runs inside of VirtualPC on a Mac, it doesn't know it's running inside of VirtualPC on a Mac, it thinks it's running on a real PC. Of course, this PC may appear a little unusual - the CPU reports itself as running at 0 MHz and the hard drive is manufactured by Connectix Corp - but software running on the virtual machine doesn't know it's virtual.
I see all of the top results to be links to your username, like http://slashdot.org/~autopr0n. If you didn't use that username, there wouldn't be so many autopr0n links that don't point to autopr0n.com.
good lord man, don't do that to me this late at night! roflmao..