Maybe "everyone would want to try and figure out what went wrong" because.. THEY CAN!
You may or may not have seen W2k BSOD, but what do you do when it finally does? What choices do you really have? I hardly think they are dying to do a system reinstall in mid-orbit
On a side note, imagine what would happen if they were using a subscription version of windows (say a couple years from now when that's the norm) and they didnt have their registration key;)
I'm not an OS guru, but afaik, you NEED the CPU clock to have an accurate timing loop in your OS. Especially in faster processors, the only reasonable way to figure out how long each "tick" is, is to divide the cpu clock. Are there other alternatives for a system like this?
It sounds suspiciously like how Hans Reiser was "victimized" by the entire linux-kernel list in some huge conspiracy. No one ever believes their code is rejected on technical merits:P
Open source software concepts were derived from closed source products
Actually, you're wrong. Before Microsoft, before Sun, before UNIX, there WAS no commercial software. There was no "Open Source". ALL software was free (speech and beer) because they didn't even have a concept of it being different. Not to say that in today's world, commercial software hasn't made a place for itself but dont believe for a second that it came first.
Anyone in a metropolitan area will be better off checking out Cable/DSL/Sprint ION (if that ever shows up within the next forty months or so and is not overly priced).
I just did check out Sprint ION, and it seems like quite a deal. I'm not sure about Sprint, I've gotten some bad impressions of them in the past, and the service is via Earthlink, which also has its share of issues. But still, its quite a deal for what you pay for. 2 phone lines, including local and long distance, and a 8.0Mb/1.0Mb ADSL line for $120. Thats by far the fastest upstream I've seen on any ADSL and beats out every 1.1 SDSL price I've ever seen. I just called Sprint and they said that the service is available in "the midwest and west coast, and is moving eastward." Don't know what that means for me here in Boston, but it definitely looks like its worth a peek
I think it's time for something to be done. What, I'm not sure. Suggestions?
It may take another 20 years, but the privatization of space travel will most certainly boost things significantly. If the government wont take it seriously, someone with billions of dollars to make will! Not that I necessarily think that this is what SHOULD be done but its better than none at all...
I just tried installing kmonte with linux 2.4 test7 (which I am still running) and it installed itself like this:
install -m 644 kmonte.o//lib/modules/$kver/misc
since 2.4 has no/lib/modules/*/misc/ directory, the module itself becomes "/lib/modules/$kver/misc", and doesn't load anyway because of unresolved symbols. I suppose we will see it for 2.4 some day, but not today!
I couldn't tell from the page if it just won't boot to BSD because there is some incompatibility, or if IBM actually took steps to block BSD and other unsupported OS's from booting.
According to Pat, the problem is a BIOS bug in the affected laptops in booting with the specific partition type that BSD uses. Since FreeBSD is an "unsupported operating system" they refuse to make such a simple fix. Very disappointing indeed.
Fortunately for SkyWriter, MOSIX isnt "clustering" since it turns a cluster of machines essentially into a single very-large SMP machine. All the program needs to know is how to thread or fork itself to use multiple processors. At least thats the theory. Never used it myself;)
So, Linux and Star Office represents a potential threat on the desktop and if it begins to grow in that market Microsoft will release Office on Linux and in doing so eliminate Star Office in short order through increased mindshare and leveraging their monopoly where they can. Once this is done they let the Linux version trail the Windows version and drop a few 'unsupportable' features and eventually perhaps eliminate the Linux version of the product altogether citing insufficient demand or technological hurdles.
So what? This strategy works with other commercial competition because those companys have to worry about things like shareholders and the bottom line, not just their program. So when Microsoft gains said mindshare, they *can* effectively squeeze the life out of it. But do you think GNOME programmers care about MS Office? Do you think Free Software coders have ever cared about proprietary alternatives? Sure they may copy the features, sure they may reverse engineer the file formats, but competition only makes us stronger. So when Microsoft pulls that "Hey we just couldn't make a good Office Suite on Linux because Linux sucks", we can say "Well hey, here's a damn good one. What's your deficiency?"
I wonder what the guys at the arla project will do now
I suppose since there are still parts that can't be opened in the "real" AFS, the arla guys might be able to contribute in those areas of the code. Who's to say that the arla developers didn't have some ideas that were better than the original implementation anyway, ala SAMBA?
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Maybe "everyone would want to try and figure out what went wrong" because.. THEY CAN!
;)
You may or may not have seen W2k BSOD, but what do you do when it finally does? What choices do you really have? I hardly think they are dying to do a system reinstall in mid-orbit
On a side note, imagine what would happen if they were using a subscription version of windows (say a couple years from now when that's the norm) and they didnt have their registration key
The opperation of the 386 is well known, and studied, any bugs in the chip are well documented and can be programmed around.
And yet these are the same people who chose a Microsoft product as their OS... Scary.
Actually, it was Sat Feb 1 18:41:36 1992
Where were YOU?
Actully, the ps2 has both USB and 1394
Anyone who thinks JavaScript is mature has obviously not seen this :)
I'm not an OS guru, but afaik, you NEED the CPU clock to have an accurate timing loop in your OS. Especially in faster processors, the only reasonable way to figure out how long each "tick" is, is to divide the cpu clock. Are there other alternatives for a system like this?
It sounds suspiciously like how Hans Reiser was "victimized" by the entire linux-kernel list in some huge conspiracy. No one ever believes their code is rejected on technical merits :P
Open source software concepts were derived from closed source products
Actually, you're wrong. Before Microsoft, before Sun, before UNIX, there WAS no commercial software. There was no "Open Source". ALL software was free (speech and beer) because they didn't even have a concept of it being different. Not to say that in today's world, commercial software hasn't made a place for itself but dont believe for a second that it came first.
The overrated tag
I know, my dad is one of them
SmithKline Beecham is actually now known as GlaxoSmithKline following their merger with Glaxo Wellcome
fyi, English is a Germanic language
Anyone in a metropolitan area will be better off checking out Cable/DSL/Sprint ION (if that ever shows up within the next forty months or so and is not overly priced).
I just did check out Sprint ION, and it seems like quite a deal. I'm not sure about Sprint, I've gotten some bad impressions of them in the past, and the service is via Earthlink, which also has its share of issues. But still, its quite a deal for what you pay for. 2 phone lines, including local and long distance, and a 8.0Mb/1.0Mb ADSL line for $120. Thats by far the fastest upstream I've seen on any ADSL and beats out every 1.1 SDSL price I've ever seen. I just called Sprint and they said that the service is available in "the midwest and west coast, and is moving eastward." Don't know what that means for me here in Boston, but it definitely looks like its worth a peek
I really, Really, REALLY hate it when people/organizations fit words to make a nice acronym
Then you must love the new RAM I invented! Primary Access Redundant Array Linear Logic Extended Life Overclocking Gigahertz Random Access Memory
I think it's time for something to be done. What, I'm not sure. Suggestions?
It may take another 20 years, but the privatization of space travel will most certainly boost things significantly. If the government wont take it seriously, someone with billions of dollars to make will! Not that I necessarily think that this is what SHOULD be done but its better than none at all...
I just tried installing kmonte with linux 2.4 test7 (which I am still running) and it installed itself like this:
//lib/modules/$kver/misc
/lib/modules/*/misc/ directory, the module itself becomes "/lib/modules/$kver/misc", and doesn't load anyway because of unresolved symbols. I suppose we will see it for 2.4 some day, but not today!
install -m 644 kmonte.o
since 2.4 has no
Now that they have gnome computers maybe they'll put elves and dwarves on some too.
What's next, trolls on Slashdot? Oh wait...
I couldn't tell from the page if it just won't boot to BSD because there is some incompatibility, or if IBM actually took steps to block BSD and other unsupported OS's from booting.
According to Pat, the problem is a BIOS bug in the affected laptops in booting with the specific partition type that BSD uses. Since FreeBSD is an "unsupported operating system" they refuse to make such a simple fix. Very disappointing indeed.
Blender can't cluster! Check the offical docs!
;)
Fortunately for SkyWriter, MOSIX isnt "clustering" since it turns a cluster of machines essentially into a single very-large SMP machine. All the program needs to know is how to thread or fork itself to use multiple processors. At least thats the theory. Never used it myself
This is the way the world ends /. effect
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang
But with the
They did this exact same thing with Apple a few years ago.
Doesn't this mean that Microsoft is now paying other people to reverse engineer its own API? What a bizarre world we live in...
Who would buy a chip named TIMMAHH!!! =)
So, Linux and Star Office represents a potential threat on the desktop and if it begins to grow in that market Microsoft will release Office on Linux and in doing so eliminate Star Office in short order through increased mindshare and leveraging their monopoly where they can. Once this is done they let the Linux version trail the Windows version and drop a few 'unsupportable' features and eventually perhaps eliminate the Linux version of the product altogether citing insufficient demand or technological hurdles.
So what? This strategy works with other commercial competition because those companys have to worry about things like shareholders and the bottom line, not just their program. So when Microsoft gains said mindshare, they *can* effectively squeeze the life out of it. But do you think GNOME programmers care about MS Office? Do you think Free Software coders have ever cared about proprietary alternatives? Sure they may copy the features, sure they may reverse engineer the file formats, but competition only makes us stronger. So when Microsoft pulls that "Hey we just couldn't make a good Office Suite on Linux because Linux sucks", we can say "Well hey, here's a damn good one. What's your deficiency?"
I wonder what the guys at the arla project will do now
I suppose since there are still parts that can't be opened in the "real" AFS, the arla guys might be able to contribute in those areas of the code. Who's to say that the arla developers didn't have some ideas that were better than the original implementation anyway, ala SAMBA?