Damn, you're right! Hrmmm... well of course they do have other methods of accessing it like the lan, and the standard kb/video... heck even the modem. And someone will develop a way to use USB as a console eventually... I hope.
Amptron sells a couple of 'pre-systems' that are without cpu/ram/hd based mostly on i810 boards. You can pick one up that's about that size with video / audio / lan / modem / cd-rom for around $130. They've got one with a DVD-ROM and a wireless keyboard for under 300. Slick little systems.
It's prohibiting speech that is still free -- the universities have no legal obligation to ban their users from connecting to Napster's servers. The lawsuit isn't over and Napster's service is still running. Damn lawyers. They can't beat Napster in court (fast enough) so they try to do an end-run around the process by cutting off Napster's users.
After all there are people out there who love working with open source software who want to contribute yet have no development skills. They report bugs back to the developer. And the developer if s/he is actively working on it will probably fix them, or at least update the TODO list in the distro to say that these bugs are present and maybe someone else will fix them.
I really doubt that most open source developers really want their name on the 1.0 release of their product when it's full of bugs -- ever notice how almost nothing out there is past the 0.xx stage in development?
Trying to bind someone to a process flow just isn't the answer. Bugs get fixed if the developer has time. If they don't follow standards, people may or may not use their product. It all just works out on it's own - the fittest products survive and the rest sit at 0.01 forever.
No no no! Component is not Composite. Component is 3 separate cables with RCA jacks for RGB. Composite is garbage, I totally agree S-Video way way better than composite. Component is very cool in reality, progressive scan (rather than interlaced like every other tv signal) component inputs are even cooler --- but I don't find component to be visually much better than s-video... maybe I'm blind though:-). Here is more info on component video if you're interested.
Actually no - it does have a digital S/PDIF output (specs).
And if you can really tell the difference between S-Video and component inputs I'd be surprised --- I tried it myself and found that while there is a difference in the default color/hue balance, once it was corrected via the set's controls, I honestly could not begin to tell the difference when switching inputs from my DVD player. S-Video is fine for regular interlaced TV.
The only thing you're going to see that will make DVD's better is progressive scan component inputs as are on DTV's.
You have a transitional piece of equipment (as do I) -- component inputs will be a thing of the past in a few years in favor of a standard vga 15pin connector and/or 5-BNC.
Huh? Britain did not help the countries it occupied and exploited become more civilized.
'Civilized' is NOT the word you are looking for -- maybe 'Westernized' -- but the Western way of life is not any more civilized than any of the other cultures that were occupied during the era of European expansion.
You miss the point that this concentration of power is larger than anything that has preceded it since the Roman Empire. If you read the artical it says that the top 10 sites control 20% of what all people around the world see on the web. 20%!! That's an amazing amount of media power to be held by so few people. So few people able (if they got together and had the desire) to strongly influence the way the Internet population feels about an issue - and more important tell them they should buy Product X instead of Product Y.
They're probably wondering how much longer it will be that they get to keep their deal with Time Warner -- and not because AOL/TW would want the relationship to end. There are so many opponents to it from the outside that the FCC may make it a condition of the merger that AOL/TW end ties to AT&T. They are already including 'an "open access" condition -- a rule requiring that Time Warner's cable customers be allowed to freely choose their Internet provider -- would sufficiently protect against potential collusion by the company with AT&T Corp.'.
So they're probably not too thrilled that they'll have less of a monopoly. All in all this may not be a bad deal for the US consumer.
What you've got to realize is that the people at RedHat are trying to market something and FWIW they are doing something new in the linux world - if you take the concept as a whole - selling a subscription based automatic system upgrade utility.
Add to that the writers at ZDNet who put out this story probably think that Linux == RedHat... (if you do a search on google for redhat in site:zdnet.com you get 4x as many results as debian) then you get a story proclaiming that this old idea is bold and new.
I agree - but if you just encrypt the traffic between servers, you still know the traffic took place -- and you know that the sender connected to their SMTP server, the message was forwarded to the receivers SMTP server, and the receiver connected to their POP3 server to retrieve it.
One method of preventing knowing who is sending to who is an anonymizing store/forward message gateway - where messages would be held until there are a sufficient number of receipt hosts and then forwarded all at once to their destinations, padding the message sizes so they all are the same size, etc... But even with something like that they'll be able to track (with enough perseverance) sender and receiver unless you have many many users.
If people would just encrypt their mail none of this would even be an issue. I mean come on people... all it does is search through messages as they go through the mail server and pull out the ones that are addressed to/from the persons being investigated. If those persons were SMART they'd encrypt the communication and all that could be gathered was a record of transmissions and nothing else.
Nobody has cracked RSA with 128-bit keys -- and for that matter nobody has *cracked* RSA, they've only done it through brute force key attacks!
They did it with 40-bit quite a while ago on cheap hardware. 56-bit was done by distributed.net back in 1997. And they're still working on 64-bit. What you have to realize is that there are 2^128 (in base 10 that's 3.4 * 10^38) unique possibilities for the key - and only 1 of them will produce the correct decrypted data. It's going to take decades for the computing power to get to the point where that can be cracked in a sufficiently useful period of time (at least using silicon based computers and not some funky organic system).
And to top it off there are pleny of newer, free, encryption algorithms - try Blowfish for one. We need RSA because everyone else in the world uses it... most of the https web servers out there don't speak anything else -OpenSSL/mod_ssl is a nice free exception to that.
Why is this vaporware? It's a product announcement! It's not a particularly innovative product announcement... I mean after all they are essentially just reselling Kryotech cases with their configuration of components inside -- but I can't even begin to count the number of companies that happilly announce real products a month before they begin shipping!
They apologize at the end of the page because they announced back in June that this configuration was coming and only now they are able to produce them in high enough bulk to sell them. Announcing something they couldn't produce was a mistake they probably won't make again.
I think his point was that you wouldn't have any writable media in the machine which would prevent what you're talking about.
Of course the corollary to that is if you could create a ramdisk then you can write to it. So if you leave out ramdisks and all network filesystems - you'd be set. Just log everything remotely via syslog (or something better/custom) and you'd be pretty much defacement proof... won't stop 'em from bringing down the server - and because you're running on ROM you won't be able to fix the problem very quickly so they could just keep performing the same exploit over and over... haha!
Sure - they could display banner ads on the top or bottom of the screen. But who would stand for that? I'd tape a piece of black paper onto my set before watching them. But the first thing someone with an OpenTivo would do is just chop the bottom and display black ---- or better yet with a letterbox tv just tell the tv to throw that bottom 15% of that 4:3 image away when expanding the image... Wouldnt' that be nice of those network execs to start airing tv shows in letterbox just to display ads.
Much more likely considering that they probably WILL get 100x more usage at 1/10 the price. They just introduced coverage in Russia (and they now cover most of the western hemisphere as well as Europe and Australia) - though the people there will still have to work an hour just to talk for a minute on these things (and of course the hardware is prohibitively expensive). Satellite and cellular phones are the best choice for 3rd world countries and those that have terrain that is unsuitable for laying ground wires.
I totally forgot about NeWS until this article brought it up... This was wonderful!! A lot like NEXTSTEP's display system. Completely device independant PostScript. Since Sun is moving away from CDE in favor of GNOME, why not move away from the bloated hack that is X at the same time! Throw in some X11 compatibility libraries and open-source it and the world would be a better place.
Read the question - this has nothing to do with large filesystems and everything to do with address space. He's saying that you can't mmap() the large file that exists on the filesystem. And you CAN'T unless you have an address space that will hold the whole thing. NO 32-bit OS can do that if the file is over 2 Gigs, though there may be some trickery you can do to get that up to 3 Gigs. I haven't tried it on an Alpha... anyone out there mmap()ing 20 gig files on an Alpha?
You get more and larger registers --- it will be faster because the less time spent moving data in memory to and from registers the faster the app will be. When you want to multiply 2 numbers they have to be pulled from memory and thrown into 2 registers and then operated on, then you get a result in one of those registers and you can do something else to it. Now scale that up to say an mp3 encoder which is doing millions of repetetive math operations and reusing results of previous calculations.... and you hopefully get the picture. Granted, this isn't as huge of an issue now that we have chips with a meg of cache on board and busses that can do 4 gigabits/sec.... but every little bit helps! even a 1st-level cache hit takes longer than just using what's already in a register.
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Damn, you're right! Hrmmm... well of course they do have other methods of accessing it like the lan, and the standard kb/video... heck even the modem. And someone will develop a way to use USB as a console eventually... I hope.
this one's better and it's available right now - just add cpu/ram/hdd. (these people sell the base system for $260... pretty good deal)
Amptron sells a couple of 'pre-systems' that are without cpu/ram/hd based mostly on i810 boards. You can pick one up that's about that size with video / audio / lan / modem / cd-rom for around $130. They've got one with a DVD-ROM and a wireless keyboard for under 300. Slick little systems.
It's prohibiting speech that is still free -- the universities have no legal obligation to ban their users from connecting to Napster's servers. The lawsuit isn't over and Napster's service is still running. Damn lawyers. They can't beat Napster in court (fast enough) so they try to do an end-run around the process by cutting off Napster's users.
After all there are people out there who love working with open source software who want to contribute yet have no development skills. They report bugs back to the developer. And the developer if s/he is actively working on it will probably fix them, or at least update the TODO list in the distro to say that these bugs are present and maybe someone else will fix them.
I really doubt that most open source developers really want their name on the 1.0 release of their product when it's full of bugs -- ever notice how almost nothing out there is past the 0.xx stage in development?
Trying to bind someone to a process flow just isn't the answer. Bugs get fixed if the developer has time. If they don't follow standards, people may or may not use their product. It all just works out on it's own - the fittest products survive and the rest sit at 0.01 forever.
No no no! Component is not Composite. Component is 3 separate cables with RCA jacks for RGB. Composite is garbage, I totally agree S-Video way way better than composite. Component is very cool in reality, progressive scan (rather than interlaced like every other tv signal) component inputs are even cooler --- but I don't find component to be visually much better than s-video... maybe I'm blind though :-). Here is more info on component video if you're interested.
Actually no - it does have a digital S/PDIF output (specs).
And if you can really tell the difference between S-Video and component inputs I'd be surprised --- I tried it myself and found that while there is a difference in the default color/hue balance, once it was corrected via the set's controls, I honestly could not begin to tell the difference when switching inputs from my DVD player. S-Video is fine for regular interlaced TV.
The only thing you're going to see that will make DVD's better is progressive scan component inputs as are on DTV's.
You have a transitional piece of equipment (as do I) -- component inputs will be a thing of the past in a few years in favor of a standard vga 15pin connector and/or 5-BNC.
Huh? Britain did not help the countries it occupied and exploited become more civilized.
'Civilized' is NOT the word you are looking for -- maybe 'Westernized' -- but the Western way of life is not any more civilized than any of the other cultures that were occupied during the era of European expansion.
You miss the point that this concentration of power is larger than anything that has preceded it since the Roman Empire. If you read the artical it says that the top 10 sites control 20% of what all people around the world see on the web. 20%!! That's an amazing amount of media power to be held by so few people. So few people able (if they got together and had the desire) to strongly influence the way the Internet population feels about an issue - and more important tell them they should buy Product X instead of Product Y.
They're probably wondering how much longer it will be that they get to keep their deal with Time Warner -- and not because AOL/TW would want the relationship to end. There are so many opponents to it from the outside that the FCC may make it a condition of the merger that AOL/TW end ties to AT&T. They are already including 'an "open access" condition -- a rule requiring that Time Warner's cable customers be allowed to freely choose their Internet provider -- would sufficiently protect against potential collusion by the company with AT&T Corp.'.
So they're probably not too thrilled that they'll have less of a monopoly. All in all this may not be a bad deal for the US consumer.
Hate to reply to myself, but this is a better link for W -- can get the latest version from here. It'll run on fb, SVGAlib and libGGI - woohoo....
W windowing system
Wt programming toolkit.
Have fun!
What you've got to realize is that the people at RedHat are trying to market something and FWIW they are doing something new in the linux world - if you take the concept as a whole - selling a subscription based automatic system upgrade utility.
Add to that the writers at ZDNet who put out this story probably think that Linux == RedHat... (if you do a search on google for redhat in site:zdnet.com you get 4x as many results as debian) then you get a story proclaiming that this old idea is bold and new.
I agree - but if you just encrypt the traffic between servers, you still know the traffic took place -- and you know that the sender connected to their SMTP server, the message was forwarded to the receivers SMTP server, and the receiver connected to their POP3 server to retrieve it.
One method of preventing knowing who is sending to who is an anonymizing store/forward message gateway - where messages would be held until there are a sufficient number of receipt hosts and then forwarded all at once to their destinations, padding the message sizes so they all are the same size, etc... But even with something like that they'll be able to track (with enough perseverance) sender and receiver unless you have many many users.
If people would just encrypt their mail none of this would even be an issue. I mean come on people... all it does is search through messages as they go through the mail server and pull out the ones that are addressed to/from the persons being investigated. If those persons were SMART they'd encrypt the communication and all that could be gathered was a record of transmissions and nothing else.
Nobody has cracked RSA with 128-bit keys -- and for that matter nobody has *cracked* RSA, they've only done it through brute force key attacks!
They did it with 40-bit quite a while ago on cheap hardware. 56-bit was done by distributed.net back in 1997. And they're still working on 64-bit. What you have to realize is that there are 2^128 (in base 10 that's 3.4 * 10^38) unique possibilities for the key - and only 1 of them will produce the correct decrypted data. It's going to take decades for the computing power to get to the point where that can be cracked in a sufficiently useful period of time (at least using silicon based computers and not some funky organic system).
And to top it off there are pleny of newer, free, encryption algorithms - try Blowfish for one. We need RSA because everyone else in the world uses it... most of the https web servers out there don't speak anything else -OpenSSL/mod_ssl is a nice free exception to that.
Why is this vaporware? It's a product announcement! It's not a particularly innovative product announcement... I mean after all they are essentially just reselling Kryotech cases with their configuration of components inside -- but I can't even begin to count the number of companies that happilly announce real products a month before they begin shipping!
They apologize at the end of the page because they announced back in June that this configuration was coming and only now they are able to produce them in high enough bulk to sell them. Announcing something they couldn't produce was a mistake they probably won't make again.
I think his point was that you wouldn't have any writable media in the machine which would prevent what you're talking about.
Of course the corollary to that is if you could create a ramdisk then you can write to it. So if you leave out ramdisks and all network filesystems - you'd be set. Just log everything remotely via syslog (or something better/custom) and you'd be pretty much defacement proof... won't stop 'em from bringing down the server - and because you're running on ROM you won't be able to fix the problem very quickly so they could just keep performing the same exploit over and over... haha!
Sure - they could display banner ads on the top or bottom of the screen. But who would stand for that? I'd tape a piece of black paper onto my set before watching them. But the first thing someone with an OpenTivo would do is just chop the bottom and display black ---- or better yet with a letterbox tv just tell the tv to throw that bottom 15% of that 4:3 image away when expanding the image... Wouldnt' that be nice of those network execs to start airing tv shows in letterbox just to display ads.
So in otherwords it's VMWare's virtual platform they keep hyping but not delivering.
Much more likely considering that they probably WILL get 100x more usage at 1/10 the price. They just introduced coverage in Russia (and they now cover most of the western hemisphere as well as Europe and Australia) - though the people there will still have to work an hour just to talk for a minute on these things (and of course the hardware is prohibitively expensive). Satellite and cellular phones are the best choice for 3rd world countries and those that have terrain that is unsuitable for laying ground wires.
I totally forgot about NeWS until this article brought it up... This was wonderful!! A lot like NEXTSTEP's display system. Completely device independant PostScript. Since Sun is moving away from CDE in favor of GNOME, why not move away from the bloated hack that is X at the same time! Throw in some X11 compatibility libraries and open-source it and the world would be a better place.
Read the question - this has nothing to do with large filesystems and everything to do with address space. He's saying that you can't mmap() the large file that exists on the filesystem. And you CAN'T unless you have an address space that will hold the whole thing. NO 32-bit OS can do that if the file is over 2 Gigs, though there may be some trickery you can do to get that up to 3 Gigs. I haven't tried it on an Alpha... anyone out there mmap()ing 20 gig files on an Alpha?
You get more and larger registers --- it will be faster because the less time spent moving data in memory to and from registers the faster the app will be. When you want to multiply 2 numbers they have to be pulled from memory and thrown into 2 registers and then operated on, then you get a result in one of those registers and you can do something else to it. Now scale that up to say an mp3 encoder which is doing millions of repetetive math operations and reusing results of previous calculations.... and you hopefully get the picture.
Granted, this isn't as huge of an issue now that we have chips with a meg of cache on board and busses that can do 4 gigabits/sec.... but every little bit helps! even a 1st-level cache hit takes longer than just using what's already in a register.