The way "hacker" is used in the media and on slashdot always makes me laugh. This "hacker" seems to be affiliated with the Free Nation Foundation group in some way. Maybe the interview is a hoax too, lets face it, you can believe everything or nothing you read on the internet. Either way, I feel there are some very troubled and delusional kids out there that need help getting away from their computers for a while to play baseball or do something constructive. Read the interview, then go to the forums at FNF. Read the bits about the rights to name unclaimed islands they found on google maps, or the fiberglass huts and shipping containers they plan on living in. If this garbage makes it on slashdot, you have to wonder... how many articles read here everyday are instigated by lonely, frustrated teens with a blog and a need to feel important?
The source? The interview
Please, read the forums at freenationfoundation.org so you all get an idea what goes on in these "hacker's" minds.
They really need your help.
To clear things up- both SATA and PCIe employ 8b/10b encoding. Each byte is trasmitted as a 10 bit symbol. So 3.0Gb/sec = 300MB/sec.
First Gen PCIe = 2.5Gb/sec bidirectional per lane, so x1 = 250 MB/sec full duplex (marketing types sometimes say this is 500MB/sec)
Gen 2 PCIe = 5.0Gb/sec bidirectional per lane, x1 = 500 MB/sec full duplex.
You're sort of right, except 2.5 Gbit/s with 8b/10b encoding results in 2 Gbit/s of data ~ 238 MB/s
So a full duplex PCI-E x1 lane is theoretically capable of about 477 MB/s
Your SATA rates become 1.2 and 2.4 Gbit/s, 143 MB/s and 286 MB/s
Mind you those are apples to oranges comparisons, there isn't much sense in comparing PCI-E to SATA. The narrowest PCI-E link in your system might be a whole four lanes wide anyway.
You'd have to do a lot more research to find more realistic peak data rates, I'm just correcting the numbers for 8b/10b encoding.
And only four production. Why is this news even relevant? Is this the BIGGEST RH -> Oracle transition yet? I mean, eight servers... please, that's a pretty damned small Linux environment. On top of that, they even had a good reason to switch. I think the whole article is meant as flamebait. Of course none of you read it...
Given the requirements of Simics, and that the Java x86 emulator in question can run inside a BROWSER, I'd say it's quite clear what the advantages are.
Simics currently supports 32-bit IA32 hosts running Windows (2000 and XP) or Linux, AMD64 and EM64T hosts running Linux, and 64-bit SPARC hosts running Solaris. Minimum requirements to run Simics includes: Pentium 4 processor (for Windows or Linux host) processor, 512MB of RAM, and 500MB of available disk space.
Why is writing this emulator in Java a bad idea? It seems to have acceptable performance. The fact that it can play games at a decent clip suggests it could perform just fine with most other applications (of the same era as these games at least.) Games are generally much more resource intensive than other types of applications. It's even runs on any system with a Java platform, that's not something to shrug at. I'm typing this on a Mac, and it loaded just fine in my browser.
You seem to be missing something here, you have no good reasons NOT to write this emulator in Java.
What the hell are you talking about? An iMac whips the pants off PC workstations, what would fill this "gap" in your mind? Something with iMac specs, but in a big clunky loud box? Yah, that's what people are looking for.
_Mediocre_ as compared to what? Show some stats and pricing. You clod, what's your story? Apple crapped out a black box overnight and picked a price from a hat? Why don't you look at the damned features and compare to similar smart phones in the same price range.
Ok, I've read one too many comments here suggesting data redundancy and/or integrity >= backups. While backups can be implemented many different ways, an integral part of a good backup solution is the ability to do point in time restores. I imagine that would be pretty damned important to a site who's content is abused as frequently as wikipedia's. Please keep that in mind while you're all dreaming fantasies of distributing the internet's data across your harddrives.
What are you talking about? Do you even know what an IDS is?
There is a small, but not insignificant branch of the US military that doesn't allow internal encrypted traffic between networks because it renders their IDS's useless. Also, if someone with bad intent can log into your machine, counting on your logs being intact is silly.
You'd have to have BALLS to try something silly over a unencrypted telnet link on a DoD network. If it picks up anything suspicious, the connection will be dropped (after enough evidence has been collected)
Encrypting all traffic between all points on your internal networks isn't the answer to all your security problems.
Sniff traffic on the network?? Please, real men use switches.
No, it says...
The research suggests that potential troublemakers should be easy to spot. Nearly all the cases of cybercrime investigated were carried out by people who were "disgruntled, paranoid, generally show up late, argue with colleagues, and generally perform poorly." How exactly does that make these people easy to spot? What distinguishes them from anyone else fired from an IT position? This article stinks.
Macleod concluded: "So as far as doing the right thing, I'd suggest that you start from the basis that your IT staff are the biggest risk to your organization's security, and if anyone of them disputes this, remember that arguing with colleagues was one of the clear signs of an impending attack. I wouldn't recommend taking that attitude with ANY branch of your organization unless you're looking for a fight. Oh no! I might be one of them!
Dude, people pay $25/mo for 53kbps (or lower) dial-up access to AOL! $20 is chump change for someone willing to pay $600 for a phone. The early adopters of this phone will more than likely just expense their phone bill anyway. My company issues Cingular BlackBerry 8700's on the corporate cell plan, I think all I'll have to do is swap out my sim card and I'm set.
Who is married to their cell carrier anyway? Good god, they're right up there with cable companies and their godawful customer dissatisfaction. Everyone who DOES NOT call their cell or cable companies every six months or so threatening to drop features or the service altogether just to get decent value for what you pay, raise your hand. Oh, hmmm.. I'm sorry for you. Do you at least get a little lube when they bend you over once a month? You'll go a LONG ways to find customer loyal to a cell carrier. Duh... 2yr contracts?
All these silly arguments and speculation are as bad as the daily MAC vs. PC garbage that blesses the internet. This f'ing thing isn't even out yet for christ's sake. NOTHING is perfect, but Apple does a DAMNED fine job, and their products stand head and shoulders above the competition in terms of quality.
BTW, I don't want to sound like a dick, but if $600 for a PDA+phone+widescreen video player at 340x480 res+8gb memory+EDGE all tied together with Apple's (undeniably) great engineering and integration talent is too much... maybe this device wasn't made for you. *SNAP*
You can bet your poor ass there will be lower priced products from this family after it takes off.
I thought going the cheap pata route would be easy too, until I tried to get a pata raid5 card working under Linux. It works, but I can never upgrade my kernel past FC1. Backing up to cheap disk is a great idea for small amounts of data, and short retention periods, but beyond that, it needs to be protected with raid, and raid controllers just don't live as long as a good tape format.
Ok, you have a point about Soul Calibur, but think about the gigantic buttons on the arcade machine that game was designed for. GC has a horrible controller design for ported arcade games. Metroid Prime on the other hand makes great use of the controller layout, for obvious reasons. Something I'm afraid of is the gap widening between softare that was and wasn't designed for a Nintendo system. However, I think as long as they keep the price right, they'll slide right into the niche they're aiming for and sit right next to a lot of PS3's and XB2's. It'll probably still find it's way into homes that never bought into the newer generation consoles. PS2, XB, and XB2 sure have some great hits, but how many do you play with your family?
Oh, and I have the same feelings about the GC analog triggers too.:)
o A kernel module (/lib/modules/`uname -r`/video/nvidia.o
or/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o). This
kernel module provides low-level access to your NVIDIA hardware
for all of the above components. It is generally loaded into the
kernel when the X server is started, and is used by the XFree86
driver and OpenGL. nvidia.o consists of two pieces: the binary-only
core, and a kernel interface that must be compiled specifically
for your kernel version. Note that the linux kernel does not have
a consistent binary interface like XFree86, so it is important that
this kernel interface be matched with the version of the kernel that
you are using. This can either be accomplished by compiling yourself,
or using precompiled binaries provided for the kernels shipped with
some of the more common linux distributions.
Correct, this technology has a name though, ACPI. Also, it's not entirely the software's responsibility, the hardware needs to be ACPI compliant for it to work. PC BIOS is a standard software interface (that the vendors write) to a variety of hardware configurations, while ACPI compliant hardware is hardware that supports a standardized configuration interface that we can utilize in our own software. ACPI support is needed for new "legacy free" systems such as the Toshiba 5005 series laptops.
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The way "hacker" is used in the media and on slashdot always makes me laugh. This "hacker" seems to be affiliated with the Free Nation Foundation group in some way. Maybe the interview is a hoax too, lets face it, you can believe everything or nothing you read on the internet. Either way, I feel there are some very troubled and delusional kids out there that need help getting away from their computers for a while to play baseball or do something constructive. Read the interview, then go to the forums at FNF. Read the bits about the rights to name unclaimed islands they found on google maps, or the fiberglass huts and shipping containers they plan on living in. If this garbage makes it on slashdot, you have to wonder... how many articles read here everyday are instigated by lonely, frustrated teens with a blog and a need to feel important?
The source?
The interview
Please, read the forums at freenationfoundation.org so you all get an idea what goes on in these "hacker's" minds.
They really need your help.
-SJ
First Gen PCIe = 2.5Gb/sec bidirectional per lane, so x1 = 250 MB/sec full duplex (marketing types sometimes say this is 500MB/sec) Gen 2 PCIe = 5.0Gb/sec bidirectional per lane, x1 = 500 MB/sec full duplex.
You're sort of right, except 2.5 Gbit/s with 8b/10b encoding results in 2 Gbit/s of data ~ 238 MB/s
So a full duplex PCI-E x1 lane is theoretically capable of about 477 MB/s
Your SATA rates become 1.2 and 2.4 Gbit/s, 143 MB/s and 286 MB/s
Mind you those are apples to oranges comparisons, there isn't much sense in comparing PCI-E to SATA. The narrowest PCI-E link in your system might be a whole four lanes wide anyway.
You'd have to do a lot more research to find more realistic peak data rates, I'm just correcting the numbers for 8b/10b encoding.
No, I'm sure he meant what he said. It's very common to call it that.
Used here for example...
Although AMD renamed it
So did Intel
Why wont they get sued also? I don't see how Vonage is different from any other VOIP provider.
A quarter to four and a half million?
You cast a wide net.
And only four production. Why is this news even relevant? Is this the BIGGEST RH -> Oracle transition yet? I mean, eight servers... please, that's a pretty damned small Linux environment. On top of that, they even had a good reason to switch. I think the whole article is meant as flamebait. Of course none of you read it...
Given the requirements of Simics, and that the Java x86 emulator in question can run inside a BROWSER, I'd say it's quite clear what the advantages are.
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from http://www.virtutech.com/products/product-faqs.ht
Q: What is required to run Simics?
Simics currently supports 32-bit IA32 hosts running Windows (2000 and XP) or Linux, AMD64 and EM64T hosts running Linux, and 64-bit SPARC hosts running Solaris. Minimum requirements to run Simics includes: Pentium 4 processor (for Windows or Linux host) processor, 512MB of RAM, and 500MB of available disk space.
Why is writing this emulator in Java a bad idea? It seems to have acceptable performance. The fact that it can play games at a decent clip suggests it could perform just fine with most other applications (of the same era as these games at least.) Games are generally much more resource intensive than other types of applications. It's even runs on any system with a Java platform, that's not something to shrug at. I'm typing this on a Mac, and it loaded just fine in my browser.
You seem to be missing something here, you have no good reasons NOT to write this emulator in Java.
-Steve
What the hell are you talking about? An iMac whips the pants off PC workstations, what would fill this "gap" in your mind? Something with iMac specs, but in a big clunky loud box? Yah, that's what people are looking for.
_Mediocre_ as compared to what? Show some stats and pricing. You clod, what's your story? Apple crapped out a black box overnight and picked a price from a hat? Why don't you look at the damned features and compare to similar smart phones in the same price range.
Look at a N73 MSRP $699.
Or a N80, MSRP $799
Now look back at the iPhone expected MSRP $499 & $599
MEDIOCRE?
I'm sure they're all fine phones, but FFS show some respect, the iPhone as it is now is a pretty good damned shot at the competition.
Ok, I've read one too many comments here suggesting data redundancy and/or integrity >= backups. While backups can be implemented many different ways, an integral part of a good backup solution is the ability to do point in time restores. I imagine that would be pretty damned important to a site who's content is abused as frequently as wikipedia's. Please keep that in mind while you're all dreaming fantasies of distributing the internet's data across your harddrives.
What are you talking about? Do you even know what an IDS is?
There is a small, but not insignificant branch of the US military that doesn't allow internal encrypted traffic between networks because it renders their IDS's useless.
Also, if someone with bad intent can log into your machine, counting on your logs being intact is silly.
You'd have to have BALLS to try something silly over a unencrypted telnet link on a DoD network. If it picks up anything suspicious, the connection will be dropped (after enough evidence has been collected)
Encrypting all traffic between all points on your internal networks isn't the answer to all your security problems.
Sniff traffic on the network?? Please, real men use switches.
A playstation?
This article stinks. Macleod concluded: "So as far as doing the right thing, I'd suggest that you start from the basis that your IT staff are the biggest risk to your organization's security, and if anyone of them disputes this, remember that arguing with colleagues was one of the clear signs of an impending attack. I wouldn't recommend taking that attitude with ANY branch of your organization unless you're looking for a fight. Oh no! I might be one of them!
Dude, people pay $25/mo for 53kbps (or lower) dial-up access to AOL!
$20 is chump change for someone willing to pay $600 for a phone. The early adopters of this phone will more than likely just expense their phone bill anyway. My company issues Cingular BlackBerry 8700's on the corporate cell plan, I think all I'll have to do is swap out my sim card and I'm set.
Who is married to their cell carrier anyway? Good god, they're right up there with cable companies and their godawful customer dissatisfaction. Everyone who DOES NOT call their cell or cable companies every six months or so threatening to drop features or the service altogether just to get decent value for what you pay, raise your hand. Oh, hmmm.. I'm sorry for you. Do you at least get a little lube when they bend you over once a month? You'll go a LONG ways to find customer loyal to a cell carrier. Duh... 2yr contracts?
All these silly arguments and speculation are as bad as the daily MAC vs. PC garbage that blesses the internet. This f'ing thing isn't even out yet for christ's sake. NOTHING is perfect, but Apple does a DAMNED fine job, and their products stand head and shoulders above the competition in terms of quality.
BTW, I don't want to sound like a dick, but if $600 for a PDA+phone+widescreen video player at 340x480 res+8gb memory+EDGE all tied together with Apple's (undeniably) great engineering and integration talent is too much... maybe this device wasn't made for you. *SNAP*
You can bet your poor ass there will be lower priced products from this family after it takes off.
I thought going the cheap pata route would be easy too, until I tried to get a pata raid5 card working under Linux. It works, but I can never upgrade my kernel past FC1.
Backing up to cheap disk is a great idea for small amounts of data, and short retention periods, but beyond that, it needs to be protected with raid, and raid controllers just don't live as long as a good tape format.
Ok, you have a point about Soul Calibur, but think about the gigantic buttons on the arcade machine that game was designed for. GC has a horrible controller design for ported arcade games. Metroid Prime on the other hand makes great use of the controller layout, for obvious reasons. Something I'm afraid of is the gap widening between softare that was and wasn't designed for a Nintendo system. However, I think as long as they keep the price right, they'll slide right into the niche they're aiming for and sit right next to a lot of PS3's and XB2's. It'll probably still find it's way into homes that never bought into the newer generation consoles. PS2, XB, and XB2 sure have some great hits, but how many do you play with your family?
:)
Oh, and I have the same feelings about the GC analog triggers too.
from readme.txt:
Correct, this technology has a name though, ACPI.
Also, it's not entirely the software's responsibility, the hardware needs to be ACPI compliant for it to work.
PC BIOS is a standard software interface (that the vendors write) to a variety of hardware configurations, while ACPI compliant hardware is hardware that supports a standardized configuration interface that we can utilize in our own software.
ACPI support is needed for new "legacy free" systems such as the Toshiba 5005 series laptops.