great news, but if they find anything interesting, it will be covered up like usual. I'd rather see more data released about the planets and moons near us.
I think we're still beating the dead horse on this one - Linux needs consumer oriented apps that work the same as the microsoft ones. There's not going to be a Windowless office until consumers adopt linux, which means consumer oriented software, not just stuff for geeks. Why don't people use StarOffice on Solaris - because is too bloody hard to use.
I think we're all a little biased here - everyone hates microsoft - that's a given. I think children, given the time would figure out linux, but I'm not sure what application they would want to use. Children don't always want to write software, develop databases and configure networks - when I was a child, I wrote programs in BASIC because there was nothing to do on a computer and it was a the in thing (next to the Atari console, which my parents did not buy). I would personally buy my children a system that let them be children and at the same time let them understand how computers work. Those of you who are die hard linux fans at any cost, even at the sake of children, should maybe look at it in a different light - no said that they had to use Windows. Why do we always have to knee jerk like the first post, and end up looking like idiots - BTW, I'm sure the folk at microsoft wouldn't act that way.
I agree, but time is also a factor and when the Nintendo repair center is an hour away, it becomes less important, since my time is worth more than the unit.
Since posting this article, I have exchanged the console and it now seems to be fine. When I contacted Nintendo, they were very keen on me bringing it to their repair center - I opted to the store where I purchased the unit.
All things said, I think the GameCube is a good system and the games are well designed.
I think the whole community including the parent of the post is confused about how to measure CPU throughput. Hz measurement is only usefull when comparing CPU's in the same series. Supercomputers used to be measured in GFlops because MIPs and Hz were like comparing apples and oranges.
There needs to be a better method to testing the speed of a CPU - benchmarks can be flawed because a compiler may optimize to handle situations that are only specific to a certain processor family - Like the post recently about intel's c++ linux compiler that makes the crusoe shine.
I think clockless CPUs will change the way we think about measuring CPU performance. Async operation is the natural evolution, isn't all our technology moving in this direction.
search old issues of MSJ (now msdn magazine) for COM+ - it was not originally an architecture, it was an extension to C++ - Microsoft changed this when Java went south. If you can't find the article, I'll find it for you.
I agree with your comment about IBM - like Xerox, Sun and all the big hardware guys have real problems comercializing technology - companies like microsoft hire them an spin off their inventions.
Your comment was worth reading and is better than the others earlier in the thread (djbdns is trying to make cash on people's misunderstanding - and especially goes against the "open source" thing)
I'm not sure if most people posting to this and other articles understands why dns is the way it is.
The whole businsess about the "security" flaws are two fold:
1. people don't patch their servers because they don't stay on top of things.
2. most dns servers are not locked down properly (especially those of you using at&t's, worldcom's and other large telco's dns') against zone transfers which allow hackers to find out what you've got.
DNS is a distributed database with a small lookup latency - this is very different than oracle, ldap and other structures. DNS is redundant and is designed to have broken branches (goes back to America's cold war days - even though bind is not that old!). The network, the data, and redundancy IS segment - have you every noticed that the root servers never came down - even for a massive virus - most dns outages come from your local ISP's caching dns, which could be running and old version of bind (single threaded mess).
forget about C#, Java, VB, C++, etc - these are just the "tools" - I written code in assember, c, c++, java, perl, vb, basic, etc for years - too many people worry about the language and not the solution.
We need to look at microsoft differently - we see them as "Windows" when in fact they're more than that - Microsoft makes most of it's money from applications like office, exchange, sql, vc++, vb, vstudio et al. Microsoft needs to move away from the OS to grow (home appliance, large systems, etc) - windows is the common platform, just the way ".NET" will be the platform beyond windows.
Think of it this way, if microsoft can abstract it's applications to "virtual" platform, it can then start moving across platforms - very different from Sun's java. The JVM method is cool, but application based - ".NET" is a platform, whether it's on windows or not. As much as I disagree with microsoft's policies, they do understand application (not os)development more than most others. With.NET micorosft could target solaris, linux, mac, x-box, mobile devices with the same code base, the same wide application support. COM will die, Java will run in.NET with.NET wrappers to the.NET platform os, Linux will be a great server OS but have limited desktop support.
who makes the procs? Intel, Sun (TI), IBM/Motorola, HP (not for too much more), Compaq (dead), AMD (will they keep up), and transmeta (dying) - there's a few more. The only way for microsoft to gain power is to spread it's software grip to other systems, but cost effective.
I think they are still trying to do that - the only problem is that all the object code is tailored for the x86. I think once.NET takes off, and it will, we'll see windows on other architectures - either native or as a hosted os.
I've been using NetBeans/Forte (switched from forte 6 months ago) for a year now - and I think it is a pretty solid ide for application design.
When I first started using it (C/C++/ASM background, Came from VC++) I couldn't figure out why people liked it. But over time you realize that it is very well designed and well suited for cross-platform development. I've used VisualCafe, JBuilder, and tried the others but nothing comes close (unless microsoft made a java ide that was compliant with 1.4 standards).
Windows.NET will, XP is just Windows 2000 with a modified UI and additional support applications. In fact the kernels (2000 vs. XP) are surprisingly similar - XP's version number is 5.1 (2000's is 5.0).
Microsoft probably uses a "custom" C/C++ compiler (not the old VC++ one) - I'm not sure if you remember, but before.NET, there was a language called COM+ (not the COM mananger they shipped) which was never released (although there are two articles in msj now msdn).
For years microsoft has had the ability to target multiple platforms - they've had the "MSIL" for years - read "debugging the development process".
Microsoft will move to other platforms, but to do so developers will need to make their code portable, which is where.NET comes into play.
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great news, but if they find anything interesting, it will be covered up like usual. I'd rather see more data released about the planets and moons near us.
I think we're still beating the dead horse on this one - Linux needs consumer oriented apps that work the same as the microsoft ones. There's not going to be a Windowless office until consumers adopt linux, which means consumer oriented software, not just stuff for geeks. Why don't people use StarOffice on Solaris - because is too bloody hard to use.
Pegasus uses a dedicated L1011 not a B-52 (check the picture and text on the link)
I think we're all a little biased here - everyone hates microsoft - that's a given. I think children, given the time would figure out linux, but I'm not sure what application they would want to use. Children don't always want to write software, develop databases and configure networks - when I was a child, I wrote programs in BASIC because there was nothing to do on a computer and it was a the in thing (next to the Atari console, which my parents did not buy). I would personally buy my children a system that let them be children and at the same time let them understand how computers work. Those of you who are die hard linux fans at any cost, even at the sake of children, should maybe look at it in a different light - no said that they had to use Windows. Why do we always have to knee jerk like the first post, and end up looking like idiots - BTW, I'm sure the folk at microsoft wouldn't act that way.
swapped the discs - didn't work (see original post) - swapped the units - it worked. A brand new unit should not have significant dust issues.
I agree, but time is also a factor and when the Nintendo repair center is an hour away, it becomes less important, since my time is worth more than the unit.
That's what happened to me - but over a period of time and with more gameplay, it froze more often to point where it was unusable.
I'd return it if it happens a few more times. I've seen this behaviour with bad memory on PC's (usually the chips with the most problems).
All you need to do is install a dns server capable of resolving from the root servers - which bind 9 will do out of the box.
Since posting this article, I have exchanged the console and it now seems to be fine. When I contacted Nintendo, they were very keen on me bringing it to their repair center - I opted to the store where I purchased the unit.
All things said, I think the GameCube is a good system and the games are well designed.
I think the whole community including the parent of the post is confused about how to measure CPU throughput. Hz measurement is only usefull when comparing CPU's in the same series. Supercomputers used to be measured in GFlops because MIPs and Hz were like comparing apples and oranges.
There needs to be a better method to testing the speed of a CPU - benchmarks can be flawed because a compiler may optimize to handle situations that are only specific to a certain processor family - Like the post recently about intel's c++ linux compiler that makes the crusoe shine.
I think clockless CPUs will change the way we think about measuring CPU performance. Async operation is the natural evolution, isn't all our technology moving in this direction.
search old issues of MSJ (now msdn magazine) for COM+ - it was not originally an architecture, it was an extension to C++ - Microsoft changed this when Java went south. If you can't find the article, I'll find it for you.
I agree with your comment about IBM - like Xerox, Sun and all the big hardware guys have real problems comercializing technology - companies like microsoft hire them an spin off their inventions.
Your comment was worth reading and is better than the others earlier in the thread (djbdns is trying to make cash on people's misunderstanding - and especially goes against the "open source" thing)
I'm not sure if most people posting to this and other articles understands why dns is the way it is.
The whole businsess about the "security" flaws are two fold:
1. people don't patch their servers because they don't stay on top of things.
2. most dns servers are not locked down properly (especially those of you using at&t's, worldcom's and other large telco's dns') against zone transfers which allow hackers to find out what you've got.
DNS is a distributed database with a small lookup latency - this is very different than oracle, ldap and other structures. DNS is redundant and is designed to have broken branches (goes back to America's cold war days - even though bind is not that old!). The network, the data, and redundancy IS segment - have you every noticed that the root servers never came down - even for a massive virus - most dns outages come from your local ISP's caching dns, which could be running and old version of bind (single threaded mess).
forget about C#, Java, VB, C++, etc - these are just the "tools" - I written code in assember, c, c++, java, perl, vb, basic, etc for years - too many people worry about the language and not the solution.
.NET micorosft could target solaris, linux, mac, x-box, mobile devices with the same code base, the same wide application support. COM will die, Java will run in .NET with .NET wrappers to the .NET platform os, Linux will be a great server OS but have limited desktop support.
We need to look at microsoft differently - we see them as "Windows" when in fact they're more than that - Microsoft makes most of it's money from applications like office, exchange, sql, vc++, vb, vstudio et al. Microsoft needs to move away from the OS to grow (home appliance, large systems, etc) - windows is the common platform, just the way ".NET" will be the platform beyond windows.
Think of it this way, if microsoft can abstract it's applications to "virtual" platform, it can then start moving across platforms - very different from Sun's java. The JVM method is cool, but application based - ".NET" is a platform, whether it's on windows or not. As much as I disagree with microsoft's policies, they do understand application (not os)development more than most others. With
Does this make sense?
who makes the procs? Intel, Sun (TI), IBM/Motorola, HP (not for too much more), Compaq (dead), AMD (will they keep up), and transmeta (dying) - there's a few more. The only way for microsoft to gain power is to spread it's software grip to other systems, but cost effective.
I think they are still trying to do that - the only problem is that all the object code is tailored for the x86. I think once .NET takes off, and it will, we'll see windows on other architectures - either native or as a hosted os.
I've been using NetBeans/Forte (switched from forte 6 months ago) for a year now - and I think it is a pretty solid ide for application design.
When I first started using it (C/C++/ASM background, Came from VC++) I couldn't figure out why people liked it. But over time you realize that it is very well designed and well suited for cross-platform development. I've used VisualCafe, JBuilder, and tried the others but nothing comes close (unless microsoft made a java ide that was compliant with 1.4 standards).
Windows.NET will, XP is just Windows 2000 with a modified UI and additional support applications. In fact the kernels (2000 vs. XP) are surprisingly similar - XP's version number is 5.1 (2000's is 5.0).
.NET, there was a language called COM+ (not the COM mananger they shipped) which was never released (although there are two articles in msj now msdn).
.NET comes into play.
Microsoft probably uses a "custom" C/C++ compiler (not the old VC++ one) - I'm not sure if you remember, but before
For years microsoft has had the ability to target multiple platforms - they've had the "MSIL" for years - read "debugging the development process".
Microsoft will move to other platforms, but to do so developers will need to make their code portable, which is where