Re:5 years since the release of Quake means...
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Five Years of Quake
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eg QuakeForge? (Not that I'ld actually call it a stable release, but it sure as hell beats anything released by id (no offence)). QuakeForge 0.1.1 got into debian (and still is:/), 0.2 never got released to do some sillyness, 0.3 is, sadly, QuakeWorld only and 0.5 (cvs only right now) is decidedly unstable }:> (hey, so I like breaking the QuakeC interpreter:), but has {Dos,Win,Net}Quake support again (and no menus:/).
And gcc comes with it's own compiler (also not built), just to compile the compiler.
That's not particularly accurate. There is source for one, and only one, C compiler in gcc (and one each of the other languages). The way the gcc build process works (esp when using "make bootstrap", not sure if that's default now or not, been a while) is to:
build just the C portion of GCC using the system compiler using no optimisations
move the freshly built gcc aside (bins and object files) into./stage1
using the compiler in stage1, build all of the selected language portions of GCC, this time with optimisations.
move this second compiler (bin and.o) into./stage2
using the gcc in stage2, build a third copy of gcc, with the exact same optimisations.
compare the third copy of gcc with that in stage2, if they differ, bail out
build aditional libs (stdc++, iberty, etc)
(if specified) install libs and the stage3 compiler
A slow, painful process (esp when doing porting work), but it ensures that GCC is at least good enough to build itself as the installed compiler is an exact copy of the compiler used to compile it.
I think I can vouch for the knees. Between the ages of 16 and 19 or so, I used to bike everywhere (even up moderate hills) in 10th gear (10 speed). I used to get sore knees a lot (and still do occasionally), though I think most of the recent sore knees was while still living in Wellington, New Zealand (on some of those hills, even 1st gear on my 18 speed mountain bike was hard work). Now, my 6km (~4mi) ride to work is done in a leasurly 20-30 minutes (depends on the wind). Probably subconsious (I'm lazy anyway:), but while I still get sore knees now and then, they're not as bad.
I've actually never owned a car; my bike is my only set of wheels (I can drive, but my license expired 6 years ago). While I still get the occational lower back pain (and definity upper: bike riding doesn't exercise every muscle in your body), it's nowhere near as bad as when I was catching the bus to work (7km with 140m hills gets tiring, but I'm no longer in Wellington, so that's impoved*:) and I had almost constant back aches.
As others have said: exercise, exersise, sexercise (hey, can you think of a more fun way to exercise?:)
QuakeForge is looking for macintosh developers: it's just about the only popular platform we don't support:(. If you, or any other mac developers are interested in helping us, please get in touch with us in #quakeforge on irc.openprojects.net or quake-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
here. Or any of the other quake source ports (no links handy, and I'm biased anyway (I'm a core developer of the QuakeForge project:)). While there's no current news, the project is anything but dead, we're just too busy coding to post news:P
OpenQuartz came about because shortly after QuakeForge got started, we realised we needed free content for QF to be truely usefull to everybody, and so a few people (including Seth Galbraith) hanging out in our started the OpenQuartz project, though I believe Seth had some data from before Quake was released.
OpenQuartz's point is to allow you to play quake/quakeworld without having to go out and buy quake (though it can be had at a reasonable price from http://www.hartsunlimited.com/quakofforlin.html)
Sure, it's nowhere near complete, but for only a little over a year of part time development, I'ld say it's doing well.
haha, yes, that is what he was talking about. "Way back when...". The Apple ][ floppies were single sided only. To use the second side, you had to cut out a hole on the side of the disk opposite to the normal write protect hole. Once you did this, you had a flippy. ie, when you wanted to use the data on the second side of the disk, you litterally flipped the disk over in the drive.
Ah, and what about those apps that assume int is 32 bit (eg, quake:/), or worse, 16? (though the latter should be rare by now) Yes, 90% of the apps out there are just a re-compile away from 64bit, but this is a classic case of the 90/90 rule.
IMO, it's not the CPU power they're after (though it doesn't hurt), it's the io bandwidth. Think of it as a giant RAID array. Assuming their systems can pull 20MB/s off the hdds, that's 160000MB/s (or 156.25GB/s) total bandwidth (ignoring overheads).
there's another possibility which doesn't seem to have been considered often: a troll that managed to get mod points, post under another account (eg, ac), then mod up that post. All for the purpose of wasting other moderators' mod points. (a troll post at +2 will waste more mod points than one at +1 or 0 and +5 even more (though how it would get there in the first place boggles the mind)).
With supporters like you, who needs detractors? There is no "cannot win" unless you don't fight. Yes, the deck is their favour, but while there's someone willing to fight, there's always a chance, slim though it may be. We have a higher chance of winning than a sperm has of fertilizing an egg, yet it happens all the time.
Satellites (communications, spy, whatever) are, by definition not probes. By definition, satellites have a closed orbit, probes do not. Hubble is a sattelite, Pioneer is a probe. NASA has most certainly launched more probes than any other country. Excluding possibly Russia, more than all other countries combined. Yes, other countries have launched numberous satellites, but compared to a probe, a satellite is trivial. You try even hitting Mars, let alone landing on it gently. Yes, Mars is a nice big barn door, but that barn door is on the other side of the country. And remember, in space, nothing moves in a straight line.
What would be an interesting review would be: Athlon 1333-DDR against a Celeron 450 (overclocked) against a K6-2-550.
Or even more impressive: going from a 386-33 to a 486-66 (4x was nice:) to a dual celeron 300 (now 450:). That last jump just knocked my socks off. A 40+x speedup is just phenomenomly fast. Even after two years, I consider my box fast (though the G200 is sloing its slug heritage). Everything is relative. I still remember doing cpu intensive things on an 8M V20(?). Now? Well, SMP or nothing:)
/me drools over the though of dual (or more:) 1.3G cpus.
Actually, it should be a slur on RedHat for installing, or more imortantly, starting those daemons in the first place. What does the average desktop need portmap for? Or sendmail that accepts external connections. Or a web server. Or... or... or... . Hell, the average desktop should be installed with firewalling out the wazoo (but in a newbie usable state).
RedHat should be expecting users with no security knowledge to be installing RH on systems connected directly to the net and configuring the default desktop install for such. One could possibly claim that RedHat was being criminally negligent (same for any other distro (and that's not just Linux, either: Solaris, Windows, Mac too) that does similar). Arguments to the effect that it inconveniences a sysadmin on an internal network are bogus as the admin should bloody well know what he is doing. Not only that, he can set up one machine and then clone it.
If you're going to flame me for this, choose your flames carefully, I am a RedHat user (mind you, only 20% now, but untill last December, 100%). I know from 4 years use (and a rooting:/)just how fubared RedHat's default install is.
Don't be too suprised if in the not too distant future slack OS distributers start seeing security related law suits. I won't.
I've carried computer + kb + monitor +... successfully before (mind you, 14"). Damn, heavy, yes. Especially considering I carried all of it in my arms. However, with the Gear Grip, while heavy, it would be MUCH easier. Heavy, yes, but not that bad because your arms would be handling only the monitor. What might be better is a backpack style arrangement so BOTH shoulders are supporting the weight of the computer. With good weight distribution, it's amazing what the body can support. Especially on the short haul.
Even revolutions need to rest and catch their breath. Also, just because something has hit a plateau doesn't mean it's the beginning of the end. Plateau's can do one of three things: go down, stay put, or go up, and there can be local dips and rises. There is no way we can really tell what is happening, or will happen, in this regard until after it has happened.
While an interesting article, I don't see it as a call for alarm. I see it more as a wake up call saying that if we want this revolution to succeed, we must not give up.
Hmm, I wouldn't be suprised if we're almost there. The stages of `them' ignoring and laughing at `us' are long gone. `We're well and truely into the `fighting us' stage.
Depending on wiring self-inductance there could be a lot of energy stored on the circuit. If you try to change the current circulating through an inductor there will appear a voltage drop that's inductive, not resistive. At a certain point when temperature rises, such a computer could spit out a lot of sparks.
Ahhh, I thought I might be missing something, though the amount of voltage will depend highly on the rate of change. Still, there's two things I can think of that would help: careful design to re-route such voltages and currents (just like a diode across a solenoid) and even with superconductive circuitry, I don't imagine you would really want high currents in a CPU.
As to those superconduction toroids, yeah, coolant failure could be, um, interesting.
While I'm guessing, I imagine that there wouldn't be a major problem because the supplied voltage would be the same no matter what temperature, and thus as the resistance increases, the current would drop. Also, I can see the circuits being designed such that if super-conductivity is lost, they effectively switch off, in which case everything just comes to a stop until you refresh your coolant.
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Yeah, I'm a QuakeForge developer.
Bill - aka taniwha
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- build just the C portion of GCC using the system compiler using no optimisations
- move the freshly built gcc aside (bins and object files) into
./stage1
- using the compiler in stage1, build all of the selected language portions of GCC, this time with optimisations.
- move this second compiler (bin and
.o) into ./stage2
- using the gcc in stage2, build a third copy of gcc, with the exact same optimisations.
- compare the third copy of gcc with that in stage2, if they differ, bail out
- build aditional libs (stdc++, iberty, etc)
- (if specified) install libs and the stage3 compiler
A slow, painful process (esp when doing porting work), but it ensures that GCC is at least good enough to build itself as the installed compiler is an exact copy of the compiler used to compile it.Bill - aka taniwha
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Bill - aka taniwha
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I've actually never owned a car; my bike is my only set of wheels (I can drive, but my license expired 6 years ago). While I still get the occational lower back pain (and definity upper: bike riding doesn't exercise every muscle in your body), it's nowhere near as bad as when I was catching the bus to work (7km with 140m hills gets tiring, but I'm no longer in Wellington, so that's impoved*:) and I had almost constant back aches.
As others have said: exercise, exersise, sexercise (hey, can you think of a more fun way to exercise?:)
* I now ride 6km though snow :)
Bill - aka taniwha
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OpenQuartz came about because shortly after QuakeForge got started, we realised we needed free content for QF to be truely usefull to everybody, and so a few people (including Seth Galbraith) hanging out in our started the OpenQuartz project, though I believe Seth had some data from before Quake was released.
OpenQuartz's point is to allow you to play quake/quakeworld without having to go out and buy quake (though it can be had at a reasonable price from http://www.hartsunlimited.com/quakofforlin.html) Sure, it's nowhere near complete, but for only a little over a year of part time development, I'ld say it's doing well.
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/me drools over the though of dual (or more:) 1.3G cpus.
Bill - aka taniwha
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RedHat should be expecting users with no security knowledge to be installing RH on systems connected directly to the net and configuring the default desktop install for such. One could possibly claim that RedHat was being criminally negligent (same for any other distro (and that's not just Linux, either: Solaris, Windows, Mac too) that does similar). Arguments to the effect that it inconveniences a sysadmin on an internal network are bogus as the admin should bloody well know what he is doing. Not only that, he can set up one machine and then clone it.
If you're going to flame me for this, choose your flames carefully, I am a RedHat user (mind you, only 20% now, but untill last December, 100%). I know from 4 years use (and a rooting:/)just how fubared RedHat's default install is.
Don't be too suprised if in the not too distant future slack OS distributers start seeing security related law suits. I won't.
Bill - aka taniwha
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Even revolutions need to rest and catch their breath. Also, just because something has hit a plateau doesn't mean it's the beginning of the end. Plateau's can do one of three things: go down, stay put, or go up, and there can be local dips and rises. There is no way we can really tell what is happening, or will happen, in this regard until after it has happened.
While an interesting article, I don't see it as a call for alarm. I see it more as a wake up call saying that if we want this revolution to succeed, we must not give up.
Hmm, I wouldn't be suprised if we're almost there. The stages of `them' ignoring and laughing at `us' are long gone. `We're well and truely into the `fighting us' stage.
Bill - aka taniwha
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As to those superconduction toroids, yeah, coolant failure could be, um, interesting.
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