... that Dr. Evil doesn't go trying to snag any of its parts for any evil hacking projects..
(and yes, one can perform evil hacks.. Just ask Bill Gates.. Parlaying a buggy and unoriginal OS into a multi-billion-dollar company qualifies as both a huge hack and amazingly evil.. Just imagine: if Bill Gates can do that much with windows, what Dr. Evil could do with a StrongARM CPU and a FORTH interpreter;)
"Hard Boiled" (1993): This is what most of us video junkies would call, at a minimum, "John Woo's greatest movie ever". Take the coreographed gun battles from some of his US movies "MI:2" "Hard Target" and "Face Off", combine them and multiply by 15, then add Chow Yun Fat. A masterpeice that includes a 45 minute shootout in a hospital that probably cost him a fortune to do. If, somehow this is taken, then try his classic breakthrough "A Better Tommorrow". Watch it, then get the DVD.
I'd also recommend "The Killer".. its plotline is a bit more solid than HB, though it is definitely lower-key.. And if you want a classic HK loyalty/betrayal study (which, besides the dual pistols, is John Woo's trademark), check out "Bullet In The Head".. Excellent film and DVD, though hardcore violent ballet junkies will be disappointed.
BTW, Check out Ringo Lam's work as well... "City on Fire" is an awesome film which is best known in the States as having inspired "Reservoir Dogs".. Also get the DVD of "Full Contact".. Excellent..
Gotta love HK movies.. Subtitles for the chicks, action for the guys;);)
Heh, AIX was my first admin unix (having been a user of SunOS previously), so I have a somewhat different take on it. Sure, it's strange, but when you actually take the time to learn it, you begin to appreciate it more and more (like the superb plug+play with IBM periphs, documentation, diagnostic facilities, LVM, NIM, smit, etc) for the stuff that makes day to day admin fuckin simple. And frankly, for a day job, I _want_ simple admin. More time to read usenet/theregister/slashdot/ceo mail;)
The stuff you hate (like the ODM, byzantine IBMism commands that "map" to standard equivalents, overpriced peripherals, etc) really only crops up when you have a problem (like corrupted ODM, odd device recognition issues, missing physical drive IDs, misunderstandings of commands) and yeah, it sucks, but every platform has its little 'issues'..
Besides, if all Unix versions were the same, life would definitely be less interesting. You can't cross-pollinate ideas if you don't have many different species of idea to actually do the chromosomal hokey-pokey to begin with..
Anyone who tells you there is only 'One True Unix (tm)' is either selling something, bigoted, delusional, or part of some standardizing bureaucracy.
And this is not to say that I love AIX, or that I love it any more than its brothers and sisters (though it does have my sympathies as the black sheep;), but I definitely respect it and the design considerations behind it..
Damn, if you like your SPARC, PA-RISC, MIPS, Alpha or PPC chips, you have IBM to thank.. (and the 7013-5xx memory architecture is still pretty fscking cool if you have enough $$$ to fill out all the planars)
VA for Java is available for Linux.. IIRC it's even supported.
Not so sure about Smalltalk though. Websphere + VAJ is similarly useful for web applications, though the speed and reliability isn't there yet (though there are definitely some useful performance tuning redbooks for WS)..
... though low-cost PowerPC unix servers (particularly rackmount) installable as AIX and/or Linux would be nice..
As would supporting the plex86 project or porting it to PPC;)
Hell, any LVM/JFS ports to Linux could be justified as R&D, allowing new eyes and new techniques to help with the speed, features and reliability.. Perhaps AIX would gain online filesystem reduction as well as enlargement?
(OpenSSH by default refuses to let you attach to a changed server key by default, causing you to either disable that behavior (bad), pull the old key out of your known_hosts (bad but usually tolerable), or verify the new server key OOB (good))
After that, I was fortunate enough to be invited by RJ Mical and Dave Needle to join NTG (New Technologies Group) who were working on what was to become the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer. It was based on the ARM-60, had ass-kicking graphics and sound capabilities, and a nice tiny OS that owed much of its heritage to the Amiga. I thought it was a really neat system, and it died.
Heh, I always thought the Jaguar was a better deal..
(and I LAUGH at the pitiful Nintendo color gameboy.. LAUGH I say! My Lynx can handle 16+ people playing in the same game... Assuming I can find 15 other Lynx players:( )
Your Working Boy,
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Power Search is better.. Though their full archive is still unavailable:(((((((
I would give my grandma/ma/kid/pal a Mac before inflicting Windows on them.. In fact, I just did (I gave my ma a portable MP3 player and set her up on an iMac because I wasn't going to pay or l33ch for M$ USB support) and I couldn't be happier..
Unless you _like_ doing tech work for free during your free time.. I used to, until I exited my teenage years and discovered my time was worth something more than PC tech slavery..
... or is poring thru lines of code screenfuls at a time just too darned fun?
What kind (if any) of automated tools does the OBSD team use to find the most common security / sloppiness flaws in code? Any 'openbsd-lint code.c' kind of thing? Since Theo et al. finds the same trash over and over one would think it would be time to automate the analysis, thus leaving behind only the fun subtle stuff..
Here's what you do to get a bootable install on an ATA/66 (HPT366 in my case):
Install your favorite distro on the secondary master ATA/33 device (hdc)
Install your favorite kernel version with static support for your particular controller
I used 'boot from offboard chipset' or whatever option in the kernel IDE config, but that may have not been necessary.
put your kernel in the right place and setup lilo to boot it. Keep in mind that once you do the following BIOS steps your system will call your primary ata66 master hdc, which is how you built your system;)
Move your drive over to your primary ATA/(66|100) master
Disable your secondary IDE controller in your BIOS
configure your 'external' bootable device into your bios boot list and set the external device as the ATA66 (rather than SCSI). YOu can see that I did this on an abit board;)
reboot
You should then get your lilo prompt and be able to boot directly onto your ATA66 drive. Then go into root and hdparm your system til it bleeds;)
btw, my ATA66 hdparm settings for a Maxtor 30GB 7200RPM HDD:
hdparm -c1 -d1 -W1 -m16 -X68/dev/hdc
(somewhat agressive, but it is a toy bp6 w/2x400 oc'd to 533;)
[root@server linux-2.4.0test10]# hdparm -tT/dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.11 seconds =115.32 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.76 seconds = 23.19 MB/sec
(btw, the sensors package really rr00xx on the bp6...)
NASA gets a lot of bad press for say, not doing metric conversions
Well, they didn't have the time or money to double check:p Goes to prove the old axiom, "fast, good or cheap, pick any two".. In the expensive old days NASA could afford to build stuff to last..
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Don't get me started on Daikatana.
:p )
Hey, I wish it had been delayed even _longer_.. (actually, I only borrowed it to see how awful it was..
Your Working Boy,
... that Dr. Evil doesn't go trying to snag any of its parts for any evil hacking projects..
;)
(and yes, one can perform evil hacks.. Just ask Bill Gates.. Parlaying a buggy and unoriginal OS into a multi-billion-dollar company qualifies as both a huge hack and amazingly evil.. Just imagine: if Bill Gates can do that much with windows, what Dr. Evil could do with a StrongARM CPU and a FORTH interpreter
"Wow honey, that looks like a giant pair of.."
Your Working Boy,
One word: alohanet
Your Working Boy,
"Hard Boiled" (1993): This is what most of us video junkies would call, at a minimum, "John Woo's greatest movie ever". Take the coreographed gun battles from some of his US movies "MI:2" "Hard Target" and "Face Off", combine them and multiply by 15, then add Chow Yun Fat. A masterpeice that includes a 45 minute shootout in a hospital that probably cost him a fortune to do. If, somehow this is taken, then try his classic breakthrough "A Better Tommorrow". Watch it, then get the DVD.
;) ;)
I'd also recommend "The Killer".. its plotline is a bit more solid than HB, though it is definitely lower-key.. And if you want a classic HK loyalty/betrayal study (which, besides the dual pistols, is John Woo's trademark), check out "Bullet In The Head".. Excellent film and DVD, though hardcore violent ballet junkies will be disappointed.
BTW, Check out Ringo Lam's work as well... "City on Fire" is an awesome film which is best known in the States as having inspired "Reservoir Dogs".. Also get the DVD of "Full Contact".. Excellent..
Gotta love HK movies.. Subtitles for the chicks, action for the guys
Your Working Boy,
Why cannot IBM work on a Natural Language CLI where say one could type "Move file: "Quake" from desktop to games folder".
How about this?
(hey, if someone can map sysadm processes to DOOM, it could be a crazy enough idea to work...)
Your Working Boy,
Heh, AIX was my first admin unix (having been a user of SunOS previously), so I have a somewhat different take on it. Sure, it's strange, but when you actually take the time to learn it, you begin to appreciate it more and more (like the superb plug+play with IBM periphs, documentation, diagnostic facilities, LVM, NIM, smit, etc) for the stuff that makes day to day admin fuckin simple. And frankly, for a day job, I _want_ simple admin. More time to read usenet/theregister/slashdot/ceo mail ;)
;), but I definitely respect it and the design considerations behind it..
The stuff you hate (like the ODM, byzantine IBMism commands that "map" to standard equivalents, overpriced peripherals, etc) really only crops up when you have a problem (like corrupted ODM, odd device recognition issues, missing physical drive IDs, misunderstandings of commands) and yeah, it sucks, but every platform has its little 'issues'..
Besides, if all Unix versions were the same, life would definitely be less interesting. You can't cross-pollinate ideas if you don't have many different species of idea to actually do the chromosomal hokey-pokey to begin with..
Anyone who tells you there is only 'One True Unix (tm)' is either selling something, bigoted, delusional, or part of some standardizing bureaucracy.
And this is not to say that I love AIX, or that I love it any more than its brothers and sisters (though it does have my sympathies as the black sheep
Damn, if you like your SPARC, PA-RISC, MIPS, Alpha or PPC chips, you have IBM to thank.. (and the 7013-5xx memory architecture is still pretty fscking cool if you have enough $$$ to fill out all the planars)
Your Working Boy,
VA for Java is available for Linux.. IIRC it's even supported.
Not so sure about Smalltalk though. Websphere + VAJ is similarly useful for web applications, though the speed and reliability isn't there yet (though there are definitely some useful performance tuning redbooks for WS)..
Your Working Boy,
Mmmmmmm.... Redbooks.... (got all of the AIX v3.2.5 and v4.1 redbooks on CDROM as a going away present about 4 years ago.. ;)
Your Working Boy,
... though low-cost PowerPC unix servers (particularly rackmount) installable as AIX and/or Linux would be nice..
;)
As would supporting the plex86 project or porting it to PPC
Hell, any LVM/JFS ports to Linux could be justified as R&D, allowing new eyes and new techniques to help with the speed, features and reliability.. Perhaps AIX would gain online filesystem reduction as well as enlargement?
Your Working Boy,
Right now the only choice I've found is Popular Power, but their client runs in Java,
Is it really Java on Mac? My cube completes a work unit in 21 minutes, while my dual-cpu linux box takes 35 mins.. Is the Mac client not native?
Your Working Boy,
IIRC they also mulch, so you don't have to rake..
Your Working Boy,
In Summary: Man in the middle attacks are a tough problem, but solvable so long as the end user pays attention
;)
To summarize the summary: use OpenSSH
(OpenSSH by default refuses to let you attach to a changed server key by default, causing you to either disable that behavior (bad), pull the old key out of your known_hosts (bad but usually tolerable), or verify the new server key OOB (good))
Your Working Boy,
Spread your butt cheeks and squeeze?
Your Working Boy,
As a spoiler, what about the new Kyro PowerVR chip? Looks to do some interesting things with lower memory-bandwidth requirements..
:p
Though the first card out of the gate.. 'Evil Kyro'.. Kinda dumb name if you ask me
Your Working Boy,
After that, I was fortunate enough to be invited by RJ Mical and Dave Needle to join NTG (New Technologies Group) who were working on what was to become the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer. It was based on the ARM-60, had ass-kicking graphics and sound capabilities, and a nice tiny OS that owed much of its heritage to the Amiga. I thought it was a really neat system, and it died.
:( )
Heh, I always thought the Jaguar was a better deal..
(and I LAUGH at the pitiful Nintendo color gameboy.. LAUGH I say! My Lynx can handle 16+ people playing in the same game... Assuming I can find 15 other Lynx players
Your Working Boy,
Power Search is better.. Though their full archive is still unavailable :(((((((
Bastards....
Your Working Boy,
Hey,
I would give my grandma/ma/kid/pal a Mac before inflicting Windows on them.. In fact, I just did (I gave my ma a portable MP3 player and set her up on an iMac because I wasn't going to pay or l33ch for M$ USB support) and I couldn't be happier..
Unless you _like_ doing tech work for free during your free time.. I used to, until I exited my teenage years and discovered my time was worth something more than PC tech slavery..
Your Working Boy,
their mortal enemy, the US Navy!
Talk about M$ vs Linux writ large (Navy just leapt into M$' pocket again recently).. I just hope the Phalanx cannon support software isn't ported..
Your Working Boy,
I put 50 quatloos on the newcomer..
Your Working Boy,
Copper interconnects are supposed to be cheaper.. I wonder how much the costs offset?
Your Working Boy,
... or is poring thru lines of code screenfuls at a time just too darned fun?
What kind (if any) of automated tools does the OBSD team use to find the most common security / sloppiness flaws in code? Any 'openbsd-lint code.c' kind of thing? Since Theo et al. finds the same trash over and over one would think it would be time to automate the analysis, thus leaving behind only the fun subtle stuff..
Your Working Boy,
You should then get your lilo prompt and be able to boot directly onto your ATA66 drive. Then go into root and hdparm your system til it bleeds
btw, my ATA66 hdparm settings for a Maxtor 30GB 7200RPM HDD:
hdparm -c1 -d1 -W1 -m16 -X68
(somewhat agressive, but it is a toy bp6 w/2x400 oc'd to 533
[root@server linux-2.4.0test10]# hdparm -tT
/dev/hdc:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.11 seconds =115.32 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.76 seconds = 23.19 MB/sec
(btw, the sensors package really rr00xx on the bp6...)
Your Working Boy,
NASA gets a lot of bad press for say, not doing metric conversions
:p Goes to prove the old axiom, "fast, good or cheap, pick any two".. In the expensive old days NASA could afford to build stuff to last..
Well, they didn't have the time or money to double check
Your Working Boy,
SMTP AUTH
(or, even better, require signing certs authorized by the ISP.. One can dream...)
Your Working Boy,
Commerce isn't about fluff. Commerce is about meeting a need that your customer has.
Two words: Fluff sells.
Hey, I didn't say I _liked_ it..
Your Working Boy,