When mccain-feingold was first proposed, I found the very notion of it a disgusting violation of the first amendment. My friends disagreed, but the writing was on the wall.
Not otherwise mentioned here: full sound support via SB16 emulation, built in NAT network support [the guest OS can use DHCP to get an address], and easy access to your linux filesystem on hosted windows environments via automatically configured SMB shares! It runs smbd as a slave process and comunicates with it over pipes, so it dosen't even require any root permisions.
Simple as that, and you're running XP with audio, network, and local filesystem access.
Of course, having to insmod a closed-source kernel module is unnerving, admitedly. But all of the above still applies and is usable without it, it's just not nearly as fast.
The main bulk of QEMU (which is all open source BTW) is entirely an emulator. It uses just-in-time dynamic binary translation to convert from the guest architecture to the host architecture, using an internal intermediate representation. At this level it is altogether an emulator... you can run x86 on powerPC or sparc on x86, or x86 on x86, etc. But because this the overhead is not insignificant. There seems to be a 5 - 10 times slowdown when I run winXP under linux in an emulated environment.
What the new KQemu accelerator does, is replace some of the emulation [specifically, of user-space code not in ring 0] with direct VMware-style virtualization, where the code is being run natively and trapped by the monitor. Important to note with KQemu is that kernel code is still being wholly emulated. Virtualizing only user-space is so much easier... I believe that Plex86 gave up on trying to virtualize ring0 code on x86 a while back, because the x86 isn't well designed for this.
Running winXP with the accelerator causes it to run pretty close to native, though. Where before under just emulation, trying to play a video with windows media player took over a minute for a frame to show up and otherwise froze, with KQemu I can actually play video relatively smoothly. This is a wonderous thing! Basically, you can get almost all of the functionality of VMware, but FOR FREE.
I just hope that they don't constrain the system so that the underlying system is inaccessable, leaving only a friendly GUI that can do no more than browse the web edit email and word-process. Although of course it should be easy to use for the novice, it would be a shame to lock it up and prevent people from having a chance to learn some real computer science, be able to use the development tool-chain, write their own software, etc.
An even more interesting demonstration of information assymetry exists in Hitler's decision not to use tabun and sarin, the axis' most potent secret weapon. The allies had no idea of it's existance until after the war. It might well have turned the tide if used against the invasion.
From that moment on, no matter how tempted he felt to use his secret gases, Hitler had always to balance in his mind the conviction of his scientists that the Allies had them too.
Had he known how flimsy the evidence was which supported these convictions he might have thought again. Nazi scientists, for example, read great significance into the fact that references to compounds related to nerve gases suddenly ceased to be mentioned in American scientific journals at the beginning of the war. They correctly deduced this was a result of censorship by the US authorities. What they did not know was that this was to protect the secrecy of the insecticide DDT then under development, not the secrecy of any new war gas. In other words, the Führer had been misled. Neither the Americans nor the British possessed a chemical weapon remotely capable of matching nerve gas.
I'm in Denver, and don't have cable. However, my parents (in Cleveland), happen to subscribe to an uber-cable offering of just about everything available [over 300 channels]. We both have broadband as well. So, it was a simple matter to drop a $30 bttv card in the linux box working as a firewall at their house, and build an IR transmitter to control a dedicated cable decoder box. Mpeg4 at 512 kilobit is perfectly watchable, especially at 320x240 resolution. I recommend downloading ffmpeg if you are interested in doing the same.
Ummm... That is a very bad counterexample. 'Red' light is scientifically quantifiable quite precisely, that is, electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength of ~625 - 740 nanometers [closer to orange at 625, approaching infrared beyond 740].
As to the (perhaps implied) arguement about federal standards or definitions having any relevance to scientific truth, well there could be some arguement there, I suppose. The point being, though, that there is no real way to set a true standard, because peoples immune systems can become sensitive to just about anything. There is no such thing as a hypoallerginic product... well, maybe pure water or something like that.:)
The term 'hypoallergenic' is not meaningful in any scientific sense whatsoever.
The FDA states that "There are no federal standards or definitions that govern the use of the term 'hypoallergenic'." Back in 1973, they tried to establish definitions for the use of the term hypoallergenic, but the regulation was overturned in court.
I have been planning on voting for Kerry, preciesely because he is the "lesser of two evils". I suppose I shouldn't do that now. Either way, I'll regret it. ***Sigh***
As computers get faster, simply use more difficult and time consuming algorithims to verify passwords. If you use a verification step that takes 256 times a long [even for the same old 6-character password], when computers get eight times faster, they are worse off then they were before in trying to brute-force the password.
If the soldiers on the ground are going to be so completely dependent on electrical equipment?
These things don't have to be a giant explosion any more, either. I believe there has been progress in directional, possibly portable, EM-disabling weapons. I know. Let's put all the soldiers in faraday cages! Mosquito netting for the 22nd century!
In anticipation that this might soon disapear, you can download the flash-file directly at:
"http://images2.shockwave.com/afassets/flash/this_ land.swf?siteBandwidth=300&siteBrowser=unknown&sit eOS=unknown&fake=param"
Although I adore SG1, atlantis looks really dumb. I mean, creatures that suck life-force? How unscientific. Vampires don't belong in scifi. I used to like Earth Final Contact until the later seasons when they changed it and brought in the 'atavist' creatures, which were also scifi vampires. Totally ruined the show.
DR. STRANGELOVE Well, that would not be necessary Mr. President. It could easily be accomplished with a computer. And a computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross section of necessary skills. Of course it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. (Slams down left fist. Right arm rises in stiff Nazi salute.) Arrrrr! (restrains right arm with left) Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. But ah with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present gross national product within say, twenty years.
PRESIDENT MUFFLEY But look here doctor, wouldn't this nucleus of survivors be so grief stricken and anguished that they'd, well, envy the dead and not want to go on living?
DR. STRANGELOVE No sir... (His right arm rolls his wheelchair backwards.) Excuse me.(He struggles with wayward right arm, ultimately subduing it with a beating from his left.) Also when... when they go down into the mine everyone would still be alive. There would be no shocking memories, and the prevailing emotion will be one of nostalgia for those left behind, combined with a spirit of bold curiosity for the adventure ahead! Ahhhh! (Right arm reflexes into Nazi salute. He pulls it back into his lap and beats it again. Gloved hand attempts to strangle him.)
GENERAL TURGIDSON Doctor, you mentioned the ration of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
DR. STRANGELOVE Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
This 'functionality' is most assuredly coded in their propriatary drivers for windows and mac. Using open-source drivers to print with, will very likely remove such restrictions.
I can no longer email AOL users, becuase I run my own mail server off of a DSL line. AOL bounces all such emails, regardless of 'spaminess' because they are listed as 'from a residential dynamic IP address'. Isn't interoperability supposed to be the point of the internet? I am balkanized, as a result. So, no AOL users can get email from me. Perhaps this is a good thing, afterall.
I once had a $80 kensington case [with 'special impact density absorbant padding'], but when a coworker knocked the laptop off of a conferance table onto the ground [not even three feet], it broke one of the hinges for the LCD. Ahem.
The ideal situation I found was this: Fill a cheap walmart school bookbag with 16 inches of foam. I used a mattress-enhancer [lots of foam for around 12 bucks, and in convienient sheet form]. Cut as appropriate and fold the sheets in a coil, until the entire bookbag [get a smaller one, obviously], is almost bursting at the seams with excessive foam load. Leave just enough room for your laptop [and don't forget foam on the bottom and a few layers to fold over the top. I once dropped this down a flight of stairs. It just bounced happily to a rest, no damage to the laptop.
Plus, it looks crappy enough you can take it anywhere without it being a target for theft, like as a swanky specialized laptop case would be.
I know this anecdotaly from the fact that with my dual Athlon system, when I start a process that pegs both CPUs to 100% from idle, the system fans actually slow down enough that it's quite a noticible difference in the sound. I'm not kidding. I've actually had times where my first hint that some process has gone into an infinite loop is just by peripherally noting the sound.
The other night [yes, I was up at 4:00 am], my redhat distro's cron.daily was running rpmv, and I only noticed this because I was reading a web page at the time, noticed the fans slow down... and proceeded to run top to see what was going on.
Anyone else have similar experiences?
And yes, maybe I should upgrade my power supply, but it's already a 600W. It's probably because I have 9 drives. Goodness... hope they aren't slowing down too in some detrimental fashion, although I doubt it would hurt them to spin somewhat less quickly.
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When mccain-feingold was first proposed, I found the very notion of it a disgusting violation of the first amendment. My friends disagreed, but the writing was on the wall.
Don't say that you weren't warned
man adjtimex ...under linux, it would be trivial to change your skew slightly each time you attach to the network
Not otherwise mentioned here: full sound support via SB16 emulation, built in NAT network support [the guest OS can use DHCP to get an address], and easy access to your linux filesystem on hosted windows environments via automatically configured SMB shares! It runs smbd as a slave process and comunicates with it over pipes, so it dosen't even require any root permisions.
/ahuge/unt/qemuXP.img -boot c -m 384 -user-net -enable-audio -smb /home/michael -pci &
qemu -hda
Simple as that, and you're running XP with audio, network, and local filesystem access.
Of course, having to insmod a closed-source kernel module is unnerving, admitedly. But all of the above still applies and is usable without it, it's just not nearly as fast.
The main bulk of QEMU (which is all open source BTW) is entirely an emulator. It uses just-in-time dynamic binary translation to convert from the guest architecture to the host architecture, using an internal intermediate representation. At this level it is altogether an emulator... you can run x86 on powerPC or sparc on x86, or x86 on x86, etc. But because this the overhead is not insignificant. There seems to be a 5 - 10 times slowdown when I run winXP under linux in an emulated environment.
What the new KQemu accelerator does, is replace some of the emulation [specifically, of user-space code not in ring 0] with direct VMware-style virtualization, where the code is being run natively and trapped by the monitor. Important to note with KQemu is that kernel code is still being wholly emulated. Virtualizing only user-space is so much easier... I believe that Plex86 gave up on trying to virtualize ring0 code on x86 a while back, because the x86 isn't well designed for this. Running winXP with the accelerator causes it to run pretty close to native, though. Where before under just emulation, trying to play a video with windows media player took over a minute for a frame to show up and otherwise froze, with KQemu I can actually play video relatively smoothly. This is a wonderous thing! Basically, you can get almost all of the functionality of VMware, but FOR FREE.
I just hope that they don't constrain the system so that the underlying system is inaccessable, leaving only a friendly GUI that can do no more than browse the web edit email and word-process. Although of course it should be easy to use for the novice, it would be a shame to lock it up and prevent people from having a chance to learn some real computer science, be able to use the development tool-chain, write their own software, etc.
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I'm in Denver, and don't have cable. However, my parents (in Cleveland), happen to subscribe to an uber-cable offering of just about everything available [over 300 channels]. We both have broadband as well. So, it was a simple matter to drop a $30 bttv card in the linux box working as a firewall at their house, and build an IR transmitter to control a dedicated cable decoder box. Mpeg4 at 512 kilobit is perfectly watchable, especially at 320x240 resolution. I recommend downloading ffmpeg if you are interested in doing the same.
Ummm... That is a very bad counterexample. 'Red' light is scientifically quantifiable quite precisely, that is, electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength of ~625 - 740 nanometers [closer to orange at 625, approaching infrared beyond 740].
:)
As to the (perhaps implied) arguement about federal standards or definitions having any relevance to scientific truth, well there could be some arguement there, I suppose. The point being, though, that there is no real way to set a true standard, because peoples immune systems can become sensitive to just about anything. There is no such thing as a hypoallerginic product... well, maybe pure water or something like that.
The term 'hypoallergenic' is not meaningful in any scientific sense whatsoever.
The FDA states that "There are no federal standards or definitions that govern the use of the term 'hypoallergenic'." Back in 1973, they tried to establish definitions for the use of the term hypoallergenic, but the regulation was overturned in court.
A little bit of googling returns this
It's a nonsense marketing claim, with no scientific standard or basis. People can be allergic to anything... even themselves.
Why dosen't everybody just read the response on groklaw?
I have been planning on voting for Kerry, preciesely because he is the "lesser of two evils". I suppose I shouldn't do that now. Either way, I'll regret it. ***Sigh***
Do they? ...While I'll never!
As computers get faster, simply use more difficult and time consuming algorithims to verify passwords. If you use a verification step that takes 256 times a long [even for the same old 6-character password], when computers get eight times faster, they are worse off then they were before in trying to brute-force the password.
If the soldiers on the ground are going to be so completely dependent on electrical equipment? These things don't have to be a giant explosion any more, either. I believe there has been progress in directional, possibly portable, EM-disabling weapons. I know. Let's put all the soldiers in faraday cages! Mosquito netting for the 22nd century!
In anticipation that this might soon disapear, you can download the flash-file directly at: "http://images2.shockwave.com/afassets/flash/this_ land.swf?siteBandwidth=300&siteBrowser=unknown&sit eOS=unknown&fake=param"
Although I adore SG1, atlantis looks really dumb. I mean, creatures that suck life-force? How unscientific. Vampires don't belong in scifi. I used to like Earth Final Contact until the later seasons when they changed it and brought in the 'atavist' creatures, which were also scifi vampires. Totally ruined the show.
um... Yeah, that dosen't happen
Foolish. Current advanced computer modelling isn't even capable of predicting the weather next week with any great accuracy.
DR. STRANGELOVE Well, that would not be necessary Mr. President. It could easily be accomplished with a computer. And a computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross section of necessary skills. Of course it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. (Slams down left fist. Right arm rises in stiff Nazi salute.) Arrrrr! (restrains right arm with left) Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. But ah with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present gross national product within say, twenty years. PRESIDENT MUFFLEY But look here doctor, wouldn't this nucleus of survivors be so grief stricken and anguished that they'd, well, envy the dead and not want to go on living? DR. STRANGELOVE No sir... (His right arm rolls his wheelchair backwards.) Excuse me.(He struggles with wayward right arm, ultimately subduing it with a beating from his left.) Also when... when they go down into the mine everyone would still be alive. There would be no shocking memories, and the prevailing emotion will be one of nostalgia for those left behind, combined with a spirit of bold curiosity for the adventure ahead! Ahhhh! (Right arm reflexes into Nazi salute. He pulls it back into his lap and beats it again. Gloved hand attempts to strangle him.) GENERAL TURGIDSON Doctor, you mentioned the ration of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned? DR. STRANGELOVE Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
I note that in the limitation of liability, they disclaim 'misrepresentation'?
This 'functionality' is most assuredly coded in their propriatary drivers for windows and mac. Using open-source drivers to print with, will very likely remove such restrictions.
I can no longer email AOL users, becuase I run my own mail server off of a DSL line. AOL bounces all such emails, regardless of 'spaminess' because they are listed as 'from a residential dynamic IP address'. Isn't interoperability supposed to be the point of the internet? I am balkanized, as a result. So, no AOL users can get email from me. Perhaps this is a good thing, afterall.
I once had a $80 kensington case [with 'special impact density absorbant padding'], but when a coworker knocked the laptop off of a conferance table onto the ground [not even three feet], it broke one of the hinges for the LCD. Ahem.
The ideal situation I found was this: Fill a cheap walmart school bookbag with 16 inches of foam. I used a mattress-enhancer [lots of foam for around 12 bucks, and in convienient sheet form]. Cut as appropriate and fold the sheets in a coil, until the entire bookbag [get a smaller one, obviously], is almost bursting at the seams with excessive foam load. Leave just enough room for your laptop [and don't forget foam on the bottom and a few layers to fold over the top. I once dropped this down a flight of stairs. It just bounced happily to a rest, no damage to the laptop.
Plus, it looks crappy enough you can take it anywhere without it being a target for theft, like as a swanky specialized laptop case would be.
I know this anecdotaly from the fact that with my dual Athlon system, when I start a process that pegs both CPUs to 100% from idle, the system fans actually slow down enough that it's quite a noticible difference in the sound. I'm not kidding. I've actually had times where my first hint that some process has gone into an infinite loop is just by peripherally noting the sound. The other night [yes, I was up at 4:00 am], my redhat distro's cron.daily was running rpmv, and I only noticed this because I was reading a web page at the time, noticed the fans slow down... and proceeded to run top to see what was going on. Anyone else have similar experiences?
And yes, maybe I should upgrade my power supply, but it's already a 600W. It's probably because I have 9 drives. Goodness... hope they aren't slowing down too in some detrimental fashion, although I doubt it would hurt them to spin somewhat less quickly.