Yes, it's a joke going back to the days of MS/IBM collaboration on OS/2.
But seriously, the windows kernel (or executive as they like to call it) doesn't really do much. It's pretty much a dumb micro-kernel. In Linux, you usually have a plethora of drivers and services in there too.
Shifting these things out of the kernel doesn't necesarily make the kernel better, it just shifts potential problems elsewhere.
Cool, so I can add this to my list of ogg-enabled personal music boxes. Here's the list at the moment:
Rio Karma Sharp Zaurus Sony Ericsson P800 Neuros Palm Tungsten Frontier Labs NEXiA (via a promised firmware update) iRiver iMP-250/350/400/550, iFP-1000("Prism Eye"), iFP-700/800 IOPS MFP-312/315/350 Jens of Sweden MP-130 (128,256 or 512MB) (rebadged IOPS?)
Most office computer users are bean-counters, secretaries, powerpoint-using middle managers, etc. These people do NOT need 3D graphics, 4G of RAM, or 3 GHz CPUs.
So get their sysadmin to install F@H or a render farm client on them:)
Hmmm, that has possibilities for future Creative Commons film-making. Design/animate your CG scene, and submit it to RenderFarm@Home. Come back in a couple of days and it's done!
It's funny how articles claim that the worm has caused all kinds of damages -- from banks to postal systems, to transit systems. The tone of the article seems to lay blame largely upon the worm itself. This is absolute horseshit. If users (and IT personnel) at these governments and places of business were responsible enough to do their jobs and ensure that computers were adequately patched, this problem never would have occured.
If somebody breaks into your house and you didn't have a burglar-alarm or deadlocks installed, whose fault is it really?
Society (and your insurance company) will try to tell you that it's your own dumb fault for not having adequate security, but that doesn't change the unwavering fact that the burglar should not have been in your house in the first place.
Yes, in a hostile environment such as a computer network, administrators are responsible for ensuring the systems are adequately locked down from attacks, and we can call them silly if they don't, but that in no way gives an attacker more rights to invade the computers therein.
Aureal had a great little chipset back in '99 that did just that. Realtime doppler and occlusions at least, and lots of other effects that I don't remember. I think they used some kind of raycasting methods. And it sounded wonderful.
Pity they went belly-up and were bought out by "Creative".
Vertical sync is pretty much what I'm getting at. The problem is that it's currently not implemented very well.
You can turn on a feature called vsync on most video drivers, but often it doesn't wait until a VBLANK before updating the screen buffer. While the fps is sync'd to the refresh rate, there is usually a tear visible somewhere on the screen.
Couple that with the fact that most games can't maintain a consistently high frame rate due to poor interaction with the OS scheduler and you get jerky motion, which is why most people still turn vsync off.
Some guy whos used to using one piece of software to do graphics stuff tries out another one and is astounded that it isn't *exactly* the same?
Perhaps if I had to work exclusively in CMYK I might consider using PS once in a while but I just have no need for it. And text renders just fine if you install it properly.
As a long-time GIMP user (after giving up on Photoshop), I'm tempted to find a windows box somewhere and write a "Photoshop from the eyes of a GIMP user" article. Let's see how 'intuitive' PS really is.
I don't actually *want* 'licensed' DVD playing software to be available under Linux.
Why?
Because in order for it to be licensed, it would have to be closed source almost by definition, it would impose those pesky mandatory no-skip bits (ads, fbi warnings etc), and probably be spyware.
Give me Ogle/Mplayer any day.
Is it actually illegal to use non-licensed players to play DVDs? I had thought that the DMCA made provisions for interoperability.
If it is illegal, we need to get that legislation overturned quick-smart, the MPAA has gotten away with too much already.
Its basically an industrial strength antiperspirant that plugs your pores.
Uhh, isn't that really bad, health-wise?
Firstly, the obvious: If you're sweating, at least one part of you is probably over-heating, and needs to cool down somehow.
Secondly, perhaps not so obvious: If your sweat glands are operating, but have nowhere to dissipate, there's going to be an accumulation of all sorts of chemicals (salts) in the clogged area, which can produce nasty health problems later on.
Kind of like the reason anti-persiprant deodorants are bing phased out in some places - they've been lined to breast cancer.
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My lovely SL-5600 is up to the job.
It only costs $289 from Amazon (if you live in the US), and you can easily download a decent plucker reader for it.
Oh, and it has a 400MHz xScale processor, and runs Linux. And Java.
It should be. IBM wrote most of it.
Yes, it's a joke going back to the days of MS/IBM collaboration on OS/2.
But seriously, the windows kernel (or executive as they like to call it) doesn't really do much. It's pretty much a dumb micro-kernel. In Linux, you usually have a plethora of drivers and services in there too.
Shifting these things out of the kernel doesn't necesarily make the kernel better, it just shifts potential problems elsewhere.
Cool, so I can add this to my list of ogg-enabled personal music boxes.
Here's the list at the moment:
Rio Karma
Sharp Zaurus
Sony Ericsson P800
Neuros
Palm Tungsten
Frontier Labs NEXiA (via a promised firmware update)
iRiver iMP-250/350/400/550, iFP-1000("Prism Eye"), iFP-700/800
IOPS MFP-312/315/350
Jens of Sweden MP-130 (128,256 or 512MB) (rebadged IOPS?)
I think you mean "USB 2.0 Full-Speed"
High-speed is the full 480Mbps spec.
Or was it that Full-speed is the high 480Mbps spec?
They're just trying to confuse us!
The article says "less than 10 percent" of the then 275 employees were to be laid off.
It doesn't matter that he denies it or there's no evidence that he said it.
He still called the internet a passing fad in the 1996 edition of his book, and that one's in print!
Do they really thing that putting one of their best features it in brackets like an afterthought is going to help endear their product to Linux users?
You think that's bad, the front page doesn't mention that it can has an Ogg Vorbis codec!
This is huge news for those of us that choose not to use patent-encumbered formats.
Most office computer users are bean-counters, secretaries, powerpoint-using middle managers, etc. These people do NOT need 3D graphics, 4G of RAM, or 3 GHz CPUs.
:)
So get their sysadmin to install F@H or a render farm client on them
Hmmm, that has possibilities for future Creative Commons film-making. Design/animate your CG scene, and submit it to RenderFarm@Home. Come back in a couple of days and it's done!
Somebody call Asterix. If this thing hits, the sky really will fall on our heads.
It's funny how articles claim that the worm has caused all kinds of damages -- from banks to postal systems, to transit systems. The tone of the article seems to lay blame largely upon the worm itself. This is absolute horseshit. If users (and IT personnel) at these governments and places of business were responsible enough to do their jobs and ensure that computers were adequately patched, this problem never would have occured.
If somebody breaks into your house and you didn't have a burglar-alarm or deadlocks installed, whose fault is it really?
Society (and your insurance company) will try to tell you that it's your own dumb fault for not having adequate security, but that doesn't change the unwavering fact that the burglar should not have been in your house in the first place.
Yes, in a hostile environment such as a computer network, administrators are responsible for ensuring the systems are adequately locked down from attacks, and we can call them silly if they don't, but that in no way gives an attacker more rights to invade the computers therein.
Let's put the blame where blame is due.
Really? Did you tell the inbuilt firewall to explicitly block port 445?
Aureal had a great little chipset back in '99 that did just that. Realtime doppler and occlusions at least, and lots of other effects that I don't remember. I think they used some kind of raycasting methods.
And it sounded wonderful.
Pity they went belly-up and were bought out by "Creative".
Not true.
The option you see in your video driver properties is a hack, and a poorly done one at that.
Vertical sync is pretty much what I'm getting at. The problem is that it's currently not implemented very well.
You can turn on a feature called vsync on most video drivers, but often it doesn't wait until a VBLANK before updating the screen buffer. While the fps is sync'd to the refresh rate, there is usually a tear visible somewhere on the screen.
Couple that with the fact that most games can't maintain a consistently high frame rate due to poor interaction with the OS scheduler and you get jerky motion, which is why most people still turn vsync off.
for the love of all things, make the game/engine/whatever spit out exactly one frame per screen refresh!
It used to be trivial on console and DOS-based systems, and now it's not hard on multi-tasking systems either, now that we have 1ms timer resolution.
Video driver writers take note. This needs to be supported at the driver level.
Give me User Friendly any day.
Did they ever find the horse?
So let me get this straight:
Some guy whos used to using one piece of software to do graphics stuff tries out another one and is astounded that it isn't *exactly* the same?
Perhaps if I had to work exclusively in CMYK I might consider using PS once in a while but I just have no need for it. And text renders just fine if you install it properly.
As a long-time GIMP user (after giving up on Photoshop), I'm tempted to find a windows box somewhere and write a "Photoshop from the eyes of a GIMP user" article. Let's see how 'intuitive' PS really is.
Apple conference, 1981.
I don't actually *want* 'licensed' DVD playing software to be available under Linux.
Why?
Because in order for it to be licensed, it would have to be closed source almost by definition, it would impose those pesky mandatory no-skip bits (ads, fbi warnings etc), and probably be spyware.
Give me Ogle/Mplayer any day.
Is it actually illegal to use non-licensed players to play DVDs? I had thought that the DMCA made provisions for interoperability.
If it is illegal, we need to get that legislation overturned quick-smart, the MPAA has gotten away with too much already.
He's busy. General Failure is reading his hard drive.
...shows that dinosaurs ruled the earth for millions of years before the first humans showed up.
Tales of dinosaurs or dinosaur-like creatures are common in most ancient civilisations. Ever hear of dragons?
It is possible that dinosaurs are referred to in the book of Job (As Behemoths and Leviathans).
Didn't this guy set up a donation system such as a paypal account?
I would imagine that many happy Gentoo users globally would put in the effort to pay off that debt in a few days.
... he had dated Marilyn Munroe, and it had ended not on the best terms.
He spent most of the rest of his life taking cold showers.
Its basically an industrial strength antiperspirant that plugs your pores.
Uhh, isn't that really bad, health-wise?
Firstly, the obvious: If you're sweating, at least one part of you is probably over-heating, and needs to cool down somehow.
Secondly, perhaps not so obvious:
If your sweat glands are operating, but have nowhere to dissipate, there's going to be an accumulation of all sorts of chemicals (salts) in the clogged area, which can produce nasty health problems later on.
Kind of like the reason anti-persiprant deodorants are bing phased out in some places - they've been lined to breast cancer.