If I download and install an encrypted FS, I want it to automagically change everything for me. I also want it to defrag my hard drive, undelete that Bangles mp3 I accidentally deleted the other day, manage my stock portfolio and brew me coffee.
I have a friend with a samsung handset from sprint as well and he gets spotty coverage in the same places I get the spotty coverage. If we BOTH got defective phones, I'd be surprised
from my original post...
The only way things like this would catch on would be internet-wide support of the DNS servers in a big revolt.
So, I agree with you completely. It's gonna take support at the ISP level. As another poster pointed out, @home and earthlink are already supporting some of the new TLD registrars. IF and When AOL and MSN and verizon and a few of the other big players jump on the wagon I can definitely see this taking off. The question is, will the others get on the wagon. For some reason I don't see aol being really quick to accept using the new TLD providers, and without AOL it's gonna be hard to get the unwashed masses to start using those new TLD's
As their PCS Phones. I have a PCS Startac and coverage is complete CRAP. Even in the middle of a major city (philadelphia) nearly half the places I go the signal is weak to nonexistant. I would much rather see verizon rolling out this technology, it might have some decent coverage and be better supported.
In general no reboot required. Something tells me that in some cases (for my example, changing to an encrypted filesystem, assmuing this is being used for, say, the root partition) a reboot is still neccesary.
It's both. It is a new security model for the linux kernel. This model involves adding hooks to allow more security features to be implemented as loadable kernel modules
If you read the mailing list post, you will see that what they want to do is add extra hooks in the loadable modules code so more security features would be able to be added as a module. This is great news for people who like to tinker. For instance, say I want to try out a new encrypted filesystem. On modern systems that means patching the kernel, compiling, fixing all the little things I invariably screw up because I am unfamiliar with compiling kernels (I do it rarely) and I skimmed the docs instead of reading thoroughly. With the new hooks (and already running a kernel with the changes, ie not now but a year from now) all I would have to do is compile the module, and tell modules.conf it was there. A reboot later and some configuration and in theory I would be up and running. MUCH easier.
Yeah, but these providers are not supported by default on normal systems. Joe average user wants to sit down at his computer and type www.hotgrits.com, he doesn't want to first go to www.newdomainnameregistrar.com and download a plugin first. The only way things like this would catch on would be internet-wide support of the DNS servers in a big revolt. Not too likely if you ask me.
I think the real problem with that theory is not that the idea doesn't work in principle, because I believe it could. The real problem is that few people ever actually look at the source to any program they download. If every linux user pored over the source of every app they downloaded, sure bugs would be smashed with amazing speed, but no one really cares that much. I know me personally, if I want a new app, I do an apt-get install, and if that doesn't work, download the tarball. Only if things dont work with./congigure;make do I start trying to figure out anything about how the program works.
I agree that managing a widely spread open source project is a nontrivial excercise, but Tanenbaum acts as if it is impossible. Clearly the success of many modern examples proves that while it may be damn difficult, it is NOT impossible.
I also agree that the many eyes make bugs shallow thing is kinda crap. It's many USERS that make bugs easy to find, not many people staring at the source
From Tanenbaum...
Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never managed a software project.
This is just one of a million statements in that article that show how truly clueless the man was about the future of computing back then. But then again just about everyone else was too. If you said then that the free software movement would spawn the more business minded/less political open source movement, which is the big darling of the computing world today, they would have probably laughed at you.
Mac OS X system is exactly a BSD OS on the PPC platform
Not to nitpick or anything, but...
I hear this all the time. OS X is NOT "just BSD with some apple stuff slapped on top." It's not even truly BSD. It's a Mach Microkernel with a BSD Compatibility layer on top. That means it replicates the BSD system calls but is not truly a BSD Kernel. It's kinda like saying WINE is windows. It's just an implementation of an API. Granted, the OS X implementation is a lot truer to correctly pretending to be BSD than wine is for windows, but it is NOT BSD. It just incorporates a lot of the BSD stuff that apple found useful
The X server is dependant on the hardware though, which means there would have to be an X server developed for it, not just the hardware stuff they are doing for OS X. Plus, NVidia has a history of releasing drivers binary only, which means that the drivers compiled for OS X on a mac won't do AMD/Intel or Alpha users much good
If it's true that it's implemented in flash, does that mean it's possible to port YDKJ to run in netscape or something similar? I have a lot of old YDKJ disks here and no way to play them any more because none of my boxes run winders
The Ten Commandments in school halls would remind us all who is really in charge here (White Christians, not God), but would lessen the alienation of our troubled youth not one whit.
That's gotta be the best quote I've heard all week. I'm gonna use that in my email.sig:)
Starlab and grape are not commercial systems, but instead are a collaborative effort between many universities, each building and tweaking on the design. At the physics dept here at Drexel University, we have a several year old (GRAPE-4, I think?) system that can outperform our 64 Node beowulf cluster for the calculation it was instended for. Stick that in yer pipe and smoke it.
Drexel has had this for about a year or so now. Things are just now getting to the point where most places on campus are accessible. Some of the big block buildings have some trouble with signal strength in certain places, but overall it's quite good coverage, and is improving with time. Now that I am so used to this kind of always-on 11Mbps connection, I don't know what I will do when I graduate. Riccochet just won't cut it unless they get a LOT faster
I believe that the glow effect is only for the original test. This will make it really easy to differentiate the moths that they placed into the field from the natural ones. Later, the modification done on the released moths will be switched from glowing to "sterility." This is just the test phase.
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If I download and install an encrypted FS, I want it to automagically change everything for me. I also want it to defrag my hard drive, undelete that Bangles mp3 I accidentally deleted the other day, manage my stock portfolio and brew me coffee.
I have a friend with a samsung handset from sprint as well and he gets spotty coverage in the same places I get the spotty coverage. If we BOTH got defective phones, I'd be surprised
from my original post...
The only way things like this would catch on would be internet-wide support of the DNS servers in a big revolt.
So, I agree with you completely. It's gonna take support at the ISP level. As another poster pointed out, @home and earthlink are already supporting some of the new TLD registrars. IF and When AOL and MSN and verizon and a few of the other big players jump on the wagon I can definitely see this taking off. The question is, will the others get on the wagon. For some reason I don't see aol being really quick to accept using the new TLD providers, and without AOL it's gonna be hard to get the unwashed masses to start using those new TLD's
As their PCS Phones. I have a PCS Startac and coverage is complete CRAP. Even in the middle of a major city (philadelphia) nearly half the places I go the signal is weak to nonexistant. I would much rather see verizon rolling out this technology, it might have some decent coverage and be better supported.
In general no reboot required. Something tells me that in some cases (for my example, changing to an encrypted filesystem, assmuing this is being used for, say, the root partition) a reboot is still neccesary.
that does make a difference... but not a significant one...
once AOL supports them, I will be convinced. As much as AOL irks me, to the common (l)user aol==internet
It's both. It is a new security model for the linux kernel. This model involves adding hooks to allow more security features to be implemented as loadable kernel modules
If you read the mailing list post, you will see that what they want to do is add extra hooks in the loadable modules code so more security features would be able to be added as a module. This is great news for people who like to tinker. For instance, say I want to try out a new encrypted filesystem. On modern systems that means patching the kernel, compiling, fixing all the little things I invariably screw up because I am unfamiliar with compiling kernels (I do it rarely) and I skimmed the docs instead of reading thoroughly. With the new hooks (and already running a kernel with the changes, ie not now but a year from now) all I would have to do is compile the module, and tell modules.conf it was there. A reboot later and some configuration and in theory I would be up and running. MUCH easier.
I'm sailing! I'm sailing! I'm SAAAAIIIIILLLLLLLIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG!
Yeah, but these providers are not supported by default on normal systems. Joe average user wants to sit down at his computer and type www.hotgrits.com, he doesn't want to first go to www.newdomainnameregistrar.com and download a plugin first. The only way things like this would catch on would be internet-wide support of the DNS servers in a big revolt. Not too likely if you ask me.
I think the real problem with that theory is not that the idea doesn't work in principle, because I believe it could. The real problem is that few people ever actually look at the source to any program they download. If every linux user pored over the source of every app they downloaded, sure bugs would be smashed with amazing speed, but no one really cares that much. I know me personally, if I want a new app, I do an apt-get install, and if that doesn't work, download the tarball. Only if things dont work with ./congigure;make do I start trying to figure out anything about how the program works.
I agree that managing a widely spread open source project is a nontrivial excercise, but Tanenbaum acts as if it is impossible. Clearly the success of many modern examples proves that while it may be damn difficult, it is NOT impossible.
I also agree that the many eyes make bugs shallow thing is kinda crap. It's many USERS that make bugs easy to find, not many people staring at the source
From Tanenbaum...
Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never managed a software project.
This is just one of a million statements in that article that show how truly clueless the man was about the future of computing back then. But then again just about everyone else was too. If you said then that the free software movement would spawn the more business minded/less political open source movement, which is the big darling of the computing world today, they would have probably laughed at you.
True story...
When I worked at CSC subcontracting for lockheed, the naval display systems for aegis battleships and cruisers ran HP-UX
Mac OS X system is exactly a BSD OS on the PPC platform
Not to nitpick or anything, but...
I hear this all the time. OS X is NOT "just BSD with some apple stuff slapped on top." It's not even truly BSD. It's a Mach Microkernel with a BSD Compatibility layer on top. That means it replicates the BSD system calls but is not truly a BSD Kernel. It's kinda like saying WINE is windows. It's just an implementation of an API. Granted, the OS X implementation is a lot truer to correctly pretending to be BSD than wine is for windows, but it is NOT BSD. It just incorporates a lot of the BSD stuff that apple found useful
The X server is dependant on the hardware though, which means there would have to be an X server developed for it, not just the hardware stuff they are doing for OS X. Plus, NVidia has a history of releasing drivers binary only, which means that the drivers compiled for OS X on a mac won't do AMD/Intel or Alpha users much good
Might be way off left field here but here goes...
If it's true that it's implemented in flash, does that mean it's possible to port YDKJ to run in netscape or something similar? I have a lot of old YDKJ disks here and no way to play them any more because none of my boxes run winders
The Ten Commandments in school halls would remind us all who is really in charge here (White Christians, not God), but would lessen the alienation of our troubled youth not one whit.
.sig :)
That's gotta be the best quote I've heard all week. I'm gonna use that in my email
Starlab and grape are not commercial systems, but instead are a collaborative effort between many universities, each building and tweaking on the design. At the physics dept here at Drexel University, we have a several year old (GRAPE-4, I think?) system that can outperform our 64 Node beowulf cluster for the calculation it was instended for. Stick that in yer pipe and smoke it.
Drexel has had this for about a year or so now. Things are just now getting to the point where most places on campus are accessible. Some of the big block buildings have some trouble with signal strength in certain places, but overall it's quite good coverage, and is improving with time. Now that I am so used to this kind of always-on 11Mbps connection, I don't know what I will do when I graduate. Riccochet just won't cut it unless they get a LOT faster
put me in context here... name a few 80s piers anthony books... everything i've ever read by him i absolutely loved
i hate to let myself be trolled, but...
smoke crack much?
I believe that the glow effect is only for the original test. This will make it really easy to differentiate the moths that they placed into the field from the natural ones. Later, the modification done on the released moths will be switched from glowing to "sterility." This is just the test phase.
or you could put it in the public key section of your slashdot userinfo
read the article... it's the physical museum that's closing, not the website, which is still alive and well