So this means that if i configure my computer without a password i can sue the manufactuere for defective security in their software if it gets hacked.... Cool
The distributers wont complain, its less code the r&d department have to write for the firmware, the RIAA on the other hand is going to have a field day with this.
"Microsoft anonunced that it will 500,000 units avalible for the launch....."
1 Mo later...
Inital reports of the microsoft mobile gaming device is a success, they were all sold out within a 3 weeks of inital release, unfortunatly, 450,000 were returned as defective units
Protected mode is not segmented. Read the Intel docs, you have a GDT with the selector and the offset within the selector which lets you access 4 gb of mem. And for the love of god, using unsigned numbers is not a hack, whens the last time you has -2GB of memory hmmm..... Clear the damn SF and be done with it. MMX and SSE give you 64 bit registers, and effectively give you the same as x86-64. Use al/h,ax,eax for your 8,16, and 32, and use your mm0 etc.. for you 64. If you need to get the high or low half and place it in eax etc. just copy it into and mov it. Even though it requires 2 more instructions to do it, just because its not ocupying the same register as eax dosent mean its an ugly hack although i would prefer that it be an extention to the gpr.
Umm excuse me, have you guys heard of protected mode? 32 bits will buy you 48. Theres something called a Segment Selector, which is 16 bits, and then you have your offset, which is 32 that the GDT register points to. Hello??? As far as getting linux to address 4 gigs of ram, It should have been able to do that right after switching into pmode. As far as 64 bit goes in general, its not going to give you anything more then what you can do now with mmx and sse registers. All of it is just a bunch of hype and none of this is going to help us for at least the next decade.
Big iron keyboards are a pain. I find myself constantly hitting the Field+ key when i want enter on the numpad. Although my AS/400 keyboard does have PF1-24, and it has the old switch type keys (which i have at home on my pc and prefer to the quite keys keyboards have today, just dont type that thesis at 2:00 AM when the wife is trying to sleep) It is rock solid.
Also think about the possible misuse of the abilities to perform this amount of calculations. Improving nucular warhead blast yields, geneticly engeneering a new super virus taht could wipe out the planet. To me this scares me more then anything else. I personally dont need a supercomputer to chat on IRC, post to/. and type up and compile my projects.
This reminds me of the old days and IBM's K-Line projects, More lines = more funding but it normaly went like this...
int
main
(
argv
,
*
argc
[
]
)
{
printf
(
"
test
"
)
;
return
(
0
)
}
what you get there is 3 lines of code, but you get paid or in this case credited for 23. Now if you got paid (or for that mater recieved recognition) by the line, which would you right??
Less patronizing Windows UI ("My Documents", "My Computer")
Rename it, as far as i know (although its been a while, last time i checked) you could, at least on the desktop. I cant help you with changing the taskbar allthough im sure there are tweek tools out there for it.
I would think that the best solution would be find whatever gives you the most caculations for the dollar. I would think that the SGI system would be very adept to performing this task, but the shear number of x86 boxes you could use in a distributed network might cost less then a comperable configuration on the SGI platform, thereby allowing you to use the surplus of more systems on the x86 solution.
That actually isnt a bad idea in itself, how many thousands of dollars have you personaly spent on your equipment. Now say Widgets Corp produced a product that had
61" widescreen HD tv that was flat and fit on the wall
A DVR that had a dvd and divx recorder and player(DVD-R/+R/-RW/+RW Specs aside)
A Breakout box that you could install Port cards in so you would always have enough rca, s-vid, ethernet etc.. ports
A high end Dolby Digital/DTS/THX stereo with dvd audio disc and mp3 playback
A computer (nothing big, but must be upgradeable) say a 500mhz cpu
You could share drives for a lot of this stuff, eg dvd/cd/mp3/vidcd/divx playback and record, say 4 100gb drives for the dvr, mp3, etc... And produce the whole thing for say 10,000. Id buy one and it's doable, but unfortunatly we will never see it in our lifetime.
Ive thought about doing the same as well, but i have a few questions that i really havent found the answer to. Where are you going to get the On screen guide information, ive thought about greping tvguide.com, but that is a real pain, especially if they ever change their page format. It would be nice to have the information in a flat txt file that you could download from someplace.
I work for a large un-named company that has thousands of desktops running windows all over the world. We have decided that XP is not compelling enough to upgrade at this time, except for new desktop rollouts. We will continue to use Win2k and finish replacing the few NT4 desktops that we have left this year and will not upgrade to XP untill just before microsoft stops supporting it in late 2003. We also are exploring Linux as a viable alternative due to microsofts increasing price of their licensing contracts. That is how i feel a lot of corp stratagies have been decided considering the economic downturn and the presure IT departments are under to cut back on spending.
What i ran was 2 x rg6 (1 in 1 out or 2 in or 2 out) 3 cat5e (2 x 10/100 and 1 split into 2 phone lines)
What i found out was this house was very easy to wire, it was built in 85 and i had no problems drilling a access hole through the end cap in the attic and running everything to a wiring closet, plus if i want to drop anything else, fiber, svid, rca, etc... its pretty much a simple drop and pop in a few plugs into the plates. Other then the X11 stuff, all i needed was a few Old work boxes, wire, wallplates, and i was good to go.
I saw on tv that if you wait till next spring/summer, that the LCD screen will also come with a batery to make it truely portable, and it should be the same price. So if you can wait youll be better off.
Umm amplifing 2.4 ghz is illegal as far as i know, it is microwave, so if they were, and i doubt it, you got a nice healthy dose of microwave radiation during your vacation, but with the ozone hole and tha gama rays a little microwave isnt going to hurt us now is it;9
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So this means that if i configure my computer without a password i can sue the manufactuere for defective security in their software if it gets hacked.... Cool
</SARCASM>
$399 for a 5GB 2.5" laptop hard drive??? Your joking right. A 48GB 2.5 in hard drive goes for around $350.
The distributers wont complain, its less code the r&d department have to write for the firmware, the RIAA on the other hand is going to have a field day with this.
This is why you should not drink the bong water.... ;9
"Microsoft anonunced that it will 500,000 units avalible for the launch....."
1 Mo later...
Inital reports of the microsoft mobile gaming device is a success, they were all sold out within a 3 weeks of inital release, unfortunatly, 450,000 were returned as defective units
Yeah 3cm CD discs are easy to come by. But 3cm DVD's arnt. At least as far as i know, the GC's game discs are 3CM DVD Roms
Palm owns it
Protected mode is not segmented. Read the Intel docs, you have a GDT with the selector and the offset within the selector which lets you access 4 gb of mem. And for the love of god, using unsigned numbers is not a hack, whens the last time you has -2GB of memory hmmm..... Clear the damn SF and be done with it. MMX and SSE give you 64 bit registers, and effectively give you the same as x86-64. Use al/h,ax,eax for your 8,16, and 32, and use your mm0 etc.. for you 64. If you need to get the high or low half and place it in eax etc. just copy it into and mov it. Even though it requires 2 more instructions to do it, just because its not ocupying the same register as eax dosent mean its an ugly hack although i would prefer that it be an extention to the gpr.
Umm excuse me, have you guys heard of protected mode? 32 bits will buy you 48. Theres something called a Segment Selector, which is 16 bits, and then you have your offset, which is 32 that the GDT register points to. Hello??? As far as getting linux to address 4 gigs of ram, It should have been able to do that right after switching into pmode. As far as 64 bit goes in general, its not going to give you anything more then what you can do now with mmx and sse registers. All of it is just a bunch of hype and none of this is going to help us for at least the next decade.
Big iron keyboards are a pain. I find myself constantly hitting the Field+ key when i want enter on the numpad. Although my AS/400 keyboard does have PF1-24, and it has the old switch type keys (which i have at home on my pc and prefer to the quite keys keyboards have today, just dont type that thesis at 2:00 AM when the wife is trying to sleep) It is rock solid.
Also think about the possible misuse of the abilities to perform this amount of calculations. Improving nucular warhead blast yields, geneticly engeneering a new super virus taht could wipe out the planet. To me this scares me more then anything else. I personally dont need a supercomputer to chat on IRC, post to /. and type up and compile my projects.
This reminds me of the old days and IBM's K-Line projects, More lines = more funding but it normaly went like this...
int
main
(
argv
,
*
argc
[
]
)
{
printf
(
"
test
"
)
;
return
(
0
)
}
what you get there is 3 lines of code, but you get paid or in this case credited for 23. Now if you got paid (or for that mater recieved recognition) by the line, which would you right??
Less patronizing Windows UI ("My Documents", "My Computer")
Rename it, as far as i know (although its been a while, last time i checked) you could, at least on the desktop. I cant help you with changing the taskbar allthough im sure there are tweek tools out there for it.
I would think that the best solution would be find whatever gives you the most caculations for the dollar. I would think that the SGI system would be very adept to performing this task, but the shear number of x86 boxes you could use in a distributed network might cost less then a comperable configuration on the SGI platform, thereby allowing you to use the surplus of more systems on the x86 solution.
If their web site is any indication of their graphical prowass, then be afraid....be very afraid.
after all they are a corporate criminal in the US justice system.
Hell how about 85% of the earth population.>
That actually isnt a bad idea in itself, how many thousands of dollars have you personaly spent on your equipment. Now say Widgets Corp produced a product that had
61" widescreen HD tv that was flat and fit on the wallA DVR that had a dvd and divx recorder and player(DVD-R/+R/-RW/+RW Specs aside)
A Breakout box that you could install Port cards in so you would always have enough rca, s-vid, ethernet etc.. ports
A high end Dolby Digital/DTS/THX stereo with dvd audio disc and mp3 playback
A computer (nothing big, but must be upgradeable) say a 500mhz cpu
You could share drives for a lot of this stuff, eg dvd/cd/mp3/vidcd/divx playback and record, say 4 100gb drives for the dvr, mp3, etc... And produce the whole thing for say 10,000. Id buy one and it's doable, but unfortunatly we will never see it in our lifetime.
Ive thought about doing the same as well, but i have a few questions that i really havent found the answer to. Where are you going to get the On screen guide information, ive thought about greping tvguide.com, but that is a real pain, especially if they ever change their page format. It would be nice to have the information in a flat txt file that you could download from someplace.
I work for a large un-named company that has thousands of desktops running windows all over the world. We have decided that XP is not compelling enough to upgrade at this time, except for new desktop rollouts. We will continue to use Win2k and finish replacing the few NT4 desktops that we have left this year and will not upgrade to XP untill just before microsoft stops supporting it in late 2003. We also are exploring Linux as a viable alternative due to microsofts increasing price of their licensing contracts. That is how i feel a lot of corp stratagies have been decided considering the economic downturn and the presure IT departments are under to cut back on spending.
Mastering the comma
;9 <- Punctuation for the rest of us.
printf("Hello %s", name);
Mastering the period
<?
$str = $str1 . $str2
?>
really apples and oranges, you know that programmers can hardly even spell, let alone know gramaticle rules
I just automated my house earlier this year.
What i ran was 2 x rg6 (1 in 1 out or 2 in or 2 out)
3 cat5e (2 x 10/100 and 1 split into 2 phone lines)
What i found out was this house was very easy to wire, it was built in 85 and i had no problems drilling a access hole through the end cap in the attic and running everything to a wiring closet, plus if i want to drop anything else, fiber, svid, rca, etc... its pretty much a simple drop and pop in a few plugs into the plates. Other then the X11 stuff, all i needed was a few Old work boxes, wire, wallplates, and i was good to go.
I saw on tv that if you wait till next spring/summer, that the LCD screen will also come with a batery to make it truely portable, and it should be the same price. So if you can wait youll be better off.
LOL.... How many of you geeks actually got this... If you didnt, your not as well read as you think you might be ;9
Umm amplifing 2.4 ghz is illegal as far as i know, it is microwave, so if they were, and i doubt it, you got a nice healthy dose of microwave radiation during your vacation, but with the ozone hole and tha gama rays a little microwave isnt going to hurt us now is it ;9
Thats what symlinks -d /path/to/symlink/bin is for ;9