I've been curious...has anyone ever made a standalone HD cache that sits as a separate device between the ATA controller and the HD? It'd be neat to see what 16GB of 'slow' RAM could do to the performance of a 20GB drive.
It'd probably need a battery backup to hold data when the system was turned off. Once power comes back up, it could commit all its changes to the disk. Heck, with the convenience of an SATA cable, it could probably also serve as an online UPS for the HD it needed to commit to, if you threw a few NiMH C cells in it.
Students and staff of associated educational facilities get Microsoft software for the "price of media and shipping."
That means all programming students can get Visual Studio Pro for $5, and CIS students (and maybe others) can get WinXP for just as cheap.
The college where I'm a student worker has signed up for it. We're teaching C#, Visual C++, and VB.net, all through Visual Studio. All computers on campus run WinXP Pro. (Except for some machines in IT, which run Novell on Linux)
I'm make everyone I know aware of RHCT and RHCE, to try to get more UNIX around, but I'm afraid I'm not in any position to push. Write an email to them and tout further Linux curriculum and usage, will ya?
...if anyone's done any work on running kernel modules with user priviledges, or VFS interfacing with a userland daemon, like the way Netfilter does with ftwall.
I'd have a blast working on it. Unfortunately, working/going to school for 80 hours a week just doesn't leave much time for other stuff. I tried going without sleep, but somehow my boss noticed a difference.
Does anyone know of any statistics describing how much time a kernel developer spends on the kernel?
I envy you. I wish I could surround myself with the same type of people you do.
The average person I'm familiar with doesn't know there are alternatives to IE. But then, I'm in tech support, so my idea of the "average person" is probably pretty low compared to most/. addicts.
Every bit of file browsing you see in Windows is through IE. Everything from the Desktop to the view inside folders. And I wouldn't be surprised if XP's floating taskbar was part of IE.
If it comes to patent litigation, I'm sure someone with clout will demand that it be demonstrated that a runtime for.NET can be built without patented code.
Accepting.NET as a standard assumes good faith that Microsoft isn't trying to pull a marketing fast one.
...what we'll think of these patents 40 years from now.
Will software patents force developers to come up with novel solutions, instead of being able to rely on de-facto standards?
I suspect that's how these patents occur...If something isn't a named, documented standard, the USPTO doesn't know how to find it as prior art. If something is a de-facto standard, then it probably isn't named and documented.
(I say 'probably isn't' because of the millions of things you and I take for granted... de facto standards.)
Remember that Media Player upgrade a while back whose license agreement gave Microsoft the right to install software on your machine without your permission? I imagine that clause was included in the WinXP license from the beginning.
That means they have every right to install and run an application that removes IE, or, at least, the browser functionality.
From what I understand, the patent only applies to protocols between independant programs. ActiveX controls are separate processes from the main browser, which is why Microsoft is in it so deep.
(They wanted to make ActiveX an extensible be-all, and ended up overdesigning it to the point where it stepped on someone's toes.)
The way I see it, plugin systems like Netscape's aren't affected because the plugins are used via direct function calls, rather than a form of IPC.
The stability freeze only means that no new features will be added. There are still lots of bugs to be worked out. Else we'd have a 2.6.0 release instead of a freeze.
OSS would be without BSD, (developed at a university) without Mozilla, (spawned from a really old web browser I can't quite recall the name of), and without GNU (quite a bit of which came from BSD).
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...that by "our", I mean everyone. We all have a right to use the kernel, so I'd say that gives us the right to defend it to its licensed lettter.
Don't they expect us to defend our own IP?
If your socks count as "hardware" ... well ... You've got some serious issues. :)
If you're going to insist on hearing all the music, go to some insanely high bitrate like 1024b/s. That's 97 days.
:)
Or you can choose to be pleasantly surprised by hearing something you haven't heard in a long time.
Um...Every little bit helps?
I've been curious...has anyone ever made a standalone HD cache that sits as a separate device between the ATA controller and the HD? It'd be neat to see what 16GB of 'slow' RAM could do to the performance of a 20GB drive.
It'd probably need a battery backup to hold data when the system was turned off. Once power comes back up, it could commit all its changes to the disk. Heck, with the convenience of an SATA cable, it could probably also serve as an online UPS for the HD it needed to commit to, if you threw a few NiMH C cells in it.
Unfortunately, Microsoft has this thing called the MSDN Academic Alliance.
Students and staff of associated educational facilities get Microsoft software for the "price of media and shipping."
That means all programming students can get Visual Studio Pro for $5, and CIS students (and maybe others) can get WinXP for just as cheap.
The college where I'm a student worker has signed up for it. We're teaching C#, Visual C++, and VB.net, all through Visual Studio. All computers on campus run WinXP Pro. (Except for some machines in IT, which run Novell on Linux)
I'm make everyone I know aware of RHCT and RHCE, to try to get more UNIX around, but I'm afraid I'm not in any position to push. Write an email to them and tout further Linux curriculum and usage, will ya?
Among old-time gamers and game developers, Nintendo doesn't have much better of a reputation...
Microsoft Windows 2007?
You'd probably need to write your own pre-mixer software, if you're going to use one sound card.
I've never messed around with audio processing (or even v4l), so I have to say even that with a disclaimer.
...if anyone's done any work on running kernel modules with user priviledges, or VFS interfacing with a userland daemon, like the way Netfilter does with ftwall.
I'd have a blast working on it. Unfortunately, working/going to school for 80 hours a week just doesn't leave much time for other stuff. I tried going without sleep, but somehow my boss noticed a difference.
Does anyone know of any statistics describing how much time a kernel developer spends on the kernel?
Right...and have Linux advocates all painted as malicous "hacker zealots."
Way to alienate the more intelligent of those you're trying to reach.
I envy you. I wish I could surround myself with the same type of people you do.
/. addicts.
The average person I'm familiar with doesn't know there are alternatives to IE. But then, I'm in tech support, so my idea of the "average person" is probably pretty low compared to most
Every bit of file browsing you see in Windows is through IE. Everything from the Desktop to the view inside folders. And I wouldn't be surprised if XP's floating taskbar was part of IE.
The problem is that IE isn't standards compliant.
I understand you're probably being humerous, but this is for those who don't know:
... It won't tell you what desktop it's on, but it will give you a PID you can kill.
If you lose an app, look for it with "ps ax"
If it comes to patent litigation, I'm sure someone with clout will demand that it be demonstrated that a runtime for .NET can be built without patented code.
.NET as a standard assumes good faith that Microsoft isn't trying to pull a marketing fast one.
Accepting
...what we'll think of these patents 40 years from now.
... de facto standards.)
Will software patents force developers to come up with novel solutions, instead of being able to rely on de-facto standards?
I suspect that's how these patents occur...If something isn't a named, documented standard, the USPTO doesn't know how to find it as prior art. If something is a de-facto standard, then it probably isn't named and documented.
(I say 'probably isn't' because of the millions of things you and I take for granted
Joe Uninformed would be making all the decisions, "ballot fatigue" would be a household phrase, and he with the most advertising, wins.
Remember that Media Player upgrade a while back whose license agreement gave Microsoft the right to install software on your machine without your permission? I imagine that clause was included in the WinXP license from the beginning.
That means they have every right to install and run an application that removes IE, or, at least, the browser functionality.
From what I understand, the patent only applies to protocols between independant programs. ActiveX controls are separate processes from the main browser, which is why Microsoft is in it so deep.
(They wanted to make ActiveX an extensible be-all, and ended up overdesigning it to the point where it stepped on someone's toes.)
The way I see it, plugin systems like Netscape's aren't affected because the plugins are used via direct function calls, rather than a form of IPC.
Whoops! Hold on a second.
The stability freeze only means that no new features will be added. There are still lots of bugs to be worked out. Else we'd have a 2.6.0 release instead of a freeze.
Oh! And a 2.6.x kernel. NTFS write support is now stable.
Both platforms: Mozilla, OpenOffice
Linux: Samba, SWAT
One of the traditional advantages of Linux is that you can modify the source code for free. (I.e. no licensing.)
That means device drivers and kernel-mode features are much more likely than with, say, Solaris or Windows.
OSS would be without BSD, (developed at a university) without Mozilla, (spawned from a really old web browser I can't quite recall the name of), and without GNU (quite a bit of which came from BSD).