and the LaTeX Companions Boxed set. Even if I'm not is the CS field per se, I like to program in my spare time and to help me in my field (mechanical engineering).
I don't have time right now to read that paper, but if the GP of Malaysia is boring (like if Shumacher takes the lead at the start) I'll read it tonight.
As others have already mentionned, Cygwin is a good choice.
DJGPP is another port of GCC for DOS. It uses the protected mode, so you're not limited to 64K segments. If you want an IDE, RHIDE (available at the same place) is very similar to Borland's.
Looks a bit like some newer server cases...
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I just received my black YeongYang Cube case (No, not Cube as in Apple, just Cube), and it looks a lot like this case. The case is twice as wide as a normal case, with the motherboard on one side and the drives on the other. They are made for servers: 2 external 3 1/2, 6 external 5 1/4, 8 internal 3 1/2. More space than a full tower, and half as high.
By the way, YeongYang is not the only manufacturer of this type of cases: I know Chenbro has a similar line.
karnal, I have some questions regarding bbiagent. What fs is the disk you can download from them? And where can I download the source code for it (if they patched some GPL'd code)? The disk doesn't seem to be ext2 nor vfat, and file only identifies it as an x86 boot sector. I might try to include Minix and Ext fs next time I recompile my kernel.
Before using it on my network, I'd like to know how it works and what's compiled in.
If somebody else has another one floppy distribution which can do the same thing and is not as secret, please share it with the rest of us. Thank you!
If they'll allow you to use a switch, why spend some more money and buy a router? These things are usually used when either you're not supposed to hook more than one computer, or when only one computer can't be connected directly to the Internet because of some authentication mechanism (PPPoE, DHCP w/ only 1 address per port, etc.)
If they allow you to grab more than one IP address, and the network is either fixed address or DHCP, go with a switch. A 100Mbps switch will set you back around 40$.
Or use one of your computer as a bridge (NAT) before the switch. But then you'll have to open it anytime you want one of the other ones to go online, unless you let it on all the time as I do... and some protocols still don't like NATted computers.
Maybe they wouldn't ship actual installation media, but they should be able to provide a way to download it from the Internet. I know RedHat (and probably Debian) are installable with only a bootdisk via the net. Ok, so it won't work for 56k, but then nothing will except actual physical media.
Actaully, they might even be forced to do so because of the GPL: if you get binairies, you're entitled to the source code. Do you think they would install the source for the whole OS+GPL'd apps on the harddrive? I didn't either.
I'm paying $CAN 30+modem+taxes for DSL in Montréal, QC, Canada. The total billed is $CAN 35.45 per month. Normally the modem is $CAN 10, but there was a promotion when I signed up so I don't have to pay it. Installation was free as well.
I can't really tell what the speed is (never asked Sympatico), but I think the upload cap is 128kbps (couldn't get more than 16.6KiB/s). Download is 512kbps or 1024kbps.
In the dorm of the school I attend, we pay $CAN 65 for the whole semester for 100MB ethernet ~unlimited, ie I can easily get 800KiB/s from the campus, and 400KiB/s from outside. They began limiting the downloads to 8GiB/month though.
Can't read the PDF yet (downloading it), but there's three problems I can spot right away:
One of the problems I can see is the thermal expansion and contraction due to the temperature gradient between night and day. With the length (36000 km), even a very small expansion would result in a very long difference. Say it's alpha=1e-6 and delT=100K, it's still 3.6km! Where do you put the extra length? In the ocean?
Also, another point to keep in mind is that with such a temperature gradient between one end and the other one, it can act as a giant heat pump. At night, heat will be pumped out of the globe, probably enough to freeze the water vapour around it. During the day, it would probably radiate so much heat that it would be dangerous to approach it.
How do you manage for the movement of the satellite? It cannot be completely compensated through the movement of the base.
Pressure from the wind (drag). Even if the satellite is geostationnary, it doesn't mean that there's no wind around the base. Actually, with the length and the size of it, there'll be quite a drag on the lower part (assuming the majority is out of the atmosphere).
Seen it too at $CAN 9.99 at the local EB. Tin box with a yellow sticker saying "Can be made compatible with Windows". It was cheaper than the CD-box only version of Quake2, which was $CAN 12.99!
But Q3 is an "old" game: it's been out for more than 2 years now. Heretic II is quite old also. What Dreaker was talking about is the current batch of games they ported: Kohan, even Rune, won't be seen at those prices in the near future just because Loki went under, they'll be seen at those prices in a few months because nobody picked them up at the regular price and they need the shelves back to put some newer (and pricier) stuff on them.
Anyway, that's my view, feel free to correct/moderate me.
They won't catch on if nobody uses them, as Divx showed us (not the one you're using, the other, older one). But I still think that these units are better, if only resulting in better advertisement from the HD makers.
From the LKML post linked in the story, it seems it's because some 4MiB pages (I couldn't understand why 4KiB pages aren't affected, if they effectively are not) are allocated for the AGP (GART more specifically) with some bits set telling it is cacheable.
Why would somebody want to cache the AGP memory? I'm pretty sure it's used 99.99% of the time as write-only memory, because it's the main output method of most computers. What's the point of caching that? It can only prevent the use of the CPU cache by some more important things, no?
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not very familiar with the usage of AGP memory (or GARTs).
Not to nitpick, but in the Reuters article it is said that the inventor is an electrical engineer, not a mechanical engineer. I know the two can be quite similar, but they are nonetheless different!
Oh well, it's probably just a little mistake that slipped through the editing. But the connection to a Hydrogen society (in another reply to the parent) indicates more a mechanical than electrical engineer.
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But you can read the file before it is processed by autoconf and/or automake.
If you trust those 2 programs to not have backdoors (along with all the M4 macros) and to correctly process their input files, the config.in and Makefile.in are a lot easier to read.
It's the same thing with a C source file: you don't read the ELF executable, you read the C file. The source to a lot of configure scripts is config.in, and the source to Makefile is Makefile.in (or Makefile.am, I do not have a lot of experience with it).
Of course, what doesn't help is that a lot of trees use recursive Makefiles, so you have to read all of them and check that they are not modified during the installation. Then, the build system is out of the equation and you can concentrate on the actual program.
At any rate, Mars still has low oxygen. I'd like to see how they work out using (hydrocarbon) fuel:P
That's easy. Same way as the astronauts (or marsonauts if you prefer) will breathe, which means probably with oxygen bottles (liquid if the quantity is important and the temperature is not, else gaseous but at high pressure). Heck, the rockets that sent all the Apollo missions used liquid oxygen! It's some additional weight to carry on a plane, but since flying on Mars is inefficient to begin with...
Now, the real kicker is how do you get that oxygen. The problem needs an answer anyway because of the humans that will probably be sent over there in the next couple years (or century).
There's a couple ways. Ever wondered why Mars was red? Rust. And what is rust? Iron + oxygen. So you only have to separate them, either with a chemical reaction or with enough energy (electricity), which can come from the Sun or a nuclear reactor.
If Mars is ever colonized (which flying vehicules on it implies, in part because of the costs involved) rather than visited as the Moon has been, there will probably be a power grid, a water grid and an air grid, as long as the outside is too harsh without a suit.
Actually, the spaces inserted in long words is a feature of Slashcode, not a bug. Not sure which version of Slashcode Slashdot is running at the moment, but in version 2.2, the default value of MAX_WORD_LENGTH, in function breakHTML, is 50 (according to both comments in Slash/Utility/Data/Data.pm AND the code there). After previewing this comment, I can assure you it's the same thing on Slashdot. If you wanted to entirely avoid the extra spaces, you could just have put the URLs in plain <A href="link">link</A> tags, and your research would have been more easily reused by others. By the way, attributes in HTML tags are not cut the way described above.
But the word boundaries in Slashcode could include dashes also, rather than only spaces. It would be easier to describe-things-that-takes-so-many-attributes-you- don't-remember-what's-at-the-beginning...
Because in the last two-three weeks, it seems as if almost all new articles on Tom's were featured here a few days after.
It's not that Tom's a bad site (actually, it's one of the 4-5 sites I go on a daily basis), but if I want to know what he has to say (or Omid or else), I'll go check it up myself. Tom's not as prolific as Salon or Wired or the NYT, so it's much easier to check what's new on his site on a regular basis and still manage to do something else.
Anyway, the goal of my comment is just to raise the issue, not to troll. I read Tom regularly for 3-4 years now, as well as Anand, so it's just that I don't appreciate reading all of it twice.
My question was more on the comparison of the 4 motherboards I linked to. They all use the AMD 760MP chipset, or at least for the North Bridge (information in Anand's article is rather scarce on which SB are used (AMD or VIA)). So given that it's the same chip underneath, why ASUS put a HS on top of it while the three others only put a heat spreader?
I don't really plan to overclock (well, maybe like 135-140MHz), so probably any one of them will react the same as far as the NB is concerned.
My personal taste was with the ASUS, but my final decision will depend on the date I will be able to grab any of those, the price at that time, what kind of HSF can be fitted on top of the CPUs and what are the integrated components (RAID, sound, etc.).
Some questions (apart from the official release date, or more importantly the "in stock" date) sprung to my mind after checking some of those photos:
Why do the Abit doesn't seem to have USB ports? Or is it rather the PS/2 ports that are missing? (Check the upper right corner)
Again on the Abit, on the bottom left, there's a PLCC (or another Quad side package) that's empty. Do any of you know if they usually show working motherboards, or rather engineering samples that may do nothing?
The ASUS is the only one with a full-blown heat-sink (w/o fan) on the North bridge, the other ones only have a heat spreader. For the look only or more stable operation?
On the Gigabyte, what kind of ports are in the upper center part? Firewire ports? And again, there's only one set of ports at the top (either USB or PS/2). I find it quite strange.
Fortunately, all of those motherboards are equipped with mounting holes for the CPU heatsinks. Now to find some quite quiet HSF to go with that pair of MP 1600+...
I just went to tomshardware.com, and he (well, actually Frank Vöelkel) has an explanation as to what is in the newer video, and how it can be explained that their test blew the Athlon.
In short, because the Siemens motherboard (as all other motherboards on the market now) do not protect the CPU from thermal death, but that AMD has some new design guidelines which can protect it with the addition of a chip.
As someone who does scientific programming in FORTRAN and even MORTRAN.
FORTRAN stands for FORmula TRANslator, but what do MORTRAN stands for? A computer language which has omething to do with matrices, a bit like Matlab (even if it's not really a real computer language)?
Never heard of that one.
Requires an integrated automated fingerprint identification system for points of entry and overseas consular posts
As an anonymous coward already said here, this seems to be the scariest part for foreigners (apart from the 7 days without any process). Does it mean that when I cross the border (I'm Canadian) I'll have to give my fingerprints? And same thing for any American coming back home?
Seems a bit over the edge...
As for the number of Border Patrol, Customs Service and INS inspectors at the northern border, TV here showed Hillary saying that it was primarily the US who didn't have enough, not Canada. In fact, I don't say anything to the Canadian officer when I go skiing to Jay Peak: it's when I come back that they have some questions.
Back in time a few years, I used to install the demo version of Duke 3D in a ramdisk at school because the all new P100s didn't have an easily accessible harddisk. They were booting by a ROM on the network card, where you could press F5 or F8 to stop the loading of config.sys and autoexec.bat and then you had the control. Of course, without a hard drive, you couldn't do much...
The catch here was that you couldn't use the normal DOS ramdisk because you couldn't write to config.sys. The trick around that was to find a nice little utility called fu_rd (accessible from any Simtelnet mirror) which allowed you to setup your ramdisks on the commandline, and to resize them on the fly. Not sure how it works under Windows, though.
Anyway, back to Duke3D, they finally caught us because 1) we were shouting at each other in the lab, 2) the lights on some hub or router went mad and they looked for the cause, 3) it was against their policy. Still, after that, we played Descent on the new (1996) Macs, and a little bit of Doom, too. Never been caught on those.
On another note, anybody has some info as to the development of the next version of Duke Nukem?
The nice thing about graphical pipes is the ability to easily and transparently connect several forms of data to one node. With command line pipes, you've effectively only got one input and output.
There's the tee utility that is meant just for that, along with pipes (the file type), aka as FIFO.
You create the FIFO with mknod(1), then connect a program to it with cat FIFO |program, and then pipe the output of your primary pipe to both the FIFO and to another program with pipe |tee FIFO| program2.
Of course, you could use some normal files rather than programs at all stages. Just don't forget to connect the FIFO first, else it won't work.
Probably one of the Linux sites for beginners had (or will have, or presently has) a better explanation of the use of tee.
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and the LaTeX Companions Boxed set. Even if I'm not is the CS field per se, I like to program in my spare time and to help me in my field (mechanical engineering).
I don't have time right now to read that paper, but if the GP of Malaysia is boring (like if Shumacher takes the lead at the start) I'll read it tonight.
As others have already mentionned, Cygwin is a good choice.
DJGPP is another port of GCC for DOS. It uses the protected mode, so you're not limited to 64K segments. If you want an IDE, RHIDE (available at the same place) is very similar to Borland's.
I just received my black YeongYang Cube case (No, not Cube as in Apple, just Cube), and it looks a lot like this case. The case is twice as wide as a normal case, with the motherboard on one side and the drives on the other. They are made for servers: 2 external 3 1/2, 6 external 5 1/4, 8 internal 3 1/2. More space than a full tower, and half as high.
By the way, YeongYang is not the only manufacturer of this type of cases: I know Chenbro has a similar line.
karnal, I have some questions regarding bbiagent. What fs is the disk you can download from them? And where can I download the source code for it (if they patched some GPL'd code)? The disk doesn't seem to be ext2 nor vfat, and file only identifies it as an x86 boot sector. I might try to include Minix and Ext fs next time I recompile my kernel.
Before using it on my network, I'd like to know how it works and what's compiled in.
If somebody else has another one floppy distribution which can do the same thing and is not as secret, please share it with the rest of us. Thank you!
If they'll allow you to use a switch, why spend some more money and buy a router? These things are usually used when either you're not supposed to hook more than one computer, or when only one computer can't be connected directly to the Internet because of some authentication mechanism (PPPoE, DHCP w/ only 1 address per port, etc.)
If they allow you to grab more than one IP address, and the network is either fixed address or DHCP, go with a switch. A 100Mbps switch will set you back around 40$.
Or use one of your computer as a bridge (NAT) before the switch. But then you'll have to open it anytime you want one of the other ones to go online, unless you let it on all the time as I do... and some protocols still don't like NATted computers.
At least you don't have to tell why you want the source to rebuild what's installed.
And in the case of a postal address, it means that CDs are ready (or can be in a timely manner).
Maybe they wouldn't ship actual installation media, but they should be able to provide a way to download it from the Internet. I know RedHat (and probably Debian) are installable with only a bootdisk via the net. Ok, so it won't work for 56k, but then nothing will except actual physical media.
Actaully, they might even be forced to do so because of the GPL: if you get binairies, you're entitled to the source code. Do you think they would install the source for the whole OS+GPL'd apps on the harddrive? I didn't either.
I'm paying $CAN 30+modem+taxes for DSL in Montréal, QC, Canada. The total billed is $CAN 35.45 per month. Normally the modem is $CAN 10, but there was a promotion when I signed up so I don't have to pay it. Installation was free as well.
I can't really tell what the speed is (never asked Sympatico), but I think the upload cap is 128kbps (couldn't get more than 16.6KiB/s). Download is 512kbps or 1024kbps.
In the dorm of the school I attend, we pay $CAN 65 for the whole semester for 100MB ethernet ~unlimited, ie I can easily get 800KiB/s from the campus, and 400KiB/s from outside. They began limiting the downloads to 8GiB/month though.
Seen it too at $CAN 9.99 at the local EB. Tin box with a yellow sticker saying "Can be made compatible with Windows". It was cheaper than the CD-box only version of Quake2, which was $CAN 12.99!
But Q3 is an "old" game: it's been out for more than 2 years now. Heretic II is quite old also. What Dreaker was talking about is the current batch of games they ported: Kohan, even Rune, won't be seen at those prices in the near future just because Loki went under, they'll be seen at those prices in a few months because nobody picked them up at the regular price and they need the shelves back to put some newer (and pricier) stuff on them.
Anyway, that's my view, feel free to correct/moderate me.
They won't catch on if nobody uses them, as Divx showed us (not the one you're using, the other, older one). But I still think that these units are better, if only resulting in better advertisement from the HD makers.
From the LKML post linked in the story, it seems it's because some 4MiB pages (I couldn't understand why 4KiB pages aren't affected, if they effectively are not) are allocated for the AGP (GART more specifically) with some bits set telling it is cacheable.
Why would somebody want to cache the AGP memory? I'm pretty sure it's used 99.99% of the time as write-only memory, because it's the main output method of most computers. What's the point of caching that? It can only prevent the use of the CPU cache by some more important things, no?
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not very familiar with the usage of AGP memory (or GARTs).
Not to nitpick, but in the Reuters article it is said that the inventor is an electrical engineer, not a mechanical engineer. I know the two can be quite similar, but they are nonetheless different!
Oh well, it's probably just a little mistake that slipped through the editing. But the connection to a Hydrogen society (in another reply to the parent) indicates more a mechanical than electrical engineer.
But you can read the file before it is processed by autoconf and/or automake.
If you trust those 2 programs to not have backdoors (along with all the M4 macros) and to correctly process their input files, the config.in and Makefile.in are a lot easier to read.
It's the same thing with a C source file: you don't read the ELF executable, you read the C file. The source to a lot of configure scripts is config.in, and the source to Makefile is Makefile.in (or Makefile.am, I do not have a lot of experience with it).
Of course, what doesn't help is that a lot of trees use recursive Makefiles, so you have to read all of them and check that they are not modified during the installation. Then, the build system is out of the equation and you can concentrate on the actual program.
At any rate, Mars still has low oxygen. I'd like to see how they work out using (hydrocarbon) fuel :P
That's easy. Same way as the astronauts (or marsonauts if you prefer) will breathe, which means probably with oxygen bottles (liquid if the quantity is important and the temperature is not, else gaseous but at high pressure). Heck, the rockets that sent all the Apollo missions used liquid oxygen! It's some additional weight to carry on a plane, but since flying on Mars is inefficient to begin with...
Now, the real kicker is how do you get that oxygen. The problem needs an answer anyway because of the humans that will probably be sent over there in the next couple years (or century). There's a couple ways. Ever wondered why Mars was red? Rust. And what is rust? Iron + oxygen. So you only have to separate them, either with a chemical reaction or with enough energy (electricity), which can come from the Sun or a nuclear reactor.
If Mars is ever colonized (which flying vehicules on it implies, in part because of the costs involved) rather than visited as the Moon has been, there will probably be a power grid, a water grid and an air grid, as long as the outside is too harsh without a suit.
Actually, the spaces inserted in long words is a feature of Slashcode, not a bug.- don't-remember-what's-at-the-beginning...
Not sure which version of Slashcode Slashdot is running at the moment, but in version 2.2, the default value of MAX_WORD_LENGTH, in function breakHTML, is 50 (according to both comments in Slash/Utility/Data/Data.pm AND the code there). After previewing this comment, I can assure you it's the same thing on Slashdot.
If you wanted to entirely avoid the extra spaces, you could just have put the URLs in plain <A href="link">link</A> tags, and your research would have been more easily reused by others. By the way, attributes in HTML tags are not cut the way described above.
But the word boundaries in Slashcode could include dashes also, rather than only spaces. It would be easier to describe-things-that-takes-so-many-attributes-you
Because in the last two-three weeks, it seems as if almost all new articles on Tom's were featured here a few days after.
It's not that Tom's a bad site (actually, it's one of the 4-5 sites I go on a daily basis), but if I want to know what he has to say (or Omid or else), I'll go check it up myself. Tom's not as prolific as Salon or Wired or the NYT, so it's much easier to check what's new on his site on a regular basis and still manage to do something else.
Anyway, the goal of my comment is just to raise the issue, not to troll. I read Tom regularly for 3-4 years now, as well as Anand, so it's just that I don't appreciate reading all of it twice.
My question was more on the comparison of the 4 motherboards I linked to. They all use the AMD 760MP chipset, or at least for the North Bridge (information in Anand's article is rather scarce on which SB are used (AMD or VIA)). So given that it's the same chip underneath, why ASUS put a HS on top of it while the three others only put a heat spreader?
I don't really plan to overclock (well, maybe like 135-140MHz), so probably any one of them will react the same as far as the NB is concerned.
My personal taste was with the ASUS, but my final decision will depend on the date I will be able to grab any of those, the price at that time, what kind of HSF can be fitted on top of the CPUs and what are the integrated components (RAID, sound, etc.).
- Abit's WA2A
- Asus's (AM266-D?)
- Gigabyte's GA-7DPXDW
- MSI's (MS-6501?)
Some questions (apart from the official release date, or more importantly the "in stock" date) sprung to my mind after checking some of those photos:- Why do the Abit doesn't seem to have USB ports? Or is it rather the PS/2 ports that are missing? (Check the upper right corner)
- Again on the Abit, on the bottom left, there's a PLCC (or another Quad side package) that's empty. Do any of you know if they usually show working motherboards, or rather engineering samples that may do nothing?
- The ASUS is the only one with a full-blown heat-sink (w/o fan) on the North bridge, the other ones only have a heat spreader. For the look only or more stable operation?
- On the Gigabyte, what kind of ports are in the upper center part? Firewire ports? And again, there's only one set of ports at the top (either USB or PS/2). I find it quite strange.
Fortunately, all of those motherboards are equipped with mounting holes for the CPU heatsinks. Now to find some quite quiet HSF to go with that pair of MP 1600+...I just went to tomshardware.com, and he (well, actually Frank Vöelkel) has an explanation as to what is in the newer video, and how it can be explained that their test blew the Athlon.
In short, because the Siemens motherboard (as all other motherboards on the market now) do not protect the CPU from thermal death, but that AMD has some new design guidelines which can protect it with the addition of a chip.
Go read it yourself here.
As someone who does scientific programming in FORTRAN and even MORTRAN.
FORTRAN stands for FORmula TRANslator, but what do MORTRAN stands for? A computer language which has omething to do with matrices, a bit like Matlab (even if it's not really a real computer language)?
Never heard of that one.
Requires an integrated automated fingerprint identification system for points of entry and overseas consular posts
As an anonymous coward already said here, this seems to be the scariest part for foreigners (apart from the 7 days without any process). Does it mean that when I cross the border (I'm Canadian) I'll have to give my fingerprints? And same thing for any American coming back home?
Seems a bit over the edge...
As for the number of Border Patrol, Customs Service and INS inspectors at the northern border, TV here showed Hillary saying that it was primarily the US who didn't have enough, not Canada. In fact, I don't say anything to the Canadian officer when I go skiing to Jay Peak: it's when I come back that they have some questions.
Back in time a few years, I used to install the demo version of Duke 3D in a ramdisk at school because the all new P100s didn't have an easily accessible harddisk. They were booting by a ROM on the network card, where you could press F5 or F8 to stop the loading of config.sys and autoexec.bat and then you had the control. Of course, without a hard drive, you couldn't do much...
The catch here was that you couldn't use the normal DOS ramdisk because you couldn't write to config.sys. The trick around that was to find a nice little utility called fu_rd (accessible from any Simtelnet mirror) which allowed you to setup your ramdisks on the commandline, and to resize them on the fly. Not sure how it works under Windows, though.
Anyway, back to Duke3D, they finally caught us because 1) we were shouting at each other in the lab, 2) the lights on some hub or router went mad and they looked for the cause, 3) it was against their policy. Still, after that, we played Descent on the new (1996) Macs, and a little bit of Doom, too. Never been caught on those.
On another note, anybody has some info as to the development of the next version of Duke Nukem?
The nice thing about graphical pipes is the ability to easily and transparently connect several forms of data to one node. With command line pipes, you've effectively only got one input and output.
There's the tee utility that is meant just for that, along with pipes (the file type), aka as FIFO.
You create the FIFO with mknod(1), then connect a program to it with cat FIFO |program, and then pipe the output of your primary pipe to both the FIFO and to another program with pipe |tee FIFO| program2.
Of course, you could use some normal files rather than programs at all stages. Just don't forget to connect the FIFO first, else it won't work.
Probably one of the Linux sites for beginners had (or will have, or presently has) a better explanation of the use of tee.
(Sorry for the double post, had cookies disabled)