Except that you chose to drive that point with an example that is in fact GPL'd
Except that it's not GPL'd.
And besides, it was wrong too, since Mozilla is not just MPL, but GPL and LGPL too, whichever fits you.
No, whatever fits an author, not a user. And, I assume that this distributor didn't actually write code for the project, but is just using the project, so they aren't dictating the license to be used.
The./ story, as well as the link (Portable Virtual Privacy Machine), say that it's 100% GPL, but at least the Mozilla parts (Firefox and Thunderbird) are under the Netscape Public License.
"Normal" power output is "just enough for the tower to hear you with a minimal error rate". Maybe the poster meant "power of 1/1000 the typical amount".
My CDMA phone adjusts its power level 400 times per second, I believe. If I am close enough to the cell to only require 0.1mW, then that's all my phone will transmit.
Typically, my phone probably puts out 10mW. But it is designed for power output in any amount below 200mW. (See this link)
The UCSD Network Telescope consists of a large piece of globally announced IPv4 address space. The telescope contains almost no legitimate hosts, so inbound traffic to nonexistent machines is always anomalous in some way. Because the network telescope contains approximately 1/256th of all IPv4 addresses, we receive roughly one out of every 256 packets sent by an Internet worm with an unbiased random number generator. Because we are uniquely situated to receive traffic from every worm-infected host, we provide a global view of the spread of Internet worms.
Why are they sitting on such a large number of unused IP addresses? Everybody that complains (and rightfully so) about the shortage of IPv4 address should knock on UCSD's door...
Even with NAT, it's good to have IP addresses available. If we ever move to IPv6, which is more efficient and has more usable features as well as having an insanely larger number of addresses, we might not have to worry, but IPv4 addresses definately need to be conserved.
(While we're on the topic... will we ever fully move to IPv6? The US is still holding out on switching from the imperial system.)
Wow, I discovered a few days ago the ability of procmail to filter out all these nasty things. A procmail recipe is maintained that has many, many virus definitions, and has the Bagle/Beagle one already. I just set up a cron job to pull the latest version down every week.
Ok, so where's the "human readable"? There is no analysis, conclusions, or anything else except raw numbers. There are no rankings, no sugestions, just numbers.
Also, the test was run on a Pentium II, 450MHz, 512MB of ram and a 6.5GB IDE disk, 5400 rpm, 256kb cache, and 3 heads (=4gb/platter). This is nowhere close to current technology. You can't even buy this hardware any more! I would have much rather seen a 1-1.5GHz CPU with a 40GB hard disk used in the tests. The amount of memory is adequate, though.
Why not just use Content-Encoding:gzip to reduce the amount of time (text) pages take to transfer over the connection? Or have your ISP's proxy server compress everything on it's way over the pipe? Surely someone has thought of this before...
I just took the test. I think some of the questions are intentionally misleading and/or phrased poorly, eg "What is a DPI?" and the answer for "What is Dot Pitch?" Oh well, it's their test; they can sabotage it however they want.
Here are the questions:
Question 1: Which of the following is a definition of Megahertz?
Choose one of the following answers:
A data transfer technology that uses fiber optic cable to carry information
A unit of measurement equal to 1 million electrical cycles per second, commonly used to compare the clock speeds of microprocessors
A computer's random access memory equal to 1 million bytes
Question 2: Which of the following is a definition of Short Messaging Service (SMS)?
Choose one of the following answers:
A messaging service that points out when an e-mail message was not delivered
The ability to send and receive text messages (words and or numbers) to and from cellular telephones
Service where the computer is installed, instead of having to bring the computer into a shop or ship the computer back to the manufacturer for repairs
Question 3: Which of the following is a definition of WAP?
Choose one of the following answers:
A global standard for developing applications over wireless communication networks
A company that provides wireless telecommunications services
Transmission of voice or other sound by means of electrical signals sent over wires or radio waves
Question 4: Which of the following is a definition of megapixel?
Choose one of the following answers:
A crime committed using a computer or data stored on a computer
A presentation graphics program that enables you to produce attractive presentations
A term used in reference to the resolution of a graphics device such as a scanner, digital camera or monitor
Question 5: What is a Digital Video Recorder or DVR?
Choose one of the following answers:
The same as a VCR/Video Cassette Recorder
A box that records and plays television programs
A box that makes DVDs
Question 6: What is an MP3?
Choose one of the following answers:
An audio compression technology that is part of the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 specifications
A kind of magnetic tape originally designed for audio format now also used in computers to back up data
A box that allows you to watch television programs without commercials
Question 7: What is a DPI?
Choose one of the following answers:
A measure of the resolution of printers, scanners and monitors
A video production made with a desktop computer and home video equipment
A file that has been corrupted by a virus, or computer failure
Question 8: What does it mean to download?
Choose one of the following answers:
To connect a computer to the Internet
To save a file on your computer from a remote computer
To send a computer file to someone else
Question 9: What is Dot Pitch?
Choose one of the following answers:
A special type of television
A method for determining how sharp a displayed image can be
A company that provides individuals and companies access to the Internet
Question 10: What is a Web browser?
Choose one of the following answers:
A person who likes to look at the Internet
A software program that allows you to view sites on the World Wide Web
A computer that stores World Wide Web files
Question 11: What is Bluetooth?
Choose one of the following answers:
A product that can save many photographs in a small space
A way to connect products to each other without using wires
A program that searches the Internet for the lowest price available
I don't know how serious it is, but check out squidng. Supposedly, it uses some kind of raw interface into reiserfs to keep the files for really fast lookups, etc.
I've had this page up for about a month, which describes my efforts to get Linux working on a Toshiba Portege 3500 tablet PC. It has slightly different hardware than the other guy's machine, but probably similar enough for most people...
Check out these antennas. I've had good luck with the few that I've purchased. Be sure to get antennas with the same polarization (horizontal or vertical) -- it makes a big difference in signal strength to have similar polarization!
Of course, they don't run Linux (there is some testing going on, and I found one person who got a kernel to boot, but no usable distros yet)
I disagree. I'm running Gentoo Linux on a Toshiba Portege 3500. The tablet screen works (Gimp is pretty cool with pressure-sensitive input), wireless networking, USB2.0, etc... I'm using kernel 2.4.20, and I just got 2.5.69 to boot, although not all of the hardware features are supported in the 2.5 series yet.
Anyway, check out this for a description of my efforts.
But the truth of the matter is that the US is going to war to protect its own interests.
Those interests include protecting its people and providing a safe, free environment for them to live and work in. If you overlook the fact that the government of Iraq has effectively ignored the spirit of the UN resolutions and inspections over the last several years (12), then I guess you can claim that there are other interests. But, I support the President and the rest of the coalition, which have more knowledge and information about the true happenings within the government and organizations that I do, in deciding that it's necessary to take action to stop the acts of that government which will soon threaten the safety and freedom we enjoy in this country.
You're entitled to your opinion, and this is mine.
Did you (or they) purposely make the exponent the same in the mass values? I was expecting to just compare the exponents, but alas! They are the same. However, Uranus's non-exponent (is that mantissa?) is 86.8, which should be 8.68, and the exponent be 25. But, who wants to be that technical.
I had some horrible experiences with 2.4 around about 2.4.3, then I got really put off by performace problems with 2.4.6. Then there was the new VM in 2.4.10 and disaster with 2.4.11 and 2.4.13.
Okay, so you had some problems with it. All software has problems. But, 2.4.13 was released on October 24, 2001. That a year and a half ago. I think they've worked out the bugs since then...
I suppose what really makes me use FreeBSD is two things, the bloatedness of Redhat and the political aganda of Debian.
There are Linux distributions other than those two. Surely you're not generalizing everything related to Linux by your experience with kernels from a year and a half ago, and a limited choice of distributions (also probably from that same time).
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Except that you chose to drive that point with an example that is in fact GPL'd
Except that it's not GPL'd.
And besides, it was wrong too, since Mozilla is not just MPL, but GPL and LGPL too, whichever fits you.
No, whatever fits an author, not a user. And, I assume that this distributor didn't actually write code for the project, but is just using the project, so they aren't dictating the license to be used.
... and the other two licenses are not.
All licenses must be adhered to.
Thanks for pointing out the same thing as the previous post.
Anyway, my point was that the thing claims to have 100% GPL'ed software, but not everything on it is GPL'ed.
The ./ story, as well as the link (Portable Virtual Privacy Machine), say that it's 100% GPL, but at least the Mozilla parts (Firefox and Thunderbird) are under the Netscape Public License.
Should I believe anything else these folks say?
"Normal" power output is "just enough for the tower to hear you with a minimal error rate". Maybe the poster meant "power of 1/1000 the typical amount".
My CDMA phone adjusts its power level 400 times per second, I believe. If I am close enough to the cell to only require 0.1mW, then that's all my phone will transmit.
Typically, my phone probably puts out 10mW. But it is designed for power output in any amount below 200mW. (See this link)
Maybe I mean PFC...
And your computer power supplies are up to the task?
If not, I would start buying ASAP...
Why are they sitting on such a large number of unused IP addresses? Everybody that complains (and rightfully so) about the shortage of IPv4 address should knock on UCSD's door...
Even with NAT, it's good to have IP addresses available. If we ever move to IPv6, which is more efficient and has more usable features as well as having an insanely larger number of addresses, we might not have to worry, but IPv4 addresses definately need to be conserved.
(While we're on the topic... will we ever fully move to IPv6? The US is still holding out on switching from the imperial system.)
Move 45 miles...
Maybe that's not enough. Wireless access point X 2, antenna X 2...
Check out YAVR
Ok, so where's the "human readable"? There is no analysis, conclusions, or anything else except raw numbers. There are no rankings, no sugestions, just numbers. Also, the test was run on a Pentium II, 450MHz, 512MB of ram and a 6.5GB IDE disk, 5400 rpm, 256kb cache, and 3 heads (=4gb/platter). This is nowhere close to current technology. You can't even buy this hardware any more! I would have much rather seen a 1-1.5GHz CPU with a 40GB hard disk used in the tests. The amount of memory is adequate, though.
Why not just use Content-Encoding:gzip to reduce the amount of time (text) pages take to transfer over the connection? Or have your ISP's proxy server compress everything on it's way over the pipe? Surely someone has thought of this before...
I just took the test. I think some of the questions are intentionally misleading and/or phrased poorly, eg "What is a DPI?" and the answer for "What is Dot Pitch?" Oh well, it's their test; they can sabotage it however they want.
Here are the questions:
Question 1: Which of the following is a definition of Megahertz?
Choose one of the following answers:
A data transfer technology that uses fiber optic cable to carry information
A unit of measurement equal to 1 million electrical cycles per second, commonly used to compare the clock speeds of microprocessors
A computer's random access memory equal to 1 million bytes
Question 2: Which of the following is a definition of Short Messaging Service (SMS)?
Choose one of the following answers:
A messaging service that points out when an e-mail message was not delivered
The ability to send and receive text messages (words and or numbers) to and from cellular telephones
Service where the computer is installed, instead of having to bring the computer into a shop or ship the computer back to the manufacturer for repairs
Question 3: Which of the following is a definition of WAP?
Choose one of the following answers:
A global standard for developing applications over wireless communication networks
A company that provides wireless telecommunications services
Transmission of voice or other sound by means of electrical signals sent over wires or radio waves
Question 4: Which of the following is a definition of megapixel?
Choose one of the following answers:
A crime committed using a computer or data stored on a computer
A presentation graphics program that enables you to produce attractive presentations
A term used in reference to the resolution of a graphics device such as a scanner, digital camera or monitor
Question 5: What is a Digital Video Recorder or DVR?
Choose one of the following answers:
The same as a VCR/Video Cassette Recorder
A box that records and plays television programs
A box that makes DVDs
Question 6: What is an MP3?
Choose one of the following answers:
An audio compression technology that is part of the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 specifications
A kind of magnetic tape originally designed for audio format now also used in computers to back up data
A box that allows you to watch television programs without commercials
Question 7: What is a DPI?
Choose one of the following answers:
A measure of the resolution of printers, scanners and monitors
A video production made with a desktop computer and home video equipment
A file that has been corrupted by a virus, or computer failure
Question 8: What does it mean to download?
Choose one of the following answers:
To connect a computer to the Internet
To save a file on your computer from a remote computer
To send a computer file to someone else
Question 9: What is Dot Pitch?
Choose one of the following answers:
A special type of television
A method for determining how sharp a displayed image can be
A company that provides individuals and companies access to the Internet
Question 10: What is a Web browser?
Choose one of the following answers:
A person who likes to look at the Internet
A software program that allows you to view sites on the World Wide Web
A computer that stores World Wide Web files
Question 11: What is Bluetooth?
Choose one of the following answers:
A product that can save many photographs in a small space
A way to connect products to each other without using wires
A program that searches the Internet for the lowest price available
I don't know how serious it is, but check out squidng. Supposedly, it uses some kind of raw interface into reiserfs to keep the files for really fast lookups, etc.
See my page for some info about my efforts with Linux and the 3500...
I've had this page up for about a month, which describes my efforts to get Linux working on a Toshiba Portege 3500 tablet PC. It has slightly different hardware than the other guy's machine, but probably similar enough for most people...
Check out these antennas. I've had good luck with the few that I've purchased. Be sure to get antennas with the same polarization (horizontal or vertical) -- it makes a big difference in signal strength to have similar polarization!
The Unisys LZW patent expires in the USA on June 20, 2003. Then what?
localhost # cat mmap_nfs.c
./mmap_nfs /mnt/axp type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.48.92)
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
int main()
{
void *ptr;
int fd;
char stuff[128];
fd = open( "/mnt/axp/var/log/syslog", O_RDONLY );
if ( fd < 0 )
{
perror ("uhoh: ");
return -1;
}
ptr = mmap( 0, 64, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0 );
if ( ptr == MAP_FAILED )
{
perror ("bad: ");
return -1;
}
memcpy(stuff,ptr, 32);
stuff[32]='\0';
printf("%s\n", stuff );
close(fd);
exit(0);
}
localhost # gcc -o mmap_nfs mmap_nfs.c
localhost #
May 10 18:00:03 axp syslogd 1.4.
localhost # mount | grep mnt/axp
axp:/ on
So, you're wrong: MMAP does work over NFS.
/me shakes head
Mod that up! That's a very important point.
Anyway, check out this for a description of my efforts.
You're entitled to your opinion, and this is mine.
Did you (or they) purposely make the exponent the same in the mass values? I was expecting to just compare the exponents, but alas! They are the same. However, Uranus's non-exponent (is that mantissa?) is 86.8, which should be 8.68, and the exponent be 25. But, who wants to be that technical.
Okay, so you had some problems with it. All software has problems. But, 2.4.13 was released on October 24, 2001. That a year and a half ago. I think they've worked out the bugs since then...
There are Linux distributions other than those two. Surely you're not generalizing everything related to Linux by your experience with kernels from a year and a half ago, and a limited choice of distributions (also probably from that same time).