They could pull an Atheros and hire several of the core open-source driver developers to their own team. Linux support for Atheros chipsets has been phenomenal ever since.
...for CPUs to multiply incorrectly when their voltage get pulsed? It seems like you could solve this problem with a good voltage regulator. Something that resets the CPU if the voltage falls/rises to a point that would cause calculation errors.
It's actually a little different than the preload that's been in Gentoo for years. The core functionality is of course the same, but now a daemon runs that caches libraries and updates the linkage periodically. So, it can possibly give much more performance, since everything is always up-to-date.
It will be standard in Hardy Heron when it comes out.
Nope, I checked the domain before and after it was registered by the registrar. It was not registered before they checked, and it was afterwards (at least a few hours later). All the people did was type in the domain in Internet Explorer. The "date registered" date showed the day that they typed it into their browser. Another very suspicious thing is that the domain was unregistered after two weeks. I don't remember the exact name of the registrar, something like "King Domain" or something like that.
I personally am very against something like this. I've heard of several people just typing a domain name into Internet Explorer, seeing that it didn't exist, and then moments later trying to register the domain only to find that it was just barely registered by some registrar. Of course in these cases, Microsoft or possibly some spyware company was the culprit, but I'd hate for this information to be more quickly and widely available. I can't see how anyone would be OK with this.
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The problem with their implementation is that the USB dongle that comes with the hub will not enable you for future Wireless USB devices, i.e. all you get is a hub, and that's it. So if you buy one of these, you'll also have to buy another Wireless Host Controller or Host Wired Adapter a few months down the road to give you full wireless USB capabilities. I'm holding out for one of those, personally.
While I think this is generally a good idea, these are the only problems I see, and they are all related with the size of BSD vs. Linux.
There is no uClibc equivalent for BSD. Thus, you have to use the standard BSD libc, which is much, much more bloated.
There is no BSD-licensed equivalent of Busybox, thus you currently have to include the standard, much larger tools to accomplish most of the same tasks.
The current net80211 stack itself is fairly bloated. I'd like to see some of the functionality of the stack stripped out so that it is smaller. It is currently a ~230kb+ driver on X86 architectures, which is rather large.
These are very real issues since manufacturers would much rather buy 2MB flash pieces than 4 or 8MB flash pieces for their routers/APs. It can literally save them 2-8 dollars *per unit*. For this reason, I don't see many vendors switching to *BSD any time soon until BSD can come up with busybox- and uClibc-type projects that don't have a GPL license.
I'm just wondering if he ever tried Gentoo Linux before he gave up Linux altogether. Gentoo has some distinct advantages over other Linux distributions. I myself have been frustrated with some of the shortcomings of other binary Linux distributions, but have grown to love Gentoo because:
I never have to upgrade from one version to another. I'm always up to date! This is completely different from every other operating system out there. Whether it's Windows upgrading from XP to Longhorn, MacOS upgrading from 10.3 to 10.4, or Fedora upgrading from FC3 to FC4, most every OS out there requires a major upgrade every now and then. Gentoo does not.
You have complete control over your programs. Don't like how a specific program works? Well, you can easily change the source and compile required libraries. Dependencies and required versions of libraries can be a nightmare in some distributions.
Generally, everything just works. In my experience, I agree that it has absolutely been a chore to get some things working in Linux. Most of the time I don't mind it, but with Gentoo Linux I have definitely had to meddle with the system LESS than ever before. I have less programs crashing, even when I'm running all of the latest stuff.
I don't think I would have ever switched away from Linux, but Gentoo has certainly given Linux a new light that many Linux users just have not seen yet.
Why does it matter if Linux itself is violating any software patents? Shouldn't the companies that distribute Linux be worried about the patents, NOT the users of the distributions? If I were Munich, I'd go right ahead with the deployment and let IBM, SuSE, Novell, Red Hat, etc. deal with the software patent issues because THEY are the ones distributing the software.
No, it's not because C is being used here. It's because assembly is being included in the program. If you weren't able to compile the inline assembly, you wouldn't be able to compile this program on a specific system.
Plus, you can just create a raw ELF binary that has this assembly instruction in it (if you knew all the opcodes, etc.) and crash a system. This has nothing to do with the language that is being used.
Does anyone here remember the Nintendo World Championships in 1990? Or did anyone take part in it? I think it's pretty funny that the kid who won in the Wizard movie was from Utah (just like the Real Championships). E-mail me if you took part in it. It would be great to have a reunion or something.
jeffhansen.com
I actually have an old bike that was made by Life Fitness on which you could play Mountain Biking games with. It was for the Super Nintendo and it came out around 1994.
Aren't Win4Lin and VMWare both already serving up Windows applications (or at least full blown Windows desktops) from a Linux server? Win4Lin has worked nicely for me for quite some time.
Sqram! (sqrammi.com)
Sure, this is nothing new. But there is something nice about 1ms access times to your data (which I assume this should be able to achieve). I think if you actually tried using this thing to load up a game or something you'd find it would perform more than 2 or 3 times faster than SCSI.
I think I found a bug in the RH8.0 install. While I was installing I was getting a weird XFree86-4.2.0-72 RPM couldn't be installed error, and it said that the media was bad or something. After many hours of toil and turmoil, I found out that it was trying to access the/etc/X11/xkb and/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb files, and that they were infinite links. SOOOO... If you just delete these directories before upgrading to 8.0 (I upgraded from 7.3) then the install should run smoothly!
How can you not agree that this is anti-competitive?
Why don't they buy out the whole friggin' industry? I mean... they could! Is that not anti-competitive?
Have you ever seen Star Wars: Rogue Leader? And who says Nintendo is a ruthless/heartless company? For all I know they're 20 times more honest than Sony or Microsoft put together. Remember the original Playstation? That was going to be Nintendo AND Sony's venture until Sony STOLE the entire thing behind Nintendo's back. Good thing Nintendo knows how to make kickbutt games. Neither Sony nor Microsoft deserve to be in the industry. Good thing they have tons of $$$....
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Actually I think this has a lot to do with MS. They really shouldn't have been allowed to do such a thing. Sure, they haven't been able to make a single decent game themselves, but who cares when you've got $$$ like MS!
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They could pull an Atheros and hire several of the core open-source driver developers to their own team. Linux support for Atheros chipsets has been phenomenal ever since.
I use Netflix primarily, but my MythTV box picks up everything else over-the-air that Netflix won't carry.
...for CPUs to multiply incorrectly when their voltage get pulsed? It seems like you could solve this problem with a good voltage regulator. Something that resets the CPU if the voltage falls/rises to a point that would cause calculation errors.
Why not just use something that's already available, like a RouterStation or Microtik RB433? The RouterStation's cheaper than Marvell's wart, too.
I thought core FreeBSD developers used Perforce: http://perforce.freebsd.org./ Is that not the case?
It's actually a little different than the preload that's been in Gentoo for years. The core functionality is of course the same, but now a daemon runs that caches libraries and updates the linkage periodically. So, it can possibly give much more performance, since everything is always up-to-date. It will be standard in Hardy Heron when it comes out.
Nope, I checked the domain before and after it was registered by the registrar. It was not registered before they checked, and it was afterwards (at least a few hours later). All the people did was type in the domain in Internet Explorer. The "date registered" date showed the day that they typed it into their browser. Another very suspicious thing is that the domain was unregistered after two weeks. I don't remember the exact name of the registrar, something like "King Domain" or something like that.
I personally am very against something like this. I've heard of several people just typing a domain name into Internet Explorer, seeing that it didn't exist, and then moments later trying to register the domain only to find that it was just barely registered by some registrar. Of course in these cases, Microsoft or possibly some spyware company was the culprit, but I'd hate for this information to be more quickly and widely available. I can't see how anyone would be OK with this.
The problem with their implementation is that the USB dongle that comes with the hub will not enable you for future Wireless USB devices, i.e. all you get is a hub, and that's it. So if you buy one of these, you'll also have to buy another Wireless Host Controller or Host Wired Adapter a few months down the road to give you full wireless USB capabilities. I'm holding out for one of those, personally.
- There is no uClibc equivalent for BSD. Thus, you have to use the standard BSD libc, which is much, much more bloated.
- There is no BSD-licensed equivalent of Busybox, thus you currently have to include the standard, much larger tools to accomplish most of the same tasks.
- The current net80211 stack itself is fairly bloated. I'd like to see some of the functionality of the stack stripped out so that it is smaller. It is currently a ~230kb+ driver on X86 architectures, which is rather large.
These are very real issues since manufacturers would much rather buy 2MB flash pieces than 4 or 8MB flash pieces for their routers/APs. It can literally save them 2-8 dollars *per unit*. For this reason, I don't see many vendors switching to *BSD any time soon until BSD can come up with busybox- and uClibc-type projects that don't have a GPL license.- I never have to upgrade from one version to another. I'm always up to date! This is completely different from every other operating system out there. Whether it's Windows upgrading from XP to Longhorn, MacOS upgrading from 10.3 to 10.4, or Fedora upgrading from FC3 to FC4, most every OS out there requires a major upgrade every now and then. Gentoo does not.
- You have complete control over your programs. Don't like how a specific program works? Well, you can easily change the source and compile required libraries. Dependencies and required versions of libraries can be a nightmare in some distributions.
- Generally, everything just works. In my experience, I agree that it has absolutely been a chore to get some things working in Linux. Most of the time I don't mind it, but with Gentoo Linux I have definitely had to meddle with the system LESS than ever before. I have less programs crashing, even when I'm running all of the latest stuff.
I don't think I would have ever switched away from Linux, but Gentoo has certainly given Linux a new light that many Linux users just have not seen yet.VLC is the way to go. There is a plugin that will let you split the video up into multiple windows. It works GREAT.
http://www.videolan.org/
Why does it matter if Linux itself is violating any software patents? Shouldn't the companies that distribute Linux be worried about the patents, NOT the users of the distributions? If I were Munich, I'd go right ahead with the deployment and let IBM, SuSE, Novell, Red Hat, etc. deal with the software patent issues because THEY are the ones distributing the software.
No, it's not because C is being used here. It's because assembly is being included in the program. If you weren't able to compile the inline assembly, you wouldn't be able to compile this program on a specific system. Plus, you can just create a raw ELF binary that has this assembly instruction in it (if you knew all the opcodes, etc.) and crash a system. This has nothing to do with the language that is being used.
I still use pine, too. Love it.
Does anyone here remember the Nintendo World Championships in 1990? Or did anyone take part in it? I think it's pretty funny that the kid who won in the Wizard movie was from Utah (just like the Real Championships). E-mail me if you took part in it. It would be great to have a reunion or something. jeffhansen.com
I actually have an old bike that was made by Life Fitness on which you could play Mountain Biking games with. It was for the Super Nintendo and it came out around 1994.
Aren't Win4Lin and VMWare both already serving up Windows applications (or at least full blown Windows desktops) from a Linux server? Win4Lin has worked nicely for me for quite some time. Sqram! (sqrammi.com)
Sure, this is nothing new. But there is something nice about 1ms access times to your data (which I assume this should be able to achieve). I think if you actually tried using this thing to load up a game or something you'd find it would perform more than 2 or 3 times faster than SCSI.
I think I found a bug in the RH8.0 install. While I was installing I was getting a weird XFree86-4.2.0-72 RPM couldn't be installed error, and it said that the media was bad or something. After many hours of toil and turmoil, I found out that it was trying to access the /etc/X11/xkb and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb files, and that they were infinite links. SOOOO... If you just delete these directories before upgrading to 8.0 (I upgraded from 7.3) then the install should run smoothly!
How can you not agree that this is anti-competitive? Why don't they buy out the whole friggin' industry? I mean... they could! Is that not anti-competitive?
Have you ever seen Star Wars: Rogue Leader? And who says Nintendo is a ruthless/heartless company? For all I know they're 20 times more honest than Sony or Microsoft put together. Remember the original Playstation? That was going to be Nintendo AND Sony's venture until Sony STOLE the entire thing behind Nintendo's back. Good thing Nintendo knows how to make kickbutt games. Neither Sony nor Microsoft deserve to be in the industry. Good thing they have tons of $$$....
Actually I think this has a lot to do with MS. They really shouldn't have been allowed to do such a thing. Sure, they haven't been able to make a single decent game themselves, but who cares when you've got $$$ like MS!
One more company falls to the malicious evil conniving misuse of money we see so often from such an evil company.