The Science in 'Fallen Angels' is better than 90% of the so-called 'Science' being put forward by the greens these days.
Classic example is the 'greenhouse cliff', which ignores the fact that average temperatures on earth were roughly 5 degrees higher 1000 years ago, without a disastrous icecap melt.
The iceage cliff in Fallen Angels matches up pretty well with current understanding of how fast iceages begin, and what prevented the 'Little Ice Age' of the last 700 years from becoming a true ice age.
Please get a clue before knocking the science in 'Fallen Angels'
Tier 1's do filter at peering points. They just filter out certain routes, like defaults and Blackhole space, as well as their own space. And that only applies to about 7 or 8 isp's.
Generally, if the router the customer is peering with breaks, the customers circuit is down, so there's no point in doing multihop longer than 2(2 is so loopbacks work).
It's entertaining to see what people with only theoretical knowledge of backbone routing (Like Stephen Dugan) come up with for mythical security holes.
Well, since routers are specifically configured to only accept certain routes from certain peers, Mr. Dugan is talking out his ass.
Now, you could cause some problems by polluting IBGP routes, but that would only affect one ISP, and maybe any of their customers it has that use BGP to get only a default route (Fairly common for hulti T1 customers wanting failover).
But between AS's, route advertisment acceptance is based off agreed upon access or prefix lists. And you can't spoof another router, because hop-counts greater than 1 must be explicitly configured, and nobody sane sets ebgp multihop to be greater than 2.
except a properly configured router will only accept the routes it's told to accept from a given peer.
Access Lists and Prefix Lists.
So you need to comprimise a router which has a peer that was configured by rabid monkeys in order to break anything.
Backbone NOC's are extremely paranoid about this sort of thing, and the Author of the Article in question rather obviously know sweet fuck all about BGP.
The G3 (PPC750) is a development of the PowerPC 603. It's got superb integer performance, decent FP, no Altivec and extremely low power draw.
The G4 (PPC74x0) is a development of the PowerPC601 and 604. Integer Performance is about the same as the 750, but it has a much faster FPU and Altivec. Moderate power draw and a much more powerful CPU overall.
There are more differences between the PPC750 family and the PPC74x0 Family than just Altivec, although that's the most notable difference.
All of these CPU's are descendants of the Power CPU line. Theoretically Mac OS X could run on teh Power4 with some minor work. Now that would make a killer system, at the expense of cost (A single Power4 CPU package, with multiple cores, costs as much as a PowerMac.)
Because it wasn't just the Interface, which wasn't terribly revolutionary. It was the underlying Data Store, Superb Handwriting Recognition and actually useful Assistants (Intelligent Apps, handling information entry).
Personally, I hate the form factor, but I don't find any of the other PDA's to be terribly usable.
EFI isn't related to OpenFirmware. It's more like a bad clone with BIOS combatability added.
OpenFirmware is not related to CHRP/PReP other than being one of the various standards specified by CHRP/PReP. OpenFirmware is an IEEE standard based on Sun's OpenBoot, that has been adopted by Apple and IBM (For some things).
EFI isn't processor neutral. It's x86 only at this point. And it's not related to PXE, although it may support it (OpenFirmware does).
Basicly, it's a bad idea, but probably somewhat better than the BIOS. They'd be better off writing a BIOS clone in Forth, and then implementing OpenFirmware.
Only when Active Desktop's running. And I haven't seen a box running Active Desktop in a couple of years. Only 98 came with it activated Out of the box.
That will kill explorer after a random amount of time. It's Kazaa doing the killing though.
Personally taht's one of the only 2 issues I have with XP. The other being the shitty driver for my ATI Remote Wonder BSOD'ing XP occasionally (v1.2 is so-so, v1.1 is a dead box every few hours)
Actually that's incorrect. You are thinking of SB1394, which is much more restrictive than the IEEE1394 spec (And not quite interoperable). For interoperability IEEE1394=Firewire=i.Link!=SB1394.
And has the IEEE updated recently? IIRC the Apple licensing thing happened quite recently.
G3/333 Beige or G3/350 B&W should be at or under $400US.
Both will run OS X, with decent amounts of ram. both take PC-100 or PC-133 SD-RAM.
I've got a 333 with the UW SCSI and 256Megs ram, runs OS X decently (Video is a bit slow, but a PCI Radeon Mac edition or PCI Rage 128 will solve that).
Nope. It refers to a mid-90's Comic series about a number of 19th century 'Extraordinary Gentlemen' who work for a fellow named M in fighting super-villains.
Amongst the members of this group are Dr. Jekyll, The Invisible Man, Captain Nemo, Allan Quartermain and Campion Bond.
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The Science in 'Fallen Angels' is better than 90% of the so-called 'Science' being put forward by the greens these days.
Classic example is the 'greenhouse cliff', which ignores the fact that average temperatures on earth were roughly 5 degrees higher 1000 years ago, without a disastrous icecap melt.
The iceage cliff in Fallen Angels matches up pretty well with current understanding of how fast iceages begin, and what prevented the 'Little Ice Age' of the last 700 years from becoming a true ice age.
Please get a clue before knocking the science in 'Fallen Angels'
That was Apple's semi-official pronounciation for years.
Apple's Cases are MiniATX. Just better designed than PC cases which still owe alot to the crappy old AT minitower form factor.
Tier 1's do filter at peering points. They just filter out certain routes, like defaults and Blackhole space, as well as their own space. And that only applies to about 7 or 8 isp's.
Generally, if the router the customer is peering with breaks, the customers circuit is down, so there's no point in doing multihop longer than 2(2 is so loopbacks work).
And that's exactly what everybody does.
It's entertaining to see what people with only theoretical knowledge of backbone routing (Like Stephen Dugan) come up with for mythical security holes.
Well, since routers are specifically configured to only accept certain routes from certain peers, Mr. Dugan is talking out his ass.
Now, you could cause some problems by polluting IBGP routes, but that would only affect one ISP, and maybe any of their customers it has that use BGP to get only a default route (Fairly common for hulti T1 customers wanting failover).
But between AS's, route advertisment acceptance is based off agreed upon access or prefix lists. And you can't spoof another router, because hop-counts greater than 1 must be explicitly configured, and nobody sane sets ebgp multihop to be greater than 2.
except a properly configured router will only accept the routes it's told to accept from a given peer.
Access Lists and Prefix Lists.
So you need to comprimise a router which has a peer that was configured by rabid monkeys in order to break anything.
Backbone NOC's are extremely paranoid about this sort of thing, and the Author of the Article in question rather obviously know sweet fuck all about BGP.
The G3 (PPC750) is a development of the PowerPC 603. It's got superb integer performance, decent FP, no Altivec and extremely low power draw.
The G4 (PPC74x0) is a development of the PowerPC601 and 604. Integer Performance is about the same as the 750, but it has a much faster FPU and Altivec. Moderate power draw and a much more powerful CPU overall.
There are more differences between the PPC750 family and the PPC74x0 Family than just Altivec, although that's the most notable difference.
All of these CPU's are descendants of the Power CPU line. Theoretically Mac OS X could run on teh Power4 with some minor work. Now that would make a killer system, at the expense of cost (A single Power4 CPU package, with multiple cores, costs as much as a PowerMac.)
Because it wasn't just the Interface, which wasn't terribly revolutionary. It was the underlying Data Store, Superb Handwriting Recognition and actually useful Assistants (Intelligent Apps, handling information entry).
Personally, I hate the form factor, but I don't find any of the other PDA's to be terribly usable.
The reason the US didn't rank well was due to their hesitacny to allow unprepared reporters into combat zones.
The report was heavily biased BTW, for Political Reasons.
ROFLMAO.
The Mop and Pail??? You Must be kidding me, what are you going to recomend next, the Toronto Star?
Meh.
Mark Steyn of the Post is where it's at for World News.
Get a new PRAM Battery, that's why your PRAM needs zapping constantly.
And if it takes 15 minutes to boot, I'd be shocked, my Beige G3 only takes about 4 (And yes, that's slow)
EFI isn't related to OpenFirmware. It's more like a bad clone with BIOS combatability added.
OpenFirmware is not related to CHRP/PReP other than being one of the various standards specified by CHRP/PReP. OpenFirmware is an IEEE standard based on Sun's OpenBoot, that has been adopted by Apple and IBM (For some things).
EFI isn't processor neutral. It's x86 only at this point. And it's not related to PXE, although it may support it (OpenFirmware does).
Basicly, it's a bad idea, but probably somewhat better than the BIOS. They'd be better off writing a BIOS clone in Forth, and then implementing OpenFirmware.
Only when Active Desktop's running. And I haven't seen a box running Active Desktop in a couple of years. Only 98 came with it activated Out of the box.
Darwin is a BSD
FreeBSD and OpenBSD probably better on x86 though.
Sametime is merely a very bad clone of ICQ. I use it and hate it. It's a poorly implemented IM client, and nothing more.
That's IE aka iexplore.exe, not Windows Explorer aka explorer.exe
One's a web browser, the other is the Desktop Environment (Start Menu, File Browser, etc).
It's something about how Kazaa handles the download files. Not sure what (I don't have a debuger installed).
But there is a very set group of circumstances that point to Kazaa being the problem (Kinda like the Massive Memory leak in the SB Live Mixer TSR)
Running Kazaa?
Got a window open in your shared files directory?
That will kill explorer after a random amount of time. It's Kazaa doing the killing though.
Personally taht's one of the only 2 issues I have with XP. The other being the shitty driver for my ATI Remote Wonder BSOD'ing XP occasionally (v1.2 is so-so, v1.1 is a dead box every few hours)
Actually that's incorrect. You are thinking of SB1394, which is much more restrictive than the IEEE1394 spec (And not quite interoperable). For interoperability IEEE1394=Firewire=i.Link!=SB1394.
And has the IEEE updated recently? IIRC the Apple licensing thing happened quite recently.
Not any more. Apple licensed the Firewire name for free to the IEEE. So now it's officially Firewire, although Sony still uses the i.Link branding.
G3/333 Beige or G3/350 B&W should be at or under $400US.
Both will run OS X, with decent amounts of ram. both take PC-100 or PC-133 SD-RAM.
I've got a 333 with the UW SCSI and 256Megs ram, runs OS X decently (Video is a bit slow, but a PCI Radeon Mac edition or PCI Rage 128 will solve that).
Nope. It refers to a mid-90's Comic series about a number of 19th century 'Extraordinary Gentlemen' who work for a fellow named M in fighting super-villains.
Amongst the members of this group are Dr. Jekyll, The Invisible Man, Captain Nemo, Allan Quartermain and Campion Bond.
M is Mycroft Holmes.
Preachin' to the choir man.
Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt.
no, we've had it closer to twenty years. WTF do you think sed & awk are? Regex's are patterns.