IBM did assign copyright for the OS/390 porting code to the FSF. However, since there is a bunch of other IBM Code in the kernel (RCU, NUMA, and some drivers) this is a moot point.
I do think IBM's support of Linux is partially inspired by their desire to return to an industry comprised of Hardware and Professional Services, where they once reigned supreme.
Not worried about smoke issues. I've had to talk a few secretaries & such through hooking up a 1600 series, and the port commonality is a PITA. That's why I suggest the other standard serial connector, rather than Cisco's non-standard connector.
No. Go RS-422 via DIN-8 connectors, effective, supported (SGI, Apple and NeXT all use RS-422) and RS-232 compatible. That way you don't have to worry about morons plugging the network cable into the serial port.
No, there are 3 processor families currently for x86
There's the i686/P6 family, which dates back to the Pentium Pro (Not the pentium) and includes the P-II, P-III and all Slot 1 and Socket 370 Celerons. There's the Athlon Family, AKA teh Athlon, Duron, Athlon MP and Athlon XP, these CPU's are fully i686 compatible, but are a unique design. And then there is the P4 Family, which includes the P4's and the Socket 478 Celerons. The Via/EPIA CPU's are also unique desins, but share a common i686-compatible core.
The Pentium M is unique, in being essentially a P-III Mobile, but using the P4 bus.
The last Generation of i586 CPU's was the K6-III+.
vtun+SSH Port forwarding is the standard for quick+dirty+secure VPN's. vtun is simply a tunneling protocol with some basic security, it is not a secure product in it's own right. Add SSH and it's actually reasonably secure.
It also offers a couple of other advantages. Combined with SSH, it's actually secure when punching through a NAT'ing firwall (IPSec isn't since AH and NAT don't co-exist) and it's capable of tunneling at layer 2, so you can tunnel non IP network protocols (It can emulate a serial connection or an Ethernet connection)
Then perhaps in your excessive knowledge you could actually SAY WHAT YOU FUCKING MEANT.
I'm also wondering what fucking planet you're on, since I've yet to come across a TV Tuner card that accepts componenent input. And with a decent DVD palyer and TV, it's quite easy to distinguish between Video that's been output via composite or S-Video and component out (That why the damned things cost so much). Same thing for DVD Rips (90% of which are NOT the digital source, but recompressed copies thereof, and thus of lower quality).
I also could care less about your forum of 'Experts', since you've displayed so little knowledge of inherent quality loss due to analog copying and of differing quality levels from various types of AV input. Some of them may have a clue. You don't.
As to Home theaters based on PC's. No problem with them, in fact that's what I have. Doesn't blind me to the quality issues with some parts of the system.
Considering that on a decent TV, playing the same DVD via the 3 possible outputs (RCA, S-Video and Component) provides 3 distinguishable results, not being able to differentiate analog capture from the digital source is BS. And hesaid he couldn't differentiate analog capture form the ANALOG output of the DVD player, which is something else entirely.
My bet would be he's viewing the Analog outpt through the same POS TV Tuner card, and it's going to look like shit anyways. So, while he can't tell the difference, that's likely an indictment of his TV Tuner card rather than a bonus.
I can tell the difference. One looks like shit (PCI capture card) and one looks like not-quite shit. The cheap-ass components on the PCI card tend to make up for the USB devices lack of bandwidth. Remember, even DVD source isn't perfect, since it's compressed. But that DVD source is going to look better provided you aren't using RCA analog output on your DVD player. Which is one reason that you don't rip from analog sources unless you have to.
You wnat good quality capture, get a Analog-DV bridge and capture to uncompressed DV over firewire.
Considering there's several major errors in the first page of what you linked to, well I'd take that info with a grain of salt. There were some unpopular drive interfaces that linked directly to the ISA Bus (Early hardcards, some odd direct links, etc) but ATA doesn't do that.
1. The first drives with integrated drive electronics aka onboard controllers were SCSI drives, not Quantum Hardcards.
2. IDE/ATA originally (And to some extent still does) emulated a WD1003 MFM controller. That's what it looks like to an ISA bus, and to anything using BIOS int13h to access the drives.
ATA is bridged to ISA as well. By a adaptor(aka IDE or ATA Controller) that at a minimum emulated the WD1003, and possibly higher speed direct access. It's also quite capable of running in 32bit mode.
First off, apart from Sony and Apple laptops, built-in firewire is extremely uncommon. USB 2.0 is relatively common on decent laptops of less than 1 years vintage, but many laptops on the market have no high-speed external busses. So USB 2.0 Cards and firewire cards are easy to get (As are combo cards).
As to the sound card, they're external primarily because of I/O connectivity. You simply can't cram the necessary connectors for a high-end sound card onto a PC-Card so it's going to need a breakout box anyways, and putting the entire card in the breakout box is thus a win. Back in the day of 2-channel 16 bit sound, there were several options for PC-Card sound cards. Now, they tend to be small breakout boxes with USB connectivity.
As to TV-Tuners, well, they aren't a big seller even on the desktop market. And once again, they've pretty much headed to the external box paradigm (or integrated into the video card). Zoomed video slots died off because of that. USB external devices are becoming ubitquitous for taht sort of thing. The current standalone PCI TV-Tuners are old designs that are cheap to make. So they do live on. As to capture, anything good is going to be firewire anyways, and the crap? Well get an ATI TV Wonder, it's USB, small and better quality than the POS PCI cards anyways.
And the quad-height slot? Well, considering that even type-III slots are dying off, it's a non starter, plus who wants the huge laptop that quad-height slots would produce (My beast of a Thinkpad G40 wouldn't fit them, and it's one of the thickest laptops on the current market)
You are assuming that Dynamic NAT(1 or more public IPs to multiple internal IP's) is the only kind of NAT. Static NAT (1 external IP mapped to 1 internal IP) also exists, and you can mix the two. What you say is actually only true for NAPT (Network Address and Port Translation) which is what most low-end broadband routers do. Static NAT and mixed-mode NAT do not behave as you describe.
ATA is not in the least bit based on ISA. It can live on ISA, PCI and other buses (Nubus and 68k PDS buses have also had ATA controllers implemented).
PCMCIA implements an ISA-compatible bus, Cardbus a PCI-compatible. ATA is simply a basic interface for intelligent drive controllers to talk to the host bus.
CF is an ATA implementation, at least for any memory devices. The basic interface though is based on the PCMCIA specs(And functions like that for non-memory cards). If a device doesn't grok ATA's existence, it can't deal with CF cards but it will likely be able to talk to old Linear flash cards. A classic example of the is the Newton, which sees linear flash cards, but requires drivers to read ATA-based flash cards and CF cards in adaptors (Since Newtons only have Type II PCMCIA slots)
No he isn't. He's saying that you can get hacked if you're just running NAT. Closing your ports at the router is the most basic firewalling technique (It's usually called Access-listing), and you are doing both NAT and firewalling, not just NAT
A PC, no matter who the manufacturer has rarely more than 2-3 custom components these days (MB, Case and PSU for brand-name jobs) and even then the units are often built to a standard, and usually common across a number of models. Laptops have at best 1-2 standard parts (HDD, RAM) with everything else being specific to either to the model or at least the manufacturer.
This emans you get massively more savings from parts commonality in a PC (Not to mention the Desktop doesn't have a battery or an LCD, which are two of the pricier parts on a laptop, or the external PSU, which isn't exactly cheap).
What the laptop makers need to do is standardize more componentry. The 3 big ones here would be a modular optical drive bay (Like IBM's Ultrabay or Ultrabay 2000), Battery form factor and maybe screen (Since there's not likely to be much change in screen form factors anytime soon). Standardizing those 3 things would allow a nice little cost savings.
Oh, and apart from drives, laptop expansion isn't all that expensive. $60CDN is what I payed for a Wireless NIC, Firewire and USB cards are about the same.
Laptop Harddrives are now available in Desktop speeds (Think 7200RPM 8MB Cache 60GB Drives), they only lack desktop capacities.
What you want has been tried and has failed. You can have extra expansion in the dock (PCI bus, HDD's, CD-ROM's et al) but stuff like an AGP slot and RAM slots are out of the question (Bandwidth issues, mostly due to trace lengths and connector space).
Extra drives and ports are pretty much it, and will be for the foreseeable future.
Well, most laptops have the card slots (What the heck do you think PC-Card slots are?) Virtually anything common that you'll put in a PCI Slot is available as a PC Card (Except for sound cards and GigE Cards, and there are nice external jobs for that).
And at least 1 maker has toyed with upgradable Video cards (Alienware IIRC), but for a couple of reasons, these aren't a great solution (Integration with ACPI and APM, cooling requirements)
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IBM did assign copyright for the OS/390 porting code to the FSF. However, since there is a bunch of other IBM Code in the kernel (RCU, NUMA, and some drivers) this is a moot point.
I do think IBM's support of Linux is partially inspired by their desire to return to an industry comprised of Hardware and Professional Services, where they once reigned supreme.
BitTorrent is a download accellerator not a search app. Find a Tracker or google the damned thing.
BitTorrent does not provide any search facilities, it's simply a download client.
Not worried about smoke issues. I've had to talk a few secretaries & such through hooking up a 1600 series, and the port commonality is a PITA. That's why I suggest the other standard serial connector, rather than Cisco's non-standard connector.
Using Cat-5 does make life easier though.
No. Go RS-422 via DIN-8 connectors, effective, supported (SGI, Apple and NeXT all use RS-422) and RS-232 compatible. That way you don't have to worry about morons plugging the network cable into the serial port.
Bzzt: Wrong.
They can be upgraded, by a MB swap. Elegant, no;possible, yes.
Bah.
I got Knoppix 3.3 in 31 Minutes, using BitTorrent.
Of course, my laptop was sitting on 100MB full duplex connectivity. Gotta love working for UUNET.
Nope, AOL was a Online service from 1985 until 1993 or so, but it was a private network, not the internet.
With the Web Explosion, AOL started offering Internet access, and slowly morphed into an ISP.
No, there are 3 processor families currently for x86
There's the i686/P6 family, which dates back to the Pentium Pro (Not the pentium) and includes the P-II, P-III and all Slot 1 and Socket 370 Celerons. There's the Athlon Family, AKA teh Athlon, Duron, Athlon MP and Athlon XP, these CPU's are fully i686 compatible, but are a unique design. And then there is the P4 Family, which includes the P4's and the Socket 478 Celerons. The Via/EPIA CPU's are also unique desins, but share a common i686-compatible core.
The Pentium M is unique, in being essentially a P-III Mobile, but using the P4 bus.
The last Generation of i586 CPU's was the K6-III+.
vtun+SSH Port forwarding is the standard for quick+dirty+secure VPN's. vtun is simply a tunneling protocol with some basic security, it is not a secure product in it's own right. Add SSH and it's actually reasonably secure.
It also offers a couple of other advantages. Combined with SSH, it's actually secure when punching through a NAT'ing firwall (IPSec isn't since AH and NAT don't co-exist) and it's capable of tunneling at layer 2, so you can tunnel non IP network protocols (It can emulate a serial connection or an Ethernet connection)
No. Inflation is the reduction of buying power. In other words, prices go up.
The problem is rampant deflation. Prices bottom out, so new players have trouble making money, since what the can produce is now worthless.
Note that these aren't first year students at some State U.
.NET or PHP/Perl aren't.
These are Seniors at frikkin MIT. If they're having issues, there's a problem. Especially if the groups using
Then perhaps in your excessive knowledge you could actually SAY WHAT YOU FUCKING MEANT.
I'm also wondering what fucking planet you're on, since I've yet to come across a TV Tuner card that accepts componenent input. And with a decent DVD palyer and TV, it's quite easy to distinguish between Video that's been output via composite or S-Video and component out (That why the damned things cost so much). Same thing for DVD Rips (90% of which are NOT the digital source, but recompressed copies thereof, and thus of lower quality).
I also could care less about your forum of 'Experts', since you've displayed so little knowledge of inherent quality loss due to analog copying and of differing quality levels from various types of AV input. Some of them may have a clue. You don't.
As to Home theaters based on PC's. No problem with them, in fact that's what I have. Doesn't blind me to the quality issues with some parts of the system.
Considering that on a decent TV, playing the same DVD via the 3 possible outputs (RCA, S-Video and Component) provides 3 distinguishable results, not being able to differentiate analog capture from the digital source is BS. And hesaid he couldn't differentiate analog capture form the ANALOG output of the DVD player, which is something else entirely.
My bet would be he's viewing the Analog outpt through the same POS TV Tuner card, and it's going to look like shit anyways. So, while he can't tell the difference, that's likely an indictment of his TV Tuner card rather than a bonus.
I can tell the difference. One looks like shit (PCI capture card) and one looks like not-quite shit. The cheap-ass components on the PCI card tend to make up for the USB devices lack of bandwidth. Remember, even DVD source isn't perfect, since it's compressed. But that DVD source is going to look better provided you aren't using RCA analog output on your DVD player. Which is one reason that you don't rip from analog sources unless you have to.
You wnat good quality capture, get a Analog-DV bridge and capture to uncompressed DV over firewire.
Considering there's several major errors in the first page of what you linked to, well I'd take that info with a grain of salt. There were some unpopular drive interfaces that linked directly to the ISA Bus (Early hardcards, some odd direct links, etc) but ATA doesn't do that.
1. The first drives with integrated drive electronics aka onboard controllers were SCSI drives, not Quantum Hardcards.
2. IDE/ATA originally (And to some extent still does) emulated a WD1003 MFM controller. That's what it looks like to an ISA bus, and to anything using BIOS int13h to access the drives.
ATA is bridged to ISA as well. By a adaptor(aka IDE or ATA Controller) that at a minimum emulated the WD1003, and possibly higher speed direct access. It's also quite capable of running in 32bit mode.
First off, apart from Sony and Apple laptops, built-in firewire is extremely uncommon. USB 2.0 is relatively common on decent laptops of less than 1 years vintage, but many laptops on the market have no high-speed external busses. So USB 2.0 Cards and firewire cards are easy to get (As are combo cards).
As to the sound card, they're external primarily because of I/O connectivity. You simply can't cram the necessary connectors for a high-end sound card onto a PC-Card so it's going to need a breakout box anyways, and putting the entire card in the breakout box is thus a win. Back in the day of 2-channel 16 bit sound, there were several options for PC-Card sound cards. Now, they tend to be small breakout boxes with USB connectivity.
As to TV-Tuners, well, they aren't a big seller even on the desktop market. And once again, they've pretty much headed to the external box paradigm (or integrated into the video card). Zoomed video slots died off because of that. USB external devices are becoming ubitquitous for taht sort of thing. The current standalone PCI TV-Tuners are old designs that are cheap to make. So they do live on. As to capture, anything good is going to be firewire anyways, and the crap? Well get an ATI TV Wonder, it's USB, small and better quality than the POS PCI cards anyways.
And the quad-height slot? Well, considering that even type-III slots are dying off, it's a non starter, plus who wants the huge laptop that quad-height slots would produce (My beast of a Thinkpad G40 wouldn't fit them, and it's one of the thickest laptops on the current market)
You are assuming that Dynamic NAT(1 or more public IPs to multiple internal IP's) is the only kind of NAT. Static NAT (1 external IP mapped to 1 internal IP) also exists, and you can mix the two. What you say is actually only true for NAPT (Network Address and Port Translation) which is what most low-end broadband routers do. Static NAT and mixed-mode NAT do not behave as you describe.
ATA is not in the least bit based on ISA. It can live on ISA, PCI and other buses (Nubus and 68k PDS buses have also had ATA controllers implemented).
PCMCIA implements an ISA-compatible bus, Cardbus a PCI-compatible. ATA is simply a basic interface for intelligent drive controllers to talk to the host bus.
CF is an ATA implementation, at least for any memory devices. The basic interface though is based on the PCMCIA specs(And functions like that for non-memory cards). If a device doesn't grok ATA's existence, it can't deal with CF cards but it will likely be able to talk to old Linear flash cards. A classic example of the is the Newton, which sees linear flash cards, but requires drivers to read ATA-based flash cards and CF cards in adaptors (Since Newtons only have Type II PCMCIA slots)
No he isn't. He's saying that you can get hacked if you're just running NAT. Closing your ports at the router is the most basic firewalling technique (It's usually called Access-listing), and you are doing both NAT and firewalling, not just NAT
Because, in addition to NAT (Which just does Network Address Translation) you have the port closed on your firewall/router.
That doesn't always work. You need a device that supports ATA Cards (Since CF uses the ATA interface). Older devices may not work this way.
No, it's all about savings via mass production.
A PC, no matter who the manufacturer has rarely more than 2-3 custom components these days (MB, Case and PSU for brand-name jobs) and even then the units are often built to a standard, and usually common across a number of models. Laptops have at best 1-2 standard parts (HDD, RAM) with everything else being specific to either to the model or at least the manufacturer.
This emans you get massively more savings from parts commonality in a PC (Not to mention the Desktop doesn't have a battery or an LCD, which are two of the pricier parts on a laptop, or the external PSU, which isn't exactly cheap).
What the laptop makers need to do is standardize more componentry. The 3 big ones here would be a modular optical drive bay (Like IBM's Ultrabay or Ultrabay 2000), Battery form factor and maybe screen (Since there's not likely to be much change in screen form factors anytime soon). Standardizing those 3 things would allow a nice little cost savings.
Oh, and apart from drives, laptop expansion isn't all that expensive. $60CDN is what I payed for a Wireless NIC, Firewire and USB cards are about the same.
Laptop Harddrives are now available in Desktop speeds (Think 7200RPM 8MB Cache 60GB Drives), they only lack desktop capacities.
What you want has been tried and has failed. You can have extra expansion in the dock (PCI bus, HDD's, CD-ROM's et al) but stuff like an AGP slot and RAM slots are out of the question (Bandwidth issues, mostly due to trace lengths and connector space).
Extra drives and ports are pretty much it, and will be for the foreseeable future.
Well, most laptops have the card slots (What the heck do you think PC-Card slots are?) Virtually anything common that you'll put in a PCI Slot is available as a PC Card (Except for sound cards and GigE Cards, and there are nice external jobs for that). And at least 1 maker has toyed with upgradable Video cards (Alienware IIRC), but for a couple of reasons, these aren't a great solution (Integration with ACPI and APM, cooling requirements)