On November 2, 1988 the "Morris Worm" was unleashed on the net. It jumped from college to college (that was most of the net then) and, because of a bug in the code, would reproduce itself within the machine until it ran the machine into the ground as it tried to infect others.
Imagine Code Red in which almost all servers are NT/IIS and there is no web, no central authority, no "experts"... It caused the Inet as it was to cease to function. People had to pull their boxes off-line to keep from getting repeatedly infected.
The confusion and panic that followed lead to the creation of CNet and was the start of most of the big, early Inet security organizations that exist today.
<old codger>
You young whippersnappers don't know from worms. We used to create worms on punch cards and you had to mail them around to get infected! Those were the days!
</old codger>
This chip is aimed at the embedded markets. In those markets 500Mhz is currently very fast.
If they really can produce even 1Ghz chips in the <5W or <10W embedded market they'll clean up.
Even if they stick to their 2003 delivery date 2Ghz+ will still be fast in that market. They would be the leader in both speed and speed/Watt... but I bet they wouldn't be the cheapest...;)
Using either MIPS or PPC code is smart for the embedded market... just look at AMDs announcment earlier about discontinuing the 486 and other embedded market chips.
Also - if this is normal.18 aluminum technology the potential for someone wielding.15 copper, stretched silicon, SOI - all of which decrease heat/power is pretty amazing...
What's lost in all the AMD vs SPARC vs P4 debate is what horrible SPEC INT performance the Itanium has: The 800Mhz Itanium has the same Spec Int 2000 performance as a 800Mhz Pentium III!
And that's with 128 registers and all the "workstation" bus piplines fast memory and everything else vs. the Intel reference motherboard for the Pentium 3.
Yes, the Itanium has good SpecFP performance - but I bet a couple Ghz Alphas would have spanked the Itanium workstations HARD using old tech chips that have been available for quite a while.
All we can hope is that Intel doesn't buy the Alpha and kill it off.... oops... too late.
In response to !Smokey Bear character asking Ralph, "You'd never start a fire would you litle boy?"
To which Ralph responds, "At my house we call them 'Ooopsies'!"
This is part of an on-going joke in an earlier episode when Bart is forced to play with Ralph:
R: "That's where I saw the leprican!"
B: "Leprican, great...."
R: "He told me to burn things!"
This Roman Meal bakery thought you might want to know...
Fact: The article refers to the 7450 - the currently shipping "G4" chip in all Apple systems above 533Mhz.
(Some speculation/rumors follows...)
Probably shipping very soon in at least 933Mhz systems - followed by 1Ghz later this year... finally;).
The "next generation" or "next rev" to be more precise is split into:
The 7440 - Lower Power, no L3 cache, aimed at Moto embedded market may be Apple's lower end consumer (iMac) target chip of choice depending on what happens with the 7460. Probably too much power/heat for notebooks. Announced - currently? or soon shipping.
The 7460 (Apollo?) - next generation of lower power. Slated for next-gen notebooks and consumer machines. 1Ghz+ is the design potential.
And then of course there's the G5 - rumored to be shipping in proto test stages at the moment - turning into production towards the end of the year for Q1 2002 shipping. Hopefully IBM's hand in the production will make it smoother to market than the G4 was.;)
The only thing that separates the Itanium from the rest of the pack is it's FP performance. If the P4 gets better FP performance it'll show the results of the multi-year Merced project for the dog it really is.
The 800Mhz Itanium has the same SpecInt performance as a 800Mhz PIII... if the 1.7Ghz P4 got only 20% faster SpecFPU performance it would match the Itanium in SpecFP performance to go with it's already 50% better SpecInt performance.
Yeah I know the Itanium is only at 800Mhz but Intel needs to keep cranking out P4s to fend off the Anthlon - they can't afford NOT to release new chips even if the 2Ghz P4 shames their new "top-o-the-line" server chip.
Sure the Merced has a better box around it and huge amounts of onboard cache, but given the same surroundings the P4 would make their VERY expensive "server" chip look pretty bad...
What the supreme court upheld was the cop's right to arrest anyone who has broken a law. In basis this is a good thing - the state has the right to enforce the laws with arrest.
The problem is the woman gets arrested and taken to jail on a charge for which the MAXIMUM penalty is a $50 fine. So effectively the punishment was more than the maximum of the crime she was charged with. And this is all she was ever charged with - not resisting arrest or assulting a police officier or anything - just the seatbelt violation.
What also caused problems for people was the fact that she wasn't allowed to make sure someone she knew came for her two kids in the car even though she was just a few miles from her home and neighbors.
In theory cops have an impossible job and are stuck between the proverbial rock and and hard place and they have my sympathy - it's a job I wouldn't do. In reality most of them I've met are guys who like to have authority over people and need the gun to keep them warm at night and act like dicks.
The worst is that MSWord automatically inserts two dashes "-" for you when you type.
When you export to.html from MSWord (after the handy warning that html does not support all the Word formatting - duh) it encodes it as one "-" and the second as a special character "emdash".
All browsers I've tested will skip over the encoding error except [drumroll]Explorer![rimshot]
It displays it as "the place - &emdash Chicago"....
At least someone has to hack yer DSL modem - Cable modem is just a distributed E-net. Anyone on your node (ie your neighborhood) and see what anyone else is looking at just be asking to.
Hope yer not surfin' any pr0n you don't want they guy down the street knowin' about. Or doing anything sensitive from work at home...
Me: No central despotic villian, no hiding princess, no ragtag bunch of outlaws... (Really? Jade Fox, the Zhang Ziyi character, Dark Cloud et al. don't qualify?)
Jade Fox == Darth Vader? No - she's not a despotic villian. At best she's Jaba the Hut - but she's not even that powerful.
Besides the "You killed my master - I must avenge his death!" is the oldest Kung Fu movie staple in the book.
Lo == Han Solo? This is a little closer as he's an outlaw but there's no revolution to join up with here...
Anyway - this ALL misses the point that the book predates the script for STAR WARS by decades. It's been a classic best seller in China for a very long time. Even if you feel - that I obviously don't - that it bears a suspicious similarity to SW then you should acuse SW of ripping off the book not vice versa.
=tkk
PS If you want to see the movie _Star Wars_ ripped off ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H got a lot of insipartion from see The Hidden Fortress.
_The Hidden Fortress_ is to _Star Wars_ as _The Seven Samurai_ is _The Magnificent Seven_.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is, in a nutshell, Star Wars remade as a Chinese martial arts fantasy. It is strange and beautiful and everyone should go see it.
Ummm... no oppressive evil government, no revolution in the making, no central despotic villian, no hiding princess, no ragtag bunch of outlaws... but other than that JUST like Star Wars...
Other than the fact that the book predates SW but decades I also might suggest that you check out an old B&W Japanese flick called Hidden Fortress. Not to give it away but it starts with a tall skinny guy and short fat guy walking together across a vast desert. They quarrel, part but are reunited by when they are both captured by slave traders. It also involves a princess in hiding and an ancient samurai warrior who comes out of retirement to look after her..... but I don't want to give away the ending....;)
I'm using OS X Server 1.2 for dev purposes and I have to say that the early adopter community has been left behind. ie.
The current build finally supports gigabit ethernet and a few other things but doesn't even support SMP like the DP4 release of OS X does. None of the "issues" effect me directly but the they could easily effect people trying to do a wider range of work...
The real problem is that the kernel is currently a very quickly moving target and (I suspect) that the real hardcore BSD geeks and elbows deep in the OS X dev cycle. Server OSs are prized for stability above all else and rather than devote the personnel needed to the Server side of the OS dev to release a stable version - Apple seems to have decided that OS X "consumer" is more important. And frankly they're probably right - without OS X client's success there won't be a company to support OS X Server and the revenue from OS X Server will not support the company through any delay that shifting personnel from the OS X project might incur.
Basically, I think Apple has made a business decision to stasis OS X Server while the entire company focuses on OS X consumer - and I find it hard to fault them for it... from a business standpoint.
RAMPANT SPECULATION AND RUMOR FOLLOW I did over-read a post by some one who claimed to have worked with an interim beta version 1.3 and said it basically "sucked goats". He also said that a beta version 2.0 based on a much later kernel build was "about to be released:".
ALL of this was news to me and may a complete fabrication.
END RUMORS AND LIES
"We have dug up Mussolinis corpse, cultivated germ cells with DNA from the corpse and spliced it with DNA from Hitler and Stalin to build the greatest dictator the Earth has ever seen...
;) Okay, okay I guess I'll stop mocking the believer's for now... Being a long time Apple supporter I know what those skeptical looks are like... I guess only time will tell if you're following the shoe or the gourd.
They're trying to dig up Mussolini and promising he's going to run for office again - REAL SOON NOW!-tm
Idiot. [...] You can't flog an unborn horse.
No, but you can make fun of the nth product announcement from a company (how many different savior companies has Amiga had now???) that has yet to produce any actual product. Diakatana has a better deilvery record than Amiga at this point.
The amiga files!
My favorite is: Amiga is Back?
Contributed by CmdrTaco on Friday January 30, @09:05AM
from the guru-meditation-error dept.
This link was sent to us by alert reader David Hill. Amiga Inc has announced that they will be making 68k and PPC Amiga's. There will also be clones and licensing of the AmigaOS
The Amiga search list is a continuing series of "ressurection", "Next incarnation" and "new rebirth" stories.
All I'm saying is, "Donkey's live a long time."
Can some one with a better grasp of inter-planetary physics comment on whether you could use the space shuttle to launch small vehicles using this technology?
I know the space shuttle doesn't _really_ travel in space by some people's definition but how much force does it take for a comsat or something of that mass to get away from Earth if launched from the shuttle bay? If nothing else a test vehicle to demo the theory could be hoisted up and turned on to see if the idea works in practice.
What about the same idea from the space station? And/or use it to help sheild parts of the space station and help it mantain orbit using less power?
That was indeed the dark time - it was like AOL rolled the gant rock from in front of the cave and the crazies ran out in a giant herd. I've always refered to it as "the September that never ended."
AOL cuss-kiddies yelling about newsgroups they didn't agree with or endlessly asking to be "unsubcribed" from different news groups... sheesh.
The joke that best sums that time up:
Q: How many AOLers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A:One
And me too!
Me Too!
And Me toO!
Me too!
Slashdot Mirror
Imagine Code Red in which almost all servers are NT/IIS and there is no web, no central authority, no "experts"...
It caused the Inet as it was to cease to function. People had to pull their boxes off-line to keep from getting repeatedly infected.
The confusion and panic that followed lead to the creation of CNet and was the start of most of the big, early Inet security organizations that exist today.
<old codger>
You young whippersnappers don't know from worms. We used to create worms on punch cards and you had to mail them around to get infected! Those were the days!
</old codger>
I suddenly feel old and have to go lie down....
=tkk
Must... not... say.... it.... Must... be... strong.... Can't... stop... it...
</Shatner>
Imagine a Beowolf cluster of these!
Sorry... couldn't help it.... ;)
=tkk
Even if they stick to their 2003 delivery date 2Ghz+ will still be fast in that market. They would be the leader in both speed and speed/Watt... but I bet they wouldn't be the cheapest... ;)
Using either MIPS or PPC code is smart for the embedded market... just look at AMDs announcment earlier about discontinuing the 486 and other embedded market chips.
Also - if this is normal .18 aluminum technology the potential for someone wielding .15 copper, stretched silicon, SOI - all of which decrease heat/power is pretty amazing...
=tkk
What's lost in all the AMD vs SPARC vs P4 debate is what horrible SPEC INT performance the Itanium has:
The 800Mhz Itanium has the same Spec Int 2000 performance as a 800Mhz Pentium III!
And that's with 128 registers and all the "workstation" bus piplines fast memory and everything else vs. the Intel reference motherboard for the Pentium 3.
Yes, the Itanium has good SpecFP performance - but I bet a couple Ghz Alphas would have spanked the Itanium workstations HARD using old tech chips that have been available for quite a while.
All we can hope is that Intel doesn't buy the Alpha and kill it off.... oops... too late.
=tkk
Everyone's favorite angry SF site protest site has some interesting images from on the ground in Africa.
A little dated but sadly still very applicable I think...
=tkk
I believe the correct quote is:
In response to !Smokey Bear character asking Ralph, "You'd never start a fire would you litle boy?"
To which Ralph responds, "At my house we call them 'Ooopsies'!"
This is part of an on-going joke in an earlier episode when Bart is forced to play with Ralph:
R: "That's where I saw the leprican!"
B: "Leprican, great...."
R: "He told me to burn things!"
This Roman Meal bakery thought you might want to know...
=tkk
Fact:
The article refers to the 7450 - the currently shipping "G4" chip in all Apple systems above 533Mhz.
(Some speculation/rumors follows...) ;).
Probably shipping very soon in at least 933Mhz systems - followed by 1Ghz later this year... finally
The "next generation" or "next rev" to be more precise is split into:
And then of course there's the G5 - rumored to be shipping in proto test stages at the moment - turning into production towards the end of the year for Q1 2002 shipping. Hopefully IBM's hand in the production will make it smoother to market than the G4 was. ;)
The only thing that separates the Itanium from the rest of the pack is it's FP performance. If the P4 gets better FP performance it'll show the results of the multi-year Merced project for the dog it really is.
The 800Mhz Itanium has the same SpecInt performance as a 800Mhz PIII... if the 1.7Ghz P4 got only 20% faster SpecFPU performance it would match the Itanium in SpecFP performance to go with it's already 50% better SpecInt performance.
Yeah I know the Itanium is only at 800Mhz but Intel needs to keep cranking out P4s to fend off the Anthlon - they can't afford NOT to release new chips even if the 2Ghz P4 shames their new "top-o-the-line" server chip.
Sure the Merced has a better box around it and huge amounts of onboard cache, but given the same surroundings the P4 would make their VERY expensive "server" chip look pretty bad...
=tkk
No if he was gay he'd marry her and they could have a sham relationship for 10 years until his Co$ handlers told him to....
;)
Wait, maybe I'm thinking of someone else....
=tkk
What the supreme court upheld was the cop's right to arrest anyone who has broken a law. In basis this is a good thing - the state has the right to enforce the laws with arrest.
The problem is the woman gets arrested and taken to jail on a charge for which the MAXIMUM penalty is a $50 fine. So effectively the punishment was more than the maximum of the crime she was charged with. And this is all she was ever charged with - not resisting arrest or assulting a police officier or anything - just the seatbelt violation.
What also caused problems for people was the fact that she wasn't allowed to make sure someone she knew came for her two kids in the car even though she was just a few miles from her home and neighbors.
In theory cops have an impossible job and are stuck between the proverbial rock and and hard place and they have my sympathy - it's a job I wouldn't do. In reality most of them I've met are guys who like to have authority over people and need the gun to keep them warm at night and act like dicks.
=tkk
Hey, yer not kiddin',
.html from MSWord (after the handy warning that html does not support all the Word formatting - duh) it encodes it as one "-" and the second as a special character "emdash".
The worst is that MSWord automatically inserts two dashes "-" for you when you type.
When you export to
All browsers I've tested will skip over the encoding error except [drumroll]Explorer![rimshot]
It displays it as "the place - &emdash Chicago"....
Thank you, Bill....
=tkk
At least someone has to hack yer DSL modem - Cable modem is just a distributed E-net. Anyone on your node (ie your neighborhood) and see what anyone else is looking at just be asking to.
Hope yer not surfin' any pr0n you don't want they guy down the street knowin' about. Or doing anything sensitive from work at home...
=tkk
Generating random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
=tkk
If we build I giant digital badger.....
=tkk
George UU. Bush's first technical challenge in office.
=tkk
(Really? Jade Fox, the Zhang Ziyi character, Dark Cloud et al. don't qualify?)
Jade Fox == Darth Vader? No - she's not a despotic villian. At best she's Jaba the Hut - but she's not even that powerful.
Besides the "You killed my master - I must avenge his death!" is the oldest Kung Fu movie staple in the book.
Lo == Han Solo? This is a little closer as he's an outlaw but there's no revolution to join up with here...
Anyway - this ALL misses the point that the book predates the script for STAR WARS by decades. It's been a classic best seller in China for a very long time. Even if you feel - that I obviously don't - that it bears a suspicious similarity to SW then you should acuse SW of ripping off the book not vice versa.
=tkk
PS If you want to see the movie _Star Wars_ ripped off ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H got a lot of insipartion from see The Hidden Fortress.
_The Hidden Fortress_ is to _Star Wars_ as _The Seven Samurai_ is _The Magnificent Seven_.
[South_Park_Kyle's_Mom_Voice_On] Wha, wha, wha, what?!? [/SPKMV]
Ummm... no oppressive evil government, no revolution in the making, no central despotic villian, no hiding princess, no ragtag bunch of outlaws... but other than that JUST like Star Wars... ;)
Other than the fact that the book predates SW but decades I also might suggest that you check out an old B&W Japanese flick called Hidden Fortress. Not to give it away but it starts with a tall skinny guy and short fat guy walking together across a vast desert. They quarrel, part but are reunited by when they are both captured by slave traders. It also involves a princess in hiding and an ancient samurai warrior who comes out of retirement to look after her..... but I don't want to give away the ending....
=tkk
I'm using OS X Server 1.2 for dev purposes and I have to say that the early adopter community has been left behind. ie.
The current build finally supports gigabit ethernet and a few other things but doesn't even support SMP like the DP4 release of OS X does. None of the "issues" effect me directly but the they could easily effect people trying to do a wider range of work...
The real problem is that the kernel is currently a very quickly moving target and (I suspect) that the real hardcore BSD geeks and elbows deep in the OS X dev cycle.
Server OSs are prized for stability above all else and rather than devote the personnel needed to the Server side of the OS dev to release a stable version - Apple seems to have decided that OS X "consumer" is more important. And frankly they're probably right - without OS X client's success there won't be a company to support OS X Server and the revenue from OS X Server will not support the company through any delay that shifting personnel from the OS X project might incur.
Basically, I think Apple has made a business decision to stasis OS X Server while the entire company focuses on OS X consumer - and I find it hard to fault them for it... from a business standpoint.
RAMPANT SPECULATION AND RUMOR FOLLOW
I did over-read a post by some one who claimed to have worked with an interim beta version 1.3 and said it basically "sucked goats". He also said that a beta version 2.0 based on a much later kernel build was "about to be released:".
ALL of this was news to me and may a complete fabrication.
END RUMORS AND LIES
=tkk
"We have dug up Mussolinis corpse, cultivated germ cells with DNA from the corpse and spliced it with DNA from Hitler and Stalin to build the greatest dictator the Earth has ever seen...
;) Okay, okay I guess I'll stop mocking the believer's for now... Being a long time Apple supporter I know what those skeptical looks are like... I guess only time will tell if you're following the shoe or the gourd.
=tkk
They're trying to dig up Mussolini and promising he's going to run for office again - REAL SOON NOW!-tm
Idiot. [...] You can't flog an unborn horse.
No, but you can make fun of the nth product announcement from a company (how many different savior companies has Amiga had now???) that has yet to produce any actual product.
Diakatana has a better deilvery record than Amiga at this point.
The amiga files! My favorite is:
Amiga is Back? Contributed by CmdrTaco on Friday January 30, @09:05AM
from the guru-meditation-error dept.
This link was sent to us by alert reader David Hill. Amiga Inc has announced that they will be making 68k and PPC Amiga's. There will also be clones and licensing of the AmigaOS
The Amiga search list is a continuing series of "ressurection", "Next incarnation" and "new rebirth" stories.
All I'm saying is, "Donkey's live a long time."
=tkk
Fransico Franco is STILL dead!
More news as the story develops!
Sheesh people.... let it go... the dead horse you're flogging is begging for mercy.....
=tkk
Can some one with a better grasp of inter-planetary physics comment on whether you could use the space shuttle to launch small vehicles using this technology?
I know the space shuttle doesn't _really_ travel in space by some people's definition but how much force does it take for a comsat or something of that mass to get away from Earth if launched from the shuttle bay? If nothing else a test vehicle to demo the theory could be hoisted up and turned on to see if the idea works in practice.
What about the same idea from the space station? And/or use it to help sheild parts of the space station and help it mantain orbit using less power?
=tkk
That was indeed the dark time - it was like AOL rolled the gant rock from in front of the cave and the crazies ran out in a giant herd. I've always refered to it as "the September that never ended."
AOL cuss-kiddies yelling about newsgroups they didn't agree with or endlessly asking to be "unsubcribed" from different news groups... sheesh.
The joke that best sums that time up:
Q: How many AOLers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A:One
And me too!
Me Too!
And Me toO!
Me too!
*SIGH*
=tkk
....Sympathy for the Devil?
=tkk
Only during the summer - during the winter I prop my feet in the Wintel box to keep my tootsies toasty warm!
=tkk
And I only have to reboot three or so times a day!