I don't see any public hue and cry about this, but enterprises are increasingly deploying the Microsoft proxy server IAS that defaults to requiring NTLM authentication.
So far as I know, only IE knows how to authenticate to it. People behind these corporate firewalls *can't* use Netscape, Mozilla, or Opera.
Think about it. Inches and miles are really great, and if you make a foot be 16 inches, a mile is very nearly 4096 feet!
The English units of volume measure are already perfectly binary. cup/pint/quart/gallon, plus fractions of ounces.
And English is *much* better for nuts/bolts, where you choose to double your resolution by using 1/16ths, say, rather than 1/8ths. None of this 7.5mm crap.
I got a SL-5000 in November and it's an amazing little box. I can't speak to the Outlook thing since I don't use it, but the device *does* know about Imap mail servers, which is very important to me.
They keyboard took some getting used to, but honestly I can't think of a better solution for the size this has to be. Thumbing is fine and fast.
And it has a real browser that understands real HTML and CSS. The (adjustable) scaling is amazing - I can read two columns of NY Times w/ no trouble.
Being a Linux box makes a huge difference. Screw PDA-sync - this thing does *rsync*!
Plus it was amazingly easy to install the ftpfs kernel module and have instant ftp-in-file-browser. Try that on your PocketPC!
..and Ivan would be the first person to say so to anyone who reads that article and gets the idea that he invented it recently.
The pioneering work in this field was done in the late early 70's, primarily at Washington University. Look up macromodules by Tom Chaney, Wes Clark, and Charlie Molnar - this was a self-timed toolkit from which people could build larger systems. L Peter Deutsch whipped up a self-timed Lisp machine (!!) when he visited the group.
As an aside, the Digital PDP-6/10 had a self-timed main adder.
When Ivan was head of Caltech computer science in the late 70's, he brought together a group of self-timed luminaries, including Chuck Seitz, Charlie Molnar, and Wes Clark. The self-timed chapter in Carver Mead's 1980 VLSI book was written by Chuck Seitz. Alain Martin's group at Caltech succeeded in producing a 100MHz (that's how fast it went when left to its own, uhh, devices) self-timed uP a few years back.
There was also a self-timed ARM project. Couldn't tell you the outcome.
I haven't been following the work of Ivan's group at Sun (which again included Molnar, who died a couple years ago, and long-time collaberator Bob Sproull), These are all really smart guys doing cool work.. whether they can overtake the clocked world is another matter.
Self-timed logic is a rich field, well worth wading into. Imagine a CPU that went as fast as its logic let it, and if you cooled it, it would simply go faster. No overclocking guesswork.
Oracle has too many problems to list here, but of particular interest to you is its extremely finnicky system requirements. It's the least portable, worst installing POC software I have ever seen.
Even in its own world, Oracle is neither backward nor forward compatible.
glibc is a legitimate weakness/complaint of linux - in fact, even the whole notion of shared libraries is - but you lost me the second you mentioned Oracle.
I wouldn't rag on Abit in any way for coming out with their own distro.
The BP6 has been out for almost a year now, and RedHat *still* doesn't support it. Mandrake 7.0 sorta does - I haven't yet taken their installer up on the offer of a boot floppy.
I'm guessing the HPT366 is a weird chip. My attempts to use the patches that started coming out last summer weren't always successful, and using ATA66 for / on such a patched system is asking for trouble.
So Abit did the world a favor by filling a gaping hole in the Linux world. After all, BP6 and Linux appeal to the same sort of fringe mentality.
you mentioned ide raid but not by name. i've been looking at raidzone's solution. haven't bought yet, but it does all the hot swapping stuff you want *and* is riding the ide cost curve, which is now at 20G/$200.
the interface is neither ide nor scsi, but rather a board in your pci bus.
oh, right, you have an ultra sparc. *LOSE THE ULTRA SPARC*! they are not fast. you're better off running linux or freebsd on an x86 farm or beowulf cluster.
While people often try to compute monetary costs of lost productivity, I think it's much more important in the case of Windows to consider the human cost.
I haven't updated http://www.aracnet.com/~bart/billg.html in years, but the concept hasn't changed. Multiply wasted time by enough people, and you're right up there with the highway death toll or a medium sized war.
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I don't see any public hue and cry about this, but enterprises are increasingly deploying the Microsoft proxy server IAS that defaults to requiring NTLM authentication.
So far as I know, only IE knows how to authenticate to it. People behind these corporate firewalls *can't* use Netscape, Mozilla, or Opera.
This is exclusionary of the highest order.
Think about it. Inches and miles are really great, and if you make a foot be 16 inches, a mile is very nearly 4096 feet!
The English units of volume measure are already perfectly binary. cup/pint/quart/gallon, plus fractions of ounces.
And English is *much* better for nuts/bolts, where you choose to double your resolution by using 1/16ths, say, rather than 1/8ths. None of this 7.5mm crap.
Binary English forever!
Not to mention "Uncle Owen", who had C3PO working on his farm all the while Schmi was with them.
And he's met R2, of course.
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pipe is fn-space
I got a SL-5000 in November and it's an amazing little box. I can't speak to the Outlook thing since I don't use it, but the device *does* know about Imap mail servers, which is very important to me.
They keyboard took some getting used to, but honestly I can't think of a better solution for the size this has to be. Thumbing is fine and fast.
And it has a real browser that understands real HTML and CSS. The (adjustable) scaling is amazing - I can read two columns of NY Times w/ no trouble.
Being a Linux box makes a huge difference. Screw PDA-sync - this thing does *rsync*!
Plus it was amazingly easy to install the ftpfs kernel module and have instant ftp-in-file-browser. Try that on your PocketPC!
..and Ivan would be the first person to say so to anyone who reads that article and gets the idea that he invented it recently.
The pioneering work in this field was done in the late early 70's, primarily at Washington University. Look up macromodules by Tom Chaney, Wes Clark, and Charlie Molnar - this was a self-timed toolkit from which people could build larger systems. L Peter Deutsch whipped up a self-timed Lisp machine (!!) when he visited the group.
As an aside, the Digital PDP-6/10 had a self-timed main adder.
When Ivan was head of Caltech computer science in the late 70's, he brought together a group of self-timed luminaries, including Chuck Seitz, Charlie Molnar, and Wes Clark. The self-timed chapter in Carver Mead's 1980 VLSI book was written by Chuck Seitz. Alain Martin's group at Caltech succeeded in producing a 100MHz (that's how fast it went when left to its own, uhh, devices) self-timed uP a few years back.
There was also a self-timed ARM project. Couldn't tell you the outcome.
I haven't been following the work of Ivan's group at Sun (which again included Molnar, who died a couple years ago, and long-time collaberator Bob Sproull), These are all really smart guys doing cool work.. whether they can overtake the clocked world is another matter.
Self-timed logic is a rich field, well worth wading into. Imagine a CPU that went as fast as its logic let it, and if you cooled it, it would simply go faster. No overclocking guesswork.
You aren't in glibc hell, you're in Oracle hell.
Oracle has too many problems to list here, but of particular interest to you is its extremely finnicky system requirements. It's the least portable, worst installing POC software I have ever seen.
Even in its own world, Oracle is neither backward nor forward compatible.
glibc is a legitimate weakness/complaint of linux - in fact, even the whole notion of shared libraries is - but you lost me the second you mentioned Oracle.
I wouldn't rag on Abit in any way for coming out with their own distro.
The BP6 has been out for almost a year now, and RedHat *still* doesn't support it. Mandrake 7.0 sorta does - I haven't yet taken their installer up on the offer of a boot floppy.
I'm guessing the HPT366 is a weird chip. My attempts to use the patches that started coming out last summer weren't always successful, and using ATA66 for / on such a patched system is asking for trouble.
So Abit did the world a favor by filling a gaping hole in the Linux world. After all, BP6 and Linux appeal to the same sort of fringe mentality.
you mentioned ide raid but not by name. i've been looking at raidzone's solution. haven't bought yet, but it does all the hot swapping stuff you want *and* is riding the ide cost curve, which is now at 20G/$200.
the interface is neither ide nor scsi, but rather a board in your pci bus.
oh, right, you have an ultra sparc. *LOSE THE ULTRA SPARC*! they are not fast. you're better off running linux or freebsd on an x86 farm or beowulf cluster.
While people often try to compute monetary costs of lost productivity, I think it's much more important in the case of Windows to consider the human cost.
I haven't updated http://www.aracnet.com/~bart/billg.html in years, but the concept hasn't changed. Multiply wasted time by enough people, and you're right up there with the highway death toll or a medium sized war.
i guess you could count me. just powered them on yesterday. i'm using sl36c maylasia parts and the globalwin fans. they seem to go 550 at 2.05V.
"guess" and "seem" are because i see occasional weird behavior, not outright crashes. kernels compiled -j 4 do work.
this is all on mandrake 6.0, which does seem to be an improvement over redhat 6.0.
i was fully prepared to go as low as 506 (92 FSB, still with 1/3 PCI divisor) but the board absolutely doesn't want to hear about that FSB frequency.
intel has *always* known, and said publicly, that their most profitable times are when they are alone in the market.
they work hard for an advantage in *time*, which lets them compete on price when others enter a market.. and have little opportunity for profit.