2nd World was a political term that was used mainly during the cold war and referred to nations that were not aligned with either axis of the Cold War nations
No, actually, 2nd world was the Soviet Bloc. 1st world was the West. Everything else was 3rd.
here's a cool map
When you get a ticket mailed to you because you
were caught speeding or running a light by one of
those cameras in intersections, no body "caught you
in the act" then, either, right?
Indeed. In fact, the reason the British were headed up to Concord when the war started, was to sieze some cannons a nut/patriot had stashed in his barn.
Here's a worse case: some Timothy McVeighish nut packing one of the these guys into the back of a
van filled with fertilizer and fuel oil and detonating it on the 105 in LA at rush hour.
I have a Dlink DWL-650 wireless card on my old Toshiba laptop, and Vector Linux (a slackware derivative) found and used it automatically when I installed it.
That's "DTMF" for "Dual-Tone, MultiFrequency." Each button on your phone generates a sound made up of two notes. Each row has a note and each column has a note; a given button plays the notes for its row and column.
There's a 4th column, missing from nearly all phones. The entries are labelled A, B, C, and D.
They have a 4th column-note.
That's because they dress stupidity. Motorcycle racers, wearing good quality leathers, routinely hit the pavenment at well over 100mph with no road rash whatsoever. I've done it once or twice myself.
Eventually she does manage to connect me to Alan Burley (Manager, Customer Service)....He says that it's the first time this issue has escalated.
That's how to fix this problem. If enough people were calling about it that Alan Burley spent 4 hours a day on this issue, the problem would be solved next release.
I run an AMD 2600+, and it sits about 53-57C (its on a chaintch zenith 7jns board)... is that too hot?
It's pretty hot, although it's well within
AMD's spec(they say 85C max).
I run a 2400+ with the FSB overclocked enough to turn it into a 2600+, and mine is about 40C. I used to have fast loud fans, but I just switched to a Innovatek water cooling system and slow, quiet fans.
Maybe if we skipped bombing the next third world country on the list, we'd save enough to afford all this. We can just jump over it and move onto the fourth one.
I forget, is it Syria or Iran? We should start a pool.
But being able to scale to high teraflops is also important
It seems likely that teraflops/dollar isn't constant for a given architecture...that it changes as the value of teraflops increases. For low values, Beowulf-style architectures are likely cheap. For high values, they might be expensive (or impossible)
Likely, you need multiple approaches, depending on the application....which is good, it means more work for everyone.:-)
"An understanding of the law, a stack of envelopes, and occasionally plane fare are more than enough" is rarely enough.....Its downright amazing how many hundreds or thousands of dollars you can spend just on making copies...
This is why the IBM suit against SCO is such good news. There is no way that SCO can survive a legal assault from IBM, the Lord of IP. IBM can spend more money on copying than SCO can spend on their whole case.
Some day, you'll be the a sysadmin for a group of software developers, and your eyes will be opened.:-)
From 1984 to 1995 I used a real computer every day; first VMS then UNIX. Then the dreaded Windows monster started talking over the developer's desktop. Finally, we've managed to start beating it down, and we're getting our real computers back.
The scariest thing is this: if Yahoo! are not big enough to stand up to stupid patents about web application technology, then who is?
Microsoft, maybe? What we need is some loonie with a patent to sue Microsoft and refuse to settle (that's where the loonie part comes in:->). Microsoft might have enough money and legislators to bring the system down.
I went and checked, and I did mess-up; it wasn't
Fujitsu, it was Hitachi. But it was Siemens. And Apollo wasn't part of HP at the beginning.
My Googling came up with original member list as
Apollo, DEC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Bull, Nixdorf, Philips, Siemens and Hitachi, but I don't remember
Nixdorf or Philips from when I worked there briefly
in the early 90s. They say the memory is the 2nd thing to go.
I think that included DEC, HP, and IBM, but not
Sun.
Indeed...OSF was founded in response to Sun and AT&T getting together to work on System V Release 4. This scared the other UNIX vendors, and they wanted to make sure they had a UNIX to sell, too. The joke was the "OSF" stood for "Oppose Sun Forever."
Fujitsu, Bull, and Siemens were the other major original members. There were lots of other companies that were sort of "associate" members.
Yeah, particularly if this part of the interview is true:
Are you still saying categorically that there is offending code in the Linux kernel?
Yeah. That one is a no-brainer. When you look in the code base and you see line-by-line copy of our Unix System V code - not just the code itself, but comments to the code, titles that were in the comments and humour elements that were in the comments - you see that everything is taken straight across.
Everything is exactly the same except they have stripped off the copyright notices and pretended it was just Linux code. There could not be a more straightforward case on the Linux side.
And that's actually the Linux kernel, as opposed to other parts?
Correct, the kernel.
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No, actually, 2nd world was the Soviet Bloc. 1st world was the West. Everything else was 3rd. here's a cool map
When you get a ticket mailed to you because you were caught speeding or running a light by one of those cameras in intersections, no body "caught you in the act" then, either, right?
The chief suspect for producing the book is ... Edward Kelley ... a forger, mystic, alchemist, mercenary and wife-swapper.
Boy, I'd like to read a biography of that guy.
Indeed. In fact, the reason the British were headed up to Concord when the war started, was to sieze some cannons a nut/patriot had stashed in his barn.
Here's a worse case: some Timothy McVeighish nut packing one of the these guys into the back of a van filled with fertilizer and fuel oil and detonating it on the 105 in LA at rush hour.
I have a Dlink DWL-650 wireless card on my old Toshiba laptop, and Vector Linux (a slackware derivative) found and used it automatically when I installed it.
Wow, that's a f-ing great idea! Get my patent attorney on the phone!
That's "DTMF" for "Dual-Tone, MultiFrequency." Each button on your phone generates a sound made up of two notes. Each row has a note and each column has a note; a given button plays the notes for its row and column.
There's a 4th column, missing from nearly all phones. The entries are labelled A, B, C, and D. They have a 4th column-note.
But has anyone seen Xibo recently?
That's because they dress stupidity. Motorcycle racers, wearing good quality leathers, routinely hit the pavenment at well over 100mph with no road rash whatsoever. I've done it once or twice myself.
All the W. Richard Stevens books. Those are the ones on my desk all the time.
It's only the East Coast guys that have UNIX-beards.
No worse than his fiction.
That's how to fix this problem. If enough people were calling about it that Alan Burley spent 4 hours a day on this issue, the problem would be solved next release.
It's pretty hot, although it's well within AMD's spec(they say 85C max).
I run a 2400+ with the FSB overclocked enough to turn it into a 2600+, and mine is about 40C. I used to have fast loud fans, but I just switched to a Innovatek water cooling system and slow, quiet fans.
It's just their website, dude. It's not some mission-critical thing.
This is like a fire station which keeps the bin full of oily rags next to the Captain's personal collection of matchbooks from world-famous hotels.
No, it's as if a fire station's PR firm had the oily rags and matches. Well, if fire stations had PR firms, I mean.
I forget, is it Syria or Iran? We should start a pool.
It seems likely that teraflops/dollar isn't constant for a given architecture...that it changes as the value of teraflops increases. For low values, Beowulf-style architectures are likely cheap. For high values, they might be expensive (or impossible)
Likely, you need multiple approaches, depending on the application....which is good, it means more work for everyone. :-)
This is why the IBM suit against SCO is such good news. There is no way that SCO can survive a legal assault from IBM, the Lord of IP. IBM can spend more money on copying than SCO can spend on their whole case.
Sometimes you catch a break.
From 1984 to 1995 I used a real computer every day; first VMS then UNIX. Then the dreaded Windows monster started talking over the developer's desktop. Finally, we've managed to start beating it down, and we're getting our real computers back.
Microsoft, maybe? What we need is some loonie with a patent to sue Microsoft and refuse to settle (that's where the loonie part comes in :->). Microsoft might have enough money and legislators to bring the system down.
Sometimes, a lawsuit is a good thing, and this might prevent good lawsuits.
My Googling came up with original member list as Apollo, DEC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Bull, Nixdorf, Philips, Siemens and Hitachi, but I don't remember Nixdorf or Philips from when I worked there briefly in the early 90s. They say the memory is the 2nd thing to go.
Indeed...OSF was founded in response to Sun and AT&T getting together to work on System V Release 4. This scared the other UNIX vendors, and they wanted to make sure they had a UNIX to sell, too. The joke was the "OSF" stood for "Oppose Sun Forever."
Fujitsu, Bull, and Siemens were the other major original members. There were lots of other companies that were sort of "associate" members.
Are you still saying categorically that there is offending code in the Linux kernel?
Yeah. That one is a no-brainer. When you look in the code base and you see line-by-line copy of our Unix System V code - not just the code itself, but comments to the code, titles that were in the comments and humour elements that were in the comments - you see that everything is taken straight across.
Everything is exactly the same except they have stripped off the copyright notices and pretended it was just Linux code. There could not be a more straightforward case on the Linux side.
And that's actually the Linux kernel, as opposed to other parts?
Correct, the kernel.
Come on, somebody find it....