In October 2004 it was discovered by MaxPatrol team that it is possible to defeat Microsoft® Windows® XP SP2 Heap protection and Data Execution Prevention mechanism. As a result it is possible to implement:
Arbitrary memory region write access (smaller or equal to 1016 bytes)
> Excuse me but it was Bill Clinton that ordered
> a similar bombing campaign against Yugoslavia
> some years ago. The same international laws
> were broken then as well.
You're probably referring to Article 2 Section 4 of the U.N. Charter, which is not the Same Thing as international law. Anyway, you may also wish to read Articles 11 (1) and 39 of said charter which seem to make provisions for enforcing human rights norms. You might argue that these would also apply to the Iraq war, but I seem to recall that the WMD argument was the main rationale used for justification.
I would be curious to hear how these are "similar bombing campaign[s]".
Oddly, the writer or somebody out there, seems to think that Google v. Microsoft is analogous to Netscape v. Microsoft. I wasn't aware that you needed to download special software to run this Google search application.
I think the article is addressing the scope for greater integration into the OS of search functionality. Such as, making search functionality directly avaiable from Word or any other productivity app instead of having to switch to a browser and having the results returned in a format properly formatted for that app (such as Excel). Of course, it will be tied directly to MSN Search.
Read this article at KernelTrap . You'll probably need new modutils and may need new fs utilties. If you've never run ALSA before, there's a lib and some more utils.
Here's the press release alluded to in Linus' email. Still no mention of his leave being limited to one year.
Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Joins OSDL
First OSDL Fellow Will Devote Himself Exclusively to Linux Development
BEAVERTON, OR, and SANTA CLARA, CA, June 17, 2003 â" OSDL, a non-profit, global consortium of leading technology companies dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, and Transmeta Corporation (Nasdaq: TMTA), the leader in efficient computing, today announced that Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, will join OSDL as the first OSDL Fellow.
As an OSDL fellow, Linus will work exclusively on leading the development of Linux, the open source software that he created in 1991 as a university student in Finland. Torvalds will dedicate himself now full-time to guiding a distributed team of thousands of Linux developers around the world. At OSDL, he will have hands-on access to its state-of-the-art computing resources and test facility. He will also help set priorities and direction for the Lab's different industry initiatives.
"It feels a bit strange to finally officially work on what I've been doing for the last twelve years, but with the upcoming 2.6.x release it makes sense to be able to concentrate fully on Linux," Torvalds said. "OSDL is the perfect setting for vendor-independent and neutral Linux development."
Founded in 2000, OSDL has data centers in Portland, Oregon and Yokohama, Japan used by Linux developers around the world. With investment backing from Computer Associates, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, NEC and others, the lab sponsors key industry projects, including industry initiatives to enhance Linux for use in corporate data centers (Data Center Linux) and in telecommunications networks (Carrier Grade Linux). OSDL is increasingly being recognized as the center-of-gravity for the Linux industry: an important and independent central body that invests in the growth and innovation of Linux for the benefit of customers.
"OSDL is a leading Linux-industry advocate with the single-minded focus of accelerating its use throughout the enterprise," said Stuart Cohen, OSDL CEO. "Linus' decision to join us is a confirmation of the importance of our mission. OSDL is the only organization where Linux developers, customers and vendors can all participate as equals. The addition of Linus' perspective and guidance to the Lab will enhance our value to all three of these groups."
Linux is the fastest-growing operating system in the world. Revenue for Linux-based servers grew 62% in 2002, while overall sales of servers dropped 8%, according to Gartner Dataquest, a market research company. By 2007, Gartner predicts that Linux may grab 15% of the worldwide market.
"Linus Torvalds adds tremendous credibility to OSDL's efforts to drive the evolution of Linux forward into enterprise computing and carrier environments," said George Weiss, vice president and research director for the research firm Gartner. "The computing market is still questioning how far and how fast Linux can go as an enterprise-ready platform. With Linus at OSDL, many will be looking for leadership from the lab for answers to those questions."
Torvalds will join OSDL on leave from Transmeta Corporation, where he is currently a Transmeta Fellow. Transmeta is an OSDL member and worked with OSDL on the transition. "Linus has made substantial technological contributions as a member of our development team here at Transmeta," said Matthew R. Perry, president and CEO, Transmeta Corporation. "Transmeta appreciates and fully supports Linus' strong interest in devoting his attention and energy to certain emerging industry-wide Open Source initiatives at OSDL."
About OSDL
Founded in 2000, OSDL is dedicated to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux in the enterprise. Supported by a global consortium of IT industry leaders, OSDL provides state-of the-art computi
At least with regard to the RCU stuff. It all depends on the contract for Project Monterey . A couple of the stated key elements were:
IBM will supply SCO with AIX enterprise technologies for UnixWare 7. SCO will integrate key AIX technologies into future releases of UnixWare 7. This will be done to enhance the functionality of UnixWare 7, and achieve source code compatibility between AIX and UnixWare before the IA-64 UNIX System is available. This will give ISVs and IT managers a common development platform across PowerPC and IA-32 platforms and a smooth transition to IA-64 environments.
IBM NUMA-Q (formerly Sequent) will contribute data-center technologies - including its multipathing, partitioning, and clustering technologies - and sell the high-end UnixWare ptx Edition.
Of course we don't have access to the contracts signed by the various parties (maybe one could get them from public filings), but if there were any notion of exclusivity (say, on a platform basis) to these technologies, SCO may have grounds to pursue damages.
As usual, the trade rag is unnecessarily alarmist and so is the referring/. blurb. The quote of interest is:
"I did think about them forking," Fleury said. "If they fork JBoss, that's another problem. If there's a new JBoss, if they fork it and call it JBoss I would sue them. There is only one version that we control."
Fleury's saying he would not sue over a mere fork, per se, but instead a violation of the JBoss trademark. In other words, if CDN forked the code but called it something other than JBoss, there would be nothing to sue about.
A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
This memo describes an experimental method for the encapsulation of
IP datagrams in avian carriers. This specification is primarily
useful in Metropolitan Area Networks. This is an experimental, not
recommended standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
I just built a similar setup -- 500GB for less than $2,900. However, I made some different design choices.
First of all, I wasn't too impressed with the Promise controller, so the choice for me was between the 3Ware 7850 and the Adaptec 2400A. The Adaptec had the best overall performance, but the 3Ware is close and can support 8 devices. For the hard drives, I wanted to come reasonably close to SCSI performance, so I chose the WD1000JB drive with the on-board 8MB buffer. I used a Tyan Tiger K7 with 64-bit PCI for the motherboard with dual Athlon XP (not MP) 1700+ CPU's plus 1GB ECC registered PC2100 DDR RAM. Put them all in a nice aluminum rackmount case.
I'll probably replace the motherboard with the newer Tyan with 66MhZ PCI bus in the near future and use the current one in a workstation. I'll also drop in more RAM if/when prices drop.
It's been pretty sweet so far with LVM + XFS. My backup solution is a 33GB tape drive, so I spend most of every Sat. backing up the array. Time and money permitting, I'll build a second one and look for a DLT tape library on ebay.
"There are still commercial companies and indie game shops supporting Linux that need your support. A brief, incomplete list is BlackHoleSun, IllWinter, Linux Game Publishing, iD, Epic, BioWare, Philos Laboratories, Mountain King Studios, Introversion, and PomPom."
I went to the BioWare site but couldn't find any Linux games. Anyone know what he's on about?
Well, my point, before being hit with some braindead moderation, was about AMD's claims. However, I'm not sure that there's confirmation that this bug doesn't affect Intel systems as well.
Sheesh! Read the above article where it states "...AMD claims it's not a bug with the Athlon processor, but with the motherboard". AMD is claiming no such thing! They are claiming it's a Linux kernel bug.
"The GART and the CPU see two different views of memory, and it's the kernel's responsibility to map memory in such a way as to prevent bad interactions. Currently, that isn't happening."
Not trying to indulge in a religious war, but I'm curious as to why PHP is so popular when JSP provides a much more robust solution. IMO, JavaScript is a real language compared to PHP's half-hearted C-like syntax, and it implements a real object model, again unlike PHP. I'm also uncomfortable with Zend's pricing scheme for their optimizer, whereas I can choose to use a JVM with JIT when using JSP at no cost. I also don't need to worry about proprietary caching schemes.
Depends on what criteria you're using for fitness, but for sheer performance, Alteon kicks Arrowpoint's butt. Their AD4 has been quite flexible enough to run my company's global websites.
Not only that, but the storage to represent the index into pi or e would likely be greater than terabytes of info. This would be a very inefficient encoding scheme.
By many definitions, Pluto does not qualify as one of the solar system's major planets. I think there's much more interesting stuff to be found in the asteroid belt, but perhaps that's just me. Maybe Pluto's distance from earth has something to do with its romance.
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In October 2004 it was discovered by MaxPatrol team that it is possible to defeat Microsoft® Windows® XP SP2 Heap protection and Data Execution Prevention mechanism. As a result it is possible to implement:
> a similar bombing campaign against Yugoslavia
> some years ago. The same international laws
> were broken then as well.
You're probably referring to Article 2 Section 4 of the U.N. Charter, which is not the Same Thing as international law. Anyway, you may also wish to read Articles 11 (1) and 39 of said charter which seem to make provisions for enforcing human rights norms. You might argue that these would also apply to the Iraq war, but I seem to recall that the WMD argument was the main rationale used for justification.
I would be curious to hear how these are "similar bombing campaign[s]".
There's an image of her actually rowing the beast , which puts the contraption in human perspective.
Oddly, the writer or somebody out there, seems to think that Google v. Microsoft is analogous to Netscape v. Microsoft. I wasn't aware that you needed to download special software to run this Google search application.
I think the article is addressing the scope for greater integration into the OS of search functionality. Such as, making search functionality directly avaiable from Word or any other productivity app instead of having to switch to a browser and having the results returned in a format properly formatted for that app (such as Excel). Of course, it will be tied directly to MSN Search.
How long between the original posting and when a note's posted on the story? Place your bets now.
Read this article at KernelTrap . You'll probably need new modutils and may need new fs utilties. If you've never run ALSA before, there's a lib and some more utils.
Here's the press release alluded to in Linus' email. Still no mention of his leave being limited to one year.
Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Joins OSDL
First OSDL Fellow Will Devote Himself Exclusively to Linux Development
BEAVERTON, OR, and SANTA CLARA, CA, June 17, 2003 â" OSDL, a non-profit, global consortium of leading technology companies dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, and Transmeta Corporation (Nasdaq: TMTA), the leader in efficient computing, today announced that Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, will join OSDL as the first OSDL Fellow.
As an OSDL fellow, Linus will work exclusively on leading the development of Linux, the open source software that he created in 1991 as a university student in Finland. Torvalds will dedicate himself now full-time to guiding a distributed team of thousands of Linux developers around the world. At OSDL, he will have hands-on access to its state-of-the-art computing resources and test facility. He will also help set priorities and direction for the Lab's different industry initiatives.
"It feels a bit strange to finally officially work on what I've been doing for the last twelve years, but with the upcoming 2.6.x release it makes sense to be able to concentrate fully on Linux," Torvalds said. "OSDL is the perfect setting for vendor-independent and neutral Linux development."
Founded in 2000, OSDL has data centers in Portland, Oregon and Yokohama, Japan used by Linux developers around the world. With investment backing from Computer Associates, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, NEC and others, the lab sponsors key industry projects, including industry initiatives to enhance Linux for use in corporate data centers (Data Center Linux) and in telecommunications networks (Carrier Grade Linux). OSDL is increasingly being recognized as the center-of-gravity for the Linux industry: an important and independent central body that invests in the growth and innovation of Linux for the benefit of customers.
"OSDL is a leading Linux-industry advocate with the single-minded focus of accelerating its use throughout the enterprise," said Stuart Cohen, OSDL CEO. "Linus' decision to join us is a confirmation of the importance of our mission. OSDL is the only organization where Linux developers, customers and vendors can all participate as equals. The addition of Linus' perspective and guidance to the Lab will enhance our value to all three of these groups."
Linux is the fastest-growing operating system in the world. Revenue for Linux-based servers grew 62% in 2002, while overall sales of servers dropped 8%, according to Gartner Dataquest, a market research company. By 2007, Gartner predicts that Linux may grab 15% of the worldwide market.
"Linus Torvalds adds tremendous credibility to OSDL's efforts to drive the evolution of Linux forward into enterprise computing and carrier environments," said George Weiss, vice president and research director for the research firm Gartner. "The computing market is still questioning how far and how fast Linux can go as an enterprise-ready platform. With Linus at OSDL, many will be looking for leadership from the lab for answers to those questions."
Torvalds will join OSDL on leave from Transmeta Corporation, where he is currently a Transmeta Fellow. Transmeta is an OSDL member and worked with OSDL on the transition. "Linus has made substantial technological contributions as a member of our development team here at Transmeta," said Matthew R. Perry, president and CEO, Transmeta Corporation. "Transmeta appreciates and fully supports Linus' strong interest in devoting his attention and energy to certain emerging industry-wide Open Source initiatives at OSDL."
About OSDL
Founded in 2000, OSDL is dedicated to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux in the enterprise. Supported by a global consortium of IT industry leaders, OSDL provides state-of the-art computi
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IBM will supply SCO with AIX enterprise technologies for UnixWare 7. SCO will integrate key AIX technologies into future releases of UnixWare 7. This will be done to enhance the functionality of UnixWare 7, and achieve source code compatibility between AIX and UnixWare before the IA-64 UNIX System is available. This will give ISVs and IT managers a common development platform across PowerPC and IA-32 platforms and a smooth transition to IA-64 environments.
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IBM NUMA-Q (formerly Sequent) will contribute data-center technologies - including its multipathing, partitioning, and clustering technologies - and sell the high-end UnixWare ptx Edition.
Of course we don't have access to the contracts signed by the various parties (maybe one could get them from public filings), but if there were any notion of exclusivity (say, on a platform basis) to these technologies, SCO may have grounds to pursue damages.I see in the email where he calls it a leave of absence. I don't see any indication of it being limited to one year.
As usual, the trade rag is unnecessarily alarmist and so is the referring /. blurb. The quote of interest is:
"I did think about them forking," Fleury said. "If they fork JBoss, that's another problem. If there's a new JBoss, if they fork it and call it JBoss I would sue them. There is only one version that we control."
Fleury's saying he would not sue over a mere fork, per se, but instead a violation of the JBoss trademark. In other words, if CDN forked the code but called it something other than JBoss, there would be nothing to sue about.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
This memo describes an experimental method for the encapsulation of IP datagrams in avian carriers. This specification is primarily useful in Metropolitan Area Networks. This is an experimental, not recommended standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
How can an 11.4MB RAW image hold RGB data for >11M pixels? Should be north of 33MB.
I just built a similar setup -- 500GB for less than $2,900. However, I made some different design choices.
First of all, I wasn't too impressed with the Promise controller, so the choice for me was between the 3Ware 7850 and the Adaptec 2400A. The Adaptec had the best overall performance, but the 3Ware is close and can support 8 devices. For the hard drives, I wanted to come reasonably close to SCSI performance, so I chose the WD1000JB drive with the on-board 8MB buffer. I used a Tyan Tiger K7 with 64-bit PCI for the motherboard with dual Athlon XP (not MP) 1700+ CPU's plus 1GB ECC registered PC2100 DDR RAM. Put them all in a nice aluminum rackmount case.
I'll probably replace the motherboard with the newer Tyan with 66MhZ PCI bus in the near future and use the current one in a workstation. I'll also drop in more RAM if/when prices drop.
It's been pretty sweet so far with LVM + XFS. My backup solution is a 33GB tape drive, so I spend most of every Sat. backing up the array. Time and money permitting, I'll build a second one and look for a DLT tape library on ebay.
The guy mentions:
"There are still commercial companies and indie game shops supporting Linux that need your support. A brief, incomplete list is BlackHoleSun, IllWinter, Linux Game Publishing, iD, Epic, BioWare, Philos Laboratories, Mountain King Studios, Introversion, and PomPom."
I went to the BioWare site but couldn't find any Linux games. Anyone know what he's on about?
Well, my point, before being hit with some braindead moderation, was about AMD's claims. However, I'm not sure that there's confirmation that this bug doesn't affect Intel systems as well.
Sheesh! Read the above article where it states "...AMD claims it's not a bug with the Athlon processor, but with the motherboard". AMD is claiming no such thing! They are claiming it's a Linux kernel bug.
"The GART and the CPU see two different views of memory, and it's the kernel's responsibility to map memory in such a way as to prevent bad interactions. Currently, that isn't happening."
Yes, I meant Java, not JavaScript. Mea maxima culpa.
Whoops you're right -- I meant Java not JavaScript. Probably a residue of working with server-side JavaScript many years ago.
Not trying to indulge in a religious war, but I'm curious as to why PHP is so popular when JSP provides a much more robust solution. IMO, JavaScript is a real language compared to PHP's half-hearted C-like syntax, and it implements a real object model, again unlike PHP. I'm also uncomfortable with Zend's pricing scheme for their optimizer, whereas I can choose to use a JVM with JIT when using JSP at no cost. I also don't need to worry about proprietary caching schemes.
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/
Depends on what criteria you're using for fitness, but for sheer performance, Alteon kicks Arrowpoint's butt. Their AD4 has been quite flexible enough to run my company's global websites.
Not only that, but the storage to represent the index into pi or e would likely be greater than terabytes of info. This would be a very inefficient encoding scheme.
I thought the sequel was Mission of Levity.
By many definitions, Pluto does not qualify as one of the solar system's major planets. I think there's much more interesting stuff to be found in the asteroid belt, but perhaps that's just me. Maybe Pluto's distance from earth has something to do with its romance.
Read more about this in an article at the International Comet Quarterly.