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but today's production, heavily loaded system will still need the ability to swap to/from disk.
Already, there are systems that minimize that need, set-top boxes, embedded systems in general. But each of those is seriously modified (kernel-wise, mostly) to achieve the responsiveness, the frugality of resource treatment that a general purpose desktop computer can't expect to enjoy.
That doesn't mean that developers should stay in the same rut, assuming that hardware that confined system design in the '60s, '70s... '00s will perpetually assign similar constraints.
IMO, desktops still need to swap... for now. but let's not paint ourselves into a performance corner.
I hadn't considered some of the other, present and future, costs involved with offal removal; good point. Still, I live in an agriculturally, ahem, rich environment and I'm fairly certain that the present disposal costs are less than near future transport costs to move them to a processing facility. Of course if this 'TCP' process is widely deployed in the next few years, that all may change.
As to your bet, I'll take it. That is one wager I'd be glad to lose, even at 1000 smackers.
I'll bet it'll be a while before we see a whole lot more plants like this. This one is strategically located near a turkey processing plant, so it stands to reason the next successful ones will be placed similarly. That'll leave a lot of 'agro waste' stranded at smaller meat processors.
Also, it's taken a couple of years since we first heard about this plant to their announcement of a paltry (when compared to fossil oil production) few hundred barrels per day.
On a side note, I should have submitted this a couple of days ago. See my RE news link in my sig.
The paper says that by necessity, the two systems need be compatible on several fronts. OK, that is good, saves everyone money, too, by not obsoleting all your GPS hardware when the EU system goes live.
The EU system will also provide "additional commercial services, on a user-pays basis." That could be good too, but the basic "where am I now" function of GPS works fine for me. I'm leery of a govt body stacking commercial features on to a pretty well proven system.
"Galileo thus requires US cooperation for its commercial success, while at the same time apparently threatening US national security and industrial advantage!" To which I say Bah! Unless the US has really been dragging its heels in cooperating, I say, build your nav sat system and go for it! Our (the US) present obsession with security is mostly the work of a paranoid few. Let the US take care of itself and power to the EU for whatever they can do.
Sure, there may be a few Pentagon types who might drag their feet, but the timing and communications methods aren't rocket science... and even the rocket science part can be easily handled.
China risks isolating itself if it creates standards that are incompatible with the rest of the world.
I'm more concerned that someday the rest of the world may need to bend over [backward] to support China's standards. They are, after all, manufacturing a great many of the electronic items that we buy.
For a small company like Opera, the settlement is significant, I'd imagine. Not only did they get their main beef settled, they get a little cash infusion to boot.
But these snippets from the article
The deal marks the latest in a string of settlements from Microsoft, which is seeking to simplify its business by clearing up potentially damaging legal claims.
and
Microsoft has effectively abandoned significant browser development efforts.
make me wonder, what has Microsoft got up its collective sleeve? They cornered the browser market and now they'll give it up without a fight? Why should they make an effort to clean up their legal image when it didn't seem to phase them for such a long time?
I don't doubt that whatever they've got planned, history indicates it's probably part of a well thought out business or marketing plan. Other thoughts?
I'm with you. Maybe my imagination is just failing me today, but I couldn't think of a reason, other than to say "Hey, look at this!" to do this.
Beside, I'm pretty sure you can't buy a legal copy of 96/98/ME and, since a windows license is not transferable to another machine (I think), there may not be a legal way to run old Windows on a Pocket PC.
I'd say his concepts defined the requirements or foundations of how the hardware would operate. Maybe I'm being pedantic as form follows function; software is dictated to a large degree by the base hardware.
I'm with you on VisiCalc and PGP. Your others are good choices too. These are people whose efforts have made a significant and lasting contribution to computer technology.
I'm not so sure Torvalds should be in there, yet. Sun's founder maybe, mostly for Java which is more ubiquitous now than Linux. AOL's founder? No. He may have brought the internet to the masses, but it's dubious that that was a postive for computer tech.
In general, I think the true pioneers should be inducted first.
I just heard this news on NPR and thought I'd submit it to/. but I was scooped. NPR said that he was a "student" and lived with his parents. They said he admitted to being the Sasser worm author but failed to mention the Phatbot connection.
Here's an English language report that mentions a Microsoft connection.
You're right. The plant started as a CDC (Control Data Corp.) operation. A few years back I had an HDD (Imprimis brand, I think) whose label said it was from that plant.
I believe that they no longer manufacture anything there anymore. From their website:
Seagate's Oklahoma City operation enjoys a 40-plus year history in Oklahoma City. The facility makes a significant contribution to corporate business objectives and strategies by serving as the company's worldwide center for customer technical support and by employing a significant Information Technologies staff.
So they're mostly a support operation now. Who knows how long that will last.
Interestingly, Creative Labs North American tech support operation is here in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
When the previous/. story was posted about the TCP flaw, I checked out the NANOG mailing list.
There was plenty of discussion about it, including various vendor issues (Cisco and Juniper) & fixes, as well as some ISPs dragging their feet on implementing MD5 over peer links. I could tell from some of the things mentioned there that they (the network ops) had advance knowledge of the vulnerability.
Most interesting was this about looking glasses being too free with info that would allow a TCP reset in one try.
Be reasonable; comparision to the mythilogical does no justice to the discussion.
My take is that our present level of science just might be able to arrive at the definitive conclusion. The trouble is that when various groups of presumably respected scientists study the situation and publish quite different conclusions, how am I, an layman at climatology and the like, supposed to "go with the best science?"
I'll have to be a global warming agnostic. I've seen credible viewpoints that indicate that in the next decades we will either be swimming like "Water World" or freezing in a new ice age.
I just get the feeling that our science into yet up to the task of interpreting our climate.
They're kinda small on newer drives, but are quite strong, neodymium-iron-boron magnets.
OK, you see head assembly? At the opposite end from the heads, past the pivot point, there will be a plastic molded part with a coil of copper wire. You may not see it well 'cause it'll be obscured by the magnet assembly (a flat metal bracket with mounting flanges on each end).
Remove any fasteners on the magnet assembly; they're probably small Torx head screws. You'll also need to remove the head assembly by unscrewing it at the pivot point (or if you don't care about wrecking it more, just pry vigorously at the magnet assembly with a medium screwdriver).
Now, the magnets are epoxied to the metal brackets. To remove them with the least likelihood of breaking them, grip a flange end of the bracket with ViseGrips (locking pliers) or similar. Holding the pliers, strike the other flange end against a hard (concrete preferably) surface, gently at first and increasing in force until the magnet(s) pop off. If your using just enough force, they'll pop off and then snap back to the bracket.
Looks like the weakest point for net-wide effects in routers implementing BGP. A concerted attack could tie up critical routers rebuilding routes after losing connection to their peers. Since this could be globally critical, I suspect the major hardware vendors and service providers will be jumping through hoops to get the fix in before some blackhats get coordinated with an exploit. There would still be weaknesses, but IPv6 will get to sit idle a bit longer.
I don't see any difference. The signaling interface would be the same in either direction. Solve one and you're very close to solving the other; it would be just a matter of delivering the signal in the right format to the right place. Figure out the brain's equivilent of NTSC/PAL/SECAM and the same interface technology would hook it right up in living color. Paralysis, blindness, deafness, all the senses could be redirected or enhanced (except sense of humor).
OK, so use a pressurized system like in automobiles. Well, maybe that's not so practical.
Still, looking at the MSDS sheet, this stuff is amazingly stable and non-irritant. Maybe I'm being too cynical, but a new wonder-compound like this leaves me thinking cancer.
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but today's production, heavily loaded system will still need the ability to swap to/from disk.
Already, there are systems that minimize that need, set-top boxes, embedded systems in general. But each of those is seriously modified (kernel-wise, mostly) to achieve the responsiveness, the frugality of resource treatment that a general purpose desktop computer can't expect to enjoy.
That doesn't mean that developers should stay in the same rut, assuming that hardware that confined system design in the '60s, '70s... '00s will perpetually assign similar constraints.
IMO, desktops still need to swap... for now. but let's not paint ourselves into a performance corner.
I hadn't considered some of the other, present and future, costs involved with offal removal; good point. Still, I live in an agriculturally, ahem, rich environment and I'm fairly certain that the present disposal costs are less than near future transport costs to move them to a processing facility. Of course if this 'TCP' process is widely deployed in the next few years, that all may change.
As to your bet, I'll take it. That is one wager I'd be glad to lose, even at 1000 smackers.
Nevermind about me submitting this, I didn't look at the date of the /. article.
I'll bet it'll be a while before we see a whole lot more plants like this. This one is strategically located near a turkey processing plant, so it stands to reason the next successful ones will be placed similarly. That'll leave a lot of 'agro waste' stranded at smaller meat processors.
Also, it's taken a couple of years since we first heard about this plant to their announcement of a paltry (when compared to fossil oil production) few hundred barrels per day.
On a side note, I should have submitted this a couple of days ago. See my RE news link in my sig.
is sent by people who could be jailed for illegal/unauthorized access to someones computer (refering to the zombies that launch so much of it now).
If only we could catch them and prove it...
at http://herbix.mwatt.com/
Check your mail and mail me back if I've not done it correctly.
The paper says that by necessity, the two systems need be compatible on several fronts. OK, that is good, saves everyone money, too, by not obsoleting all your GPS hardware when the EU system goes live.
The EU system will also provide "additional commercial services, on a user-pays basis." That could be good too, but the basic "where am I now" function of GPS works fine for me. I'm leery of a govt body stacking commercial features on to a pretty well proven system.
"Galileo thus requires US cooperation for its commercial success, while at the same time apparently threatening US national security and industrial advantage!" To which I say Bah! Unless the US has really been dragging its heels in cooperating, I say, build your nav sat system and go for it! Our (the US) present obsession with security is mostly the work of a paranoid few. Let the US take care of itself and power to the EU for whatever they can do.
Sure, there may be a few Pentagon types who might drag their feet, but the timing and communications methods aren't rocket science... and even the rocket science part can be easily handled.
China risks isolating itself if it creates standards that are incompatible with the rest of the world.
I'm more concerned that someday the rest of the world may need to bend over [backward] to support China's standards. They are, after all, manufacturing a great many of the electronic items that we buy.
For a small company like Opera, the settlement is significant, I'd imagine. Not only did they get their main beef settled, they get a little cash infusion to boot.
But these snippets from the article
The deal marks the latest in a string of settlements from Microsoft, which is seeking to simplify its business by clearing up potentially damaging legal claims.
and
Microsoft has effectively abandoned significant browser development efforts.
make me wonder, what has Microsoft got up its collective sleeve? They cornered the browser market and now they'll give it up without a fight? Why should they make an effort to clean up their legal image when it didn't seem to phase them for such a long time?
I don't doubt that whatever they've got planned, history indicates it's probably part of a well thought out business or marketing plan. Other thoughts?
I'm with you. Maybe my imagination is just failing me today, but I couldn't think of a reason, other than to say "Hey, look at this!" to do this.
Beside, I'm pretty sure you can't buy a legal copy of 96/98/ME and, since a windows license is not transferable to another machine (I think), there may not be a legal way to run old Windows on a Pocket PC.
I'd say his concepts defined the requirements or foundations of how the hardware would operate. Maybe I'm being pedantic as form follows function; software is dictated to a large degree by the base hardware.
I'm with you on VisiCalc and PGP. Your others are good choices too. These are people whose efforts have made a significant and lasting contribution to computer technology.
I'm not so sure Torvalds should be in there, yet. Sun's founder maybe, mostly for Java which is more ubiquitous now than Linux. AOL's founder? No. He may have brought the internet to the masses, but it's dubious that that was a postive for computer tech.
In general, I think the true pioneers should be inducted first.
I just heard this news on NPR and thought I'd submit it to /. but I was scooped. NPR said that he was a "student" and lived with his parents. They said he admitted to being the Sasser worm author but failed to mention the Phatbot connection.
Here's an English language report that mentions a Microsoft connection.
You're right. The plant started as a CDC (Control Data Corp.) operation. A few years back I had an HDD (Imprimis brand, I think) whose label said it was from that plant.
I believe that they no longer manufacture anything there anymore. From their website:
Seagate's Oklahoma City operation enjoys a 40-plus year history in Oklahoma City. The facility makes a significant contribution to corporate business objectives and strategies by serving as the company's worldwide center for customer technical support and by employing a significant Information Technologies staff.
So they're mostly a support operation now. Who knows how long that will last.
Interestingly, Creative Labs North American tech support operation is here in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
When the previous /. story was posted about the TCP flaw, I checked out the NANOG mailing list.
There was plenty of discussion about it, including various vendor issues (Cisco and Juniper) & fixes, as well as some ISPs dragging their feet on implementing MD5 over peer links. I could tell from some of the things mentioned there that they (the network ops) had advance knowledge of the vulnerability.
Most interesting was this about looking glasses being too free with info that would allow a TCP reset in one try.
head to their site
I will. Thanks for the link.
Be reasonable; comparision to the mythilogical does no justice to the discussion.
My take is that our present level of science just might be able to arrive at the definitive conclusion. The trouble is that when various groups of presumably respected scientists study the situation and publish quite different conclusions, how am I, an layman at climatology and the like, supposed to "go with the best science?"
Gack. Must remember to preview.
I get the feeling that our science isn't yet up to the task...
I'll have to be a global warming agnostic. I've seen credible viewpoints that indicate that in the next decades we will either be swimming like "Water World" or freezing in a new ice age.
I just get the feeling that our science into yet up to the task of interpreting our climate.
They're kinda small on newer drives, but are quite strong, neodymium-iron-boron magnets.
OK, you see head assembly? At the opposite end from the heads, past the pivot point, there will be a plastic molded part with a coil of copper wire. You may not see it well 'cause it'll be obscured by the magnet assembly (a flat metal bracket with mounting flanges on each end).
Remove any fasteners on the magnet assembly; they're probably small Torx head screws. You'll also need to remove the head assembly by unscrewing it at the pivot point (or if you don't care about wrecking it more, just pry vigorously at the magnet assembly with a medium screwdriver).
Now, the magnets are epoxied to the metal brackets. To remove them with the least likelihood of breaking them, grip a flange end of the bracket with ViseGrips (locking pliers) or similar. Holding the pliers, strike the other flange end against a hard (concrete preferably) surface, gently at first and increasing in force until the magnet(s) pop off. If your using just enough force, they'll pop off and then snap back to the bracket.
Have fun!
-RatOmeter
Been there, done that.
The only trouble is finding platters of different sizes to avoid a monotone. Also some of the platters are some kind of plastic and don't ring at all.
NO! Send your old HDDs to me! Or at least save the neodymium head servo magnets for me.
I'm only half kidding, as I'd like to have a couple of hundred magnets for various projects. Mostly projects related to the link in my sig.
-RatOmeter
I don't think so.
Looks like the weakest point for net-wide effects in routers implementing BGP. A concerted attack could tie up critical routers rebuilding routes after losing connection to their peers. Since this could be globally critical, I suspect the major hardware vendors and service providers will be jumping through hoops to get the fix in before some blackhats get coordinated with an exploit. There would still be weaknesses, but IPv6 will get to sit idle a bit longer.
I don't see any difference. The signaling interface would be the same in either direction. Solve one and you're very close to solving the other; it would be just a matter of delivering the signal in the right format to the right place. Figure out the brain's equivilent of NTSC/PAL/SECAM and the same interface technology would hook it right up in living color. Paralysis, blindness, deafness, all the senses could be redirected or enhanced (except sense of humor).
OK, so use a pressurized system like in automobiles. Well, maybe that's not so practical.
Still, looking at the MSDS sheet, this stuff is amazingly stable and non-irritant. Maybe I'm being too cynical, but a new wonder-compound like this leaves me thinking cancer.