I'm confused is this good or bad? Should they have voted for or against? 6a at least sounds like a good thing. Does that apply to existing patents or new patents only?
The lack of focus follows mouse bugged me and there's no virtual desktops.
Yes, I feel the same whenever I have had to work on Windows for just a few minutes. How can they call it userfriendly when it lacks such important features. (Yes I have heard virtual desktops exists as addons, but most Linux WMs have it by default). And how about the cut'n'paste on Windows which requires to use the keyboard or pull down menus. On X11 it is just mark the text and click. The Windows GUI is really not that great.
use NXDOMAIN to tell that a message is not valid only perform a DNS lookup
If you query only your ISPs DNS server, is it actually you who use the service, or is it your ISP? If it is your ISP aren't they violating the license, by using the information provided by Verisign to break your system.
Isn't this the same sort of thing as having to open a sealed box to be able to read the licence, which then states that by unsealing the box you've agreed to the licence?
Reminds me about OS/2. On the outside of the box, there was a note telling, that the license was inside, and must be read before opening the box. Go figure.
Who cares if the "power users" max out when the net capacity is otherwise idle? When demand is higher than capacity, throttle back all users in proportion to their current demand.
I more or less agree, though I think throttling based on the users demand is a bad decission. Throttle everybody equaly, some are not going to be affected because their demand is low, only those with high demands are going to be affected. Lower the limit until suggestion gets lower. The problem is meassuring the congestion, and acting on them neither too much nor too late. Another problem of course is those ISPs who want to sell different bandwidth at different prices. If you can get your share of the idle capacity nobody will pay for higher capacity.
Right now Richard Stallman is the first link in a Google search for
RMS, that's going to take time and effort for Microsoft to change
But Microsoft are trying to make people not use Google, but rahter user their own search engine, which does not show Stallman's homepage within the first 15 hits when searching for RMS. Anyway still Google is used by more people, so everybody should help protecting Stallman's name there. RMS might be a zealot, but I still like Stallman more than Microsoft. So how can you help
RMS? I think the best way to help is to provide links to www.stallman.org in as many locations as possible. And prefferably use
RMS as link text. The parent comment did a good start, and I will continue by making every instance of the word
RMS in my comment a link to
www.stallman.org.
Re:Performance doesn't come directly from 64 bits
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people are stupid,
Yes.
I'm the only intelligent being on earth
No, but we are part of a minority.
and I'll simply forget about assembly
Good choice.
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In a segmented memory architecture, you can address a lot more than that.
That might be true for some architectures. But the way Intel designed 386 protected mode and later PAE, you are still limited to 4GB even with segmentation. And typically 1GB of that is reserved for the kernel.
Re:There's more to it than 64-bit instructions
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Intel x86 CPUs can already address 36 bits of physical memory, which should be enough for the next few years.
Correct, the problem is not the physical memory bits, but rather that they only have 32 bits of logical address space. The 32 bits of logical address space has been too small for a long time. If I cannot mmap my entire harddisk, I don't have enough address space. The trouble involved with 64 and 128 bits integer arithmetics is another reason we want architectures with more than 32 bits.
And it's the best OS around, so thank god I don't have something worse.. like one of those hobby play operating systems!
What you described is already far worse than the system I use. I have used Red Hat Linux for four years, and I never had to reinstall. And your system crashes now and then. Mine was booted sep 1 when I got home from a vacation, which means it has been running for almost three weeks straight without crashes. The previous reboot was aug 21 when a new kernel was released. That actually means I never had any crash with the kernel version I'm using at the time. Thank god I'm not using one of those windows systems that some people need to play computer games and have to reinstall all the time. I know people reinstalling Windows more often than I reboot my computer.
The only thing you'll need then is a connection to the 'net.
That should always have been the most important part of the product sold by your ISP. Most ISPs also have a bunch of servers web/mail/news you can use. I don't know how much providing those servers actually cost, but if they cost anything significant, the ISP should sell conectivity without access to their servers at a lower price.
Why are these monkeys still putting the ethernet port in top of two usb ports?
I also have one of those computers, but that is not the most anoying part of their design. The computer was cheap, silent, small form factor. That are the most possitive things I can say. The negative parts are not only the way they placed those USB ports, but also that there are two USB ports both on the front and on the back, but if you plug an USB unit in port 1 both on the front and on the back, neither unit will work (same with port 2). Why on earth didn't they put a USB hub in the computer to prevent that problem? And the front is made in such a way, that there is no access to the sound output from the DVD drive. The drive is shorter than a standard CD/DVD drive, and the box is too smal for a standard sized drive. Beside that the BIOS crash if a standard size drive is connected. Also there is room inside the computer for a floppy drive, and even a controller placed just in the right location. But there is no hole in the front of the case. And it has only one ethernet port, no serial port, and no expansion slots.
the hard drive industry also tends to report the *unformatted* size, despite the drive being delivered formatted.
I don't believe any of thier formated vs unformatted crap. The difference between the raw encoding on the disk and the data in your sectors is far more than a few percent. With a typical MFM encoding the difference at the lowest layer will be a factor of two, afterwards you also have to substract space used for sector headers, trailers, numbers, checksum. OK modern disks might use encodings which are much more dense than MFM but still, the unformatted size is far larger than what they will ever get away with reporting.
If you by unformatted size mean the size of the media not considering partitioning and filesystem metadata, then it is really this "unformatted" size they should report. When people choose to use a filesystem, they cannot blame the harddisk vendor for what waste that causes.
I remember some floppy disks being sold with information like: 1MB unformatted, 720-880KB formatted. Interesting they are were sold formatted for PC and stating formatted sizes matching Amiga/MAC.
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I'm confused is this good or bad? Should they have voted for or against? 6a at least sounds like a good thing. Does that apply to existing patents or new patents only?
I'm going to Mars, who's coming with me?
Count me in. I have actually been considering that for a long time. Damn, I should have patented that idea a long time ago.
The lack of focus follows mouse bugged me and there's no virtual desktops.
Yes, I feel the same whenever I have had to work on Windows for just a few minutes. How can they call it userfriendly when it lacks such important features. (Yes I have heard virtual desktops exists as addons, but most Linux WMs have it by default). And how about the cut'n'paste on Windows which requires to use the keyboard or pull down menus. On X11 it is just mark the text and click. The Windows GUI is really not that great.
http://64.94.110.11/I_AS_A_USE
.com domain instead of the IP address. Personally I use uuidgen to get a nonexisting domain.
Please use a nonexisting
use NXDOMAIN to tell that a message is not valid only perform a DNS lookup
If you query only your ISPs DNS server, is it actually you who use the service, or is it your ISP? If it is your ISP aren't they violating the license, by using the information provided by Verisign to break your system.
Isn't this the same sort of thing as having to open a sealed box to be able to read the licence, which then states that by unsealing the box you've agreed to the licence?
Reminds me about OS/2. On the outside of the box, there was a note telling, that the license was inside, and must be read before opening the box. Go figure.
Its not like they are going to share their own music on a p2p network.
I think they would legalize the copying by doing that. So of course they are not going to.
Is it actually on any mirror site yet? I tried five, none of them had the new version.
But I still can't get old mandrake to compile...
Maybe you need a newer openssl?
in hindsight, IBM should have gone with the Motorola 68000 instead of the Intel 8086 for the original IBM PC
AFAIR the 68000 was released after the original IBM PC. That is about the only good reason IBM had for not using the 68000.
Who cares if the "power users" max out when the net capacity is otherwise idle? When demand is higher than capacity, throttle back all users in proportion to their current demand.
I more or less agree, though I think throttling based on the users demand is a bad decission. Throttle everybody equaly, some are not going to be affected because their demand is low, only those with high demands are going to be affected. Lower the limit until suggestion gets lower. The problem is meassuring the congestion, and acting on them neither too much nor too late. Another problem of course is those ISPs who want to sell different bandwidth at different prices. If you can get your share of the idle capacity nobody will pay for higher capacity.
But, if it has to, it will, and it will survive.
And it wouldn't be the first time in history freedom fighters would have to go underground.
Right now Richard Stallman is the first link in a Google search for RMS, that's going to take time and effort for Microsoft to change
But Microsoft are trying to make people not use Google, but rahter user their own search engine, which does not show Stallman's homepage within the first 15 hits when searching for RMS. Anyway still Google is used by more people, so everybody should help protecting Stallman's name there. RMS might be a zealot, but I still like Stallman more than Microsoft. So how can you help RMS? I think the best way to help is to provide links to www.stallman.org in as many locations as possible. And prefferably use RMS as link text. The parent comment did a good start, and I will continue by making every instance of the word RMS in my comment a link to www.stallman.org.
people are stupid,
Yes.
I'm the only intelligent being on earth
No, but we are part of a minority.
and I'll simply forget about assembly
Good choice.
In a segmented memory architecture, you can address a lot more than that.
That might be true for some architectures. But the way Intel designed 386 protected mode and later PAE, you are still limited to 4GB even with segmentation. And typically 1GB of that is reserved for the kernel.
Intel x86 CPUs can already address 36 bits of physical memory, which should be enough for the next few years.
Correct, the problem is not the physical memory bits, but rather that they only have 32 bits of logical address space. The 32 bits of logical address space has been too small for a long time. If I cannot mmap my entire harddisk, I don't have enough address space. The trouble involved with 64 and 128 bits integer arithmetics is another reason we want architectures with more than 32 bits.
"socialism plus electricity"
In America that is stuff you will sometimes have access to, while at other times you wish you had it.
You are looking for this, I believe.
Nice, now I can get the news I'd like to hear.
I think he was uh, being sarcastic.
I don't understand sarcasm that time of the day.... uh I mean night.
And it's the best OS around, so thank god I don't have something worse.. like one of those hobby play operating systems!
What you described is already far worse than the system I use. I have used Red Hat Linux for four years, and I never had to reinstall. And your system crashes now and then. Mine was booted sep 1 when I got home from a vacation, which means it has been running for almost three weeks straight without crashes. The previous reboot was aug 21 when a new kernel was released. That actually means I never had any crash with the kernel version I'm using at the time. Thank god I'm not using one of those windows systems that some people need to play computer games and have to reinstall all the time. I know people reinstalling Windows more often than I reboot my computer.
There were a lot of ways to avoid the RPC (MSBlast) worm.
Lots of ways to prevent connections to one particular port, but why not just stop the d... process listening on the port?
The only thing you'll need then is a connection to the 'net.
That should always have been the most important part of the product sold by your ISP. Most ISPs also have a bunch of servers web/mail/news you can use. I don't know how much providing those servers actually cost, but if they cost anything significant, the ISP should sell conectivity without access to their servers at a lower price.
Why are these monkeys still putting the ethernet port in top of two usb ports?
I also have one of those computers, but that is not the most anoying part of their design. The computer was cheap, silent, small form factor. That are the most possitive things I can say. The negative parts are not only the way they placed those USB ports, but also that there are two USB ports both on the front and on the back, but if you plug an USB unit in port 1 both on the front and on the back, neither unit will work (same with port 2). Why on earth didn't they put a USB hub in the computer to prevent that problem? And the front is made in such a way, that there is no access to the sound output from the DVD drive. The drive is shorter than a standard CD/DVD drive, and the box is too smal for a standard sized drive. Beside that the BIOS crash if a standard size drive is connected. Also there is room inside the computer for a floppy drive, and even a controller placed just in the right location. But there is no hole in the front of the case. And it has only one ethernet port, no serial port, and no expansion slots.
the hard drive industry also tends to report the *unformatted* size, despite the drive being delivered formatted.
I don't believe any of thier formated vs unformatted crap. The difference between the raw encoding on the disk and the data in your sectors is far more than a few percent. With a typical MFM encoding the difference at the lowest layer will be a factor of two, afterwards you also have to substract space used for sector headers, trailers, numbers, checksum. OK modern disks might use encodings which are much more dense than MFM but still, the unformatted size is far larger than what they will ever get away with reporting.
If you by unformatted size mean the size of the media not considering partitioning and filesystem metadata, then it is really this "unformatted" size they should report. When people choose to use a filesystem, they cannot blame the harddisk vendor for what waste that causes.
I remember some floppy disks being sold with information like: 1MB unformatted, 720-880KB formatted. Interesting they are were sold formatted for PC and stating formatted sizes matching Amiga/MAC.