Hacking one machine is very effective/"important" if that machine contains the location of your enemys secret army stations, war strategy, new weapons research result, etc. etc.
Just curious how these things works. Anybody got an overview ? It seems it can store digital certificates. Now, things have to be verified against these things I guess ? Won't someone find a clever way to intercept the communication to that chip, and fake responses ? Or if the software (e.g. an exe file) needs to be decrypted to run, won't someone find a way to snatch the decrypted code from memory ?
True, but it was never meant to do things like this. Btw, what would taring up your repos do if someone happened to commit at that point ? svn ships a tool that (atomically) dumps the db in a textual representation, to be able to load it back regardless of platfor/version trouble.
>And how do you think RAM access time can be improved? I don't know, that's for the advanced people at Intel,etc. to research. >Where is the time lost that could be regained? Given that the speed of the ram bus is typically a fraction of the CPU (heard of 133MHz SDRAM ? 333MHz and some above are common now though), I'd say someone ought to put more research in this area rather than squeezing a few more MHz out of a CPU.
Things like this always makes me raise a red flag. If these are chnages not in the original mozilla, might they not be unstable/experimental ? Or if they are much better than the original, why arn't they in mozilla.org ? Either way, not good imho;). (good for end users if it delivers what promises though..)
And that was one of my points. CPUs have caches and advanced pipelining/branch prediction/TLBs etc. Why ? Cause ram access is amazingly slow relativly speaking. Make it faster and you don't need all these things. (Well, ram is located further away, and there will be delays for other reasons, still, things would be much,much better..)
The next revolution might be when we get ram and bus speed up to the current CPU speeds. I can only imagine how blazingly fast a computer with enough ram bandwidth and the CPU could fetch data from the RAM in the speed of the CPU... -- Just my $.02 , may I have them back please.
>The other big feature in NetBSD 2.0 is the native threading support. >This is based on scheduler activations, which is far more scalable than >more common threading implementations. Just cause it has a cool name, does that make it better ? Where are the benchmarks backing your claims.
If it's just about the mixing of scheduling in both user and kernel space,note that Solaris has this and is moving away from it. IBM made NGPT a m:n thread library for linux, but the new NPTL (kernel space only scheduling) outperformed it.
>Creators, in the inventor sense, need to protect themselves from others >who would take their ideas without recompensating the creators for the >time and effort involved in the invention process.
Does it need to be that way ? I I make something, and someone else copies it, I'd blame myself for not making the damn thing more "secure" to copying/reverse engineering...
>How do you think space technology will change as a result of these low cost missions, satellites and space vehicles? Following the steps of software development/services ; outsourced to India ?
>This is what bugs me about installing Linux apps... the ASSLOAD of >separate stuffs you have to download, configure, build/install. Why not >just bundle everything up nicely?
Diffrent people diffrent roles. The folks here code, and give the source code to the world. It's up to someone else(such as e.g. your distro vendor) to package and make it install/work nicely. If noone has done that yet, well, there isn't that much to do about it.
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Hacking one machine is very effective/"important" if that machine contains the location of your enemys secret army stations, war strategy, new weapons research result, etc. etc.
Ok. What have they done to prevent spam here. email/smtp had some design
flaws when it comes to identifying senders. Does Jabber "solve" this.
In this context "Corporate America" refers to the stinking rich part of the music/movies industry.
Just curious how these things works. Anybody got an overview ?
It seems it can store digital certificates.
Now, things have to be verified against these things I guess ?
Won't someone find a clever way to intercept the communication to that
chip, and fake responses ?
Or if the software (e.g. an exe file) needs to be decrypted to run, won't someone find a way to snatch the decrypted code from memory ?
Many disagree with you. So, if you're complaining about it beeing Gnome based, go use one of the many KDE based distros.
Why the heck is this modded up anyway ?
This story is full of legal blurb.
In a sentence what does this mean for You and Me ?
Ofcourse, Java. They HAD to do it.
*sigh*
True, but it was never meant to do things like this.
Btw, what would taring up your repos do if someone happened to
commit at that point ?
svn ships a tool that (atomically) dumps the db in a textual representation, to be able to load it back regardless of platfor/version trouble.
Why is the new fsfs repository such a big deal ?(unless you do store it on network filesystems?)
There is the little note;
"Note that the data files created by fsfs repositories are still in a binary format, and are not human editable!"
And can it do hot backup, with guaranteed atomicity ?
ACLs are just an attribute of the object. It's really very elegant. For example:
[snip] strange characters... [/snip]
Please tell me there is a GUI admin utility allowing you to set ACLs !?
Hmm. I was hoping to see a live volcano eruption here, but it seems
not to be broadcasting now. Anyone knows why/what's happening ?
Anyone know if they'll change the VM subsystem?
Pulling in NetBSD's UVM would be great.
>And how do you think RAM access time can be improved?
I don't know, that's for the advanced people at Intel,etc. to research.
>Where is the time lost that could be regained?
Given that the speed of the ram bus is typically a fraction of the
CPU (heard of 133MHz SDRAM ? 333MHz and some above are common now though), I'd say someone ought to put more research in this area rather
than squeezing a few more MHz out of a CPU.
Things like this always makes me raise a red flag. ;). (good for end users if it delivers what promises though..)
If these are chnages not in the original mozilla, might they
not be unstable/experimental ? Or if they are much better than
the original, why arn't they in mozilla.org ? Either way, not good imho
And that was one of my points. CPUs have caches and advanced pipelining/branch prediction/TLBs etc. Why ? Cause ram access is
amazingly slow relativly speaking. Make it faster and you don't need
all these things. (Well, ram is located further away, and there will be delays for other reasons, still, things would be much,much better..)
The next revolution might be when we get ram and bus speed up to the current CPU speeds. I can only imagine how blazingly fast a computer
with enough ram bandwidth and the CPU could fetch data from the RAM in
the speed of the CPU...
--
Just my $.02 , may I have them back please.
>The other big feature in NetBSD 2.0 is the native threading support.
>This is based on scheduler activations, which is far more scalable than
>more common threading implementations.
Just cause it has a cool name, does that make it better ?
Where are the benchmarks backing your claims.
If it's just about the mixing of scheduling in both user and kernel space,note that Solaris has this and is moving away from it. IBM made NGPT a m:n thread library for linux, but the new NPTL (kernel space only scheduling) outperformed it.
>Creators, in the inventor sense, need to protect themselves from others
>who would take their ideas without recompensating the creators for the
>time and effort involved in the invention process.
Does it need to be that way ? I I make something, and someone else copies it, I'd blame myself for not making the damn thing more "secure" to
copying/reverse engineering...
>How do you think space technology will change as a result of these low cost missions, satellites and space vehicles?
Following the steps of software development/services ; outsourced to India ?
(which btw might not be a good thing after all !)
>This is what bugs me about installing Linux apps... the ASSLOAD of
>separate stuffs you have to download, configure, build/install. Why not
>just bundle everything up nicely?
Diffrent people diffrent roles. The folks here code, and give the source code to the world. It's up to someone else(such as e.g. your distro vendor) to package and make it install/work nicely. If noone has done that yet, well, there isn't that much to do about it.
How is this informative?
Because some C#/mono zealots got modpoints ?
Or why didn't they write it in Python ? Or C++/Qt (Which is Novells preferred platform on Linux/SuSE) ?
The question to ask is _why_ should they write it in C# ?! I for one
don't need the extra slowness and memory usage introduced by mono.
Why ? That level suck utterly. It looks fancy but I saw no fun whatsoever playing on it.
0% of the known overflow bugs are fixed.
(or 100% of them depending on your view)
Solar panels, which they assumed would be covered with dust after a while, and not provide enough power.