I love & use both Linux and BSD, but yeah it is harder to do BSD install (or most commerical Unix for that matter) than the more polished Linux distributions (like Mandrake, RedHat or SuSE) Maybe someday...
After installing/configuration of Xfree86 (which itself comes with very lightweight twm), there is menu to pick one of the major window managers, whether GNOME, KDE, Afterstep, Windowmaker, or fvwm. Or you can go to ports collection where there are a couple dozen more window managers.
We used AutoCAD on our Sparcstation 2's and SGI Indys in 1992-1995, which had 64 bit precision via integer arithmetic, no floating point instructions. Now that AutoDesk has dropped everything but Windows/x836, maybe they use floating point now, wouldn't know.
Funny how many of the "64 bit" Solaris version really were 32/64 bit hybrids, even Solaris 8 has a heck of a lot of issues & problems with certain commands when 2G or 32 bit barrier breached. Also funny how default kernel was 32 bit on many workstations, even though the 64 bit one was also laying around on disk (and had whole lot of issues if one ran it up to at least Solaris 8) Soon I'll plop Solaris 9 on my Ultra and see if Sun finally has a true pure 64 bit system like Scott McMeallyMouth has been kind of lying about for the last 10 years.
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just pick up another 32 bit sparc box on eBay for $25 - $50, even the sparcstation 5 and 10 and 20 are going in that range (2-4x the performance of your ss2), and some have SunOS 4.1.x loaded.
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I was looking at prices, for $45 one can replace that battery/clock/NVRAM chip. Funny for that much I can also get another machine on eBay with 110MHz, 128MB RAM but its chip could konk out at any time also
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Actually, this article was not about SparcStation 5 but Ultra 5, a relatively new (5-1/2 years) 64 bit machine, that's really a UltraSparc chip in a PC type architecture (ugh!).
My old SparcStation 5 is 70MHz with 32MB of memory, and I put a new 9GB SCSI disk in it 2 years ago with a SCA to 50 pin SCSI adapter. Runs OpenBSD 3.3 very well (it was really bogged down with Solaris 2.5) One day the battery backed PROM is going to crap out though, hopefully that will still be fixable when it happens.
except this time a judge ordered them to do it with a hard deadline, and they didn't. Can't wait till the hearing on Jan 23, I'm going to fiddle as SCO burns....
Cats, dogs, cows & horses have a reflective membrane called the tapetum behind their retina, which merely reflects light (which was not absorbed by the first pass through the retina) back into the retina - no bacteria involved.
naw, gcc usually loses to compilers totally optimised for one type of processor family. Gcc has to support 30+ processors, so first code made into intermediate form which then is used to generate code for specific processor. There's just no way gcc is going to be hotter than Intel's C compiler for x86, or MIPS*PRO C on MIPS, or Sun's C on Sparc, etc.
I used to work at Fermilab, and the graphs I've seen of gamma ray bursts attributed to supernovae cover a period of tens or hundreds of seconds, with a several second huge peak, something like this
As someone else has already pointed out, this moves at lightspeed, so there's no warning. You do realize there's not enough jets/planes to even hold 0.00001 of humanity, and the real problem would be trying to outrun our own daytime as the earth is baked by our own sun. You think people will wait nicely in line for a plane on a first-come first-serve basis? Hah, imagine your local airport looking like the most violent moments of the worst civil war. Cheers!
heh, it's funny how we always hear about the greatest biomass per acre per 90-120 day period being from hemp from the people who'd like to roll a J while they're powering the turbines. Well, I've seen some other studies which claim impressive numbers for other plants too depending on climate (you can google for them) - so if we make a good way to plants into energy, there's plenty of ways we can get at least 75% of the claimed values of hemp, and plenty of other plants that will grow where hemp won't.
So let's go ahead and do it with boring grasses and weeds and sunflowers first, and then someday some country somewhere will do it with hemp with miles and miles of glorious doobage.
the most diversity of species are the hot ones. So I hereby call baloney-sausage on this psuedo-science! And as always, I must conclude by pointing out the earth has been much hotter in the past, and much colder than it is now. Don't like the climate on earth, just wait, it'll change.
Marvin the Martian denied this saying "The rabbit lies. There is no Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator, there never was an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator".
and here's the ticking time bomb within 10,000 lightyears that's going to finish us off. It may in fact already have supernovaed, and the gamma ray clam-bake coming at lightspeed! Oh, and recently revised estimates indicate no more than 20,000 years to the big pop. This will mess up your hard disk.
either. I wonder how well HP would do if its U.S. sales totally dried up due to vindictive IT people taking business elsewhere? I also note HP better their high end on Itanium
This is merely discovery phase, until January 11 we won't even know what SCo's specific complaints are (and SCO could reply to many requests in motion to compel with affidavits stating why they can't answer). You've forgotten that thus far this is the legal equivalent of two dogs sniffing each other's hind ends. It will be very much to SCO's advantage to drag things out even more and raise all kinds of convoluted issues. The party is just getting started, and the stock price will rise even more over the next few months. This surprises you?
twice at a place where I worked a few months back, we went through the routine of having the Exchange server bogged down by viruses propagating via the "windows machines", everyone being told by pager not to use the exchange server, having a patch downloaded, etc.etc. Strangely enough, since they put me on an old 98se box, I was told I wasn't affected & didn't have to patch. It seems the newer XP and ME machines were the ones that weren't remotely safe to put on the net unprotected.
Illogical to worry about Knoppix rather than anything else being misused in that fashion. You could use any of 30 operating systems to "take over" most Wintel PCs and do something naughty. Or just run naughty software under the existing installed OS from CD. Better yet just yank out network cable & plug in your own evil network-equipped PDA or laptop and be naughty.
tea has relaxants, so caffeine-free tea might not wake one up....actually, just switching to 2 cups green tea before noon might be a great idea, not too much caffeine, and 2 relaxants in there to makes one awake yet mellow.
more accurate to say it's very unlikely two string have same md5 value - but raise two to the power of the number of bits in an md5 hash, and there's at least that probability that two strings will have same hash. Of course, question is with real world strings is it even more likely than that huge 1:n number that 2 will match??? Hence this project, which I don't think is ethical or good way to find out.
That's not so bad, since NE North America is only a bunch of people who talk funny, no one even knows what they're saying or thinking anyway. Ditto for Europe.
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I love & use both Linux and BSD, but yeah it is harder to do BSD install (or most commerical Unix for that matter) than the more polished Linux distributions (like Mandrake, RedHat or SuSE) Maybe someday...
After installing/configuration of Xfree86 (which itself comes with very lightweight twm), there is menu to pick one of the major window managers, whether GNOME, KDE, Afterstep, Windowmaker, or fvwm. Or you can go to ports collection where there are a couple dozen more window managers.
We used AutoCAD on our Sparcstation 2's and SGI Indys in 1992-1995, which had 64 bit precision via integer arithmetic, no floating point instructions. Now that AutoDesk has dropped everything but Windows/x836, maybe they use floating point now, wouldn't know.
Funny how many of the "64 bit" Solaris version really were 32/64 bit hybrids, even Solaris 8 has a heck of a lot of issues & problems with certain commands when 2G or 32 bit barrier breached. Also funny how default kernel was 32 bit on many workstations, even though the 64 bit one was also laying around on disk (and had whole lot of issues if one ran it up to at least Solaris 8) Soon I'll plop Solaris 9 on my Ultra and see if Sun finally has a true pure 64 bit system like Scott McMeallyMouth has been kind of lying about for the last 10 years.
just pick up another 32 bit sparc box on eBay for $25 - $50, even the sparcstation 5 and 10 and 20 are going in that range (2-4x the performance of your ss2), and some have SunOS 4.1.x loaded.
I was looking at prices, for $45 one can replace that battery/clock/NVRAM chip. Funny for that much I can also get another machine on eBay with 110MHz, 128MB RAM but its chip could konk out at any time also
Actually, this article was not about SparcStation 5 but Ultra 5, a relatively new (5-1/2 years) 64 bit machine, that's really a UltraSparc chip in a PC type architecture (ugh!). My old SparcStation 5 is 70MHz with 32MB of memory, and I put a new 9GB SCSI disk in it 2 years ago with a SCA to 50 pin SCSI adapter. Runs OpenBSD 3.3 very well (it was really bogged down with Solaris 2.5) One day the battery backed PROM is going to crap out though, hopefully that will still be fixable when it happens.
except this time a judge ordered them to do it with a hard deadline, and they didn't. Can't wait till the hearing on Jan 23, I'm going to fiddle as SCO burns....
Cats, dogs, cows & horses have a reflective membrane called the tapetum behind their retina, which merely reflects light (which was not absorbed by the first pass through the retina) back into the retina - no bacteria involved.
naw, gcc usually loses to compilers totally optimised for one type of processor family. Gcc has to support 30+ processors, so first code made into intermediate form which then is used to generate code for specific processor. There's just no way gcc is going to be hotter than Intel's C compiler for x86, or MIPS*PRO C on MIPS, or Sun's C on Sparc, etc.
I used to work at Fermilab, and the graphs I've seen of gamma ray bursts attributed to supernovae cover a period of tens or hundreds of seconds, with a several second huge peak, something like this
As someone else has already pointed out, this moves at lightspeed, so there's no warning. You do realize there's not enough jets/planes to even hold 0.00001 of humanity, and the real problem would be trying to outrun our own daytime as the earth is baked by our own sun. You think people will wait nicely in line for a plane on a first-come first-serve basis? Hah, imagine your local airport looking like the most violent moments of the worst civil war. Cheers!
heh, it's funny how we always hear about the greatest biomass per acre per 90-120 day period being from hemp from the people who'd like to roll a J while they're powering the turbines. Well, I've seen some other studies which claim impressive numbers for other plants too depending on climate (you can google for them) - so if we make a good way to plants into energy, there's plenty of ways we can get at least 75% of the claimed values of hemp, and plenty of other plants that will grow where hemp won't. So let's go ahead and do it with boring grasses and weeds and sunflowers first, and then someday some country somewhere will do it with hemp with miles and miles of glorious doobage.
the most diversity of species are the hot ones. So I hereby call baloney-sausage on this psuedo-science! And as always, I must conclude by pointing out the earth has been much hotter in the past, and much colder than it is now. Don't like the climate on earth, just wait, it'll change.
Marvin the Martian denied this saying "The rabbit lies. There is no Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator, there never was an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator".
fine? the other 1/3 might have been limping badly & smoldering.
and here's the ticking time bomb within 10,000 lightyears that's going to finish us off. It may in fact already have supernovaed, and the gamma ray clam-bake coming at lightspeed! Oh, and recently revised estimates indicate no more than 20,000 years to the big pop. This will mess up your hard disk.
either. I wonder how well HP would do if its U.S. sales totally dried up due to vindictive IT people taking business elsewhere? I also note HP better their high end on Itanium
This is merely discovery phase, until January 11 we won't even know what SCo's specific complaints are (and SCO could reply to many requests in motion to compel with affidavits stating why they can't answer). You've forgotten that thus far this is the legal equivalent of two dogs sniffing each other's hind ends. It will be very much to SCO's advantage to drag things out even more and raise all kinds of convoluted issues. The party is just getting started, and the stock price will rise even more over the next few months. This surprises you?
twice at a place where I worked a few months back, we went through the routine of having the Exchange server bogged down by viruses propagating via the "windows machines", everyone being told by pager not to use the exchange server, having a patch downloaded, etc.etc. Strangely enough, since they put me on an old 98se box, I was told I wasn't affected & didn't have to patch. It seems the newer XP and ME machines were the ones that weren't remotely safe to put on the net unprotected.
Illogical to worry about Knoppix rather than anything else being misused in that fashion. You could use any of 30 operating systems to "take over" most Wintel PCs and do something naughty. Or just run naughty software under the existing installed OS from CD. Better yet just yank out network cable & plug in your own evil network-equipped PDA or laptop and be naughty.
tea has relaxants, so caffeine-free tea might not wake one up....actually, just switching to 2 cups green tea before noon might be a great idea, not too much caffeine, and 2 relaxants in there to makes one awake yet mellow.
most md5 hashes are either 128 (hey, 2^128, the same number you gave!), or 160 bits
more accurate to say it's very unlikely two string have same md5 value - but raise two to the power of the number of bits in an md5 hash, and there's at least that probability that two strings will have same hash. Of course, question is with real world strings is it even more likely than that huge 1:n number that 2 will match??? Hence this project, which I don't think is ethical or good way to find out.
these 10 meter+ ones have to let go when they swallow you.......
That's not so bad, since NE North America is only a bunch of people who talk funny, no one even knows what they're saying or thinking anyway. Ditto for Europe.
Of course, Darl says SCO will attack BSD soon too. The goal of SCO is to make *everyone* pay, like mafia "protection" money
computers can meld with Chinese and Russian defense grid & become Skynet. /me dons his lead jockstrap