while people are jailed for going to non-state approved church services & the buildings used for such are bulldozed? Private property means nothing if the state claims ownership of your mind.
and if you wanted to use the opcodes for multiplication and division you had to load the lookup tables into 300 digit area from 00100 to 00399. System manual is here I wish I could find the book "Programming the IBM 1620, a hands-on approach", it's what turned me on to computing.
..was more hefty than the one in the article, mine had 24k ram and 8K BASIC on tape (dual cassette interfaces). Never did have money to buy a printer for the thing. I think terminal was vt-52 clone, but not sure since I've worked on so very many vt's in past 22 years.
Ick, that didn't come out right. Filesystem uses 7 bit year, internally 6 bit year. MS-DOS internal dates crap out first in 21st century, then the filesystem on filesystem craps out in 22nd century.
Amiga says it is signed and you're SOL after 19 January, 2046, 03:14:07.
" As was outlined above, the Amiga measures time in seconds. As it turns out, the number of seconds to accumulate until 19 January, 2046, 03:14:07 will form the largest value a signed 32 bit integer number can hold.....AmigaDOS, which always treats time as a signed quantity, will consider this date to be invalid because it is "negative". " -- Amiga.com
which of course is just the shortened form of the way the GB folks used to say them:
the 17th day of the month of June in the year of our Lord one thousand, ninehundred, four score and seventeen. [/me goes to powder wig ]
The problem is if we want to do calcuations *now* with functions such as ctime(3) (which perl & python ctime methods use) on 32 bit platform that go out more than 34 years. I wish 32 bit Linux used a 64 bit time_t
well, you're not from the CADD world - Pro/E (one of the PTC packages affected) is used by *thousands* of world's biggest manufacturing corporations including aircraft, automotive, heavy-equipment, switchgear, etc.
These might be a problem for many slashdot readers down the road, I for one plan on being likely dead, what with being old fart already. So here's those "overflow" dates, mm/dd/yyyy U.S.A. format:
02/06/2036 - systems which use unsigned 32-bit seconds since 01/01/1900
01/01/2037 - NTP time rolls over
01/19/2038 - Unix 32 bit time, signed 32 bit seconds (that's to say, 2^31) since 01/01/1970
02/06/2040 - Older Macintosh
09/17/2042 - IBM 370 family mainframe time ends, 2^32 "update intervals, a kind of 'long second'" since 01/01/1900
01/01/2044 - MS DOS clock overflows, 2^6 years since 01/01/1980
01/01/2046 - Amiga time overflows
01/01/2100 - many PC BIOS become useless
11/28/4338 - ANSI 85 COBOL date overflow, 10^6 days since epoch of 01/01/1601
and my personal favorite,
07/31/31086 - DEC VMS time overflows
Death toll could be great, but I doubt property damage in the billions. Bringing down large reinforced concrete structure takes hundreds to thousands of well placed charges, or a truly massive bomb.
The "countering" would be after the fact, and that's the sobering thing. The response will not be like the Afganistan situtation, the nation(s) who harbored, willingly or not, the group that did such a thing would be obliterated, innocent civilians and all. It is the logical progression of recent events of past two years.
the version currently sold is vastly different & bigger than the original, has n-way parallelism & clustering & replication & web access & two-phase commits. Still, amazing that a DBMS that is non-SQL (or have they changed that now too) is still around & alive & growing
heh, but I often use phrases at work such as "pry your head out of Bill Gate's ass, the air is cleaner & smells better and the view is much better" or "let's get a real OS on that machine, instead of Microsoft's glorified program loader" , so maybe I am a zealot.
Anyway, even for the business survey, a business might claim hardware support is better in Linux world depending on what they have & experiences. For example, I've found cases where Linux can drive multiple socket connections faster than Windows with certain network cards
After watching fusion research go for 30 years without ever getting one inch closer to being a viable source of energy, I can't believe they're going to take this waste of money to the international level to waste another 30 years. We ALREADY have a fusion reactor 93 million miles up with a 4 billion+ year fuel supply, that already puts out more energy than the whole solar system can receive or use.
Do you really think any IT decision maker is going to take survey results provided by Microsoft seriously as having any weight in the arguments for spending millions of dollars? That's silly.
I've found more Microsoft zealots than anything else in my 20+ years working with IT folk. But strangely, most of the Microsoft people had done nothing else. My Unix/Unixlike zealotry is based on doing WIndows admin for over 7 years, plus working with various Unix, VMS, VM/SP, Novell, NOS to name a few. I have reasons for my beliefs, which have to do with ease of admin, scalability of admin effort, ease of programming, having features built in rather than needing to buy extra addons, etc.
Strangely enough, I do admit Windows is a superior solution for several applications - for pure file & print sharing, for example, I believe it outshines Unix/Linux/BSD. And I even admit Microsoft products are the best solutions for certain applications: e.g. Excel is the best spreadsheet, in my opinion.
I don't quite get the logic of your saying anyone claiming Linux has superior hardware support should be dismissed out of hand; depending on their hardware, a user might get better or worse or no support for hardware with either OS. For an extreme example, I have a couple of Sun boxes and an SGI as home systems...now you tell me, Linux (or BSD) or Windows will provide me with superior hardware support for those?
Ruby has a huge following, but just not in the western world yet. I think it is superior in design than even LISP (I've been a paid LISP, Java, C++, C programmer in the past)
not worthless, I actually made money with my boxes writing Solaris and IRIX specific code. It was a VERY cost effective way of getting some consulting business, because these old boxes can still run the lastest OS.
no, I was joking, and I'm actually very well aware of why administration of a PDE-5 inhibitor for treatment of angina pectoris would have the secondary effects of aiding erection and also effect blue color sensing.
It's a question of priorities...before cancer or the common cold could be cured we first had to concentrate biomedical effort on making a pill that gives old farts a rock hard meatpipe. Now that that's out of the way, we can concentrate on curing viral infections, hereditary diseases, cancer, etc.
My good fellow, I'm sitting here wondering if you make all your friends talk like that Monty Python pub skit when they speak to you: KNOWHATAMEAN GRIN GRIN WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE SAY NO MORE??!!!!
well, you could say that about the latest PC or car too, in 18 months it'll be thousands cheaper. People who want the latest/greatest don't worry about 4K over 18 months. Then there's people like me, I've bought a Sun and SGI box for 1% of original price because I "waited" 5 years.
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while people are jailed for going to non-state approved church services & the buildings used for such are bulldozed? Private property means nothing if the state claims ownership of your mind.
and if you wanted to use the opcodes for multiplication and division you had to load the lookup tables into 300 digit area from 00100 to 00399. System manual is here I wish I could find the book "Programming the IBM 1620, a hands-on approach", it's what turned me on to computing.
..was more hefty than the one in the article, mine had 24k ram and 8K BASIC on tape (dual cassette interfaces). Never did have money to buy a printer for the thing. I think terminal was vt-52 clone, but not sure since I've worked on so very many vt's in past 22 years.
the New York Times carried Linus' reply; its readership isn't big enough for you?
Ick, that didn't come out right. Filesystem uses 7 bit year, internally 6 bit year. MS-DOS internal dates crap out first in 21st century, then the filesystem on filesystem craps out in 22nd century.
Amiga says it is signed and you're SOL after 19 January, 2046, 03:14:07.
" As was outlined above, the Amiga measures time in seconds. As it turns out, the number of seconds to accumulate until 19 January, 2046, 03:14:07 will form the largest value a signed 32 bit integer number can hold.....AmigaDOS, which always treats time as a signed quantity, will consider this date to be invalid because it is "negative". " -- Amiga.com
yes the filesystem in MS-DOS' timestamp overflows on jan 01, 2108, but the internal clock has 6 bit for year (go figure)
which of course is just the shortened form of the way the GB folks used to say them: /me goes to powder wig ]
the 17th day of the month of June in the year of our Lord one thousand, ninehundred, four score and seventeen. [
The problem is if we want to do calcuations *now* with functions such as ctime(3) (which perl & python ctime methods use) on 32 bit platform that go out more than 34 years. I wish 32 bit Linux used a 64 bit time_t
well, you're not from the CADD world - Pro/E (one of the PTC packages affected) is used by *thousands* of world's biggest manufacturing corporations including aircraft, automotive, heavy-equipment, switchgear, etc.
then we're screwed.
./t.rb:6:in `at': bignum too big to convert into `int' (RangeError)
I also tried with ruby (my favorite language)
2147483641.upto( 2147483651) { | clock | print "testing: #{TiTue Jan 19 03:14:01 GMT 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:02 GMT 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:03 GMT 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:04 GMT 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:05 GMT 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:06 GMT 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 GMT 2038
These might be a problem for many slashdot readers down the road, I for one plan on being likely dead, what with being old fart already. So here's those "overflow" dates, mm/dd/yyyy U.S.A. format:
02/06/2036 - systems which use unsigned 32-bit seconds since 01/01/1900
01/01/2037 - NTP time rolls over
01/19/2038 - Unix 32 bit time, signed 32 bit seconds (that's to say, 2^31) since 01/01/1970
02/06/2040 - Older Macintosh
09/17/2042 - IBM 370 family mainframe time ends, 2^32 "update intervals, a kind of 'long second'" since 01/01/1900
01/01/2044 - MS DOS clock overflows, 2^6 years since 01/01/1980
01/01/2046 - Amiga time overflows
01/01/2100 - many PC BIOS become useless
11/28/4338 - ANSI 85 COBOL date overflow, 10^6 days since epoch of 01/01/1601
and my personal favorite,
07/31/31086 - DEC VMS time overflows
do perl -v too
Death toll could be great, but I doubt property damage in the billions. Bringing down large reinforced concrete structure takes hundreds to thousands of well placed charges, or a truly massive bomb.
The "countering" would be after the fact, and that's the sobering thing. The response will not be like the Afganistan situtation, the nation(s) who harbored, willingly or not, the group that did such a thing would be obliterated, innocent civilians and all. It is the logical progression of recent events of past two years.
the version currently sold is vastly different & bigger than the original, has n-way parallelism & clustering & replication & web access & two-phase commits. Still, amazing that a DBMS that is non-SQL (or have they changed that now too) is still around & alive & growing
heh, but I often use phrases at work such as "pry your head out of Bill Gate's ass, the air is cleaner & smells better and the view is much better" or "let's get a real OS on that machine, instead of Microsoft's glorified program loader" , so maybe I am a zealot.
Anyway, even for the business survey, a business might claim hardware support is better in Linux world depending on what they have & experiences. For example, I've found cases where Linux can drive multiple socket connections faster than Windows with certain network cards
After watching fusion research go for 30 years without ever getting one inch closer to being a viable source of energy, I can't believe they're going to take this waste of money to the international level to waste another 30 years. We ALREADY have a fusion reactor 93 million miles up with a 4 billion+ year fuel supply, that already puts out more energy than the whole solar system can receive or use.
Do you really think any IT decision maker is going to take survey results provided by Microsoft seriously as having any weight in the arguments for spending millions of dollars? That's silly. I've found more Microsoft zealots than anything else in my 20+ years working with IT folk. But strangely, most of the Microsoft people had done nothing else. My Unix/Unixlike zealotry is based on doing WIndows admin for over 7 years, plus working with various Unix, VMS, VM/SP, Novell, NOS to name a few. I have reasons for my beliefs, which have to do with ease of admin, scalability of admin effort, ease of programming, having features built in rather than needing to buy extra addons, etc. Strangely enough, I do admit Windows is a superior solution for several applications - for pure file & print sharing, for example, I believe it outshines Unix/Linux/BSD. And I even admit Microsoft products are the best solutions for certain applications: e.g. Excel is the best spreadsheet, in my opinion. I don't quite get the logic of your saying anyone claiming Linux has superior hardware support should be dismissed out of hand; depending on their hardware, a user might get better or worse or no support for hardware with either OS. For an extreme example, I have a couple of Sun boxes and an SGI as home systems...now you tell me, Linux (or BSD) or Windows will provide me with superior hardware support for those?
Ruby has a huge following, but just not in the western world yet. I think it is superior in design than even LISP (I've been a paid LISP, Java, C++, C programmer in the past)
When I was young, way back in the misty depths of time, it was not uncommon to hear of 9 billion people by 2050
not worthless, I actually made money with my boxes writing Solaris and IRIX specific code. It was a VERY cost effective way of getting some consulting business, because these old boxes can still run the lastest OS.
no, I was joking, and I'm actually very well aware of why administration of a PDE-5 inhibitor for treatment of angina pectoris would have the secondary effects of aiding erection and also effect blue color sensing.
It's a question of priorities...before cancer or the common cold could be cured we first had to concentrate biomedical effort on making a pill that gives old farts a rock hard meatpipe. Now that that's out of the way, we can concentrate on curing viral infections, hereditary diseases, cancer, etc.
My good fellow, I'm sitting here wondering if you make all your friends talk like that Monty Python pub skit when they speak to you: KNOWHATAMEAN GRIN GRIN WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE SAY NO MORE??!!!!
well, you could say that about the latest PC or car too, in 18 months it'll be thousands cheaper. People who want the latest/greatest don't worry about 4K over 18 months. Then there's people like me, I've bought a Sun and SGI box for 1% of original price because I "waited" 5 years.