This thing is neat-o, and all that, but for 819 bucks?
So it's, roughly, the size of a Nintendo DS? 4.9x3.4x1.0 inches.
I'm just wondering, for the price, what would make this a better buy than a really tiny laptop? I've seen ultra-mini laptops that aren't much more than 8" wide.
It's not small enough to fit in your pocket, but would you really want this zaurus, with it's HDD, bouncing around in your pocket?
Can this thing be a USB host, (Can't tell from TFA), so you could possibly plug in an external HDD or even a CD-R?
I guess what I'm wondering is, where's the line between a device like this, and a uber-small-footprint laptop?
I'm in debt up to my ass, but I'm much better off making an extra mortgage payment or two each year than socking it in some teensy fund. My credit cards are stuffed with home improvements. For about 10 grand in debt, I've increased (well, and the market) the value of my home about 75 large (had it reappraised a few weeks ago). A quick refinance, I'll have a lower rate, am moving to a 15 year note instead of thirty, and paying the cards off. Lather, rinse, repeat, and I'll own this outright in 10 years or so. Understanding credit is using it.
Why would I want to hide that money in something like an IRA which could lose value over time (no matter what the "financial advisor" selling the shares tells you) ?
You'll find that much of peoples debt is set up this way. Generally people learn at a young age not to piss credit away on frivolous stuff (TVs, blah blah). They make their mistakes on a smaller card.
I get tired of hearing people squawk about how everyone is stupid but them. They aren't.
Bollywood has yet to produce something like Crouching Tiger, or Hero, hell, even Godzilla. There's Das Boot, Life is Beautiful, every Bond flick, Trainspotting, the Full Monty.. Bollywood just hasn't broken into the US at all. I don't know if they've even seriously attempted.
Foreign films aren't generally huge in the US, but now and then they take off.
Accept that India and US are just different cultures and realize that entertainment is completely subjective and varies from one audience to the next.
For US audiences, Hollywood produces the "best" movies. You also get the best cheese steaks in and around Philidelphia.
This is an unmodified stock 2.6 kernel (well it's patched with stuff that's in distros, and will be in the next kernel). Out of the box, it detected the NUMA set up, memory partitions, the whole bit.
Monsato doesn't own all the food in the world, that's ridiculous hyperbole. They have rights to a few GM crops that they invested millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours into developing.
How much would a trojan need to do? What does MyDoom do that requires root priveleges?
Let's think what it does, and if an unpriveleged user account on linux is adequate:
- listen on an unpriveledged port (check) - send data like spam, personal info or DDoS on an unpriveleged port (check) - add itself to the users start-up scripts to always run, be it.bashrc or "Program Files\Startup" (check) - run with some obscure task name so it's not readily obvious to a non-guru that it doesn't belong there (check)
You can do all that on Windows, OSX, Linux, BSD, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, QNX... you name it. All you need to do is trick someone into running it.
This kind of stuff has absolutely nothing to do with OS security. The problem, and eventual solution, are both found in meat-space.
There are large sections of code that havent been touched since 1.x releases. Linux frankly runs for shit on anything other than x86, despite all the claims of all the different systems it runs on. Too much PC specific cruft.
"Rewrite", to a programmer, doesn't mean to throw everything out and start from scratch, either. It means rethink some the design. Reevaluate why feature X was done the way it was, and if that's stillt he best way to do it. Make sure it's still relevant for modern hardware, and make sure it will still be relevant for tomorrows hardware.
MSFT is doing this with Longhorn. The hardware evolves, why shouldn't the software that runs on it?
On April 29th, 1975, at the age of 19, Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft) was arrested by the Albuquerque Police department (arrest record #52090). The charges were speeding and driving without a license. It was the first of three arrests in the late seventies by Albuquerque Police.
I got it from the google cache here., since the original page is gone.
How about some nice IP via satellite, a la satellite based phones? Potentially much more throughput, and if the routers in the bird itself, ping times wouldn't be an issue (I'd guess around 100ms or so).
Believe me, OSX and Linux have more than their share of stupid users.
They post here on slashdot all the time. They tell you silly shit like iPods make great external hard drives, and work well as backup devices.
They talk about using Gentoo as a backend server, because all you have to do is put "emerge sync && emerge -u world" in your crontab and nothing will ever go wrong, and the -funroll-loops in your CFLAGS will make it unga bunga faster.
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The problem is, God gave men a brain and a penis, but only enough blood to run one of them at a time.
- Robin Williams
(I probably messed the quote somewhat, but the gist of it is right)
Back in those days Apple was begging people to look at their stuff. The last thing they would have done is complain about some free publicity.
Besides, noone in 1983 would have looked and said "oh wow it's the new model of the Macintosh computer that doesn't even exist". It just looks like another of the million boxes that were competing for the new home computing market at the time. Noone would know it from a TRS-80 or Coleco Adam.
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This thing is neat-o, and all that, but for 819 bucks?
So it's, roughly, the size of a Nintendo DS? 4.9x3.4x1.0 inches.
I'm just wondering, for the price, what would make this a better buy than a really tiny laptop? I've seen ultra-mini laptops that aren't much more than 8" wide.
It's not small enough to fit in your pocket, but would you really want this zaurus, with it's HDD, bouncing around in your pocket?
Can this thing be a USB host, (Can't tell from TFA), so you could possibly plug in an external HDD or even a CD-R?
I guess what I'm wondering is, where's the line between a device like this, and a uber-small-footprint laptop?
One man's debt is anothers investment.
I'm in debt up to my ass, but I'm much better off making an extra mortgage payment or two each year than socking it in some teensy fund. My credit cards are stuffed with home improvements. For about 10 grand in debt, I've increased (well, and the market) the value of my home about 75 large (had it reappraised a few weeks ago). A quick refinance, I'll have a lower rate, am moving to a 15 year note instead of thirty, and paying the cards off. Lather, rinse, repeat, and I'll own this outright in 10 years or so. Understanding credit is using it.
Why would I want to hide that money in something like an IRA which could lose value over time (no matter what the "financial advisor" selling the shares tells you) ?
You'll find that much of peoples debt is set up this way. Generally people learn at a young age not to piss credit away on frivolous stuff (TVs, blah blah). They make their mistakes on a smaller card.
I get tired of hearing people squawk about how everyone is stupid but them. They aren't.
Bollywood has yet to produce something like Crouching Tiger, or Hero, hell, even Godzilla. There's Das Boot, Life is Beautiful, every Bond flick, Trainspotting, the Full Monty.. Bollywood just hasn't broken into the US at all. I don't know if they've even seriously attempted.
Foreign films aren't generally huge in the US, but now and then they take off.
Accept that India and US are just different cultures and realize that entertainment is completely subjective and varies from one audience to the next.
For US audiences, Hollywood produces the "best" movies. You also get the best cheese steaks in and around Philidelphia.
This is an unmodified stock 2.6 kernel (well it's patched with stuff that's in distros, and will be in the next kernel). Out of the box, it detected the NUMA set up, memory partitions, the whole bit.
The SGI boxes are nothing like the stock kernel.
Smaller, say 4 or 8 way NUMA boards, that are within the means of the average geek?
I'm not talking about mere mortal SMP systems, I wan't all the crazy memory partitioning and whatnot.
The linux kernel should be rewritten in XML.
Nothing should ever be patented, trademarked, or copyrighted.
Unless I wrote or invented it.
Monsato doesn't own all the food in the world, that's ridiculous hyperbole. They have rights to a few GM crops that they invested millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours into developing.
So plant regular corn or soybeans.
How much would a trojan need to do? What does MyDoom do that requires root priveleges?
.bashrc or "Program Files\Startup" (check)
Let's think what it does, and if an unpriveleged user account on linux is adequate:
- listen on an unpriveledged port (check)
- send data like spam, personal info or DDoS on an unpriveleged port (check)
- add itself to the users start-up scripts to always run, be it
- run with some obscure task name so it's not readily obvious to a non-guru that it doesn't belong there (check)
You can do all that on Windows, OSX, Linux, BSD, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, QNX... you name it. All you need to do is trick someone into running it.
This kind of stuff has absolutely nothing to do with OS security. The problem, and eventual solution, are both found in meat-space.
No, it would make even less sense then.
What are we outsourcing our DRM now?
How about setting up a secure food delivery system to the victims of the tsunami instead?
No, it rots.
Google for "code rot". It's a real phenomenon.
Cookies made of 100% icing!
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm sounds delicious! I always throw out the outside parts of Oreos.
I can only dream.
Bury it or fuck it, but for gods sake stop beating it.
All but the most hard-core trekkies have given up on Star Trek. I stopped caring about the middle of the first season of DS9.
The whole premise is just.. I dunno, dumb.
There are large sections of code that havent been touched since 1.x releases. Linux frankly runs for shit on anything other than x86, despite all the claims of all the different systems it runs on. Too much PC specific cruft.
"Rewrite", to a programmer, doesn't mean to throw everything out and start from scratch, either. It means rethink some the design. Reevaluate why feature X was done the way it was, and if that's stillt he best way to do it. Make sure it's still relevant for modern hardware, and make sure it will still be relevant for tomorrows hardware.
MSFT is doing this with Longhorn. The hardware evolves, why shouldn't the software that runs on it?
SCO doesn't have enough cash to fund a junior high school newsletter.
They should rewrite the kernel.
IP issues aside, it's > 10 years old, when code gets that old, it's due for a good overhaul, if nothing else.
Don't kid yourself into thinking the kernel is without it's flaws.
On April 29th, 1975, at the age of 19, Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft) was arrested by the Albuquerque Police department (arrest record #52090). The charges were speeding and driving without a license. It was the first of three arrests in the late seventies by Albuquerque Police.
I got it from the google cache here., since the original page is gone.
To put nice rounded edges on space cabinetry?
Screw kludges like wifi and 3G wireless.
How about some nice IP via satellite, a la satellite based phones? Potentially much more throughput, and if the routers in the bird itself, ping times wouldn't be an issue (I'd guess around 100ms or so).
Believe me, OSX and Linux have more than their share of stupid users.
They post here on slashdot all the time. They tell you silly shit like iPods make great external hard drives, and work well as backup devices.
They talk about using Gentoo as a backend server, because all you have to do is put "emerge sync && emerge -u world" in your crontab and nothing will ever go wrong, and the -funroll-loops in your CFLAGS will make it unga bunga faster.
The problem is, God gave men a brain and a penis, but only enough blood to run one of them at a time.
- Robin Williams
(I probably messed the quote somewhat, but the gist of it is right)
Back in those days Apple was begging people to look at their stuff. The last thing they would have done is complain about some free publicity.
Besides, noone in 1983 would have looked and said "oh wow it's the new model of the Macintosh computer that doesn't even exist". It just looks like another of the million boxes that were competing for the new home computing market at the time. Noone would know it from a TRS-80 or Coleco Adam.
Actually, it was a straight porn site.
I'm quite sure no slashdotter will ever bother to run the attachment.
It's not a virus, and it doesn't really have shit to do with windows.
It's just some code to do bad shit, you email to idiots and trick them into clicking it.
This could be done on any OS. Just, no one really cares for an army of about 12 OSX-based bots, when they can get thousands of Windows boxes.