1) A set of API calls to do discrete things with hardware (list buses, get interrupt information, perform DMA, twiddle registers mapped to memory, talk to a sysfs interface for providing control data to userspace) This API should be fixed, with a few extension points which would leave the original API as-is.
2) A small virtual machine (ala OpenFirmware and Forth/F-Code) that can manipulate this API and do simple kernel memory management tasks, math, etc. and implement control structures. This "module" would load, and then you could send bytecode drivers to a device that would start a virtual machine implementing the logic in the bytecode.
Driver writers could target the bytecode (maybe using a gcc-backend?). It would be architecture independant.
NVidia would write drivers conforming to part 1. Scanner, modem, printer manufacturers (less performance critical) could aim for part 2.
It's actually saved me some trouble. You'll know that your disks are out of free space (thus preventing the audit log from growing) when you see that ol' Blue Screen. A similar machine without the setting would just behave very erratically and just fall all over itself.
1) That the reg tool existed as early in NT as when the registry was first introduced.
2) That the reg tool would allow you to dump and restore hives and keys to flat/text files
3) That the registry would be broken up into many hives that applications could load and unload dynamically and keep independantly.
In this fashion, for example, all the settings for a particular app for a particular user might end up as %USERDIR%/Application Data/foobar/foobar.dat and would be dynamically added under HKCU or whereever until it the relevant app was closed (and the hive removed).
You could always go back and manually mount that hive and make changes...
In this fashion, complete rebuilds would become unnecessary because you could spread out your critical config, and backup/restore parts independantly, prevent corruption or slow access from large hives, etc.
The processor can't detect "empty clock ticks"... there's no such thing. If the operating system determines that no user threads have anything to do, and the kernel has run out of stuff to do to... so it's just waiting for hardware interrupts (keyboard, mouse, network, video, disk, interval timer), rather than sitting around in a loop it executes the HALT instruction which brings the CPU into a low-power state until an interrupt or trap wakes it up.
Otherwise it would have to spin in a loop for a few milliseconds, and that eats juice it shouldn't otherwise need to.
Intel Speed Step CPUs let the operating system use special MTRRs that allow it to dynamically adjust the clock speed in reaction to an increase or decrease of thumb-twiddling time as well. Because a CPU at 1.2GHz halting 50% is still consuming more power than the same CPU at 800MHz in HALT only 20% of the time.
I believe this is the thing that doesn't work in XP without Service Pack II or hotfixes. I've heard about this gripe before.
Inflation is just an offset to any back-of-the-envelope calculations you have on the rate of return of any investment you make or loan you take out.
And don't carry too much cash. We've figured out that since material goods depreciate with time, so does money (it's worth being defined only as a medium of exchange between goods). If money never lost value, you'd never spend it (because clearly the money will be worth more next year). You want stability? Buy a precious metal or some land.
The art director decided that they were making the characters and sets too lifelike, and to avoid the creepy look of Final Fantasy or Final Flight of the Osiris, they went the complete opposite direction and used a very simplistic, cartoon-like style for animation, texture and lighting.
You're supposed to focus on the dialog. Not the scenery. You know, a comedy.:-)
Casing the joint would be when you then attempt to connect to each open port in turn, and try to verify the version of the server running on each port, perhaps by submitting malformed requests and looking for characteristic responses.
That would be indicitave of someone trying to find a way in.
When you scan to a PDF, you essentially create a high-resolution single channel JPEG image which is the sole contents of the PDF file.
It does not create text that you can search or highlight and copy with your mouse later on. It's just a picture.
Now, there is some nice scanning software out there that if you do select "text" mode when you scan to PDF, it does an OCR pass and sticks that in the PDF. But the cost of this software is usually hidden in the purchase of a high-end scanner or printer/fax combo that it would normally accompany.
would not have directly generated any book sales. If the person actually intended to visit Jerry Falwell's site, but visited a gay activist site by mistake, I seriously doubt he/she would probably not be likely to purchase the books advertised in the parody site.
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RAMBUS indeed. And what's worse is RAMBUS had some actual IP to protect.
Some moderator somewhere is seriously needing to watch a movie every year or so.
Well, 3 out of 4.
There was no hacking. This was trying to do something very simple in the laziest way possible. I mean a MOVIE of screen captures of a fucking website?
That's no hacker. That's a bored person with too much money and free time and no skill.
Not worthy of slashdot. I hope he gets made fun of at the clubs with his shitty fashion accessory.
occurs on my laptop or desktop. ^_^
1) A set of API calls to do discrete things with hardware (list buses, get interrupt information, perform DMA, twiddle registers mapped to memory, talk to a sysfs interface for providing control data to userspace)
This API should be fixed, with a few extension points which would leave the original API as-is.
2) A small virtual machine (ala OpenFirmware and Forth/F-Code) that can manipulate this API and do simple kernel memory management tasks, math, etc. and implement control structures. This "module" would load, and then you could send bytecode drivers to a device that would start a virtual machine implementing the logic in the bytecode.
Driver writers could target the bytecode (maybe using a gcc-backend?). It would be architecture independant.
NVidia would write drivers conforming to part 1. Scanner, modem, printer manufacturers (less performance critical) could aim for part 2.
It's probably the neatest thing Dell's done for the linux community, and yet very few people know about it.
is what the hell kind of shitty tool Hans used to make those abominations.
The tree diagrams are nice, however.
Exactly what did they borrow from BSD? Because I'd be very surprised to know. You don't mean SunOS, do you?
(not that I recommend it).
Wow, the Alpha was dead before DEC even got it into production!
Help me please hack my registry to turn on quadalphabilinair mappng support so I can get shadows on my Nvidia TNT2!!!1
thanx.
It's actually saved me some trouble. You'll know that your disks are out of free space (thus preventing the audit log from growing) when you see that ol' Blue Screen. A similar machine without the setting would just behave very erratically and just fall all over itself.
if there were three changes....
1) That the reg tool existed as early in NT as when the registry was first introduced.
2) That the reg tool would allow you to dump and restore hives and keys to flat/text files
3) That the registry would be broken up into many hives that applications could load and unload dynamically and keep independantly.
In this fashion, for example, all the settings for a particular app for a particular user might end up as %USERDIR%/Application Data/foobar/foobar.dat and would be dynamically added under HKCU or whereever until it the relevant app was closed (and the hive removed).
You could always go back and manually mount that hive and make changes...
In this fashion, complete rebuilds would become unnecessary because you could spread out your critical config, and backup/restore parts independantly, prevent corruption or slow access from large hives, etc.
The processor can't detect "empty clock ticks"... there's no such thing.
If the operating system determines that no user threads have anything to do, and the kernel has run out of stuff to do to... so it's just waiting for hardware interrupts (keyboard, mouse, network, video, disk, interval timer), rather than sitting around in a loop it executes the HALT instruction which brings the CPU into a low-power state until an interrupt or trap wakes it up.
Otherwise it would have to spin in a loop for a few milliseconds, and that eats juice it shouldn't otherwise need to.
Intel Speed Step CPUs let the operating system use special MTRRs that allow it to dynamically adjust the clock speed in reaction to an increase or decrease of thumb-twiddling time as well. Because a CPU at 1.2GHz halting 50% is still consuming more power than the same CPU at 800MHz in HALT only 20% of the time.
I believe this is the thing that doesn't work in XP without Service Pack II or hotfixes. I've heard about this gripe before.
Inflation is just an offset to any back-of-the-envelope calculations you have on the rate of return of any investment you make or loan you take out.
And don't carry too much cash. We've figured out that since material goods depreciate with time, so does money (it's worth being defined only as a medium of exchange between goods). If money never lost value, you'd never spend it (because clearly the money will be worth more next year).
You want stability? Buy a precious metal or some land.
(oh, sorry)
I didn't know we had a reputation.
The art director decided that they were making the characters and sets too lifelike, and to avoid the creepy look of Final Fantasy or Final Flight of the Osiris, they went the complete opposite direction and used a very simplistic, cartoon-like style for animation, texture and lighting.
:-)
You're supposed to focus on the dialog. Not the scenery. You know, a comedy.
Event Horizon was very un-Doom-like. It was more like a re-vamped version of Hellraiser only without Pinhead.
Casing the joint would be when you then attempt to connect to each open port in turn, and try to verify the version of the server running on each port, perhaps by submitting malformed requests and looking for characteristic responses.
That would be indicitave of someone trying to find a way in.
When you scan to a PDF, you essentially create a high-resolution single channel JPEG image which is the sole contents of the PDF file.
It does not create text that you can search or highlight and copy with your mouse later on. It's just a picture.
Now, there is some nice scanning software out there that if you do select "text" mode when you scan to PDF, it does an OCR pass and sticks that in the PDF. But the cost of this software is usually hidden in the purchase of a high-end scanner or printer/fax combo that it would normally accompany.
That's what makes it so dangerous.
would not have directly generated any book sales. If the person actually intended to visit Jerry Falwell's site, but visited a gay activist site by mistake, I seriously doubt he/she would probably not be likely to purchase the books advertised in the parody site.