Could running a Windows driver like this on Linux (or other friendly OS) via such a wrapper actually allow people to reverse engineer the driver/interface easier? It seems that there are a lot of tools for Linux that could help a person view (debug) exactly what is happening at any given time.
I wouldn't mind seeing this happen. Then Sony Ericsson might think about moving from Symbian to Linux with Qt/Embedded. I don't really like the way Nokia seems to be going with their new form factors. I prefere phones like Ericsson's P800 and P900. The only problem with them in my opinion (asside from price) is the OS. If the P900 ran Linux and Qt/Embedded you would basicly have a Zaurus with GSM. This works great for me as I tend to use my headset for nearly all my calls.
Check out Speakeasy. I have never come across a single unhappy customer. They allow the customer to use their connection for pretty much anything, even WiFi hot spots. They even offer symetric DSL up to 1.5Mbit.
You might want to check with the developers of LinuxBIOS. I know that they have had some luck working with VIA. There knowldge should be sufficiently low-level for you to be able to write drivers.
I can recomend a couple of good books on the subjet, writen by scientists. The first is The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg and the other is The World According To Pimm by Stuart L. Pimm. They are fair and well writen. Read them both.
It seems to me if AMD wants to trully beat Apple in the battle for the 64 bit desktop they are going to need a real SIMD soltution. Why doesn't AMD just license Altivec? MMX, MMX2, SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow! are never going to measure up to Altivec.
Slashdot really isn't the best place to ask a question like this. I would recomend the Video4Linux mailing list. You can subscribe at https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linu x-list or you can find their web site at http://bytesex.org/v4l/ , or look at the (searchable) archives at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-video&r=1&w= 2
Slashdot really isn't the best place to ask a question like this. I would recomend the Video4Linux mailing list. You can subscribe at https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linu x-list or you can find their web site at http://bytesex.org/v4l/ , subscribe to their mailing list at https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4 linux-list or look at the (searchable) archives at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-video&r=1&w= 2 .
Do you need a graphing calculator? If not go for HP's 32SII. I have one that I carry pretty much everywhere with me (my 48GX is a bit bulky and usually overkill).
On the other hand if you need to be able to graph get a HP 48G or 48GX. The GX is expandable but in my experience most people never end up using the expansion packs. Also HP is scheduled to release their new 49G+. Don't let the name fool you though. It is more like a 48 then a 49. None of thoes crappy soft-touch rubber buttons. Also it is based on some ARM processor that will be *much* faster then the 48s and 49.
What ever you do, stay HP. HP builds the best damn calculators on the market.
"The move to BTX will also bring us closer to a fully legacy-free PC, with PS/2, serial and parallel ports already beginning to disappear from prototype motherboards."
I don't really have a problem with removing the PS/2 ports. I do on the other hand have issues with removing the serial and parallel ports. I am all for changing their form factor (the D-Sub style connectors are way too big) but it requires so little logic to implement these features that are very helpful for debugging and other such tasks. Maybe the connectors could be removed from the back of the board and just left as headers on the board somewhere.
The problem with email gateways is you have no way of knowing for sure if the email was recived, understood, acted upon and the SMS message was acutally sent.
People keeps saying that this technology is pretty much moot as more and more people are getting broadband connections. Why should compression and caching technology only be applied to slower connections? Why waste any amount of bandwidth even when you have "tons" of it?
Andrew obviously know his stuff when it comes to networked filesystems. In previous interviews he has let his disgust with CIFS/SMB be known. I wonder if he has any plans to design and write a new FS to compete with the defacto standard NFS.
Find something that you think the kernel needs or that the kernel needs to do better and work on it. Look at areas of the kernel that you specifically use (i.e. networking, NFS, Netfilter, etc.). Work on something that matters to you and nothing bad can come from it. that.
"A narrow car could or even travel between lanes, like a motorcycle." could it? sure. could it legally? uhh
In Oregon where I happen to live it is perfectly legal to take a motorcycle (or any other vehicle that would fit) between two lanes of traffic as long as you don't exceed the speed of the surrounding traffic by more then 15 MPH. That said, IMHO nobody in their right mind would do this. I used to ride my Vespa between traffic at red lights until one day some guy opened up his door and threw out the contents of his coffee cup right in front of me. He was none to happy when I nearly took his damn door (and arm) off. Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's a good idea.
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." --James Madison
Have you had any issues with the fact that Namesys is a Russian company? I think we all remember the recent story about DARPA pulling their funding of OpenBSD. Do you worry about this happening to Namesys?
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Could running a Windows driver like this on Linux (or other friendly OS) via such a wrapper actually allow people to reverse engineer the driver/interface easier? It seems that there are a lot of tools for Linux that could help a person view (debug) exactly what is happening at any given time.
"the FCC will expand the wireless spectrum"
I'm not sure if the FCC has the authority to widen the electro-magnetic spectrum.
I wouldn't mind seeing this happen. Then Sony Ericsson might think about moving from Symbian to Linux with Qt/Embedded. I don't really like the way Nokia seems to be going with their new form factors. I prefere phones like Ericsson's P800 and P900. The only problem with them in my opinion (asside from price) is the OS. If the P900 ran Linux and Qt/Embedded you would basicly have a Zaurus with GSM. This works great for me as I tend to use my headset for nearly all my calls.
Sun has said that a x86-64 version of Solaris will be availible in the first quarter of 2004 and that a preview will here before the end of the year.
Check out Speakeasy. I have never come across a single unhappy customer. They allow the customer to use their connection for pretty much anything, even WiFi hot spots. They even offer symetric DSL up to 1.5Mbit.
You might want to check with the developers of LinuxBIOS. I know that they have had some luck working with VIA. There knowldge should be sufficiently low-level for you to be able to write drivers.
I can recomend a couple of good books on the subjet, writen by scientists. The first is The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg and the other is The World According To Pimm by Stuart L. Pimm. They are fair and well writen. Read them both.
It seems to me if AMD wants to trully beat Apple in the battle for the 64 bit desktop they are going to need a real SIMD soltution. Why doesn't AMD just license Altivec? MMX, MMX2, SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow! are never going to measure up to Altivec.
Slashdot really isn't the best place to ask a question like this. I would recomend the Video4Linux mailing list. You can subscribe at https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linu x-list or you can find their web site at http://bytesex.org/v4l/ , or look at the (searchable) archives at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-video&r=1&w= 2
Slashdot really isn't the best place to ask a question like this. I would recomend the Video4Linux mailing list. You can subscribe at https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linu x-list or you can find their web site at http://bytesex.org/v4l/ , subscribe to their mailing list at https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4 linux-list or look at the (searchable) archives at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-video&r=1&w= 2 .
Do you need a graphing calculator? If not go for HP's 32SII. I have one that I carry pretty much everywhere with me (my 48GX is a bit bulky and usually overkill).
On the other hand if you need to be able to graph get a HP 48G or 48GX. The GX is expandable but in my experience most people never end up using the expansion packs. Also HP is scheduled to release their new 49G+. Don't let the name fool you though. It is more like a 48 then a 49. None of thoes crappy soft-touch rubber buttons. Also it is based on some ARM processor that will be *much* faster then the 48s and 49.
What ever you do, stay HP. HP builds the best damn calculators on the market.
I don't really have a problem with removing the PS/2 ports. I do on the other hand have issues with removing the serial and parallel ports. I am all for changing their form factor (the D-Sub style connectors are way too big) but it requires so little logic to implement these features that are very helpful for debugging and other such tasks. Maybe the connectors could be removed from the back of the board and just left as headers on the board somewhere.
Can't this be accomplished by "stripping" your libraries?
I wonder if /dev/nvram (the small amount of NVRAM availible on the RTC) is large enough to store such a dump.
The problem with email gateways is you have no way of knowing for sure if the email was recived, understood, acted upon and the SMS message was acutally sent.
People keeps saying that this technology is pretty much moot as more and more people are getting broadband connections. Why should compression and caching technology only be applied to slower connections? Why waste any amount of bandwidth even when you have "tons" of it?
Hell.... I wasn't even aware that there were any programmers that like .Net.
Andrew obviously know his stuff when it comes to networked filesystems. In previous interviews he has let his disgust with CIFS/SMB be known. I wonder if he has any plans to design and write a new FS to compete with the defacto standard NFS.
Only on Slashdot would someone be complaining about a processor (or processors) that only get 32 billions OPS.
Find something that you think the kernel needs or that the kernel needs to do better and work on it. Look at areas of the kernel that you specifically use (i.e. networking, NFS, Netfilter, etc.). Work on something that matters to you and nothing bad can come from it. that.
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Star Wars Episode II (the planet where all the clones are produced, looks like something designed by Apple)
Tron Terminator 2 Jurassic Park
I have a hard time believing that any slashdot reader knows two real live girls.
"A narrow car could or even travel between lanes, like a motorcycle." could it? sure. could it legally? uhh
In Oregon where I happen to live it is perfectly legal to take a motorcycle (or any other vehicle that would fit) between two lanes of traffic as long as you don't exceed the speed of the surrounding traffic by more then 15 MPH. That said, IMHO nobody in their right mind would do this. I used to ride my Vespa between traffic at red lights until one day some guy opened up his door and threw out the contents of his coffee cup right in front of me. He was none to happy when I nearly took his damn door (and arm) off. Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's a good idea.
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." --James Madison
Have you had any issues with the fact that Namesys is a Russian company? I think we all remember the recent story about DARPA pulling their funding of OpenBSD. Do you worry about this happening to Namesys?