Wait, so she's not given access to the greatest information resource of our age, nor to even measured amounts of what has become, rightly or wrongly, the central transport medium of western culture?
Good luck with that. I love the idea that depriving kids of something will keep them somehow pure. How's that forbidden fruit angle craving of hers coming along?
Also, as a self confessed geek, I would have though you would have been trying to foster an interest in technology and computers in general. Each to their own, but I can't say I agree with your approach.
Whilst your point is valid, intel was the wrong target to pick. Linux supports it better than pretty much anything else, and I'm pretty sure a fair number of intel Macs have had intel graphics too.
Oh I'm not saying it's not innovative, I'm not saying they don't (or didn't) do good, interesting and cutting edge research, it just annoys me that some folks think that they invented the thread pool/job queue model.
"Seriously though, this is exactly what Apple have been working towards recently in the compiler space. You write your application and explicitly break up the algorythm into little tasks that can be executed in parallel. Using a syntax that is light weight and expressive. Then your compiler tool chain and runtime JIT manages the runtime threads and determines which processor is best equipped to run each task."
AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! It's the iPod all over again! Apple did not invent the thread pool! I'm sure Grand central is great but FFS!
"Seriously though, this is exactly what Software Engineers have been working with for years in the thread pool pattern. You write your application and explicitly break up the algorithm into little tasks that can be executed in parallel. Using the language of your choice. Then your Operating System manages the runtime threads and determines which processor is best equipped to run each task.
FTFY. Thread pools are not new. Hell, I wrote a thread pool implementation 10 years ago and it wasn't new then.
I'm a big fan of the NSLU2, I had one running mail/web for a few years and another running a web-interface to a torrent client and mediatomb to share media to the PS3. However they do have some pretty big limitations and you have to really cut down on running processes, memory usage and also have a lot patience when doing much.
If you're looking at buying now I'd recommend Sheevaplug as the logical successor - 1.2GHz ARM core with 512MB of RAM, for not much more than the NSLU2 if you can even find an NSLU2 any more. It seriously blows the Linksys model away (though I'll always have a soft-spot for my slugs).
Actually, I'm in the UK and bought the US one (had to have it immediately!) and it's fine. The US style pins slip off and underneath is a standard 2-pin "figure 8" connector, which takes the UK voltage just fine. The country variants just seem to be the number/configuration of pins on the removable attachment thingy.
I installed debian (lenny) and then updated to squeeze because (and this is to be expected) the squeeze installer is currently borked. Attached to an external drive caddy this solution chopuld come in well under your 30W and will do all you need.
I have mine serving media to the PS3, downloading stuff, serving my music collection to wherever I happen to be, doing Samba, NFS, TFTP, SSH, SMTP and IMAP.... it's a great.
I guess that a lot of the slash geeks (self included) have migrated to linux full time now. Compared to debian lenny, vista is slow as hell, takes forever to update, is prone to locking up once in a while and takes an eternity to start up.
Haven't tried 7 yet, don't really care to. The only reason I have vista is that it came with this machine.
"Another is that where the mainframe were typically placed close to the workstations, the servers in the cloud can be placed remotely."
Uh, but what about latency? Where we talk about rendering in the cloud we need clients to be as close as possible.
"A third is that the workstations often were unable to function without access to the mainframe, modern desktops are able to use the advantages of the mainframe/cloud as well as the advantages of an autonomous desktop."
Not in every model, specifically not in OnLive and nVidia's model.
The way I see it is that the only real difference is that "the cloud" is basically RAID (and maybe offsite-backup built in) for whole computers rather than just for storage. You use commodity hardware and the utilities of something like vmware to move server images around to where there is less load and bring them back up immediately if there was a problem.
In terms of user experience, it's still client-server.
"What the new languages and OS's are doing, are just making it easier for developers to make code that runs on parallel processors. However most of us are not trained to write parallel code."
Well you bloody well should be, it's basic stuff.
Parallelism has been around for over 20 years now, not to mention the related discipline of distributed computing. It's not new. It's not *that* hard. You don't need to parallelise every last goddamn algorithm if you can split the work up into jobs using thread pools, or into similar tasks.
You think the people that make apache analyse every string comparison they do to see if they could do it more efficiently across a set of vector cores? Well maybe, but most likely they use task parallelism to get multiple threads executing different but comparatively large chunks of code.
This is not a distraction from software development, it's doing it well. And if you're afraid of a little bit of memory allocation then you're doing it wrong...
If the copyright for metasploit belongs solely to one person, or to a small enough group, then they can sell that on to the company, dependant on what they link to and the licenses used there. I.E. QT was available to purchase and nokia bought the company and the IP there.
They could, if they bought all the copyrights from all the right people, start producing closed source versions. They could also employ all the devs involved and take ownership of the trademark. At that point they have effectively bought metasploit.
What they can't do is rescind the previous license. It's something that's been tried once or twice but it's a nonsense. If they gave away the source under BSD or GPL or similar F/OSS license then it's out there and the community will always be able to use that version and develop it further, under the same (or different if the company took the TM) name.
Hopefully things won't get that far and the source will continue to flow, but who knows.
Anyway, no, you're not naive, buying and closing this stuff requires permission from and probably compensation to all contributors and is only logistically possible on projects where there aren't many of them.
Yeah, they refused to install on my Sony laptop too. They have this weird system where laptop vendors are supposed to supply the drivers (sometimes they drive function keys and OSD I guess) and nV deliberately make theirs incompatible.
If you go here - http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ - you can get drivers that have had an inf file hacked. Turns out that's all you need and that the binaries are backward compatible with everything nVidia produced pretty much forever.
And yes, the site is confusing and it took me ages to actually find what I was after, but in the end I was running drivers two years newer than the last ones Sony bothered to put up.
What a load of utter bullshit. I'm sorry but rarely have I ever heard such a fountain of total nonsense spew forth, here or elsewhere on the internet (with the possible exception of/b/).
For laws that are even less specific, would you prefer to have the ability (or let others have the ability) to marry animals or inanimate objects?
False equivalence. One is a conscious, sentient adult, the other is an animal. Or an inanimate object. You're an idiot.
agree there is nothing wrong with interracial couples under the premise a person has no control over their race
So if skin colour was a choice you'd be happy to discriminate? Gotcha. You're a hateful, dumb, bigot.
I'm also someone who believes a person *does* have control over their sexual preferences
Totally irrelevant. If it's a choice it's their choice, not yours, and doesn't affect you in any way.
and therefore should not get special treatment if they choose a preference that goes against societal standards.
Nobody's asking for special treatment, they're asking for equal treatment, and you're clutching at straws to try and deny it.
Of course, if you are a liberal who believes there is no personal responsibility and by extension you have no control over your sexual preferences then you believes that you are being treated unfairly in the eyes of the law when you are told you cannot marry someone of the same sex.
Where to begin?
Liberal used as an invective (sure sign of an underdeveloped brain), non-sequiturs galore and yet more crap.
Why is sexual preference linked to responsibility? What is irresponsible about homosexuality? And I'm not inviting you to spew more stereotypical nonsense about promiscuity here, what is irresponsible about the fact of homosexuality itself?
Basically, you're wrong and pretty dumb. Or a troll, I'm not sure which.
He tried to appropriate the hard work of the community, scam people and organisations out of protection^H^H^H^H license money and sully the name of FOSS in general. All the while raking in money hand over fist and obstructing the legal process at every turn.
I very much doubt he needs to fear for his own safety, but yes, he is actually a first degree asshole.
You forgot the part where MS installed the plugins directly into firefox, without asking (proper behaviour) and having circumvented the usual removal methods (crossing over into malicious behaviour here).
So no, there is something to complain about, it's MS messign with non-MS browsers against the user's wishes. Given that one of the main reasons people switch to FF is the insecurity of all the MS plugins in IE, this is a Bad Thing.
here in the UK the last mile is resold in two ways. Firstly just by repackaging/reselling BT's products with different pricing structures/caps/valueadd/whatever, and secondly by selling access to the exchanges so that other companies can fit their own equipment there.
This latter works fantastically well and is the source of the best consumer-grade connections you can get. I pay £17.50 for cap-less 24MBit. In practice I actually get 21MBit, which is fine my me!
Forcing our old monopoly to open up was the only way the UK could move forward. Sounds to me like the US could do with some of that.
State-funding was used for the lines. Companies have failed to deliver results that match up to the rest of the west, let alone the far east. In addition to that they use legal challenges to drive any competing government or private schemes out of the market.
Force 'em to share the lines at a reasonable cost, it's the only way you'll get innovation back into the US broadband market.
... or something anyway. Browser on mine does youtube fine.
Also BBC iPlayer works nicely (I'm in the UK), and if you have a linux box you can install mediatomb and have the PS3 pick it up as a media server. It plays pretty much anything. It's great:)
YMMV of course. And from your post it seems it has.
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Wait, so she's not given access to the greatest information resource of our age, nor to even measured amounts of what has become, rightly or wrongly, the central transport medium of western culture?
Good luck with that. I love the idea that depriving kids of something will keep them somehow pure. How's that forbidden fruit angle craving of hers coming along?
Also, as a self confessed geek, I would have though you would have been trying to foster an interest in technology and computers in general. Each to their own, but I can't say I agree with your approach.
Yes, you do have it right, they release specs and they actively contribute code and developer time, they're a good friend to Linux.
Whilst your point is valid, intel was the wrong target to pick. Linux supports it better than pretty much anything else, and I'm pretty sure a fair number of intel Macs have had intel graphics too.
Oh I'm not saying it's not innovative, I'm not saying they don't (or didn't) do good, interesting and cutting edge research, it just annoys me that some folks think that they invented the thread pool/job queue model.
"Seriously though, this is exactly what Apple have been working towards recently in the compiler space. You write your application and explicitly break up the algorythm into little tasks that can be executed in parallel. Using a syntax that is light weight and expressive. Then your compiler tool chain and runtime JIT manages the runtime threads and determines which processor is best equipped to run each task."
AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! It's the iPod all over again! Apple did not invent the thread pool! I'm sure Grand central is great but FFS!
"Seriously though, this is exactly what Software Engineers have been working with for years in the thread pool pattern. You write your application and explicitly break up the algorithm into little tasks that can be executed in parallel. Using the language of your choice. Then your Operating System manages the runtime threads and determines which processor is best equipped to run each task.
FTFY. Thread pools are not new. Hell, I wrote a thread pool implementation 10 years ago and it wasn't new then.
I'm a big fan of the NSLU2, I had one running mail/web for a few years and another running a web-interface to a torrent client and mediatomb to share media to the PS3. However they do have some pretty big limitations and you have to really cut down on running processes, memory usage and also have a lot patience when doing much.
If you're looking at buying now I'd recommend Sheevaplug as the logical successor - 1.2GHz ARM core with 512MB of RAM, for not much more than the NSLU2 if you can even find an NSLU2 any more. It seriously blows the Linksys model away (though I'll always have a soft-spot for my slugs).
What's this FreeNX thing?
I still use VNC all the time because, like RDP, if the session drops you can just reconnect at a later time. Does FreeNX do that?
Yeah, only saw that afterwards, kinda wish I'd waited, if only for the extra USB ports.
It's not as cute as the plug though.
Actually, I'm in the UK and bought the US one (had to have it immediately!) and it's fine. The US style pins slip off and underneath is a standard 2-pin "figure 8" connector, which takes the UK voltage just fine. The country variants just seem to be the number/configuration of pins on the removable attachment thingy.
Highly recommended.
I installed debian (lenny) and then updated to squeeze because (and this is to be expected) the squeeze installer is currently borked. Attached to an external drive caddy this solution chopuld come in well under your 30W and will do all you need.
I have mine serving media to the PS3, downloading stuff, serving my music collection to wherever I happen to be, doing Samba, NFS, TFTP, SSH, SMTP and IMAP.... it's a great.
Hey, that's why I said over 20, I wasn't 100% sure :)
I guess that a lot of the slash geeks (self included) have migrated to linux full time now. Compared to debian lenny, vista is slow as hell, takes forever to update, is prone to locking up once in a while and takes an eternity to start up.
Haven't tried 7 yet, don't really care to. The only reason I have vista is that it came with this machine.
"Another is that where the mainframe were typically placed close to the workstations, the servers in the cloud can be placed remotely."
Uh, but what about latency? Where we talk about rendering in the cloud we need clients to be as close as possible.
"A third is that the workstations often were unable to function without access to the mainframe, modern desktops are able to use the advantages of the mainframe/cloud as well as the advantages of an autonomous desktop."
Not in every model, specifically not in OnLive and nVidia's model.
The way I see it is that the only real difference is that "the cloud" is basically RAID (and maybe offsite-backup built in) for whole computers rather than just for storage. You use commodity hardware and the utilities of something like vmware to move server images around to where there is less load and bring them back up immediately if there was a problem.
In terms of user experience, it's still client-server.
Well you bloody well should be, it's basic stuff.
Parallelism has been around for over 20 years now, not to mention the related discipline of distributed computing. It's not new. It's not *that* hard. You don't need to parallelise every last goddamn algorithm if you can split the work up into jobs using thread pools, or into similar tasks.
You think the people that make apache analyse every string comparison they do to see if they could do it more efficiently across a set of vector cores? Well maybe, but most likely they use task parallelism to get multiple threads executing different but comparatively large chunks of code.
This is not a distraction from software development, it's doing it well. And if you're afraid of a little bit of memory allocation then you're doing it wrong...
Depends on the project.
If the copyright for metasploit belongs solely to one person, or to a small enough group, then they can sell that on to the company, dependant on what they link to and the licenses used there. I.E. QT was available to purchase and nokia bought the company and the IP there.
They could, if they bought all the copyrights from all the right people, start producing closed source versions. They could also employ all the devs involved and take ownership of the trademark. At that point they have effectively bought metasploit.
What they can't do is rescind the previous license. It's something that's been tried once or twice but it's a nonsense. If they gave away the source under BSD or GPL or similar F/OSS license then it's out there and the community will always be able to use that version and develop it further, under the same (or different if the company took the TM) name.
Hopefully things won't get that far and the source will continue to flow, but who knows.
Anyway, no, you're not naive, buying and closing this stuff requires permission from and probably compensation to all contributors and is only logistically possible on projects where there aren't many of them.
Yeah, they refused to install on my Sony laptop too. They have this weird system where laptop vendors are supposed to supply the drivers (sometimes they drive function keys and OSD I guess) and nV deliberately make theirs incompatible.
If you go here - http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ - you can get drivers that have had an inf file hacked. Turns out that's all you need and that the binaries are backward compatible with everything nVidia produced pretty much forever.
And yes, the site is confusing and it took me ages to actually find what I was after, but in the end I was running drivers two years newer than the last ones Sony bothered to put up.
I'm sorry if it offends your delicate sensibilities, but I don't consider it necessary to be civil to intolerant bigots.
More power to you if you do.
What a load of utter bullshit. I'm sorry but rarely have I ever heard such a fountain of total nonsense spew forth, here or elsewhere on the internet (with the possible exception of /b/).
False equivalence. One is a conscious, sentient adult, the other is an animal. Or an inanimate object. You're an idiot.
So if skin colour was a choice you'd be happy to discriminate? Gotcha. You're a hateful, dumb, bigot.
Totally irrelevant. If it's a choice it's their choice, not yours, and doesn't affect you in any way.
Nobody's asking for special treatment, they're asking for equal treatment, and you're clutching at straws to try and deny it.
Where to begin?
Liberal used as an invective (sure sign of an underdeveloped brain), non-sequiturs galore and yet more crap.
Why is sexual preference linked to responsibility? What is irresponsible about homosexuality? And I'm not inviting you to spew more stereotypical nonsense about promiscuity here, what is irresponsible about the fact of homosexuality itself?
Basically, you're wrong and pretty dumb. Or a troll, I'm not sure which.
He tried to appropriate the hard work of the community, scam people and organisations out of protection^H^H^H^H license money and sully the name of FOSS in general. All the while raking in money hand over fist and obstructing the legal process at every turn.
I very much doubt he needs to fear for his own safety, but yes, he is actually a first degree asshole.
You forgot the part where MS installed the plugins directly into firefox, without asking (proper behaviour) and having circumvented the usual removal methods (crossing over into malicious behaviour here).
So no, there is something to complain about, it's MS messign with non-MS browsers against the user's wishes. Given that one of the main reasons people switch to FF is the insecurity of all the MS plugins in IE, this is a Bad Thing.
Sounds to me like you didn't bother to read what I read about taking over the last mile, which avoids reliance on the old monopolist.
here in the UK the last mile is resold in two ways. Firstly just by repackaging/reselling BT's products with different pricing structures/caps/valueadd/whatever, and secondly by selling access to the exchanges so that other companies can fit their own equipment there.
This latter works fantastically well and is the source of the best consumer-grade connections you can get. I pay £17.50 for cap-less 24MBit. In practice I actually get 21MBit, which is fine my me!
Forcing our old monopoly to open up was the only way the UK could move forward. Sounds to me like the US could do with some of that.
Sorry what?
State-funding was used for the lines.
Companies have failed to deliver results that match up to the rest of the west, let alone the far east. In addition to that they use legal challenges to drive any competing government or private schemes out of the market.
Force 'em to share the lines at a reasonable cost, it's the only way you'll get innovation back into the US broadband market.
... or something anyway. Browser on mine does youtube fine.
Also BBC iPlayer works nicely (I'm in the UK), and if you have a linux box you can install mediatomb and have the PS3 pick it up as a media server. It plays pretty much anything. It's great :)
YMMV of course. And from your post it seems it has.
My vaio has that too.
Unsure as to the actual battery life gains, but it has built in Intel GM965/X3100 and an nVidia 8400M GS. Maybe not using intel's tech?