Ahhh yes... memories... my Jr. High had a Silent 700. I got caught skipping gym class, up in the classroom connecting the Silent 700 to whatever computer/network that was that schools used back then... (1981-1982). I wasn't accused of "hacking". I don't think that term was even in popular use back then. I was given a talking to about skipping gym, but they told me that if I really wanted to, I could spend my lunch time on the terminal. So here I am now, a HP-UX System and Network Administrator. I could just as easily have been something else entirely had I not been encouraged at the right stage. Kid wil experiment. Tell them whats wrong, but look at *what* they're doing, and try to push that energy into constructive purposes.
Man, you people are lucky. My high school had one (1) Franklin Ace (Apple IIe compatable). 'Course I suspect I went through high school a few years before y'all did...;-) Anyway, my teacher quit reading my code when I started using assembly... Direct writes to video memory were so much faster too...
This is pretty much where my Sprint PCS cell phone is today. What's the problem with this? I know quite a few people (some which are idiots) using these phones, and none of them seem to have a problem with it. Not even my grandad.
Stephen L. Palmer
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I can't comment on current throughput, but approx. 1 year ago I had DSL service in Houston from SBC. Before I had my DSL disconnected (long story) I measured downloads from newsgroups at right around 900kb/sec. If they had throttled that down to 128k while I was still subscribed you can bet your @$$ I'd be suing them too.
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Seems to me that the more overbearing that the
govt gets, as far as monitoring us for our own
good, the more repressed and mistrusting the people become.
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ever since/.'s been on a dusty ol' 386 with a 14.4kb/s pipe I seems to recall a post from CmdTaco way back when talking about the original/. server being a DEC Multia (Alpha). --- Here is the result of your Slashdot Purity Test. You answered "yes" to 86 of 200 questions, making you 57.0%
This seams to be a good story to post this question in. What are good, $cheap, low-profile solutions for putting X-term/Linux/FreeBSD systems in the kitchen/Living Room/Bathroom/Garage? I bought a DEC Multia 166 for $30 (with no peripherals), but after buying parity ram, scsi disks, floppies, monitor, scsi cdrom etc... It's not a low-cost solution. I hadn't gotten an order in, but the i-opener seemed to be exactly what I was looking for. Other than using old 386/486 boxes, what are the low-cost, and low-profile solutions available?
Stephen L. Palmer --- Here is the result of your Slashdot Purity Test. You answered "yes" to 86 of 200 questions, making you 57.0%
>...20% increase in speed after fragmenting > *native binaries*...
For those that didn't read the article, here is a direct quote from there showing this is for native binaries.
What Dynamo does Dynamo is an odd beast. It is, in essence, an interpreter for HP's PA-8000 instruction set that itself runs on a PA-8000 processor. That's right -- it interprets programs that could just as easily be executed natively on the same hardware.
Stephen L. Palmer --- Here is the result of your Slashdot Purity Test. You answered "yes" to 86 of 200 questions, making you 57.0%
IMHO, if they are getting a 20% increase in speed after fragmenting *native binaries*, then they have some serious work to do on thier compilers. If the code had been properly optimized by the compiler, then on the fly fragmenting should not speed up execution time. On that same note though, I thought HP native compilers were among the best at optimization. Am I off on this?
Stephen L. Palmer --- Here is the result of your Slashdot Purity Test. You answered "yes" to 86 of 200 questions, making you 57.0%
[humor] Where is CmdrTaco's translation from storage space into hours of mp3? I depend on this information to plan my future music library! When will it reach the point that you can fit the music equivilent of the library-of-congress onto a single storage device? [/humor]
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XFree 4.0? Won't they have a problem with this?
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Isn't the prior release of Alpha versions of Xfree a major part of the reason XFree development is done behind closed doors right now. If I read this correctly this could make them take even more steps in that direction! Just my $.02, I could very well be totaly off.
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It would be a great benefit (to me at least) to see this list of bugs by architecture. If I want to know what's going on with the Alpha Port I have to research almost every bug to find which ports it affects, before I can consider spending time trying to fix something.
You can't manipulate the wave surrounding the current without affecting the current. They may however use the wave to read from or modify the current which might be more sensitive than manipulating it directly. As IANAEE, I'll take your word on that. My main point though still stands. This is not a direct rehash of what has already been tried, there are new, and intresting concepts being implemented here.
I would have to see some benchmarks and actually see this project completed and tested before I would believe that this works Once again, read the related article that was posted over the weekend. If you click the link, and read, you will see that this has been tested, at 19Mbps live video confrencing, between two major cities. (I forget which 2 but it's in the weekend article...)
I know many of you are saying how this has been tested, and it failed. In the related story over the weekend, posters were talking about the transformer issues and things of that nature. Did anyone read the linked story from the weekend? This is not about sending an electric signal over power lines. This is about manipulating the magnetic field which forms naturaly around a wire when you send an A/C current through it. This is new. This is exciting.
6.) Mount the Fresnel Lens Box on the front of your monitor so that the lens is positioned about 6 inches in front of your screen. [...snip...] You will notice that you will be placing your face really close to the lens and you may actually have to move your head to look up and down at the four corners of the screen. I read this as: A: Eye strain from your eyes being too close to the monitor, and reading through a lens (glasses excluded, has anyone tried reading though a magnifying glass for a long period of time?). B: Neck aches/injury, from "mov[ing] your head to look up and down at the four corners of the screen" All in all, it sounds like a pretty painful way to get a blocky image.
--- Stephen L. Palmer http://midearth.org Just another BOFH.
I worked for Dell (Telephone tech support- years ago), and was fired for reading *work-related* newsgroups while taking support calls. My manager, was of military background, and not technicaly oriented. I appealed, but higher management backed him. --- Stephen L. Palmer http://midearth.org Just another BOFH.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't BIND 8.x had this capability for some time? What is the difference in M$'s implementation? Are they "extending the specs" the way they did HTML? --- Stephen L. Palmer http://midearth.org Just another BOFH.
No link to the Changelog, or Release notes?
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I understand why you don't post links to the kernel itself, don't want to/. any of the kernel.org mirrors, but is there a safe place to link to the release notes, or changelog? You could just add them to the announcement, it would still be shorter than man of Katz's stories. ;-) Those who like Katz's postings, please don't flame me. I like 80% of them myself.
--- Stephen L. Palmer http://midearth.org Just another BOFH.
Slashdot Mirror
Stephen L. Palmer
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So this mean's that NASA's now doing Java?
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Man, you people are lucky. My high school had one (1) Franklin Ace (Apple IIe compatable). 'Course I suspect I went through high school a few years before y'all did... ;-) Anyway, my teacher quit reading my code when I started using assembly... Direct writes to video memory were so much faster too...
Stephen L. Palmer
---Middle Earth
> Also,this does give rise to the idea
> that it is time to start the 10 year
> celebration planning
Most definately! Where's the party!?!?!
Stephen L. Palmer
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> How could you else have learned :)
> Linux 10 years ago
Simple.
Linux Kernel 0.01 - Released 01 Aug 1991
Linux Kernel 0.02 - Released 05 Oct 1991
I was there too....
Stephen L. Palmer
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This is pretty much where my Sprint PCS cell phone is today. What's the problem with this? I know quite a few people (some which are idiots) using these phones, and none of them seem to have a problem with it. Not even my grandad. Stephen L. Palmer
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I can't comment on current throughput, but approx. 1 year ago I had DSL service in Houston from SBC. Before I had my DSL disconnected (long story) I measured downloads from newsgroups at right around 900kb/sec. If they had throttled that down to 128k while I was still subscribed you can bet your @$$ I'd be suing them too.
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Seems to me that the more overbearing that the govt gets, as far as monitoring us for our own good, the more repressed and mistrusting the people become.
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ever since /.'s been on a dusty ol' 386 with a 14.4kb/s pipe I seems to recall a post from CmdTaco way back when talking about the original /. server being a DEC Multia (Alpha).
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Here is the result of your Slashdot Purity Test.
You answered "yes" to 86 of 200 questions, making you 57.0%
This seams to be a good story to post this question in.
What are good, $cheap, low-profile solutions for putting X-term/Linux/FreeBSD systems in the kitchen/Living Room/Bathroom/Garage?
I bought a DEC Multia 166 for $30 (with no peripherals), but after buying parity ram, scsi disks, floppies, monitor, scsi cdrom etc... It's not a low-cost solution.
I hadn't gotten an order in, but the i-opener seemed to be exactly what I was looking for.
Other than using old 386/486 boxes, what are the low-cost, and low-profile solutions available?
Stephen L. Palmer
---
Here is the result of your Slashdot Purity Test.
You answered "yes" to 86 of 200 questions, making you 57.0%
> ...20% increase in speed after fragmenting
> *native binaries*...
For those that didn't read the article, here is a direct quote from there showing this is for native binaries.
What Dynamo does
Dynamo is an odd beast. It is, in essence, an interpreter for HP's PA-8000 instruction set that itself runs on a PA-8000 processor. That's right -- it interprets programs that could just as easily be executed natively on the same hardware.
Stephen L. Palmer
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Here is the result of your Slashdot Purity Test.
You answered "yes" to 86 of 200 questions, making you 57.0%
IMHO, if they are getting a 20% increase in speed after fragmenting *native binaries*, then they have some serious work to do on thier compilers. If the code had been properly optimized by the compiler, then on the fly fragmenting should not speed up execution time. On that same note though, I thought HP native compilers were among the best at optimization. Am I off on this?
Stephen L. Palmer
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Here is the result of your Slashdot Purity Test.
You answered "yes" to 86 of 200 questions, making you 57.0%
[humor]
Where is CmdrTaco's translation from storage space into hours of mp3? I depend on this information to plan my future music library! When will it reach the point that you can fit the music equivilent of the library-of-congress onto a single storage device?
[/humor]
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Here is the result of your Slashdot Purity Test.
You answered "yes" to 86 of 200 questions, making you 57.0%
Isn't the prior release of Alpha versions of Xfree a major part of the reason XFree development is done behind closed doors right now. If I read this correctly this could make them take even more steps in that direction!
Just my $.02, I could very well be totaly off.
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You answered "yes" to 86 of 200 questions, making you 57.0%
I wonder if this would be the same Mark Williams that used to distribute Coherent UNIX? ;-)
Kinda makes ya' wonder
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ROTFLMAO That was a perfect summary.
Moderators, please moderate FascDot up!
It would be a great benefit (to me at least) to see this list of bugs by architecture. If I want to know what's going on with the Alpha Port I have to research almost every bug to find which ports it affects, before I can consider spending time trying to fix something.
Thanks for that correction. As I said, I'm not an EE, and I missed the bit about the microwave signal.
You can't manipulate the wave surrounding the current without affecting the current. They may however use the wave to read from or modify the current which might be more sensitive than manipulating it directly. As IANAEE, I'll take your word on that. My main point though still stands. This is not a direct rehash of what has already been tried, there are new, and intresting concepts being implemented here.
I would have to see some benchmarks and actually see this project completed and tested before I would believe that this works Once again, read the related article that was posted over the weekend. If you click the link, and read, you will see that this has been tested, at 19Mbps live video confrencing, between two major cities. (I forget which 2 but it's in the weekend article...)
I know many of you are saying how this has been tested, and it failed. In the related story over the weekend, posters were talking about the transformer issues and things of that nature.
Did anyone read the linked story from the weekend?
This is not about sending an electric signal over power lines. This is about manipulating the magnetic field which forms naturaly around a wire when you send an A/C current through it.
This is new. This is exciting.
6.) Mount the Fresnel Lens Box on the front of your monitor so that the lens is positioned about 6 inches in front of your screen.
[...snip...]
You will notice that you will be placing your face really close to the lens and you may actually have to move your head to look up and down at the four corners of the screen. I read this as:
A: Eye strain from your eyes being too close to the monitor, and reading through a lens (glasses excluded, has anyone tried reading though a magnifying glass for a long period of time?).
B: Neck aches/injury, from "mov[ing] your head to look up and down at the four corners of the screen" All in all, it sounds like a pretty painful way to get a blocky image.
---
Stephen L. Palmer
http://midearth.org
Just another BOFH.
I worked for Dell (Telephone tech support- years ago), and was fired for reading *work-related* newsgroups while taking support calls. My manager, was of military background, and not technicaly oriented. I appealed, but higher management backed him.
---
Stephen L. Palmer
http://midearth.org
Just another BOFH.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't BIND 8.x had this capability for some time? What is the difference in M$'s implementation? Are they "extending the specs" the way they did HTML?
---
Stephen L. Palmer
http://midearth.org
Just another BOFH.
Those who like Katz's postings, please don't flame me. I like 80% of them myself.
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Stephen L. Palmer
http://midearth.org
Just another BOFH.