> much faster and seamlessly than most remote X window logins.
Got some benchmarks to back that claim up?
I use Remote Desktop and X on my lan, and while RD is a huge improvement over VNC, it's still not as fast as X.
I would expect that RD is not as fast over a modem, either, especially compared to LBX.
Now, all we need is a way to leave your X session running while you disconnect, like RD. Now, that is a great feature.
No, I think he meant it like, "I don't trust this government thingy", thus commenting on the very principle of a governing body, and therefore retaining his tinfoil membership.
Well actually, it may affect me in a different way.
I bought Doom3 the day it came out, and I found the gameplay to be rather repetitive and dull and repetitive. Eye candy is nice and all, but how many science labs and garages do I have to go through, to finish this thing? Geez.
Several of my gaming buddies commented independently on the same thing.
I will still buy HalfLife2, as HL reigns as my all time fave game, but maybe I will wait a few days to hear what other people think, first.
Just on the heels of the "Death of the floppy disk", I cannot wait for the Death of Interlaced Video Formats!
After spending years programming for and editing interlaced video, I can honestly say, "ARGGGGHHH!"
Can we not yet send someone back in time, to whack the ^%#!$@ who first thought it up?
I haven't had a floppy drive in any of my PCs for 5 years, and I haven't missed it. It would be wonderful if I could say the same thing about interlaced video!
Realtime is an OS in a USAF jet, flying at Mach 3, reacting to a gazillion interrupts per second, trying to keep the pilot from both killing himself and from being killed by that SAM missile on his tail.
Ahhhh, VxWorks, where interrupts are guaranteed* to ge serviced within so many clock cycles!!!
* Note: Interrupt service time not actually guaranteed.
I'm pretty sure that 'RTOS' must be a marketing thing. How can you guarantee an interrupt will be serviced within x clock cycles, when another interrupt can take priority over it?
All I can say is, I am so very happy to have left VxWorks in my past. <nightmare>Suddenly, Jamie loses his job and has to go back to work at old job... Waaah!</nightmare>
You're comparing apples to oranges
I didn't start it!
This thread is comparing Linux Kernel Patches (kernel + drivers) to Windows Update(kernel, drivers, applications, default settings, kitchen sink, etc...)
"Notice that it has a lot less because Linux already have GTK installed. Those are the dependencies that break. "
The Linux Kernel certainly does not have GTK+ installed.
The point I was contesting was "as opposed to Microsoft where almost everything seems to have kernel tie-ins" which is clearly not the case.
trezor goes on to say "It may be ring3 or whatever. I just have one question: Do I need to reboot after installing these updates?
That's really what I consider important. I rest my case. "
Apparently trezor does not care about things such as security, privacy, bug fixes, introduced bugs, backwards compatibility, new features, performance, etc...
When was the last time you patched your kernel source, and didn't have to reboot?
If you didn't reboot, then you're not running the new kernel.
I am not trying to slam Linux here. I'm running Fedora Core 1, with kernel 2.4.22, and I love it.
I'll be upgrading to the 2.6 kernel tree shortly.
However, trezor is commenting about:
How all windows drivers have kernel hooks (they don't.)
and Every windows update requires a reboot (not all of them do.)
Somebody needs to mod this whole thread off topic.
This is something that Microsoft has done rather well.
My various drivers (ethernet, video capture, firewire, sound card) all work for Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
Linux, on the other hand... simply changing an option in the sound drivers, and recompiling THE SAME KERNEL, breaks other drivers, such as my nvidia driver, because of... ummm symbol table changes?
Most of my software, including games, GIMP, GAIM, DVD authoring, video editing, office suites all run on anything from Windows 98 to WinXP Pro.
Virtually NOTHING has kernel tie ins.
HOWEVER, with the release of Longhorn, all bets are off....
I clicked the Register To Win button... and read the following:
SCO Forum has been exciting the last couple of years and the upcoming event will be no exception. Building upon the Power of UNIX® theme that you have already seen presented to the partners through webinars and online, we will be focusing on our core business and its past, present and future. Additionally, this is the 25th anniversary of SCO and the products that you love. Be ready for a look back at the past 25 years!
Apparently, SCO has no money left to pay professional copy writers, and are using gradeschool kids, or something.
Seriously, that is some crappy writing!
What a horrible piece of writing. Is he trying to mislead us into believing these are the only points to consider? Who is this rather profane interviewer that is asking questions?
Why consider anything technical except graphics you insert insult
On the contrary, the level of immersion has been steadily increasing. The movies of HL2 seem to indicate that you can interact with Everything inside the game.
Try that in Doom or Goldeneye. The older consoles do not have the horsepower to manage this.
The intelligence of NPCs has been improving constantly.
The interaction with other human characters has also been improving, as consoles are now able to connect across the internet.
There are plenty of technological improvements in new games that he ignores in his article.
My experiences with Wind River have all centered around VxWorks. In their own words, a 'POSIX-like' OS. Effectively, they support POSIX calls, but with some minor variations of functionality or parameters that totally mess you up. For example, a PIPE. How can you screw up a pipe? They managed to do it... and rather well, too.
The VxWorks system has never had good memory protection. I think every CPU ever made for ten years now has had an MMU on board... Geez. And yet, every task running has full Read/Write access to every other task's memory, including the OS's memory.
I could go on, but if any contributions are of this sort of quality, then no thanks.
Now that we've all downloaded and run the javascript from a foreign site, has anyone looked at the code to see if it contains any nasty elements, like a keylogger?
Are they catching my clicks as I type this, now?
(quickly turns around backwards...) What was that? They're WATCHING ME!
I would like to know if the OSDL will pay to have their lawyers develop a version of a GPL that forbids downloading/use/repackaging of a software package by any computer that has ever had a SCO OS within 1km of it.
That's just about what I want for my next Open Source software release.
I would have expected something like a 10x performance boost for something named "Hyper" Queues, rather than approximately a 2x boost. This 2x could easily by eaten up by the size of the messages, using XML messages instead of X11 protocol messages.
Qt has THE BEST object-oriented design that I have seen, by far. The widget hierarchy, methods, etc... have a very clean and consistent implementation. Also, the documentation is fantastic! It is always current wrt. the library.
- The ease of code integration into Designer by OO derivation is fantastic.
- The speed at which GUI apps can be developed, using TT's Designer is great!
- The qmake program, while not as capable as automake etc..., is still simple and easy to use. Plus, it takes care of his whining about extra steps.
The 'strengths' section on Qt is hopelessly lacking.
I know that Gtk+ is also OO, but to me it seems they bend over backwards to use C++ features from C, creating a bit of a mess. It is not as clean or consistent, either.
As well, while I H8 Motif, the fact that it was overlooked in this review is pretty bad.
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Is he planning to get all the remixed stuff, too?
That should multiply his collection by a nice factor.
> much faster and seamlessly than most remote X window logins.
Got some benchmarks to back that claim up?
I use Remote Desktop and X on my lan, and while RD is a huge improvement over VNC, it's still not as fast as X.
I would expect that RD is not as fast over a modem, either, especially compared to LBX.
Now, all we need is a way to leave your X session running while you disconnect, like RD. Now, that is a great feature.
No, I think he meant it like, "I don't trust this government thingy ", thus commenting on the very principle of a governing body, and therefore retaining his tinfoil membership.
And why not???
With the GNU Compiler Collection able to generate machine code for Java, we'd be able to leverage all the things that Java excells at!
Such as:
umm....
well,
Oh forget it then.
Line your pocket with tinfoil!
Seriously, with tags going into greenbacks and now passports, why isn't anyone selling an anti-RFID wallet or purse?
1. buy tinfoil hats
2. buy cheapo wallets
3. Profit!
Well actually, it may affect me in a different way.
I bought Doom3 the day it came out, and I found the gameplay to be rather repetitive and dull and repetitive. Eye candy is nice and all, but how many science labs and garages do I have to go through, to finish this thing? Geez.
Several of my gaming buddies commented independently on the same thing.
I will still buy HalfLife2, as HL reigns as my all time fave game, but maybe I will wait a few days to hear what other people think, first.
Delete all email that contains '' in the body!
Of course, now I can't email myself anything such as this comment.
Just on the heels of the "Death of the floppy disk", I cannot wait for the Death of Interlaced Video Formats!
After spending years programming for and editing interlaced video, I can honestly say, "ARGGGGHHH!"
Can we not yet send someone back in time, to whack the ^%#!$@ who first thought it up?
I haven't had a floppy drive in any of my PCs for 5 years, and I haven't missed it. It would be wonderful if I could say the same thing about interlaced video!
(end of whacko rant).
Realtime is an OS in a USAF jet, flying at Mach 3, reacting to a gazillion interrupts per second, trying to keep the pilot from both killing himself and from being killed by that SAM missile on his tail.
Ahhhh, VxWorks, where interrupts are guaranteed* to ge serviced within so many clock cycles!!!
* Note: Interrupt service time not actually guaranteed.
I'm pretty sure that 'RTOS' must be a marketing thing. How can you guarantee an interrupt will be serviced within x clock cycles, when another interrupt can take priority over it?
All I can say is, I am so very happy to have left VxWorks in my past.
<nightmare>Suddenly, Jamie loses his job and has to go back to work at old job... Waaah!</nightmare>
How about,
the guy who was told, while robbing the bank, than "you need an account in order to rob this bank", so he filled out an application.
Now, there's a great bank policy!
You're comparing apples to oranges
I didn't start it!
This thread is comparing Linux Kernel Patches (kernel + drivers) to Windows Update(kernel, drivers, applications, default settings, kitchen sink, etc...)
"Notice that it has a lot less because Linux already have GTK installed. Those are the dependencies that break. "
The Linux Kernel certainly does not have GTK+ installed.
The point I was contesting was "as opposed to Microsoft where almost everything seems to have kernel tie-ins" which is clearly not the case.
trezor goes on to say
"It may be ring3 or whatever. I just have one question: Do I need to reboot after installing these updates?
That's really what I consider important. I rest my case. "
Apparently trezor does not care about things such as security, privacy, bug fixes, introduced bugs, backwards compatibility, new features, performance, etc...
When was the last time you patched your kernel source, and didn't have to reboot?
If you didn't reboot, then you're not running the new kernel.
I am not trying to slam Linux here. I'm running Fedora Core 1, with kernel 2.4.22, and I love it.
I'll be upgrading to the 2.6 kernel tree shortly. However, trezor is commenting about:
How all windows drivers have kernel hooks (they don't.)
and
Every windows update requires a reboot (not all of them do.)
Somebody needs to mod this whole thread off topic.
This is something that Microsoft has done rather well.
My various drivers (ethernet, video capture, firewire, sound card) all work for Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
Linux, on the other hand... simply changing an option in the sound drivers, and recompiling THE SAME KERNEL, breaks other drivers, such as my nvidia driver, because of... ummm symbol table changes?
Most of my software, including games, GIMP, GAIM, DVD authoring, video editing, office suites all run on anything from Windows 98 to WinXP Pro.
Virtually NOTHING has kernel tie ins.
HOWEVER, with the release of Longhorn, all bets are off....
I clicked the Register To Win button... and read the following:
SCO Forum has been exciting the last couple of years and the upcoming event will be no exception.
Building upon the Power of UNIX® theme that you have already seen presented to the partners through webinars and online, we will be focusing on our core business and its past, present and future.
Additionally, this is the 25th anniversary of SCO and the products that you love. Be ready for a look back at the past 25 years!
Apparently, SCO has no money left to pay professional copy writers, and are using gradeschool kids, or something.
Seriously, that is some crappy writing!
I am sure that somewhere in my town, there is a computer with the Windows login "Administrator", with password set to "password".
That sounds like the basis of a geeked Who's On First
Q:What's your password?
A:"my password".
Q:Yes, your password.
A:I just told you.
Q:Fine, (jerk), what's your username?
A:"my username".
What good are you, if your program segfaul
segmentation violation
comment terminated
What a horrible piece of writing. Is he trying to mislead us into believing these are the only points to consider? Who is this rather profane interviewer that is asking questions?
Why consider anything technical except graphics you insert insult
On the contrary, the level of immersion has been steadily increasing. The movies of HL2 seem to indicate that you can interact with Everything inside the game.
Try that in Doom or Goldeneye. The older consoles do not have the horsepower to manage this.
The intelligence of NPCs has been improving constantly.
The interaction with other human characters has also been improving, as consoles are now able to connect across the internet.
There are plenty of technological improvements in new games that he ignores in his article.
As it turns out, they did serve notice to Google...
However, all of Google's lawyers were on vacation, and couldn't be reached.
My experiences with Wind River have all centered around VxWorks. In their own words, a 'POSIX-like' OS. Effectively, they support POSIX calls, but with some minor variations of functionality or parameters that totally mess you up. For example, a PIPE. How can you screw up a pipe? They managed to do it... and rather well, too.
The VxWorks system has never had good memory protection. I think every CPU ever made for ten years now has had an MMU on board... Geez. And yet, every task running has full Read/Write access to every other task's memory, including the OS's memory.
I could go on, but if any contributions are of this sort of quality, then no thanks.
Now that we've all downloaded and run the javascript from a foreign site, has anyone looked at the code to see if it contains any nasty elements, like a keylogger?
Are they catching my clicks as I type this, now?
(quickly turns around backwards...) What was that? They're WATCHING ME!
Personally, I think it should be 'FRedora'
As I see it, the installer displays the License Agreement. On a normal OS, you get:
"Do you accept this license?"
"Yes" or "No"
On a SCO product, you get:
"Do you accept this license?"
"No" or "Format Hard Drive"
I would like to know if the OSDL will pay to have their lawyers develop a version of a GPL that forbids downloading/use/repackaging of a software package by any computer that has ever had a SCO OS within 1km of it.
That's just about what I want for my next Open Source software release.
I would have expected something like a 10x performance boost for something named "Hyper" Queues, rather than approximately a 2x boost. This 2x could easily by eaten up by the size of the messages, using XML messages instead of X11 protocol messages.
Why not turn the tables, and attack the attacker?
So let's see:
A black list stores evil SPAM IP addresses
The new, Extra-Black-List (EBL) stores evil SPAM DOS attacker IP addresses
There must be *something* that could be done to these guys!
Qt has THE BEST object-oriented design that I have seen, by far. The widget hierarchy, methods, etc... have a very clean and consistent implementation. Also, the documentation is fantastic! It is always current wrt. the library.
- The ease of code integration into Designer by OO derivation is fantastic.
- The speed at which GUI apps can be developed, using TT's Designer is great!
- The qmake program, while not as capable as automake etc..., is still simple and easy to use. Plus, it takes care of his whining about extra steps.
The 'strengths' section on Qt is hopelessly lacking.
I know that Gtk+ is also OO, but to me it seems they bend over backwards to use C++ features from C, creating a bit of a mess. It is not as clean or consistent, either.
As well, while I H8 Motif, the fact that it was overlooked in this review is pretty bad.
A BIG FAN of Qt,
Jamie.