Actually, this article isn't praising anything. I mean, duh, an old>/b> OS runs well on old hardware! Needless to say, the guy had to disable things like "file system security" to make it perform....i don't see how this is praising anything.
Well, no, we don't really want this. What we need, more compatibility between different distros, not a single distro
DEB vs RPM vs ebuilds vs..., for one. And then, even if we'd use the same packaging format, we'd have lots of troubles anyway: The "package namespace" is different in each distro, xorg can be split up in 50 different packages called "lib$FOO" in debian xand in fedora 25 called "xorg-lib-$FOO", or some shit.
That's the biggest problem for inter-distro compatibility IMO . And the one way that it can be fixed is by moving the "packagin work" to developers (ie: let the developers write the spec files / debianize them, don't redo all the packaging work yourself as ALL distros currently do). But then, the one packaging format that encourages developers that is autopackage, which nobody is going to use because it's not.deb or.rpm. Sight....
while people talks about remote-desktop there's a kernel hang there, so it's probably a tcp/ip related flaw, not tied to "remote desktop" particularly (my 2 )
it's even enabled by default? IIRC you've to enable it in "my pc -> preferences" in order to allow other people to use remote desktop. And...
This may include providing a security update through the monthly release process or issuing a security advisory, depending on customer needs," she added.
Fuck, what your customers want is to to get a fucking patch that fixes the fucking flaw and they want it before it hits sites like slashdot.
This just means that the G5 crap being better performing than the Intel stuff was pure marketing BS
Maybe G5s are not so fast. But:
"It's fast," said one developer source of Mac OS X running on Intel's Pentium processors. "Faster than [Mac OS X] on my Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5."
So, uh, a 3.6 Ghz P4 is faster than two 2 Ghz G5 - 4 Ghz? - SMP, but 4 Ghz.
Sorry, I don't buy that. Even more if you take into account that Intel isn't exactly the performance/Hz leader - in fact it's the worst performer these days, Opteron and PM beats the sh*t out of that P4 at much lower speeds from what I've read.
There're lots of factors that can change things - freebsd algorithms, are, for one, optimized for i386 variants. Also, Mac OS X is compiled with -Os - optimized for size, no for speed. (Paranoic mode on=Hey, maybe this switch was planned and it's not a coincidence)
And then there's the Placebo effect. IOW: Show me numbers, don't tell me "it's fast", I don't trust you. In Linus' words: "If we can't measure it, it doesn't exists". Unless someone writes a decent comparative, I'll take this article as Apple Marketing - Apple has been very critized for this change, I wouldn't be suprised that Apple is interested in articles like that, showing how good move has been the switch to intel
I also agree with you that there's way too much speculation
IMO, the main reason to switch to intel is the x86-64 platform. Let's remember, a couple of years ago nobody knew where the x86 where going in the 64 bit world. Until Intel announced they were following AMD's lead and Microsoft announced that their windows-64 bit edition was going to support both, nobody knew what was going on, Intel wasn't being very verbose.
Now everyone knows x86-64 is the future of the PC, and that means we're going to be using x86-64 processors for a couple of decades. In my opinion, that's the main reason for Apple to move - they know they're going to have CPU suppliers for twenty years at least, so even if moving away from powerpc is a radical move, it assures them they won't have to switch again.
Jobs had to know about the existance of those low-power powerpc, still he went for intel
Jobs has lied. There's no major shortcomings in the powerpc arena - dual core, low-power variants. The real reason why he went for intel it's because a couple of years ago nobody knew what intel was going to do WRT amd 64 bit extensions. Now, everybody knows that intel is following amd, and that the x86-64 platform is going to be the heart pf the computer industry the next 20 years. that's why they've switched.
Do you really, really, believe that Bin Laden decided to spend several years planning the 9/11 attack, sacrifice several people, kill thousand of innocent people just because he wanted, without a reason? Do you really be that terrorist are the "bad guy" that decides to kill random people
Man, you have seen too many too many hollywood movies or listened (and believed) too many George Bush speeches. OF COURSE there's something which triggered the 9/11 attack. Terrorist don't act randomly and kill people without a reason, why would they? They're not stupid. I don't agree that killing people is the correct way to answer to what EEUU did, but terrorist think that it is, or they have a different vision from what EEUU with respect some military event
Go read some history. I hate how some EEUU citiziens think that EEUU is always "right" just because of their collaboration in the WWII. Yes, there was something that EEUU did that triggered the 9/11, go and learn some history, you'll find that the collaboration in the WWII doesn't neccesarily means that EEUU is always the "good guy"
if you look at debian security announcements you'll see that thye have 112 security announcements made in this year
That's one announcement every three days, more or less. And that's counting that those have been filed against the old debian stable (only more than 800 packages). With 14000, they're going to have more
But freebsd security team just cares about the "core" system packages not about the 13000 ports. So it's not the same, but you get the idea: The work behing the debian security team is HUGE
2 I think the motivation for this service is skewed. The only motivation I can detect for Open Id is to save people FIVE SECONDS by logging into a new forum, website... etc. People already have their own methods to achieve this kind of simplicity in their lives.
3 Tools like Firefox's "remember password" make these kinds of shared identity systems obosolete, don't they? Who cares how many passwords you have to remember? You don't have to remember ANY of them anymore, really.
One of the things I hate about internet is precisely this. Face it, how do you feel when some links in slashdot to a "register for free!" kind of link? I also hate when I go to a blog or a online forum and I'm forced to register, wait for email, login, etc. Most of the time I give up - this thing would fix those problems.
Windows doesn't do per-pixel alpha blending. Go read longhorn papers, there is a reason they're doing this in longhorn
With respect to x-composite, this is in xorg's current CVS, and XGL is on his way
With respect to E17, it can do alpha blending by software or opengl. Currently they're doing it by software because it's faster than most OSS opengl drivers.
The point of the registry is to hide (through obscurity) portions of the operations of the computer from the computer owner.
What the fuck? why would Microsoft want to make things harder
The windows registry is a sort of one-size-for-all configuration database. You can configure basically everything, even some obscure kernel options like "enable swapping parts of the kernel" are configured through the registry, which is kinda weird because the system needs the kernel to read the registry in first place.
The main failure of the windows registry is forcing people to use a separated API to modify it, and reimplement it as a sort of in-kernel filesystem. They could have implemented it as directories and files, they could use ntfs acls to give permissions, they could change values by simply echo'ing to them in the shell. That is the main failure of the registry IMO, but the idea is till great.
Interesting, my obsession with PHP is not just avoiding database querys, I like static.html were possible because with.html files apache can use the sendfile() syscall (which improves performance quite a lot)
I hate how people abuses of PHP. PHP is nice when you really need what things like PHP/ASP/etc provide, but these days some people use it for everything. I hate it. Take a look at blogs - they're not really "dynamic content", they're just static content which changes very frequently, still everybody uses PHP to implement them.
AFAIK some people is interested in getting a native windows version of KDE (not the cygwin crap) out with KDE 4.0.
I guess that has been one of the major reasons to extend the GPL licensing for the QT-windows-version. Really, there's a lack of decent freeware software in windows (advertising/spyware-free, etc), most of the decent software in windows is comercial.
A windows version of all KDE apps means lots of people will use those apps, and unlike most of the 3rd party software, KDE software is (and feels) more "integrated" (same UI instead of one UI for every program, etc). If the windows version of KDE is succesful lots of people will want to use QT for their commercial apps, I guess.
They bought this software to another company, they didn't started it from scratch. So, I find reasonable that they are focusing on getting the first release out, then consider porting to another platforms...it's possible that the software depends too much in windows-specific things to be ported to linux at all.
i doubt hard disk will be able to cope with the speed of electronic components. Look at the progress of the speed of the PC components: CPUs have double their speed lots of times, but hard disk speed has not been increased a lot, which is THE major slowdown you can find in today's PCs.
This is because the hard disk is the one "mechanical" component remaining on today's computers, and some day it'll have to go away. har disks are not that fast, my UDMA 133 disk can do 40 MB/s in sequential reads, but with tiobench (8 simultaneous threads reading) I can't get more than _1_ MB/s because of the seeks. Flash disks won't degrade their speeds so much, because in a flash disk you don't need to move a mechanical component anywhere. This will simplify enormously the design of the vm/io subsystems for OS programmers.
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Actually, this article isn't praising anything. I mean, duh, an old>/b> OS runs well on old hardware! Needless to say, the guy had to disable things like "file system security" to make it perform....i don't see how this is praising anything.
Well, no, we don't really want this. What we need, more compatibility between different distros, not a single distro
..., for one. And then, even if we'd use the same packaging format, we'd have lots of troubles anyway: The "package namespace" is different in each distro, xorg can be split up in 50 different packages called "lib$FOO" in debian xand in fedora 25 called "xorg-lib-$FOO", or some shit.
.deb or .rpm. Sight....
DEB vs RPM vs ebuilds vs
That's the biggest problem for inter-distro compatibility IMO . And the one way that it can be fixed is by moving the "packagin work" to developers (ie: let the developers write the spec files / debianize them, don't redo all the packaging work yourself as ALL distros currently do). But then, the one packaging format that encourages developers that is autopackage, which nobody is going to use because it's not
while people talks about remote-desktop there's a kernel hang there, so it's probably a tcp/ip related flaw, not tied to "remote desktop" particularly (my 2 )
it's even enabled by default? IIRC you've to enable it in "my pc -> preferences" in order to allow other people to use remote desktop. And...
This may include providing a security update through the monthly release process or issuing a security advisory, depending on customer needs," she added.
Fuck, what your customers want is to to get a fucking patch that fixes the fucking flaw and they want it before it hits sites like slashdot.
So, in order to be a successful desktop OS, linux needs to be more user-friendly. Film at 11.
This just means that the G5 crap being better performing than the Intel stuff was pure marketing BS
Maybe G5s are not so fast. But:
"It's fast," said one developer source of Mac OS X running on Intel's Pentium processors. "Faster than [Mac OS X] on my Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5."
So, uh, a 3.6 Ghz P4 is faster than two 2 Ghz G5 - 4 Ghz? - SMP, but 4 Ghz.
Sorry, I don't buy that. Even more if you take into account that Intel isn't exactly the performance/Hz leader - in fact it's the worst performer these days, Opteron and PM beats the sh*t out of that P4 at much lower speeds from what I've read.
There're lots of factors that can change things - freebsd algorithms, are, for one, optimized for i386 variants. Also, Mac OS X is compiled with -Os - optimized for size, no for speed. (Paranoic mode on=Hey, maybe this switch was planned and it's not a coincidence)
And then there's the Placebo effect. IOW: Show me numbers, don't tell me "it's fast", I don't trust you. In Linus' words: "If we can't measure it, it doesn't exists". Unless someone writes a decent comparative, I'll take this article as Apple Marketing - Apple has been very critized for this change, I wouldn't be suprised that Apple is interested in articles like that, showing how good move has been the switch to intel
except that IBM is already supposed to be shipping 90 nm CPUs, isn't he?
I also agree with you that there's way too much speculation
IMO, the main reason to switch to intel is the x86-64 platform. Let's remember, a couple of years ago nobody knew where the x86 where going in the 64 bit world. Until Intel announced they were following AMD's lead and Microsoft announced that their windows-64 bit edition was going to support both, nobody knew what was going on, Intel wasn't being very verbose.
Now everyone knows x86-64 is the future of the PC, and that means we're going to be using x86-64 processors for a couple of decades. In my opinion, that's the main reason for Apple to move - they know they're going to have CPU suppliers for twenty years at least, so even if moving away from powerpc is a radical move, it assures them they won't have to switch again.
Jobs had to know about the existance of those low-power powerpc, still he went for intel
Jobs has lied. There's no major shortcomings in the powerpc arena - dual core, low-power variants. The real reason why he went for intel it's because a couple of years ago nobody knew what intel was going to do WRT amd 64 bit extensions. Now, everybody knows that intel is following amd, and that the x86-64 platform is going to be the heart pf the computer industry the next 20 years. that's why they've switched.
Oh please, then what triggered 9/11?
Do you really, really, believe that Bin Laden decided to spend several years planning the 9/11 attack, sacrifice several people, kill thousand of innocent people just because he wanted, without a reason? Do you really be that terrorist are the "bad guy" that decides to kill random people
Man, you have seen too many too many hollywood movies or listened (and believed) too many George Bush speeches. OF COURSE there's something which triggered the 9/11 attack. Terrorist don't act randomly and kill people without a reason, why would they? They're not stupid. I don't agree that killing people is the correct way to answer to what EEUU did, but terrorist think that it is, or they have a different vision from what EEUU with respect some military event
Go read some history. I hate how some EEUU citiziens think that EEUU is always "right" just because of their collaboration in the WWII. Yes, there was something that EEUU did that triggered the 9/11, go and learn some history, you'll find that the collaboration in the WWII doesn't neccesarily means that EEUU is always the "good guy"
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if you look at debian security announcements you'll see that thye have 112 security announcements made in this year
That's one announcement every three days, more or less. And that's counting that those have been filed against the old debian stable (only more than 800 packages). With 14000, they're going to have more
But freebsd security team just cares about the "core" system packages not about the 13000 ports. So it's not the same, but you get the idea: The work behing the debian security team is HUGE
Come on, it's free
2 I think the motivation for this service is skewed. The only motivation I can detect for Open Id is to save people FIVE SECONDS by logging into a new forum, website... etc. People already have their own methods to achieve this kind of simplicity in their lives.
3 Tools like Firefox's "remember password" make these kinds of shared identity systems obosolete, don't they? Who cares how many passwords you have to remember? You don't have to remember ANY of them anymore, really.
One of the things I hate about internet is precisely this. Face it, how do you feel when some links in slashdot to a "register for free!" kind of link? I also hate when I go to a blog or a online forum and I'm forced to register, wait for email, login, etc. Most of the time I give up - this thing would fix those problems.
Windows doesn't do per-pixel alpha blending. Go read longhorn papers, there is a reason they're doing this in longhorn
With respect to x-composite, this is in xorg's current CVS, and XGL is on his way
With respect to E17, it can do alpha blending by software or opengl. Currently they're doing it by software because it's faster than most OSS opengl drivers.
"Those things one does through the registry are things Microsoft does not want the average user to understand.
Remember, Microsoft has a vested interest in keeping users stupid and powerless.
This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
The point of the registry is to hide (through obscurity) portions of the operations of the computer from the computer owner.
What the fuck? why would Microsoft want to make things harder
The windows registry is a sort of one-size-for-all configuration database. You can configure basically everything, even some obscure kernel options like "enable swapping parts of the kernel" are configured through the registry, which is kinda weird because the system needs the kernel to read the registry in first place.
The main failure of the windows registry is forcing people to use a separated API to modify it, and reimplement it as a sort of in-kernel filesystem. They could have implemented it as directories and files, they could use ntfs acls to give permissions, they could change values by simply echo'ing to them in the shell. That is the main failure of the registry IMO, but the idea is till great.
Interesting, my obsession with PHP is not just avoiding database querys, I like static .html were possible because with .html files apache can use the sendfile() syscall (which improves performance quite a lot)
Doesn't that make it dynamic?
IMO dynamic content is something like "show me a different frontpage depending on my login" and things like that.
"How to Do Everything? with PHP and MySQL"?
I hate how people abuses of PHP. PHP is nice when you really need what things like PHP/ASP/etc provide, but these days some people use it for everything. I hate it. Take a look at blogs - they're not really "dynamic content", they're just static content which changes very frequently, still everybody uses PHP to implement them.
Well, I don't compile linux apps under windows either, do you?
AFAIK some people is interested in getting a native windows version of KDE (not the cygwin crap) out with KDE 4.0.
I guess that has been one of the major reasons to extend the GPL licensing for the QT-windows-version. Really, there's a lack of decent freeware software in windows (advertising/spyware-free, etc), most of the decent software in windows is comercial.
A windows version of all KDE apps means lots of people will use those apps, and unlike most of the 3rd party software, KDE software is (and feels) more "integrated" (same UI instead of one UI for every program, etc). If the windows version of KDE is succesful lots of people will want to use QT for their commercial apps, I guess.
They bought this software to another company, they didn't started it from scratch. So, I find reasonable that they are focusing on getting the first release out, then consider porting to another platforms...it's possible that the software depends too much in windows-specific things to be ported to linux at all.
If flash-based drives are succesful I doubt CD/DVD drives will be able to compete with it.
really?
i doubt hard disk will be able to cope with the speed of electronic components. Look at the progress of the speed of the PC components: CPUs have double their speed lots of times, but hard disk speed has not been increased a lot, which is THE major slowdown you can find in today's PCs.
This is because the hard disk is the one "mechanical" component remaining on today's computers, and some day it'll have to go away. har disks are not that fast, my UDMA 133 disk can do 40 MB/s in sequential reads, but with tiobench (8 simultaneous threads reading) I can't get more than _1_ MB/s because of the seeks. Flash disks won't degrade their speeds so much, because in a flash disk you don't need to move a mechanical component anywhere. This will simplify enormously the design of the vm/io subsystems for OS programmers.