Both communities should remember that development for either tends to benefit both.
A lot of BSD code flows into Linux, and a lot of apps that are made worthwhile (in terms of size of userbase) by Linux are ported to BSD.
Every person using Linux OR BSD is an asset to the free software community, and helping things in the right direction. There is no need to get pissy over small things like licenses or religious wars until only Linux, BSD and other free OSes are left standing and all other non-free systems are long buried.
1: Goverment masturbate over new interconnected data paradigm that can enable key economic resource in an efficient manner. 2: Project is funded. 3: Press release about how the government is promoting small business. 4: Funding is approved. 5: Press release about how great the goverment is. 6: Work starts. 7: Press release about how the government gets things done! 8: BT and NTL realise how much money this will lose them, hands cash in brown envelopes to MPs. 9: Press release about our existing world-class interenet infrastructure that was pushed through by government. 10: Project cancelled. 11: Profit! (For existing telcos, the bastards.)
For pessamists, no ??? is required. We know that step, and it's bloody awful.
It would be fantasic to be able to hit a button, have something read the RPM database and automagically reinstall a APT based system (leaving/home and/data and/specified intact).
It's not fantasic to replace the kernel and leave you with a right royal mess of apps that can't be maintained, or worse still nuke everything so it doesn't work right.
This is a first step, which is cool, but it looks like it needs extending a bit to gain some practical application. Rather like the depenguinator (script to remove linux and install BSD) its a cool toy with little real application as of yet.
All AMDs ratings are measured against a Duron 1ghz (so a 2000+ is exactly twice as fast).
This means the scale is LINEAR unlike measuring against Pentium speed which is inverse-square (or similar, only done rough calcs) related to performance. You have more certainty with the AMD rating system.
Top 5 things you will do with your Athlon64...
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Run Doom 3. Compute Pi to 5.497558e+11 bit precision during your lunchbreak. Store this value of Pi in RAM. Install Kazaa and not notice the spyware slowdown. Use the faster page loading times to get FP more often.
"Then he tells the employees that "HIS manager" makes him film public places for HIS security -- how does he know, he tells them, that the fire exits aren't chained shut? -- and that they'll have to talk to HIS manager."
Of course if he does that in a cinema he will be arrested and sent to a state pen where he will become even more attached (ouch) to his wearable computer thanks to the resident cybernetic surgeon, Joe 'Two Teeth' Bob.
The thought of shelling out ~$1000 for a box that does so much fills me with slight dread, especially since (IME) Sony kit has of late not been totally reliable.
When it breaks at best you lose a lot of stuff while it is repaired under warranty - which still costs you mony (time, shipping) - at least if it was just your PS2 or your DVR that broke you could entertain yourself in the meantime. Not to mention the fact that as seperate parts it would probably be cheaper...
Of course this principle is why I went one step further and use PCs for my DVR and games machine as those I can always move onto another box if something breaks, and as far as repairs go it's usually a component that can be switched out cheaply:D
(It would be a lot easier to pick seperated over an integrated unit if there was a decent interface (like scart, but more so) for a/v units that you could gaurentee always worked and could switch multiple components seamlessly without blocking.)
"Sometimes I have even been known to forget about several systems because they just work."
While doing some recabling at a law firm I found a 486 server (running) in the back of a cuboard. No one knew what it was for. It was running some crypticly named binaries but wasn't seeing that much network traffic.
So, we shut it down it, and all at once their fancy account system (apparently running on a dual xeon windows 2000 server) died. Turns out this machine had been handling the business logic for years and the last lot of cowb^H^Hnsultants had just thrown on a new front end and database without mentioning they didn't bother to rewrite or port the app.
As far as I know, it's still running well, with no plans to upgrade it... and I'm sure that with time they will forget about it again:o)
I used to use this kind of thing to hide certain, ahem, suspect images on the Acorn machines at school.
Of course being an adult now it's not as required, but I suppose it might be able to hide offensive pr0n images inside more innocent ones - so that anyone looking finds pretty mild things and stops there, without being able to find things that would get you looked at oddly in church:o)
In 50 years time we will have to give all kinds of bio information for everything, so we will carry a handy machine readable card with every bit of data on it to make it more convenient...
Thus defeating the entire purpose, and a stunning testament to human nature.
I suppose it depends how large your access list needs to be. It would be pretty good for a server room inside a secure building with 2 staff members on the access list, but with 10,000 on site (such as some places have) a false positive would be almost assured unless they had to carry a token of some kind. (Physical or otherwise, eg pin or swipe card.)
My website proper runs on a Sun Solaris box supplied FOC.
That was a virtual pointer to a domain host that have gone out of business (and who owed me money). Even I was capable of putting up with IIS when it was $20/yr for unlimited space and bandwidth (dingojunction.com - ideal for hosting huge files for my real site).
So I'm going to run a knocked off version of a pre-pre-alpha with a hacked about XP core and an experimental interface from the company with the worst QA record in the entire universe.
Of users location since they started in 1998. It would be fantastic to be able to get access to this and find out where you had been and when - bet it would make a pretty map.
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Both communities should remember that development for either tends to benefit both.
A lot of BSD code flows into Linux, and a lot of apps that are made worthwhile (in terms of size of userbase) by Linux are ported to BSD.
Every person using Linux OR BSD is an asset to the free software community, and helping things in the right direction. There is no need to get pissy over small things like licenses or religious wars until only Linux, BSD and other free OSes are left standing and all other non-free systems are long buried.
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At least BSD lets you log in and change file permissions whilst being slashdotted, impressive!
1: Goverment masturbate over new interconnected data paradigm that can enable key economic resource in an efficient manner.
2: Project is funded.
3: Press release about how the government is promoting small business.
4: Funding is approved.
5: Press release about how great the goverment is.
6: Work starts.
7: Press release about how the government gets things done!
8: BT and NTL realise how much money this will lose them, hands cash in brown envelopes to MPs.
9: Press release about our existing world-class interenet infrastructure that was pushed through by government.
10: Project cancelled.
11: Profit! (For existing telcos, the bastards.)
For pessamists, no ??? is required. We know that step, and it's bloody awful.
I'm going to submit a drawing of a penguin. After all that has no negative cultural or religious ramifications right? Seems perfect to me.
Can I get one with a built in tin-foil lined hood?
Then as a migration tool it's pretty limited.
/home and /data and /specified intact).
It would be fantasic to be able to hit a button, have something read the RPM database and automagically reinstall a APT based system (leaving
It's not fantasic to replace the kernel and leave you with a right royal mess of apps that can't be maintained, or worse still nuke everything so it doesn't work right.
This is a first step, which is cool, but it looks like it needs extending a bit to gain some practical application. Rather like the depenguinator (script to remove linux and install BSD) its a cool toy with little real application as of yet.
All AMDs ratings are measured against a Duron 1ghz (so a 2000+ is exactly twice as fast).
This means the scale is LINEAR unlike measuring against Pentium speed which is inverse-square (or similar, only done rough calcs) related to performance. You have more certainty with the AMD rating system.
Run Doom 3.
Compute Pi to 5.497558e+11 bit precision during your lunchbreak.
Store this value of Pi in RAM.
Install Kazaa and not notice the spyware slowdown.
Use the faster page loading times to get FP more often.
Does it defualt to telling you that it's a McCheeseBurger when it can't find the item you were looking for in the database?
But now to be the target of a worldwide real life 'Wheres Waldo' like geek game must be a little too much!
"One of his common setups involves a computer with a Pentium 4 processor, at least 512 gigabytes of memory and..."
512 gig of memory eh? It's not likley to even have that much disk space.
Mind you, fitting enough power to run that puppy into a wearable PC isn't exactly a minor engineering challenge, it must still be pretty heavy.
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"Then he tells the employees that "HIS manager" makes him film public places for HIS security -- how does he know, he tells them, that the fire exits aren't chained shut? -- and that they'll have to talk to HIS manager."
Of course if he does that in a cinema he will be arrested and sent to a state pen where he will become even more attached (ouch) to his wearable computer thanks to the resident cybernetic surgeon, Joe 'Two Teeth' Bob.
The thought of shelling out ~$1000 for a box that does so much fills me with slight dread, especially since (IME) Sony kit has of late not been totally reliable.
:D
When it breaks at best you lose a lot of stuff while it is repaired under warranty - which still costs you mony (time, shipping) - at least if it was just your PS2 or your DVR that broke you could entertain yourself in the meantime. Not to mention the fact that as seperate parts it would probably be cheaper...
Of course this principle is why I went one step further and use PCs for my DVR and games machine as those I can always move onto another box if something breaks, and as far as repairs go it's usually a component that can be switched out cheaply
(It would be a lot easier to pick seperated over an integrated unit if there was a decent interface (like scart, but more so) for a/v units that you could gaurentee always worked and could switch multiple components seamlessly without blocking.)
...but what happens when Sony get sued by TiVo for including a PVR?
"Sometimes I have even been known to forget about several systems because they just work."
:o)
While doing some recabling at a law firm I found a 486 server (running) in the back of a cuboard. No one knew what it was for. It was running some crypticly named binaries but wasn't seeing that much network traffic.
So, we shut it down it, and all at once their fancy account system (apparently running on a dual xeon windows 2000 server) died. Turns out this machine had been handling the business logic for years and the last lot of cowb^H^Hnsultants had just thrown on a new front end and database without mentioning they didn't bother to rewrite or port the app.
As far as I know, it's still running well, with no plans to upgrade it... and I'm sure that with time they will forget about it again
You can always encrypt first then hide later.
Security through obscurity is fine _as an additional layer_ - can't even begin to decrypt something you can't find.
I used to use this kind of thing to hide certain, ahem, suspect images on the Acorn machines at school.
:o)
Of course being an adult now it's not as required, but I suppose it might be able to hide offensive pr0n images inside more innocent ones - so that anyone looking finds pretty mild things and stops there, without being able to find things that would get you looked at oddly in church
In 50 years time we will have to give all kinds of bio information for everything, so we will carry a handy machine readable card with every bit of data on it to make it more convenient...
Thus defeating the entire purpose, and a stunning testament to human nature.
Bioscrypt now claim an error rate of 0.1% on fingerprint IDs.
I suppose it depends how large your access list needs to be. It would be pretty good for a server room inside a secure building with 2 staff members on the access list, but with 10,000 on site (such as some places have) a false positive would be almost assured unless they had to carry a token of some kind. (Physical or otherwise, eg pin or swipe card.)
I just threw away my tinfoil hat and made a new one out of steel. With a spike on top.
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is some one playing silly buggers.
(Kernel.org, debian.org, gentoo.org - all in the same two months?)
Eeep.
My website proper runs on a Sun Solaris box supplied FOC.
That was a virtual pointer to a domain host that have gone out of business (and who owed me money). Even I was capable of putting up with IIS when it was $20/yr for unlimited space and bandwidth (dingojunction.com - ideal for hosting huge files for my real site).
So I'm going to run a knocked off version of a pre-pre-alpha with a hacked about XP core and an experimental interface from the company with the worst QA record in the entire universe.
Or it would have been, but I got distracted by an instant message.
That's a bit like finding out that violent conduct is banned in wrestling.
Of users location since they started in 1998. It would be fantastic to be able to get access to this and find out where you had been and when - bet it would make a pretty map.