It's mac only, but this is one of the niftiest little bits of freeware I've seen in a while.
You can have as many people as you like simultaneously editing the same file in realtime, with everyone's changes showing up with color coded highlights.
If everyone benchmarked with open source compilers, there would be none of the shady benchmark-specific optimizations you'd expect to see in proprietary compilers. Everything would be above the table.
And that's not to mention the benefits for OSS compilers. Imagine the kind of resources and funding processor companies would dump into open source compiler projects if they were going to be the basis for their benchmark scores instead of their closed source proprietary compilers.
Who else finds it amusing that both the 1.0 version of Safari (Apple's port of Konquerer, to oversimplify a bit), and the GPLed Qt (a framework to let you run plain old Konquerer on OSX with aqua widgets), are both likely going to be released at the same conference by different companies?
There's talk in the article of insurance companies requiring EDRs, and of course insurance is required by law most places. So the government even has a nice loophole to plant bugs in every car in the nation without actually legally requiring them. (isn't it nice to have big corporations to do your dirty work)
True, MacOSX is built on top of the Mach micro-kernel, so you can call it a micro-kernel based OS.
However OSX only takes limited advantage of some aspects of microkenrel design, especially the aspects listed in the article. As originally conceived, a microkernel was supposed to be connected to many separate subsystems, as it is in QNX or Hurd. This allows for those mere microseconds of downtime when something important like a driver faults, by only needing to restart that small subsystem. However, like practically all other microkernel based OSes, OSX runs one large clump of subsystems (the BSD layer) on top of the microkernel.
Or at least that's how I understand it.
So they're kind of bending the definition of a microkernel OS to make that claim, but it isn't entirely unfounded.
I know if I suspected I would be fired whenever I finished a project, I wouldn't be in any hurry to get it done. This kind of thing could drag morale and productivity into the toilet.
Nothing. In point of fact IBM announced they would be selling PPC970 based systems running linux months ago. The announcement concerned blades, but I'd be willing to bet they'll build "low end" (compared to Power4 systems) workstations around them too, finally phasing out their old PPC604 low end workstations.
Of course, I wouldn't count on them matching/beating Apple's price point. Historically IBM's PPC based stuff has been *much* more expensive.
I've never heard someone give the credit for inventing cyberpunk to Vinge's Across Realtime series before.
His earlier story True Names is often given that credit though. It's also one of my favorite cyberpunk stories. It got more things right about the internet and hacking (before there was a real civilian internet) than most modern stories on the subject. And it kept twisting your perception of who was who, and what was actually happening, right up to the end. And that's not to mention it contains one of the sweetest, most interesting, internet romances I've ever seen.
I just started reading Nemesis by Isaac Asimov last night.
The book starts with the discovery of a neighbor star, later named Nemesis. It is a Red Dwarf, and closer to Earth than Alpha Centuari. It is also dimmer than one would expect because of a dust cloud between it and the solar system.
What exactly are you smoking? I just tried Firebird.6 and it was very noticeably slower than the latest Camino and Safari on my machine. (not to mention all the stuff that doesn't work) Sure it's faster than IE and Mozilla, but what isn't?
In the appearance pane in prefrences uncheck "Display images when the page opens". Volia, images will not loaded automatically, as you prefer. This has been there since before beta2 iirc.
I can't see how you're supposed to load them manually though...
I personally think the plethora or virii and other exploits loose on the net today is a very good thing.
Picture your computer as your faithful dog, man's best friend. Now say your neighbor has one too. Your neighbor lets his dog run free, and it tends to play in the local junkyard, picking up god knows what. You on the other hand, keep your dog nice and sheltered, only letting it outside on a leash when you walk it.
Now which dog do you think will have a more robust immune system, if they both get sick which is more likely to survive?
The septic environment that is today's internet forces us to make decisions that increase security, strengthening our digital immune systems.
Imagine if there had been far less malicious hacking over the last decade or so. Imagine a world where there are no effective anti-virus programs because there are no particularly effective viruses. Where all those security holes we've read about over the years are still exploitable because we never found out about them the hard way. Now imagine how vulnerable such a world's systems would be if some person or organization decided to try to take them down.
Will this update enable my 2x SuperDrive to write at a higher speed?
This update enables you to read from and write to the new media, but it does not increase the speed of the drive. In fact, the updated 2x SuperDrive writes to this new media at 1x. So to obtain the highest performance from your 2x SuperDrive, we recommend that you continue using 2x DVD-R media just as you do today.
So, your drive doesn't get faster. In fact, if you buy the wrong kind of media, it gets slower.
Therefore, in switching browsers, we are not dropping XUL on the Mac. We aim to ensure that Mozilla's cross-platform applications and toolkit remain both cross-platform and viable as applications that people actually use. And we need the same kind of embedded Gecko test coverage on the Mac that we get on other platforms. So, when we switch the default-built browser to Phoenix, we will provide daily and milestone builds of it for OS X.
They're finally going to support Phoenix on OSX! This is a big win for the Mac community imho. Camino is great, but there are barely enough developers to cover the front end, the main body of the Mozilla project being behind a cross platform Phoenix project is a Good Thing?.
I know these books may be more complicated for high-school students but I can modify the curriculum.
I'm assuming that this is some sort of elective class, considering how most normal lit classes avoid scifi like the plague. If so, I would actually recommend keeping the college level material as much as possible. The re are a few reasons for this...
First off, I would hope making the class a bit challenging will be an effective counter to those in the administration and other teachers in your department who are likely to view a new course in scifi literature as trivial fluff, taking valuable resources away from their pet projects.
Then there are the students to Consider. Since I'm assuming this is an elective course, you won't have to cater to the lowest common denominator quite as much as in a requited core course. Now, it may be a stereotype that nerds like scifi, but it's not entirely unfounded in my experience. If you can get them interested enough, the kids from that demographic should have no problem with college level material.
And of course, if you don't make the course challenging, you're likely to start attracting people just looking for an easy course they can blow off.
If you must make changes, I would advise making them via some leniency on the grading end, rather than using simpler content or asking dumbed down questions.
Well, Bill said 640K of memory is enough for most people, so I guess M$ it taking that as a design goal and ooptimizing their OS for things that don't need more RAM than that
I wonder if this could be adapted for mass production? Not having to individually solder pins would have to speed things up. The error rate is a little high for production, but I'm sure it could be improved with a little engineering.
You need to make people pay for what they get, even if it is a big markdown over new books. If not you'll run into the same tradgedy of the commons that ruins all systems with insufficinet accountability. Every user will have more incentive to take from the system than to give, and since these books are a finite resource, they will be quickly snapped up (especially the ones worth reading). A karma like system might lessen this problem, but it would have to be pretty strict to keep the system flowing with finite, and probably scarce resources.
A system facilitating free market exchanges of used books is about the closest to this concept that I can forsee working in real life. You might try Amazon's marketplace for that kind of thing. They are better organized for books than ebay, however their shipping surcharges are somewhat exorbitant if you're just ordering little paperback books (shipping sometimes costs 4+ times a cheap used book's price).
I'm not sure, but I doubt that Microsoft actually invented the term Hardware Abstraction Layer, and they certainly didn't invent the concept. Virtually all modern OSes have a hardware abstraction layer.
I seem to remember a similar article about IBM doing a much more radical implementation of multithreading on the Power5, but damned if I can find it to link now.
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It's mac only, but this is one of the niftiest little bits of freeware I've seen in a while.
You can have as many people as you like simultaneously editing the same file in realtime, with everyone's changes showing up with color coded highlights.
If everyone benchmarked with open source compilers, there would be none of the shady benchmark-specific optimizations you'd expect to see in proprietary compilers. Everything would be above the table.
And that's not to mention the benefits for OSS compilers. Imagine the kind of resources and funding processor companies would dump into open source compiler projects if they were going to be the basis for their benchmark scores instead of their closed source proprietary compilers.
Who else finds it amusing that both the 1.0 version of Safari (Apple's port of Konquerer, to oversimplify a bit), and the GPLed Qt (a framework to let you run plain old Konquerer on OSX with aqua widgets), are both likely going to be released at the same conference by different companies?
In countries with a minimum wage law, wouldn't you be required to pay more it you pay at all?
There's talk in the article of insurance companies requiring EDRs, and of course insurance is required by law most places. So the government even has a nice loophole to plant bugs in every car in the nation without actually legally requiring them. (isn't it nice to have big corporations to do your dirty work)
True, MacOSX is built on top of the Mach micro-kernel, so you can call it a micro-kernel based OS.
However OSX only takes limited advantage of some aspects of microkenrel design, especially the aspects listed in the article.
As originally conceived, a microkernel was supposed to be connected to many separate subsystems, as it is in QNX or Hurd. This allows for those mere microseconds of downtime when something important like a driver faults, by only needing to restart that small subsystem.
However, like practically all other microkernel based OSes, OSX runs one large clump of subsystems (the BSD layer) on top of the microkernel.
Or at least that's how I understand it.
So they're kind of bending the definition of a microkernel OS to make that claim, but it isn't entirely unfounded.
I know if I suspected I would be fired whenever I finished a project, I wouldn't be in any hurry to get it done. This kind of thing could drag morale and productivity into the toilet.
Nothing.
In point of fact IBM announced they would be selling PPC970 based systems running linux months ago. The announcement concerned blades, but I'd be willing to bet they'll build "low end" (compared to Power4 systems) workstations around them too, finally phasing out their old PPC604 low end workstations.
Of course, I wouldn't count on them matching/beating Apple's price point. Historically IBM's PPC based stuff has been *much* more expensive.
I've never heard someone give the credit for inventing cyberpunk to Vinge's Across Realtime series before.
His earlier story True Names is often given that credit though.
It's also one of my favorite cyberpunk stories. It got more things right about the internet and hacking (before there was a real civilian internet) than most modern stories on the subject. And it kept twisting your perception of who was who, and what was actually happening, right up to the end. And that's not to mention it contains one of the sweetest, most interesting, internet romances I've ever seen.
I just started reading Nemesis by Isaac Asimov last night.
The book starts with the discovery of a neighbor star, later named Nemesis. It is a Red Dwarf, and closer to Earth than Alpha Centuari. It is also dimmer than one would expect because of a dust cloud between it and the solar system.
Now how's that for coincidence?
What exactly are you smoking? .6 and it was very noticeably slower than the latest Camino and Safari on my machine. (not to mention all the stuff that doesn't work)
I just tried Firebird
Sure it's faster than IE and Mozilla, but what isn't?
In the appearance pane in prefrences uncheck "Display images when the page opens".
Volia, images will not loaded automatically, as you prefer. This has been there since before beta2 iirc.
I can't see how you're supposed to load them manually though...
Check the creation date on the updated app. It was built a couple of days ago.
I'm guessing they just had to run it thru QA since then to make sure they didn't break something else by fixing this.
I personally think the plethora or virii and other exploits loose on the net today is a very good thing.
Picture your computer as your faithful dog, man's best friend.
Now say your neighbor has one too.
Your neighbor lets his dog run free, and it tends to play in the local junkyard, picking up god knows what.
You on the other hand, keep your dog nice and sheltered, only letting it outside on a leash when you walk it.
Now which dog do you think will have a more robust immune system, if they both get sick which is more likely to survive?
The septic environment that is today's internet forces us to make decisions that increase security, strengthening our digital immune systems.
Imagine if there had been far less malicious hacking over the last decade or so. Imagine a world where there are no effective anti-virus programs because there are no particularly effective viruses. Where all those security holes we've read about over the years are still exploitable because we never found out about them the hard way.
Now imagine how vulnerable such a world's systems would be if some person or organization decided to try to take them down.
...by producing and distributing software to combat government sponsored censorship of the net here in America.
So, your drive doesn't get faster. In fact, if you buy the wrong kind of media, it gets slower.
They're finally going to support Phoenix on OSX!
This is a big win for the Mac community imho. Camino is great, but there are barely enough developers to cover the front end, the main body of the Mozilla project being behind a cross platform Phoenix project is a Good Thing?.
Since when do notices of security holes that have been fixed for months rate /. articles?
I'm assuming that this is some sort of elective class, considering how most normal lit classes avoid scifi like the plague. If so, I would actually recommend keeping the college level material as much as possible. The re are a few reasons for this...
First off, I would hope making the class a bit challenging will be an effective counter to those in the administration and other teachers in your department who are likely to view a new course in scifi literature as trivial fluff, taking valuable resources away from their pet projects.
Then there are the students to Consider. Since I'm assuming this is an elective course, you won't have to cater to the lowest common denominator quite as much as in a requited core course. Now, it may be a stereotype that nerds like scifi, but it's not entirely unfounded in my experience. If you can get them interested enough, the kids from that demographic should have no problem with college level material.
And of course, if you don't make the course challenging, you're likely to start attracting people just looking for an easy course they can blow off.
If you must make changes, I would advise making them via some leniency on the grading end, rather than using simpler content or asking dumbed down questions.
Well, Bill said 640K of memory is enough for most people, so I guess M$ it taking that as a design goal and ooptimizing their OS for things that don't need more RAM than that
What are you talking about?
iCal can serve from any webDAV enabled webserver.
just search "iCal apache" on google or a bunch of howtos
I'm thinking that's what makes this work.
I wonder if this could be adapted for mass production? Not having to individually solder pins would have to speed things up. The error rate is a little high for production, but I'm sure it could be improved with a little engineering.
You need to make people pay for what they get, even if it is a big markdown over new books.
If not you'll run into the same tradgedy of the commons that ruins all systems with insufficinet accountability. Every user will have more incentive to take from the system than to give, and since these books are a finite resource, they will be quickly snapped up (especially the ones worth reading).
A karma like system might lessen this problem, but it would have to be pretty strict to keep the system flowing with finite, and probably scarce resources.
A system facilitating free market exchanges of used books is about the closest to this concept that I can forsee working in real life. You might try Amazon's marketplace for that kind of thing. They are better organized for books than ebay, however their shipping surcharges are somewhat exorbitant if you're just ordering little paperback books (shipping sometimes costs 4+ times a cheap used book's price).
I'm not sure, but I doubt that Microsoft actually invented the term Hardware Abstraction Layer, and they certainly didn't invent the concept. Virtually all modern OSes have a hardware abstraction layer.
I seem to remember a similar article about IBM doing a much more radical implementation of multithreading on the Power5, but damned if I can find it to link now.
Anyone seen something relevant?