In 1993 SGI had the Indigo2, a powerful graphics workstation for the time, and a very, very well designed operating system. The Linux Kernel v1.0 wasn't even released until 1994. IRIX did and does scale incredibly well. Linux still doesn't, really.
It's a silly comparison to make, especially when SGI was dominant in its field. There would have been no question. If you'd said "Hey guys we should pick Linux over a company with 10 years of experience because in 15 years Linux will be half-decent!", you'd be cleaning out your desk.
What would be awesome is if they made *all* the patches available after the EOP/EOL period. As of right now there are a lot of them that are restricted to folks with support contracts. Ideally they would make the core OS available as well instead of just the overlays, but I'm not going to hold my breath on that.
The Tungsten E2 is wifi capable, it just requires an SD wifi card. There are some catches with that, it sucks battery life at a ridiculous rate, and it can't do WPA, but it works.
Also, I believe the Tungsten E2 will do bluetooth.
This isn't looking for any medical advice, just satisfying my curiosity.
I also want to preface this by saying that I've never abused painkillers, I've only ever used them once before, briefly, after wisdom teeth extraction, and that was only Tylenol 3, hardly anything serious.
I had shoulder surgery a couple months back, sewing my rotator cuff back on. I remember from their little pre-surgery pep talk the nurses saying something along the lines of... you're going to be really out of it tonight, so make sure someone can find you some food and generally supervise you, you won't remember a thing. When I came to in the recovery room, a nurse there gave me a couple morphine injections. I was far too out of it to remember dosage, I just remember that she did it many, many times. Suffice it to say, I was feeling pretty mellow. Went home, made myself some food, watched The Usual Suspects. Mental state was entirely clear, no problems at all, I remember everything. There was no numbness or anything, I was pleasantly surprised. It felt just like normal.
Next morning I wake up, and Jesus Christ it hurts. Luckily the hospital had seen fit to give me a Dilaudid prescription... I seem to recall they were the generic 2mg pills, I imagine they weren't 4mg given what happened next.
I took one, and waited.
Nothing.
Took another, nothing. Took two more, nothing.
I've heard that morphine isn't generally given orally because it's metabolized before it has a chance to do anything. I gather that's less of a problem with the more potent opiates, but I would think that 8mg of hydromorphone would be enough to feel something. I've also read that there are people who fast-metabolize morphine, but I would think that would have meant I wouldn't have felt any effect from the morphine either.
So I guess my question is... er... how? why? what? What could make that happen, and would it apply to all opiates, or only those that are similar to morphine?
SGI in particular has had innovative and stylish desktop workstations for decades. Ridiculously powerful for their time, there are some performance aspects that computers 10 years later are just managing to catch up with. The 3D card on your desktop is likely built off technology from SGI's high end graphics workstations of yesteryear.
You'd think that there'd at least be a place for one of the IRIS, Indy, Indigo, O2 or Octane somewhere on that list.
SGI also did sort of a pseudo-64bit mode, where you could do 64bit operations, but didn't have 64bit pointers... which made sense at the time because the machines couldn't even fit that much memory (Indigo2-era, max memory on the earlier machines was 384mb) I'm not sure where that fits into your examples, I just thought it was worth mentioning because people seem to immediately associate 64bit CPUs with 64bit pointers.
Official AMD64 support is a big one. The new kernel may-or-may not be necessary, depending on whether they backported the fixes for AMD64 to 2.6.8 or whatever they're stuck on currently. That's also important, because the bugs were pretty severe (random thread crashing.) SecureAPT is a nice touch as well. Xorg is a reasonable and probably not-too-disruptive change. GCC could be disruptive, but probably won't be that big a deal.
To nitpick, they support OpenGL just fine, Vista will run all its shiny effects on an 950 GMA with no problems. The issue is with driver support on Linux, neither the i810 or i915 drivers support pbuffers of FBOs yet (although it is a work currently in progress). That's why your performance isn't so hot.
They haven't released any benchmarks for 3.0 at all that I've seen, although admittedly I haven't looked very hard, so I'm not going to pass judgement on it yet. The only negative thing I've heard about it so far is that it can occasionally bork ACPI support in the child OS.
So what if Xen cloned some of VMware's interfaces? That's... kinda of the way OSS works, you're free to adopt the ideas of others. You say that like you're surprised that VMware had a good idea, or that Xen was smart enough to pick it up.
Xen can already run Windows unmodified. So can Parallels, or any other virtualization software that supports VT. I imagine VMware will get it soon, which makes me wonder why they'd bother to modify the OS at all.
I'd had the default apple firmware for a year and a half. I'd never had any problem with playback. I switch to Rockbox, and suddenly I'm plagued by *frequent* crashes where the device locks up and has to be rebooted.
... So you go play with your gapless playback, I prefer to listen to the music.
The problem isn't with the technology, it's with the implementation. The problem is that the CSS spec is so poorly written, and so poorly implemented, that you simply can't get by without knowing a dozen hacks off by heart. What sane developer relies on a parsing bug in a browser? How easy is that to maintain?
Every browser implements tables properly. No two browsers seem to implement CSS properly. Open even a moderately complicated CSS layout in Firefox, IE, Konqueror, Safari, whatever, and each will spit back a slightly (even if only by a pixel) layout, unless you've done some awful mangling to the stylesheet.
If you can't do something you could do with tables in CSS without hacks, is CSS really a step forward? Like someone said elsewhere in the thread, CSS is great for styling and lousy for layout.
Perhaps you're better off having something generate the HTML for you from a template.
You seemed to have missed the "no hacks" point. I also meant to qualify my original point with "no gratuitous abuse of css", ie "margin-bottom: -20000px;/* X */"
It's "sort of what I'm looking for" in that it's three column with headers and footers. The columns aren't full-height though, which is a problem if you want different colors/backgrounds, so no, that won't do.
I should have qualified. Let's leave out gratuitous abuses of CSS too, ie "margin-bottom: -32767px;"
Both of you have said it can be done, neither of you has shown me a link.
Show me an implementation of a three column layout, with header and footer, without using javascript. In a perfect world, you'd do it without browser dependent hacks too.
On the Dailydave mailing list, Mark Dowd of ISS claims to have a working, reliable proof of concept exploit for the bug (Required as part of their assessment process). It's rumored to be floating around already.
Frankly, I'm more willing to believe the person who discovered the bug than a handful of advisories and self-proclaimed 'experts'. Gadi Evron, I'm looking at you.
Probably because for the most part white supremacist groups are all talk. ELF and ALF both have a documented track record of violence and destruction. They don't KILL anyone, but they strike at civilian targets to produce a state of fear.
No, that's your connotation of the word. The definition is much looser. Terrorism doesn't strictly mean brown guys running around with bombs either. Animal rights extremists like the Animal Liberation Front not only 'liberate' animals, they attack and harass workers at the facilities they liberate them from, and in some cases destroy the facilities as well.
Threatening phone calls, attacks on persons and property (paint thinner on cars, firebombing, beatings)... sure, each in and of themself is just a single crime, but combined it's terrorism.
The ALF and its sister group ELF publish a guides on bomb construction; ALF publishes "Arson around with Auntie Alf", I forget what the title of the ELF guide is, but it has to do with bomb timers. These aren't just misguided college students picketing outside buildings, they're dangerous, and they have mainstream support. PETA, for example, has links to the ALF.
Just because they're domestic terrorists doesn't mean they're not terrorists.
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They've had Linux workstations for a while now, and have had Windows workstations as well.
I would imagine one or both will continue in production.
In 1993 SGI had the Indigo2, a powerful graphics workstation for the time, and a very, very well designed operating system. The Linux Kernel v1.0 wasn't even released until 1994. IRIX did and does scale incredibly well. Linux still doesn't, really.
It's a silly comparison to make, especially when SGI was dominant in its field. There would have been no question. If you'd said "Hey guys we should pick Linux over a company with 10 years of experience because in 15 years Linux will be half-decent!", you'd be cleaning out your desk.
What would be awesome is if they made *all* the patches available after the EOP/EOL period. As of right now there are a lot of them that are restricted to folks with support contracts. Ideally they would make the core OS available as well instead of just the overlays, but I'm not going to hold my breath on that.
It'd be nice though.
The Tungsten E2 is wifi capable, it just requires an SD wifi card. There are some catches with that, it sucks battery life at a ridiculous rate, and it can't do WPA, but it works. Also, I believe the Tungsten E2 will do bluetooth.
This isn't looking for any medical advice, just satisfying my curiosity.
... you're going to be really out of it tonight, so make sure someone can find you some food and generally supervise you, you won't remember a thing. When I came to in the recovery room, a nurse there gave me a couple morphine injections. I was far too out of it to remember dosage, I just remember that she did it many, many times. Suffice it to say, I was feeling pretty mellow. Went home, made myself some food, watched The Usual Suspects. Mental state was entirely clear, no problems at all, I remember everything. There was no numbness or anything, I was pleasantly surprised. It felt just like normal.
I also want to preface this by saying that I've never abused painkillers, I've only ever used them once before, briefly, after wisdom teeth extraction, and that was only Tylenol 3, hardly anything serious.
I had shoulder surgery a couple months back, sewing my rotator cuff back on. I remember from their little pre-surgery pep talk the nurses saying something along the lines of
Next morning I wake up, and Jesus Christ it hurts. Luckily the hospital had seen fit to give me a Dilaudid prescription... I seem to recall they were the generic 2mg pills, I imagine they weren't 4mg given what happened next.
I took one, and waited.
Nothing.
Took another, nothing. Took two more, nothing.
I've heard that morphine isn't generally given orally because it's metabolized before it has a chance to do anything. I gather that's less of a problem with the more potent opiates, but I would think that 8mg of hydromorphone would be enough to feel something. I've also read that there are people who fast-metabolize morphine, but I would think that would have meant I wouldn't have felt any effect from the morphine either.
So I guess my question is... er... how? why? what? What could make that happen, and would it apply to all opiates, or only those that are similar to morphine?
SGI in particular has had innovative and stylish desktop workstations for decades. Ridiculously powerful for their time, there are some performance aspects that computers 10 years later are just managing to catch up with. The 3D card on your desktop is likely built off technology from SGI's high end graphics workstations of yesteryear.
You'd think that there'd at least be a place for one of the IRIS, Indy, Indigo, O2 or Octane somewhere on that list.
SGI also did sort of a pseudo-64bit mode, where you could do 64bit operations, but didn't have 64bit pointers... which made sense at the time because the machines couldn't even fit that much memory (Indigo2-era, max memory on the earlier machines was 384mb) I'm not sure where that fits into your examples, I just thought it was worth mentioning because people seem to immediately associate 64bit CPUs with 64bit pointers.
That includes me when I haven't had my coffee.
While I doubt anyone's going to have enough ram in a laptop to need 64bit pointers anytime soon, the extra general purpose registers will be nice.
Official AMD64 support is a big one. The new kernel may-or-may not be necessary, depending on whether they backported the fixes for AMD64 to 2.6.8 or whatever they're stuck on currently. That's also important, because the bugs were pretty severe (random thread crashing.) SecureAPT is a nice touch as well. Xorg is a reasonable and probably not-too-disruptive change. GCC could be disruptive, but probably won't be that big a deal.
To nitpick, they support OpenGL just fine, Vista will run all its shiny effects on an 950 GMA with no problems. The issue is with driver support on Linux, neither the i810 or i915 drivers support pbuffers of FBOs yet (although it is a work currently in progress). That's why your performance isn't so hot.
They haven't released any benchmarks for 3.0 at all that I've seen, although admittedly I haven't looked very hard, so I'm not going to pass judgement on it yet. The only negative thing I've heard about it so far is that it can occasionally bork ACPI support in the child OS.
So what if Xen cloned some of VMware's interfaces? That's... kinda of the way OSS works, you're free to adopt the ideas of others. You say that like you're surprised that VMware had a good idea, or that Xen was smart enough to pick it up.
Xen can already run Windows unmodified. So can Parallels, or any other virtualization software that supports VT. I imagine VMware will get it soon, which makes me wonder why they'd bother to modify the OS at all.
I'd had the default apple firmware for a year and a half. I'd never had any problem with playback. I switch to Rockbox, and suddenly I'm plagued by *frequent* crashes where the device locks up and has to be rebooted.
... So you go play with your gapless playback, I prefer to listen to the music.
The problem isn't with the technology, it's with the implementation. The problem is that the CSS spec is so poorly written, and so poorly implemented, that you simply can't get by without knowing a dozen hacks off by heart. What sane developer relies on a parsing bug in a browser? How easy is that to maintain?
Every browser implements tables properly. No two browsers seem to implement CSS properly. Open even a moderately complicated CSS layout in Firefox, IE, Konqueror, Safari, whatever, and each will spit back a slightly (even if only by a pixel) layout, unless you've done some awful mangling to the stylesheet.
If you can't do something you could do with tables in CSS without hacks, is CSS really a step forward? Like someone said elsewhere in the thread, CSS is great for styling and lousy for layout.
Perhaps you're better off having something generate the HTML for you from a template.
You seemed to have missed the "no hacks" point. I also meant to qualify my original point with "no gratuitous abuse of css", ie "margin-bottom: -20000px; /* X */"
It's "sort of what I'm looking for" in that it's three column with headers and footers. The columns aren't full-height though, which is a problem if you want different colors/backgrounds, so no, that won't do.
I should have qualified my original post better.
I should have qualified. Let's leave out gratuitous abuses of CSS too, ie "margin-bottom: -32767px;" Both of you have said it can be done, neither of you has shown me a link.
Obscure ways?
Show me an implementation of a three column layout, with header and footer, without using javascript. In a perfect world, you'd do it without browser dependent hacks too.
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I think you mean castrato.
On the Dailydave mailing list, Mark Dowd of ISS claims to have a working, reliable proof of concept exploit for the bug (Required as part of their assessment process). It's rumored to be floating around already. Frankly, I'm more willing to believe the person who discovered the bug than a handful of advisories and self-proclaimed 'experts'. Gadi Evron, I'm looking at you.
... because they have such an *excellent* security track record with Solaris.
Well, okay, some of those are NT.
Uh... yeah?
How many research facilities have you firebombed recently?
Remind me not to invite you over for Christmas dinner.
Probably because for the most part white supremacist groups are all talk. ELF and ALF both have a documented track record of violence and destruction. They don't KILL anyone, but they strike at civilian targets to produce a state of fear.
No, that's your connotation of the word. The definition is much looser. Terrorism doesn't strictly mean brown guys running around with bombs either. Animal rights extremists like the Animal Liberation Front not only 'liberate' animals, they attack and harass workers at the facilities they liberate them from, and in some cases destroy the facilities as well.
... sure, each in and of themself is just a single crime, but combined it's terrorism.
Threatening phone calls, attacks on persons and property (paint thinner on cars, firebombing, beatings)
The ALF and its sister group ELF publish a guides on bomb construction; ALF publishes "Arson around with Auntie Alf", I forget what the title of the ELF guide is, but it has to do with bomb timers. These aren't just misguided college students picketing outside buildings, they're dangerous, and they have mainstream support. PETA, for example, has links to the ALF.
Just because they're domestic terrorists doesn't mean they're not terrorists.