Intel® Virtualization Technology
The Intel® Core(TM) Duo Processor includes support for Intel® Virtualization Technology which is a set of
hardware enhancements to Intel server and client systems that combined with the appropriate software, will
enable enhanced virtualization robustness and performance for both enterprise and consumer uses. Intel
Virtualization Technology forms the foundation of Intel technologies focused on improved virtualization, safer
computing, and system stability. For client systems, Intel Virtualization Technology's hardware-based isolation
helps provide the foundation for highly available and more secure client virtualization partitions.
Virtualize All Operating Systems with Support for
Intel® VT Hardware Virtualization
Xen 3.0 is the industry's first virtualization infrastructure
software to support Intel Virtualzation Technology
(VT), which allows virtualized servers to run natively on
the processor. This enables the hypervisor to exploit
hardware acceleration for CPU and memory virtualization
and is key to Xen's ability to virtualize all operating
systems.
So put together, this already indicates that the Intel iMacs should already support running Windows XP natively without any changes to the Windows Kernel and "theorectically" (correct me if I'm wrong, i probably am) if th Xen Hypervisor were loaded, you could run both Mac OSX and Windows XP natively at the same time without any changes. Of course Xen Hypervisor actually requires a flavor of Linux to already be installed on the workstation, so I guess a bit of "hacking" may actually be required to get it working. But once RedHat manages to find a way to install itself, that will lead the way to running everything else (windows, linux, mac os x86) running close to natively on the Core Duo machine without any other modifications.
My first thought when I saw this was "Doesn't Apple have Dashboard trademarked?" Well, after digging through Apple's website, there is no mention of Dashboard being trademarked, but somehow I still foresee legal battling over using the same name for similar products for different platforms.
It is quite possible that a planet could revolve around two suns. to simplify the physics, you must simply take the center of gravity/mass of the two suns and that would be where the "combined sun" would exist taht the planet would revolve around. of course using an assumption like this would probably require that the planet isn't close to the suns, but a pretty good distance out (whatever that means). As far as the seasons go, It's not really a matter of distance from the sun (well, at least on earth), but probably the tilt of the axis of the planet as it revolves around the sun.
If I remember correctly, the person I referenced worked for the state gaming commission and his partner was a gaming regulator. Anyways, as a person in that position he had access to the algorithm that the systems used at that time. Of course, I am not saying that as a person outside of the online casino would have access to such information, but much like the rest of the business world, insider information is how some people make money. Other than a NDA and a conscience, there isn't much to stop the programmer from leaking code to a third party for $$$. The casino doesn't really lose since they take a rake of the pot anyways. The point is, unless the casino is using a lava lamp to generate their random numbers, there is a mathematical algorithm behind the random numbers used for the cards, and algorithms can be subject to prediction, although it may not actually be easily done with modern hardware.
Maybe not so much as card counting but maybe reverse engineering the random number generator algorithm. It's been a few years since Daniel Corriveau (look him up on google) got hold of the algorithm used to generate keno numbers at a casino and managed to predict the upcoming numbers based on the sequence of numbers already shown. Of course RNG's have come quite a ways since the rand() function of a few years ago, but a bot paying attention to the order of cards might actually be able to predict what cards will come out and have the ultimate advantage.
I think the big assumption everyone makes here is that intel will be providing x86 chips for the NEXT-gen Macintosh. It seems everyone is overlooking the possibility that Apple is recruiting Intel into the PowerPC field and is hoping that Intel will create a new faster ppc compatible chip. It could be that with Intel's large R&D to develop faster chips, that Intel could actually find better answers to the clock speed stumbling block in PPC.
started playing around with it and so far the emulation is extremely good! the installation runs similar to a 500MHz G4 on a 2.4GHz P4. The only problem so far is setting up the partition to be able to start up from.. looks like it is going to need an openfirmware hack or something...
He's right. You can get a "clone" from PegasosPPC. Given they only sell single processor G4's as far as i can tell for eMac prices, it's hardly a competitive option to a "real" Mac.
In CNET's article discussing Microsoft vs Apple and audio vs. video, I quote:
"Ask kids in the back of a car on a two-hour trip, 'Hey, would you like to have your videos there?' My kids would," Gates said. "I guess Steve's kids just listen to Bach and Mozart. But mine, they want to watch 'Finding Nemo.' I don't know who made that, but it's really a neat movie."
If you are reading this message, then I you know that I am stuck in the Delta Quadrant and have successfully managed to communicate with you through a temporal wormhole. Please. Do not send Voyager on a mission to the Badlands.
Actually, It might outperform a beowulf cluster in some sense. With the Beowulf cluster, you have to set up nodes for processing and typically aren't user nodes. The scheduler will queue up tasks to the nodes as they are requested.
However, Apple still has their XGrid technology lurking around Pixar I'm sure. With XGrid, all the machines act as a cluster where Mac's with free processes to spare can work on computations for other nodes.
Also, the G5's altivec provides a definite performance boost since most of the work is render work which is probably easill parallelized/verctorized. Just from checking the Apple website (yeah, I'm sure it is biased) for the HPC LINPACK benchmarks, the XServe Dual 2GHz G5 is 9GFlops where as the DUAL 2GHz opteron is 5.91 GFlops.
Just my $0.02
Could it be that Macs have a longer useful life than a PC? If we were to suppose that Apple was putting superior computers into the market place that only have to be replaced 1/3 - 1/4 less often as a PC, these numbers seem somewhat justifiable. just my $0.02
Apple has a "product" called Airport Extreme which allows for wireless bridging. You connect the cable/DSL modem to a single AirPort Extreme Base Station and it does the rest.
AirPort Extreme lets you use wireless bridging to increase your range beyond the standard 150-foot coverage. Bridging, which allows one AirPort Extreme Base Station to connect to another AirPort Extreme Base Station, eliminates the need to run expensive cables to extend a network. Previously, all AirPort Base Stations required a physical connection to the Internet. With wireless bridging, two or more AirPort Extreme Base Stations can be connected wirelessly, effectively increasing the range of your network. The $249 AirPort Extreme Base Station also features an external antenna connector for extending your wireless connectivity beyond the 150-foot range of your built-in internal antennas (you can choose to connect either an Apple certified directional or an omnidirectional antenna).
I vaguely remember that the Airport Base stations are 802.11b/g and that when you use the wireless bridging, it uses the 802.11g "line" for bridging leaving you with 802.11b for your AP to PC/Mac connection. The AirPort Extreme Base Stations run about $200 each and they also have a RJ-45 to connect a "wired" computer in addition to the WAN port for your boradband. I'm sure that using this you could spend $800 and put one on each floor or $1200 and put one in each apartment and each person could connect their PC as well and you wouldn't have to buy an internal/external wireless card for the PCs since most have a built-in Ethernet port.
MyTunes is for Windows. iTunesDL was for Mac's when iTunes first came out. That's basically the fundamental diffeerence. I can't speak for MyTunes since I don't actually use a Wintel machine (No I won't go there!!)
In terms of exploiting the exploit: I'm sure you can change some extensions of videos/movies, software, & whatever else floats you and you'll be on your way to a full fledged {almost} P2P. I'll leave that for someone with Windows to try and post back for the rest of us!
People just don't take the age old adage of "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"
Most people are just too busy to apply the patches. I admit that I got hit with Blaster, but only because I had other priorities.
Windows XP has automatic updates, if you don't like to use it, then MS provides a nice little link to the Windows update site on the Start Menu.
If you're a Debian flavored Linux fan, "sudo apt-get update" works easily and well and runs nicely in the background. If you want it to be automatic, stay with stable and put it in the cron.
Of course I saved the best for last. For the Mac lovers out there, System Preferences > Software Update is two clicks away, and for most people it is already automatically set for a weekly update.
That's just my $0.02. Now if I could only get away form/. and go patch my 'puter.
All other things put aside, both companies are out there to make money. The desicion to offer 128kbps vs. 192kbps vs. lossless comes down to the cost of bandwidth. Understandably, bandwidth is "relatively" cheap. But, let's assume the typical 128kbps song is 4MB. 6.5 million songs later roughly equals 26TB of data. If everyone wanted 192kbps, well, that's another 13TB of data transfer. Although that's only a few thousand dollars, that's probably a significant portion of what Apple takes from the $0.99. But, I think we get the picture.
Start transmitting WAV files across the net and i think we'll all be complaining it takes too long to get the music we want. Not to mention their bandwidth had better be ungodly fast.
The moral of the story? Economics.
Slashdot Mirror
My first thought when I saw this was "Doesn't Apple have Dashboard trademarked?" Well, after digging through Apple's website, there is no mention of Dashboard being trademarked, but somehow I still foresee legal battling over using the same name for similar products for different platforms.
It is quite possible that a planet could revolve around two suns. to simplify the physics, you must simply take the center of gravity/mass of the two suns and that would be where the "combined sun" would exist taht the planet would revolve around. of course using an assumption like this would probably require that the planet isn't close to the suns, but a pretty good distance out (whatever that means). As far as the seasons go, It's not really a matter of distance from the sun (well, at least on earth), but probably the tilt of the axis of the planet as it revolves around the sun.
If I remember correctly, the person I referenced worked for the state gaming commission and his partner was a gaming regulator. Anyways, as a person in that position he had access to the algorithm that the systems used at that time. Of course, I am not saying that as a person outside of the online casino would have access to such information, but much like the rest of the business world, insider information is how some people make money. Other than a NDA and a conscience, there isn't much to stop the programmer from leaking code to a third party for $$$. The casino doesn't really lose since they take a rake of the pot anyways. The point is, unless the casino is using a lava lamp to generate their random numbers, there is a mathematical algorithm behind the random numbers used for the cards, and algorithms can be subject to prediction, although it may not actually be easily done with modern hardware.
Maybe not so much as card counting but maybe reverse engineering the random number generator algorithm. It's been a few years since Daniel Corriveau (look him up on google) got hold of the algorithm used to generate keno numbers at a casino and managed to predict the upcoming numbers based on the sequence of numbers already shown. Of course RNG's have come quite a ways since the rand() function of a few years ago, but a bot paying attention to the order of cards might actually be able to predict what cards will come out and have the ultimate advantage.
I think the big assumption everyone makes here is that intel will be providing x86 chips for the NEXT-gen Macintosh. It seems everyone is overlooking the possibility that Apple is recruiting Intel into the PowerPC field and is hoping that Intel will create a new faster ppc compatible chip. It could be that with Intel's large R&D to develop faster chips, that Intel could actually find better answers to the clock speed stumbling block in PPC.
He removed the screenshots from the screenshot page.... luckily google has a cache.e v.gentoo.org/~agaffney/gli/+&hl=en
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:JLQtqPZe9pYJ:d
started playing around with it and so far the emulation is extremely good! the installation runs similar to a 500MHz G4 on a 2.4GHz P4. The only problem so far is setting up the partition to be able to start up from.. looks like it is going to need an openfirmware hack or something...
Gentoo seems to have an Xlivecd posted on their torrent site near the bottom.
http://tracker.netdomination.org
He's right. You can get a "clone" from PegasosPPC. Given they only sell single processor G4's as far as i can tell for eMac prices, it's hardly a competitive option to a "real" Mac.
The entire GUI is not entirely copied, but the yoper control panel looks awfully reminiscent of another system preferences interface. No wonder yoper is so great!
hint: Pixar
If you are reading this message, then I you know that I am stuck in the Delta Quadrant and have successfully managed to communicate with you through a temporal wormhole. Please. Do not send Voyager on a mission to the Badlands.
Actually, It might outperform a beowulf cluster in some sense. With the Beowulf cluster, you have to set up nodes for processing and typically aren't user nodes. The scheduler will queue up tasks to the nodes as they are requested. However, Apple still has their XGrid technology lurking around Pixar I'm sure. With XGrid, all the machines act as a cluster where Mac's with free processes to spare can work on computations for other nodes. Also, the G5's altivec provides a definite performance boost since most of the work is render work which is probably easill parallelized/verctorized. Just from checking the Apple website (yeah, I'm sure it is biased) for the HPC LINPACK benchmarks, the XServe Dual 2GHz G5 is 9GFlops where as the DUAL 2GHz opteron is 5.91 GFlops. Just my $0.02
The two primary frequencies in the EU are 900 & 1800, so one out of two frequencies should be okay.
Could it be that Macs have a longer useful life than a PC? If we were to suppose that Apple was putting superior computers into the market place that only have to be replaced 1/3 - 1/4 less often as a PC, these numbers seem somewhat justifiable. just my $0.02
Taken from Apple's Airport Extreme info page:
I vaguely remember that the Airport Base stations are 802.11b/g and that when you use the wireless bridging, it uses the 802.11g "line" for bridging leaving you with 802.11b for your AP to PC/Mac connection. The AirPort Extreme Base Stations run about $200 each and they also have a RJ-45 to connect a "wired" computer in addition to the WAN port for your boradband. I'm sure that using this you could spend $800 and put one on each floor or $1200 and put one in each apartment and each person could connect their PC as well and you wouldn't have to buy an internal/external wireless card for the PCs since most have a built-in Ethernet port.
MyTunes is for Windows. iTunesDL was for Mac's when iTunes first came out. That's basically the fundamental diffeerence. I can't speak for MyTunes since I don't actually use a Wintel machine (No I won't go there!!) In terms of exploiting the exploit: I'm sure you can change some extensions of videos/movies, software, & whatever else floats you and you'll be on your way to a full fledged {almost} P2P. I'll leave that for someone with Windows to try and post back for the rest of us!
People just don't take the age old adage of "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" /. and go patch my 'puter.
Most people are just too busy to apply the patches. I admit that I got hit with Blaster, but only because I had other priorities.
Windows XP has automatic updates, if you don't like to use it, then MS provides a nice little link to the Windows update site on the Start Menu.
If you're a Debian flavored Linux fan, "sudo apt-get update" works easily and well and runs nicely in the background. If you want it to be automatic, stay with stable and put it in the cron.
Of course I saved the best for last. For the Mac lovers out there, System Preferences > Software Update is two clicks away, and for most people it is already automatically set for a weekly update.
That's just my $0.02. Now if I could only get away form
All other things put aside, both companies are out there to make money. The desicion to offer 128kbps vs. 192kbps vs. lossless comes down to the cost of bandwidth. Understandably, bandwidth is "relatively" cheap. But, let's assume the typical 128kbps song is 4MB. 6.5 million songs later roughly equals 26TB of data. If everyone wanted 192kbps, well, that's another 13TB of data transfer. Although that's only a few thousand dollars, that's probably a significant portion of what Apple takes from the $0.99. But, I think we get the picture. Start transmitting WAV files across the net and i think we'll all be complaining it takes too long to get the music we want. Not to mention their bandwidth had better be ungodly fast. The moral of the story? Economics.
It probably won't be long before Gentoo (aka Gentoo Games) releases a LiveCD version for those of us who want insane frame rates! *Drools*