Slashdot Mirror


User: iainh

iainh's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
67
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 67

  1. Re:Location on Fighting UCITA · · Score: 1

    you need to find a copy of degps.c
    this will break the encryption on your P III's GPS Unit.
    Then you will be able to run any software regardless of Location codes.

  2. Re:Insightful? (and also OT) on 3dfx Voodoo5 vs NVIDIA GeForce Preview · · Score: 1

    I've had two Acer Monitors blow up on me.
    One was repaired under waranty three times
    before dying out of waranty
    The other lasted one month longer than the waranty

    I've never had a problem with any other brand of monitor

  3. Microsoft stable on Microsoft Pits Pocket PC Against Palm · · Score: 1

    The Microsoft Stable: Breeders of the three legged horse Tripod

  4. Down with online reading! on Library Of Congress Will Not Digitize Books · · Score: 1

    There is something 'mindless,' 'isolating,' 'lonely' and 'arrogant' about reading online

    We need a paper version of /.

    Perhaps with mailings every half hour.

  5. My experience on WordPerfect Office 2000 For Linux Reviews · · Score: 1

    The installer did not run under Debian.
    However, dselect had no problem installing the .deb files from the cd.

    I'd give you a review of the package,
    but I've been too busy playing Railroad Tycoon II.

  6. Re:What's Haggis Ladd? on Feeding Through Nutrient Patches · · Score: 1

    It's a tasty animal
    There are two varieties
    Clockwise and counter clockwise
    The Clockwise variety has shorter legs on its right side
    This helps it run around the Highland hills in a clockwise direction faster.
    The hunting season for the clockwise strain lasts from Feb 31 to Apr 31.
    The hunting season for the counterclockwise strain lasts from Jun 31 to Sept 31.
    The most common hunting method is to put on one stilt
    and run around the hill in the opposite direction carrying a large sack
    It is often helpful to have a bagpipe player with a stilt on the other leg running in the oposite oposite direction

  7. Definintion Required: on Celeron 2 Overclocking · · Score: 3

    If I take my four didgit serial numbered Commodore64 (S00006822) and
    mount it ontop of a circa 1870 grandfather clock.
    Then would I have the world's oldest overclocked machine.

    OR would I have to dip the C64 in liquid hydrogen first?

  8. Re:I don't want a breakup on Microsoft Settlement Talks End In Failure · · Score: 1

    Could they just move the BSOD department to a separate company.
    And keep the rest intact.

  9. Re:another car driven by Linux on German Robot Klaus Passes Driving Test · · Score: 1

    I can just picture the upcomming Windows port

    BSOD will have new meaning

  10. This story has been censored on Protesting DMCA · · Score: 2

    It was on the Slashdot front page then it was gone

    The MPAA must have put the presure on.

  11. One Problem on Practical Gravity Shielding for Spacecraft? · · Score: 1

    This technology will not be useful for Mars missions
    As one approaches Mars the mass of a proton doubles
    and the charge of an electron halves (this could cause a premature engine shutdown.)
    Also units of measurement change within the Mars gravitational well
    (This could cause navigation problems)

  12. translation (by translator.go.com) on C'T visits Transmeta · · Score: 1

    Crusoes island

    On one Friday with Transmeta

    Reports on a journey in c't are rather rare. In the latter, which I can remember, a certain Rob. S. Pierre described a press journey from Apple to Ireland [1] - and whirled up much dust thereby. It struck me following a Intel Pressereise (to the IDF) after Santa Clara, not to Intels Headquarters, but to Transmeta.

    Hardly a stone throw away of Intels headquarters the start UP company Transmeta in a beautiful park logiert distributed on three in to two-story houses. From the lying close road with the defining name ' Freedom Circle ' one looks directly on the relatively ugly large concrete/glass blocks of the ' large brother '.

    Instead of in open-plan offices with many ' Cubicles ' those sit altogether more than 200 Transmeta coworkers mostly in small offices, although there are also some larger laboratories. There I am a first European journalist in its holy halls, insured one me, and above all all all this, who was allowed to spy a whole day in the offices and laboratories.

    In Linus Torvalds ' office I felt directly as at home. Torvalds - style genuine in the SuSE t Shirt - acknowledged that he had begun with Transmeta, because he finally times which other one to make wanted than in each case Linux, Linux. It did not express it, it suggested however nevertheless that it Linux had out-hung in the meantime quite to the neck. And there the function was to participate as a chief architect in the code Morphing software (CMS) a welcome alternation and a large challenge.

    But the spirit, which one called... to time sits Torvalds nevertheless again mainly at Linux, to ' mobile Linux ', which is meant as accessories to the Crusoe processor for small harddiskless systems (in 32 MByte the Flash).

    Mobile Linux runs by the way as x86-Software and is dynamically gemorpht. With a native Linux version one - in such a way I experienced besides - had experimented also, but proved as fewer effective than the emulated x86-Version. Transmeta does not also even want to publish the complex native instruction set of the Crusoe processors, because the company can keep itself so any modifications open. There are already differences between the CMS versions of the two Crusoe processors to TM3120 and TM5400.

    Inspections

    Of the effect of the current savings technique LongRun also for the virtual Northbridge the responsible person development conductor Marc meat man, by the way a German, could convince me in the Transmeta lab. Between 266 and 600 mc/s in five steps (the minimum gradation is 33 mc/s) and between 1,1 and 1,6 V of regulating TM5400-Crusoe also times 6 W used, remained on average at usual software however with approximately 1 W and became - without radiator boxes - even times lukewarm within the point area. LongRun needs Idle statuses for its rule work. Without APM under DOS LongRun does not operate and the 600-MHz-TM5400 swallows then, approximately at the Doom play, constantly 5 W, which heated the processor in addition, only on 43 C. Into these values consumed is the compatible Northbridge with included, partial to Intels BX, which is integrated already with the Crusoe in the processor or is virtualisiert of the CMS. To the comparison: the original BX Northbridge alone used up well 2 W - and knows neither PC133 nor a second DRAM INTERFACE for DDR-266 like the TM5400.

    Since CMS is also gentleman over the Northbridge, it can drive not only the processor, but also the memory if necessary more slowly, which supplies additional Einsparpotenzial. Smaller, discovered bug in the Northbridge software just was quite useful, in order to demonstrate directly times the advantages of a processor implemented to a large extent in software: Before my eyes software Engineer Peter Anvin reloaded during operation a corrected CMS version, wars.

    For the Crusoe BIOS Robert Collins is responsible, who came unexpectedly together with many other coworkers from before four years the adjusted, secret Pentium project of Texas Instruments to Transmeta and with its well-known Website www.x86.org and Intthe el Secrets had created itself already times with Chipzilla. Collins described me that Crusoe loads those with boats first into few 100 milliseconds about 2 MByte (decompressed) large CMS, which translation Buffer (8 to 14 MByte) creates and then, as each tidy x86, with which execution of the code at the address F000:fff0 begins. The BIOS is coded complete in x86-Code and transfers system information like the SDRAM parameters picked out from the SPD EEPROM over a common storage area to the CMS software. For chip-record and Transmeta the Phoenix BIOS has processor-independent section licensed.

    Instructions

    Likewise via TI to Transmeta the ' x86-Validator ' Christian Ludloff came, on which TI had at that time become attentive by its c't article overPentium secrets[ 2, 3 ]. Ludloff typed itself with millions of assembler lines in the wahrsten sense of the word the fingers wund, in order to program ugly, malicious, hinterfotzigen code, only in such a way over-accumulated the poor processors up with Stolperfallen. Thus he discovered zuhauf bug and anomalies not only with earlier Crusoe/CMS versions, but naturally also with the competitors. So some entry for instance in Intels Specification update would have to actually carry the thank saying ' thanks for to of CL '. Ludloff plans to make in the summer a part of its assembler often commodity, for example all processor structures, exceptions and so on Website very popular on its with Insidern accessible www.sandpile.org the public - that becomes bitebite bites!

    I with the occasionally expressed assumption, he confronted Transmeta boss Dave Ditzel had designt himself during his time as a Sun coworker in Moscow ' enriched ' at the ideas of Boris Babaian, the E2K names with the Russian Sun Distributor Elbrus already for a long time a processor. Babaian was even one week before with it, answered Ditzel. One conversed nicely. The Designs of the E2K (High end VLIW without dynamic optimization, very high floating decimal point performance) and Crusoe are nevertheless very different. A certain inspiration already gave it, but to no more than from HP -, Sun or other Designs.

    Inspirations

    Ditzel contradicted also publications, according to which in April products with Crusoe processors are to come out. At the earliest end of the second quarter, thus probably in June, should be so far it for the small Crusoe TM3120. The more efficient brother TM5400 with the ingenious LongRun Stromspartechnik is in the third quarter to expect. It will be the first processor on the market, which is manufactured in IBMs new CMOS8S-Kupfer-Verfahren.

    When possible oem comes beside S3/Diamond and FIC also Quanta computer in question, one the largest Notebook manufacturer, that manufactures for many different in the job, which draufdrucken then their Dell, HP or other Logo. Sybase had as large software house already admits given that its SQL Anywhere studio (mobile data bases and data synchronisation) was to be extended particularly for Crusoe systems. And the Augsburger company Infomatec AG announced that they were received together with the Crosstainment AG and Transmeta a partnership, in order to develop on base of its Java network Technology (JNT) together reference models of Internet-capable terminals with Crusoe processors.

    With absolute performance specification Transmeta is further reserved, the values do not look so badly. A 700-MHz-TM5400 comes for instance on Pentium-III-500-Niveau. But even with the so important Ziff-Davis bench mark Winstone lies under it it a piece, which results according to Transmeta from the fact that these bench marks only once ' touches many routines ', so that the dynamic optimization cannot access. The ZD lab saw and wants the lack however in the discussion with Ditzel in the next version for a realistic frequency distribution to provide.

    And finally there was the most frequently placed question there whether now Transmeta goes still in this year to the stock exchange? Ditzel answered much saying: ' it would not surprise me... ' (as)

    Literature

    [1] Rob S. Pierre, Pferde, Apple and the Irish Macs, c't 10/87, P. 82

    [2] Christian Ludloff, wondrous transformation, 2/95, P. 242 c't

    [3] Christian Ludloff, between the lines, c't 11/94, P. 266

  13. Re:Let's think realistically here... on Microsoft Trying To Look Open Source With CE · · Score: 1

    They could make the source free as in Speach without making it free as in beer. They could even charge extra for a source license.Their source license would simply require that you could only share code with those that had a valid source license.

    I would be willing to pay an extra $100-$200 for a Windows license that came with source.

    Then I could remove the stuff that I didn't need.

  14. Unfortunately on AOL Snuffs Napster-Workalike Gnutella · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the source was never released so this is probably the last version. Also it is not possible to force them to release the source under the GPL since they are the original authors and have every right to withdraw the license.

  15. Re:New Tenses on Wormhole Generator (Kinda) Patented · · Score: 1

    This program correction has be completed and tested before the crash in the electronic funds transfer that will happen four hours and 38 minutes from now.

    Please install this upgrade.

    For payment withdraw funds from the attached bank account # and purchase 10000 Shares of Wireless Wonder stock.

    Deposit the certificates in the cornerstone of that new building being constructed at Queen and Royal York.
    I'll collect them when I have that crumbling relic demolished tomorrow.

  16. IT'S OBVIOUS on Mars Channels Discovered; Possible Aquatic Origin · · Score: 1

    That the channels gouged into the desert in the northern hemisphere were caused by
    NASA spacecraft attempting to land on the southern ice cap.

  17. Re:Pardon me????? on Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links · · Score: 1

    And then they butchered it to create VFP. Providing no way to upgrade a large foundation read based system without a rewrite of the entire user interface.

  18. or on Tux Works for Microsoft?! · · Score: 1

    Win63K++

  19. How about a new name on Tux Works for Microsoft?! · · Score: 2

    Win63K

  20. Windows 2000 SP3 on Red Hat 6.2 Beta on FTP Servers · · Score: 0

    is now available for download from Red Hat's FTP server

  21. Re:Any suspects? on Forum: The Yahoo Denial of Service · · Score: 1

    Actually a link to Yahoo was posted on Slashdot.
    Within a few minutes....

  22. Re:LinuxOne at Linux Expo in NYC on LinuxOne's "LinuxMac 0.9" Investigated · · Score: 1

    Moderate up:

    That link is one of the funniest things I've read recently

    I especially like:

    04:26 - LinuxOne: "RPM is uh, the program language that you program uh, within Linux."

  23. Re:Holographic PDA Project. on Future Linux PDA by Samsung · · Score: 1

    Said Assistant will actually be a small rock statue ductaped to the case.
    Guess which one will be most popular with this site's viewers.

    By the way to save people time the above links are /.ing a Spice Girls site.

  24. Required Post on Future Linux PDA by Samsung · · Score: 0

    I wonder how a Beowulf cluster would compare to the apples in the previous article.
    It would definitely win for shelf space

  25. Re:CCA, idiot on William Gibson Interview @ AICN · · Score: 1

    I know that.
    Typing quickly after a few Guinesses has it's drawbacks

    ./asprin