I travel without my car being registered by the state, and I have no driver's license. I have never been given a ticket for driving without a license. I know many sovereigns who don't as well.
You might also want to look up "License" in Black's Law Dictionary and read the definition.
> We regulate driving because irresponsible use can lead to loss of life "Those that would give up liberty for security, deserve neither."
All people have the right to life, liberty, and property. A person with, or without a license CAN NOT deny those rights to others: They are responsible for their actions, irregardless if they have a license.
> Why couldn't Microsoft have made NT a multiuser/multitasking version of MS DOS ?
You're comparing Apples and Oranges. NT was a CLEAN 32-bit re-write of Windows. It doesn't have any stupid 16-bit thunking like Win9X.
I find BeOS to be in practise, what in theory NT should of been. (Although BeOS isn't multi-user:( and Win2K gives BeOS a good run for the money, but hey, Be is free now:)
Q1. How can I rename root? (I want to install a 'fake' root on my system. I do this with NT:) It won't stop the determined hacker, but its enough of a smoke screen.
Q2. Does root always have user id zero? What part of the source can I change to remove this hard-coded number? (Yes I'm aware that many things would break.)
For a great site on securing your Linux system check out the TrinityOS FAQ
> however they wanted the 32-bit processor for a next generation computer (before the first was out), so intel changed their 8088 and made the 8086 over the course of a weekend
The 8088 and 8086 are NOT a 32 bit cpu. Intel didn't even HAVE a 32-bit cpu until the 80286 which happened MUCH later.
> This is the same thing everyone said with Win95 and NT 4.0. At the time Windows 3.11 was the typical business OS, and everyone said they were going to wait for Win95 to mature for a year or so before they upgraded. Same thing with NT 4 on the server side.
Actually my University, was running 486 w/ Win3.1. They waited about a year after NT 4 was out before upgrading (They skipped 95 completely due to its lack of security, especially in a learning environment.)
>> you can have it done fast, you can have it done cheap, you can have it done right, pick two. > You can add a fourth option if you want, but it'd be hard to have it totally orthogonal to the other three.
How about:
X Axis: Design: Right to Wrong Y Axis: Price : Inexpensive to Expensive Z Axis: Time : Fast to Slow
> A 64-bit processor can map thousands of terabytes, (1.84e7)... although I do wonder what people will be able to fill that much RAM with.
A heightmap with every 1m of the Earth's ground level recorded.:)
Or for the home user, Games: bigger textures, better sound. Wait for true interactive movies to come back.
The question isn't the memory space, its the access speed. How fast is the CPU cache? The RAM chips? The hard drive? Each has a bigger capacity and is cheaper per meg, but the access speed also goes up.
> The list of specs on the Indrema page lists a standard video out (I think SVGA) as well as the TV outs.
Yes. Even DreamCast has this ability [VGA out.] The question is though "Are the people who buy a $200 console going to spend ANOTHER $400 for a vga monitor just to get good output?" I kind of doubt it.
Anyone who has done any porting can tell you designing fonts for a console is a pain. No tiny fonts as the text blurs together, so you're left with a big font. Are game developers going to start insisting console games need to be hooked up to a VGA (or better) monitor?
Until HDTV (or something similiar) takes off, web devices just don't make any sense.
All the manufactors that are pushing Web TV consoles/devices seem to keep forgetting the resolution of TV. Since TV gives you free temporal anti-aliasing (along with spatial anti-aliasing) which is GREAT for graphics, it however makes READING TEXT very tiring on the eyes compared to a "real" monitor.
People use monitors for a reason: Namely a clear rock steady image. Personally I find anything less then 100 Hz to be an eye strain, but what do I know, I'm just a graphics programmer:)
> No, when running a process on a Windows 2000 box such as Quake II that doesn't do SMP, Windows 2000 will put the non-SMP program on its own processor. "Load Balancing"
That is correct. To prove this is the case, you can set the affinity (which cpu a thread is bound to). Task Manager | Process | Right-click on process | Set affinity. (This setting doesn't show up on a single cpu.)
Another quick way to see this is the case is to start up Quake, and look at the cpu utilization. It will be around 50%, meaning the one cpu is taxed, while the other one isn't doing anything.
One means of burning in a new dual system is to run 2 copies of Prime95: one on each cpu. For fun, I left 2 copies of prime95 and one copy of unreal running overnight. The one prime95 hadn't reached as many calculations as the 2nd one.
Note: Windows NT runs the OS on both processors. It will not run a non-SMP aware process on both cpu's.
For anyone looking for a cheap dual system, this is what I did: $35 cel/366 o/c to 550 $140 Abit BP6 Hard to beat the price !
> I think we've had computers that "exceed the capacity of the human brain to process information" for at least 40 years now.
Not true.
You MUST be carefull when specify WHICH domain.
e.g. Watch 10 movies. Now I'll show you a 5 second clip of one of them. Now name the movie in 5 seconds. Show me a computer that can do that?
> How many numbers can you add in your head in one second? Show me a computer that can throw and catch an egg without breaking it. How many calculations did I just do?
> People need to get over the term AI and use the proper term Fake Intelligence.
If we had computers that were _even_ ignorant we'd be making progress, never mind talking about intelligence.
Hence I coined the term Artificial Ignorance.
Until Deep Blue can play baseball, (that means throwing and catching ), or recognize a movie after only seeing 2 seconds of it, THEN we'll finally have the hardware needed to start working on AI.
> and I've been kind of hoping/petitioning certain sites like Linux.com to to run an article on transitioning from 2.2 ->2.4::ipchains -> netfilter+iptables
If you want a good starting walk through, you could start here. It doesn't answer all your netfilter setup questions, but it at least its a great start on Linux security: http://www.ecst.csuchico.e du/~dranch/LINUX/TrinityOS.wri
> The one thing I don't understand is why a company would care how many units Loki sells.
I work at a game company and have asked management about doing a Linux port. Until they see sales figures, a Linux port is no go:-(
> I know they can't really talk about the details of their deals, but it seems to me like if Loki sells even one copy the original author wins.
You are forgotting the cost of labour (programmer's time to do the port.) If a port will only sell 10,000 units, it would end up costing the company MORE. Now a port, selling 50,000 units would make [financial] sense (pardon the pun, but left to stand:)
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a) That someone actually typed this up, or
b) That I can actually read this
> If I want to drive my car, I have to get a license first.
If it is your car, WHY do you need to ask permission from the government to use it on public roads??
You DON'T need a license to freely travel.
> The reason here isn't because it's not a right, but a privilege.
Incorrect. You might want to research "Right To Travel"
Here is one link to get you started.
http://teaminfinity.com/~ralph/dl.html
I travel without my car being registered by the state, and I have no driver's license. I have never been given a ticket for driving without a license. I know many sovereigns who don't as well.
You might also want to look up "License" in Black's Law Dictionary and read the definition.
And then look up proper vehicle ownership:
http://205.218.170.194/www.svpv ril.com/vehicle.html
> We regulate driving because irresponsible use can lead to loss of life
"Those that would give up liberty for security, deserve neither."
All people have the right to life, liberty, and property. A person with, or without a license CAN NOT deny those rights to others: They are responsible for their actions, irregardless if they have a license.
Cheers
Of course I know that his .sig. Doesn't mean I can't make a comment on it, right?!
:)
nice sig, btw
> Why couldn't Microsoft have made NT a multiuser/multitasking version of MS DOS ?
:( and Win2K gives BeOS a good run for the money, but hey, Be is free now :)
You're comparing Apples and Oranges.
NT was a CLEAN 32-bit re-write of Windows. It doesn't have any stupid 16-bit thunking like Win9X.
I find BeOS to be in practise, what in theory NT should of been. (Although BeOS isn't multi-user
BeOS is FAST. Even booting takes seconds !
Cheers
Q1. How can I rename root? (I want to install a 'fake' root on my system. I do this with NT :) It won't stop the determined hacker, but its enough of a smoke screen.
Q2. Does root always have user id zero? What part of the source can I change to remove this hard-coded number? (Yes I'm aware that many things would break.)
For a great site on securing your Linux system check out the TrinityOS FAQ
http://www.ecst.csuchic o.edu/~dranch/LINUX/index-linux.html
Cheers
> however they wanted the 32-bit processor for a next generation computer (before the first was out), so intel changed their 8088 and made the 8086 over the course of a weekend
The 8088 and 8086 are NOT a 32 bit cpu.
Intel didn't even HAVE a 32-bit cpu until the 80286 which happened MUCH later.
Interesting and funny.
Nice job.
But aren't they students paying for the use of the network ?
> This is the same thing everyone said with Win95 and NT 4.0. At the time Windows 3.11 was the typical business OS, and everyone said they were going to wait for Win95 to mature for a year or so before they upgraded. Same thing with NT 4 on the server side.
Actually my University, was running 486 w/ Win3.1. They waited about a year after NT 4 was out before upgrading (They skipped 95 completely due to its lack of security, especially in a learning environment.)
Cheers
> all new software sells the most in the first month.
False. Check out the sales for Age of Empires, and Theif. They picked up around the 9 month period.
> . 700MB of drive space--what the heck is all in there?
I just did a re-install yesterday. You need 686 Megs minimum. Allthough it did leave 132 megs free afterwards. This was on a 1023 FAT32 drive.
...Unless you want to throw up.
The link is disgusting.
>> you can have it done fast, you can have it done cheap, you can have it done right, pick two.
> You can add a fourth option if you want, but it'd be hard to have it totally orthogonal to the other three.
How about:
X Axis: Design: Right to Wrong
Y Axis: Price : Inexpensive to Expensive
Z Axis: Time : Fast to Slow
> A 64-bit processor can map thousands of terabytes, (1.84e7) ... although I do wonder what people will be able to fill that much RAM with.
:)
A heightmap with every 1m of the Earth's ground level recorded.
Or for the home user, Games: bigger textures, better sound. Wait for true interactive movies to come back.
The question isn't the memory space, its the access speed. How fast is the CPU cache? The RAM chips? The hard drive?
Each has a bigger capacity and is cheaper per meg, but the access speed also goes up.
Cheers
> The list of specs on the Indrema page lists a standard video out (I think SVGA) as well as the TV outs.
Yes. Even DreamCast has this ability [VGA out.] The question is though "Are the people who buy a $200 console going to spend ANOTHER $400 for a vga monitor just to get good output?" I kind of doubt it.
Anyone who has done any porting can tell you designing fonts for a console is a pain. No tiny fonts as the text blurs together, so you're left with a big font. Are game developers going to start insisting console games need to be hooked up to a VGA (or better) monitor?
Until HDTV (or something similiar) takes off, web devices just don't make any sense.
All the manufactors that are pushing Web TV consoles/devices seem to keep forgetting the resolution of TV. Since TV gives you free temporal anti-aliasing (along with spatial anti-aliasing) which is GREAT for graphics, it however makes READING TEXT very tiring on the eyes compared to a "real" monitor.
:)
People use monitors for a reason: Namely a clear rock steady image. Personally I find anything less then 100 Hz to be an eye strain, but what do I know, I'm just a graphics programmer
Cheers
> XML seems fine for programmatically generated data, such as from GUI config programs.
:)
I'm not sure why one couldn't have a text config editor that read/wrote XML files.
Good ol' text config files. Each with their own grammer.
Cheers
> No, when running a process on a Windows 2000 box such as Quake II that doesn't do SMP, Windows 2000 will put the non-SMP program on its own processor. "Load Balancing"
That is correct. To prove this is the case, you can set the affinity (which cpu a thread is bound to). Task Manager | Process | Right-click on process | Set affinity.
(This setting doesn't show up on a single cpu.)
Another quick way to see this is the case is to start up Quake, and look at the cpu utilization. It will be around 50%, meaning the one cpu is taxed, while the other one isn't doing anything.
One means of burning in a new dual system is to run 2 copies of Prime95: one on each cpu.
For fun, I left 2 copies of prime95 and one copy of unreal running overnight. The one prime95 hadn't reached as many calculations as the 2nd one.
Note: Windows NT runs the OS on both processors. It will not run a non-SMP aware process on both cpu's.
For anyone looking for a cheap dual system, this is what I did:
$35 cel/366 o/c to 550
$140 Abit BP6
Hard to beat the price !
Cheers
I would show the benefits of GPL software. Or in other words, the disadvantages of closed-source software.
Namely, I would start with:
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/philoso phy.html
And then print out this article for your teacher as proof of the GPL, since {s/}he didn't believe you.
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.ht ml
http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Come on people, lets build up a collection of papers we can use to show the un-educated _WHY_ GPL software is better.
Cheers
You must of missed a few classes.
You can not prove existance claims (aside from yourself.)
Cheers
> I think we've had computers that
"exceed the capacity of the human brain to
process information" for at least 40 years
now.
Not true.
You MUST be carefull when specify WHICH domain.
e.g.
Watch 10 movies. Now I'll show you a 5 second clip of one of them. Now name the movie in 5 seconds. Show me a computer that can do that?
> How many numbers can you add in your
head in one second?
Show me a computer that can throw and catch an egg without breaking it. How many calculations did I just do?
I think you see my point.
Cheers
> People need to get over the term AI and use the proper term Fake Intelligence.
If we had computers that were _even_ ignorant we'd be making progress, never mind talking about intelligence.
Hence I coined the term Artificial Ignorance.
Until Deep Blue can play baseball, (that means throwing and catching ), or recognize a movie after only seeing 2 seconds of it, THEN we'll finally have the hardware needed to start working on AI.
Cheers
> and I've been kind of hoping/petitioning certain sites like Linux.com to to run an article on transitioning from 2.2 ->2.4::ipchains -> netfilter+iptables
If you want a good starting walk through, you could start here. It doesn't answer all your netfilter setup questions, but it at least its a great start on Linux security:
http://www.ecst.csuchico.e du/~dranch/LINUX/TrinityOS.wri
You can find David Ranch's homepag here:
http://www.ecst.csuchic o.edu/~dranch/LINUX/index-linux.html
Cheers
> The one thing I don't understand is why a company would care how many units Loki sells.
:-(
:)
I work at a game company and have asked management about doing a Linux port. Until they see sales figures, a Linux port is no go
> I know they can't really talk about the details of their deals, but it seems to me like if Loki sells even one copy the original author wins.
You are forgotting the cost of labour (programmer's time to do the port.)
If a port will only sell 10,000 units, it would end up costing the company MORE. Now a port, selling 50,000 units would make [financial] sense (pardon the pun, but left to stand
Cheers
> Requires Win9X or 2000. Does not support Windows NT
Yu do know that Win2000 _IS_ NT 5.0 w/ DX 7.0.
NT 4.0 supports DirectPlay 6.1a (via ServicePack5), but the rest of DX is 3.0 on NT 4.