Absolutely. I went to the local CC a few days after the article first hit/. "Sorry, we'll have more in stock next week" Went there the next week, got a dirty look from the salesdrone who immediately told me it would 7-14 days, and only available special order. Looks like i missed the boat here....
Yes, but if we really wanted to, we could examine these scientists claims in every detail. However, it is not possible to verify most of the claims in the bible (in fact, it is easier to contradict most of the bible, often using other parts of the bible). Same thing goes for open-source software - sure, we all *believe* linux is more secure than Windows, but how many people have the expertise and time to examine every bit of the code for bugs or trojan horses? The point is, if you wanted to you could, whereas with Windows, you have to put you trust in Bill.
This is pretty funny... I just finished reading a "report" from Key Labs comparing various Fibre Channel switches. They grade each switch (A, B, C, etc) overall and on specific tests. One particular swich, from Brocade, scored straight As - on every test. The other switches barely passed (according to Key Labs). Shortly after I read this eye-opening report, I found an article that shed some light on the situation (although I can't find the link now...). Low and behold, Brocade funded the Key Labs report.
Free suggestion to Microsoft - get these guys to run your next Linux vs. Win2k FUD benchmarks. Be sure to write them a big check.
After seeing the flame contest, there is no way these guys can be serious. My guess is that come April 1st, we're gonna see LinuxOne's IPO, along with an announcement that they've "reinvented" themselves (providing geek novelty items ala thinkgeek or copyleft, perhaps). I for one would pay for one of those "I Flamed LinuxOne" T-shirts:) LinuxOne is just going to become the OSS/linux community's big inside joke. This whole thing is a great way for them to (1) generate publicity, (2) agitate thousands of nerds, and (3) point out some of the craziness behind the recent "dot-com mania" (or whatever the media is calling it this week).
It turns out (according to the network control panel applet) that AOL installed their own "AOL Dial up adapter" network driver and that TCP/IP was bound to this driver.
ummm... this is exactly what *any* dialup or LAN connection does in win9x
I've been looking into the same sort of thing... so far I have found Abit's BP6 (rev 2) to be pretty cool... dual celeron ppga, etc. Supposedly, you can overclock celeron 366 ppga to 550 or so with no trouble. This place will sell you the board & chips for $320. Anybody tried this out?
The General Public is not going to appreciate the relentless efforts of geeks around the world... everybody expected a major disaster (including myself), but with none forthcoming (at least, not yet), they're gonna say "What was the big fuss about?"
I'm no expert, but if I recall the Pentium III (even coppermine) is still based on the Pentium (Pro?) core, whereas the Athlon is a complete redesign. Intel is hardly one to talk smack about out-dated, end-of-life hardware.
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I tried to find anything about the plant on that site... it appears to be an artsy-type site, not a bunch of geeks connecting local fauna and flora to hardware. Besides that, anybody else notice that the computer (1) does not appear to have any cables besides power going to it (i.e. no net connection) and (2) seems to be a circa-1985 IBM PS/x?
Kinda reminds me of the Google search for 'More evil than satan himself'... anyway, how many times have you seen some clueless newbie go to Yahoo and type 'www.porn.com' or something in the search field? I guess lycos' move only makes sense... search engines trying to second guess the user is nothing new, this is just a vivid example.
Take a look on just about any "warez" site or check out some of the movie rooms on IRC, there have been movie rippers (DVD rippers) around for quite a while. Matter of fact the Matrix DVD rip was being circulated at least a month before it hit the store. With a cable modem or other fast connection it only takes a day or so to donwload.
This reminds me of a diabolic Exchange macro virus I was thinking of, something along the lines of Melissa but it also sends emails to random usernames at some target domain (eg. blahblah@microsoft.com). The effect on a single infected site would be moderate, but the target site would get hammered by practically the entire Net (at least the part of te Net running Exchange servers).
Of course, I would never recommend that anyone actualy write such a virus, its probably illegal and would do lots of damage, but it sure is fun to thing about how easy it would be.
Is it just me or does the prize seem a bit redundant? If you already have the ability to find all the design patterns in source code, do you really need a copy of a book on design patterns? This is almost like setting up a "crack-me" server and giving away copies of "Network Security for Dummies" to the people who manage to hack it...
It doesn't sound any more incoherent than a million other OSs out there, but at least this one is being designed from the ground up to provide advanced features.
We'd better adopt IPv6 before "its too late". The rate of growth on the net can't last forever, but at the current rate we are bound to run into problems soon. Anyone have a link to exactly what IPv6 improves over IPv4 (as I recall, 128-bit addressing is but one small part of the improvements).
Very high frequency - light (not visible I'm sure). Just think of it as fiber optics without the fiber, I suppose the same error-correction techniques would apply. Besides, with 10GB/s you have lots of room for redundancy.
The article doesn't say how the bandwidth will fair during bad weather, ie rain storms or blizzards. Methinks this will go the way of personal satellite uplinks - very specialized applications where reliability is less important than cost, speed, etc. 10GB/s is nice, but if it has 10% downtime whats the point?
Good call on the vegetarian thing --- if history were made of vegos, cows, pigs, etc would probably be extinct.
As for taxation... it is necessary to keep our roads pot-hole free, our schools educational, and our military defensive. But what else? Currently, something like 3% of my paycheck goes to crack-whore mothers or other undesirables. Although taxation-without-representation is nearly impossible in our day and age (despite the internet), should I not have a say in where my tax dollars go? If this were the way, I doubt Janet would be endorsing anti-crypto.
Despite physical appearance, Reno is very clever... she is playing on the average American's fear of the Internet and the threat it brings (or so she implies).
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Absolutely. I went to the local CC a few days after the article first hit /. "Sorry, we'll have more in stock next week" Went there the next week, got a dirty look from the salesdrone who immediately told me it would 7-14 days, and only available special order. Looks like i missed the boat here....
Yes, but if we really wanted to, we could examine these scientists claims in every detail. However, it is not possible to verify most of the claims in the bible (in fact, it is easier to contradict most of the bible, often using other parts of the bible). Same thing goes for open-source software - sure, we all *believe* linux is more secure than Windows, but how many people have the expertise and time to examine every bit of the code for bugs or trojan horses? The point is, if you wanted to you could, whereas with Windows, you have to put you trust in Bill.
This is pretty funny... I just finished reading a "report" from Key Labs comparing various Fibre Channel switches. They grade each switch (A, B, C, etc) overall and on specific tests. One particular swich, from Brocade, scored straight As - on every test. The other switches barely passed (according to Key Labs). Shortly after I read this eye-opening report, I found an article that shed some light on the situation (although I can't find the link now...). Low and behold, Brocade funded the Key Labs report.
Free suggestion to Microsoft - get these guys to run your next Linux vs. Win2k FUD benchmarks. Be sure to write them a big check.
After seeing the flame contest, there is no way these guys can be serious. My guess is that come April 1st, we're gonna see LinuxOne's IPO, along with an announcement that they've "reinvented" themselves (providing geek novelty items ala thinkgeek or copyleft, perhaps). I for one would pay for one of those "I Flamed LinuxOne" T-shirts :) LinuxOne is just going to become the OSS/linux community's big inside joke. This whole thing is a great way for them to (1) generate publicity, (2) agitate thousands of nerds, and (3) point out some of the craziness behind the recent "dot-com mania" (or whatever the media is calling it this week).
God, I hope I'm right....
It turns out (according to the network control panel applet) that AOL installed their own "AOL Dial up adapter" network driver and that TCP/IP was bound to this driver.
ummm... this is exactly what *any* dialup or LAN connection does in win9x
sorry about the tpyo, the link is this.
I've been looking into the same sort of thing... so far I have found Abit's BP6 (rev 2) to be pretty cool... dual celeron ppga, etc. Supposedly, you can overclock celeron 366 ppga to 550 or so with no trouble. This place will sell you the board & chips for $320. Anybody tried this out?
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I'd love to have Linux beer!
The General Public is not going to appreciate the relentless efforts of geeks around the world... everybody expected a major disaster (including myself), but with none forthcoming (at least, not yet), they're gonna say "What was the big fuss about?"
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I'm no expert, but if I recall the Pentium III (even coppermine) is still based on the Pentium (Pro?) core, whereas the Athlon is a complete redesign. Intel is hardly one to talk smack about out-dated, end-of-life hardware.
I tried to find anything about the plant on that site... it appears to be an artsy-type site, not a bunch of geeks connecting local fauna and flora to hardware. Besides that, anybody else notice that the computer (1) does not appear to have any cables besides power going to it (i.e. no net connection) and (2) seems to be a circa-1985 IBM PS/x?
Am i just an idiot or is this a joke?
Lycos is a cheap rip-off of Google?? That's like saying Macintosh is a cheap rip off of Windows.
Kinda reminds me of the Google search for 'More evil than satan himself'... anyway, how many times have you seen some clueless newbie go to Yahoo and type 'www.porn.com' or something in the search field? I guess lycos' move only makes sense... search engines trying to second guess the user is nothing new, this is just a vivid example.
Take a look on just about any "warez" site or check out some of the movie rooms on IRC, there have been movie rippers (DVD rippers) around for quite a while. Matter of fact the Matrix DVD rip was being circulated at least a month before it hit the store. With a cable modem or other fast connection it only takes a day or so to donwload.
This reminds me of a diabolic Exchange macro virus I was thinking of, something along the lines of Melissa but it also sends emails to random usernames at some target domain (eg. blahblah@microsoft.com). The effect on a single infected site would be moderate, but the target site would get hammered by practically the entire Net (at least the part of te Net running Exchange servers).
Of course, I would never recommend that anyone actualy write such a virus, its probably illegal and would do lots of damage, but it sure is fun to thing about how easy it would be.
Is it just me or does the prize seem a bit redundant? If you already have the ability to find all the design patterns in source code, do you really need a copy of a book on design patterns? This is almost like setting up a "crack-me" server and giving away copies of "Network Security for Dummies" to the people who manage to hack it...
It doesn't sound any more incoherent than a million other OSs out there, but at least this one is being designed from the ground up to provide advanced features.
We'd better adopt IPv6 before "its too late". The rate of growth on the net can't last forever, but at the current rate we are bound to run into problems soon. Anyone have a link to exactly what IPv6 improves over IPv4 (as I recall, 128-bit addressing is but one small part of the improvements).
Very high frequency - light (not visible I'm sure). Just think of it as fiber optics without the fiber, I suppose the same error-correction techniques would apply. Besides, with 10GB/s you have lots of room for redundancy.
The article doesn't say how the bandwidth will fair during bad weather, ie rain storms or blizzards. Methinks this will go the way of personal satellite uplinks - very specialized applications where reliability is less important than cost, speed, etc. 10GB/s is nice, but if it has 10% downtime whats the point?
Good call on the vegetarian thing --- if history were made of vegos, cows, pigs, etc would probably be extinct.
As for taxation... it is necessary to keep our roads pot-hole free, our schools educational, and our military defensive. But what else? Currently, something like 3% of my paycheck goes to crack-whore mothers or other undesirables. Although taxation-without-representation is nearly impossible in our day and age (despite the internet), should I not have a say in where my tax dollars go? If this were the way, I doubt Janet would be endorsing anti-crypto.
You are thinking of Reagan.....
Despite physical appearance, Reno is very clever... she is playing on the average American's fear of the Internet and the threat it brings (or so she implies).
... now that Al Gore, inventor of the Internet and Mind-slave to the Clintons, is running for prez