Actually, there are two POKEs... one doubles the access rate to ROM and the other doubles the access rate to RAM. Doubling the RAM rate disabled the video controller's access which also meant disabling the DRAM refresh cycle -- if the cpu stopped accessing memory for more than 4 microseconds, interesting things would happen.
The COCO3 was designed differently and always ran at the full 1.7Mhz clock rate.
Trivia factoid: the 68B09E uses a quadrature clock so it's speed is comprable to that of a 4MHz 8086.
I had an email from Kevin Darling (Date: Wed, 12 Dec 90 07:11:03 GMT) claiming to have heard of a 15MHz version. I cannot find the electronic version; I've only got a printout of it. (After 10 years, the archive is hard to search.)
hmm, if one can "decode" a:Cue by sight, thus rendering a brain as a device for circumventing technological... blah blah, does that make procreating a violation of the DMCA?
Well, there are certain anti-trust laws that would prevent a patent holder from out-right refusing to license their technology -- barriers to free trade, anti-competitive business practices, "collution" with licensees, unlawful weilding of monopoly power... HOWEVER, that doesn't mean they cannot find other ways to prevent licensing to any distinct party.
Please remember, patents are monopolies. They are supposed to be a form of protection for the inventor so just anyone cannot take your work and sell it as their own. RAMBUS seems to have found the perfect method for screwing inventors (JEDEC) and getting away with it. Once granted, it's very hard to overturn a patent. The other JEDEC members can certainly sue for contract violation(s), but that will not make the patent go away. Unless the other JEDEC members can prove RAMBUS patented technology they did not develop, the patent will stand.
JEDEC is at fault here for not patenting their technology and thus preventing any individual member from applying for a patent. Of course, then we end up with a DVD CCA clone...
Why do lawyers have to be such evil p***ies? One would assume they know the law and would abide by it, but I've never seen one that didn't dance around the law or simple ignore it "for the moment". Mr. Harris is a good example of this behavior. I'm sure he knows the law, however, he continues to threaten and harass iSONEWS. Sega has it in their craw to close down iSONEWS's Dreamcast section; who cares about the law, they have lots of money.
As with every case of "copyright infringement", every company's lawyers spew their harassing, veiled threats without offering one *damnned* example of *actual* infringement. iSONEWS is only guilty of indirect infringement if they take no action once they *know* direct infringement is occuring. Mr. Harris/Sega hasn't pointed out anyting. In fact, they've got their work ahead of them if they want to prove the "past" part of "past and current" violations. (If iSONEWS removed them, then they have complied with the law - PERIOD.)
"We know you're breaking the law, so play nice and tell us which ones."
Gun manufactures certainly aren't as they have no direct knowledge of the receiver. Gun stores, however, can and ARE accountable for selling weapons to people who use them for illegal acts. The sticking point is "prior knowledge" of the crime to be committed -- if you sell me a gun knowing I'm going to walk out the door and kill the first person I see...
I was just making a "big iron" comparison. A "crappy" K6 can best even the fastest Alpha at RC5... The alpha processor (most RISC chips in general) don't have bitwise rotate instructions. So what takes 2 cycles on a 486 takes a lot of cycles on an alpha. I like the alpha; it does alot of things really well -- RC5 isn't one of them.
Nothing is designed to do everything perfectly -- well, Transmeta is trying, but them may be falling short on the "perfectly" part. (They may be able to emulate any processor, but how efficiently they do it has yet to be proven.)
Alpha processors do very badly with RC5. Even with all 32 processors tasked with d.net, it wouldn't amount to much -- about 1.5Mk/s per processor which is on par with a Xeon 500.
I don't understand why this is an issue. A block device is a block device. What's so different in the handling of RAID that makes it work unlike a direct-to-disk block device?
Not the geography load of horse shit again. Where I'm standing on the surface of the planet has almost nothing to do with my IP proximity to anything. Case in point, I can go stand in the server room in Atlanta right in front of the rack housing irc.mindspring.com and dial into BellSouth.Net. Does the fact that I'm physically three feet from the IRC server have one bloody thing to do with my network proximity to that IRC server? NO!
Anyone can buy just about any domain name they want. Does this mean *.to is actually in Tonga? Are all the *.cc names somewhere in the Cacos Islands? Hell, I can have the DNS for a machine in my bathroom here in Raleigh, NC, USA say it's somewhere in *.ca.
I bet you wouldn't guess, sitting here in my livingroom, I'm four hops from the Microsoft Campus in Washington state. Or that I used to be three hops from London, England, UK. (Interpath@MAE-East/Xara@MAE-East/Xara@CWIX)
Hop count and transit time are what matter. Even BIND has known this for years.
Well, if @Home ran an IRC server strictly for their users ONLY. And took the extra time (minimal) to filter everything outside thier network, then they shouldn't have any kinds of DoS problems.
They would know exactly where the traffic is coming from and know exactly where to go and which heads to bash with a baseball bat. Exact fines, bill them for your engineers' time, and perminantly disconnect them - period. Cut off their cable TV too. And then accidently back over the mailbox as you leave. (Ah, that brings back memories of my days as an ISP BOFH. That was a very therapudic afternoon -- even helpdesk was exstatic. Heck, I should submit that one for the archive.)
But getting 36 servers to upgrade at once is well, impossible.
Whacha point? So EFNet would be screwed for a few days. Who would notice?
(The answer, as someone already mentioned, is a protocol bridge to keep the IRC2 servers linked as they are replaced with IRC3 servers. Think of it a little like IPv6 through IPv4 and vice versa.)
Yes, it does. Maybe IRC3 can address this. The current EFnet topology is a very stubby tree which makes it very weak -- ever seen a peach tree full of peaches? EFNet is beginning to break under it's own weight. The protocol is a single attached configuration with ZERO support for dual attachment -- it'd be like pluging three switches (that aren't running spanning-tree) in a loop.
As for your statement about the internet... a lot of the internet still is a spanning tree; just not a minimum spanning tree. Most of the "big boys" have at minimum a two connected network -- every node has at least two links. As AT&T and MCI have both proven, even n-connected networks fail.
Some of those users have managed (through various subtle methods) to [social engineer] O: lines on our servers... every three months
Excuse me! If an EFnet server can be social engineered for global ops, then you don't deserve to be linked. In fact, the person responsible for the O: line should have their fingers removed at the neck. The fact that it can happen more than once is alarming.
Like identd can be trusted to tell the truth currently?!
Personally, I don't see the point in servers mandating identd. Screwed up inverse DNS from a mandated identd irc server just makes me want to dismember some people. "Have your admin install identd..." @%%#%* Go find your own f***in' (DNS) admin(s)!
Well, their "official" server page hasn't been updated in recorded history. Watch the numbers... the only thing that ever changes is the time stamp at the bottom. I swear it's been like that for years, but it's probablly more like _one_ year. I know it hasn't changed in the last month. (You'll notice home.com in there and the currently down irc.ef.net)
The mrtg graphs stopped collecting data sometime in early August.
hopefully they will try to get the crackers/script kiddies in trouble for doing this.
And just what "trouble" do you expect to them into? Jonny's parents take away his computer for a week? What they are doing is illegal. It's just difficult to track down and almost impossible to prosecute -- you cannot "throw the book" at a 13yo punk. Until some FBI agents bust down the door to some central Kansas house, charge into some teen's room, and shoot him (or her) in the head at close range with a shotgun, this sort of childish bullshit will never stop.
Most animals act according to an anticipation of a reward or in fear of some punishment. As a child, I learned quickly what my boundries were -- e.g. exactly what I could do without being beaten. Most parents raise their children in a violence free environment that complete negates half of our behavioral instincts -- hell, parents would be arested for abuse now-a-days if they hit their kids. ("Spare the rod; spoil the child" is true.) Setting the kid in the corner for an hour isn't punishment; it just gives them time to think up more bad things to do. When there is no fear of punishment, rewards have no meaning and children never learn to participate in a civilized society.
Now that I think about it, society has just gone to hell. Did I miss the Rapture or something? A memo would have been nice...
In a way, yes, you are doing them a favor. But do you trust just any schmuck on the street to do you a favor? For the other admins to allow a new server to link, they have to know you well enough to trust you. They are in effect giving you a key to their house; they need to know you will not mooch their beer, sleep with their wife, and molest their children.
Most admins look at linking in the same vein as giving someone the root password to their server room.
First off, a T1 is hardly enough to handle a connection. The protocol is inefficient for "leaf nodes" like this as 100% of the server traffic ends up being funneled to it. There's no point in sending 20,000 channels' traffic when the users are setting in a few dozen of those channels. Maybe this will be fixed someday.
Second, a T1 is a simple thing to flood in the modern internet. So, you'd only be making it easier for the children to misbehave.
Umm, I'd suspect they are likely to follow in the footsteps of a lot of the "dot-com"s. While some will argue "it sounds good on paper", that's where it should stay. I won't bore you with the details. But, this won't scale and simply cannot work without a great deal of costly planning and infrastructure which is ultimately unprofitable. But then, who cares about profitable *smirk*
Just think about it... you owe how many people three cents? Is that 0.03$US or 0.03$CDN? What about the inscrupulous people SETI and DCTI already have to deal with? These problems (and many others) aren't simple and a handful of MBA's with fists full of seed-money aren't competent to deal with them.
Most of the clones are the ideas of business types. They have little or no computer science or engineering background. To these people, all numbers are preceeded by a dollar sign. Most of them point to SETI as the basis for their business: SETI has zillions of... blah, blah, freakin' blah. They don't understand what SETI is, how it works, or why thousands of people contribute entire offices of machines to the cause. They see that big number and want to plant a `$'!
A few years ago everyone wanted to be an ISP. A year ago everyone wanted to be a "dot-com". A few months ago everyone was chanting IPO -- Redhat stock is where now? Now everyone wants to be an "ASP" and "distributed network"s are all the rage. (Technically, they are all client-server not distributed. They form an easily splintered tree; the clients do not talk to each other. However, like profitability, no one cares.)
Fired: No. Handled: yes. (It is sorta heavy for general "aimed" shooting.)
The AK would be a bad choice. It isn't destructive enough or loud enough. A shotgun would certainly be the firearm of choice -- 12-guage, 14-guage, whatever it takes:-) (Plus, it's easier to reload a shotgun shell -- talk about stress reduction *grin*)
Of course, it's been a while since I fired a shotgun too. (I should go home more often.)
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No it wouldn't... you'd just have every LD provider charging a "monthly fee" ("minimum use" as AT&T likes to call it.)
Actually, there are two POKEs... one doubles the access rate to ROM and the other doubles the access rate to RAM. Doubling the RAM rate disabled the video controller's access which also meant disabling the DRAM refresh cycle -- if the cpu stopped accessing memory for more than 4 microseconds, interesting things would happen.
The COCO3 was designed differently and always ran at the full 1.7Mhz clock rate.
Trivia factoid: the 68B09E uses a quadrature clock so it's speed is comprable to that of a 4MHz 8086.
I had an email from Kevin Darling (Date: Wed, 12 Dec 90 07:11:03 GMT) claiming to have heard of a 15MHz version. I cannot find the electronic version; I've only got a printout of it. (After 10 years, the archive is hard to search.)
hmm, if one can "decode" a :Cue by sight, thus rendering a brain as a device for circumventing technological ... blah blah, does that make procreating a violation of the DMCA?
Well, there are certain anti-trust laws that would prevent a patent holder from out-right refusing to license their technology -- barriers to free trade, anti-competitive business practices, "collution" with licensees, unlawful weilding of monopoly power... HOWEVER, that doesn't mean they cannot find other ways to prevent licensing to any distinct party.
Please remember, patents are monopolies. They are supposed to be a form of protection for the inventor so just anyone cannot take your work and sell it as their own. RAMBUS seems to have found the perfect method for screwing inventors (JEDEC) and getting away with it. Once granted, it's very hard to overturn a patent. The other JEDEC members can certainly sue for contract violation(s), but that will not make the patent go away. Unless the other JEDEC members can prove RAMBUS patented technology they did not develop, the patent will stand.
JEDEC is at fault here for not patenting their technology and thus preventing any individual member from applying for a patent. Of course, then we end up with a DVD CCA clone...
Why do lawyers have to be such evil p***ies? One would assume they know the law and would abide by it, but I've never seen one that didn't dance around the law or simple ignore it "for the moment". Mr. Harris is a good example of this behavior. I'm sure he knows the law, however, he continues to threaten and harass iSONEWS. Sega has it in their craw to close down iSONEWS's Dreamcast section; who cares about the law, they have lots of money.
As with every case of "copyright infringement", every company's lawyers spew their harassing, veiled threats without offering one *damnned* example of *actual* infringement. iSONEWS is only guilty of indirect infringement if they take no action once they *know* direct infringement is occuring. Mr. Harris/Sega hasn't pointed out anyting. In fact, they've got their work ahead of them if they want to prove the "past" part of "past and current" violations. (If iSONEWS removed them, then they have complied with the law - PERIOD.)
"We know you're breaking the law, so play nice and tell us which ones."
Gun manufactures certainly aren't as they have no direct knowledge of the receiver. Gun stores, however, can and ARE accountable for selling weapons to people who use them for illegal acts. The sticking point is "prior knowledge" of the crime to be committed -- if you sell me a gun knowing I'm going to walk out the door and kill the first person I see...
I was just making a "big iron" comparison. A "crappy" K6 can best even the fastest Alpha at RC5... The alpha processor (most RISC chips in general) don't have bitwise rotate instructions. So what takes 2 cycles on a 486 takes a lot of cycles on an alpha. I like the alpha; it does alot of things really well -- RC5 isn't one of them.
Nothing is designed to do everything perfectly -- well, Transmeta is trying, but them may be falling short on the "perfectly" part. (They may be able to emulate any processor, but how efficiently they do it has yet to be proven.)
Alpha processors do very badly with RC5. Even with all 32 processors tasked with d.net, it wouldn't amount to much -- about 1.5Mk/s per processor which is on par with a Xeon 500.
(The DES speed of that thing would be frightful.)
I don't understand why this is an issue. A block device is a block device. What's so different in the handling of RAID that makes it work unlike a direct-to-disk block device?
- The answer lies in geographic distribution
Not the geography load of horse shit again. Where I'm standing on the surface of the planet has almost nothing to do with my IP proximity to anything. Case in point, I can go stand in the server room in Atlanta right in front of the rack housing irc.mindspring.com and dial into BellSouth.Net. Does the fact that I'm physically three feet from the IRC server have one bloody thing to do with my network proximity to that IRC server? NO!Anyone can buy just about any domain name they want. Does this mean *.to is actually in Tonga? Are all the *.cc names somewhere in the Cacos Islands? Hell, I can have the DNS for a machine in my bathroom here in Raleigh, NC, USA say it's somewhere in *.ca.
I bet you wouldn't guess, sitting here in my livingroom, I'm four hops from the Microsoft Campus in Washington state. Or that I used to be three hops from London, England, UK. (Interpath@MAE-East/Xara@MAE-East/Xara@CWIX)
Hop count and transit time are what matter. Even BIND has known this for years.
Well, if @Home ran an IRC server strictly for their users ONLY. And took the extra time (minimal) to filter everything outside thier network, then they shouldn't have any kinds of DoS problems.
They would know exactly where the traffic is coming from and know exactly where to go and which heads to bash with a baseball bat. Exact fines, bill them for your engineers' time, and perminantly disconnect them - period. Cut off their cable TV too. And then accidently back over the mailbox as you leave. (Ah, that brings back memories of my days as an ISP BOFH. That was a very therapudic afternoon -- even helpdesk was exstatic. Heck, I should submit that one for the archive.)
- But getting 36 servers to upgrade at once is well, impossible.
Whacha point? So EFNet would be screwed for a few days. Who would notice?(The answer, as someone already mentioned, is a protocol bridge to keep the IRC2 servers linked as they are replaced with IRC3 servers. Think of it a little like IPv6 through IPv4 and vice versa.)
Yes, it does. Maybe IRC3 can address this. The current EFnet topology is a very stubby tree which makes it very weak -- ever seen a peach tree full of peaches? EFNet is beginning to break under it's own weight. The protocol is a single attached configuration with ZERO support for dual attachment -- it'd be like pluging three switches (that aren't running spanning-tree) in a loop.
As for your statement about the internet... a lot of the internet still is a spanning tree; just not a minimum spanning tree. Most of the "big boys" have at minimum a two connected network -- every node has at least two links. As AT&T and MCI have both proven, even n-connected networks fail.
- Some of those users have managed (through various subtle methods) to [social engineer] O: lines on our servers
... every three months
Excuse me! If an EFnet server can be social engineered for global ops, then you don't deserve to be linked. In fact, the person responsible for the O: line should have their fingers removed at the neck. The fact that it can happen more than once is alarming.- anyone up for re-writing identd's to do this?
Like identd can be trusted to tell the truth currently?!Personally, I don't see the point in servers mandating identd. Screwed up inverse DNS from a mandated identd irc server just makes me want to dismember some people. "Have your admin install identd..." @%%#%* Go find your own f***in' (DNS) admin(s)!
Well, their "official" server page hasn't been updated in recorded history. Watch the numbers... the only thing that ever changes is the time stamp at the bottom. I swear it's been like that for years, but it's probablly more like _one_ year. I know it hasn't changed in the last month. (You'll notice home.com in there and the currently down irc.ef.net)
The mrtg graphs stopped collecting data sometime in early August.
/me shakes his head
They use USENET and warez web sites. You don't hear of people DoS'ing NNTP servers around the globe. (At least I've not.)
- hopefully they will try to get the crackers/script kiddies in trouble for doing this.
And just what "trouble" do you expect to them into? Jonny's parents take away his computer for a week? What they are doing is illegal. It's just difficult to track down and almost impossible to prosecute -- you cannot "throw the book" at a 13yo punk. Until some FBI agents bust down the door to some central Kansas house, charge into some teen's room, and shoot him (or her) in the head at close range with a shotgun, this sort of childish bullshit will never stop.Most animals act according to an anticipation of a reward or in fear of some punishment. As a child, I learned quickly what my boundries were -- e.g. exactly what I could do without being beaten. Most parents raise their children in a violence free environment that complete negates half of our behavioral instincts -- hell, parents would be arested for abuse now-a-days if they hit their kids. ("Spare the rod; spoil the child" is true.) Setting the kid in the corner for an hour isn't punishment; it just gives them time to think up more bad things to do. When there is no fear of punishment, rewards have no meaning and children never learn to participate in a civilized society.
Now that I think about it, society has just gone to hell. Did I miss the Rapture or something? A memo would have been nice...
slight correction... an OS where some extensions are hidden perminantly. There are some extension explorer simple will never show you.
In a way, yes, you are doing them a favor. But do you trust just any schmuck on the street to do you a favor? For the other admins to allow a new server to link, they have to know you well enough to trust you. They are in effect giving you a key to their house; they need to know you will not mooch their beer, sleep with their wife, and molest their children.
Most admins look at linking in the same vein as giving someone the root password to their server room.
First off, a T1 is hardly enough to handle a connection. The protocol is inefficient for "leaf nodes" like this as 100% of the server traffic ends up being funneled to it. There's no point in sending 20,000 channels' traffic when the users are setting in a few dozen of those channels. Maybe this will be fixed someday.
Second, a T1 is a simple thing to flood in the modern internet. So, you'd only be making it easier for the children to misbehave.
Umm, I'd suspect they are likely to follow in the footsteps of a lot of the "dot-com"s. While some will argue "it sounds good on paper", that's where it should stay. I won't bore you with the details. But, this won't scale and simply cannot work without a great deal of costly planning and infrastructure which is ultimately unprofitable. But then, who cares about profitable *smirk*
Just think about it... you owe how many people three cents? Is that 0.03$US or 0.03$CDN? What about the inscrupulous people SETI and DCTI already have to deal with? These problems (and many others) aren't simple and a handful of MBA's with fists full of seed-money aren't competent to deal with them.
Most of the clones are the ideas of business types. They have little or no computer science or engineering background. To these people, all numbers are preceeded by a dollar sign. Most of them point to SETI as the basis for their business: SETI has zillions of... blah, blah, freakin' blah. They don't understand what SETI is, how it works, or why thousands of people contribute entire offices of machines to the cause. They see that big number and want to plant a `$'!
A few years ago everyone wanted to be an ISP. A year ago everyone wanted to be a "dot-com". A few months ago everyone was chanting IPO -- Redhat stock is where now? Now everyone wants to be an "ASP" and "distributed network"s are all the rage. (Technically, they are all client-server not distributed. They form an easily splintered tree; the clients do not talk to each other. However, like profitability, no one cares.)
Dude, if I only got 25 emails a day, I'd think something was broken. I can get 25 messages from the same person in a day :-)
Oh well, back to my email...
Fired: No. Handled: yes. (It is sorta heavy for general "aimed" shooting.)
:-) (Plus, it's easier to reload a shotgun shell -- talk about stress reduction *grin*)
The AK would be a bad choice. It isn't destructive enough or loud enough. A shotgun would certainly be the firearm of choice -- 12-guage, 14-guage, whatever it takes
Of course, it's been a while since I fired a shotgun too. (I should go home more often.)
replace the AK with someone else's microwave... not as load but just as relaxing.