Netware is more than the Netware kernel - is is the sum of the kernel plus the various services. Novell can continue to develop Netware the services without developing Netware the kernel.
"Develop and support" really does not mean much - it could just as easily mean they will continue to take tech support calls for Netware kernel based systems, and will continue to develop apps for it.
"Develop and support" is to reassure PHBs that going with Novell is a good idea, even if the actual plan is to stop development on the Netware Kernel in the future.
Currently, Netware only runs on x86. Consider what happens when the Netware services are available as daemons under Linux - Novell could offer Netware as services under Linux on the IBM zSeries machines. This would be the dream for a lot of IT managers - one Power4 or Power5 4-module (8 processor) zSeries machine with the manly-man I/O system that the zSeries has, logically partitioned into web servers, Novell file and NDS servers, database servers (with either Oracle or DB/2, running under either Linux or OS/400), in a reconfigurable box with IBM's support on the hardware. Need more OOMPH - call IBM and they unlock more for you. Need less OOMPH - don't pay for what you don't use.
Given the previous point, and given the migration to 64 bit CPUs, there will inevitably come a point where, if you want a given capability in Netware services you will HAVE to run them under a 64 bit kernel - i.e. Linux rather than the x86 Netware kernel.
The only tricky thing is the difference in file system semantics between the Netware way of doing things and the Unix way - in Netware, if you have read access to/foo/bar/baz/poit/narf, you implicitly have file scan access to the directories above it to the extent of being able to see your file. In Unix, you could have full access and ownership of/foo/bar/baz/poit/narf but have no access to the intervening directories, and not be able to access your file.
This is important, as the Netware model makes a sysadmin's life easier - he can focus on who owns what files, rather than worrying about the directory structure.
However, file systems like XFS allow for extra metadata to be stored, so in theory a user space daemon could provide Netware file semantics on a Unix file system.
SCO: You owe us $699 per computer! Navy: OK - how about we give you half a million and you keep the change? SCO: GREAT! Navy: OK, tell us the address to send it to. SCO: <gives corporate address> Navy: Tomahawk targeting confirmed - you have a go for launch.
I kill monsters So I can get XP So I can get skills So I can kill monsters So I can get XP So I can get skills So I can kill monsters.... I'm always running 'round in circles...
(with apologies to the "running in circles" anti-cocaine ad.)
OK, so a spammer left his logs showing who ordered from him open.
Did anybody get a copy of the logs - I sense a chance to put some chlorine in the gene pool - let's locate these morons and insure that their penises don't work for reproduction.
In fact, what a great way to improve the breed - create a pill that actually does increase the size of the user's penis (so no false advertising claims), but first renders them irrevokably sterile.
(Note to humor impared: This post is a joke. I would not condone damaging or killing somebody purely because they are stupid.)
Don't you see - now, after we have beaten any given dead horse (e.g. Microsoft is evil, X is slow, ??AA sucks) into a slurry, we can salvage its DNA, clone it, raise the clone to maturity, kill it, and continue to beat it some more!
This invention has singlehandedly saved the Internet!
Acronym Main Entry: acronym Pronunciation: 'a-kr&-"nim Function: noun Etymology: acr- + -onym Date: 1943 : a word (as NATO, radar, or snafu) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term. (emphasis mine).
The current thinking on the end of the universe is one of infinite expansion, yeilding a universe of isolated particles of very low energy.
However, our current understandings of the beginnings of the universe include the possiblities of phase-state changes in which the current three forces "condense" out of a single unified force - the behaviors of the three forces look different only at the current "low" temperatures.
What is to say that, as the universe expands and cools that new behaviors, visible only at 10E50 meter distances, won't create behaviors that would lead to the formation of life anew - albeit life at a time and distance scale we cannot conceive of?
I am reminded of Dr. Forward's "Dragon's Egg" novels, in which creatures who evolved on the surface of a neutron star encounter humans - Cheela's biology is based on color-charge (strong force) much as ours is based on electric charge.
To the Cheela, we are but slow-moving whisps of smoke.
Take that to the extreme - perhaps in the early part of the universe (10E-50 second) there were physics that allowed life to exist - to them we would be vast empty spaces of isolated particles. Perhaps the end of the universe is but a new beginning?
(Note: this is a SERIOUSLY un-scientific hypothesis as it is completely un-falsifiable.)
If you do any audio/video editing, 64bits is a godsend.
Consider something relatively simple: transcoding a DV file into an MPEG4 file. For a medium length file you are talking 2-6GB of data.
Now, for a 32 bit program, the programmer must write his code to either a) process the file in a stream, with little or no memory (which means multiple passes over the file with a log file to record frame size data from pass to pass) or must write his code to work through a small window into the file, loading and reloading that window as needed. Neither approach is really friendly to the file system buffer cache.
In a 64 bit addressing system, the programmer can simply mmap() the file into his process memory space, and let the OS's VM system handle faulting the pieces of the file in and out. As a result, the OS's buffer cache logic can better manage what parts of the file are cached. Also, from the programmer's perspective the code gets much simpler (and simpler code is better!) - if he wants to access 2 parts of the file at once (for interframe compression, say), he just has 2 pointers. If he wants to seek forward, he increments a pointer. Simple. Easy.
And lest you say "But that's not something that Joe Average does" - consider the current crop of DV camcorders, DVD burners, and video editing software. Joe Average might not do this yet, but Joe (Average+2*sigma) does, and the threshold is moving downward.
I expect that when 64 bit Macs and 64 bit MacOS become available, the video editing software on the Mac will become the platinum/iridium standard for the industry.
I went to a "PIC microcontroller seminar" on my own dime - about $200 (but I got the programmer hardware as well). The only thing my employer gave me was the day off.
When there, they announced they were going to be giving away an HP LogicDart - a $800 logic analyzer.
While we were all eating lunch (provided as part of the seminar) I commented that I hoped that I would win the Dart, as unlike the bulk of the people attending I would have clear ownership.
Guess what - I did indeed win it!
Funny thing though - the bulk of my time using it has been at work.
In one of Larry Niven's "Known Space" stories, our hero is drinking at a party thrown by Elephant, the decendant of the inventor of teleportation. The glasses have a small teleportation receiver in them, and constantly maintain their level of fluid.
Our hero remarks that this is a great way to become an alchoholic without realizing it.
That is exactly what I ended up doing - having my ISP add the offender to their email blacklists.
However, the point is that this infected machine is still spewing its payload over the 'Net, and potentially infecting other machines. If ISPs were to take action against such infections by shutting down the infected machine's account, then the spread of viruses would be greatly reduced.
However, ISPs like WorldCom don't. The are happy to let the 'Net degenerate into the electronic equivelent of a urine-soaked, broken-windowed, crack-dealer-infested tenement building that WE ALL HAVE TO LIVE NEXT DOOR TO.
I've started playing CivCTP once again, and had that truly amazing experience of:
17:00 - I'll just play a quick little bit here while I wait for dinner to cook.... 19:00 - What's that smell - oh wait, I just got that War Walker build, MUHAHAHAH 01:00 - Shit! - and I've got that meeting with the customer tomor^WToday!
Now an open source CivCTP2 is announced - so not only can I play, I can hack. Great - now I can spend days creating the GPL Wonder and playtesting it....
What would be cool would be if IBM were to lend its legal department to the various copyright holders of Free software to enable the following: foreach person {Linus Tridge Miguel... } {
Maito -type registered -return_receipt true \
-person "Bill Gates" -company "Microsoft" \
-text subst [ $legalease(HEADER) Mr. Gates, I am the copyright holder of the free software program $FOSS($person), and I would like you to either a) show explicitly where my code contains Microsoft IP or b) state publicly that your accusation does not apply to my program. Failure to comply will be considered an act of libel. $legalease(FOOTER) ] }
To the lawyers in the audience: could the copyright holders of the various projects do this and have a legal standing?
The three constituant parts of this hydra (MCI, WCOM, and UUNET) each have a long history of irresponsiblity to the community - an attitude of "Screw you! We are making money any way possible! You No Likee? Suck ME!". UUNET hosting pink contract spammers, MCI screwing other phone companies, the whole WCOM stock deal.
I hope they get nailed. I hope their execs get sent to prison, and through an administrative mistake go to a nice maximum security prison rather than Club Fed, sharing a cell with an AIDS-infected serial sodomist who has nothing better to do than sign up for penis enlargement and Viagra spams. I hope the companies are forced into liquidation. As a resident of Known Space would say, "Break'em up for parts!"
You are in a mall. You see a new shop - one you've never been in before. Being curious, you approach the shop.
As you attempt to enter the shop, a large bouncer-like gentleman says
"Before youse what enters the store I gotsa stamp you hand with this ink stamp."
Would you:
Allow the bouncer to stamp your hand
Ask the bouncer if you could enter the store without being stamped
Turn around and not enter the shop
Now, how is this any different than a web site needlessly setting a cookie just to track you?
Too damn many websites want to set a cookie just because you tried to GET index.html - not because you are trying to set a preference or make a purchase.
I've had a Neo35 with a 30G drive in my car for several years now, with no problems - and the Neo is CONSTANTLY accessing the drive - it doesn't really cache the data very well, and it uses the drive instead of NVRAM to store where it is in playing the song. I frequently run over dirt roads and potholes. My Neo does quite a bit better than my old CD changer, which would spaz whenever I hit a particularly bad washboard or pothole.
You must remember that what will kill the drive is a sudden, high-G shock. Now, your car is a large mass suspended in a shock-absorbing system (your tires and shocks (unless you are a ricer, in which case you remove the shocks and wrap rubber bands around your bling-bling wheelrims)). So any sudden, sharp shock your tires hit will be turned into a longer, less sharp shock by the time it reaches the hard disk.
True evil exists in this world, but rarely does true evil believe itself to be evil - rarely do you see an evil person sitting down and saying "What terrible thing shall I do today, MUWHAHAHAHA!"
Consider Saddam and Sons - the things they've done are, by most people's judgement, evil - putting people into a shredder feet first, raping women, killing their opposition. Yet, do you think that Saddam thought to himself, "I'm so EEEVIL - I love being me!". I doubt it - he almost certainly rationalized what he did - "Yes, putting this guy feet-first into this shredder is terrible (although kind of cool), but the pure horror of it will prevent anybody else from doing what he did, and thus will keep order in my country."
Or, consider Anakin/Vader - as we are seeing over the course of the first three movies, his descent into evil was not caused by a desire to do evil, but natural and otherwise good impulses ("These raiders are bad people - they hurt an innocent (my mother). I will remove the threat - I will destroy them.")
Now, consider the game - you say you are having problems "doing evil". Good. Don't "do evil" - roleplay. Say to yourself "I am going to do whatever it takes for my character to advance. Everybody else is going to do whatever they can do do advance, I must do it to them before they do it to me." Get yourself in that mindset, and the evil will come naturally.
Then, after the game, please MEDITATE UPON YOUR ACTIONS, and realize why that sort of attitude should be strictly confined to situations where the harm done is fictional!
The single biggest problem is that Interstate 70 (which runs across the northern section of the state) goes through some of the most MIND-NUMBINGLY BORING terrain I've ever seen, and since that is how most people who cross the state see it they form an unjustified opinion.
Most of Kansas used to be inland see, millenia ago. Hence the flatness - the ocean bottom deposited uniformly across the state.
However, IF you are going to be going through Kansas, let me give you some pointers on where to go:
Southeastern section: Go see Big Brutus in West Mineral, KS.. If you have any interest in mechanical engineering you'll love this.
South Central: The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center has the best collection of Russian space hardware outside Russia itself, as well as US gear. They were the first to be made a Smithsonian partner, and that was as much so that the Smithsonian could gain access to the Cosmospere's collection as the other way around. Hutchinson, KS - and if you were planning on going across on I-70 I's suggest you drop down on I-35 (throught the Flint Hills)to US-50 then across into Hutch. Stop by Yoder, KS and get some Cinnamon Rolls at the Carriage Crossing Restaurant. If you are going towards New Mexico, drop down and take I-160 from Medicine Lodge through the Gypsum Hills. There IS scenery in Kansas - we just don't run our major roads through it.
North West: If you are heading to Denver, you pretty much have to take either I-70 or K-96. If you are on I-70, stop through Quinter, KS and see Castle Rock, a natural formation akin to the Badlands in South Dakota. Also, you can go to Monument Rocks which is a similar sort of geography. Also on I-70 in Hays, KS is the Sternberg Museum of Natural History which will be a hit with any parent of children who are interested in dinosaurs.
Slashdot Mirror
The only tricky thing is the difference in file system semantics between the Netware way of doing things and the Unix way - in Netware, if you have read access to
This is important, as the Netware model makes a sysadmin's life easier - he can focus on who owns what files, rather than worrying about the directory structure.
However, file systems like XFS allow for extra metadata to be stored, so in theory a user space daemon could provide Netware file semantics on a Unix file system.
Only if you don't pursue any additional degrees.
Only if you don't flunk out.
Only if your adviser didn't screw up and you still need some credits.
(No, I am not A bastard. I am THE BASTARD, and that's MISTER BASTARD to you!)
SCO: You owe us $699 per computer!
Navy: OK - how about we give you half a million and you keep the change?
SCO: GREAT!
Navy: OK, tell us the address to send it to.
SCO: <gives corporate address>
Navy: Tomahawk targeting confirmed - you have a go for launch.
I kill monsters
So I can get XP
So I can get skills
So I can kill monsters
So I can get XP
So I can get skills
So I can kill monsters....
I'm always running 'round in circles...
(with apologies to the "running in circles" anti-cocaine ad.)
OK, so a spammer left his logs showing who ordered from him open.
Did anybody get a copy of the logs - I sense a chance to put some chlorine in the gene pool - let's locate these morons and insure that their penises don't work for reproduction.
In fact, what a great way to improve the breed - create a pill that actually does increase the size of the user's penis (so no false advertising claims), but first renders them irrevokably sterile.
(Note to humor impared: This post is a joke. I would not condone damaging or killing somebody purely because they are stupid.)
You all have no idea how important this is!
Don't you see - now, after we have beaten any given dead horse (e.g. Microsoft is evil, X is slow, ??AA sucks) into a slurry, we can salvage its DNA, clone it, raise the clone to maturity, kill it, and continue to beat it some more!
This invention has singlehandedly saved the Internet!
Acronym
Main Entry: acronym
Pronunciation: 'a-kr&-"nim
Function: noun
Etymology: acr- + -onym
Date: 1943
: a word (as NATO, radar, or snafu) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term.
(emphasis mine).
M.A.T.R.I.X is not an acronym.
Multistatee
Anti
Terrorism
Information
Exchang
Now, how the hell do you get MATRIX out of that?
More like MATIE, as in:
"ARR MATIE, we be getting the blackmail goods on the serfs, arrr!"
"Ahhh, Gordon, good to see you. We've found a way to keep your HEV charged, but you'll find you need the cola machines more."
The current thinking on the end of the universe is one of infinite expansion, yeilding a universe of isolated particles of very low energy.
However, our current understandings of the beginnings of the universe include the possiblities of phase-state changes in which the current three forces "condense" out of a single unified force - the behaviors of the three forces look different only at the current "low" temperatures.
What is to say that, as the universe expands and cools that new behaviors, visible only at 10E50 meter distances, won't create behaviors that would lead to the formation of life anew - albeit life at a time and distance scale we cannot conceive of?
I am reminded of Dr. Forward's "Dragon's Egg" novels, in which creatures who evolved on the surface of a neutron star encounter humans - Cheela's biology is based on color-charge (strong force) much as ours is based on electric charge.
To the Cheela, we are but slow-moving whisps of smoke.
Take that to the extreme - perhaps in the early part of the universe (10E-50 second) there were physics that allowed life to exist - to them we would be vast empty spaces of isolated particles. Perhaps the end of the universe is but a new beginning?
(Note: this is a SERIOUSLY un-scientific hypothesis as it is completely un-falsifiable.)
If you do any audio/video editing, 64bits is a godsend.
Consider something relatively simple: transcoding a DV file into an MPEG4 file. For a medium length file you are talking 2-6GB of data.
Now, for a 32 bit program, the programmer must write his code to either a) process the file in a stream, with little or no memory (which means multiple passes over the file with a log file to record frame size data from pass to pass) or must write his code to work through a small window into the file, loading and reloading that window as needed. Neither approach is really friendly to the file system buffer cache.
In a 64 bit addressing system, the programmer can simply mmap() the file into his process memory space, and let the OS's VM system handle faulting the pieces of the file in and out. As a result, the OS's buffer cache logic can better manage what parts of the file are cached. Also, from the programmer's perspective the code gets much simpler (and simpler code is better!) - if he wants to access 2 parts of the file at once (for interframe compression, say), he just has 2 pointers. If he wants to seek forward, he increments a pointer. Simple. Easy.
And lest you say "But that's not something that Joe Average does" - consider the current crop of DV camcorders, DVD burners, and video editing software. Joe Average might not do this yet, but Joe (Average+2*sigma) does, and the threshold is moving downward.
I expect that when 64 bit Macs and 64 bit MacOS become available, the video editing software on the Mac will become the platinum/iridium standard for the industry.
Those usually directly cable into the antenna port of your car stereo, as such they are not broadcasting.
I went to a "PIC microcontroller seminar" on my own dime - about $200 (but I got the programmer hardware as well). The only thing my employer gave me was the day off.
When there, they announced they were going to be giving away an HP LogicDart - a $800 logic analyzer.
While we were all eating lunch (provided as part of the seminar) I commented that I hoped that I would win the Dart, as unlike the bulk of the people attending I would have clear ownership.
Guess what - I did indeed win it!
Funny thing though - the bulk of my time using it has been at work.
OK, inquiring minds want to know - what is this "Embarassing Screensaver"?
We Want Screenshots, download URLs, and descriptions!
In one of Larry Niven's "Known Space" stories, our hero is drinking at a party thrown by Elephant, the decendant of the inventor of teleportation. The glasses have a small teleportation receiver in them, and constantly maintain their level of fluid.
Our hero remarks that this is a great way to become an alchoholic without realizing it.
That is exactly what I ended up doing - having my ISP add the offender to their email blacklists.
However, the point is that this infected machine is still spewing its payload over the 'Net, and potentially infecting other machines. If ISPs were to take action against such infections by shutting down the infected machine's account, then the spread of viruses would be greatly reduced.
However, ISPs like WorldCom don't. The are happy to let the 'Net degenerate into the electronic equivelent of a urine-soaked, broken-windowed, crack-dealer-infested tenement building that WE ALL HAVE TO LIVE NEXT DOOR TO.
I've started playing CivCTP once again, and had that truly amazing experience of:
17:00 - I'll just play a quick little bit here while I wait for dinner to cook....
19:00 - What's that smell - oh wait, I just got that War Walker build, MUHAHAHAH
01:00 - Shit! - and I've got that meeting with the customer tomor^WToday!
Now an open source CivCTP2 is announced - so not only can I play, I can hack. Great - now I can spend days creating the GPL Wonder and playtesting it....
What would be cool would be if IBM were to lend its legal department to the various copyright holders of Free software to enable the following:
... }
foreach person {Linus Tridge Miguel
{
Maito -type registered -return_receipt true \
-person "Bill Gates" -company "Microsoft" \
-text subst [
$legalease(HEADER)
Mr. Gates, I am the copyright holder of the free
software program $FOSS($person), and I would like
you to either
a) show explicitly where my code contains Microsoft IP
or
b) state publicly that your accusation does not apply to my program.
Failure to comply will be considered an act of libel.
$legalease(FOOTER)
]
}
To the lawyers in the audience: could the copyright holders of the various projects do this and have a legal standing?
For all of you questioning the utility of SETI@Home (i.e. "It will do no good, we will never find a signal", etc.), I have a question:
Do you MetaModerate?
If so, then how do you justify the one but not the other?
Having spent US$60 trying to get MCI to shut down a virus infected host that was continually hitting me with multi-hundred kB emails (to no avail), I say, "MCI is in trouble? GOOD!"
The three constituant parts of this hydra (MCI, WCOM, and UUNET) each have a long history of irresponsiblity to the community - an attitude of "Screw you! We are making money any way possible! You No Likee? Suck ME!". UUNET hosting pink contract spammers, MCI screwing other phone companies, the whole WCOM stock deal.
I hope they get nailed. I hope their execs get sent to prison, and through an administrative mistake go to a nice maximum security prison rather than Club Fed, sharing a cell with an AIDS-infected serial sodomist who has nothing better to do than sign up for penis enlargement and Viagra spams. I hope the companies are forced into liquidation. As a resident of Known Space would say, "Break'em up for parts!"
You are in a mall. You see a new shop - one you've never been in before. Being curious, you approach the shop.
As you attempt to enter the shop, a large bouncer-like gentleman says
Would you:
Now, how is this any different than a web site needlessly setting a cookie just to track you?
Too damn many websites want to set a cookie just because you tried to GET index.html - not because you are trying to set a preference or make a purchase.
I've had a Neo35 with a 30G drive in my car for several years now, with no problems - and the Neo is CONSTANTLY accessing the drive - it doesn't really cache the data very well, and it uses the drive instead of NVRAM to store where it is in playing the song. I frequently run over dirt roads and potholes. My Neo does quite a bit better than my old CD changer, which would spaz whenever I hit a particularly bad washboard or pothole.
You must remember that what will kill the drive is a sudden, high-G shock. Now, your car is a large mass suspended in a shock-absorbing system (your tires and shocks (unless you are a ricer, in which case you remove the shocks and wrap rubber bands around your bling-bling wheelrims)). So any sudden, sharp shock your tires hit will be turned into a longer, less sharp shock by the time it reaches the hard disk.
True evil exists in this world, but rarely does true evil believe itself to be evil - rarely do you see an evil person sitting down and saying "What terrible thing shall I do today, MUWHAHAHAHA!"
Consider Saddam and Sons - the things they've done are, by most people's judgement, evil - putting people into a shredder feet first, raping women, killing their opposition. Yet, do you think that Saddam thought to himself, "I'm so EEEVIL - I love being me!". I doubt it - he almost certainly rationalized what he did - "Yes, putting this guy feet-first into this shredder is terrible (although kind of cool), but the pure horror of it will prevent anybody else from doing what he did, and thus will keep order in my country."
Or, consider Anakin/Vader - as we are seeing over the course of the first three movies, his descent into evil was not caused by a desire to do evil, but natural and otherwise good impulses ("These raiders are bad people - they hurt an innocent (my mother). I will remove the threat - I will destroy them.")
Now, consider the game - you say you are having problems "doing evil". Good. Don't "do evil" - roleplay. Say to yourself "I am going to do whatever it takes for my character to advance. Everybody else is going to do whatever they can do do advance, I must do it to them before they do it to me." Get yourself in that mindset, and the evil will come naturally.
Then, after the game, please MEDITATE UPON YOUR ACTIONS, and realize why that sort of attitude should be strictly confined to situations where the harm done is fictional!
See my previous post on attractions in Kansas.
The single biggest problem is that Interstate 70 (which runs across the northern section of the state) goes through some of the most MIND-NUMBINGLY BORING terrain I've ever seen, and since that is how most people who cross the state see it they form an unjustified opinion.
Most of Kansas used to be inland see, millenia ago. Hence the flatness - the ocean bottom deposited uniformly across the state.
However, IF you are going to be going through Kansas, let me give you some pointers on where to go:
Southeastern section: Go see Big Brutus in West Mineral, KS.. If you have any interest in mechanical engineering you'll love this.
South Central: The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center has the best collection of Russian space hardware outside Russia itself, as well as US gear. They were the first to be made a Smithsonian partner, and that was as much so that the Smithsonian could gain access to the Cosmospere's collection as the other way around. Hutchinson, KS - and if you were planning on going across on I-70 I's suggest you drop down on I-35 (throught the Flint Hills)to US-50 then across into Hutch. Stop by Yoder, KS and get some Cinnamon Rolls at the Carriage Crossing Restaurant.
If you are going towards New Mexico, drop down and take I-160 from Medicine Lodge through the Gypsum Hills. There IS scenery in Kansas - we just don't run our major roads through it.
North West: If you are heading to Denver, you pretty much have to take either I-70 or K-96. If you are on I-70, stop through Quinter, KS and see Castle Rock, a natural formation akin to the Badlands in South Dakota.
Also, you can go to Monument Rocks which is a similar sort of geography.
Also on I-70 in Hays, KS is the Sternberg Museum of Natural History which will be a hit with any parent of children who are interested in dinosaurs.