Very good (I like the anology about the video cards...) However...
>Your beefy 750 Mhz Pentium III has a set of opcodes in it that mimic something called the Z80
(buzzer noise) Thanks for playing but you are wrong... The pentium is strictly a x86 processor. The Z80 is a clone of the intel 8080 so it's similar to the Intel line however Intel came out with the 4004 -> 8008 -> 8080 -> 8086 -> 8088 -> 80186 -> 80286 -> 80386 -> 80486 -> P5 (Penitum) -> P6 (Pentium {Pro,II,III}. The Z80 was put out by Zylog as an alternative to the 8080(I believe but it could have been to 8008 or the 8086).
The Z80 didn't foster the x86 line it was a now defuct alternative. The 8086 line comes directly from the first microprocessor the 4004.
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..." -Buffy Summers Goodbye Iowa
Bomb detectors look for signs of unstable (read explosive) chemicals. The detector turns then a different color on the part of the object that is the unstable compound... (at least this was tested and shown to work by some research companies a bunch of years ago... I'm only assuming the airports were smart enough to use this stuff) It doesn't work by actual inspection. SO they don't have to know the difference just watch for the color change or anything that is obviosly a bomb/prohibited
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..." -Buffy Summers Goodbye Iowa
What are you talking about? You useing a flawed assumption... Collage/university towns are not the highest bandwidth areas... Most students have modems if that. In the modern university system most students DON'T live on campus. Most universitys only have on campus housing for freshman. Even if DSL/Cable modems are offered in collage towns many students can't afford them. If you want to talk about high bandwidth areas try: the silicon valley (cable/ISDN/xDSL), SF (cable/ISDN/xDSL/wireless), New York (???), etc. The places with the best connectivity are places where people have too much money and jobs that are made easier by connectivity.
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..." -Buffy Summers Goodbye Iowa
Since when is writing a book journelism? Did anyone check the accuracy of the Anne Frank diaries? This is meant to make a point... Are you really concerned that the hundreds of stories posted to the hell mouth stories were lies? Do you really think so many people decided to post stories in both there own name and anonymously that were out and out lies? Statistically that is not bloody likly.
I think people need to keep the goal in mind when talking about this. This book was not written to make money or anything people were TRYING to do something good. Remeber that...
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..." -Buffy Summers Goodbye Iowa
If Be doesn't have mozilla support then they are screwed. Be doesn't have a decent web browser. There own web browser is very light weight and only handles HTML. If Be doesn't get a browser that supports at least java/java script they are never going to make a big den't in any desktop. Like it or not the web is a big part of using a computer both in a business enviroment and at home.
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..." -Buffy Summers Goodbye Iowa
If you read the full article it says the processor is only $50 to $100 dollars more then the slot 1/Socket 370 counter part. The big difference is the management functions that are part of the processor housing such as temp., 2 eeproms, and so on... Given the size of the cartrige and the metal back plate I would imagine that it also cools better and for a server that is good.
Anouther issue is the whole slot two thing. Alot of the i840 motherboards that are in production/planned are slot two making this processor nesicary if you don't want to use a 550MHz processor.
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..." -Buffy Summers Goodbye Iowa
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One question one statement...
Q: I was under the impression the Firewire is NOT hotplugable...
S: Show me a firewire keyboard/mouse... Firewire is great for high bandwith things like video... but USB has all the features I want for my keyboard/mouse...
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..." -Buffy Summers Goodbye Iowa
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I really want to know... If USB sucks what is better? PS2? which is based off the fscking crap keyboard controler from the XT? ADB? which is only marginally better? SDB? which is a serial chip?
None offer plug an play...
None offer true disconnect/reconnect live...
None support 100+ devices...
If usb is such crap why are Apple and Sun abandoning there old desk top busses in favor of USB?
That is what I thought...
I bet next you'll tell me PCI is crap... PCI which has been adopted by every modern platform that I know of...
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..." -Buffy Summers Goodbye Iowa
Wow! I bet you are an openbsd guy. All I can say is Objection sustained... Oh wait... That's what the game the openssh.com guy was doing. He was putting an un-substantiated claim out for the reading public to sow the seed of malicious activity. This is the same thing lawers to in jury trial they throw things to the jury that will get striken from the record but will still influnce the jury.
If I were say to Cmndr Taco is not on vacation but is locked up in Hemos' basement. You would be that much closer to believing what you wouldn't have even considered on your own. And maybe a few people would email Hemos demainding his release. It happened all the time in the OJ trial the lawers would ask questions and give probable answers just before and objection could be raised... and the remark striken every where but the jury's memory.
Let us consider why this was sent to slashdot in the first place: 1) Slashdot is a mostly linux site (say what you might but I don't see announcements of *BSD or SYSV beta kernels only linux kernels) 2) Many slashdot readers are hotheads who flame and crack with out thinking or reading. To me it seems like the perfect place to sow the seeds of discontent. Throw a little gas onto the slashdot fire with some unsustantitiated aligations (yes that is was those were...) and maybe the openssh.org gives up his domain name just to stop the spam and hacking of his site.
I'm not sure but I bet if that site gets attacked and the reasoning can be traced to those comments I'm willing to bet Mr.Bertrand can be sued for liable.
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..." -Buffy Summers Goodbye Iowa
Read the PCI spec. 64bit pci cards are suppossed to work at 64/66 64/33, 32/33... yes 32bit by 33mhz... Most 64bit pci cards will fit in any PCI 2.2 slot.
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..." -Buffy Summers Goodbye Iowa
Your info is correct but I think your resoning is flawed.
The endian switching on an alpha is a legacy DEC thing that has nothing to do with Intel. Alpha engineers needed to be data compatable with PDP-11 and VAX architechtures... See page 6 of Alpha RISC Architecture for Programmers by James S. Evans and Richard Eckhouse. It shows that Alpha is Little endian just like the VAX, and PDP-11. Further on it the book it shows you how to put the Alpha into VAX floating and integer support modes.
BTW=> Mips also has multiple endian support. I think that both PPC or at least Power[1,2,3] have endian switch ability in at least the spec. No of these platforms do this for intel compatabilty. They do it so that people will use there processors. Some tasks work better on certain endian systems. I couldn't find any reference to endian switching in my Sparc documentation but I only have documents for the latest revs of the sparc spec. I believe (do to the mips like nature of the sparc line) it origninaly had endian switching abilities but again I could be wrong.
Remeber many people using RISC processors are comming from 68XX series chips or intel chips and need to have data compatability. It has very little to do with pandering to Intel and much more to do with providing a rebust flexible solution to the customer.
--cheers, PQBON
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..." -Buffy Summers Goodbye Iowa
Wow... It's been a long time since I posted... You don't seem to get it... Windows and mac OS don't work out the box... they come on the box so you don't have to worry about the install... I've been using Win9X since 94 when Chicargo was first released to developers associtated with MS. It has always been a pain to install on anything but middle of the road hw. Any HW you have that is either: really cheep or really expensive requires manufactures driver disks... NT is the same way only worse if you have an unsupported disk controller. Most people don't ever setup windows them selfs or mac OS... Thats why most new computer come with a restore disk not an install disk. It fdisks and formats the drive and blows the "standard load" on the system matching the exact config from when the system was shipped.
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..." -Buffy Summers Say Goodbye to Iowa
Fill rates and such may not be everything but it helps alot... for consumers games are all that matters... who can afford a $5K 3d amination software package even if you want it...
And SGI can use the TECH if you take SGIs cool cards and add the proformance of nVidia's cards you would have an even better card... Think about it...
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix "SPOOOOOOOOON!" - The Tick, The Tick
Nvidia has cards that are as fast as if not faster then SGIs cards... Nvidia is made up of people who left SGI to move into the PC world... So I could definatly see SGI and Nvidia sharing... SGI gets faster 3dAccellerators... Nvidia gets kick ass OGL and *nix support... "There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix "SPOOOOOOOOON!" - The Tick, The Tick
Be is compatable with Unix/Linux... the big difference with Be is the Added a diffrent Windowing system and multimedia servers... (Be is a server based OS ontop of a micro kernel.... if you don't understand that don't bother flaiming...) "There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix "SPOOOOOOOOON!" - The Tick, The Tick
"One of the characteristics of healthy cultures is that they can poke fun at themselves. I guess the hacker culture is in good health, because User Friendly is hilarious. Its irreverence, sophisticated in-jokes and surrealistic edge are a rocket straight out of the Internet's collective unconscious." - Eric S. Raymond, ubergeek
I know the quote is from ESR not RMS but think about it long and hard... It's a joke people...
Jokes are not nesicarily a form of disrespect.
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix "SPOOOOOOOOON!" - The Tick, The Tick
Assuming she is not some web virtuoso her site was more then just a fluf site. It took a resonalbe amount of effort. Besides what's up with the (regex)*aol* bullshit. Under that thinking registering ww.inteligence.* or www.youngms.*! It's BS. And its at least wrong and at worst racism...
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix "SPOOOOOOOOON!" - The Tick, The Tick
We've always wanted a case to test the GPL! Well, here it is... (There are no other posts but I won't do the obligitory first post;-)!)
Or this could be a case of using BeOS and calling it linux becuase it's unix like and to the public at large linux is most easily identified as the linux like OS.
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix "SPOOOOOOOOON!" - The Tick, The Tick
I have a friend (a family friend) who is very important at Mac World. He regularly gets yelled at by steve jobs when MW publishes i'll towards apple. I have heard from friends of lisa (she grew up with some of my friends from school...) that he can be a jerk (although all kids think their parents can be jerks.) From every romur/story I have heard steve jobs is a jerk and woz is a hacker in the MIT sence of the word.
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix "SPOOOOOOOOON!" - The Tick, The Tick
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>Your beefy 750 Mhz Pentium III has a set of opcodes in it that mimic something called the Z80
(buzzer noise) Thanks for playing but you are wrong... The pentium is strictly a x86 processor. The Z80 is a clone of the intel 8080 so it's similar to the Intel line however Intel came out with the 4004 -> 8008 -> 8080 -> 8086 -> 8088 -> 80186 -> 80286 -> 80386 -> 80486 -> P5 (Penitum) -> P6 (Pentium {Pro,II,III}. The Z80 was put out by Zylog as an alternative to the 8080(I believe but it could have been to 8008 or the 8086).
The Z80 didn't foster the x86 line it was a now defuct alternative. The 8086 line comes directly from the first microprocessor the 4004.
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..."
-Buffy Summers
Goodbye Iowa
I believe the original comment were ment about the windows version...
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..."
-Buffy Summers
Goodbye Iowa
Bomb detectors look for signs of unstable (read explosive) chemicals. The detector turns then a different color on the part of the object that is the unstable compound... (at least this was tested and shown to work by some research companies a bunch of years ago... I'm only assuming the airports were smart enough to use this stuff) It doesn't work by actual inspection. SO they don't have to know the difference just watch for the color change or anything that is obviosly a bomb/prohibited
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..."
-Buffy Summers
Goodbye Iowa
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..."
-Buffy Summers
Goodbye Iowa
What are you talking about? You useing a flawed assumption... Collage/university towns are not the highest bandwidth areas... Most students have modems if that. In the modern university system most students DON'T live on campus. Most universitys only have on campus housing for freshman. Even if DSL/Cable modems are offered in collage towns many students can't afford them. If you want to talk about high bandwidth areas try: the silicon valley (cable/ISDN/xDSL), SF (cable/ISDN/xDSL/wireless), New York (???), etc. The places with the best connectivity are places where people have too much money and jobs that are made easier by connectivity.
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..."
-Buffy Summers
Goodbye Iowa
I'm not positive but I believe Sun was using display postscript long before Steve Jobs left apple to form Next.
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..."
-Buffy Summers
Goodbye Iowa
I think people need to keep the goal in mind when talking about this. This book was not written to make money or anything people were TRYING to do something good. Remeber that...
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..."
-Buffy Summers
Goodbye Iowa
What are you smoking?
If Be doesn't have mozilla support then they are screwed. Be doesn't have a decent web browser. There own web browser is very light weight and only handles HTML. If Be doesn't get a browser that supports at least java/java script they are never going to make a big den't in any desktop. Like it or not the web is a big part of using a computer both in a business enviroment and at home.
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..."
-Buffy Summers
Goodbye Iowa
If you read the full article it says the processor is only $50 to $100 dollars more then the slot 1/Socket 370 counter part. The big difference is the management functions that are part of the processor housing such as temp., 2 eeproms, and so on... Given the size of the cartrige and the metal back plate I would imagine that it also cools better and for a server that is good.
Anouther issue is the whole slot two thing. Alot of the i840 motherboards that are in production/planned are slot two making this processor nesicary if you don't want to use a 550MHz processor.
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..."
-Buffy Summers
Goodbye Iowa
One question one statement...
Q: I was under the impression the Firewire is NOT hotplugable...
S: Show me a firewire keyboard/mouse... Firewire is great for high bandwith things like video... but USB has all the features I want for my keyboard/mouse...
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..."
-Buffy Summers
Goodbye Iowa
I really want to know... If USB sucks what is better? PS2? which is based off the fscking crap keyboard controler from the XT? ADB? which is only marginally better? SDB? which is a serial chip?
None offer plug an play...
None offer true disconnect/reconnect live...
None support 100+ devices...
If usb is such crap why are Apple and Sun abandoning there old desk top busses in favor of USB?
That is what I thought...
I bet next you'll tell me PCI is crap... PCI which has been adopted by every modern platform that I know of...
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..."
-Buffy Summers
Goodbye Iowa
Wow! I bet you are an openbsd guy. All I can say is Objection sustained... Oh wait... That's what the game the openssh.com guy was doing. He was putting an un-substantiated claim out for the reading public to sow the seed of malicious activity. This is the same thing lawers to in jury trial they throw things to the jury that will get striken from the record but will still influnce the jury.
If I were say to Cmndr Taco is not on vacation but is locked up in Hemos' basement. You would be that much closer to believing what you wouldn't have even considered on your own. And maybe a few people would email Hemos demainding his release. It happened all the time in the OJ trial the lawers would ask questions and give probable answers just before and objection could be raised... and the remark striken every where but the jury's memory.
Let us consider why this was sent to slashdot in the first place: 1) Slashdot is a mostly linux site (say what you might but I don't see announcements of *BSD or SYSV beta kernels only linux kernels) 2) Many slashdot readers are hotheads who flame and crack with out thinking or reading. To me it seems like the perfect place to sow the seeds of discontent. Throw a little gas onto the slashdot fire with some unsustantitiated aligations (yes that is was those were...) and maybe the openssh.org gives up his domain name just to stop the spam and hacking of his site.
I'm not sure but I bet if that site gets attacked and the reasoning can be traced to those comments I'm willing to bet Mr.Bertrand can be sued for liable.
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..."
-Buffy Summers
Goodbye Iowa
Read the PCI spec. 64bit pci cards are suppossed to work at 64/66 64/33, 32/33... yes 32bit by 33mhz... Most 64bit pci cards will fit in any PCI 2.2 slot.
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..."
-Buffy Summers
Goodbye Iowa
Your info is correct but I think your resoning is flawed.
The endian switching on an alpha is a legacy DEC thing that has nothing to do with Intel. Alpha engineers needed to be data compatable with PDP-11 and VAX architechtures... See page 6 of Alpha RISC Architecture for Programmers by James S. Evans and Richard Eckhouse. It shows that Alpha is Little endian just like the VAX, and PDP-11. Further on it the book it shows you how to put the Alpha into VAX floating and integer support modes.
BTW=> Mips also has multiple endian support. I think that both PPC or at least Power[1,2,3] have endian switch ability in at least the spec. No of these platforms do this for intel compatabilty. They do it so that people will use there processors. Some tasks work better on certain endian systems. I couldn't find any reference to endian switching in my Sparc documentation but I only have documents for the latest revs of the sparc spec. I believe (do to the mips like nature of the sparc line) it origninaly had endian switching abilities but again I could be wrong.
Remeber many people using RISC processors are comming from 68XX series chips or intel chips and need to have data compatability. It has very little to do with pandering to Intel and much more to do with providing a rebust flexible solution to the customer.
--cheers,
PQBON
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..."
-Buffy Summers
Goodbye Iowa
Wow... It's been a long time since I posted... You don't seem to get it... Windows and mac OS don't work out the box... they come on the box so you don't have to worry about the install... I've been using Win9X since 94 when Chicargo was first released to developers associtated with MS. It has always been a pain to install on anything but middle of the road hw. Any HW you have that is either: really cheep or really expensive requires manufactures driver disks... NT is the same way only worse if you have an unsupported disk controller. Most people don't ever setup windows them selfs or mac OS... Thats why most new computer come with a restore disk not an install disk. It fdisks and formats the drive and blows the "standard load" on the system matching the exact config from when the system was shipped.
"... That probably would have sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas..."
-Buffy Summers
Say Goodbye to Iowa
Fill rates and such may not be everything but it helps alot... for consumers games are all that matters... who can afford a $5K 3d amination software package even if you want it...
And SGI can use the TECH if you take SGIs cool cards and add the proformance of nVidia's cards you would have an even better card... Think about it...
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix
"SPOOOOOOOOON!" - The Tick, The Tick
Nvidia has cards that are as fast as if not faster then SGIs cards... Nvidia is made up of people who left SGI to move into the PC world... So I could definatly see SGI and Nvidia sharing... SGI gets faster 3dAccellerators... Nvidia gets kick ass OGL and *nix support...
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix
"SPOOOOOOOOON!" - The Tick, The Tick
My recipy is this: 2xPhysical Ram for swap. If possible put each 128Mb swap partition on a diffrent disk.
Assign the same pririty to each partition on a diffrent disk....
ie:
3 disks with 6 partitions...
the first partition on each disk at priority 1 then the second on each disk at 2...
Hop this helps!
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix
"SPOOOOOOOOON!" - The Tick, The Tick
Be is compatable with Unix/Linux... the big difference with Be is the Added a diffrent Windowing system and multimedia servers... (Be is a server based OS ontop of a micro kernel.... if you don't understand that don't bother flaiming...)
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix
"SPOOOOOOOOON!" - The Tick, The Tick
Here is a quote form the user friendly homepage:
"One of the characteristics of healthy cultures is that they can poke fun at themselves. I guess the hacker culture is in good health, because User Friendly is hilarious. Its irreverence, sophisticated in-jokes and surrealistic edge are a rocket straight out of the Internet's collective unconscious." - Eric S. Raymond, ubergeek
I know the quote is from ESR not RMS but think about it long and hard... It's a joke people...
Jokes are not nesicarily a form of disrespect.
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix
"SPOOOOOOOOON!" - The Tick, The Tick
The alpha is increadable simple.. by simple I don't mean sucky, I mean very elegent.
The alpha represents (for cpu design) a brilliant analysis of what is fast and what is not.
The alpha has a limited set of VERY simple instructions. Branches are predicted and delt with in the first or second pipe stage.....
Basically the Alpha ROX!
But it does much less per cycle then a IA-32 processor....But that is why the clock speed of an alpha is so high!
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix
"SPOOOOOOOOON!" - The Tick, The Tick
Please don't use java! Use a well suported windowing library and c/c++ so that it will be portable but not suck...
Oh wait.. we already have abi-word and go and gnumeric and etc., and star-office for for ms compatability....
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix
"SPOOOOOOOOON!" - The Tick, The Tick
Assuming she is not some web virtuoso her site was more then just a fluf site. It took a resonalbe amount of effort. Besides what's up with the (regex)*aol* bullshit. Under that thinking registering ww.inteligence.* or www.youngms.*! It's BS. And its at least wrong and at worst racism...
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix
"SPOOOOOOOOON!" - The Tick, The Tick
We've always wanted a case to test the GPL! Well, here it is... (There are no other posts but I won't do the obligitory first post ;-)!)
Or this could be a case of using BeOS and calling it linux becuase it's unix like and to the public at large linux is most easily identified as the linux like OS.
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix
"SPOOOOOOOOON!" - The Tick, The Tick
I have a friend (a family friend) who is very important at Mac World. He regularly gets yelled at by steve jobs when MW publishes i'll towards apple. I have heard from friends of lisa (she grew up with some of my friends from school...) that he can be a jerk (although all kids think their parents can be jerks.) From every romur/story I have heard steve jobs is a jerk and woz is a hacker in the MIT sence of the word.
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix
"SPOOOOOOOOON!" - The Tick, The Tick