He leaves the legacy of being a man who started and ran the IRC network that is by far the most popular network for free software developer communication, and an invaluable asset to the entire community. We thank him for his contributions, and offer our deepest condolances to the friends and family.
Despite the fact that SUN has released more code than any other company under *free* and *open source* software licenses they're to blame for everything.
Not rare at all. Here in Norway, and I'm sure elsewhere, most government computers have no internet access, but access to a huge intranet - in the interest of confidentiality. Also, most hospitals... Some high-security companies... etc...
> Matching feature parity? What sort of nonsense corporatebabble is that?
That "coropratebabble" is the base of most technological advancement to date. Hell, firefox took most of *its* features from Opera, and implemented them a hell of a lot poorer than they have. "Good artists copy, great artists steal." Picasso:)
For example, I noticed that, in that default installation, there is a boot option for "Recovery Console," which simply gives anyone who starts it root access to the computer without a password.
Okay, so do this from GRUB, on any distribution:
Highlight the kernel you would like to boot
Press e, space, type "init=/bin/bash" without the quotes, press enter twice.
When the kernel has finished booting, do "mount / -o remount,rw".
And the PDP-7 before it, though it had a variable delay line, adjustable from the front panel. Playing music (using bit operations on the accumulator, hooked to the amplifier) was interesting, as you had to tune the CPU by adjusting the clock!
Can a 13-year-old drive a car? Buy a handgun? Drink alcohol? Buy cigarettes? Vote? There you go, state-sponsored and, many would argue, valid age discrimination.
That's a matter of responsibility, not ethics. A 13-year-old shouldn't be able to drive because his brain hasn't yet developed to a point where it would be responsible to let him. That doesn't mean that he's not a human, and deserves to be treated as such!
So there's a certain amount of humor for someone to say, obviously tongue-in-cheek, that you can't discriminate against teens.
I was still offended by it.
The sound is only annoying with constant exposure, and the only way someone is going to be constantly exposed is if they're loitering around outside the store.
That's flat out wrong - When I enter the informatics library (where me, the useless teen, hangs out), past the theft detectors, I get a loud high-pitched squeal in my earphones for under a second. It's still very annoying, and the noise for several seconds would be intolerable, especially when caused by a false overgeneralization of my age group.
And if there's a simply way to encourage a group not to loiter, especially when the loiterers are pretty much exclusively composed of that group, then I say "go for it!"
Now that's just silly - he could shoot at them, that would discourage them, but it would still be inhumane. And that's my objection with this thing, reducing me to an animal, being shooed away like any other insect by a high-pitched, frustrating squeal. Go after the loiterers, not just the age group they happen to belong to. Most teens don't loiter, and the implication that we do is offensive.
That is a very insightful point, and I fully agree with it. But my recommendation of calling the cops was based on the assumption that the store proprietors had already tried that. The teens had been inside the store and harrassed customers. I'm betting someone inside the store had either spoken up against them, or been (understandably) afraid to because his or her car might get keyed or whatever, in which case bringing law enforcement into the picture is a valid action, IMHO.
I find the public's callous attitudes towards teenagers to be disgusting. Sure, teenagers are stupid, boring to talk to and nearly everything they do is pointless
My hypocrisy-o-meter just went off the scale:)
Please insert a "most" before teenagers, and I'd happily agree. But then again, most adult people are stupid, boring to talk to and nearly everything they do is pointless.
As a teen, having gone through very frustrating and annoying shit just because of my age, I'd love to know why the fuck this was modded funny.
This *is* discrimination. If the guys are annoying, call the cops on the fuckers. Don't take it out on everyone who just happen to be the same age. It's no better than racism.
Do Arab countries have... Norway has none of these except Tom and Jerry, and it's still a smash hit here. I laugh at some jokes my mother misses, based on knowledge of American culture, but everyone here still loves it, though the culture here is very different from the one Over There.
I didn't think that RSX-11/M ran decnet IV. The PDP-11s that we still have running don't have network cards, so I couldn't try it, though.
I'm fairly sure that it does. But, if you are ever going to get rid of those PDP-11s, would you please contact a collector mailing list, mainly classiccmp.org? Would be a shame to waste history. I'm Tore S Bekkedal on the list, btw.
Also, Freenode #classiccmp is a channel with quite a few 11 enthusiasts. Please, do drop by! I'd love to hear about your 11(s). (I'm toresbe)
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Very entertaining book, if a bit dramatized. It's the story of the invention of the then-modern VAX system in the late 1970s. Guess what, they used emulation technology, just like VMWare et al.
Required reading in my college 15 years ago.
Heh, then you were high in college. The company was Data General and they were making a VAX competitor...
I would say the Linux decnet stack works pretty well for talking to old VAXen.
And only VAXen... My PDP-11, running RSX-11/M, gets very confused when talking to Linux. I am thinking about getting around to sending in some patches... but it's a major annoyance for me.
exactly one program that will not compile nor run on anything more modern and it has no assembly code in it. It just uses old APIs.
Really? what APIs? The UNIX APIs have been fairly standard throughout the ages. More likely is it that it's written badly enough to rely on Motorola-specific features, endianness.
Kids these days. Back in the old times, you didn't go under or over clock, you went through it!
If you want to get all old-skool about it - - 1960s/1970s DEC (now Compaq (now HP)) machines were *frequently* overclocked. The PDP-7 could be overclocked by shorting some pins in an R401 Master Clock Flip-Chip in row N somewhere on the CPU which would override the Clock Speed setting on the front panel (yes - there were two knobs on the front panel, coarse and fine timing settings. Would be used to tune programs playing music - could also turn the machine to under 1Hz, for manual on-the-fly debugging by watching the blinkenlights) - this would overclock both CPU and RAM - but you had to be careful - clock the RAM too fast and the Writeback cycle failed (Magnetic core memory - reads were destructive) and you essentially cleared out all memory you read.
The various PDP-10 processors were also overclocked up to 30%...
And a friend of mine is the owner of the world's fastest PDP-11 - overclocked and running still, at a record 20+N MHz, where N is a number between 1 and 9 I don't remember (the CPU was shipped at 18MHz, and frequently clocked to 20MHz). On the -10 and -11 this would be accomplished by just soldering on a new crystal.
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Uhm, that's on a completely different layer, buddy. The ethernet card driver itself handles the collisions.
Yeah, OK. Now, does anyone have a reasonable solution?
Using Word isn't a reasonable solution. The problem is inherent in the tool you're using. Switch tools.
Rest in peace.
He leaves the legacy of being a man who started and ran the IRC network that is by far the most popular network for free software developer communication, and an invaluable asset to the entire community. We thank him for his contributions, and offer our deepest condolances to the friends and family.
Despite the fact that SUN has released more code than any other company under *free* and *open source* software licenses they're to blame for everything.
Do you have any sources for this claim?
Not rare at all. Here in Norway, and I'm sure elsewhere, most government computers have no internet access, but access to a huge intranet - in the interest of confidentiality. Also, most hospitals... Some high-security companies... etc...
you are not ISO-646 compliant. You use square brackets as square brackets in your text.
> Matching feature parity? What sort of nonsense corporatebabble is that?
:)
That "coropratebabble" is the base of most technological advancement to date. Hell, firefox took most of *its* features from Opera, and implemented them a hell of a lot poorer than they have.
"Good artists copy, great artists steal."
Picasso
For example, I noticed that, in that default installation, there is a boot option for "Recovery Console," which simply gives anyone who starts it root access to the computer without a password.
Okay, so do this from GRUB, on any distribution:
Repeat after me: With physical access, there will never be security
Uh, ignore me, he died 16 years ago :(
Just curious... Your last name isn't Licklider, is it?
And the PDP-7 before it, though it had a variable delay line, adjustable from the front panel. Playing music (using bit operations on the accumulator, hooked to the amplifier) was interesting, as you had to tune the CPU by adjusting the clock!
"I don't know what that is"
Ever struck you that he could have been replying that he didn't know what the email address itself is? A far more likely response...
Can a 13-year-old drive a car? Buy a handgun? Drink alcohol? Buy cigarettes? Vote? There you go, state-sponsored and, many would argue, valid age discrimination.
That's a matter of responsibility, not ethics. A 13-year-old shouldn't be able to drive because his brain hasn't yet developed to a point where it would be responsible to let him. That doesn't mean that he's not a human, and deserves to be treated as such!
So there's a certain amount of humor for someone to say, obviously tongue-in-cheek, that you can't discriminate against teens.
I was still offended by it.
The sound is only annoying with constant exposure, and the only way someone is going to be constantly exposed is if they're loitering around outside the store.That's flat out wrong - When I enter the informatics library (where me, the useless teen, hangs out), past the theft detectors, I get a loud high-pitched squeal in my earphones for under a second. It's still very annoying, and the noise for several seconds would be intolerable, especially when caused by a false overgeneralization of my age group.
And if there's a simply way to encourage a group not to loiter, especially when the loiterers are pretty much exclusively composed of that group, then I say "go for it!"
Now that's just silly - he could shoot at them, that would discourage them, but it would still be inhumane. And that's my objection with this thing, reducing me to an animal, being shooed away like any other insect by a high-pitched, frustrating squeal. Go after the loiterers, not just the age group they happen to belong to. Most teens don't loiter, and the implication that we do is offensive.
That is a very insightful point, and I fully agree with it. But my recommendation of calling the cops was based on the assumption that the store proprietors had already tried that. The teens had been inside the store and harrassed customers. I'm betting someone inside the store had either spoken up against them, or been (understandably) afraid to because his or her car might get keyed or whatever, in which case bringing law enforcement into the picture is a valid action, IMHO.
Teens aren't being subjected to anything than everyone else it. Everyone is being subjected to the same sound waves.
Yeah, but only the teens (and the dogs and the babies) hear it. Thus, you're only subjecting teens to an annoying sound.
Teens are being targeted because they're loitering, not because they're teens.
So all teens are loiterers? As a teen, I'm offended.
My hypocrisy-o-meter just went off the scale :)
Please insert a "most" before teenagers, and I'd happily agree. But then again, most adult people are stupid, boring to talk to and nearly everything they do is pointless.
As a teen, having gone through very frustrating and annoying shit just because of my age, I'd love to know why the fuck this was modded funny.
This *is* discrimination. If the guys are annoying, call the cops on the fuckers. Don't take it out on everyone who just happen to be the same age. It's no better than racism.
Do Arab countries have...
Norway has none of these except Tom and Jerry, and it's still a smash hit here. I laugh at some jokes my mother misses, based on knowledge of American culture, but everyone here still loves it, though the culture here is very different from the one Over There.
James Doohan, thank you for Star Trek. Thank you for Scotty, an inspiration for generations of hackers worldwide.
Rest in peace.
And my sincerest condolances to family and friends.
I didn't think that RSX-11/M ran decnet IV. The PDP-11s that we still have running don't have network cards, so I couldn't try it, though.
I'm fairly sure that it does. But, if you are ever going to get rid of those PDP-11s, would you please contact a collector mailing list, mainly classiccmp.org? Would be a shame to waste history. I'm Tore S Bekkedal on the list, btw.
Also, Freenode #classiccmp is a channel with quite a few 11 enthusiasts. Please, do drop by! I'd love to hear about your 11(s). (I'm toresbe)
Very entertaining book, if a bit dramatized. It's the story of the invention of the then-modern VAX system in the late 1970s. Guess what, they used emulation technology, just like VMWare et al. Required reading in my college 15 years ago.
Heh, then you were high in college. The company was Data General and they were making a VAX competitor...
I would say the Linux decnet stack works pretty well for talking to old VAXen.
And only VAXen... My PDP-11, running RSX-11/M, gets very confused when talking to Linux. I am thinking about getting around to sending in some patches... but it's a major annoyance for me.
exactly one program that will not compile nor run on anything more modern and it has no assembly code in it. It just uses old APIs.
Really? what APIs? The UNIX APIs have been fairly standard throughout the ages. More likely is it that it's written badly enough to rely on Motorola-specific features, endianness.
That's what the WANT you to think!
Kids these days. Back in the old times, you didn't go under or over clock, you went through it!
If you want to get all old-skool about it - - 1960s/1970s DEC (now Compaq (now HP)) machines were *frequently* overclocked. The PDP-7 could be overclocked by shorting some pins in an R401 Master Clock Flip-Chip in row N somewhere on the CPU which would override the Clock Speed setting on the front panel (yes - there were two knobs on the front panel, coarse and fine timing settings. Would be used to tune programs playing music - could also turn the machine to under 1Hz, for manual on-the-fly debugging by watching the blinkenlights) - this would overclock both CPU and RAM - but you had to be careful - clock the RAM too fast and the Writeback cycle failed (Magnetic core memory - reads were destructive) and you essentially cleared out all memory you read.
The various PDP-10 processors were also overclocked up to 30%...
And a friend of mine is the owner of the world's fastest PDP-11 - overclocked and running still, at a record 20+N MHz, where N is a number between 1 and 9 I don't remember (the CPU was shipped at 18MHz, and frequently clocked to 20MHz). On the -10 and -11 this would be accomplished by just soldering on a new crystal.