You clearly weren't around when there was no autorun option (in DOOM).. My setup is a bit closer to 'the norm':
Q - backwards W - duck E - weprev R - wepnext
A - forward D/F game dependant
Z - strafe left X - strafe right C/V game dependant
Shift run/walk, with caps as a fixed toggle. Ctrl for zoom. Mouse pri and secondary fire.
This is a somewhat "evolved" state spawning from mouse control of Descent and Quake 2 keylayout:-) --
'And who's to say that "US English" and "British English" are really all that different?'
I don't know if it's just the colour of the paycheques, or other more interesting things like the use of aluminium in bathrooms, cubic metres on their natural gas meter, or having a properly centred government. Or perhaps it's just that the US doesn't have the truly awesome doughnuts that the Canadian North does.:-)
The point is, the US changed pronunciation and spelling 'to be different' back after they declared independance. Some of these losses of spelling differentiation are even completetly nonsensical -- like changing the spelling on SI unit names like 'metre' and 'litre' to be er, when the re versions are the accepted standard for metric unit naming in every other country in the world. Perhaps the US should modernize itself by switching to SI units, and changing some of the spelling to be closer to the international standard. --
Actually, Pluto and Charon are just a system of two kuiper belt objects. My astronomy buddy mentioned that it was recently decided that Pluto is no longer a planet by an astronomical committee (not sure whom), leaving us back with 8 planets again -- I'm sure this means that this new tiny object will also be ruled a kuiper belt object.. NOT a planet:-) --
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"But of course you wouldn't feel so clever using a system that works straight off without you having to prove how knowledgeable you are would you?".. why of course not, that's why I'm writing my own OS.
Sarcasm aside, this is a funny troll posting. Even if you didn't mean to be a troll, that's exactly what you're doing. --
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"The last thing I take with me camping is something I won't use."... that's my point:-p QNX is great for embedded devices, but Linux can do that (although less well) and more. It's great for those of us who don't camp, but can use all the various tools and devices in a swiss army knife.
"for teh love of god zealots, think outside of the box. "
Rofl.. "EH LUUNIX GODS MUST BE APPEASED! UES LINUS, IT RAX)R@#!RT JEFFK IS HAX)R!"
I'm not a zealot. Just someone try to present a nice balanced view, since your posting seemed to be bandwagon jumping onto QNX. --
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I didn't. I just said that the Linux Kernel's modules did exist, and were as modular as they could be from a monolithic kernel.
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It supports a form of modules. That was one of the points of the post -- the Linux Kernel is as modular as a monolithic kernel can be. --
Think base 10 vs. base 8 and base 16 to get what I meant. --
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"It's also really efficiently written, and almost completely modular (as opposed to Linux' monolithic-plus-kitchen-sink approach)."
I don't suppose you've ever used Linux, since lsmod, rmmod, insmod, depmod, modprobe are all parts of the wonderful world of mapping things dynamically into kernele space. With it, I can have hot plug PCMCIA, USB, and other devices without having to have this monolitihic kernel you decry. There's even a Microkernel Linux which adds the features that the HURD and QNX have, that Linux doesn't.
QNX is targetted at embedded devices. That tight focus lets it get away with not having support for 64gb of ram, scaling to 8-way SMP, NUMA, swap space, implementation of device drivers for PC and non-PC hardware of all kinds, and other requirements of being a kernel that can be embedded in devices lacking a memory controller, to massive SMP systems, to computing clusters.
"QNX is much more suitable for PDAs and otehr small systems than is Linux."
Ever heard the phrase "jack of all trades, master of none?" Linux is the swiss-army knife kernel. It may not be as good for skinning as a proper hunting knife, but it also has a saw, a can opener, a magnifying glass, and many other useful tools that you might need some day. Think about it.
"FICTION: Al Gore claimed responsibility for inventing the Internet in the 1990's."
FACT : Al Gore doesn't handle talking to the media well, never has. He was the principle backer of many bills that funded NSFnet -- the National Science Foundation Network (which later became the Internet) after the Pentagon decided it didn't want Arpanet running on DoD dollars. Without him, there would certainly have been little funding for networking between Universities. Leading to the loss of anything related to networked univerities (such as the original birth of the Linux kernel, etc).
This is very clever use of half-truths to change peoples' minds on the subject. A skilled troll. I hope the people reading this rememeber that no situation is as simple as one-line point/point rebuttals. Every situation has to viewed in its proper context before an informed decision can be made. --
A British Scientist (first initial M) decides that the entire universe flourishes because our measurement system has pegged a certain number level as.007
"Maybe it's the fact that it doesn't have a curses or X-based install,"
I've been using Slackware since 2.3 (when I first started using Linux), and still use it today. AFAICT, it uses an ncurses based install. Perhaps it would've been better to say, "just because it doesn't have an X-based install routine.." --
Confirmed. As an @ of #kuro5hin, and knowing the regulars, I can firmly say that unless some alien brainwashing crew visited Australia, Western Europe, most of the US, and Canada, they all witnessed the same Rob Malda.:)
Slackware Linux. 6-9 months between releases. Always stable, always high quality. No need for Red Hat's "release bugs" or Debian's "release after the next ice age" extremes. You can have release often and release stable:) --
I'm sure a lot of people would have taken it personally, regardless of how Hemos phrased it. What I fail to understand is why these same people continue to read slashdot if they find it so inherently offensive. --
I don't think it matters where Bill is on the poll. I think it matters that he shouldn't be there at all. Ditto for Larry Ellison. Those men do nothing buy make money off of their company. They've not done any inovative work for the company (unless you count managing as that, and even Bill hasn't been a manager for a while now).
Tim Berners-Lee is there. He did something. Linus did something. Bill made money. Innovation in technology? Not Bill. --
"On problem, as with any universal rating scheme is that it would be easy to, say, create 20 accounts and consistantly mark-down a certain author, something you cant do on/. because you would have work the accounts up to moderator status first."
If you're talking about the system used on Kuro5hin, you should be aware that the number of comments needed to turf or post a story is a percentage. As you create more accounts to affect the vote, more accounts are required to affect the vote. You end up chasing your own tail if you attempt to abuse it that way. --
Users can arbitrarily change the MAC addresses on all modern cards without too much trouble. They might be able to figure out what mfr your NIC card is if you've not changed it, but I don't think we'll be seeing black helicopters descending on your house.
Besides, a simple ARP request will get a person's MAC if they're on the same subnet (or there is a machine configured to forward packets between two subnets, beyond that). I think this is more an issue of people not having a clearer understanding of what's in their computer, and how it can be (mis)used. Hey, if I know your IP address and have a time, I'm just a subpena away from getting all the information your ISP has on you. Is that a big privacy concern? Not really. --
I think you're confused about what a hash is. A hash is a one-way function. A cryptographic hash is a one-way function with an incredibly low probability of collision. Example: passwords are cryptographic hashes, allowing the system to verify your password without having a copy of it handy:)
Encryption is a two-way function requiring a key (3DES, blowfish, IDEA), or a pair of matched one-way functions (RSA, DSA). Don't confuse this with a cryptographic hash which is strictly one way. And don't confuse hashes with any form of encryption. --
Linux 2.4 has a set of 64bit file calls which work natively on 64-bit achitectures, and work also on 32-bit architectures by using double word operations. You take a performance hit on 32-bit systems, but it works fine. The glibc 2.x has it, as does the kernel. You just have to ensure that the libc was compiled with support for it.
Remember, this is opensource. We've patched the libc and vfs layer with little trouble because of it. Now it just needs testing:) --
It's funnier than that. Packets which are source routed are dropped by all sane TCP/IP implementations. Ditto for any with blank sequence numbers. Don't worry about some stupid sites blocking ICMP (ahemslashdotahem) as a form of "Security".. nmap and other sane scanners just go ahead and try to TCP connect to a WellKnown port to get an ACK or an RST packet back. No big deal.
Life is not like Gibson Sci-Fi because people are not that ignorant of technology! Though there are certainly enough that try to prove me wrong:-/ --
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You clearly weren't around when there was no autorun option (in DOOM).. My setup is a bit closer to 'the norm':
:-)
Q - backwards W - duck E - weprev R - wepnext
A - forward D/F game dependant
Z - strafe left X - strafe right C/V game dependant
Shift run/walk, with caps as a fixed toggle. Ctrl for zoom. Mouse pri and secondary fire.
This is a somewhat "evolved" state spawning from mouse control of Descent and Quake 2 keylayout
--
'And who's to say that "US English" and "British English" are really all that different?'
:-)
I don't know if it's just the colour of the paycheques, or other more interesting things like the use of aluminium in bathrooms, cubic metres on their natural gas meter, or having a properly centred government. Or perhaps it's just that the US doesn't have the truly awesome doughnuts that the Canadian North does.
The point is, the US changed pronunciation and spelling 'to be different' back after they declared independance. Some of these losses of spelling differentiation are even completetly nonsensical -- like changing the spelling on SI unit names like 'metre' and 'litre' to be er, when the re versions are the accepted standard for metric unit naming in every other country in the world. Perhaps the US should modernize itself by switching to SI units, and changing some of the spelling to be closer to the international standard.
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Actually, Pluto and Charon are just a system of two kuiper belt objects. My astronomy buddy mentioned that it was recently decided that Pluto is no longer a planet by an astronomical committee (not sure whom), leaving us back with 8 planets again -- I'm sure this means that this new tiny object will also be ruled a kuiper belt object.. NOT a planet :-)
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"But of course you wouldn't feel so clever using a system that works straight off without you having to prove how knowledgeable you are would you?" .. why of course not, that's why I'm writing my own OS.
Sarcasm aside, this is a funny troll posting. Even if you didn't mean to be a troll, that's exactly what you're doing.
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"The last thing I take with me camping is something I won't use." ... that's my point :-p QNX is great for embedded devices, but Linux can do that (although less well) and more. It's great for those of us who don't camp, but can use all the various tools and devices in a swiss army knife.
"for teh love of god zealots, think outside of the box. "
Rofl.. "EH LUUNIX GODS MUST BE APPEASED! UES LINUS, IT RAX)R@#!RT JEFFK IS HAX)R!"
I'm not a zealot. Just someone try to present a nice balanced view, since your posting seemed to be bandwagon jumping onto QNX.
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I didn't. I just said that the Linux Kernel's modules did exist, and were as modular as they could be from a monolithic kernel.
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It supports a form of modules. That was one of the points of the post -- the Linux Kernel is as modular as a monolithic kernel can be.
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Think base 10 vs. base 8 and base 16 to get what I meant.
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"It's also really efficiently written, and almost completely modular (as opposed to Linux' monolithic-plus-kitchen-sink approach)."
I don't suppose you've ever used Linux, since lsmod, rmmod, insmod, depmod, modprobe are all parts of the wonderful world of mapping things dynamically into kernele space. With it, I can have hot plug PCMCIA, USB, and other devices without having to have this monolitihic kernel you decry. There's even a Microkernel Linux which adds the features that the HURD and QNX have, that Linux doesn't.
QNX is targetted at embedded devices. That tight focus lets it get away with not having support for 64gb of ram, scaling to 8-way SMP, NUMA, swap space, implementation of device drivers for PC and non-PC hardware of all kinds, and other requirements of being a kernel that can be embedded in devices lacking a memory controller, to massive SMP systems, to computing clusters.
"QNX is much more suitable for PDAs and otehr small systems than is Linux."
Ever heard the phrase "jack of all trades, master of none?" Linux is the swiss-army knife kernel. It may not be as good for skinning as a proper hunting knife, but it also has a saw, a can opener, a magnifying glass, and many other useful tools that you might need some day. Think about it.
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"FICTION: Al Gore claimed responsibility for inventing the Internet in the 1990's."
FACT : Al Gore doesn't handle talking to the media well, never has. He was the principle backer of many bills that funded NSFnet -- the National Science Foundation Network (which later became the Internet) after the Pentagon decided it didn't want Arpanet running on DoD dollars. Without him, there would certainly have been little funding for networking between Universities. Leading to the loss of anything related to networked univerities (such as the original birth of the Linux kernel, etc).
This is very clever use of half-truths to change peoples' minds on the subject. A skilled troll. I hope the people reading this rememeber that no situation is as simple as one-line point/point rebuttals. Every situation has to viewed in its proper context before an informed decision can be made.
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A British Scientist (first initial M) decides that the entire universe flourishes because our measurement system has pegged a certain number level as .007
Does no one else see the irony?
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"Maybe it's the fact that it doesn't have a curses or X-based install,"
.."
I've been using Slackware since 2.3 (when I first started using Linux), and still use it today. AFAICT, it uses an ncurses based install. Perhaps it would've been better to say, "just because it doesn't have an X-based install routine
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Confirmed. As an @ of #kuro5hin, and knowing the regulars, I can firmly say that unless some alien brainwashing crew visited Australia, Western Europe, most of the US, and Canada, they all witnessed the same Rob Malda. :)
:-(
Too bad I was asleep at the time
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Slackware Linux. 6-9 months between releases. Always stable, always high quality. No need for Red Hat's "release bugs" or Debian's "release after the next ice age" extremes. You can have release often and release stable :)
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I'm sure a lot of people would have taken it personally, regardless of how Hemos phrased it. What I fail to understand is why these same people continue to read slashdot if they find it so inherently offensive.
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Turing contributed something. Bill bought a copy of basic and had Paul Allen work on it.
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No, Jamie Zawinski did enough work that I'd say he'd be the best Netscape candidate there. Marc was just a lawyer who got VC.
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I don't think it matters where Bill is on the poll. I think it matters that he shouldn't be there at all. Ditto for Larry Ellison. Those men do nothing buy make money off of their company. They've not done any inovative work for the company (unless you count managing as that, and even Bill hasn't been a manager for a while now).
Tim Berners-Lee is there. He did something. Linus did something. Bill made money. Innovation in technology? Not Bill.
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"On problem, as with any universal rating scheme is that it would be easy to, say, create 20 accounts and consistantly mark-down a certain author, something you cant do on /. because you would have work the accounts up to moderator status first."
If you're talking about the system used on Kuro5hin, you should be aware that the number of comments needed to turf or post a story is a percentage. As you create more accounts to affect the vote, more accounts are required to affect the vote. You end up chasing your own tail if you attempt to abuse it that way.
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Users can arbitrarily change the MAC addresses on all modern cards without too much trouble. They might be able to figure out what mfr your NIC card is if you've not changed it, but I don't think we'll be seeing black helicopters descending on your house.
Besides, a simple ARP request will get a person's MAC if they're on the same subnet (or there is a machine configured to forward packets between two subnets, beyond that). I think this is more an issue of people not having a clearer understanding of what's in their computer, and how it can be (mis)used. Hey, if I know your IP address and have a time, I'm just a subpena away from getting all the information your ISP has on you. Is that a big privacy concern? Not really.
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I think you're confused about what a hash is. A hash is a one-way function. A cryptographic hash is a one-way function with an incredibly low probability of collision. Example: passwords are cryptographic hashes, allowing the system to verify your password without having a copy of it handy :)
Encryption is a two-way function requiring a key (3DES, blowfish, IDEA), or a pair of matched one-way functions (RSA, DSA). Don't confuse this with a cryptographic hash which is strictly one way. And don't confuse hashes with any form of encryption.
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Uhm, no.
:)
Linux 2.4 has a set of 64bit file calls which work natively on 64-bit achitectures, and work also on 32-bit architectures by using double word operations. You take a performance hit on 32-bit systems, but it works fine. The glibc 2.x has it, as does the kernel. You just have to ensure that the libc was compiled with support for it.
Remember, this is opensource. We've patched the libc and vfs layer with little trouble because of it. Now it just needs testing
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Exactly how is NetBSD any more secure than Linux, except for the fact that it includes less?
If they were concerned about security, they'd run OpenBSD, which runs just as well on the MIPS architecture.
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It's funnier than that. Packets which are source routed are dropped by all sane TCP/IP implementations. Ditto for any with blank sequence numbers. Don't worry about some stupid sites blocking ICMP (ahemslashdotahem) as a form of "Security" .. nmap and other sane scanners just go ahead and try to TCP connect to a WellKnown port to get an ACK or an RST packet back. No big deal.
:-/
Life is not like Gibson Sci-Fi because people are not that ignorant of technology! Though there are certainly enough that try to prove me wrong
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I can think of another site that has dealt with similar issues a few other times :-)
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