Point taken. OTOH, it should be possible to run KOffice, Gnome Office or whatever via a remote X session on a MacBook (at least when I'm home - either logging into either a Solaris or OpenBSD box). From what I've read, KWrite may be the closest open source WP/DTP program to what I'm looking for (got spoiled by using Island Write, but that hasn't been updated since 1996/7 - sigh).
OS X has enough Unix in it to make it a far more productive working environment for me than Windoze, albeit the userland stuff does take a bit of getting used to as when going back and forth between Solaris and Linux (e.g. 'killall' works -um- slightly differently on Linux and Solaris).
FWIW, my Linux box will be a TS-7800 (500 MHz ARM9), but that may be a bit underpowered for KOffice...
killall is used by shutdown(1M) to kill all active processes not directly related to the shutdown procedure
...which might explain why many linux distributions have begun including the solaris-like "pgrep" and "pkill" commands...
IMO, the Solaris use of "killall" makes more sense than the Linux use - i.e. Kill all
On a related note, I had a weird moment reading the manpage for sshd_config on OpenBSD 4.1 - thought I'd made a mistake and was reading the same manpage from Solaris - the 'maxstartups' line appeared in sshd_config for Solaris before it showed up in OpenBSD.
I thought the Macjournals article was at least as vacuous as the Apleinisider article. Furthermore, the author of the Macjournal article is obviously not very aware of how file systems interact with hard drives (e.g. soft errors) and not very up on the innards of ZFS.
If HFS or HFS+ are so great, then why isn't there more interest in porting HFS or HFS+ to other OS's such as Linux or the BSD's?
Werner von Braun's group launched a rokect in early 1956 that could have reached orbit if it had a fourth stage - no fourth stage was installed on the express orders of Eisenhower. Ike's reasoning was that if the Soviets launched first, their satellites would overfly the US first and thus the Soviets would have been in no position to complain about US satellites overflying the Soviet Union.
The top US space priority in the late 1950's was developing photo recconnaisance under cover of the Discoverer program.
But hey, if they cancel my service over this, I can demand phone service back thanks to their franchise contract and universal access laws. If they charge me to turn it back on, I'll have the city council going over that contract to see what can be done about getting some real competition in here.
Or maybe through the courts to enforce the franchise agreements and there is precendence for utility property transferred to another enitity for failure to live up to the franchise agreement.
In the end, I moved to a FireWire reader and I no longer trust USB for anything unless there's no other alternative (iPod, iPhone, and disks attached to an Airport Base Station). While that makes me somewhat more comfortable than dealing with USB, there have been a few nasty issues even with FireWire devices.
I don't recall seeing anything with regards to FireWire vs USB that would give FireWire an advantage in data integrity (though may be missing some finer points about the respective specs). OTOH, I have seen specs (one of the LaCie RAID in a box drives) that give a 10 to 20% performance advantage to FW despite the 'lower' peak speeds - one reason is that FW uses separate pairs for xmit and rcv.
We do have weak link with desktops regarding RAM however. While modern workstations and server are generally installed with ECC RAM, our desktops are not.
The major failing of the original Apple Xserve 'supercomputer' cluster was the lack of ECC - ISTR an estimate of a memory error every few hours (estimate made by Del Cecchi on comp.arch), which would severely limit the kinds of problems that could be solved on the system. I also remember the original systems being replaced a few months later with Xserves that had ECC.
And yes, you would take a 1 to 2% performance hit, but so what; Data integrity is more impor[t]ant.
A 1 to 2% performance hit is less costly than having to do multiple runs to make sure the data didn't get munged.
Note: The newer Intel P965 chipset does not support ECC memory while their older 965x does. Crying shame too given the P965 has been designed for Core 2 Due and Quad Core CPUs.
You're right about the crying shame - what you have is a high end games machine. Perhaps AMD still has a chance if their chipsets support ECC RAM. Something similar came up a few years ago on one of the Sun newsgroups about the the latest Apple box being able to run rings around a much more expensive Sun box - the one limitation of the Apple box was lack of ECC.
They don't honestly think that this will cause interference.
They honestly do think that the proposed devices will cause interference - pretty much the same way that the ARRL demonstrated that BPL systems cause enourmous amounts of interference.
Copyright is a right granted by the people, and it is a right that can be revoked by the people.
The origin of copyright was the king granting the right for printers to print copies of a book and that's why the term 'royalty' shows up when talking about payments involving copyrighted works. The idea that ordinary people, as opposed to the landed gentry, can own property is a relatively recent one (ca. 1700).
Now what makes all this a farce is that it is virtually impossible to create an all but the simplest copyrighted work without making use of works copyrighted by others.
Slightly off-topic rant: One of the examples used in favor of extending the term of copyright was to allow Harold Loyd's granddaughter(?) to earn some money by re-releasing his movies. At the same time, Hollyweird basically told the widow of the captain of the boat that inspired "The Perfect Storm" that she was SOL in regards to mis-portrayal of her husband in the movie.
Looking at the picture, the screw on the boat looks remarkably like the designs from a couple of decades ago for high-efficiency, low-noise propellers for aircraft, where the blades wrapped backwards around the engine nacelle.
That was pretty much what I thought when seeing the picture of the sub prop. Think you're right in that the prop designs were driven by very similar criteria. While noise was the dominant concern for the sub prop, reducing the noise sources (cavitation and turbulence) likely had a beneficial effect on efficiency.
If you are a big enough customer, chances are that the utility will tack on a charge for peak power as well. I remember hearing about LLNL using ~1GW for a few seconds a few times a day back in the 1970's - PG&E was probably charging more for the peak demand than they were for the energy.
Your point about most customers buying energy, not power is correct.
like dosbox, and I'm pretty sure that under Vista you *may* need wine to run some legacy windows softwares....
Ain't that the truth - sigh...
With M$ EOL'ing XP in the near future, looks like the only way to run some of the older 'doze apps will be on Wine. My experience with Vista has been that the frustrations far outweigh the improvements over XP (on the kids' computers - my primary OS is Solaris 10).
Sounds like you're describing a TS-7400 from Technologic Systems - although the 7400 is ARM9 based. They ship a version with built-in wireless in a case about the size of a deck of playing cards. You can get Debian on a 512MB SD card for the system.
Technologic Systems will be shipping their TS-7800 at the end of September, which is powered by a 500MHz ARM9 processor. Maximum power consumption for the board is 4 watts.
Your comment about the fast busy signal on POTS is pretty close to the mark - the phone system was not designed to handle every line being used simultaneously because it wasn't economically feasible. Back 20 years ago, the bottleneck was the number of crossbar switches compared to the number of lines served by the switches.
Same thing happens in the electric utility biz. It is not necessary for the utility to supply all of their customers max-ing out their connection simultaneously. I've seen estimates that the peak load for an electric utility is on the order of one-third of the sum of the peak loads for each of the utility's customers - and time based pricing can improve on that.
The first gas electric rail vehicles were made shortly after 1900, but it wasn't until Hermann Lemp of GE developed an improved generator control system in 1923 that gas-electrics and diesel electrics became practical. Incidentally, one of the big users of the Lemp system was EMC, which became EMD when bought by GM ca 1933.
The US fleet subs (e.g. Gato class) were an even better example of a hybrid drive as the big turbo-electric ships didn't have any energy storage system. BTW, the Brits, Germans and Japanese subs used direct or geared drive from the diesels, whereas the USN used only electric transmissions after the early 30's.
If the MS device did have a working self-test, then it would have notified the FCC test engineers that the unit was having problems and the FCC could/would have asked MS for a working unit.
Designing a proper self test for this device will be non-trivial, but I agree that the FCC shouldn't approve the device until such a self test is shown to work robustly.
I'd actually began to mention BBSs and then erased it, because I figured if I start down that road, people are going to say, "Actually, it started with people copying each others punch cards."
Home taping was the first worry of the media companies, I remember reading an article in 1970-71 Hi-Fi mag aout the ethics of taping records (tape recorders had been available since the 1950's). Similarly, one of the reasons why Ampex never got serious about a home video tape recorder was that they knew they were going to be sued by the media companies (Betamax decision...) - they figured that the Japanese with their assets offshore would make a much harder target for the media companies.
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It is also my understanding that Sun's payment to SCO was to have 'clear title' to the code in Solaris. I'm guessing that the intent was more so Sun wouldn't have to cut a check to SCO for every copy of Solaris shipped rather than opening the code.
One of the significant developments occuring just after 1800 was the high pressure steam engine (Trevithick in the UK and Oliver Evans in the US). The decrease in size and increase in efficiency allowed for many new applications of steam power, notably in transportation - steamboats and railroads. Before 1800, a lot of advances in low cost transportation were being made in the UK, primarily canals and plateways (forerunners of the railroad).
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OS X has enough Unix in it to make it a far more productive working environment for me than Windoze, albeit the userland stuff does take a bit of getting used to as when going back and forth between Solaris and Linux (e.g. 'killall' works -um- slightly differently on Linux and Solaris).
FWIW, my Linux box will be a TS-7800 (500 MHz ARM9), but that may be a bit underpowered for KOffice...
...which might explain why many linux distributions have begun including the solaris-like "pgrep" and "pkill" commands...
IMO, the Solaris use of "killall" makes more sense than the Linux use - i.e. Kill allOn a related note, I had a weird moment reading the manpage for sshd_config on OpenBSD 4.1 - thought I'd made a mistake and was reading the same manpage from Solaris - the 'maxstartups' line appeared in sshd_config for Solaris before it showed up in OpenBSD.
Not Plan 9?If HFS or HFS+ are so great, then why isn't there more interest in porting HFS or HFS+ to other OS's such as Linux or the BSD's?
The top US space priority in the late 1950's was developing photo recconnaisance under cover of the Discoverer program.
Or maybe through the courts to enforce the franchise agreements and there is precendence for utility property transferred to another enitity for failure to live up to the franchise agreement.In high speed mode, the same pair of wires is used for transmit and receive - FireWire has separate pairs.
I don't recall seeing anything with regards to FireWire vs USB that would give FireWire an advantage in data integrity (though may be missing some finer points about the respective specs). OTOH, I have seen specs (one of the LaCie RAID in a box drives) that give a 10 to 20% performance advantage to FW despite the 'lower' peak speeds - one reason is that FW uses separate pairs for xmit and rcv.
The major failing of the original Apple Xserve 'supercomputer' cluster was the lack of ECC - ISTR an estimate of a memory error every few hours (estimate made by Del Cecchi on comp.arch), which would severely limit the kinds of problems that could be solved on the system. I also remember the original systems being replaced a few months later with Xserves that had ECC.
And yes, you would take a 1 to 2% performance hit, but so what; Data integrity is more impor[t]ant.
A 1 to 2% performance hit is less costly than having to do multiple runs to make sure the data didn't get munged.
Note: The newer Intel P965 chipset does not support ECC memory while their older 965x does. Crying shame too given the P965 has been designed for Core 2 Due and Quad Core CPUs.
You're right about the crying shame - what you have is a high end games machine. Perhaps AMD still has a chance if their chipsets support ECC RAM. Something similar came up a few years ago on one of the Sun newsgroups about the the latest Apple box being able to run rings around a much more expensive Sun box - the one limitation of the Apple box was lack of ECC.
They honestly do think that the proposed devices will cause interference - pretty much the same way that the ARRL demonstrated that BPL systems cause enourmous amounts of interference.
Don't know much about the NFS client for Linux, but most of what I've heard about Linux's NFS server is that it sucks.
The origin of copyright was the king granting the right for printers to print copies of a book and that's why the term 'royalty' shows up when talking about payments involving copyrighted works. The idea that ordinary people, as opposed to the landed gentry, can own property is a relatively recent one (ca. 1700).Now what makes all this a farce is that it is virtually impossible to create an all but the simplest copyrighted work without making use of works copyrighted by others.
Slightly off-topic rant: One of the examples used in favor of extending the term of copyright was to allow Harold Loyd's granddaughter(?) to earn some money by re-releasing his movies. At the same time, Hollyweird basically told the widow of the captain of the boat that inspired "The Perfect Storm" that she was SOL in regards to mis-portrayal of her husband in the movie.
On a bit more serious note - Flash is available for Solaris on both Sparc and x86 - wonder if M$/Novell will support a 'Sunlight' port.
That was pretty much what I thought when seeing the picture of the sub prop. Think you're right in that the prop designs were driven by very similar criteria. While noise was the dominant concern for the sub prop, reducing the noise sources (cavitation and turbulence) likely had a beneficial effect on efficiency.Your point about most customers buying energy, not power is correct.
Ain't that the truth - sigh...With M$ EOL'ing XP in the near future, looks like the only way to run some of the older 'doze apps will be on Wine. My experience with Vista has been that the frustrations far outweigh the improvements over XP (on the kids' computers - my primary OS is Solaris 10).
Sounds like you're describing a TS-7400 from Technologic Systems - although the 7400 is ARM9 based. They ship a version with built-in wireless in a case about the size of a deck of playing cards. You can get Debian on a 512MB SD card for the system.
Technologic Systems will be shipping their TS-7800 at the end of September, which is powered by a 500MHz ARM9 processor. Maximum power consumption for the board is 4 watts.
Same thing happens in the electric utility biz. It is not necessary for the utility to supply all of their customers max-ing out their connection simultaneously. I've seen estimates that the peak load for an electric utility is on the order of one-third of the sum of the peak loads for each of the utility's customers - and time based pricing can improve on that.
The first gas electric rail vehicles were made shortly after 1900, but it wasn't until Hermann Lemp of GE developed an improved generator control system in 1923 that gas-electrics and diesel electrics became practical. Incidentally, one of the big users of the Lemp system was EMC, which became EMD when bought by GM ca 1933.
The US fleet subs (e.g. Gato class) were an even better example of a hybrid drive as the big turbo-electric ships didn't have any energy storage system. BTW, the Brits, Germans and Japanese subs used direct or geared drive from the diesels, whereas the USN used only electric transmissions after the early 30's.
Designing a proper self test for this device will be non-trivial, but I agree that the FCC shouldn't approve the device until such a self test is shown to work robustly.
Home taping was the first worry of the media companies, I remember reading an article in 1970-71 Hi-Fi mag aout the ethics of taping records (tape recorders had been available since the 1950's). Similarly, one of the reasons why Ampex never got serious about a home video tape recorder was that they knew they were going to be sued by the media companies (Betamax decision...) - they figured that the Japanese with their assets offshore would make a much harder target for the media companies.It is also my understanding that Sun's payment to SCO was to have 'clear title' to the code in Solaris. I'm guessing that the intent was more so Sun wouldn't have to cut a check to SCO for every copy of Solaris shipped rather than opening the code.
One of the significant developments occuring just after 1800 was the high pressure steam engine (Trevithick in the UK and Oliver Evans in the US). The decrease in size and increase in efficiency allowed for many new applications of steam power, notably in transportation - steamboats and railroads. Before 1800, a lot of advances in low cost transportation were being made in the UK, primarily canals and plateways (forerunners of the railroad).