An OS, IMHO, is the bare minimum set of programs you need for a human to interact with the hardware in a meaningful manner. Unfortunatly, it is a question very much like 'What is pornography?'. the only answer is 'I'll know it when I see it'.
In Unixy terms, this would be a bootloader, the kernel, perhaps init, and a shell. Of course, there may be req'd libraries included in the bunch as well.
In Windows =95(+NT), the OS basically consists of everything up to the 'logon prompt' when loaded in 'Safe Mode' (for 95/98) or a fresh install (for NT), with the exception of user applications that may have been preemptivly loaded in Startup, via a regestry run_once, or through the.ini files.
I disagree.. Netscape managed to stay solvent whilst still 'giving away' their browser. In the later days, they were only really making money from their portal business, right? What would make IE so different? Giving them MSN and MSNBC gives them the needed portal revenue, and not being mandatorily bundled to the OS would put them in a very competitive position if they did decide to charge for future revisions..
Yeah.. We won't know exactly the remedy until His Honor gets around to it..
What we do know for sure:
The States have suggested a two way split as remedy. Microsoft has suggested that Steverino wear a toupee as remedy. Judge J. has the balls to break them up. A breakup is how things like this usually/always get handled.
My thought? MS-OS is going to happen. MS-Apps is going to happen. But what about the case of a third? They get the media/portal/browser stuff. MSN, MSNBC and IE. Cleaner split, as each company really does have the resources to make it, and the conglomeration of the MS units in each company makes sense in terms of a new plan for each Baby-Bill.
There have existed a couple of cheaply marketed sterile hybrids of corn, and at least one strain of wheat. These haven't been an issue, because they are truly cost effective steriles (or so I have been told)
The 'Terminator' seeds were an intentional modification to a normal strain, that has the monstrous capacity to become a profiteering standard. I should have phrased that rather doomed-sounding phrase as 'things could get much, much worse'. (While I may consider them to be a sure eventuality, none of these intentionally modified plants have made it to market. Yet. )
References? I'm a former farm boy that spent way too much time around the Co-op and the Hardware and Feed. I heard the same old complaints year after year. I suppose that makes it anecdotal at worst.
It's been a running complaint that the same seed costs more every year, not because of inflation or increased production cost, but because the big agro congloms know they're the only game in town and can charge whatever they damn well please. Now that the congloms have figured out how to make farmers need to buy their wares every year through genetic manipulation to make the plants utterly sterile, things are getting MUCH, MUCH worse..
Perhaps some enterprising ag engineer and a couple of lawyers can keep this trend from escalating through the fear of these patents. "I will only license this patent if the cost of the finished product does not exceed x. I'll give it to you for free if the cost is x-4. Don't like it? You can't sell at all!!"
There is no excuse.. We are rather hypocritical in this respect.
[theory] It's probably a 'love thine enemy' powerplay; Get the Chinese to stop contemplating nuclear first strike against the US by buying them off with the US market. On the other hand, we couldn't really offer Fidel anything he would take in return for the same contemplation.. [/theory]
I'm all for a little China spanking: They deserve it. I'm also for a lift of the embargo with Cuba: They don't..
that any bounced off it is weak compared to the amount reflected by it. WTF was I thinking? any radio waves bounced off it and back to Earth are weak compared to the reflection off of the atmosphere. Thats better.
The atmosphere works a little like a lens in this respect. Shine a flashlight through the lens on someone's glasses. The reflection back off the glasses is the waves bouncing off the atmosphere. All the rest of the light (radio waves) are going out into space. Unfortunatly, the moon is so much farther away that any bounced off it is weak compared to the amount reflected by it. (which is why people trying E-M-E bounces use directional antenna farms loaded up with the peak wattage available and the best low signal detection equipment.)
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He said it would only run on a normal HD (MFM/RLL). He didn't have IDE on his system.
I played with the concept as well, albeit less viral in final form. Had a wee little VB client sitting on a port that just did nothing more than report a patch number when queried. An admin script on a *NIX box would, based on patch number, mail out wrapped updates to responsible users and complain if they weren't installing them in a timely fashion. (Rechecked the patch # in one hour, mail a complaint to the user, and if unchanged in 12 it would mail a notice to me) When executed, the update wrapper would query all of the machines in that segment, ask the server if they had been bothered, and mail itself to them too if required. (Only needed to 'seed' a list of fifty users this way; The BSD box was WAY underpowered too.)
MPI gives you native, transparent, and fast parallel functions at the cost of dramatically increased programmer headache. PVM gives you kinda-portable, relativly obvious parallel functions at the cost of overhead.
There are other systems; AFAPI (dead), MOSIX (SLOW but totally transparent), etc.. I've played with tham all, and I rather like MPI for dedicated clustering and MOSIX for casual 'I need a fast make World' stuff..
Having built a few small ones, I got to know quite a bit about Linux clusters, and about programming for them. Therefore, this question has nothing to with clusters.
What was the biggest 'WTF was I thinking' on this project? I'd imagine there was a fair amount of lateral space allowed to the designers, and freedom to design also means freedom to screw up.
The AS/400 hardware has become notably less bizzare in the recent releases; PowerPC chips, the notion of conventional address space, etc.. The Linux on AS/400 page you point is devoted to getting Linux up on much older hardware; Proprietary processors, single address space, needs a tape IPL, power equivalent to a Pentium. It's not a terrible issue really; They need to know the tape formatting to generate an image, need a working GNU toolchain set, and the port would happen in under a month. To date, they've been contemplating a port to the bare CISC iron. Several people have suggested targeting the IM layer, so Linux would run on everything from a B10 to a brand new monster...
Some of these abandoned games are far more recent than 'Frogger' or 'Ms Pac Man'. We're talking 1996-7 here! Fun stuff like Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, Quest for Camelot, Drakkhen I and II. The ever so cool Stunt Driver!/Test Driver! (remember the arcade machines?) have been abandoned, as have all of the Test Drives 6. For all of you BBS'ers, I believe Operation Overkill 1 is abandoned. Applications too, like Microsoft c/c++ for DOS 3.0, is abandoned but sometimes useful. (Don't ask)
Even though they only require a 386, they've yet to be duplicated. They're fun, and they'll never stop being fun.
The reasonable timeframe will never exist. The RIAA would like nothing more than to be able to shut the sites down with no notice and no solid proof. Wait, that's what they're doing now! silly me!!
You seem to have the presumption that everyone accused of a crime under the DMCA is committing piracy. Remember the artist that got his site shut down by the RIAA because he was distributing his own content, and he wasn't even a RIAA covered artist?? What about the college student that got shut down for distributing De-CascacadingStyleSheets from a server in Britain, where the DMCA has no effect??
If there is any chance of innocence, everyone must be judged innocent. That's the way it goes, bub.
We need an actual notification process, and a longer time frame. The ISP's customer needs time to prepare response to the accusation. This can take days or weeks, and without your files a defense is pretty hard to prove. How do you know for sure that Spice_Girls.mp3 someone uploaded to your section of the FTP was pirate music?? You don't, the ISP has wiped it, and the RIAA has you by the balls. You have no proof the file wasn't, and it's the word of a big lawyerly conglom versus yours, Mr. I M Apirate..
Leave the law alone, we don't need any specialized laws? The DMCA is already gone overboard. It grants special police powers to a 'corporation'. Namely seizure; they can demand your files be destroyed legally with no proof, and no hope of a counterclaim.
"Any man capable of getting himself elected President should by no means be allowed to do the job" Is that what you were thinking of? Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Io is one of the moons of Jupiter, which is one of the other planets in our solar system, Sol. Jupiter is a whopper of a planet, with a lot of moons, but it's made out of gas so landing there is a moot point. If you're in North America, Jupiter is that reddish dot just above the horizon in the east-southeast sky about 11pm EST.
Looks like we just found us a new spaceship, boys.. Billy Joe, you get to work figuring how to go wallin' in one of them geysers, and Jimmy an me are going to get us some of that lead pipe and a couple of big electric fans for the next shuttle.. Figure we ought be able to blow that baby right out of orbit... Shit, boy get us some parkas too. It's gonna be kinda cold up there, what with all that snow..
We've been aquired and reaquired so many times I have five different logoed company cups on my desk. I've been there two years. We can't be bought again (We're owned by the biggest dog on the block) so I'm seriously hoping everyone stops playing the 'you can't replace me with X from the other division' dicksize war. And any helpdesk contractor who doesn't answer the phone nor show the least inclination to thought deserves to be sent back to his employer.
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When did they kill the 'A-E' tickets at Disneyland, anyway? They were a rather stupid idea, and the pink ink always ran when you got it wet.
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What would have really dated him (alas, he isn't old enough) would have been '"D"-ticket ride'.
IBM already has.. S/390 ring any bells?? RS/6000?? Take a look around /usr/src/linux-2.3.99/arch/ sometime..
That's definitly about as high-end as you could get..
In Windows pre-95, the OS consisted of io.sys, msdos.sys, and command.com.
That was clipped from the above from my air headed use of carats instead of HTML. Insert between the last two paragraphs.
An OS, IMHO, is the bare minimum set of programs you need for a human to interact with the hardware in a meaningful manner. Unfortunatly, it is a question very much like 'What is pornography?'. the only answer is 'I'll know it when I see it'.
.ini files.
In Unixy terms, this would be a bootloader, the kernel, perhaps init, and a shell. Of course, there may be req'd libraries included in the bunch as well.
In Windows =95(+NT), the OS basically consists of everything up to the 'logon prompt' when loaded in 'Safe Mode' (for 95/98) or a fresh install (for NT), with the exception of user applications that may have been preemptivly loaded in Startup, via a regestry run_once, or through the
I disagree.. Netscape managed to stay solvent whilst still 'giving away' their browser. In the later days, they were only really making money from their portal business, right? What would make IE so different? Giving them MSN and MSNBC gives them the needed portal revenue, and not being mandatorily bundled to the OS would put them in a very competitive position if they did decide to charge for future revisions..
Yeah.. We won't know exactly the remedy until His Honor gets around to it..
What we do know for sure:
The States have suggested a two way split as remedy.
Microsoft has suggested that Steverino wear a toupee as remedy.
Judge J. has the balls to break them up.
A breakup is how things like this usually/always get handled.
My thought? MS-OS is going to happen. MS-Apps is going to happen. But what about the case of a third? They get the media/portal/browser stuff. MSN, MSNBC and IE. Cleaner split, as each company really does have the resources to make it, and the conglomeration of the MS units in each company makes sense in terms of a new plan for each Baby-Bill.
There have existed a couple of cheaply marketed sterile hybrids of corn, and at least one strain of wheat. These haven't been an issue, because they are truly cost effective steriles (or so I have been told)
The 'Terminator' seeds were an intentional modification to a normal strain, that has the monstrous capacity to become a profiteering standard. I should have phrased that rather doomed-sounding phrase as 'things could get much, much worse'. (While I may consider them to be a sure eventuality, none of these intentionally modified plants have made it to market. Yet. )
References? I'm a former farm boy that spent way too much time around the Co-op and the Hardware and Feed. I heard the same old complaints year after year. I suppose that makes it anecdotal at worst.
It's been a running complaint that the same seed costs more every year, not because of inflation or increased production cost, but because the big agro congloms know they're the only game in town and can charge whatever they damn well please. Now that the congloms have figured out how to make farmers need to buy their wares every year through genetic manipulation to make the plants utterly sterile, things are getting MUCH, MUCH worse..
Perhaps some enterprising ag engineer and a couple of lawyers can keep this trend from escalating through the fear of these patents. "I will only license this patent if the cost of the finished product does not exceed x. I'll give it to you for free if the cost is x-4. Don't like it? You can't sell at all!!"
There is no excuse.. We are rather hypocritical in this respect.
[theory]
It's probably a 'love thine enemy' powerplay; Get the Chinese to stop contemplating nuclear first strike against the US by buying them off with the US market. On the other hand, we couldn't really offer Fidel anything he would take in return for the same contemplation..
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I'm all for a little China spanking: They deserve it. I'm also for a lift of the embargo with Cuba: They don't..
Exceptional.. Truely exceptional.. Now if only we could rid ourselves of the bad trolls!
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that any bounced off it is weak compared to the amount reflected by it. WTF was I thinking? any radio waves bounced off it and back to Earth are weak compared to the reflection off of the atmosphere. Thats better.
The atmosphere works a little like a lens in this respect. Shine a flashlight through the lens on someone's glasses. The reflection back off the glasses is the waves bouncing off the atmosphere. All the rest of the light (radio waves) are going out into space. Unfortunatly, the moon is so much farther away that any bounced off it is weak compared to the amount reflected by it. (which is why people trying E-M-E bounces use directional antenna farms loaded up with the peak wattage available and the best low signal detection equipment.)
He said it would only run on a normal HD (MFM/RLL). He didn't have IDE on his system.
I played with the concept as well, albeit less viral in final form. Had a wee little VB client sitting on a port that just did nothing more than report a patch number when queried. An admin script on a *NIX box would, based on patch number, mail out wrapped updates to responsible users and complain if they weren't installing them in a timely fashion. (Rechecked the patch # in one hour, mail a complaint to the user, and if unchanged in 12 it would mail a notice to me) When executed, the update wrapper would query all of the machines in that segment, ask the server if they had been bothered, and mail itself to them too if required. (Only needed to 'seed' a list of fifty users this way; The BSD box was WAY underpowered too.)
MPI gives you native, transparent, and fast parallel functions at the cost of dramatically increased programmer headache. PVM gives you kinda-portable, relativly obvious parallel functions at the cost of overhead.
There are other systems; AFAPI (dead), MOSIX (SLOW but totally transparent), etc.. I've played with tham all, and I rather like MPI for dedicated clustering and MOSIX for casual 'I need a fast make World' stuff..
This guy is a gem. Not only is he a noted designer of world-class supercomputers, he has a sense of humor.
/. would interview me, but...
Don't take anything, especially life, too seriously.
BTW, I would have no reservations in taking first post on an interview with myself. Not that
Having built a few small ones, I got to know quite a bit about Linux clusters, and about programming for them. Therefore, this question has nothing to with clusters.
What was the biggest 'WTF was I thinking' on this project? I'd imagine there was a fair amount of lateral space allowed to the designers, and freedom to design also means freedom to screw up.
The AS/400 hardware has become notably less bizzare in the recent releases; PowerPC chips, the notion of conventional address space, etc.. The Linux on AS/400 page you point is devoted to getting Linux up on much older hardware; Proprietary processors, single address space, needs a tape IPL, power equivalent to a Pentium. It's not a terrible issue really; They need to know the tape formatting to generate an image, need a working GNU toolchain set, and the port would happen in under a month. To date, they've been contemplating a port to the bare CISC iron. Several people have suggested targeting the IM layer, so Linux would run on everything from a B10 to a brand new monster...
Some of these abandoned games are far more recent than 'Frogger' or 'Ms Pac Man'. We're talking 1996-7 here! Fun stuff like Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, Quest for Camelot, Drakkhen I and II. The ever so cool Stunt Driver!/Test Driver! (remember the arcade machines?) have been abandoned, as have all of the Test Drives 6. For all of you BBS'ers, I believe Operation Overkill 1 is abandoned. Applications too, like Microsoft c/c++ for DOS 3.0, is abandoned but sometimes useful. (Don't ask)
Even though they only require a 386, they've yet to be duplicated. They're fun, and they'll never stop being fun.
The reasonable timeframe will never exist. The RIAA would like nothing more than to be able to shut the sites down with no notice and no solid proof. Wait, that's what they're doing now! silly me!!
You seem to have the presumption that everyone accused of a crime under the DMCA is committing piracy. Remember the artist that got his site shut down by the RIAA because he was distributing his own content, and he wasn't even a RIAA covered artist?? What about the college student that got shut down for distributing De-CascacadingStyleSheets from a server in Britain, where the DMCA has no effect??
If there is any chance of innocence, everyone must be judged innocent. That's the way it goes, bub.
We need an actual notification process, and a longer time frame. The ISP's customer needs time to prepare response to the accusation. This can take days or weeks, and without your files a defense is pretty hard to prove. How do you know for sure that Spice_Girls.mp3 someone uploaded to your section of the FTP was pirate music?? You don't, the ISP has wiped it, and the RIAA has you by the balls. You have no proof the file wasn't, and it's the word of a big lawyerly conglom versus yours, Mr. I M Apirate..
Leave the law alone, we don't need any specialized laws? The DMCA is already gone overboard. It grants special police powers to a 'corporation'. Namely seizure; they can demand your files be destroyed legally with no proof, and no hope of a counterclaim.
"Any man capable of getting himself elected President should by no means be allowed to do the job" Is that what you were thinking of? Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I appreciate the sentiment, but I really was trolling!! The 'Troll' was perfectly appropriate!!
Io is one of the moons of Jupiter, which is one of the other planets in our solar system, Sol. Jupiter is a whopper of a planet, with a lot of moons, but it's made out of gas so landing there is a moot point. If you're in North America, Jupiter is that reddish dot just above the horizon in the east-southeast sky about 11pm EST.
Looks like we just found us a new spaceship, boys.. Billy Joe, you get to work figuring how to go wallin' in one of them geysers, and Jimmy an me are going to get us some of that lead pipe and a couple of big electric fans for the next shuttle.. Figure we ought be able to blow that baby right out of orbit... Shit, boy get us some parkas too. It's gonna be kinda cold up there, what with all that snow..
We've been aquired and reaquired so many times I have five different logoed company cups on my desk. I've been there two years. We can't be bought again (We're owned by the biggest dog on the block) so I'm seriously hoping everyone stops playing the 'you can't replace me with X from the other division' dicksize war. And any helpdesk contractor who doesn't answer the phone nor show the least inclination to thought deserves to be sent back to his employer.