A named pipe is a named, one-way or duplex pipe for communication between the pipe server and one or more pipe clients. All instances of a named pipe share the same pipe name, but each instance has its own buffers and handles, and provides a separate conduit for client-server communication. The use of instances enables multiple pipe clients to use the same named pipe simultaneously.
Any process can access named pipes, subject to security checks, making named pipes an easy form of communication between related or unrelated processes. Named pipes can be used to provide communication between processes on the same computer or between processes on different computers across a network.
Any process can act as both a server and a client, making peer-to-peer communication possible. As used here, the term pipe server refers to a process that creates a named pipe, and the term pipe client refers to a process that connects to an instance of a named pipe.
> CD-RWs are expensive and can only be read in CD burners.
Wrong!!
CD-RWs are as little as AU$ 1.50 each, how is that more expensive than a floppy, considering how many you'd need to do the same?
Also, CD-RWs can be read in pretty much any CDROM drive made in the last 5 years. And if you use something like directcd, then your CDRW can be used just like a floppy, and the UDF filesystem drivers are put on an ISO9660 track that autoruns if you pop the disk into a machine that doesn't have them (ie, running 98 or older, and doesn't already have directcd or DVD ROM).
CD-RWs are easily the best currently available solution, they're fast, cheap, and big.
Did you even LOOK at the web site?, or just at the marketing speak in the pretty blue boxes?
Accelerated X Display Server v6.0
Designed for desktop platforms, this X Window System
server and associated graphics drivers is the latest
in a long line of premium X servers for Linux and UNIX
system installations.
That's 'cause they spend 40% of their budget on leaky Australian ships;)
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Actually, I heard that Itanium 2 (McKinley) wouldn't support x86.
The source was a Unisys salesman, and Unisys are big sellers of high end Intel solutions, particularly IA64. But still, that doesn't mean he was right.
except the fucking standards only existed AFTER the browsers had already been implemented and the web already popular
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If you properly read that section, you'd see that they qualified the aspect of 'Intel like' approach.
Here is the actual paragraph:
>An admittedly very "Intel-like" approach, ATI didn't go as far as to hand pick transistors but they did a considerable amount of the R300 design by hand thus enabling them to reach decent clock speeds at profitable yields.
There is nothing there about sacrificing efficiency for clock speed, but about improving implementation so as to allow for higher clock speed.
Also the Pentium 4 is not 'less efficient' than a pentium 3, it just does things differently. As you point out, clock speed doesn't mean anything, so why does it matter if a P4 with the same clock speed of a P3 doesn't perform better at everything? Especially since the P3 simply cannot reach the speeds a P4 can. Also, faster clock speed means lower latency, which can be a performance benefit on it's own in certain circumstances, even with a lower IPC count.
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Sword of Truth was good???
ick!....He was making the story up as he went along....and to make up for the fact that he had no idea what was going to happen next, he spent 50 pages torturing the main character, who then seemed to be left relatively unscarred afterwards.
The world never felt real to me, becase he never told you enough about it...you'd find out something you'd never heard of before when it happend...no foreshadowing at all, and so you'd be left thinking "Where the hell did THAT come from?"
I suffered the first book, hoping he'd improve, but only got a couple of chapters into the second book before I gave up and moved on....
Why is it not a good thing to do on a desktop operating system?
A lot of things about Unix are legacies from a time well before anyone would have a home PC running a multi-user operating system.
Look at the way that only root can open ports 1024. That makes a lot of sense on a multi user machine with a lot of untrusted users, but very little sense in a home, or desktop environment. In fact, it opens up potential security flaws when the user wants to run services such as http or ftp. (Though good servers drop the privleges as soon as they've bound the port, it still doesn't make any sense to require it in the first place).
the/bin/usr/bin/usr/sbin/ etc issue is the same. It's a valid precaution in a multiple untrusted user situation, but in a desktop environment, it doesn't make much sense, and only adds confusion.
It's a failure because in certain fields there is very little checking done to see wither or not the 'IP' really is 'IP', or just a logical application of well known principles.
To get a patent granted, the subject matter must be something that would not be obvious to an expert in the field. A lot of the time with software patents, this is not the case.
> There is a reason why most great inventions of the past 150 years have happened in America. One word: Freedom.
You know, I have this strange feeling that there might be one or two other countries around the world that have some degree of freedom too...
I think having a relatively large population, and the natural tendancy to pay more attention to things that happen in your back yard may be where you have got this perception from.
Except that those lyrics are saying that the government created only the fear of AIDS, to scare blacks into not having sex, not that they created the virus itself.
the Raekwon section is then debunking the idea, saying that AIDS is real.
Nowhere do they imply that the government actually created the virus.
The closest equivalent here in Australia is a TFN - Tax File Number, and you don't even have to have one of them, let alone tell anyone.....as long as you don't mind being taxed from here to hell and back....
However, since copyright is automatic, the first person to come up with the work would hold the copyright. I'm not sure what would happen in the case of two people spontaneously coming up with an identical work without one hearing the other, but I'd imagine it would be dificult to prove.
In this case....I wouldn't even know if copyright can even apply to silence. Supposedly you automatically get copyright on any original work as soon as it is set down in tangible form (eg. written down, recorded, saved to disk, etc). But I'm not sure you could say that silence is an original work, it's probably about as public domain as you can get. What Cage did that was original, was the idea of a track of nothing but silence, but I don't think you get any sort of intellecual property rights on ideas alone.....
I just hope that those involved realise how silly they look;)
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Named Pipes
A named pipe is a named, one-way or duplex pipe for communication between the pipe server and one or more pipe clients. All instances of a named pipe share the same pipe name, but each instance has its own buffers and handles, and provides a separate conduit for client-server communication. The use of instances enables multiple pipe clients to use the same named pipe simultaneously.
Any process can access named pipes, subject to security checks, making named pipes an easy form of communication between related or unrelated processes. Named pipes can be used to provide communication between processes on the same computer or between processes on different computers across a network.
Any process can act as both a server and a client, making peer-to-peer communication possible. As used here, the term pipe server refers to a process that creates a named pipe, and the term pipe client refers to a process that connects to an instance of a named pipe.
> CD-RWs are expensive and can only be read in CD burners.
Wrong!!
CD-RWs are as little as AU$ 1.50 each, how is that more expensive than a floppy, considering how many you'd need to do the same?
Also, CD-RWs can be read in pretty much any CDROM drive made in the last 5 years.
And if you use something like directcd, then your CDRW can be used just like a floppy, and the UDF filesystem drivers are put on an ISO9660 track that autoruns if you pop the disk into a machine that doesn't have them (ie, running 98 or older, and doesn't already have directcd or DVD ROM).
CD-RWs are easily the best currently available solution, they're fast, cheap, and big.
Did you even LOOK at the web site?, or just at the marketing speak in the pretty blue boxes?
Accelerated X Display Server v6.0
Designed for desktop platforms, this X Window System
server and associated graphics drivers is the latest
in a long line of premium X servers for Linux and UNIX
system installations.
You nearly pulled it off, but unfortunately, appropriate use of an apostrophe proved your literacy.
That's 'cause they spend 40% of their budget on leaky Australian ships ;)
Actually, I heard that Itanium 2 (McKinley) wouldn't support x86.
The source was a Unisys salesman, and Unisys are big sellers of high end Intel solutions, particularly IA64.
But still, that doesn't mean he was right.
Actually, it IS related to desktop usage.
Since the code in question is mainly there so that you can tell the difference between a kernel panic, and an actual lockup if you're running X.
except the fucking standards only existed AFTER the browsers had already been implemented and the web already popular
If you properly read that section, you'd see that they qualified the aspect of 'Intel like' approach.
Here is the actual paragraph:
>An admittedly very "Intel-like" approach, ATI didn't go as far as to hand pick transistors but they did a considerable amount of the R300 design by hand thus enabling them to reach decent clock speeds at profitable yields.
There is nothing there about sacrificing efficiency for clock speed, but about improving implementation so as to allow for higher clock speed.
Also the Pentium 4 is not 'less efficient' than a pentium 3, it just does things differently.
As you point out, clock speed doesn't mean anything, so why does it matter if a P4 with the same clock speed of a P3 doesn't perform better at everything?
Especially since the P3 simply cannot reach the speeds a P4 can.
Also, faster clock speed means lower latency, which can be a performance benefit on it's own in certain circumstances, even with a lower IPC count.
Sword of Truth was good???
ick!....He was making the story up as he went along....and to make up for the fact that he had no idea what was going to happen next, he spent 50 pages torturing the main character, who then seemed to be left relatively unscarred afterwards.
The world never felt real to me, becase he never told you enough about it...you'd find out something you'd never heard of before when it happend...no foreshadowing at all, and so you'd be left thinking "Where the hell did THAT come from?"
I suffered the first book, hoping he'd improve, but only got a couple of chapters into the second book before I gave up and moved on....
Why is it not a good thing to do on a desktop operating system?
/bin /usr/bin /usr/sbin/ etc issue is the same. It's a valid precaution in a multiple untrusted user situation, but in a desktop environment, it doesn't make much sense, and only adds confusion.
A lot of things about Unix are legacies from a time well before anyone would have a home PC running a multi-user operating system.
Look at the way that only root can open ports 1024. That makes a lot of sense on a multi user machine with a lot of untrusted users, but very little sense in a home, or desktop environment. In fact, it opens up potential security flaws when the user wants to run services such as http or ftp. (Though good servers drop the privleges as soon as they've bound the port, it still doesn't make any sense to require it in the first place).
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That's becuase they are Modifiers to the Moderation on a comment.
It's a failure because in certain fields there is very little checking done to see wither or not the 'IP' really is 'IP', or just a logical application of well known principles.
To get a patent granted, the subject matter must be something that would not be obvious to an expert in the field. A lot of the time with software patents, this is not the case.
> There is a reason why most great inventions of the past 150 years have happened in America. One word: Freedom.
You know, I have this strange feeling that there might be one or two other countries around the world that have some degree of freedom too...
I think having a relatively large population, and the natural tendancy to pay more attention to things that happen in your back yard may be where you have got this perception from.
They're not going after the addicts (The downloaders), They're going after the dealers (The sharers).
Though in most cases, they do tend to be the same person.
Except that those lyrics are saying that the government created only the fear of AIDS, to scare blacks into not having sex, not that they created the virus itself.
the Raekwon section is then debunking the idea, saying that AIDS is real.
Nowhere do they imply that the government actually created the virus.
The closest equivalent here in Australia is a TFN - Tax File Number, and you don't even have to have one of them, let alone tell anyone .....as long as you don't mind being taxed from here to hell and back....
It's a convenience feature....
If you hide it away, it becomes less convenient that starting Konsole and runing your command there....
Though Alt+F2 is definitely the way to go....
I couldn't live with an environment that didn't let me do that...
There has ALWAYS been one in kde....right from 1.x
You could add a window list button to your panel, or middle click on the desktop
You can still do both of those, but there's also (Sinse 2.x) KasBar, which is an icon box style list.
It doesn't mean it got jammed, it means that it needs more paper or that particular size.
Though for us here in Australia...it means you forgot to set the paper size to A4....
> (of course, the icons are different)
That, and 97 doesn't decide that you'll never use obscure features like 'save as..' and hide them away behind a second click to the menu....
Looking for a feature in office 2000 is painful if you keep forgetting to expand out the menus....
Yes you can, if it's an X program...
You don't have to protect your copyright....it's yours....you can feel free to let some people get away with it, and others not.
Prior art has nothing to do with copyright...
;)
It does only apply to patents...
However, since copyright is automatic, the first person to come up with the work would hold the copyright.
I'm not sure what would happen in the case of two people spontaneously coming up with an identical work without one hearing the other, but I'd imagine it would be dificult to prove.
In this case....I wouldn't even know if copyright can even apply to silence.
Supposedly you automatically get copyright on any original work as soon as it is set down in tangible form (eg. written down, recorded, saved to disk, etc). But I'm not sure you could say that silence is an original work, it's probably about as public domain as you can get.
What Cage did that was original, was the idea of a track of nothing but silence, but I don't think you get any sort of intellecual property rights on ideas alone.....
I just hope that those involved realise how silly they look
hmmm...from what I've heard of SCA events from a few friends that are members.....it's all about getting pissed and having sex....
So your comment about fantasy and one ton warhorses is a little disturbing...