Actually I've seen Ninja Scroll uncensored on TeleToon four or five times now.... Come to think of it, I can't think of the last time a canadian network bothered to actually censor anything. I mean, showcase is basically the soft-europorn channel. Bravo's shown subtitled anime a few times also
Ebola doesn't really spread until the person has been showing symptoms. In fact ebola mainly spreads after the person dies and their internal organs are dripping out through their pours.
Uhhm... Just a small correction, but pdisk doen't require you to figure out the amount of hard drive space in blocks. If, for example, you wanted a hundred meg swap partition you would type 100M when it asked for size.
No, I'm not satisfied. The Athlon has a huge, hot branch predictor because it has such a large pipeline. It's not that the Athlon has a better branch predictor than a G4, it's that the G4 doesn't need a very sophisticated branch predictor because it has a short pipeline. This allows it to run much more efficiently than that behemoth of a space heater you call a processor.
>>Of course, now they are all on the Carbonbandwagon. (And isn't Carbon just a revised version of Copland?)
Not really. The Copland project fell apart, which led to apple's shopping around and eventually buying NeXT. I don't know the exact reasons for it's failure, only rumors that they were trying to hard to be completely backwards compatible with all previous MacOS apps.
The Carbon environment is the current MacOS api with all non-reentrant code removed.
The classic environment is not direct binary compatibility but instead a showcase of the benefits of the mach microkernal, which allows more than one OS to run on top of it at the same time.
I'm surprised at the lack of musical variety showing up here. There are any number of good bands that haven't been mentioned at all, simply because they don't call the U.S. home. Anyway I'll put my $0.02 in (It shouldn't be to hard to figure out what country I'm from): Radiohead, The Chemical Brothers, Big Sugar, The Tea Party, Sloan, Prodigy, Daft Punk, Led Zeppelin, The Tragically Hip, I Mother Earth, The Watchmen, 54-40, Wide Mouth Mason, The Smashing Pumpkins.
I've always felt that the most annoying part of pascal was the use of ; as a statement separator rather than terminator. I spend an ungodly amount of time adding and deleting ; in if statements and simillar constructs. Between this and the spectacularly wordy syntax, I'd much rather stick with C++.
Is it just me, or has the quality of the posted comments really gone down hill lately? I realize that I'm contributing to the problem by posting off topic, but the preschool-ish posts that have been appearing lately are beginning to severely irritate me. Does this bug anyone else, or am I just being overly sensitive?
Crap, I need sleep. That should say #include asm/dma.h. And the link doesn't work. It's the right link, but clicking it will get you no where( like an idiot, I reversed the tags).
What the fsck?! Buddy I don't know what you're doing wrong, but those kernels should be compiling just fine. I'm running Linux on a 266 Mhz G3 (beige) and have been compiling my own kernels straight off of ftp.kernel.org. I'm currently running 2.2.11. The only thing you should have to do is add the line #include to arch/ppc/kernel/pmac_setup.c in the kernel directory. Before doing any further ranting, you might want to check out the http://cobweb.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jonh/f aqomatic/faq.pl
Get real. The Linux machine crashes once over the course of like six days, as compared to a windows machine that's been down so many times that I only managed to get onto it for the first time about to hours ago. So windows, with all it's stability problems, suddenly 'wins' because Linux isn't perfect? What kind of logic is that? It's questionable as to whether the one crash Linux did experience is the fault of the OS, or the operator who thought that less than 2x RAM as swap would be enough. They only discontinued the contest because they were tired of the idiots who thought that DoS attacks would somehow allow them to crack the server.
Hey, gravity is a theory to. Why don't you do us all a favor and disprove it by walking off the end of a cliff. As long as you don't look down you should be fine:)
Nice suggestions. I don't think we'd need to invent new logic to build computers to work in base 10, would we? I mean, the Eniac calculated in base ten.
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Your right on both points. The pentium is severely hampered by the need to remain backwards compatibale with processors from fifteen years ago. It's spectacularly large, has a heat sink bigger than my AC, and runs so hot you could fry an egg on it. I love my G3, and can't until the day I can get linux fired up on a G4 (although I've been toying with the idea of going with the dual celeron system from www.becomputing.com).
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True, but what I was trying to say here is that the G3 isn't particullarly RISC-like anyway. What with all the new instructions being added (ie. the vector processing unit in the upcoming G4) saying the G3 has a reduced instruction set is stretching the truth somewhat. OTOH, the Pentium series takes the standard CISC-oriented x86 instruction set and translates them into much more RISC-like micro-ops. These micro-ops are fixed length instructions, so Intel can pull off some seriously black magic optimizations like out-of-order execution. Fixed length instructions and out-of-order optimizations are the kind of techniques that are commonly used in RISC architectures.
Actually Yellow Dog Linux is essentially LinuxPPC with a little added value in the server area. AFAIK it is 95% LinuxPPC. BTW, LinuxPPC essentially is RedHat 6.
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but that's one large, steamy pile of bullshit you're spewing there, bub. The fact that the G3 does not reach the same clock speeds as a PIII is in no way indicative of it's performance. The PIII runs at such high clock speeds (and insanely high temps.) because the only way Intel can continue to show performance increases is to keep increasing clock speeds. The G3, on the other hand, executes instructions at a faster rate than the x86 architecture, and is therefore able to get roughly similar performance at lower clock speeds. You are, however, correct in that this issue has nothing to do with RISC vs. CISC, as the Pentium and G3 are both equally close to being RISC architectures as they to anything else.
In general you're making some pretty good points here, but I think it's even worse than you describe. Micro$loth doesn't even need to create their own Linux distro. For the past month or so I've had the creepy feeling that when RedHat issues it's IPO MS (or at least Bill Gates) is going to end up as a majority shareholder. Then they could build a proprietary GUI on top of it and make use of both their own and RedHat's name recognition among newbies. They would be able to seed the single most popular linux distro. with their own proprietary gratuitous incompatibilities and call it an 'enhancement'.
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Actually I've seen Ninja Scroll uncensored on TeleToon four or five times now.... Come to think of it, I can't think of the last time a canadian network bothered to actually censor anything. I mean, showcase is basically the soft-europorn channel. Bravo's shown subtitled anime a few times also
Ebola doesn't really spread until the person has been showing symptoms. In fact ebola mainly spreads after the person dies and their internal organs are dripping out through their pours.
Uhhm... Just a small correction, but pdisk doen't require you to figure out the amount of hard drive space in blocks. If, for example, you wanted a hundred meg swap partition you would type 100M when it asked for size.
No, I'm not satisfied. The Athlon has a huge, hot branch predictor because it has such a large pipeline. It's not that the Athlon has a better branch predictor than a G4, it's that the G4 doesn't need a very sophisticated branch predictor because it has a short pipeline. This allows it to run much more efficiently than that behemoth of a space heater you call a processor.
The good ol' University of Alberta has high speed internet running into the Lister students residence.
>>Of course, now they are all on the Carbonbandwagon. (And isn't Carbon just a revised version of Copland?)
Not really. The Copland project fell apart, which led to apple's shopping around and eventually buying NeXT. I don't know the exact reasons for it's failure, only rumors that they were trying to hard to be completely backwards compatible with all previous MacOS apps.
The Carbon environment is the current MacOS api with all non-reentrant code removed.
The classic environment is not direct binary compatibility but instead a showcase of the benefits of the mach microkernal, which allows more than one OS to run on top of it at the same time.
I'm surprised at the lack of musical variety showing up here. There are any number of good bands that haven't been mentioned at all, simply because they don't call the U.S. home. Anyway I'll put my $0.02 in (It shouldn't be to hard to figure out what country I'm from): Radiohead, The Chemical Brothers, Big Sugar, The Tea Party, Sloan, Prodigy, Daft Punk, Led Zeppelin, The Tragically Hip, I Mother Earth, The Watchmen, 54-40, Wide Mouth Mason, The Smashing Pumpkins.
'Nuff said.
I've always felt that the most annoying part of pascal was the use of ; as a statement separator rather than terminator. I spend an ungodly amount of time adding and deleting ; in if statements and simillar constructs. Between this and the spectacularly wordy syntax, I'd much rather stick with C++.
Is it just me, or has the quality of the posted comments really gone down hill lately? I realize that I'm contributing to the problem by posting off topic, but the preschool-ish posts that have been appearing lately are beginning to severely irritate me. Does this bug anyone else, or am I just being overly sensitive?
Crap, I need sleep.
That should say #include asm/dma.h.
And the link doesn't work. It's the right link, but clicking it will get you no where( like an idiot, I reversed the tags).
What the fsck?! Buddy I don't know what you're doing wrong, but those kernels should be compiling just fine. I'm running Linux on a 266 Mhz G3 (beige) and have been compiling my own kernels straight off of ftp.kernel.org. I'm currently running 2.2.11. The only thing you should have to do is add the linef aqomatic/faq.pl
#include
to arch/ppc/kernel/pmac_setup.c in the kernel directory. Before doing any further ranting, you might want to check out the http://cobweb.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jonh/
Get real. The Linux machine crashes once over the course of like six days, as compared to a windows machine that's been down so many times that I only managed to get onto it for the first time about to hours ago. So windows, with all it's stability problems, suddenly 'wins' because Linux isn't perfect? What kind of logic is that? It's questionable as to whether the one crash Linux did experience is the fault of the OS, or the operator who thought that less than 2x RAM as swap would be enough. They only discontinued the contest because they were tired of the idiots who thought that DoS attacks would somehow allow them to crack the server.
Yeah, I know. I just felt like belittling his intelligence and that was the first thing that popped into my head. Thanks for the heads up, though.
Hey, gravity is a theory to. Why don't you do us all a favor and disprove it by walking off the end of a cliff. As long as you don't look down you should be fine :)
Nice suggestions. I don't think we'd need to invent new logic to build computers to work in base 10, would we? I mean, the Eniac calculated in base ten.
Your right on both points. The pentium is severely hampered by the need to remain backwards compatibale with processors from fifteen years ago. It's spectacularly large, has a heat sink bigger than my AC, and runs so hot you could fry an egg on it. I love my G3, and can't until the day I can get linux fired up on a G4 (although I've been toying with the idea of going with the dual celeron system from www.becomputing.com).
True, but what I was trying to say here is that the G3 isn't particullarly RISC-like anyway. What with all the new instructions being added (ie. the vector processing unit in the upcoming G4) saying the G3 has a reduced instruction set is stretching the truth somewhat. OTOH, the Pentium series takes the standard CISC-oriented x86 instruction set and translates them into much more RISC-like micro-ops. These micro-ops are fixed length instructions, so Intel can pull off some seriously black magic optimizations like out-of-order execution. Fixed length instructions and out-of-order optimizations are the kind of techniques that are commonly used in RISC architectures.
Actually Yellow Dog Linux is essentially LinuxPPC with a little added value in the server area. AFAIK it is 95% LinuxPPC. BTW, LinuxPPC essentially is RedHat 6.
but that's one large, steamy pile of bullshit you're spewing there, bub. The fact that the G3 does not reach the same clock speeds as a PIII is in no way indicative of it's performance. The PIII runs at such high clock speeds (and insanely high temps.) because the only way Intel can continue to show performance increases is to keep increasing clock speeds. The G3, on the other hand, executes instructions at a faster rate than the x86 architecture, and is therefore able to get roughly similar performance at lower clock speeds. You are, however, correct in that this issue has nothing to do with RISC vs. CISC, as the Pentium and G3 are both equally close to being RISC architectures as they to anything else.
In general you're making some pretty good points here, but I think it's even worse than you describe. Micro$loth doesn't even need to create their own Linux distro. For the past month or so I've had the creepy feeling that when RedHat issues it's IPO MS (or at least Bill Gates) is going to end up as a majority shareholder. Then they could build a proprietary GUI on top of it and make use of both their own and RedHat's name recognition among newbies. They would be able to seed the single most popular linux distro. with their own proprietary gratuitous incompatibilities and call it an 'enhancement'.