TI (Texas Instruments) manufactures the SPARC chips under license. Some of that manufacturing has been done in partnership with Tatung. No chip manufacturing is done by Sun itself.
I'm unsure how this ranks as news. AOL has been using IMAP to connect Netscape 6.x and better to AOL Mail for years. The only difference here is that authentication is done via normal IMAP channels and not through the Netscape 6+ hoop-jumping which, as you might not know, still used IMAP under the covers.
Too bad the built-in rate-limitting in the AIM service kills this. The Smarterchild people had the same problem so they had to get special accounts that weren't rate-limitted.
For those who use these services, rate-limitting is that which prevents you from sending too many instant messages too quickly, and too many instant messages to too many recipients too quickly. The servers penalize you for the more messages you send until you can't carry on a conversation, and then they time out and the rate-limitting wears off. This happens in both the oscar protocols and in the TOC protocols used by things like the Minitik project. The rate limits do not wear off when you sign-off, either.
The video was in post-production when the 9/11/01 tragedy happened. They re-editted it with new narrative segments and notes on the fates of interview subjects, many of whom at the time of the airing were still listed as "missing."
Sorry, if I can clarify, I also have regular analog TiVo. The TiVo communicates with the DirecTV box through the serial port on the back. The S-Video output of the DirecTV machine goes into the TiVo. It's better this way because you can choose the quality of the video. The DirecTiVo machine does not allow you to do that. I record the kids' cartoons at basic quality and our regular shows at medium quality, something we could not do with DirecTiVo.
I would recommend looking at any satellite provider--you can still use your old TiVo with any of them.
The short answer is to switch to DirecTV. The need for IR blasters goes away instantly and you still get more channels than digital cable, and for far less money.
Vonage now exclusively uses the Motorola vt1000 device which is very nice for three important reasons:
1) Has built-in firewall and NAT so you can get QoS on the cable-modem side.
2) Directly supports two telephone lines.
3) Reboots and gets on the network quickly.
The only two real drawbacks of the Motorola is that you can't run all your house phones off it without encountering ring-volume problems, and if the box is offline it only gives you silence (an error tone would have been a nice plus).
I can offer some insight on VoIP. I use Vonage with two lines and one line for Verizon. I also have a home network using a cable modem.
To effectively use Vonage at all, you'll have to make a big investment in multiple-handset cordless phones or a small telephone system. I chose the telephone system from Lee Phones which re-sells the BBS Telecom IPS system.
The Vonage device will not properly work if you just run your entire house's loop to it. It may work for two extensions, but three is risking burning out the machine. The trendy thing today is multiple-handset cordless phones, so you plug the base-station into the device and you're all set. Since Vonage can have two lines on one device, try to get a multi-line multiple-handset system (they are EXPENSIVE) or a home telephone system.
Always keep the land line from Verizon or whomever it is for emergencies. I have seen Vonage go out-of-service even when my cable modem network is still running. A multiple-line multiple-handset cordless system or phone system makes this really easy.
There is nothing quite as annoyingas hearing the Vonage line ringing downstairs and not upstairs. This is where phone systems are key.
TWC in Queens (New York City for you non-Merkins is still a hybrid digital/analog system. The channels you get on the analog "tier" are still analog when you subscribe to the digital service. The "extra" channels in the digital service are digital and there is some duplication of premium channels in the digital side of things. Where I live, in Fairfax, VA, the cable systems have gone 100% digital. One night all the analog boxes were turned off and the cable company parked a customer-service van at the entrance of our subdivision to swap-in digital cable boxes.
For mass-marketted dialup services, the soft departure of MSN from dialup will be a big hit and a boon for the other mass-market services like AOL, Earthlink, and friends--but don't forget the dialup resellers. It's still a profitable and growing business. I pay $9.95/month for unlimited dialup access through a popular USENET provider who resells the dialup service of Megapop.
When is the myth of low-power-consuming white LED lamps finally going to disappear? After adding up all the power used by each of the many LEDs that make up a lamp and the cost of the lamp it is no brighter, not cheaper, and not as naturally-colored as compact flourescent lamps.
Kris
Thoroughly non-researched article
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Solaris 9 x86 Review
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· Score: 2, Interesting
The author starts out by writing that Solaris was formerly SunOS and was derived from, among other things, 4.4BSD-Lite. How can we take the rest of the article seriously?
SunOS and Solaris pre-date 4.4BSD-Lite by over ten years.
SunOS describes the kernel and operating system services. Solaris describes the "operating environment".
Solaris was not "designed for SPARC and UltraSPARC." It was written originally to run on SPARC derivates as well as the x86 platform, specifically the AT&T NCR platform which preceded Sun's short-lived x86 SunOS machines, though, technically, the AT&T NCR and Sun x86 boxes predate Solaris. The x86 port of Solaris is by no means a new product.
The author complains quite a bit, but that should be expected in the Compatibility and the Installation sections of the article. Long-time Solaris users are familiar with all these problems.
I would have liked some facts to back-up the throwaway comments like "not all that restrictive", "rinky-dink", and "not very impressive".
I buy all my keystone jacks, faceplates, and supplies from 9thtee.com. If you are going to do this sort of work don't do anything but keystone jacks with punchdown terminals on them. You should never turn screws or strip cable unless it's for banana jacks, F connectors, or RCA jacks.
Not fire-resistant, but fire-retardant. It still burns (no, it doesn't just smolder). The insulation is formulated such that it does not give up toxic gases while burning. The rationale is that plenum spaces are those which convey air through the building and anything inside those spaces must not become toxic when burning. Note that not every riser is necessarily a plenum space. The NEC does not call for plenum-rated cabling in a non-plenum riser. It is also not immediately obvious to the casual observer whether a riser should be considered a plenum space.
Then again, using plenum cable will keep those workers in the plenum mines happy!
I've tried this. The old cables stretch and break. First the jacket stretches, then the copper stretches. When I'm done pulling I get to watch the copper slowly creep out of the ends of the cables while the jacket retracts back but the copper doesn't. It was really creepy in a dark attic the first time it happened.
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Most buzzword bozos and clueless newbies hold the opinion that clock speed is the measure of performance. I can only assume this is a troll.
TI (Texas Instruments) manufactures the SPARC chips under license. Some of that manufacturing has been done in partnership with Tatung. No chip manufacturing is done by Sun itself.
Kris
I'm unsure how this ranks as news. AOL has been using IMAP to connect Netscape 6.x and better to AOL Mail for years. The only difference here is that authentication is done via normal IMAP channels and not through the Netscape 6+ hoop-jumping which, as you might not know, still used IMAP under the covers.
Kris
Incredibly long review for a book of 286 pages. I almost don't need to read the book anymore.
;)
At least we can still play the games online at:
http://kriston.net/games/
Kris
The command you're looking for is:
M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead
Kris
Too bad the built-in rate-limitting in the AIM service kills this. The Smarterchild people had the same problem so they had to get special accounts that weren't rate-limitted.
For those who use these services, rate-limitting is that which prevents you from sending too many instant messages too quickly, and too many instant messages to too many recipients too quickly. The servers penalize you for the more messages you send until you can't carry on a conversation, and then they time out and the rate-limitting wears off. This happens in both the oscar protocols and in the TOC protocols used by things like the Minitik project. The rate limits do not wear off when you sign-off, either.
The board is still 12cm by 12cm, the same size as the Mini-ITX form factor. The board is the thing carrying the "nano" designation.
In China and HK the GSM phones are interchangeable. The vendors encourage and recommend buying phones and passing your SIM card between then.
China Mobile is rolling out CDMA in China for the past few years and, unfortunately, this means no more SIM card passing.
The video was in post-production when the 9/11/01 tragedy happened. They re-editted it with new narrative segments and notes on the fates of interview subjects, many of whom at the time of the airing were still listed as "missing."
Sorry, if I can clarify, I also have regular analog TiVo. The TiVo communicates with the DirecTV box through the serial port on the back. The S-Video output of the DirecTV machine goes into the TiVo. It's better this way because you can choose the quality of the video. The DirecTiVo machine does not allow you to do that. I record the kids' cartoons at basic quality and our regular shows at medium quality, something we could not do with DirecTiVo.
I would recommend looking at any satellite provider--you can still use your old TiVo with any of them.
Enjoy,
Kris
The short answer is to switch to DirecTV. The need for IR blasters goes away instantly and you still get more channels than digital cable, and for far less money.
Kris
Vonage now exclusively uses the Motorola vt1000 device which is very nice for three important reasons:
1) Has built-in firewall and NAT so you can get QoS on the cable-modem side.
2) Directly supports two telephone lines.
3) Reboots and gets on the network quickly.
The only two real drawbacks of the Motorola is that you can't run all your house phones off it without encountering ring-volume problems, and if the box is offline it only gives you silence (an error tone would have been a nice plus).
Kris
I can offer some insight on VoIP. I use Vonage with two lines and one line for Verizon. I also have a home network using a cable modem.
To effectively use Vonage at all, you'll have to make a big investment in multiple-handset cordless phones or a small telephone system. I chose the telephone system from Lee Phones which re-sells the BBS Telecom IPS system.
The Vonage device will not properly work if you just run your entire house's loop to it. It may work for two extensions, but three is risking burning out the machine. The trendy thing today is multiple-handset cordless phones, so you plug the base-station into the device and you're all set. Since Vonage can have two lines on one device, try to get a multi-line multiple-handset system (they are EXPENSIVE) or a home telephone system.
Always keep the land line from Verizon or whomever it is for emergencies. I have seen Vonage go out-of-service even when my cable modem network is still running. A multiple-line multiple-handset cordless system or phone system makes this really easy.
There is nothing quite as annoyingas hearing the Vonage line ringing downstairs and not upstairs. This is where phone systems are key.
Kris
TWC in Queens (New York City for you non-Merkins is still a hybrid digital/analog system. The channels you get on the analog "tier" are still analog when you subscribe to the digital service. The "extra" channels in the digital service are digital and there is some duplication of premium channels in the digital side of things. Where I live, in Fairfax, VA, the cable systems have gone 100% digital. One night all the analog boxes were turned off and the cable company parked a customer-service van at the entrance of our subdivision to swap-in digital cable boxes.
Kris
For mass-marketted dialup services, the soft departure of MSN from dialup will be a big hit and a boon for the other mass-market services like AOL, Earthlink, and friends--but don't forget the dialup resellers. It's still a profitable and growing business. I pay $9.95/month for unlimited dialup access through a popular USENET provider who resells the dialup service of Megapop.
You're right, I *am* confused!
I'm sorry to sound confused but the search.yahoo.com looks like Google, feels like Google, but is really an Inktomi technology which Yahoo owns.
Kris
When is the myth of low-power-consuming white LED lamps finally going to disappear? After adding up all the power used by each of the many LEDs that make up a lamp and the cost of the lamp it is no brighter, not cheaper, and not as naturally-colored as compact flourescent lamps.
Kris
The author starts out by writing that Solaris was formerly SunOS and was derived from, among other things, 4.4BSD-Lite. How can we take the rest of the article seriously?
SunOS and Solaris pre-date 4.4BSD-Lite by over ten years.
SunOS describes the kernel and operating system services. Solaris describes the "operating environment".
Solaris was not "designed for SPARC and UltraSPARC." It was written originally to run on SPARC derivates as well as the x86 platform, specifically the AT&T NCR platform which preceded Sun's short-lived x86 SunOS machines, though, technically, the AT&T NCR and Sun x86 boxes predate Solaris. The x86 port of Solaris is by no means a new product.
The author complains quite a bit, but that should be expected in the Compatibility and the Installation sections of the article. Long-time Solaris users are familiar with all these problems.
I would have liked some facts to back-up the throwaway comments like "not all that restrictive", "rinky-dink", and "not very impressive".
Kris
I buy all my keystone jacks, faceplates, and supplies from 9thtee.com. If you are going to do this sort of work don't do anything but keystone jacks with punchdown terminals on them. You should never turn screws or strip cable unless it's for banana jacks, F connectors, or RCA jacks.
Kris
Not fire-resistant, but fire-retardant. It still burns (no, it doesn't just smolder). The insulation is formulated such that it does not give up toxic gases while burning. The rationale is that plenum spaces are those which convey air through the building and anything inside those spaces must not become toxic when burning. Note that not every riser is necessarily a plenum space. The NEC does not call for plenum-rated cabling in a non-plenum riser. It is also not immediately obvious to the casual observer whether a riser should be considered a plenum space.
Then again, using plenum cable will keep those workers in the plenum mines happy!
The looters were taking the electrical wiring. It holds lots of nice, heavy copper that you can get good money for by weight.
I am told they have now been removed, I pity the poor people who had to do it, they must have had to cut them out with an angle grinder.
100% chance that those cables and their dried goop are actually still there.
I've tried this. The old cables stretch and break. First the jacket stretches, then the copper stretches. When I'm done pulling I get to watch the copper slowly creep out of the ends of the cables while the jacket retracts back but the copper doesn't. It was really creepy in a dark attic the first time it happened.
I thought one of the reasons we have /sbin is so that we can run the binaries there without having dynamic libraries involved.
/sbin statically-linked, anyway?
Reasons being:
1) Size: Running in single-user mode or small kernels that don't use dynamically-linked libraries.
2) Security: No risk of library-path-based security exploits.
Am I missing something here? Why isn't
Kris