Yes, it could, unless you're running a 64-bit OS and processor. Most computers, which are 32-bit, have a total or 4 GB of addressable memory space, which includes video memory, sound card memory (if you actually still use one) and system RAM. Therefore, if you put in a 2GB video card, you can't make use more than 2 GB of system RAM.
That's not entirely accurate. PAE makes it possible to address 4+ GB of addresses on a 32-bit system, so long as your operating system supports it fully. AFAIK both Linux and BSD happily do, and certain Windows versions also support it.
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Perhaps he meant a proprietary _implementation_ of Unix, such as IBM's and HP's offerings; however if this is the case I don't know why he put Solaris with it to, now that Solaris is open-source (CDDL)...
"No doubt Microsoft would try to create license terms to prohibit such usage, but without cooperation from the hardware designers in the OLPC project, I'm not sure they will have any technical ability to lock-out their Windows XP version from being run in virtual machines."
This cooperation is almost certainly not going to happen. One of the key features of the OLPC is that the user is free to modify and tweak with any aspect of it in order to learn from it; and having this "lock out" mechanism would preclude this entirely.
You should try the release candidates for version 2.4 - the UI has been significantly improved. It's still not "OMG SEXY" or anything, but it's *far* better than the 2.2 series' was.
"An object actually moving to the center of the black hole takes an infinitely long time to get there, so when it actually does get there, it happens to arrive right at the end of the universe. "
While I understand your intent in that sentence, your wording is a bit misleading. If it arrives right at the end of the universe, then it has done so after a finite and terminating length of time (even if arbitrarily as long as the universe itself). This means that the item would in fact reach the mass point of the black hole.
On the contrary, if it takes an infinitely long time to get there, then it would always approach the mass point and be extremely near to it, but never reaching it. (If it helps, think of this as if it were a mathematical limit from beginning studies of calculus: the fact that the object takes an infinite amount of time to reach to the center of the black hole but gets infinitely close to it means that for any given distance away from the black hole there is at least one interval of time from when the object initially was caught in the hole's gravity well in which it was _exactly_ that distance from the center.)
This will help, sure, and be quite a detriment (since hackers will then need to figure out one more detail before being able to own your wireless network); but the fact remains that thanks to things like macchanger and other utilities, a MAC address can be very easily spoofed.
Plus, once an attacker has enough packets, he or she can divulge the necessary MAC address from those packet headers, so it's not really as great an aide as many claim...
That's one of the reasons I love PHP's newer PDO library. It uses the native data binding for the DBMSes that support it, but will emulate it for those that don't. Thus, no need to worry about manually quoting/escaping the input.
It might be for the same reason I've got my 17" CRT at its max resolution of 1400x1050: font DPI. Instead of having the fonts at 75 or 96 DPI, I've got it all at my monitor's EDID-specified optimum of 111 DPI, which means that there are more pixels per length which can be used for better anti-aliasing etc.
While I think that having F/OSS support for more audio codecs like this is definitely a good thing, I rue the fact that such proprietary (and/or patented) codecs exist in the first place. I dream of a day when the need for these dwindles and vanishes to nothing. People need to stop supporting these and start using Free formats such as Ogg Vorbis (lossy), Speex (speech), FLAC (lossless), and Ogg Theora (video).
(Hey, a geek can dream, right? ^_^)
Hmmm probably not. CPUs are general-purpose processors; whereas GPUs are more specifically designed to do lots of math-intensive graphics work such as texture and vector calculations.
Now if one of the cores would do something like physics calculations on demand, and the other could do the logistics in a game, then I think it would be VERY cool. 8)
When you load a non-GPL-compatible kernel module, it complains. For example, when you load the nvidia module, "nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel" is printed to the kernel logs, and the kernel is marked as tainted (which you can check with the kernel.tainted sysctl variable).
> you must be kidding right? how hard can it be to change?
That's the thing: I shouldn't have to. One of things distributions like Fedora and Gentoo do well is have quite usable default themes. I'm not against being able to theme one's stuff as he or she sees fit, but if I'm *required* to change the default theme just to make it *usable*, then that detracts from my time that I could spend actually getting work done.
Gee...getting work done...isn't that such a novel concept?;)
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Yes, it could, unless you're running a 64-bit OS and processor. Most computers, which are 32-bit, have a total or 4 GB of addressable memory space, which includes video memory, sound card memory (if you actually still use one) and system RAM. Therefore, if you put in a 2GB video card, you can't make use more than 2 GB of system RAM.
That's not entirely accurate. PAE makes it possible to address 4+ GB of addresses on a 32-bit system, so long as your operating system supports it fully. AFAIK both Linux and BSD happily do, and certain Windows versions also support it.
Perhaps he meant a proprietary _implementation_ of Unix, such as IBM's and HP's offerings; however if this is the case I don't know why he put Solaris with it to, now that Solaris is open-source (CDDL)...
"Be kind to the server [...]"
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Kindness? To servers? You must be new here. Welcome to SlashDot.
"No doubt Microsoft would try to create license terms to prohibit such usage, but without cooperation from the hardware designers in the OLPC project, I'm not sure they will have any technical ability to lock-out their Windows XP version from being run in virtual machines."
This cooperation is almost certainly not going to happen. One of the key features of the OLPC is that the user is free to modify and tweak with any aspect of it in order to learn from it; and having this "lock out" mechanism would preclude this entirely.
"The user interface is just horrendous."
You should try the release candidates for version 2.4 - the UI has been significantly improved. It's still not "OMG SEXY" or anything, but it's *far* better than the 2.2 series' was.
"An object actually moving to the center of the black hole takes an infinitely long time to get there, so when it actually does get there, it happens to arrive right at the end of the universe. "
While I understand your intent in that sentence, your wording is a bit misleading. If it arrives right at the end of the universe, then it has done so after a finite and terminating length of time (even if arbitrarily as long as the universe itself). This means that the item would in fact reach the mass point of the black hole.
On the contrary, if it takes an infinitely long time to get there, then it would always approach the mass point and be extremely near to it, but never reaching it. (If it helps, think of this as if it were a mathematical limit from beginning studies of calculus: the fact that the object takes an infinite amount of time to reach to the center of the black hole but gets infinitely close to it means that for any given distance away from the black hole there is at least one interval of time from when the object initially was caught in the hole's gravity well in which it was _exactly_ that distance from the center.)
...but many don't; hence the rampant effectiveness of social engineering.
Always remember to practice SafeSEH by using the CON dev. :)
This will help, sure, and be quite a detriment (since hackers will then need to figure out one more detail before being able to own your wireless network); but the fact remains that thanks to things like macchanger and other utilities, a MAC address can be very easily spoofed.
Plus, once an attacker has enough packets, he or she can divulge the necessary MAC address from those packet headers, so it's not really as great an aide as many claim...
Sorry, that ending part should have been "(part of the <algorithm> standard header)."
Damn HTML stuffs...
Actually, C++'s STL containers do have such a utility: std::for_each (part of the standard header.
I dunno....seems more elliptical to me...what's the eccentricity? :]
Isn't that called a Neutron? Heh.
(Sorry...it had to be said...)
That's one of the reasons I love PHP's newer PDO library. It uses the native data binding for the DBMSes that support it, but will emulate it for those that don't. Thus, no need to worry about manually quoting/escaping the input.
Unfortunately, the USPTO is so fucked-up that prior art is not even cause for invalidation of such patents in most cases...
It might be for the same reason I've got my 17" CRT at its max resolution of 1400x1050: font DPI. Instead of having the fonts at 75 or 96 DPI, I've got it all at my monitor's EDID-specified optimum of 111 DPI, which means that there are more pixels per length which can be used for better anti-aliasing etc.
While I think that having F/OSS support for more audio codecs like this is definitely a good thing, I rue the fact that such proprietary (and/or patented) codecs exist in the first place. I dream of a day when the need for these dwindles and vanishes to nothing. People need to stop supporting these and start using Free formats such as Ogg Vorbis (lossy), Speex (speech), FLAC (lossless), and Ogg Theora (video). (Hey, a geek can dream, right? ^_^)
Hmmm probably not. CPUs are general-purpose processors; whereas GPUs are more specifically designed to do lots of math-intensive graphics work such as texture and vector calculations.
Now if one of the cores would do something like physics calculations on demand, and the other could do the logistics in a game, then I think it would be VERY cool. 8)
...is that anyone, anywhere, can post anything online.
The worst thing about the internet is that anyone, anywhere, can post anything online."
(To quote GrumpySimon)
Insightful++
"[...] Linux Kernel 2.5 codebase has been merged [...] benefitting the stability and overall experience opposed to recent Linux kernel releases."
Maybe if they didn't use an old and known-broken kernel series, it might be stable?
And that's not including root's PATH!
When you load a non-GPL-compatible kernel module, it complains. For example, when you load the nvidia module, "nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel" is printed to the kernel logs, and the kernel is marked as tainted (which you can check with the kernel.tainted sysctl variable).
> you must be kidding right? how hard can it be to change?
;)
That's the thing: I shouldn't have to. One of things distributions like Fedora and Gentoo do well is have quite usable default themes. I'm not against being able to theme one's stuff as he or she sees fit, but if I'm *required* to change the default theme just to make it *usable*, then that detracts from my time that I could spend actually getting work done.
Gee...getting work done...isn't that such a novel concept?