I went back and looked again, and they list:
PEG16X One slot from i915G
and PCI Express as None. I'm confused too, but they did stick a GeForce 6600GT into it. Chalk it up to poor spec sheet layout, it's not the first time that's happened, and it won't be the last.
Except it does have one 16x PCI-express slot, you know, exactly what you need for all the new video cards out there. I know some people need all 8 expansion slots of a full sized ATX machine, but with Firewire and USB 2.0 on these small machines, they are very capable and take up much less desk space.
But they're implementing this in a FPGA. Geometry processing would take up to many gates in the FPGA. Just fitting what they have listed already will be a challange. If they can make it work, I'll buy one. Maybe the next generation will be an ASIC and have more gates to spend on features.
Right, I know that it's fine as long as packets aren't dropped, but sadly I have cable from Charter Communications, so my internet connection is spotty, I've never had any luck with ssh+pppd, it may just be a bad combination.
I second OpenVPN. Way easier to setup then FreeSWAN, and less overhead. You do have to setup the server per machine that wants to connect, but it works on my linux and windows boxes.
There are problems with tunneling ppp over SSH, since that's packing a TCP stream inside another TCP stream and can screw up the packet counters, and seriously, OpenVPN is easier to setup.
Me and a friend setup an IPSec tunnel between our linux boxes and started playing with it. The routing setup was a nightmare, and to get server to server, server to client and client to client traffic flowing you need multiple traffic filters installed. And the latency of the connection sucked, no playing Diablo 2 over that.
OpenVPN is a breeze compared to all that, you get a tunX device on each box, and as long as you setup your routes using "ip route add (remote net) gw (remote tun) src (your servers eth IP)" even server to server traffic comes from the right netblock so your firewall rules stay sane. And best of all, we dropped from 160ms ping times to 60ms, just by switching from FreeSWAN to OpenVPN.
So did I, and I just found my old copy and got it to run inside DosBox http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/. It takes a lot of grunt to run it under and emulator, but it's still addictive, I've found I still remember all the shortcuts and cut scenes, but I'm playing everynight anyways. I'd love to find the collectors edition, but they seem to be nearly impossible to get a hold of.
Also, what makes you think that the good stuff will be software? Ever wonder what all of that firmware on your video card does? If it just detected certain kinds trigger conditions (perhaps on the bus from certain kinds of ethernet packets being latched off of the network card) and responded by taking a screenshot and saving it into some unused header space in outgoing HTTP requests (hard to grab and re-write from the bus, but I'll bet you could do it)... how would you know? No disk activity. No increase in network usage. No software running on the main CPU...
Well since the firmware on your video card is limited to a certain size, and is patched into the system board BIOS, with any modern OS the bios is completely bypassed. And if you have an AGP video card, there's no way it can even see PCI bus traffic without the CPU being involved. I'm not even going to go into the whole saving screen shots into outgoing HTTP headers. I don't think our law enforcement professionals would want to be chasing down the logs of web servers just hoping that little bits of data were saved.
If they're using any sort of hardware logging, it'll be a keylogger, or maybe something like the innards of a ethernet KVM.
If this is anything like what I see in Government, some scumbag will convince them to buy some miracle spyware product for an outrageous price, and it'll be easily removed by HiJack This! and turn into a laughing stock. Then they'll go back to keyloggers and just seizing the computers and running InCase on them.
Do I sense a troll in the parent post? I mean... come on! Even on a low level machine (1 Ghz) the compilation of Qt+KDE will be done at the most in 24 hours
Well, SPARC's aren't very fast CPU wise. If it's an older SPARC with a slow SCSI disk, it could take over 24 hours to compile. Let me tell you about compiling NetBSD on a DecStation 3100, that's a long wait. x86 has really pushed past the RISC workstations in raw speed, there's a reason why even Sun is trying out Opteron workstations.
SIP based VoIP, Asterisk compatible if you want to get fancy, uses STUN to traverse nat'ing firewalls. They even sponsor a few SIP clients so it's all free, and you can buy a cheap hardware SIP phone or interface and make the calls from a real phone instead of a PC.
Good Ol' RedHat 5.2, been caching host name lookups for a good long time.
Of course, it's not out on the internet either.
Poor guy, I just got an Opteron 248 to replace it, I'll have to let the uptime go.
Well, if that's true, and you can't get to the "maint screen" with the kernel messed up, I wonder what's up with the designers of this model. To build a system you can't recover from a bad flash... It's like the motherboards with soldered on bios chips. There's got to be a debug header inside the Zaurus somewhere, but finding the right tools would be tough. Good luck with it though, I know I'd hate to brick my 5500.
You should be able to reflash it even with a dead kernel, you'll just need a CF card and reader for your PC. I've flashed the wrong kernel into my SL-5500 before and it keeps coming back for more, if you want to get rid of the 5600, just let me know.
Ok people, repeat after me:
Spielberg != Lucas
Spielberg != Lucas
Spielberg != Lucas
ET phone home jokes are probably called for, but JarJar? WTF? We're supposed to be geeks, sticklers for trivial facts. I mean, Lucas and Spielberg don't even look alike.
[insert relevant joke] Maybe the martians will be velocoraptors with Unix computers [insert relevant joke]
Why's that ironic? They compete with Microsoft, don't they?
IBM Invented FUD in the 1980's. Gene Amdahl, would of course be the guy behind Amdahl computers, which made hardware compatible with IBM's mainframes, and was one the receiving end of a lot of FUD.
You can't even count FUD as a Microsoft innovation.
by Have Blue (616) Alter Relationship on Saturday August 28, @08:46AM (#10096257)
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I thought the buffer overrun protection was AMD's idea, with the NX page flag.
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I went back and looked again, and they list:
PEG16X One slot from i915G
and PCI Express as None. I'm confused too, but they did stick a GeForce 6600GT into it. Chalk it up to poor spec sheet layout, it's not the first time that's happened, and it won't be the last.
Except it does have one 16x PCI-express slot, you know, exactly what you need for all the new video cards out there. I know some people need all 8 expansion slots of a full sized ATX machine, but with Firewire and USB 2.0 on these small machines, they are very capable and take up much less desk space.
But they're implementing this in a FPGA. Geometry processing would take up to many gates in the FPGA. Just fitting what they have listed already will be a challange. If they can make it work, I'll buy one. Maybe the next generation will be an ASIC and have more gates to spend on features.
Right, I know that it's fine as long as packets aren't dropped, but sadly I have cable from Charter Communications, so my internet connection is spotty, I've never had any luck with ssh+pppd, it may just be a bad combination.
There are problems with tunneling ppp over SSH, since that's packing a TCP stream inside another TCP stream and can screw up the packet counters, and seriously, OpenVPN is easier to setup.
I got mine from http://www.newegg.com/ for around $150 when you get shipping and tax involved, and they work good.
Me and a friend setup an IPSec tunnel between our linux boxes and started playing with it. The routing setup was a nightmare, and to get server to server, server to client and client to client traffic flowing you need multiple traffic filters installed. And the latency of the connection sucked, no playing Diablo 2 over that.
OpenVPN is a breeze compared to all that, you get a tunX device on each box, and as long as you setup your routes using "ip route add (remote net) gw (remote tun) src (your servers eth IP)" even server to server traffic comes from the right netblock so your firewall rules stay sane. And best of all, we dropped from 160ms ping times to 60ms, just by switching from FreeSWAN to OpenVPN.
So did I, and I just found my old copy and got it to run inside DosBox http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/. It takes a lot of grunt to run it under and emulator, but it's still addictive, I've found I still remember all the shortcuts and cut scenes, but I'm playing everynight anyways. I'd love to find the collectors edition, but they seem to be nearly impossible to get a hold of.
Well since the firmware on your video card is limited to a certain size, and is patched into the system board BIOS, with any modern OS the bios is completely bypassed. And if you have an AGP video card, there's no way it can even see PCI bus traffic without the CPU being involved. I'm not even going to go into the whole saving screen shots into outgoing HTTP headers. I don't think our law enforcement professionals would want to be chasing down the logs of web servers just hoping that little bits of data were saved.
If they're using any sort of hardware logging, it'll be a keylogger, or maybe something like the innards of a ethernet KVM.
If this is anything like what I see in Government, some scumbag will convince them to buy some miracle spyware product for an outrageous price, and it'll be easily removed by HiJack This! and turn into a laughing stock. Then they'll go back to keyloggers and just seizing the computers and running InCase on them.
Do I sense a troll in the parent post? I mean... come on! Even on a low level machine (1 Ghz) the compilation of Qt+KDE will be done at the most in 24 hours
Well, SPARC's aren't very fast CPU wise. If it's an older SPARC with a slow SCSI disk, it could take over 24 hours to compile. Let me tell you about compiling NetBSD on a DecStation 3100, that's a long wait. x86 has really pushed past the RISC workstations in raw speed, there's a reason why even Sun is trying out Opteron workstations.
try out lop.com and see if you can clean that crap off.
SIP based VoIP, Asterisk compatible if you want to get fancy, uses STUN to traverse nat'ing firewalls. They even sponsor a few SIP clients so it's all free, and you can buy a cheap hardware SIP phone or interface and make the calls from a real phone instead of a PC.
Now, if only you could do cp food /mnt/floppy/food as many times as you wanted, it might be a valid analogy.
*cough* lemme ssh into my DNS server....
[user@host ~]$ uname -r
2.0.36
[user@host ~]$ uptime
1:32pm up 316 days, 5:20, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
[user@host ~]$
Good Ol' RedHat 5.2, been caching host name lookups for a good long time.
Of course, it's not out on the internet either.
Poor guy, I just got an Opteron 248 to replace it, I'll have to let the uptime go.
Well, if that's true, and you can't get to the "maint screen" with the kernel messed up, I wonder what's up with the designers of this model. To build a system you can't recover from a bad flash... It's like the motherboards with soldered on bios chips. There's got to be a debug header inside the Zaurus somewhere, but finding the right tools would be tough. Good luck with it though, I know I'd hate to brick my 5500.
You should be able to reflash it even with a dead kernel, you'll just need a CF card and reader for your PC. I've flashed the wrong kernel into my SL-5500 before and it keeps coming back for more, if you want to get rid of the 5600, just let me know.
But will it have JarJar?
Ok people, repeat after me:
Spielberg != Lucas
Spielberg != Lucas
Spielberg != Lucas
ET phone home jokes are probably called for, but JarJar? WTF? We're supposed to be geeks, sticklers for trivial facts. I mean, Lucas and Spielberg don't even look alike.
[insert relevant joke] Maybe the martians will be velocoraptors with Unix computers [insert relevant joke]
Why's that ironic? They compete with Microsoft, don't they?
IBM Invented FUD in the 1980's. Gene Amdahl, would of course be the guy behind Amdahl computers, which made hardware compatible with IBM's mainframes, and was one the receiving end of a lot of FUD.
You can't even count FUD as a Microsoft innovation.
by Have Blue (616) Alter Relationship on Saturday August 28, @08:46AM (#10096257) (http://slashdot.org/)
n flict/2100-1016_3-5326707.html?tag=st_lh
I thought the buffer overrun protection was AMD's idea, with the NX page flag.
Yup it was, AMD's X86_64 arch is the first to support the NX page flag. To bad MS screwed it up in SP2 and is now recommending people with Athlon 64's don't upgrade to SP2. See the story here:
http://news.com.com/Windows+update+harbors+AMD+co
Now we know what today's threat to the internet is. Thanks for cleaning that up Linspire.