If you ever did any assembly language programming in the MS-DOS 3.2 days, you've got a slight, tiny flavor of what writing on VMS was like. All the system calls had assembly interfaces, with lots and lots of bit fields and variant records; so it was like "if the third bit in the second word of a syscall parameter block was set, then the fourth and fifth words would be string descriptors, but if the fourth bit was set, then those words were integers that meant something else entirely". The documentation would hop you from binder to binder to binder to binder, often in a full circle.
The "C" header files (with a non-standard compiler) were even more horrific, things like: union {
struct a {
int m;
int n;
}
struct b {
unsigned p:4;
unsigned q:8;
}
union { ...more of the same, only nested...
} }
I'm sure in it's day, in VaxMacro, you could do some amazing stuff, but wow, the getting there was gahstly.
That was Intel's Realtime Multitasking eXecutive - a REAL TIME operating system. Security wasn't its job. You may as well ask how the security on QNX or a PLC is. Answer: nobody cares, as long as the I/O completes on time.
How about this quote from Marcus Matthias, product manager of Windows Digital Media at Microsoft:
"Any device--whether it be a PC or consumer electronic device--will need to ensure compliance with the specified policies otherwise they risk being unable to access the next-gen DVD content. Clearly we think that offering next-gen DVD content on the PC is much preferable to having the PC excluded from accessing this premium content,"
Vista is stealing the next generation of hardware from us.
Don't deny it. You know it's the Canadians. They're in it with the Scientologists. And the Freemasons. And the Trilateral Commission. And the Teletubbies. God, I hate those little purple faggots.
You guys sound like you've never done any tuning. TFA accurately points out how you can go about making decisions about what apps to run to reduce memory usage. TFA isn't specifically about (X)Ubuntu, it just happens to be the system he's testing on, in the same way that the 800Mhz processor happens to be the CPU he's testing on. He shows memory usage comparisons for different window managers, browsers and office apps, at two different memory configurations, to show where the swapping/thrashing starts. Geez, lighten up. As with ALL tuning questions, the REAL answer is "it depends".
The first is the "show us your papers" police state behavior that has a camera on every street corner, national identity cards, huge databases of citizen info, warrantless monitoring of telephone and internet traffic, computerized gerrymandering, cell phone location tracking, etc, etc, etc.
The second is the "buy now!" corporation state behavior that has every purchase, every click, every commercial fast-forwarded through monitored and recorded and analyzed, while MAFIAA-DRM "loss prevention" and RFID tags in your underwear close the few remaining loopholes.
Between the politicians greed for limitless power and the corporations limitless greed for wealth, the average citizen doesn't stand a chance. Like the frog in the pot of water, they keep raising the temperature and we keep not noticing. When I read these stories I think: "By God, if there was anywhere to go, I would".
/me puts tinfoil hat back on and crawls back under the bed.
But that isn't really a fair comparison. Suppose that Adobe controlled the JPEG format and continually changed it so that Gimp COULDN'T stay compatable.
I never could make VMS or BeOS play nice with MS Exchange Server or get pixel-per-pixel compatability with Powerpoint either. Clearly the fault of VMS and BeOS. Nothing to do with Microsoft's changing formats every twenty minutes to prevent compatability.
The team is now designing variable-focus folded optical systems that have air between the reflective surfaces of the imager. Such imagers may be especially useful for lightweight, inexpensive infrared vision applications.
So I would take that to mean the current generation is fixed-focus.
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/. discussion??? Thanks.
Please, could you leave Evolution vs InteligentDesign / Linux vs Microsoft / Global Warming vs Bad Science out of at least one
I wish we had d00d, yer killin' me yer so right... mod points. Remember the elcaset format?
We didn't say you were paranoid, you must have imagined that.
If you ever did any assembly language programming in the MS-DOS 3.2 days, you've got a slight, tiny flavor of what writing on VMS was like. All the system calls had assembly interfaces, with lots and lots of bit fields and variant records; so it was like "if the third bit in the second word of a syscall parameter block was set, then the fourth and fifth words would be string descriptors, but if the fourth bit was set, then those words were integers that meant something else entirely". The documentation would hop you from binder to binder to binder to binder, often in a full circle.
:4; :8;
...more of the same, only nested...
The "C" header files (with a non-standard compiler) were even more horrific, things like:
union {
struct a {
int m;
int n;
}
struct b {
unsigned p
unsigned q
}
union {
}
}
I'm sure in it's day, in VaxMacro, you could do some amazing stuff, but wow, the getting there was gahstly.
That was Intel's Realtime Multitasking eXecutive - a REAL TIME operating system. Security wasn't its job. You may as well ask how the security on QNX or a PLC is. Answer: nobody cares, as long as the I/O completes on time.
> The Operating System most secure is the Operating System less used.
So, OpenVMS, then?
Is always a good first line of defense. At least it keeps out the riff-raff. Until someone smarter writes the scripts for them.
In Soviet Amerika, Bill Gates sends gulag to YOU!
(secret police) hacking
or
secret (police hacking)
IBM: Open Source Winners
SCO: Open Source Losers
Don't deny it. You know it's the Canadians. They're in it with the Scientologists. And the Freemasons. And the Trilateral Commission. And the Teletubbies. God, I hate those little purple faggots.
You guys sound like you've never done any tuning. TFA accurately points out how you can go about making decisions about what apps to run to reduce memory usage. TFA isn't specifically about (X)Ubuntu, it just happens to be the system he's testing on, in the same way that the 800Mhz processor happens to be the CPU he's testing on. He shows memory usage comparisons for different window managers, browsers and office apps, at two different memory configurations, to show where the swapping/thrashing starts. Geez, lighten up. As with ALL tuning questions, the REAL answer is "it depends".
What makes you assume that we have any more control of our democracy than you do?
The first is the "show us your papers" police state behavior that has a camera on every street corner, national identity cards, huge databases of citizen info, warrantless monitoring of telephone and internet traffic, computerized gerrymandering, cell phone location tracking, etc, etc, etc.
/me puts tinfoil hat back on and crawls back under the bed.
The second is the "buy now!" corporation state behavior that has every purchase, every click, every commercial fast-forwarded through monitored and recorded and analyzed, while MAFIAA-DRM "loss prevention" and RFID tags in your underwear close the few remaining loopholes.
Between the politicians greed for limitless power and the corporations limitless greed for wealth, the average citizen doesn't stand a chance. Like the frog in the pot of water, they keep raising the temperature and we keep not noticing. When I read these stories I think: "By God, if there was anywhere to go, I would".
"Standards are wonderful! We have so many to choose from!"
> does anyone out there ever press that "safely remove hardware" thing anyway? Bunch of dorks.
man umount
nuff said
MS-DOS used ^Z for EOF, like VMS. That's also where they got the forward slash for command line arguments.
try:
COPY NUL: C:\COMMAND.COM
C'mon mods! In no way is the parent a "troll". Get real.
> Why are consumer electronics companies so eager to stick DRM on products
Because Sony (the consumer electronics company) also is Sony (the movie company). Take a look at the holdings of Sony Pictures Entertainment. They own Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, MGM, and a slew of other motion picture companies. They'll be happy to sell you a new DRM'ed copy of Singin' In The Rain on BluRay.
But that isn't really a fair comparison. Suppose that Adobe controlled the JPEG format and continually changed it so that Gimp COULDN'T stay compatable.
I never could make VMS or BeOS play nice with MS Exchange Server or get pixel-per-pixel compatability with Powerpoint either. Clearly the fault of VMS and BeOS. Nothing to do with Microsoft's changing formats every twenty minutes to prevent compatability.
And what are you going to do when the next time you want to upgrade your video card, and all you can buy is HDMI or UDI?
You're missing the point: Vista is stealing the hardware vendors from us. Think about the frog in the pot of hot water.