All dialup ISPs charge by connect time, not bandwidth. So what's the point in metering it? A comparison. I have a 56K modem, my neighbor ("Bob" for this comparison) has 1 56K. We both use an ISP that charges a flat rate, 20 hours/month for $10. Bob connects to check his email, read the news, and occasionally downloads some MP3s. My computer is connected 24x7, monitoring uptime by sending a ping packet to my 3 servers every 10 minutes. If a server isn't responding, it starts flashing lights and doing jumping jacks etc. Bob uses 18 hours per month, and is doing something all 18 hours. I use over 700 hours per month, and only use a small fraction of the bandwidth Bob uses. Assuming Bob is maxing out his modem, Bob is using 354 MB of bandwidth every month. I'm using under 500 K per month. My ISP charges $1 for every extra hour of connect time, so I get a bill every month for $750 while Bob pays $10, and he uses 700 times more bandwidth than I do.
Metering would say that I should only be charged $1/month for my bandwidth, but my ISP says I'm connected 24x7 so I should be charged for every minute that I'm online. Until ISPs start charging people by bandwidth, metering simply won't work.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
There are certain pieces of hardware that perform better under NT and there are pieces that perform better under linux. For instance, a 64 processor Alpha will have better performance under NT because the SMP has been heavily developed in the kernel, where linux is currently lacking in a solid SMP core. Compare that to a 486 with 4 MB of RAM, Apache will run like a dream and NT won't even boot. Then you need to factor in the RAID controller and make sure that linux can support it as well as NT blah blah blah. Personally I laugh at companies who shell out thousands of dollars to buy software that can do the same thing as free open source software can. In some cases, NT makes sense. In most, Apache comes out the clear winner. No software is perfect for every configuration, and it's possible that NT makes a better performance server using this hardware config. Just remind them, though, that the extra "performance" if Dell is telling the truth will cost their pocketbook quite a bit more in software.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
I agree completely. Of all the letters I've seen from DC, they more or less say "stop doing this, or we'll stop being nice to you". I say wait til they take legal action and then humiliate them in court. DC hasn't said anything remotely intelligent in any of their letters. They're all very vague, and like to throw around the term "itellectual property" a lot. Until DC starts making specific demands and can back up their claims, let's just laugh at them!
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
Of course when companies release some new thing that has anything remotely associated with the internet, they play it up like it's going to change the internet forever. Digital Convergence is A) claiming the CueCat is the greatest invention since the mouse (check their website) B) they WON THE WAR against hackers C) If it has a UPC on it, it must be violating their EULA somehow and D) Even though they give their hardware away with (in version 1.0) no EULA mentioning the decompilation or reverse engineering of the hardware, that they own it outright and you can't do anything they don't want you to. I don't know if it's arrogance, ignorance, or just plain stupidity, but DC has what I consider first of all to be the dumbest idea about how to surf the web (I buy a can of Mountain Dew, I'm too dumb to try www.mountaindew.com???) and second of all the guts to run around suing anything mentioning the word UPC. What's next, are they going to start suing Walmart for using barcodes because they COULD be purchased by a consumer who MIGHT use his own software to do something with it? This is ludicrous, plain and simple. Of all the people I've talked to (including people who would be inclined to install it as suggested by DC) not ONE SINGLE PERSON has installed the software provided with the Cue Cat. They've either disassembled them, thrown them away, or given them to someone else who will disassemble it to make a flashlight.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
This article seems to assume that Intel and AMD would WANT to copy the Transmeta design. I don't really see it though. I can claim that I've created a peanut butter that's so sophisticated it would take Skippy and Jif 10 years to develop a peanut butter that is as sophisticated as mine. I mean, sure, it TASTES like regular peanut butter, looks like it, costs just as much to make but on the moleculer level my peanut butter is doing something so futuristic it'll take a decade to replicate it!!
The fact is, Crusoe and the rest of the Transmeta chips may or may not live up to their expectations. For Intel and AMD to try to close this "5 year gap" supposedly created, they would need a desire to try. Right now I don't see this happening.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
There is a legit use for blocking e-mail. Not so much for security or privacy sake (although I can see some kid e-mailing threat letters to members of congresss and stuff). After managing a high school network, I discovered how addicted teenagers get to e-mail. Before we had all the logistics of student e-mail set up, we had simple net access. They were used pretty heavily, but usually there wasn't a waiting line unless a class needed to use it for some research project. When the day came that we let the students freely e-mail anybody on their school accounts, things got out of control. People were constantly e-mailing EACH OTHER (even if they were sitting right next to each other) and basically turned it into a form of high-tech note passing. Lines were wrapping around the computer lab by others anxious to check their e-mail. That and after every class there was always a barrage of teenage girls who needed to write 2-page letters to their boyfriends. Eight times a day. I think the restriction on e-mail has a valid concern, but there are better ways of doing it. It looks like they wanted to keep the internet station for sole research purposes, which makes sense from a certain standpoint. I think they could have found a better way to manage it, if this was their intent.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
They tried suing Napster. They tried kicking users off of Napster. Now they're trying to ban Napster from Universities. Why does Metallica honestly think it has the power/resources/legal team to stop online piracy? Even after all their whining, C&D letters, and lawsuits a quick search for "Metallica" on Napster still brings back a complete list of albums and music from thousands of music pirates. Why doesn't Metallica realize that the harder they try to stop piracy, the more pirates are going to run around laughing at them for being so ignorant. This was brought up a couple days ago by an article in Cnet, where Digital Convergence claimed that it won the war against pirates. In reality, it ends up that every single day some member of the media (and the/. audience thereafter) starts ripping on of these companies that just don't understand the nature of piracy. It may be immoral, it may be illegal, but that won't stop some people. Metallica needs to realize that and stop whining already.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
This would be cool... I am forced to use Win95 at work, where I read/. 90% of the time. It'd be interesting to see just how high the MS-OS numbers are among a severely biased audience.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
There is a major lack of content with this. Because of this, using phrases like "Sun exploits the GPL" are going to make the/. population start flaming Sun without hearing their side.
From what I gather, All Sun needs to do is distribute the source code with their binaries and they're all kosher. This "kit" they talk about sounds like any other compiler... source goes in, binary comes out. If Sun distributed their source with the binaries, then nothing would even have been said. In Sun's case it's a bad move for their PR.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
and you could use your router as a web server if you were on crack
Ever used a Cisco 675? set web enable. Hit it at port 80. Bang, web server. I was trying to put together a distro that emulate Cisco IOS to build a small router with web server to fit on a small hard drive or maybe even a floppy. Guess I don't have to do that anymore:-) Cisco's command structure is very UNIX-like, so porting linux to it makes sense to me. I'd love to see open source router software so I can hypertweak the security on my Cisco. Yay Cisco.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
This is the same reason I don't run Microsoft products at home. They're not engineered well. No one spends a couple years developing a solid model (flowchart) of how the software is supposed to work. It's kinda like first we build the window manager. Then we build some cool widgets to click on. Then we manage it with the registry. Then we make a cool startup screen. Then we add this extra networking feature, etc.
Netscape 2.0 was a fantastic browser. It blew the crap out of every browser on the market. NS 3.0 threw in some cool enhancements that although buggy, made it far superior once again. Then IE 4 came out (also badly engineered) and added many more features. Both browsers were equally buggy, but IE4 implemented more features. From then on, both browsers became more fascinated with tweaking the previous version just a little bit more. Mozilla started over, and re-engineered the browser from the ground up. When they finally release M22 (the bug fixed version according to their roadmap) in the year 2039, it will be the most stable browser because it followed a solid engineering process.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
Even though we live in a world where techies are getting high paid jobs right out of high school, chances are you'll inevitably run into a PHB that wants to see your degree. In reality, a degree is a certificate of attendance. PHB's still want to see it. Go for the paper, even if you don't learn anything. I didn't!!
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
Well, if you're a techie that is. I went to a tech college for 4 years (yes, you get funny looks when you say you're a tech college super senior) to get my degree. A degree is a piece of paper, nothing more. It's a certificate of attendance and money spent. The only learning I did in college was at about 2 AM when the caffeine was at its highest level and there was no stopping my network building/testing/destroying!! What I learned from class is basically how to make it look like you're learning, how to skip every class and show up for the final (only to ace it andd go home), and how to figure out who is a techie and who's looking for a career change and they want to learn more about these computer thingies that sit in front of them at work. I slept all day, drank Mt Dew all night, and took more out of college than anyone else. Simple fact, I went for the degree. I got my degree. Now I have a good job. Could I have skipped college entirely? Yes. I could have worked full time at Subway to make money for my home projects. Sadly, employers like to see a degree. Shame on them anyway.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
"However, it fails to recognize Linux, or any non-Microsoft operating system as a valid client. In essence HP recognizes Linux as an operating system powerful and stable enough to trust their Printing Server Appliance to, yet are unwilling to commit to supporting that very same operating system as a client."
Why couldn't you configure a linux client to use this thing? It syas it requires an IP based SMB share. Hmm... Windows can do that, and so can linux. Linux isn't in that list, probably because either FUD or PHBs or a simple typo.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
can/. be taken down for allowing a poster to link to a search engine that links to DeCSS? I can obtain the complete DeCSS source from the links posted above, so it must be illegal. Oh, that would mean everyone linking to/. is also in violation, as well as anyone who links to a site with a/. link, and well, you see my point. I can find DeCSS source code by following links from my page, even though it's about 30 sites away. Do I get sued now too?
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
I can create an account and post the DeCSS code in about 2 minutes, and the juducial system would take 3 months to remove it. In that time,
30*60*60*24*90=
233,280,000 new pages, all with DeCSS code could be put up by me. How are they planning to stop it when developers all around the world are plastering it on the web faster than they can take it down? As much as the MPAA would like to think, they cannot stop DeCSS. Can they confiscate my DeCSS shirt? Not without a warrant. How long does a warrant take to get? A lot longer than it takes to e-mail the source to everyone I know for safe keeping. The MPAA needs to realize that no matter how fast they think they are, developers are faster. DeCSS cannot be stopped, no matter how hard they try.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
From glancing through the article, it appears that he's ranting about one basic thing... there is no perfect distro, and if there was, it isn't Debian 2.2. Big deal!! I have yet to install that "perfect distro" on my machine. I don't like things about Mandrake, Redhat, Slackware, and Suse. I think this goes on the same basis as a distro war.. certain distros do things better than others. So Debian didn't suit the needs of this guy. Install something else that appeals to you and move on with life.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
Personally, I've been using host headers for a long time on my apache box. I get one IP from my DSL provider (saves me $10/mo) and I can string as many domains as I want off it. Works VERY nicely. I think it's kind of silly to be dishing out IPs as generously as they have been. Even before I heard of the 2010 prediction (the anticipated date that IPv4 will run out of IPs) I could see from the design of IP that there wouldn't be enough addresses. Especially when you start networking devices in your home. Masquerade and use port forwarding, use host headers, whatever you must to make it all work. You can do a LOT with a single IP address, so this article makes perfect sense to me.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
Whether or not I was plagued by a rush to market, I received a faulty AMD chip back in the pre-K5 days. It was the 5x86-133 chip. From my understanding, it's an overclocked 486 with some extra instructions thrown in. The problem with the chip was that they left a few instructions out. Basically enough to make the NT kernel crash on boot (not a valid test I realize), my Seagate disk partitioning software to crash, and X windows to give completely unnaceptable performance (even without a window manager). I didn't compile anything on it, but I'm guessing a kernel compile would've crashed it also. The beauty of it was when I sold it to Computer Rennassaince for $40 and bought a 486-66 for $5. Suddenly my X performance made me dump M$ in a heartbeat.
Although I was biased for Intel at that point, real-world specs don't lie. If a cheaper chip can do EVERYTHING an Intel can and faster, I'll put on an AMD hat:-).
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
"This telescope will allow scientists on Earth to touch the stars without leaving the hills of West Virginia"
Wow, how profound. Too bad Galileo didn't say something like that when he first built a telescope. Just goes to show how the Senator has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with this project.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
Seeing as how Toshiba is an invester in Transmeta, I'm willing to dimiss this article as FUD. It makes no sense, but neither does the goverment.
The TRUE test of this chip will be when Uncle Tom gets his hands on these chips and beats the crap out of them. Toshiba can label the chip vaporware as long as they want to but I'm not listening until I see the specs.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
Actually, I could. Imagine the bandwidth of multiple phones running at 153Kbs each. If I had 10 clustered together into a switch, I'd have a wireless T1. Pretty sweet!!!
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
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All dialup ISPs charge by connect time, not bandwidth. So what's the point in metering it? A comparison. I have a 56K modem, my neighbor ("Bob" for this comparison) has 1 56K. We both use an ISP that charges a flat rate, 20 hours/month for $10. Bob connects to check his email, read the news, and occasionally downloads some MP3s. My computer is connected 24x7, monitoring uptime by sending a ping packet to my 3 servers every 10 minutes. If a server isn't responding, it starts flashing lights and doing jumping jacks etc. Bob uses 18 hours per month, and is doing something all 18 hours. I use over 700 hours per month, and only use a small fraction of the bandwidth Bob uses. Assuming Bob is maxing out his modem, Bob is using 354 MB of bandwidth every month. I'm using under 500 K per month. My ISP charges $1 for every extra hour of connect time, so I get a bill every month for $750 while Bob pays $10, and he uses 700 times more bandwidth than I do.
Metering would say that I should only be charged $1/month for my bandwidth, but my ISP says I'm connected 24x7 so I should be charged for every minute that I'm online. Until ISPs start charging people by bandwidth, metering simply won't work.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
There are certain pieces of hardware that perform better under NT and there are pieces that perform better under linux. For instance, a 64 processor Alpha will have better performance under NT because the SMP has been heavily developed in the kernel, where linux is currently lacking in a solid SMP core. Compare that to a 486 with 4 MB of RAM, Apache will run like a dream and NT won't even boot. Then you need to factor in the RAID controller and make sure that linux can support it as well as NT blah blah blah. Personally I laugh at companies who shell out thousands of dollars to buy software that can do the same thing as free open source software can. In some cases, NT makes sense. In most, Apache comes out the clear winner. No software is perfect for every configuration, and it's possible that NT makes a better performance server using this hardware config. Just remind them, though, that the extra "performance" if Dell is telling the truth will cost their pocketbook quite a bit more in software.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
how would you tell someone that your URL is dot.dot.dot without spelling it out?
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
I agree completely. Of all the letters I've seen from DC, they more or less say "stop doing this, or we'll stop being nice to you". I say wait til they take legal action and then humiliate them in court. DC hasn't said anything remotely intelligent in any of their letters. They're all very vague, and like to throw around the term "itellectual property" a lot. Until DC starts making specific demands and can back up their claims, let's just laugh at them!
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
Of course when companies release some new thing that has anything remotely associated with the internet, they play it up like it's going to change the internet forever. Digital Convergence is A) claiming the CueCat is the greatest invention since the mouse (check their website) B) they WON THE WAR against hackers C) If it has a UPC on it, it must be violating their EULA somehow and D) Even though they give their hardware away with (in version 1.0) no EULA mentioning the decompilation or reverse engineering of the hardware, that they own it outright and you can't do anything they don't want you to. I don't know if it's arrogance, ignorance, or just plain stupidity, but DC has what I consider first of all to be the dumbest idea about how to surf the web (I buy a can of Mountain Dew, I'm too dumb to try www.mountaindew.com???) and second of all the guts to run around suing anything mentioning the word UPC. What's next, are they going to start suing Walmart for using barcodes because they COULD be purchased by a consumer who MIGHT use his own software to do something with it? This is ludicrous, plain and simple. Of all the people I've talked to (including people who would be inclined to install it as suggested by DC) not ONE SINGLE PERSON has installed the software provided with the Cue Cat. They've either disassembled them, thrown them away, or given them to someone else who will disassemble it to make a flashlight.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
This article seems to assume that Intel and AMD would WANT to copy the Transmeta design. I don't really see it though. I can claim that I've created a peanut butter that's so sophisticated it would take Skippy and Jif 10 years to develop a peanut butter that is as sophisticated as mine. I mean, sure, it TASTES like regular peanut butter, looks like it, costs just as much to make but on the moleculer level my peanut butter is doing something so futuristic it'll take a decade to replicate it!!
The fact is, Crusoe and the rest of the Transmeta chips may or may not live up to their expectations. For Intel and AMD to try to close this "5 year gap" supposedly created, they would need a desire to try. Right now I don't see this happening.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
There is a legit use for blocking e-mail. Not so much for security or privacy sake (although I can see some kid e-mailing threat letters to members of congresss and stuff). After managing a high school network, I discovered how addicted teenagers get to e-mail. Before we had all the logistics of student e-mail set up, we had simple net access. They were used pretty heavily, but usually there wasn't a waiting line unless a class needed to use it for some research project. When the day came that we let the students freely e-mail anybody on their school accounts, things got out of control. People were constantly e-mailing EACH OTHER (even if they were sitting right next to each other) and basically turned it into a form of high-tech note passing. Lines were wrapping around the computer lab by others anxious to check their e-mail. That and after every class there was always a barrage of teenage girls who needed to write 2-page letters to their boyfriends. Eight times a day. I think the restriction on e-mail has a valid concern, but there are better ways of doing it. It looks like they wanted to keep the internet station for sole research purposes, which makes sense from a certain standpoint. I think they could have found a better way to manage it, if this was their intent.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
They tried suing Napster. They tried kicking users off of Napster. Now they're trying to ban Napster from Universities. Why does Metallica honestly think it has the power/resources/legal team to stop online piracy? Even after all their whining, C&D letters, and lawsuits a quick search for "Metallica" on Napster still brings back a complete list of albums and music from thousands of music pirates. Why doesn't Metallica realize that the harder they try to stop piracy, the more pirates are going to run around laughing at them for being so ignorant. This was brought up a couple days ago by an article in Cnet, where Digital Convergence claimed that it won the war against pirates. In reality, it ends up that every single day some member of the media (and the /. audience thereafter) starts ripping on of these companies that just don't understand the nature of piracy. It may be immoral, it may be illegal, but that won't stop some people. Metallica needs to realize that and stop whining already.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
This would be cool... I am forced to use Win95 at work, where I read /. 90% of the time. It'd be interesting to see just how high the MS-OS numbers are among a severely biased audience.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
There is a major lack of content with this. Because of this, using phrases like "Sun exploits the GPL" are going to make the /. population start flaming Sun without hearing their side.
From what I gather, All Sun needs to do is distribute the source code with their binaries and they're all kosher. This "kit" they talk about sounds like any other compiler... source goes in, binary comes out. If Sun distributed their source with the binaries, then nothing would even have been said. In Sun's case it's a bad move for their PR.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
and you could use your router as a web server if you were on crack
:-) Cisco's command structure is very UNIX-like, so porting linux to it makes sense to me. I'd love to see open source router software so I can hypertweak the security on my Cisco. Yay Cisco.
Ever used a Cisco 675? set web enable. Hit it at port 80. Bang, web server. I was trying to put together a distro that emulate Cisco IOS to build a small router with web server to fit on a small hard drive or maybe even a floppy. Guess I don't have to do that anymore
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
This is the same reason I don't run Microsoft products at home. They're not engineered well. No one spends a couple years developing a solid model (flowchart) of how the software is supposed to work. It's kinda like first we build the window manager. Then we build some cool widgets to click on. Then we manage it with the registry. Then we make a cool startup screen. Then we add this extra networking feature, etc.
Netscape 2.0 was a fantastic browser. It blew the crap out of every browser on the market. NS 3.0 threw in some cool enhancements that although buggy, made it far superior once again. Then IE 4 came out (also badly engineered) and added many more features. Both browsers were equally buggy, but IE4 implemented more features. From then on, both browsers became more fascinated with tweaking the previous version just a little bit more. Mozilla started over, and re-engineered the browser from the ground up. When they finally release M22 (the bug fixed version according to their roadmap) in the year 2039, it will be the most stable browser because it followed a solid engineering process.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
Even though we live in a world where techies are getting high paid jobs right out of high school, chances are you'll inevitably run into a PHB that wants to see your degree. In reality, a degree is a certificate of attendance. PHB's still want to see it. Go for the paper, even if you don't learn anything. I didn't!!
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
Well, if you're a techie that is. I went to a tech college for 4 years (yes, you get funny looks when you say you're a tech college super senior) to get my degree. A degree is a piece of paper, nothing more. It's a certificate of attendance and money spent. The only learning I did in college was at about 2 AM when the caffeine was at its highest level and there was no stopping my network building/testing/destroying!! What I learned from class is basically how to make it look like you're learning, how to skip every class and show up for the final (only to ace it andd go home), and how to figure out who is a techie and who's looking for a career change and they want to learn more about these computer thingies that sit in front of them at work. I slept all day, drank Mt Dew all night, and took more out of college than anyone else. Simple fact, I went for the degree. I got my degree. Now I have a good job. Could I have skipped college entirely? Yes. I could have worked full time at Subway to make money for my home projects. Sadly, employers like to see a degree. Shame on them anyway.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
"However, it fails to recognize Linux, or any non-Microsoft operating system as a valid client. In essence HP recognizes Linux as an operating system powerful and stable enough to trust their Printing Server Appliance to, yet are unwilling to commit to supporting that very same operating system as a client."
Why couldn't you configure a linux client to use this thing? It syas it requires an IP based SMB share. Hmm... Windows can do that, and so can linux. Linux isn't in that list, probably because either FUD or PHBs or a simple typo.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
can /. be taken down for allowing a poster to link to a search engine that links to DeCSS? I can obtain the complete DeCSS source from the links posted above, so it must be illegal. Oh, that would mean everyone linking to /. is also in violation, as well as anyone who links to a site with a /. link, and well, you see my point. I can find DeCSS source code by following links from my page, even though it's about 30 sites away. Do I get sued now too?
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
I can create an account and post the DeCSS code in about 2 minutes, and the juducial system would take 3 months to remove it. In that time,
30*60*60*24*90=
233,280,000 new pages, all with DeCSS code could be put up by me. How are they planning to stop it when developers all around the world are plastering it on the web faster than they can take it down? As much as the MPAA would like to think, they cannot stop DeCSS. Can they confiscate my DeCSS shirt? Not without a warrant. How long does a warrant take to get? A lot longer than it takes to e-mail the source to everyone I know for safe keeping. The MPAA needs to realize that no matter how fast they think they are, developers are faster. DeCSS cannot be stopped, no matter how hard they try.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
From glancing through the article, it appears that he's ranting about one basic thing... there is no perfect distro, and if there was, it isn't Debian 2.2. Big deal!! I have yet to install that "perfect distro" on my machine. I don't like things about Mandrake, Redhat, Slackware, and Suse. I think this goes on the same basis as a distro war.. certain distros do things better than others. So Debian didn't suit the needs of this guy. Install something else that appeals to you and move on with life.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
Personally, I've been using host headers for a long time on my apache box. I get one IP from my DSL provider (saves me $10/mo) and I can string as many domains as I want off it. Works VERY nicely. I think it's kind of silly to be dishing out IPs as generously as they have been. Even before I heard of the 2010 prediction (the anticipated date that IPv4 will run out of IPs) I could see from the design of IP that there wouldn't be enough addresses. Especially when you start networking devices in your home. Masquerade and use port forwarding, use host headers, whatever you must to make it all work. You can do a LOT with a single IP address, so this article makes perfect sense to me.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
Whether or not I was plagued by a rush to market, I received a faulty AMD chip back in the pre-K5 days. It was the 5x86-133 chip. From my understanding, it's an overclocked 486 with some extra instructions thrown in. The problem with the chip was that they left a few instructions out. Basically enough to make the NT kernel crash on boot (not a valid test I realize), my Seagate disk partitioning software to crash, and X windows to give completely unnaceptable performance (even without a window manager). I didn't compile anything on it, but I'm guessing a kernel compile would've crashed it also. The beauty of it was when I sold it to Computer Rennassaince for $40 and bought a 486-66 for $5. Suddenly my X performance made me dump M$ in a heartbeat.
:-).
Although I was biased for Intel at that point, real-world specs don't lie. If a cheaper chip can do EVERYTHING an Intel can and faster, I'll put on an AMD hat
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
"This telescope will allow scientists on Earth to touch the stars without leaving the hills of West Virginia"
Wow, how profound. Too bad Galileo didn't say something like that when he first built a telescope. Just goes to show how the Senator has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with this project.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
Seeing as how Toshiba is an invester in Transmeta, I'm willing to dimiss this article as FUD. It makes no sense, but neither does the goverment.
The TRUE test of this chip will be when Uncle Tom gets his hands on these chips and beats the crap out of them. Toshiba can label the chip vaporware as long as they want to but I'm not listening until I see the specs.
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
Actually, I could. Imagine the bandwidth of multiple phones running at 153Kbs each. If I had 10 clustered together into a switch, I'd have a wireless T1. Pretty sweet!!!
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
Gotta love the intro to that story, Reinvention: Company tries to move beyond software for PCs with services for Web, interactive television
Apparently software for PCs hasn't been going very well for them. Couldn't have anything to do with a bad product, could it?
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson
soon i'll be surfing the web from my toilet paper spindle
Shhh... they'll hear you!! Now look what you've done!!!
"You'll die up there son, just like I did!" - Abe Simpson