Actually, if I remember correctly, it was simply that two contractors failed to decide upon Metric or American Imperial before providing commands to the Mars Climate Observer....
Even if they added a new processor flag to turn on faults... that way existing software would continue to work, and new smarter software could evolve and improve...
I'm just trying to imagine side effects... If you've got the DMA/IO issue figured out already, I can't see any issues with this?
Sharing hardware is the worst, other than some cache coherency issues, but thread/process migration isn't an issue if you do OS(VM) per CPU, which resolves some issues. In theory, you could do this. I don't know why you'd want to though.
Figure on a machine with 4 dual core opterons on it, and 8 VM's running websites. All of sudden one gets a spike in customers, and you need all the extra SMP muscle to drive DB, HTTP and possible Java app servers. You'd want to be able to migrate the processes to new threads to keep the hardware running at max utilization (Because if you're a smart hosting company, you're charging for that feature.)
As someone who's upgraded, from 3.0 to 4.0 and to 4.5, the performance difference, while noticeable, is not a factor of 2 different. In the Xen benchmarks, VMWare was pulling 30-45% the performance of Xen. Now, while the benchmarks might be cooked (always a problem), full virtualization is ALWAYS going to be slower than what Xen, VServer or UML do.
Intel/AMD need a special processor flag to enable a virtualization mode and fix this problem once and for all. That and some decent BIOS/chipset support for sharing hardware.
Just because I may love and trust my government doesn't mean I trust my neighbor, or my banker, or the crackers and criminals trying to get my data so they can steal in my name...
No. Simple precautions like encryption, which protect me are grounds for further scrutiny...
So? What's your point? This same firmware can be downloaded from a website freely, all they want is to be able to distribute it with the software driver so that the device can be made useful AT BOOT TIME.
Because Microsoft's Customers have "DEMANDED" this feature. That Windows95/98 machines can interoperate in an NT Domain/AD regime.
So blame the 4 million corporate asshats who continue to run Win9x and won't cough up the money to upgrade to XP. You think Microsoft hasn't TRIED to make this problem go away?
Which just ignores the fact that you only have to have ONE valid password per hash in order to crack it. That password may be complete gibberish, but it'll still work to log you in untraceably.
Say there's 36 valid hash characters, then
36^7 which I calculate as:
78,364,164,096. 78 billion hash combinations.
78.3b * 7 = 548 Billion x 2 for character mapping
= 1.1 TB.
Plus some overhead
You'll be able to fit this on a laptop in 2 years.
I disagree. I find my Athlon 3200's both XP and SuSE 8.2 competing pretty well. I do however hate firefox and it's desire to fork on unix instead of threading. Forking is expensive, and it provided no extra protection against crashes...
The Chase credit card site works perfectly. In fact, it is the entire reason I'm using firefox. It doesn't work in konqueror (or didn't a year ago), nor mozilla 1.4.
If they don't charge me a fee to subsidize their 100 branch offices, they shouldn't charge me a few to use an online service, which saves them costs, in the end.
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Actually, if I remember correctly, it was simply that two contractors failed to decide upon Metric or American Imperial before providing commands to the Mars Climate Observer....
Even if they added a new processor flag to turn on faults... that way existing software would continue to work, and new smarter software could evolve and improve...
I'm just trying to imagine side effects... If you've got the DMA/IO issue figured out already, I can't see any issues with this?
Would be nice if Intel and AMD could get off their asses and support true virtualization...
Sharing hardware is the worst, other than some cache coherency issues, but thread/process migration isn't an issue if you do OS(VM) per CPU, which resolves some issues. In theory, you could do this. I don't know why you'd want to though.
Figure on a machine with 4 dual core opterons on it, and 8 VM's running websites. All of sudden one gets a spike in customers, and you need all the extra SMP muscle to drive DB, HTTP and possible Java app servers. You'd want to be able to migrate the processes to new threads to keep the hardware running at max utilization (Because if you're a smart hosting company, you're charging for that feature.)
As someone who's upgraded, from 3.0 to 4.0 and to 4.5, the performance difference, while noticeable, is not a factor of 2 different. In the Xen benchmarks, VMWare was pulling 30-45% the performance of Xen. Now, while the benchmarks might be cooked (always a problem), full virtualization is ALWAYS going to be slower than what Xen, VServer or UML do.
Intel/AMD need a special processor flag to enable a virtualization mode and fix this problem once and for all. That and some decent BIOS/chipset support for sharing hardware.
You really don't think those programs actually existed do you?
Just because I may love and trust my government doesn't mean I trust my neighbor, or my banker, or the crackers and criminals trying to get my data so they can steal in my name...
No. Simple precautions like encryption, which protect me are grounds for further scrutiny...
Total BS.
So? What's your point? This same firmware can be downloaded from a website freely, all they want is to be able to distribute it with the software driver so that the device can be made useful AT BOOT TIME.
Because Microsoft's Customers have "DEMANDED" this feature. That Windows95/98 machines can interoperate in an NT Domain/AD regime.
So blame the 4 million corporate asshats who continue to run Win9x and won't cough up the money to upgrade to XP. You think Microsoft hasn't TRIED to make this problem go away?
Remember when browsers could understand gopher:// ?
Which just ignores the fact that you only have to have ONE valid password per hash in order to crack it. That password may be complete gibberish, but it'll still work to log you in untraceably.
Say there's 36 valid hash characters, then
36^7 which I calculate as:
78,364,164,096. 78 billion hash combinations.
78.3b * 7 = 548 Billion x 2 for character mapping
= 1.1 TB.
Plus some overhead
You'll be able to fit this on a laptop in 2 years.
Exactly 1 since the dawn of U.S. manned flight has ended up in the ocean before nominal mission end.
One was scattered all over the South.
One caught fire on the launchpad.
A pretty fucking remarkable record if you consider that a rocket is nothing less than a million pounds of high explosive in a tin can.
Not if it's mobile and distributed.
Save yourself the trouble and don't do it.
Build yourself a bunch of mirror sets, and merge the volumes using LVM/LVM2, and a journalling filesystem.
Trust me, RAID5 corruption SUCKS FUCKING ASS.
At least with RAID 1 mirrors, I can pull half the drives and continue working.
Oh come on, that's an old one! :-P
I'd prefer Windows 95, since after 49.7 days, it'll fuck itself up.
COME ON MODS!
This DESERVES a +5 funny....
Sheesh.
(Images of a transforming Dodge Neon with blonde hair and a giant tube of lipstick and 24" spiked red fuck-me pumps...)
Get a 12 pack, or a big pot of your favorite libation, go over to k5, and read Prime Intellect Which is a little less obtuse about the 3 laws.
Funniest. Celebrity. Parody. Ever.
I disagree. I find my Athlon 3200's both XP and SuSE 8.2 competing pretty well. I do however hate firefox and it's desire to fork on unix instead of threading. Forking is expensive, and it provided no extra protection against crashes...
The Chase credit card site works perfectly. In fact, it is the entire reason I'm using firefox. It doesn't work in konqueror (or didn't a year ago), nor mozilla 1.4.
If they don't charge me a fee to subsidize their 100 branch offices, they shouldn't charge me a few to use an online service, which saves them costs, in the end.
Please give me 5 sites that don't render under Firefox.
Microsoft.com and those ActiveX weenies don't count.
I don't when that radio noise could be coming from the apartment a half-block away from the machine keeping me alive in the hospital.
;-)
No thanks.
Great comment on WAAF in Boston Friday:
D&D is 30 today, only 2 years younger than the virgins who play it.