Dunno. I grew up in the days when tools that killed processes based on process names didn't exist except on one or two out of the eight Unixes I supported. I got used to typing this, and haven't changed.
I got a Raid 5 ide setup on the Promise SuperTrak Sx6000, and that 3disk array doesn't even come CLOSE to touching the performance of some of my SCSI arrays at my workplace. Do one task, and it's fast. Start any amount of multitasking, and it dies, quick. SCSI would never fall over so badly.
Granted the large caches make up for it, but comparing speed of IDE vs. SCSI is as pointless today as it was 10 years ago. (try finding cheap reliable 15K RPM IDE drives). Price/performance, maybe IDE wins depending on who you are...
I figured out once upon a time that if you melted all the ice in the Antartica you'd get a total sea level rise (not assuming inland flooding) of approximately 70 meters. ~230 feet.
Inland flooding would reduce that by quite a margin, I'd expect around 20-30 meters maybe? I have no idea the amount of land under 70 meters in elevation, so I couldn't do a decent approximation.
Windows then has direct input and control over the direction and nature of linux development.
<P> As if this were any different from how things are today? SAMBA, the NTFS guys, the ext4nt guys. Let's face it, half the premise of Linux today is "Using everything Microsoft has to kill them". This is really no different. <P> The other half of the Linux movement is creating a damn fine OS capable of running on everything from the smallest cellphone to the largest of supercomputers. <P> Both movements are succeeding because someone, once upon a time, realized that toeing the Microsoft line was a worthwhile way of getting marketshare, and the more marketshare, the more developers, the more money to develop new things (redhat, suse, etc.)... <P> This can only be good. <P> -Chris
Just because a driver exists for Solaris, doesn't mean said device is actually compatible with an Ultrasparc. I have plenty of PCI video cards at home. Some are for the Mac, some are for the PC, and some are for the Alpha. Some of them are even the exact same card, just for two or more different platforms.
Yes, it'd be nice to have device source portability. But hey, if this means that the Win32 DDK becomes the defacto standard for device writers in the future, so be it. There are worse design decisions that could be made...
I'm not sure it was the.com and.net specifically that was causing this problem, but the root servers located at root-servers.net. EVERY computer shipped with TCP/IP in the past 10 years has these IP addresses configured in their caches as resolvers of last resort. Changing them broke EVERYONE (well, small bits of everything). The other TLD's don't matter because not many people are using them as wildcard servers.
But that's true of ALL the ILECs. Verizon isn't the only phone company up here. I can get phone service from boatloads of companies. Just because Verizon OWNS the wires and switching equipment doesn't mean that they're my phone service provider.
And I imagine it's pretty much the same with all the rest of the ILECs.
-Chris
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Secure != DRM.
DRM is completely independent of a secure computing platform.
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Are you trolling, or are you serious? I can walk into CompUSA today, right now, and buy a 5 client pack of Windows 2000 Server right off the shelf. I know, because I did it just last week.
Hell, if you've got the money, Microsoft will still sell you Windows for Workgroups 3.11 licenses.
It's the support you lose.
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remember that there are two, count them TWO registry editors in Windows 2000 (and have been since NT 4.0)
regedit regedt32 <- Edit ACL's and REG_MULTI_SZ strings.
The Windows2000 regedit has severely improved it's ACL handling, but still cannot create REG_MULTI_SZ strings.
Nevermind the new commandline registry tool that comes with XP. Ugh.:-)
And what you're forgetting is that EVERY language will permit you to write insecure code. Some just don't have buffer overflows. Security is a process, not some magic bullet you can shoot at a project.
Some languages make it easier than others to write insecure code.
In five years we'll wonder why anybody even mentioned Java. <P> People have been saying that for the past 5 years. It's just as wrong today as it was then. <P>
Actually, it's a relatively well-known phenomenon that rush-hour traffic is not caused by traffic per-se, but on-ramps. The more cars you have struggling to get onto a highway, the slower each interchange becomes, leading to this fabulous brake-and-slow chain reaction that eventually leads to stop and go 20mph travel on a highway designed for 70+mph.
The more people doing the speed limit and NOT driving like maniacs, the longer it actually takes to initiate the reaction.
Because there's no such thing as "incoming metered landline phone access". Or if there is, I've never seen it. Verizon doesn't have a plan where every incoming minute costs you money. They do have plans where every outgoing minute, even if it's to the apartment upstairs, hell, even if it's in the same HOUSE, costs $.19us.
So the only thing it costs you to answer a phone is about 10 calories, and a couple breathes worth of oxygen... and whatever 30 seconds of your time is worth.:-)
Right, and who exactly do you think is going to be bringing us all those Wi-Fi VoIP networks so you can continue to use your blackberry/cellphone to make phone calls?
Making calls from your brick-computer at phone is one thing. Doing it from the supermarket is another.
Some will lose customers, some will just go into broadband (notice how many ILECs are also ISPs? - all of them?)
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So, that would put you somewhere in the Norfolk, VA area? ;-)
Remember, 50 years after the end of WWII, people are STILL living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hell, they're even tourist attractions!
Dunno. I grew up in the days when tools that killed processes based on process names didn't exist except on one or two out of the eight Unixes I supported. I got used to typing this, and haven't changed.
Cheap : never applies to SCSI :-) :-)
Reliable: My SCSI drives die more often than IDE (perhaps because they get used 200% more?
I got a Raid 5 ide setup on the Promise SuperTrak Sx6000, and that 3disk array doesn't even come CLOSE to touching the performance of some of my SCSI arrays at my workplace. Do one task, and it's fast. Start any amount of multitasking, and it dies, quick. SCSI would never fall over so badly.
Granted the large caches make up for it, but comparing speed of IDE vs. SCSI is as pointless today as it was 10 years ago. (try finding cheap reliable 15K RPM IDE drives). Price/performance, maybe IDE wins depending on who you are...
I figured out once upon a time that if you melted all the ice in the Antartica you'd get a total sea level rise (not assuming inland flooding) of approximately 70 meters. ~230 feet.
Inland flooding would reduce that by quite a margin, I'd expect around 20-30 meters maybe? I have no idea the amount of land under 70 meters in elevation, so I couldn't do a decent approximation.
-Chris
I can't say that I consider this a bad thing at all... :-)
Windows then has direct input and control over the direction and nature of linux development.
<P>
As if this were any different from how things are today? SAMBA, the NTFS guys, the ext4nt guys. Let's face it, half the premise of Linux today is "Using everything Microsoft has to kill them". This is really no different.
<P>
The other half of the Linux movement is creating a damn fine OS capable of running on everything from the smallest cellphone to the largest of supercomputers.
<P>
Both movements are succeeding because someone, once upon a time, realized that toeing the Microsoft line was a worthwhile way of getting marketshare, and the more marketshare, the more developers, the more money to develop new things (redhat, suse, etc.)...
<P>
This can only be good.
<P>
-Chris
I'm not sure this would help native driver development anymore than a copy of SoftICE would. But it would be useful nonetheless.
Just because a driver exists for Solaris, doesn't mean said device is actually compatible with an Ultrasparc. I have plenty of PCI video cards at home. Some are for the Mac, some are for the PC, and some are for the Alpha. Some of them are even the exact same card, just for two or more different platforms.
Yes, it'd be nice to have device source portability. But hey, if this means that the Win32 DDK becomes the defacto standard for device writers in the future, so be it. There are worse design decisions that could be made...
Not necessarily true, I can flip over to another pty, and kill -9 'ps -aef | grep /usr/bin/X11 | awk {...}'
:-)
swith back to pty0, and startx
Usually.
I still don't get it....
</moron>
Me me!!!
</ducks>
Really? Care to name a few for an ignorant soul like myself?
Really? Just how many maternity suits do you think there are? It's a little hard to deny that big fat kid coming out of your uterus...
</sarcasm>
I'm not sure it was the .com and .net specifically that was causing this problem, but the root servers located at root-servers.net. EVERY computer shipped with TCP/IP in the past 10 years has these IP addresses configured in their caches as resolvers of last resort. Changing them broke EVERYONE (well, small bits of everything). The other TLD's don't matter because not many people are using them as wildcard servers.
But that's true of ALL the ILECs. Verizon isn't the only phone company up here. I can get phone service from boatloads of companies. Just because Verizon OWNS the wires and switching equipment doesn't mean that they're my phone service provider.
And I imagine it's pretty much the same with all the rest of the ILECs.
-Chris
Secure != DRM.
DRM is completely independent of a secure computing platform.
Are you trolling, or are you serious? I can walk into CompUSA today, right now, and buy a 5 client pack of Windows 2000 Server right off the shelf. I know, because I did it just last week.
Hell, if you've got the money, Microsoft will still sell you Windows for Workgroups 3.11 licenses.
It's the support you lose.
remember that there are two, count them TWO registry editors in Windows 2000 (and have been since NT 4.0)
:-)
regedit
regedt32 <- Edit ACL's and REG_MULTI_SZ strings.
The Windows2000 regedit has severely improved it's ACL handling, but still cannot create REG_MULTI_SZ strings.
Nevermind the new commandline registry tool that comes with XP. Ugh.
And what you're forgetting is that EVERY language will permit you to write insecure code. Some just don't have buffer overflows. Security is a process, not some magic bullet you can shoot at a project.
Some languages make it easier than others to write insecure code.
In five years we'll wonder why anybody even mentioned Java.
<P>
People have been saying that for the past 5 years. It's just as wrong today as it was then.
<P>
Actually, it's a relatively well-known phenomenon that rush-hour traffic is not caused by traffic per-se, but on-ramps. The more cars you have struggling to get onto a highway, the slower each interchange becomes, leading to this fabulous brake-and-slow chain reaction that eventually leads to stop and go 20mph travel on a highway designed for 70+mph.
The more people doing the speed limit and NOT driving like maniacs, the longer it actually takes to initiate the reaction.
Because there's no such thing as "incoming metered landline phone access". Or if there is, I've never seen it. Verizon doesn't have a plan where every incoming minute costs you money. They do have plans where every outgoing minute, even if it's to the apartment upstairs, hell, even if it's in the same HOUSE, costs $.19us.
:-)
So the only thing it costs you to answer a phone is about 10 calories, and a couple breathes worth of oxygen... and whatever 30 seconds of your time is worth.
Right, and who exactly do you think is going to be bringing us all those Wi-Fi VoIP networks so you can continue to use your blackberry/cellphone to make phone calls?
Making calls from your brick-computer at phone is one thing. Doing it from the supermarket is another.
Some will lose customers, some will just go into broadband (notice how many ILECs are also ISPs? - all of them?)
-Chris