The British Computer Society have an Ethics Forum to look at the wider moral issues raised by IT.
For example it is currently working on the carbon footprint of IT
I live in the middle of a fairly big town in the UK (over 100k people).
I can't get the DVB Freeview over air and the cable company refuses to cable out the ducts and grids that it very kindly dug up my street to install, since they are "no longer doing network expansion".
Even BT vision, (which I thought would be IPTV) isn't - it's a combo of VOD over IP with airborne DVB.
That leaves me with a big bill to get a sat dish and a decoder, paying Rupert (@#&^%$^%&%) Murdoch on the way.
Not a great choice.
Time to leave analogue on for a while until the digital situation gets better.
God, I feel old.
I learnt to program on a Commodore KIM. Nice computer, but I'll remember the hex (0xA9) longer than the mnemonics (LDA) that came in when I got the PET and an assembler.
The best bit? The standalone hard disk drives had their own 6502 processor in them, and with a little trickery you could program it. I had a program to play music by bouncing the heads around. Not my drive, I hasten to add...
uKernels are a great idea, but perhaps they are sitting on the fence.
The combination of Xen and Linux provide the fields on either side of the fence, and these are likely to be more fertile.
Hypervisors are real uKernels to me. They achieve many of the original objectives, but aren't presumptive enough to assume that service can be retained when the content of a particular partition (personality) gives up. One driver crashes in a Xen/Linux combo, you lose that virtual machine, but retain all the others. In-machine clustering saves you from service death. The system reboots and you carry on. Better than trying in vain to recover from a user space driver failure on something critical like the SCSI bus.
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The British Computer Society have an Ethics Forum to look at the wider moral issues raised by IT. For example it is currently working on the carbon footprint of IT
I live in the middle of a fairly big town in the UK (over 100k people). I can't get the DVB Freeview over air and the cable company refuses to cable out the ducts and grids that it very kindly dug up my street to install, since they are "no longer doing network expansion". Even BT vision, (which I thought would be IPTV) isn't - it's a combo of VOD over IP with airborne DVB. That leaves me with a big bill to get a sat dish and a decoder, paying Rupert (@#&^%$^%&%) Murdoch on the way. Not a great choice. Time to leave analogue on for a while until the digital situation gets better.
God, I feel old. I learnt to program on a Commodore KIM. Nice computer, but I'll remember the hex (0xA9) longer than the mnemonics (LDA) that came in when I got the PET and an assembler. The best bit? The standalone hard disk drives had their own 6502 processor in them, and with a little trickery you could program it. I had a program to play music by bouncing the heads around. Not my drive, I hasten to add...
The combination of Xen and Linux provide the fields on either side of the fence, and these are likely to be more fertile.
Hypervisors are real uKernels to me. They achieve many of the original objectives, but aren't presumptive enough to assume that service can be retained when the content of a particular partition (personality) gives up. One driver crashes in a Xen/Linux combo, you lose that virtual machine, but retain all the others. In-machine clustering saves you from service death. The system reboots and you carry on. Better than trying in vain to recover from a user space driver failure on something critical like the SCSI bus.
Cheers Simon.
No wonder Billy boy is offering to "keep Google honest"
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Are there any linux drivers for this card or the usb version?
Know-L, Know-L, the angel did say...