Personally, I don't like the quote...
When you read a good non-fiction book there should be an overarching 'story' being told if possible - an argument being made or a point of view being explained. To read it from the index end is to massacre the work that's gone into it.
I always find the depth and quality of information on Wikipedia extremely helpful, but in my opinion, the care that is put into giving the background to anything from a medical condition to a technological term is truly amazing.
Good to see that a few of these people are getting the recognition that they deserve!
Normally, LiveCDs have concentrated on repairing systems, but finding out if there is a problem through running a BSD LiveCD sounds like a very useful idea.
Finally a company that properly acknowledges the open source community - as an Apple fan, I wish it would do the same thing with its a/v codecs, for example, as well as its core OS.
Who wants WinFS in 2 or 3 years when you can have Google Desktop Search now, for free?
Also, good to see Google isn't doing an eternal beta on this product like its Google News offering (the whole beta thing gets annoying after 2 continuous years!)
This highlights one of the real advantages that AltiVec has over the various SIMD instruction sets available for x86 processors: its comparative stability. Every AltiVec processor since the original G4 has had the same essential functionality, the same large register pool that isn't shared with anything, and a reasonably complete set of likely operations. This has made it easier for support to become widespread: a program designed to take advantage of the original G4 will still get a noticeable performance improvement on today's G5.
x86 SIMD was frankly botched - MMX was a very odd idea, and, though SSE & SSE2 have partially fixed the problem, the fact that SSE optimised code usually runs slower on an Athlon than 'unoptimised' code has severely limited its applications.
Blanket Attacks (like blaster, where every windows computer on the net with windows sharing on is hit about 6 times an hour) are usually only viable when the Default configuration is insecure.
At least with SP2 there is some basic security in terms of the firewall being on by default.
Still, never thought I'd see a slashdot article linking to a page about Trumpet Winsock in 2005!
Only joking - Seriously, though, the fact that a package management system is needed at all annoys me. For me, the best system in this regard is OS X, as most applications can simply be dragged into the applications folder to install, and trashed to uninstall.
Finally, what is it with damn modifiers and package management systems - why can't they all be like gentoo where you just type emerge xyz and it installs it. I hate having to type apt -s -q8 -p -d -h -c -xgv xyz (exaggeration) just to install something from the command line
Note that this animation does make an important point - the only *NIX system I have seen with a TOTALLY consistent set of preferences is m0n0wall, a BSD Firewall where all system preferences are stored in a single XML file.
2 reasons: Because the RIAA cannot easily monitor who is downloading what from AllofMP3, whereas ed2k is much easier to monitor & pollute Because not everyone wants FLAC or MP3 - It is handy to be able to download songs in AAC for instance for iPods but without the annoying Apple DRM
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You read a text book from the index end first!
What do you mean? The article says 'Phoe6 writes' Why would CmdrTaco have specifically written this (I mean, it's not a dupe ;) )
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Good to see that a few of these people are getting the recognition that they deserve!
And why are software companies so important as opposed to centres of government to these terrorists?
keen not to have thir job outsourced by any means possible...
Normally, LiveCDs have concentrated on repairing systems, but finding out if there is a problem through running a BSD LiveCD sounds like a very useful idea.
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always seems to favour MSFT in court cases...
Finally a company that properly acknowledges the open source community - as an Apple fan, I wish it would do the same thing with its a/v codecs, for example, as well as its core OS.
Also, good to see Google isn't doing an eternal beta on this product like its Google News offering (the whole beta thing gets annoying after 2 continuous years!)
legendary That is all I have to say
What do they do every day? They are unlikely to be training for a specific mission at the moment with no shuttle...
This highlights one of the real advantages that AltiVec has over the various SIMD instruction sets available for x86 processors: its comparative stability. Every AltiVec processor since the original G4 has had the same essential functionality, the same large register pool that isn't shared with anything, and a reasonably complete set of likely operations. This has made it easier for support to become widespread: a program designed to take advantage of the original G4 will still get a noticeable performance improvement on today's G5. x86 SIMD was frankly botched - MMX was a very odd idea, and, though SSE & SSE2 have partially fixed the problem, the fact that SSE optimised code usually runs slower on an Athlon than 'unoptimised' code has severely limited its applications.
IMO the consumer can afford to 'lose' that much space for a much simpler install.
By contrast my dynamically linked debian-style Fink folder contains nearly 1GB of software including libraries.
At least with SP2 there is some basic security in terms of the firewall being on by default.
Still, never thought I'd see a slashdot article linking to a page about Trumpet Winsock in 2005!
Only joking - Seriously, though, the fact that a package management system is needed at all annoys me. For me, the best system in this regard is OS X, as most applications can simply be dragged into the applications folder to install, and trashed to uninstall.
Finally, what is it with damn modifiers and package management systems - why can't they all be like gentoo where you just type emerge xyz and it installs it. I hate having to type apt -s -q8 -p -d -h -c -xgv xyz (exaggeration) just to install something from the command line
Note that this animation does make an important point - the only *NIX system I have seen with a TOTALLY consistent set of preferences is m0n0wall, a BSD Firewall where all system preferences are stored in a single XML file.
http://www.olene.net/linux.html
2 reasons:
Because the RIAA cannot easily monitor who is downloading what from AllofMP3, whereas ed2k is much easier to monitor & pollute
Because not everyone wants FLAC or MP3 - It is handy to be able to download songs in AAC for instance for iPods but without the annoying Apple DRM
when people give their own mod scores in the title, it take all the fun out of knocking them down :(
Still, very real questions about the legality of this service have to remain...
I never thought it would come to this - a very sad day for Europe
Insecurity (& root privileges) by design...
I, for one, welcome our new L4 overlords!
Kazaa says: No Spyware
Spot the difference, people!