Well, yes the release of 3.1 won't be fore a while. I don't recall if you date is correct though.
What this does is get new features out of the 3.1 track. Linux is currently running pre-2.2 kernels for the same reason. Linus just stops accepting new features though, whereas FreeBSD just stops accepting them for the stable track. Both ways have good and bad points.
Or so I recall Microsoft saying. NT didn't cut it for games then though, and until it does Microsoft will update the 9x (under a new name to be sure) as they can to get the upgrade dollars.
I'm assuming your not an American (the country), otherwise you need to go study your history not read this. I wouldn't expect the rest of the world to know this item though.
Back in the mid-late 1700's The US was a colony belonging to the british goverment. At the time Britton decided to tax tea going to their colonies (and the mainland too I belive), which they did through their investments in a tea company (East India tea company I think). The colinists got around this by buying tea from a different company, based in Holand. (note, the two tea companies could have been the other way around, I didn't look it up). The king (of England) didn't like this idea, and eventially passed a law making tea not from the east Inida tea company illegal.
So, when one of the first ships came into the boston harbor carring the legale tea the people of Boston (not in mass, the majority were probably loyal to the crown at this time) planed, and one night snuck into all the ships and threw all the tea overboard. This is the Boston tea party, and is important in American history, though not of much interest to the rest of the world.
Of course the crown wasn't happy, and determined the colonies would pay for the tea they ruined. I don't know how that turned out, but I do know that to this day few people in the US drink tea, prefering coffee. (Accually more people might drink tea today if the biggest tea company in the country didn't make aweful tea. It is hard to find good tea in America today.
Looks like I wrote a rough draft and never cared to edit it.
High end SMP support scales well, supporting up to 64-bit processor systems. That combination makes no sense. Looks on first sight like a type, and linux supports 64 SMP processors. If it really means support for 64 bit processors (wasn't that in 2.0.0?) then seperate it out.
What I find works well when editing my own stuff is to read the entire thing backwards (backwords thing entire the read to is to stuff own my editing when well works find I when) However it is not easy and I wouldn't do that much work for something that isn't important. If this is to ever be officail it deserves every trick in the book, even if you reject the results of the trick.
Can't speak for others, but my motherboard doesn't support chips as slow as ppro-166s, and last summer I couldn't afford anything faster with a good cache size. Good fans and things were okay. (until the cheep sleeve bearings failed. I now can afford and bough pcpower and cooling fans, and they are much nicer)
I'm surprized at the level of most comments here. Get a clue: the world does not owe you everything you want on a gold platter (silver isn't good enough for spioled brats like you, is it?)
I'll certianly agree that many of the things the music recording industry does are not good for them, but they have a right to do things as they want to. Now if you want to go through all the lyrics on that server and remove the ones without copywright permission, great. If they own the copyright you need to obey the laws about distributing them. These laws are not well defined, and those who are going against them should expect some pain in getting them defined.
Still, the artist who make songs (not just lyrics) dserve a chance to earn a living doing so. If they feel (forget about if they are right, that isn't at issue) that free access to their lyrics is a loss for them, they have the right to stop distribution of them. If they want to be a small fish in the worlds sea, they have a right to make their creation hard to get at. Likewise the companies have a right to earn money for their creation.
Remember this doesn't deal with if their actions are good or bad for them. They have a right to do it, and in fact the law is tricky enough that they probably have to stop distribution. Live with it, not everything will go your way. They have a point of view, and it is valid. It doesn't have to be right, but nobody is willing to admit their point of view has any merits, which it does.
Granted swiss law is different from US law, but I'm confused. They seised comptuers. Then they ordered the passwords given up.
Now US law gives me the right to protect myself against this attacks, and if revealing a password would mean testifing against me I plead the fifth. (Which would at least require a seperate court order with lawyers involved. Not sure the above would protect me, but at the very least I wouldn't have given up my passwords this easially.
cyberpunks worked last time I tried, but not this time. Now however cyberpunk (no s) works. Gotta try both on most sites, and if neither works create one.
kinda. Many programs crash in Wine due to either unimplimented, or wrongly implimented things. Wine might crash once in a while too. FreeBSD doesn't crash when running wine (nor linux or whatever you use, but I've not tried them) but the programs crash more often if possibal.
In other words M$ windows will run most programs better then wine will. When running in Wine your OS will crash less often (unless you have hardware problems) but the programs will crash more often as wine doesn't quite work like windows. Its a trade off.
Scary, I just realised i'm defending the statements of a M$ drone. Still, unix can stand on its own merits, not on FUD against the others.
I've seen people program Pascal in C. It doesn't translate exactly, but with a few #defines you can often compile pascal with gcc. (#define END } #define begin {, and so on) The syntax isn't exactly the same, but who cares.
Pascal lacks some minor things that C has, but it is not a toy language. The orginial MacOS was written in Pascal back in 1984, which goes to show that you can write an OS with it. Just because C is the language of the decade doesn't make the other bad.
Perhaps you should learn some languages. Once you learn one you know them all, and the differences are no different then going to a different english speaking area. Enough to slow you down, not enough to be a big deal after a week.
Engineers hate management for many good reasons. One is you need someone to focus the engineers on the end result and getting it on time. Someone to force a compromise (to the worse) to get something out on time.
Management also needs to focus, and stay focused. Thats why Steve Job's had to kill Apple's Newton program. It was a good product, but there was too much on apple's plate. ITs better to be a small profitable company then a large unprofitable one. (Of course it is even better to be a large profitable company)
Now that I think about it, those two hour meetings every couple months to introduce a future Dilber comic are good if only because they keep upper managemnt busy with minor things while the work gets done, instead of commiting to the latest fad all the time. Something to think about.
I also noticed they fell into man-month traps in the above.
I thought china had a different calander and was on 4273 or something like that (the number above was made up, though I think the 4 is right)
Not that it particularrly matters, the average US plane is 20 years old or something like that. Pilots are trained to fly them without engines, (Yes, they fly without engines, If you can't find an airport within gliding distance you buy some farmers crops for the year, or ditch in the water. All of the above recovery techniques have been used by real pilots in real plans, and with most or all of the passangers living. SO long as the plane doesn't explode, which it shouldn't they will be fine. There also exist uncontrolled airports where pilots decide without a tower who lands/takes off when, carry a hand held radio (most pilots have them, at least in small aircraft) though there are enough backups on most planes that I wouldn't worry.
2000 won't come in without comptuer porblems. However the ones that people really worry about were unlikely even without any fixes. (Nuclear bombs for instance probably wouldn't launch becuase the comptuers that control the launch can also be affected - command a crashed comptuer to launch a bomb and no bomb is launched.
I'm in the US, and I've worked on contracts with Swiss banks to impliment 128 bit IDEA encryption. (We sell this to other banks too) Getting the permissions to export this was possibal in 1994, five years ago. You can export any encryption from the US, there is just a catch - it needs to go to orginizations that the US goverment trusts.
I don't know what all banks use of course, and there was 56 bit encryption avaiable to them (regular DES was included in the same model, maybe they use that for speed though IDEA is standard in banking) There seems to be the misconception on/. that it is impossibal to export anything more then 40 bit encryption. That is not true, you just need to get permission, something that common people probably won't get.
I want one, but I think I can wait a bit for them to get the speed up.
I think it is great for the handycapped who can't communicate otherways. And there are science fiction about comunicating with 'others' that take up to a week to formulat a sentence (or understand one of yours). I can deal with others who are that slow if I need to, but I prefer to be faster myself.
If one person disobeys they go to jail. If 10,000 disobey the jails can't hold them.
Mickey Mouse would expire in 2002. The US constitution prhibites grandfather laws, which this can be argued (probably not successfully, but you can put some doubt into minds) Therefore if every/. reader finds mickey mouse mpegs and videos, the orginials that would ahve expired and copues them and gives them away there is nothing they can really do. Make sure your public about it, and make sure enough people are. The difficult part is you can't work alone, you will go to jail unless there are enough other people helping.
Point 1: YEP. Personally I belive in ethanol, but it is hard to find it when not mixed with oil.
2: Sigh, wish it wasn't true. Saddly the world has proved they will draw the US into their struggles. So now we try to stop potential world wars early. If it is working is up for debate. Most people I know in england think world war I was the greatest thing, it had to happen. They support their ancesters dancing in the streets when it broke out. I havn't talked to people in other nataions, but my impression is much of Europe was that way. Belive it or not, most of the US wants to be an isolationist as far as military goes. It doesn't work, we are too large, and have (currently) too much technology that can apply to military uses to not be drawn in. Ever noticed that Switcherland is the only country to maintain nutrality, and they are suck in mountains. There are lots of little nations (Netherlands comes to mind) that want to do the same thing, but they too are drawn into these conflicts because of their location.
3: Sigh. There are too many idiots in the US. I think most of them are waking up to that use. We belive in coincidences once (critics of George Bush will point something out here), but the second time we start asking questions.
Oh, and a part of the Gulf war was Kuwait (got no idea how to speel that) was friendly, Iraq wasn't as friendly. We protect our friends even if there is no way they can help protect us. Now perhaps that goverment didn't deserve protection I don't know (I look at them as the lesser of the two evils, friendly to the US, or ruled by Iraq being the choices)
In summery: World peace has not happened yet, and few people belive it will happen in their lifetime. Pointing out any country as not helping world peace doesn't really take into account that peace gained at the hands of whips and chains isn't worth it. (If your not in the US you probably won't recignise where that came from, If you are a US citician and don't please kill yourself and rid the world of a fool)
Don't forget FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OS/2, and BEOS. Try to find a solution that will work for all platforms. Make a java binary if you need to, with your own API.
Of course linux needs better sound support (and not just in drivers. I just set up some xterminals and can now assue you that remote sound doesn't work, no surprize to me.)
Inform your company tax people to check this out. If your a large company they are in house, if you are a small company find your tax lawyer/accounant.
You will have to expiciatly keep track of how much time you spend on OSS, and then release it all to the net with a little legal disclaimer. Your lawyer will be picky about exactly how it is done (your company doens't want to take responsibility). Fortunatly you can donate to the Free Software Foundataion, the FreeBSD project, and similear orginizations for most software.
Do NOT ask/., we are not lawyers. We all will think it is a great idea, but can't say if it will work. Also rules vary country be country, and/. is an international forum.
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Java runs in a sandbox, which (assume it works) limits what you can do to attack.
However I really wonder how effective any attack can be that relies on java enabled browser. Can we say overhead? I can program in C something that will allow my 386 to do more damage. I was going to say more but then I realised that the script idiots who do these attacks would use my idea for ill. I'm not a military supporter (Mind you I'm not anti-military, I agree we need them, but I would rather be an isolationist.) but anything they do to counterattack these kids is good in my book. Better of course would be to try them as adults and send them to prison for a few years.
Parents, pay attention to what your kids are doing. Parenting is hard work, and you don't dare slack off, some of the nicest kids I've known have turned out to be crooks while the nose ring and tatoo kids have turned out to be honest once in a while. (I went to high school with both types. Both groups had about an equal amount of crooks)
bluGill, I don't know if this log in thing is working or now.
His reasoning is mostly correct (though colleges aren't nearly as far behind as he makes you think they are behind) as far as it goes.
Problem is he doesn't even know you can reason farther. College didn't teach me much about programing in the real world. College taught me to think. I wouldn't understand the answer to many of the questions I ask now if I had even thought to ask them which I wouldn't have. If you have never taken college level classes in several departments you won't understand and it can't be explained. Calculis seems irrelavent to my daily job, I haven't done a derivative or integral since I graduated. I apply the what I learned in calculis every day. It isn't the math that I apply, it is the reasoning.
So go to college. I don't care what degree you get. Obviously a CS degree is going to make you a better programer while a music degree will make you a better singer. In the process of bettering youself in one area you learn how you can better yourself anyplace you care to. Besides I don't know what I will be doing in ten years, there is no degree that will relate to every job I will ever have.
Note that better yourself will not make you perfect. I'm a much better speller then I was, and my grammer is much better. Both of the above are still horid as you can tell.
Go over 6 BUSY hosts, and ethernet drops to about 30mbits/sec due to colisions.
Your switch arguements is irrelavent. Ethernet has nothing to do with switches, I could build a scsi switch if you gave me the money. It wouldn't make sense (due to the 16 device limit and the rarity of putting multipul hosts on scsi, but it can be done) Most computers are cabiable of acting as a router. Put a few scsi cards in several comptuers, and you can route ip. Hint, IP doesn't care what it is going over.
Come to think of it, ethernet is a bus just like scsi. (except slower) Note that I agree that ip over scsi doesn't have much a point.
Huh? Who still uses that old 8 bit scsi stuff? Oh, you must be stuck in the low end consumer market, while I'm stuck in the high end market.
Source: An in-depth introduction to scsi by David Demming. (I don't ahve my copy here, but I took a class tought by the author who is on the scsi committie) 80 megabytes/sec was achived in the real world over a year ago.
And I'm smarting for my math mistake up there, that someone pointed out...:(
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anyone who wants one of these needs to get out more and exercise. This is a couch potatoe's dream.
Oh, seats that know me, and adjust for my sister without forgetting how I like it would be nice, but the rest I can do without.
I think I'd get motion sick on one of these things.
Well, yes the release of 3.1 won't be fore a while. I don't recall if you date is correct though.
What this does is get new features out of the 3.1 track. Linux is currently running pre-2.2 kernels for the same reason. Linus just stops accepting new features though, whereas FreeBSD just stops accepting them for the stable track. Both ways have good and bad points.
Although FreeBSD has linux emulation it isn't perfect. Therefore I find it nessicary to ask if this supports FreeBSD.
Accually I'd like to display it on my sun3 xterminal (running on freeBSD) so I can get a net game going but that might be asking too much.
Or so I recall Microsoft saying. NT didn't cut it for games then though, and until it does Microsoft will update the 9x (under a new name to be sure) as they can to get the upgrade dollars.
I'm assuming your not an American (the country), otherwise you need to go study your history not read this. I wouldn't expect the rest of the world to know this item though.
Back in the mid-late 1700's The US was a colony belonging to the british goverment. At the time Britton decided to tax tea going to their colonies (and the mainland too I belive), which they did through their investments in a tea company (East India tea company I think). The colinists got around this by buying tea from a different company, based in Holand. (note, the two tea companies could have been the other way around, I didn't look it up). The king (of England) didn't like this idea, and eventially passed a law making tea not from the east Inida tea company illegal.
So, when one of the first ships came into the boston harbor carring the legale tea the people of Boston (not in mass, the majority were probably loyal to the crown at this time) planed, and one night snuck into all the ships and threw all the tea overboard. This is the Boston tea party, and is important in American history, though not of much interest to the rest of the world.
Of course the crown wasn't happy, and determined the colonies would pay for the tea they ruined. I don't know how that turned out, but I do know that to this day few people in the US drink tea, prefering coffee. (Accually more people might drink tea today if the biggest tea company in the country didn't make aweful tea. It is hard to find good tea in America today.
Looks like I wrote a rough draft and never cared to edit it.
High end SMP support scales well, supporting up to 64-bit processor systems. That combination makes no sense. Looks on first sight like a type, and linux supports 64 SMP processors. If it really means support for 64 bit processors (wasn't that in 2.0.0?) then seperate it out.
What I find works well when editing my own stuff is to read the entire thing backwards (backwords thing entire the read to is to stuff own my editing when well works find I when) However it is not easy and I wouldn't do that much work for something that isn't important. If this is to ever be officail it deserves every trick in the book, even if you reject the results of the trick.
Can't speak for others, but my motherboard doesn't support chips as slow as ppro-166s, and last summer I couldn't afford anything faster with a good cache size. Good fans and things were okay. (until the cheep sleeve bearings failed. I now can afford and bough pcpower and cooling fans, and they are much nicer)
I'm surprized at the level of most comments here. Get a clue: the world does not owe you everything you want on a gold platter (silver isn't good enough for spioled brats like you, is it?)
I'll certianly agree that many of the things the music recording industry does are not good for them, but they have a right to do things as they want to. Now if you want to go through all the lyrics on that server and remove the ones without copywright permission, great. If they own the copyright you need to obey the laws about distributing them. These laws are not well defined, and those who are going against them should expect some pain in getting them defined.
Still, the artist who make songs (not just lyrics) dserve a chance to earn a living doing so. If they feel (forget about if they are right, that isn't at issue) that free access to their lyrics is a loss for them, they have the right to stop distribution of them. If they want to be a small fish in the worlds sea, they have a right to make their creation hard to get at. Likewise the companies have a right to earn money for their creation.
Remember this doesn't deal with if their actions are good or bad for them. They have a right to do it, and in fact the law is tricky enough that they probably have to stop distribution. Live with it, not everything will go your way. They have a point of view, and it is valid. It doesn't have to be right, but nobody is willing to admit their point of view has any merits, which it does.
Granted swiss law is different from US law, but I'm confused. They seised comptuers. Then they ordered the passwords given up.
Now US law gives me the right to protect myself against this attacks, and if revealing a password would mean testifing against me I plead the fifth. (Which would at least require a seperate court order with lawyers involved. Not sure the above would protect me, but at the very least I wouldn't have given up my passwords this easially.
cyberpunks worked last time I tried, but not this time. Now however cyberpunk (no s) works. Gotta try both on most sites, and if neither works create one.
kinda. Many programs crash in Wine due to either unimplimented, or wrongly implimented things. Wine might crash once in a while too. FreeBSD doesn't crash when running wine (nor linux or whatever you use, but I've not tried them) but the programs crash more often if possibal.
In other words M$ windows will run most programs better then wine will. When running in Wine your OS will crash less often (unless you have hardware problems) but the programs will crash more often as wine doesn't quite work like windows. Its a trade off.
Scary, I just realised i'm defending the statements of a M$ drone. Still, unix can stand on its own merits, not on FUD against the others.
I've seen people program Pascal in C. It doesn't translate exactly, but with a few #defines you can often compile pascal with gcc. (#define END } #define begin {, and so on) The syntax isn't exactly the same, but who cares.
Pascal lacks some minor things that C has, but it is not a toy language. The orginial MacOS was written in Pascal back in 1984, which goes to show that you can write an OS with it. Just because C is the language of the decade doesn't make the other bad.
Perhaps you should learn some languages. Once you learn one you know them all, and the differences are no different then going to a different english speaking area. Enough to slow you down, not enough to be a big deal after a week.
RE point 2: That was my point. the airplane will work, or at least there is no reason to belive it won't.
Engineers hate management for many good reasons. One is you need someone to focus the engineers on the end result and getting it on time. Someone to force a compromise (to the worse) to get something out on time.
Management also needs to focus, and stay focused. Thats why Steve Job's had to kill Apple's Newton program. It was a good product, but there was too much on apple's plate. ITs better to be a small profitable company then a large unprofitable one. (Of course it is even better to be a large profitable company)
Now that I think about it, those two hour meetings every couple months to introduce a future Dilber comic are good if only because they keep upper managemnt busy with minor things while the work gets done, instead of commiting to the latest fad all the time. Something to think about.
I also noticed they fell into man-month traps in the above.
I thought china had a different calander and was on 4273 or something like that (the number above was made up, though I think the 4 is right)
Not that it particularrly matters, the average US plane is 20 years old or something like that. Pilots are trained to fly them without engines, (Yes, they fly without engines, If you can't find an airport within gliding distance you buy some farmers crops for the year, or ditch in the water. All of the above recovery techniques have been used by real pilots in real plans, and with most or all of the passangers living. SO long as the plane doesn't explode, which it shouldn't they will be fine. There also exist uncontrolled airports where pilots decide without a tower who lands/takes off when, carry a hand held radio (most pilots have them, at least in small aircraft) though there are enough backups on most planes that I wouldn't worry.
2000 won't come in without comptuer porblems. However the ones that people really worry about were unlikely even without any fixes. (Nuclear bombs for instance probably wouldn't launch becuase the comptuers that control the launch can also be affected - command a crashed comptuer to launch a bomb and no bomb is launched.
I'm in the US, and I've worked on contracts with Swiss banks to impliment 128 bit IDEA encryption. (We sell this to other banks too) Getting the permissions to export this was possibal in 1994, five years ago. You can export any encryption from the US, there is just a catch - it needs to go to orginizations that the US goverment trusts.
I don't know what all banks use of course, and there was 56 bit encryption avaiable to them (regular DES was included in the same model, maybe they use that for speed though IDEA is standard in banking) There seems to be the misconception on /. that it is impossibal to export anything more then 40 bit encryption. That is not true, you just need to get permission, something that common people probably won't get.
I want one, but I think I can wait a bit for them to get the speed up.
I think it is great for the handycapped who can't communicate otherways. And there are science fiction about comunicating with 'others' that take up to a week to formulat a sentence (or understand one of yours). I can deal with others who are that slow if I need to, but I prefer to be faster myself.
If one person disobeys they go to jail. If 10,000 disobey the jails can't hold them.
Mickey Mouse would expire in 2002. The US constitution prhibites grandfather laws, which this can be argued (probably not successfully, but you can put some doubt into minds) Therefore if every /. reader finds mickey mouse mpegs and videos, the orginials that would ahve expired and copues them and gives them away there is nothing they can really do. Make sure your public about it, and make sure enough people are. The difficult part is you can't work alone, you will go to jail unless there are enough other people helping.
Point 1: YEP. Personally I belive in ethanol, but it is hard to find it when not mixed with oil.
2: Sigh, wish it wasn't true. Saddly the world has proved they will draw the US into their struggles. So now we try to stop potential world wars early. If it is working is up for debate. Most people I know in england think world war I was the greatest thing, it had to happen. They support their ancesters dancing in the streets when it broke out. I havn't talked to people in other nataions, but my impression is much of Europe was that way. Belive it or not, most of the US wants to be an isolationist as far as military goes. It doesn't work, we are too large, and have (currently) too much technology that can apply to military uses to not be drawn in. Ever noticed that Switcherland is the only country to maintain nutrality, and they are suck in mountains. There are lots of little nations (Netherlands comes to mind) that want to do the same thing, but they too are drawn into these conflicts because of their location.
3: Sigh. There are too many idiots in the US. I think most of them are waking up to that use. We belive in coincidences once (critics of George Bush will point something out here), but the second time we start asking questions.
Oh, and a part of the Gulf war was Kuwait (got no idea how to speel that) was friendly, Iraq wasn't as friendly. We protect our friends even if there is no way they can help protect us. Now perhaps that goverment didn't deserve protection I don't know (I look at them as the lesser of the two evils, friendly to the US, or ruled by Iraq being the choices)
In summery: World peace has not happened yet, and few people belive it will happen in their lifetime. Pointing out any country as not helping world peace doesn't really take into account that peace gained at the hands of whips and chains isn't worth it. (If your not in the US you probably won't recignise where that came from, If you are a US citician and don't please kill yourself and rid the world of a fool)
Don't forget FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OS/2, and BEOS. Try to find a solution that will work for all platforms. Make a java binary if you need to, with your own API.
Of course linux needs better sound support (and not just in drivers. I just set up some xterminals and can now assue you that remote sound doesn't work, no surprize to me.)
Inform your company tax people to check this out. If your a large company they are in house, if you are a small company find your tax lawyer/accounant.
You will have to expiciatly keep track of how much time you spend on OSS, and then release it all to the net with a little legal disclaimer. Your lawyer will be picky about exactly how it is done (your company doens't want to take responsibility). Fortunatly you can donate to the Free Software Foundataion, the FreeBSD project, and similear orginizations for most software.
Do NOT ask /., we are not lawyers. We all will think it is a great idea, but can't say if it will work. Also rules vary country be country, and /. is an international forum.
Java runs in a sandbox, which (assume it works) limits what you can do to attack.
However I really wonder how effective any attack can be that relies on java enabled browser. Can we say overhead? I can program in C something that will allow my 386 to do more damage. I was going to say more but then I realised that the script idiots who do these attacks would use my idea for ill. I'm not a military supporter (Mind you I'm not anti-military, I agree we need them, but I would rather be an isolationist.) but anything they do to counterattack these kids is good in my book. Better of course would be to try them as adults and send them to prison for a few years.
Parents, pay attention to what your kids are doing. Parenting is hard work, and you don't dare slack off, some of the nicest kids I've known have turned out to be crooks while the nose ring and tatoo kids have turned out to be honest once in a while. (I went to high school with both types. Both groups had about an equal amount of crooks)
bluGill, I don't know if this log in thing is working or now.
His reasoning is mostly correct (though colleges aren't nearly as far behind as he makes you think they are behind) as far as it goes.
Problem is he doesn't even know you can reason farther. College didn't teach me much about programing in the real world. College taught me to think. I wouldn't understand the answer to many of the questions I ask now if I had even thought to ask them which I wouldn't have. If you have never taken college level classes in several departments you won't understand and it can't be explained. Calculis seems irrelavent to my daily job, I haven't done a derivative or integral since I graduated. I apply the what I learned in calculis every day. It isn't the math that I apply, it is the reasoning.
So go to college. I don't care what degree you get. Obviously a CS degree is going to make you a better programer while a music degree will make you a better singer. In the process of bettering youself in one area you learn how you can better yourself anyplace you care to. Besides I don't know what I will be doing in ten years, there is no degree that will relate to every job I will ever have.
Note that better yourself will not make you perfect. I'm a much better speller then I was, and my grammer is much better. Both of the above are still horid as you can tell.
Go over 6 BUSY hosts, and ethernet drops to about 30mbits/sec due to colisions.
Your switch arguements is irrelavent. Ethernet has nothing to do with switches, I could build a scsi switch if you gave me the money. It wouldn't make sense (due to the 16 device limit and the rarity of putting multipul hosts on scsi, but it can be done) Most computers are cabiable of acting as a router. Put a few scsi cards in several comptuers, and you can route ip. Hint, IP doesn't care what it is going over.
Come to think of it, ethernet is a bus just like scsi. (except slower) Note that I agree that ip over scsi doesn't have much a point.
Huh? Who still uses that old 8 bit scsi stuff? Oh, you must be stuck in the low end consumer market, while I'm stuck in the high end market.
Source: An in-depth introduction to scsi by David Demming. (I don't ahve my copy here, but I took a class tought by the author who is on the scsi committie) 80 megabytes/sec was achived in the real world over a year ago.
And I'm smarting for my math mistake up there, that someone pointed out... :(