The Vista indexer only runs on idle CPU cycles. Only if the drives have never been indexed before. Plug in a USB drive with over 100G of data and you might as well take a nap until your machine regains responsiveness. Not that Vista could ever be considered responsive.
Information thieves, it seems, are just one step ahead of IT security. No. IT security would be doing just fine if users and administrators protected themselves with existing security recommendations. As long as people act like sheep they will be lambs to the slaughter.
You could buy this PC to use for a hardware project, such as for installing Windows Home Server or another flavor of Linux. It is interesting that he thinks someone could actually run Windows Home Server on this box. In the light of the Microsoft warning to the effect of "don't save any documents using windows software to a machine running windows server", the author is very bold.
IMHO the article little more than an example of rating:investment skew.
I don't mind that extra second because I do it once and it's nice to show that I'm actually switching users. IMHO here lay the only purpose for "effects"; to show the user the event has happened. I don't need the window I'm minimizing/maximizing to show me it is going away or coming up, because it already has its own effect. It goes away or comes up! An Icon that changes when I click on it tells me I've successfully told an application to start. If it doesn't start I know to start looking for an issue. An icon that sits on my desktop flashing and wiggling doesn't tell me anything. It is like trying to read an article on the web with flash and gifs dancing around. There is a big difference between eye candy and attractive functionality.
I don't know why the contestants are spending all that cash and beefing up the AI on these machines. A tape recorder that mumbles incoherent obscenities could pass as a NY cab driver.
this technology sounds exactly like what i'm looking for. all i want is for my computer to bring me a beer when it "see's" i'm thursty. can't wait! go ibm!
What? You didn't read the EULA! It, well in so many words, says "M$ can do whatever it wants to your machine and data". Then it says "exceptions are listed elsewhere". Then the listing says "this listing can change whenever M$ wants it to". Then it says, "you are not allowed to discuss or publish your experiences, your machines performance, your satisfaction with the product, or errors occurred while using the product".
Your correct but it doesn't make it right. GPL people should have enough respect to leave BSD licensed stuff BSD licensed. We aren't M$. Unfortunately this goes further. The code is a port not a rewrite, (this is arguable but...) Regardless, hard work went into making the BSD version and it was used to make the Linux version. IMHO they deserve the right to have it licensed with their information attached and under their preferred license.
NTP doesn't take any more bandwidth than DNS. Unfortunately, like DNS, it requires a lot of new connections. On average my NTP server gets 20 new requests per second. The more machines in the pool, the smaller the number of requests per second. The number of conversations going over a connection can be just as disruptive as streaming media. You might not be seeing large amounts of bandwidth but routers can be taxed handling all of the new conversations (DDoS attacks).
On a side note: I'm one of those people who like RUDP and DCCP.
You must be taking your information from post AT&T breakup, 1981'ish. Back when the publicly owned and traded phone "monopoly" was f'd up. HiTF a publicly traded company can be considered a monopoly I would like to know. But, anyway...
The original copper network was a private/public compromise built on private property seized by the government No sir. The original copper was being put in place in the mid 1800's along with the railways. The land was "seized" from the native Americans.
The federal government allowed monopoly control of the copper by one company, as long as it agreed to follow certain rules Bell was given credit for the phone making The Bell Telephone Company was the only player in the market. The government owned the copper it put in place until the, then, "American Bell Telephone Company" built enough exchanges to receive through government grants the existing copper because uncle sam didn't want to pay for upkeep not to mention it needed private phone system and couldn't do it due to patents: Until Bell's second patent expired in 1894, only Bell Telephone and its licensees could legally operate telephone systems in the United Stateshttp://www.corp.att.com/history/history1.html
Up until the 80's the majority of old folks had their money tied up in phone stocks and government savings bonds. The industry was broken up to get that stagnant money back out in the world to pump the U.S. economy back to life.
The reason we don't have good network connectivity is the constant fighting for control of what is unarguably the biggest industry in the U.S. Everything, in one way or another, is dependent on communication. The people in the industry are the second most greedy pieces of sh't on the face of the earth. Absolutely everything they do is for their own benefit. The massive tax cuts they received to "modernize the infrastructure of our nations communications" went directly onto their bottom line. The proposals that Google et. el. are putting together are the only signs of hope the people have to break free from the same ol sh't.
The largest hurdle microkernels have to overcome, however, is the problem of DMA Absolutely correct and imho correct for all types of kernels. As long as hardware uses system memory to function, and the location of memory is not properly restricted, this problem will persist. Drivers openly developed could easily be developed to restrict specific device types to specific memory areas.
udev is part of the Linux kernel project, while HAL and D-BUS are not.
So, why doesn't Linux have a HAL? I can tell you the answer in one word - Tradition. The Linux kernel emanates from kernel.org, which essentially produces a white box OS, supporting x86/IA-32 compatible CPUs. With that Wintel architecture, things like code compatibility, BIOS, and chipsets come together to form what I call the PC/AT "virtual machine." Linux, like Windows, leverages basic knowledge about this platform, so that booting and hardware initialization are taken care of, leaving a kernel to worry about the more interesting things. As one hacker says, "on x86, it just works!" http://www.open-mag.com/features/10_02feats/HAL/HA L.htm
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The Vista indexer only runs on idle CPU cycles.
Only if the drives have never been indexed before. Plug in a USB drive with over 100G of data and you might as well take a nap until your machine regains responsiveness. Not that Vista could ever be considered responsive.
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XP is a dream in comparison.
Which isn't saying much.
Information thieves, it seems, are just one step ahead of IT security.
No. IT security would be doing just fine if users and administrators protected themselves with existing security recommendations.
As long as people act like sheep they will be lambs to the slaughter.
You could buy this PC to use for a hardware project, such as for installing Windows Home Server or another flavor of Linux.
It is interesting that he thinks someone could actually run Windows Home Server on this box. In the light of the Microsoft warning to the effect of "don't save any documents using windows software to a machine running windows server", the author is very bold.
IMHO the article little more than an example of rating:investment skew.
what features would you include
A bar
What things would you try to avoid
The boss
I get to determine absolutely everything
Have them build it onto your home.
I have to share my office space with all the network equipment.
Make them install fiber in your home.
I don't mind that extra second because I do it once and it's nice to show that I'm actually switching users.
IMHO here lay the only purpose for "effects"; to show the user the event has happened. I don't need the window I'm minimizing/maximizing to show me it is going away or coming up, because it already has its own effect. It goes away or comes up! An Icon that changes when I click on it tells me I've successfully told an application to start. If it doesn't start I know to start looking for an issue. An icon that sits on my desktop flashing and wiggling doesn't tell me anything. It is like trying to read an article on the web with flash and gifs dancing around. There is a big difference between eye candy and attractive functionality.
Who would have thought that light could travel such a long distance?
pft. Next you'll be suggesting crazy stuff like, "it travels the fastest speed calculable".
So if you run around the station yelling "uh huh huh his name is Vader Dunk" do the Germans get to shoot you?
I don't know why the contestants are spending all that cash and beefing up the AI on these machines. A tape recorder that mumbles incoherent obscenities could pass as a NY cab driver.
That protection in no way extends to US projects, of course.
This, of course, insures profitable OSS projects will not be based in the US. Damn shame. Some of us like Tech jobs.
this technology sounds exactly like what i'm looking for. all i want is for my computer to bring me a beer when it "see's" i'm thursty. can't wait! go ibm!
Personally I welcome the new omniscient stupidity assigning overlords.
I thought there already was a "3D world" standard.
I TOTALLY Agree! I'm a short, fat, balding, middle age, heavy drinker and smoker AND they won't even take ME! I mean WTF!
What? You didn't read the EULA! It, well in so many words, says "M$ can do whatever it wants to your machine and data". Then it says "exceptions are listed elsewhere". Then the listing says "this listing can change whenever M$ wants it to". Then it says, "you are not allowed to discuss or publish your experiences, your machines performance, your satisfaction with the product, or errors occurred while using the product".
Can network traffic over satellite be sniffed now or is it still a federal offense?
Your correct but it doesn't make it right. GPL people should have enough respect to leave BSD licensed stuff BSD licensed. We aren't M$. Unfortunately this goes further. The code is a port not a rewrite, (this is arguable but...) Regardless, hard work went into making the BSD version and it was used to make the Linux version. IMHO they deserve the right to have it licensed with their information attached and under their preferred license.
Wireless will displace wired in the same way that UDP displaced TCP.
NTP doesn't take any more bandwidth than DNS. Unfortunately, like DNS, it requires a lot of new connections. On average my NTP server gets 20 new requests per second. The more machines in the pool, the smaller the number of requests per second. The number of conversations going over a connection can be just as disruptive as streaming media. You might not be seeing large amounts of bandwidth but routers can be taxed handling all of the new conversations (DDoS attacks).
On a side note: I'm one of those people who like RUDP and DCCP.
"nukes that wipe out entire populations of men, women, and children, but that leave..."
He wouldn't do it until you could finish that sentence with "radical militant born again evangelical piece of shit christians".
Hey! You leave Bumfuck out of this. We've installed our 8th trailer. Show some respect!
Interesting. That just makes it all fall into place.
A GOVERNMENT OF THE ignorant and apathetic PEOPLE, BY THE ignorant and apathetic PEOPLE.
I wonder what the key to a good "GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE" is? Maybe it is keeping bad things from getting in between THE PEOPLE?
You must be taking your information from post AT&T breakup, 1981'ish. Back when the publicly owned and traded phone "monopoly" was f'd up. HiTF a publicly traded company can be considered a monopoly I would like to know. But, anyway...
The original copper network was a private/public compromise built on private property seized by the government
No sir. The original copper was being put in place in the mid 1800's along with the railways. The land was "seized" from the native Americans.
The federal government allowed monopoly control of the copper by one company, as long as it agreed to follow certain rules
Bell was given credit for the phone making The Bell Telephone Company was the only player in the market. The government owned the copper it put in place until the, then, "American Bell Telephone Company" built enough exchanges to receive through government grants the existing copper because uncle sam didn't want to pay for upkeep not to mention it needed private phone system and couldn't do it due to patents:
Until Bell's second patent expired in 1894, only Bell Telephone and its licensees could legally operate telephone systems in the United States http://www.corp.att.com/history/history1.html
Up until the 80's the majority of old folks had their money tied up in phone stocks and government savings bonds. The industry was broken up to get that stagnant money back out in the world to pump the U.S. economy back to life.
The reason we don't have good network connectivity is the constant fighting for control of what is unarguably the biggest industry in the U.S. Everything, in one way or another, is dependent on communication. The people in the industry are the second most greedy pieces of sh't on the face of the earth. Absolutely everything they do is for their own benefit. The massive tax cuts they received to "modernize the infrastructure of our nations communications" went directly onto their bottom line. The proposals that Google et. el. are putting together are the only signs of hope the people have to break free from the same ol sh't.
The largest hurdle microkernels have to overcome, however, is the problem of DMA
Absolutely correct and imho correct for all types of kernels. As long as hardware uses system memory to function, and the location of memory is not properly restricted, this problem will persist. Drivers openly developed could easily be developed to restrict specific device types to specific memory areas.
udev is part of the Linux kernel project, while HAL and D-BUS are not.
A L.htm
So, why doesn't Linux have a HAL? I can tell you the answer in one word - Tradition. The Linux kernel emanates from kernel.org, which essentially produces a white box OS, supporting x86/IA-32 compatible CPUs. With that Wintel architecture, things like code compatibility, BIOS, and chipsets come together to form what I call the PC/AT "virtual machine." Linux, like Windows, leverages basic knowledge about this platform, so that booting and hardware initialization are taken care of, leaving a kernel to worry about the more interesting things. As one hacker says, "on x86, it just works!"
http://www.open-mag.com/features/10_02feats/HAL/H