It's written right here in the summary : commercial Linux.
So you just have to ask Redhat, Mandriva, Suse... without any consideration for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Slackware, Gentoo and others...
Worthless if you ask me. I wonder if Apple hasn't already more market share than combined commercial Linux distributions (in units) (*). And the end of the decade is in four years. Big deal.
Now IMHO, the whole author opinion is worthless...
The real piece of news is that it's a "communist state" that did it. Therefore it belongs in the "politics" section AND it's way better for good flamefests and revenue-generating ads ! Currently it's night in the U.S. (where people have been taught to loathe communism since the cold war), but wait for America waking up and you will see;)
I mean, that guy deserved that sentence, if he had been half clever he would have claimed he did that to collect evidence against pedophiles. And he would've gotten money from the FBI instead !
But if the Freebox is using a draft 802.11 spec, would the laptop not need some sort of modified WLAN card?
MiMo is backward compatible with 802.11b and g. But if you want full MiMo bandwidth you're right, you will need a special card like that one. BTW, they claim it's the only one, and it's also available with PCMCIA. Based around Ralink RA2661 chipset.
Your parent post lacked that detail, but Freebox uses MiMo technology, an implementation of draft 802.11n. So it has more bandwith that regular 802.11g. AFAIK they're also using MPEG4, which is more space efficient than MPEG2 (and I get a little less than 4Mb/s for non HDTV streams - currently no idea for HDTV streams, I lack an HDMI wire)
Rather than an iPod rival, they should have released an iPod killer.
You didn't understand. I didn't either at first. We're not economists.
But think about it.
First, there was an "MP3 players" market. With many competitors.
Then came Apple, that innovated by creating an "iPod" market. That proved to be a successful move, and Apple currently keeps a monopoly on that market. 100% marketshare, wow!
Then came others, stealing the idea and also creating a new market, the "iPod-killer" market. Sadly it didn't took too well. There are many competitors and it appears the whole "iPod-killer" market is smaller than the "iPod" market.
Therefore it would have been a bad move from SanDisk to come late in a small market with plenty of competitors.
By creating an "iPod-rival" market, we don't know what the size of the market will be, but they're first on that market and currently have a monopoly on it!
Impressive ! DirectX 10.0 isn't even released, yet their PR department is already selling us 10.1 ! Wow ! What about the features for the OS they're planning to release in 2020 ?
There's a Linux version of Alpha Centauri available as a torrent. I downloaded it in April (and I do not feel guilty of copyright infringement because I've bought the ms-windows version and Loki who made the port doesn't exist anymore...) A quick Google "torrent alpha centauri Linux" sent me here. Now, it's the full ISO, it could be useful to share only the binaries, as you have already artwork files... Only issue I have with it is that fullscreen uses a modeline that doesn't fit completely in my screen:(
Here is the paper. A "Keyboards and Covert Channels" search on Google will give you the PDF, too. I don't have time to read it right now (time to sleep here in France;) so if someone want to read and report his conclusion that I can read next morning...
Please note I'm differenciating between FATFS and FAT, FAT being a component of FATFS.
FATFS is divided in System Zone, FAT, and allocatable blocks (clusters). Before FAT32FS, root directory was also treated specially (a remain from DOS 1.0 when directories were unavailable).
FAT is a singly linked string list of blocks, and the first block is stored in the directory entry. As a practical example, a directory entry says that file first block is at b1. You look at FAT[b1]=b2 to get next block or an EOF mark. Then you read FAT[b2]=b3 to get next block and so on. It's quite inefficient with big fragmented FS because you need to seek only to get the block list. It was OK at the time of DOS 1.0 because the FAT size of a 360KiB floppy would only use one KiB and could be stored permanently in RAM.
When deleting a file, it's correct that only the first char is changed (to 0xE5) in the directory entry, but the allocation string in the FAT is also erased - because it's the only mean for FATFS to know that those blocks are available.
First block of erased file is still retrievable because it is stored in the directory entry, but other blocks can't, you can only guess, because if a file isn't fragmented, FAT[i]=i+1, and file size is stored in directory entry so you know when to stop.
On most other filesystems, a directory entry points to an inode, which in turn contains all the allocation string (maybe using indirection blocks). Free blocks are written in another structure, an allocation bitmap. So when you're erasing a file on those FS, you only need to erase the directory entry (filename is lost), free blocks in the allocation bitmap(s), free inode in the inode bitmap. You don't need to touch at the inode itself. Therefore, if you have the inode number (instead of the file name) it's in fact easier and more reliable to undelete files on those filesystems than with a FATFS. Except ext3fs zeroes inode block list (but it works on ext2fs).
I'm not sure what your point is... because it seems to me you're just giving me a good example of good programming. You just need to emphasize other parts of the text :...when available......That's why we don't use the kernel's filesystem driver at all... For the last one you would need a larger excerpt with other video output methods.
RTC : allows Real-Time synchronisation. Used when available because Linux isn't a realtime OS. Would be pointless on, say, QNX. Usage of "virtualized functionnality" like standard timers works fine for almost everybody, you usually don't need hacks accessing hardware directly.
DVD : You don't get any benefit running as root because they aren't using kernel's filesystem driver. "Greping" for root in mplayer doc isn't an excuse to not read and understand what's written... There's probably a reason why you need to run as root to get the same functionnality directly from linux kernel, but I'm to lazy to search the thread talking about it at lkml. It wouldn't be portable anyway.
DGA : Thanks, I didn't know about that -vo method. My unofficial debian mplayer package is compiled with 31 output methods, some work under X, some in a xterm, some on a console, some with files, some with particular hardware (like Matrox video cards). DGA works under X, but as mplayer doc states, you need root access. Why not use -vo xv then ? It works flawlessly on my Radeon card. It doesn't work on an older Mach64, in that case I need -vo x11 (-vo dga doesn't work either with that card).
All limitions you're citing are because of attempts to talk directly to hardware, and each time you have other options that are working as well. Bad programming would have assumed that you were root and disallowing to run if RTC wouldn't have been available, for exemple. So ?
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It's written right here in the summary : commercial Linux.
So you just have to ask Redhat, Mandriva, Suse... without any consideration for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Slackware, Gentoo and others...
Worthless if you ask me. I wonder if Apple hasn't already more market share than combined commercial Linux distributions (in units) (*). And the end of the decade is in four years. Big deal.
Now IMHO, the whole author opinion is worthless...
(*) From what appears in some web hits statistics
The real piece of news is that it's a "communist state" that did it. Therefore it belongs in the "politics" section AND it's way better for good flamefests and revenue-generating ads ! Currently it's night in the U.S. (where people have been taught to loathe communism since the cold war), but wait for America waking up and you will see ;)
up up down down left right left right B A select (I have a brother) start!
:)
:P )
So you're playing Space Channel 5 ?
But you won't go far with that "strategy" : You're lacking rythm !
(And BTW I've two sisters
I mean, that guy deserved that sentence, if he had been half clever he would have claimed he did that to collect evidence against pedophiles. And he would've gotten money from the FBI instead !
The amount of crime is inversely proportional for the tolerance of the crime.
<sarcasm> Yeah, that's why with death penalty there's a lower crime rate in the U.S. than in the other industrialized countries </sarcasm>
True, the fact that windows is bloated does not imply that all other operating systems are bloated. But the fact remains that they are.
Really ? What about QNX ? Then there are non-commercial projects like L4... How are they bloated, they're only a few KB ?
Not all developers write crappy unscalable, non-modular spaghetti code...
But if the Freebox is using a draft 802.11 spec, would the laptop not need some sort of modified WLAN card?
MiMo is backward compatible with 802.11b and g. But if you want full MiMo bandwidth you're right, you will need a special card like that one. BTW, they claim it's the only one, and it's also available with PCMCIA.
Based around Ralink RA2661 chipset.
Your parent post lacked that detail, but Freebox uses MiMo technology, an implementation of draft 802.11n. So it has more bandwith that regular 802.11g.
AFAIK they're also using MPEG4, which is more space efficient than MPEG2 (and I get a little less than 4Mb/s for non HDTV streams - currently no idea for HDTV streams, I lack an HDMI wire)
Rather than an iPod rival, they should have released an iPod killer.
You didn't understand. I didn't either at first. We're not economists.
But think about it.
First, there was an "MP3 players" market. With many competitors.
Then came Apple, that innovated by creating an "iPod" market. That proved to be a successful move, and Apple currently keeps a monopoly on that market. 100% marketshare, wow!
Then came others, stealing the idea and also creating a new market, the "iPod-killer" market. Sadly it didn't took too well. There are many competitors and it appears the whole "iPod-killer" market is smaller than the "iPod" market.
Therefore it would have been a bad move from SanDisk to come late in a small market with plenty of competitors.
By creating an "iPod-rival" market, we don't know what the size of the market will be, but they're first on that market and currently have a monopoly on it!
Impressive ! DirectX 10.0 isn't even released, yet their PR department is already selling us 10.1 ! Wow ! What about the features for the OS they're planning to release in 2020 ?
There's a Linux version of Alpha Centauri available as a torrent. :(
I downloaded it in April (and I do not feel guilty of copyright infringement because I've bought the ms-windows version and Loki who made the port doesn't exist anymore...)
A quick Google "torrent alpha centauri Linux" sent me here.
Now, it's the full ISO, it could be useful to share only the binaries, as you have already artwork files...
Only issue I have with it is that fullscreen uses a modeline that doesn't fit completely in my screen
I really need something that will help me diagnose and fix problems with Windows PCs.
:P
Just take the red pill: install an open-source OS. The answers will be revealead to you
Therefore, you should flag well-formed mesages as spam
I have an other technique, simple but effective, with only two rules.
Guaranteed 100% efficient.
Here is the paper. ;) so if someone want to read and report his conclusion that I can read next morning...
A "Keyboards and Covert Channels" search on Google will give you the PDF, too.
I don't have time to read it right now (time to sleep here in France
Erm... never mind :)
... that WGA will also check for legitimate clicks ?
You may be a victim of click counterfeiting.
You seem to not click enough. Would you like me to click a little for you ?
recyclable != biodegradable
the person submitting the story to Slashdot[...]could have spilled the results.
What lets you think the submitter did actually watch the video ?
Will I be able to buy a *NEW* PC (capable of running vista) with good ole windows XP preinstalled for the entirety of 2007?
:P
If MS Vista is delayed again and doesn't ship in 2007, yes, of course
I see lots of misconception of how FATFS deletion works, therefore I'm posting here what I hope is a comprehensive explanation of how it works.
First, you can go to my site and find FATFS specification from the developer's documention section.
You will also find a description of a directory entry.
Please note I'm differenciating between FATFS and FAT, FAT being a component of FATFS.
FATFS is divided in System Zone, FAT, and allocatable blocks (clusters). Before FAT32FS, root directory was also treated specially (a remain from DOS 1.0 when directories were unavailable).
FAT is a singly linked string list of blocks, and the first block is stored in the directory entry. As a practical example, a directory entry says that file first block is at b1. You look at FAT[b1]=b2 to get next block or an EOF mark. Then you read FAT[b2]=b3 to get next block and so on. It's quite inefficient with big fragmented FS because you need to seek only to get the block list. It was OK at the time of DOS 1.0 because the FAT size of a 360KiB floppy would only use one KiB and could be stored permanently in RAM.
When deleting a file, it's correct that only the first char is changed (to 0xE5) in the directory entry, but the allocation string in the FAT is also erased - because it's the only mean for FATFS to know that those blocks are available.
First block of erased file is still retrievable because it is stored in the directory entry, but other blocks can't, you can only guess, because if a file isn't fragmented, FAT[i]=i+1, and file size is stored in directory entry so you know when to stop.
On most other filesystems, a directory entry points to an inode, which in turn contains all the allocation string (maybe using indirection blocks). Free blocks are written in another structure, an allocation bitmap. So when you're erasing a file on those FS, you only need to erase the directory entry (filename is lost), free blocks in the allocation bitmap(s), free inode in the inode bitmap. You don't need to touch at the inode itself. Therefore, if you have the inode number (instead of the file name) it's in fact easier and more reliable to undelete files on those filesystems than with a FATFS. Except ext3fs zeroes inode block list (but it works on ext2fs).
What matters is that it's a clock with a 10^-16 s precision. Now I'm not sure how quantum physics needs that much precision.
I guess I need to sleep too
microprocessors from AMD continued to steal market share
First AMD stole Intel instruction set, and now they're stealing Intel market share !
When will they be ordered to hand them back ?
I'm not sure what your point is... because it seems to me you're just giving me a good example of good programming. You just need to emphasize other parts of the text : ...when available... ...That's why we don't use the kernel's filesystem driver at all...
For the last one you would need a larger excerpt with other video output methods.
RTC : allows Real-Time synchronisation. Used when available because Linux isn't a realtime OS. Would be pointless on, say, QNX. Usage of "virtualized functionnality" like standard timers works fine for almost everybody, you usually don't need hacks accessing hardware directly.
DVD : You don't get any benefit running as root because they aren't using kernel's filesystem driver. "Greping" for root in mplayer doc isn't an excuse to not read and understand what's written... There's probably a reason why you need to run as root to get the same functionnality directly from linux kernel, but I'm to lazy to search the thread talking about it at lkml.
It wouldn't be portable anyway.
DGA : Thanks, I didn't know about that -vo method. My unofficial debian mplayer package is compiled with 31 output methods, some work under X, some in a xterm, some on a console, some with files, some with particular hardware (like Matrox video cards). DGA works under X, but as mplayer doc states, you need root access. Why not use -vo xv then ? It works flawlessly on my Radeon card. It doesn't work on an older Mach64, in that case I need -vo x11 (-vo dga doesn't work either with that card).
All limitions you're citing are because of attempts to talk directly to hardware, and each time you have other options that are working as well.
Bad programming would have assumed that you were root and disallowing to run if RTC wouldn't have been available, for exemple.
So ?