I fear that in the next decade we will stop using Alphas, if things continue to develop as they are.
I have some hopes that AMD's SledgeHammer will end up being an Alpha replacement of sorts. In a lot of ways (FPU, bus), the Athlon is like a 32-bit version of the Alpha.
holding their hotspot code and use dynamic library linking to load in the right one after doing a CPU detection routine. This sort of thing is already being done to a certain degree with Windows based games that might support 3dNow, SSE, SSE2, etc.
Redhat 7.1 has that for i686 machines, actually (just libc/libm and a few others, but then again, those are the ones that are really going to matter). It's invisible to the programs, it's just some magic in the dynamic linker. Of course if you're compiling it yourself it's a much simpler job, but then again one can always offer DEBs/RPMs compiled for the specific architeture.
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(for both the consumer and business) and the FreeBSD service changes into that one?
Then, duh, everyone goes back to buy CDs from whoever, or downloading ISOs off the net. Or buying DVDs from someone else. Unless you're actually suggesting that FreeBSD might become closed source. Which wouldn't make any sense. Especially because this company doesn't have any special rights to FreeBSD (AFAIK).
Highly doubtful. First, you would have to replace every cable box and dish to handle getting the qbits (I'm assuming that normal cable dishs cannot handle doing this, which seems highly likely). Not to mention launching new sattelites, which would be even more expensive (especially because then you esentially throw away your investment in the previous generation of sats).
Secondly, you would need some 'normal' hardware to actually encrypt the video stream once you've exchanged a key. People have had great sucess breaking this stuff in (IIRC) Europe. Good tamper-resistant hardware is hard to do, and expensive to boot. Also, even if the key exchange itself is unspoofable and untappable, you can always try to get the key out of the normal silocon that it's stored in afterwards.
Of course there's always the usual hardware hacks, like pulling the video/audio after it's decoded directly from the chips into some specialized hardware which then dumps it into a PC. Messy and hard to do, but possible.
Quantum Cryptography is nice, and certainly very interesting, but rarely are social problems solved by technological means alone. The DirecTV guys, and others, might have to works a little harder, but it seems highly unlikey that DirecTV, or whatever, would become un-copyable. I say this because nobody has ever managed to make anything uncopyable (and semi-usable at the same time), despite any number of grand claims to the contrary.
Somebody hacks my machine across the internet and I'm toast.
Of course:
A) You can always encrypt something stored on a computer with GnuPG or simliar, and keep that password either in your head (preferable), or written down somewhere, or maybe write down a hint for yourself on paper but keep the actual password only in your head.
B) If someone cracks you're machine, they probably won't need anything else. They can trojan your/bin/login and ssh/sshd to email the passwords you use to log in to wherever (bonus points to those who replace Mozilla/Netscape with a trojaned copy that sends transcripts of SSL sessions too) to some address at hotmail, they can obviously copy any files you have on your home machine, they can probably do a lot of other nasty things.
It's tucked in a relatively obscure location in my files.
This obscure location isn't "it's taped onto the side of my monitor", is it? If you're keeping it someplace hard to find (or better yet, a safe), then no problem. However, most people who write down passwords don't do that. I live with 3 non-techie people, and they do things like use their birthdays as passwords (literally). These people are well educated (in their fields) and certainly no fools. But people just don't get security. That's all there is to it. For every one person writing down their passwords in a safe place, there are 100 putting it on the side of their monitors.
I had written this out before and then Netscape decided it was time to crash.
What's wrong with Linux threads? I've been using them for a while. They seem to work for me.Why are the IBM ones so much better?
LinuxThreads are OK. The problem is that LinuxThreads uses a 1:1 mapping between kernel processes and the threads, whereas this package uses an N:M setup, which is much more scalable. The thing is that Linux doesn't really scale well to large number of processes (by large I mean around 10K+, to pull a number out of my hat). Since LinuxThreads is 1:1, that means these limitations also apply to LinuxThreads. Of course the IBM threads stuff isn't immune but the way it works could help things out quite a bit (though mostly for larger things).
Also LinuxThreads is kind of buggy. Having not used IBM's stuff I can't say anything one way or another there but hopefully this package improves on that.
Since they're both posix threads (pthread_create()) how does one determine which one will be used when both are on one system?
Generally speaking, you're only going to have one of these packages on the system. And since both (in theory) comply with the POSIX standard, it shouldn't matter which one is actually installed (except for the little issue of binary compatability, of course).
True, but I can guarantete you that these guys would want to discuss the name of your movie with you.
I kind of doubt that they could do anything about it (except threaten you with frivolous lawsuits, of course). What is a sufficiently 'unique' that it can be copyrighted? "Wind"? "The Winds"? "I'm Gone"? "Gone with the Wind"? Titles are too damn short to copyright. I'm not sure but IIRC you need more than one sentence to claim copyright infrigement (otherwise I would copyright "It was a dark and stormy night"). Most titles are a lot shorter than that.
we're talking an 800 number that you dial and within less than a minute you are talking to a technician...
Can anyone famliar with Cisco, besides people working for/., confirm this? I'm curious how much is Cisco's good customer support and how much is the fact that OSDN probably has a $BIG_NUMBER support contract with Cisco.
And what act is that? Are these guys killing people or sodomizing small children? No. They're getting access to a cable channel which you cannot pay for even if you want to in the country that they are from. Maybe in your mind this is a morally wrong act but I hardly see it as such. If it were possible to buy DirecTV in Canada, then I would call it a not-very-nice thing (though, again, hardly 'morally wrong' - I reserve that for a crime that actually hurts someone in a non-negligeble way).
"Well, it's not illegal so it must be ok!"
It's not only 'not illegal', it seems that Canadian courts have examined this issue and said that it is OK.
If someone tapped in to your cordless or cell phone's signal and replayed embarrasing conversations to your family, boss and friends would you be as forgiving?
What?!?!?! TV channels and private conversations are hardly the same thing. TV is meant to be seen/heard by as many people as possible. Private conversations are not. You are confusing copyright law with something else entirely (well, at least in my case - I hardly ever copyright my phone conversations).
I personally loved the older ones. Although the one considered the best of the series never got an american release, The real FF III, the Japanese one. Play that one and you'll understand.
Yeah, one of my housemates brought a copy of FF II back from his house. I went nuts on it for like 6 hours, saved the game, quit - next day, gone. Play the start again for maybe an hour, save, quit, gone again. Game is fried. Too bad, the first few hours were a lot of fun...:)
(I don't see what the problem is with DBZ-style hair, but then again I do spend about 2 hours a day watching it).
Really, what I am waiting for is ISP-approved spam.
Heh. My university (JHU) already has done that. Not super often (unless you count the enourmous number of idiotic "here's the stupid activity of the week" emails), but on a few occasions places have spammed the entire campus, and I would bet anything that they bought the lists from the university.
I haven't seen Cowbow Bebop yet, since I'm not MADE of money and nowhere here rents it, but everyone I've talked to who has seen it has liked it.
Cowboy Bebop is one of the best series I've seen. If you see some and like it, consider also checking out Outlaw Star (which I absolutely love). (You can rent that from a few places, at least around my house). They're quite simliar in some ways, but Outlaw Star is less dark and has more humor, and also the character roles are somewhat less typical. For example: the pilot of the Outlaw Star get sick in space, the muscle of the crew is a pair of women, and the planner/backup guy is an 11 yro kid.
If you're a Batman fan in addition to big robots, check out "The Big O" as well (even if not, you may well like it). When it showed on Cartoon Network they used the tagline "One part Batman, one part Bond, one part giant city-smashing robot". It's not too "serious" an anime, but it's a lot of fun.
IBM, Sun or Compaq could pick it up. They wouldn't even notice the sort of cash required to support SourceForge.
I kind of doubt Sun would - last I heard they're still not big Linux/OSS fans (perhaps "cautiously interested" would be a better description). IBM or Compaq (or HP or SGI, perhaps) seem likely, however. And you're sure right about not noticing the cash outflow. Actually, I wonder how much it costs to run SF, admins, hardware, bandwidth, soda, etc? Now I'm all curious...
so far they've been reluctant to do anything that might be seen as attempting to "take over" the Open Source movement.
Yeah, but of course people have other options. And if VA goes down I think people would be more relieved than worried if SF was taken over - better than dying, after all.
I believe that most of the underlying sourceforge software is itself opensource; so it shouldn't be too difficult to duplicate.
I don't think that's the real problem. The problem is getting machines and bandwidth. Especially bandwidth. Even if there are tons of people who will help work on/admin sourceforge-II, without a bunch of $$$ it won't happen.
Eh... I don't know. While metalab, etc are far from ideal, it's not really necessary that all the projects be hosted by a single site. Freshmeat.net would work well as a base for a universal index, as long as it could a) enforce using Trove categories, and b) check links periodically and remove those that were dead, to keep it updated. And provide SF like stats for downloads, etc (which I rather like). Then people host web, CVS, ftp, whatever from their ISP or home box or wherever, but everyone can find stuff without resorting to google searches and such.
I have a project on SF, and I find the main advantages are the indexing and statistics capabilities. I can host web and FTP myself no problem (no universally true, but I think it would be OK for the vast majority of people/projects). The shell server is not at all useful (to me), and the compile farm seems to have been dead for some time (at least I can't get in), so even that's out.
And, like a lot of other people, I find SF's universiality unsettling, especially with the recent crack. I figure within 6 months I'll move the project off to my machines.
Statement: Hey, everybody, IIS is blazing fast because it runs in Kernal space!
Response: That's stupid! It'll crash the server! It'll compromise security!
LOL. As I understand it (and the article seems to back me up), the current version of IIS is userspace like it's always been. And yet it still manages to be ridiculously insecure. And, the benchmarks show that Tux is 2x as fast as IIS. So either IIS is userspace and your're wrong, or IIS is kernel space and you're wrong [because if it's kernel space too and still only half as fast as Tux, well that just plain sucks]
Basically, your whole argument makes no sense. How about this one:
DOS 5 is an operating system.
Linux is an operating system.
DOS 5 doesn't support SMP Alpha machines.
Thus Linux doesn't either.
Just because IIS 6 and Tux are both kernel-space web servers, does not mean they share anything else in common. Current IIS is really insecure, and I don't see how moving that into the kernel will help out a whole lot. OTOH, it's at least possible that Tux is secure. It's too soon to tell, as it has basically no history (unlike Microsoft in general and IIS in particular)
Just now I'm anguishing over the choice of which laptop computer to buy, much to the puzzlement of my W2K-using co-workers.
I've gotta say it: get an Powerbook or one of the new iBooks. I mean OS X is kinda pretty and it's Unix and obviously you know the hardware will work OK with it. And the machines themselves are really nice.
Maybe it's not your thing, but I know that if I had the cash and the inclination to get a laptop it would be an Apple on for sure (note that I'm not an Apple zealot either - my two machines are a Pentium II and a SparcStation5)
make sure those who do stay are competent enough to do the work on their own.
OTOH some universities have at least some group projects. I've had several classes where small groups had to produce the final project, and there is a class here (JHU), where the entire class works on a single project the entire semester. Incidentally, the result of that project was released under the GPL.
Working as a team is a fairly important skill, after all.
I don't see how GPL'ing any of that stuff would benefit anybody.
It might not. But that won't hurt anybody, will it? And maybe sometime it will benefit someone.
Everything I know about Eastern culture, I learned from Anime.:)
I'm actually starting to pick up a few basic Japanese phrases from my subtitled anime (Cardcaptor Sakura is especially good for that because the dialog is usually relatively simple - and anyway I like to watch it a lot).
In just a few years, I'll probably be able to talk just like a 14 year old Japanese girl.
I run a rock-solid server on UltraSPARC hardware for student projects (which often do odd and nasty things).
Are you running a stock kernel? If so, please tell me which version. I'm trying to get 2.4 on my SPARCs and it is just not happening (mm/memory.c pukes, badly, and I think some of the drivers are being mis-compiled). If not, please tell me where I can get a 2.4 kernel that will actually work.
Since they are same size, I wish Mozilla to be as stable as kernel, and not vice versa.
Sadly, it's only stable on x86, pretty much. Hell, 2.4.x doesn't even compile on SPARC. I imagine that at least I could run Mozilla on my SS5, but use the latest kernel, nope...
1) How long will it take to see I/O bandwidth improve to where it can handle real time streaming of such huge pictures from storage.
Quite a while - a gig per second is way more than even 66 Mhz 64-bit PCI can handle (I belive that will only go up to ~600 (?) Mb/s). Also, there really isn't much need for it. I mean this monitor is nice and all, but with a 20K pricetag and no real applications for it (for the average user, anyway - maybe this would be useful in some 3d modeling scenarios, perhaps), I doubt we'll be seeing technolgy to support this kind of thing in even high end workstations for at least a few years. Both Intel and AMD are working on new buses to replace PCI so maybe that problem (the bus) will go away fairly soon. Actually getting a gig per second off a disk - that could take a while.
2) Is there any hardware out there right now that can handle such high I/O bandwidths?
Surely. But once you're looking for that, you're talking about big machines with a lot of hardware RAID. I'd bet a E10K or S/390 could handle that kind of I/O. If you meant something you could actually afford - probably not. ^_^
but I am running Windows 2000 and am not to sure of support for it / video cards? Anyone able to shed some light on how good / incompatible this sexy monitor is?
For a while we had one in the lab where I work running off a P-III / G400 running Linux. So I suspect pretty much any PC will work fine. But the machine is now a server so we've got this really nice monitor just sitting around doing nothing.:(
But yes, those things are very pretty (and very expensive, last I looked).
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I fear that in the next decade we will stop using Alphas, if things continue to develop as they are.
I have some hopes that AMD's SledgeHammer will end up being an Alpha replacement of sorts. In a lot of ways (FPU, bus), the Athlon is like a 32-bit version of the Alpha.
holding their hotspot code and use dynamic library linking to load in the right one after doing a CPU detection routine. This sort of thing is already being done to a certain degree with Windows based games that might support 3dNow, SSE, SSE2, etc.
Redhat 7.1 has that for i686 machines, actually (just libc/libm and a few others, but then again, those are the ones that are really going to matter). It's invisible to the programs, it's just some magic in the dynamic linker. Of course if you're compiling it yourself it's a much simpler job, but then again one can always offer DEBs/RPMs compiled for the specific architeture.
(for both the consumer and business) and the FreeBSD service changes into that one?
Then, duh, everyone goes back to buy CDs from whoever, or downloading ISOs off the net. Or buying DVDs from someone else. Unless you're actually suggesting that FreeBSD might become closed source. Which wouldn't make any sense. Especially because this company doesn't have any special rights to FreeBSD (AFAIK).
It'll be the end of the DirecTV pirates, anyway.
Highly doubtful. First, you would have to replace every cable box and dish to handle getting the qbits (I'm assuming that normal cable dishs cannot handle doing this, which seems highly likely). Not to mention launching new sattelites, which would be even more expensive (especially because then you esentially throw away your investment in the previous generation of sats).
Secondly, you would need some 'normal' hardware to actually encrypt the video stream once you've exchanged a key. People have had great sucess breaking this stuff in (IIRC) Europe. Good tamper-resistant hardware is hard to do, and expensive to boot. Also, even if the key exchange itself is unspoofable and untappable, you can always try to get the key out of the normal silocon that it's stored in afterwards.
Of course there's always the usual hardware hacks, like pulling the video/audio after it's decoded directly from the chips into some specialized hardware which then dumps it into a PC. Messy and hard to do, but possible.
Quantum Cryptography is nice, and certainly very interesting, but rarely are social problems solved by technological means alone. The DirecTV guys, and others, might have to works a little harder, but it seems highly unlikey that DirecTV, or whatever, would become un-copyable. I say this because nobody has ever managed to make anything uncopyable (and semi-usable at the same time), despite any number of grand claims to the contrary.
Somebody hacks my machine across the internet and I'm toast.
/bin/login and ssh/sshd to email the passwords you use to log in to wherever (bonus points to those who replace Mozilla/Netscape with a trojaned copy that sends transcripts of SSL sessions too) to some address at hotmail, they can obviously copy any files you have on your home machine, they can probably do a lot of other nasty things.
Of course:
A) You can always encrypt something stored on a computer with GnuPG or simliar, and keep that password either in your head (preferable), or written down somewhere, or maybe write down a hint for yourself on paper but keep the actual password only in your head.
B) If someone cracks you're machine, they probably won't need anything else. They can trojan your
It's tucked in a relatively obscure location in my files.
This obscure location isn't "it's taped onto the side of my monitor", is it? If you're keeping it someplace hard to find (or better yet, a safe), then no problem. However, most people who write down passwords don't do that. I live with 3 non-techie people, and they do things like use their birthdays as passwords (literally). These people are well educated (in their fields) and certainly no fools. But people just don't get security. That's all there is to it. For every one person writing down their passwords in a safe place, there are 100 putting it on the side of their monitors.
I had written this out before and then Netscape decided it was time to crash.
What's wrong with Linux threads? I've been using them for a while. They seem to work for me.Why are the IBM ones so much better?
LinuxThreads are OK. The problem is that LinuxThreads uses a 1:1 mapping between kernel processes and the threads, whereas this package uses an N:M setup, which is much more scalable. The thing is that Linux doesn't really scale well to large number of processes (by large I mean around 10K+, to pull a number out of my hat). Since LinuxThreads is 1:1, that means these limitations also apply to LinuxThreads. Of course the IBM threads stuff isn't immune but the way it works could help things out quite a bit (though mostly for larger things).
Also LinuxThreads is kind of buggy. Having not used IBM's stuff I can't say anything one way or another there but hopefully this package improves on that.
Since they're both posix threads (pthread_create()) how does one determine which one will be used when both are on one system?
Generally speaking, you're only going to have one of these packages on the system. And since both (in theory) comply with the POSIX standard, it shouldn't matter which one is actually installed (except for the little issue of binary compatability, of course).
True, but I can guarantete you that these guys would want to discuss the name of your movie with you.
I kind of doubt that they could do anything about it (except threaten you with frivolous lawsuits, of course). What is a sufficiently 'unique' that it can be copyrighted? "Wind"? "The Winds"? "I'm Gone"? "Gone with the Wind"? Titles are too damn short to copyright. I'm not sure but IIRC you need more than one sentence to claim copyright infrigement (otherwise I would copyright "It was a dark and stormy night"). Most titles are a lot shorter than that.
Trademarks are another story, of course.
we're talking an 800 number that you dial and within less than a minute you are talking to a technician...
/., confirm this? I'm curious how much is Cisco's good customer support and how much is the fact that OSDN probably has a $BIG_NUMBER support contract with Cisco.
Can anyone famliar with Cisco, besides people working for
Just curious.
morally wrong act
And what act is that? Are these guys killing people or sodomizing small children? No. They're getting access to a cable channel which you cannot pay for even if you want to in the country that they are from. Maybe in your mind this is a morally wrong act but I hardly see it as such. If it were possible to buy DirecTV in Canada, then I would call it a not-very-nice thing (though, again, hardly 'morally wrong' - I reserve that for a crime that actually hurts someone in a non-negligeble way).
"Well, it's not illegal so it must be ok!"
It's not only 'not illegal', it seems that Canadian courts have examined this issue and said that it is OK.
If someone tapped in to your cordless or cell phone's signal and replayed embarrasing conversations to your family, boss and friends would you be as forgiving?
What?!?!?! TV channels and private conversations are hardly the same thing. TV is meant to be seen/heard by as many people as possible. Private conversations are not. You are confusing copyright law with something else entirely (well, at least in my case - I hardly ever copyright my phone conversations).
I personally loved the older ones. Although the one considered the best of the series never got an american release, The real FF III, the Japanese one. Play that one and you'll understand.
:)
Yeah, one of my housemates brought a copy of FF II back from his house. I went nuts on it for like 6 hours, saved the game, quit - next day, gone. Play the start again for maybe an hour, save, quit, gone again. Game is fried. Too bad, the first few hours were a lot of fun...
(I don't see what the problem is with DBZ-style hair, but then again I do spend about 2 hours a day watching it).
Really, what I am waiting for is ISP-approved spam.
Heh. My university (JHU) already has done that. Not super often (unless you count the enourmous number of idiotic "here's the stupid activity of the week" emails), but on a few occasions places have spammed the entire campus, and I would bet anything that they bought the lists from the university.
Love Hina is great. If you like Tenchi or love comedies in general you'll probably enjoy Love Hina.
Hmmm... thanks. I like Tenchi quite a bit (even if Tenchi himself is a real jerk), maybe I'll check it out sometime.
I haven't seen Cowbow Bebop yet, since I'm not MADE of money and nowhere here rents it, but everyone I've talked to who has seen it has liked it.
Cowboy Bebop is one of the best series I've seen. If you see some and like it, consider also checking out Outlaw Star (which I absolutely love). (You can rent that from a few places, at least around my house). They're quite simliar in some ways, but Outlaw Star is less dark and has more humor, and also the character roles are somewhat less typical. For example: the pilot of the Outlaw Star get sick in space, the muscle of the crew is a pair of women, and the planner/backup guy is an 11 yro kid.
If you're a Batman fan in addition to big robots, check out "The Big O" as well (even if not, you may well like it). When it showed on Cartoon Network they used the tagline "One part Batman, one part Bond, one part giant city-smashing robot". It's not too "serious" an anime, but it's a lot of fun.
IBM, Sun or Compaq could pick it up. They wouldn't even notice the sort of cash required to support SourceForge.
I kind of doubt Sun would - last I heard they're still not big Linux/OSS fans (perhaps "cautiously interested" would be a better description). IBM or Compaq (or HP or SGI, perhaps) seem likely, however. And you're sure right about not noticing the cash outflow. Actually, I wonder how much it costs to run SF, admins, hardware, bandwidth, soda, etc? Now I'm all curious...
so far they've been reluctant to do anything that might be seen as attempting to "take over" the Open Source movement.
Yeah, but of course people have other options. And if VA goes down I think people would be more relieved than worried if SF was taken over - better than dying, after all.
I believe that most of the underlying sourceforge software is itself opensource; so it shouldn't be too difficult to duplicate.
I don't think that's the real problem. The problem is getting machines and bandwidth. Especially bandwidth. Even if there are tons of people who will help work on/admin sourceforge-II, without a bunch of $$$ it won't happen.
Eh... I don't know. While metalab, etc are far from ideal, it's not really necessary that all the projects be hosted by a single site. Freshmeat.net would work well as a base for a universal index, as long as it could a) enforce using Trove categories, and b) check links periodically and remove those that were dead, to keep it updated. And provide SF like stats for downloads, etc (which I rather like). Then people host web, CVS, ftp, whatever from their ISP or home box or wherever, but everyone can find stuff without resorting to google searches and such.
I have a project on SF, and I find the main advantages are the indexing and statistics capabilities. I can host web and FTP myself no problem (no universally true, but I think it would be OK for the vast majority of people/projects). The shell server is not at all useful (to me), and the compile farm seems to have been dead for some time (at least I can't get in), so even that's out.
And, like a lot of other people, I find SF's universiality unsettling, especially with the recent crack. I figure within 6 months I'll move the project off to my machines.
Statement: Hey, everybody, IIS is blazing fast because it runs in Kernal space!
Response: That's stupid! It'll crash the server! It'll compromise security!
LOL. As I understand it (and the article seems to back me up), the current version of IIS is userspace like it's always been. And yet it still manages to be ridiculously insecure. And, the benchmarks show that Tux is 2x as fast as IIS. So either IIS is userspace and your're wrong, or IIS is kernel space and you're wrong [because if it's kernel space too and still only half as fast as Tux, well that just plain sucks]
Basically, your whole argument makes no sense. How about this one:
DOS 5 is an operating system.
Linux is an operating system.
DOS 5 doesn't support SMP Alpha machines.
Thus Linux doesn't either.
Just because IIS 6 and Tux are both kernel-space web servers, does not mean they share anything else in common. Current IIS is really insecure, and I don't see how moving that into the kernel will help out a whole lot. OTOH, it's at least possible that Tux is secure. It's too soon to tell, as it has basically no history (unlike Microsoft in general and IIS in particular)
Just now I'm anguishing over the choice of which laptop computer to buy, much to the puzzlement of my W2K-using co-workers.
I've gotta say it: get an Powerbook or one of the new iBooks. I mean OS X is kinda pretty and it's Unix and obviously you know the hardware will work OK with it. And the machines themselves are really nice.
Maybe it's not your thing, but I know that if I had the cash and the inclination to get a laptop it would be an Apple on for sure (note that I'm not an Apple zealot either - my two machines are a Pentium II and a SparcStation5)
make sure those who do stay are competent enough to do the work on their own.
OTOH some universities have at least some group projects. I've had several classes where small groups had to produce the final project, and there is a class here (JHU), where the entire class works on a single project the entire semester. Incidentally, the result of that project was released under the GPL.
Working as a team is a fairly important skill, after all.
I don't see how GPL'ing any of that stuff would benefit anybody.
It might not. But that won't hurt anybody, will it? And maybe sometime it will benefit someone.
Everything I know about Eastern culture, I learned from Anime. :)
I'm actually starting to pick up a few basic Japanese phrases from my subtitled anime (Cardcaptor Sakura is especially good for that because the dialog is usually relatively simple - and anyway I like to watch it a lot).
In just a few years, I'll probably be able to talk just like a 14 year old Japanese girl.
I run a rock-solid server on UltraSPARC hardware for student projects (which often do odd and nasty things).
Are you running a stock kernel? If so, please tell me which version. I'm trying to get 2.4 on my SPARCs and it is just not happening (mm/memory.c pukes, badly, and I think some of the drivers are being mis-compiled). If not, please tell me where I can get a 2.4 kernel that will actually work.
Oh, and by the way... 1996 is not an "internet oldster" by ANY stretch of the imagination.
:)
I agree totally. I was on in 93, and I'm certainly not. I'd say you'd have to be on
Since they are same size, I wish Mozilla to be as stable as kernel, and not vice versa.
Sadly, it's only stable on x86, pretty much. Hell, 2.4.x doesn't even compile on SPARC. I imagine that at least I could run Mozilla on my SS5, but use the latest kernel, nope...
So if it's sitting around doing nothing and i am interested in one..... ;-)
:)
Yeah, right dude. If they ever just toss that thing out, I'm getting dibs.
1) How long will it take to see I/O bandwidth improve to where it can handle real time streaming of such huge pictures from storage.
Quite a while - a gig per second is way more than even 66 Mhz 64-bit PCI can handle (I belive that will only go up to ~600 (?) Mb/s). Also, there really isn't much need for it. I mean this monitor is nice and all, but with a 20K pricetag and no real applications for it (for the average user, anyway - maybe this would be useful in some 3d modeling scenarios, perhaps), I doubt we'll be seeing technolgy to support this kind of thing in even high end workstations for at least a few years. Both Intel and AMD are working on new buses to replace PCI so maybe that problem (the bus) will go away fairly soon. Actually getting a gig per second off a disk - that could take a while.
2) Is there any hardware out there right now that can handle such high I/O bandwidths?
Surely. But once you're looking for that, you're talking about big machines with a lot of hardware RAID. I'd bet a E10K or S/390 could handle that kind of I/O. If you meant something you could actually afford - probably not. ^_^
but I am running Windows 2000 and am not to sure of support for it / video cards? Anyone able to shed some light on how good / incompatible this sexy monitor is?
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For a while we had one in the lab where I work running off a P-III / G400 running Linux. So I suspect pretty much any PC will work fine. But the machine is now a server so we've got this really nice monitor just sitting around doing nothing.
But yes, those things are very pretty (and very expensive, last I looked).