Nah, not a doorstop - more of a boat anchor. The older Vaxen had a lot of metal in them!
No shit! We have one in our lab that we call doorstop. However, we stopped using it as such after we realized that someday sombody was going to try to kick it out of the way in order to close the door and break their foot. That thing is _heavy_. I'd put NetBSD or Linux on it and use it for something cool, but it doesn't work (hence the name).
one that relies off the position of the atoms used as they fly through refractors that "trap" the states, and a system that relies on public-key ideas to keep that atom key a secret.
Problem is that, AFAIK, these schemes require special lines between you and whatever you want to connect to (otherwise you have no way of keeping the quanta you send in the right states). Perfect for, say, communication between a satellite and a ground station (presuming you can figure out how to get the quanta there without getting messed up by solar radiation or whatever), or between CIA and NSA headquarters, or whatever, but it will not be useful, say, over an CAT5 lines.
And even if someone figures out how to send the data through normal lines without messing it up (which doesn't seem too likely, but anyway...), you'd need special hardware to examine the quanta as they come in and decode them. That isn't going to make it too popular: hell, virtually nobody buys those Ethernet cards with 3DES built in, and those can interoperate with software versions easily.
They cite quantum money as a potential example (an idea developed in the 1970s)
Personally, I'd be happy with Chaum's anonymous digital cash. Now if only the stuff wasn't patented.:(
In complex sentences can the second verb last only go.
Oh, right, forgot about that. However, in a complex sentence you can get several at the end (plus modifiers and such-like), plus the one at the beginning (which, if it is a modal, like mogen, doesn't actually tell you what the subject is doing, just that they like doing whatever it is). So I don't see it as really helping the situation too much. <g>
Latin typically puts the verb at the end of the sentence too.
As does German. In fact, usually _all_ the verbs go at the end. Which can be quite painful in a compliacated sentence (at least for this very bad German student).
Since AMD and Intel are each making their own instruction set for 64bit, does that mean that software will have to be written for both?? Or is there going to be some compatability layer that allows AMD chips to run Intel code and vice versa??
I doubt it. Both will support IA32 code, so there is significant overlap. But if you want to run IA64 code on a Sledgehammer, or vice versa, you'll need emulation of some sort (probably in software, which if the Sledehammer is as fast as I'm betting it is, will not be a problem).
Which makes sense. If it is true, and they deny it, it makes them look like liars (no, wait, they are liars). That doesn't make for goot press. And if it's false, and they say it is, then when someone asks them about a rumor that's true, they have to either a) tell the truth, b) "no comment", or c) lie. But if they choose 'b' people will know anyway (since they deny rumors which are actually false).
Refusing to comment on any and all rumors, especially of such a nature, is just good common sense on their part.
Seems like IBM has all the low-to-mid range servers they need with Linux and AIX, and all the high-end stuff they want from what was formerly Sequent (NUMA-Q... yum). Really, I haven't seen a Novell network in years, and the ones I did see were quite small (150 machines tops). Is Novell really the right choice for something like that?
Of course, it is just a rumor, so maybe IBM isn't being as silly as I think they're being.:P
I can''t speak for your school, but at mine we do not own the work. The school does (PhD) thesis. I am in the process of writing as we speak (should not be reading this) and have to sighn the copyright assighnment sheet to turn the thesis into the library. It is similar to when we publish papers in refereed journals, we also lose that copyright.
I've found it's the same at my school, and I'm just an undergrad: any work we do as part of class is, according to the campus officials, owned by the school. Which confuses the hell out of me since I know I sure as hell didn't sign any kind of copyright transfer form. Of course, the onus is on them to prove that I did work X as related to my school-work. And it's not like they can check up on every single project we do to make sure we're not violating 'their' copyright. So, in my case, keeping quiet works nicely. Harder when it's a published work, however.
BTW, do you know if these rules also apply to full professors at universities? (ie, the school owns their work, not them?)
CO2 is, in fact, fatally toxic to humans at concentrations of only a few percent (by volume) in air! I think 5% makes you faint, 10% kills you (approx.)
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of CO, which is pretty toxic (it binds to red blood cells better than O2, so even if there is oxygen in the room, you axphysiate quite quickly). CO2, IIRC, is quite inert.
Pine/mutt is a great way to do mail, don't get me wrong -- but attachments bite the big one because they mean that I need to:
a) use fetchmail and keep all my mail on the local client (again, big PITA when modeming)
That's interesting: I started using fetchmail after I had to switch from a reasonably fast LAN to a 56K modem. I found the latency was way too high to read mail in a reasonable fashion (typing mail was horrible), so I started using fetchmail to retrieve all my mail. It took a while, but at least I could do something else in the mean-time and then read it without the pain of waiting 10 seconds for each button click to take effect.
Theres no ISDN where I live and DSL is US$150,00/mo (not guaranteed to work above 64k!). No cable either (half a mile away). I can't afford a direct connection for home use.
Youch. Back home in Nowheresville, OR, no ISDN or DSL or Cable either (and the local telco, with a monopoly on ISP services (unless you want to dial long-distance), charges $40/month for 300 minutes of a 33.6 line!). However, in Baltimore (hardly the most tech-friendly of cities, mind you), you can get a 1.5 Mbit DSL line with 8 IPs for $110. Moral of the story: you want bandwidth, live in the middle of a large city. Otherwise, forget it.:(
I could fit the things I know about Real Programming into a small thimble, but I'm thinking reference counting in this case isn't for memory management in the same way it is in language-specific OOP, but for tracking the use of distributed components.
Instead of memory management, think resource management. First, the memory for an object has to be allocated somewhere, and the object itself might allocate some heap, or open files or sockets, etc, etc. Those things need to be cleaned up at some point, but you don't want to do it until the app is done with the object. But with refernce counting (so the argument goes) that's hard to do. If you can't tell if an object is not is use, you can't kill it/call it's destructor/free it/whatever the hell you call it.
I am a programmer (at least that's what they pay me for <g>), but I don't know anything about CORBA/COM/etc, so take my comment with a grain of salt the size of a brick.:)
Think about it - to install, you're running this file as ROOT - would you run a binary from an unknown source as root? (I don't even untar source as root!) - this is inherently a bad idea.
This seems kind of weird. After all, you're _installing_ binaries. Not to mention the fact that RPM (or configure/make) involve running binaries that you got from some unknown source (RPM runs shell scripts in the package both before and after the package is installed). In most cases, losing your user account from a rm -rf ~ in a makefile is almost as bad as losing the entire system (the exception being a machine run by several users, of course).
Basically, I think the issue is one cramming too much stuff in the distro
That wouldn't make sense either: SuSE and Debian are both huge (though I agree that RH ships with way too much stuff, way too much of which is installed by default).
I think it's a warning sign when a system goes from version 2.x to 7.x in a year. It means that marketing is in control and that's never a goodness.
What are you refering to? Solaris is the only thing I can think of, and that doesn't really make sense either.
The government was completely negligent not to be listening to every phone in Oklahoma that month, right?
I'm sure the FBI would love to do that too. Remember a few years ago, they tried to make the phone companies make it possible to tap 1 million (or was it 10?) simultainous phone conversations, though there are only a few hundred court-authorized phone taps in the US each year?
Stuff like this kind of freaks me out. I remember watching a show on PBS a few years ago, they showed the rooms where people would listen to random phone conversations in East Germany, just on the chance they'd hear something 'dangerous'. I really don't want the US to be like that.
OK, we all know the best game of all time was Robotron 2084. (heh).
Wrong! Shadowrun on SNES.:P
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The internal structure of a P3 / Athlon has a large section dedicated to this very task. But what if we could throw all that away, and make a chip that simply crunches numbers as good as current technology allows? We have the making of a darn fast chip.
All the specification says is, "if you download a song to a PC it should be protected; if you transfer it to a portable device, the wire along which it travels should be protected and the portable device itself should keep it protected."
Oh, gee, what realistic requirements! Sadly, it will be hard to transfer data to your PC when it's secure (ie, turned off inside a safe at the bottom of the ocean). They're actually expecting end-to-end hardware protection! This would required rebuilding everything inside the machine (if it's possible at all, which I doubt). Not to mention the fact they you still have to trust whoever you got it from (ie, trust that nobody tampered with it over the wire). OK, let's rebuild the internet too! But we'll stop those pirates! (haha, yeah right).
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Nah, not a doorstop - more of a boat anchor. The older Vaxen had a lot of metal in them!
No shit! We have one in our lab that we call doorstop. However, we stopped using it as such after we realized that someday sombody was going to try to kick it out of the way in order to close the door and break their foot. That thing is _heavy_. I'd put NetBSD or Linux on it and use it for something cool, but it doesn't work (hence the name).
If the selling of votes isn't already illegal, it should be. It could cause so much corruption, and it goes against everything we hold democratic.
Some advice: don't read any newspaper articles about campaign finances or lobbyists. It's just upset you.
one that relies off the position of the atoms used as they fly through refractors that "trap" the states, and a system that relies on public-key ideas to keep that atom key a secret.
:(
Problem is that, AFAIK, these schemes require special lines between you and whatever you want to connect to (otherwise you have no way of keeping the quanta you send in the right states). Perfect for, say, communication between a satellite and a ground station (presuming you can figure out how to get the quanta there without getting messed up by solar radiation or whatever), or between CIA and NSA headquarters, or whatever, but it will not be useful, say, over an CAT5 lines.
And even if someone figures out how to send the data through normal lines without messing it up (which doesn't seem too likely, but anyway...), you'd need special hardware to examine the quanta as they come in and decode them. That isn't going to make it too popular: hell, virtually nobody buys those Ethernet cards with 3DES built in, and those can interoperate with software versions easily.
They cite quantum money as a potential example (an idea developed in the 1970s)
Personally, I'd be happy with Chaum's anonymous digital cash. Now if only the stuff wasn't patented.
In complex sentences can the second verb last only go.
Oh, right, forgot about that. However, in a complex sentence you can get several at the end (plus modifiers and such-like), plus the one at the beginning (which, if it is a modal, like mogen, doesn't actually tell you what the subject is doing, just that they like doing whatever it is). So I don't see it as really helping the situation too much. <g>
Latin typically puts the verb at the end of the sentence too.
As does German. In fact, usually _all_ the verbs go at the end. Which can be quite painful in a compliacated sentence (at least for this very bad German student).
Since AMD and Intel are each making their own instruction set for 64bit, does that mean that software will have to be written for both?? Or is there going to be some compatability layer that allows AMD chips to run Intel code and vice versa??
I doubt it. Both will support IA32 code, so there is significant overlap. But if you want to run IA64 code on a Sledgehammer, or vice versa, you'll need emulation of some sort (probably in software, which if the Sledehammer is as fast as I'm betting it is, will not be a problem).
Now somebody is going to get rich off of my idea... it's really painful being this dumb.
Already been done: http://www.processtree.com/
Still in experimental phase, but it exists.
Of course, they didn't deny it, either.
Which makes sense. If it is true, and they deny it, it makes them look like liars (no, wait, they are liars). That doesn't make for goot press. And if it's false, and they say it is, then when someone asks them about a rumor that's true, they have to either a) tell the truth, b) "no comment", or c) lie. But if they choose 'b' people will know anyway (since they deny rumors which are actually false).
Refusing to comment on any and all rumors, especially of such a nature, is just good common sense on their part.
Seems like IBM has all the low-to-mid range servers they need with Linux and AIX, and all the high-end stuff they want from what was formerly Sequent (NUMA-Q... yum). Really, I haven't seen a Novell network in years, and the ones I did see were quite small (150 machines tops). Is Novell really the right choice for something like that?
:P
Of course, it is just a rumor, so maybe IBM isn't being as silly as I think they're being.
3Dfx doesn't even fully support OpenGL
That's ok, we've got Mesa.
I can''t speak for your school, but at mine we do not own the work. The school does (PhD) thesis. I am in the process of writing as we speak (should not be reading this) and have to sighn the copyright assighnment sheet to turn the thesis into the library. It is similar to when we publish papers in refereed journals, we also lose that copyright.
I've found it's the same at my school, and I'm just an undergrad: any work we do as part of class is, according to the campus officials, owned by the school. Which confuses the hell out of me since I know I sure as hell didn't sign any kind of copyright transfer form. Of course, the onus is on them to prove that I did work X as related to my school-work. And it's not like they can check up on every single project we do to make sure we're not violating 'their' copyright. So, in my case, keeping quiet works nicely. Harder when it's a published work, however.
BTW, do you know if these rules also apply to full professors at universities? (ie, the school owns their work, not them?)
CO2 is, in fact, fatally toxic to humans at concentrations of only a few percent (by volume) in air! I think 5% makes you faint, 10% kills you (approx.)
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of CO, which is pretty toxic (it binds to red blood cells better than O2, so even if there is oxygen in the room, you axphysiate quite quickly). CO2, IIRC, is quite inert.
Pine/mutt is a great way to do mail, don't get me wrong -- but attachments bite the big one because they mean that I need to:
:)
a) use fetchmail and keep all my mail on the local client (again, big PITA when modeming)
That's interesting: I started using fetchmail after I had to switch from a reasonably fast LAN to a 56K modem. I found the latency was way too high to read mail in a reasonable fashion (typing mail was horrible), so I started using fetchmail to retrieve all my mail. It took a while, but at least I could do something else in the mean-time and then read it without the pain of waiting 10 seconds for each button click to take effect.
Well, to each his own.
Theres no ISDN where I live and DSL is US$150,00/mo (not guaranteed to work above 64k!). No cable either (half a mile away). I can't afford a direct connection for home use.
:(
Youch. Back home in Nowheresville, OR, no ISDN or DSL or Cable either (and the local telco, with a monopoly on ISP services (unless you want to dial long-distance), charges $40/month for 300 minutes of a 33.6 line!). However, in Baltimore (hardly the most tech-friendly of cities, mind you), you can get a 1.5 Mbit DSL line with 8 IPs for $110. Moral of the story: you want bandwidth, live in the middle of a large city. Otherwise, forget it.
I'm sorry but if they hand it to Harvard or Yale, our communal goose is cooked.
:(
Be cool if they sent it here (don't worry, we'd do a good job). Though since I don't work in the security lab I doubt I would ever get to see it.
I could fit the things I know about Real Programming into a small thimble, but I'm thinking reference counting in this case isn't for memory management in the same way it is in language-specific OOP, but for tracking the use of distributed components.
:)
Instead of memory management, think resource management. First, the memory for an object has to be allocated somewhere, and the object itself might allocate some heap, or open files or sockets, etc, etc. Those things need to be cleaned up at some point, but you don't want to do it until the app is done with the object. But with refernce counting (so the argument goes) that's hard to do. If you can't tell if an object is not is use, you can't kill it/call it's destructor/free it/whatever the hell you call it.
I am a programmer (at least that's what they pay me for <g>), but I don't know anything about CORBA/COM/etc, so take my comment with a grain of salt the size of a brick.
Think about it - to install, you're running this file as ROOT - would you run a binary from an unknown source as root? (I don't even untar source as root!) - this is inherently a bad idea.
This seems kind of weird. After all, you're _installing_ binaries. Not to mention the fact that RPM (or configure/make) involve running binaries that you got from some unknown source (RPM runs shell scripts in the package both before and after the package is installed). In most cases, losing your user account from a rm -rf ~ in a makefile is almost as bad as losing the entire system (the exception being a machine run by several users, of course).
"Worst episode (OS) ever."
:P
The pic on the article kind of looks like the comic store owner, too.
Basically, I think the issue is one cramming too much stuff in the distro
That wouldn't make sense either: SuSE and Debian are both huge (though I agree that RH ships with way too much stuff, way too much of which is installed by default).
I think it's a warning sign when a system goes from version 2.x to 7.x in a year. It means that marketing is in control and that's never a goodness.
What are you refering to? Solaris is the only thing I can think of, and that doesn't really make sense either.
and even today, anyone with direct access to your hardware should have no problem getting to whatever they want.
True, which is why you keep anything important in rooms with concrete walls and thick metal doors with good locks.
I've never seen a post about DOS on Bugtraq. So, but this logic, DOS is the best OS ever. :P
The government was completely negligent not to be listening to every phone in Oklahoma that month, right?
I'm sure the FBI would love to do that too. Remember a few years ago, they tried to make the phone companies make it possible to tap 1 million (or was it 10?) simultainous phone conversations, though there are only a few hundred court-authorized phone taps in the US each year?
Stuff like this kind of freaks me out. I remember watching a show on PBS a few years ago, they showed the rooms where people would listen to random phone conversations in East Germany, just on the chance they'd hear something 'dangerous'. I really don't want the US to be like that.
OK, we all know the best game of all time was Robotron 2084. (heh).
:P
Wrong! Shadowrun on SNES.
The internal structure of a P3 / Athlon has a large section dedicated to this very task. But what if we could throw all that away, and make a chip that simply crunches numbers as good as current technology allows? We have the making of a darn fast chip.
That already exists. They call it an 'Alpha'.
All the specification says is, "if you download a song to a PC it should be protected; if you transfer it to a portable device, the wire along which it travels should be protected and the portable device itself should keep it protected."
Oh, gee, what realistic requirements! Sadly, it will be hard to transfer data to your PC when it's secure (ie, turned off inside a safe at the bottom of the ocean). They're actually expecting end-to-end hardware protection! This would required rebuilding everything inside the machine (if it's possible at all, which I doubt). Not to mention the fact they you still have to trust whoever you got it from (ie, trust that nobody tampered with it over the wire). OK, let's rebuild the internet too! But we'll stop those pirates! (haha, yeah right).