A lot of DSL Routers/Modems have this functionality built into them. I just finished a consulting job where I set up a network for a small business. I got them a DSL Line, and the router that the provider gave us does DHCP, NAT and portmapping. This way they get their high speed access, but no one can come into the network since no portmapping is being done. Cheap simple security for a small company, and you can always set up portmapping if you want to add a Web Server, etc. Unfortunately to get a router like this you have to buy business class DSL which is considerably more expensive than home class. It's still pretty cheap on the grand scale of things, they pay about $300/mo for 1.1Mbit both ways. -
Because regardless of the drivers, Windows (and most *nix's if I'm not mistaken) draw the widgets, icons and fonts at a certain pixel size. I know in Windows you can turn on large icons and increase the screen font size which would help. I've never done it, but I'm sure the same can be done in Linux. The place where real problems would arise would be things like button bars in programs that are hard coded to be a certain size. Also pictures would appear tiny in web browsers, etc. -
While this strategy has worked for M$ in the past, I truly doubt they would ever embrace Linux. They have way too much invested in the NT family of OSes. Even if they did make a distribution and purposefully create incompatibilities with other distributions they would end up looking more like fools than anything else. The only code they could kludge up would be their own since the peer review process would keep any of their nasty tricks out of any OSS projects. Although they could use name recognition to steal market share from RedHat et al, that would require M$ admitting that Linux is a worthwhile OS. They don't want to do that. Also since they used Linux as an example of a competing OS at the trial, they would be putting themselves into dangerous waters by trying to control another market segment. All these points aside I think that M$ would never jump into the Linux game because the revenue structure of proprietary software is much nicer than that of open software. Lets face it, it is very difficult to be a profitable OSS developer because the focus is on support & training rather than sales. While on the other hand M$ makes sick amounts of money because they get sales, training and support money. -
I wouldn't worry as much about someone turning off someone's fridge. I would worry about someone cracking the database on the company's web server and changing all the cooking times around. Making the microwave think that popcorn needs to be on high for 50 minutes rather than 5. -
Yes! This is great! We are one step closer to genetically engineering a race of super-monkeys to serve us. No longer will the disabled be the only ones to get cute little monkeys to do all their daily chores for them. Just think, monkeys smart enough to serve us in ways they are incapable of now, but not smart enough to rise up against us. I can't wait until the day when I come home from work and there are monkeys mowing the lawn, cooking dinner, etc. God bless the US of A! -
XFS is being ported and given away by SGI, not Sun. I was at the Linux University thing in DC a couple of weeks ago and heard Kent Koeninger from SGI give a talk about XFS and CXFS. The main reason that XFS is taking so long is that SGI is creating a separate version of XFS to be GPL'ed, while keeping a proprietary version for IRIX. SGI, unlike Sun, is gaining major points with the Open Source community because they are GPL'ing everything they release. -
>However I think that we are getting pretty damn >close to the maximum detail level thats needed >in games.
Remember when Bill Gates said, "640K is plenty"? That is the wrong way to think, my friend. Games will never have too much detail until they are indistinguishable from real life.
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A lot of DSL Routers/Modems have this functionality built into them. I just finished a consulting job where I set up a network for a small business. I got them a DSL Line, and the router that the provider gave us does DHCP, NAT and portmapping. This way they get their high speed access, but no one can come into the network since no portmapping is being done. Cheap simple security for a small company, and you can always set up portmapping if you want to add a Web Server, etc. Unfortunately to get a router like this you have to buy business class DSL which is considerably more expensive than home class. It's still pretty cheap on the grand scale of things, they pay about $300/mo for 1.1Mbit both ways.
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Because regardless of the drivers, Windows (and most *nix's if I'm not mistaken) draw the widgets, icons and fonts at a certain pixel size. I know in Windows you can turn on large icons and increase the screen font size which would help. I've never done it, but I'm sure the same can be done in Linux. The place where real problems would arise would be things like button bars in programs that are hard coded to be a certain size. Also pictures would appear tiny in web browsers, etc.
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While this strategy has worked for M$ in the past, I truly doubt they would ever embrace Linux. They have way too much invested in the NT family of OSes. Even if they did make a distribution and purposefully create incompatibilities with other distributions they would end up looking more like fools than anything else. The only code they could kludge up would be their own since the peer review process would keep any of their nasty tricks out of any OSS projects. Although they could use name recognition to steal market share from RedHat et al, that would require M$ admitting that Linux is a worthwhile OS. They don't want to do that. Also since they used Linux as an example of a competing OS at the trial, they would be putting themselves into dangerous waters by trying to control another market segment.
All these points aside I think that M$ would never jump into the Linux game because the revenue structure of proprietary software is much nicer than that of open software. Lets face it, it is very difficult to be a profitable OSS developer because the focus is on support & training rather than sales. While on the other hand M$ makes sick amounts of money because they get sales, training and support money.
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I wouldn't worry as much about someone turning off someone's fridge. I would worry about someone cracking the database on the company's web server and changing all the cooking times around. Making the microwave think that popcorn needs to be on high for 50 minutes rather than 5.
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Yes! This is great! We are one step closer to genetically engineering a race of super-monkeys to serve us. No longer will the disabled be the only ones to get cute little monkeys to do all their daily chores for them. Just think, monkeys smart enough to serve us in ways they are incapable of now, but not smart enough to rise up against us. I can't wait until the day when I come home from work and there are monkeys mowing the lawn, cooking dinner, etc. God bless the US of A!
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Since when was space not privatized? There is nothing to stop a corporation from going to Mars.
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Here are the definitions directly from Webster:
Serial: relating to or being a connection in a computer system in which the bits of a byte are transmitted sequentially over a single wire
Bus: a set of parallel conductors in a computer system that forms a main transmission path
Does anyone else have problems with this? Every time I think about a serial bus I think my brain is going to implode.
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XFS is being ported and given away by SGI, not Sun. I was at the Linux University thing in DC a couple of weeks ago and heard Kent Koeninger from SGI give a talk about XFS and CXFS. The main reason that XFS is taking so long is that SGI is creating a separate version of XFS to be GPL'ed, while keeping a proprietary version for IRIX. SGI, unlike Sun, is gaining major points with the Open Source community because they are GPL'ing everything they release.
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>However I think that we are getting pretty damn
>close to the maximum detail level thats needed
>in games.
Remember when Bill Gates said, "640K is plenty"? That is the wrong way to think, my friend. Games will never have too much detail until they are indistinguishable from real life.
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Doesn't a plain old TNT based board fit these requirements? About $70 for 16MB AGP from Creative on Pricewatch. -
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Surfing!
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