Dude, WTF are you talking about "not as stable"? I've got a K6/233 here that was running with a broken CPU fan for a year, and was overheating all the time. But now with a proper fan, it is running 100% stable for months on end, and was undamaged by a year of overheating!
Actually, the 52X and 72X CD-ROMs were a special deal made by Kenwood, I've got their 72X one sitting right here. And it was labelled True-X, meaning it actually gets that speed. The trick it used was splitting the laser beam into seven parts, to read different parts of the track? disc? simultaneously. I clocked this thing once by reading the entire contents of a 650MB CD to/dev/null, it AVERAGED 9 MB/s across the entire surface!
The plan was to finish the 21364 because their engineers were already pretty far along, and because it would take a while to move over to Itanic anyway. The design of the EV8 was cancelled, unfortunately:-(
I have perfect pitch and I can whistle. I think the SIT tones refers to the three consecutive tones, is that right? If that's all it needs then I can just make these sounds myself...:-)
I did something similar to this back in February, starting with Slackware, but it should be easy enough to use another distro. Basically, you use tmpfs for/etc,/var,/tmp, or whatever you want to be writable, and fill in the contents at boot time from static copies of those locations. Then you can just run the thing as usual.
You'll need some custom init scripts that don't require/etc to start up, basically all you need to do is mount/etc/var/tmp, cp files in, and then start up normal system init, or whatever.
This isn't very detailed, but it should get the point across on how to go about implementing.
Please contact me at your earliest convenience at jeffrey AT firehead DOT org. I run the site listed in my.sig and am used to dealing with all sorts of legal BS. I would very much like to see this code out there, and could definitely help with a proper release of it.
It is official; NASA confirms: the Universe is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered scientific community when Berkeley confirmed that Universe inhabitability has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all stars. Coming on the heels of a recent NASA survey which plainly states that the Universe has lost more inhabitability, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The Universe is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in the recent Living Times comprehensive livability test.
You don't need to be an Einstein to predict the Universe's future. The hand writing is on the wall: the Universe faces a dark future. In fact there won't be any future at all for the Universe because the Universe is dying. Things are looking very bad for the Universe. As many of us are already aware, the Universe continues to lose brilliance. Red dwarfs are flowing like a river of blood. The Milky Way is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core supergiants.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Andromeda Galaxy leader Neo states that there are 7000 stars left in the Andromeda Galaxy. How many livable planets in the Crab Nebula are there? Let's see. The number of Andromeda Galaxy versus Crab Nebula readings on SETI@HOME is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Crab Nebula inhabitable planets. Horseshoe Nebula readings on SETI@HOME are about half of the volume of Crab Nebula readings. Therefore there are about 700 inhabitable planets in the Horseshoe Nebula. A recent article put the Milky Way at about 80 percent of the Universe market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 inhabitable planets in the Milky Way. This is consistent with the number of Milky Way SETI@HOME readings.
Due to the troubles of Grand Overlord Bush, abysmal immigration and so on, the Milky Way went out of business and was taken over by Virgo who sell another troubled galaxy. Now Virgo is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that the Universe has steadily declined in inhabitability. The Universe is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If the Universe is to survive at all it will be among interplanetary dilettante dabblers. The Universe continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the Universe is dead.
I saw Netscape 1.2, I think it was, in a lab at a summer camp in Louisiana in 1995. I didn't really realize that it was the Internet that I had seen until at least a year later.
Too many context switches makes your system go dog slow. While the transfer rate is extremely high, the latency of talking to a piece of storage that is perhaps several feet away, at the speed of light, is too high.
I must reply in a slashcomment because there is no other contact information given for this guy here.
> I was offering download of a banned book on a
> website hosted on my server here in NZ. The ISP
> pulled the plug in obedience to a US court
> order, and in so doing, 'acknowledged' US
> jurisdiction on New Zealand soil.
I might be willing to host this; definitely at least check it out. I run the censored archive at http://censored.firehead.org:1984/. Contact me if you wish at jeffrey at diddl dot firehead dot org.
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Actually, most pr0n is region 0 so it will play anywhere. Pr0n publishers aren't stupid enough to artificially limit their market!
Get a computer DVD drive made before Jan 1, 2000. You'll have to get it used, of course, but I got mine from a Dell Optiplex PII-450. The key thing here is that it must be RPC-1.
Then, install Linux on the computer with the drive, and use XINE or XMPS or any other fine DVD playing software, none of which care about region codes. Just plug and play! You can even get a video card with TV out and watch it on your normal movie viewing device.
Perhaps you should go read the manual for an Alpha CPU. It has had almost all of these improvements for a decade now. And modern Alpha CPUs are kicking the Itanium's ass in performance. These might be new ideas to you, but they aren't exactly new to the industry...
I guess I just find it really annoying when M$/Intel/Whatever come out with some "innovation" that is not.
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Some of the major mirror sites, including my own, have had copies of the SDMI crack papers ever since they came out. It's a paper, and not code which usefully breaks some algorithm used widespread publically, which is why it hasn't gotten more widespread distribution.
Slashdot Mirror
Dude, WTF are you talking about "not as stable"? I've got a K6/233 here that was running with a broken CPU fan for a year, and was overheating all the time. But now with a proper fan, it is running 100% stable for months on end, and was undamaged by a year of overheating!
my mirror's right here
An IA64 chip is most definitely not purer. An Alpha is much purer. Too bad, too bad...
Thanks so much, I had been totally unable to find the URL. This will be going into the archive ASAP. Check my sig for the link.
Actually, the 52X and 72X CD-ROMs were a special deal made by Kenwood, I've got their 72X one sitting right here. And it was labelled True-X, meaning it actually gets that speed. The trick it used was splitting the laser beam into seven parts, to read different parts of the track? disc? simultaneously. I clocked this thing once by reading the entire contents of a 650MB CD to /dev/null, it AVERAGED 9 MB/s across the entire surface!
The plan was to finish the 21364 because their engineers were already pretty far along, and because it would take a while to move over to Itanic anyway. The design of the EV8 was cancelled, unfortunately :-(
THE ALPHA IS DEAD! LONG LIVE THE ALPHA!
Hey,
:-)
I have perfect pitch and I can whistle. I think the SIT tones refers to the three consecutive tones, is that right? If that's all it needs then I can just make these sounds myself...
I did something similar to this back in February, starting with Slackware, but it should be easy enough to use another distro. Basically, you use tmpfs for /etc, /var, /tmp, or whatever you want to be writable, and fill in the contents at boot time from static copies of those locations. Then you can just run the thing as usual.
/etc to start up, basically all you need to do is mount /etc /var /tmp, cp files in, and then start up normal system init, or whatever.
You'll need some custom init scripts that don't require
This isn't very detailed, but it should get the point across on how to go about implementing.
Please contact me at your earliest convenience at jeffrey AT firehead DOT org. I run the site listed in my .sig and am used to dealing with all sorts of legal BS. I would very much like to see this code out there, and could definitely help with a proper release of it.
Put me down for 24-48 hours before.
It is official; NASA confirms: the Universe is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered scientific community when Berkeley confirmed that Universe inhabitability has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all stars. Coming on the heels of a recent NASA survey which plainly states that the Universe has lost more inhabitability, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The Universe is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in the recent Living Times comprehensive livability test.
You don't need to be an Einstein to predict the Universe's future. The hand writing is on the wall: the Universe faces a dark future. In fact there won't be any future at all for the Universe because the Universe is dying. Things are looking very bad for the Universe. As many of us are already aware, the Universe continues to lose brilliance. Red dwarfs are flowing like a river of blood. The Milky Way is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core supergiants.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Andromeda Galaxy leader Neo states that there are 7000 stars left in the Andromeda Galaxy. How many livable planets in the Crab Nebula are there? Let's see. The number of Andromeda Galaxy versus Crab Nebula readings on SETI@HOME is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Crab Nebula inhabitable planets. Horseshoe Nebula readings on SETI@HOME are about half of the volume of Crab Nebula readings. Therefore there are about 700 inhabitable planets in the Horseshoe Nebula. A recent article put the Milky Way at about 80 percent of the Universe market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 inhabitable planets in the Milky Way. This is consistent with the number of Milky Way SETI@HOME readings.
Due to the troubles of Grand Overlord Bush, abysmal immigration and so on, the Milky Way went out of business and was taken over by Virgo who sell another troubled galaxy. Now Virgo is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that the Universe has steadily declined in inhabitability. The Universe is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If the Universe is to survive at all it will be among interplanetary dilettante dabblers. The Universe continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the Universe is dead.
Fact: the Universe is dying
I think we have a candidate for Most Original Troll 2002 here.
That's OOG_THE_CAVEMAN to you.
Here's some more text so it doesn't appear to be all caps. I'm not yelling, damnit.
Yes. Yes I do remember that.
I saw Netscape 1.2, I think it was, in a lab at a summer camp in Louisiana in 1995. I didn't really realize that it was the Internet that I had seen until at least a year later.
Funny how these things go.
IBM could take over Java in some sense without having to buy Sun. They already produce a superior JVM for Linux, probably the best out there...
Problem is, Sun still tries to tightly control the specs. And I seriously doubt that JBM would buy out Sun in the next five years.
Your corrections only make my argument stronger. I was going for the theoretical best case, and saying that it wouldn't work even then.
Too many context switches makes your system go dog slow. While the transfer rate is extremely high, the latency of talking to a piece of storage that is perhaps several feet away, at the speed of light, is too high.
http://censored.firehead.org:1984/bnetd/
Lots of tarballs and a CVS pull.
http://censored.firehead.org:1984/bnetd/
I expect to get the CVS version of the project up there soon as well.
I must reply in a slashcomment because there is no other contact information given for this guy here.
> I was offering download of a banned book on a
> website hosted on my server here in NZ. The ISP
> pulled the plug in obedience to a US court
> order, and in so doing, 'acknowledged' US
> jurisdiction on New Zealand soil.
I might be willing to host this; definitely at least check it out. I run the censored archive at http://censored.firehead.org:1984/. Contact me if you wish at jeffrey at diddl dot firehead dot org.
Actually, most pr0n is region 0 so it will play anywhere. Pr0n publishers aren't stupid enough to artificially limit their market!
Get a computer DVD drive made before Jan 1, 2000. You'll have to get it used, of course, but I got mine from a Dell Optiplex PII-450. The key thing here is that it must be RPC-1.
Then, install Linux on the computer with the drive, and use XINE or XMPS or any other fine DVD playing software, none of which care about region codes. Just plug and play! You can even get a video card with TV out and watch it on your normal movie viewing device.
democracy? who said anything about democracy? this country has never been one and will never be one.
it is a republic.
Perhaps you should go read the manual for an Alpha CPU. It has had almost all of these improvements for a decade now. And modern Alpha CPUs are kicking the Itanium's ass in performance. These might be new ideas to you, but they aren't exactly new to the industry...
I guess I just find it really annoying when M$/Intel/Whatever come out with some "innovation" that is not.
Some of the major mirror sites, including my own, have had copies of the SDMI crack papers ever since they came out. It's a paper, and not code which usefully breaks some algorithm used widespread publically, which is why it hasn't gotten more widespread distribution.
You can see both the original hacksdmi.org web site with download files, and two papers describing how to remove the copy protection, at http://censored.firehead.org:1984/hacksdmi.org/