BSM auditing is implemented in the Mac OS X 10.3.4 kernel (Darwin 7.4). OpenDarwin 7.2.1 is based on an older version of Mac OS X, and does not have this support
This has made the system popular at places like MIT and NASA, both of which have large menageries of computer systems from a multitude of vendors.
The author provides very little evidence of how much more widely used BSD is (or is thought to be), and the one claim he makes is probably false.
A previous poster wrote that linux is more prevalent at NASA, as is it here at MIT (I'm a student). All personal computers not running windows or MacOS are most certainly running linux (a slightly modified red hat distro to interface with our network environment). all the public machines are solaris sparcstations or SGI machines (running IRIX), with perhaps a handful of linux machines. all of the industrial servers i believe to be sparcs, but i'm not certain. the author of the article appears to be confusing GNU being founded at MIT with MIT embracing all technologies coming out of it. considering he's a boston columnist, it shouldn't have been too hard to find out the truth instead of making broad assumptions after talking to maybe the one person who uses *BSD
I generally locate my swap partitions at the beginning of the disk, starting at cylinder 1. This places the swap at the outer edge of the platters, where the read/write performance is up to 50%(?) faster, and there is a shorter average seek time from most of the data partition. The impact on the data partition's performance should be minimal, and performance in heavy swapping should actually be better due to the shorter seek times between the two partitions (someone should check this).
Definitely a RingMouse (had one, took it back). It can tell head distance and position (through a small transmitter worn on the head), but can't tell head orientation (i.e. tilt, direction). A better, but more expensive, solution would have been to use an infrared light source and two infrared CCD cameras to triangulate and get the exact position of each pupil. The eye's pupil reflects infrared light and could be easily tracked. This could automatically account for factors such as differing eye-to-eye distances as in an adult or child, head tilt, head direction, etc.
It seems most people think a nuke will "blow up" an asteroid, but realistically there is almost no chance of that. In one above-ground test way back then, the military put a pair of metal balls, 10 inches in diameter I think, a couple feet away from the nuke. They found those balls a couple hundred feet away with only a little of their surfaces vaporized. Asteroids probably routinely hit each other with far more force than a nuke can provide. A comet heald together by mere gravity you _might_ be able to "disperse". A nuke can definitely move things tho, as those two metal balls demonstrated.
There are a few motherboards with quad PPro sockets, but none I could find had quad Slot 1. Intel naturally wants to keep any such motherboards unavailable so they can force you to the more profitable Xeon.
Yes, the close the clone business. Yes, it good for them. No, it wasn't good for the consumer. Apple maintains a profit margin for their machines that PC makers could only dream of. It wouldn't surprise me if manufacturing cost of the iMac is somewhere around half its sale price. The have done that in the past. Their machines are underpowered and overpriced.
Also, heard of FireWire? Apple allowed it to become the de facto industry standard such that many companies depend on it for their products. Then, surprise! Fork over the money please. I expect they will do the same with their "open source" initiative.
And how about OS support? Did you know Apple is stonewalling efforts to port the BeOS to the new G3s? They have consistently refused to provide the necessary technical information needed to do so. You'd almost think they didn't want other OSs running on their systems.
Apple may have to compete with MicroSoft for platform market share, but in the Macintosh-compatible market, they are the monopoly. And they certainly are acting like one.
The "working/wounded/dead" classifications certainly make it look like a scorecard. And their definition of justice includes whatever they think god wants.
I'd like to see the DOJ make a case for tying, which is illegal. You can't be forced to accept one product (Windows) as a condition of acquiring another (the hardware).
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BSM auditing is implemented in the Mac OS X 10.3.4 kernel (Darwin 7.4). OpenDarwin 7.2.1 is based on an older version of Mac OS X, and does not have this support
This has made the system popular at places like MIT and NASA, both of which have large menageries of computer systems from a multitude of vendors.
The author provides very little evidence of how much more widely used BSD is (or is thought to be), and the one claim he makes is probably false.
A previous poster wrote that linux is more prevalent at NASA, as is it here at MIT (I'm a student). All personal computers not running windows or MacOS are most certainly running linux (a slightly modified red hat distro to interface with our network environment). all the public machines are solaris sparcstations or SGI machines (running IRIX), with perhaps a handful of linux machines. all of the industrial servers i believe to be sparcs, but i'm not certain. the author of the article appears to be confusing GNU being founded at MIT with MIT embracing all technologies coming out of it. considering he's a boston columnist, it shouldn't have been too hard to find out the truth instead of making broad assumptions after talking to maybe the one person who uses *BSD
I generally locate my swap partitions at the beginning of the disk, starting at cylinder 1. This places the swap at the outer edge of the platters, where the read/write performance is up to 50%(?) faster, and there is a shorter average seek time from most of the data partition. The impact on the data partition's performance should be minimal, and performance in heavy swapping should actually be better due to the shorter seek times between the two partitions (someone should check this).
Definitely a RingMouse (had one, took it back). It can tell head distance and position (through a small transmitter worn on the head), but can't tell head orientation (i.e. tilt, direction). A better, but more expensive, solution would have been to use an infrared light source and two infrared CCD cameras to triangulate and get the exact position of each pupil. The eye's pupil reflects infrared light and could be easily tracked. This could automatically account for factors such as differing eye-to-eye distances as in an adult or child, head tilt, head direction, etc.
It seems most people think a nuke will "blow up" an asteroid, but realistically there is almost no chance of that. In one above-ground test way back then, the military put a pair of metal balls, 10 inches in diameter I think, a couple feet away from the nuke. They found those balls a couple hundred feet away with only a little of their surfaces vaporized. Asteroids probably routinely hit each other with far more force than a nuke can provide. A comet heald together by mere gravity you _might_ be able to "disperse". A nuke can definitely move things tho, as those two metal balls demonstrated.
I found only three chipsets that do quad Pentium Pro/Pentium II:
Intel 450GX Orion four-way
Corollary Profusion eight-way
Micron Samurai four-way
There are a few motherboards with quad PPro sockets, but none I could find had quad Slot 1. Intel naturally wants to keep any such motherboards unavailable so they can force you to the more profitable Xeon.
Yes, the close the clone business. Yes, it good for them. No, it wasn't good for the consumer. Apple maintains a profit margin for their machines that PC makers could only dream of. It wouldn't surprise me if manufacturing cost of the iMac is somewhere around half its sale price. The have done that in the past. Their machines are underpowered and overpriced.
Also, heard of FireWire? Apple allowed it to become the de facto industry standard such that many companies depend on it for their products. Then, surprise! Fork over the money please. I expect they will do the same with their "open source" initiative.
And how about OS support? Did you know Apple is stonewalling efforts to port the BeOS to the new G3s? They have consistently refused to provide the necessary technical information needed to do so. You'd almost think they didn't want other OSs running on their systems.
Apple may have to compete with MicroSoft for platform market share, but in the Macintosh-compatible market, they are the monopoly. And they certainly are acting like one.
The "working/wounded/dead" classifications certainly make it look like a scorecard. And their definition of justice includes whatever they think god wants.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
These are the same people who don't care what happens to unwanted babies that are born.
I'd like to see the DOJ make a case for tying, which is illegal. You can't be forced to accept one product (Windows) as a condition of acquiring another (the hardware).
anybody here remember MicroChannel?