There was an article over at arstechnica looking into why Itanium is still around. Apparently the Itanium market is worth $4 billion. Not exactly chump change.
Don't be at the front of the technology curve when buying stuff. Let the other guy take the brunt of it all (thank you other guy for testing these things for the rest of us).
The Nook Color is $250 (+ tax if applicable) and it's easy enough to install a different version of Android on it. No camera, but the screen is pretty nice.
Intel has no "rights" to what the chip in my machine does only that I don't violate their copyright by reverse engineering it.
You know what? Buying this chip at the rated speed and given features also doesn't change that. Go ahead and find some other way to unlock those features. What is Intel going to do to you? If anything, at least you know some of them have some overhead in overclocking potential.
Actually, if I were to do something like this, I'd use LFS instead. Or better yet, cross-compile NetBSD for i386.
1) cat or dd the laptop's harddrive to a faster computer's disk as a disk image 2) Mount the disk image 3) Compile and install the OS onto the disk image 4) cat or dd the disk image back to the laptop hard drive 5) Profit!
I once got a 386 for free and installed Redhat on it back in 1998. It's not that big of a deal.
if i would need to make choice between: - being able to screw around until i die or - being unsafe to screw with for the rest of my life please, i'll take two cancer portions;)
If you had pancreatic adenocarcinoma, you would most likely be dead in less than a year.
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What do you expect from/. when troll headlines make it through the editors untouched? A much better headline would be "CLL, a type of leukemia, cured by modified HIV virus" but that's not sexy enough. This still doesn't help those unfortunate people with pancreatic adenocarcinoma or grade IV astrocytoma.
Market cap doesn't really mean all that much. Other metrics, including revenue and profits matter much more. And so what if Apple is the "largest" publicly traded company right now? That changes so often that it doesn't really matter. Microsoft used to have that title. Cisco had that title for a few days about 11 years ago. GE had that title in the '80s. Besides, there are even larger corporations out there. Saudi Aramco, for example, would be worth trillions of dollars by market cap if it were a public company.
Some of the issues is that there are too many choices, which most users don't want. They want what works, and on average case, does best, not three tools that do about the same thing, but only handle a small part of that "thing" the best.
No they don't, they want whatever the next TV commercial tells them to want. Too many choices, is like too much money. It is a problem we should all be so lucky to have.
"Too many choices" and "too much money" are two entirely different things. Money is fungible. Desktop environments are not.
If you ever watch women shop for shoes, you'll know that there is such at thing as "too many choices".
And you don't think MS with their arguably monopoly-like practices in the '90s wasn't the same thing? A really effective way to increase profits is to drive away the competition by whatever means necessary.
Those who use their phone as a modem (PC does TCP/IP) are the first to trigger the alerts, those who use SSH-SOCKS (phone does TCP/IP) are harder to tell (all packets originate from phone, traffic not using proxy isn't seen), in which case they have to see if connections are made to odd ports and the like (e.g., if you try to ssh to a host).
My phone can ssh to places (Cyanogenmod 7). There are also apps in the Android and Apple app stores that ssh too. How do they tell that vs. a tethered computer using ssh?
Most people just don't have the patience. Driving at the old 55 mph will will do it in most naturally aspirated 4-cylinder cars. Pulse and glide will do it in most cars with a manual transmission. For example, I got 46.8 mpg from San Diego to Sacramento while doing P&G and averaging 60 MPG with my 2.5 L gasoline VW Jetta, which is EPA rated at 29 mpg (2008) on the highway.
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There was an article over at arstechnica looking into why Itanium is still around. Apparently the Itanium market is worth $4 billion. Not exactly chump change.
That's why Verizon was such a niche cell provider prior to them getting the iPhone.
Sounds like what the scientologists did when their messiah (may he rest in peace with Xenu) wrote a new book.
Don't be at the front of the technology curve when buying stuff. Let the other guy take the brunt of it all (thank you other guy for testing these things for the rest of us).
they still need a kernel.
So, that means Kate is staying then?
For Flash, I set my ~/.macromedia directory to /dev/null
Why not just clear the cache every one in a while then?
The Nook Color is $250 (+ tax if applicable) and it's easy enough to install a different version of Android on it. No camera, but the screen is pretty nice.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but free will is an illusion. There is no free will.
Intel has no "rights" to what the chip in my machine does only that I don't violate their copyright by reverse engineering it.
You know what? Buying this chip at the rated speed and given features also doesn't change that. Go ahead and find some other way to unlock those features. What is Intel going to do to you? If anything, at least you know some of them have some overhead in overclocking potential.
IBM has been doing this for decades. Want more processing power? Call them and they'll unlock it. Where's the uproar with IBM?
It's called the "Pentium FPU bug"
You can just cross-compile NetBSD for i386. And there you have it: modern OS on ancient 386 hardware.
Actually, if I were to do something like this, I'd use LFS instead. Or better yet, cross-compile NetBSD for i386.
1) cat or dd the laptop's harddrive to a faster computer's disk as a disk image
2) Mount the disk image
3) Compile and install the OS onto the disk image
4) cat or dd the disk image back to the laptop hard drive
5) Profit!
I once got a 386 for free and installed Redhat on it back in 1998. It's not that big of a deal.
if i would need to make choice between:
- being able to screw around until i die
or
- being unsafe to screw with for the rest of my life
please, i'll take two cancer portions;)
If you had pancreatic adenocarcinoma, you would most likely be dead in less than a year.
What do you expect from /. when troll headlines make it through the editors untouched? A much better headline would be "CLL, a type of leukemia, cured by modified HIV virus" but that's not sexy enough. This still doesn't help those unfortunate people with pancreatic adenocarcinoma or grade IV astrocytoma.
Market cap doesn't really mean all that much. Other metrics, including revenue and profits matter much more. And so what if Apple is the "largest" publicly traded company right now? That changes so often that it doesn't really matter. Microsoft used to have that title. Cisco had that title for a few days about 11 years ago. GE had that title in the '80s. Besides, there are even larger corporations out there. Saudi Aramco, for example, would be worth trillions of dollars by market cap if it were a public company.
Some of the issues is that there are too many choices, which most users don't want. They want what works, and on average case, does best, not three tools that do about the same thing, but only handle a small part of that "thing" the best.
No they don't, they want whatever the next TV commercial tells them to want. Too many choices, is like too much money. It is a problem we should all be so lucky to have.
"Too many choices" and "too much money" are two entirely different things. Money is fungible. Desktop environments are not.
If you ever watch women shop for shoes, you'll know that there is such at thing as "too many choices".
I think it's funny that Apple has become what we most hated about IBM and MS way back when.
And you don't think MS with their arguably monopoly-like practices in the '90s wasn't the same thing? A really effective way to increase profits is to drive away the competition by whatever means necessary.
Since Oracle bought Sun, perhaps the title should be "Oracle Unleashes Most Powerful Flare Since 2006." Damn you Oracle!!!!
Those who use their phone as a modem (PC does TCP/IP) are the first to trigger the alerts, those who use SSH-SOCKS (phone does TCP/IP) are harder to tell (all packets originate from phone, traffic not using proxy isn't seen), in which case they have to see if connections are made to odd ports and the like (e.g., if you try to ssh to a host).
My phone can ssh to places (Cyanogenmod 7). There are also apps in the Android and Apple app stores that ssh too. How do they tell that vs. a tethered computer using ssh?
Most people just don't have the patience. Driving at the old 55 mph will will do it in most naturally aspirated 4-cylinder cars. Pulse and glide will do it in most cars with a manual transmission. For example, I got 46.8 mpg from San Diego to Sacramento while doing P&G and averaging 60 MPG with my 2.5 L gasoline VW Jetta, which is EPA rated at 29 mpg (2008) on the highway.
Yes, but now you can have a native 64-bit build on Linux, Bsd, Windows, etc.