Back when I ran a well-maintained NT 4.0 system at home one of the only instances of a BSOD that I experienced contained informative debug information. You're acting like the line that you typed is the only text on the screen dump.
In my case, it obviously informed me that the Zip Drive driver had caused the crash. Good ol' Iomega. What the HELL were they doing having ANY access to the kernel. Oh well, that's the NT 4 driver model.
Why? It's not 'DRM-encumbered' as everybody is always saying?
Where is aac2mp3 when people will be needing it? Let alone AAC2MP3.EXE for the people who will be the main victims of this stuff? Where are the specs to write it?
I will agree that UNIX runs the Internet. Big sites, except for a few with quirky custom requirements like Google, use a commercial UNIX and Oracle.
Not a lot of corporate intranets have employee web browsers facing anything other than Microsoft web servers, though. It's the old 'Office Integration' crap, and it's deeply embedded in many companies. Netscape was the last time anybody tried to grab that sector of the business web server market.
My wireless router is more likely to be running a BSD variant, though I haven't dug in to find out. I've never seen anything about the GPL in it's documentation or the login screen when I telnet into it. Linux has some cumbersome licensing issues that in-company hackers just 'route around' for embedded use by porting a BSD to the hardware instead.
Large routers are specialized equipment, though, and run what the vendor designs in.
If I had started out with an iPod and my collection of ripped CDs was all AAC files, I would be locked in to players that play AAC files.
Instead, I have an MP3 player (actually, I was encoding CD audio to MP2 on Linux using an encoder compiled from the 'reference source code' back in 1997, so I do know what MP3 is. Back then quite a few of the CDROM drives wouldn't even decode CDDA- firmware blocks.)
There are many, many Linux 'servers' if you're just counting web sites on the Internet.
If you're talking about corporate Intranets, Microsoft is fairly strong. If you're talking about servers that deliver something other than http, Linux falls even more behind.
No, I can't provide hard numbers. But many people who do and champion Linux seem to only concern themselves with web-centric numbers.
And as a result of this new technology, one of my predictions will come true. I have maintained for quite a while that eventually the landfills will be worth a lot of money for their 'mineral resources.' There is a lot of metal and plastics in the landfills. Phobic environmentalists have maintained 'we will bury ourselves in a sea of garbage' whereas the truth is that we will just keep shifting everything around, eventually using it.
Since peanuts are legumes (members of the pea 'family' of plants) and thus not 'nuts,' perhaps they were warning the customer that since they also process and package walnuts at the same facility, there is a risk of nut content making it in with the peanuts.
I can use vi or emacs just fine to compose web pages. Even intricate dynamic designs. There's this 'alt=' tag that I can use to caption graphics. Heck, the Mozilla Composer defaults to YELL at me for not putting in alt tags when I insert graphics.
Huh? I can't develop a big Flash extravaganza 'splash' page at the front of my site with OSS?!?
The 'requires no software' is a feature of almost any other MP3 player but the iPod.
Translation: iTunes is an integral part of the DRM on the iPod. Why any reasonable person would be fooled by this is just strange. Then again, I installed the software on the CD that came with my cheapo 'Creative' MP3 player- a few weeks after I'd started using it, though, as it is essentially a 'thumb drive with a play button and earphone jack.'
Obviously, the original firmware doesn't, at least for some people.
It might be worth the effort to install it sometime in the future. As Apple slowly introduces new DRM 'features' it's nice to know people are working on parallel unencumbered firmware. Kinda makes your investment in 'closed' hardware less risky.
More than being 'worth installing' it is worth supporting, even if you're not using it at the moment.
Well, 'free' in certain senses. But I don't want a music player burning down the battery in my phone. And I don't want a phone burning down the battery in my music player. And there is very little 'synergistic' circuitry shared by the two devices. Mostly, each function just takes away from the other, power-wise.
You just described why it was foolish to use an SGI workstation as a server.
Well, anyway, you just described it in the same way, essentially, that it's plain stupid to put a $500 graphics card in any modern computer used primarily as a server.
Obviously, there is no sensible reason at all to buy $500 graphics cards, as you explain it.
I still have an 8086 box that runs Microsoft Xenix (from before SCO existed). Xenix was a Microsoft product before MS-DOS existed. Yes, Microsoft was the first vendor of a licenced UNIX running on the x86 platform. My Altos 586 will support five users simultaneously logged in on terminals connected to it's five serial ports. It has 512K of RAM.
It's only recently that sales of 4-bit embedded controllers have been surpassed by sales of 8-bitters.
On the relative quantities of big vs. small processors, many people forget there are 'automatic multipler effects' that mean there will NEVER be more of the 'big' processors in the install base. Any desktop machine has 'little' processors in the keyboard and the mouse, on the hard drives' logic board, etc. There are thus multiple small processors deployed for each 'big' processor, per desktop.
The 6502 was only popular because it was a very, very cheap processor so the lower end hobbyist computers all adopted it. If you really liked that kind of architecture you could get a Motorola 6800 (or, more likely, a 6802.) Which wasn't a dead end architecture, instead evolving to the 6809, the 'HC11 (which still rules for lots of embedded chores) and onward to the 68000.
What you say makes sense. And I get PISSED when the bank teller doesn't want to check my I.D. I mean, my MONEY is in that bank, you know. I don't want Joe Random to be able to walk in and waltz out with it because the teller is too 'sensitive' to challange him.
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Back when I ran a well-maintained NT 4.0 system at home one of the only instances of a BSOD that I experienced contained informative debug information. You're acting like the line that you typed is the only text on the screen dump.
In my case, it obviously informed me that the Zip Drive driver had caused the crash. Good ol' Iomega. What the HELL were they doing having ANY access to the kernel. Oh well, that's the NT 4 driver model.
There's no direct AAC to MP3 conversion utility?
Why? It's not 'DRM-encumbered' as everybody is always saying?
Where is aac2mp3 when people will be needing it? Let alone AAC2MP3.EXE for the people who will be the main victims of this stuff? Where are the specs to write it?
I will agree that UNIX runs the Internet. Big sites, except for a few with quirky custom requirements like Google, use a commercial UNIX and Oracle.
Not a lot of corporate intranets have employee web browsers facing anything other than Microsoft web servers, though. It's the old 'Office Integration' crap, and it's deeply embedded in many companies. Netscape was the last time anybody tried to grab that sector of the business web server market.
My wireless router is more likely to be running a BSD variant, though I haven't dug in to find out. I've never seen anything about the GPL in it's documentation or the login screen when I telnet into it. Linux has some cumbersome licensing issues that in-company hackers just 'route around' for embedded use by porting a BSD to the hardware instead.
Large routers are specialized equipment, though, and run what the vendor designs in.
There is plenty of AAC lock-in, though.
If I had started out with an iPod and my collection of ripped CDs was all AAC files, I would be locked in to players that play AAC files.
Instead, I have an MP3 player (actually, I was encoding CD audio to MP2 on Linux using an encoder compiled from the 'reference source code' back in 1997, so I do know what MP3 is. Back then quite a few of the CDROM drives wouldn't even decode CDDA- firmware blocks.)
That depends on how you define the term 'server.'
There are many, many Linux 'servers' if you're just counting web sites on the Internet.
If you're talking about corporate Intranets, Microsoft is fairly strong. If you're talking about servers that deliver something other than http, Linux falls even more behind.
No, I can't provide hard numbers. But many people who do and champion Linux seem to only concern themselves with web-centric numbers.
TuxRacer? fortune?
I wonder if future generations will have to mine roads for the resources they need...
Probably. At least, if they can locate the ancient road maps, it won't be hard to find out where to dig...
And as a result of this new technology, one of my predictions will come true. I have maintained for quite a while that eventually the landfills will be worth a lot of money for their 'mineral resources.' There is a lot of metal and plastics in the landfills. Phobic environmentalists have maintained 'we will bury ourselves in a sea of garbage' whereas the truth is that we will just keep shifting everything around, eventually using it.
Spending a couple of bucks on natural lighting
You were able to install skylights in your roof for only a couple of bucks?!?
Back in the day, I brought a whole case of beer home on the back of my bike. It was only about a mile away, tho.
Since peanuts are legumes (members of the pea 'family' of plants) and thus not 'nuts,' perhaps they were warning the customer that since they also process and package walnuts at the same facility, there is a risk of nut content making it in with the peanuts.
I can use vi or emacs just fine to compose web pages. Even intricate dynamic designs. There's this 'alt=' tag that I can use to caption graphics. Heck, the Mozilla Composer defaults to YELL at me for not putting in alt tags when I insert graphics.
Huh? I can't develop a big Flash extravaganza 'splash' page at the front of my site with OSS?!?
I can see this as ending poorly for site developers who use Flash. But, then. . .
The 'requires no software' is a feature of almost any other MP3 player but the iPod.
Translation: iTunes is an integral part of the DRM on the iPod. Why any reasonable person would be fooled by this is just strange. Then again, I installed the software on the CD that came with my cheapo 'Creative' MP3 player- a few weeks after I'd started using it, though, as it is essentially a 'thumb drive with a play button and earphone jack.'
Obviously, the original firmware doesn't, at least for some people.
It might be worth the effort to install it sometime in the future. As Apple slowly introduces new DRM 'features' it's nice to know people are working on parallel unencumbered firmware. Kinda makes your investment in 'closed' hardware less risky.
More than being 'worth installing' it is worth supporting, even if you're not using it at the moment.
You're an Apple astroturfer, and it's seriously starting to show in your comments, dood.
(how do you survive on the free cheese-n-crackers they give out at the Apple Store, btw?)
Say that often enough and a few people might start beliving the iPod isn't already encumbered with DRM.
Sure, Apple was slick the way they went about it. But please, don't spread false rumors.
Well, 'free' in certain senses. But I don't want a music player burning down the battery in my phone. And I don't want a phone burning down the battery in my music player. And there is very little 'synergistic' circuitry shared by the two devices. Mostly, each function just takes away from the other, power-wise.
You just described why it was foolish to use an SGI workstation as a server.
Well, anyway, you just described it in the same way, essentially, that it's plain stupid to put a $500 graphics card in any modern computer used primarily as a server.
Obviously, there is no sensible reason at all to buy $500 graphics cards, as you explain it.
I still have an 8086 box that runs Microsoft Xenix (from before SCO existed). Xenix was a Microsoft product before MS-DOS existed. Yes, Microsoft was the first vendor of a licenced UNIX running on the x86 platform. My Altos 586 will support five users simultaneously logged in on terminals connected to it's five serial ports. It has 512K of RAM.
It's only recently that sales of 4-bit embedded controllers have been surpassed by sales of 8-bitters.
On the relative quantities of big vs. small processors, many people forget there are 'automatic multipler effects' that mean there will NEVER be more of the 'big' processors in the install base. Any desktop machine has 'little' processors in the keyboard and the mouse, on the hard drives' logic board, etc. There are thus multiple small processors deployed for each 'big' processor, per desktop.
Oh, come on. I have all that stuff. There's still no reason to connect a Windows machine to the 'net.
The 6502 was only popular because it was a very, very cheap processor so the lower end hobbyist computers all adopted it. If you really liked that kind of architecture you could get a Motorola 6800 (or, more likely, a 6802.) Which wasn't a dead end architecture, instead evolving to the 6809, the 'HC11 (which still rules for lots of embedded chores) and onward to the 68000.
Dickies(tm) twill trousers, and matching workshirts.
What you say makes sense. And I get PISSED when the bank teller doesn't want to check my I.D. I mean, my MONEY is in that bank, you know. I don't want Joe Random to be able to walk in and waltz out with it because the teller is too 'sensitive' to challange him.