Posts by Daniel von Asmuth 706 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Aug 2009
There are no known exploits for the new design flaws - therefore you should update your systems.
The performance impact will be minimal - presumably less than 50 %, so your PC will still be way too fast (when the 1981 model with 640 KB of RAM is ideal and fast enough for all desktop computing).
I wonder if people who run both Linux and Windows will have to apply two different microcode updates.
No, you don't get a new CPU, you get a software workaround.
There is no time like the present for China to become a world player in CPU design.
Around the turn of the millennium I was able to read and write SCO Unix kernel variables (specifically uptime) as root using a simple shell script. Utilities such as 'ps' likewise ran in user space and needed to read process tables from kernel memory.
If they worry about magnetic fields on the orders of milligauss, then the 50 gauss of a typical refrigerator magnet should worry you and the 700,000 gauss of a MRI machine should be enough to wipe out humanity.
Exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic fields has increased the amount of sex, drugs, and especially rock 'n roll.
"DevOps is not a skillset and it's not a toolset: it's a mindset."
That is why your company should certainly sell, DevOps, Cloud As A Service etc. and refrain from buying any.
The optometrist to me says that all this vague cloudiness can be resolved by buying a new pair of spectacles and then I shall clearly see.
In the year 2000, Queen Elisabeth II will still be on the throne thanks to DNA therapy making her effectively immortal.
In the year 2000, economic crises will be a thing of the past.
In the year 2000, we will get around in flying cars.
In the year 2000, routine factory work will be done by trained apes.
In the year 2000, we have molten the Arctic ice cap to shorten shipping routes.
In the year 2000, users just have to say what they want in COBOL and the computer will write all the machine code.
In the year 2000, mankind shall witness the second coming of the Lamb for the End is nigh.
There have already been fatal failures of computers and digital devices. Every day people lose work because an application crashes and and affected negatively by software bugs. Society reacts with the urgency it responds to spellling errors in newspapers. Only the millennium problem prompted society to address the problem.
"you can actually run Linux in the old 386SX Fujitsu-Siemens PCs"
Do you suppose the hardware would still be in working order? Do you still use 5,25" floppy discs and 9600 baud modems to access AOL? If so, you can run Debian Linux 0.01, but you should avoid XFree86 because that was such a bloat. No Netscape 0.70 either nor StarOffice, but solid LaTeX office suite.... Now if you have a real Pentium with 64 MB of RAM and a 10K SCSI drive, 100 Mb Ethernet, 21" CRT, the Penguin starts moving.
"If so, they'd have known how many and what software was Windows only."
There is no such thing as Windows-only software. There is only a price tag for either getting the vendor to port their code to Linux or finding a vendor who will build replacement products.
49,3 Megeuri? Guess that will buy Windows 10, Windows 2016, Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and Office licenses for city staff for 5 years.
Reg said that the Limux project is supposed to have failed, but only a handful of policiticans seem to think so to the extant that they think at all.
Some 15 years ago, HP already sold servers with that model number. A 'server' used to be a box that served up files to desktop users, and provided access to printers and the Internet.Now they've added GPUs such as you'd use for supercomputing.
I guess that before long we'll see a 32-core Xeon beat AMD's SPECtacular results.
Andy103 wrote: "Everything changes so fast that what I was taught in school computing lessons could be considered redundant.".
Everything changes so fast.... when I first went to school, the UK was not in the Common Market yet and soon they'll be leaving. Computer Science has hardly changed, however.
"On the whole, the report concludes, computer education in the UK is "patchy", and needs to be improved again".
That's sad, as the U.S. is experiencing a boost in Machine Learning, so by next decade American phones will be smarter dan British ones:-(
Wonder what they're actually think a young adult human needs to know...
On the upside, Big Blue has released a significant range of varieties (sans, serif, monospace) and weights, but the range of symbols (Roman alphabet only) needs more work.
At first sight, it resembles other fonts from about 50 years ago, but the 'I' and 'J' glyphs are oddities. You can probably identify this font from the right angles in the bends of 'f', 'f', and 'l'. The line width varies where lines join. The slab serifs are too heavy.
Novell just owned the copyright to the UNIX source code, it obviously does not own the company.
The distribution was originally Microsoft Xenix, then sold to the Santa Cruz Organisation (which became Tarantella), and again to Caldera (which became The SCO Group).TSG is of course bankrupt, but a successor 'owns' the rights to payments by IBM if it loses this case (originally claimed at 5 G$).
SCO Open Server was based on ATT Unix SVR3 and had a large market share among Unix-on-Intel variants in the nineties - Linux was cheap, except for Caldera's distro. They never proved that IBM ever illegally copied SCO into the Linux kernel ..... but Caldera may have illegallly copied Linux kernel code into their Open Server product so that it could run Linux programs. Linux continually improved and after 2000 became an enterprise class OS.
SCO now claims that IBM illegally copied parts of their UnixWare OS (based on ATT Unix SVR4) into their AIX on POWER (when they were working on AIX on Intel Itanium). I guess their chances of a major victory are slim since they do not own the copyright....
The lawyers win.
You can count the number of tech jobs in the United States, but how could you count jobs that do not currently exist, such as "Secretary of the second personal Assistant to Mr. Kieren" or "President's tweet speech writer" or "Manager of the Antarctica division of the refrigerator business unit"?
What you can count, however, is the number of IT specialists which currently are not needed by the industry. Or maybe you can take the total annual profit and divide it by the average tech salary to get the number of jobs that the sector could create if it were so inclined.
A good measure would be the number of bugs and exploits that lie unfixed and undiscovered in today's software, a.k.a. the nation's Technical Debt.
Thank Gates! For a moment I feared they were trying to decompile the code my former employer sold them back in the nineties.
Or better, we gave them computers and software, while our company got a load of office furniture. Nor Svenksva Kroner changed hands so presumably no taxes to pay.
"the aim is that core database engine features will be equivalent, with the exception of File Table which is closely hooked to the Windows file system:"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
WinFS is supposed to stand for Windows Future Storage. This is one of the core parts of Windows Longhorn and it will include the SQL server database, integrated into the file system hierarchy. Release date unknown.
Anyone can write code, but few people can develop proven correct software. History and law graduates have learned how to think, but few possess math skills. On the other hand, a STEM cell often can't spell very well.
The interesting jobs go to CS majors, the best-paying ones to management.
Frank Herbert has passed on, but his son Brian continues the Dune saga.
John R. R. Tolkien saild to elevenhome, but his son Christopher continues to edit his work.
Isaac Asimov left the planet, but other authors continue to expand his Foundation series.
Now consider what Pratchett wrote about death....
Funny: in Holland the entry price for a 'desktop' was about Eur. 1500 in 1980 (not adjusted for inflation), gradually slipped to Eur. 1000 and quickly dropped to around Eur. 500 around 2001 and rose a bit since then. Home computers were cheaper, from Commodore 64 to Nintendo Wii.
$ 150 will buy you a rasperry PI with maybe a second hand keyboard and monitor (I guess it includes 1 GHz CPU and 1 GB of RAM). Linux will run nicely on it. FreeDOS needs Intel/AMD inside.
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