Posts by oldcoder

Re: Sewerage workers

What? You missed the Toxic Avenger?

Actually, there are two candidates.

1. carbon nanofiber

2. diamond whisker fibers.

#1 current problem is length. We don't yet know how to make a fiber longer than a few millimeters at a time.

#2 is even shorter at this time, though tests show it even stronger than nanofibers.

Re: Don't go Windows, and if you do, keep your options open

You can waste money either way...

But there is no need to have a RHEL for every server. One out of four is sufficient - then use CentOS for the other three...

Re: Can anyone tell me what this is about?

So you like the double dipping the ISPs want to do?

Your connection is paid for.

The traffic you ask for is already paid for.

The source of your data already pays its ISP.

So you want them to pay again?

Re: Entertainment and Devices

"Current Xbox sales".... has only barely broken even over the long term.

"Surface sold"... So they just barely covered the losses from just ONE year. And according to other sites, did that by not even selling one million units. At $1000 US each, that still isn't covering expenses. The key to making profit is to have the sell price greater than the manufacturing cost... And Surface still isn't quite that.

Re: all female crew...

No need to send any males... Just send frozen sperm.

It would allow a theoretical doubling of the population in 10 months. Then an increase by to three times in another 10 months.

After about 17 years, the rate starts increasing rather than decreasing.

Re: Yeah right

Nokia was the last remaining WP manufacturer... and was not having any success with it.

The only way MS could keep ANY market for WP was to buy Nokia.

Except for the fact that Linux ALREADY runs in more places than Windows.

"There is no such thing as portable software, only software that has been ported."

And Linux does work.

Re: Eyes on the code? Not.

If that "well-written CGI" uses ANY shell then it is by definition, not well-written.

Re: Solaris?

Goes back to around 1989 with solaris... Though you had to install X yourself.

All they have to do for their own OS..

Is to add their own logos to a Linux distribution, and set the default language.

Then do a good bit of testing.

Re: The big problem up there

And the vector sum of the resulting debris could be higher (maximum of 14km/sec, if it happens to be going in the wrong direction).

If it were lower than 7 it would burn up...

Re: @LDS - Not sure what you mean.

CP/M worked just like OS-8. And OS-8 had MMU support (that was how you addressed more than 4k of 12 bit words).

UNIX didn't require a hard disk - a floppy was sufficient. The original UNIX ran on a single 1.5 MB had disk - thus it would ALSO run on floppies when they reached 1.5 MB. Also remember, the original UNIX only required 16k-24k (or thereabouts) for the kernel.

The major modern problem is that the device controllers don't have an MMU the way the VAX systems did.

Re: "a tool Microsoft uses to hide its source code from being copied"

Obviously you have never worked with text files.

They are faster than you think. Especially when you realize they only need to be read once by the application. So any minor delay is not worth the problems the registry causes.

Re: responsibility

And ensure that the approval to add NEW encryted USB sticks to the list takes longer than the manufacturer makes the units...

Re: FEC

Thus raising the actual traffic by 25%...

and thus 25% more congestion...

Which is more than what the current congestion is.

Re: ...

They also charge you if you push nothing...

And metered pricing doesn't work. If it did, then you should be paid for data going in the other direction...

Re: Newspeak, we can haz it!

There are still idiots in North Korea and Iran.

Still nice to be able to tell them you can bomb them to death, and can't prevent you.

Re: Here's a Lesson Learned (from SDR) for anyone going down this road...

Unfortunately, loading the FPGA is slow.

Synchronization among FPGAs is slow.

Saving context will be slow...

The network described looks the same as the old Cray T3. And that beast took several seconds just to get ready to start the job. Granted, once setup it was quite fast. But job setup time took forever - as did shutdown times. A single checkpoint could take 15 minutes if all the processors were used by one job.

And this doesn't look any different.

Re: Uses for FPGA?

Too limited a use.

The problem is routing between cores in a 64 to 128 core system... and a FPGA on a core won't address that.

For VM use what is needed is more IOMMUs and better isolation of devices to VMs.

Re: You know.... an idle thought occured...

Yes... true. But what is happening instead is that the balloon bursts BEFORE reaching the maximum height - due to the pressure overload on the skin. Releasing that overload should allow a higher altitude. Venting some gas would also reduce the weight (less gas needed to maintain the same volume). Of course there is the offset of the weight of the valve..

In the old days, this was handled by having a balloon only 1/3 filled. As the balloon rises, the envelope does expand... and due to the larger envelope, does not burst. (reference to the "rockoon" launches --- still going on).

Now one advantage to having the balloon burst is that you don't have to worry about cleanup :)

Re: "If he were to sum up the quarter in two words it would be “execution" and "transition.”"

Put the quotes in the right place... The two words are "execution" and "transition".

Re: I don't get it..

But you don't know how long Microsoft sat on the announcement...

It could have been several days... or 17 years.