demoralized
True, and not only engineers are demoralized. HP managed to fuck up with some formal procedures after winning a tender here. So we're looking for a better contractor at the moment to do the job.
Posts by Ramazan
276 posts • joined Friday 1st August 2008 08:14 GMT
Posted in Best and the Rest: ARM Mini PCs
Re: you rebuild the kernel to include them
DD-WRT, anyone? Some kernels build, some doesn't (OpenWRT even builds on MacOS X, if you mount buildroot on case-sensitive FS). You are at mercy of Some Vendor here. My advice is to only use H/W which has kernel genuinely packaged by Debian or demand complete source and build environment from The Vendor.
Posted in Best and the Rest: ARM Mini PCs
Re: 256MB RAM
Yes I know about kvm/qemu/bochs and x86/ARM. But I need virtualization for my job, and have some knowledge about its memory requirements. Regarding the virtualizing x86 on ARM, I didn't try that yet, but it _may_ still be faster than constantly-swapping-WinXP-with-10-minutes-to-lauch-HPOVSD on 512MB x86 Linux system.
@h4rm0ny: rather than licencing the patents
No, Alcatel/Lucent/Motorola/Rockwell/Qualcomm/TI/Broadcom/etc do cross-license each other's patents (sometimes this happens after expensive court battles. Typical scenario: if number/value of company X's relavant patents is less than Y's, then after cross-licensing the relevant patents X pays some royalties or fixed sum to Y).
re: secret "test board"
> Woz said: "The Macintosh engineering group snuck a secret test board that could actually expand it but Steve Jobs got wind of that and cut it off."
actual story here:
http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Diagnostic_Port.txt
Kaz Hirai replaces Howard Stringer
http://kotaku.com/5898263/sony-firing-folks-thanks-to-modern-medicine
Re: A company shouldn't do technology and media at the same time
Why? Apple does it pretty good since iPod era. Well, it doesn't do media, it mostly sells/distributes, but Sony BMG doesn't create music either, it just "helps" musicians to do this. Same with books and games.
Re: Sony Picturebook PCG161L (PCG-C1VP?)
Sony used to make great kit - PCG-U1, UX series, C1 series, U3 and U101. They don't anymore... And by the way, UX computers tend to die in time either due to screen or motherboard failure (reminds me of Fujitsu MPG series HDDs).
_Bodhi_ haven't had a problem with Sony
I had. With UX380n. Motherboard died after warranty period had ended, of course, but why the fsck anyway? It's pretty expensive kit, but not very well designed, it appears. Also, its USB port is underpowered and I messed up several DVD+R blanks using it with LG and Samsung burners. Why, Sony? Was it so hard to implement USB spec properly? Also: firmware for UX's fingerprint scanner is non-standard, custom made for Sony with incompatible interface; EDGE modem is locked; front/back camera switch doesn't work in Linux, Intel Core Solo's VT bit is disabled and there's no way to turn it on in BIOS; etc
Posted in Best and the Rest: ARM Mini PCs
Re: 256MB RAM
256MB and even 512MB is not enough if you run WinXP in kvm (1GB and x86 with VME are necessary for smooth run). Without virtualization the main RAM consumer typically is firefox -- 380MB with 20 tabs open...
Posted in Best and the Rest: ARM Mini PCs
Re: Toshiba AC100 on ebay
Toshiba AC100: Buy It Now EUR 306.12 -- $711.89 (3 items, the 306.12 one is the cheapest)
Raspberry Pi: Buy It Now EUR 140.00 -- GBP 145 (2 items plus 3 auctions).
I wouldn't dare to say that "there are plenty of AC100 available" but maybe if you are ready to spend several years on ebay waiting for occasional AC100 bargain this would look different...
Posted in Cheap MacBook Airs for all!
re: it's machines aren't radically different
2 errors in single statement. First, it's not "it's" but "its". Second, they are radically different: Macs can (legally) run MacOS, competition cannot do that. --fix'd dat 4 ya
Re: Finally-
There are also console, TCG, tabletop and LARP gamers. And DOS/Mac/Amiga/C64/MSX/ZX/etc aren't dead yet.
Re: YAY
With prices for GTX590 or 2xGTX680 exceeding $1200, this 100 quid more on WinSomething isn't really relevant IMO.
iPad2 is better than iPad3, that's hardly news, and since it's also cheaper...
re: USB boot, Welcome to five(?) years ago Microsoft
I booted live Debian from USB at least 11 years ago, and this wasn't rocket science even then, though it had to be manually adapted for the purpose using some package from "main" repo
Re: I use this
Just run ssh -t TERM=something screen -DR, you won't need to "reattach" after "login"
designed to keep connections alive?
I don't need connections to be alive, I use screen.
"when clients roam"? There's MobileIP for that.
"UDP-based protocol"? Another fail, because I cannot channel it through ssh port forwarding/socks.
And usually I can get the job done via crappy GPRS link using ssh and screen, so thankyouverymuch, thanks for trying anyway.
Re: OS/2 v2.x was certainly better
Probably that's why everybody at Microsoft was so excited when they divorced with IBM so that they didn't have to accept "crappy IBM code" anymore
Re: first Microsoft OS to be able to ... run across multiple devices?
Also, they did XENIX for PDP-11 (well, they bought source code for PDP-11, so it was The First Architecture for XENIX), for Zilog Z800x and Motorola 68000 (some Apple Lisa publishing system, does anyone remember?).
Oh, and they had BASIC for almost every home computer in 80s, and this counted as OS BTW.
first Microsoft OS to be able to ... run across multiple devices?
Well, they had Windows NT for DEC Alpha AXP64 and for MIPS in the past. And what's more, the NT was developed on MIPS workstations
Re: The whole Linux kernel is OO C?
Sometimes Linux kernel code is useful outside of kernel BTW (for instance, you can use linux/list.h in userspace projects, but you need to hack it first), but from my experience I cannot say it's wholly OO. Quite the contrary...
Re: wtf is object orientated C?
I prefer to use C preprocessor without forcing OO paradigm on code, but there are some who worship OO. Here's what Igor Soumenkov from Kaspersky Labs says:
"The Duqu Framework shares many principles of libevent, but it is completely object-oriented, even all events and callbacks are wrapped in objects ... Now, there are several open-source “OO C” frameworks available, and some of them produce code constructions that are very similar to those in the Duqu code. The best match we found is SOO (Simple Object Orientation for C), however it could not have been used in Duqu, because it was only published when the Trojan was already in the wild"
wtf is object orientated C?
Do you mean OOPC? Or Objective C? Or some unknown 01d5k001 l33t OO C preprocessor framework? You don't know, so it's M3G4 F4IL, DUD3, obviously
Posted in Russia plans manned moon shot by 2030
Russia sill doesn't have 100 tonnes carrier
Such powerful carriers are^Wwere considered necessary to put interplanetary ships into LEO, and there's no point to have them otherwise. But maybe they are planning to launch T-90s to space now?
Posted in Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer
PowerShell? Are you joking, mr.Trevor?
Why do I need any other kind of shell? There's POSIX shell and environment, and the MS bastards even used to do their half-arsed SFU in the past. There is Cygwin, and lighter options (mingw IIRC). But even with that, where's bloody package manager? I mean "apt-get search foo" and "debfoster bar"? For core packages, not "Cygwin stuff only"? Let me guess - not possible, with PowerShell or BlahBlahShell either. Because you can't really use both Windows and Server in the same statement, this doesn't compute.
publishers have right to set price for "their" books
So, if they think they can sell more and at higher profit through Apple, let them do so. I just propose to eliminate publishers altogether, and leave only authors and Amazon/Apple in the equation. This would be the most honest and most appropriate decision here...
Big systems' prices don't scale linearly against processing power. If you need That Much Power, be prepared to pay 10x or 100x of performance total... And then you pay 0.3x to 1.0x of initial price for 24/7 support and maintenance each year.
@Matthew Dillon
My kudos go to Matthew, who has spent a year in debugging hell. Back in 90's they used ICEs for the purpose and it was much easier then (http://www.rcollins.org/ddj/Jul97/Jul97.html)
Posted in X-com reboot's gameplay showcased
RTS
RTS part is Geoscape (base/research/production/equipment management and UFO hunting). Turn-based (RPG) part is Battlescape. For me the game always played more as RPG than RTS.
Re: COBOL??!
Another interesting question: how much of Larry Ellison's money is run by COBOL code? I'd say 70%
Re: the most powerful and flexible development platform
Java? No way. The most powerful development platform is UNIX. GNU UNIX. Wake up, people! It's RMS who gave you The Compiler, who freed the slaves etc and so on.
AMD will actually supply both the GPU and the CPU
Let me guess, AMD is going to become 2nd source for PowerPC/Cell chips? (yes I know about Motorola and AMCC-sourced PPCs, but they don't produce high-performance PPCs anymore). But probably Sony doesn't plan to retain backward compatibility with PS3 games...
they can have it both ways though
Microsoft could just put such a price on Office for iPad that's greater or equals to sum of pices for Windows and native Office. Case solved.
@spencer
Voice codecs are patented. They are software. Those are software patents. Even algorithms for background noise generation (during periods of silence), compensating for delay and jitter etcetera are patented.
Maemo, a real Linux
I didn't own Maemo/Meego device, but I'm pretty sure you don't get all kernel source (with all proprietary GSM/WiFi drivers) and cross-toolchain, so that's not _real_ Linux. Real is GPL, mind you.
undeserved?
In fact, she deserves even more just to compensate for years spent with such an ugly person as mr.Schmidt...
Re: Re: LTE with 500Mb fair use
Much funnier is when you're roaming in LTE network, you can download 100Mb per minute and 1Mb costs say $1. This results in you being able to burn money with speed of $100 per minute.
Intel CPU not crappy?
Sheeple, wake up! (http://xkcd.com/1013/) How could you do hard realtime OS on any x86 since 386SL when SMM (http://www.rcollins.org/ddj/Jan97/Jan97.html) kicks in completely invisibly to OS (and it can't be disabled by OS) and steals CPU cycles? GSM (and later) have strict requirements about timing by the way, and while they are an order of magnitude longer than max allowed execution time of SMM handler, there are other problems like lost clock ticks.
up to the purchaser to sue ... for his money back
So Apple would get their £35,000 back from Proview Taiwan in that case, right?
SMS is not "free"
And what's more SMS is not free for operator even when SMS never leaves operator's PLMN. Barry Shitpeas doesn't know a fsck about purchase, support and O&M costs of telco equipment, costs of electricity, rental of land for BSS/masts, spectrum annual license etc. If Barry's SMS service is tied to IN platform, then most probably operator is charged monthly per each Barry's ass active on the platform.
the move to real linux for phones
1. not going to happen anytime soon (not until all GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSPA and mind you WiFi patents too expire, in any case)
2. while you wait for this, everyone else buys generations after generations of brave new LTE/gaga/googoo/blahblah iPhones and stuff and your point of reference moves ahead of you, again.
3. Return to p.1
Do not use PITA anymore, try pwgen -s -1 instead.
if Intel really want to push their crappy CPUs into mobile phone market, they should better pay their bribes to Apple execs instead of Motorola's
Re: Que?
BTW, "The original Hammerhead computer was a 486 design that was first delivered in June of 1995". Thus, what Yang talks about, "there were practically no LCD screens" is bullshit.
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