[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> The thing that really makes the firmware in most proprietary Unix systems
>different from PCs is that the firmware is tightly coupled with the
>operating system. For example, you can usually control OS boot options from
>the ROM monitor.
I'm not sure what you mean by
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 06:20:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 6 Dec 2002, at 5:23pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > And that's just one of the nice features real firmware.
>
> The thing that really makes the firmware in most proprietary Unix systems
> different from PCs is that the firmw
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 18:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[stuff about firmware coupling with OSes snipped]
Points taken.
> Be careful what you wish for. You may get it. :-)
Well, at least we have (as mentioned in one of my posts) linuxbios
working more hardware all the time. Although, I a
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, at 12:59pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Lastly, even a Linux box with some design flaws is more secure than a
>> comparable Windows box. ;-)
>
> What, like having it default to having it auto login as root? That's a
> HUGE security issue and one of the main reasons windows vi
On 6 Dec 2002, at 5:23pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Being able to set a system to NOT boot automatically and drop right into a
> command line to probe devices, boot from alternate devices (without
> changing any nvram settings) has saved me a number of times.
Again FWIW, all of those features a
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 16:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 6 Dec 2002, at 4:22pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > One side note however is that I did find it very cool to experiment
> > with the built-in always-on (even with the power cord unplugged) serial
> > console ...
>
> Okay, I have to ask:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Okay, I have to ask: If the system is unplugged, what powers the serial
> command processor and control electronics? Onboard battery?
Every hardware engineer knows that smoke (not electricity) is really
the thing that runs chips and CPUs. When the smoke comes out
On 6 Dec 2002, at 4:22pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> One side note however is that I did find it very cool to experiment
> with the built-in always-on (even with the power cord unplugged) serial
> console ...
Okay, I have to ask: If the system is unplugged, what powers the serial
command proces
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 13:24, Jerry Feldman wrote:
[snip]
> for a new generation, and the Itanium is one of the next generation chips.
> (The Alpha is over 10 years old, and still pretty much the fastest RISC
> chip).
Agreed. And the inside (though anecdotal) information/opinion I have
heard
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 01:18:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has IA-64 really gotten so much better that is can seriously be considered
> as a replacement for the PA-RISC and Alpha chips?
I don't want to comment too much on the subject matter, but HP has
come out wi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> If you've never played with it, User Mode Linux is pretty cool. I can
> now run the distro-of-the-week on my laptop without disturbing the
> serenity of my base OS. Very nice, indeed.
Thanks :-)
> Anyone out there tried installing Debian Woody on user mode Linux,
> yet?
DEC always had a problem with both marketing and sales. As a former DEC
customer, we tried to buy a VAX 11/780 once, and could not get a sales
person to return our calls let alone visit our office in Burlington (2
miles from Dec's Burlington sales office).
There were some people like Clem Cole w
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 11:46, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> Hi! I had intended on announcing this at tonight's meeting, but since there's no
> meeting, and I don't want to impede progress, I'm doing it via email.
>
> I wanted to let people know that I'm handing in my resignation as co-chairman of
> GNHLUG.
If you've never played with it, User Mode Linux is pretty cool. I can
now run the distro-of-the-week on my laptop without disturbing the
serenity of my base OS. Very nice, indeed.
Anyone out there tried installing Debian Woody on user mode Linux, yet?
I'm gonna give it a try this weekend, and w
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, at 1:38pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Has IA-64 really gotten so much better that is can seriously be
>> considered as a replacement for the PA-RISC and Alpha chips?
>
> I've been lead to believe that the biggest problem with Alpha as it is
> today, is one simply of neglect.
HP codeveloped the IA-64 (Now the Itanium family) with the plan to replace
the PA-RISC chip. The PA-RISC was upgraded to 64 bits several years ago,
but most of the implementations are 32 bit. The Alpha was killed by Compaq
management (eg. the EV8) because the development cost was prohibitive. Ba
Hello everyone,
Our next meeting will be:
WHEN: TUESDAY, December 10, 2002 at 7:00(ish) PM
WHERE:
West St. Ward House
41 West St.
Concord, NH
WHAT: 802.11 Wireless Antenna information & Manchester Wireless
WHO: Mike Spenard & Travis Roy presenting
Map to West St. Ward House:
http://ww
This months meeting will cover programming for PalmOS devices under
linux. Tucker Hurton will be showing us the environment and tools
that he uses to develope software on the traditional Palm platform as
well as his new StrongARM based CLIE. This will include Palm
emulation under linux, which al
In a message dated: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 13:18:24 EST
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Has IA-64 really gotten so much better that is can seriously be considered
>as a replacement for the PA-RISC and Alpha chips?
I don't claim to be a HW expert (actually, I'm pretty much ignorant
of hw design all together)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked for personal opinions, so here's mine:
I've used PA-RISC, Alpha, PowerPC, POWER, MIPS, and SPARC platform
machines, as well as CISC-based x86 and 680x0 hardware. In my opinion,
nothing but nothing touches the Alpha in raw speed.
'Course the SPARCs are handicapped by runn
When the Copmpaq/Intel agreement was announced last year (was it Aug, 2001)
there was a discussion with Rational regarding the port, but be continued
the port until last April when we completed Beta and released the final
product. Rational then decided not to release it. Don't know if that was a
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, at 1:01pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ahh, and they just anounced EOL for the Alpha today as well :)
I had not heard about this yet, but found this article fairly quickly:
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-976211.html
I find it interesting that HP plans to dump both t
> Good (relatively inexpensive) Mexican food - I'll try to go upstairs,
> but ask for linux at the front desk. If they give you a blank look, go
> upstairs and ask the bartender. If he gives you a blank look, look for
> people staring at you. If there's no one that matches this description,
> te
In a message dated: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 12:37:59 EST
Jerry Feldman said:
>Yes, there is a news release on Rational's site:
>http://www.rational.com/news/press/pr_view.jsp?ID=8361
>
>A very interesting development. I spent about 2.5 years working on a team to
>port PurifyPlus to True64 Unix.
Ahh, a
> Lastly, even a Linux box with some
> design flaws is more secure than a comparable Windows box. ;-)
What, like having it default to having it auto login as root? That's a
HUGE security issue and one of the main reasons windows viruses work so
well since they have total control of the system.
__
Hello everyone,
Our next meeting will be:
WHEN: TUESDAY, December 10, 2002 at 7:00(ish) PM
WHERE:
West St. Ward House
41 West St.
Concord, NH
WHAT: 802.11 Wireless Antenna information & Manchester Wireless
WHO: Mike Spenard & Travis Roy presenting
Map to West St. Ward House:
http://ww
Yes, there is a news release on Rational's site:
http://www.rational.com/news/press/pr_view.jsp?ID=8361
A very interesting development. I spent about 2.5 years working on a team to port
PurifyPlus to True64 Unix.
--
Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.b
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can we get a when-and-where on that? I'm interested in attending. The
> http://www.centralug.org site says the next meeting is 12 November, so I
> presume it is out-of-date. You might want to post the meeting details to
> the [EMAIL PROTE
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, at 9:19am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello, just wanted to go over the meeting a bit.
Can we get a when-and-where on that? I'm interested in attending. The
http://www.centralug.org site says the next meeting is 12 November, so I
presume it is out-of-date. You might want t
I just saw this on the ClearCase user's group list, don't know if
anyone here cares, but this is HUGE if you're a CC user.
Seeya,
Paul
--- Forwarded Message
>From IBM's site:
Once the acquisition is completed, IBM plans to:
Market and sell Rational's application development offerings wor
> anyway, Lindows isn't very linux friendly.
It really depends on what you mean by "Linux friendly". Are they perfect?
Far from it -- frankly, I have some real issues with some of their
decisions, both license-wise and Linux-wise. Is it still Linux, and
reasonably cool? Well... yes. It's Debi
Travis Roy wrote:
Hello, just wanted to go over the meeting a bit.
Will you talk abit about what catrds, etc. work well with Linux and
set-up/config issues with Linux?
Thinking about doing this for house and look forward to info, especially
if specific to setting up and using systems.
TIA
Hello, just wanted to go over the meeting a bit.
Mike is going to talk about antenna design and theory, how WiFi basically
works and the type of things you can expect when you try to set up a
wireless network.
I'll be going into the fun stuff ;) Basics on Manchester Wireless, how it
currently wor
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