Alan Cox on a Chip 85
Azar writes "Beware Intel. Be afraid AMD. Transmeta has an ace up there sleeve. After perusing the net I came across an amusing satire of Transmeta and the Linux guru, Alan Cox. With proper homage being paid to the man that does so much for the Linux kernel, Alan Cox on a Chip is good for a quick laugh. Be ready to be amazed at "The ultimate Linux platform... it writes drivers for *and* debugs itself!"."
Re:I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but... (Score:1)
I never claimed that Windows 2000 is immune to crashes. Hell, even Linux will core dump if you run it with shitty drivers. All I'm saying is: that particular picture is not of a Windows 2000 box.
I'm sorry to hear about your computer problems. Have tried calling technical support? :p
Hummm... (Score:1)
See (Score:1)
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Re:I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but... (Score:1)
>>Anybody remember Microsoft attempting to fool the judge with falsified evidence?
No.
Because it didn't happen.
Allchin (remember him
However, nothing was falsified. The changes were determined to be trivial rather than attempting to mislead the court. No evidence was made up - in fact, the video evidence was _not_ thrown out.
That incident wasn't important because of the evidence, it was important because Allchin claimed the video was unaltered - casting doubt over the rest of his testimony.
Either he was poorly informed, or he is incompetent. Or a GNU/mole
Not disagreeing, but (Score:1)
Being an AnonCow shouldn't exempt you from being whined at.
Now, since I'm taking the time to pick on an AnonCow, I'm going to throw in my massive list of Slashdot sigs and odd comments. As an experiment, I wanted to see what I could find in one half hour. I'm amazed Jon's slashdot sig's section isn't twenty pages long; based on my success, it should be eighty by this point in time.
Random slashdotting:
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them...-Einstein
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.
the skunks, on the other hand, are graffiti bastards.
This sig is xenon coated, and will glow red when in the presence of aliens
Ah! A Moderator in the wild. Look at it! I'll stick my thumb up its ass. That'll really piss it off!
* CmdrTaco is an idiot.
* CmdrTaco can admit it.
DOS is dead, and no one cares...
If there's a Bourne Shell, I'll see you there
Linux has no chance to survive make your time
"just connect this to..."
BZZT.
"ahrg! You didn't unplug it?"
They fsck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
-- dont feed the trolls.... TEASE the trolls.. It's fun to get them upset. --
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/ - kills spammers dead
Time to die, nerd-boy!
All buffers are full
Your message can not be posted
Base directories have no inode reference
Are you irratable
Belong to a group of people who care
To whine now is a little late
US residents encouraged to run away
Someone should pay me.
Set the dogs on these dotheads
Up your own A*!
US president Bush died today..dreams, man, dreams
The stuff after the enter is mine.
Bomb the Canadians!
Cocks on a Chip (Score:3)
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
Hmmm. Microsoft must have said that a gazillion times therefore everyone at Microsoft is incredibly insane including bill gates.
Woohoo! We now have definate proof! Lock them up!
"just connect this to..."
BZZT.
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
"just connect this to..."
BZZT.
I can feel the love in this room (Score:1)
Anywho, whine, B*, complain
Now, Who wants to this AnonCow find his head with both hands? Don't point out where to look, thank you.
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:2)
I have not bothered to track BSODs -- I don't think I need explain why.
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
Also note that user friendlyness != technical superiority or helpfulness. User friendly = Joe Idiot can sit down and start doing basic things without RTFMing. Linux is not 'user' friendly. It's operator friendly. Big freakin' difference.
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Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
Re:FUD, Fud, everywhere, and not a drop to drink.. (Score:1)
In what way is this insane? Downloading a large file is insane? Even if it takes a long time, it's still sane, and definately not a 'stunt'.
Re:Hardware entusiasts will be pleased (Score:1)
Re:I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but... (Score:1)
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:4)
Also--as anyone with experience diagnosing Windows problems can tell you--simply because Windows says that you have a hardware problem does not necessarily mean that one has a hardware problem.
Re:I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but... (Score:1)
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
"just connect this to..."
BZZT.
Re:Hummm... (Score:1)
Oh my God...
Check out the Registrant Company (Score:4)
Registrant:
Goat Engineering Genetics LTD
532 Monroe St.
Santa Clara, CA 95050
US
Domain Name: ALANCOXONACHIP.COM
Record last updated on 27-Feb-2001.
Record expires on 15-Feb-2003.
Record Created on 15-Feb-2000.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.GIMP.ORG 128.32.45.176
NS2.GIMP.ORG 195.92.249.252
Re:Check out the Registrant Company (Score:2)
Champagne comedy. (Score:1)
== It's a "white" paper... get it?
very droll
Re:I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but... (Score:1)
Re:FUD, Fud, everywhere, and not a drop to drink.. (Score:1)
But Windows NT 4.0 / 2000 BSODs are much rarer, and look very different (scarier) than Windows 9x.
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:3)
According to Microsoft [microsoft.com], Fatal Exception 0E means invalid page fault. a bsod with fatal exception 0e should mean that a critical system raised an invalid page fault.
a what? (Score:2)
Re:I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but... (Score:1)
What very likely happened was the individual came through and simply relabeled the image to update the spoof page to make it 'modern' so as to increase the humor...
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If we load it on a workstation... (Score:1)
Re:Check out the Registrant Company (Score:1)
Fuckin' come on then!
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Re:I am l33t (Score:1)
WHERE AM THY FREIGHTOR?
I had to comment on this. Its my nic !!! (Score:1)
Face it, windows isn't stable. Its a 16bit outdated load of crap.
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
Gerb
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
+1 funny (Score:1)
Salesmen "Why yes we do"
Customer "Well, YOU BETTER LET IM' OUT!!!!"
hehehehe
Re:On a chip (Score:1)
He's right!
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Hrm... (Score:3)
Oh, yes, I remember now. It was in a quickie quite a while ago.
There isn't even much at the site to warrent a whole article for it.
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Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
A) shitty components or
B) good components that conflict with each other
*ALL* of my win2k, linux and BSD boxes are rock solid and will stay up indefinitely (until i reboot them manually).
Don't blame your poor choice in hardware on the OS. That's what compatibility lists are for.... oh wait tho, then you would have nothing to complain about.
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
Re:They forgot... (Score:1)
but remember.... this is the fansite of all fansites so asskissing abounds. I'm seeing less and less intelligent material on here an more and more "j34h m4nG, m1cr050ft 5uxX! 10X!!! L1nuX r00lZ!"
On a chip (Score:1)
I want Bill Gates on a chip...so I can overclock the hell out of it and watch it go up in smoke.
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:3)
...and we should stop using it as evidence of Linux/*BSD stability.
Look close enough and you'll see that the fault number is the one meaning "hardware failure," specifically bad RAM. I don't believe that Linux performs any better when the RAM suddenly craps out.
I like the 8-bit version of Cox-on-a-chip though. :-)
Alan Cox is an alien! (Score:1)
"Adam Douglas" in Gary Spencer Milledge's "STRANGEHAVEN" comic.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but... (Score:1)
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
I feel likewise on the BSODs for all variants of Windows.. it starts out okay after a new install of the OS and it can run for a while (that's when they do all their benchmarks, on these 'fresh' machines). Then over time as the machine is actually USED (shock!?
*boofing = reformatting and reinstalling the OS
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Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
I do though have a lot of problems with machines at work (from Dell mainly) that die after some usage. I've used (personal work machine) Dell machines running NT and Windows98 and they have died quite frequently. I thought Dell made good machines too
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Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
MissingNo (Score:1)
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All buffers are full
Your message can not be posted
Base directories have no inode reference
Are you irratable
Belong to a group of people who care
To whine now is a little late
US residents encouraged to run away
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
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On a Chip (Score:1)
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FUD, Fud, everywhere, and not a drop to drink... (Score:1)
I have seen (and caused) BSOD's on Ick2K.
Wanna try?
Get to a java-heavy site with multiple windows of (your favorite/forced choice browser) and switch between them.
Download an ISO image of a CD through a 56K modem.
Or some other such insane stunt.
I have - and can - pull off stunts like these in Linux without crashing the OS.
Amen.
Ruling The World, One Moron At A Time(tm)
"As Kosher As A Bacon-Cheeseburger"(tmp)
Say...do you have Alan Cox on a chip? (Score:1)
..........wait a minute, nevermind, sorry.
bash$ echo 'Finger me for my public key' > ~/.signature
Re:See (Score:1)
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Haircut (Score:2)
Except perhaps lose some weight and get a haircut.
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
Re:I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but... (Score:1)
Huh?? Did you even look at the page?
They took a *photograph* of a monitor (at a bus-terminal or some damned thing) with a supposed "Windows 2000" bluescreen.
ignorance of the law.... (Score:1)
But still, perjury is perjury; looks bad on a resume
Heh...
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:2)
I have a similar problem with my Matrox card and 3D accelerated games. But, it's a very predictable crash.
I don't ever run NT at home, and when I've run it at work a Windows BSOD is a very, very rare event (though less rare than a Linux crash. I've never had Linux crash at work). I think it requires certain kinds of load, certain software, or certain hardware to make your machine BSOD prone. The thing is, from what I can tell, it's very difficult to tell exactly what it is that's doing it when it happens. It's very rarely an obvious cause and effect relationship.
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:2)
So ironic... I ask people to behave fairly, and it's a high moral ground. Somebody out there raises the article by *one* point, and it's karma whoring. Oh well, gotta get the minimum flame quotas in for the day, I guess.
I never said it wasn't a funny picture. I was one of the first to send it around. :-) It was even better since I had just flown a long trip when the picture was taken and released, but that's another story.
Also -- as anyone with experience diagnosing any kind of hardware problems can tell you -- simply because <random flavor of Unix> says that you have a hardware problem does not necessarily mean that it's true. When it comes to hardware problems, Unix ain't all that much better at self-diagnosis.
For software problems, of course, Unix kicks ass. :-)
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:2)
'.sig' (Score:1)
That's going into my list of "interesting comments"
All your
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
I think I'll go add that to my 2.4 source tree. Just a shame I won't see it...
You're right that a utilized Microsoft machine has a fraction of the stability of a new install. (But remember the time counter bug last year - the machine would crash every 48 days or so, used or not...) The other poster gave some specifics about his crashes - namely, that he's never seen a NT2000 BSOD. I haven't either; I've hung it half a dozen times, but no BSOD. I assume it's the windows equiv of an app calling 'XGetPointer' and then crashing. Of course, on a Unix I can ssh in and fix it...
Re:I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but... (Score:1)
They forgot... (Score:3)
Maybe the site is so "in", you have to wake up next to Cox to appreciate little gems like "Temperature control using Beard(tm) technology"?
Maybe Cox himself came up with a new take on the Resume format - "capable of handling practically infinite tasks at a time while churning them all out without a hitch"? What a guy!
Seriously, I haven't seen such an overtly fawning fansite since Ready,steadman,go [pair.com].
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Re:I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but... (Score:1)
Have you read the whitepaper? (Score:1)
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:2)
I believe 0E can be any number of general failures, not necessarily hardware failure.
But it's a Win9x bluescreen anyway, and nobody ever claimed that was stable.
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
Alan Cox? (Score:2)
But, if ugly bearded guys is what the
Re:Have you read the whitepaper? (Score:1)
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From the "white paper" (Score:1)
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Re:Has anyone else ever noticed.. (Score:1)
Read your own post "They place America at the bottom, Did they use reverse alpha order or place US on a list of Importance"
US stupid. Your country is called United States of America in case you hadn't noticed and comes just before Venezula and just after Uganda in any alpha list.
Next time there is a drop box in an address form that defaults to USA try dropping it and you will see that even American sites have USA near the bottom of the list.
And you wonder why we get frustrated with americans.
Re:From the "white paper" (Score:1)
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Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:1)
the link text in the article says "Windows 2000 snapshot capability", but the screenshot is definitly Win9x, not Win2k.
what? who? (Score:1)
An ace up where sleeve?
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This is a repost, someone get rid of the newbies (Score:1)
Re:I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but... (Score:1)
Hardware entusiasts will be pleased (Score:2)
Re:Have you read the whitepaper? (Score:1)
Re:The "Windows snapshot" is FUD... (Score:3)
As for Linux performing better when RAM craps out? I beg to differ! Check out BadRAM [vanrein.org]. (that's http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/ for the goatsex-wary) While it won't prevent problems from crashing if some addresses go bad while the machine is booted, after the very next reboot, the RAM you have will be "good" all over again!
BadRAM was featured in a /. article a while back as well http://www.slashdot.org/articles/00/10/25/1448233. shtml