Interesting. Reminds me of PC/IX, and it probably similarly doesn't even enter pm, judging from it running also on an 8086.
theamigan
joined 1 year ago
286 Protected Mode is very different from 386 PM and there is no way Linux will would run on it.
You'll probably be severely throttled (I know my local coffee shop does) and if you aren't, you'll be being a huge dick to anyone else on that AP. I strongly advise against it.
Torvalds isn't an asshole because of a nonexistent moral compass. He just has strong opinions, and he's usually right, anyway.
Imagine if Pirate Bay or Napster were considered completely above-board businesses just because they took down torrents if explicitly requested by the copyright holders.
That's kind of exactly how the DMCA works. That's the bargain, you take down offending content and make an effort to ensure it does not return and you are allowed to continue to exist and not be sued directly. The problem is that this goes against torrent sites' entire raison d'etre (usually under the argument that they don't even host offending content, just a torrent file) and so it never happens this way.
Just playing devil's advocate (I hate the DMCA for many other reasons), but if service providers were directly liable for what their users did, the Internet never would have grown up to what we know it is today.
Basically. In Sony's case, they were clearly afraid of homebrew games, but I still can't imagine any other rationale than what you said for killing the feature, especially as neutered as it was. It definitely taught me a lesson about buying products that can't be kill switched after purchase. The US Air Force even built a cluster of 1700 PS3s that relied on this feature. I'm sure they weren't routable to the internet to get updates though.
My last straw was when they killed OtherOS on the PS3, which was very much part of my purchasing decision. Sure, it was kneecapped from the start (Linux still ran under the hypervisor, could not use the GPU, and was only given 6 Cell cores), but it was there. At least I got a $60 check from the class action settlement!
Bunch of cocksuckers. I have not purchased a Sony product since.
Uh, yeah. You think they just create themselves?
If you're on linux, you can use netns to run the client in a namespace with only the tunnel interface. No VM necessary.
Preach it.
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