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  1. we are waiting for it. by ctrl-alt-canc · · Score: 1 · on Apple Patents a Paper Bag (theguardian.com)

    It will be a nice add to our collection.

  2. Re:Since we can't RTFA, I don't get it by locallyunscene · · Score: 1 · on Build a BoxeeBox and Wean Yourself From Cable

    Has he made a wife-capable Hulu scraper

    I can't tell if that's a typo or if you're a fan of Wendell Berry.

  3. Cut my chest open and throw my liver to the dogs. by NRAdude · · Score: 0 · on Nintendo Shares Up, But Do Devs 'Get' the Wii?
    and the PS3 devkit is something like $16 million.


    Who modded that up? I can barely break +1 on the moderation scale, and someone modded that up without confirming facts.

    There are available pictures of the PS3 development kit on HOME.BTCONNECT.COM. There is an article with a strategic view of the PS3 development kit on WWW.TECHEBLOG.COM. Yet, there has been no price shown. For under USD 2000, one could just buy some Dell PC's and cluster them for a better solution to anything Sony could pull out of its proprietary mind. Why stop at USD 16000000? I say the development kit could be as much as Sony is worth. I'm impressed Sony is advertising PS3 as a Linux solution bending to an 100% open-source environment, yet at the same time BOUGHT its solution from Microsoft--nope, not surprised. If I'm uptodate on my studies in gray-area politics and economics, two competitors can build their products for eachothers benefit to prevent use of their IP (think Blu-Ray) while competing like dogs in a market.

    For conclusion to the matter above; The PS3 Development kit WIKIPEDIA article yiels that Sony purchased technology from Microsoft that would provide access to GNU development tools on the Playstation 3! (I kid you naught!) And within that article, the Playstation 3 is not limited to a game console but a complete multimedia entertainment center -- this would propose it not to be a shabby little game device like the competing Nintendo Wiivolution and Microsoft XBOX.

    The sad truth is, that I and many others may only buy a controller of a certain gaming system, and just theme the desktop chassis of our computer and theme the visual presentation through an X or DirectFB solution to "have it better than the real thing" while we run an emulator.

    Sony and Microsoft have been turds since they ever started competing, no exceptions. Nintendo appears to be an honest venture, having evinced to not choose any intellectual properties that conflict with their customers' and stockholders' interests and securities.

    Anyone asking me for a suggestion; I recommend they choose the lesser of two Wiivels...
  4. Possible designs by Eightyford · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Microsoft to Enter Handheld Market?

    Here are a few possible designs:

    xbox
    xbox
    joke
    xbox

    And, a portable gamecube:
    gamecube

  5. How much does it get in the way of applications ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on MS Patch Train Leaves the Station
    Anyone know if this thing http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/freeduc- games-1.6.png still runs after the patch ?

    Torrent here http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=306&name=f reeduc-games-1.6-qemu-0.6.1-2.iso.torrent

  6. Cover the world with 'prior art' by Quiberon · · Score: 1 · on UKPO Workshops Find EU Patent Directive Faulty
    One way to attempt to handle this is to make sure there's plenty of material around which may well be 'prior art', i.e. demonstrably invented before any patent.

    My contribution is to put a pile of 'Live Linux for Windows' CDs here Linux-for-Windows

    Your mileage may vary, of course, but I think they make great executive toys.

    Chris

  7. My hobby is 'Running Linux under Windows' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Your Chance to Meet Bill Gates
    Do you think this will count http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/freeduc- games-1.6.png ?

    Torrent here http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /freeduc-games-1.6-qemu-0.6.1-2.iso.torrent

    Pile more torrents here http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /in the same vein.

    Runs without Windows, if you boot the CD, of course.

    Have fun!

  8. My hobby is 'Running Linux under Windows' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Your Chance to Meet Bill Gates
    Do you think this will count http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/freeduc- games-1.6.png ?

    Torrent here http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /freeduc-games-1.6-qemu-0.6.1-2.iso.torrent

    Pile more torrents here http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /in the same vein.

    Runs without Windows, if you boot the CD, of course.

    Have fun!

  9. My hobby is 'Running Linux under Windows' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Your Chance to Meet Bill Gates
    Do you think this will count http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/freeduc- games-1.6.png ?

    Torrent here http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /freeduc-games-1.6-qemu-0.6.1-2.iso.torrent

    Pile more torrents here http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /in the same vein.

    Runs without Windows, if you boot the CD, of course.

    Have fun!

  10. Math teaching tools by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Math Awareness Month
    WIMS and FREEDUC from http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents / are lovely Live Linux CDs for math and other education. WIMS comes from University of Nice, France, and is available online at http://wims.unice.fr/ as well.

    The Live Linux CDs run under Windows, too, like 'winknoppix' does. All enhancing choices !

  11. Banking Knoppix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Knoppix Used in Internet Banking Solution
    It will be really cool if the bank provides Knoppix CDs for download from their web site.

    Complete with full source code and build instructions.

    SELINUX extensions, too, if they can manage it.

    The bank is in the business of banking. Frauds against them or their customers get in the way of the business. Anything they can do to reduce losses and increase customer confidence should be goodness.

    GPL is on their side, and should make it cheap and effective.

    Hopefully nobody will force the customers to use it. Just provide it as an option.

    Pile of Linux-for-Windows ISOs ... mostly Knoppix derivatives ... here http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /

    Do things like http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/knoppix3 8-for-windows.png

    Let you use the WinModem. But subject you to the Windows keystroke loggers. What you win on the swings, you lose on the roundabouts. Oh well.

  12. Banking Knoppix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Knoppix Used in Internet Banking Solution
    It will be really cool if the bank provides Knoppix CDs for download from their web site.

    Complete with full source code and build instructions.

    SELINUX extensions, too, if they can manage it.

    The bank is in the business of banking. Frauds against them or their customers get in the way of the business. Anything they can do to reduce losses and increase customer confidence should be goodness.

    GPL is on their side, and should make it cheap and effective.

    Hopefully nobody will force the customers to use it. Just provide it as an option.

    Pile of Linux-for-Windows ISOs ... mostly Knoppix derivatives ... here http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /

    Do things like http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/knoppix3 8-for-windows.png

    Let you use the WinModem. But subject you to the Windows keystroke loggers. What you win on the swings, you lose on the roundabouts. Oh well.

  13. Windows, Linux, and QEMU by Quiberon · · Score: 1 · on Novell To Ship Xen in Next Version of Suse
    The poor-mans approach ... which works perfectly well, if a little slowly ... is to make CDs which do this sort of thing http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/suse-for -windows.png

    Torrents here http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /

    In the spirit of UK National Science Week, this one works nicely http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/knosci.p ng

    They all 'autorun'. Most of them 'boot', too. Have fun !

  14. Windows, Linux, and QEMU by Quiberon · · Score: 1 · on Novell To Ship Xen in Next Version of Suse
    The poor-mans approach ... which works perfectly well, if a little slowly ... is to make CDs which do this sort of thing http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/suse-for -windows.png

    Torrents here http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /

    In the spirit of UK National Science Week, this one works nicely http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/knosci.p ng

    They all 'autorun'. Most of them 'boot', too. Have fun !

  15. Windows, Linux, and QEMU by Quiberon · · Score: 1 · on Novell To Ship Xen in Next Version of Suse
    The poor-mans approach ... which works perfectly well, if a little slowly ... is to make CDs which do this sort of thing http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/suse-for -windows.png

    Torrents here http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /

    In the spirit of UK National Science Week, this one works nicely http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/knosci.p ng

    They all 'autorun'. Most of them 'boot', too. Have fun !

  16. Very intimidating to freedom by Quiberon · · Score: 1 · on Music Piracy Unit Raids ISP in BitTorrent Assault
    Very intimidating to those of us who use BitTorrent for legal purposes.

    Free Linux with every Windows http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/knosci.p ng !

    Torrents here http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /. They all 'autorun'. Share and Enjoy !

  17. Very intimidating to freedom by Quiberon · · Score: 1 · on Music Piracy Unit Raids ISP in BitTorrent Assault
    Very intimidating to those of us who use BitTorrent for legal purposes.

    Free Linux with every Windows http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/knosci.p ng !

    Torrents here http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /. They all 'autorun'. Share and Enjoy !

  18. Cover the EU with prior art by Quiberon · · Score: 2, Informative · on Software Patents In The European Union Continued...
    My contribution, Linux-for-Windows, looks like this http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/k37qemu. png and this http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/kanotix- for-windows.png .

    Linux runs everywhere, and it works ! Let no-one say (in the future) that they invented some part of it, claim it's novel, and encumber it with a patent.

    Torrents available here http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /

  19. Cover the EU with prior art by Quiberon · · Score: 2, Informative · on Software Patents In The European Union Continued...
    My contribution, Linux-for-Windows, looks like this http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/k37qemu. png and this http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/kanotix- for-windows.png .

    Linux runs everywhere, and it works ! Let no-one say (in the future) that they invented some part of it, claim it's novel, and encumber it with a patent.

    Torrents available here http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /

  20. Cover the EU with prior art by Quiberon · · Score: 2, Informative · on Software Patents In The European Union Continued...
    My contribution, Linux-for-Windows, looks like this http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/k37qemu. png and this http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/kanotix- for-windows.png .

    Linux runs everywhere, and it works ! Let no-one say (in the future) that they invented some part of it, claim it's novel, and encumber it with a patent.

    Torrents available here http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /

  21. Re:coLinux and live CDs by Quiberon · · Score: 1 · on Knoppix 3.8 at CeBIT w/ Kernel 2.6, FF, and More
    No, there is no accelerator. To get the accelerator to run, you have to do some messy installation, rebooting, and admin privilege.

    This is strictly zero-footprint stuff; log on as a regular user, put in the CD (for autorunning), and wait a minute or two while it 'boots'. Everything emulated, a little slow, but it works and is fine for quite a lot of purposes. I have done an 'ssh' to a machine on another continent, and an 'xterm' back down the secure pipe; you would never know the difference from a 'proper' Linux.

    I'd recommend the 2.4 kernel ones. 2.6 kernels take 1000 timer ticks per second by default (and these are all the default ones). Even so, 'Kanotix-for-Windows' with 586 opcodes works well enough.

    Seeding 11 CDs and a DVD up a 32 kbyte/second link might take a while, but hang in there !

    http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /

    http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/k37qemu. png

    Have fun !

  22. Re:coLinux and live CDs by Quiberon · · Score: 1 · on Knoppix 3.8 at CeBIT w/ Kernel 2.6, FF, and More
    No, there is no accelerator. To get the accelerator to run, you have to do some messy installation, rebooting, and admin privilege.

    This is strictly zero-footprint stuff; log on as a regular user, put in the CD (for autorunning), and wait a minute or two while it 'boots'. Everything emulated, a little slow, but it works and is fine for quite a lot of purposes. I have done an 'ssh' to a machine on another continent, and an 'xterm' back down the secure pipe; you would never know the difference from a 'proper' Linux.

    I'd recommend the 2.4 kernel ones. 2.6 kernels take 1000 timer ticks per second by default (and these are all the default ones). Even so, 'Kanotix-for-Windows' with 586 opcodes works well enough.

    Seeding 11 CDs and a DVD up a 32 kbyte/second link might take a while, but hang in there !

    http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /

    http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/k37qemu. png

    Have fun !

  23. Re:coLinux and live CDs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative · on Knoppix 3.8 at CeBIT w/ Kernel 2.6, FF, and More
    Well, we can do Knoppix for Windows from CD ... there's a QEMU on the CD which autoruns, and the CD will boot 'real' as well so there's no waste when you have finished learning and want to take the trainer wheels off. Not highly performant under QEMU, but good enough. Treats Windows like a NAT-router-firewall (!), so networking is preconfigured.

    Torrents here

    Ubuntu Warty is fine, if a little sluggish because HZ is 1000; but that is fixable.

    Last time I tried Hoary there were slight problems with not supporting a virtual Cirrus Logic graphics adapter; hope it gets fixed.

  24. Re:coLinux and live CDs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative · on Knoppix 3.8 at CeBIT w/ Kernel 2.6, FF, and More
    Well, we can do Knoppix for Windows from CD ... there's a QEMU on the CD which autoruns, and the CD will boot 'real' as well so there's no waste when you have finished learning and want to take the trainer wheels off. Not highly performant under QEMU, but good enough. Treats Windows like a NAT-router-firewall (!), so networking is preconfigured.

    Torrents here

    Ubuntu Warty is fine, if a little sluggish because HZ is 1000; but that is fixable.

    Last time I tried Hoary there were slight problems with not supporting a virtual Cirrus Logic graphics adapter; hope it gets fixed.

  25. Re:coLinux and live CDs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative · on Knoppix 3.8 at CeBIT w/ Kernel 2.6, FF, and More
    Well, we can do Knoppix for Windows from CD ... there's a QEMU on the CD which autoruns, and the CD will boot 'real' as well so there's no waste when you have finished learning and want to take the trainer wheels off. Not highly performant under QEMU, but good enough. Treats Windows like a NAT-router-firewall (!), so networking is preconfigured.

    Torrents here

    Ubuntu Warty is fine, if a little sluggish because HZ is 1000; but that is fixable.

    Last time I tried Hoary there were slight problems with not supporting a virtual Cirrus Logic graphics adapter; hope it gets fixed.

  26. Re:coLinux and live CDs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative · on Knoppix 3.8 at CeBIT w/ Kernel 2.6, FF, and More
    Well, we can do Knoppix for Windows from CD ... there's a QEMU on the CD which autoruns, and the CD will boot 'real' as well so there's no waste when you have finished learning and want to take the trainer wheels off. Not highly performant under QEMU, but good enough. Treats Windows like a NAT-router-firewall (!), so networking is preconfigured.

    Torrents here

    Ubuntu Warty is fine, if a little sluggish because HZ is 1000; but that is fixable.

    Last time I tried Hoary there were slight problems with not supporting a virtual Cirrus Logic graphics adapter; hope it gets fixed.

  27. SuSE Linux for Windows by Quiberon · · Score: 2, Informative · on SUSE Awarded EAL4 Certification
    I've got one of these here SuSE 9.2 Live KDE for Windows. Torrent here. Lots of Linux-for-Windows torrents there, in fact.

    Have fun !

  28. SuSE Linux for Windows by Quiberon · · Score: 2, Informative · on SUSE Awarded EAL4 Certification
    I've got one of these here SuSE 9.2 Live KDE for Windows. Torrent here. Lots of Linux-for-Windows torrents there, in fact.

    Have fun !

  29. Linuxes for Windows by Quiberon · · Score: 1 · on QEMU Accelerator Achieves Near-Native Performance

    Pile of torrents at torrents for linux-under-windows isos. Look like SuSE for Windows . 2.4 kernels perform better than 2.6 ones, but all work !

  30. Linuxes for Windows by Quiberon · · Score: 1 · on QEMU Accelerator Achieves Near-Native Performance

    Pile of torrents at torrents for linux-under-windows isos. Look like SuSE for Windows . 2.4 kernels perform better than 2.6 ones, but all work !

  31. Linux under Windows by Quiberon · · Score: 1 · on Gates tried to Blackmail Danish Government
    Pile of torrents at http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents / do this sort of thing http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/k37qemu. png

    All GPL.

  32. Linux under Windows by Quiberon · · Score: 1 · on Gates tried to Blackmail Danish Government
    Pile of torrents at http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents / do this sort of thing http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/k37qemu. png

    All GPL.

  33. What's the matter with drive-by downloads ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on How VeriSign Could Stop Drive-By Downloads
    http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /SUSE-9.2-for-Windows.iso.torrent
    will get you a SUSE-Linux-for-Windows ISO.

    Not quite drive-by, becuase you'll have to register (free and anonymous), but not such a bad idea.

    Does this http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/suse-for -windows.png . Trust me.

  34. What's the matter with drive-by downloads ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on How VeriSign Could Stop Drive-By Downloads
    http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /SUSE-9.2-for-Windows.iso.torrent
    will get you a SUSE-Linux-for-Windows ISO.

    Not quite drive-by, becuase you'll have to register (free and anonymous), but not such a bad idea.

    Does this http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/suse-for -windows.png . Trust me.

  35. Windows safer than Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on MS Security Chief Says Windows is Safer Than Linux
    Windows makes a lovely NAT-router-firewall for Linux

    http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/ubuntu-h oary/virtual-warty.png Ubuntu-warty for Windows.

    Torrents here http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /

    Enjoy

  36. Windows safer than Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on MS Security Chief Says Windows is Safer Than Linux
    Windows makes a lovely NAT-router-firewall for Linux

    http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/ubuntu-h oary/virtual-warty.png Ubuntu-warty for Windows.

    Torrents here http://home.btconnect.com/chrisandcarolyn/torrents /

    Enjoy

  37. Interesting designs... by xtracto · · Score: 1 · on All Three Next-Gen Consoles at e3 2005

    Looking trough the net I found this interesting proposed design for the PS3...
    Will this be the PS3?
    At least, it looks more cool that the tower design... what do you think??

  38. other concepts.... by kc_cyrus · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Xbox 2 Concept Designs Leaked?

    Some Other Xbox 2 Concepts here

  39. Re:Why video on a screen ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft's iPod-Killer: Portable Media Center?

    Call me silly, but the last thing I want is a tiny screen for playing games , what I'd much prefer is a device the size of a gameboy or cellphone , or a bit smaller, for which I can buy a screen I can attach. That way when I buy the normal device I know that if I don't want to play games(99% of the time) I'm not going to lug around the TV screen.

    so yeah you are silly :)

  40. More specs to get the PS3 rumormill going: by Xeos+Zwei · · Score: 1 · on Playstation 3 Gathering Components

    Rumored specs taken from PS3 Resource Centre:

    This was posted by a guy named "Industry Insider" on the forums of Fatbabies (www.fatbabies.com). It's been pretty much unanimously panned by others on there as false due to the seemingly huge system specs (550Ghz processor seems more than a little unlikely), but hey...

    "Just got a faxed memo over from PR at the LA office from SCEA, seems the CPU research and final process specs are bein handed to personel and division managers to leer at today, It's the below portion that must be the test results, but looks like they generalized it to the PR ppl, they have meetings with division managers to deal with licensing and everything, so I'd thought I drop some info on what was sent to me from my division managment people. Remember this was just a memo from SCEA handed to me from my license division realtions manager.

    Sony Computer Entertainment America SCEA c.2002

    IBM Tech/Research Labs

    Sony Playstation 3 Mezzanine Rev 5/10/02 -

    Division Licensing and Departments (Coded Mem) /Dev manager Carol Russman

    Project Update Information Request:

    Sony Playstation 3 Mezzanine (Latin for Steel/Metal) Processor Data: Microprocessor: IBM Grid 256-bit at 550 Gigahertz Primary Cache: 2-way set associative,32KB instruction/32KB data cache Secondary Cache: 8MB DDR,Full Speed SDRAM Main RAM: 1GB system SDRAM Texture Memory: 104Mb/VRAM Graphics SubSystem: Pipes: 16 Graphics pipelines, up to 8 channels per pipe Raster Managers: 4 Raster Managers per pipe - 864M pixels/sec fill rate - Pixel-accurate synchronization (Genlock) and swap sync - 8.3M pixel display and 8 display channels - Full Scene Anti Aliasing, 8 subsample/pixel, 6.1B samples/second - 48-bit RGBA Color - 256MB Texture Memory with texture lookup tables for interactive volume visualization - Hardware clipmapping and real time high resolution texture paging - Subsample round points IBM Grid 256-bit Processor - High clock rate accelerates every system function (550 Ghz) - Four-way superscalar architecture, dynamic out-of-order instruction issue, and speculative execution maximize utilization of processing - Large unblocking cache keeps essential data in fast memory Playstation 3(Grid/EE4/GS4) Graphics Architecture Each PS3 graphics subsystem,or pipe, is composed of a Geometry Engine, four Raster Managers, and a display generator. - Geometry Engine: Four high performance Geometry Engine processors perform lighting calculations and geometric transformations such as translations, rotation, and scaling. Geometry Engine processor also execute image-processing functions such as convolution and histogram equalization-a more effective approach then that of CPUs. - Raster Managers: Raster Managers scan-convert data from Geometry Engine processors into digital images. Raster managers perform pixel operations, including Z buffer testing, color and transparency blending, and texture mapping- and they do so with multisample anti-aliasing at real-time rates. - Display Generator: The Display Generator converts digital data from the Raster managers into analog or digital video signals for a maximum display of more then 8 million pixels per PS3 graphics pipeline or more then 130 million pixels per system. - 1.76TB per second Bus Bandwidth/ultra low latency memory (raw memory) I thought it was kinda odd they sent it here, but I figured it was a media move by the PR to tell me to keep my tongue in check with the other divisions, has to not leak any real definitive specs at the Expo next weekend. Sometimes being the president of Nfactor Studios is hard work, but I enjoy the company here so I'll let this snippet float in here till I get some more hard information for myself, hell next I'll get order claims for dev units soon for the PS3 Mezzanine. Well till then, have fun with the possibilties of this new info. I figured it would shed a focusable attension on this new technology."

  41. Protext is still available for sale by crath · · Score: 2 · on Text-Console Based Word Processing?

    Protext---the text-based word processor that was originally released for the AtariST, Acorn, and Amtrad PC---is still available for sale. See http://home.btconnect.com/tigerteam/protext/ for more info. There isn't a Linux native version, but it is a light-weight MS-DOS program that should run under the appropriate Linux-hosted emulator.