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Better late than never. There was an article in the French newspaper "Le Figaro" on web comics recently. I'm quoted a couple times. It's in French (but I was interviewed in English.) The original article is gone from Le Figaro's website, but a copy of the series (it was part 3 of a 3 part on comics) is here.

http://bdtresor.free.fr/index.php?page=actu

It's the 11/08/2005 entry.

http://www.free.fr/ (and the other half-dozen except Wanadoo) are privately-owned companies, working off privately-funded capital.

So?

> Damned cranky ACs

Heh, yup :-)

> Have you worked with MTASC much?

Yup, we use it to build ActionStep. It's very very fast... much faster than the compiler that ships with the Flash IDE. FWIW, Nicholas Carnasse wrote it, his blog is here.

> The Macromedia IDE makes me want to
> gouge my eyes out.

Yup, it totally sucks. We use TextMate on OSX; much nicer.

The formula you link is for an hexadecimaldigit, right ? http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/pi/pi_bin/pi_bin.ht ml is for the binary digit. well,whatever, anyway. I posted about a binary digit, and someone reply about the digit in decimal base... I know enough digit to do rough calculation when I need that's all I want !

That's not exactly true, you can compute the Nth binary digit of PI without the need of the previous one. Here is the guy who discover it : http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/pi/

the joke's on you, .24/.26 suck. .21 is the only stable version. even the linked site says that.

Rich.

ever tried qemu? now add kqemu http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/kqemu-doc.html into the mix and you have something that is pretty much comparable to vmware.

strike

If you don't want to pay for VMWare, I would suggest trying out QEMU.

Ever since the "QEMU accelerator" module has been released (version 0.70), it has worked as a virtualizer as well as emulator, so you can get almost VMWare-like performance (that is, if you just want to run Windows under Linux or vice versa). QEMU itself is licensed under LGPL, the accelerator module is free as in beer (and there's another, open-source accelerator project in the works, though I'm not sure what the situation is today)

I personally think that hypervisors are overhyped (pun fun!), and that the most practical and useful form of "virtualization" is actually separation as is achieved by Solaris Zones, FreeBSD jails and (the most advanced of them all IMO) Linux Vservers. A pretty good article on it here.

Separtion carries nearly zero overhead, simplifies administration because there is one kernel and one filesystem. It allows for simple "entry" into a virtual server from the main server, and there are other subtle advantages that I can't think of right now probably....

No Xen cannot virtualize/host any OS.

Instead the OS must be modified to support it. If you look at the Xen homepage you'll see more details.

Whilst this doesn't diminish the usefulness of the project it does mean you cannot host an XP installation - like you can with Qemu , or the commerical software VMWare.

I have used Qemu extensively in the past to host installations of Windows upon my Debian machine - whilst it is not as fast as Xen promises to be it is the best around at the moment (short of spending cash!)

Make it something everybody can benefit from, like C++ in tcc. People will notice if 1) it's faster than gcc/g++ and 2) it can provide the same functionality. Maybe give the person/people interviewing you a little demonstration on how fast gcc/g++ is compared to your enhanced tcc.

If you want to pronounce it like the Greek hero, /ajax/ or /ajak_h/.

In general, in English: /ej.dZ&ks/.

I use CXS, and so can you: http://cassowary.free.fr/Linguistics/cxschart.png

Wine doesn't really have a hardware emulation level when running on x86, but when running on different architecture QEMU can be used as a hardware emulation layer under wine.

The x86 has a MUCH larger instruction set than PowerPC RISC(Reduced Instruction Set Computer) CPU, you have that backwards. The Celeron in the XBox only differs from a PIII in that it has half the cache(128K vs 256K), but you are correct that it is a Celeron.

UltraHLE and many other N64 emulators are special cases. UltraHLE is more API emulation than hardware emulation, but this is only because the most N64 games used a VERY narrow set of instructions, any game that did anything exotic has to be specially tweeked.

HA! The PIII Celeron is still a relatively modern desktop CPU with MMX and SSE, which deals with generic code with good branch prediction and out-of-order execution. This is exactly the stuff that was left out on the 360's CPU which will need very finely tuned code to perform well.

Yes, Microsoft is the best qualified company to rewrite Windows, but Windows is also probably the largest collection of kludges ever. Reimplimenting just the XBox's implementation of DirectX7 100% accurately would be an amazing feat.

Nope, but a wager would make this a lot more interesting, how about it?

Most filesystems have a command called 'dump' which allows a consistent image of a mounted filesystem to be taken. See this man page for one of them:

http://dpobel.free.fr/man/html/affiche_man.php/759 /man/dump/

Phil

http://eks0.free.fr/whax-demos/?f=Whoppix-ssh-dcom _config.xml

This post points out a problem which is covered in other posts, but perhaps in the best way.

I haven't seen any Slashdot coverage of the digital cinema spec, the loss of celluloid will change the movie industry I think. If anyone is interested in the full tech spec you can see it here.

Yeah, that's very expensive. At home I have 15Mbps/1Mbps ADSL for €29.90 a month. Tiscali sells "guaranteed bandwidth" SDSL 1.5Mbps for less than €250. That includes a 4h guaranteed repair time in case something goes wrong; I'm not sure how a T1 would be any better than that.

http://adsl.free.fr/ offers a DSL modem with voice, video, internet and wifi...

I use Avidemux as a replacement for Virtualdub. It seems to have all/most of the capabilities vdub does, but then again I don't do anything fancy with it. I'd love a non-linear video editing program for Linux that worked well, though.

For the record, I'm a SuSE fan with Ubuntu/Debian a close second/third. :)

[blockquote]but what will really be great is when someone makes a Virtual PC- or vmware-like product (perhaps even one of those products themselves) that is a virtual machine that runs under Mac OS X that allows running essentially any x86 OS at near-full speed, side by side with Mac OS X, without having to reboot.[/blockquote]

Yeah it's called qemu, check it out. http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

It could potentially be replaced by NetBSD, which has working support for Mach-style IPC in the Mach compatibility layer. NetBSD can already run some OS X programs, including XDarwin, but does not yet support Quartz. The project page hasn't been updated for a while, so I don't know what the current status is.

look here for mplayer, acroread, etc

It's simple and you would only need to send large bandwidth over for your initial backup/snapshot -
http://dar.linux.free.fr/

Step 1 - perform a full backup using 2GB DAR Slices (in case you have a 2GB filesize limit)... If you are low on space you can FTP/SCP/RSYNC the slices offsite DURING the backup, which is great!

Step 2 - generate a DAR Catalog file against the full backup/snapshot and store it on your machine.

Step 3 - The next day (or whenever you decide your filesystem has changed enough to warrant another backup), create a DAR Differential backup against the full backup catalog, and only the differences in your filesystem will be saved.

Step 4 - Store the diff offsite

Step 5 - in case of failure, restore the full backup/snapshot followed by a restore of the diff (with overwrite=on). You may also want to store your MBR in case of full failure - just use dd to do that (google for instructions)

No. This is the cover they were refering to.

>Asta lavista, Alta Vista. You have fewer lawyers.

Since when does the Terminator care about lawyers? They are only good for target practice!

Hasta La Vista, Baby!

http://mifshow01.free.fr/Amiga/Original/terminator %202.jpg

http://lom42.free.fr/images/EthernetKiller.jpg

Coding misstep forces new Firefox release

http://news.com.com/Coding+misstep+forces+new+Fire fox+release/2100-1002_3-5792635.html?tag=nefd.top


well....at least we have extensions.... here's my list:

TextZoom - because I'm blind as a bat
Adblock - use with Filterset.G from http://www.pierceive.com
Session Saver - saves tab sessions _when_ firefox crashes
Web Developer - lot of web dev options
IE View - click to view in IE
Target Alert - let's me know what I'm clicking on
ForecastFox - show forecast
FindBar Switch - makes the find bar toogle hide/un-hide with CTRL+F
Download Statusbar - much better than the download window/popup
SpellBound - because my spelling sux

..and have no idea what is going on here's the dirty video

I remember of a cool screenshot (Goatse free, Harry Potter spoiler free, pr0n free) of firefox displaying this website.

Thinking of this poor 18 million people...

While it's all well and good that Tim B-L gets all that publicity, please don't forget Robert Cailliau, who worked with TBL on the WWW at CERN (and who is - by the way - a very decent chap!). He's also been awarded the 1995 ACM Software System Award by the ACM for his work on the WWW - see http://www.acm.org/awards/ss_citations/1995A.html
See http://robert.cailliau.free.fr/ByLetter/M/Me/CV.ht ml for more details. Or read http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-286207-3
Dan.

Durring this time, I was too busy collecing MOD files and playing them back with WinMOD. Ahhh...the memories.

I assume you mean Mod4Win? Furthermore, I assume you had at least two different versions of "All That She Wants" by Ace of Bass, and at least one version of "What is Love?" By Haddaway? ;-)

I am impressed with a technology behind Rosetta. Are ther any open source projects like that?

YES, exactly like Rosetta

QEMU lets you run Linux apps compiled for another CPU architechure. So you can run PowerPC Linux apps on your X86 Linux box. QEMU is nowhere near as seemless or fast as Rosetta, but QEMU does run in two modes: user-emulation where it works like Rosetta, and system-emulation where you can run another whole OS like VMWware.

After reading your post and staring blankly at the screen for a few moments in disbelief, I can only come to the conclusion that:

A) You're a troll
B) You're drunk
or
C) You work with a bunch of saboteurs that intentionally crash their Treos to get paid downtime.

I've had my Treo 600 for about 2 years, now, and have experienced none of the problems you've described. The GP's description of no more than 1 crash per month is very accurate. Anytime it has crashed, it quickly boots right back up. I've never had to send it in to be serviced.

For those that think that a Palm is just an "organizer" and a PokcetPC is a "pocket computer", don't buy into stereotypes. I use my Treo as a computer. I have an ssh client installed that I use frequently to work on some servers I admin for. The thing came with a capable web browser, but I have many options to install something else, if I want. I also have a Samba client that works great, an FTP client, a VNC Client, and an Instant Messenger. Somebody already mentioned the superb movie player TCPMP, but that's not all, I also have a Video recorder that makes use of the Treo's built-in digital camera. I use a perl script I found to convert the video to mpeg1. I use a Photoshop-like image editor that has support for complex things like layers and blending modes. My Treo is also my mp3/ogg player and I use it to listen to podcasts in the car. I read ebooks and even /. using Plucker. I take audio notes using SoundRec. I even have a Python interpreter, and can code native apps in C right on my Palm. I won't even bother to mention all the games that are available. You can google for them yourself. I've seen apps out there for viewing/editing Word Docs and Excel files, but having never had a need for that, haven't installed them.

I would at least try querying :)

It has a nice ATI graphic chip in it, which has been put to good use in:

* A version of MAME,
* A combo SNES/Gensis/Turbo Graphix/Gameboy emulator. The SNES emu is flawless, and I'm enjoying playing a lot of games that I'd half forgotten about.
* An accelerated version of the TCPMP player
* A mess of Zodiac enabled games. I'd say that the 3D quality is somewhere between a PS1 and a PS2.
* Hexen, Doom and Quake ports by the same developer that did Little John Z.

Plus, the Zodiac 2 has Bluetooth, two SD slots (one SDIO), great widescreen display, aluminum case, and it is small. It ships with a decent mail client and a so-so web browser. It gets pretty nice battery life, too. It supports most SD wifi cards, another plus.

It has turned out to be the best entertainment and "road warrior" PDA that I've ever owned, bar none.

jh

Please be kind http://from.free.fr/hotcoffee.wmv

http://phpatm.free.fr/

*mutliple users
*automatic account registeration
*highly customizable
*great community
*tons of mods
*restrict file size
*give users own folders
*limit storage per user
*limit file types
*free/open source
*no database required, all flat file

In windows, you can do something about it. You can change the colors, change back to classic,...

Windows has, what, three colour schemes to the one in OSX? Yes, you are correct that OSX doesn't allow you to revert to outdated window styles. I'm pretty sure the only reason Windows has those is because of the performance hit you get with their OSX emulating scheme. ...change the fonts, change the sizes of things, turn the effects on and off, download TweakUI and mess with things like menu speeds and response times. With OSX... you're just stuck.

Assuming things like OnyX don't exist. The interesting thing there is that someone outside of Apple was able to figure out how to toggle those system settings. With Windows it's really a matter of what they tell you you can do.

True, neither Windows nor OSX give you the versatility of Linux. When I ran Windows I'd always replace the shell with Litestep and apply the uxtheme.dll hack. That sort of thing exists for OSX to a far lesser extent.

On the other hand, interfaces in Linux and Windows constitute a wide range of different styles that are hard for most people make sense of. Microsoft itself uses different layout systems between the operating system and its office products. In Linux you're playing with gtk or qt or possibly something else. In OSX it's all the same and consistent.

I read enough. I read the parts that give the commission more power.
Reasons to vote against would take up pages, and honestly, it doesn't matter.

The constitution was not accepted as it is, they'll either disguise it and try again, or just slowly start behaving just as if it had been accepted.

Democracy can not win this fight. There's too much apathy, too many TV-heads, believing what's fed to them without checking to make a difference.

Look at the other answer to my post. Any points there? No. Just plain beliefn and repeating the media mantra.

If you're interested, you could read this. It's precise, and for every point made, gives you the number of one or more articles that support the point.

I have yet to read the same thing from the "yes" side.

I was researching this just yesterday so I'm not surprised to see it here. That fish is a whole heckuvva lot larger than the catfish I used to catch and eat as a kid.

There are some great photos here at National Geographic's Article on the fish. My favorite photo is the one with an elderly gent cutting a steak larger than his torso. Dang! At that size I wonder if they taste any good?

Of course, Giant Catfish are the stuff of legends, and usually have a kernal of truth. (Links to other whoppers there as well)

Usually tales of the "big one that got away" or, in this case, "Catfish the size of Volkswagon Bugs" are dismissed, but according to Loren Coleman's "Mysterious America" (March 2004 ed. /My affiliate link), Chapter 10, even Mark Twain claims to have seen one more than six feet long and weighing 250 pounds in the Mississippi River. (How he managed to weigh it is not recorded ^_-). But cryptozoologists still try to hunt them down, even this summer as reported here. Chester Moore, the organizer of the event, claims that preservation is their goal as well as discovery. This is the biggest North American expedition to research cryptid catfish I've heard of, so it will be interesting to see if they get lucky. They'll need to discover the fish first, though, before talking about preservation. ::)

Preservation of giant catfish is part of the WWF's mission, too, in Thailand & Cambodia. Just this month four giant catfish bred in captivity were released into the Mekong. So Giant Catfish are real in the Amazon, Europe, Asia, etc., but cryptozoological here in the States. Would be cool if they weren't, though.

This psuedoreport brought to you by Insomnia(TM)

:p

I do backups with dar http://dar.linux.free.fr/ on my sever system and on my workstation. The server copy I send to my workstation with scp, and the workstation copy I send to my server. Both are checked with an md5sum when they arrive to ensure they came to the other side without corruption or lost bytes.

The chanses for both systems to break at the same time is kind of slim. Unless of course a case of fire occurs. But then I've got bigger problems then lost data to care about.

QEMU allows you to launch apps compiled for a different CPU on Linux. So it is probably technically possible to run HL2 on LinuxPPC.

http://oooconv.free.fr/wikipedia/
OOoConv's OOoWikipedia plugin...

http://oooconv.free.fr/wikipedia/wikipedia_en.html

My experiences with wireless support have been great. But I run a Centrino, which isn't really uncommon hardware. I have used both NDISulator and Damien Bergaminis excellent ipw driver. I recommend using the latter to anyone using a Centrino-based laptop, it works flawlessly.

QEMU is getting quite good on Linux-X86 and is already ported to OSX. If the accelerator module gets ported to OSX-X86 then there will be little reason for a VirtualPC for OSX-X86.

MOD4Win had "multiple data display", "database features", and "music control" in 1993. Not to mention that NeXTSTEP had the scrolling file chooser interface used by iTunes, many years prior to 1996. If anything, Apple might be able to countersue for this company copying *their* interface!

Sorry, their arguments aren't holding water. And I still don't see any player pianos. :-/

Unfortunately not... and that's part of the problem.

If so, then you may have a legitimate concern. However, if as I suspect it is not, then the system would seem to be working as it was designed and you may have a bigger fight on your hands than just one piece of legislation if you expect to stop this thing.

Indeed. Rules of procedure of the EU are fundamentally flawed. And this will still be the case with the new constitution (thing improve somewhat... with the new constitution the elected body (EP) will at least be able to vote on the budget. Wow, big deal! but it still has not rights of initiatives to propose new laws, and there are still many areas of legislation where the EP will have no say whatsoever.. Moreover the new constitution explicitly provides for protection of all kinds of intellectual properties, without defining which legal concepts IP actually encompasses. And unlike the US constitution, the EU constitution will mandate no term limits on intellectual property, and allows IP protection even where it discourages progress.

If you are lucky enough to live in a country where there is a referendum about the constitution, please consider its impact on the software patent question, as well as its impact on democracy in general!