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I use rdiff-backup for actual incremental backups. rdiff-backup is based on librsync and works amazingly well. There are a few spites such as a lack of checksums and non-numerical user ID's which can be dangerous when restoring a full system, but overall it is very impressive.

If you're solely using (external) HD's for your backups, you'll like DAR (Disk ARchive) even better than rsync/rdiff-backup.

Process Explorer is overkill for this purpose. Unlocker works nicely. http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/index.htm#redirec t

Try QEMU instead.

This is the big one really. If you want a fixed mandated core set of libraries that the user is forced to install... well, grab yourself a nice mandated controlled system like OS X, because Linux probably isn't what you're looking for. In theory you could just set up a distribution that has such a guaranteed base set of libraries, and in a sense some already exist - try Linspire, or Xandros. The catch is that people write applications for "Linux" not "Debian, stable" or "Linspire 3.1" or whatever. Given a random open source application it will make whatever assumptions about libraries it cares to - it's up to the packages to make sure those dependencies are met. FOSS applications tend to be coded against "whatever system the developer cared to use" rather than specific distributions and versions. Commercial developers maybe? Well they do have requirements - Oracle requires particular versions of Redhat in standard installs. Other commercial developers can do that if they like. Alternatively they could accept that the Linux world is a diverse world and restricting yourself to the one distribution that is guaranteed to have everything you want where you want it is a little limiting. You can always use Autopackage and handle the dependency issue elegantly in a way that's effectively invisible to the user.

In response to that is LSB. Linux Standard Base sets a set of libraries so if an app is released under LSB, it should work on any distro that supports LSB. Mandrake/Mandriva support LSB, and is LSB compliant. There is an optional package on installation for LSB system stuff. See picture for picture.

This guy must be from Rocky Planet: http://theteatime.free.fr/talc/rocky.html

I know he's the guy behind ffmpeg (used by most *nix media players) and the excellent qemu emulator that I use every day.

Here.

This reporter doesn't seem to understand that even if the Apple Intel Macs run Windows OS, you still will not be able to run Macintosh apps on Windows XP/Longhorn.

Uhm, why not? NetBSD has a COMPAT_DARWIN option that has already progressed far enough to run command-line OS X applications as well as XDarwin on any PowerPC machine. I will expect this work to be ported to the i386 and x86_64 platforms once OS X86 is released. I'll be quite excited when I can run the iLife suite of applications on my NetBSD workstations!

I don't know why they needed NASA for that. Pifast will spit out the first 40,000th digits in a very short time on modern computers. A million is a reasonable benchmarking number for that program. Finding the 40,000th digit in the text file takes longer than calculating it.

Something along the lines of this? http://agnostica.free.fr/images/piss_on_intel.gif

"The ceiling has a sort of mauvy pink color, not dissamilar to your Grandmother's slippers, the walls are mostly red." That programmer was probably taking his cue from Proxomitron. http://tempalternatif.free.fr/proxomitron/conf.jpg

QEmu + Accelerator Module runs more or less as fast as VMWare, and costs nothing. I'm running a win 2003 evaluation version on it at 33-50% native speed without glitches.
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

Or, perhaps more interesting, run NetBSD and run Aqua in the Darwin compatibility layer, which would simply direct any system calls pertaining to the custom hardware to an emulated device.

I've owned the JBMM20 and the AV300 - the great-grandfather and grandfather of the AV700 - and I have to say that they're amazing pieces of technology. They run embedded firmware on the DSC25 that is compatible with linux so you can run Linux on it if you really want. The video playback on the AV300 is stunning, even at 352x240 resolution: you can read subtitles clear as day. It has decent quality sound (much better if you get a nicer pair of headphones like the Seinnheiser HD280 Pro), a bright lcd screen and 3-4 hours of video playback on the "Low Brightness" option which ironically is quite bright still. Oh yeah... and it plays DiVX

For anyone that's interested, don't even think about getting the bigger harddrive model. Both old and new models use standard 3.5" laptop harddrives, which means you can buy one off of PriceWatch and slap it in there. Just format it with a FAT boot sector first and you're good to go.

iCab predates not only WebCore, but even MacOS X by several years.

And it lived on the Atari ST (and descendants) for several years before that, too, as CAB - the Crystal Atari Browser. It got fairly advanced, too...

They claim that Konqueror is the second browser to pass the Acid2 test, but in fact iCab (on Mac OS X) was second :

http://frederic.bezies.free.fr/blog/index.php?2005 /05/22/24-acid2-icab-%20le-premier-vainqueur

way to go OS X browsers :-)

Take for instance, Frozen Bubble. Great game play and highly addictive, got a lot of people to use Linux who didn't before.

too bad frozen bubbles is now ported to java and any system that has java can run it.

What about freeing (aka GPL'ing) the QEMU Accelerator module with a certain part of the money?

Newton still beats the pants out of any PDA even today!
Can a Palm pilot run a web server?
Newton sure can do!
http://newton.splorp.com:8080/

Thanks to NPDS: http://npds.free.fr/

Well it certainly could be, with Newton Personal Data Sharing.

http://npds.free.fr/

I just picked up a cheap Tapwave Zodiac, and combined with a Palm-based emulator app called Little John Z (http://yoyofr92.free.fr/ljz/), it's a killer handheld emulation device. GB/GBC and NES ROMs play perfectly, and some Genesis and SNES games as well. The best thing is that it doubles the resolution for the games *and* adds antialiasing so no jaggies.

While waiting for the new PSP to be hacked (or for Sony to get a clue and open the platform up) go get yourself a Zodiac.

More thoughts on my weblog: http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008484.htm l

-Russ

I believe you are looking for QEMU, but as the last poster pointed out it isn't 100% perfect(although it is quite good). Depending on how you use QEMU it can be quite fast, however nothing is going to beat testing on real hardware.

I would give most anything for a working media player for OS X that plays oggs, flacs, and maybe shns.

Just install the QuckTime OGG and FLAC components and iTunes will be able to play them fine.

http://qtcomponents.sourceforge.net/
http://damien.drix.free.fr/qtflac/

Good Luck!

That's also what they would say if they were designing APIs in a XBox1 work-alike setup. Recompiling an Xbox1 game doesn't mean a complete rewrite. A lot of what they would be doing to get Xbox1 games to compile for the XBox360 is writing APIs that act exactly like they did on the XBox1. The XBox360 development enviroment is going to be very similar to the XBox1.

Creating a work-alike API for the XBox1 would be very hard, but definately possible. I'm not sure with the hardware they announced that a simple binary emulator(like the current Virtual PC) would work at all.

If they go with an emulator I'd guess they would pass as many API calls to the host as possible, similar to what DarWine is trying to do with QEMU. You can currently only use DarWine to compile windows programs on MacOSX, but x86 binary compatability is planned for the second phase.

Microsoft definately has their work cut out for them wether they are emulating or recompiling. If they can't get at least 75% of XBox1 games working on the XBox360 at launch, then announcing backwards compatability is going to hurt them rather then help them.

What about apt? apt-proxy? apt torrent, if you don't want to hammer your servers?

Seriously, why would anyone *doubt* that delivering software is much better than linux? If there's something wrong in windows, is software packaging and delivery. Did you realized how you 3rd party programs don't have methods to update automatically? (hell, lots of programs even need to be uninstalled by hand before installing the new version, no "upgrade" support)

In Linux, you have things like APT. With APT, you can update ALL your software, not just the a few Microsoft apps. You can configure it like tou want, adding several lines from different servers in your sources.list, setting priorities in apt.conf, use P2P to automate it with a cron job. We are years ahead of Microsoft in this are, IMNSHO.

Here's the movie poster, if anybody missed it the first itme.

Here here and here

http://fcron.free.fr/

(For reference, let's review the procedure for obtaining broadband in the U.S. Step #1: Call up your cable or DSL provider, walk through the options, and decide what you want. Step #2: Receive and install the modem, or have an installer do it for you. Step #3: There is no Step #3!)

Oh, yes there is. Pay, pay, pay, and pay some more. 512kbps/256kbps broadband for my parents in KY? $45/mo. In France, I get 8Mbps/512Mbps ADSL for 15Euro/mo ($20/mo) or 20Mbps/1Mbps ADSL2 for 30Euro/mo.

Sometimes you get bad luck, and that's all there is to it. But I'd rather have a run of bad luck, and pay next to nothing, then have it instantly work, at miserable bandwidths, for gobs of money. It's amazing what a little bit of competition combined with a sensible urban growth policy (basically NOBODY lives more than a few km away from a DSLAM) gives.

The same guy came up with a new proof that allows computation in any base, check it out http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/pi/pi_n2/pi_n2.html

That would be MyTV

http://www.mytv.free.fr/

I wonder if he talks about how he FORCE CHOKES PADME TO DEATH at the end of ROTS.

Ummm. Well, there's DAR and there's kdar. I think there's even a win32 version for the clueless.

It doesn't get much easier than this. You can have a sane, incremental backup setup in a single line cronjob or even point and click one up.

If that's not simple enough for you then you have no business of storing or working with sensible data.

The only Laszlo I know is Laszlo Carreidas, "the millionnaire who never laugh" in Flight 714. The first link show him as it is hypnotized by aliens. Not the best album in the collection.

Air Foyle HeavyLift does charter that single flying AN-225 that is considered "the world's largest aircraft". (specifications)

It's too bad Anakin force-chokes Padme to death at the end of Return of the Sith. She was a hot piece of ass.

Actually, Debian could drop most of their mirrors by using apt-torrent, people would download all their packages with torrent (which fits very well in the APT model, just add a deb http://127.0.0.1:6968/ line to your sources.list) and mirrors wouldn't be neccesary.

Only MD5's and PGP signs would have to be stored at debian.org servers - to save yourself from hacked packages.

pretty much every compiler around goes through the following steps: (a) make an abstract syntax tree from the source code, (b) optimize it, and (c) output machine code.

I'm not 100% sure about its internal processing, but I believe tcc either skips some of that or has it all so blended together that the steps aren't very distinct.

it's far more useful to support tons of languages at little extra effort than to drop all alternate languages for a minor performance gain.

In the case of tcc, the design and lack of extra functionality (or admittedly even complete standards compliance) provides a huge speedup at compile time. It's almost shocking to see it blast through code when you're used to working with a recent gcc.

It's so fast that for small programs it can be used as a loader to compile and run C code as if it were a scripting language, with no discernable startup time. Consider that tcc has demonstrated booting a Linux kernel from source in 15 seconds.

pretty much every compiler around goes through the following steps: (a) make an abstract syntax tree from the source code, (b) optimize it, and (c) output machine code.

I'm not 100% sure about its internal processing, but I believe tcc either skips some of that or has it all so blended together that the steps aren't very distinct.

it's far more useful to support tons of languages at little extra effort than to drop all alternate languages for a minor performance gain.

In the case of tcc, the design and lack of extra functionality (or admittedly even complete standards compliance) provides a huge speedup at compile time. It's almost shocking to see it blast through code when you're used to working with a recent gcc.

It's so fast that for small programs it can be used as a loader to compile and run C code as if it were a scripting language, with no discernable startup time. Consider that tcc has demonstrated booting a Linux kernel from source in 15 seconds.

It will give us a better understanding of midichlorians.

My iMac was the slot-loading type, and in that model the power supply is part of the analog board, and is so integrated with the video circuitry that power is achieved only if the CRT is working. The only way to run a slot-loading iMac without the CRT is to remove the motherboard and adapt an ATX power supply to it (which I have in fact done with the board from a dead iMac DV). Even the external mirrored SVGA connector doesn't work without the internal video connector hooked up, so I had to adapt that to a monitor cable to get useable video.

The slot-loaders are a pain to do all this with, so few have bothered. Here are a couple web pages on how to do this if anyone is interested:

http://www.ct-scan.com/iMacATX
http://pascal.monte.free.fr/imac (Frech site)

Some time I should really get around to putting my own conversion on the web.

Nevertheless, MS has cleverly played the...
With MS you can run LInux but with LInux you can't run MS card...

The product referred to in the article is the formerly Connectix VirtualPC, originally a Mac product for running Windows under the MacOS. Then Connectix added support for Linux, so the ability to run Linux inside a VirtualPC isn't really new, and Microsoft didn't have to write any code to do this. Of course, I don't understand what all the fuss is about when a Free and Open Source product called QEMU does pretty much everything VirtualPC does and it actually runs under Linux (and others), as well as supports a whole bunch of guest OS's.

Probably something along these lines:

http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/lftbld.htm

http://jnaudin.free.fr/lifters/main.htm

Probably something along these lines:

http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/lftbld.htm

http://jnaudin.free.fr/lifters/main.htm

Here is another comparison site that compares the usual things like speed, and screen (if there is one) as well as things that other promotional sites often forget to mention like battery life and autonomy. I found it really useful when I bought mine, but it hasn't been updated for a while, and doesn't have some of the more recent models.

"Delphine Software ended with a bankruptcy and liquidation in july 2004 ! End of the story."

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