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I'm betting on an old Newton.

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Archive Testing

thanks to CRC (cyclic redundancy checks), dar is able to detect data corruption in the archive. Only the file where data corruption occurred will not be possible to restore, but dar will restore the other even when compression is used.


Parchive http://parchive.sourceforge.net/:

Parchive: Parity Archive Volume Set

The original idea behind this project was to provide a tool to apply the data-recovery capability concepts of RAID-like systems to the posting and recovery of multi-part archives on Usenet. We accomplished that goal. Our new goal with version 2.0 of the specification is to improve. It extends the idea of version 1.0 and takes the recovery process beyond the file-level barrier. This allows for more effective protection with less recovery data, and removes some previous limitations on the number of recoverable parts. See Par1 compared to Par2 for a more detailed view of the differences.

- Speaks fluent international "caveman".

It's nice to see more interest in 'caveman', unlike dying languages such as Latin or 'Furby'.

Although 'caveman' is not a selection at Babel Fish yet.

I've heard that the HF+ patch to parted rocks and is able to non destructivly repartition HFS+ hard disks. So you don't need to format.

It is avaliable from:
http://xilun666.free.fr/

You should still back up really important data before repartitioning.

Daryl

Mac on Linux is what the open source world should try and create for the Windows world.

You may want to check qemu, which does JIT compilation of x86 code for a number of targets (including x86 and PPC). I've only tested it with DR-DOS and Windows 3.1 myself, but it reportedly runs Windows 98; Windows 2000 reportedly still has problems.

It was the OS on the Nokia 9110 Communicator. The CPU was a 33Mhz AMD i486 clone, and there was a working port of Freedos (there was talk of Linux and BSD ports, but I don't think they ever happened). I had this phone before the mobile operators in Ireland were really aware of cellular internet access; they used to allow (9.6k GSM) internet access for only 1p/minute (e.g. the same as the fixed line price). With the full keyboard it was a very handy tool for email and telnet, although web-surfing was a bit of a pain. Still faster than my 1200/75 C-64 modem though!

Of course, Wine doesn't run on PPC hardware without an emulator as well: in this case QEMU. It looks like QEMU may be starting to develop PPC emulation on x86.

Another reason is that the sensors aren't built to look at something as bright as Earth, so they'd be blinded permanently.

The KH-12 satellite is reportedly a modified Hubble (that might even be the other way around) that IS designed to look at Earth, though, so it's been done already. Here's a picture - tiny, but the resemblance is there. Notice that the dish antenna is in a different spot, if this picture is accurate.

a quote from their readme.txt:
The packed python22.dll adds less than 400k to the installer executable. One disadvantage stays so far: dependecy have to be tracked manually. If an extension module is used (py or pyd) it must be packed in the installer.

that seems like a fair bit; or am I just misjudging the size of the scripting engine? Using python scripting for python programs, that makes sense, though.

Dear Free Software friends,

A self organized development hosting facility, Gnaa! (Gnaa is Not An Acronym), is available to all Libre Software developpers and users at http://gnaa.org/. It was created in January 2004 and is offering the same services as Savannah and SourceForge.net.

Philosophically, Gnaa! follows the lead of the Free Software Foundation. Projects hosted on Gnaa! will be distributed under licensing terms compatible with each other so that they can be mixed freely. Running these projects on your own machine will not require any non-free software.

The self organized side of Gnaa! means that it is run by its users. Anyone is welcome to contribute to the maintainance of the hardware and software platform. Entering the Gnaa! maintainers team can happen within the hour : propose yourself, answer support requests if you can, provide a patch to implement the feature you want. No contribution will be ignored or discarded: if you make a mistake we rely on you to fix it.

Because Gnaa! is philosophically and technically compatible with Savannah, we started to implement an import/export procedure so that projects can move freely between Gnaa! and Savannah. The compromission of Savannah last year showed that it is critical to have many Free Software development facilities where projects can be backed up easily.

Happy Hacking,

About:
Gnaa! has been started in January 2004 by Loic Dachary (Savannah's project iniator), Mathieu Roy (myself, deeply involved in Savannah since 2002) and Vincent Caron (involved in Savannah since the summer 2003). The hardware is provided by the Free Software Foundation France and the bandwidth is offered by Free, a French Internet Services Provider.

Six Screenshots of KDE's Eye "K"andy for your eyeballs to delish

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Learning to expand an existing OS, and there are plenty of small ones to choose from, will teach you much more than building your own one from scratch.

An x86 based PowerPC emulator does exist. look here
runs in x86 Linux but requires a new world mac rom image to run.

Screenshots are here

Downloadable source here

qemu is what you'd want for ppc. It's MUCH faster.

The bird probably survived because woodpeckers should be well equipped to deal with head-shocking events.

It's not often that you get to see these birds close up, not to mention hold them and quitely look at them. Quite an experience.

Fabrice Bellard just keeps amazing me. Every few years his name pops up with the most amazing stuff. From compressing DOS-EXE's better than PKlite when he was seventeen to calculating the trillionth binary digit of pi, this guy just never stops. Now an x86, ARM, SPARC, and PowerPC emulator using dynamic recompilation. Jeez! We've got to get this guy working on a cure for cancer.

Fabrice Bellard just keeps amazing me. Every few years his name pops up with the most amazing stuff. From compressing DOS-EXE's better than PKlite when he was seventeen to calculating the trillionth binary digit of pi, this guy just never stops. Now an x86, ARM, SPARC, and PowerPC emulator using dynamic recompilation. Jeez! We've got to get this guy working on a cure for cancer.

Bochs is really a debugging tool for people writing their own OS. It's written to be accurate and portable, not fast or convenient. For those of us not writing our own operating systems, we're just not the target audience.

I've already extolled the virtues of QEMU's interesting capabilities and much greater speed. It's also I think a little easier to use than Bochs. It's not point and click, but it's a little more UNIX-friendly: you can run it from the command line in a sane manner compared with trying to cobble together a cryptic configuration file for Bochs.

QEMU isn't perfect, though. While the latest release will run Windows 98, it may spontaneously crash during installation, etc, and so far only runs under Linux (though a Darwin port is in the works).

Bochs is really a debugging tool for people writing their own OS. It's written to be accurate and portable, not fast or convenient. For those of us not writing our own operating systems, we're just not the target audience.

I've already extolled the virtues of QEMU's interesting capabilities and much greater speed. It's also I think a little easier to use than Bochs. It's not point and click, but it's a little more UNIX-friendly: you can run it from the command line in a sane manner compared with trying to cobble together a cryptic configuration file for Bochs.

QEMU isn't perfect, though. While the latest release will run Windows 98, it may spontaneously crash during installation, etc, and so far only runs under Linux (though a Darwin port is in the works).

QEMU's not as mature as Bochs, but it's much faster, based on dynamic translation; you might think of it as a little more like a JIT compiler than an emulator. The other really interesting thing about QEMU is that in addition to a full-machine emulation mode, it can run Linux binaries from one architecture directly, translating the system call parameters as necessary. In theory at least you should be able to run binary-only x86 software -- or win32 programs on Wine -- on Linux-PPC for instance.

If you want a free, open-source and (fairly) portable x86 emulator that provides better performance than Bochs then you could do far worse than QEMU. It uses a nifty dynamic recompilation techinque for its CPU emulation which gives much better speed than Bochs's interpretive emulation while remaining relatively easy to port.

It's a young project, and it has a long way to go before it'll be a real alternative to VMWare for most people, but it's getting there pretty quickly - the recently released 0.5.2 can already run Windows 98.

Actually, PPC emulation on x86 has been added to SheepShaver by Gwenole Beauchesne. Currently its only for Linux and can run up to Mac OS 8.6 with support for some new world roms. More info here.

Actually, PPC emulation on x86 has been added to SheepShaver by Gwenole Beauchesne. Currently its only for Linux and can run up to Mac OS 8.6 with support for some new world roms. More info here.

qemu seems to do emulation right. It would be nice if the emulation community would get behind it.

Copper will lift with current applied using the Biefeld-Brown effect discovered by Thomas Townsend Brown in 1928.

This is a real effect, NASA has patented its use.

Many people around the world have created small anti-gravity lifters with this effect.

How about this little beauty: Russian Roulette for Kids

Unfortunately, this write-up is totally screwed up. The intended emulator is QEMU, which can already be used on PPC/Linux to run Wine at speeds aproaching native speeds. I posted a link to the forum where this is discussed elsewhere, but here it is again.

QEMU is a dynamic translator that decompiles x86 executables and recompiles them into PPC, caching the results. You can find the qemu project here.

Not only will this work, but it will work FAST. In fact, it will probably even be possible to drop windows DLLs onto your mac in the same way that you drop them onto Linux in order to get Wine to work better (using native windows DLLs instead of Wine clean-room versions). Remember, QEMU is a dynamic translator.

With this solution windows system calls will run native, with VirtualPC they run emulated. Could be faster if they speed up bochs. Looking at the site it seems they are going for QEMU though (FAQ)

Amish Paradise was the one where Coolio publicly stated he hadn't given permission

According to their FAQ, they aren't using Bochs for x86 emulation, but QEMU. I have no experience with QEMU, but according to some of the posts on Darwine's sourceforge message board, it's much much faster than Bochs. I wish these guys luck. I'd love to have wine running on OS X.

from

this review of the CD-32 version: "You are a pirate (of course). The object of this game is to retire with high social standing, having amassed a large fortune. How do you do this? To acquire wealth, you sack towns and other ships, and search for buried treasure. To acquire social standing, you play the game of politics with the governments in the game (England, France, Holland, and Spain). This might involve getting married to a governor's daughter, doing missions for the government, and attacking that government's enemies."

2) Kid Icarus

"Immediately after Kid Icarus' debut alongside Metroid, the two games were about equally popular, but gradually Metroid began to pull ahead. NES players clamored for sequels to both games, but Nintendo strangely left both series stagnant for years, finally resurrecting them on the original Game Boy of all places. Kid Icarus: Of Myth and Monsters on the Game Boy was a respectable outing for Pit, but sadly it was to be his last. Metroid, of course, went on for further sequels on the SNES, GBA, and GameCube. Additional Kid Icarus installments have never appeared despite persistent rumors to the contrary. One wonders why Nintendo doesn't make another KI sequel in this age of remakes and rehashes. Certainly there are plenty of people who'd welcome a return to Angel Land. But until a new sequel emerges, we'll have to content ourselves with halcyon memories of this wacky place, forever filled with plucky angels and evil eggplants."

3) Blaster Master

"Jason had a pet frog named Fred. One morning Fred started to jump around in his fish bowl and was making a lot of noise. Jason woke up and took Fred out to see if he was ok, but when he did, Fred made a dash for the door. Jason chased after his pet. Fred was on the move, he was heading for the swamps, once out there he saw a huge radioactive chest. As Fred got closer and eventually jumped on it, he started to change, he was getting bigger. It didn't take long before Fred and the chest both fell through the earth. Jason, wanting to get his pet, jumped in after him. When Jason landed he found himself. alone, next to a huge armoured vehicle.

As Jason looked over the car-like-tank a girl stepped out with long red hair and a freckled face. She said her name was Yvtrkizj, her Earth name was Eve and that she was from a planet called Signar-el. Eve gave him a radioactive protection suit and invited him into the tank. She told him the name of the vehicle was SOPHIA The 3rd: NORA MA-01. She told him about the Plutonium Boss, and what he had done to her home planet.

He lived underground, growing more powerful with the peoples wastes. Once he had grown powerful enough, he attacked the people, and destroyed them, but with them gone, his source of food was decreasing. He set out from the planet in search of another, and found Earth. Eve had taken the last of her planets weapons, SOPHIA The 3rd, and came to try and destroy the Plutonium Boss before he could destroy Earth.

This wasn't just about getting his pet frog, Fred, back anymore, this was about saving the Earth. Jason set out on a journey to save Earth from certain doom."

4) Strider

"The Striders are a global organization of infiltration specialists who work to combat villainy and keep the world safe. From their orbital space station, the Blue Dragon, they are able to quickly reach anywhere in the world.

Hiryu is one of the top striders. He is given the task by Vice-Director Matic, of finding another captured strider, Kain. But rather than mount a rescue, Hiryu is told his assignment is to kill

from

this review of the CD-32 version: "You are a pirate (of course). The object of this game is to retire with high social standing, having amassed a large fortune. How do you do this? To acquire wealth, you sack towns and other ships, and search for buried treasure. To acquire social standing, you play the game of politics with the governments in the game (England, France, Holland, and Spain). This might involve getting married to a governor's daughter, doing missions for the government, and attacking that government's enemies."

2) Kid Icarus

"Immediately after Kid Icarus' debut alongside Metroid, the two games were about equally popular, but gradually Metroid began to pull ahead. NES players clamored for sequels to both games, but Nintendo strangely left both series stagnant for years, finally resurrecting them on the original Game Boy of all places. Kid Icarus: Of Myth and Monsters on the Game Boy was a respectable outing for Pit, but sadly it was to be his last. Metroid, of course, went on for further sequels on the SNES, GBA, and GameCube. Additional Kid Icarus installments have never appeared despite persistent rumors to the contrary. One wonders why Nintendo doesn't make another KI sequel in this age of remakes and rehashes. Certainly there are plenty of people who'd welcome a return to Angel Land. But until a new sequel emerges, we'll have to content ourselves with halcyon memories of this wacky place, forever filled with plucky angels and evil eggplants."

3) Blaster Master

"Jason had a pet frog named Fred. One morning Fred started to jump around in his fish bowl and was making a lot of noise. Jason woke up and took Fred out to see if he was ok, but when he did, Fred made a dash for the door. Jason chased after his pet. Fred was on the move, he was heading for the swamps, once out there he saw a huge radioactive chest. As Fred got closer and eventually jumped on it, he started to change, he was getting bigger. It didn't take long before Fred and the chest both fell through the earth. Jason, wanting to get his pet, jumped in after him. When Jason landed he found himself. alone, next to a huge armoured vehicle.

As Jason looked over the car-like-tank a girl stepped out with long red hair and a freckled face. She said her name was Yvtrkizj, her Earth name was Eve and that she was from a planet called Signar-el. Eve gave him a radioactive protection suit and invited him into the tank. She told him the name of the vehicle was SOPHIA The 3rd: NORA MA-01. She told him about the Plutonium Boss, and what he had done to her home planet.

He lived underground, growing more powerful with the peoples wastes. Once he had grown powerful enough, he attacked the people, and destroyed them, but with them gone, his source of food was decreasing. He set out from the planet in search of another, and found Earth. Eve had taken the last of her planets weapons, SOPHIA The 3rd, and came to try and destroy the Plutonium Boss before he could destroy Earth.

This wasn't just about getting his pet frog, Fred, back anymore, this was about saving the Earth. Jason set out on a journey to save Earth from certain doom."

4) Strider

"The Striders are a global organization of infiltration specialists who work to combat villainy and keep the world safe. From their orbital space station, the Blue Dragon, they are able to quickly reach anywhere in the world.

Hiryu is one of the top striders. He is given the task by Vice-Director Matic, of finding another captured strider, Kain. But rather than mount a rescue, Hiryu is told his assignment is to kill

The Lynx port of Xenophobe was quite good. I think it holds up favorably after -- eep! -- 14 years. I feel old now :)

Emulator can be found here, and a system BIOS here.

...right here!

~Philly

I really like how so many PPC based OS's are coming out, morphos, amigaos, etc. And with QEMU allowing cpu emulation on the PPC, soon it wont matter which CPU you have, you can run any OS you want.

Are we almost near processor independance day?

Yep. The filter calculations are carried out in more bits in order to prevent roundoff errors, but the output is in 16 or maybe 18 bits resolution at this high sample rate. Google for "dac oversampling bits spectrum", there are plenty of web pages that explain things, e.g. oversampling filters and noise spectra. (I have seen better ones, but I'm not sure what exactly I googled for last time)

It is next to impossible to make a DAC that can create a voltage with more than 18 bits resolution because of the tight tolerances that are required. In a 1-bit DAC, the voltage-resolution problem is translated into a kind of duty-cycle modulation with just 1 bit of resolution. Those DACs oversample with 64x or more and run internally at 3 MHz. It's amusing when people complain that sound cards have too much RF interference with the mother board while the DAC itself is running at 3 MHz together with a DSP processor (pentium-100 performance) integrated on the same chip. This DAC is designed to generate noise in the 200 kHz+ region with a 5 V amplitude... (Cheap-sound-card noise comes from a noisy power supply and a cheap buffer amplifier between the filter and the connector, not from RF interference)

The French were right 30 years ago by scrapping the Aerotrain project (pictures, films) in favour of the TGV...

The French were right 30 years ago by scrapping the Aerotrain project (pictures, films) in favour of the TGV...

The French were right 30 years ago by scrapping the Aerotrain project (pictures, films) in favour of the TGV...

I had a copy of "Pirates! Gold" and whenever you happened to encounter another pirate ship you had to look up the name of the pirate which corresponded with whatever flag it showed you in the manual. I loved the game, so I dug up the CD a year or two ago and started playing, only to realize I'd lost the manual...

If you haven't played Pirates! Gold maybe you've seen Pirates! 2, which I have unfortunately not played..(I'm poor and don't get out much). Regardless, it's a GREAT game which has given me countless hours of entertainment, and the packaging and manual were great to boot (woohoo I'm double-on-topic.. pause..). The linked site has the entire thing in PDF, which makes me regret having now lost my Pirates! CD.. as if the irony in the last paragraph wasn't enough. :P

This story is pretty stupid, like a lot of so-called tech news story posted at various sites, born of ignorance and perpetuated by folks too lazy to do any research, and analyzed by folks who know nothing about the topic.

Don't forget commented upon by extremely grumpy folks who feel so insulted by the wasted 5 seconds of their life spent skimming the summary of the story that they have to spend 30 minutes writing a response complaining about a lack of free upgrades and enumerating known problems with known workarounds.

I'm glad you like your Sigmarion III... It looks like a nice device. But at 4 times the size of an average palm pilot, I have to wonder why you didn't just get a Sony Picturebook. The Newton, while an interface standard that all other devices should aspire to, was also frickin huge.

I like the clarity of purpose of the palm pilot. True, it was conceived in a non-networked environment, but the functionality that they provided in a 68000 was both minimalist and astonishing. It wasn't conceived as a Laptop Lite, as you seem to want, but as an Organizer Plus. Keep appointments, backup passwords, organize your thoughts, plan strategies. SSH? "Real development work?" no, the 100 dollar Palm Pilot doesn't do as much as the 1,000 dollar Newton with it's powerful 20 MHZ arm processor and it's eventual TCP/IP stack. But that's not what it was envisioned for. Look at the internals sometime and realize just how much they have accomplished with so little.

That's not to say that I'm rushing out to buy a palm-based smart phone before OS6 ships, but know your tools before you complain that your hammer is defective because it doesn't drive your screws in.

Since VMS was mentioned, I'd like to let people know about this project:
FreeVMS (Mailing list archive)

It's based on Linux for the moment, but it'll split eventually. Despite the homepage being a bit out of date, the project is alive; in fact I'm working on cleaning up the code a bit.

Click me.

Ok, ok... Yea, it looks more like an Evil Aibo... damn.

Isn't this similarity striking?

The machines would sell like hot cakes if they would advertise with Ripley...

Through Free I get roughly 2MBps/400kbps, plus free national phone through ADSL, and ADSL TV (though I don't have a TV but it's included anyway).

There's no cap whatsoever, and in fact at some times I get up to 8Mbps download, like around 5AM. I also have a static IP for free. The main drawback is that it's not very reliable, mainly because of their homegrown set top box -- they had design their own since no OEM has an ADSL+TV+Phone set top box on their catalog. No setup fee. The only extra fee is when you cancel the line, costs you 100, decreases with time down to 0 after a couple years. Modem is free and included.

Quite a good deal.

I completely agree that my previous post lacked precision and was misguiding. There are a lot of conditions that determine the colour of a planet's sky, and I don't have those required informations for Mars, so I went and downloaded Maestro. The colored pictures taken with the PANCAM that are available where assembled from seperate channel pictures then corrected using filter response data. Here's the result. I upped the contrast a bit. Mars' sky is light blue.

You are wrong. The sky's color comes mainly from the scattering of light, which has to do with the wavelength of light. That's why the sky is blue on virtually every planet.

Check this panoramic photo (warning, 4.1 MB). Here's a small example of what it should look like to human eyes, without the stupid NASA red tint. See the rainbow around the sun ? It's because of ice in the upper atmosphere.

Stupid me, forgot to say get the install here (full install) or here (update only) or here There are other links here

Stupid me, forgot to say get the install here (full install) or here (update only) or here There are other links here