Er... not so much, really. It'd have to borrow liberally from qemu to make it work, probably, unless Vanderpool CPUs become commonplace by then. The PPC (as with most other non-insane architectures) have built-in support for virtualizing supervisor instructions. i386, however, does not. Hence the need for software like VMware to do the heavy lifting. MoL was (relatively) much easier than something like VMware because of this fact. MoL for the x86 MacOS will be a substantially more complicated creature.
If you saw the video of the keynote, you'd know that Jobs was running the entire presentation from a system running Mac OS X - a Pentium 4 system, specifically. He even showed off the "About this Mac" window that showed it in no uncertain terms. So yes, this does mean Pentium 4 (maybe Pentium M for laptops) systems running OS X.
And you were before? Strangely, I have a Powerbook on my lap - and it's running Debian Linux. No OS 9. No OS X. Just Debian. Just because Windows doesn't run on it...
- Resentment among customers that just bought Apple hardware that will likely not be supported by new software in the future, unless Apple has a NeXTSTEP-style fat binaries support planned.
Er... heard of Mach-O? It's the binary format used on NeXTStep, and on MacOS X as well. Go check out Apple's docs on it. It's supported fat binaries forever (NeXT used it to have single binary sets that ran both on i386 and their own m68k-based systems back in the NeXTStep days). I'm sure that's no small part of the reason they kept Mach-O around (why else? everyone else worth mentioning has moved to ELF)...
Well, not that it's an _overwhelming_ thing, but the 2.6 kernel supports POSIX ACLs out of the box with XFS, JFS, ext2/3 and possibly ReiserFS (but I don't trust it further than I can throw it). Just 'apt-get install acl' for the ACL tools, and use POSIX ACLs to your heart's content. I have been using 2.6 kernels on every server I'm running Debian on now - I'm using Debian testing (sarge) on them, due to hardware support, and it's been quite stable./me crosses his fingers for sarge going stable RSN...
I think the business model the grandparent was referring to was the one where you sell music scratched into a spiral in a plastic disc, or stored as magnetically-charged bits on a tape, or as pits on an aluminum-and-plastic disc to be played by reading it with a laser. Why does the music have to be tied to a physical object? Because it's easier to sell that way, of course!
I don't know that the format is so much proprietary as much as just simplified. However, I did write up some information on converting videos for the PSP under Linux. You don't have to pay for the tools, and if you happen to be a Linux user (as I am), it's nice to not have to resort to Windows or OS X to make videos ready for my PSP.
If it makes you feel any better, I have a 1 GB Memory Stick PRO Duo from SanDisk in my PSP right now. I still only have it about a quarter full with photos (of my niece), MP3s and video. (Mostly for lack of trying - because I'm so insanely addicted to Lumines...)
Having tried to do just that, I can still tell you it's difficult with Safari - it's still lacking maturity compared to some other browsers. And the grandparent post's complaint about its error reporting - absolute and utter truth. It goes pretty much in this order:
Mozilla and Co.
Opera
Internet Explorer
Safari
Konqueror
Safari makes any kind of debugging of JavaScript code pretty much an impossibility - you have to use lots of warning boxes and compare to a Mozilla-derived browser to see if you can puzzle it out. Konqueror is still worse, but not by much. I mean, come on... the errors go to syslog, of all places? What the hell is that?
And don't forget Jewel Staite! She's been in Wonderfalls (disappointingly cancelled as well) and Dead Like Me (same, sadly)... I think she's made some other appearances as well. Where are you? Please come out! Man, she is hot.:)
Of course, NT on AXP was never 64-bit. It used the 32-bit mode of the Alpha CPUs. IA-64 was the first _actual_ 64-bit version of Windows. And really, there were never any real application ports for any of the other major arches Windows was ported to back in the day (MIPS, PPC, AXP) - at least Alpha/AXP had FX!32 to allow x86 apps to be run...
From what I've seen, BIND's recursion stuff has been broken for a very, very long time. It doesn't seem to obey record TTLs for cached records. Unfortunately I haven't dug into the reasons why; however, if I use a different recursor I don't see the problems I do using BIND. I've been told I'm nuts, but I'll stick with alternative nameservers from here on out.
I just recently purchased myself a PlayStation Portable (yeah, yeah). As you may or may not know, it also has the ability to play MP3s and (properly-encoded) MPEG-4 videos, as well as display photos. Fortunately, this obfuscation the posting mentions (I haven't read the articly yet, sorry) isn't used on the PSP - I can copy any MP3s directly onto my PSP and play them. Supposedly it also plays ATRAC3(plus) encoded audio streams... though I don't even know of an encoder for the format, so MP3 it is.
Well, obviously they meant to add "unless it's ours, you consumer whores!" - because yes, it's only bad when it's locking you into _some other company_. As long as it's Microsoft... well, hey, let the good times roll!
You're kidding, right? Pretty much everyone involved in IA-64 is pulling out; all the IA-64 workstation vendors have stopped making workstations, Windows for IA-64 has been officially put out to pasture. The hardware (what there is) is still so expensive, it's ridiculous. No one's developing for it - everyone's using x86_64 ("x64", as Sun and MS are calling it). I really would have to agree that SPARC support would be more worthwhile.
"Linux" is a kernel, not the operating system. Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, Gentoo, SuSE, Mandrake, and so forth - those are operating systems. They're often referred to collectively as "Linux", but that's not really correct. Referring to it as "this Linux thing" means to me you don't really know why you'd want to use a Linux-based OS instead of Windows, other than to be different - or, as has been the case in the past, to get something "just like Windows! but free!"
If you want to pay money and have someone tell you how things are going to be... well, there are options for you. Linspire. RH Enterprise. SuSE. Mandrake. Others too, I'm sure, I just can't think of them right now. If you don't mind paying, pay one of them. They put it together, you can get support, there's enforced standardization.
However, if you expect all Free/Open Source developers to form a single line and all agree on everything... well, they're humans, and often have strong opinions, and don't agree about everything (sometimes they don't agree about much of anything, really). You're expecting an unprecedented level of cooperation, which I think anyone in their right mind is the real lunacy, especially when they're working for different companies with different ideas and agendas, or not really working for anyone else - just the "hobbyist in the garage", as it were.
In other words, if you're expecting uniformity just because you think it should be, be prepared for a shock. If you want someone to take all the parts and offer you a product, pay money to someone who's already providing that.
That's a pretty interesting trick... seeing as DAT cartridges aren't even the same dimensions as a conventional audiocassette. Maybe you're thinking of DCC (Digital Compact Cassette), a competing digital-audio-on-cassette standard from some years back?
Too bad HP-28S calculators aren't selling for hundreds of dollars on eBay, I'd seriously consider selling mine to finance a Hawaiian trip...
You sure? I just checked on eBay to see what an HP 48GX is selling for (I still have mine from college, and it's in very good shape). It's tempting to sell it, given the prices I'm seeing them going for. Not quite as much as I bought it for, but surprisingly close. (Ok, probably not enough to finance a trip to Hawai'i...)
It is the funniest, and yet the saddest, part of the whole thing. Companies these days are reflecting it. After all this time, we've become what we claimed to hate most.
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Er... not so much, really. It'd have to borrow liberally from qemu to make it work, probably, unless Vanderpool CPUs become commonplace by then. The PPC (as with most other non-insane architectures) have built-in support for virtualizing supervisor instructions. i386, however, does not. Hence the need for software like VMware to do the heavy lifting. MoL was (relatively) much easier than something like VMware because of this fact. MoL for the x86 MacOS will be a substantially more complicated creature.
If you saw the video of the keynote, you'd know that Jobs was running the entire presentation from a system running Mac OS X - a Pentium 4 system, specifically. He even showed off the "About this Mac" window that showed it in no uncertain terms. So yes, this does mean Pentium 4 (maybe Pentium M for laptops) systems running OS X.
And you were before? Strangely, I have a Powerbook on my lap - and it's running Debian Linux. No OS 9. No OS X. Just Debian. Just because Windows doesn't run on it...
- Resentment among customers that just bought Apple hardware that will likely not be supported by new software in the future, unless Apple has a NeXTSTEP-style fat binaries support planned.
Er... heard of Mach-O? It's the binary format used on NeXTStep, and on MacOS X as well. Go check out Apple's docs on it. It's supported fat binaries forever (NeXT used it to have single binary sets that ran both on i386 and their own m68k-based systems back in the NeXTStep days). I'm sure that's no small part of the reason they kept Mach-O around (why else? everyone else worth mentioning has moved to ELF)...
Perhaps the people with "MCSE" on their custom license plates are the people that Microsoft really needs to court.... hm, wait a minute...
Well, not that it's an _overwhelming_ thing, but the 2.6 kernel supports POSIX ACLs out of the box with XFS, JFS, ext2/3 and possibly ReiserFS (but I don't trust it further than I can throw it). Just 'apt-get install acl' for the ACL tools, and use POSIX ACLs to your heart's content. I have been using 2.6 kernels on every server I'm running Debian on now - I'm using Debian testing (sarge) on them, due to hardware support, and it's been quite stable. /me crosses his fingers for sarge going stable RSN...
I think the business model the grandparent was referring to was the one where you sell music scratched into a spiral in a plastic disc, or stored as magnetically-charged bits on a tape, or as pits on an aluminum-and-plastic disc to be played by reading it with a laser. Why does the music have to be tied to a physical object? Because it's easier to sell that way, of course!
I don't know that the format is so much proprietary as much as just simplified. However, I did write up some information on converting videos for the PSP under Linux. You don't have to pay for the tools, and if you happen to be a Linux user (as I am), it's nice to not have to resort to Windows or OS X to make videos ready for my PSP.
If it makes you feel any better, I have a 1 GB Memory Stick PRO Duo from SanDisk in my PSP right now. I still only have it about a quarter full with photos (of my niece), MP3s and video. (Mostly for lack of trying - because I'm so insanely addicted to Lumines...)
She was only in one episode. She was the punk rock chick in the record store - the one that Mason got it on with.
Safari makes any kind of debugging of JavaScript code pretty much an impossibility - you have to use lots of warning boxes and compare to a Mozilla-derived browser to see if you can puzzle it out. Konqueror is still worse, but not by much. I mean, come on... the errors go to syslog, of all places? What the hell is that?
And don't forget Jewel Staite! She's been in Wonderfalls (disappointingly cancelled as well) and Dead Like Me (same, sadly)... I think she's made some other appearances as well. Where are you? Please come out! Man, she is hot. :)
Of course, NT on AXP was never 64-bit. It used the 32-bit mode of the Alpha CPUs. IA-64 was the first _actual_ 64-bit version of Windows. And really, there were never any real application ports for any of the other major arches Windows was ported to back in the day (MIPS, PPC, AXP) - at least Alpha/AXP had FX!32 to allow x86 apps to be run...
Actually, NT 3.1 was the first version. Yeah, I know, it didn't make sense then either.
From what I've seen, BIND's recursion stuff has been broken for a very, very long time. It doesn't seem to obey record TTLs for cached records. Unfortunately I haven't dug into the reasons why; however, if I use a different recursor I don't see the problems I do using BIND. I've been told I'm nuts, but I'll stick with alternative nameservers from here on out.
I just recently purchased myself a PlayStation Portable (yeah, yeah). As you may or may not know, it also has the ability to play MP3s and (properly-encoded) MPEG-4 videos, as well as display photos. Fortunately, this obfuscation the posting mentions (I haven't read the articly yet, sorry) isn't used on the PSP - I can copy any MP3s directly onto my PSP and play them. Supposedly it also plays ATRAC3(plus) encoded audio streams... though I don't even know of an encoder for the format, so MP3 it is.
They used some FreeBSD userspace tools - not kernel code, so it's misleading to say "oh, OS X == FreeBSD on PPC! no really!"
Well, obviously they meant to add "unless it's ours, you consumer whores!" - because yes, it's only bad when it's locking you into _some other company_. As long as it's Microsoft... well, hey, let the good times roll!
You're kidding, right? Pretty much everyone involved in IA-64 is pulling out; all the IA-64 workstation vendors have stopped making workstations, Windows for IA-64 has been officially put out to pasture. The hardware (what there is) is still so expensive, it's ridiculous. No one's developing for it - everyone's using x86_64 ("x64", as Sun and MS are calling it). I really would have to agree that SPARC support would be more worthwhile.
"Linux" is a kernel, not the operating system. Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, Gentoo, SuSE, Mandrake, and so forth - those are operating systems. They're often referred to collectively as "Linux", but that's not really correct. Referring to it as "this Linux thing" means to me you don't really know why you'd want to use a Linux-based OS instead of Windows, other than to be different - or, as has been the case in the past, to get something "just like Windows! but free!"
If you want to pay money and have someone tell you how things are going to be... well, there are options for you. Linspire. RH Enterprise. SuSE. Mandrake. Others too, I'm sure, I just can't think of them right now. If you don't mind paying, pay one of them. They put it together, you can get support, there's enforced standardization.
However, if you expect all Free/Open Source developers to form a single line and all agree on everything... well, they're humans, and often have strong opinions, and don't agree about everything (sometimes they don't agree about much of anything, really). You're expecting an unprecedented level of cooperation, which I think anyone in their right mind is the real lunacy, especially when they're working for different companies with different ideas and agendas, or not really working for anyone else - just the "hobbyist in the garage", as it were.
In other words, if you're expecting uniformity just because you think it should be, be prepared for a shock. If you want someone to take all the parts and offer you a product, pay money to someone who's already providing that.
just use rpms, kde, ext3, and kill all diversity and innovation?
:)
Well, just use RHEL4...
That's a pretty interesting trick... seeing as DAT cartridges aren't even the same dimensions as a conventional audiocassette. Maybe you're thinking of DCC (Digital Compact Cassette), a competing digital-audio-on-cassette standard from some years back?
Too bad HP-28S calculators aren't selling for hundreds of dollars on eBay, I'd seriously consider selling mine to finance a Hawaiian trip...
You sure? I just checked on eBay to see what an HP 48GX is selling for (I still have mine from college, and it's in very good shape). It's tempting to sell it, given the prices I'm seeing them going for. Not quite as much as I bought it for, but surprisingly close. (Ok, probably not enough to finance a trip to Hawai'i...)
It is the funniest, and yet the saddest, part of the whole thing. Companies these days are reflecting it. After all this time, we've become what we claimed to hate most.