STB got bought by 3Dfx, and they're out of business. I'm pretty sure #9 went out of business as well. Hercules went under, and then got bought by someone else - I'm not sure offhand if the company that bought them is still in business or not now...
But simply, yes, a lot of the video-card manufacturers from the mid-90s are now gone, or are still around but filling very specific niches.
I don't really remember much before I was about 6 years old. However, according to my parents, I was able to speak well before that, and I'd learned to read at about age 3, so my language abilities were already developed well before age 6.
Well, pretty much any modern host adapter (anything since probably Ultra/UW on, maybe earlier) support disconnect/reconnect, so the bus can always clock up to the speeds that individual devices can support - unlike IDE, where if you have more than one device on an IDE bus, the lowest common denominator is what you're stuck with. Though they would've had a point about that - maybe 10 years ago.
There are snooty audiophiles who will tell you that they can hear the gaps between the samples in digital audio. Yes, they'll swear to it. Of course, I don't believe they can really hear those 1/44100th of a second gaps between samples, but apparently they do...
Tell that to the people who run NetBSD, OpenBSD or Linux on their shiny new Macs, even though OS X is very much available to them. There will _always_ be people who don't want what's handed to them, for any of a million different reasons.
Or you could 'apt-get install [pkgname]' (or even 'apt-build [pkgname]', I guess, if you want to build it yourself) on a Debian box. I haven't used Gentoo myself, but both it and Debian are a real step up from the dependency mess that RedHat has become.
Bullshit. Considering the small array of Windows software for NT on Alpha, the fact that it was running in 32-bit mode on a 64-bit chip (wasteful considering the cost of the system), and the fact that DigitalUNIX/Tru64 and OpenVMS are the primary OSes (and Linux is also well-liked on Alpha), and that's where the real action has always been on Alpha, makes the fact that NT was killed off on Alpha a non-issue. (It was killed on PPC and MIPS long before - and really, who ran NT on either of those archs?)
Middle-click pasting works fine in the location bar, just not in the main window. I noticed that myself, and had gotten kinda lazy about doing that, but after using Phoenix for a few days, I can't say that I really mind it. I've started using Phoenix pretty much exclusively on hme workstation and my home system, and am very happy with it.
And why not? Xine is about to hit v1.0 (and now includes the dvdnav plugin in the mainline source - all you need is libdvdcss dropped in, and you even get DVD menus!), Mplayer is loved by many, and vlc works well too, from what I've heard. And hey, for games on Linux, there's always WineX - yeah, it doesn't work for every game, but a lot of them do work.
You running it on Windows? I have Mozilla 1.2 and Phoenix Debian packages on my system, and they happily coexist side-by-side. And it doesn't reboot my system. It's fast, it's smaller (by a lot), and it renders far eastern languages just as well as Mozilla. (ok, ok, not that I can read 'em - but it looks cool.)
Wrong, the "Longhorn" server version was canceled, according to the article on Slashdot previously. The client version will be brought to production, or that's the current intent anyway.
Were you using OS X 10.1 or 10.2? 10.1's LDAP "support" was so insanely broken, it was pretty much worthless. I tried getting an iMac running OS X Server 10.1.5 authenticating against an LDAP server at my previous job - the only thing it ever managed to do was lock up the machine. I could never get it to actually work.
Supposedly 10.2's LDAP support actually works, as opposed to the steaming pile that was included with 10.1.x and labeled "LDAP support". I haven't gotten a chance to actually try it yet, unfortunately.
The company that developed CD technology (no, I can't remember right now...) has already stated to several RIAA member companies that these copy-protected (more like read-crippled) "CDs" aren't CDs in the sense that they DO NOT meet the Red Book specs. However, not all of the companies producing CDs for public consumption care, and continue to use the "Compact Disc/Digital Audio" mark anyway, regardless of any admonishments about non-compliance.
LinuxPPC? You are aware that LinuxPPC, the distribution, has been left for dead, and not updated in probably close to 2 years now? And while the PPC version of SuSE may not be as well configured for PPC as YDL (or Debian/PPC, IMHO - I used it on 5 different Macs at the last place I worked - a G3 tower, an iBook, and 3 old 6100s using the Nubus-PMac kernel), your blind claim that "he should be using LinuxPPC or something!" is certainly no better than Moshe Bar's error(s).
It can. In fact, you can easily triple-boot (OS 9, OS X, Linux) - I've done it on a G3 tower and an iBook. Long as you setup Linux right, everyone will be happy. (If you don't follow the instructions for setting up Yaboot, not only will Ethan bitch you out, OS 9 will happily stomp all over your bootloader, leaving you unable to boot Linux without knowing some OF tricks.)
I've no idea what you'd need to do to get this MacOS compatible. Do they still use dark matter (ROM) in those machines? But if you're not going for Mac compatibility I don't know why you want to roll your own.
No, the NewWorld machines (the PowerBook G3 "Lombard" and "Pismo", PowerBook G4, and all "candy-colored" Apples) use OpenFirmware, and use a ROM-in-RAM system, where the MacOS ROM image is an ELF binary with a Forth wrapper. The OF starts the Forth wrapper, which loads the image, jumps into it, then goes on like an OldWorld from there. The MacOS ROM is kinda picky about the hardware it's on from what I gather, so it probably wouldn't like a non-Apple PPC system. OS X might not care. But if you don't care about running MacOS, why wouldn't a commodity PowerPC system be the perfect answer?
I don't even have a bootable Windows install on my box at home. When I called up to order cable service, I told them "I'm running Linux." The reply? "We can't support that, you'll have to support yourself." "That's fine, I know what I'm doing." Tech shows up, and his form says "Windows XP". So I told him no, not XP, Linux. He was like, ok, I want to learn about this Linux thing. I typed in EXACTLY ONE COMMAND: "dhclient eth0". It proceeded to get an IP address and work without a hitch. (This was with TW RoadRunner service.)
At least they allow the support yourself option, unlike the early days I heard about from other people I knew, where they had to plug in a Windows box just for the install, otherwise the installer will say "no, we can't do that!" The spyware they could've gotten away with (and probably did) then... geez, it's pretty sad.
I'd rather get a G3 Pismo and run Linux on it. Not that I wouldn't keep a copy of OS X around, to run in a window...:) (yes, I think the G3 Pismo looks way better than the titanium G4 - plus, I've seen the TiG4's end up with too much stupid damage, due to some poor design choices. so there.)
I dunno, I live in the US, and a few years ago, I saw at least one place that had (a few) prerecorded Minidiscs available for sale. I don't recall how they compared to CDs in the pricing department, but I know they did exist. Of course, all you could get on them was music produced by Sony or one of its subsidiaries/business units, but I know it was available.
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And so does the latest Xine.
STB got bought by 3Dfx, and they're out of business. I'm pretty sure #9 went out of business as well. Hercules went under, and then got bought by someone else - I'm not sure offhand if the company that bought them is still in business or not now...
But simply, yes, a lot of the video-card manufacturers from the mid-90s are now gone, or are still around but filling very specific niches.
I don't really remember much before I was about 6 years old. However, according to my parents, I was able to speak well before that, and I'd learned to read at about age 3, so my language abilities were already developed well before age 6.
Well, pretty much any modern host adapter (anything since probably Ultra/UW on, maybe earlier) support disconnect/reconnect, so the bus can always clock up to the speeds that individual devices can support - unlike IDE, where if you have more than one device on an IDE bus, the lowest common denominator is what you're stuck with. Though they would've had a point about that - maybe 10 years ago.
There are snooty audiophiles who will tell you that they can hear the gaps between the samples in digital audio. Yes, they'll swear to it. Of course, I don't believe they can really hear those 1/44100th of a second gaps between samples, but apparently they do...
Whaaaa? You mean, there are other Web browsers for Windows? Really? I thought for sure that IE was the only Web browser...
:)
(For the humor impaired, I'm posting from my Linux box, running Phoenix.
Tell that to the people who run NetBSD, OpenBSD or Linux on their shiny new Macs, even though OS X is very much available to them. There will _always_ be people who don't want what's handed to them, for any of a million different reasons.
Or you could 'apt-get install [pkgname] ' (or even 'apt-build [pkgname] ', I guess, if you want to build it yourself) on a Debian box. I haven't used Gentoo myself, but both it and Debian are a real step up from the dependency mess that RedHat has become.
All it should need is the PCI AMD Lance driver. Maybe in the next iteration of the test image, that driver module could be included?
Bullshit. Considering the small array of Windows software for NT on Alpha, the fact that it was running in 32-bit mode on a 64-bit chip (wasteful considering the cost of the system), and the fact that DigitalUNIX/Tru64 and OpenVMS are the primary OSes (and Linux is also well-liked on Alpha), and that's where the real action has always been on Alpha, makes the fact that NT was killed off on Alpha a non-issue. (It was killed on PPC and MIPS long before - and really, who ran NT on either of those archs?)
Middle-click pasting works fine in the location bar, just not in the main window. I noticed that myself, and had gotten kinda lazy about doing that, but after using Phoenix for a few days, I can't say that I really mind it. I've started using Phoenix pretty much exclusively on hme workstation and my home system, and am very happy with it.
I can't see Linux playing DVDs well (a la WinDVD)
And why not? Xine is about to hit v1.0 (and now includes the dvdnav plugin in the mainline source - all you need is libdvdcss dropped in, and you even get DVD menus!), Mplayer is loved by many, and vlc works well too, from what I've heard. And hey, for games on Linux, there's always WineX - yeah, it doesn't work for every game, but a lot of them do work.
You running it on Windows? I have Mozilla 1.2 and Phoenix Debian packages on my system, and they happily coexist side-by-side. And it doesn't reboot my system. It's fast, it's smaller (by a lot), and it renders far eastern languages just as well as Mozilla. (ok, ok, not that I can read 'em - but it looks cool.)
This is a duplicate. C'mon guys, this is at least the _third_ duplicate story today.
Wrong, the "Longhorn" server version was canceled, according to the article on Slashdot previously. The client version will be brought to production, or that's the current intent anyway.
After a few years on the dash of a car, it all becomes "Best of Queen" anyway...
Were you using OS X 10.1 or 10.2? 10.1's LDAP "support" was so insanely broken, it was pretty much worthless. I tried getting an iMac running OS X Server 10.1.5 authenticating against an LDAP server at my previous job - the only thing it ever managed to do was lock up the machine. I could never get it to actually work.
Supposedly 10.2's LDAP support actually works, as opposed to the steaming pile that was included with 10.1.x and labeled "LDAP support". I haven't gotten a chance to actually try it yet, unfortunately.
The company that developed CD technology (no, I can't remember right now...) has already stated to several RIAA member companies that these copy-protected (more like read-crippled) "CDs" aren't CDs in the sense that they DO NOT meet the Red Book specs. However, not all of the companies producing CDs for public consumption care, and continue to use the "Compact Disc/Digital Audio" mark anyway, regardless of any admonishments about non-compliance.
LinuxPPC? You are aware that LinuxPPC, the distribution, has been left for dead, and not updated in probably close to 2 years now? And while the PPC version of SuSE may not be as well configured for PPC as YDL (or Debian/PPC, IMHO - I used it on 5 different Macs at the last place I worked - a G3 tower, an iBook, and 3 old 6100s using the Nubus-PMac kernel), your blind claim that "he should be using LinuxPPC or something!" is certainly no better than Moshe Bar's error(s).
It can. In fact, you can easily triple-boot (OS 9, OS X, Linux) - I've done it on a G3 tower and an iBook. Long as you setup Linux right, everyone will be happy. (If you don't follow the instructions for setting up Yaboot, not only will Ethan bitch you out, OS 9 will happily stomp all over your bootloader, leaving you unable to boot Linux without knowing some OF tricks.)
Google for "Space Ghost".
I've no idea what you'd need to do to get this MacOS compatible. Do they still use dark matter (ROM) in those machines? But if you're not going for Mac compatibility I don't know why you want to roll your own.
No, the NewWorld machines (the PowerBook G3 "Lombard" and "Pismo", PowerBook G4, and all "candy-colored" Apples) use OpenFirmware, and use a ROM-in-RAM system, where the MacOS ROM image is an ELF binary with a Forth wrapper. The OF starts the Forth wrapper, which loads the image, jumps into it, then goes on like an OldWorld from there. The MacOS ROM is kinda picky about the hardware it's on from what I gather, so it probably wouldn't like a non-Apple PPC system. OS X might not care. But if you don't care about running MacOS, why wouldn't a commodity PowerPC system be the perfect answer?
I don't even have a bootable Windows install on my box at home. When I called up to order cable service, I told them "I'm running Linux." The reply? "We can't support that, you'll have to support yourself." "That's fine, I know what I'm doing." Tech shows up, and his form says "Windows XP". So I told him no, not XP, Linux. He was like, ok, I want to learn about this Linux thing. I typed in EXACTLY ONE COMMAND: "dhclient eth0". It proceeded to get an IP address and work without a hitch. (This was with TW RoadRunner service.)
At least they allow the support yourself option, unlike the early days I heard about from other people I knew, where they had to plug in a Windows box just for the install, otherwise the installer will say "no, we can't do that!" The spyware they could've gotten away with (and probably did) then... geez, it's pretty sad.
I'd rather get a G3 Pismo and run Linux on it. Not that I wouldn't keep a copy of OS X around, to run in a window... :) (yes, I think the G3 Pismo looks way better than the titanium G4 - plus, I've seen the TiG4's end up with too much stupid damage, due to some poor design choices. so there.)
I dunno, I live in the US, and a few years ago, I saw at least one place that had (a few) prerecorded Minidiscs available for sale. I don't recall how they compared to CDs in the pricing department, but I know they did exist. Of course, all you could get on them was music produced by Sony or one of its subsidiaries/business units, but I know it was available.