Also take into account that Fabrice is also the mighty author of FFMpeg, which codecs are used by all the media players in use in Linux, and on other platforms (VLC, mplayer, Xine,...) So we do owe him more than a beer I guess:)
Oh, another important one: UTF-8 everywhere by default. So much easier (except when porting apps when the author thinks supporting Unicode requires that stupid wchar_t and insists on using that crap)
BeOS is *not* dead! I'm so sick and tired of telling that:-( http://haiku-os.org -- http://yellowtab.com We just got Java with Swing running : http://www.haikunews.com as well as a.NET port...
Actually there are so many things from BeOS that Unix would benefit... - queriable indexed *typed* attributes in the filesystem (I've yet to see reiser4 on work, BFS has that for ages) I even recently did a queryable live bookmark using google : http://clapcrest.free.fr/revol/beos/shot_googlefs_ 006.png - a standardized (no 3 different API to choose from) node monitor that doesn't require you to recompile the kernel (and that was way before linux even tried to do that), which doesn't send you a signal to let you pool everything to know what changed (why node monitor then ?). - uncluttered easy to use and standardized threading. - a logical driver framework (modules are loaded on demand from drivers by their logical hierarchical name, no need for insmod foo.o which you don't know its use). Haiku will even push that further. And the hierarchical/dev/ tree thatcomes with it that took years to Linux to get. - mime-driven APIs, with a sniffer, mimetype attribute that doesn't require you to fix broken file extentions, assigns apps to files automatically... - a file-based mail system (using indexed fs attributes, so you just run a query to find new mail, no bloody mbox or app-specific stuff) - consistent GUI - easy to use IPC (sems, ports, and BMessage on top of ports)...
does it also count evyerone who does cvs up every 2 days and waits for an hour for the beast to build ?:)
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It even went into fedora: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/001nov04/features/f edoracore3/#multimedia-fun
"While Alan Cox was studying for an MBA, he couldn't help but provide extensive quality assurance testing of BZFlag, which is now included in Fedora Core 3. BZFlag replaces Chromium, which now enters Extras."
We have the SACEM here... which is supposed to collect fees and give back to artists. But as usual more than half the money disappears in structural expense, and probably some people's swiming pools. Besides, only big artists get something from it, small ones are left alone. So, it's really useless.
"Verisign circumvented the error handling provisions of a large number of IP-based software products." Actually I wonder if that circumvention couldn't be turned into a DMCA violation... now THAT would be funny.
> Since when does ICANN have the power to tell a business or person what they can or can't put on their page? Since it's NOT their page. foobar4575368389.com is NO more verisign's page that it is anyone else's since the domain is not registered. sitefinder is not the problem. The problem is the default DNS entries which redirect connections to sitefinder. VeriSign used their access to the DNS they host *on behalf of ICANN*, to gain visibility for their sitefinder crap. Appart from being highly unfair to search engine competition, and ethically wrong, it also brings lot of technical issues for any protocol (which HTTP is only one of them) used on the Internet.
actually I think AmigaOS was probably one of the first to have virtual desktops. They were called screens, and there wasn't a pager application to switch them, but in essence it is the same process.
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I knew it wasn't old technology :)
"you have been convinced of illegal file sharing and sentensed to having hands chopped !"
Also take into account that Fabrice is also the mighty author of FFMpeg, which codecs are used by all the media players in use in Linux, and on other platforms (VLC, mplayer, Xine, ...) :)
So we do owe him more than a beer I guess
Just need to fit that in googlefs to get better results on queries :)
I thought "semantic" was actually a synonym for "meaning"... !?
just another mountable volume :))
(some buzz about it)
That'd be http://www.haikunews.org :)
googlefs shot.
Oh, another important one: UTF-8 everywhere by default. So much easier (except when porting apps when the author thinks supporting Unicode requires that stupid wchar_t and insists on using that crap)
BeOS is *not* dead! :-( .NET port...
_ 006.png /dev/ tree thatcomes with it that took years to Linux to get.
I'm so sick and tired of telling that
http://haiku-os.org -- http://yellowtab.com
We just got Java with Swing running : http://www.haikunews.com
as well as a
Actually there are so many things from BeOS that Unix would benefit...
- queriable indexed *typed* attributes in the filesystem (I've yet to see reiser4 on work, BFS has that for ages) I even recently did a queryable live bookmark using google : http://clapcrest.free.fr/revol/beos/shot_googlefs
- a standardized (no 3 different API to choose from) node monitor that doesn't require you to recompile the kernel (and that was way before linux even tried to do that), which doesn't send you a signal to let you pool everything to know what changed (why node monitor then ?).
- uncluttered easy to use and standardized threading.
- a logical driver framework (modules are loaded on demand from drivers by their logical hierarchical name, no need for insmod foo.o which you don't know its use). Haiku will even push that further. And the hierarchical
- mime-driven APIs, with a sniffer, mimetype attribute that doesn't require you to fix broken file extentions, assigns apps to files automatically...
- a file-based mail system (using indexed fs attributes, so you just run a query to find new mail, no bloody mbox or app-specific stuff)
- consistent GUI
- easy to use IPC (sems, ports, and BMessage on top of ports)...
and I'm already tired of listing them.
does it also count evyerone who does cvs up every 2 days and waits for an hour for the beast to build ? :)
It even went into fedora: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/001nov04/features/f edoracore3/#multimedia-fun
"While Alan Cox was studying for an MBA, he couldn't help but provide extensive quality assurance testing of BZFlag, which is now included in Fedora Core 3. BZFlag replaces Chromium, which now enters Extras."
it looks really nice, even on BeOS (I did the port :P), though MESA doesn't make it much playable yet (well it gets better on a 1.5GHz box :).
We have the SACEM here... which is supposed to collect fees and give back to artists.
But as usual more than half the money disappears in structural expense, and probably some people's swiming pools.
Besides, only big artists get something from it, small ones are left alone.
So, it's really useless.
That kind of thing would be much better as a live-query-enabled fs for BeOS/Zeta.
Why not ? Why mark this one as funny ? :p)
BeOS does run fine on modern hardware.
(a satisfied BeOS user and dev -- but I also use Slackware
"Verisign circumvented the error handling provisions of a large number of IP-based software products."
Actually I wonder if that circumvention couldn't be turned into a DMCA violation... now THAT would be funny.
Gahh, better in html: ICANN revoke VeriSign Petition
I've setup a petition:/ petition.ht ml
http://www.petitiononline.com/VSvI2004
(please forgive possible quirks as I'm not english native)
> Since when does ICANN have the power to tell a business or person what they can or can't put on their page?
Since it's NOT their page. foobar4575368389.com is NO more verisign's page that it is anyone else's since the domain is not registered.
sitefinder is not the problem. The problem is the default DNS entries which redirect connections to sitefinder.
VeriSign used their access to the DNS they host *on behalf of ICANN*, to gain visibility for their sitefinder crap.
Appart from being highly unfair to search engine competition, and ethically wrong, it also brings lot of technical issues for any protocol (which HTTP is only one of them) used on the Internet.
actually I think AmigaOS was probably one of the first to have virtual desktops. They were called screens, and there wasn't a pager application to switch them, but in essence it is the same process.
Even more robust than UUCP !
I really used my Ti92 (the one with a qwerty keyb) to take some notes in courses. :-(
Though I didn't try that for long, the keyb is too small.
anyone knows an ascii art editing mode for emacs, just in case ?
> taking engineering notes by typing is about impossible due to equations and drawings.
What is LaTeX for then ???
ST-PAD ROXOR !!