He said once that "SMB sucks. SMB really really sucks" (slightly paraphrased). And also that wrote samba as a compatibility thing. And that he expected it to be obsolete/not needed anymore, because hopefully people would use another (read: better) distributed network filesystem protocol. I don't know if.NET will be any better, but I doubt it.
Well, doing networking and all would be fun to do with such a box, but there's another very important use for a kit like this:
writing computer games
Since the Linux that runs on it is a full distro including c compiler and other fun development tools, how hard can it be to write a game that is bootable from a cd-r in your PS/2? Another cute thing is when the games are open source, they can be easily ported to other architectures. That way, linux (and maybe other *nixen as well) will get more cool games, which will aid in the acceptance of Linux as a gaming platform even more, leveraging the desktop more *our* way. World domination... woohoo:)
Oh, and about Linux kit availability in the US, why not in Europe? *I* live in Europe, and I would be very interested in playing with kit like this. Europe has it's fair share of very talented geeks as well, you know. The world is not only America or Japan. Right... I'll stop spouting... --
This is about an X terminal. It doesn't have to run all those bulky apps. It only has networking support and a X display server running (and maybe possible esd for sound). Installing an *entire* distro for a homegrown X terminal is truly overkill and a waste of time (and effort).
The big machine you log into with it has all the apps, the terminal just displays the click-and-drool GUI bits, nothing else. For just running an X display server and some rudimentary networking support, 8 MB is *plenty*, not to mention *generous*.
I've seen enough comments lacking this insight. I hope this explains it. If not, read this and the article *AGAIN*.
Hell yes... Thin clients (like X terminals) rock. I am posting this on a SunRay (which has probably less hardware).
What would be really cool if you could put chipcard readers on your X terminal to imitate the desk-hopping usefulness of a SunRay. Not to mention it will run fine (speedy even) on a 10Mbit network.
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I was actually thinking of doing something like this with booting from a cd-rom. Floppies are flakey, y'know./me wonders more about how I would fit this on a boot prom so I can boot a box without a harddisk and without a floppy, just from the network.
Which brings me to another point (sorry for the offtopicness), does anyone know if it's possible to have a openfirmware-like BIOS for x86 boxen? Because that would make all this just moot point.
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Some strategically placed tolower() calls in the source would fix this I think. My guess is that the module from apple basically does this too. I got a Darwin/OSX box at home. I will take a gander amd make a patch if I have the time. Shouldn't be a biggie
Hey, you got the source, fix it. You don't even need apple's module. Maybe a #ifdef DARWIN macro for this would be an idea. --
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I beg to differ. People who send me.doc files usually also send me their undo-buffer in the.doc files, so I can see what they typed first... And let's not forget all teh other information that gets stored in there, like Author, Domain/Machine name and other nifty stuff.
Has anyone here checked that out and disseminated that already?
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I will probably get flamed to hell for having an unpopular view, but I'll say it anyway:
The two operating systems are both fundamentaly different. Read the Atheos webpage (when it's not so congested) and/or the article. Atheos is not intending to be the next GPL BeOS clone. All Atheos has in common with Be is that Atheos gleaned some ideas from the BeOS. Nothing more, just like GNOME which borrowed lots of ideas from anywhere else.
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Whoah there... Apple never violated GPL because they never used the GPL. Their Darwin OS uses BSD licensed code, and is not at fault. Get your facts straight before spouting off like that... --
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I won't buy it unless it can make me coffee and do my laundry... Although the X10 interface sounds promising to that respect:) --
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Hey come on! What better way to steal^H^H^H^H^Hinnovate ideas by letting the end user sign a waiver that relieves him of ownership. Miscrosoft is saving the end-user money that way by avoiding the need to sue the property away from said person. They already own it! Thank you microsoft, thank you. Ow bugger... my win2k is having that bug^H^H^Hinsect-like behaviour again... gotta reboot!
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When the very functionality of the system is endangered and the user (or in this case the users data) is laied naked before the world that's a time for a RECALL OF THE PRODUCT
MS does this. According to them, they recommend all users install Critical Update Notification for Windows. This is akin to a product recall - when a serious bug comes up they update the Critical Notification records, and everyone running it recieves a patch.
Right, and you *trust* the automatic patch installing? What if I'm at the same subnet that you are on, and I use some hackery with ARP or DNS cache poisoning to convince your host that *MY* machine is the windowsupdate.microsoft.com machine? Well, I I have bad intentions, you're screwed. It relies on host names (a.k.a. DNS and IP numbers). It's insecure.
I'd rather download patches and check them md5 checksums. Call me paranoia, but it *DOES* matter.
How do you know that the Microsoft network isn't compromised (they had the odd breakin now and then)? Do you trust them? Why? Because they say so?
Just rememver the microsoft/verisign hassle from last week. No way microsoft will touch my machines. I just don't trust them. --
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If I can get to the console I can always press the *real* power button. Even as a mere user. Microsoft will never learn...
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Oh, right... I'm now in MacOS 9.1 (and I don't feel like rebooting to check), but I'll take your word for it.
I'm still using the public beta as well. Still very satisfied with it. Shipping date is coming soon btw. Three days to X-day! I can't wait:) --
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MSIE under Mac OS X is a *Carbon* app. This means that it runs the same binary as on the usual MacOS.
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Napster actually has received a total of 6 million filenames, including spelling variations, from the recording industry, a Napster spokeswoman said. That number represented 26,000 artist/song title pairs the company said have been effectively blocked from its service.
Time for the rot-13 songname 'encoding' scheme then, or double pig-latin (remove first two letters from word and place on the end):) --
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Well, don't use iTunes, use Audion! Audion supports Ogg Vorbis, last I checked. Try here to get it.
He said once that "SMB sucks. SMB really really sucks" (slightly paraphrased). And also that wrote samba as a compatibility thing. And that he expected it to be obsolete/not needed anymore, because hopefully people would use another (read: better) distributed network filesystem protocol. I don't know if .NET will be any better, but I doubt it.
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Wow... Great interview. Fix it please?
writing computer games
Since the Linux that runs on it is a full distro including c compiler and other fun development tools, how hard can it be to write a game that is bootable from a cd-r in your PS/2? Another cute thing is when the games are open source, they can be easily ported to other architectures. That way, linux (and maybe other *nixen as well) will get more cool games, which will aid in the acceptance of Linux as a gaming platform even more, leveraging the desktop more *our* way. World domination... woohoo :)
Oh, and about Linux kit availability in the US, why not in Europe? *I* live in Europe, and I would be very interested in playing with kit like this. Europe has it's fair share of very talented geeks as well, you know. The world is not only America or Japan. Right... I'll stop spouting...
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This is about an X terminal. It doesn't have to run all those bulky apps. It only has networking support and a X display server running (and maybe possible esd for sound). Installing an *entire* distro for a homegrown X terminal is truly overkill and a waste of time (and effort).
The big machine you log into with it has all the apps, the terminal just displays the click-and-drool GUI bits, nothing else. For just running an X display server and some rudimentary networking support, 8 MB is *plenty*, not to mention *generous*.
I've seen enough comments lacking this insight. I hope this explains it. If not, read this and the article *AGAIN*.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat, until you get it.
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What would be really cool if you could put chipcard readers on your X terminal to imitate the desk-hopping usefulness of a SunRay. Not to mention it will run fine (speedy even) on a 10Mbit network.
Oh, more info about the SunRay appliance I am using right now can be had here.
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Which brings me to another point (sorry for the offtopicness), does anyone know if it's possible to have a openfirmware-like BIOS for x86 boxen? Because that would make all this just moot point.
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Some strategically placed tolower() calls in the source would fix this I think. My guess is that the module from apple basically does this too. I got a Darwin/OSX box at home. I will take a gander amd make a patch if I have the time. Shouldn't be a biggie
Hey, you got the source, fix it. You don't even need apple's module. Maybe a #ifdef DARWIN macro for this would be an idea.
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Why? He was bored...
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2048? No... 2038, around Jan. 19. HTH HAND :)
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Has anyone here checked that out and disseminated that already?
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See subject. I got nothing more to say...
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Quake done Quick (with a vengeance) - Speed run through all of Quake I with nightmare skill in 12 minutes and 23 seconds!
I will be seriously impressed if you can....
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The two operating systems are both fundamentaly different. Read the Atheos webpage (when it's not so congested) and/or the article. Atheos is not intending to be the next GPL BeOS clone. All Atheos has in common with Be is that Atheos gleaned some ideas from the BeOS. Nothing more, just like GNOME which borrowed lots of ideas from anywhere else.
Atheos is not and never will be BeOS, deal with it.
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Whoah there... Apple never violated GPL because they never used the GPL. Their Darwin OS uses BSD licensed code, and is not at fault. Get your facts straight before spouting off like that...
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Someone please moderate that up. If I had mod points this would get a definite 'informative' from me.
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I won't buy it unless it can make me coffee and do my laundry... Although the X10 interface sounds promising to that respect :)
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What's your point?
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Hey come on! What better way to steal^H^H^H^H^Hinnovate ideas by letting the end user sign a waiver that relieves him of ownership. Miscrosoft is saving the end-user money that way by avoiding the need to sue the property away from said person. They already own it! Thank you microsoft, thank you. Ow bugger... my win2k is having that bug^H^H^Hinsect-like behaviour again... gotta reboot!
</sarcasm>
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I'd rather download patches and check them md5 checksums. Call me paranoia, but it *DOES* matter.
How do you know that the Microsoft network isn't compromised (they had the odd breakin now and then)? Do you trust them? Why? Because they say so?
Just rememver the microsoft/verisign hassle from last week. No way microsoft will touch my machines. I just don't trust them.
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If I can get to the console I can always press the *real* power button. Even as a mere user. Microsoft will never learn...
</sarcasm>
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I'm still using the public beta as well. Still very satisfied with it. Shipping date is coming soon btw. Three days to X-day! I can't wait :)
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MSIE under Mac OS X is a *Carbon* app. This means that it runs the same binary as on the usual MacOS.
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Napster actually has received a total of 6 million filenames, including spelling variations, from the recording industry, a Napster spokeswoman said. That number represented 26,000 artist/song title pairs the company said have been effectively blocked from its service.
Time for the rot-13 songname 'encoding' scheme then, or double pig-latin (remove first two letters from word and place on the end) :)
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Nah, -1, Flamebait is good enough for you :)
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