"Why, if Moore's law applies to this new technology and they get a 64-fold increase over the following decade, they'll have built a 128KB memory by 2015!"
You have to walk before you run lad. Personally I'm excited about what may be possible.
While LinuxPPC is a decent OS (I prefer OpenBSD) my LinuxPPC discs went to the back of my closet once OSX came out. Certainly it's a nice hack, but will Adobe make Photoshop for it? (no, Gimp is *not* quite Photoshop, despite what the zealots say)
Apps are what the machines need, once the companies start releasing their flagship[0] Mac products for OSX I think this will be relegated to the "cool hack" pile
At an old job we had a wee Cisco 1604 router, just doing ISDN for our/24 (at the time ISDN was the only affordable thing in our area)
I had a problem with something and mailed Cisco. No more than an hour went by and I had email from a real life person in front of me telling me what to do to fix our problem.
Cisco isn't cheap, but you do get what you pay for.
grub
Re:suck.com writer used to troll usenet.
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Right now one of the/. readers (grub) is trolling/. to get hits to his own webpage.
bah! Like I get paid for hits.:)
I was being ironic. I actually found your comment to make perfect sense, it was just so easy to take a shot at it I had to.:)
Yep, thanks for clarifying. Some people take things at face value.
These boxes are all OpenBSD behind a strong FreeBSD firewall. No, I'm not blind to the risks, but I've decided that they are minimal.
If I were running Linux then I would be concerned and would password protect my local machines.
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A while back one of the suck.com writers (Richard Shirk) was trolling usenet to get hits to suck.com stories he had written.
He'd post using fictitious names and mail addresses to target newsgroups claiming to be outraged about a story he read on suck.com.
Sorry I worded that wrong and didn't catch it in preview. What I meant is our dollar has as approximately as much buying power as the US dollar in our respective countries.
Last time I was in Montreal (not even a year ago) The average CD was about $16 Canadian.. that's about $10.50 US.
That's pretty cheap for a CD
If you're up from the US to buy CDs in Canada it's certainly cheap. Our (the.ca) dollar has (approximately) as much buying power as the US dollar in our country. Trips to the US cost us much more as the exchange rate is a killer.
Remember that when we buy a CD for $16CA, it's still costing us $16.
NEWS FLASH:Monty Python has been served notice that the heirs of King Arthur are going to sue them for creating an Arthurian-themed movie without the expressed consent of the family.
"The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source. If the government wants to put something in the public domain, it should. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works."
Dear Mr. Ballmer,
The Linux license is not the be-all, end-all for open source licenses. Using one large brush to paint all open source as "cancer" is just more Microsoft FUD
You have some BSD code in some of your products and gladly adhere to the BSD license, don't you?
I find this hard to blieve, given the charismatic leader of the project . . .
Character assassination is silly. Just because someone tells you to RTFM when you ask "why does backspace print ^H?" doesn't make it any less friendly. Conversly, it helps you become less dependent on others and helps keep the lists S/N ratio quite managable.
I find this hard to blieve, given the charismatic leader of the project . . .
Character assassination is silly. Just because someone tells you to RTFM when you ask "why does backspace print ^H?" doesn't make it any less friendly. Conversly, it helps you become less dependent on others and helps keep the lists S/N ratio quite managable.
"OpenBSD is great for a firewall/Nat machine, or high security nfs/web/mail server, but it ain't no workstation for the rest of us."
I've been using OpenBSD on my desktop exclusively since the mid-2.7 cycle after having it on other machines since 2.3.
It's secure, robust, and stable. My 104 day uptime on my main machine with ~25 users capable of using X and VNC through an SSH tunnel will be gone today for the 2.9 update. Quite stable indeed.
It's Linux compatibility works very well, it's ports collection is growing fast (if a port doesn't exist yet, try a freebsd port, it will likely work)
I sleep very well knowing that if I missed something, Theo and the boys have very likely covered my backside.
Sorry, I didn't realise Microsoft filed for bankrupcy and *BSD took control of the desktop.
Tongue in cheek aside, I'd venture to guess a huge percentage of the net's traffic flows through *BSD hardware.
Microsoft owns the desktop, UNIX owns the net's infrastructure.
Japan has a huge IPv6 infrastructure ready to roll, this doesn't mean the end users would have to adopt it right away. IPv6-to-IPv4 products exist already.
So you're saying all Cisco and Microsoft (or even Linux) users can take a few minutes to install v6 on their current hardware/OS and have everything working just fine?
If you run OpenBSD (and I believe FreeBSD), you'll see that you're already IPV6-ready
Well, yes, the program can run, but it can't perofrm the functions it is intended to perform, so it can't do the things it advertises, and the things users obtain it for, so practically, and legaly, it can NOT ber run with out it.
Nonsense. I could write "Hello, World" with some funky twist so that it will only work on Linux, yet release my code as BSD licensed.
What you are suggesting is tantamount to "Your car won't run without gas, so your car is the property of Exxon."
Hell, the programmers of GPL code need food and water, do they by extension own the food on the shelves of the supermarkets?
They just use layers of LCDs? I currently use a set of wireless Elsa Revelator glasses. They are cheap, (~100-150 dollars), work with any DirectX or OpenGL game, and most nvidia cards.
With the light off and the SBLive on high, it's the only way to game:)
"We would rather have a small part of a large market than a large part of a small market if we had used proprietary technologies."
Honestly.. that must the the most transparent attempt at sucking [in|up to] the open source crowd that I've ever seen.
You could read that as "We're L337! Help the underdog!"
It's not open source that will sell Nokia's game box, it's games. Without a nice library of games in the stores when the console is released, that box will amount to an open source graphics engine.
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"Why, if Moore's law applies to this new technology and they get a 64-fold increase over the following decade, they'll have built a 128KB memory by 2015!"
You have to walk before you run lad. Personally I'm excited about what may be possible.
Why oh why won't Microsoft release a drawing program called Billustrator
Now that would be a long, drawn out court battle.
I've been holding out on buying a hand held unit until I would be able to bring some pr0n with me on the road.
Thanks Toshiba!
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While LinuxPPC is a decent OS (I prefer OpenBSD) my LinuxPPC discs went to the back of my closet once OSX came out. Certainly it's a nice hack, but will Adobe make Photoshop for it? (no, Gimp is *not* quite Photoshop, despite what the zealots say)
Apps are what the machines need, once the companies start releasing their flagship[0] Mac products for OSX I think this will be relegated to the "cool hack" pile
grub
[0]- IE is not what I'd call 'flagship' :)
I have a Mac here, so in my house a command prompt is something that triggers my wife to bark orders at me. :)
grub
yes it's a joke
At an old job we had a wee Cisco 1604 router, just doing ISDN for our /24 (at the time ISDN was the only affordable thing in our area)
I had a problem with something and mailed Cisco. No more than an hour went by and I had email from a real life person in front of me telling me what to do to fix our problem.
Cisco isn't cheap, but you do get what you pay for.
grubRight now one of the /. readers (grub) is trolling /. to get hits to his own webpage.
bah! Like I get paid for hits. :)
I was being ironic. I actually found your comment to make perfect sense, it was just so easy to take a shot at it I had to. :)
Yep, thanks for clarifying. Some people take things at face value.
These boxes are all OpenBSD behind a strong FreeBSD firewall. No, I'm not blind to the risks, but I've decided that they are minimal. If I were running Linux then I would be concerned and would password protect my local machines.
A while back one of the suck.com writers (Richard Shirk) was trolling usenet to get hits to suck.com stories he had written.
He'd post using fictitious names and mail addresses to target newsgroups claiming to be outraged about a story he read on suck.com.
Full story (with links to the usenet posts) available on my webpage
Using SSH|SSH2 with RSA|DSA authentication eliminates having to type passwords and is *much* more harder to beat than guessing passwords.
Ta da! I'm in.
grub
Sorry I worded that wrong and didn't catch it in preview. What I meant is our dollar has as approximately as much buying power as the US dollar in our respective countries.
Last time I was in Montreal (not even a year ago) The average CD was about $16 Canadian.. that's about $10.50 US. That's pretty cheap for a CD
If you're up from the US to buy CDs in Canada it's certainly cheap. Our (the .ca) dollar has (approximately) as much buying power as the US dollar in our country. Trips to the US cost us much more as the exchange rate is a killer.
Remember that when we buy a CD for $16CA, it's still costing us $16.
grubNEWS FLASH:Monty Python has been served notice that the heirs of King Arthur are going to sue them for creating an Arthurian-themed movie without the expressed consent of the family.
grub
Yes, I know Arthur was a legend :)
"obviously you haven't read much of Theo's postings..."
Yes I have, but I can be as big an asshole and think it's great that he calls a spade a spade.
grub
"The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source. If the government wants to put something in the public domain, it should. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works."
Dear Mr. Ballmer,
The Linux license is not the be-all, end-all for open source licenses. Using one large brush to paint all open source as "cancer" is just more Microsoft FUD
You have some BSD code in some of your products and gladly adhere to the BSD license, don't you?
grub
I find this hard to blieve, given the charismatic leader of the project . . .
Character assassination is silly. Just because someone tells you to RTFM when you ask "why does backspace print ^H?" doesn't make it any less friendly. Conversly, it helps you become less dependent on others and helps keep the lists S/N ratio quite managable.
grub
I find this hard to blieve, given the charismatic leader of the project . . .
Character assassination is silly. Just because someone tells you to RTFM when you ask "why does backspace print ^H?" doesn't make it any less friendly. Conversly, it helps you become less dependent on others and helps keep the lists S/N ratio quite managable.
grub
"OpenBSD is great for a firewall/Nat machine, or high security nfs/web/mail server, but it ain't no workstation for the rest of us."
I've been using OpenBSD on my desktop exclusively since the mid-2.7 cycle after having it on other machines since 2.3.
It's secure, robust, and stable. My 104 day uptime on my main machine with ~25 users capable of using X and VNC through an SSH tunnel will be gone today for the 2.9 update. Quite stable indeed.
It's Linux compatibility works very well, it's ports collection is growing fast (if a port doesn't exist yet, try a freebsd port, it will likely work)
I sleep very well knowing that if I missed something, Theo and the boys have very likely covered my backside.
grubSorry, I didn't realise Microsoft filed for bankrupcy and *BSD took control of the desktop.
Tongue in cheek aside, I'd venture to guess a huge percentage of the net's traffic flows through *BSD hardware.
Microsoft owns the desktop, UNIX owns the net's infrastructure.
Japan has a huge IPv6 infrastructure ready to roll, this doesn't mean the end users would have to adopt it right away. IPv6-to-IPv4 products exist already.
grubSo you're saying all Cisco and Microsoft (or even Linux) users can take a few minutes to install v6 on their current hardware/OS and have everything working just fine?
If you run OpenBSD (and I believe FreeBSD), you'll see that you're already IPV6-ready
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grubWell, yes, the program can run, but it can't perofrm the functions it is intended to perform, so it can't do the things it advertises, and the things users obtain it for, so practically, and legaly, it can NOT ber run with out it.
Nonsense. I could write "Hello, World" with some funky twist so that it will only work on Linux, yet release my code as BSD licensed.
What you are suggesting is tantamount to "Your car won't run without gas, so your car is the property of Exxon."
Hell, the programmers of GPL code need food and water, do they by extension own the food on the shelves of the supermarkets?
grubThey just use layers of LCDs? I currently use a set of wireless Elsa Revelator glasses . They are cheap, (~100-150 dollars), work with any DirectX or OpenGL game, and most nvidia cards.
With the light off and the SBLive on high, it's the only way to game :)
grub"We would rather have a small part of a large market than a large part of a small market if we had used proprietary technologies."
Honestly.. that must the the most transparent attempt at sucking [in|up to] the open source crowd that I've ever seen.
You could read that as "We're L337! Help the underdog!"
It's not open source that will sell Nokia's game box, it's games. Without a nice library of games in the stores when the console is released, that box will amount to an open source graphics engine.
... you die by the sword.
I don't have one bit of pity for the students.