Ransom Love (who I think should win coolest CEO name) will remain as CEO.
Not mentioned in the story is the news that Ransom's brother, Buddy, will be responsible for media relations and EEOC-enforcement for the new SCO acquisitions.
For all they know, I'm the member of an organization that believes that a comet is going to come and take all Believers to the planet Vegan. Go to Vegan!!!
Oh. You're not? I thought you were a fellow Vegan-Bounder (our internal nickname for our true believing brothers). Sorry for the confusion.
At least you're not one of those wackos I ran into the other day. He thought Vegans were people dedicated to the modification of small Chevy passenger cars into SUVs. *Shudder*
BTW, I came up with the "cruelty" speil one day standing in line at a pizza-buffet. The woman before me made a very loud, intense demand for vegetarian pizza on the buffet before she would pay for the meal (of course, there already were 2 trays of vegetarian pizzas available; she was obviously interested in making a scene).
She said, "I am a vegetarian. I believe it is wrong to eat meat..." etc. After a long, tense pause, I walked up to the cashier and, quite spontaneously, said, "I am am carnivore. I believe it is cruel to eat defenseless plants..." etc.
Great response -- thanks for not taking my "attack" as a personal (or truly judgemental) affront.
But, I figured you might be expecting such a jab (in jest) when you chose your username.
Personal aside: I have a dear friend who is a strict Vegan. He is the leader of a statewide PETA group (no details), and I dare say he would never take such a jab so graciously. I think it really betrays his struggle to maintain his position within himself; I think he wavers in his conviction.
By your response, you have evidenced that you are solidly at peace with your conviction.
This is off-topic (but, then again, the topic is fake trailers of incomplete movies, so, save your moderation points for a real topic) -- your/. name is GoVegan and I cannot be silent!
It's disgusting. Don't you knowSALAD IS MURDER!
Those defenseless plants have no chance to fight back against free-pod agressors -- they're rooted in the ground, for Darwin's sake!
Plants evolved to their current state in a more innocent, harmonious environment -- before the need for self-protection and defensive capabilities (such as being able to run away).
You...ambulatorist!
I, my wayward friend, am a carnivore. I eat meat. That's it. Only those beings which have the potential to defend themselves. Survival of the fittest, yes, but give them a chance!
Yeah, heard about these HPC ports of linux & BSD before, but does anyone out there have any experience of actually using them? What OS / hardware combinations have you tried out?
I have a z50 and have successfully loaded NetBSD on it. I used a SanDisk 96MB Compact Flash (partitioned into a small DOS16 partition) to hold the pbsdboot.exe program, which loads the kernel, and the tar'ed binaries (base, sys, and misc, I think). I used the other partition (74 MB) as the FFS disk, which was split into sub-partitions for NetBSD's use. I used a SanDisk Imagemate USB CF Card Reader on my PC to partition and load the CF card. Others use a Ethernet card in the PCCard or CF Card slot to directly install over the Internet, but I didn't use that route.
Right away I was able to telnet from my pc to the unit and I realized that my crippled-Windows z50 was now a multiuser powerhouse. Not bad.
How easy was it to replace winCE?
Never did. Replacing WinCE would mean a FlashROM upgrade (which is being considered: see z50 new ROMs!!! give me your opinions please.). Instead, I have to use pbsdboot.exe to load/boot NetBSD when I want to switch from WinCE to it. This became a major frustration, along with the fact that, at the time (April 2000) no power management or screen-power-off functionality was available. This meant that I had to shutdown and power off in order to stop using the battery (or leave it plugged in -- but the screen never would/could shut off; not even using the buttons -- those are software triggers, not direct hardware controls). Perhaps later versions/builds are capable of power management.
is it *really* a viable platform for coding on the road?
I used it for actual work. I write web applications using vi (html, dom, javascript, perl/mason, and a legacy procedural business scripting language). This setup worked nicely, except one thing: no power management, no sleep mode, no way to gracefully end a session and pick it up later. Eventually I started staying in WinCE using pocketWord -- it read my unix text files just fine -- which I still do. I have removed NetBSD from my CF card (but am willing to give it a go when the power management features are enabled).
The z50's battery life (8 hours, honest), the 95% keyboard (quiet and easy to use), the trackpoint (personal preference over a slide-square, or whatever), the VGA-size monitor (just not outside without shade)...awesome. WinCE is good enough for a textfile coder (which is what I mainly do).
Oh, apache runs great on the HPCMIPS NetBSD port, as does perl and your favorite compiler. But, I didn't load the compiler b/c I didn't have enough diskspace.
I think it's viable - but needs... power management so I can suspend a session to return the volleyball that just bounced over toward me, and maybe join in the game for a while...
Not originally. The NeXT Slabs came out well before the cubes.
This must be a Troll. Only a troll would purport such obvious fallacies as truth. Well, it worked. I bit. I replied to the Troll. Shame on me.
In case you're just historically-challenged, the original NeXT computer was in three pieces: gray-scale postscript display monitor, cube (magnesium alloy, matte black) and postscript laser printer. Oh yeah, keyboard and mouse. All black. Only color was on rotated logo. Came with complete works of Shakespeare. Used Magneto-Optical disk for storage. No floppy. Based on Mach kernel. Oh, had one cable from cube to monitor, one cable from monitor to wall (keyboard/mouse plugged into monitor), and one cable from cube to printer. Cost? $9999 at Businessland. $4999 educational price. Time? 1989.
Wow... where the hell have you been? Steve Jobs, NeXT/Open Step -> MacOS X Where did you think it all came from?
*sigh* All these kids think they're so sharp. That Apple bought NeXT from Jobs, who started Apple and is now iCEO of Apple was assumed in this post. Duh.
The point is: this new Mac cube is just a rehash of the NeXT, from the inside out!
Take the chip off your shoulder, read carefully, think through and get a clue.
BTW, all the references at the bottom of my post (Perot, Businessland, the King of Spain are related to the original hype around the NeXT in the summer of 1989. How do I know? I had my hands on the $9999 cube back then.)
The "Honey, I shrunk the supercomputer" slogan -- could this be a tacit admission that Disney and Apple are becoming one?
When is the last time that litigious Apple borrowed another company's intellectual property (well...besides Xerox's)?
My other thought:
1989 -- NeXT cube
2000 -- Mac cube
More similarities than the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations... What's next, Businessland to re-ermge and have an exclusive contract? Ross Perot to invest heavily in Apple? The King of Spain to buy a room full of these puppies?
I received a surprise email alert from Freshmeat yesterday announcing that Sikkolo wanted to unsubscive [sic] from Freshmeat's daily alert list. No reason was provided.
When I poliely (;-) ) asked what was up, I received a confession from Patrick Lenz that he, "hit 'approve' instead of 'reject' on that pending message within the moderation system".
Then, today,/. reposts the the same story ttwwiiccee on the front page.
That's the problem with those "clickity-click" interfaces...it's easy to mis-click and double-clickclick.
I like the/. icon (not logo) better for the story positings, personally. Not because the Wine logo is bad, but because it does not capture the essence of what Wine is all about (running "Windows" programs). To someone unfamiliar with WINE, the/. icon is self-explanitory.
I can't imagine a trade show featuring Windows, Java, Solaris, SCO -- well...., or even Amiga that would be so sparsely attended as this one was reported to be.
What's going on? Where's the thrill? I know: the so-called Linux stocks have tanked. So -- some would-be profiteers take a dive in stock price and the "buzz is gone?"
People: quit looking at the stock pages! Linux isn't about IPOs and stocks -- it's a technology. Use it, promote it, develop it.
Oh, and a little organization never hurt a conference. I remember BITNet conferences in the 1980s that were better attended than this.
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Not mentioned in the story is the news that Ransom's brother, Buddy, will be responsible for media relations and EEOC-enforcement for the new SCO acquisitions.
Oh. You're not? I thought you were a fellow Vegan-Bounder (our internal nickname for our true believing brothers). Sorry for the confusion.
At least you're not one of those wackos I ran into the other day. He thought Vegans were people dedicated to the modification of small Chevy passenger cars into SUVs. *Shudder*
BTW, I came up with the "cruelty" speil one day standing in line at a pizza-buffet. The woman before me made a very loud, intense demand for vegetarian pizza on the buffet before she would pay for the meal (of course, there already were 2 trays of vegetarian pizzas available; she was obviously interested in making a scene).
She said, "I am a vegetarian. I believe it is wrong to eat meat..." etc. After a long, tense pause, I walked up to the cashier and, quite spontaneously, said, "I am am carnivore. I believe it is cruel to eat defenseless plants..." etc.
The atmosphere was lightened considerably.
But, I figured you might be expecting such a jab (in jest) when you chose your username.
Personal aside: I have a dear friend who is a strict Vegan. He is the leader of a statewide PETA group (no details), and I dare say he would never take such a jab so graciously. I think it really betrays his struggle to maintain his position within himself; I think he wavers in his conviction.
By your response, you have evidenced that you are solidly at peace with your conviction.
It's disgusting. Don't you know SALAD IS MURDER!
Those defenseless plants have no chance to fight back against free-pod agressors -- they're rooted in the ground, for Darwin's sake!
Plants evolved to their current state in a more innocent, harmonious environment -- before the need for self-protection and defensive capabilities (such as being able to run away).
You...ambulatorist!
I, my wayward friend, am a carnivore. I eat meat. That's it. Only those beings which have the potential to defend themselves. Survival of the fittest, yes, but give them a chance!
Right away I was able to telnet from my pc to the unit and I realized that my crippled-Windows z50 was now a multiuser powerhouse. Not bad.
Never did. Replacing WinCE would mean a FlashROM upgrade (which is being considered: see z50 new ROMs!!! give me your opinions please. ). Instead, I have to use pbsdboot.exe to load/boot NetBSD when I want to switch from WinCE to it. This became a major frustration, along with the fact that, at the time (April 2000) no power management or screen-power-off functionality was available. This meant that I had to shutdown and power off in order to stop using the battery (or leave it plugged in -- but the screen never would/could shut off; not even using the buttons -- those are software triggers, not direct hardware controls). Perhaps later versions/builds are capable of power management.I used it for actual work. I write web applications using vi (html, dom, javascript, perl/mason, and a legacy procedural business scripting language). This setup worked nicely, except one thing: no power management, no sleep mode, no way to gracefully end a session and pick it up later. Eventually I started staying in WinCE using pocketWord -- it read my unix text files just fine -- which I still do. I have removed NetBSD from my CF card (but am willing to give it a go when the power management features are enabled).The z50's battery life (8 hours, honest), the 95% keyboard (quiet and easy to use), the trackpoint (personal preference over a slide-square, or whatever), the VGA-size monitor (just not outside without shade)...awesome. WinCE is good enough for a textfile coder (which is what I mainly do).
Oh, apache runs great on the HPCMIPS NetBSD port, as does perl and your favorite compiler. But, I didn't load the compiler b/c I didn't have enough diskspace.
I think it's viable - but needs ... power management so I can suspend a session to return the volleyball that just bounced over toward me, and maybe join in the game for a while...
Congratulations for proving the thesis.
then again...that's all just Usenet...
See this map and imagine the lines to/from the US cut.
See http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/hpcmips/.
Slashdot requires you to wait 1 minute between each submission of /comments.pl in order to allow everyone to have a fair chance to post.
It's been 1 minute since your last submission!
Wait a minute! (I did!) Oh!
("His graduate student"? A wee-bit Freudian, don't you think??)
What? A /.'er admitting to being corrected?!
Must be solar flares...
This must be a Troll. Only a troll would purport such obvious fallacies as truth. Well, it worked. I bit. I replied to the Troll. Shame on me.
In case you're just historically-challenged, the original NeXT computer was in three pieces: gray-scale postscript display monitor, cube (magnesium alloy, matte black) and postscript laser printer. Oh yeah, keyboard and mouse. All black. Only color was on rotated logo. Came with complete works of Shakespeare. Used Magneto-Optical disk for storage. No floppy. Based on Mach kernel. Oh, had one cable from cube to monitor, one cable from monitor to wall (keyboard/mouse plugged into monitor), and one cable from cube to printer. Cost? $9999 at Businessland. $4999 educational price. Time? 1989.
1996 -- Apple buys NeXT
True. I thought that was understood implicitly. But I should have included that fact (as it would have cut down on the angry kiddie responses).
Steve Jobs, NeXT/Open Step -> MacOS X
Where did you think it all came from?
*sigh* All these kids think they're so sharp. That Apple bought NeXT from Jobs, who started Apple and is now iCEO of Apple was assumed in this post. Duh.
The point is: this new Mac cube is just a rehash of the NeXT, from the inside out!
Take the chip off your shoulder, read carefully, think through and get a clue.
BTW, all the references at the bottom of my post (Perot, Businessland, the King of Spain are related to the original hype around the NeXT in the summer of 1989. How do I know? I had my hands on the $9999 cube back then.)
I was referring to the Disney slogan, d*ss, not the cube!
You must be too young to remember that the NeXT was originally (and by that I mean, this is a new version of the NeXT) a cube.
When is the last time that litigious Apple borrowed another company's intellectual property (well...besides Xerox's)?
My other thought:
- 1989 -- NeXT cube
- 2000 -- Mac cube
More similarities than the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations... What's next, Businessland to re-ermge and have an exclusive contract? Ross Perot to invest heavily in Apple? The King of Spain to buy a room full of these puppies?So I was wrong and more people turned out--can you say it was a TROLL to push those who could go to not let DC happen again?
When I poliely ( ;-) ) asked what was up, I received a confession from Patrick Lenz that he, "hit 'approve' instead of 'reject' on that pending message within the moderation system".
Then, today, /. reposts the the same story ttwwiiccee on the front page.
That's the problem with those "clickity-click" interfaces...it's easy to mis-click and double-clickclick.
Troll? Bad joke, perhaps.
Fritos. Freedows.
Ne'er mind....
What are you talking about? Off-topic.
THUMBNAILS, people, THUMBNAILS... :-)
No no.
I like the /. icon (not logo) better for the story positings, personally. Not because the Wine logo is bad, but because it does not capture the essence of what Wine is all about (running "Windows" programs). To someone unfamiliar with WINE, the /. icon is self-explanitory.
What's going on? Where's the thrill? I know: the so-called Linux stocks have tanked. So -- some would-be profiteers take a dive in stock price and the "buzz is gone?"
People: quit looking at the stock pages! Linux isn't about IPOs and stocks -- it's a technology. Use it, promote it, develop it.
Oh, and a little organization never hurt a conference. I remember BITNet conferences in the 1980s that were better attended than this.