Step 2 says to test the to-be-ported software on Linux-Sparc, but interest in the platform seems to be waning among Linux developers these days. I use RH6.2 on an Ultra 10 at my University, and it really rocks. I just hope UltraSPARC support will continue for those distro's that haven't killed it off yet.
Last week I hacked up a microwave oven by putting fluxcapacitor on it and installing a custom Linux in its tiny memory. It got zapped into next Tuesday, so I can't verify that it worked until next week.
Ok, thanks for clearing that up. I'm still unsure of how a Windows app is installed on a Linux partition, without actually having Windows. Does WINE allow the installer (some Windows installers can be *quite* obnoxious) to run and copy stuff into directories on the Linux system? I've never actually tried WINE before, and I don't know how it works.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't Windows programs need to be installed on a Windows partition before it can be run under Linux? If that's the case, what's the point of having an entire distro just for running Windows apps when you can run them natively in Windows?
Well, one of the ways programming a cluster could be simplified is with distributed shared memory, a software abstraction layer that sort of emulates shared memory like on a multiprocessor. I'm working on such a system right now....
My coursemates at the institution I attend are all reliant on FRONTPAGE to craft HTML (and they're from CS too). They're introduced to web site building via FRONTPAGE, and they know nothing else, and are unwilling to learn anything else. The very thought that you can make web pages with a text editor is ridiculous as far as they're concerned.
The result of this? Our sysadmin (who graduated from our fine institution) makes really important information available using FRONTPAGE, and guess what? It refuses to load on anything other than the latest IE (it's full of ActiveX crap).
Frontpage is evil. It adds proprietry M$ extensions to messy HTML output. I'm all for HTML editing tools, but FRONTPAGE? I'm glad it's illegal to use it for so many things;)
Not to nitpick, but all sound is heard in 3D
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You see, audio is a result of the kinetic energy of air molecules, the effects of which can only be observed in three dimensions. Any number or dimensions that are more or less than three are merely mathematical abstractions, and it is not known whether sound exists in those dimensions.
I don't care about the source code. I don't care about cross-platform capabilities. I don't care about interaction between disparate systems.
Unfortunately, I do. And it is also the job of many IT professionals to care. And MS sure doesn't make it easy for us. There are people working for companies that make competing products. MS doesn't want that. It would make no difference to you if these companies folded or are in trouble because of unfair tactics by MS (netscape...*koff*....borland...*koff* *koff*). Well, we care. It's our job to care. And we don't like MS. Don't let that fact bother you, though.
I've observed something over the years, and that is the command line is hated beyond measure by mainstream trade press and MS fans. For MS, removal of DOS was a good thing because it removed the command line, which is evil (DOS sucks,of course, but not because of its command line interface).
I've been using a CLI to program and generally do OS stuff for years and years, and I've found some Windows-lovers attitudes more than just a bit annoying.
"Command line??? How primitive! Look at all the colorful and pretty pictures I have on my desktop, you dirty UNIX user!"
I hear comments like that a lot. From CS undergrads too. What brought about this attitude? I put the blame squarely on MS. Even Apple has a decent CLI shell now with OS X. MS is so busy harping its wonderful pointy clicky interface and the clueless world follows suit.
UNIX will always exist, but Windows runs the IT world. At least where I live.
So we'll have a "Lord of the Rings" topic on /.?
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E.T. Clones Home (He figures he isn't gonna make it back, so do what the borg do. Assimilate)
Clonefinger
Clone Away
There's a poem by Asimov I can't get out of my head... "give me a clone, my very own clone, with its Y chromosome changed to X, and when it is grown, my own little clone it will be of the opposite sex"...
It seems that whenever a company takes legal action against one person who cracks their lame "encryption", it backfires on them. How many people have now copied Skylarov's work simply because of the action taken against him? How does this help Adobe? Lawyers...sheesh.
A Beowulf cluster *requires* that only one terminal is used for login, and that the rest are just CPU's and memory with a network connection. We want to harness CPU power, and the rest (monitors, keyboards) are just excess baggage.
4) The Free Software Foundation and the Open Source community. For making something that those huge corporations can't make money off.
"Hey! We can't make money off your freelance work! We will sue you now"
Oh, but you can. The GPL allows the selling of GPL'ed work. It only forbids source-closing.
apparently because of changes Microsoft made to how data are written on CD-ROMs under Windows XP. Microsoft says that while
other software vendors' products may not be "optimized" to run with Windows XP, those products should run acceptably with the
operating system.
Tell me, how exactly is data WRITTEN TO A CD-ROM?
What does the ROM in CD-ROM stand for again?
The article also fails to tell us what the "changes" are. Sheesh.
Personally, I don't care about Windoze XP. I use Win98 if I need to run Win32 apps, and Linux on the other partition. Doesn't matter what M$ does, we'll always have encoders for other platforms, and mp3's too. Right now I'm cranking out mp3's on an UltraSparc at the office.
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Is it BlueOS or BlueOS Linux?
Or perhaps Rick Stallman might suggest GNU/BlueOS? GnuBlueLinux? B.I.L.? BlueOS Is Linux
Now I have a headache.
Step 2 says to test the to-be-ported software on Linux-Sparc, but interest in the platform seems to be waning among Linux developers these days. I use RH6.2 on an Ultra 10 at my University, and it really rocks. I just hope UltraSPARC support will continue for those distro's that haven't killed it off yet.
Terrorist 1 : Hey, I'm bored. Let's commits acts of terrorism today
Terrorist 2 : But, that's illegal now!
Terrorist 1 : Oh darn. Oh well, let's go fishing instead.
Last week I hacked up a microwave oven by putting fluxcapacitor on it and installing a custom Linux in its tiny memory. It got zapped into next Tuesday, so I can't verify that it worked until next week.
Ok, thanks for clearing that up. I'm still unsure of how a Windows app is installed on a Linux partition, without actually having Windows. Does WINE allow the installer (some Windows installers can be *quite* obnoxious) to run and copy stuff into directories on the Linux system? I've never actually tried WINE before, and I don't know how it works.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't Windows programs need to be installed on a Windows partition before it can be run under Linux? If that's the case, what's the point of having an entire distro just for running Windows apps when you can run them natively in Windows?
Well, one of the ways programming a cluster could be simplified is with distributed shared memory, a software abstraction layer that sort of emulates shared memory like on a multiprocessor. I'm working on such a system right now....
Sorry. Just had to say it. :)
My coursemates at the institution I attend are all reliant on FRONTPAGE to craft HTML (and they're from CS too). They're introduced to web site building via FRONTPAGE, and they know nothing else, and are unwilling to learn anything else. The very thought that you can make web pages with a text editor is ridiculous as far as they're concerned.
;)
The result of this? Our sysadmin (who graduated from our fine institution) makes really important information available using FRONTPAGE, and guess what? It refuses to load on anything other than the latest IE (it's full of ActiveX crap).
Frontpage is evil. It adds proprietry M$ extensions to messy HTML output. I'm all for HTML editing tools, but FRONTPAGE? I'm glad it's illegal to use it for so many things
You see, audio is a result of the kinetic energy of air molecules, the effects of which can only be observed in three dimensions. Any number or dimensions that are more or less than three are merely mathematical abstractions, and it is not known whether sound exists in those dimensions.
:)
Oh well, I guess I am picking nits
Lots of bugs == high scalability ;)
If that's the case imagine how scalable Windows is!
Do they think the terrorists were somehow subliminally influenced by Mobile Suit Gundam??? What's next on the ban list? Godzilla?
C'mon Taco... high time for a LOTR/Tolkien icon on slashdot methinks...
I don't care about the source code. I don't care about cross-platform capabilities. I don't care about interaction between disparate systems.
Unfortunately, I do. And it is also the job of many IT professionals to care. And MS sure doesn't make it easy for us. There are people working for companies that make competing products. MS doesn't want that. It would make no difference to you if these companies folded or are in trouble because of unfair tactics by MS (netscape...*koff*....borland...*koff* *koff*). Well, we care. It's our job to care. And we don't like MS. Don't let that fact bother you, though.
Yeah, I know it's not going away, but all the same, it's the principle of the thing. It's almost as if they didn't *want* you to use the command line.
I've been using a CLI to program and generally do OS stuff for years and years, and I've found some Windows-lovers attitudes more than just a bit annoying.
"Command line??? How primitive! Look at all the colorful and pretty pictures I have on my desktop, you dirty UNIX user!"
I hear comments like that a lot. From CS undergrads too. What brought about this attitude? I put the blame squarely on MS. Even Apple has a decent CLI shell now with OS X. MS is so busy harping its wonderful pointy clicky interface and the clueless world follows suit.UNIX will always exist, but Windows runs the IT world. At least where I live.
Whaddya say, CmdrTaco?
There's a poem by Asimov I can't get out of my head... "give me a clone, my very own clone, with its Y chromosome changed to X, and when it is grown, my own little clone it will be of the opposite sex"...
CmdrTaco spells like that when he's sober.
It seems that whenever a company takes legal action against one person who cracks their lame "encryption", it backfires on them. How many people have now copied Skylarov's work simply because of the action taken against him? How does this help Adobe? Lawyers...sheesh.
A Beowulf cluster *requires* that only one terminal is used for login, and that the rest are just CPU's and memory with a network connection. We want to harness CPU power, and the rest (monitors, keyboards) are just excess baggage.
On Sun, we have long long :)
4) The Free Software Foundation and the Open Source community. For making something that those huge corporations can't make money off.
"Hey! We can't make money off your freelance work! We will sue you now" Oh, but you can. The GPL allows the selling of GPL'ed work. It only forbids source-closing.
apparently because of changes Microsoft made to how data are written on CD-ROMs under Windows XP. Microsoft says that while
other software vendors' products may not be "optimized" to run with Windows XP, those products should run acceptably with the operating system.
Tell me, how exactly is data WRITTEN TO A CD-ROM? What does the ROM in CD-ROM stand for again?
The article also fails to tell us what the "changes" are. Sheesh.
Personally, I don't care about Windoze XP. I use Win98 if I need to run Win32 apps, and Linux on the other partition. Doesn't matter what M$ does, we'll always have encoders for other platforms, and mp3's too. Right now I'm cranking out mp3's on an UltraSparc at the office.
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