I thought AIM ran on Mac OS, on those non-x86 architecture boxen?
Classic Mac OS has no memory protection.
Mac OS X needs more computer (G4) than many Macintosh computer owners can afford.
There's no Classic Mac binary compatibility engine for LinuxPPC or NetBSD, the most popular fully Free systems on Mac hardware, and Apple would most likely sue anyone who tried to implement one.
Sparc, MIPS, and Alpha still have no official Oscar AIM client.
Some people can live with Quick Buddy, which is available to anybody with support for Java applets. However, others desire features TOC does not provide, such as high availability (TOC outages are disturbingly common).
No it isn't. To support "Linux," you have to make your source available to recompile on every architecture that has a Linux kernel. It supports "Linux86" which is a subset of supporting Linux. It doesn't support Linux on PowerPC, Linux on MIPS, Linux on SPARC, or Linux on Alpha.
Or are you suggesting using AIM for Linux on an emulation layer such as Bochs? Good luck routing network packets through that.
I have a friend who has been using an OLD version of aim, never seemed to want to upgrade. Well, the other day, it wouldn't let him log in, so he had to upgrade..
I'm using WinAIM 2.1.1187 on one account and 3.0.1464 on my primary account, and I have no trouble holding a connection. So sue me.
If nothing else, determining the rightful owner of the XOR of two separately copyrighted files will be amusing
According to traditional interpretations of US copyright law, it's considered a derivative work of both original files, subject to the derivative works provisions of any licenses to which the preparer of the XOR file is a party.
why not just require the actual aim.exe to sit in the same directory as the clone, and just refer to it to get the checksum?
Two problems:
AIM is tied to x86 Windows, as the download is a binary program that creates aim.exe and must be run on x86 Windows. WINE (the most popular Windows-on-Linux/BSD solution) runs only on x86, as it performs no CPU emulation. If your organization does not own any x86 computers, you can't get aim.exe.
The only version of AIM that AOL is distributing is the one that uses server-side buddy lists, a feature that the libfaim people have not yet cracked.
They'll also need 64-bit hardware. Goodbye 32-bits and that other unportable OS won't make it there will it?
64 bits can be emulated. The x87 architecture has had instructions to deal with 64-bit double-precision floating-point values since the 8087. And how else do you think the 32-bit PC emulates the 64-bit Nintendo 64 console?
"Bits" without context are meaningless. For example, the measure (data bus width) that makes Sega Genesis's MC68000 a 16-bit CPU makes the Super NES's 65816 CPU 8-bit. Sega liked to call its Saturn console 96-bit because it had three parallel 32-bit (ALU width) CPUs.
Some of their so called "user-friendly" features are really crap (why should I trash my diskette when I only wants to eject it?).
Select the disk and then choose File | Put Away (why would you eject a disk? to put it away)or (under OS 8 or later) Special | Eject Disk. Or (also under OS 8 or later) just control+click the disk and choose Eject the same way it's done on Windows (especially under NT, which likes to lock drives while they're mounted). Either way, the disk is unmounted and ejected from the drive. The "trash can" method works only because of a mistake in Mac OS 1 that has been kept in 2-9 for backward compatibility.
"As I was negotiating with Charley, I learned that (protecting CDs) was important to him," says Bob Heatherly, head of Music City Records, the independent Nashville label that Pride joined in January.
Of course, you'd need to use this technique with a search engine who takes dead link submissions. Eg., Altavista and its "Add or Remove a Page" link
AltaVista does not allow submissions from visually impaired users or users of text-based web browsers such as Lynx, Links, or w3m. Its submission page uses a GIF image (burn all GIFs) to display rotated text in various fonts. The user is supposed to read the text and enter it into a field below. But visually impaired users, users on text browsers, and users on browsers whose developers have been cease-and-desisted by Unisysnever see the GIF and cannot contribute links to AltaVista.
some companies are try to combine the peer to peer aspect of traditional word of mouth and the web.
In this model, surfers are paid to recommend the sites to other surfers. Spedia is a prime example, as was AllAdvantage until it went to a "sweepstakes" scheme. Other examples can be found in the many sites that use Recommend-It.
But, as usual for Google, the first three results are highly relevant for at least one common sense of the search term. (The first is W3C's official HTML standards site.) I didn't realize how bad AltaVista sucked until I tried it after using Google for a year.
does anyone find anything better than "and"???
+a comes close. It seems they're blocking searches for +the.
Most searches for herbal medicines (e.g. "5-HTP") find you way more hits (especially the high ranking ones) from companies trying to sell you it than actual objective information about it.
Had you typed 5-htp information into Google, you would see 5-htp information, with Harvard as result #2.
From the article: Kushnick thinks that, if the fiber had been laid, a wealth of new businesses would have sprung up to offer services and we wouldn't be experiencing the Internet downturn we have now.
What killed the dot-coms wasn't a lack of connectivity. It was more likely a lack of a solid business plan.
Why can't people learn to use HTML? Is it really all that difficult to state which background color you want?
<body bgcolor="..." > is deprecated in HTML 4 and later, as it is a presentational attribute and should be implemented in CSS instead. Some users prefer white text on a black background and have their default stylesheet set accordingly. (If you're using a Web browser that crashes when fed valid CSS, that's your problem. Mozilla has come a long way and is already an order of magnitude better than Netscape 4.x.)
Then I go look at it with Netscape under Linux which, thanfully, does not make everything glaringly white unless it is told to
Changing your "Window" color in Display Properties: Appearance will change the bgcolor of pages that don't specify a color in HTML or CSS.
Somebody who doesn't have a lot of money for batteries and will be using this thing for long periods of time away from AC power. "Low powered" does not necessarily mean "long execution time for a given program." Even then, document-editing programs are generally dominated not by CPU speed but by apparent latency; Transmeta's CPUs are powerful enough to run even the bloatware that is MS Office, but I see a potential problem with heavy use of GIMP filters. If you want to play 3d games, get a fscking game console. If you want to crunch RC5 keys, you don't need mobility; get a standard minitower.
A VHS composite video output. This lets you plug it directly into a television set to put on a presentation for a small group, and it's great for playing games with the whole family.
My laptop has an S-video output connector on the left side. (Sadly, it's only active when I run Windows 98.) I got a 24-foot S-video to composite video cable for $24 at some Yahoo! store; it came with a free stereo audio cable. Or you can make your own adapter; it's merely a matter of mixing the signals on the luma and chroma pins.
Too bad my laptop's CPU is too slow (333 MHz Celeron-A) to decode DVD or DivX;-) movies or to render Quake 3.
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I thought AIM ran on Mac OS, on those non-x86 architecture boxen?
Actually, linux is a supported platform
No it isn't. To support "Linux," you have to make your source available to recompile on every architecture that has a Linux kernel. It supports "Linux86" which is a subset of supporting Linux. It doesn't support Linux on PowerPC, Linux on MIPS, Linux on SPARC, or Linux on Alpha.
Or are you suggesting using AIM for Linux on an emulation layer such as Bochs? Good luck routing network packets through that.
I have a friend who has been using an OLD version of aim, never seemed to want to upgrade. Well, the other day, it wouldn't let him log in, so he had to upgrade..
I'm using WinAIM 2.1.1187 on one account and 3.0.1464 on my primary account, and I have no trouble holding a connection. So sue me.
until they release a PPC binary I literally cannot use an official client on the machine I use to chat.
Have you tried Bochs (Lesser GPL) or Connectix Virtual PC (proprietary) for running PC programs on your Mac?
If nothing else, determining the rightful owner of the XOR of two separately copyrighted files will be amusing
According to traditional interpretations of US copyright law, it's considered a derivative work of both original files, subject to the derivative works provisions of any licenses to which the preparer of the XOR file is a party.
why not just require the actual aim.exe to sit in the same directory as the clone, and just refer to it to get the checksum?
Two problems:I'd like to see you try to get that many people (especially the Windows and Mac users) to use your protocol
There are Jabber clients for Windows and classic Mac OS. The BSD clients should recompile on Mac OS X systems with XFree86 installed.
abandoning AIM completely
TOC still works.
They'll also need 64-bit hardware. Goodbye 32-bits and that other unportable OS won't make it there will it?
64 bits can be emulated. The x87 architecture has had instructions to deal with 64-bit double-precision floating-point values since the 8087. And how else do you think the 32-bit PC emulates the 64-bit Nintendo 64 console?
"Bits" without context are meaningless. For example, the measure (data bus width) that makes Sega Genesis's MC68000 a 16-bit CPU makes the Super NES's 65816 CPU 8-bit. Sega liked to call its Saturn console 96-bit because it had three parallel 32-bit (ALU width) CPUs.
with even a quarter a cerebral cortex could check the status bar of their browser and ken that this isn't a goatse.cx link
Except if the URL looks benign but links to a page that contains a mirror of goatse.cx's content.
Some of their so called "user-friendly" features are really crap (why should I trash my diskette when I only wants to eject it?).
Select the disk and then choose File | Put Away (why would you eject a disk? to put it away)or (under OS 8 or later) Special | Eject Disk. Or (also under OS 8 or later) just control+click the disk and choose Eject the same way it's done on Windows (especially under NT, which likes to lock drives while they're mounted). Either way, the disk is unmounted and ejected from the drive. The "trash can" method works only because of a mistake in Mac OS 1 that has been kept in 2-9 for backward compatibility.
"As I was negotiating with Charley, I learned that (protecting CDs) was important to him," says Bob Heatherly, head of Music City Records, the independent Nashville label that Pride joined in January.
Isn't Music City an OpenNap network?
But my MP3 player doesn't have a 20GB hard drive, it has 64MB of Flash RAM
And mine has 650 MB of optical WORM memory (i.e. CD-R drive). Many newer portable CD players can play CDs encoded in MPEG layer 3; just burn it.
USA law doesnt apply outside USA
Until the USA invades those countries that do not recognize USA copyright law.
and only the holder of the standadr, Sony I believe could make the record company do anything about it
Sony, one of the maintainers of the CD standard, is also a major record label. Philips (the other maintainer) is also a (minor) label.
8 *MEG* to run a word processor?
Remind you of Emacs (Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping)? No, wait, Emacs has easter eggs such as M-x tetris and M-x doctor.
PNG support is uneven and broken, and few people even know about it.
Until they get sued.
Of course, you'd need to use this technique with a search engine who takes dead link submissions. Eg., Altavista and its "Add or Remove a Page" link
AltaVista does not allow submissions from visually impaired users or users of text-based web browsers such as Lynx, Links, or w3m. Its submission page uses a GIF image (burn all GIFs) to display rotated text in various fonts. The user is supposed to read the text and enter it into a field below. But visually impaired users, users on text browsers, and users on browsers whose developers have been cease-and-desisted by Unisys never see the GIF and cannot contribute links to AltaVista.
Basically, using the peer-2-peer revolution (buzzword alert) in advertising is the next thing.
I hope you're not talking about spamming Gnutella.
some companies are try to combine the peer to peer aspect of traditional word of mouth and the web.
In this model, surfers are paid to recommend the sites to other surfers. Spedia is a prime example, as was AllAdvantage until it went to a "sweepstakes" scheme. Other examples can be found in the many sites that use Recommend-It.
Hatten är din, hatten är din, habeetik, habeetik.Yep, all that content, and yet when there's a slow day at work I can still run out of interesting stuff to look at on the internet.
little gamers, penny arcade, goats (not goatse), and badtech: online comics. It'll take a while to browse the entire archive.
everything 2: nearly half a million writeups on topics from aardvarks to zzyzx.
"html" 188,000,000
But, as usual for Google, the first three results are highly relevant for at least one common sense of the search term. (The first is W3C's official HTML standards site.) I didn't realize how bad AltaVista sucked until I tried it after using Google for a year.
does anyone find anything better than "and"???
+a comes close. It seems they're blocking searches for +the.
Most searches for herbal medicines (e.g. "5-HTP") find you way more hits (especially the high ranking ones) from companies trying to sell you it than actual objective information about it.
Had you typed 5-htp information into Google, you would see 5-htp information, with Harvard as result #2.
From the article:
Kushnick thinks that, if the fiber had been laid, a wealth of new businesses would have sprung up to offer services and we wouldn't be experiencing the Internet downturn we have now.
What killed the dot-coms wasn't a lack of connectivity. It was more likely a lack of a solid business plan.
Why can't people learn to use HTML? Is it really all that difficult to state which background color you want?
<body bgcolor="..." > is deprecated in HTML 4 and later, as it is a presentational attribute and should be implemented in CSS instead. Some users prefer white text on a black background and have their default stylesheet set accordingly. (If you're using a Web browser that crashes when fed valid CSS, that's your problem. Mozilla has come a long way and is already an order of magnitude better than Netscape 4.x.)
Then I go look at it with Netscape under Linux which, thanfully, does not make everything glaringly white unless it is told to
Changing your "Window" color in Display Properties: Appearance will change the bgcolor of pages that don't specify a color in HTML or CSS.
Who is willing to have a low powered CPU?
Somebody who doesn't have a lot of money for batteries and will be using this thing for long periods of time away from AC power. "Low powered" does not necessarily mean "long execution time for a given program." Even then, document-editing programs are generally dominated not by CPU speed but by apparent latency; Transmeta's CPUs are powerful enough to run even the bloatware that is MS Office, but I see a potential problem with heavy use of GIMP filters. If you want to play 3d games, get a fscking game console. If you want to crunch RC5 keys, you don't need mobility; get a standard minitower.
A VHS composite video output. This lets you plug it directly into a television set to put on a presentation for a small group, and it's great for playing games with the whole family.
My laptop has an S-video output connector on the left side. (Sadly, it's only active when I run Windows 98.) I got a 24-foot S-video to composite video cable for $24 at some Yahoo! store; it came with a free stereo audio cable. Or you can make your own adapter; it's merely a matter of mixing the signals on the luma and chroma pins.
Too bad my laptop's CPU is too slow (333 MHz Celeron-A) to decode DVD or DivX ;-) movies or to render Quake 3.