IE on its native platform (Win, of course) is slow, buggy, crashy, and annoying.
IE on Windows is faster than Netscape on Windows. Netscape on my Linux-based system is as fast as IE on Windows. How fast would this make a native IE for Linux?
Why would we want to port the worst browser around to linux?
Worst browser around: To each his own. Why port: Because it'd be really easy, considering it already runs on Solaris and H[ockey]P-UX.
Even over a modem 650 Megs takes less than 3 or 4 days...
With an unreliable connection? With even local calls to the ISP billed by the minute? With overnight delivery available from a Red Hat reseller in the UK?
I bet at least ONE school in the UK has a net connection. The free CD and manual are a waste of effort.
A manual is not a waste of effort. How else are you supposed to learn how to install the thing if you don't have Net access? It's not plug-and-play like installing Mac OS; you have to know what some of the various packages do.
Now some support for free would be useful to schools...
If the comp.* hierarchy on Usenet is propagated to the UK (and it is), then they already have free support in comp.os.linux.*
That gcc or g++ exists and that some people find it an acceptable development environment in no way makes a compelling case for us abandoning a highly productive environment for one that is clearly an old-style way of doing business and not one our engineers are comfortable in.
Any of your engineers ever used Borland Turbo tools? There's a GCC shell called RHIDE that looks just like Borland's IDE. That'll hold you over until Motorola gets its @$$ in gear.
Another reason: CodeWarrior compiles for Intel x86, and Motorola doesn't want to make software that compiles for its competitor, especially when GCC makes faster code. And if you're worried about difficult GCC assembly syntax, look at NASM, the Netwide Assembler for x86.
So tell him to do a Google search for RHIDE. RHIDE is Robert Höhne's IDE that looks just like Borland Turbo C++.
and he uses code warrior for linux for porting the various quakes to linux.
The easiest way to port a program to DOS, Window$, and *nix/X simultaneously is to write it to the Allegro API.
said he would probably ignore linux if code warrior didn't exist.
He even helped changed the course of microsofts directx. Versions 6 and 7 are quite an improvement after Carmack got on microsofts ass for sub quality api's.
The new APIs are better but still a bit confusing. And it's still not portable; Allegro is. They're even working on Be Allegro.
I bet Motorolla would listen to him if he signed part of the partition or email them. I don't know. Its worth a shot.
Motorola's MPC7400 (used in Power Mac G4) is faster than AMD's Athlon (aka K7). Can your CPU say the same?
You may think SSL stands for secure server link or something similar, but it really stands for shopping site link, and work doesn't want employees shopping online on company time.
IIRC, "symmetric" multiprocessing means that the CPUs aren't on a slave-and-master basis but instead run about an equal workload. An early example of S&M MP was certain 68040 Macs. They offloaded Photoshop threads to another CPU in the box, but they couldn't truly multitask and send entire processes to other CPUs. But the Mac is single-user, and IIRC SMP is practical only on multiuser systems.
PDA software Been done. InfoGenius. raycasted 3D graphics Been done. FaceBall 2000.
If you've got one and you want to hack it, join up. You can buy Bung's cartridge to transfer your software to a real GB or use one designed by one of the list gurus. There are some people in there who do GB code for a living, others who are under Nintendo NDAs, and even others who seem to know more than Nintendo themselves knows about the GB.:-)
Right now I'm on nesdev instead, but developing for a handheld that's still being commercially developed for sounds really cool. Just think what will happen when Game Boy Advance comes out though...
I love that game (I've even cloned it for Linux and other platforms that support Allegro), but Tetris sucks. The company that makes it is greedy.
But let's get back on topic, shall we? Try typing "Tetris" into the song title search box on the Napster client and see what cool techno remixes don't pop up.
Apple II series and Nintendo NES also used a 6502 type CPU. NES also had a nice character-cell management chip.
and then port all of the usual GNU programs to 8-bit code
Using GCC and GNU binutils would simplify making open-source NES games immensely. (O.S. works better than "free" as an adjective when not in front of "software"; sorry RMS...)
.tm for TradeMark. Of course there's probably already a.tm country code.
.to is Tonga, but they sold out to V3..cc is Cocos Islands. There are already.tm sites, e.g. Fuckwits.
Maybe.trademark or something.. but the point is that registration in some TLD somewhere should REQUIRE a registered trademark.
I'll help clarify so a flame war doesn't start: You're not saying that all domains should require a ®, only domains in one TLD. I suggest.r for this TLD; it doesn't conflict with.tm. This fits in with the next suggestion:
Trademarks have a different namespaces for different types of business, so there can be an apple detective agency and an apple computers both with trademarks...
And Apple the record label. Remember when Apple records sued Apple Computer over "entering the recording business" in violation of a trademark license by providing audio input hardware?
So the next level below the.tm would be.computers or etc. (Obviously you wouldn't sell the next-to-TL domains either).
I don't really know much about the trademark system, but at least it's got maturity, and I believe trademarks are respected internationally to some degree.
No. You have to sell in a country before you can register there.
Why is the alphabet in that order?
It's a mistake the Semites made when creating the proto-Semitic alphabet that became Hebrew, Arabic, Phoenician, Greek, Latin, and Cyrillic. It should have been done more phonetically like Tengwar.
So WTF should 3Com Corporation have used for its domain name? Its corporate name begins with a digit.
Did you know that there is a whole new world of top level domains that you've never seen? I argue for caesar cipher (rot13) support; it would open up three new TLDs:.pbz,.arg, and.bet.
But we can find what the government put in it.
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Not that much people... will READ all 6 million lines of sourcecode to scan if there will be special things put into it.
Your "consumer oriented applications" can be made with Allegro, which extends the ANSI C API with its own compressed filesystem (packfiles and datafiles), two-dimensional and limited three-dimensional graphics (there are also *GL addons), input management (keyboard, joystick, and mouse), sound, and fixed-point math. And an Allegro-based game can be recompiled and relinked with the DOS, Windows, and *nix versions of the Allegro library, and they'll use VESA, DirectX, and X11 automatically. That's why I chose Allegro for freepuzzlearena, a Tetris clone. (No downloads yet; pin0cchio and I can't figure out how to get xoom ftp to work right.)
Like the Chinese follow REGULAR software license agreements ??? 90% of the stuff they use in the government ministries is pirated.
China breaks EULAs because it's too poor to afford purchasing licenses.
What makes you think they care about the Linux GPL ??
IANAL, but all it needs to do to comply with GNU GPL is include the source code on the CDs it burns for Chinese GNU/Linux users. Now how tough is that?
Oh, by the way, here's your GPL in Chinese. It's an unofficial translation, but I think the government will understand it.:-)
Then if you want to have hot swapable kernels, I think you have to pray for HURD.
Or work on HURD yourself.
In HURD it will be possible f0r 5kr1p+ k1dd135 (for script kiddies) to replace almost all the kernel without reboot.
Security is always an issue. Maybe it's even a "known issue." Micro$oft Crapdows (any version after 3.11) has thousands of known "issues," and I'm not talking Korn CDs here.
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many, many programs are debugged enough to be useful, like the Netscape browser I am using right now.
By "Netscape" you mean a recent release of the Mozilla browser, correct? Netscape 4.x just too buggy for me to work with at least.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Is the formula open source?
Your welcome to investigate, the "other" Linux® trademark filed at the USPTO is availible here.
Lynx would keep us out of tables- and frames-based sites (the vast majority of the commercial WWW). Try w3m instead; you can find it at freshmeat.
IE on its native platform (Win, of course) is slow, buggy, crashy, and annoying.
IE on Windows is faster than Netscape on Windows. Netscape on my Linux-based system is as fast as IE on Windows. How fast would this make a native IE for Linux?
Why would we want to port the worst browser around to linux?
Worst browser around: To each his own.
Why port: Because it'd be really easy, considering it already runs on Solaris and H[ockey]P-UX.
But everyone has found out that by going to my documents then typing C:\ can get you into the HD :-)
Does typing C:\command.com bring you to a shell prompt?
Even over a modem 650 Megs takes less than 3 or 4 days...
With an unreliable connection? With even local calls to the ISP billed by the minute? With overnight delivery available from a Red Hat reseller in the UK?
I bet at least ONE school in the UK has a net connection. The free CD and manual are a waste of effort.
A manual is not a waste of effort. How else are you supposed to learn how to install the thing if you don't have Net access? It's not plug-and-play like installing Mac OS; you have to know what some of the various packages do.
Now some support for free would be useful to schools...
If the comp.* hierarchy on Usenet is propagated to the UK (and it is), then they already have free support in comp.os.linux.*
That gcc or g++ exists and that some people find it an acceptable development environment in no way makes a compelling case for us abandoning a highly productive environment for one that is clearly an old-style way of doing business and not one our engineers are comfortable in.
Any of your engineers ever used Borland Turbo tools? There's a GCC shell called RHIDE that looks just like Borland's IDE. That'll hold you over until Motorola gets its @$$ in gear.
Another reason: CodeWarrior compiles for Intel x86, and Motorola doesn't want to make software that compiles for its competitor, especially when GCC makes faster code. And if you're worried about difficult GCC assembly syntax, look at NASM, the Netwide Assembler for x86.
John Carmack likes graphical ide's
So tell him to do a Google search for RHIDE. RHIDE is Robert Höhne's IDE that looks just like Borland Turbo C++.
and he uses code warrior for linux for porting the various quakes to linux.
The easiest way to port a program to DOS, Window$, and *nix/X simultaneously is to write it to the Allegro API.
said he would probably ignore linux if code warrior didn't exist.
He even helped changed the course of microsofts directx. Versions 6 and 7 are quite an improvement after Carmack got on microsofts ass for sub quality api's.
The new APIs are better but still a bit confusing. And it's still not portable; Allegro is. They're even working on Be Allegro.
I bet Motorolla would listen to him if he signed part of the partition or email them. I don't know. Its worth a shot.
Motorola's MPC7400 (used in Power Mac G4) is faster than AMD's Athlon (aka K7). Can your CPU say the same?
Or at least make time unsigned like it is on DJGPP. That would buy us an extra 70 years to get 64-bit machines.
If you can't find your DR DOS disks, download new ones from Lineo.
Sadly - work also happens to block SSL azs well
You may think SSL stands for secure server link or something similar, but it really stands for shopping site link, and work doesn't want employees shopping online on company time.
just my 2c...
IIRC, "symmetric" multiprocessing means that the CPUs aren't on a slave-and-master basis but instead run about an equal workload. An early example of S&M MP was certain 68040 Macs. They offloaded Photoshop threads to another CPU in the box, but they couldn't truly multitask and send entire processes to other CPUs. But the Mac is single-user, and IIRC SMP is practical only on multiuser systems.
Have a drink.
What about the world's smallest digital camera according to Guinness® World Records? Game Boy® Camera kicks.
Sorry, DVD-ROMs made with current technology (one side, one layer) only hold 7 CD-ROMs each. But 4700 MB at 1 MB/min is still over three days.
PDA software
Been done. InfoGenius.
raycasted 3D graphics
Been done. FaceBall 2000.
If you've got one and you want to hack it, join up. You can buy Bung's cartridge to transfer your software to a real GB or use one designed by one of the list gurus. There are some people in there who do GB code for a living, others who are under Nintendo NDAs, and even others who seem to know more than Nintendo themselves knows about the GB. :-)
Right now I'm on nesdev instead, but developing for a handheld that's still being commercially developed for sounds really cool. Just think what will happen when Game Boy Advance comes out though...
I love that game (I've even cloned it for Linux and other platforms that support Allegro), but Tetris sucks. The company that makes it is greedy.
But let's get back on topic, shall we?
Try typing "Tetris" into the song title search box on the Napster client and see what cool techno remixes don't pop up.
Apple II series and Nintendo NES also used a 6502 type CPU. NES also had a nice character-cell management chip.
and then port all of the usual GNU programs to 8-bit code
Using GCC and GNU binutils would simplify making open-source NES games immensely. (O.S. works better than "free" as an adjective when not in front of "software"; sorry RMS...)
Maybe .trademark or something.. but the point is that registration in some TLD somewhere should REQUIRE a registered trademark.
I'll help clarify so a flame war doesn't start: You're not saying that all domains should require a ®, only domains in one TLD. I suggest .r for this TLD; it doesn't conflict with .tm. This fits in with the next suggestion:
Trademarks have a different namespaces for different types of business, so there can be an apple detective agency and an apple computers both with trademarks...
And Apple the record label. Remember when Apple records sued Apple Computer over "entering the recording business" in violation of a trademark license by providing audio input hardware?
So the next level below the .tm would be .computers or etc. (Obviously you wouldn't sell the next-to-TL domains either).
So you're saying http://www.apple.comp.r/ ?
I don't really know much about the trademark system, but at least it's got maturity, and I believe trademarks are respected internationally to some degree.
No. You have to sell in a country before you can register there.
Why is the alphabet in that order?
It's a mistake the Semites made when creating the proto-Semitic alphabet that became Hebrew, Arabic, Phoenician, Greek, Latin, and Cyrillic. It should have been done more phonetically like Tengwar.
So WTF should 3Com Corporation have used for its domain name? Its corporate name begins with a digit.
Did you know that there is a whole new world of top level domains that you've never seen? I argue for caesar cipher (rot13) support; it would open up three new TLDs:
Not that much people ... will READ all 6 million lines of sourcecode to scan if there will be special things put into it.
umm... diff?
Your "consumer oriented applications" can be made with Allegro, which extends the ANSI C API with its own compressed filesystem (packfiles and datafiles), two-dimensional and limited three-dimensional graphics (there are also *GL addons), input management (keyboard, joystick, and mouse), sound, and fixed-point math. And an Allegro-based game can be recompiled and relinked with the DOS, Windows, and *nix versions of the Allegro library, and they'll use VESA, DirectX, and X11 automatically. That's why I chose Allegro for freepuzzlearena, a Tetris clone. (No downloads yet; pin0cchio and I can't figure out how to get xoom ftp to work right.)
And it's nearing 4.0 too.
Like the Chinese follow REGULAR software license agreements ??? 90% of the stuff they use in the government ministries is pirated.
China breaks EULAs because it's too poor to afford purchasing licenses.
What makes you think they care about the Linux GPL ??
IANAL, but all it needs to do to comply with GNU GPL is include the source code on the CDs it burns for Chinese GNU/Linux users. Now how tough is that?
Oh, by the way, here's your GPL in Chinese. It's an unofficial translation, but I think the government will understand it. :-)
Then if you want to have hot swapable kernels, I think you have to pray for HURD.
Or work on HURD yourself.
In HURD it will be possible
f0r 5kr1p+ k1dd135 (for script kiddies)
to replace almost all the kernel without reboot.
Security is always an issue. Maybe it's even a "known issue." Micro$oft Crapdows (any version after 3.11) has thousands of known "issues," and I'm not talking Korn CDs here.
Tetris rules
No, Tetris sucks. The game of falling tetrominoes may rule, but Tetris sucks. Care to refresh your memory?