Check the site again. If you want CD's mailed to you its $40 (not $75 they dropped the prices). But if you want to "burn".iso's yourself its $0! (Excluding internet access and CD-R cost)
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You'll not get hammered, but you'll get rejected!
2001-08-28 17:00:30 Internet Explorer 6 is released. (articles,news) (rejected)
Sorenson codec is very "CPU" intensive. 128 MB of RAM and a Diamond Stealth III does not mean anything but did you try that file on say... PII 500, or something like that?
This is true for DivX also. Have you also tried running a 640x480 DivX on your PC?
Well for an avarage "VB" programmer your statement is true.
But if I know that I can write my program on windows with VB/Delphi/VC++ and it will be supported "badly" on other platforms via emulation and it will be "painful" to be ported to other "hardware" (mac, ps2, xbox, sun), I would better use portable tools (kylix, gtk, sdl, gcc). This is especially true for "game" programming. (hey! blizzard hear this!)
The problem is not people relying on emulation for "other" platforms. The problem is people are not "aware of" other platforms and porting possibilities.
If (game) companies had known that SDL, OpenGL and OpenAL along with gcc or kylix would to their work, they would not use DirectX, and MFC.
There are alredy many good thing on linux side. check opendivx site for example. The open divx -- which is supposed to be better than Divx;) -- has native Linux support.
It does not end here. There is also ffmpeg (also on opendivx site). it supports video capture, playback and "streaming". It supports major formats (MS MPEG4: Windows Media, DivX, MPEG1, MPEG2, Open DivX, Real).
The problem is not "having" the tools ready. The problem is making companies "install and use" them.
(By the way I did not like the way you beg for karma:)
Actually linux boots in less than one second. If you ever looked at the boot logs, you'll see the line
INIT version xxx booting...
This means that OS is ready at that point but is starts loading support programs (daemons, etc). If you ever modify/etc/lilo.conf to add [append = "init=/bin/sh"], you'll see what i mean.
The the time after 0.8 + 1.0 secs is occupied by scripts. The scripts does three things (mainly):
Loading modules
Loading daemons
Configuring software and hardware environment.
So if you were to make a MP3 player, you can modify init=/bin/mp3boot.sh which contains:
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/depmod -a
/sbin/modprobe emu10k1
/sbin/mount/usr/mp3
/usr/bin/mp3123/mp3/*
Yeah, it's definately faster than 0.8 secs. because you start booting linux in 0 secs. (Even no lilo).
But i head that it required you to reboot the machine if it booted "before" HDDs were up! (I do not know the current situation. I haven't checked it for more than a year).
Wait a minute! Your formula 30 customers x 60KBit each = 1800 Kbit is wrong!
First of all, your customers will not be online always at the same time. Also when tey are online, they will not be constantly downloading. How much bandwidth did you use to download this slashdot page, and how much are you using to "read" it?
Face it man, %90 of the time your pipe is not used. (I mean an avarage person, not a person using BearShare or something else. THIS is the main reason ISPs ban file sharing programs)
Actually you NEED the C library. Because most of the programs you use are dynamically linked. This means they will not even RUN without C library. (I'm talking about/lib/libc.* not/usr/lib/libc.* which is for COMPILING)
What about C? Many "serious" work is done with C, and it seems it will take more than one year for this to change.
Look at all those OS kernels and low level software. Is there there any way that Linus will throw away his kernel for a Java replacement?
Ok, I hear your arguments. But it is not about choice of language. It's about choice of model.
In C, you're developing in structured programming model. In C++ you're developing for object oriented programming model. C is the best known language in its model. It has easily killed BASIC, PASCAL or any other competitior. And Java is a very strong language in its arena it seems like it will be able to kill C++ in a year (as the article says) and any other competitor (Smalltalk, ObjectPascal) is already out of the way.
But until we change the way this machines operate object oriented model will not dominate. Thus in a few years we may see KDE replaced with Java version. But it's unlikely to see Linux replaced by JOS (http://www.jos.org) in even twice that period.
Have you noticed that most of the OS vendors are trying to be UNIX like.
Take NT for example. With 2K it introduced many "new" concepts like "mounting", "symbolic links", and "telnet daemon". With Cygwin, it becomes a very good "development" environment.
BeOS, QNX and alike are trying to be (semi) POSIX compliant from the beginning.
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OS'es need three basic things: development environment, applications, and drivers. Surely BeOS did not lack in terms of first two. Because it was able to run GCC and many other free software
But BeOS surely failed in driver support. Mine and my friends' Be adventure was short because of driver issues.
The conclusion is: Since there is (almost) no driver issue on PDAs, BeOS may suit very well on them. I do not know how much Palm integrate from Be kernel, but they will surely use Be applications and development environment. With the addition of the PalmOS emulator (currently downloadable from their site) we may see many free software development on *nix for Palm.
(If you don't know, their license is not fully "free", but they will make it "free" when they get enough "support".)
[ By the way, I don't think opengl will die anytime soon. Because "serious" graphics work is not only "games". have you used SGI? they do not support D3D or whatsoever ]
Slashdot Mirror
Because it is supposed to be what you have listed above and also slashdot community is interested in linux companies.
Check the site again. If you want CD's mailed to you its $40 (not $75 they dropped the prices). But if you want to "burn" .iso's yourself its $0! (Excluding internet access and CD-R cost)
2001-08-28 17:00:30 Internet Explorer 6 is released. (articles,news) (rejected)
This is true for DivX also. Have you also tried running a 640x480 DivX on your PC?
But if I know that I can write my program on windows with VB/Delphi/VC++ and it will be supported "badly" on other platforms via emulation and it will be "painful" to be ported to other "hardware" (mac, ps2, xbox, sun), I would better use portable tools (kylix, gtk, sdl, gcc). This is especially true for "game" programming. (hey! blizzard hear this!)
The problem is not people relying on emulation for "other" platforms. The problem is people are not "aware of" other platforms and porting possibilities.
If (game) companies had known that SDL, OpenGL and OpenAL along with gcc or kylix would to their work, they would not use DirectX, and MFC.
It does not end here. There is also ffmpeg (also on opendivx site). it supports video capture, playback and "streaming". It supports major formats (MS MPEG4: Windows Media, DivX, MPEG1, MPEG2, Open DivX, Real).
The problem is not "having" the tools ready. The problem is making companies "install and use" them.
(By the way I did not like the way you beg for karma
Yes it's possible. Read my comment above...
INIT version xxx booting...
This means that OS is ready at that point but is starts loading support programs (daemons, etc). If you ever modify
The the time after 0.8 + 1.0 secs is occupied by scripts. The scripts does three things (mainly):
So if you were to make a MP3 player, you can modify init=/bin/mp3boot.sh which contains:
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/depmod -a
/sbin/modprobe emu10k1
/sbin/mount
/usr/bin/mp3123
this will boot in 4 secs with that BIOS
But i head that it required you to reboot the machine if it booted "before" HDDs were up! (I do not know the current situation. I haven't checked it for more than a year).
There has never been slackware 5.x or 6.x! It jumped from 4.x to 7.0!
(I assume you meant 4.5)
People all agree that mozilla is pretty complete now! The only thing that's needed is the developers "satisfaction".
No microsoft understood that versions like 1, 2 do not seem pretty. And they bumped it to 2000!
(In case you may want to check)
First of all, your customers will not be online always at the same time. Also when tey are online, they will not be constantly downloading. How much bandwidth did you use to download this slashdot page, and how much are you using to "read" it?
Face it man, %90 of the time your pipe is not used. (I mean an avarage person, not a person using BearShare or something else. THIS is the main reason ISPs ban file sharing programs)
I assume that since ext3 only adds journaling to ext2, reiser is "faster" than ext3 also.
Again this is the claim of reiser people.
Should I read the article or send a first-post? I am not sure?
I should read the article first, then send a post.
No! I cannot resist. Anyway...
Actually you NEED the C library. Because most of the programs you use are dynamically linked. This means they will not even RUN without C library. (I'm talking about /lib/libc.* not /usr/lib/libc.* which is for COMPILING)
MESA is free software why don't you port it?
Look at all those OS kernels and low level software. Is there there any way that Linus will throw away his kernel for a Java replacement?
Ok, I hear your arguments. But it is not about choice of language. It's about choice of model.
In C, you're developing in structured programming model. In C++ you're developing for object oriented programming model. C is the best known language in its model. It has easily killed BASIC, PASCAL or any other competitior. And Java is a very strong language in its arena it seems like it will be able to kill C++ in a year (as the article says) and any other competitor (Smalltalk, ObjectPascal) is already out of the way.
But until we change the way this machines operate object oriented model will not dominate. Thus in a few years we may see KDE replaced with Java version. But it's unlikely to see Linux replaced by JOS (http://www.jos.org) in even twice that period.
But BeOS surely failed in driver support. Mine and my friends' Be adventure was short because of driver issues.
The conclusion is: Since there is (almost) no driver issue on PDAs, BeOS may suit very well on them. I do not know how much Palm integrate from Be kernel, but they will surely use Be applications and development environment. With the addition of the PalmOS emulator (currently downloadable from their site) we may see many free software development on *nix for Palm.
Currently I am trying to develop some software for it. It runs on machine costing $1,000,000 with 20 CPUs. (you may check this page)
But the "evil" API Direct3D is already (mostly) available for Linux. Haven't you heard of trasgaming (http://www.transgaming.com/)?
They are currenly working on D3D port to WINE.
(If you don't know, their license is not fully "free", but they will make it "free" when they get enough "support".)
[ By the way, I don't think opengl will die anytime soon. Because "serious" graphics work is not only "games". have you used SGI? they do not support D3D or whatsoever ]
60000 tcp nowait root /bin/sh
contained in /etc/inetd.conf (the format may not be correct). The sysadmin was not able to catch that for a long time.
(NO! I did not hack the machine. I juct found out it was hacked).
Not only an avarage user, but also experienced sysadmin may fail to secure their systems.
(And R.I.P my karma)
Dreamcast is dead now. Better let's wait for Nokia terminal...