For the benefit of those of you who don't realize you can see the comic before the rant is posted, today's Penny Arcade has a strip on Gold Farmers of the Hinterlands.
As usual, the lads are perfect in their topical timing.
His readings are a fixture at Armadillocon in Austin, Texas. The important thing is that he has a redneck flavor of science fiction, so read his stuff with a heavy southern accent for the proper effect.
I've programmed ARM assembly language (with no OS, even), and written Atari 2600 code, and no it's not. The only way ARM can be considered a descendant of the 6502 is in the minds of people who don't know much at all about CPU architectures. It was only a successor to the 6502, in that Acorn switched over to it, just like how Apple switched from 680x0 to PowerPC. Successor != descendant.
ARM is mostly a generic 3-operand RISC instruction set, with PDP-11/68000 inspiration for its opcodes, plus the added wierdness of every instruction having a conditional attached to it.
The 6502 was this wierd... thing... which is basicallly a 6800 with stripped down registers and a couple of indirect addressing modes added. The single accumulator caused an emphasis on using the zero-page as a register file, making it semi-RISC in nature.
While Hypertalk was esentially the predecessor of AppleScript, it was not the same thing. Hypertalk only worked in Hypercard (and Supercard) stacks. Myst used a Hypercard runtime with some xcmds (external command modules) added to it.
The GM whinings about "affecting other people's gaming experience" remind me of back in the days of Gemstone II (back when it ran on GEnie). Whenver they had a wedding, there would usually be 30-50 players in the same room. You could count on the game crashing sometime during the wedding. (At least the GMs were cool with it.) Hopefully they didn't crash a server with this.:)
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I'd like to see someone hack a Mac Mini into a Color Classic case. It'd probably even fit.
There's no real reason why we couldn't have 3Ghz 32-bit descendants of the 6502 today.
Other than the minor detail that it probably would be a far worse hack than the 8086/186/286/386 instruction set. I take it you haven't done much assembly lanugage programming? (Actually, there were plans to make a 65832, of which the only surviving info seems to be a preliminary manual sent to a high school student who wrote WDC asking about it!)
IMHO, I've always thought that the Mac LC + Apple ][ module (or something equivalent) is what Apple should have produced instead of the IIgs. That would have provided some way to get a relatively low-end Mac, but still be able to run the old 6502 software. The IIgs was really the problem, because it started a whole new platform of 65816 software that Apple had to abandon, and all the bad vibes that go with abandoning a platform.
Actually, there is ONE expansion slot, the one used for the AirPort Extreme card. IIRC, AirPort Express uses a standard mini-PCI interface. (The original AirPort used a slightly non-standard PCMCIA.) You still need some way to get a cable out of the box, though.
It's true. Using a laptop hard drive in a server is a bad idea. I have some knowledge of the folly of doing this. The only thing worse than doing this in your own server is doing this in equipment you're selling to other people for use in a server environment. There's a good reason why so much high-end networking gear uses flash cards for storage.
That being said, there are now server-rated laptop drives, but they're all SCSI. So you can't just drop them in.
The main difference is that an ActiveX control is binary x86 code. The Mozilla XPI is a scripting language. It's a lot easier for a scripting language interpreter to stop code from doing bad things than it is for your CPU to do so. Especially in an OS as loose about security as Windows is.
Whopee. That just means you know who to blame for that buffer overflow exploit inside it. You're just as likely to have a problem with a control that came straight from Microsoft as you are with Bob's unsigned "don't read that dialog, just click yes" control. There's all sorts of fun that can be done with just Microsoft's standard ActiveX help control, and the user doesn't see a single dialog box.
CraptiveX was known to be a disaster waiting to happen from the day it was first announced. That was what, almost ten years ago now?
Installation of X11 after OS X is installed typically requires the user to reboot their system with their OS X install disc, and then install the X11 support atop their existing OS X installation.
Wrong. You should be able to just insert the install disc, find the appropriate.PKG files, and double-click on them to run the installer.
I guess everybody's just too busy constantly recompiling their Linux packages from source to mess with an OS X port. Must be the same problem with the MESS emulator, which hasn't been upgraded since 2003 either.
Problem with one RU servers is very very few of them have redundant PSU's.
And even when a server or router or whatever does have redundant PSUs, one of them may get weak such that the computer will work fine with all PSUs powered, but die when one of them goes out.
And then there's those cool three-headed hydra cords I've seen plugging all the redundant PSUs of Dull servers into the same power plug.
I think you missed the part on that page where it said Tiger was in beta. If Apple removed that page from their site, they had a good reason to do so. Until it's released, nothing is certain, other than that it will run on a Macintosh.
Exactly, even with WindowsNT4, with an administrator signed into the Server console, the CPU usage for the GUI was 0, since the GUI was completely IDLE.
Except when you had people who would set the server's screen saver to a 3D cycle-hog, without any 3D accelleration in the video card. You know it happens all the time. Of course this isn't the fault of the GUI, just clueless lusers.
That would be the old "beige" G3, which is a full two years older.
...and it doesn't run 10.3 either. As much as I love my pair of Blue & White 350s, I wouldn't take a beige G3 unless it was free, and even then I'd have to think about it.
The only ones I've seen with a built-in hub have either been from Apple or designed for Macs by third-party companies like MacAlly. But the most common used USB keyboard out there is Compaq's, which doesn't include a hub. I've even found a USB keyboard (from a crappy Wyse WinCE terminal) with a PS/2 mouse port on the side, but no hub.
It's not like hubs aren't cheap. Fry's regularly has a mini-hub on sale for $10 every weekend, and I've even seen them for $10 with a $10 mail-in rebate. Pretty soon, they're going to be packing USB mini-hubs into breakfast cereal boxes.
Can we mod this story -1, Troll or -1, Flamebait? Because as a dupe, that's all it's done. (Yes, I know there's also -1, Redundant, but that would be redundant.)
I feel sorry for you if you don't think you can find a keyboard, mouse, and monitor for less than $200. Buying used, they shouldn't cost more than $50. It's really sad how people have a blindness to buying anything but brand new items at corporate big box stores.
And I don't see anywhere it says this simPC thing comes with a monitor either.
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That honor belongs to Atari. However, they were so big that they were really too difficult to use.
As usual, the lads are perfect in their topical timing.
His readings are a fixture at Armadillocon in Austin, Texas. The important thing is that he has a redneck flavor of science fiction, so read his stuff with a heavy southern accent for the proper effect.
I aim a little higher. Or is that lower?
ARM is mostly a generic 3-operand RISC instruction set, with PDP-11/68000 inspiration for its opcodes, plus the added wierdness of every instruction having a conditional attached to it.
The 6502 was this wierd... thing... which is basicallly a 6800 with stripped down registers and a couple of indirect addressing modes added. The single accumulator caused an emphasis on using the zero-page as a register file, making it semi-RISC in nature.
While Hypertalk was esentially the predecessor of AppleScript, it was not the same thing. Hypertalk only worked in Hypercard (and Supercard) stacks. Myst used a Hypercard runtime with some xcmds (external command modules) added to it.
1. Protest in underwear
2. ???
3. PROFIT!
I'd like to see someone hack a Mac Mini into a Color Classic case. It'd probably even fit.
Other than the minor detail that it probably would be a far worse hack than the 8086/186/286/386 instruction set. I take it you haven't done much assembly lanugage programming? (Actually, there were plans to make a 65832, of which the only surviving info seems to be a preliminary manual sent to a high school student who wrote WDC asking about it!)
IMHO, I've always thought that the Mac LC + Apple ][ module (or something equivalent) is what Apple should have produced instead of the IIgs. That would have provided some way to get a relatively low-end Mac, but still be able to run the old 6502 software. The IIgs was really the problem, because it started a whole new platform of 65816 software that Apple had to abandon, and all the bad vibes that go with abandoning a platform.
Actually, there is ONE expansion slot, the one used for the AirPort Extreme card. IIRC, AirPort Express uses a standard mini-PCI interface. (The original AirPort used a slightly non-standard PCMCIA.) You still need some way to get a cable out of the box, though.
That being said, there are now server-rated laptop drives, but they're all SCSI. So you can't just drop them in.
Or maybe I've just been reading too many episodes of BOFH lately.
The main difference is that an ActiveX control is binary x86 code. The Mozilla XPI is a scripting language. It's a lot easier for a scripting language interpreter to stop code from doing bad things than it is for your CPU to do so. Especially in an OS as loose about security as Windows is.
CraptiveX was known to be a disaster waiting to happen from the day it was first announced. That was what, almost ten years ago now?
Wrong. You should be able to just insert the install disc, find the appropriate .PKG files, and double-click on them to run the installer.
I guess everybody's just too busy constantly recompiling their Linux packages from source to mess with an OS X port. Must be the same problem with the MESS emulator, which hasn't been upgraded since 2003 either.
And even when a server or router or whatever does have redundant PSUs, one of them may get weak such that the computer will work fine with all PSUs powered, but die when one of them goes out.
And then there's those cool three-headed hydra cords I've seen plugging all the redundant PSUs of Dull servers into the same power plug.
I think you missed the part on that page where it said Tiger was in beta. If Apple removed that page from their site, they had a good reason to do so. Until it's released, nothing is certain, other than that it will run on a Macintosh.
All right, who did it? Who pressed the shiiiny, candy-like history eras... I mean emergency stop button?
But Weebles don't fall down. The might wobble, but they don't fall down.
Says who? Link, please.
Except when you had people who would set the server's screen saver to a 3D cycle-hog, without any 3D accelleration in the video card. You know it happens all the time. Of course this isn't the fault of the GUI, just clueless lusers.
...and it doesn't run 10.3 either. As much as I love my pair of Blue & White 350s, I wouldn't take a beige G3 unless it was free, and even then I'd have to think about it.
It's not like hubs aren't cheap. Fry's regularly has a mini-hub on sale for $10 every weekend, and I've even seen them for $10 with a $10 mail-in rebate. Pretty soon, they're going to be packing USB mini-hubs into breakfast cereal boxes.
Can we mod this story -1, Troll or -1, Flamebait? Because as a dupe, that's all it's done. (Yes, I know there's also -1, Redundant, but that would be redundant.)
And I don't see anywhere it says this simPC thing comes with a monitor either.