I agree... what the world doesn't need now is another closed-source, proprietary (in the sense of "not designed to be compatible with anything else"), desktop operating system. Windows NT is the last one that had any chance, and even that was designed with some compatibility with an already existing operating system. OS/2 and BeOS died in the desert. Apple tried multiple times to make a successor to MacOS: Pink/Taligent, PowerOpen, and Copeland. Only a reverse takeover by NeXT giving them a Unix-based OS succeeded.
Right now the only major desktop or server operating system that isn't based on the Unix model is Windows NT/2K/XP, and that one is only around because it's an 8000 pound gorilla thanks to running so many legacy apps from DOS/95/98.
IMHO, the only market where there is room for an original operating system is the Embedded space, which includes PDAs.
Especially when the stock was 25% lower less than two months ago.
I do have to thank SCOX for one thing, though. They got one of the Groklaw readers to pester UCal for a copy of the secret AT&T/BSD agreement under a Freedom of Information request. As it turns out, there wasn't any thing scary in there after all.
Except for one little problem. The kind of wires that you need to transmit large amounts of 50-60Hz power with low loss are NOT the kind of wires you need to transmit mega/gigahertz signals with low loss. Ham radio operators are up in arms about RFI from BPL.
The power companies would do better to string fiber onto their high-lines.
ADSL2 can provide upto 50MBit/sec and ADSL3 (or VDSL2, they don't know what to call it) can provide 100MBit+.
Yeah, and it can't do any of that if the wires between the back of your house and your DSL modem are a tree of rotting 20 year old cat-1. That's why I go out of the way to make a direct cat-3 or cat-5 run to a splitter. The DSL modem goes into one plug, the rest of the house goes into the other.
Well, it would have been rather hard to work on it in their bedrooms when there were only a few hundred PowerPC CPUs in existence in the whole world at the time.
Yep, if Steve was still at Apple at the time, he'd have gone apeshiat over some of the more trippy inequalities functions in the demo, and that warping 6-color Apple logo too. They would have been re-hired in no time at all.
Not so much of a karma whore now that the original link is slashdotted, now is he?
Thanks to the original poster for mirroring TFA in a comment. I had to look on an old hard drive to find a copy to play with. It runs pretty smooth now that I'm running on a CPU 25 times faster than the original 601.
Of course clicking on the remove links isn't likely to be useful.
The best way is to run your own mail server and simply prevent the spammers from connecting. One way is to add blackhole lists to your MTA (Sendmail, or whatever). That really did cut my spam quite a bit. But recently I noticed I was still getting quite a bit of spam directly from China and Korea decided to get tough and start blocking net ranges completely. I had tried blocking SMTP from a few/8 address ranges before, but this time I didn't want to unnecessarily block Australia or Japan, so I took the time to look at the/16 level to find sub-ranges to block.
It's already working, too. Here are the ranges I've added so far. (The second column is the number of connection attempts that were rejected.) At this point, I only plan to add new blocks as I encounter them in actual spam.
00100 44 2164 deny ip from 63.148.99.224/27 to any 00100 0 0 deny ip from 65.118.41.192/27 to any 00110 36 1920 deny tcp from 211.32.0.0/11 to me 25 00110 2 96 deny tcp from 211.144.0.0/12 to me 25 00110 6 288 deny tcp from 211.160.0.0/11 to me 25 00110 6 288 deny tcp from 211.192.0.0/10 to me 25 00110 0 0 deny tcp from 222.16.0.0/12 to me 25 00110 6 288 deny tcp from 222.32.0.0/11 to me 25 00110 13 624 deny tcp from 222.64.0.0/10 to me 25 00110 0 0 deny tcp from 222.128.0.0/12 to me 25 00110 0 0 deny tcp from 222.160.0.0/11 to me 25 00110 4 240 deny tcp from 206.81.80.0/20 to me 25 00110 0 0 deny tcp from 216.224.0.0/13 to me 25 00110 0 0 deny tcp from 216.240.0.0/13 to me 25 00110 0 0 deny tcp from 61.32.0.0/13 to me 25 00110 0 0 deny tcp from 61.40.0.0/14 to me 25
Oh, and those first two lines? Google for Cyvelliance and you'll understand why they're there.
I'd just be happy with an open-source program that can generate a fuse map for any of the three common GAL chips from some high-level description, whether PALASM or VHDL or something else. As far as I know, the only "free" software out there is closed-source and is only available in a DOS version. (Maybe there's something for Windows too now, but that still doesn't help if you don't use an x86 CPU.)
...but maybe this will cause the makers of football games to actually innovate instead of shoveling out the same game with a new roster every year.
I'm no fan of sports games (and as a classic games collector, I know that one of these brand new in a case is worth the case), but I have noticed how people talk about NES Tecmo Bowl with reverence, and that pre-dated the annual sports games. Which originally started with EA/Madden, didn't they?
Lady Killers - I fell aasleep, personally. Horrible.
Van Helsing - PUH-LEESE. Should have ended 45 minutes before it did.
White Chicks - umm...right. White Chicks.
So one could argue that buying/downloading bootlegs is really just saving us from having to spend $10 now on a crappy movie. 10 BUCKS! Maybe there wouldn't be so much downloading if tickets were still reasonable. $10!
You didn't actually take the time to watch all those and more, did you?
One thing piracy can't do is give you back the time you spent watching their crap, and downloading just takes up more of your time. I'm really amazed by the people who are obsessed with filling 200-CD booklets full of downloaded Hollywood crap.* I doubt they've even watched a tenth of it; they're just downloading because they can. They don't seem to realize that even though they're getting a (crap) movie for free, it's not really for free, because they spent so much time downloading and burning the crap.
Take a lesson, and be more picky about what you download/watch.
* I know someone who is obsessed with downloading/ripping as much porn as possible, and I can kind of understand that. But that's different.
Perhaps you could get people to post.torrent files to usenet? There has been some of that going on in the anime binaries groups. Torrent files are miniscule compared to usenet binaries, and usenet's flooding works much more efficiently than having to go to a metatracker to get torrent files.
1) There is indeed a version of Windows Media Player for OS X that plays WMV9 files... but only in.WMV (and maybe.ASF) files. It refuses to support the "archaic".AVI format which the Codec-of-the-Week crowd is in love with. (The non-streaming AVI file format may suck, but it's still a staple of the DivX world.)
2) The only existing "open source" code for playing WMV9 files (at least until now) has been x86 only.
Result:.AVI files with WMV9 encoding can NOT be played on a Mac. Even with VLC/mplayer. And yes, I have quite a few files like that. About 1/4 of the un-subtitled anime I download these days is in WMV9.
As far as I can tell, this chip doesn't let you do anything but load some code onto it which can be used as a net bootloader. You could try to play ISOs with the help of a PC, but the 10 or 27* megabit speed limit of the Ethernet port means that ripped games will stutter or have to be downsampled to work properly. It doesn't even seem to have the ability to bypass the region lockout.
But the important thing is that it won't play "silvers" (pressed pirate discs) or burned CD-R/DVD-R discs, not even homebrews. As far as I know, nobody has yet gotten the GC's drive to read any data from a burned disc. Whether it's the reverse spiral or a wrong wavelength laser, proper piracy can't be done without being able to slap in a bootleg disc and hitting the power button. You can use this mod to play ripped game images, but only with a lot of effort, and only with a PC handy. Having to load ISOs over the Ethernet port is only for true die-hards, and is enough of a pain in the arse that you might as well go legit... or mod an X-box instead.
*The broadband adapter is connected via a 27Mbit serial interface, shared with the memory cards, and probably a few other things. And early attempts to use the 100Mbit mode of the Ethernet port weren't reliable.
Wow, these guys definitely deserve a nomination for an Ignobel Prize in Chemistry. This is exactly the sort of stuff our world needs: better living through chemistry.
It's called "practice". It happens to a lot of comic strips. Look at the Megatokyo archives. Or the first few months of almost any comedy newspaper comic strip, like Garfield or Dilbert.
What if your card gets stolen. Any idiot can probably use it to connect to all of your accounts, without effort. Even worse, its a very poor idea to base your systems on a completely centralised system like passport authentication.
What happens if your building key card badge gets lost or stolen? They unregister it from your entry in the the card key database, give you a new one, then register it under your name.
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Right now the only major desktop or server operating system that isn't based on the Unix model is Windows NT/2K/XP, and that one is only around because it's an 8000 pound gorilla thanks to running so many legacy apps from DOS/95/98.
IMHO, the only market where there is room for an original operating system is the Embedded space, which includes PDAs.
So again, WTF is SkyOS anyhow? Is it just another Linux distro or what?
Especially when the stock was 25% lower less than two months ago.
I do have to thank SCOX for one thing, though. They got one of the Groklaw readers to pester UCal for a copy of the secret AT&T/BSD agreement under a Freedom of Information request. As it turns out, there wasn't any thing scary in there after all.
The power companies would do better to string fiber onto their high-lines.
Yeah, and it can't do any of that if the wires between the back of your house and your DSL modem are a tree of rotting 20 year old cat-1. That's why I go out of the way to make a direct cat-3 or cat-5 run to a splitter. The DSL modem goes into one plug, the rest of the house goes into the other.
Well, it would have been rather hard to work on it in their bedrooms when there were only a few hundred PowerPC CPUs in existence in the whole world at the time.
Yep, if Steve was still at Apple at the time, he'd have gone apeshiat over some of the more trippy inequalities functions in the demo, and that warping 6-color Apple logo too. They would have been re-hired in no time at all.
Not so much of a karma whore now that the original link is slashdotted, now is he?
Thanks to the original poster for mirroring TFA in a comment. I had to look on an old hard drive to find a copy to play with. It runs pretty smooth now that I'm running on a CPU 25 times faster than the original 601.
Just post the torrents in the appropriate binaries newsgroup. That's already being done to some extent in the anime binaries newsgroups.
The best way is to run your own mail server and simply prevent the spammers from connecting. One way is to add blackhole lists to your MTA (Sendmail, or whatever). That really did cut my spam quite a bit. But recently I noticed I was still getting quite a bit of spam directly from China and Korea decided to get tough and start blocking net ranges completely. I had tried blocking SMTP from a few /8 address ranges before, but this time I didn't want to unnecessarily block Australia or Japan, so I took the time to look at the /16 level to find sub-ranges to block.
It's already working, too. Here are the ranges I've added so far. (The second column is the number of connection attempts that were rejected.) At this point, I only plan to add new blocks as I encounter them in actual spam.
Oh, and those first two lines? Google for Cyvelliance and you'll understand why they're there.
I'd just be happy with an open-source program that can generate a fuse map for any of the three common GAL chips from some high-level description, whether PALASM or VHDL or something else. As far as I know, the only "free" software out there is closed-source and is only available in a DOS version. (Maybe there's something for Windows too now, but that still doesn't help if you don't use an x86 CPU.)
I'm no fan of sports games (and as a classic games collector, I know that one of these brand new in a case is worth the case), but I have noticed how people talk about NES Tecmo Bowl with reverence, and that pre-dated the annual sports games. Which originally started with EA/Madden, didn't they?
Van Helsing - PUH-LEESE. Should have ended 45 minutes before it did.
White Chicks - umm...right. White Chicks.
So one could argue that buying/downloading bootlegs is really just saving us from having to spend $10 now on a crappy movie. 10 BUCKS! Maybe there wouldn't be so much downloading if tickets were still reasonable. $10!
You didn't actually take the time to watch all those and more, did you?
One thing piracy can't do is give you back the time you spent watching their crap, and downloading just takes up more of your time. I'm really amazed by the people who are obsessed with filling 200-CD booklets full of downloaded Hollywood crap.* I doubt they've even watched a tenth of it; they're just downloading because they can. They don't seem to realize that even though they're getting a (crap) movie for free, it's not really for free, because they spent so much time downloading and burning the crap.
Take a lesson, and be more picky about what you download/watch.
Perhaps you could get people to post .torrent files to usenet? There has been some of that going on in the anime binaries groups. Torrent files are miniscule compared to usenet binaries, and usenet's flooding works much more efficiently than having to go to a metatracker to get torrent files.
When it says "Daa-aaa-aaa-dy!"
2) The only existing "open source" code for playing WMV9 files (at least until now) has been x86 only.
Result: .AVI files with WMV9 encoding can NOT be played on a Mac. Even with VLC/mplayer. And yes, I have quite a few files like that. About 1/4 of the un-subtitled anime I download these days is in WMV9.
But the important thing is that it won't play "silvers" (pressed pirate discs) or burned CD-R/DVD-R discs, not even homebrews. As far as I know, nobody has yet gotten the GC's drive to read any data from a burned disc. Whether it's the reverse spiral or a wrong wavelength laser, proper piracy can't be done without being able to slap in a bootleg disc and hitting the power button. You can use this mod to play ripped game images, but only with a lot of effort, and only with a PC handy. Having to load ISOs over the Ethernet port is only for true die-hards, and is enough of a pain in the arse that you might as well go legit... or mod an X-box instead.
*The broadband adapter is connected via a 27Mbit serial interface, shared with the memory cards, and probably a few other things. And early attempts to use the 100Mbit mode of the Ethernet port weren't reliable.
Wussies write NES games. REAL men write Atari 2600 games. (And certifiable lunatics try to write Channel F games.)
/Aisle seat, please
Wow, these guys definitely deserve a nomination for an Ignobel Prize in Chemistry. This is exactly the sort of stuff our world needs: better living through chemistry.
It's called "practice". It happens to a lot of comic strips. Look at the Megatokyo archives. Or the first few months of almost any comedy newspaper comic strip, like Garfield or Dilbert.
1) open that .jpg in photoshop, double the resolution with interpolation
2) print on your favorite 11"x17" color laser printer
3) profit!
What happens if your building key card badge gets lost or stolen? They unregister it from your entry in the the card key database, give you a new one, then register it under your name.