I wish Mandrake would produce i586, 1686+mmx, and k7+3dnow distros. It would be a lot easier than recompiling everything myself. GCC is about to have automagic use of 3Dnow! instructions (should be in 3.2, IIRC) which would boost system speeds a bunch.
I'll tell you why. I've used Debian, and it scared the bejeezus outta me (granted, it was a long time ago). YellowDog is RPM-based right off the bat, and RPM is nifty for those of us who lack the 'leet skills. YellowDog is also MUCH easier to install and harder to damage. Also, call me crazy, but YDL strikes a perfect balance between Debian's strict adherence to the 'free speech' philosophy and Mandrake's overt bastardization of packages and excessive friendliness.
The argument against OSX is that on an older G3 (under about 700MHz and under 256MB RAM) it's just too damn slow. YDL Linux flies on my old G3, OSX crawls like cheney to the 'Life Alert' box.
I agree,
The Linux kernel is also much more responsive and versatile than the BSD kernel in Darwin. Latency is lower, it has support for a bazillion filesystems and partition types (reiserfs anyone?).
Also, another reasson to run linux instead of darwin/OSX is that security updates are much faster down the tube if you're running servers or 'net-exposed systems.
I still don't understand why Apple won't take the plunge and introduce netbooting diskless workstations. Note that they've got *NIX under the hood, a server OS, nice firmware that can netboot, and high-speed networking. I'd like to see apple make up 'packages' for delivery to schools: 2 servers, a gig-ethernet-to-100bt switch, and a pallete of eMacs all set to run off NFS or AFP. They'd have to hire a few geeks in each locality to service the machines (I'm up to it), and have marketing folks swing through the schools.
Hell, with that setup, you could chat with the principal in one room while the 'crew' sets up a room with these things, a live surprise-demo of how easy it is to set up. even make the teachers set up their own machines, it would be a great way to get macs back into the.edu environment.
That's how I met the girl I'm with now, we stayed awake for three days together to get loopy, we ended up saying too much to each other, and now we're all over each other. hooray for sleep-dep!
Alright, before you run Linux (any flavor) you should make sure you run hardware that is all FULLY supported. I built my system with Linux in mind, it's top-of-the-line cutting edge stuff and it works FLAWLESSLY with Mandrake 8.0 and up. I don't have to do ANY extra configuration to get it to work right, it even works out-of-the-box with my USB LaserJet. I don't think Windows9x had USB support for the install , and I KNOW Mandrake 8.0 and up do, because I used my USB wheelmouse to install it last night.
If you insist on running linux on strange or proprietary hardware you should be helping to make linux work on said hardware, after all, that's how all this came to be. Send a bug report to the sound driver maintainer or Mandrake, let them know what's up. Next time you buy a machine, look at the CHIPS on the board/cards, and look up said chips at linuxdoc.org to see if you have FULL support.
The way I see it, in a our economy/society/country, greater demand generates much more wealth than a few politicians who pocket the money that would have gone to this. I think we have a government that put us between a rock and a hard place. We can either increase spending on things, or decrease spending and have the benefit got to the few. Sounds like time for a new political party.
I've been trying to say this for a while, but who votes for this?
1. pro-choice policy on abortion. (bad idea to put it first, eh?)
2. much smaller, more reasonable spending on millitary overhead, divert it to millitary R&D to get the MOST for each dollar we invest into security.
3. Simplify laws and rewrite for common-man language. Get rid of irrational bug-fix laws.
4. Cut back on federal laws, let states individualize. You want to be able to kill yourself, go to Nevada or whatever.
5. Make all laws have lifetimes of max 50 years, that way we can't have a bazillion laws, if it's not important enough to review after 50 years, let it dissapear.
6. laws written in a new heirarchical method, with hypertext (that's an XML project!) to prevent more important laws from being easily disarmed by unimportant or frivilous ones.
7. Focus on voting and civil service. Give voting citizens a tax break, or give them something to get them to vote!
8. Open government initiatives to keep our politicians honest. There should be real working people talking to senators and congressmen, a 'people's lobby' if you will 9. SIMPLE laws, we have 3000 gun-control laws now, and even more tax laws. why not have 20? Why not modularize and set lifespans on laws that shouldn't be permanent?
Alright, let me know what you think. I'll contact you.
I couldn't quantify the value of apple hardware. The cases are gorgeous and VERY easily accessible (the mobo flips down for easy access, no crawling around with a flashlight in you teeth!). Apple hardware is workstation-class stuff, a G4 tower is not comparable to a PC, it's comparable to a workstation. The towers have 64-bit PCI, excellent case design, no-legacy architecture (with apple you're GLAD you don't have PS/2, COM, LPT, and floppy), and an architecture that truly rocks.
Can you imagine running with a SMALL heatsink and no fan on your CPU? I can put my hand on a 100% loaded G3/G4's heatsink (no fan!) and it's only a bit warm. Hell, there isn't even a BIOS to have to dick with! The system powers on to 32-bit 'protected' mode! And these things are quiet!
I'd rather have my aging bluenwhite G3 than my spanking new athlon if I was on a desert island.
I think you have it backwards. The PC of two years ago is MORE than enough for most endusers. I have a lot of hardware here in my cave, and I can say that I can barely feel the difference when web browsing, typing, emailing, etc. between my 400MHz machines and my 1400MHz machines. We have hardware that is far beyond adequate for most user's needs. Apple is focusing on their OS rather than their hardware. I think we need more innovation and advances in human interfaces, network transparency, and other software-side aspects of computing, not 18 BazigaHertz DDRAMBUS PCI-X MiniCrays on our desks. Apple is going somewhere with this whole UNIX/airport/gigabit lan/appliance thing, trust me.
Macs do things a bit differently than PCs. A PC hard drive will work fine in a mac (I have my G3 here running a new Maxtor D740X), but you have to 'prep' them first, because Macs put patches + low-level stuff on the drive itself. If you throw a PC orphaned drive into a mac, run Drive Setup on it and totally wipe it, or use 'dd bs=512 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/harddriveyouwantwiped' if you do Linux on your mac. Be careful with 'dd' it's far too powerful to toy with.
Saying M$ came up with the idea of a phone/PDA OS is like saying BillG invented the GUI. I have a VisorPhone, and I see a lot of PalmOS-based phone/PDA combos out there. I also see that most modern phones already have PDA features in their proprietary OSs. Think for a minute, do you really want your phone to require tens of megs of RAM? Do you want your phone to pop up wizards for adding contacts? Do you want your phone to CRASH or get.NET virii? Think about what M$ has done in the past, and how crashes are the norm in the workplace now, do you want that to spread to your phone, TV, video game console, toaster oven, and car?
Do you want to have to 'upgrade!' to 'M$ JunkPhone 2004 SuperDuper Sleazy Edition' only to find out that you need a whole new phone to run it on just to be able to send messages to other M$phone.NET users?
Leave M$ on the desktop for now while MacOS X, Gnome, KDE, etc. mature some more, don't let them leak into other facets of your life.
I like to install the.srpm and then check the.spec file (usually in/usr/src/rpm/SPECS), sometimes you can 'turn off' unneeded components, remove uglified patches, and set options that you can't otherwise.
While you are poking around, check out/usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc, that file has all the optimization options for your cpu arch, I made KDE much snappier on my G3 by setting "-mcpu=750 -O3" in there and re-compiling.
Same reason we should have biodiversity and heterogenous operating systems. This way we are not as vulnerable to 'attack' if someone, somewhere finds a way to make fake ones in mass quantity.
I don't know much about the XBOX, but I would assume that the Game API is DirectX or a close relative to it. How can you NOT capitalize on a successful technology like DirextX? (I hate saying it, but I really like the performance of DirectX > 7.1). I think the XBOX is close to DirectX.
We learned that when the economy grows, the government grows proportional to it (by taxation) and when the economy (aggregate demand, at least) shrinks, the government tries to pick up the slack by expandinga bit (to increase demand). It seems like tax-free Internet sales will stagnate the Man's willingness to grow with the economy, maybe our government:corporate consumption ratio (currently about 1:3 in America) will decrease over time with these tax exemptions. Sounds good to me! Now all they need to do is incite more competition in the OS market!
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"I agree that the real power of the Internet will emerge as peer2peer comes into its own, and flexes its muscles. But at the moment, the entertainment industries are POWERFUL and would just as soon turn the Internet into another broadcast medium, like the Vast Wasteland called TV."
I think it's time people and organizations start connecting to each other more. I worked at a place that was 11 or more hops from another entity inside the same building. Not only will P2P (and the rest of the Internet) benefit immensely from more efficient traffic, but it will be much more resistant to mass-filtering.
I've been thinking about putting really fat pipes between all the schools in Boston (where I'm in school), I think organizations have to start internetworking more so this internet-thing works well.
Well you are getting more PATCHES for RedHat because MS seems to fix their holes by denying them. FINDING bugs and FIXING them is a GOOD thing! I'll bet all in all my Linux system has fewer open holes than my Windows box. Geez, they even build their web/email clients into the OS, putting web/mail content one step closer to your kernel.
Exactly, That's what should be happening, but instead we are seeing hardware-based encryption of the frames themselves, this is bad for several reasons:
1. You must upgrade hardware if the security is cracked.
2. It's bound to cause standards wars amongst vendors, all rushing to get better security, but producing a tangled web if incompatability.
3. Why should frames be encrypted when we already have IPsec? This just throws a wrench in the works.
I'm still of the school that security should take place higher up on the OSI model.
I don't like the idea of replacing hardware to ensure security.
We need a secure DHCP variant and encrypted IP, not open DHCP and scrambled network frames. The reasons are numerous. Security should be handled in IP, not in hardware.
Now if Apple bought Palm, Steve would have an awesome product-development team from Be, people that know how to optimize PPC media streams and squeeze incredible media through apple hardware.
Right now Apple's core market won't jump to OS X because it's not as good at multimedia (IMO) as the cooperative-multitasking and close-to-hardware Classic Mac OS. This would be just what the doctor ordered for Apple.
I think Palm is prettying themselves up for a buyout.
I would be VERY pleased if such things happened.
I'd pay to see Jobs and Gasse competing for "most warped psyche" on Apple campus!
OK. I just searched my entire machine for *stub*.* and it didn't show any spyware programs, only files from various projects I'm working on and a few files in/winnt (but they all appear to be from Microsoft, and all appear to be valid windows files). I think you may have mis-installed LimeWire.
Well I installed LimeWire 1.8 a few days ago and it ASKS you if you want to install Gator and/or cydoor. I said no and LimeWire is essentially the same as 1.7 (but with a banner)
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I wish Mandrake would produce i586, 1686+mmx, and k7+3dnow distros. It would be a lot easier than recompiling everything myself. GCC is about to have automagic use of 3Dnow! instructions (should be in 3.2, IIRC) which would boost system speeds a bunch.
It can run at decent speeds on a Mac from 1999 or 2000. 'nuff said.
I'll tell you why. I've used Debian, and it scared the bejeezus outta me (granted, it was a long time ago). YellowDog is RPM-based right off the bat, and RPM is nifty for those of us who lack the 'leet skills. YellowDog is also MUCH easier to install and harder to damage. Also, call me crazy, but YDL strikes a perfect balance between Debian's strict adherence to the 'free speech' philosophy and Mandrake's overt bastardization of packages and excessive friendliness.
The argument against OSX is that on an older G3 (under about 700MHz and under 256MB RAM) it's just too damn slow. YDL Linux flies on my old G3, OSX crawls like cheney to the 'Life Alert' box.
I agree,
The Linux kernel is also much more responsive and versatile than the BSD kernel in Darwin. Latency is lower, it has support for a bazillion filesystems and partition types (reiserfs anyone?).
Also, another reasson to run linux instead of darwin/OSX is that security updates are much faster down the tube if you're running servers or 'net-exposed systems.
I still don't understand why Apple won't take the plunge and introduce netbooting diskless workstations. Note that they've got *NIX under the hood, a server OS, nice firmware that can netboot, and high-speed networking. I'd like to see apple make up 'packages' for delivery to schools: 2 servers, a gig-ethernet-to-100bt switch, and a pallete of eMacs all set to run off NFS or AFP. They'd have to hire a few geeks in each locality to service the machines (I'm up to it), and have marketing folks swing through the schools. .edu environment.
Hell, with that setup, you could chat with the principal in one room while the 'crew' sets up a room with these things, a live surprise-demo of how easy it is to set up. even make the teachers set up their own machines, it would be a great way to get macs back into the
That's how I met the girl I'm with now, we stayed awake for three days together to get loopy, we ended up saying too much to each other, and now we're all over each other. hooray for sleep-dep!
Alright, before you run Linux (any flavor) you should make sure you run hardware that is all FULLY supported. I built my system with Linux in mind, it's top-of-the-line cutting edge stuff and it works FLAWLESSLY with Mandrake 8.0 and up. I don't have to do ANY extra configuration to get it to work right, it even works out-of-the-box with my USB LaserJet. I don't think Windows9x had USB support for the install , and I KNOW Mandrake 8.0 and up do, because I used my USB wheelmouse to install it last night.
If you insist on running linux on strange or proprietary hardware you should be helping to make linux work on said hardware, after all, that's how all this came to be. Send a bug report to the sound driver maintainer or Mandrake, let them know what's up. Next time you buy a machine, look at the CHIPS on the board/cards, and look up said chips at linuxdoc.org to see if you have FULL support.
The way I see it, in a our economy/society/country, greater demand generates much more wealth than a few politicians who pocket the money that would have gone to this. I think we have a government that put us between a rock and a hard place. We can either increase spending on things, or decrease spending and have the benefit got to the few. Sounds like time for a new political party.
I've been trying to say this for a while, but who votes for this?
1. pro-choice policy on abortion. (bad idea to put it first, eh?)
2. much smaller, more reasonable spending on millitary overhead, divert it to millitary R&D to get the MOST for each dollar we invest into security.
3. Simplify laws and rewrite for common-man language. Get rid of irrational bug-fix laws.
4. Cut back on federal laws, let states individualize. You want to be able to kill yourself, go to Nevada or whatever.
5. Make all laws have lifetimes of max 50 years, that way we can't have a bazillion laws, if it's not important enough to review after 50 years, let it dissapear.
6. laws written in a new heirarchical method, with hypertext (that's an XML project!) to prevent more important laws from being easily disarmed by unimportant or frivilous ones.
7. Focus on voting and civil service. Give voting citizens a tax break, or give them something to get them to vote!
8. Open government initiatives to keep our politicians honest. There should be real working people talking to senators and congressmen, a 'people's lobby' if you will
9. SIMPLE laws, we have 3000 gun-control laws now, and even more tax laws. why not have 20? Why not modularize and set lifespans on laws that shouldn't be permanent?
Alright, let me know what you think. I'll contact you.
I couldn't quantify the value of apple hardware. The cases are gorgeous and VERY easily accessible (the mobo flips down for easy access, no crawling around with a flashlight in you teeth!). Apple hardware is workstation-class stuff, a G4 tower is not comparable to a PC, it's comparable to a workstation. The towers have 64-bit PCI, excellent case design, no-legacy architecture (with apple you're GLAD you don't have PS/2, COM, LPT, and floppy), and an architecture that truly rocks.
Can you imagine running with a SMALL heatsink and no fan on your CPU? I can put my hand on a 100% loaded G3/G4's heatsink (no fan!) and it's only a bit warm. Hell, there isn't even a BIOS to have to dick with! The system powers on to 32-bit 'protected' mode! And these things are quiet!
I'd rather have my aging bluenwhite G3 than my spanking new athlon if I was on a desert island.
I think you have it backwards. The PC of two years ago is MORE than enough for most endusers. I have a lot of hardware here in my cave, and I can say that I can barely feel the difference when web browsing, typing, emailing, etc. between my 400MHz machines and my 1400MHz machines. We have hardware that is far beyond adequate for most user's needs. Apple is focusing on their OS rather than their hardware. I think we need more innovation and advances in human interfaces, network transparency, and other software-side aspects of computing, not 18 BazigaHertz DDRAMBUS PCI-X MiniCrays on our desks. Apple is going somewhere with this whole UNIX/airport/gigabit lan/appliance thing, trust me.
Macs do things a bit differently than PCs. A PC hard drive will work fine in a mac (I have my G3 here running a new Maxtor D740X), but you have to 'prep' them first, because Macs put patches + low-level stuff on the drive itself. If you throw a PC orphaned drive into a mac, run Drive Setup on it and totally wipe it, or use 'dd bs=512 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/harddriveyouwantwiped' if you do Linux on your mac. Be careful with 'dd' it's far too powerful to toy with.
Saying M$ came up with the idea of a phone/PDA OS is like saying BillG invented the GUI. I have a VisorPhone, and I see a lot of PalmOS-based phone/PDA combos out there. I also see that most modern phones already have PDA features in their proprietary OSs. Think for a minute, do you really want your phone to require tens of megs of RAM? Do you want your phone to pop up wizards for adding contacts? Do you want your phone to CRASH or get .NET virii? Think about what M$ has done in the past, and how crashes are the norm in the workplace now, do you want that to spread to your phone, TV, video game console, toaster oven, and car?
Do you want to have to 'upgrade!' to 'M$ JunkPhone 2004 SuperDuper Sleazy Edition' only to find out that you need a whole new phone to run it on just to be able to send messages to other M$phone.NET users?
Leave M$ on the desktop for now while MacOS X, Gnome, KDE, etc. mature some more, don't let them leak into other facets of your life.
I like to install the .srpm and then check the .spec file (usually in /usr/src/rpm/SPECS), sometimes you can 'turn off' unneeded components, remove uglified patches, and set options that you can't otherwise.
/usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc, that file has all the optimization options for your cpu arch, I made KDE much snappier on my G3 by setting "-mcpu=750 -O3" in there and re-compiling.
While you are poking around, check out
Same reason we should have biodiversity and heterogenous operating systems. This way we are not as vulnerable to 'attack' if someone, somewhere finds a way to make fake ones in mass quantity.
I don't know much about the XBOX, but I would assume that the Game API is DirectX or a close relative to it. How can you NOT capitalize on a successful technology like DirextX? (I hate saying it, but I really like the performance of DirectX > 7.1). I think the XBOX is close to DirectX.
-4 AM - Too late.
We learned that when the economy grows, the government grows proportional to it (by taxation) and when the economy (aggregate demand, at least) shrinks, the government tries to pick up the slack by expandinga bit (to increase demand). It seems like tax-free Internet sales will stagnate the Man's willingness to grow with the economy, maybe our government:corporate consumption ratio (currently about 1:3 in America) will decrease over time with these tax exemptions. Sounds good to me! Now all they need to do is incite more competition in the OS market!
"I agree that the real power of the Internet will emerge as peer2peer comes into its own, and flexes its muscles. But at the moment, the entertainment industries are POWERFUL and would just as soon turn the Internet into another broadcast medium, like the Vast Wasteland called TV."
I think it's time people and organizations start connecting to each other more. I worked at a place that was 11 or more hops from another entity inside the same building. Not only will P2P (and the rest of the Internet) benefit immensely from more efficient traffic, but it will be much more resistant to mass-filtering.
I've been thinking about putting really fat pipes between all the schools in Boston (where I'm in school), I think organizations have to start internetworking more so this internet-thing works well.
Well you are getting more PATCHES for RedHat because MS seems to fix their holes by denying them. FINDING bugs and FIXING them is a GOOD thing! I'll bet all in all my Linux system has fewer open holes than my Windows box. Geez, they even build their web/email clients into the OS, putting web/mail content one step closer to your kernel.
Exactly, That's what should be happening, but instead we are seeing hardware-based encryption of the frames themselves, this is bad for several reasons:
1. You must upgrade hardware if the security is cracked.
2. It's bound to cause standards wars amongst vendors, all rushing to get better security, but producing a tangled web if incompatability.
3. Why should frames be encrypted when we already have IPsec? This just throws a wrench in the works.
I'm still of the school that security should take place higher up on the OSI model.
I don't like the idea of replacing hardware to ensure security.
We need a secure DHCP variant and encrypted IP, not open DHCP and scrambled network frames. The reasons are numerous. Security should be handled in IP, not in hardware.
Now if Apple bought Palm, Steve would have an awesome product-development team from Be, people that know how to optimize PPC media streams and squeeze incredible media through apple hardware.
Right now Apple's core market won't jump to OS X because it's not as good at multimedia (IMO) as the cooperative-multitasking and close-to-hardware Classic Mac OS. This would be just what the doctor ordered for Apple.
I think Palm is prettying themselves up for a buyout.
I would be VERY pleased if such things happened.
I'd pay to see Jobs and Gasse competing for "most warped psyche" on Apple campus!
OK. I just searched my entire machine for *stub*.* and it didn't show any spyware programs, only files from various projects I'm working on and a few files in /winnt (but they all appear to be from Microsoft, and all appear to be valid windows files). I think you may have mis-installed LimeWire.
Well I installed LimeWire 1.8 a few days ago and it ASKS you if you want to install Gator and/or cydoor. I said no and LimeWire is essentially the same as 1.7 (but with a banner)