If they were going to pull the x86 version, why...
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did they just release a few months ago the porting kit to allow x86 XFree drivers to be used in Solaris on x86? They seemed like they were trying to boost the market for x86. I think they really are missing out. The best way for them to get people into their OS is to give it away at colleges, and with discounts. Apple's Educational discount can be pretty good, depending on what you are looking at. Sun's was just a joke. Plus, they only put on low end machine, not any real workstations. I understand the discount would still not make an Ultra 10 a bargain, but still, if there was a discount, I would have picked one of them up instead of an iBook with YDL. Now I have a RISC processor, with OF, and I didn't have to break the bank.
Forget the Lynx, how about the TurboExpress. Played the home system games on a portable unit, AND turned into a portable TV. 16 bit gaming, that was worth something. And I still like Bonk.
the problem is not that it loads, but that when you try and scroll, the CPU spikes to 100 for forever and a day. try actually scrolling the site, and see what i mean
I use Mozilla at work (Win) and at home (Mandrake) I have been using it since milestone 12. I think I still have the tarball around somewhere. I am very impressed with how far the browser has come. I do have the key to stopping Mozilla in its track when executed. DevX.com. Try going to this link with Mozilla and see what I mean. The animated GIF support is still kind of a pain. Other than that, When I got a reliable HTTPS connection in Mozilla, and did not have to compile PSM separately, I was as happy as a pig in slop. Don't get me wrong, I love the Moz.
http://www.devx.com/free/newsletters/hotlinks/2001/HL111901.htm
By the way, this is not a shameless plug, I am in no way associated with devx, I just happen to use them every once in a while.
Another factor is probably the tremendous range of hardware and workloads that Linux tries to handle. I don't think any other OS attempts to work well on watches and mainframes (and everything inbetween) while using the same code base.
I picked up a Pismo (Powerbook G3 firewire) strictly with the intent of putting GNU/Linux on it. Why, you may ask. Because it is the operating system that I want and need, on hardware that I never have to worry about a hardware problem, something not supported on the hardware level, it has Ethernet onboard, the display is great, and it is an elegant chipset, with tons of power to boot. My 400 gives any 550-600 depending on systems specs a run for its money. Plus, how many of you have a glowing apple staring out at everyone when you are working on your laptop. OSX is not an OS that I can get behind. It is proprietary, does not run the software I need to run, and is slow as a dog going uphill in the middle of winter with molasses booties on, at least on a 400 with 128 megs of ram. Plus OSX's interface is not something that I care for. For those who like it, great, but E is for me.:) In the end, it is all about choice, right? Great RISC hardware, OF implementation, all good things.
On all RISC systems, compiling will take longer than on CISC. The binaries will also be larger. This is due to the way the architectures are defined. In broad strokes ( so as not to start a flame war ), RISC moves a lot of the complicated stuff over into a compiler that is designed to produce code that will execute more efficiently on the Reduced Instruction Set that is available. CISC relies on moving all of those complex instructions onto the actual chip, making the logic and instruction sets more complex on the chip. RISC should run faster than a similarly clocked CISC, but with a larger binary, and longer compile time. Good book on this - _A Practitioner's Guide to RISC Microprocessor Architcture_.
The Japanese government was warned five days ( a reasonable amount of time to evacuate cities of such size ) before the bombs were dropped. Your government chose to let your people die. This was merely part of your government's complete lack of any caring for its own people. To this day, they do not admit most of what was done in WWII. It is the ostrich syndrome on a national scale. Remember, keep your people ignorant, and you can control them. Your government was the one who convinced that killing themselves for their leader, who had convinced the country he was a god, was an act of heroism. This is not a government to be trusted. One who cares so little for the individual safety of its citizens. The US does not make suicide runs full of planes with explosives part of routine training.
The Towers did exactly what they were supposed to do. They were engineered to fold in on themselves so that they do not take our multiple blocks in the City. The amount of fuel that was expended burned a typical 4 hour fire in about 10 min. That fatigued the girders enough that the floors that were affected started falling in on themselves. Each floor is designed to hold two floors worth of debris before they buckle. The floors that eventually gave way were holding much more than that. The buildings did exactly what was needed. They did not take out more than was minimal in a horrible situation. BTW, I am 10 min outside of the city, and the New Jersey Turnpike was shutdown, including all bridges in the area. All ways in and out were shutdown for a while. They are still not letting anyone into the City. It is 12:30AM now.
Laptop support was officially dropped with solaris 8 maybe a little before sometime in solaris 7. The only real list that is kept is http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/x86-laptops.html
this is the info that I have been going on. The new Dells have the miniPCI card slot in them, and they are offering a 3com ethernet miniPCI card on their laptops, so that may be an option.
you said Solaris friendly, I have been looking around for a current laptop that runs Solaris 7 x86 fairly well, I have just about decided on the toshiba satellite pro 4600 for the built in ethernet. Any suggestions.
Re:What about Stargate SG-1
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Actually I was making fun of the TV producers who really have no idea where the true state of the art is at. I personally have a high regard for Gene, and his work. It was some of the most culturally shocking stuff of it's time. Remember, he got the first interracial kiss on the air...
What about Stargate SG-1
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Andromeda
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This is not a half bad series. Started off with a good movie, and has a few really good actors working on some fairly new and relatively broad situations. They started off just going through the stargate, helped stop a rampant species from destroying everyone, and continue on from there. Not bad. A heck of a lot better than what poor Gene R.'s name is slapped on today. May he rest in peace. I can just see the TV exec meeting now. "Hey, that Gene Something-or-other guy came up with a great sci-fi that those social recluses seem to have latched on to. Let's slap his name on everything we can find from now on, and the geeks/nerds/label of the moment will never know the difference. Muhuhaha [cont. evil laughter]"
Interesting, the CISC is 3X the speed of the RISC, and the score for that machine is only 2.5X higher... Has anyone ever actually thought of comparing same clock cycles to each other, to actually try to compare Apples TM to apples?
I whole heartedly agree with you. How many versions are there of DAO, how many versions of common controls are there. Many of them break some earlier programs that were written for the older interface. I have to program with Access, and I have to support people on NT 4, SP 4. This is the minimum requirement for my programming. So, to keep everyone semi-happy, I have to run an old, broken fork (which is what service packs are, forks that fix prior mistakes and make a whole set of new ones) which has it's own bugs I have to learn. The real problem comes in when I have one person on Office 2000, one on '97, etc... The problems with binary compatibility are just about endless. This, because it theoretically lowers the bar to program is considered a Good Thing (TM). Yes, when Active X and the common binary interface work, they are a help. But when I have to learn up to 6 different quirks of each Access DB driver depending on what MDAC_TYPE was used on their machine, it gets kind of frustrating, and then, programs start to bundle in their own version of the redistributable controls that their particular program uses. Now, we have people installing something that can actually down-grade their system, and it happens A LOT. The average person/corporate IT drone, does not necesssary listen to all of the overwriting warnings when they install programs. Point in case: I work at a Fortune 50 company. We have a huge staff of IT guys whose only job is handling software installation. Well, these rocket scientists, put a wrong control into their image when they made it, and now, whenever I need to install one of my programs on a new box, I have to install the most current controls I am working with, and they are fairly old, from what I told you.
I was lucky enough to get to see the digital preview of SW:E1, and I must admit, it has been real hard going back to film. The quality of the picture was incredible. There was no flicker and absolutely NO crud on the picture. I was able to get into the projector room after the showing. Basically, he saw me standing around and looking longingly at the equipment when the door opened and an inportant person came out. Anyway, this was the showing in NJ at the Rt. 4 Odeon. From the information that I was given, it was possible TODAY, to stream the video over a dedicated satellite feed strait into the theater. The form of licensing that they were leaning towards was basically a subscription plan. They would allow X number of showings at X number of screens at X:XX o'clock. The projector itself was based on the TI chipset. The controlling system, which had a giant disk array, could control and stream data to multiple projectors, and hence multiple screens. This would allow theaters to invest in one controlling unit, and allow them to keep their screen number. All in all, it was a great preview, I still have the ticket stub, kind of faded now, but I know what it is. Anyway, like I said before, the next time I saw a movie on film, my eyes had adjusted to the high resolution of the digital format, and felt quite abused after coming out of the fuzzy movie. I cannot wait until this hit final production. They told me that the unit that E1 was previewed on was alpha hardware, and that it would take 18 months to hit full production. Looks like the future of movies is looking really good.
Thank God, in the future, we will not have to scream "FOCUS"
As of 5:38 EST, the DB were still out of sync. are they off of the same server, or are they different, and supposed to be different? Is there a complete copy of/. on the beta, or is some stuff still not moved over yet? keep up the good work.
I have missed him since Comedy Central took him off of their main lineup. He is one of the characters that it is really hard to peg on a live-action star. If they do not get him right, or do not have the same kind of laughs that the cartoon had, they will kill a bunch of actor's careers. I mean, I made my own Little Wooden Boy, right from directions in "The Tick: Mighty Blue Justice!". How are the suits at Fox going to keep me, the devoted coming back without the likes of Omnipotus, Rosebud and Buttery Pat? This kind of sight gag and humor was the hall-mark of the Tick. Sorry for the questions and pessimism, but I like the Tick and I would hate to tune into the first episode and just completely feel ashamed because I suggested a load of cr@p to my friends to watch. Anyway, I will watch it when it comes on. On a side note Goodbye Charles Schulz, you will be missed forever, we are losing another Jim Henson.
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did they just release a few months ago the porting kit to allow x86 XFree drivers to be used in Solaris on x86? They seemed like they were trying to boost the market for x86. I think they really are missing out. The best way for them to get people into their OS is to give it away at colleges, and with discounts. Apple's Educational discount can be pretty good, depending on what you are looking at. Sun's was just a joke. Plus, they only put on low end machine, not any real workstations. I understand the discount would still not make an Ultra 10 a bargain, but still, if there was a discount, I would have picked one of them up instead of an iBook with YDL. Now I have a RISC processor, with OF, and I didn't have to break the bank.
Forget the Lynx, how about the TurboExpress. Played the home system games on a portable unit, AND turned into a portable TV. 16 bit gaming, that was worth something. And I still like Bonk.
This was the best non-interview slashdot has had in a long time. Let me illustrate his "interviewing" style to you.
Question: Will you introduce XXX into the kernel?
Answer: I will do the job of kernel maintainer.
Question 2: Do you like cheese?
Answer: I will do the job of kernel maintainer.
Question 3: Do you know your pants are on fire.
Answer: Only if it is in regards to maintaining the kernel.
I have seen more personality on a head of moldy lettuce. But hey, good luck to you man, and don your flame retardant suit, you are going to need it.
the problem is not that it loads, but that when you try and scroll, the CPU spikes to 100 for forever and a day. try actually scrolling the site, and see what i mean
I use Mozilla at work (Win) and at home (Mandrake) I have been using it since milestone 12. I think I still have the tarball around somewhere. I am very impressed with how far the browser has come. I do have the key to stopping Mozilla in its track when executed. DevX.com. Try going to this link with Mozilla and see what I mean. The animated GIF support is still kind of a pain. Other than that, When I got a reliable HTTPS connection in Mozilla, and did not have to compile PSM separately, I was as happy as a pig in slop. Don't get me wrong, I love the Moz.1 /HL111901.htm
http://www.devx.com/free/newsletters/hotlinks/200
By the way, this is not a shameless plug, I am in no way associated with devx, I just happen to use them every once in a while.
Another factor is probably the tremendous range of hardware and workloads that Linux tries to handle. I don't think any other OS attempts to work well on watches and mainframes (and everything inbetween) while using the same code base.
It's called NetBSD.
Wow, some people can't take a joke...
Whoops, I meant to put int Troll tags but I guess the post filtered them out. No offense to OSX users out there. :)
I picked up a Pismo (Powerbook G3 firewire) strictly with the intent of putting GNU/Linux on it. Why, you may ask. Because it is the operating system that I want and need, on hardware that I never have to worry about a hardware problem, something not supported on the hardware level, it has Ethernet onboard, the display is great, and it is an elegant chipset, with tons of power to boot. My 400 gives any 550-600 depending on systems specs a run for its money. Plus, how many of you have a glowing apple staring out at everyone when you are working on your laptop. OSX is not an OS that I can get behind. It is proprietary, does not run the software I need to run, and is slow as a dog going uphill in the middle of winter with molasses booties on, at least on a 400 with 128 megs of ram. Plus OSX's interface is not something that I care for. For those who like it, great, but E is for me. :) In the end, it is all about choice, right? Great RISC hardware, OF implementation, all good things.
On all RISC systems, compiling will take longer than on CISC. The binaries will also be larger. This is due to the way the architectures are defined. In broad strokes ( so as not to start a flame war ), RISC moves a lot of the complicated stuff over into a compiler that is designed to produce code that will execute more efficiently on the Reduced Instruction Set that is available. CISC relies on moving all of those complex instructions onto the actual chip, making the logic and instruction sets more complex on the chip. RISC should run faster than a similarly clocked CISC, but with a larger binary, and longer compile time. Good book on this - _A Practitioner's Guide to RISC Microprocessor Architcture_.
The Japanese government was warned five days ( a reasonable amount of time to evacuate cities of such size ) before the bombs were dropped. Your government chose to let your people die. This was merely part of your government's complete lack of any caring for its own people. To this day, they do not admit most of what was done in WWII. It is the ostrich syndrome on a national scale. Remember, keep your people ignorant, and you can control them. Your government was the one who convinced that killing themselves for their leader, who had convinced the country he was a god, was an act of heroism. This is not a government to be trusted. One who cares so little for the individual safety of its citizens. The US does not make suicide runs full of planes with explosives part of routine training.
The Towers did exactly what they were supposed to do. They were engineered to fold in on themselves so that they do not take our multiple blocks in the City. The amount of fuel that was expended burned a typical 4 hour fire in about 10 min. That fatigued the girders enough that the floors that were affected started falling in on themselves. Each floor is designed to hold two floors worth of debris before they buckle. The floors that eventually gave way were holding much more than that. The buildings did exactly what was needed. They did not take out more than was minimal in a horrible situation. BTW, I am 10 min outside of the city, and the New Jersey Turnpike was shutdown, including all bridges in the area. All ways in and out were shutdown for a while. They are still not letting anyone into the City. It is 12:30AM now.
Laptop support was officially dropped with solaris 8 maybe a little before sometime in solaris 7. The only real list that is kept isl
http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/x86-laptops.htm
this is the info that I have been going on. The new Dells have the miniPCI card slot in them, and they are offering a 3com ethernet miniPCI card on their laptops, so that may be an option.
you said Solaris friendly, I have been looking around for a current laptop that runs Solaris 7 x86 fairly well, I have just about decided on the toshiba satellite pro 4600 for the built in ethernet. Any suggestions.
Actually I was making fun of the TV producers who really have no idea where the true state of the art is at. I personally have a high regard for Gene, and his work. It was some of the most culturally shocking stuff of it's time. Remember, he got the first interracial kiss on the air...
This is not a half bad series. Started off with a good movie, and has a few really good actors working on some fairly new and relatively broad situations. They started off just going through the stargate, helped stop a rampant species from destroying everyone, and continue on from there. Not bad. A heck of a lot better than what poor Gene R.'s name is slapped on today. May he rest in peace. I can just see the TV exec meeting now. "Hey, that Gene Something-or-other guy came up with a great sci-fi that those social recluses seem to have latched on to. Let's slap his name on everything we can find from now on, and the geeks/nerds/label of the moment will never know the difference. Muhuhaha [cont. evil laughter]"
Interesting, the CISC is 3X the speed of the RISC, and the score for that machine is only 2.5X higher... Has anyone ever actually thought of comparing same clock cycles to each other, to actually try to compare Apples TM to apples?
If a Cracker makes a whoot, and there is no sysadmin around, do you still get rooted?
I whole heartedly agree with you. How many versions are there of DAO, how many versions of common controls are there. Many of them break some earlier programs that were written for the older interface. I have to program with Access, and I have to support people on NT 4, SP 4. This is the minimum requirement for my programming. So, to keep everyone semi-happy, I have to run an old, broken fork (which is what service packs are, forks that fix prior mistakes and make a whole set of new ones) which has it's own bugs I have to learn. The real problem comes in when I have one person on Office 2000, one on '97, etc... The problems with binary compatibility are just about endless. This, because it theoretically lowers the bar to program is considered a Good Thing (TM). Yes, when Active X and the common binary interface work, they are a help. But when I have to learn up to 6 different quirks of each Access DB driver depending on what MDAC_TYPE was used on their machine, it gets kind of frustrating, and then, programs start to bundle in their own version of the redistributable controls that their particular program uses. Now, we have people installing something that can actually down-grade their system, and it happens A LOT. The average person/corporate IT drone, does not necesssary listen to all of the overwriting warnings when they install programs. Point in case: I work at a Fortune 50 company. We have a huge staff of IT guys whose only job is handling software installation. Well, these rocket scientists, put a wrong control into their image when they made it, and now, whenever I need to install one of my programs on a new box, I have to install the most current controls I am working with, and they are fairly old, from what I told you.
I was lucky enough to get to see the digital preview of SW:E1, and I must admit, it has been real hard going back to film. The quality of the picture was incredible. There was no flicker and absolutely NO crud on the picture. I was able to get into the projector room after the showing. Basically, he saw me standing around and looking longingly at the equipment when the door opened and an inportant person came out. Anyway, this was the showing in NJ at the Rt. 4 Odeon. From the information that I was given, it was possible TODAY, to stream the video over a dedicated satellite feed strait into the theater. The form of licensing that they were leaning towards was basically a subscription plan. They would allow X number of showings at X number of screens at X:XX o'clock. The projector itself was based on the TI chipset. The controlling system, which had a giant disk array, could control and stream data to multiple projectors, and hence multiple screens. This would allow theaters to invest in one controlling unit, and allow them to keep their screen number. All in all, it was a great preview, I still have the ticket stub, kind of faded now, but I know what it is. Anyway, like I said before, the next time I saw a movie on film, my eyes had adjusted to the high resolution of the digital format, and felt quite abused after coming out of the fuzzy movie. I cannot wait until this hit final production. They told me that the unit that E1 was previewed on was alpha hardware, and that it would take 18 months to hit full production. Looks like the future of movies is looking really good.
Thank God, in the future, we will not have to scream "FOCUS"
As of 5:38 EST, the DB were still out of sync. are they off of the same server, or are they different, and supposed to be different? Is there a complete copy of /. on the beta, or is some stuff still not moved over yet? keep up the good work.
I have missed him since Comedy Central took him off of their main lineup. He is one of the characters that it is really hard to peg on a live-action star. If they do not get him right, or do not have the same kind of laughs that the cartoon had, they will kill a bunch of actor's careers. I mean, I made my own Little Wooden Boy, right from directions in "The Tick: Mighty Blue Justice!". How are the suits at Fox going to keep me, the devoted coming back without the likes of Omnipotus, Rosebud and Buttery Pat? This kind of sight gag and humor was the hall-mark of the Tick. Sorry for the questions and pessimism, but I like the Tick and I would hate to tune into the first episode and just completely feel ashamed because I suggested a load of cr@p to my friends to watch. Anyway, I will watch it when it comes on. On a side note Goodbye Charles Schulz, you will be missed forever, we are losing another Jim Henson.